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Baby girl is wearing her dad’s merch AND SIGNATURE RED BOOTS STOP(´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`)

Ugh I love that the fandom collectively agrees that Katsuki is, and should be, a girl dad. He’d be amazing. Especially defending her from creeps

@/oiragaikusika_: どきどき勝デ

One of the things that stayed with me the most, was reflecting on traditional gender roles in the Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude congregation and how it relates to religion in general.

Vera halts her life to raise a child she has no moral obligations towards. Simone is the church's biggest donor, keeping it operable basically by herself. Martha is the only employee handling administrative work in the church, keeping the treasure a secret her whole life. They are all endlessly devoted. They are all meant to be contrasts of Grace, the real "women of God," and in the end, it's thankless labor from all of them.

Vera's adopted brother is a selfish jackass who appreciates nothing about what she did for him. He saw her as just a free nanny to be "dumped" once his real father showed up.

Simone is being prayed on at her weakest and used as a cash cow, only to be told she can't be healed because she's a faithless woman.

And Martha only realises at the tail end of her life that her selfless devotion to a man and his teachings meant nothing to him. That he betrayed her the first chance he gets.

Wicks sees himself as blameless, has no standard for his own behavior. He's a disgusting, horrible man, who deserves none of their devotion.

When Vera and Martha realize that their whole life they trusted the story of the "harlot whore", only to experience the exact same treatment even after doing everything in their power not to be like her, that's the first time they can reflect on her, and when they finally realize:

Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude in name only. The bedrock being a story of a woman scorned and villainizing her. the church technically being saved by a woman killing a man who perpetuated this hate for an innocent girl. All the women in the story becoming free from the misogyny of the church by leaving one way or another. Jud renaming it to Our Lady of Perpetual Grace both in memorium of the poor girl and a push for forgiveness and open arms and not a battle-ready mindset. Kindness being a traditionally feminine associated trait and Wicks rejecting it. Benoit learning to accept it near the end.