My-nitpickingself🤏

Who I am:

-I'm a 24 y.o. italian woman;

-I'm a university student (studying comics and illustration) ;

-I'm straight and an LGBTQ+ ally;

-I'm a fan and shipper, but also a critical and an anti, depending on the media and the ship. I ship Entrapdak and Glimmadora but I hate c//a and Stoliz.

Things I do:

-I make criticism and analysis of shows that I've watched/I'm watching, like She-ra and the princesses of power, Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel, but sometimes also Disney movies;

-I give writing advices when I can, make fanarts and write fanfictions;

- I answer asks that are questions, opinions, fanarts, memes etcs.

Rules of my blog:

-This is a safe space for antis and criticals, where we can express our opinions and share thoughts without anyone instantly labelling us things we're not;

-Everyone is welcome here honestly, as long as we ALL behave;

-I don't condone any form of harassement towards anyone, criticals, fans or creators;

-Ableist, sexist and homophobic language is not tollerated regardless of who is using it against who.

Here's some mermaid/sea-themed character designs that I find to be way better than Mermista's

I wanna know more about what makes you dislike mermista so much./genq

I'm don't know much about her so I wanna be in the loop lol

Pretty sure I said Perfuma and Mermista are constantly fighting for last place as my least favorite *princess. I think my second most disliked Spop character is currently Horde Prime, and not even for reasons why the majority of the fandom dislikes him.

There's a lot of things that make me dislike Mermista, so let's see. . . (this will be a long and really salty post)

In her introduction episode she was just sitting on her tail, waiting for others to come solve her problems. Mermista couldn't be bothered to care about the kingdom her father left her because all she wanted a Nintendo Switch. The writers really couldn't think of a motivation that could have explained Mermista's lack of interest for Salineas, like some kind of resentment for not being allowed to have a normal childhood or the throne being too much of a responsability to bear for her. Nope!

Mermista is an emo/hipster stereotype who acts like everything around her is either stupid or boring, when SHE is boring one. She has no depth, no motivations beside from the collective desire of defeating the Horde, and her personality isn't much to speak of either. She just makes snappy comments and complains.

The only interesting thing we learn about her personal life is her love for mystery books in season 4 (a bit late, don't you think) and I can't understand how a character who is supposed to love books, mysteries and excitement can be so non-caring towards everything that happens around her. Logically speaking, Mermista should be more like Frosta when it comes to going on missions and fighting the Horde.

Another interesting part of her character that was wasted is when her kingdom was conquered in season 4 (again, a bit late). Her reaction to this was just to sit in a bathtub while eating ice-cream. . . I see a pattern. Anyway, she only remembered to have people depending on her when her pseudo-boyfriend was kidnapped.

I have a lot to say about Seamista but this rant is already long enough.

Let's jump to season 5 and how Mermista had the nerve to say that using the Heart of Etheria was a stupid idea, when in previous season SHE LITERALLY SUPPORTED THIS PLAN!

A Spop character being an hypocrite? Now that's new! //s

Then Mermista joined Perfuma in their crusade to torment Entrapta, first by pulling her hair, telling her she can't listen and then showing her basic affection only AFTER Entrapta got the results they wanted, just to reinforce the concept that a disabled person deserves respect only if they're useful.

After the party underwater Mermista was chipped and pretty much desappeared from the scene, which was the last nail in the coffin. Forget a possible confrontation between her and Catra for what the cat did to Salineas, forget any important developement, forget seeing her rebuilt her kingdom with her people. Seahawk said he loves her! Isn't that more important? 🥺🤧

So yeah. That's pretty much all the reason why I don't like Mermista. . . .

Uuuh this was good!🤩🤩🤩

I have no idea. I haven't seen them post in a while, which felt weird because they uploaded constantly either about spop or Helluva Boss.

I thought they were simply taking a break. But I went to check and I couldn't see their account among the others I follow.

Could it be they deleted their account because they got tired of being part of the critical community? I hope it's something like that and not anything bad, like threats or harassement.

Jax - :(

Pomni - are you okay? what's wrong? what happened?

Jax - :((( promise you won't be mad?

Zooble - SHE JUST HIT ME WITH HER FUCKING CAR.

That's just how Pomni would be in canon 😭 if she saw Jax hit Zooble, Ragatha and Gangle with a train, her biggest concern would be talking with Jax and ask about her feelings!

Pomni: "Do you feel like talking about your emotions, Jax?"

Jax: "No, I do not"

Gangle: "I do"

Pomni: "We know, Gangle"

Gangle: "I'm sad"

Link I found here on Tumblr. Have to send it through anon because it's the only way to send links through asks.

Ok, but remember links don't work for me. Fortunately I know who this is and I agree with the take.

It's a shame that some characters that were important in the original cartoon were used as background easter eggs, short cameos or turned into a literal peluche.

Rip Kowl 🥀

Ps:do you have any ideas on how to fix her

I'm sorry. It sucks when a show ruins one of your favorite characters.

Anyway. . . Yes, I do have a few idea that should "fix" Caitlyn's character, if I'm allowed to use that term.

Option n.1 Make her go down the path of revenge in season 1

During Jinx's plan to steal the Hextech gemstone, Cassandra gets involvend in the explosion. She doesn't die, but she's left in a coma and Caitlyn swears to find the person who did it.

The other Council members demand for the attacker to be found immediately, but since Marcus doesn't want to piss off Silco by arresting his daughter, he imprisoned another person for the things Jinx did. Caitlyn figures out the person that was arrested is not the one she briefly saw after that building blew up. Comparing the clues of that crime-scene with the ones from the airship that transported Shimmer, Caitlyn concludes the person who fired at their own allies is the same one she saw that night.

Just like in the show, she tries to talk with the prisoner that Vi assaulted and Vi recognizes the doodles on both scenes. She agrees to lead Caitlyn around Zaun, so she can find her sister.

This change forces Caitlyn to have conflicting feelings when she finds out that the girl who almost got her mother killed is Vi's lost sister. She can't bring herself to take her revenge, not after learning all the horrible things Vi went through because of Enforcers and seeing with her own eyes how the people of Zaun are suffering.

Option n.2 Assassin's Creed Caitlyn

Instead of building a small team of Enforcers and use the Grey, in season 2 Caitlyn goes on a solo mission to find Jinx. She disguises herself as a person from Zaun, like she did in the middle of season 1, but her new look would be closer to her League of Legends design as a callback to the game. In this version, Caitlyn doesn't gass the undercity nor does she become Ambessa's right hand.

Caitlyn is consumed by revenge, but in a way that hurts her more than the others. She loses sleep, she stops talking with Vi, Viktor and her father, and she gets into a fight with Sevika in an attempt to make her spit out where Jinx is (losing obviously).

Option n.3 Big sis Caitlyn (which can be used with option n.2 if reworked a bit)

In this version as well, Caitlyn looks for Jinx alone. But in her quest for revenge she ends up saving Isha's life. Of course, the kid has no idea the woman who saved her is a Piltover Enforcer, so she follows Caitlyn around and helps her navigate the streets of Zaun that are infested with Chembarons goons and Ambessa's men.

During the time together, Caitlyn and Isha bond. Cait also starts to wonder if what she feels for Isha is what Vi feels about her sister, and that's why Vi refused to help her find Jinx. Inevitably Isha learns who Caitlyn is and gets reasonably upset with her, even abbandoning Caitlyn after her fight with Jinx in the tample.

Absolutely nobody:

Jax when she goes shopping:

pinterest recommended this to me and i wanna know your thoughts on it lol

i have many thoughts but one thing that's funny to me is that catra is NOT hated by the general public. 99% of the fandom ADORES her so it's insane to act like she's a commonly hated character

Let's see if my thoughts on this post are the same as yours 🤓

LONG RANT WARNING!

1. Why is Catra and Caitlyn's sexuality always one of the first things that gets brought up when discussing why they're "hated by the general public"? Every Spop character is gay, so if Catra defenders' argument is that people hate her because she's a lesbian, it falls flat because 45% of the cast are lesbians. And while Arcane is more vague about the cast' sexualities, it would be dumb to assume Caitlyn is also hated for being a lesbian when Vi, a butch lesbian, is one of the most beloved characters of the show.

If the person who made the meme only clarified that Catra and Caitlyn are lesbians to find things they have in commun, I can think of better similarities:

- beautiful women who commited war crimes against people they didn't care about who had to put their lives at risk to defeat the ultimate big bad guys ™ that used said women;

- beautiful women who verbally berated and physically assaulted their respective girlfriend but still got to date them after all the sh*t they put them through;

- beautiful women whose fans consider them getting physically harmed by the ultimate bad guys™ the same as facing the consequences for their actions because they were not held accountable by those they've hurt;

- beautiful women whose name starts with C (coincidences? I believe not! //s)

2. Saying that Catra and Caitlyn are just hated because "they fell down the wrong path" is a convinient over-semplification. I'm not expecting someone to write all their crimes in a one small meme, but playing dumb is not the way to prove their point.

They're not hated only because they did horrible things, but also because they used their feelings and trauma to excuse the harm they subjected people who have done nothing to them; they didn't have to do anything to prove the good guys they regreted their actions and deserved a second (third or fourth) chance; they were careless about the people they stepped on to get what they wanted, but they let those same people fight a bad guy THEY were willing to serve for their ends; they lost nothing due to their actions and got an happy ending with a girl they didn't deserve. . . And because they have too much plot armor, let's be honest.

3. I must have missed a part of the show, because when did Catra start a quest for revenge???

You see why I can't take Catra' stans seriously? They can't even agree on why Catra did what she did and come up with a new motivation every month.

"Catra is a child soldier who thought the Horde were the good guys!" // "Catra was afraid Shadow Weaver would kill her if she didn't follow their orders!" // "Catra only wanted Adora to return to the Fright Zone so things would go back the way they were before!" // "Catra only wanted to prove her worth to Shadow Weaver and be loved by her!" // "Catra was in love with Adora the whole time but she didn't know what love was!"

The loving bully is outdated but at the same time liked by some writers, like the anime Don't tease me Nagatoro, which the girl's actions come as harrassment to the male character and it's presented as cute, but would become very bad if the genders were flipped.

Same in the series, Hey Arnold! Helga bullies Arnold because of her crush on him, and has a stalker shrine, yet is seen as a complex tsundere due to the good stuff she did for Arnold but still gets called out and confronted when she does something bad. Not to mention, she comes from an emotionally abusive home and was teased by others, but that's still not excused. There's also the character of Curly a BOY with an obsession toward a girl Rhonda and is seen as creepy, though there's one episode where Rhoda is treated as "the bad guy" after breaking Curly's heart.

This makes ppl think that they can use the "if they bully u is bc they love u" excuse.

One of my fave ships is Nelson x Lisa, and that's only because it's NOT abuser x victim. The only time Nelson hit Lisa, was because she was dressed as a boy and he didn't know it was her. The only thing I can complain about is that he still bullies Lisa's brother, though she will get him to back off but that dpnds on the episode.

That is one of the worst tropes for me. And I'm someone who loves when the bully character gets redeemed and becomes part of the group, like Chleo De Nile from Monster High and Vidia from the Tinkerbell movies.

Of course every character is a different case. But the Loving Bully isn't just a fictional trope. It's a real ideology some people have, and it's dangerous because it teaches people it's normal for someone to insult, neglect and even physically harm their partner.

It also rewards the bully for their behavior instead of teaching them that there's more mature and healty ways to express your feelings to someone. IF there's even some feelings involvend, because in a lot of cases the bullies don't give a damn about their victims and pick them because they're percived as an easy target for their personality or look or interests.

if EtL lesbians were what the reboot wanted, couldn't Adora and Lonnie / Lohni fill those roles instead of Adora and Catra?

iirc, Lohni was the childhood friend ( or at least very good friend ) of Adora's prior to her defection. and Adora saved her and her father from the Horde holding them hostage.

if true, then this is just further proof to me that Nate and co. didn't watch the original. there's a lot evidence that already shows that, but this would just be another to the pile.

again, if it's true, of course. but whether or not it isn't, i just genuinely don't believe that Nate and his writers cared for the original show at all and just wanted to have popularity for his project.

I too haven't watched the original She-ra in a while, but I should continue the show so when the Sequel for the He-man live action comes out, I don't miss any easter egg 😄 (let me make believe, please)

You're right tho. There is an episode where Adora returns to the Fright Zone to help her old friend Lohni save her father. This episode was the inspiration for a chapter of my She-ra rewrite, where Lohni is forced by Shadow Weaver to find Adora and ask for her help to rescue their friend Romeo.

You're also right about AdoraxLohni making for a better childhood best friends to lovers than c//a. Nothing in the og show suggests that Adora and Lohni were raised by the same woman. The fact Lohni has a father who has no correlation to Adora prior to that episode proves this. So unlike Spop, og Adora and Lohni cannot be considered sisters in any case. And they were not rivals, at least not on the same level as Spop Adora and Catra.