Couldn’t let lesbian visibility week go by without a little catradora 💖
I think the single most heartbreaking thing about HtN and NtN is how Harrow and Gideon in these books mirror each other.
HtN’s Harrow is a Harrow that is stripped completely bare of any trace of Gideon including memory because Harrow wanted to save Gideon and couldn’t deal with the grief of losing her.
NtN’s Gideon is the same thing but inverted. Kiriona is a Gideon that is made up entirely of grief for Harrow because she thinks she couldn’t save her.
This becomes the most evident because of Kiriona acting most like the Gideon of the previous books when it comes to Harrow.
Her asking Nona where Harrow is, adamant that it doesn’t matter where it is because she’ll get back to her regardless. Her telling Harrow to “keep it together, idiot.” Her cussing out Alecto for daring to offer Harrow her blade when that’s Gideon’s fucking job.
But it goes beyond this. It’s in Nona seeing grief in even the way Gideon moves.
Gideon denies she’s back in Drearburh for Harrow, but regardless of original intent, when she realizes Harrow’s body is dying she becomes the only thing that matters. She kneels beside her without hesitation, and helps the people who are supposed to be her enemies take her into the tomb without a word of protest.
When they realize they need someone to die to get inside the tomb, Gideon immediately says “Kill me.” She doesn’t even think about it. She’s ready to sacrifice herself for Harrow all over again, ready to die a second, final death for the slightest chance that it might mean Harrow will be okay.
Harrow said in the second book that the whole of her always comes back to Gideon—and the opposite is just as true. Whether it’s Gideon or Kiriona, and whether she’s alive or dead, the whole of her always comes back to Harrow.
I just read your new ficlet and also reread the house in the woods. still Love it! Your tumblr was in hidden mode so i almost thought you deleted it lmao
Thank you so much! I was nervous about posting after such a big writers block, so I really appreciate <3
“You wear so much armour by daylight that, by night, you can carry it no longer. By night, you are only flesh.”
Samantha Shannon, The Priory Of The Orange Tree
a realization that changed my life was that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with doing things “the lazy way”. Like honestly, buy frozen precooked food, have canned soup, use instant ramen, use pasta sauce out of a jar. buy the as seen on tv gadget that makes your life easier, and fold your clothes the way you want. there’s no reason to struggle and live up to other people’s standard of what qualifies as “the right way”. screw em and get by the way you need to.
“Maybe... maybe the flattening of the entire human experience into a... lifeless exchange of value that benefits nobody, except for, um, you know, a handful of bug-eyes salamanders in Silicon Valley... Maybe that as a... way of life forever... maybe that’s, um, not good.”
- Bo Burnham, Inside
ngl one of the things i will never forgive this fandom for is deciding that abused lesbian bad and then turning around and blaming adora’s trauma directly on her whilst just. casually ignoring who they were raised by. and then getting pissed when abuse victims see the issue with that and claiming that we ‘clearly don’t know what abuse is/are toxic abuse apologists’ and stomping around whining that catra stans (read: this specific group of queer abused people who don’t agree with my slightly convoluted logic) are mean and bad and the scum of the fandom
katra-connor
It also carries an implied meaning that traumatized people are undeserving of closeness and love because they are permanently ‘broken’. It implies that toxicity isnt a function of the environment a person is exposed to and pretends that people who lash out do so because they are simply mean spirited, rather than people who have lost the believe than anyone could care about them at all. What do people think happens if you break a persons psyche to the point where they feel they cannot trust anyone or let themselves be loved for fear of abject betrayal, heartbreak or violence at every corner.
I was shopping for a catgirl outfit at Target. It felt incredibly mundane. I had picked out a plaid turquoise skirt and was deciding between ears when someone came up behind me and said: "JOIN THE REVOLUTION".
someone make an edit of catra shopping for a skirt and adora yelling join the revolution
if u have curly hair and someone tells you that you look better with it straight? that's a demon speaking to u baby
