#hearticho posts

[random-french-girl]

tagged by @cannotescape to post 5 songs on repeat rn thank you pal! 

Leah - Seeing Double : Can’t remember where I heard about this song except it was definitely in relation to the wilds, but I’ve been listening to it nonstop for a month I’m obsessed.

Color - MNEK ft Hailee Steinfeld : Happy pride month! I love this v catchy song, I love MNEK, and I love Hailee Steinfeld, so it’s a great combo.

L’enfer - Stromae : He’s just so good. so damn good.

Tales of Dominica - Lil Nas X : I think this might be my favorite song of his actually

Lola - Superbus : Happy pride month x2! With a special nostalgic throwback to teenage me going nuts, for some reason (!), over this song about a girl loving another girl comme un garçon

Tagging: @hearticho @giaswift @thewafflewhat @dearsheroozle @sshepardcommander @imaginejolls @sotvrna @jewishsuperfam and anyone who feels like it

#music #Tumblr diary

[smallandsundry]

Tagged by @hearticho to post 5 songs on repeat ❤️

“King” by Florence + The Machine

“Blinding Lights” by The Naked and Famous

“The Future” by Gemeni Rising, Tensnake, Fiora

“Before The Dawn” by Laura Mvula

“Twice” by Little Dragon

Tagging: @fiddleabout​ @plastic-pipes @lightsaroundyourvanity @avalencias @thecousinsdangereux

[morningsound15]

Supercorp Lena is an alien too AU OR two doctors at the same hospital AU

Supercorp two doctors at the same hospital AU

beep boop beep this is late but here ya go.

1.)

Lena spends every free minute that she isn’t with her patients working tirelessly on developing new tech for her experimental surgical recovery treatments (the most promising of which just entered its preliminary trial stage last month), innovating new designs for medical devices, and trying to streamline her surgical procedures while increasing her success rates. She doesn’t have time for distractions, or deviations from her strict schedule. She doesn’t have time to waste on secondary concerns like relaxation, vacations, dating, making new friends, broadening her social circle, or making changes to her personal life. She can’t afford to let anything get in the way of her aggressive long-term career goals. Not when she’s worked so hard to prove that she’s more than just a pretty face, more than just a privileged trust-fund baby who has had everything in life handed to her, more than just what her last name implies. Not when she’s worked so hard to get to where she is.

It’s cold, and a little ruthless, sure. But it’s what she’s always done — it’s what she’s always had to do. And it’s always the way she’s felt; consistently, without fail.

At least, that used to be true. That’s how she used to feel.

Until she met Kara, that is.

2.)

Lena’s known about Kara Danvers ever since she first showed up at National City General Hospital. She’s the sort of person who’s hard not to notice.

Lena first hears of her from James.

“Have you met the new girl?” he asks her one morning in the break room, completely (and unnecessarily, as far as she’s concerned) distracting her from her reading.

Lena arches an eyebrow in his direction. “You mean the new doctor?” James rolls his eyes. “I haven’t had the pleasure, no.”

“Well, you should. As soon as possible. She is…” his eyes seem to focus on something far-off, and he sighs almost without noticing— “something else.”

“Hmm,” Lena hums rather disinterestedly, flipping through a new patient’s chart. “Is she especially beautiful, or especially annoying?”

James starts, his attention back on her at once. “What?”

“You only have that reaction towards women who you find particularly beautiful or particularly tedious. Which one is she?”

James scoffs, but his attempt at acting insulted is half-hearted at best. When Lena merely looks at him, not saying anything further, he huffs. “Fine. She’s beautiful. And she seems perfectly charming, for the record.”

Lena’s smile has teeth. “Don’t they all?”

“You haven’t even met her yet.”

“I don’t need to. She wasn’t hired in my department, therefore she’s of no concern to me.”

“She’s Alex Danvers’ sister.”

That makes her pause. Lena knows Doctor Danvers — she’d even go so far as to say she rather likes Doctor Danvers (which is not an accolade she commonly distributes, for the record). Danvers is smart and accomplished and professional and good at her job — all qualities Lena greatly admires in a person. She hadn’t been aware Doctor Danvers had a sister. She’s not sure why that news is so surprising to learn.

But, eventually, she shakes herself. “Inconsequential,” she finally decides, turning back to her chart.

“I don’t know, Lena. You might have to give this one a chance.”

She doesn’t bother to look up from her reading. “We’ll see.”

.

.

.

.

When she sees Winn later that day in the break room, staring off into space with a dreamy smile on his face, she sighs, and asks, “Doctor Danvers, I’m guessing?”

“Yeah,” he sighs happily, still staring unseeing out the door, as if longing after something which is no longer there. He seems to understand her question only a few seconds later, and shakes himself a little, drawing back to her. “Er…” he says carefully as he sits up at once, with a slight frown on his face, “the new one, I mean. Not… don’t tell Alex I was acting like that about her. Not that she isn’t pretty! Or, er— beautiful, it’s just…” He swallows thickly. “She’s just so scary.”

“Don’t worry, Doctor Schott,” she reassures him. “Your secret’s safe with me.” And that’s mostly down to the fact that Lena has never been in a position to share more than a few words with the elder Doctor Danvers, and in all such situations their interactions were kept purely professional, but that’s besides the point. As a general rule of thumb, she doesn’t engage in frivolous gossip or rumor-mongering. She considers it beneath her.

Besides, she has no desire to antagonize Doctor Danvers. Doctor Danvers is severe, and serious — something Lena rather admires. The fact that she knows 0 information about her (except, as of this morning, that apparently she has a younger sister) is how she likes her relationships with her colleagues to be: no-nonsense, professional, and completely surface-level.

The lone exception to that rule is her friendship with Sam. And James, she supposes, sort of fits the bill as well. And, now that she’s thinking about it, she does actually know a few key personal details about her favorite surgical assistant, Jess. But that’s neither here nor there. She’s been friends with Sam since university; the fact that they ended up at the same hospital was through no fault of Lena’s own, and it seemed only natural to continue their relationship rather than to go out of her way to burn a bridge she does not have any reason to burn. And she has a rather friendly relationship with James because they went on a few ill-advised dates when she first moved to town; but as soon as Lena realized they would be working together, she ended things, and they’ve been nothing but friendly since. But that’s only because it seemed the most decent thing to do at the time. And as for Jess, well… it’s a good idea for Lena to be able to actually trust those few other people she requires to assist her in effectively doing her job. Jess is one of the few surgical assistants at this hospital that Lena doesn’t actively want to strangle, so knowing her birthday is in March and that she has a nephew she loves to spoil is hardly outside the sphere of appropriate, professional behavior.

The point is, she doesn’t want to know more about the people she works with. As long as they are competent in their work and do not actively interfere with her research, she couldn’t care less what they spend their free time doing.

The sooner everyone gets over this strange obsession they all seem to have with the New Doctor Danvers, frankly, the better Lena’s life is going to be.

3.)

They don’t get the opportunity to speak for real until 3 months after Kara begins working at National City General. At a party, of all things (Lena never goes to parties) — hosted by Sam, which explains why Lena’s been dragged here and also why Kara’s been dragged here. Like something straight out of a Shakespearean plot: Lena is acting as emotional/romantic support for Sam, who is currently on a mission to date Doctor Danvers (the elder Doctor Danvers), which explains why she brought along her own emotional/romantic support in the form of her sister, Kara.

(They don’t find this out until much later, of course. But neither of them is particularly surprised to learn the information.)

They’re left alone together very quickly when their companions decide that their energy is best spent focused on the sole task at hand (essentially: trying to get the other into bed) and Kara and Lena are left to fend for themselves, standing awkwardly across from one another and not knowing quite what to say.

Kara makes the first move.

She sticks out her hand with a wry, nervous grin as her other hand reaches up to adjust her glasses. “Hi,” she says, like they haven’t just been standing here looking at each other for nearly 30 seconds, “it’s Lena, right? I’m Kara. I work in Peds.”

And Lena knows that — of course she does — but it still doesn’t stop her from wanting to roll her eyes because of course this woman who practically radiates sunshine and rainbows would work in Pediatrics. She looks like the sort of woman who volunteers at animal shelters on the weekends, who goes out of her way to help little old ladies cross the street. She looks so wholesome, so good that she should probably be on the cover of some magazine somewhere. It makes Lena feels more than a little uncomfortable.

“Yes,” she says, shaking Kara’s hand firmly but withdrawing quickly, “I know who you are.”

Kara smiles, and if Lena’s not mistaken she almost looks a little relieved that Lena’s said something she can respond to neutrally. “And I mean, I know who you are, obviously. I just thought it might be nicer to officially introduce myself.”

Lena quirks an eyebrow. “Rumors travel fast, I see.”

“Rumors?” Kara frowns.

“That’s how you know who I am.” Because it’s obvious, to Lena. That’s how everyone knows who she is. After her brother was caught embezzling millions of dollars from their family hospital (and after he subsequently fled to some undisclosed foreign country, from which he has yet to emerge) the Luthor name — once so distinguished and influential in quite a few specific social spheres — had been almost completely blacklisted from all things related to the medical field. Everyone who was practicing medicine at the time heard about the scandal.

Lena is still dealing with the repercussions.

It’s not a question, really; more a statement of fact. Of course Kara knows who she is because of the scandal, because of the rumors that still follow her around (that she’s just like her brother, that she was secretly in on his scheme and just hadn’t been caught, that she’s secretly helping him evade detection by government officials). That’s how everyone knows her.

It’s not a question, not really, nut Kara is still quick to respond to it. Her eyes widen and she shakes her head very rapidly back-and-forth. “Oh, no! I… I read your paper on the, um… flexible micro-stapled surgical bandages you have in development?” Lena blinks, and hopes her shock is not evident on her face. Kara continues on like she doesn’t even notice the completely unexpected shift in Lena’s body language and attitude. “It’s super interesting stuff. I’d love to get my hands on a few, if you have any prototypes lying around. I’m always looking for ways to reduce my patients’ pain after operation.” She smiles, rather sheepishly, and Lena feels her heart rate pick up, unbidden. Even Sam doesn’t read her papers, and she’s Lena’s best friend in the entire world.

“Sorry,” Kara says when a few seconds tick by and Lena has yet to respond. She rubs at the back of her neck, “Sorry, I have a tendency to babble, sometimes. And I don’t mean to awkwardly fangirl around you. I just… I’ve been following your work for a while, and I think you’re really brilliant. That’s part of the reason why I wanted to practice here. Well… my sister’s here, which was the bigger reason, but also because… who wouldn’t jump at the chance to work with Lena Luthor, y’know?”

Lena doesn’t, in fact, know at all what Kara means.

She can’t help but be impossibly flattered either way. (She’s never pretended to be above vanity.)

It’s only when she arrives home, many happy hours later — after a bit too much wine and a breathless and blushing Kara scribbling her phone number on a spare sheet of scrap paper so that Lena can call to schedule an appointment to discuss how Kara’s research may intersect with her own — that Lena begins to realize she may be in more than a little trouble, here; more than she initially realized.

This is not in line with her plans at all.

4.)

Still, she somehow winds up calling her. And one meeting turns into two, and then two meetings turn into a meeting over morning coffee, which then turns into simply getting coffee, which then turns into lunches and occasional dinners and Lena having an open invitation to Kara’s weekly Game Night (in which she, much to Lena’s surprise, invites almost exclusively the people from work who Lena can semi-tolerate. As if she’s curated this event simply for Lena’s enjoyment).

And somehow, quite without meaning to (and quite against her better judgment), she becomes friends with Kara Danvers. Not work-friends (like Jess) or professionally-respectful-colleagues (like Alex), but full-on friends. Lena comes to expect Kara’s presence in her life more than Sam’s, even (which seems to work out well for all parties involved, since Sam’s attention more and more seems to be diverted by Kara’s sister). She spends more nights out than she has since college, more time drinking with the people she’s worked with for the past several years but never bothered getting to know, more time idly chit-chatting over meals rather than spending her time doing what she used to do (craming down any food she possibly could while reading/researching/writing/answering emails).

Bizarrely, she almost doesn’t mind. She barely even thinks about it, really; barely even registers any amount of anxiety or discomfort when she thinks about the work she’s missing (she really expected this whole situation to make her so much more anxious, knowing all the opportunities she’s missing to get ahead on her research or experiment with new designs).

That’s how she finds herself in the Pediatric Ward one day, late into the Fall, about four months after that fateful day she met Kara Danvers and seemingly simultaneously flipped her life on its head.

Lena doesn’t have much occasion to be down in this end of the hospital. Since children aren’t her specialty, she’s rarely called on to treat them, and since most everyone in the hospital understands her general discomfort when faced with anyone who cannot hold an intellectual conversation for an extended period of time, she’s rarely called on to even consult for other doctors in the Peds department. This doesn’t bother her, generally; she doesn’t dislike children, not by any stretch of the imagination, she just doesn’t particularly understand them, and she feels nothing but relief whenever she’s allowed to avoid embarrassing herself around them.

But she’s meant to be meeting Kara for lunch, and it’s now nearing 12:30 and Kara still hasn’t made an appearance. Lena only goes down to check on her, to make sure that Kara hasn’t gotten tied up in some impossible case or some extraordinarily-demanding patient. (She absolutely does not come down because she has this burning curiosity to see Kara in action — something she has not been able to do, not in the few months of their friendship. That is absolutely not the reason.)

So imagine her surprise when she enters the Pediatric Ward and is immediately confronted by one Kara Danvers, standing in front of a gaggle of screaming children, decked out head-to-toe in the most shockingly well-made superhero outfit Lena has ever seen.

She stops immediately, one hand on the door, and she has to blink a few times to make sure she isn’t seeing things.

But no, her eyes are not playing a trick on her — that’s Kara, up there, with her hair uncharacteristically down and her glasses uncharacteristically off her face. Her outfit is a mix of royal blue and red and yellow, the top long-sleeved and laying tight across Kara’s torso, the bottom a red skirt that falls down to just above her knees. A pair of bright red boots (Good Lord, Lena thinks as she feels her heart stutter in her chest) lie snug around her calves. A red cape is attached to her shoulders, and it blows out behind her every time she turns or steps, like it has a mind of its own.

There’s a red-and-yellow “S” embossed on her chest. Lena wants to run her fingers over that letter, trail her fingertips along the stitching. She wants to know what that suit feels like under the pads of her fingers, wants to know what Kara might do if she were to grab her by the neck of it and pull her in and—

Kara has been picking her way across the room over the course of the last few minutes, waving to children and parents alike and hugging the little bodies that crush up against her legs, her stomach. She’s drifted right next to where Lena is standing, leaning against the wall and trying to appear as inconspicuous as possible so as to achieve the full, un-distracted effect of Kara Danvers In Action.

But she’s so close now, that Lena finds she can’t can’t help herself. She clears her throat, rather loudly. “Nice costume.”

“Lena!” Kara straightens at once. She clearly hadn’t noticed her before. “Hi! What are you… what are you doing here?”

“We were meant to get lunch. I was worried when you didn’t show.”

Kara groans and slaps her forehead. “Oh no, was that today? I’m so sorry. I forgot I double-booked.”

“Yes, I can see that.” Lena runs her eyes up and down Kara’s body, and tries very hard to hide the fact that she’s only just shy of openly-leering. “You look nice.”

“The kids don’t know it’s me,” Kara explains haltingly, looking a little flustered. “They can’t recognize me in this getup. So once a month I put it on and… come down here to entertain them.”

Lena has to laugh at that. “What, you take down your hair and take off your glasses and you’re suddenly a new person?”

Kara shrugs, but one side of her mouth is pulled higher than the other, and her cheeks seem a little pink. Lena almost can’t believe this woman is real. “It works in the movies.”

Just then, a little hand tugs on Kara’s cape (God, she’s wearing a cape. Lena might just swoon). At once, it’s like Kara becomes someone else. Her face sets and her eyes soften and she bends down at once, bringing herself face-to-face with a young girl — no more than 5 or 6 — who’s dressed in a set of pajamas and slippers, a small IV poking out of her hand.

“Hi, sweetie,” Kara says to her softly, and Lena feels her knees actually go weak at the kindness in her voice. “What can I do for you?”

The girl simply stares at Kara wide-eyed, sucking on her thumb frantically.

“Sorry,” the girl’s mother explains, “she just loves you. One of the nurses told her you can fly, and she can’t stop talking about it. But she’s a little shy.” She puts her hand on top of her daughter’s head. Kara doesn’t take her eyes off of the little girl, smiling that million-dollar smile the entire time. “Would you mind if I got a picture? It would really make her day.”

“Of course.” Kara immediately turns so that she’s kneeling next to the girl. She puts her arm around the girl’s shoulders, and she immediately beams. “What’s your name, sweetheart?” Kara whispers conspiratorially.

“Lily,” the girl whispers back, and Kara’s smile gets impossibly wider.

“You’re a very brave girl, Lily. Just like a superhero.”

The girl’s eyes grow wide and glassy, and she beams at Kara. Lily’s mother takes a few pictures of them in various poses, before thanking Kara profusely and leading her daughter away by the hand. Kara waves at her the entire way down the hallway, before seeming to remember that Lena is standing there waiting for her.

Not that Lena minds, of course. She doesn’t mind in the slightest.

Kara pulls an apologetic face. “Sorry about all that.”

Lena shakes her head. “Don’t apologize. You’re quite the hero around here, aren’t you, Supergirl?”

Kara flushes. “I think you mean Superwoman.”

“I like ‘Supergirl’ more.”

“Why?”

Lena shrugs. She brings her hand up to twist one strand of Kara’s hair around her finger. She’s never seen it down before. It’s mesmerizing. “Fits more with the persona, I think.”

Kara laughs and crosses her arms over her chest, clutching her biceps tightly like she’s a little embarrassed for Lena to see her like this. God, her muscles. Does she live at the gym? “You know… the kids get a kick out of it,” she says, and Lena’s not sure if she’s purposefully ignoring the way Lena’s eyes are fixed on her shoulders, like she can’t pull them away, or if she legitimately doesn’t notice.

Knowing Kara, probably the latter.

Kara clears her throat, but she doesn’t back away from her, which is promising. “Um… I’m sorry about missing lunch. If you’ve still got some time…?” Lena nods. “Okay, great. Just let me get changed out of— just let me get changed. I can be ready in 10.”

“I’ll be waiting.”

5.)

“Would you like to get dinner?” Kara asks her one day, out of the blue, and it takes Lena far longer than it should for her to realize what, exactly, Kara is asking her.

At first, she simply smiles. “Sure. My shift ends at 8. Shall I invite Sam and James, too?”

“Oh, I…” Kara clears her throat and shifts on her feet. She’s wearing a pair of bright purple scrubs today, which Lena finds helplessly endearing. The fact that she’s shifting in front of Lena, clearly nervous, only adds to that feeling. “I was sort of hoping it could be just the two of us.”

Lena’s smile slips into a frown. “Is something wrong? Something you need to talk about?”

“No!” Kara is quick to reassure. “No, nothing’s wrong. I just… I meant it more as a, um, date… thing.”

“A… date-thing?”

“If you want?”

Lena has to bite her lip to stop herself from full-on beaming. “Yes,” she demures, her chin tilted down towards her chest, her heart beating so quickly in her chest it threatens to beat straight out of it, “I’d like that.”

Kara exhales, a tiny puff of air she seems unaware she was holding. “Yeah?”

“Yes, Kara,” Lena says with a laugh, “I’d like that very much.”

Send me an AU and I’ll give you 5 headcanons for it

#supercorp #fanfiction #headcanon #au game #hearticho #asks #long post

[frankielucky]

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I had this finished last night but I promised myself I would only post it once at least I’ve sketched one part ahead. It took a lot of self control.

This one goes out to @technicallyblakebelladonna as well as @hearticho and @wolfrain-writes who have been incredible supports these past few days.

#rwby #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #bumbleby #sun wukong #beacon dance

[sbrn10]

Because @hearticho​ dm’ed me about my tags on this post and we devolved into yelling at each other about how tropes around language shifts are the best:

in real life: formal formal/informal language is a social barrier that increases the social cost of relationships and i fucking hate it

in fiction: the sheer power of formal/informal address to show the literal change in nature/distance of relationships is absolutely chef’s kiss

Further thoughts (that I am having with no particular resolution but simply having):

formal/informal as primarily a matter of familiarity/formality (e.g., German, where you would refer to your grandparents or your god informally) vs. formal/informal as primarily an expression of hierarchy (e.g., East Asian languages, where you would refer to your grandparents or your god formally) and the inherent repression in the latter (as in the classic case of status difference, e.g., a princess and her knight)

also wow I can’t believe that growing up in this repressed ass culture made me repressed shocked_pikachu

the closest analogue in English is moving from professional/formal address to a first name basis, but moving from formal address to informal address in Korean/Japanese is that on steroids

the fact that English DID have formal/informal addresses (thou being singular/informal/close and you being plural/formal/distant) but this fell out of use

on the one hand, equality in language! simplicity! generally good things!

on the other, goddammit, WHERE is the thrill of the secretly dating fic where A and Be are formal in public but informal in private OR the fake dating fic where A and B are informal in public but formal in private!!

to be fair, the fluidity of using context and connotation for formality rather than actual formality in English does allow for a specific sort of slowburn “oh shit, I didn’t even realize that we became this close??? when did this happen???” sort of setup

but also consider the fact that I am absolutely feral for relationships where they are absolutely soulmates and best friends but still address each other formally just because they’ve always done so and the aura of gentle respect it imbues (e.g., work spouses who met professionally and continue to speak formally while taking bullets for each other and generally, like, living together -- yes in my head Joan and Sherlock would absolutely speak formal if they spoke Korean -- also they are platonic soulmates I do not ship them romantically but I would also die for them)

#musings #have you ever thought about 3x02 if supercorp were speaking in Korean and the level of fucking TENSION #when they switch back and forth between we're friends! and you're my boss! and you're a terrible employee! #i mean. probably not. but NOW have you? #have you ever thought about lena having two entirely separate relationships with supergirl and kara being LITERALLY represented #by two different modes of speech and THEN in s5 the ways that would be thrown in relief #by kara in a supersuit interacting with lena informally rather than formally like that STUPID GODDAMN WE HAVE A HANDSHAKE SCENE #it made me lose my mind ANYWAY but also imagine #the second level bullets are being wonky on my dashboard i hate this site but i think it's working now? #supergirl musings #only tangentially and only in the tags but lbr the tags are why i wrote the post

[lightsaroundyourvanity]

hearticho replied to your post: dlartistanon replied to your post “am very about...

Do they ever date anyone else along the way?

they do and it makes the agony that much sweeter!!!! before she realizes her feelings for velvet, coco goes through strings of girls and breaks every heart, which is part of what makes velvet give up. 

after coco realizes she loves velvet, velvet has moved on and is dating someone innocuous and nice, which drives coco to brooding and writing moody poetry and pining dramatically over how she’s missed her one shot at true love while fox pats her on the shoulder and rolls his eyes,.

#hearticho #replies for ts #crosshares #coco adel loving hour

[maya-of-lesbos]

@hearticho replied to your post “I love that you love Pyrrha/Yang as much as I do!!! :’)”

If you have any headcanons about them, I’m all ears! 👀

Not sure if they qualify as headcanons but I do have many thoughts about them...

- I’m 100% certain Pyrrha and Yang were like. best bros back in beacon. 

- Yang found in her someone easy to be around who was just like, always there? And of course, Pyrrha is very fond of Yang’s simple and easygoing affection without the expectations she was used to.

- Now I know things didn’t go that way but.... the thought of Pyrrha helping Yang to learn how to deal with the mantle of being a Maiden is just one I’m incredibly fond of.

- Absolute power couple. The kind who shakes the foundations of the world.

- But like, at the same time they’re the softest, dorkiest, cheesiest gfs.

- Yang wants to be smooth but Pyrrha has her handily beat in that department, her unwavering charm dissolves Yang’s attempts at being suave every time.

- They went to The Ball together and stole the spotlight when they danced.

- Pyrrha helping Yang with engineering projects using her semblance. 

- On an angstier note (sorry :[ ), I imagine after the fall of beacon Yang was devastated but Pyrrha’s memory helped her to gather the strength to heal, her spirit endured.

Anyway, that’s what I got rn, I’m sure there’s a lot more I could say because I really like them but. Yeah. 

#greek fire #/ #// #/// #//// #rwby #hearticho

[scorpiafanclub]

“This song is about redemption and coming to terms with looking honestly at the aftermath of making bad decisions that hurt those close to you. ‘Church' lives in the space just before getting back to your roots after losing your way. A moment of rebirth.” -interview with Aly & AJ

so aj michalka, catra’s voice actor as i’m sure we all know, makes music with her sister as aly & aj. they have a song called church. it’s on my catradora playlist (obviously) because it has SO MANY parallels to catra’s entire storyline. just take a gander at the lyrics while you listen to the song. 

i’ve been sitting on wanting to write out a comparison of some of the lyrics to catra’s story for like a month now and something just hit me. i really need to articulate it into a somewhat intelligent explanation, rather than sending my friends a several paragraph long message in all caps about it. so here we go! let’s get into it!

right off the bat is the line “i do bad things for the sake of good times / i don’t, i don’t regret”, paralleling to how essentially all of catra’s destructive and toxic behavior during the series is attributed to adora leaving the horde (leaving her, in her mind). she does it all because she wants everything to “go back to normal”. since the second episode she has been wanting adora to just come back to the horde with her and have everything be the same as it was in her idea of “the good old days”. even in the alternate portal reality, that’s all she wanted. she does everything she does because she wants that back. obviously that doesn’t excuse her behavior, but motives are motives, right?

“call me what you will, i’m just in it for the thrill / i’m just, i’m just selfish” - some viewers of the show have critiqued catra’s actions (justifiably so. tearing apart the fabric of time and space isn’t really,,,what’s the word,,,,,good) and decided they don’t like her because of how toxic she is to the people around her. catra’s actions are a reflex, a response as a result of how hurt she is by adora leaving the horde (her), and it can be interpreted as selfish and reckless because of how little she presents herself to care about every single person around her that she’s hurting. it seems like she only cares about herself and she’s only doing this for the pettiness of it all. but really, lashing out is the only way she knows how to deal with the impossibly negative emotions that came with adora, the only person she ever really loved, leaving the horde (her).

then the pre-chorus, “i need redemption / for sins i can’t mention” - i think this is an obvious one :’) and here we have the scene in corridors when catra realizes that she really fucked up and that she needs to do something, one good thing in her life, for adora.

she knew it wouldn’t make up for everything she did because even after she got rescued, she still tried to run away from the whole situation like she always does. she still thought adora hated her. only after she gets rescued and asks adora to stay does she really put in the effort to redeem herself.

then the second half of the chorus, “for all the times i can’t reverse / for all the places where it hurts / i need a little church” - the first two lines go back to the other points i made. catra’s done a lot of bad things over the course of this show and it all traces back to her hurting. she wants to redeem herself. we’ll come back to the third line in a bit.

another part i’d like to talk about is these lines in the second verse, “i can’t even stop to take care of my own self / let alone somebody else” - i really like these particular lines because it reflects how catra and adora wouldn’t have anything even resembling a healthy relationship until catra redeemed herself. she has NO idea how to cope with her own problems and, as previously mentioned, lashes out at the people around her as her only response to pain. i think these lines are something we can all connect to personally.

okay, now here’s the kicker. back to the third line. this is the thing i realized that made me really need to put this into words. not until now did i connect the dots (did i connect actual dots or am i just BSing this really well) on the whole church part. stated in another interview, aly says

“...we felt that it was a song that didn’t necessarily speak about the institution of church but a place that makes you feel at home, whether that’s being with your friends and family, a memory of yours, a best friend, kind of going back to your roots is what i think that song is touching on.”

i think this is a very nice message and can link to catra in the sense that she needs adora and her friends to help her through redeeming herself and feeling like she’s worthy of the love and care that she gets post season 5.

BUT ALSO!!!! another interpretation, the one that hit me tonight, relates to horde prime. noelle has done a whole interview on how horde prime and his culty vibes are based off of real cult leaders.

“people who have this element of control over everybody, who thinks they are the beginning and end of everything, and [their followers] are completely dependent on them.”

with that knowledge, we can connect the concepts of catra getting “redeemed” by horde prime and the concept of getting redeemed with church presented in the song. i’m sure it’s not the intended interpretation of this part of the song, but i still think it’s a really interesting connection so i’m just gonna keep going. 

the thing that makes horde prime so unsettling is the obsession with disconcertingly sterile, white light and “casting out the shadows”. that his idea of “redeeming” someone is to “bring them into his light” and remake them “in his image”, which you can easily compare to certain aspects of some religion.

catra being chipped is the equivalent of her being indoctrinated and brainwashed with horde prime’s crusade. he uses the illusion of being good and being all about bringing peace to the world to fuel his movement.

“his followers speak of his greatness, but also the peace he shows them, which rings eerily, given their lack of free will.”

this is the other interpretation of the church line. catra being “redeemed” by being reborn in horde prime’s image, chip and all. it’s much more negative than the other interpretation, but i think it’s an interesting idea to explore nonetheless.

credits to some other analysis posts that i’ve found very interesting and probably took some big brain knowledge from!!

-religious term correlations - @katra​

-horde prime’s vibes - @hearticho​

-hp’s brainwashing/catra’s motives - @horde-princess​

-catra’s redemption - @malachi-walker​ / @johannas-motivational-insults​

-more catra’s redemption - @catheriaa​

-ADORA WAIT - @thegoatsongs​

#she-ra #spop #spop spoilers #spop season 5 #horde prime #aj and aly #aj michalka #catra #analysis #this took a lot longer to compile than i thought it would #but glad i finally got this out of my system #shera #she ra #meta #spop meta

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Tagged by @foxmagpie to choose one pic from my camera roll to sum up my personality. Post without providing explanation and tag five people!

I’m tagging @sshepardcommander @hearticho @shimanamii @vikrchi @imaginejolls

#Tumblr diary #ask games

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motivating myself to finish this yeehaw!yang cos when i do hearticho is going to post her epic ballad

#yang xiao long #rwby #sometimes i draw stuff

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tagged by the lovely @mudpotion to post pictures from my camera roll to describe myself 

tagging @hearticho @calvinsraccoon @pixshi and @mermaidbones 

#x #about

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Names and Legacies

by deodand

After seeing a Tumblr post by @hearticho with ideas for songs from a hypothetical "Supergirl: The Musical," I thought I would put my hobby to use and give one a try. Here are my MIDI version and some original lyrics for “Names and Legacies” from Act 1.

Words: 155, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F

Characters: Lena Luthor, Kara Danvers

Relationships: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor

Additional Tags: Tumblr Prompt, Original Music, audio, lyrics, honestly this could be a bangin musical someone alert off-broadway

from AO3 works tagged 'Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor' https://ift.tt/2EWEUgL via IFTTT http://archiveofourown.org/works/21991615

#supercorp #Kara x Lena #Kara Danvers x Lena Luthor #karlena

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Tagged by @hearticho & @bossbeth (so I included both of y’all in the collage 💚)

Post ten pictures/gifs from my phone to describe myself. Rule: Can’t download/save anything new!

Tagging ... whomstever wants to participate; I never know who actually likes doing these things, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#and Anne already tagged Aron so what is my purpose here really? #talky talky

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Top 10 animated movies

Tagged by @hearticho​ as always😘

These are NOT in order because how would one ever choose!!! It is also not 10 because I am a cheater who cheats.

Okay, so this list is basically either

these soundtracks 100% slap,

this movie made me cry ugly tears,

I am old and this was my childhood, or

all of the above.

Except Spider-Man. That's the only film on this list that's here for how it looks and not how it sounds (although the soundtrack was also good, don’t get me wrong), and possibly the only film released post 2010, although I’m not bothering to look that up. But man, Spider-Man. Like, the artists, what were they on. Genuinely what the fuck.

Anyway, I recognize that this is really a list of soundtracks moreso than movies, but I do not apologize.

Also, stop making live action remakes, Disney.

Beauty and the Beast

The Fox and the Hound - aka literally the first time I remember crying over a movie and insisting that I was not, I just had something in my eye. (I was, like, six.)

The Great Mouse Detective - Goodbye So Soon is why this is on the list, also, the big ben fight scene is still great, fight me.

The Land Before Time - Don Bluth movies are so fucked up and you shouldn't show them to children. Also, show this to children, it's good. My childhood dinosaur phase was 95% this movie and Jurassic Park.

Lilo and Stitch - aka the film I have literally only watched once because the first time I watched it as a fullass grown adult I started bawling my eyes out, alone on a lazy summer afternoon, over a kids' movie that I started watching on a whim and that was too embarrassing to ever watch it again, but still. It was good.

The Lion King

The Little Mermaid

Mulan

The Prince of Egypt - aka the opening song that went the hardest in the history of movie opening songs

Robin Hood (1973) - the rooster bard absolutely gets a spot on this list!!!!!!!

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

Wall-E - same comment as Lilo and Stitch.

As always, anyone else is free to join in if you’d like.

#about me #musings #unrelatedly tumblr kept bugging me to try out the new post editor and I tried it for five seconds but thanks i hate it?