Good good, does this help to clarify? I think I figured out what was happening?
That makes sense, yeah. I just… It feels like there’s a war in the disabled community–visibly disabled versus invisibly disabled, able-bodied neurodivergent versus physically disabled, blind versus seeing but otherwise disabled, etc.
And I don’t just mean on tumblr or among kids. I was thrown out of a RL disability support group, average age 42, because “yeah but you look normal so you don’t need to be here.” That coming three days after I was asked to leave a public function in the town square because my medical equipment (a TENS unit clipped to my waistband and a cane) was “scaring the children present” and “you’re young and I don’t want to have to explain to them that young people can be cripples.”
So I am always super wary of people who respond to invisible disability stuff with “yeah but other disabilities…”
Wowwwww I’m so SO sorry to hear this, I had no idea. As I said, I’m fairly anti-social and i’m a hermit so I don’t really swim in many offline circles to begin with hahahahah. I definitely don’t blame you for being skeptical of that person’s comment under such circumstances. *hugs if wanted*
That said, I have paid dearly in my life for the knee-jerk need (mostly abled) adults have to insist that kids/youth don’t get sick or hurt or whatever. This erasure & denial leads to actual abuse of ppl like you and I and sooooo many others. I’m going to try to make public education about this issue a part of the mandate of the #InvisiblyDisabledPplExistmovement.
Exactly, in s2 is when Catra first gets abused by Hordak for not being good enough (so she doubles down), tries to save Entrapta from his wrath, only to find out that he has *replaced* her with Entrapta as his favorite, she goes to her *other* abuser for comfort only to be betrayed, then Hordak chokes her again…
When rewatching you see how stressed Catra is all the time because of her fear of him and her desperation to save Shadow Weaver despite hating her so much… People really overlook her s2 arc, which is integral to her spiral later.
forever thinking about Sam laughing when John insults Dean’s ability to care for the Impala, because he thinks he’s seeing a crack Dean’s bullshit and that Dean is the one being criticized for once. Thinking about how John’s manipulation & degradation of them both is like the air they breathe, so that Sam can see his brother being mistreated in front of him and not only not register it as mistreatment, but think it’s funny.
no no no but Bruno leaving not because he didn’t love his family, not because there was a vision that would hurt his family, but leaving because his vision would change how the family looked at his sobrina is the most heartbreaking thing
if the vision had just shown the Miracle fading, Casita cracking, but had no one else, he would have stayed, and probably helped to figure out what that meant.
and i’m sure he thought about that as the vision was being created, he thought that he’d show his mother, and they’d figure things out.
but then Mirabel appeared in the vision, and all bets were off.
Bruno saw a grown-up version of his sobrina.
his kindhearted sobrina who wore glasses his color green so that she’d match everyone in the family in some way.
his little sobrina who spent the night after her ceremony crying in her room, all alone.
his wonderful sobrina who did her absolute best to light up every room she entered.
his precious sobrina, who was only five, and who was struggling to make her family proud.
If it was just the house, Bruno would stay.
But he refused to put Mirabel through more heartbreak, more ostracization.
and the fact that finding that out shocked Mirabel is so sad, because to her, she was the ungifted Madrigal. She was clumsy, always in the way, and nobody special.
So someone putting her first, someone doing something to take care of her, to protect her, is so out of the ordinary, so unfamiliar to her, that it takes a moment for her to actually understand.
And I don’t think she really did understand.
The only people who truly loved her after her ceremony were her parents and Antonio. She couldn’t fathom one of her gifted family members actually thinking about her and putting her in front of everything else.
Bruno’s thought process of “protect Mirabel first, save the Miracle and the Family second” is so incredibly bittersweet, because Mirabel can’t imagine why anyone would do that.
(it’s the same with Antonio saying “I need you” during his ceremony because no one’s ever needed just Mirabel)
My mind has etched your smile, and my heart leaps at the memory.
I have not crossed your path, and so the more I crave your touch.
I intend to meet you soon, my love, and privately. I will hold you in my arms, and as you tell me about your day, I will watch your lips. My gaze will befall you, and I shall kiss you. I will capture your heart as you have captured mine. Over and over.
I will shower you with affection until your lips burn and your lungs ache for air. My hands are going to caress your skin and provoke you slowly. You won’t be able to stop yourself, and neither will I.
I will love your body equally to your mind. You are to be cherished and adored. That is my duty as your lover. I savor my moments with you, always giving you my attention and care.
I want to have many memories with you. One lifetime is not enough.
Until that desired moment, I will await the dismissal bell. I will drown in my thoughts of you, sinking without you beside me to pull me up.
ALT
