When Adora first left the Horde she told Catra she was leaving because the Horde was evil, did monstrous things to innocent people, and had been lying to them the whole time. And Catra responded, “what, you didn’t know?”.
And there’s so much to unpack there, but what really killed me was when I thought about why that was. Why was Catra so cynical when Adora bought the propaganda?
It’s because of how they were raised. Shadowweaver raised both of them abusively, but they got different flavors of abuse. Adora was the Golden Child and Catra was the Scapegoat. They were both abused, but Catra caught the brunt of the most violent abuse. She knew the Horde hurt innocent people because she was one of them.
And that puts a whole new twist on how angry Catra was when Adora wanted to leave. When Adora said “what the Horde is doing is wrong and we should leave because of it”, Catra’s response wasn’t really “you’re just learning the Horde hurts innocent people now?” it was, “it wasn’t enough to make you leave when they hurt me?”.
That’s why she’s so angry. From her perspective, Adora was willing to leave the Horde because of what they did to these random people they’d never met before. But she’d never offered to do the same for her.
Catra refused to go with Adora because, just by asking, she broke her heart.
So the subplot of Holes is that Kate Barlow deals with the politically-sanctioned execution of her black boyfriend—who unlawfully kissed a white woman who was in love with him!!!—by becoming a serial killer who targets racist/sexist white dudes who harassed her, were rejected, then went after her boyfriend as revenge from the depths of the “friend zone”.
Go off Louis Sachar, let em know!
Don’t forget the main plot was a damning satire of the brokenness and inherent racism of the American justice and prison systems! Louis Sachar does not fuck about
It always fuck me up that older people don’t understand how this story is as essential to most american children as Gone with the Wind or Mary Poppins was.
unironically, this is one of the best books/movies for young people that exists
Kissing Kate Did Nothing Wrong
And the technical writing of Holes is perfect. Like, it’s one of the most technically-perfect books ever written. Basically any plotting or pacing or characterization issue you’re having, read Holes and really study how Sachar did it. THE LIZARDS! THE LIZARDS.
the twisty prophecies! the lizards! the lipstick! the humor! this book doesn’t play. a true classic.
Y’all are missing the best minor/major detail… THE ONIONS!!!
it is my duty as a midwesterner to give the term “y’all” the respect it deserves
so jingle jangles is going around again and i got like ten new followers so… howdy y’all
i’m just a simple pizza lesbian and i often reblog:
– weird shit -gay shit -adventure zone -overwatch occasionally but don’t expect me to be good at this game i’m high silver low gold lmao -homestuck (i usually tag this religiously unless i misspell) – Cats owo -just getting started with this, but she-ra (2018) -literary bullshit sometimes -angry feminism
i also have a blog exclusively for my cats here and run an askblog/mostly fic homestuck blog here!
also if anyone can recommend some good stim blogs that have VIDEOS of slime getting squished not gifs then hit me up. need the squish noise
maybe it’s the result of a less than ideal childhood but I do feel on a deep level like I’m a kind of gremlinlike creature that crawls on all fours that you spray with a spray bottle when it gets too close
Land of Sweetness and Light 
You must be logged in to post a comment.