I'm Commander Shepard

msfire:

“shows you what a freak i am.  they had to make up a whole set of lies about me.”

“nobody would want to be me, mrs. corbett.  nobody.”

i have about a million feels about ms betty mcrae and i can’t stop them so
much more feelings below

i love this character, because she’s real, because her pain kills me. i imagine how awful it would have been to be in her place, this world where she has to hide herself, she’s building bombs to fight a war where they are actively rounding up homosexuals and gassing them, or torturing them, or experimenting on them, or all of the above.
she’s building bombs to fight her own war too. she’s managing to eke out a life that this awful nightmare war has made possible. if it weren’t for hiltler’s ambition she would be stuck somewhere probably still living with her parents, “trying” to attract an “acceptable suitor”, not anyone who she’d actually be able to love.
but this war has afforded her a way to be out and on her own, independent, and reach her full potential.
she just kills me, because she watches this and sees that it doesn’t matter because, she’s still not taken seriously, she’s just a placeholder. once the war’s over she’ll be expected to go back to that old life. that prison cell life she has no desire for, because the men are home to save the women from themselves.
even born 20years later, betty mrcae would have had so many more opportunities.
i get choked up thinking about all the other betty mcrae’s, all of them stuck in these cages, hiding from themselves and those around them. even now we have kids and adults STILL fighting this same battle.
i really want a happy ending for betty, because i want happy endings for all the betty’s.

that last gif just shows you betty’s hope for a different life or future draining out of her body. as if she is giving up any hope in things changing. she just resigns herself to the idea that she’ll have give up all that she is to be that girl in the film. the girl she never wanted to be in the first place.

(Source: bettymcrae, via katerinascafeodonnell)