Yesss!

Wow, I've never seen Akemi Homura smile like that before.

hi. i think this is simultaneously sayonika and monisuki and i do not take criticism /silly

This made me laugh so hard I must reblog

Happy Anniversary to Catra and Adora! I don't have any art or fanfic or interesting thoughts to share, but I just feel like I need to post something for such a momentous occasion as the Catradora Kiss-versary before the day is out! Crazy that was four years ago. Here's to the kiss that saved the universe!

Saw people talking about this on Twitter, apparently the new promo art for the Art of Amphibia book has a little message reading "A Strange Voyage is Coming" 👀 graphic novel WHEN

Let's be real, there's no way the U.S. government wouldn't be researching portals back to Amphibia to exploit its resources.

I always wanted to make a fic or comic about Anne becoming a secret government agent (while posing as a mild-mannered herpetologist) just so she could sabotage that project. Or to find a way back herself.

So yeah, that'd be a pretty good opportunity for her to become besties with Mr. X

My most random headcanon is that Anne somehow ends up becoming besties with Mr. X

SPOP Appreciation Week 2025

This upcoming May will mark the 5 year anniversary of the finale of Dreamworks' She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. To celebrate, we're hosting a Big Bang with lots of fics and art, but we wanted everyone to be able to participate in some form.

Introducing SPOP Appreciation Week, a week of prompts to help us celebrate our fav and show the cast, crew and fandom itself there's still a lot of love for these characters out there.

SPOP Appreciation Week 2025 Prompts List 

Remember / Memory

Past, Present and Future

A Beautiful Wish

You aren't alone.

Imperfection Is Beautiful

Heart

We're Going to Win in the End

How to participate

What can we make? Anything! Text posts, edits, show meta, fanart, fanfic, or even love letters to the show, cast, crew, or fandom itself. The main point of this event is to celebrate the show and get more posts out there overall, so think outside the box.

Where do we share? Everywhere! Anywhere! AO3, Tumblr, Facebook, Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, etc wherever there's SPOP fandom.

Prompts can be interpreted anyway you like or ignored entirely if you want to do your own thing. Go out of order if that's what the muse wants, the point is just to make stuff and celebrate the show!

When you make your post, no matter what platform you're sharing it on, tag it #weloveSPOP2018 along with all the usual SPOP fandom, ship or character tags. Why this tag specifically? So if we do happen to trend anywhere, we ensure that Crew-Ra / Mattel / Netflix / Dreamworks et al understands which version of She-Ra we are celebrating.

We'll be reblogging our favorite SPOP Celebration posts on our sister blog, SPOPBang to keep them separate from the Big Bang posts so you don't have to tag us so long as you're using the #weloveSPOP2018 tag.

Remember: you don't need to make something long or complicated to participate! Whether it's silly memes, heartfelt posts about what the show means to you, fanworks inspired by the prompts, or using the prompts as a jumping off point to talk about your favorite scenes or character, we'd love whatever you have to share.

And if you have multiple things you want to post for each day, by all means, please do! The more, the better!

In addition to new content, we'd encourage you to reblog/retweet/re…bluesky older SPOP content during the celebration week to add to the nostalgia.

Tip: If you've got an idea for a post now, schedule it to post in advance so you don't forget! Tumblr and Twitter (well, on desktop anyway) let you schedule posts in advance natively. The app Buffer even has a free plan that will let you schedule posts on places like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky.

Here are the prompts with some suggestions of how you could interpret each…

Remember / Memory

Past, Present and Future

A Beautiful Wish

You aren't alone.

Imperfection Is Beautiful

Heart

We're Going to Win in the End

Remember / Memory

Could be…

Nostalgia about the show or past fandom moments

Reviving a long dead AU (even if it's not yours!)

Updating a fic or other WIP you haven't touched in a while

Past, Present and Future (This year marks the 40th anniversary of the She-Ra franchise overall!)

Could be…

Celebrate the original She-Ra and how the legacy of the original inspired the reboot

Explore how the character have changed over the course of canon or might change in the future

Talk about SPOP's place in the wider context of children's television or queer media

A Beautiful Wish (This one's on the actual anniversary of the finale release!)

Could be…

A thank you to the cast and crew for this wonderful show

A love letter to the SPOP fandom

An exploration of what the characters want or where they might be in the future

You aren't alone.

Could be…

A collaboration with a fandom buddy

A tribute to your favorite supporting characters

Focusing on friendships and the characters leaning each other

Imperfection Is Beautiful

Could be…

Celebrating three dimensional, flawed characters

Sharing an unfinished fanwork

Giggling over funny screenshots or animation errors

Heart

Could be…

The Heart of Etheria (whatever that phrase means to you)

Focusing on the scenes, ships and characters you love most

Love in all it's many forms both in the show and out of it

We're Going to Win in the End

This last one is all about finding hope in these uncertain times. A reminder that we must be strong, we must be brave, we gotta find every bit of strength that we have and never let it go. It's ending the week with love and determination and looking forward to a better future together.

Please reblog to help us spread the word!

I'd bet it was a direct order from Catra!

ok scorpia's excuse for making a mess of the files in s2e3 is that she has inconvenient limbs for handling documents, but here?! here she's just tossing them behind her on purpose!!! was respecting shadow weaver's files not covered in force captain orientation?!?!?

Depending on how the afterlife does work, tis possible this also means there's a version of 13-year-old Anne in the afterlife watching a copy live the life she would've lived if she got to back. She's aware of another her that gets to reunite with her friends and family while she's trapped apart from them, gets to grow up while she's 13 forever. And because of that copy no one misses the her that's watching. If Anne becomes a god when she dies while Sasha and Marcy just don't, that Anne might be the only one waiting for them in the next world. 🙃

Anne needing to be "copied" or revived to become God implies that she needs to be alive in order for her ascent to happen. She can't die and then ascend. The afterlife and Domino 3's realm are different places. Also implies Domino 3 can't just pluck a soul from the afterlife, they need to catch it live. Which means Anne won't just die at age 91 and become God, but she'll be offered the choice to ascend probably when she's on her last breath and will need to accept before she actually dies or it'll be too late.

catradora and the perfect victim complex

(i literally fucking think about this all the time so this just gonna be a rant lol)

i really, truly think that people in general don’t put the effort into understanding characters who are imperfect victims. for them, it destroys the appeal of victimhood. victimhood (especially when the victims in question are girls, women, femme presenting people, etc.) needs to be beautiful and tragic. think characters like ophelia, snow white, odette, juliet, the lisbon sisters. otherwise, their victimhood is no longer attractive.

catra is an imperfect victim. shadow weaver’s abuse did not make her soft, weak, timid, or fragile. it made her bitter, angry, and resentful.

i once saw a catra anti saying some bullshit about how they might’ve liked catra more if the writers had spent more screen time showing shadow weaver abusing her, specifically her when she was a kid.

this person wanted to see catra’s pain as beautiful. they wanted to see her ONLY as a child to be pitied, the little kid who cowered in fear instead of fighting back, and not have to acknowledge catra’s more complicated character traits.

i also think this is why these same people often talk like they love adora, like “adora deserves better than catra” and all that shit. adora (to them) is easier to see as a perfect victim. shadow weaver’s abuse made her obedient and self-sacrificing. it made her put others before herself, even to the point of fucking death. adora is selfless and brave. she’s so determined to be a perfect hero, to protect people, to care for people, to love people. these traits are easier to romanticize. it makes her seem beautiful.

if you ask me, this is a really fucked up way of viewing adora. i don’t love adora bc she’s a “perfect victim”, i love adora bc she, like catra, is also flawed. adora’s determination to be perfect leads her to abandoning catra. her inability to empathize with catra leads her to behaving the way she did in taking control. adora isn’t fucking perfect.

(for context i do also think that catra was in the wrong in that episode too, but i feel like we don’t talk enough about how badly adora was handling the situation. like seriously girl catra is here basically telling her “i don’t trust you bc i don’t believe that you could ever love me bc i’m inherently fucked up and unlovable” and adora’s immediate reaction is to blow up at her. it makes sense given what adora has just done for her, but it’s another example of adora being incapable of empathizing with catra. also calling her a stubborn brat? yeah uh that wasn’t funny adora, especially not with the ways that shadow weaver talked about catra.)

but i love that adora is flawed, and i love that catra is flawed. they’re not archetypes. no real person experiences abuse like they did and comes out perfect. catra’s intense fear of abandonment and resentment issues are a very fucking real response to the way she was traumatized. regardless of how ugly it is.

at the end of the day, i think that people can’t wrap their brains around this concept and refuse to empathize with imperfect victims bc they don’t want to admit that they, too, are imperfect victims. the perfect victim isn’t real. it’s a fucking myth.

in real life, people are messy and complicated, like catra and adora. it’s why i love them :)

ugh i could literally go on about this FOREVER i swear.

the ultimate deception but it's an ugly unfinished (sash)annarcy-esque animatic.