Tag: she-ra

zeiatsuggestion:

lj-writes:

Husband: I think of Catra and Adora’s relationship as more of a sibling thing, but pairing them up seems really popular.

Me: I am making a video of them to Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Husband: …Okay then.

DTMF

I considered it lmao 😂😂😂 In his (partial) defense, he certainly has his biases but he’s not an out-and-out lesbophobe. He loves Ruby and Sapphire from Steven Universe so much he ordered The Answer book from overseas. It’s such a pretty book and we’ll be reading it to our son. It just seems he can get dense when the relationship is more subtextual.

It may not help that CatDora’s relationship is more reminiscent of intense relationships between male protagonists and antagonists, and he may be less comfortable with the more typically male-on-male dynamic being interpreted as romance as opposed to Rupphire, which is not only an unequivocal romance but has somewhat familiar “male” and “female” roles. Implicit homophobia is complicated I guess.

lj-writes:

SHE-RA!!!

My childhood is crying and in a good way

They made the show so. much. better in every conceivable way with a better story, more compelling characters and relationships, more diversity, better visuals (magical girl is EXACTLY RIGHT yes!!!), better worldbuilding… like this is such a massive upgrade I can’t even.

And look, I was an 80s girl. I loved She-Ra. I had a She-Ra figure, obviously, Glimmer, Angella, Frosta, She-Ra’s castle, and Mermista’s pool. I was a crazy fankid, okay? The show had great character designs and a simple, strong premise that lent itself to a lot of different adventures, both the canonical ones on screen and the increasingly embarrassing homoerotic scenarios I enacted with my figures as I hit puberty. She-Ra was fun and goofy and amazing, and I will always love it for the endless hours of enjoyment it brought my childhood self.

But the new She-Ra updates the story and characters in a new way. It explores the depths in the original premise that the original show never got around to. Adora’s brainwashing by the Horde and what led her to leave, Catra and Adora’s deep and conflicted feelings, the different ways they reacted to their abusive situation, Glimmer’s fraught relationship with her mother and her thirst to prove herself, Angella’s trauma from loss and defeat, the splintered politics of the realms, poking holes in the idea of a superhero solving everyone’s problems and emphasizing the need for everyone to fight together… I’m only four episodes in but my God this is great stuff. The characters may have gotten younger but the story is far more mature, and I’m blown away.

The new series makes me nostalgic in the best way: by bringing back the good memories but also updating the series with storytelling methods evolved for a new media environment. In the era of reboots and remakes She-Ra is one of the franchises that are doing it right.