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t-rex-lapis · 5 months
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I finished Harry Potter a decade after it came out. It feels like an achievement I’m meant to do like killing the enderdragon (I’ve never killed the enderdragon in survival)
For some reason I wasn’t satisfied with the ending yknow. It’s short and cute. All of them got a happy ending and now taking their kids to hogwarts for the first time but idk. Going from killing Voldemort, breaking the most powerful wand to just “oh we’re happy and stuff”.
But I really don’t care🤷the story was made by a terrible person
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captainpingulin · 7 months
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I think I forgot to post this here?? Apologies.
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pharbitrary · 9 months
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i am forever a tv show girlie. never a movie girlie. i like movies but i LOVE shows. i love my little shows and i will never stop. they’re easier to watch (easier to take breaks if you’re not done. with movies, if you find yourself getting tired, you just pause it in the middle. tv shows are more forgiving) and easier for me to obsess over for longer periods of time. 2-0 shows win
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Yall ever think about how every character from every series, movie, book etc started as ocs? Hell techincally they are still ocs.
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0multifandomweirdo0 · 2 months
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'I wish we could have fallen in love without having to save the world'
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mimimar · 1 year
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teach me the words i used to know i forgot them long ago
(prints)
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tropicalcryptid · 5 months
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Ok so She-Ra pulled such a great hat trick with Hordak's characterization, and I LOVE it
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One of my favorite things about 2018 She-Ra is Hordak's story and development (and Entrapdak cough but that's not the point of this particular post), and the cleverest thing is that so much of it is actually being set up and told to us in seasons 1 and 2 before we even realize that that's what's happening.
When we first see Hordak in the show, he's giving "generic evil overlord" vibes. Garden-variety baddie. Maybe a little more reasonable than some and clearly capable of long-term thinking, but that just serves to make him intimidating. Everything about him--the way he runs his empire, his armor, his color scheme, his minion, his Villainous Eye Makeup(TM), even his name--are all projecting to the audience "yup, Acme Bad Guy here. Move right along."
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But then, backstory. And everything snaps into focus. Not only is it one of the first big oh SHIT moments of the show, where we suddenly zoom out and realize that there is SO much more going on than we realized--it's also the start of the audience seeing Hordak as a character rather than an archetype. Suddenly we realize that he's not conquering Etheria because he wants power, or hates happiness and sparkles, or whatever--he's doing it out of a desperate attempt to prove his worth to his brother/creator/god. This moment where Hordak lets Entrapta in is also the moment the show lets us in on what makes our favorite spacebat tick.
On top of that, we've also seen him bonding with Entrapta and opening up to this person that he respects and trusts...probably the only person he's ever respected or trusted apart from Prime. And she's Etherian--someone of a lower species, someone he's supposed to subjugate, someone who he has been raised and trained and programmed and mind-controlled into believing is below him in every way.
But instead she's brilliant and creative and mesmerizing. She's not afraid of him, and she's fascinated with his work. For the first time since being abandoned by Prime, Hordak finally has someone that he can talk to, who is on his level and both understands and cares about the science! (because he is a giant nerd). She's kind to him, a mere defect. And it just sends his whole worldview into a spin, and that's all before--
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Bam, mans is a goner. Entrapta's "Imperfections are beautiful" comment punches right through all the toxic bs that Hordak has been steeped in his entire life. You can see on his face here--I think it's the moment Hordak fell in love with Entrapta, but this is also the face of a spacebat reevaluating his entire worldview. If Entrapta, who is amazing, believes something different from Prime...what does that mean? If Entrapta, who is brilliant, believes that he is worth something, and that she herself is a failure...
Well. We know what happens after that, and how Hordak begins to doubt, and eventually fights back against Prime (and remembers his love for Entrapta after TWO mind wipes help my heart ack). But we also get to see what life in the Galactic Horde looks like: the only life Hordak ever knew before coming to Etheria.
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It's not nice.
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It's really not nice.
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Prime operates in a very specific way, and we learn a lot about it in season 5. Prime expects complete obedience, devotion and worship from his clones. He allows no individuality from his subjects, not even a name. Failure or deviations are punished, mind-wiped, or destroyed. We even learn from Wrong Hordak that facial expressions are considered a privilege reserved for Prime (apart from, presumably, expressions of rapture caused by being around Prime).
And once we learn all of this, suddenly thinking about season 1 Hordak becomes very interesting indeed. The time we spend with the Galactic Horde and Prime throws absolutely everything that we know about Hordak into a whole new context. Now all those traits that made him a generic villain are actually hugely effective characterization! And what that characterization is telling us is that Hordak had already moved much farther away from Prime than we (or, probably, he) had realized, even long before he met Entrapta.
Horde Prime does not allow his underlings to have names, personalities, or any differences of appearance. Not only does Hordak allow this among his own troops, he chose a name for himself as well! Season 5 tells us that his very name is an act of blasphemy against his god. And yet Hordak took one for himself, and that name is part of the core identity he is able to hold on to when rebelling against Prime.
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Horde Prime cast Hordak out when he showed signs of physical imperfections. Hordak not only keeps Imp (who is by all appearances a failed clone or similar experiment) around, he treats Imp more gently than we see him treat anybody or anything before Entrapta. Imp is not simply "generic evil guy's minion," he is proof of Hordak's capacity for compassion, and evidence that Hordak cannot bring himself to cast aside "defects" as easily as Prime. Considering where Hordak came from, Imp's existence is a huge, flashing neon sign telling the audience this guy here is better than the hell that molded him, and we don't even realize it until 4 seasons after it's been shown to us!
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Very cool, ND.
There's more, though. Hordak's red and black color scheme? His dark eye makeup and lipstick? Very Evil Overlord chic. But nope! Actually these are actually expressions of individuality on a level that Hordak knows would be abhorrent to Prime!
Reading between the lines, I see this as Hordak desperately trying to reconcile two diametrically opposed beliefs in his head: (1) devotion to Prime, whose approval he desperately craves, and (2) maintaining some degree of unique personhood, of Hordak, from which to draw strength. Because a failed, defective clone cannot survive on a hostile world, cut off from the hivemind and from Prime's light. A failed clone cannot create an empire to offer Prime as tribute, nor build a spacetime portal from scraps and memory to call Prime back. A failed clone cannot create cybernetic armor to keep his hurting, weakened body alive; to force himself to keep going no matter what, to fight through the pain and the doubt by sheer force of will.
But maybe Hordak can.
And so there it is. Hordak had plenty of time to gain and explore his individuality while separated from Prime, but I think the reason he did it so effectively (while still deluding himself that Prime would forgive him for these little sins, if only Hordak could prove his value) is because he had to.
Wrong Hordak gained his individuality surrounded by kind, quirky people who took care of him; Hordak was ripped from the hivemind by Prime himself and had to fight for his survival against all odds. And that produced a dangerous and damaging foe for Etheria. But it also produced the one clone with the strength of will to defy Prime himself.
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This is long and rambling, but ultimately my point is that 1) I love Hordak, and 2) I love love love love that the show was so clever about his characterization. We learn so much about him and how much progress he's already made in breaking from his psycho abusive cult upbringing, and we don't even recognize it until the show wants us to. Hordak had come so far, all on his own, before he met Entrapta. She just helped push him over the edge and finally realize (at least consciously) that Prime's worldview might not be the correct one.
Idk, I just don't know if I've ever seen all the trappings of Basic 80's Villain(TM) so successfully subverted, where looking back 4 seasons later is actually a smack in the face with the "effective character building" stick. Amazing.
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melontoyo · 1 year
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☄️ Burning up so Bright  We will not last the Night 🎇
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kaereth · 1 year
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"Don't let go!"
Catra and Adora taking the place of Sam and Frodo at Mt. Doom for a kofi ;;
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vivi-ships · 8 months
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Uh oh besties, I'm obsessing over the evil overlord and his autistic girlfriend from a show I watched 3 years agooo
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I need to draw them. I need to draw them so badly.
[EDIT]: I have drawn them!
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dearladynightmare · 6 months
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Hey there everyone!💜
Here’s a redraw of my absolute favourite screenshot from our beautiful princess!!!
And I know I repeat myself but I won’t stop saying it… She’s SO PRETTY!! MY HEART!! I love her…
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amethystjar · 17 days
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Adora in that one dress
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laas-yahnir · 8 months
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currently brainrotting over: how She-Ra does such a good job conveying a true break from the abusive (and self-abusive) behaviors and patterns you were taught to perpetuate growing up, and it's because of how directly it interacts with and seeks to address the cause of those patterns
(hell yeah we're talking about Catra's arc again babeyyy)
this is what I think the dichotomous "explanation not an excuse" language often misses out on, even among those of us who like Catra and use that language favorably -- it's not just that Catra's bad behavior has an explanation, it's that it has a cause that can be treated, and that does get treated, that Catra comes to treat herself
it's not just identifiable, it's actionable, and the show is about her learning to take that action
we have it spelled out for us in Promise that she has grown up with a deeply-rooted core belief that she is worthless on her own, that her value hinges on Adora, and that she can never count on that value to be stable (because Adora is, in fact, her own person who can do as she pleases and who may one day decide that she doesn't like Catra anymore)
and the action she's taking until Season 5 is to lean into this core belief as hard as she can -- scramble for power and security because Adora being gone means she's vulnerable (which gets reinforced over and over again by both Shadow Weaver and Hordak), keep everyone else at a distance, lash out at Adora for leaving, and double down on the turmoil that comes from all this even after she figures out she doesn't actually want any of it
and it leaves her despondent on the ground, completely without friends or even allies, telling Sparkles to just fucking end it for her already
but then, the first few episodes of Season 5 happen... then, Corridors in particular happens... and Catra gets presented with the opportunity to take the action that is actually going to treat the cause of her bad behavior
she sits and talks (and laughs!) with Glimmer, trades stories with her of Adora thrashing around during sleepovers, listens to her express her regret for how she left things; she aligns this experience with her memory of Adora trying to get her to come back out and play nice with Lonnie too; she has it laid out for her in these parallel experiences that Adora truly didn't stop caring about her just because she made other friends
she looks her lack of trust in Adora in the face, and she decides to defy it -- she decides to be good to Adora in the spirit of the trust she is deciding to have, against her upbringing, against her patterns, in Adora's care for her
(and she decides to do it by saving Glimmer, this person who is so symbolic of so many of those insecurities to begin with by virtue of being the one Catra perceives Adora as having left her for)
and it brings Adora back to her.
it gets her what she wants the most.
and faced with the question of what to do with that trust going forward, Catra tries to rescind it at first, because trusting is unfamiliar and potentially unsafe in all the ways she's afraid of... but ultimately, she doesn't. she can't. she knows now, really knows, what everything will come to when she withholds that trust, and she can't live like that again
so she keeps trusting ("Adora, wait. Please. Stay.")
and it opens her up to healthily mitigating her anger, taking others' distrust of her on the chin without running from the guilt that causes, extending olive branches of her own accord, making genuinely friendly connections within the Rebellion, and finally, finally, breaking free of Shadow Weaver's hold on her
Catra at the end of the show has comprehensively rewritten the core belief she started with -- and that's different from consistently acting on the new belief, as any of us who are in therapy for that kind of thing will know (and as the show itself demonstrates by having her leave at the end of Failsafe), but the steps she has taken to rewrite the old belief are steps she can't go back on without serious effort
and I don't know if I'll ever really be able to express how powerful it is for people to have this narrative in their lives when they're like her, when they need to take the same steps, when they need to do that same work
whether or not everyone puts these words to that power (and who knows if these words are even the right words, they're just the words that feel right to me at the moment), they can feel it and understand it and use it to take action for themselves
and a whole lot of people are going to live a whole lot healthier lives because of it, which I think is pretty beautiful
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everythingcatradora · 1 month
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adora is generally a kind person but she has such an obvious soft spot for catra and it’s so cute… catra will be all grumpy or just nonchalant or something and adora’s just smiling this Specifically For Catra ™️ smile or even with catra’s antics in the horde in their serious training regimens we see that adora still can’t help but still gaze at her fondly like she was whipped!! she would consistently be annoyed with anyone else but she just folds when it comes to catra
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salad-storm · 6 months
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Occasionally I will go Oh you know what I can rewatch one of my favourite shows while eating! I see no issues with this plan at all :) and then I always end up crying into my pasta
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wishaliee · 10 months
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Returned from the mist yet again to drop this here bc I love them sm <3
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