#kowl

[swearyshera]

#sweary she-ra #shera #adam #bow #kowl #April 1st

[birindale]

Adventure of the Blue Diamond

Frosta learns about stranger danger, Catra blots out the 'daystar', and She-Ra smashes a priceless gem for no discernible reason.

Transcript/Image ID below the cut

[Image Description: A cover and 14 comic pages from the She-Ra mini-comic, “Adventure of the Blue Diamond”.

Cover: She-Ra stands in a snowy field, staring at something. Double Trouble, Frosta, and Bow stand behind her, none of them dressed for cold weather. Bow has an arrow nocked, and his embedded ‘heart’ is situated low on his torso, more where a belly button would be. All parties look vaguely concerned. The ‘Princess of Power’ logo stands in sharp contrast to the indigo sky, while the title ‘Adventure of the Blue Diamond’ is a washed out azure with insufficient lining to read well against the lighter purple background and blue of Bow’s pants.

Page 1: A yellow text box reads, “The duties of the day behind her. PRINCESS ADORA indulges in a rare moment of quiet reflection. But her sweet peace is to be short lived… For all is not well in Etheria… ”

Adora is looking into a mirror, brushing her hair despite still wearing her crown and high-collared cape. She’s smiling peacefully.

Adora notices something in her reflection, pausing in her brushing. 

What appears to be a window glows gold in the reflection of the mirror, and she stares at it with a concerned frown. 

Kowl bursts into the room, frantic, calling, “Oh, fair princess, woe is me! DANGER! DANGER… all I see! QUICKLY! You must follow me! HOOT! HOOT!” Adora whips around to face him. 

“Good heavens, Kowl! What IS the matter?” she asks. The words ‘Adventure of the Blue Diamond’ appear on a title scroll at the bottom of the page. ‘Blue Diamond’ is rendered as though made of cut gems.

End Page 1.

Page 2: “Just look and listen!” says Kowl, leading her to the open window of the Crystal Castle. A strong and ominous wind hisses outside.

“CATRA! Up to her old tricks! I’d recognize that voice anywhere!” says Adora, looking out into a gathering storm. 

“She’s gone too far I fear! Etheria’s DOOM is all too near!” says Kowl. 

“Not if I have anything to say about it!” says Adora, with a confident smile. 

“BY THE HONOR OF GRAYSKULL… I AM SHE-RA!” she yells, holding the Sword of Protection aloft. Magic swirls around her, and the word ‘BOOM!’ is printed in big red letters. Her crown inverts, but does not cover her eyes as a mask. 

“I must find the source of this dark trouble at once! Kowl, summon BOW and DOUBLE TROUBLE… quickly… I’ll need their HELP!” She-Ra says to Kowl.

End Page 2. 

Page 3: A yellow caption box reads, “Moments later…” and we see that it’s begun to snow. A large vehicle with lepidopteran wings, somewhere between the Butterflyer and the Flutter Plane in design but colored to match Double Trouble’s outfit, is parked in front of the Crystal Castle, where She-Ra meets with her allies. 

“Brave Bow, far greater is the force of Catra’s folly this day than I have ever seen it! I know not the SOURCE of her dark powers, but we must NOT let her EVIL TREACHERY SUCCEED!” says She-Ra. 

“Never have I seen Etheria look more DESOLATE and DREARY! Whatever Catra’s up to… It must be a vile TRICK indeed!” says Bow. 

“She-Ra, surely you must have some sort of PLAN!” says Double Trouble. 

“Indeed I do and much of it depends on you, Double Trouble., with your SPY DISGUISE you can make it into Catra’s camp UNDETECTED! GO NOW and discover for me just what wretched scheme that fiendish feline has up her sleeve!” says She-Ra. 

Double Trouble stands with her hands on her hips, wind buffeting Bow behind her. “And when I have your answer?” she asks. 

“Then send a SIGNAL skyward. The FLUTTER PLANE will bring Bow and me to your side in a but a moment!” says She-Ra, so apparently that is in fact the Flutter Plane, just riffing on the earlier two-seater concept art that Filmation discarded and Mattel never produced. Cool.

A yellow caption box reads, “A clever scout, Double Trouble soon finds herself on the evil Catra’s trail…” and we see Double Trouble slogging through the snow, following a very neat and precise course. 

“FOOT PRINTS! Catra has been here all right!” she says, following them as it continues to snow. The ground is now completely covered.

End Page 3. 

Page 4: “... and up ahead… a CAVE!” says Double Trouble, trudging through even deeper snow, approaching, you guessed it, a cave. “If I don’t miss my guess, the SINISTER FELINE seeks shelter from the storm inside!” 

“Just as I suspected! BUT WAIT… What’s this? The fiendish feline holds a PRISONER!” Double Trouble thinks to herself, peering into the cave to see an exultant Catra, wearing a silver fur cloak, gloating over a woman with long blue hair tied to a stalagmite. 

“AT LAST! The treasured SNOW CAPE and its powerful SECRETS are mine… ALL MINE!” says Catra.

End Page 4.

Page 5: “HELP! Somebody HELP ME!” yells the prisoner. Catra smiles dismissively and pulls out her mask and says, “FROSTA, my dear, you are a FOOL! There is no one to hear your cries, nor anyone to interfere with thissss…

“My most diabolical plot to SEIZE CONTROL of all Etheria!” she declares, putting on her mask. 

The space between panels reads, “Unleashed by Catra’s evil threats, Double Trouble CHANGES into her SPY DISGUISE - a face that Catra recognizes as a FRIEND!” followed by a four-panel sequence of Double Trouble shifting into evil mode. 

“CATRA! What have we here?” she asks. 

“WHA…? Oh it’s you, Double Trouble!” says Catra. “This foolish girl has given me her precious SNOW CAPE, and with its secrets, Etheria will soon be MINE!”

End Page 5.

Page 6:

“HOW? What secrets? Tell me your plan!” says Double Trouble. 

“I took Frosta’s powerful WAND and FROZE ETHERIA!” says Catra. “But its freezing effect is only temporary! Fear not, friend—I’ve discovered a MAP in her cape that will lead me to the BLUE ICE DIAMOND! And I will have the power to freeze Etheria FOREVER!” 

“Double Trouble, guard Frosta until I return!” says Catra, running from the cave.

A yellow caption box reads, “Above Etheria’s moonlit horizon, Bow and She-Ra watch… and wait…” and we see the Flutter Plane flying over a snow-covered landscape.

“LOOK THERE! It’s Double Trouble’s SIGNAL!” says Bow, pointing at a flare of magic from the pilot’s seat. 

“GOOD! Let’s take ‘er down…” says She-Ra. 

End Page 6. 

Page 7: “She-Ra, Etheris is in the greatest PERIL! Frosta, QUICKLY, you must tell She-Ra everything you know!” says Double Trouble, as she emerges from the cave, supporting Frosta. Bow and She-Ra run towards her.

“So LONELY have I been here, in the frozen north, for Catra’s TRICKERY I was an easy mark! A day ago, she befriended me… but it has COST me DEARLY!” says Frosta, beginning to cry. Double Trouble holds her closer in support.

“Go on, tell her about the SNOW CAPE!” she urges. 

“Foolishly, I GAVE my snow cape to Catra in exchange for her company! Inside the cape, there is a map that will lead her to the Blue Ice Diamond!” says Frosta, dripping tears. 

“THE BLUE ICE DIAMOND! Catra will use the gemstone’s powerful magic to turn Etheria into a frozen wasteland FOREVER! We must STOP her!” says She-Ra, evidently horrified.

A yellow caption box reads, “With Frosta in the lead, She-Ra and her stalwart cohorts race across the Dreaming Mountain! But can they reach the Blue Ice Diamond in time?” 

The Flutter Plane flies overhead while Double Trouble and Frosta (who has been mistakenly colored to look like She-Ra) ride in another vessel. It’s a sailing sledge (an iceboat meant for dry land) with an unstayed mast & single lateen sail, long and narrow in the style of a stereotypical viking ship, complete with an ornate figurehead of a bird of prey. The entire ship is a similar shade of green to Double Trouble, including the sail, which is feather-patterned. There are struts visible in later panels which confirm this is a sleigh and not a magical land-ship of some kind. The whole thing is reminiscent of the Sea Harp in shape, but that hasn't been designed yet.

End Page 7. 

Page 8: A yellow caption box reads, “... or does Catra ALREADY hold Etheria’s fate in her grasp?” as Catra gloats over a gem, which glows a vivid green. 

“CATRA!” shouts Frosta, now colored correctly, “HALT! Or I shall FREEZE you where you stand!” She climbs from the sailing sledge and brandishes her Snowflake Wand (which is really more of a staff). 

“You’re TOO LATE Frosta… TOO LATE!” Catra calls back, lifting a faceted gem to her face as she smiles in evil glee.

End Page 8. 

Page 9: “LOOK! Etheria’s bright daystar DIMS even as I speak, and a CLOAK OF DARKNESS SWEEPS THE LAND!” she yells, gesturing at what I think it’s safe to assume is a sun and not the planet Venus because it’s flipping huge, “Soon I shall rule FOREVER!” 

“WHISSSSHHHH,” goes the Snowflake Wand, which now more resembles a scepter, then “ZZZAAA,” in a spidery, electric sort of style. Sparkles emerge from the wand and Frosta looks pretty pissed.

“--KRAKK!” finish the onomatopoeia, as we return to Catra, who’s surrounded by sparkles as the sun darkens behind her. 

We zoom in closer to reveal she’s frozen solid, still cackling. 

The focus shifts to the sun, now completely dark. 

End Page 9. 

Page 10:  Frosta falls to her knees in despair, burying her face in her hands as Double Trouble tries to comfort her. In the background, the Flutter Plane lands and She-Ra leaps from within. 

“Oh She-Ra, I have FAILED! There is NOTHING we can do to save Etheria from darkness… it’s all MY FAULT!” sobs Frosta as She-Ra lays a supportive hand on her shoulder. 

She-Ra doesn’t respond immediately, trudging over to Catra as Bow reaches the sledge. 

“Perhaps there is MORE to this blue ice diamond than meets the eye!” She-Ra says, plucking the gem from the frozen Catra’s grasp. 

“BOW! Stand fast and make ready an arrow! I have an idea!” she calls back over her shoulder. Bow moves forward obediently. Frosta is still kneeling in the snow and Double Trouble’s still in the sledge. 

End Page 10.

Page 11: “The SECRET of this gemstone’s POWER may lie WITHIN…” says She-Ra, setting the blue ice diamond atop a rock. 

She lifts her sword. In this panel and the next, she’s shown with her inverted crown functioning as a mask. “... so, if we CRACK it…” 

She brings the Sword of Protection down with a huge “SMASH!” 

“... we can set its magic FREE!” she finishes, revealing that there was a second, smaller diamond inside the first diamond, matryoshka doll style. For some reason. 

“Now, let your arrow FLY!” she says to Bow, as he ties this smaller diamond to an arrow. It glows a soft yellow. She-Ra’s crown is no longer a mask. 

End page 11. 

Page 12: Bow aims directly at the darkened sun. 

We get a close-up of his face, deep in concentration, as he releases the arrow with a loud “SPUNGG!”

The arrow sails towards the sun. 

Double Trouble, Frosta, and Bow look on. Bow lowers his bow. 

The arrow disappears from sight, leaving only the darkness and the blotted daystar. 

Double Trouble, Frosta, Bow, and She-Ra watch in silence. 

The sun remains dark 

End page 12. 

Page 13: “BULL’SEYE!” hollers Bow, lifting his bow to the sky in jubilation as the sun goes “BUH WHOOM!” and begins emitting light once more. He slings a celebratory arm around Frosta’s waist, like he means to hug her but is just too excited about archery to bother. 

Catra begins to defrost beneath the heat of the sun. 

She comes to staring at her now-empty hand, startled and soaking wet from the melted ice, the snow cape falling from her shoulders. We see that beneath the snow, this was some kind of arid plain, which contradicts its earlier description as being the “Dreaming Mountain”, as the Dreaming Mountains are the home of Castle Chill (and thus, chilly) from Filmation. 

“CURSES! FOILED AGAIN!” shouts Catra, sprinting into the distance. 

End Page 13. 

Page 14: “YOU’VE DONE IT! The daystar glows brighter than ever!” says Frosta, clapping her hands together in delight. 

“Etheria is SAFE once more and I am FREE at last of Catra’s EVIL MAGIC!” she says, holding her snow cape over one shoulder like a jock with a letterman jacket. 

“Yes—Etheria is SAFE and BEAUTIFUL once more!” says She-Ra, walking over to her. 

“Bow, Double Trouble, time to go! The CRYSTAL CASTLE and NEW ADVENTURES await!” says She-Ra, looking over her shoulder to her friends. 

“But WAIT! How can I ever REPAY your kindness? Perhaps my coat…?” says Frosta, holding the snow cape out to She-Ra as Double Trouble and Bow climb into the Flutter Plane. 

“Fair Frosta—haven’t you learned a moral after all that’s happened? REMEMBER THIS!” says She-Ra:

“FRIENDSHIP can’t be bought or sold… it must come from the HEART! And from OUR hearts to YOURS—a friendship that’s EVERLASTING!” says She-Ra, in the traditional red text they use for morals. Everybody smiles at each other. 

The End.

End of Page 14.

Back Cover: The “Princess of Power” logo, with the text “Collect Princess of Power (trademarked) Dolls & Accessories! Each Sold Separately.

Cardback illustrations for She-Ra the “most powerful woman in the universe”, Bow the “special friend”, Double Trouble the “glamorous double-agent”, Frosta the “Ice Empress of Etheria”, Catra the “Jealous Beauty”, Castaspella the “Enchantress who hypnotizes”, Kowl “The Know-It-Owl”, Angella the “Angelic winged guide”, and Glimmer the “Guide who lights the way”. 

Illustrations copyright Mattel Inc., 1984. Hawthorne, CA 90250 U.S.A.

PRINTED IN TAIWAN. All Rights Reserved. 

0007-5220

End of ID]

#motu #minicomics #adventure of the blue diamond #she-ra #adora #kowl #bow #frosta #double trouble #catra

[son-neko-art]

Took a screen grab and did the spop version of it… picture the perched creature with Hooty’s voice and you will get the mood that I’m going for. This Kowl character is unsettling for some reason.

#she ra spop #she ra netflix #she ra adora #shera #shera fanart #best friend squad #kowl #bow she ra #glimmbow #glimmer #bright moon #adora #spop adora

[sapphanimates]

only real ones know that these were the best sidekick characters.

#he man #she ra #orko he man #orko #kowl #kowl she ra #the best ones ever #i said i wanted to draw these guys together #dad said “orkowl” #fuck yes

[lemaistrechat]

He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special: Random interactions

Castaspella and Stratos helping with the punch.

Frosta and Teela don’t realize that they have to fight over He-Man.

Ram Man and Madame Razz sweeping with Broom.

... Moss Man appears to be holding Queen Angella’s wing. Is this a ship I see before me?

Sy-Klone/Glimmer gift exchange.

Cringer guarding his food from Kowl.

Is Perfuma into Man-E-Faces?

Not a crossover, but Uncle Montork is scolding Dree Elle’s brother Yukkers. Is he his nephew-in-law yet?

Fisto offering tiny food to a mouse. Mermista looks bemused. Sea Hawk clearly has a thought, but I don’t know what it is.

#he-man #she-ra #he-man and she-ra christmas special #castaspella #stratos #frosta #teela #ram man #madame razz #queen angella #moss man #sy-klone #glimmer #cringer #kowl #perfuma #man-e-faces #mermista #sea hawk #fisto #trollans

[yello80s]

Not for sale - Kowl finally made it to my collection! #kowl #shera #MOTU #heman #80stoys #yello80s https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck4Y2gfrK3l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#kowl #shera #motu #heman #80stoys #yello80s

[plot-prominent-horde-squad-au]

To the Kyle fans following my AU and wondering why I’m not talking about what’s he’s doing despite apparently loving him so much: 1) Lonnie is easier to write about since people have already said some of the ideas I have for her (I came up with them on my own, but others thought of them as well) and I just need to reblog some of those things to say a lot, 2) Kyle’s arc is going to involve him joining the Rebellion, and I need to write so much to explain all his stuff, which can’t be given out through simple reblogs, and 3) I’m still planning out all his stuff plus all the other very canon divergent stuff in this AU, which there is a lot of.

But as an appetizer (that is very vague and inaccurate to what I’m actually planning to do), here is a hint at a section of my plans for our boy:

You’re welcome

#plot prominent horde squad au #pphs!au #kyle she ra #she ra kyle #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #netflix she ra #she ra netflix #she ra dreamworks #she ra fandom #rewrite #she ra rewrite #she ra reboot #she ra kowl #kowl #they will not have the same personality #but this guy did give me a bit of inspiration #but this is a bad hint because imma take kyle in directions you'll never expect #in fact i'm taking him in directions i don't expect #i legit did not fully plan this until i saw this guy #and then it hit me in the face

[briearesea]

FIND 👏

A 👏

DIFFERENT 👏

FUCKING 👏

WIZARD 👏

BOOK 🖕🖕🖕🖕

#jowling kowling rowling #transphobia #jk rowling #can jkr just fucking get over herself already ffs #Holocaust denial

[keister-meister]

Confession: I've been calling Jowling Kowling Rowling "Jowling Kowling Rowling" for so long that I've actually forgotten what her real full name is

#jowling kowling rowling #jk rowling

[cassandratongue]

Sometimes it doesn't matter if the author intended for the blue curtains to have meaning. Sometimes the author grew up in a society where colours have learned associations and subconsciously applied those associations in the text. Sometimes a reader who grew up in the same society or who has studied a certain society is able to pick up upon those associations and it inhances the story. Sometimes recognising the associations that can be made (consciously or subconsciously) within a text will reveal a hidden layer of real world context about the author. Sometimes the curtains are just blue and sometimes the reason an author has chosen to use a goblin race as its evil doers is rooted in antisemitism. Do you see what I'm saying?

#critical thinking #analysis #lit #literature #author #the curtains are blue #antisemitism #colour theory #metaphor #allegory #symbolism #goblins #jowling kowling rowling #reading

[wingedcatgirl]

i like i write like as a concept, but it keeps telling me i write like jowling kowling rowling of all fucking people, which i feel like has to be a microaggression of some kind

#words from me a kity #reminding me that jowling kowling rowling exists for starters

[birindale]

Disappearing Treasures

This time: Adora finds a mysterious chest in her garden, containing nebulously valuable 'treasures'. Catra steals them, is cursed by Castaspella (somehow), and the transcriber becomes increasingly irritated with the poor comic-making on display.

Transcript/Image ID below the cut

[Image Description: 14 comic pages from the She-Ra mini-comic, “Disappearing Treasures”.

Cover: She-Ra and Kowl lay fingers to their cheeks in contemplation, She-Ra gazing up and Kowl down into a box containing glowing treasure, which is partially obscured by the title, “Disappearing Treasures,” in a red that simply does not stand out enough. Behind them, Catra, wearing her mask, seems to be sneaking away with a piece of fabric, which is at least partially a very ugly hat that turns up in the story. The colorist (Skip Simpson, evidently) seems to have had some trouble with her, because he colored the shaded sections of her legs the same hue as the background, making her look like she’s missing the back halves of her legs. Behind Catra, the toy version of the Crystal Castle sparkles behind a single wisp of fog.

Page 1: A scroll style banner runs along the panel border, thick enough at the top to contain the title, “DISAPPEARING TREASURES!”

A yellow caption box reads, “SUNRISE—and Etheria’s bright daystar colors the world with the first blush of dawn. At work in the palace gardens, PRINCESS ADORA makes a remarkable DISCOVERY…” and we see Adora digging (unadvisedly) at the foot of a tree with a trowel, Kowl hovering nearby.

“How MYSTERIOUS! Look, Kowl, I’ve found something!” says Adora, reaching out to a freshly unearthed box. 

End Page 1. 

Page 2: “HOOT! HOOT! A gold and silver chest! I think to open it is best!” says Kowl, lounging back on some kind of like, retaining wall? Or something? 

“I don’t know… do you really think I should?” asks Adora.

“I see no real cause for alarm! To open it should cause no harm!” says Kowl. The retaining wall is four bricks tall and floating in midair. It looks like they wanted him to be flying the whole time but didn't stage their panels well. He just looks lumpy and gross this issue, and the compositions are all over the place.

“Well in that case—why not? I wonder how LONG it’s been here! And I can’t wait to find out what’s INSIDE!” says Adora, 

“FANTASTIC! What a remarkable discovery—I can barely believe my eyes!” she says in the next panel, as we get a view of the back of her hair and not what’s in the box. 

“Fair princess, you have never looked more GRAND—most BEAUTIFUL in all the land!” says Kowl. He’s holding a bicone which splits in half horizontally, like a clamshell, and appears to be a compact mirror. He’s flying again and the wall perch is nowhere in sight. Adora is preening at her apparent reflection, fluffing up a bizarre head ornament. 

They tried to get fancy with the panel shape on this last one, too. AND they broke the 180-degree rule. I can blame most of the shoddy lineart on the uncredited inker, but Jim Mitchell apparently did the pencils and he has no excuse for this mess.

End Page 2. 

Page 3: “Why thank you, Kowl—you sweet old owl! I certainly feel lovely! But we mustn’t keep these prizes to ourselves!” says Adora. 

“GLIMMER! CASTASPELLA! Come quickly—you simply must SEE what I’ve found!” she calls. We see Glimmer and Castaspella approach in the lower twenty percent of the panel, as Kowl poses dramatically at nothing. He’s cuter in this one but yeah I think they just didn’t know how to handle his legs while he was in flight. 

“I’ve unearthed a buried CHEST filled with beautiful TREASURES!” says Adora, gesturing to the chest, where it sits on undisturbed earth beneath the tree. 

“What a grand and glorious find!” says Castaspella, from behind Glimmer. “Oh, Adora! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!” says Glimmer. 

End Page 3. 

Page 4: “Gaze in the mirror and you will see, you’re both as pretty as can be! HOOT! HOOT!” says Kowl, holding the bicone over his head. His thumbs are backwards. Girl.

“Princess, the chest—where did it come from? And to whom do you think it belonged!” says Glimmer. I feel like they’re just fucking with me at this point, this one is traced and staged like a Mary Worth panel.

“I don’t know, Glimmer, but Etheria is full of such strange MYSTERIES—both GOOD and EVIL!” says Adora, taking off her hat/bow and smiling down at it. 

“... and if I don’t miss my guess, the evil CATRA lurks nearby—eager to STEAL our treasures away! Well I’ll FIX her!” Castaspella thinks to herself. 

“I now use my power to hypnotize, to guard these gifts from evil eyes. Hocus pocus! Soon Catra shall see just who she is and who she could be!” says Castaspella, whose bracer is missing as she holds one hand over the bicone still held in Kowl’s gross little foot-hand. 

End Page 4.

Page 5: “Adora, the hour grows late and there is so much to do about the palace!” says Castaspella, whose hair is layered over her magic disc, which makes her look like a turtle in a wig. With a giant head.

Glimmer is scowling and cut in half vertically on the left side of the panel. “But we’re having so much fun–do we have to go?” she asks. There wasn’t enough room in the dialogue balloon for the em dash so it’s just kind of crammed in there.

“Castaspella’s RIGHT—we can’t neglect our duties!..” says Adora, putting her bow back in the box. It’s like they wanted an ellipses but then turned it into an exclamation mark. 

“Let us put these things AWAY! There’ll be time enough to play tomorrow!” says Adora. A surprisingly nice picture of Catra in the foreground, ominously watching them from the shadows of a tree. I think we have the colorist to thank for that; you can see where the inks were solid blacks and where Skip decided to make it a mysterious silhouette to better direct our attention. 

“PURRRFECT FOOLS…!” says Catra, wearing her cat mask and now in full close-up. 

“Your precious prizes now belong to ME! HISSSSSSS!” she says, holding the box up to her face like she’s going to lick it. 

End Page 5.

Page 6: A yellow caption box reads, “Deep in the Dark Forest, Catra GLOATS at her good fortune, unaware she is about to PAY a pretty price for her ill-fated TREACHERY.” Catra appears to be inside a house of some kind, with a fireplace, a cauldron, some empty bottles on a shelf, a skull, a crooked rafter running through the middle of the room, and a piece of fabric. And what’s either a light fixture or some sort of wall-mounted cheese grater. 

“With these treasures, I alone shall rule Etheria… Its every creature SLAVE to the magic of my beauty!” says Catra in the background, mostly in shadow, as she dons the ugly bow and opens the biconical mirror. Her gloves have disappeared

A wrinkly reflection with green hair and Catra's masklooks back at her, and Catra screams, “EEEEE-YAH! My precious face… My lovely hair…” as she gapes in shock. The bicone is now a full-size mirror and appears to be sitting on a table with some more empty bottles.

End Page 6. 

Page 7: “YOWWWWWLLL!” cries Catra, running from a classic cottage into the forest, hat on head and bicone in hand.

“NOOOOO! It CANNOT be!” she yells. 

She throws something (presumably the bicone) into a small body of water. 

“What’s this? My eyes play TRICKS on me!” she says, turned away from the water and with her eyes closed. Whatever she threw–and it may also include the bow/hat, as she’s no longer wearing it–seems to be glowing from under the surface. 

End Page 7.

Page 8: “I’ve never looked more LOVELY…!” says Catra, approaching the water to look at her reflection. 

“Must get the mirror back… but HOW? I’m so FRIGHTENED of the water!” says Catra. 

A yellow caption box reads, “Meanwhile, Kowl makes a grim discovery!” as we see Kowl flying around outside the Crystal Castle. 

End Page 8.

Page 9: “THIEF! THIEF!” cries Kowl, clutching the empty treasure box, which now has a ‘D’ on it for some reason. 

“Goodness gracious, Kowl! What is the matter?” asks Adora. While off-screen, she’s donned her reversible crown. 

“Hoot! Hoot! The chest is GONE… and the treasures to boot!” says Kowl, even though he was just holding the chest. 

“This must be Catra’s doing! Fear not, my little friend! We’ll get them back!” says Adora. 

“BY THE HONOR OF GRAYSKULL! I AM SHE-RA!” she yells. 

She transforms into She-Ra with a loud “BOOM!”, magic zipping around her. Her crown has inverted into its 'mask' position.

End Page 9. 

Page 10: A yellow caption box reads, “Guided by the magic glow of Glimmer’s STAFF OF LIGHT, She-Ra and her faithful friends make their way through the Dark Forest…” as Glimmer holds up her staff, staring at it instead of looking for the missing treasures. 

“This place gives me the goose bumps!” says Kowl, forgetting to speak in rhyme and pointing at something off-panel. 

“Glimmer, you look as if you’ve just seen a GHOST!” says Castaspella. 

“Perhaps that’s because… I have! LOOK OUT!” says Glimmer, or at least what I presume is Glimmer, because it’s only about forty percent of her face. 

A pair of sinister eyes glow from the darkness, and four yellow fingers wrap around the frond of a plant in front of them. 

End Page 10. 

Page 11: A lumpy, horrifically rendered yellow creature, vaguely reminiscent of a troll or ogre, leaps from the bushes.

“We have no time for toil or trouble! Vile gremlin BE GONE… and on the double!” says She-Ra, holding her sword like a fencing foil and zapping the creature with magic that wraps around it like weird little vines. 

The creature turns into a butterfly. Why is it always butterflies? 

“LOOK… up ahead! It’s Catra’s secret HIDEAWAY!” says Glimmer. We get a close-up of her. Casta’s just hanging out in the background.

End Page 11. 

Page 12: “Well, well! Our foul feline foe’s the thief… just as I surmised!” says Adora, as she’s apparently de-transformed, popping out of the bushes and frowning at Catra, who’s still trying to work up the courage to grab the treasure from the water. 

“Your wretched trinkets are of no use to me! She-Ra… I am HELPLESS! Set me FREE!” says Catra, who’s taken up verse as well. She starts crying. 

“Very well… says Adora, attempting to zap Catra only to be stymied by some kind of barrier. 

“What strange magic this is! It seems I CANNOT break the spell!” says Adora. 

End Page 12. 

Page 13: “Please… HELP ME!” says Catra, still staring at her reflection. It’s unclear what spell they’re referring to, as she still looks normal in the water. 

“Castaspella? Could it be there’s something you’ve not told me?” Adora asks. 

“Oh, all right… I admit I cast the spell!” says Castaspella. So it’s the ‘just who she is and who she could be’ stuff from earlier. But Catra’s explicitly seeing her own, current reflection. So what’s the problem?

“But She-Ra, I’m so tired of Catra’s troublesome meddling! I just wanted to TEACH her a LESSON! Do I HAVE to let her go?” asks Castaspella. 

“Perhaps if you show her kindness now, she will one day learn to be our FRIEND!” says a voice from off-panel. 

“Very well. Here goes…” says Castaspella, raising her arms as Catra pouts in the foreground. “Deep in your heart, true beauty lies! You’ve seen it with your very eyes! Only you can turn the key and make the choice–-who will you be?” 

End Page 13. 

Page 14: Apparently, Catra chooses to be a housecat. 

“You’re free to go! Be on your way!” someone tells her. 

“HISSSSS…!” says Catra. She’s a pale orange, bordering on beige, and surrounded by magic. 

“But now you look so SAD-–things can’t be all that BAD!” says Kowl. Adora is She-Ra again, though she’s lacking the eye-covering section of her mask. 

“In anger, I used my powers most UNWISELY! Catra didn’t have a chance against my overpowering trance. If She-Ra hadn’t set me straight, she surely would’ve PERISHED! I’m so ASHAMED!” says Castaspella.

“Now, now, no real harm’s been done. There’s a MORAL to be LEARNED here!” says She-Ra. 

“Tricks, no matter how innocent, can be HARMFUL! Remember when you’re ANGRY COUNT to ten–and then THINK again!” says Castaspella, in the red text they use for morals. 

A small scroll at the bottom of the page says “The End”. 

End Page 14. 

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#motu #minicomics #disappearing treasures #she-ra #adora #kowl #catra #castaspella #glimmer

[coldgoldlazarus]

On the subject of Rowling's persecution complex, the title of her podcast really is something. "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling" reminds me a bit of a book written by this other guy.

And yanno, his name mysteriously escapes me right now, but he's a bit artistic like her, and he's also not too well-liked, also felt like he was going through a lot and there were certain groups of people who were really out to get him. In fact, so much so, that he wrote a whole book about it to tell everyone. And the book at least, I remember the name of, since that's what I was reminded me of.

I think it was something like, iunno, "My Struggle"?

#not a reblog #anti jkr #the witch trials of jk rowling #jowling kowling rowling #jk rowling #harry potter #anti harry potter #if she wants to indirectly invoke godwin's law then hey so can I

[lemaistrechat]

“Hey girls! Ask your parents for TWO Kowl toys!”

The actual Kowl toy:

Ah, never mind then.

#classic she-ra #kowl #vultak

[autolenaphilia]

Rip A.S. Byatt, one way to remember her is to read her excellent takedown of Harry potter, Harry Potter and the Childish Adult

it clarified for me why Harry Potter doesn't work as a fantasy, it lacks a sense of mystery to its world and magic. Instead magic is a tool, with mechanical rules, which drains it of almost all significance. In the climax, Harry literally takes down Voldemort by having a better understanding of the rules of magic. It's very boring.

At the time Byatt was dismissed as a snob who hates fantasy, but she praises a lot of children's fantasy writers like Ursula Le Guin and Susan Cooper, and has nothing but praise for "the great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody as opposed to derivative manipulation of past motifs, who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences."

Some choice quotes:

"Auden and Tolkien wrote about the skills of inventing ''secondary worlds.'' Ms. Rowling's world is a secondary secondary world, made up of intelligently patchworked derivative motifs from all sorts of children's literature -- from the jolly hockey-sticks school story to Roald Dahl, from ''Star Wars'' to Diana Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper....."

"Ms. Rowling's magic world has no place for the numinous. It is written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons, and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip. Its values, and everything in it, are, as Gatsby said of his own world when the light had gone out of his dream, ''only personal"....'

But in the case of the great children's writers of the recent past, there was a compensating seriousness. There was -- and is -- a real sense of mystery, powerful forces, dangerous creatures in dark forests. Susan Cooper's teenage wizard discovers his magic powers and discovers simultaneously that he is in a cosmic battle between good and evil forces. Every bush and cloud glitters with secret significance. Alan Garner peoples real landscapes with malign, inhuman elvish beings that hunt humans.

Reading writers like these, we feel we are being put back in touch with earlier parts of our culture, when supernatural and inhuman creatures -- from whom we thought we learned our sense of good and evil -- inhabited a world we did not feel we controlled. If we regress, we regress to a lost sense of significance we mourn for. Ursula K. Le Guin's wizards inhabit an anthropologically coherent world where magic really does act as a force. Ms. Rowling's magic wood has nothing in common with these lost worlds. It is small, and on the school grounds, and dangerous only because she says it is.

In this regard, it is magic for our time. Ms. Rowling, I think, speaks to an adult generation that hasn't known, and doesn't care about, mystery. They are inhabitants of urban jungles, not of the real wild. They don't have the skills to tell ersatz magic from the real thing, for as children they daily invested the ersatz with what imagination they had."

#a.s. byatt #jowling kowling

[borderlinebelle]

Unpopular opinion: Harry Potter Legacy 🫣

I’m playing the fucking game… but I beg you to put your totally righteous high energy emotional response on pause for a millisecond and exercise some curiosity with me about why.

Every single thing is shit out here. The oceans are rising. The economy is always ready to collapse. Our US debit limit is capping or whatever. I know Trump waiting to throw some mess in the upcoming elections. I’m a black bisexual woman in lower middle class America. I fucking GET that J.K. Rowling is a classless tasteless Uber Villain of epic proportions who CANNOT keep her mouth shut…

But I have been waiting for this game since I was a stupid 13 year old child who thought an owl was going to crash into her bedroom.

HP taught me to love reading. These stories brought me joy in such dark sorrowful moments that children should not have to live through. These books taught me to be patient and to take my time. They gave me community and friendship.

I’ve been doing some inner child healing ❤️‍🩹 especially the wounds that surround 13 year old me. Which is why I’ve started LIVE streaming on Tumblr. This is the first platform that made me feel like I wasn’t totally alone in these HUGE EMOTIONS that were ripping me apart… so I’ve returned to heal and connect with others.

Healing 13 year old me includes playing this stupid fucking game.

SO, I GUESS the unpopular opinion is that this franchise, this fandom, these materials will and do continue to exist but we should let people fucking enjoy what they can because we’re all going to die and there is 0 chance we can ever get enough people to boycott for anything to matter. We’re all little zombie

TikTok is our bible. The word of God IS THE SCROLL for content. The oceans are rising. Let people Fucking enjoy what they can before turning to dust.

If you’re mad about it though … I totally understand.

👉🏽👈🏽

#harry potter legacy #anti jkr #i do not support jkr #pro jkr #jk rowling #joanne rowling #joanne kathleen rowling #tw rowling #anti rowling #fuck rowling #jowling kowling rowling #harry potter game #unpopular opinion #back by unpopular demand: me