#light spinner

[igelmanz]

#she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra fanart #spop #shadow weaver #light spinner #fanart #art

[hibiscuit-rose]

redraws for season 2! (a reminder that only the characters are redrawn, backgrounds are left as is from screencap)

that drawing with she ra and all the catras took forever but i think it came out well

i wish we couldve seen bows dads more (and maybe his siblings too)

#flighty arty #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #spop #adora #glimmer #bow #frosta #catra #scorpia #sea hawk #light spinner #king micah #george and lance

[capndragn94]

Scorpia: What are you not?

Perfuma: *mumbling*

Scorpia: WHAT. ARE. YOU. NOT?

Perfuma: *sighs* I am not a licensed therapist.

Scorpia: And?

Perfuma: I shouldn't offer to act as one for my friends, and won't do so in the future.

Scorpia: Thank you. We'll circle back to how this led to you and Catra blowing up Shadow Weaver's statue in the Hall of Sorcerers after I've paid your bail.

#she ra and the princesses of power #spop #she ra #catra #scorpia #perfuma #scorfuma #shadow weaver #hall of sorcerers #mystacor #light spinner

[tippenfunkaport]

Sketches by ND Stevenson of Light Spinner and Norwyn

Source:

#norwyn #shadow weaver #spop #shera #she ra #light spinner #concept art #art by nd stevenson #nd stevenson #she ra and the princesses of power

[florismartyr]

#light spinner #spop #she ra #she honestly was so fine #and for what #my spop hyperfixation is back #shadow weaver #idk what else to put in the tags #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra fanart

[unsanctitude]

fuck them kids

#i might be evil bc she is 98% of the reason i rewatch the show #good good good character done so dirty in the finale #i want that god awful woman to live to become a better person #shadow weaver #light spinner #castaspella #spop #she-ra princess of power #my art #fanart #but all the evil stuff she did was perfectly valid too 😋

[that-ari-blogger]

What Secrets Lie In Mystacor's Shadows?

So, it has been noted many, many times that She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is a series about trauma. And usually, this takes the form of overcoming conditioning and pre-programmed responses. But there is another aspect of the trauma that is less obvious.

Adora suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), not from the war or the Horde, but from Shadow Weaver. This is examined in the topic of this post, In The Shadows Of Mystacor.

Let me explain.

SPOILERS AHEAD

I'm going to start by taking a look at the bath sequence. It shows two things. One: Adora is paranoid and brings a sword to a place in which she should feel safe. Two: Shadow weaver is just messing with her.

That's what's happening here, this is how Shadow Weaver acts. Her stated motive here is bringing Adora back to the Horde, and her preferred method is psychological. She tries to scare Adora into returning, she tries to convince Glimmer and Bow that their friend is unreliable. And she tries to convince Adora that her friends are giving up on her. She's trying to isolate her prey.

Shadow Weaver doesn't have to be a physical threat to be intimidating. She's intelligent, and manipulative. Her power comes from her patience, and her drive, her understanding. She doesn't have to be present to have an impact.

"I saw her shadow on the floor"

A shadow is a reflection, of sorts. It is a sign that there is someone there, not detailed, but enough to be sure. Shadow Weaver is very much here, but its her shadow. You see the impact she has had, more than you see her.

There's even the transition at the end, as the shot of Adora fades into a much closer and larger Shadow Weaver, showing their connection and power dynamic with all the subtlety of a crocodile in a steakhouse.

Despite receiving its name in 1980, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is one of the oldest mental health problems afflicting humanity. It is a response to fear and/or pain that is designed to avoid the same situation again.

Shakespeare famously wrote a character from Henry IV, Hotspur, with what would now be diagnosed as PTSD. There is a whole speech on it in part 1, which I highly recommend you look up. But Cambridge University, the article Shakespeare And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, gives another description from the bard of the phenomenon:

"Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!" (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

In essence, PTSD has many forms and symptoms, but most revolve around sensory processing and instinctual reactions.

Notice how Adora shows both in this episode. She mistrusts her senses about Shadow Weaver, and immediately goes into a fighting position when snuck up on by Glimmer and Bow.

The point I am making is that this is an episode about Shadow Weaver as much as it is about Adora, and a lot about her can be inferred from Adora's reactions to everything.

"Pull it together, Adora. There's no way shadow weaver can be here."

Again, notice how Adora's shadow is the spy, the influence. Again, Shadow weaver is here, not in person, but through Adora's trauma.

The most stressful scene in this episode is Adora, alone, in a room, taunted by her own thoughts, or rather, thoughts Shadow Weaver has put in her head.

It is almost more comforting when we finally see Shadow Weaver. She becomes a tangible problem, one Adora can talk to, one Adora can physically fight.

I've mentioned Shadow Weaver's shadows before in how they frame a shot, but that was in relation to Catra, notice the difference in how they interact with Adora. With Catra, the shadows cover her up, and corrupt her, they look painful, like claws that scratch specifically at her eyes. With Adora, the shadows encircle her, they compress her, they trap here. The imagery in this shot is reminiscent, at least to me, of fingers clasping shut around Adora to reach for her and grasp her, to control her.

"I could give you Etheria, we could rule the world together."

Here we finally get Shadow Weaver's actual motivation. She doesn't align herself with any faction, she wants control. She offers Adora the world not out of benevolence, but because Adora is the one who can give the world to Shadow Weaver, and all she has to do is manipulate Adora's perceptions to get what she wants.

I do not like Shadow Weaver.

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#rants #literary analysis #literature analysis #character analysis #what's so special about...? #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra adora #she ra #she ra spop #spop #adora #shadow weaver #light spinner

[femmetastrophe]

#she ra #spop #animation #nd stevenson #light spinner #shadow weaver #catradora #lesbian

[alexfierroaf]

If I had a nickel for every time an abusive cartoon parental figure spent 5 seasons making children’s lives a living hell and then manipulated them in their final moments into feeling sympathy and forgiveness for them in an attempt to continue controlling them after their self-sacrificial deaths, I’d have two nickels. But it’s weird that it happened twice.

#ml spoilers #miraculous ladybug #miraculous season 5 #gabriel agreste #hawkmoth #monarch #shadow weaver #light spinner #she ra #spop #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #adora #catra

[existennialmemes]

Shadow Weaver gets a lot of credit for sacrificing herself in the end, but I feel like people forget that literally two minutes before that she was COMPLETELY ready to sacrifice Catra instead.

She didn't even hesitate before wrapping her arm around a poisoned and disoriented Adora and leading her away while Catra fought a giant, ancient monster by herself.

The only reason Shadow Weaver even went back at all, is because Adora pushed her away and went back first. And she only decided to sacrifice herself after tasting the super charged power from the heart so it kinda felt like she would just rather die than go back to living without that power (that she knew the rebellion would never let her keep) moreso than actually sacrificing herself for the greater good

And like, Shadow Weaver spent her entire life pursuing power, and when she finally got it with the Spell of Obtainment, she never accomplished one fucking thing with it until she died, other than murdering her allies and abusing children.

She was with the Horde for decades hopped up on runestone magic, and it didn't make a goddamn bit of difference for them. Once Catra and Entrapta took over, the Horde got more done in like two years than it had accomplished in the previous twenty.

Shadow Weaver was literally good for nothing. She had to be fully charged with a Magical Super Battery and stuck between a rock and a hard place before deciding to do one useful thing with her powers.

#she ra thoughts #she ra and the princesses of power #spop #shadow weaver #light spinner #she ra spop #Adora #catra

[estravenlover]

tbh u guys think about shadow weaver too simplistically compared to everyone else. yes she was an abusive bitch like that’s so true. but that can be true and she can still have a deep complex internal self. If anything, being that extremely manipulative and cruel must come from like a crazyyyy set of internal contradictions and narratives. no one is born like that lmao. why is she so insane I WANNA KNOW!!!!!

#I think evil characters are interesting!!!! #also she’s hot but that’s not the point rn lmao #hordak gets so much luv and forgiveness and backstory and complexity by fans #what about my loony toons psycho girl shadow weaver! #my post #shadow weaver #light spinner #shadow weaver girl

[igelmanz]

More Light Spinner doodles

#light spinner #she ra #she ra fanart #shadow weaver #fanart

[baronessedcheese]

"Light Spinner; a scar on Mystacor's past."

Or is she? Here's an AU in which she wasn't.

#spop #spop fanart #shadow weaver #castaspella #light spinner #castaweaver #my art #this goes to my BFF genericnpc who wanted to see the 'Dalaran shoulderpads' side by side

[lieuvrium]

More Shadow Weaver🖤

Absolutely love her.

#procreate #illustration #spop #shadow weaver #light spinner #shera #she ra and the princesses of power #shera fanart #fanart #spop fanart #villain #love her

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

So, I recently started watching She-Ra (because I'm on Tumblr now, so I might as well), and I just watched s2e6, and I can't get this out of my head so I will now inflict it on all of you:

#She-Ra #she ra #spop #spop incorrect quotes #shadow weaver #light spinner #she ra and the princesses of power

[theaccipit3r]

Happy Halloween!!

To celebrate, here's a biology sheet regarding Etherian sorcery magic and how it works. I also digressed a little bit into the effects the Spell of Obtainment had on Shadow Weaver’s appearance!

#my art #traditional art #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #spop #spop fanart #shadow weaver #light spinner #Fake biology #fictional biology #spop shadow weaver #she ra spop #Magic #fantasy #fantasy art #she ra season 5 #she ra spoilers #she ra season five