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midnightechoes · 6 months

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Five years ago today, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power premiered on Netflix. I had seen a few preview articles about it, and liked what I saw. Those articles mostly focused on She-Ra’s, Adora’s, Glimmer’s, Bow’s, and Catra’s redesigns, and I thought they were fabulous. I loved Adora’s new red jacket and bouffant hair style. Glimmer’s entire redesign was inspired, and I loved that they made Bow black so we could have more diversity in the main cast.

It was She-Ra’s and Catra’s redesigns that caught my eyes the most, though. They made Catra an actual catgirl, and not just in the anime sense where she's just a cute girl with cat ears and maybe a cat tail. She was a full-on furry. It was a brilliant design choice. Honestly it’s no wonder that so many were instantly drawn to her.

And of course, She-Ra herself. I loved her new look, and her huge ass new Sword of Protection. In fact, I loved it so much that I drew this picture of her before the show even came out:

Then the show came out, and needless to say, I fell in love. And honestly, it changed my life.

I know, I know. That sounds very hyperbolic, and to an extent it is, but in a lot of ways, I’m absolutely serious.

Alright, I have to back up a little. Back when I was in college, and for a few years after, a couple of friends and I tried to make a webcomic called The Devil’s Gate. It was minorly successful but eventually floundered. Then I met some people and we tried to make a video game, which also failed. After those few years, I found myself on my own and trying to rework the concept of my webcomic. Making comics, creating stories, those have always been my dream, and I was desperately trying to figure out a story I could make work, something that I believed in. But it never truly got off the ground. By the end of 2015 I had given up on the comic, realizing that after working on it for years in different forms that I needed to step away from it.

I didn’t really know what to do after that. I was still doing my quick daily doodles, but I wasn’t writing, I wasn’t drawing anything of note. I felt emotionally and physically drained of my creativity. I was honestly getting to the point where I thought it might be time for me to give up on trying to be creative or making things all together.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power came out on November 13, 2018, but despite looking forward to it, I didn’t actually watch it when it came out. It wasn’t until that weekend that I decided to check it out.

I was instantly hooked. I binged through the entire season in two days, and did plenty of crying and cheering. And then rewatched it immediately. I was in love. I was obsessed. It had been a long time since anything grabbed me like SPOP did. I loved the characters. I loved the colorful, sci-fi-fairy tale world of Etheria. I loved how unapologetically feminine it was. And most of all, I loved how queer it was.

I hadn’t done a ton of shipping before SPOP. I’ve been down bad for harlivy for what feels like my whole life, and I was angry when Mika and HG didn’t get together in Warehouse 13, but more often than not I had just been conditioned not to look for queer things in mainstream culture, and even barely in subculture.

That is to say, when I was smashed in the face with Catradora I was surprised how much I glommed onto it immediately. I was absolutely taken with Adora and Catra and their relationship. Both characters were so relatable, and despite not quite being text (although the subtext was so loud and obvious it might as well have been text), it was impossible to not read their feelings for each other as romantic.

It wasn’t just Catradora, even if that was a lot of it. Spinnerella and Netossa being canon from the start was wonderful. How much Glimmer and Bow screamed “BISEXUAL DISASTERS” from the start was adorable. Scorpia’s crush on Catra was as cute as it was sad in its one-sidedness.

I had never really been in a fandom. That is, yeah I’ve liked things, loved things even, but I never found other people to talk about it at length, never found discords just for that thing, never read or wrote fanfic, barely ever drew fanart.

But, I watched SPOP, and then I watched it again. And then I drew Catra. And then I drew Adora. And then I drew them again. And suddenly I was on AO3, a site I never frequented, reading Catradora fics. And then I had an AO3 account. That December I participated in Catradora Week 2018 (I’d never heard of this kind of thing) and drew two pictures for it and wrote my first fanfic.

By the end of February I had drawn more in the three months since the show had premiered than I had in the previous year. I was working furiously on a long, multi-chapter fanfic, and writing more words than I had in the previous couple of years combined.

I was inspired again.

In the 18 months that SPOP ran for, I drew more than I had in years, I wrote hundreds of thousands of words. I felt so rejuvenated and happy about my creativity and free for the first time in years.

It’s hard to put into words exactly how it felt. I was so close to giving up my art and writing, which honestly, would have been giving up a part of myself. An important part of myself. It’s not overstating that SPOP saved me, or at least my creative spirit.

I also learned about the wonders of being in a fandom and fandom things like fan weeks, big bangs, zines. And I made some wonderful friends that I cherish to this day.

Even as I inevitably moved onto other hyperfixations, my love for She-Ra hasn’t diminished. Plushie Catra and Adora sit next to me on my desk every day. Catradora art still hangs on my wall.

The inspiration that SPOP ignited in me hasn’t died either. It’s carried me through a tremendous level of creativity that I’ve been riding since the premiere. It let me create a ton of fan art for SPOP, and then RWBY and then the Witch From Mercury, and I’ve written a ton of fanfics for RWBY and Supergirl. And perhaps the best, that inspiration has helped me create more OC stuff in the last couple years than I had in a long time.

I owe She-Ra and The Princesses of Power so much. I am so happy that it exists and that it happened when it did. I’ll always cherish it.

And for real, Netflix, SPOP spin-off movies WHEN?!

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glitchedcosmos · 4 months

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Yeah he’s fine.

#this was so funny in my head #i giggled drawing this fr #he lost his emotional support boyfriend in one episode fr #guys I don’t think sonic is fine #lmao #sonic prime season 3 #sonic prime #sonic prime art #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #my art shit #sonadow prime #sonic prime spoilers #sonic #sonadow #sth #i thought sk many things after ep 1 was realeased and this was one of them #this is so funny to me I swear lol

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madootles · 6 months

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dramatic eyes. dramatic lips. drama on the cheeks.

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#the fuck's a look??#this show keeps making me cry happy tears #this show made me cry last season when ed and stede kissed. Now I'm crying because LOOK AT IZZY! LOOK AT WEE JOHN!!!#please for the love of god only look at this with the night light filter on. forgot my screen was tinted yellow and the colors are FUCKEDDD #ya ya It’s la vie en rose I didn’t check my references my b my b je regrette ok #our flag means death #ofmd #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd season 2 #izzy hands #wee john feeney #ofmd s2e6 #this show brings me so much joy especially now when everything is so hard in real life.#they just get to be queer with their pirate friends #skdfjhskhgjfnlisadfhlksjdfh;sk #art #fan art #the first time in a while I've been inspired to make art :_) I love

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sourlemonadez · 1 month

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This is for all my fellow czech/slovak dca fans out there (if you guys even exist)

I provided a veeery rough translation at the bottom of the vid, although it was kinda hard to make it comprehensible (and also to figure out how to properly translate the swear words lol)

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pochiikou · 2 months

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#Flowers! 🌺🌻#sk8 the infinity #sk8 fanart #renga #reki kyan #hasegawa langa #reki x langa #sk∞ エスケーエイト #エスケーエイト #digital art #my art #pochiikou

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aqioklol · 2 months

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#digital art #rainworld #rw #rw fanart #rainworld fanart #looks to the moon #.... its sk blurry i gotta figure out how to deal with this later

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ayyy-imma-ninja · 8 months

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~ he slayin' ~

just something stupid i thought up this morning X3

wanted an excuse to draw what Moon wore under his killing cloak dfghfdsfh

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ffoart · 3 months

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inspo - Field book of western wild flowers : Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944

#collage #anatomy #vintage #ffo #body horror #artists on tumblr #macabre #dark art #sk

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dxrkl1ght · 4 months

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Stress is getting to me some comfort doodles of the SK Boys 'cause I can't draw canon Sun or Moon right now

#dxrk draws #vent art #comfort art #doodles #dca!serial killer au #serial killer moon #serial killer sun #sk duo #not putting anymore tags cuz i'm so tired right now

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sibmakesart · 3 months

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i think zoro should lose an arm

as a treat

to me

#sk #sketches #sanji #art study #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #vinsmoke sanji

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vongulli · 10 months

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Doodly doodles!!! (I'm on ep 79, now!!)

#Art #One Piece #Luffy #Nami #Usopp #i havent met that cora guy yet but WHEWWWW HES SK CUTE #also in love with crocodile and hes been kn the screen for like 2 whole minutes so um. expect draeings of him riddled with zesty intent

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midnightechoes · 4 months

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My submission for this year's @bumblebybigbang! I really wanted to challenge myself here with a pose I wasn't that familiar with, especially with the interlocking hands, which was certainly a challenge for me. I also challenged myself with the lighting. I don't do that many pieces with this kind of dynamic lighting. I definitely need the practice.

This is a companion piece to @artfulstar wonderful fic Timeless. I wanted to capture a scene from the volume 5 chapter that really stuck with me. You can read the fic here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52446579

And make sure to check out @evedity pieces that they also did for the fic! https://www.tumblr.com/evedity/737456574383177728/timeless

https://www.tumblr.com/evedity/737456557332267008/timeless