#spop anniversary

[quentin136]

it's been 5 years since Catra's Princess Prom outfit changed the world

#she ra #spop #catra #princess prom #spop anniversary #quentinposting

[cursedtulip]

Happy Anniversary to Catradora!! 💖🥹🌈🔔✨💘💫💕

#they will live in my head forever 💕 #catradora #spop #spop fanart #shera #shera fanart #shera and the princesses of power #spop anniversary #catra #adora #digital art #illustration #character art #fanart

[xrudyred]

happy 2 years of catradora !!!

i miss them so much, im never getting over them <333

#catradora #catra #adora #spop #she ra and the princesses of power #art #my art #.png #spop catra #spop adora #spop anniversary #🐈‍⬛

[tallysgreatestfan]

They survived, both of them, and they are happy together and its canon. I am still happy, even two years later

#Entrapdak #Entrapta #Hordak #Entrapta/Hordak #Entrapta x Hordak #Spop #She-Ra #spop anniversary

[chiqita]

#spop anniversary #spop #spop shitpost #spop memes #she ra and the princesses of power

[ninjakittycomics]

Madam Razz just put the last pie she ever baked for Mara onto the command chair of Mara's ship..... I'm........

#Crying #Spop #spop anniversary #Mara #Madam Razz #Pie #All the things left unsaid

[retro-friki]

#she ra #spop #adora #catra #implied #that's it this is the show #happy spop anniversary

[midnightechoes]

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?!

#art #she ra #adora #catra #catradora #sk's art #shera #spop #she ra and the princesses of power #shera and the princesses of power #she-ra and the princesses of power #she-ra #fifth anniversary #netflix #netflix she-ra #wlw #lesbians #sapphic #lesbian love #lgbtq+ #lesbian

[taracandycorn]

I have never drawn the kiss?!? What? Now I have.

#she ra fanart #she ra #spop #she ra and the princesses of power #catradora #catradora anniversary

[heebiebeebies]

Happy anniversary to these two 💕

I’m getting emotional over this show and how important it was to me

#Catradora anniversary #catradora #Catra #Adora #she ra #she ra fanart #spop #spop fanart #she ra and the princesses of power #fanart #my art #art #illustration #digital sketch #digital art #lesbian #wlw #catradora fanart

[angy-glimmy]

PLEASE tell me there will be a Glimmadora week this year-

Especially with like, the coming 4 years anniversary of the series--

IF THERE IS NOT I'LL MAKE A TEMPLATE FOR THE WEEK WHERE THE SERIES CAME OUT SO THAT IT CAN INSPIRE SOME PEOPLE TO DRAW AGAIN GLIMMADORA I SWEAR---

#she ra and the princesses of power #she ra and the princess of power fanart #she ra #spop #spop fanart #glimmer #adora #cartoon #artists on tumblr #fanart #art #drawing #she ra fanart #she ra glimmer #she ra adora #glimmadora #glimmadora week #glimmadora fanart #daily glimmadora reblog #she ra anniversary

[quentin136]

Happy 5-year anniversary of the premiere of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, my favorite show of all time! I'm endlessly grateful for this wonderful cartoon and all the joy it's brought me. Thank you to the cast and crew for making such a masterpiece, thank you to all the fans who continue to create fanart/fanfics/cosplay/etc, and thank you to anyone who continues to discuss and post about it to this day!

#spop #she ra #spop anniversary #5 years of spop #quentinposting

[foolforshera]

It's the third anniversary of the drop of season five.

Three years ago, May 15, 2020, was a hard time for me. Let's be honest, it was a hard time for everyone. The beginning of the Pandemic was seeing all kinds of scary things that I'm not going to rehash here. I was still going to work but I was one of only a handful of people in a 150,000 square feet building. Even with my wife and roommate at home, I was feeling isolated.

My wife and I were looking forward to the final season of She-Ra to watch together. I'd got into it right about the time season four had dropped and watched through it. I enjoyed it, it was fun. Then, into all of that up above, season five showed up.

Listen, even if Catradora hadn't been confirmed canon, I think I still would have loved the show. Season Five is my favorite season out of all of them because of the tension and narrative that is going on. However, ND Stevenson, that beautiful mad lad, set up the show so that Catradora was the only sensible story beat to go with and at the end, the whole, "Don't you get it? I love you! I always have! So please, just this once... stay!" just floored me. I shouted loud enough my neighbors probably heard me.

In any normal time, I think I would have loved it. In my time of isolation and sadness with the Pandemic and everything else going on, it hit me like a sledgehammer. A happy ending, evil defeated, love expressed and received, and all of it queer. Is it any wonder that three years down the line I'm still turning out fic and happily part of the fandom?

Now, on the third anniversary, raise a cup and remember these things.

We're strong together.

Hope is not a pointless thing.

Love is a powerful force.

So to She-Ra, Crew-Ra, and the fandom, I say thank you. I'm proud to belong here and I'm proud to have all of you here. We won in the end.

#spop #third anniversary

[driluth]

a list of my catradora fics:

complete series:

old guard au: inspired by the netflix film of the same title where catra and adora are immortal enemies who fall in love (part 1, part 2)

ongoing series:

calypso au: inspired by pjo where adora is a demigod who falls in love with a titan goddess

sad portal au: where adora stays behind in the portal instead of angela (i promise this one will update soon!!)

youtube exes au: catradora are exes who have almost their whole realtionship vlogged

oneshots with au settings:

80s fantasy: etherians have wings

buffyverse: adora is the hero of a prophecy, catra doesn't want her to be

oneshots that work with canon:

failsafe: catra takes the failsafe instead of adora

soulmates: everyone has a soulmate tattoo except adora

5+1: five times adora represses herself and the one time she doesn't

stab fic: adora stabs catra

disintegration: prime sends catra and glimmer to another planet

#she ra #catradora #catradora fanfiction #catradora fic #spop #my writing #fics #happy early anniversary day sorry i don't have anything new to post but i promise i have more content for them that i'm hoping to post soon #i really do love my titles btw but most of them are so long (minus disintegration lmao)

[tallysgreatestfan]

So nice to see queer disabled couples like the ones I was in in a sci-fi series. Entrapta is canonically bi, and while Hordak definitely is queer, I personally headcanon him as bigender (and bi, too) 

Sadly, Hordaks edit did not turn out that well

#Entrapdak #Entrapta #Hordak #She-Ra #spop #spop edit #spop anniversary #LGBTQ

[bacchanal333]

I missed the 15th but these two are always in my heart 😊

#shera #spop #catra #adora #catradora #happy 2nd anniversary sweeties