#spop mermista

[draw-the-squad-like-this]

Draw your otp

#she ra and the princesses of power #reluctant allies #spop #annoyed and happy #grumpy and sunshine #cute #you know you love me #seahawk #seamista #spop sea haw #spop seamista #spop mermista #mermista #annoyed #draw your ocs #draw the ocs #tag your ocs #imagine your ocs #drawing prompt #pose reference #otp prompt #2 people #otp #draw your otp #draw your otp like this #draw the otp #draw your ship #tag your otp #draw your characters #draw your characters like this

[dylbydoodles]

Mermista in mermay? Mere likely than you’d think 🧜‍♀️

#spop #mermista #spop fanart #spop mermista #shera fanart #shera #she ra fanart #she ra art #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra and the princess of power fanart #she ra mermista #mermista she ra #shera mermista #mermay #mermay 2023

[turtle-ly]

don't let him hear that though

#she ra #sea hawk #mermista #glimmer #spop #seamista #spop sea hawk #spop mermista #spop glimmer #adding ALT text for this post sure was a process #KeepSeaHawkPathetic2k23 #my footprints #my she ra stuff #i have more in this tag

[hibiscuit-rose]

i dont think ive posted my she ra screenshot redraws yet..

these are from summer of 2023, i did all of season one then

i didnt like how adoras skin was lightened when shes she ra so her skin stays the same

(also i think the screencap i used for episode 3 isnt from episode 3 actually but finding good quality images is hard)

#flighty arty #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #spop #spop adora #spop catra #spop glimmer #spop bow #spop perfuma #spop sea hawk #spop mermista

[rheesvandar]

She-Ra Characters’ favorite non-alcoholic beverages.

Adora: Protein shakes. Gotta keep those gains!

Catra: Milk. Because she’s basically a cat.

Glimmer: Fanta (strawberry in particular). It’s sparkly and fruity just like her!

Bow: Pepsi. His taste in soda is uncomplicated but he has too much of a sweet tooth for Coke.

Perfuma: Gatorade. It’s got what plants crave.

Mermista: Water. She’s the princess of it anyway.

Sea Hawk: Sarsaparilla. He strikes me as someone who would drink sarsaparilla.

Scorpia: Ginger ale. She likes the “bite” it has.

Double Trouble: Cranberry juice. Looks sophisticated in a stemmed glass

Entrapta: Mini cans of Coke

Hordak: Mountain Dew Baja Blast. Reminds him of the nutrient pouches.

Madame Razz: Sangria Senorial (non-alcoholic). It’s like her berries!

Frosta: Blue Raspberry Icee. Icy and in her favorite color!

Shadow Weaver: Children’s tears. And Catra’s.

Thoughts? Differing headcanons? Complaints?

#spop #she ra spop #spop entrapta #spop hordak #spop catra #spop adora #spop perfuma #spop mermista #spop frosta #spop glimmer #spop bow #madame razz #shadow weaver #brawndo it’s got what plants crave #spop scorpia #spop sea hawk

[gloriasaroace]

When duty calls,

I deliver.

#she ra #spop fanart #she ra and the princess of power fanart #spop mermista #mermista #spop seahawk #sea hawk #seamista

[endy-the-anxious]

She-Ra characters as Roman, Virgil, Remus, and Logan from Sanders Sides.

I'm really proud of this one. It took me a couple of hours. Also I'll probably make a version with Perfuma as Patton and Seahawk as Roman minus the mustache.

(click for better quality)

#fanart #edit #spop entrapta #spop seahawk #spop mermista #spop perfuma #she ra #she ra princess of power #tss roman #tss virgil #tss remus #tss logan #roman sanders #virgil sanders #remus sanders #logan sanders #sanders sides #tss #ts sides

[favficbirthdays]

Happy Birthday

Mermista (21st October)

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

#she-ra and the princesses of power #she-ra spop #spop #she-ra #spop mermista #mermista spop #she-ra mermista #mermista she-ra #mermista #fictional birthday #october #october 21st

[call-me-double-trouble]

Double Trouble: If you want to pretend to be Sea Hawk, all you have to do is sing sea shanties and set boats on fire while shouting, "Adventure!" Mermista: Sea Hawk's not hard to nail. DT: Yeah. He’s not hard to imitate, either. ;) Mermista: ಠ_ಠ

#double trouble #spop double trouble #she ra double trouble #spop incorrect quotes #incorrect spop quotes #spop #spop mermista #she ra mermista #mermista #sea hawk #she ra sea hawk #spop sea hawk #source: mine #mine

[fandom-fluff-of-the-day]

Today's Fluff is Mermista and Seahawk

#fandom fluff of the day #fluff of the day #fluff #mermista #seahawk #spop mermista #spop sea hawk #she ra and the princesses of power #spop #mermista x seahawk #seamista

[a-sketchy-bean]

I feel like seamista would be the couple to silly romantic things like dance naked in the sea at sunset

#digital art #my art #spop #spop art #she ra fanart #she ra #she ra mermista #she ra sea hawk #spop mermista #spop sea hawk #seamista #disabled artist

[duellance]

And do we care that I’m going out of order? No, no we do not ☀️

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(click for better quality)

#thanks silentwillowwhisperer for suggesting a character from she ra! #she ra #spop #mermista #spop mermista #she ra and the princess of power fanart #she ra fanart #my art #carmen sandiego #Netflix #color meme #color wheel meme

[hoolay-boobs]

“Glimmer is a lesbian” “Mermista is a lesbian” “Glimmer only liked Bow as a friend” “Entrapta is a lesbian” “Mermista doesn’t like Sea Hawk; she’s always annoyed with him” “Entrapdak isn’t canon” “Nate ‘confirmed’ Perfuma is a lesbian via liking a Twitter post” stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it sto-

#enjoy the bi flag with flames I made :) #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra #spop #glimbow #bisexual #bisexuality #bi erasure #bi erasure tw #biphobia tw #biphobia #bisexualism #bisexuals #she ra glimmer #glimmer she ra #spop glimmer #glimmer spop #mermista spop #spop mermista #spop entrapta #entrapta spop #perfuma #mermista #entrapta #glimmer #entrapdak #bowfuma #seamista #spop perfuma #bi flag

[overhatedcharacterspoll]

OVERHATED CHARACTERS POLL: Mermista (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Feel free to explain your position in the comments or tags, but any harassment, over-the-top fighting, or personal attacks will result in you being blocked. Do not attack real people, be they fans or creators, over fictional characters.

#spop #spop mermista #mermista #she ra and the princesses of power #poll

[that-ari-blogger]

A Study In Style

Roll With It is the best piece of television ever put to screen. This is not up for debate, I will not be taking argument. I will die on this hill. Roll With It is perfect. No, I'm not biased.

In all seriousness, this episode is gimmicky and fun, so as far as plot goes, analysis is difficult. Instead, I'd like to focus on the character writing and artistic embellishments on display and explore what they do for the story.

Let me explain.

SPOILERS AHEAD: (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Spider Man: Into The Spiderverse, Arcane, Critical Role Campaign 3)

Artistic style is a remarkably underrated part of animation. People credit the writing and the direction, but the specific visual elements that make up a style can often have a more significant impact on the story.

Think of it this way. You are watching a series through a window. The direction dictates where the window sits and what it sees, the writing and the acting dictate what goes on outside, but if the style describes the window itself. A window made from tinted, stained, or warped glass will change what you see dramatically.

So, She-Ra's base art style relies on pastel colours and a two dimensional, cartoony aesthetic. It's realistic in theory, at least in contrast to One Piece, but its flat and appealing, and the expressions are often exaggerated to great effect.

Because focusing a shot is difficult when you don't have a camera (smudging colours in animation has a habit of not looking too good), animation has picked up tricks to focus the viewer's eyes. For example, Spider Man: Into The Spiderverse brought animation into the forefront of the public consciousness, and almost single handedly changed the industry, and it used a mixture of techniques to express its focus.

The items in the background of this shot are less detailed than Peter, and have a kind of 3D glasses effect making them difficult to focus on. They are also in stark contrast with the red of the Spidey Suit.

She-Ra takes a different approach, saturation. The vast majority of the series is shot in pastel colours with little-to-no shadows clogging up the shots. This is then accentuated by specific key-frames of bold colouration and deep shadows that contrast wildly with each other and the rest of the episodes they are in. I have a habit of using these key frames as my opening screenshot for these posts because I think they look the coolest.

The point of this is to highlight certain elements in your mind, in the same way that when you close your eyes after looking at a fire, the image lingers for a moment, memory tends to work the same way to bold colours. There is also the idea that making specific moments stand out visually tells the audience to pay attention.

If you focus on certain moments, you guide the audience's view towards them. It's the same thing that a camera does in a still image, focusing on specific items in the shot to guide the eye.

In Roll With It, as the characters present their own plans, the art style changes, to match the minds that you are being transported into. Adora's style is the same as normal for the series, but the contents are different. Adora is matter of fact and to the point, but she perceives threats everywhere. Adora cannot relax.

But the specific colour choice also has an effect on the meaning of a shot, and for that, let's discuss the other animated pioneer of the past few years, Arcane.

Arcane has zero chill, and even less subtlety. This shot centres around Jinx's mental instability caused by her sister. Its a tortured mind who is hallucinating about someone who isn't actually in the scene. So, naturally, her world is on fire with pink flames, associating that fire with Vi, for whom pink is a signature colour.

Glimmer, however, takes the series' key frames and colour and dials that up to eleven. Everything in this shot is bold and action packed. I am tempted to describe it as violently pink.

But the shot is entirely monochrome. Everything here is pink or black, and that acts as a neat worldview for Glimmer's worldview. Glimmer perceives the world in black and white, but where the white would usually represent good in that idea, here, it is replaced by pink, and by Glimmer. Adora has a reputation for a hero complex, but I would argue that Glimmer has something similar. Not in the same way as Adora's pathologic need to save people, but Glimmer definitely has an ego problem.

The pink also makes Glimmers mind difficult to read as an audience, and I think that is the point. Everything in Glimmer's worldview is super bold and in focus, meaning that it dims the effect of the focus. In the wise words of someone with a definite hero syndrome.

"When everyone's super, no-one is."

Glimmer is the perfect example of how someone with an incredibly simple worldview of good and bad can do some truly morally grey acts. In this case, because she doesn't believe in good and evil, she believes in Glimmer and evil. Either you agree with her, or you are her enemy. I wonder if that will ever come up again.

There's also no way I can mention this scene without pointing out that this is a reference top classic James Bond, and that speaks to Glimmer's character as well.

The original James Bond was a character whom the world revolved around, and who rarely ever failed. He was charming, and witty, and cool. In short, Glimmer perceives herself as a Mary Sue. And it's important to understand that this is her opinion of herself, and not the actual reality. Once again, Glimmer has an inflated sense of superiority and does not understand the fact that she could be flawed.

Bow, on the other hand, is simple. He is the single most simple character of the entire cast. But that doesn't mean he is flat. I want to stress that Bow is only rendered this way by the insanity of everyone else on screen.

In a world where everyone is a ticking time bomb, Bow serves to balance out the shenaniganry, which makes him an Orym figure.

Art by Hanna Friederichs (@agarthanguide)

For context, Roll With It is very clearly drawing on the aesthetics of table top role playing games. This is the D&D episode, and no this hasn't artificially inflated what I think of the episode at all.

Critical Role is a D&D actual play series that is currently in its third campaign. If you have read my series on Stray Gods, you will recognise two of the cast members of CR as Laura Baily (Who played Grace) and Ashley Johnson (Who played Calliope).

Orym of the Air Ashari is a character played by Liam O'Brien, a voice actor who is somehow not weighed down by the sheer amount of talent he is lugging around. Seriously, this guy has been in everything from Star Wars to League Of Legends.

In any case, the current campaign of CR centres around a collection of walking disasters, and I mean that as a compliment. Everyone in the series is one step away from spiraling into insanity, with the one possible exception of Orym.

So, Orym has taken the role of the team's everyman, rendered simple by the rest of the cast, and you can see where I am going here.

Bow and Orym are the straight men of the group (a deliberately ironic choice of wording), balancing out their companions and offering a sense of stability and comfort.

But, both Orym and Bow have stuff going on behind their eyes. Orym is grieving form the loss of his husband and father, and Bow is dealing with some serious self-worth issues, but you don't see those elements that often, purely because of the more overt nature of those they surround themselves with.

But this is a post about style, and what do the visuals of Bow's plan tell us about him?

Well, Bow's style draws on the aesthetics of the original She-Ra series, back when the series was designed entirely to sell toys and nothing else.

Once again, Bow is simple, he is a paragon hero, who is fighting in this war because it is the right thing to do. So naturally, his mind harks back to the version of this story that was purely idealistic.

I also want to quickly mention Mermista here, because she is my favourite character. In her mind, she is She-Ra, armoured up and powerful, the chosen one.

And this is where my point comes in to this post. That's right, I do actually have something to say.

This episode is a D&D episode because it is drawing on the key element of TTRPGs, the chaos. TTRPGs are fun and are designed to be a mix of different playstyles. Sometimes you are playing Blades In The Dark and you want to be something out of left field, and that is completely ok.

The message of this episode is that different styles complement each other and make each other better by contrast. Foils are important, even when they aren't antagonistic.

Final Thoughts

This episode is perfect. No more comments.

Next week, I will be looking at White Out, so stick around if that interests you.

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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 bow #mermista can do no wrong #mermista #she ra mermista #she ra glimmer #glimmer #spop bow #spop glimmer #spop adora #spop mermista #roll with it #critical role bells hells #critical role orym #orym of the air ashari

[rheesvandar]

She-Ra characters’ favorite movies!!! This one will probably be pretty controversial.

Adora: Alien. But she gets scared and has to cuddle with Catra (that’s her favorite part).

Catra: Predator. She can’t tell who she’s rooting for half the time though.

Glimmer: Captain Harlock: Space Pirate. She loves the aesthetic.

Bow: Star Wars. He’s very opinionated on the watch order.

Perfuma: Up in Smoke (never gonna let that joke go)

Mermista: Knives Out (but she’s waiting for the MerMysteries movie franchise)

Sea Hawk: The Princess Bride. He fancies himself Westley.

Scorpia: She’s a MCU fan and can’t pick her favorite of them.

Double Trouble: They hate watch Master of Disguise regularly.

Entrapta: Pacific Rim. Giant mechs! Fighting! Tech!

Hordak: Sleepless in Seattle. He loves romcoms!

Madame Razz: Primer. To her the plot is very straightforward, predictable, and linear

Shadow Weaver: Matilda. She has no idea why such wonderful and caring parents were so maligned!

Frosta: Godzilla movies. She has plans for an ice kaiju once she gets better at controlling her powers.

Micah: Star Trek: Wrath of Khan. He and Bow get into arguments about the better franchise and Glimmer has to tear them apart.

Kyle: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - He fancies himself Scott. He isn’t.

Kadroh: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He loves how wrong it is about the universe!

Melog: The Aristocats. ‘Nuff said.

Netossa and Spinnerella: Lord of the Rings. They watch the Extended Editions together at least once a year.

Horde Prime: Horde Prime The Movie: A Horde Prime Production by Light Of Horde Prime Studios

#she ra spop #spop #spop entrapta #spop hordak #spop catra #spop adora #spop glimmer #spop bow #spop perfuma #spop mermista #spop sea hawk #wrong hordak #kadroh #madame razz #spop frosta #shadow weaver #spop kyle