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Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.
Pansexual heteroromantic aegosexual 43yo gender agnostic ciswoman (any pronouns) with a multitude of people with different experiences living in her head (aka a writer).
I’m pretty much just bigoted against bigots.
Outline below for my story based on my “Who opened the portal that brought Hordak to Etheria?” theory in SPoP.
Potential relevance to another topic I’m discussing elsewhere re: poorly handled character arcs slash treatment of traumatized characters in the series.
But mostly because I really, really do want to write this, and getting this done while it’s on my mind helps.
Non-spoilerish line from the second Hordak pov chapter I particularly enjoy.
Because I read this post from @baggebythesea and mood. 😊
Shadow Weaver: I need a child with inate power, but isolated from external influence. A child I can mold after my image and manipulate in or
Context: Hordak is thinking about his growing guilt over the trauma that occurred to those raised in the Horde, and his very poor but earnest attempts to create some rectification.
He recognizes the worst thing was allowing Shadow Weaver unmonitored control over children, and therefore out of excuses to try and directly help Adora and Catra.
And, of course, Scorpia. While he would never be able to actually conceptualize the harm he had inflicted upon the young woman, he could appreciate the vastness that void would have to repreawnr.
However, getting the princess to actually admit to his face she had suffered in any way due to his presence on Etheria went beyond his capacity.
It was with equal parts guilt and relief he resigned her healing to other hands not his own.
……
Huh.
Completely and utterly forgot about this.
So I’m really really glad I have such an indepth outline for Chapter 1, it’s sparking some memories.
But Boiling Rain, I don’t remember anything about Chapter 2 other than what I implied above. 😵💫
Hi yes I’d like to throw this into the Tumblr universe just because. The uncertainty vs true comfort. The difference in how they hold her. Just all of it thank you.
Baby Adora Baby Adora
with Shadow Weaver with Hordak
She-Ra fandom pls give me an AU where Shadow Weaver isn't involved and Hordak is raising all these kids himself I BEG
One moment one moment gotta scroll my archives one moment…
Empty skies, there were only ever two posts? 😭😭
Anyway, here.
💬 5 🔁 42 ❤️ 159 · Wanderer Hordak Au! Hordak and Adora come through the same worm hole and end up stranded on a magicless Etheria together
💬 1 🔁 51 ❤️ 232 · more wanderer hordak au! he's taking adora apple picking. bonus: hordak being a mess and adora being great at pickin
It is wild to me that the SPOP fandom doesn’t talk about or even mention the fact Hordak attempted to commit suicide on screen. That just happened and then the whole fandom proceeded to be like “well he’s still selfish and mean”. Guys. He isn’t perfect but what do you mean there’s like zero sympathy or acknowledgement of the tragedy of that???
And yes, I will not argue on this. It was not ‘a metaphor’ or ‘kind of’. Hordak stepped into that pool knowing it would erase him. He did not want to live with even the vaguest of memories of who he was. He fully intended to delete everything that made him himself. He willingly tried to destroy who he was and what he felt and everything he was inside. He did it in a way that left his physical body to still be useful because he was so brainwashed that he didn’t want to be a burden even in death. He heard so much as his name and he was ready to kill the part of him that was him, was Hordak. To make himself just another face, to wipe away the feelings and thoughts he had. Destroying everything inside and leaving just a body. That is absolutely a form of suicide. Hordak tried to kill what was left of himself in that moment.
And he was partially successful.
And it breaks me every time I think about it, and again every time it’s forgotten or thrown aside just because he isn’t a main character.
YES OMG!
Just look at the face he makes:
It’s just heartbreaking.
And being told they’re selfish is something a lot of people with suicidal ideation get slapped with, and it’s the LEAST helpful thing to say to a suicidal person.
I think a lot of this fandom is still young and Hordak is a character that in no way can be fully held in a black and white understanding of the world that is just something we all have to grow out of with time. Hordak is such a complex and nuanced character and it’s what makes him the most beautiful, at least to me.
To add on. This exchange. He’s scared and determined and even warning. Hordak took that last glance at something he remembered and yet it was almost begging. It feels to me like he’s saying “sorry, I don’t want this either, but I need to, I have nothing else.” It could even be taken as, in addition to the other reasons he’s doing it, Hordak is doing this to warn her. She needs to understand the danger she’s in, and this is his way of protecting her by showing her what will happen if she continues while hurting himself. The recognition in her eyes and slight jump…she finally understood that the vision of him she’d painted in her head was a lie, and he was just as trapped and scared as she was…I wish they got a proper arc together. I felt like in that moment she realized what was about to happen but couldn’t do anything :(
Want more awful? 😇
I headcanon that Prime deliberately set up the “accidental” meeting between Hordak and Catra. And had deliberately left just enough memory in Hordak to acknowledge her, and need “atonement”…
Specifically to twist the knife into Catra how utterly trapped and hopeless her situation was, while she still was deluded with the belief she had any kind of leverage here.
Oh, and torture The Failure, because Suffering, sweet delicious Suffering.
And, of course, to reiterate to the rest of the flock the punishment for failure, which all of them I headcanon are deliberately programmed with exactly enough leeway to make the inevitable failure of individuality a guarantee they must live in sin with…
As well as the promise of the illusion of Prime’s approval for reporting that sin in their brothers.
So yeah.
Hordak committed suicide, the person he’s been conditioned to believe was god manipulated him into it (not realizing the legitimate trauma Hordak also had that actually contributed to his feelings of failure), and Hordak wasn’t even the primary intended victim in Prime’s plan.
Delightful, huh? 😇
Need more content of Imp and Entrapta. I’m just imagining her clambering throughout the Fright Zone with this child on her shoulder and he keeps squeaking at her and she’s just talking to him like he’s the bestest little guy.
I NEEDED THEM TO BE HANGIN OUT IN THE VENTS THEY BOTH USE THEM.
GIVE ME ENTRAPTA AND HER SON.
JUST IMAGINE HORDAK WATCHING THEM BOTH POP OUT OF A VENT AND HE PRETENDS TO BE ANNOYED BUT ITS THE CUTEST THING HE’S EVER SEEN
I’M GOING TO BED.
So, I scrounged through my own #Imp tag. Here’s some of the best Entrapta & Imp I could find for you:
💬 15 🔁 1205 ❤️ 3255 · Love!
💬 3 🔁 1040 ❤️ 3189 · It’s important to provide your adopted demonspawn stimulation to enhance his social development.
💬 4 🔁 211 ❤️ 663 · Oh my goodness! I never would have imagined a pirate ship as a costume for Imp, but it is so perfectly delightful!! Ent
💬 1 🔁 70 ❤️ 379 · I prefer Impus Paruulum. Adorable as always, Niu, thank you for the share!
By the clones being both Prime’s ‘brother’s and kind of his children, by marrying Hordak and adopting Wrong Hordak, Entrapta is Horde Prime’s daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, stepmother, and new mother of his stolen child. She’s an ambitious woman.
Caption: A song called “I’m My Own Grandpa,”with helpful diagrams.
I enjoy imagining Hordak attempting to explain Imp. To everyone else he just randomly had a child with him one day and refused to elaborate. Unlike all the other children he keeps coming across he refuses to let Shadow Weaver touch this one and no one knows why. It’s just his baby boy now and it’s genuinely scaring everyone because he takes after papa and just stares ominously at you.
Shadow Weaver: uhm. What’s that?
Hordak, looking at a just-born Imp in his arms: Uh. A baby. I think. My baby.
Shadow Weaver, used to this by now: Okay, okay, I get it. More work for me. Hand me the child and I’ll—
Hordak: Reach your hand towards him again and I will bite you.
Shadow Weaver: ….
Hordak: I am keeping this and you cannot have him and he is mine and he is my baby boy.
Shadow Weaver: ……….i don’t get paid enough to care, one less child for me to worry about.
I personally prefer the alternative, no one else knew about Imp until like 5 years after he was decanted.
At least, no one had documentable proof.
For five years Imp just flew around in the pipe rafters of the Fright Zone, spying and being creepy.
He was literally a cryptid, an urban legend the cadets swore they didn’t believe but secretly, deep down, did and were utterly terrified of.
And then there was the day that a - small bat-boy-terror thing swooped down and stole Shadow Weaver’s mask one day.
No one actually saw her face, she covered it up quick, but the bat was out if the bag by then.
Normal People:
A box of absolute nothingness? That sounds horrible!
My Mutuals:
A box of absolute nothingness! Please please please let me book an hour in the box of absolute nothingness!!
😆
Also, how to separate the people with Sensory Processing Disorder from the boring people.
(as for me, I’ve tried a few sessions in a salt water sensory deprivation tank. I couldn’t get my arms comfortable enough justify the expense and drive compared to being at home with my adjustable bed, half dozen pillows, black out eyemask, and instrumental music. so yes, I need something even more extreme!
What if silence is in fact a sound, but because its a universal sound we just adapted to it and dont notice it anymore
I actually just wrote a paper on this!!
The short of it is, yes, that's exactly what happens. There's no such thing as pure silence outside of a vacuum (and inside a vacuum you'd be dead). So basically your ears are constantly adapting to the noise threshold of your surroundings and slowly ignoring it. If you were in a perfectly silent room (anechoic chambers are cool!) you would actually start to hear the sound of existing!
Isn't there some room full of sound baffling foam or something that absorbs all ambient noise and most people go mad from the isolation because they start to hear things like their own circulatory system and their heartbeat pounding in their ears?
Ah, there it is. Orfield Labratories in Minnesota. They say the longest anyone's been able to stay inside was 45 minutes, as they could hear their lungs expanding and their digestive system working overtime.
Oooh, a World Record I actually have a chance for!
I know the intensity of it would be a challenge, but I’m already fairly hyper-aware of my bodily sounds and use them as comfort sounds to reverse the effects of outside sounds.
I’m also really good at flexing my ear canal to create white noise in my ear, so I’d have a known counter to edge out a few more minutes…
Who do I contact for an attempt? 😇
Edit: Wait, what, there’s a real answer to that????
General 2 — Orfield Laboratories, Inc.
The link preview doesn’t give details, so here’s a snippet:
Group Sessions of Silence:
Immerse yourself in complete silence and darkness for one hour, accompanied by a small group of guests. Each ticket entitles the visitor to 1 of 5 seats in the 12x10 suspended chamber. Hosted weekly on Monday and Fridays.
Reserve your seat [link] $90/per person + tax
Significantly more importantly:
Multi-Sensory and Cognitive Consultations:
Many of our visitors are interested in going beyond their initial visit, to deal with issues that are specific to them. Invisible disabilities are common among all populations, yet some of our visitors are more curious than others. For those visitors we offer a personal consultation service that is intended to deal with their specific area of interest and concern.
So, um, yeah, the facility is within reasonable take-time-off-work visit distance for me, and having a legit conversation with uber-specialists in Audio Processing sounds utterly amazing……….
the problem with movie remakes is that they always remake something that was already good, meaning at worst you ruin it and at best your remake is largely redundant. to make a truly good remake you need to start with source material that is absolute dogwater. ignore the pull of nostalgia. redeem the sins of moviemaking past.
The one exception to this is a Disney Live Action Hercules.
Yes, this needs some people who actually, you know, can write and direct, but come on.
That soundtrack is banger, the concept needs more love, and we can have a voice actor reprise a role in the live action and it be perfect.
And who doesn’t want more Hades?
as counterintuitive as it may sound, the easiest way to get a kid to respect you and listen to you is to just let them talk back and complain. let them learn to negotiate and question what they’re being told to do. literally like all aspects of their life are out of their control, so like. let them have SOME control where they can. also “bad” behaviors are often just due to emotions that we as adults still feel and ignore or just silently stress over. like, if you tell a kid to do the dishes or clean up a room. if you tell them to do it right away, they’re going to get anxious and angry. if somebody tells you to drop everything and attend some random meeting that you weren’t told about at all beforehand, you’re going to get anxious and angry. like. same shit. kids don’t just flop on the floor and scream to give you a hard time. you’re freaking them out by yanking their day in directions they couldn’t mentally prepare for. so like, let them talk back, let them complain. let them seek your explanation and an opportunity to negotiate their terms. after a while, they’ll just stop talking back or whining because they’ll trust that you’re telling them something for a reason and they’ll have practiced making a task work for them and their personal motivation.
So, it’s important to note that I was the “good” kid. Like, the song Surface Pressure from Encanto? Totally me.
However, when my parents divorced when me and my younger brother were teenagers the most logical plan was for us to finish high school with my father, and let my mother take contracts as a travel nurse.
“Logic,” however, assumed my father wouldn’t be an emotionally constipated asshole who, now deprived of his ex-wife, would start using us as the reasons for why his life was horrible.
My brother, who always projected his stress outwards unlike me, obviously suffered the most. It ended in him getting thrown out of the house (my father’s terminology) and living with my maternal grandmother.
But before that point, there was one night I was sitting watching tv and my father said to me “Can you make salad for dinner?”
Now, I do acknowledge the very Canadian politeness making the “can” just a euphemism for “I am ordering you to do something.”
(Have I mentioned my father was in the Canadian Air Force? Yeah, my father was an emotionally constipated control freak in the military.)
I was exhausted from the stress in the home, and very literally asked “What would you say if I said no?”
My father immediately began yelling about how he had to do everything in the house, how ungrateful I was, and I just stood up and said “Oh, that’s what you’d say.” And went to make the salad.
That was the late 1990s.
I was the last person in what I consider my family to talk with him, in 2005.
I do not have any guilt over that decision.
After working today (daycare teacher), I feel the need to make the Public Service Announcement.
If your Toddler or Preschooler is overly emotional about not getting their own way, you need to increase the amount of structure you impose upon them.
Because your kid is suffering from anxiety over trying to do your job.
I am not exaggerating, I am not making this up.
Children should not be the ones making all the decisions.
That is way above their pay grade.
Struggling at bedtime? Do your job, create a sleep routine, stick to it.
Angry they can’t play with a toy they want, when they want it? Enforce times they have to give up toys. Work on turn taking, sharing, and accepting less desirable toys.
Temper tantrums? They lost their turn, they need to show age-appropriate behavior to get the next one.
Note: if a child can’t calm down after getting angry or crying, that’s a meltdown. They need your help to return to emotional regulation. Teach calming techniques as a daily connection moment when they are already calm, use them during and after a meltdown, and provide positive reassurance and affection as they regain emotional regulation.
But do not give them the item/activity they wanted that triggered the meltdown; that means next time they hear “no,” a meltdown will get them what they want.
They need to accept they’ve lost access to what they wanted until they can provide age-appropriate actions (say sorry, wait 10 minutes, do another activity first) before they can restart negotiations.
Also: Don’t always allow for negotiations. Some things can’t be negotiated.
You don’t get to negotiate everything as an adult, neither will they.
Me randomly dancing to kids’ music, and the exceptionally serious 2.5 year olds who believe I have sacred wisdom and every motion must be reproduced exactly.
Entrapta: I have a problem. I keep one-upping everyone, all the time. It’s becoming a problem and at this point I’m enjoying it.
Angella, acting as her therapist: How so?
Frosta: I had to take over the throne at 9.
Entrapta: I’ve been alone since I was 5.
Mermista: My sea gate is falling apart.
Entrapta: Most of my kingdom is abandoned and we live in the mountains so no one ever helps us.
Glimmer: I feel like no one listens to me.
Entrapta: I get actively run over and ignored by the princesses for like 3 1/2 seasons and blatantly treated discriminatorily.
Bow: I know a lot about technology!
Entrapta: I have the most knowledge on technology, things no one from this world should be able to learn or understand.
Angella, nodding: I see.
Adora, bursting in: HELP GUYS I THINK THE SECOND-IN-COMMAND OF THE HORDE IS IN LOVE WITH ME AND I THINK I’M IN LOVE TOO. WHAT DO I DO.
Entrapta: …………
Entrapta: Give me two weeks.
I see zero lies in any of this.
Be 45
Have the family osteoarthritis officially sign the lease agreement on your knees
Have a bad knee day
Take a lovely hot bath
Feel better
Realize you now need to get out of the bath
Your entire body literally freezes with horror
Attempt to push past and kneel
Get a third of the way through before your body completely freezes again
Try not to panic
I am in a constant state of knurd in regards to deep pressure.
I have reached the point at home where I use two weighted blankets to strategically bury my body against the world, and removing them feels like the insult to normality.
(I work as an active 45 year old daycare teacher, sadly I doubt investing in a compression vest for day use that actually works despite my size G boobs would be useful for anything… 😭😭)
The solar system, but high fashion by Wisdom Kaye
