Notable She-Ra Fanfictions List
Welcome. This is my She-Ra and the Princesses of Power fandom-blog. I am primarily a fan of Entrapta, Hordak and the Galactic Horde Clones. I am an Entrapdak-shipper and, in fact, was one of the first, back when it was treated as crack. Formerly shadsiethewriter. I am Shadsie on Ao3 and elseweb. I am a fanfiction-writer and I also do fanart now and again. ________________
A list of my noteworthy personal fanfictions. I’m not including all of them, since I’ve been fairly prolific. These are just some on my Ao3 profile that stand out for one reason or another; major series, short-fic collections and tidbits that may be of interest for anyone looking to kill some time. Ordered by type: Early Fandom Offerings - Fics done when the show was first airing, Season 1 and Season 2 fics. Contains interesting material in terms of early fandom impressions and ideas that are interesting when compared to later canon.
The Havoc Hypothesis - My first for the fandom. Season 1 fic. Entrapta wreaks havoc in her new home with the Horde. That’s it. That’s the fic. Trapped - Entrapta-focused fic written and focused in Season 1. Entrapta during her time left behind in the Horde and rejoining the Rebellion, with all of the problems that entails. Proposed theory back then, definitely canon-divergent now. Entrapdak Firsts!
Fearless - The first Entrapdak (Entrapta / Hordak) fic on Ao3. Season 2 writing. Hordak musing about this strange, fearless woman who has just barged into his life. I wasn’t entirely sure what to make of my exciting new crackship then. It may not be the best entrapdak fic on the site, but as far as I know it’s the first. The King of Loneliness - Early multichaptered entrapdak fic. Season 2 setting / written. Canon-divergent from Season 2′s ending. Hordak and Entrapta work together, grow close and figure each other out. They end up working on a project together to not only bring the Horde High Command to Etheria (written before we knew anything about clones), but to make pockets of the atmosphere habitable for them. A tale of war, tragedy, mad science and the price of “getting what you wanted,” but not what you needed.
Doomberries - This one seems to be popular. Written in Season 3. Entrapta eats food that was gifted to Hordak as part of an assassination plot. Doomberries are a type of fruit that will rip your atoms asunder and fade you out of existence. There is no cure but one: For someone to cry for you. Entrapta doesn’t have many friends and the ones she does have are absent, on a suicide-mission to the Crimson Waste. Hordak is distressed over her, but there is one problem: His species was not built with tear ducts and does not have the capability of weeping. What will happen? (Written during Season 3, before Season 4 showed us that Hordak and his kind are, indeed, capable of grief-tears). This fic is therefore flawed, but it is popular, so it is noted here. Fun with Shadow Weaver!
Shadow Weaver’s Storytime - I decided to write the origins of the “Princess Ghost Stories” that Adora talks about. Watch Shadow Weaver scare the living daylights out of a bunch of children on a Horde training exercise / camping trip! Dead Doves - Some of my nastier / crueler horror fics. Proceed with caution.
The End of Etheria - Season 1 written fic. Taken from an idea I saw floated around a prompt site. The Horde experiments with the corrupted First One’s disc-virus, applied to the Runestones through the Black Garnet. Every Princess and Queen connected to a Runestone begins steadily losing their mind, devolve into tyranny and become the purest and cruelest embodiment of their natural element. Exactly what it says on the tin. Set Phasers to Stun - What if when Catra lost her head and tased Entrapta in the back the setting was higher than she realized? The tale of an accidental murder and the consequences that follow. The Final Ecstasy - Horde Prime, a clone and a ritual. (Unless you are prepared for what those words entail, just don’t even with this damn thing)!!! Noteable for being the most decomposed of my dead doves - how deep the rabbit hole can go with me when I feel like writing overdark things for cartoons. My Best of Hordak Collection - Hordak-centered fiction that I feel particularly proud of.
An Unexpected Therapist - Someone recced this on TV Tropes. Post-series. The clones are having a difficult time adjusting to their newfound freedom and the concept of independence. A lost-feeling clone named Pickles seeks Hordak out to make sense of all of this. He spent a long time apart from the hive mind, after all, and has the greatest sense of independence as well as a steel determination to survive. No one expects a warlord to become a therapist, but strange things happen on Etheria and it turns out that he’s just what his brothers need. (Note: The name “Pickles” pre-dates the assignment of the loudmouth canon-clone in the first episode of Season 5 being named that by the spacebat fandom. That thing started with me commenting on a screenshot of the guy by calling him “Pickles!” Imagine the guy in the story as that guy, or as some other random dude, I don’t care). Never Let Them See You Bleed - Hordak had been reconditioned before the end of Prime’s War, but being that his defect is genetic, it was never a complete cure. His body begins tearing itself apart again. Entrapta does everything she can, but is at a loss as he rapidly deteriorates. She calls Adora in for help. Adora finds that she cannot call up She-Ra so easily - that there is something blocking the magic. Perhaps, in her heart, she does not want to heal Hordak. Their relationship is...complicated... to say the least. The story of a planetary hero and a dying former warlord getting to know each other. (Bonus: First appearance of my recurrent OCs, Robin and Jerome. Here, they are not fleshed out, as they were meant to be one-off characters).
Eighteen - A Hordak-origin story. It follows him from when his free will and defect begins to appear to his accidental exile in Despondos on Etheria and the rise of the early Etherian Horde. Hordak was of a class of “generals” designed by Horde Prime for special operations. When a physical defect appeared in one peculiar little upstart, that one, and the surviving members of the batch, numbering eighteen in all, were sent to the front lines to be among the shock-troops of a fiercely-fighting world with the expectation of it being a suicide-mission. A portal opened in space, taking the battle-cruiser to an uncharted planet. The clone who would become “Hordak” must devise strategies for survival along with a party of his Brothers. The Scorpioni people think that these strangers from Heaven were sent to them by the gods. A tale of conquest, family and tragedy ensues from there until a last survivor of the “Messengers from Heaven” stands, along with the last princess of a once proud nation. Imp!
Teething Day - Imp sheds his choppers annually. Babies do not like the feel of teething. Imp wreaks a hurricane’s worth of destruction on the Horde every year during the time of his shed, chewing up EVERYTHING! Spacebats!
Robin and Jerome’s Excellent Adventures - A series focusing on a pair of original characters who are post-series Horde-clones. While the series has a lighthearted name (I needed something to name it), the series itself tends more toward the melancholy, with sparks of dark humor. Robin and Jerome are a pair of close Horde Brothers who have adopted each other as brothers in the family-sense. The life they have chosen for themselves after being freed from Prime and self-actualizing is that of... traveling undertakers. They have made it their mission to seek out their Brothers who fell in the war and were left unnamed in order to bestow upon them the gift of a name and a sense of identity. Short Story Collections / Ficlets
Dog Days in the Horde - A mishmash of various stories written from Seasons 1-2 on, mostly from prompts. I left it open in case I get small story ideas that don’t fit anywhere else, but I’ve pretty much abandoned it. All of the stories exist in their own little world. Mostly Entrapta and Hordak, but all characters, basically. One of my favorites is “Hot Stuff” which is about the Best Friends Squad and Angella, for instance. (Note: I deleted a few of the stories I previously had in the collection for personal reasons, so if you remember a particular story where such and such happens and you find that it’s not there, ask me about it, I probably still have it on personal archive).
Every Overlord Needs a Mad Scientist - Entrapdak Month, 2020. A variety of stories focusing on Entrapta and Hordak as a couple, from prompts. Some dark and brooding, some light and funny.
Seven Days With Nerds in Love - Entrapdak Week, 2022. Seven unrelated short stories with Entrapta and Hordak as a couple, from prompts. Same deal as above, only Fun Size.
