#she ra thoughts

[manic-sapphic]

sometimes having to break someone's heart

has nothing to do with hating them

sometimes it breaks your heart, too.

<3

[curlychip]

It's interesting how when Double Trouble is impersonating the people that are more closely connected with Catras' trauma (Shadow Weaver, Hordak, Adora and Scorpia) they imitate their characters perfectly, except for Adora. They even manage to do Scorpia's gentle disposition, so it doesn't make sense for Adora to be so far off from the real deal.

Their version of Adora is taunting, cruel, and acts in a way we've never seen real Adora act towards anyone, let alone Catra.

But it's the version of her Catra created in her mind, in order to be able to hate her and fight her. She stops seeing Adora as her childhood friend/first love because to her, that Adora would never abandon her.

[existennialmemes]

[Slams shotglass down on the table] (it was full of juice)

People don't love just love Catra because she's a moody Catgirl.

We love her because her arc represents that redemption is a choice you make.

It's easy to get caught up in a spiral of self destruction and toxicity, especially when you've been continuously traumatized.

But every moment is a new chance to Stop. You can always make a different choice right now.

And it's up to you to stop. No one can fix you. You have to own what you've done, and recognize what needs to be done to fix it.

And then you have to do it

The show got cancelled before we actually got to see Catra's whole redemption arc. But you have to understand, that when she decided to save Glimmer and Adora she was ready to die for it

In that moment she recognized there was only one thing she could do to make anything better, and she resolved to do it no matter the cost to her.

She didn't care if anyone forgave her. She didn't expect them to. She just finally realized she could break her own pattern.

Because Redemption is a Choice You Make

Don't confuse redemption for forgiveness though.

Redemption is personal. It's about setting yourself right within your own consciousness.

Redemption isn't about being forgiven. It's about recognizing that you can do better, and resolving to actually do it.

Comparatively we have Shadow Weaver, who constantly does whatever she thinks will personally benefit her.

She has numerous chances to choose redemption, but she never sees her actions as wrong. She chooses based on what will favor her the most, even at the very end.

Her dying words were "You're welcome" said directly to the children she abused and traumatized.

Shadow Weaver was never redeemed, because she was never willing to really choose it. She could never admit that anything she ever did was wrong, so she never even acknowledged she had anything to make up for.

She even told Adora that to her face. After Catra ran away and Adora finally told her off for being a manipulative, self-serving POS, her response was just "I did what I had to do."

Catra acknowledges that she did the wrong things. That there were other choices, and she chose wrong. That's why she chose to redeem herself. Because she wanted to make things right for the sake of doing the right thing. Shadow Weaver chose to see herself as infallible to her dying breath.

[kittykitty707]

Small yet sad moment (rant)

Something small I didn't realize earlier:

So you know how once Hordak is told Entrapta is on Beast Island by Double Trouble he straight up destroys his work and tries to murder Catra? I always was a little confused as to why he would just try to murder her right there instead of like punishing her by torturing her or something else like sending her to Beast Island as well. I thought this until I went back and watched it recently and realized something...

He's not angry and disappointed during this scene like he was when she lost Shadow Weaver as he remains calm and collected during their speech.

I originally thought the tears was just sadness due to the betrayal and a bit of worry for Entrapta's safety or just some Entrapdak stuff and then I really though about it. Hard. Why would he destroy his work that he has spent his entire time on Etheria researching? Why not punish Catra instead of going straight for the extreme? To me, there is only one possibility:

He thinks Entrapta is dead.

Many characters state about how “No one comes back from Beast Island.” and Shadow Weaver says something like “Anyone who goes to the Island becomes a part of it, forever.”. Except for, as we find out, Micha and Entrapta, it seems the statement has been true, that no one has ever escaped the island alive, so why would he believe that she could survive? Sure, she may be a technological genius, but Entrapta literally never directly hurt anyone in the show (the wiki says it and I am pretty confident she hasn't hit anyone), so she can't really defend herself well without involving contraptions.

This is why he was willing to go such lengths for revenge. The only person who had ever cared about him/loved him was sent to an island where no one survives, so why should he care about anything anymore? He even stated he wanted to continue so that he could face her in combat, as he still cared about her, even if he felt mostly anger towards her at the time. He wanted to kill Catra, because she had sent Entrapta to certain doom over something trivial, and hid it from him for so long.He could care less about the war or killing his top leader. All he cared about was revenge.

And when Horde Prime came for him, he did not fight back much, as he did not care about many things anymore. He had lost everything, and as Prime says, “...you wished I would not come for you.”

All this just make the whole episode a whole lot more depressing for me.

[immortalcheesewedge]

why are all my favorite shows several hours long callout posts for me when i was in elementary and early middle school ffs can i please just enjoy gals being gay i don’t need an existential crisis every time my fave opens her mouth please i am literally begging you

[breakthewheelagain]

Does anyone else find it hard to rewatch the show because watching Catra be a villain is absolutely heartbreaking even though you know she'll be okay in the end?

[forthehonourofgreywhales]

I was rewatching She-ra and something about the moment when Angella leaves Micah to go and save Adora in “The Portal” episode hit differently.

It looks like he comes to a realisation when Angella is flying away and then calls after her to wait!

King Micah: “Angella! Wait! I’m not...”

He’s trying to tell her that he’s not dead - like we find out later in Season 4!!!

I think about this a lot.

[oh-for-chucks-sake]

Angella calls Glimmer 'Glimmah' not because she has an accent, but because she forgot that every princess's (that we know of/is in the princess alliance e.g. Mermista, Scorpia, Adora/She-Ra, Perfuma, Frosta, Entrapta, Netossa, Spinnerella) name ends with an a. She faked her accent for millennia to cover up a small mistake and you can't convince me otherwise.