just-this-once--stay

[just-this-once--stay]

“fuck you my child is fine” ma’am your child’s comfort character is adora.

[just-this-once--stay]

I miss my favorite sword lesbian

[just-this-once--stay]

I’m watching season 5 with them mostly so I can watch their faces during every catradora scene and live vicariously though the moment that they Realize

I got into she ra in May 18th, after hearing that catradora was canon, when my roommates happened to be watching season 2 episode 3? 4? while I was around. It was the one where bow and glimmer kidnap catra and to this day it’s one of my favorite episodes. I remember the moment I was hooked, which was when Glimmer told Catra that she ran away from the horde to get away from her and Catra was all offended and I was like “holy shit the lesbians are childhood friends?????? To ENEMIES?????? TO LOVERS!?!!???!” and then I went back to the beginning and watched the whole series in a week. Since then I have watched the entire series again, watched most of it for a third time, and written over 45,000 words of she ra fanfiction. My roommates have now reached season 5 episode 3. At least one of them still does not know that catradora is canon. I am DYING

[just-this-once--stay]

[just-this-once--stay]

sometimes i get soft about how two of my she ra fic titles are paraphrased from journal entries

[just-this-once--stay]

Why Noelle’s Sow “joke” is a racist and dangerous stereotype and why you should care

tw: racism, slavery, anti-blackness, police brutality

I have seen countless people wondering what to think about the comments that Noelle Stevenson & their crew made on the twitch stream yesterday.

Disclaimer: I truly do not think Noelle (or the crew) knowingly and explicitly meant to be racist. However, impact matters more than intentions, and implicit racism/bias and racial stereotypes need our full attention because they travel in subtle and insidious ways in big fandoms like She-Ra. Especially when children are involved.

First and foremost: I am Black, an American descendent of slavery, and a teacher. Many of my students love She-Ra. I wanted to use this moment to teach them (and maybe some of you) the history of the slave stereotypes that Noelle’s Sow drawing evokes.

I think being informed is a huge first step in this climate. That way, you can learn the context and then decide in what ways you, personally, can hold Noelle and the crew accountable.

Here is a link to Noelle’s comments. They start at 56:50, and I have transcribed the relevant bits below:

Q: Do any of Bow’s siblings have names or occupations?

Noelle: “… Their names rhyme with Bow. So there’s like Oboe and he plays the oboe. And then there’s Gough and like Van Gough he’s missing an ear. And like he [Sam] would come up and just be like which one of them tills the fields? And I was like which one Sam? And he’s like Sow. [crew laughs].”

On their twitter, Noelle posted the picture that Rae Geiger drew that goes along with the crew’s inside “joke”:

While honestly, I could pick apart “Woe,” “Gogh,” and “Woah” for their own unique problems and stereotypes, I am mainly going to focus on “Sow” here.

[Image ID: In Rae’s drawing, Sow is wearing a straw hat and chewing on a straw. He has a bandana around his neck. He is smiling a wide dopey smile and is dirty and disheveled.]

This is the first image that popped into my mind when I saw the art. (You know, since my ancestors forcibly picked cotton in South Carolina on a slave plantation):

[Image ID: An old black and white photograph of a family of Black American slaves looking serious and forlorn as they pose for a picture in a field of cotton.]

BUT HE’S JUST A FARMER, you cry. Noelle said Sow tills the land, can’t black people be farmers?!

Yes, we can, but first, listen… Let me show you some of the most famous stereotypes of African American men from American history and literature. You’ll recognize all of the elements from the Sow art and insidious patterns that go along with each. I think it really IS that deep.

Keep reading

[just-this-once--stay]

I got into she ra in May 18th, after hearing that catradora was canon, when my roommates happened to be watching season 2 episode 3? 4? while I was around. It was the one where bow and glimmer kidnap catra and to this day it’s one of my favorite episodes. I remember the moment I was hooked, which was when Glimmer told Catra that she ran away from the horde to get away from her and Catra was all offended and I was like “holy shit the lesbians are childhood friends?????? To ENEMIES?????? TO LOVERS!?!!???!” and then I went back to the beginning and watched the whole series in a week. Since then I have watched the entire series again, watched most of it for a third time, and written over 45,000 words of she ra fanfiction. My roommates have now reached season 5 episode 3. At least one of them still does not know that catradora is canon. I am DYING

[just-this-once--stay]

i searched the entire house for my barely alive old laptop and tablet to draw this real quick

[just-this-once--stay]

Best friend squad! ✨💫

[just-this-once--stay]

[just-this-once--stay]

smol dramatic catradora inbetweener

[just-this-once--stay]

casta is kind of a fun character when you refuse to acknowledge what her full name is 

[just-this-once--stay]

surprise pandemic roommates au 

When Bow and Glimmer both go home to their families after campus closes, Adora expects the next few months to be lonely and boring. Glimmer subletting her room to Catra, who Adora hasn’t spoken to in seven years, makes it anything but.

get your catradora and best friends squad college au feels here 

[just-this-once--stay]

catra acts like she’s good at manipulating people but honestly half the stuff she’s done to “manipulate” girls has just been to flirt :/ they weren’t intimidated by u bitch they wanted a piece of that ass 

[just-this-once--stay]

Interesting how Shadow Weaver, who raised Adora and seemed to think of her as her child, tried to manipulate her into risking her own life to save the world when she could have easily taken the failsafe on herself without ever presenting Adora the perennial martyr the opportunity to do so (as Catra so astutely pointed out) and actually somewhat redeemed herself in the process, while Angella, who was the closest thing to an actual mother Adora ever had, refused to let Adora sacrifice herself despite her willingness to do so and took that burden to save Adora and atone for her previous failings and cowardice, despite the fact that she didn’t really need redemption.

[just-this-once--stay]

Fighting or flirting?

[just-this-once--stay]