#Adora and Catra are sisters

[quirkyrahne28]

Me: *Sees people on this site openly shipping incest, abuse, pedophilia, and some guy (A) with a guy (B) who beats him (A) up excessively and reminds him (A) of his (A’s) abusive father.*

Me: I’m not suicidal, but I see the Lord wishes to test me today.

[xenaisnumber1]

The brunette with family trauma and the ray of sunshine

[antispopausandstuff]

i cannot stand that Nate made it so Adora suddenly realized she was gay when Catra was about to kiss her.

if you don't know what i'm talking about, on Twitter, someone asked Nate what Adora was thinking before the kiss happened and he replied with a GIF // image ( don't remember which one ) that had the caption "am i gay?" attached.

like, look, it's one thing to have a lesbian character originally believe they like or legitimately like a guy at one point ( Amity from TOH ). in fact, i feel like we need to have more characters like that, since, to this day, so many people in and out of the community think it's black and white when it comes to being queer to any extent.

BUT!

Adora has never had this occurrence. she's never shown interest in guys, fake or otherwise, and no one else in the show seems to have this supposed 'am i gay' realization, ever.

that, and, even if she did think she was straight at one point, you can't honestly tell me she continued to think that when she was openly attracted to THREE WOMEN aside from Catra.

this is just giving shipping material that isn't necessary and adding onto the 'Adora is a dumb lesbian jock' stereotype that the fandom loves to believe is simply canon.

so, if she's attracted to other women, she doesn't know it, but when it's Catra, she suddenly starts asking herself that?

i could maybe understand it if it was because Catra was about to kiss her, meanwhile she didn't have any of that with the other women, but we all know that isn't actually why.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

hey fellas, is it gay to touch someone on the shoulder?

[pan-catra]

anyone calling Catra and Adora sisters is actively engaging in lesbophobic rhetoric btw. i can’t believe i have to tell this to my fellow non-hets but maybe don’t reiterate age old anti-lesbian talking points just because you hate a ship.

[carto0ncritter]

There's a difference between choosing to forgive your abuser (that is for the victim to decide) and choosing to be in a committed relationship with them. Just saying

[sjbattleangel]

Seriously, if I hear one more "She-Ra is incest" take (which is based on faulty, outdated information) one more time...

I am going to scream!

NO IT FREAKING ISN'T!!! Adora and Catra WERE NEVER SISTERS. They are orphans who grew up as best friends in an orphanage-military boarding school with other orphans. They always loved each other but they were raised as CHILD SOLDIERS and were eventually forced to fight each other due a conflict they had no control over as well as Shadow Weaver's toxic favouritism!

CinemaSins, Ain't It Cool News and RedLetterMedia/Mr Plinkett's influence is seeping into animation, especially in discourse around diverse, queer media, and hurting media literacy even more.

[homoeroticbetrayal]

Iconic Homoerotic Betrayal: Round 1

Round 1 Directory

Context:

Adora/Catra

catra’s anger is driven by the belief that adora left her!!! she lets go of her hand and turns away (episode 1-2 season 1) adora desperately tries to pull catra to safety but catra lets go of her hand and is caught by the same ship that kidnapped adora’s friends (episode 8 season 1) catra cuts the vines adora hangs on to as she dangles over a canyon. “i wonder what i could’ve been if i’d gotten rid of you sooner” (episode 11 season 1) idk there’s more. the entire show is fraught w the homoeroticism of trusting your ex best friend who doesn’t trust you anymore

The Scourge Sisters

well. so they were moirails (think qpps) when they were kids. then bc of Reasons terezi basically manipulated vriska into getting her arm and eye blown up. then vriska midncontrolled terezi into losing her sight. then a while later they’re like okay again but terezi essentially has to kill vriska so they don’t doom the timeline. this is such a massive oversimplification i love gay people

[onlyyours2love]

How “A Tale of Two Sisters” (Tangled the Series) and “Promise” (She-Ra) are literally the same episode

¡¡¡SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

I literally made this post on Twitter but it got no traction and I was looking to get a discussion going but I will just repeat what I said there and paste it here because I can’t get over this

Angry Lesbians = Cassandra & Catra

Team Blondie = Adora & Rapunzel

Parallel #1: Close Proximity

It’s funny how the premise of both episodes is that the sworn rivals (lovers) are put in a position in which they are stuck and cannot find an exit. In TTS, Cassunzel is stuck in a cave with poisonous gas and Catradora is trapped in that weird chamber thingy with the First Ones tech.

Parallel #2: Dangerous Setting

Additionally not only are they trapped together, but they are trapped specifically in a dangerous environment that is hostile impartially to both parties which leads onto my next point...

Parallel #3: Enemy x Enemy Teamwork

Literally the designated Angry Lesbians (Catra & Cass) hate their counterparts' guts. They literally wanna kill them,

In fact, the reason why in both of these cases they ended up in that very same dangerous setting was because the designated angry lesbians decided to attack Team Blondie (Adora & Rapunzel) and got them stuck there IN THE FIRST PLACE !!!! ARGGHH !!

And now since they're stuck in a hostile environment that is way too distracting to kill Team Blondie -& that also threatens their lives as well- they're forced to put a pin on that whole "i need to kill my wife" plan so that they themselves don't die, which forces them to ✨work together✨

Parallel #4: Facing the Past Pt. 1

This teamwork leads both parties to reminisce about their ex friendship. It’s actually funny to notice that these two share the same trope (aka friends to enemies to lovers [ok I know Cassunzel isn’t canon but the lesbians ship them idc]) AND since these two both have a past of being friends earlier in life they both get back into that groove that they easily slip back into while they’re trying to survive.

ie. Rapunzel and Cass reminiscing the memories they made during the trip to the dark kingdom & Catra and Adora just goofing around during that chamber after a while

Parallel #5 villain/hero enemies to lovers dynamic

This kinda goes hand in hand with Parallel #4

The designated Angry Lesbians (who are also the show’s labeled villains) are in constant turmoil about the way they feel about Team Blondie and its fucking hilarious because they’re so down bad for Team Blondie & you get these moments where they’re softening slowly throughout the episode // meanwhile Team Blondie (the show’s designated heroes) are just trying the whole time to get through their girlfriends and realize that they’re on the wrong side

AND THIS RESULTS IN A LOT OF GAY RIVAL TENSION MOMENTS !!!!

Parallel #6: Facing the past Pt. 2 + Resentment

This one is super important because it really brings perspective to the rivalry and the motives behind why Cassandra and Catra are doing what they are doing and brings a depth and complexity to both Cassunzel and Catradora.

Facing the past also includes looking back into childhood memories and learning about a specific mother figure and the way this mother figure shaped the entire view in which they see themselves- whether it’s conscious or unconscious.

For Catra and Adora, it meant exploring Catra’s relationship with Shadow Weaver and how that influenced her own self worth during childhood and how she was always outshined by Adora, who was able to gain Shadow Weaver’s affections with ease thanks to her specialness as she’s a First One’s decendant.

For Cassandra and Rapunzel, it meant realizing that Gothel was a selfish person who never really loved either of them, and that Gothel only chose Rapunzel (and consequently, abandon Cassandra) for her magic hair. That is until Cassandra finds the broken mirror that shows Gothels apparent “love” for Cass.

Parallel #7: the mother figures that traumatized our angry lesbians

This also kinda goes hand in hand with parallel #5 because these two women are the very root of why our angry lesbians are traumatized and on the ‘evil side’ of the story.

These women created all the insecurities that our angry lesbians cling onto & project onto Team Blondie by making them feel as if they were not enough or loved & made them feel inferior to their counterparts

In Catra’s case, it was shadow weaver

For Cassandra, it was Gothel

It was both of these women who actively made the decision to choose Adora/Rapunzel due to being “special” & treated Cass/Catra like shit

Parallel #8: The end + presumed death

this one makes me SCREAM

At the end of both episodes SOMETHING -and by something I mean a childhood memory is triggered- that makes the angry lesbians lash out and any hope that they return to the good side just vanishes.

Also they both leave Team Blondie out to die and walk away thinking they killed them.

But ofc team blondie never dies.

I kept obsessing over this and thank god for tumblr for having unlimited character count because I could’ve not made my point thoroughly on twitter

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

[agentoffangirling]

A problem I tend to have with the whole "Catradora are sisters!!" thing is that Catra and Adora obviously do not see each other as siblings

Yeah, Shadow Weaver raised them both, but it's not like she was exactly a motherly-type figure. In Adora's case, she was like a mother, but for Catra, Lonnie, Kyle, etc, she was just their caretaker. Their trainer. She was a general with a regiment, that was all she was, that's what they saw her as and how she held herself

That's how Catra and Adora saw themselves. They were raised as equals and peers, but not exactly as sisters, and throughout their interactions, it's clear they never considered each other that way

While I am not entirely familiar with this She-Ra show book that calls them sisters (I have no idea what the title even is, I just know that everyone brings it up in relation to Catradora), from what I know, that book is not entirely canon and the author was not fully aware of what direction ND and others planned to take the ship. I blame that on lack of communication for the most part

There are plenty of reasons to critique Catradora, okay? You have a lot stuff to poke at without going to the "they're sisters!" theory. I really don't get it

[xenaisnumber1]

The golden retriever gf x the "darling", "my love" gf

[antispopausandstuff]

more virtues shitpost

villain: the only reason you're still alive is that i find your stupidity... mildly amusing. catra: well, thank you. but i find your evilness extremely annoying. villain: who do you think you are, magicat? catra: who do YOU think i am, bitch? villain: catra: hehe... villain: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! catra, stressed: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! catra's mind: ADORA, HURRY UP!!!

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

“c//a couldn't be developed properly because there were restrictions!”

okay, but what about glimbow? they're essentially a straight-passing couple and their sexuality was only confirmed outside the show.

if the writers were really good at writing romantic relationships and the only reason c//a failed is because of restrictions, why was glimbow also so badly written and rushed?

you can say that the executives were homophobic and didn’t want c//a to become canon (though that doesn’t explain all the abuse and incestuous undertones) but you can't use that argument for glimmer and bow. especially since their bisexuality wasn't confirmed in-series.

just admit that the writers weren’t great at writing romance.

entrapdak was the only good ship in the series and even that could have been improved, especially since they did nothing with it in s5. not to mention, i’m pretty sure that entrapta was initially supposed to be a teenager and this ship would have had a lot of weird implications, if nate didn’t suddenly say that she’s in her 30s.

[she-ra-princess-of-etheria]

How they met.

(yes I forgot Adora's cheek stars, she is supposed to have them here :))

[thedelusionreaderbitch]

Catra 🤝 Kaz Brekker: asking their love interests to stay

[catras-breakup-song]

when are people going to understand that two people or characters growing up together doesn’t make them siblings? i mean, they’re just blatantly claiming it’s an inherent rule now 🙃