#beast island angella

[echo-has-queries]

Finally get to share my Beast Island Angella design!! :D Context is my She-Ra Fanfic (ch. 21)!

Versions and more blabbing under the cut! :3

Starting with no background version and just the line art because why not :3

And here is my first design concept and references. I figured if Micah gets scars then so does Angella, I don't care that she's an angelic being XD her heels were not island ready so new monster leather boots were needed. While Micah is more of a forager on the island I figured Angella would lean more hunter so she has Pooka tooth knives. Jewlery gets lost and hair gets tangled so braids help with that. Yeah, that's basically it :3 Probably less island flora than I describe her wearing since it's just the vine cloak but whatever XD

[lightlavenders]

also i think spop does a great job at showing how people struggle to think rationally in the face of their trauma. like, i couldnt understand why catra would activate the portal despite everyone telling her otherwise, but she'd been *badly* hurt prior to that scene and all she knew was that the rebellion, her enemies, would "lose" if she pulled the switch, so, regardless of the cost, she pulled it

similarly, hordak tries to send catra to beast island when she lies about losing shadow weaver. as far as things that have happened in the horde this isn't so catastrophic, but he insists on it, even arguing with entrapta when she defends catra's place in the horde. i think the only reason he changes his mind is partially because he decides the crimson waste would be an equally fitting punishment. but despite the fact that catra is the only one keeping the horde running, his trauma at being cast out by prime has led him to value absolute loyalty, and he won't keep her around

you can see it in adora too!! she struggles greatly to remember her own inherent value as a person like, all the time, *especially* when shadow weaver is around

and glimmer, after losing angella and having to be responsible for her kingdom and the rebellion, hurting and not used to taking personal responsibility, lashes out and blames adora when things get heated

entrapta too, on beast island, where she's fully aware that her life is in danger as long as she stays there, has to practically be dragged out, because she can't face integrating back into society, having friends again when she thinks she totally failed at being a friend

i just think the show does a great job of explaining why its characters do the things they do. like even if it doesn't make logical sense, there's emotional reasoning for everything, and i think that's neat.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

see, this is another thing that pisses me off. whenever catra stans talk about catra's actions, they always always word it as “bad decisions”. this is not the first time i've seen people use this term for catra.

getting drunk before a work day is a bad decision. texting your ex is a bad decision. investing money into a scam is a bad decision.

exiling someone to their certain death is not a “bad decision”. attempted genocide is not a “bad decision”. it's a crime.

imagine if criminals actually used this as an excuse. “your honor, i shouldn't have burned down that orphanage. in hindsight, it was a bad decision.”

not to mention, this part of the plot goes nowhere. she has PTSD dreams about sending entrapta to beast island, yet she never attempts to rescue entrapta herself. she just apologizes to her once and is immediately not guilty anymore.

similarly, she never apologizes for opening the portal or killing angella in the process. what even was the point of these nightmares then? just to make us feel bad for catra?

[adorawasright]

adora snapping out of her death in beast island by remembering the kindness angella, glimmer and her friends gave her >>>>>> adora realizing "she deserves love too", but it's catra's love, not the ppl who actually respected her

[spopsalt]

Going into detail about EVERYTHING I hate about spop

This was the winner of the poll! Keep in mind these are in no particular order! I hope you enjoy it! This VERY long post so be warned!

The representation it's so bad, a lot of it is just stereotypes. Bow being the black best friend, Mermista being the sassy black woman, Catra being the angry Hispanic woman, and the only autistic character being put ON A LEASH!? The only non-binary character being a fucking LIZARD!?

Catradora. It is awful. It is so bad. It's so romantized despite being in a KID'S SHOW! That's what I hate most about it. Little kids will see this and believe this is how they should treat the person they love, or this is how someone who loves them treats them. It's just bad. Really bad.

How they ignore everyone's trauma. Some characters have some really interesting trauma that could be explored, but they just get ignored for abusive catgirl! Seriously, some of the trauma could be legitimentally interest, like Micah, how did he feel about not being able to say goodbye to his wife? About being in beast island for years? Haha no you idiots, he has no trauma! He's just a goofy dad haha! How about Glimmer who also didn't get to say goodbye to her mom, who sacrificed herself so everyone else can live? Who was crushing under the pressure of being queen! Who had everyone around her ignore her mom's death? Who got manipulated by Shadow Weaver when she was vulnerable? Haha! No, she has no trauma! Angella, always feels a lingering guilt about her husband, who believes her husband is dead. Haha! Nope! No trauma! (I used three examples but there is so much more)

Seahawk. That's it.

The way they treat war, they've treated it as a joke, a game, and a backdrop, they don't show how it affects people, we couldn't of gotten to see citizens stories of how their lives were affected? Nope!

The amount of filler. White Out and Mermesteries, have no point other than being annoying filler, they don't have any meaning to the plot, and to make it worse they just drag on and on.

The wasted potential. This is so annoying. It has so much potential, if it was given to competent writers, it could've been so good, maybe even a masterpiece, but it's just so...bad.

The "jokes" I'm being nice by calling them jokes. They are more like awkward moments that beg you to laugh. Haha Kyle, a poor innocent kid gets bullied for the 35455467568th time please laugh! Haha! Bow's voice cracks for the 967986786897th time! Laugh again!

Seamista, Mermista looks like a teenager, and Seahawk looks like he's an adult. Mermista clearly doesn't like Seahawk, Seahawk just kept invading her boundaries and eventually, they got together. Seriously what the fuck?

Worldbuilding, it is so bad at it. We never see any citizens or get a feel for how the world looks, the only difference is cosmetic

Catra's redemption arc. Just in general. it was so rushed.

The needless ships in season 5, they are so rushed and have no purpose to the plot.

The princesses are so boring and one note, for them being the title, they don't do much.

The character arcs, or lack thereof, the ones we do get are boring and one note.

The pacing is just so bad, it's either too slow or too fast.

Season 5. It's self explanatory.

That's about all I could think of at the moment! Let me know what you think!

[existennialmemes]

More She Ra Thoughts

Ok, so when they find Micah on Beast Island he keeps saying "I haven't talked to anyone real...  You are real, right?" and it finally hit me that he's so unsure about it, because he experienced the fake portal world too, and like everyone else, presumably still has those memories. 

So we all know he tried to tell Angella that he was alive before Bright Moon disappeared in the portal world, but I just thought about how fucked up that must've been from HIS perspective. 

Ok so, you're Micah, you've been surviving on a nightmare island for well over a decade, when suddenly one morning you wake up back at home with your family. Then that world fuckin' collapses and BAM, you're right back in your personal horror show. 

But THEN, not even a year later (which is nothing to you given how long you've been there and how degraded your sense of time is) here comes these kids. The same kids you met in that heart wrenching tease of a hallucination (that you still have no explanation for, and must assume was just something the island did) come waltzing up to you, on your godforsaken forgotten prison island that no one is supposed to know the location of, talking about your family and taking you home to Bright Moon. 

Assuming all of that is totally fake was honestly the most rational assumption he could make 🤷🏻‍♀️

[tooningin]

Catra getting chipped doesn’t count as “consequences”

One thing I see among the fandom when it comes to defenses of how Catra’s redemption was written is that she suffered a lot from getting chipped, and that she doesn’t need anymore punishment. The chip experience certainly does look like hell, so I’ll give them that. But I think this part of the fandom doesn’t realize that…

Suffering is not the same as consequences.

Consequences are the result of your bad actions. Suffering is when bad things happen to you.

Again, I’m not saying that the chipping doesn’t look painful. But it has nothing to do with Catra’s actions and/or how she’s hurt the BFS, Scorpia, Entrapta, and others, therefore it’s not consequences.

The chipping doesn’t address Catra’s abuse of Adora and Scorpia

The chipping doesn’t address Catra sending Entrapta to die on Beast Island

The chipping doesn’t address Catra activating the portal, causing Angela’s death

The chipping doesn’t address Glimmer’s grief and trauma from the loss of Angella

The chipping doesn’t address Catra assisting Hordak in the destruction of Salineas

It added nothing meaningful to an already crappy redemption arc and made it worse

(I finally got a new Ipad, so expect a video criticizing SPOP season 5 sometime in 2024 ;D)

[stanlunter]

Gonna make this with (almost) every spop character!

[baggebythesea]

She-Ra pairing picker for Sheracrackshipweekend2023

Want a creative prompt? No problem, I got you.

Instructions

Go to a Random Picker website (like this one: https://www.gigacalculator.com/randomizers/random-picker.php)

Insert the list below (modify if you like, I've for example not included Finn since they'd be alone in their generation).

Set "Numbers to pick" to 2 (or more if you're writing a policule or a love polygon)

Congratulations! You now have your writing/drawing prompt. I look forward to see what you do with it.

List of She-Ra characters

Admiral Scurvy Adora Angella Beast Island robot Castaspella Catra Crimson Waste Four Armed Lizard Gal Crimson Waste Goat Gal Darla Double Trouble Dryl cooks Emily Entrapta Flutterina Frosta George Glimmer Grizzlor Grox Hordak Horde clone Horde Prime Huntara Imp Jewelstar Juliet Kyle Lance Light Hope Light Spinner Lonnie Madam Razz Mara Melog Mermista Micah Netossa Norwyn Octavia Peekablue Perfuma Rogelio Scorpia Sea Hakw's Ex Sea Hawk Sea-Ra Shadow Weaver She-Ra Spinnerella Starla Swift Wind Tallstar Tung Lashor Wrong Hordak

[aprillikesthings]

OKAY I meant to start earlier in the day but I know once I start it will be difficult to stop lol

but I have some tasty pasta to eat let's go

(how much do you want to bet EVERY EPISODE after this is a two-parter due to the sheer amount of plot bumping into tumblr's images-per-post limit)

s4 ep11 beast island

They're talking about their plan to go to Beast Island and get Entrapta--and side note, the ship goes about as fast as an airplane, judging by the clouds/ocean's movement

will she tho

(I actually don't know! This is one of those plot points I forgot in part because I marathoned the last season and change of the show almost four years ago lol; like seriously from this point on I can remember random specific scenes but not which order or why they happened; it definitely doesn't help that a couple months ago I watched a bunch of She-Ra humor videos that are all, like, just clips from s5 in no particular order)

(seriously if you're a She-Ra fan they're great, they're especially funny if you're high as balls, which Daci and I were when I was like "hey you have to watch these with me they're hilarious")

the globe map is throwing some kind of angry alarm and Swift Wind's senses are tingling

They hit....something!

points to whomever designed that, it looks really cool, and yes, vaguely menacing

okay but you were ALSO told that Princesses were all evil soooo

They find Entrapta's mask and a Horde-made skiff and Swift Wind can hear some kinda weird noise

the ship did call it a Hazardous Materials Disposal Site...

anyway a bug-robot-thing starts to attack them--and Adora can't transform to She-Ra here!

OH HEY so the droning sound Swift Wind keeps hearing that's super fucking creepy is a Shepard Tone! (more info via wikipedia of course)

("April how do you know so much random shit?" I have ADHD and an internet connection. Also in this case specifically, Alex Hirsch once did an AMA in character as Bill Cipher, and he linked to a Shepard Tone and said it was his favorite song.)

Anyway they're attempting to fight the bug and losing

:D I KNOW WHO THIS IS :D

He scares the bug off with magic!! (Shadow Weaver did say he was a powerful sorcerer...)

dun dun DUNNNN

okay so I was confused as to how Glimmer was gonna get in there and duh SHE CAN FUCKING TELEPORT ffs

anyway Light Hope is a computer program and you're not the correct input??? you can't just order it to work pfft

YOU'RE NOT SHE-RA lol

Anyway King Micah hasn't been around other people in a loooong time and is bad with things like "personal space" lol

they're asking about Entrapta and I love that everyone in this show just Knows that Entrapta is like. Into robots. Sexually.

(I'm not looking right now but SOMEone has to have written a fic of Entrapta just making, like, really wild sex toys or fuckable robots, right? Right???)

LOL THAT'S HER ALL RIGHT

Entrapta apparently went to the center of the island but Micah is discouraging them from going. The sound Swift Wind keeps hearing is a signal of some kind from the center--

Apparently the signal is enough to draw people in and drive them mad.

poor dude

Also he thinks Glimmer is still a child and asks about Angella, and Bow and Adora just do a 😬

But they promise to take Micah with them once they find Entrapta and leave

I dunno I think it's kinda cute

Anyway as they keep walking both of them start having moments of borderline-crippling self doubt

Glimmer's killed the spiders that the Crystal Castle sets on intruders and is still trying to harass Light Hope into talking to her:

Apparently yelling that she wants to use the Heart of Etheria was the right thing to say

Back on Beast Island, the signal is getting stronger, Micah is trying to get more information about Glimmer from Bow and Adora, and also they're being hunted by critters:

There's some kind of distorted speech in the signal (which still mostly sounds like a Shepard Tone), and Swift Wind is frozen in place by it and this is happening--

CREEPY AS FUCK

D:

D:

Adora, trying to convince Micah not to give in, blurts out that Glimmer is Queen, oops

D:

D:

oh god there's a flash of light and Adora relives Angella kissing her forehead and telling her "take care of each other," then a bunch of moments of her and Glimmer, then:

"I won't give up, not on my friends, not on Etheria,"

--and she transforms into She-Ra :D

NICE!

The blast frees everyone of the vines and they're back to being themselves

"It wasn't the signal stopping me from being She-Ra, it was me. I was afraid Glimmer was right,"

"But I promise I'd take care of her--take care of everyone, and I will"

(actually you promised you'd all take care of each other, but whatever; like, this is part of her whole character arc)

Side note, She-Ra is taller than Micah by like, half a head minimum

The scary critters all run off because some huge monster shows up, the monster opens its metal jaws, and

and I've run out of images with three minutes to go pfft okay hold on

[worldsbiggestnerd101]

i just had a Thought. we never get to see micah and angella together in the way we did in s3e6 because by the time they find micah on beast island, angella is already dead. kill me

[freedfromthegalactichivemind]

Fanfic ideas I don't know if I'll actually get around to doing: (Followers tell me if you think any of these are interesting). Stray Hordak-idea I got a few days ago that I've pinged around the old noggin: I don't know if this one is safe to write because it feels like it might be a little lurid, might earn me the wrath of other, more coddling Hordak-stans... So, the idea is that a random Force Captain has done something grave. My idea was basically embezzlement, one of the guys in charge of the supply-lines nicking some of the supplies to sell on the black market for his own profit, meanwhile troops aren't getting their ration bars and armor and (in my darker than canon Etheria), this has caused deaths of troops. The offending Force Captain is found out and must be made an example of. It is not an offense that simply shuffling off to Beast Island will suffice for. Hordak basically needs to drive the fear of Prime into his troops, so he does a very public, mandatory-viewing torture-session on the guy. I don't want to make anything horribly grisly-detailed, more like, Hordak has loyal captains strap him between two poles so that he can deliver 10 lashes, followed by some prods with a stun-baton. The guy is not killed, but before being imprisoned, he does regret defying orders - and others know what Hordak will do to them if they ever get caught doing something so egregious. And... while third-person writing feels best for me, the entire thing is Hordak's POV, as in, while he is making a necessary example of a man who got greedy and who cost Horde-lives, he is, the entire time, not at all feeling comfortable with his actions. He does not like doing this stuff hands-on. He is having flashbacks to Prime - Prime's very personal pool-dunks and throat-grabs and other, similar off-screen stuff that Prime did to him and his brothers to lay down the law. Hordak is torn between this being the only way he knows how to lay down discipline and feeling personally uncomfortable with the up-close and personal nature of it. It's set pre-series proper (like, Adora and Catra are little kids, dunno if they'll be made to watch, probably), and this is basically when Hordak decides to be less personal in his discipline - to order others to do such things, to use things like the air-machine. I sort of want to do something exploring Hordak having a budding conscience, but also being ruthless - like, there is a reason why he's in the position that he's in at the start of the series, but there's also the poor sad-man indoctrinated/conflicted bat-clone, there, too. The other idea I have is a thing I've had for-freakin' ever. It's an Angella-idea. It ends with rescue, but it is Angella's experience trapped between dimensions. (You can basically come up with anything for that, ranging from "shred-across-spacetime-she's-totally-dead" to "maybe she's living an alternate life with her happy family in that happiness-world), but this idea takes direct inspiration from the SCP Foundation. I've seen an animated lore-video about The Red Reality. It features a researcher who gets sucked into a void-dimension and the "red" part of it comes from a machine that got sucked in with him that has a red blinking light. He uses this machine, the one sight / sense in the entire place as an attempted sanity-beacon as he wanders endlessly. Attempts at rescue in his case do not go well and eventually he is unraveled by the "low-reality" aspects of the void-realm. I'll not have that happen to Angella, but I do want to explore a bit of going mad from isolation and countermeasures against it - and the idea that she could have only survived with her mind intact because she is an immortal being, that is, if she were an actual mortal human, she would have lost her mind completely. In other words, when she comes back and recovers, she has some data for Entrapta.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

friendly reminder that in s4 when adora was being taken by the vines on beast island, she never once thinks about catra. she thinks about angella, glimmer and bow, and her other friends. and she specifically calls out glimmer's name before transforming into she-ra.

so much for c//a being “planned from the start”. the only people who gave adora courage in a time of crisis were her real friends.

[adorawasright]

Micah had a ton of potential. Shame he was conveniently taken out of the p- I mean chipped for most of season 5

YES, I hate how Micah was treated in s5. I was so excited for his reunion with Glimmer, but his trauma is only treated like a joke (I think even his past with Shadow Weaver is barely touched upon, as well as the fact she manipulated Glimmer). Like, I don't even remember Micah mourning Angella outside of s4 (if anything, that only happened in the Beast Island episode alone, but correct me if I'm wrong). And I've said this in my Frosta post, but I hate how Frosta is treated in this whole thing, like she's a replacement for Glimmer when it adds nothing to Frosta's character either. Not that she has ever had a significant character arc if I'm being honest.

Of course, the worst part is that Micah was chipped because the show doesn't want to remind us of the consequences of Catra's actions (hence why Mermista and Scorpia are mysteriously chipped for the most part as well). Micah and Glimmer barely had any time to interact. Like, I'm sure Glimmer would be happy to know her father is alive, but they haven't seen each other in literal years. Glimmer was too young to have, like, lots of memories. I think they deserved more screentime rather than ONE simple tearful hug, especially as I don't think Glimmer would've immediately hugged him. They needed time to adjust. Maybe if Micah wasn't chipped, then we could've had some great interactions between them.

And what about Castaspella? She's his literal SISTER, imagine how she felt after believing Micah was dead for all these years. I don't recall any remarkable moments between the siblings in s5, either. I think Castaspella is one of the characters that suffered the most in this reboot, but that would have to be its own post.

[nny11writes]

Did NOT expect to post a finished one shot from this. Wild! Here's that Dad!Micah and Catra fic I've been agonizing over for 2 years lol.

And below the read more is a bonus scene that didn't work for the fic, but was actually The Scene that made me write the fic. :p

READ THE FIC FIRST

“Thank you. For the portal.”

“...What?”

“I…” Micah sighed and ran a hand through his hair. “I know it probably isn’t a pleasant memory for you, but that portal world it- it was perfect. You gave me back something I had taken from me. I never got to see Glimmer grow up, but thanks to you I- well, I mostly did. I saw a version of it, one where she was happy and loved and I was there for her. I had years of memories of waking up with Angie, I’d forgotten that little grumpy frown she made first thing in the morning. The portal let me see it again.”

“And she’s gone now, because of it. Because I-”

“I know. I know that, I’m not stupid. But I know that you didn’t throw the lever to hurt her and she made a choice. A beautiful, heartbreaking choice, and the right one too. Catra…if you hadn’t done it, I don’t know if anyone would have ever found me. Angella might be alive but I’d still be on Beast Island, pretending that the world was frozen and insisting that my idle daydreams were reality. You gave them back to me. The portal…it’s, I know this sounds horrible, but it’s one of the best things that’s ever happened to me.”

“H-how can you say that, when- when-”

Micah grabbed her face, desperately pulling her to look at him. “I can say it because it’s true. WIthout it, I would have never gotten that back and I don’t- you don’t understand what having lost it would have done to me. I wouldn’t be me if I hadn’t gotten that back, I’d have gone mad with jealousy and anger and envy.” The spell of obtainment coursed just under his skin, all the power he was now responsible for keeping in line, desperate to spew forth. He’d only slipped up one time before, a small amount sliding out from his body, but it had been enough for Catra to look betrayed. He stuffed it down now, deep, deep down and told her plainly. “You saved me.”

Ow. He was suddenly very aware that she had grabbed his arms, claws digging in painfully even if she wasn’t trying to yank free. Micah curled his fingers, tangling them lightly into her mane. It was dense and thick and coarse, despite how short it still was. He just needed her to understand. He just needed her to understand.

Catra half sobbed, “I killed her!”

“And you saved me!”

“It’s the worst thing I’ve ever done, it ruined- it ruined everything.”

“Not everything, not me. Call me selfish, but I’m so grateful you did it. And I’m sure I’m not the only one. It was everyone’s perfect world Catra, and for those of us who truly had no hope? Who had nothing left? It meant everything.”

[spopsalt]

How I would handle Catra's redemption

Start it in season four, Catra realizes she gone too far after the events of the portal and is ashamed of her actions

She goes to Beast Island, away from the people she hurt

She starts helping locals, trying to make up for killing Queen Angella (Instead of seeming smug about it)

She keeps trying to do good, but keeps lashing out whenever it seems like she takes a step forward, she takes 2 steps back

She meets someone who helps her improve herself.

That person inspires her to work on her anger.

After a long time, she gets her anger under control and is finally able to start being better without her anger getting in the way. This is just a rough draft, might post it more in detail but this is just something I randomly thought up. I would also keep her away from the people she hurt for the rest of the series, Catradora was unhealthy for both Catra and Adora, Catra fell right back in the cycle of abuse and lashed out, and Adora was in an abusive relationship. What do you guys think?