#horde prime is a dick

[freedfromthegalactichivemind]

Entrapta x Hordak FOREVER and all those people who think that “Entrapta’s too young for him” or “She’s short / autistic and thus ‘child coded’” can suck the Heart of Etheria!   Wanna fight me? My blog’s right here.  I’ll probably ignore you, though, because I’m much more into Trigun than She-Ra lately and this blog is an artefact.  My interpretation of this scene is - “Something aggravating we have all faced.”  It’s like how I, literally in my 40s, will be called “dear,” “little girl / little lady” and such by conservative men with more blowhardness than brains (usually when I decide to go pick at the political threads on Quora, which I don’t anymore because that place is full of idiots whom I don’t even trust to answer my dental-procedure questions which was the original reason why I signed up for that site - and I don’t know how to fully sign off of it, best I could do was block emails). Mysognistic men love calling adult women by child-like “endearments.”   I am certain that we have ALL experienced it or heard it somewhere in our lives.  

[revelboo]

Mmmmmm Optimus Prime? More like Optimus FINE 🥰

18+ content- reader breaking Optimus and language

Gravity Pt 8

Optimus x Reader

• “Wow, look at this,” you say, smiling teasingly up at him as he sets an energon cube on the berth for himself near where he’s arranged some of your foodstuffs. Watching you place your hands on your hips as you study what he’d done and he nervously waits. Wishing he could read you better, that you didn’t hide whatever you’re really thinking. “Big guy, if you were human I’d have dragged you into my bed day one and kept you there.”

• You’d never had anyone go to so much trouble on a date before. Not without wanting you in bed. “We share a berth,” he says slowly and your grin widens. Bless his innocent, whatever it was he said he had. A spark? Not that you expect your giant, alien robot roomie to understand innuendos or even have a clue about sex.

• “We sleep in your berth, hun. You can have a lot more fun in them, though.” You’re grinning again as you do a little shimmy and warmth spreads through him, catching on. Are you flirting with him? Surely not. But if you are? He’s not sure what to make of it or what to do.

• Mask retracting to drink that stuff, you shove a hand in a box of cereal to dig out a fistful. “Do you guys fuck?” You don’t mean to ask, but that’s your deviant little brain. Once something occurs to you, you’re going to say it against all common sense. And he’s sputtering, sounding like he’s almost choking on that stuff as your eyes widen. “Do you?” Cause holy crow, this is top grade gossip for the other humans next time you see one. “Optimus?”

• Primus, help him. You’re on your feet now, dropping food all over the berth as you do a little excited dance. Absurdly invested in how Cybertronians interface or rather, if they can. He’s faced down Megatron in battle. Hordes of Decepticons. So why does discussing this with you make him want to run and find anyone else to satisfy your curiosity? And why does that thought make him feel vaguely tense? Someone else just talking to you about interfacing? “We do.”

• “So you have a dick?” He’s just staring at you blankly so you trace the shape in the air for him. And then he’s rising and just going out the door, leaving you standing there. Clapping a hand over your mouth, you lose it laughing. Because that look on his face before he’d bailed- you’re almost positive he does have one. And you have a new life goal, seeing giant, alien, robot dick at any cost.

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[albon-no]

hello. here is a list of things that happened in my life today, the longest day ever:

i got on the 4:45 am bus to laguardia. a man got on a few minutes later with his. entire dick out.

he (for lack of a better way to phrase it) scooped it back into his sweats. and then proceeded to stare at me and pretend to jack off the water bottle in his jacket pocket for several minutes, huff when I wouldn’t react, and stormed off the bus. at 5 in the goddamn morning

learned that i had become an aunt on flight one of the day halfway to minnesota

changed my period disc in an airport restroom

watched the bills murder the jets in spectacular fashion while stuck silent in a plane seat

then had to deal with a horde of drunk vikings fans watch the start of their game much less silently on the same flight

also learned that jimmy carter died while on that flight

arrived in vegas where my family already was and learned that the elevator in our hotel is broken and we have to use the service elevator to get to our floor (which my dad waited to explain until we were. already in the service elevator)

had a free dinner provided by the hotel that felt like a high school awards ceremony. i was served a tiny disposable water bottle with my prime rib. there was a couple singing dolly parton and kenny rogers duets very well but very loudly. it was held in the rec room which is in a pyramid for some reason.

saw the blue man group for the third time in my life. the show has not changed in any way since i last saw it 9 years ago

[adorawasright]

I think it's strange, to be honest. In theory, Hordak is worse than Catra for being a dictator and all. But despite that, Hordak never treats Entrapta like shit and his backstory makes sense. It doesn't excuse his actions but it makes sense why Hordak wants to conquer Etheria - he wants to be accepted by Horde Prime. Catra is also a victim of abuse and that's valid, but she abuses Adora and treats everyone else like shit, and honestly I think she becomes worse than Hordak by activating the portal, not to mention she basically blackmails Hordak in season 4 by taking advantage of his disability (which does not make her look like a badass, but genuinely cruel, especially as he's not even her abuser*). She shames him for missing Entrapta and manipulates Hordak by making him believe Entrapta betrayed him.

*The post linked is old and ND's name is outdated, just so you know.

But most importantly, Catra doesn't conquer the world to be accepted, she just wants power. Worse, all she wants is for Adora to lose. That's her entire character.

Again, Hordak actually listens to Entrapta, he values her opinion and her hard work. He never lays a finger on her. Catra, on the other hand... It's wild because the fandom wants us to see the opposite, that Hordak is the abusive dick who mistreats his love interest while Catra is the only one who truly loves Adora. If you ship Entrapdak, you're accused of romanticizing abuse, which could not be more hypocritical.

[baggebythesea]

Things Glimmer belive

(In no particular order)

That it WAS totally unfair that Angella didn't let her fight the Horde back in the beginning of the show

That there HAS to be a better way to govern a kingdom than to do paperwork and sit in meetings

That 'threatening to beat up a foreign dignitary with a stick' TOTALLY is a valid method of diplomacy

That there never has been and never will be a valid use for a screwdriver arrow

That she should have punched Horde Prime in the dick when she had the chance

That that fucking cat is up to something (she's right)

That as queen she totally should be allowed to outlaw mornings

That morning people should spend the morning with other morning people and let her sleep

THAT JOGGING IN THE MORNING IS UNNATURAL, ADORA!

That she TOTALLY can eat nothing but cake all day if she wants to

That her stomach ache is unfair

THAT BUGS AREN'T FOOD, DADDY!

That - even if Glimmer absolutely understands the error of her ways and would never in any way want to disminish the harm done - Shadow Weaver miiiiiiiight possibly have had a few good points

That there is such a thing as too many horses. Sometimes just one horse is one horse too many. AT LEAST IN THE MORNING.

That Catra dresses like that on purpose (she's right)

That if SHE had grown up in the Horde, she could have defeated the princess alliance in a week (Mermista simply rolls her eyes)

[missfinefeather]

Okay, I was only joking when I said Horde Prime fucked his own clones, but this one has clearly sucked Prime dick.

[aprillikesthings]

Man I got through that last one fast

s4 ep8 Boys' Night Out

(This one took way longer but also I stopped partway through bc Mal the cat had zoomies and I must appease him with the laser pointer)

ALSO this ended up with multiple Our Flag Means Death references, you're welcome

Glimmer etc. save a bunch of sea elf people from a little village as Hordak destroys it, roll intro

Apparently Double Trouble is refusing to tell them anything more

also they're still arguing about Glimmer going off on her own

also Mermista is taking a long bath and eating all the ice cream in Bright moon apparently

But yeah more arguing with Glimmer, and specifically getting mad at any hint of Adora telling her what to do

Which reminds me of a quote I copy/pasted into my fic notes (I do not remember where I got it I just know Nate said it)

"I think Adora has a huge character flaw where when she feels responsible for someone, she'll do anything to protect them to the point of fencing them in and accidentally taking away their agency. She thinks this is something that she's supposed to do, and I don't think she's fully addressed this part of herself. Catra and Glimmer think it comes from her ego, but she was raised to believe she was only worth anything to anyone if she was useful to them, so really she's just trying to prove herself to them. To prove that she's worth existing, even."

and like

ouch

but yeah it's hardcore on display here

Swift Wind invites himself along lol

lol

Hordak is a big dick, is gonna try to conquer more of Etheria himself so he looks all badass when Horde Prime shows up, orders Catra back to the Fright Zone

and she's stressed out and smooths out her hair D:

the bit of this character being asleep, getting elbowed awake, and iMMEDIATELY starting to play is so funny

why does Swift Wind know the words

new headcanon: Sea Hawk was a stripper at some point

*adds to "this wasn't meant to be a Sex Joke...probably"* collection

THE PHRASING DOESN'T HELP

Look I make so many jokes about cartoon bondage, and here Sea Hawk PAID SOMEONE TO TIE HIM UP AND PRETEND TO KIDNAP HIM I just

I can't even add to that lolol

something something insert "Our Flag Means Death"-based joke here

Swift Wind: I will contact Adora via MAGIC

back to Bright Moon

Adora: "what is going on with you? I know things are bad right now, but we can fix it!" Glimmer: "Why is that always your answer to everything!" Adora:

If you don't let me fix it I HAVE NO WORTH OR VALUE AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Glimmer: we haven't fucking fixed a god damn thing and shit is getting WORSE Adora: WELL YEAH BC YOU WON'T LET US HELP YOU,

Swift Wind: "She hung up on me!"

IS IT GONNA BE KARL

playing Sea Hawk was probably fun in general but he did in fact make seagull noises

omg it is Karl

okay so Admiral Scurvy is just like I WANT MONEY which brings me back to asking WHAT CURRENCY ARE THEY FUCKING USING

mopey kitty. do you need laser pointer zoomies, too

oh no she doesn't know Scorpia has left and is pouring out her heart not realizing nobody is listening

"Listen, I'll kill you if you tell anyone this, but...I thought winning would be different. Or at least more...I don't know, fun?"

poor bb

Back to the boys: the Horde paid their ransom 😬

oh god this is great

but also Glimmer and Adora are having a screaming match and Glimmer punches LOW, including the line "Maybe your best isn't good enough! If it was, my mother would still be here!"

I took a screenshot of Adora's face in response but I can't post it it's too sad

but anyway, bigger things to worry about

Mermista: "The boys are in trouble!!"

oh hey I remember that scene

Bow: Friendship takes work!!

that is a very good point

also let's face this episode exists in part just so we get to have an episode in which three male characters get rescued by three women :D

okay I like Mermista's song ngl

omg the double meaning of "fight with friends" catching up to them near the end of the song

and Catra goes looking for Scorpia and goes into her room and

omg this is so funny and cute

I forget where I read it (I've gone through so many interviews etc at this point omgggg) but iirc the note just says "sorry"

Back on the ship: Glimmer reaches out to try to talk to Adora--who smacks her hand away and stomps off

😬 oh boy

ADORA GOD DAMMIT

Mermista and Sea Hawk are still singing and having a good time, Bow stares off into the distance singing along, end of episode

...I took way more screenshots than I expected on this one lol

[baggebythesea]

I don't think Prime even for a moment entertained the notion that Hordak could go against his will, but I'm sure he chose Hordak to destroy the one thing he loved more than Prime just because of cruelity, just to rub his nose in how utterly helpless Hordak was to prevent it.

And even when Hordak rebelled, Prime WASN'T wrong, because even when Hordak chose love over his God and threw Horde Prime to the abyss, it was nothing more than a temporary setback and Prime having to go to the trouble of growing himself a new body.

Even in Hordak's moment of victory, his only reward was to see his autonomy taken from him yet again and the love he was prepared to risk everything for be destroyed (unless the living avatar of the planet Hordak had made his home stepped in and yeeted Prime out of Hordak's mind, of course).

Prime is a dick

Why did Prime allow Hordak of all clones to be the one to destroy Entrapta? Like, I know Prime knows which one Hordak is. He knew from Hordak’s memories that he was in love with her, and he still expected Hordak to kill her

[swearyshera]

I love how prime still thinks Seamista is gross despite them being a mlw couple

At least he doesn’t discriminate “straight passing” couples 🤣

Biphobia is still strong with Horde Prime - I remember when he called Glimmer *shudder* "halfway fixed".

He's just a dick to anyone who isn't cishet.

[bcdwclves-a]

wanna add in……new muses.

[baggebythesea]

This is AMAZING!

The miniature is gorgeous. I especially love those green patches of her skin. You make her both cute and frightening at the same time.

The story is highly engaging. Hordak in dad mode to Glimmer in brat mode is pretty much the best thing ever, and I really love her slow redemption. Somehow I think that Horde Prime being a dick to Glimmer's dad will be part of her turning her back to the glorious galactic empire.

As promised, I present Glimmer for my Shera Swap AU!

This is the design I’m most excited about because Glimmer has the most changes to her origins out of all the characters

In this AU, Lord Hordak sent both Angelica and Michah to Beast Island, but attempted to use Angelica’s dna to make an immortal clone of himself. Instead he wound up with an accidental daughter that is extremely headstrong and loyal to him.

Hordak is basically like: God fucking dammit. Guess I’m a dad now.

But if anyone harms Glimmer he will annihilate them.

Glimmer becomes besties with Adora and Bow, which solidifies their loyalty to the horde.

She fights constantly Catra and competes with her over everything, which solidifies Catra getting shunned and outcasted by the Horde.

Shadow Weaver’s manipulation doesn’t work in Glimmer because she out manipulates her.

Glimmer puts the fact that she’s theoretically immortal to the test. Constantly. Her father is incredibly stressed out by this.

Laudie, Rogelio, and Kyle don’t like Glimmer because she’s a huge snitch, she constantly picks fights and competes with people, and she treats Kyle like an errand boy.

Out of respect for Adora and Bow, she hasn’t killed anyone…

(Yet)

When Catra betrays the Horde, Glimmer is unphased.

Glimmer: It was bound to happen eventually. She has the loyalty of a thief.

Bow: Actually thieves tend to be really loyal to their team…

Glimmer: I- well… Sometimes, I guess, but you know what I meant.

Glimmer is the only one of the Best Friend Squad that never questions the Horde or its motives. Not in the beginning at least. It’s only when she learns about Queen Angelica and King Micah that she considers betraying the Horde, but that won’t be until a long way off.

She’s also the reason Entrapta betrays the Horde and joins the Rebellion, since she constantly abuses Entrapta’s loyalty and talks badly about her, then blatantly doesn’t care when Entrapta gets captured during the first invasion of Bright Moon.

Glimmer: Oh my gosh! This is amazing! Now Bow gets to be promoted!

Bow and Adora: Glimmer now is not the time. We are grieving the loss of a friend.

Glimmer: But she was so annoying

Laudie: (sarcasm) Hmm. I wonder why people keep betraying us.

Adora and Glimmer: Not now Laudie!

Anywho

When Glimmer discovers a connection to the Moon Stone, she doesn’t form her connection yet. Mainly cause I realized if she does connect with it that activates the huge mega weapon. She just senses the connection. However it’s enough that she starts getting ill afterwards, and Hordak allows a second invasion to steal the moon stone so that it can be studied.

Shadow Weaver tries to prevent the research of the Moon Stone because she doesn’t want the Horde to find out about the weapon built into Etheria. This is what results in her imprisonment.

Glimmer’s really just going to be at the core of everything that goes wrong for the Horde, but she makes up for it by being a power house after she connects with the moon stone.

That is until she tries to go to Beast Island and Adora knocks her out to stop that from happening

But I think I said she ends up on Beast Island anyways?

I don’t remember how but yeah. She will end up there and Bow will join the Princess Alliance in order to save her, since it’s not like Adora can go to Hordak and be like: So, hey, uh… Your daughter got sent to Beast Island. Whoops.

But yeah after Glimmer reunites with Queen Angelica and King Micah she sides with the Alliance and tries to form a bond with her technical mother. Unfortunately Angelica is very hesitant about this artificial child of herself and her worst enemy and also just naturally gets along with Adora more when Adora switches sides.

This of course makes Glimmer angy

Then eventually Glimmer and Adora try to steal back the Moon Stone for the Rebellion so Angelica and Glimmer can be at full power.

Glimmer fully connects with the Moon Stone while Catra is trying to get answers from Light Hope and this activates the Weapon

Then when Catra destroys the weapon Adora, Glimmer, and Hordak (who tried to kill Adora at this time and technically capture Glimmer) get kidnapped onto the ship.

The only reason Glimmer isn’t killed instantly by Horde Prime for being an abomination is because Adora reveals that Glimmer is a key part of the weapon. From there Glimmer is able to advocate for both herself and Adora.

When Catra saves Adora, Bow saves Glimmer. At this point Glimmer tries to convince Bow that she can’t go back to the planet because she’s part of the weapon and Horde Prime can’t have access to it. She believes that Angelica will never care about her and that she needs to stay here with her father because that’s where she belongs, assuming she can convince Horde Prime she isn’t an abomination and is useful to him.

Bow tells Glimmer that it doesn’t matter what Horde Prime or Angelica think. That Glimmer has a family in Adora and himself. He tells her that if she’s nicer to others, that if she treats them with respect, she can find a family in Catra, Scorpia, Entrapta, and the rest of the alliance too. Glimmer agrees to go and Bow helps her figure out how to apologize to everyone for how she’s treated them.

I’m thinking Glimmer will have a really deep ark over the course of the war against Horde Prime where she’s slowly trying to rebuild her relationships with everyone. At some point I think it will be too difficult for her, and she’ll lash out, which will cause Bow to snap at her. The risk of losing her friendship with Bow snaps Glimmer out of her stubbornness, and her attempts become more genuine and vulnerable.

As she slowly grows more patient and more open minded, people start to form genuine friendships with her. Once she becomes her best self and has found strength in kindness and sincerity, feelings develop between herself and Bow.

At the end of the AU’s ‘Season 5’, Angelica will tell Glimmer how proud she is of her, and accept Glimmer as her daughter. Micah, who got along with Glimmer from the get go despite not being her biological father, is happy with this decision and essentially adopts Glimmer as his step daughter.

Hordak still remains her co-dad due to his own redemption ark, but since I’m not sure whether or not I’ll keep Entrapdac since it doesn’t work too well with my plans for Entrapta in this AU, I’ll have to figure out who his ark is centered around. It could be that rather than someone actively pulling him out of Horde Prime’s influence, he fights on his own to reunite with his daughter and protect her.

Yeah, I like that. I think that will be a good story.

So yeah! That’s Glimmer for this AU.

I was thinking of doing Entrapta next, but designing her in Hero Forge would be hard because they don’t have really long pig tails.

I’ll probably do Catra since she’s like, the main character in this au.

[krytus]

“frosta's [weakness]: also fire”

[its-a-trapta]

🦇Is Hordak Reverse Batman!?!🦇

Ok, so this isn't a prompt, per se. More of an observation. Let's go through the list:

Has a lair/hideout

Black aesthetic

Bat aesthetic

Deep, gravely voice

Green and white antagonist

"Adopts" orphans

Trains orphans to fight

Makes orphans part of the "family"

Small, red and black themed sidekick

Cat themed foil character

Tech expert friend

Someone who runs their life for them while they work

Magic/Superpower-less while surrounded by others who have magic/superpowers

I'm sure there are plenty more yall could come up with but like...you see what I mean??

[cruciferousjex]

Prime's dining room chairs are backless and that's the real war crime

[baggebythesea]

Also, the way Horde Prime immediately starts playing “gracious host” with Glimmer - the leader of the very princess alliance Hordak had battled with in order to make Prime proud of him - is such a dick move. Do you know who would have LOVED to eat space jelly by Horde Prime’s side? Hordak. But instead Prime invited his enemy and his second-in-command-who-betrayed-him instead. I’m convinced at least part of Horde Prime’s motivation with that was to rub it in Hordak’s face just how beneath him Hordak truly is, how little his decades of hard work truly amount to. How there is no glory to be had, no achievement outside of Prime.

It's been... how long, now, since season four?

Two years, last Friday.

And this scene is still horrifying, still painful, and remains such an excellent contrast between Hordak and Prime within the context of Hordak's arc. Along with providing a very clear show-don't-tell demonstration of Prime's cruelty.

This moment is everything to Hordak. You can hear it in his voice, in how sincerely desperate he sounds. You can see it in his body language, in how he leans forwards while kneeling, submissively small and fervent at the same time.

You can just sense how crucial this interaction is to him, how much is riding on it, how mentally and emotionally invested he is. How is entire being is focused on pleading with his god-brother.

How much he wants this to work.

And then there's Prime.

Prime, just casually lounging in his chair. Relaxed and unconcerned. Tone flippant. Words dismissive.

What is, to Hordak, a pivotal moment is just... a sort of passing amusement for Prime.

He seems to find Hordak's earnestness, his desperation, sort of quaint. A little funny. Not anything to be taken seriously. Certainly not the show of resilience and devotion and need that it truly is.

This interaction, this stark contrast between how Hordak and Prime behave during this scene... it's such an excellent showcase of what they both mean to one another.

To Hordak, Prime is everything. Not due to granting some sort of high position, or providing power or status... but because he's Horde Prime. He's the Creator. He's the Elder Brother that Hordak loves and obeys and cherishes above all else, the one he's dedicated his being to.

While to Prime, Hordak is quickly forgotten: a silly footnote, a passing curiosity easily replaced and not-at-all missed. A quaint little creature that "thinks it's people." Something to be cordially laughed at before being put into its place.

It's just such a brilliantly clear and emotional demonstration of what these two are to one another. Of the horror that is Horde Prime.

And of the truly tragic nature of Hordak's experience.

[thewitchoftherock]

Man....

Horde Prime’s a dick.