#movie for she ra

[tawnyevergreen]

me when the gay people love each other

[strayconstellation]

"i need someone who can match my freak"

my freak:

[clefadrylcorner]

Obsessed with lovers and piners calling the object of their affections their best friend. Like yessss blur the lines between platonic and romantic love. show how important they are to you in a multifaceted way. Cover up your feelings with another kind of love that is just as true. One type of love does not negate the other and but tragedy can rip both out from under you single handedly, and it will hurt so much more that way. Losing a friend and a lover. Gaining both and not needing any labels for what they are. Using labels but having it be so much more than a title. Were they friends before they were lovers? Or were they lovers whose friendship grew inside of their love? Unclear! Who cares!

[bi-dykes]

Listen I- I- I see a similarity-

[candyskiez]

so, you've heard shows be recommended because they had gay characters. you don't really know what they're actually about though, and don't know if they'd be something you'd be into and are worried about spoilers. here's spoiler free plot summaries of em!

The Owl House

The Owl House starts out as a typical teenage girl goes into a fantasy realm story, but with a twist. Actions have consequences. The protagonist is a girl named Luz Noceda, who was being sent to a camp to make her behave normally by her mother after causing too much trouble at school. She ends up finding a place she's always dreamed of: a fantasy world. A world where everyone's so much weirder than she is. And she thinks, maybe if I don't belong out there, maybe people will like me here. Maybe I can be special here.

It's a story about found family, propaganda, erased history, living with disability, religious trauma, and neurodivergence. It's fundamentally a show about people who's brains work differently finding each other and making a family that treats them right. Definitely my favorite of the ones on this list. It's about people who've been oppressed being pissed about it and about finding yourself again after giving up on everyone around you for so long. It's basically a show about being a minority and trying to be understood and to understand yourself in the process. It's about growing up neurodivergent and how isolating it feels and figuring yourself out. It's about repairing broken relationships and parents who fuck up. And it's just. Such a love letter to anyone who was the weird kid in school. It's sad and heartbreaking and also so hopeful, and it's wonderful.

Content warnings: Abuse, Death, Grief, Animal Death, Suicidal thoughts, Vague suicide attempts, Depression, blink and you'll miss it s/h, body horror, religious trauma

She Ra and the Princesses Of Power

Adora was raised in the Horde since she was a baby, being fed propaganda about how cruel the princesses were. After learning how the horde actually was, though, she defects. But there's one problem. Her best friend, Catra, stays behind. Adora finds a sword that can transform her into She Ra, and might be the key to figuring out who she really is, while Catra takes her place as force captain.

It's a story about abuse, at the end of the day. Adora and Catra were stuck in a golden child and scapegoat dynamic, despite how much they care about each other. This leads to them knowing everything about each other but not understanding it. There's a fundamental disconnect between them, because both of their traumas are completely different. They have complete misconceptions about each other. Even in their initial split, they both have completely different perceptions of what's going on and why the other is upset. It's not a story about magic princesses, it's about the cycle of abuse and what makes it so complicated. Does it have flaws? Yeah. But ultimately I really really enjoy it, and when it does something right it does something RIGHT. Get through season one, it starts kids show-y but it gets very good during later s1.

Content warnings: Abuse (obviously), body horror, gaslighting (and I mean actual gaslighting, not what the Internet thinks gaslighting is), suicide, depression, flashing lights and eyestrain during the finale

Steven Universe

Steven Universe is a sins of the father story. Steven is the son of the leader of the rebel group The Crystal Gems, who's name was Rose Quartz. He navigates the confusion of being half gem and half human, as well as trying to figure out the mess of the rebellion and what his mother left behind. He's constantly in her shadow, for better or for worse.

It's a story about grief. How it impacts relationships, how it taints history, how it impacts family. It has some definite flaws, but ultimately it's about very flawed people who have lost so many people in their life trying to cope with it. Trying to handle what they lost and trying to adjust to life without them. It's about how expectations fuck a kid up and about agency and just a show about complicated relationships in general, at the end of the day. Also, it has some FANTASTIC music.

Content warnings: Grief, Abuse, body horror, very creepy people I don't know how to tag, heavy allegories for homophobia

Nimona

Nimona is a story about a guy who gets framed for murder. His name is Ballister Boldheart, a commoner who hoped to become a knight. It seemed everyone was waiting to watch him fail, so it was no surprise when he was the immediate target. Heavily injured and away from the man he loves, he's left alone trying to figure out a way to prove his innocence- until a strange kid comes into his life. This kids name is Nimona, and while he is intent on proving his innocence, she gave up on being anything but a villain a long time ago.

It's about deconstructing the model minority myth, trans rage, propaganda, and with a healthy dose of "FUCK the police".

Content warnings: Heavy injury, on screen suicide attempt, flashing lights

feel free to add more shows! just remember to keep the summaries as spoiler free as you can and add content warnings!

[spocks-husband]

Rose of taif <3

[luckyshinyhunter]

🟡⚪🟣⚫🏳️‍🌈⭐Loving the shapeshifter representation we be getting lately!🟡⚪🟣⚫⭐🏳️‍🌈

[lumitradora]

the best sapphic ships have a dance scene (with hands)

[uselessalexis165]

i love you characters with similar qualities that get criticized more just for being women

[local-space-gay]

Hey!!

Are you a fan of:

She ra

ATLA

The Owl House

Kipo

Wendell and Wild

Amphibia

Mitchells vs. the machines

Gravity Falls

Dead End

Puss in Boots and the last wish

Into the Spiderverse

Then I have a movie for you!!

Nimona is a movie coming out tomorrow, June 30th that’s been 7 years in the making! It’s based off the tumblr webcomic turned best-selling graphic novel of the same title.

It was originally being made by Blue Sky Studios and was going to have a theatrical release aimed around 2021, but after Disney acquired them and shut the studio down the film was scrapped. The movie was only about 10 months away from being finished, and it was shut down after Disney execs had pushed back against the queer themes/characters in the movie. BUT, Annapurna studios picked the film back up and finished it!!

Onto the film itself!

The movie follows Nimona, a spunky shapeshifter who teams up with the knight Ballister Boldheart (previously Ballister Blackheart in the graphic novel) after he was framed for a crime he didn’t commit and sent on the run. His ex-boyfriend, Ambrosius Goldenloin, is tasked with hunting them down, but is conflicted between fulfilling his duty and his feelings.

The animation style is stunning and dynamic, and the visuals are so so good!! I would highly recommend checking out the movie and supporting it when it comes out, this is a big step for stylized animation and also queer rep in animation as well!

But the best part is that it just looks like an amazing movie!!

[kazswift]

"i watch it for the plot" good for you! i don't

[aelijoh]

It's been a while but this is the first episode I'm pretty sure

"Too soon"-meme redraw, original meme under the cut ⤵

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

since i’ve talked about how and why ambrosius and ballister’s relationship was healthier than c//a, despite being similar, i think it’s time to talk about how nimona’s arc as a victim of abuse and trauma was a lot better than catra’s.

nimona and catra are slightly similar in the sense that they’re both heavily traumatized characters who turn to repression, aggression and chaos as a coping mechanism. but there is a lot more nuance and complexity to nimona’s character than there ever was to catra.

first of all. nimona is impulsive, unpredictable, she wreaks havoc, but none of it is intentionally harmful. sure, she talks about wanting to attack people or destroy things, but she never actually causes any real harm. and even when she does end up causing anything more than general wreckage, it’s not as cold and calculated as catra’s actions.

secondly, nimona has good intentions from the beginning.

she seeks ballister out because she finds him to be a kindred spirit, someone who was also shunned from society and villanized, just like her. that in itself is an act of open-mindedness and kindness, to offer him help when no one else did.

she is also mature enough to acknowledge that the system is the problem, not the people. unlike catra who continues to serve the very system who abused her and instead takes her anger out on innocent people, nimona knows enough to not make unrelated people suffer for the things she went through.

even though in nimona’s case, the regular citizens do discriminate against her and even try to kill her because they were brainwashed by the system, she still knows that they are not the real villains.

even in the end when nimona's trauma manifests into this huge kaiju. she never actually hurts anyone. she just knocks down that one commercial that tells people to destroy anything that is different from them. any harm caused during that scene was because of the knights’ reaction to nimona, not nimona herself.

meanwhile, catra's immediate response to any kind of trauma is not just to lash out, but to make sure someone gets hurt while she lashes out. in fact, most of the times when she does something despicable, she's not even lashing out. she's calm, collected, and even enjoying herself.

just to make it clear, i'm not comparing trauma here. both nimona's and catra's trauma are valid. and even their reaction to it is valid. what is not great, however, is catra's arc and how her trauma was handled overall.

nimona finds belonging and her abrasive nature is slowly healed through her friendship with ballister. and the entire system is addressed there. there isn't an immediate fix to the system, but seeing ballister accept nimona is a good start.

catra however is not only forgiven by all of her victims almost immediately and without hesitation, but there is no true healing. and the system, which is the horde in this case, is not addressed as the main problem. in fact, catra and hordak - the biggest perpetrators, are set free (i don't count the cleaning of beast island since it's technically not canon and even if it was, catra wasn't included in it).

i'm honestly kinda glad i watched nimona before realizing that it was nate's work because i'm not sure i would have watched it if i knew. and it's honestly so much better than spop, idk if it's nate's writing or just the skill of the directors and screenwriters.

either way, if you still haven't watched this movie and you're hesitant because it was written by nate, i highly recommend you to watch it. it scratched every itch that spop left in me — a healthy enemies to lovers relationship, an actually good misunderstood “villain” (in fact, two good misunderstood villains), a better representation of a brainwashing cult, pretty solid storytelling, etc.

[srslylini]

the best kind of experience is reading a fanfiction from a fandom you are actually in but with couples you do not ship.

Which sometimes turns out to be the best media you have ever laid eyes upon, even though you do not ship the main couples and never start shipping them even with the fanfiction existing

[theinvisibleforce]

Low key thought there was gonna be a scene like this with how the movie was going lol

[messa-messilla]