#poc adora

[kradeiz]

(I make it a point not to repost other's artwork but horizonalillacs twitter account is gone and I can't find them anywhere else, so if anyone knows where to find them, please let me know.)

[magicrabbitfiberarts]

Princesses of Power

So here's a design I completed but honestly I'm still unsure about. It involves a LOT of double stitch, to the point I'm tempted to learn colorwork just to complete it faster. That would, of course, make it thicker, and thus warmer. That said, this design is one I'm INCREDIBLY proud of. It is self-drafted, and was inspired by She-Ra and the Princesses of Power show on Netflix. This is still available, but on a one-at-a-time basis specifically due to the amount of work involved. Still. I think it's gorgeous.

[frothy-commissions]

As a sapphic woman, it weirds me out heavily that everyone nowadays complains about sapphics not being doomed or toxic, and how we need more "toxic yuri". Like no, it's not sanitization if I want to find comfort in seeing two women love each other, instead of borderline abuse or in some case, just straight up abuse of one partner and constant conflict.

[ultfreakme]

So.

I finished She-ra.

I wanted to watch it because I realized I rarely watched anything with a female-centric cast and I especially didn't interact with sapphic content despite being sapphic. Abundance of cishet male-specific stories and a love for action-adventure led me to not exploring the latter in stories centering women because I had my own biases. I didn't think there were nearly enough action-adventure stories centering women out there in comparison to men. I just gave into convenience. Also I'll be real, internalized misogyny.

She-ra was so breathtaking and impactful because close to a decade after watching Legend of Korra and the beginning of Korrasami, I got to watch a fully-explored lesbian relationship on-screen with all the action and adventure I wanted.

I saw too much of myself in all the characters. In Glimmer & Angella's mother-daughter bickering, in Catra's insecurities, in Mermista's distance and aversion to people but still wanting companionship. I saw me in bits and pieces across all these girls and women.

It's a rare moment for a POC queer woman like me to truly see myself anywhere. My identity is often considered rare enough to be mythic (although queer POC are fucking everywhere lbr).

I remember being an eight-year old, and watching The Little Mermaid for the first time. I was mesmerized, I sung "Part of Your World" and re-enacted in my tiny apartment with only enough space for a bed and a cupboard and nothing else where my entire family were. I'd sing it on top of my lungs and then I'd look in the mirror and see brown skin and black hair and the spell of being a mermaid underwater would break.

Then fast-forward to 2024, I see She-Ra and her magical princess friends say they need to recruit a powerful Sea Princess to their war efforts. I am excited only because my fascination for mermaids has never really gone away. Then our main crew arrive and what do I see?

A brown woman, a woman with my skin tone and my eyes and my wavy kind of hair. She's stand-offish and a little emo, and she controls the ocean. She can switch her legs for fins and swim!! Suddenly I'm eight again.

I also remember watching The Swan Princess for the first time and feeling strange butterflies every time I saw Odette in her beautiful white gown. I didn't know then that girls could like girls, all I had was this feeling. A buttery, soft feeling where I wanted to sit beside her and see her smile. As I grew up I understood it was me being attracted to her and thinking "there's no love story showing the way I love".

Enter Catra and Adora. I felt a silly kind of nostalgia seeing Catra in love with a magical girl in gold and white.

I could go ON AND ON with all these little details where bits of me were in the show. It made me a little less lonely, and made me a lot more hopeful. Seeing yourself in media is important. Obviously you don't need it to empathize with a character or understand them but seeing parts of your own experience on-screen is a different kind of high. Like, like woah I can be a protagonist like that? I don't need to erase myself?

A story which treated parts of me- all the good and the bad parts- with kindness and gave it all a happy ending. I am so used to reading tragedy, expecting cruelty from even fantasy that I truly treasure stories with hope.

This show gave me that. I have been doing pretty bad in terms of mental health for months, maybe over a year actually. This was a nice reprieve and I hope the message of the story sticks with me, and that I start 2025 stronger and braver.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i don't get why Perfuma is considered good trans representation or just.. trans representation at all.

even if we put aside the fact that she's not a very interesting or well-written character, it doesn't even seem like she was written to be trans. the only reason she is considered a trans woman is because her character designer said that they intended her to be trans. and i think Nate said somewhere that he supports the headcanon. that's it.

it's basically the same as Catra being Latina (or any kind of POC, for that matter). it's not ever mentioned in canon, it just looks like it was added as an afterthought. you would only know that Perfuma was designed to be a trans woman if you were deep enough into the fandom to discover what her designer said about her.

and i get it. i want casual queer rep too, where not everything has to be verbally confirmed. a lot of trans people pass as their gender anyway, and it's not always easy to tell. it's not great to label certain features or body types as strictly feminine or masculine either.

but if that's the motive, they could have at least made Perfuma a more interesting character, so that her being trans wouldn't be one of the only notable aspects of her character.

OR they could have made any of the other characters trans - Entrapta, Scorpia, Glimmer, or Adora herself would have been good candidates. you know why? because they were actually interesting characters and not 2D vegan horoscope girl stereotypes.

a good example of a canonical trans character is Terry from TDP. he's not a main character, he is introduced as Claudia's boyfriend. he doesn't play a huge role in the narrative but despite this, he is still an interesting and fleshed out character.

for one, him being transmasc is actually canon. he talks about it to Viren, how the other elves treated him like a woman at first and how he chose his own name. and this was done in a natural way without coming off as too sudden or expository.

this serves a purpose other than informing us that he's trans. it also helps to build a connection between him and Viren, who was initially disapproving of Terry but responds to this situation with actual empathy and understanding.

Terry also has some notable moments dedicated to him despite being a side character, like when he had to kill an elf in order to protect Claudia and was plagued with guilt because of it. his relationship with Claudia is also pretty well-written and actually healthy, despite the fact that Claudia is a villain. Terry is also a decently powerful character who is actually useful to the plot.

he is also voiced by a transmasc VA, which definitely helps the case. i'm pretty sure Perfuma's VA is cis.

in short, Terry being trans doesn't seem like an afterthought or fanservice, because it was seamlessly integrated into the story and he was already an interesting character in his own right. he was only introduced in the fourth season and he's already a much better character than Perfuma, who was introduced in the first season (if i recall correctly).

[randomishnickname]

Thinking about Amma Crellin and her actions as reflections of the social hierarchy she grew up in. (spoilers under the cut)

Amma is pretty much Windgap royalty. Not only is her family extremely wealthy, her mother holds power over the livelihoods of big parts of the population. Her family history is deeply tied to that of Windgap. The sheriff and other officials are at Adora's beck and call. Everyone knows Adora and deferes to her, and this status transfers to Amma:

She plays the star part in the school play as a matter of course. She can get away with everything, from shoplifting to breaking curfew, from taking drugs to insulting and taunting a police officer. She's hot shit and very good at being a hot girl to boot, on the way to being prom queen like Camille once was. Her friends do everything she wants. Boys, she feels, are hers to control. Others are her playthings. At home, she's at the mercy of her mother. In the rest of Windgap, she's invicible.

Then, Ann and Natalie. Both outsiders who moved to Windgap only recently, their family without social capital worth speaking of. Both freaks, misfits - tomboys and late bloomers, still running through the woods instead of following the norms of girlhood and femininity. Still lacking self-control, prone to tantrums and biting. In the social hierarchy both of the school and the town, they're near the bottom - it's interesting Amma was friends with them once at all, but then this keen sense for social status often becomes more prominent once puberty hits. I think it's a safe bet they were bullied. They were not cool girls. And so Amma, who never faces consequences for everything, who's royalty, who has friends entirely devoted to her - she's safe killing them, in her good right almost, they're nobodies, and Windgap, that she knows so well, proves her right by not even once suspecting her. Had not an other outsider and freak, Camille, disturbed the status-quo, she would have gotten away with everything swimmingly. Her friends laugh about it too - Ann and Natalie's lives don't seem to have had much worth to them.

[I do believe her choice of killing Natalie wasn't entirely out of convenience either - I have the suspicion that Amma had a childhood crush on Natalie's older brother John that got rejected, and that killing his beloved little sister was a form of punishment for this unheard of outrage. Amma telling Camille John fancies her (despite him treating her like a venomous snake in the pool scene) could be a sort of wish fullfilment. Would explain how viciously she latches onto the 'baby killer' narrative.]

And then, Mae. To me it's VERY MUCH not a random choice to have Mae be a black kid. The only people of color Amma has probably ever met in the conferedate nostalgia enclave of Windgape are domestic workers that obeyed her, or workers at her mother's pig farm who defered to her, all of them incredibly lower on the social hierarchy than the litte Windgap princess. And now she meets this black city kid, who lives in a rented apartment, maybe with a single mom. That's not someone Amma would respect, or consider on her level, but instead I think she'd have this deep belief that Mae was her inferior and should obey her, defer to her. Did she plan on killing her when Camille granted Mae attention? Or did Mae refuse her somehow, got sick of being bossed around, in this fight they supposedly had?

And I love how all of this is both implicit and subtle yet crystal clear, in everything we learn about Ann and Natalie, the way their peers describe them (in contrast to the adults who are more proficient liars), in every interaction we see between the white upper class of Windgap and POCs.

[catis15]

My Opinions/Reviews on Saphic Books:

- Bright Falls Trilogy

- All of them are cute and heartwarming and giggle worthy and shit

- It's cool seeing each of the friend groups POVs and they're all pretty relatable in my opinion

- Pretty good representation of various family relationships especially with mothers

- the various relationships are actually really well written but the stories are still very much focused on the romance, they're not sidelined persey but they're not the main focus of that's what your looking for it's very much about the couple

- I like the variety in body types through the series, there's different heights, weights, yada yada and it's nice to see and they're all appreciated

- There aren't any POC MCs but there are side characters, also lots of gender and lgbtqia+ identity representation NB characters, ace characters, lots of queer couples, I think there may be a polycule mentioned but I'm not entirely sure

- Smut? Yes there is, how much varies between book but I'd argue there's more every book with Iris's book having the most; Id also argue it gets intenser as the series continues but it's all pretty mid (not in the it's bad writing way in the I've read far worse but I've also read some relatively pg 13)

DELILAH GREEN

- I love Delilah sm she can fucking step on me and Id ask her to do it again

- It's a sorta an asshole to everyone but you between her and Claire but not in the typical way? Like it's there but it's not written the way a lot of that trope usually is, idk I just really like how these books are written I think the author does a fantastic job

- Delilah seeing Claire for who she is and like just how much emotion she has is just yes, and also Claire seeing Delilah as like a sweet person and not just an asshole is nice too

- Because I know it bothers some people, Claire is a mother and the kid is talked about, I don't mind parent tropes but ik some people just don't enjoy reading them, I thought Ruby was sweet though and Claire seeing how Delilah interacts with her is also really cute

- Delilah also providing that safe and comforting space for artwork for Ruby is also really sweet and seeing Delilah kinda give Ruby what she herself didn't have is wholesome ASF and Claire just appreciates it and shit idk it's cute

- Hating On The Straight White Man TM (because he is gross to Astrid)

- Delilah is a photographer and Claire runs a bookstore

ASTRID PARKER

- It's cool getting to see Astrid's POV compared to how Delilah (her sister) views her

- Mommy Issues TM and in my opinion it catches some of the subtleties of growing up with a toxic parent really well

- Jordans ex comes along so warning for that, ok some people don't really like that

- Also handles like not missing your ex but feeling like YOU failed because the relationship failed

- again the subtleties of so much is just so well written

- Jordan is very stereotypical lesbian and I'm here for it

- her truck is named adora, her cat is named catra (if I'm remembering correctly), she wears random button ups, got that half saved short hair going (funnily enough I myself had both Astrid and Jordans haircuts at various points in my life lmao), she's a carpenter sorta, she's got an attitude, is into taro, like I love her sm 😂 she's so me fr 😭

- enemies to lovers

- Astrid's a bitch and Jordan pretends not to be into it

- they fuck in a pantry

- it's funny

IRIS KELLY

- iris doesn't do kids and marriages and her more or less traditional family is giving her shit for it

- Stevie has anxiety and handles it the same way I handle mine so that was relatable

- handles the shit that goes along with having anxiety really well so props to the author once again

- fake dating tm

- They're basically giving each other 'classes' because they think they're bad at things; but in reality it's just them being comfortable with stuff they're actually pretty good at; Stevie helps Iris be more comfortable with everyday romance and Iris helps Stevie be more comfortable with adult fun time intimacy outside of committed long term relationships

- but at the same time in queer Shakespeare and it's beautiful

- Home Field Advantage

- will add later

- The Song of the Huntress

- Just bought it and haven't read it yet

- The Priory of the Orange Tree

- Just bought it haven't read it

- Late Bloomer

- a few chapters in

- th author notes are funny and enjoyable

- good representation of things like people pleasing, autism, trust issues due to family trauma, bad relationships that you stay in for the comfort, toxic friends

- They're some pretty heavy themes but their handled in an easy to swallow way

- while these are very present themes the main focus is still the romance, but they're handled a bit more in depth than say the Bright Falls Trilogy

[spopsalt]

So I know Nate says he regrets it, which I’m already taking with a grain of salt, but I’m sitting here wondering WHY Nate designed Mara like this in the first place. Why did he give her blonde hair and blue eyes and a white/gold outfit to make her similar to Adora, and then make her poc with brown hair? Like look, I watched DBZ, I get transformations can alter hair and eyes. But why the uniform and same color scheme too? Either Nate should have kept her poc as She-Ra, or just had her be white and blond when normal. It’s that easy!

Also, I know lore can change with reboots, but here’s the thing, IN EVERY ITERATION, BASIC KNOWLEDGE IS HOW THE SWORD WORKS. And never, in the history of MOTU has the sword done that. For reference, I’m going to talk about the Sword of Power, since there’s more lore, and it’s supposed to work pretty much the same as the Sword of Protection. So… He-Man’s sword transforms whoever wields it, provided they are related to the late King Grayskull, the wielder buffs up and changes clothing. It can also have a range of clothing for different needs. Armor, helmets, pants, stuff like that. Point is, it can’t change the color of eyes or hair or skin. In the 80s, when Adam used it, it did make his hair and skin a bit darker, but he still read as a white blond guy, so it’s pretty inconsequential.

But aside from that hair LENGTH can change, as 80s She-Ra had longer hair, and an alternate Keldor had it shorter. But all colors stayed the same. Also, there has never an assigned color scheme for anyone who used the Sword of Power. Even with different iterations. Hell, even the SWORD ITSELF could change color, allowing each person that was He-Man to be an individual.

Examples:

King Grayskull (200X and Classics)

Vikor

Wun-Darr

Oo-Larr

He-Ro (The First)

He-Ro (The Second) (Son of He-Man)

Adam (It was a sequel series to the 80s)

Keldor (Skeletor in an alternate universe)

Sure some of them were blonde, but that’s a coincidence. Even Keldor, stayed blue with black hair.

And again, this applies to ALL versions. See how a different version of King Grayskull is black and still allowed to be black when he’s He-Man?

So… Just WHY??? The gold and white outfit was unnecessary. And even more unnecessary was switching Mara’s colors. Either have her have blond/white hair, blue eyes, (and maybe white skin, I heard the S1 flashback was an animation error, but I also heard she may have just BEEN white) when not She-Ra, or let her have her gray eyes, brown hair, and dark skin when she is!!! I honestly don’t know when, where, or how Nate got this idea that all She-Ra had to look the same. He said he watched the old stuff, but clearly, he doesn’t know anything about the history. And I know for a fact the First Ones using Mara as a weapon and having the sword take her individuality was NOT planned from the beginning, because Nate had admitted that he WROTE HIMSELF IN A CORNER AND HIS WIFE JUST THREW THE IDEA OF THE PLANT BEING A WEAPON OUT THERE. Nate literally didn’t plan this, it was all made up or pulled out someone’s ass. And the whole Mara being whitewashed thing could have been avoided.

I honestly don't even know, there was soooo much potential, at least Nate regrets it, but like you said she could've kept her dark hair and eyes, but nope!

[mx-nii]

All of my hyperfixations - past and present - are merging into a chaotic bundle of the Triple Ts (terribly traumatized twinks) and slowly driving me insane.

I can’t focus on my day to day life when I’m constantly thinking of terribly traumatized twinks (not all of them are twinks BUT THEY ARE ALL GAY)

Like genuinely how am I supposed to focus on such trivial matters like pre-calc or my collapsing relationship with my father when all I can think about is:

how Heartstopper isn’t just a cringe teen show, it’s a beautiful representation of being young and queer, and how struggling with mental health can severely impact your most formative years - Charlie had friends and yet still felt completely alone and like he couldn’t burden them with his pain because mental illness fucks with your brain so deeply, it’ll make you believe you have nothing and no one when you may actually have something and someone

or how Dead Boy Detectives isn’t just a silly ghost show (although it’s a wonderful silly ghost show), its a show about how friendship and love can be the most powerful thing in your arsenal (aside from a magic cricket racket) and how your past can haunt (ha) you and how the constant fear of becoming who you hate most in the world will always linger in the back of your mind but your true family can keep you safe and help you heal, and how fucking impossible it is to be gay or a POC at the wrong place, in the wrong fucking time - and maybe you won’t be able to find any peace in your current situation but there is peace out there somewhere, waiting for you patiently. (Charles and Edwin found their peace in their own homebrew afterlife, but seeing as we are mere servants of the mortal plane and not transdimensional beings, we shall have to suffice with sculpting our own peace out of this terrifying world because we fully damn well can, and we deserve it)

or how she-ra isn’t some goofy kid show; it’s a show about how being groomed and manipulated can destroy a child’s psyche so much that it will take years to rebuild (also it’s gay as fuck). catra wasn’t cruel (okay maybe she was just a bit but hear me out guys- I’m due for a rewatch and all I remember is I love that woman more than life itself), she was abandoned again and again and again and all she wanted was for adora to stay, so she wouldn’t be alone anymore, not again. And finally- FINALLY she stayed (giving us one of the most cinematic scenes in history [so just this once, adora: stay]). Adora and Catra are two sides of the same coin. They were both subject to the mental and physical torture of Shadow Weaver and they both responded in different ways due to their own personalities and differences in how they were treated - but they found each other in the end, and always protected each other because that’s what best friends (specifically the really really gay ones) do.

or how the owl house ALSO isn’t a silly kids show, but instead another show about abuse and trauma and growing up queer, and how healing and freeing acceptance is (oh and also some more child soldiers). Amity was so mean to people because meanness and cruelty was all she knew, until Luz took the time to dig a bit deeper and find the real Amity buried deep inside - and how Luz and Amity, even at such a young age, in such a dangerous and confusing world, were ALWAYS there for each other, no matter what

or how 9-1-1 is deeper than just a random fire fire show. It depicts all sorts of personal struggles like post partum depression, PTSD, anxiety, trauma, child neglect/abuse, depression, abandonment, death, foster care, divorce, and ofc: suppressed queerness/comp het! (Eddie literally put Buck in his will and made him the designated legal guardian for Christopher - if that ain’t gay, idk what is)

or how criminal minds has one of the most tragically beautiful found family tropes whilst being a show about the literal scum of the earth? How even in such gruesome circumstances, these people banded together and made the most beautiful family.

or how Percy Jackson is a kids/teen book but delves into such deep and tragic topics so well. Child soldiers, child abuse, being queer at the wrong place and time, coming to terms with being queer, child soldiers, DID I MENTION THE CHILD SOLDIERS??

or how Epic uses expert music theory and lyricism to convey a gorgeous tragedy in the best way I’ve ever seen

or how the grishaverse had so much potential, and is a brilliant literary universe but was BUTCHERED on screen, wasting one of the best casts I’ve ever seen

Genuinely how do I move on with my life when I can’t stop thinking about this (and so many more thoughts that I don’t have the energy to write out at 3:30AM)

[neozhelps]

oooi, tudo bom?? tava pensando, a tag gringa tem umas regras que a gente podia adotar aqui! tipo, pra cada fc branco, o próximo personagem deve ser uma pessoa racializada/poc e tals, acho uma boa iniciativa!

sim! seria ótimo se as centrais adotassem as regras de diversidade desse tipo; porém, é preciso bastante cuidado porque, infelizmente, existem pessoas que vão tentar burlar essa regra, e por isso precisa ter pulso firme mesmo pra não deixar virar a casa da mãe joana.

inclusive, a regra de diversidade é algo que eu vou implementar na orhq mais pra frente (não vai ter por agora porque cada player só vai poder ter um personagem nessa primeira fase). o que eu pretendo fazer é (em um cenário onde cada player pode ter até 3 personagens): o segundo personagem precisa ter um fc racializado (caso o primeiro seja branco), e o terceiro personagem precisa ser de um gênero diferente; além de que você precisa manter uma atividade boa em todos os personagens, sem favorecer um ao outro, e caso isso acabe acontecendo, você vai levar um strike.

pode ser que algumas pessoas achem essa regra muito severa, mas aí é só não pegar mais um personagem além do primeiro! inclusive, também dá pros temidos krps usarem uma regra parecida para incentivar os players a fazerem personagens de outras etnias (mesmo que o ideal mesmo, ao meu ver, fosse abolir totalmente essa tag): se o seu primeiro personagem tem um fc coreano, o segundo precisa ter outra etnia.

mas será que vai ter alguma moderação atual corajosa o bastante pra entrar nessa briga? porque reclamações vão ter, já que o pessoal da tag adora ficar procurando pelo em ovo e ir na ask da central espumando pelos dedos.

[adorawasright]

What are your personal thoughts on the idea of Catra acting/being treated like an animal as a latina-coded character?

Some other SPoP criticals say that this is a terrible stereotype (Idk if they're latina or not, tho), but I'd like to hear your thoughts on this since you're a brown latina yourself

Oh, I agree with them, I think it's terrible mainly because it was not planned out. It doesn't make any sense, either. Catra doesn't have brown skin, she has fur. She doesn't have a latina voice actress when other characters of color, as far as I'm concerned, do. Even Adora has a latina VA, so I don't get why they couldn't get one for Catra if they really wanted her to be a WOC.

While I don't think it was intentional, Catra does allude to some stereotypes against latina women, such as her being abusive, sexualized and, of course, animalized. There's also the fact she needs to be calmed down by her white savior girlfriend.

But honestly, I doubt it was planned from the beginning. Personally, it felt that Nate just wanted to make fans happy so he made Catra a WOC without any supporting material. He said, "she's absolutely a WOC", but literally WHERE? Based on WHAT? Nate also sums Catra up as a literal cat plenty of times, so to me it's pretty distasteful. He should really have thought over it before making it "official".

Again, I don't think this was done in bad faith, but Nate is just painfully white (once he even considered himself latino because... his grandmother was latina?). Even then, at the very least Nate acknowledges it was never confirmed in the show, so he said in the same tweet, "it doesn't feel right to take credit for it." But of course, the fandom uncritically made this canon, because stans will call you racist if you criticize Catra, when in reality they could not care less about the ACTUAL POC of SPOP. (Besides, I've seen fans making "la chancla" jokes with Catra and I don't have to explain why those jokes are awful, right)

Anyway, I think latina Catra should've remained a headcanon. I know some fans of color relate to Catra and I don't want to take that away from them. But some POC, including myself, have the right to be uncomfortable with how latina Catra is handled. She should've just been a cat like she was always meant to be.

[catradoratwtgoodies]

Biggest pet peeve in the fandom

Spop critics who trash talk all the characters of color (Catra, Glimmer, Entrapta, Mermista and even Bow) and then headcanon Adora as poc. It feels very icky to me to hate on actual characters of color and then say the white blonde one is actual Black (they mostly do it when people criticize them)

[acorn-squash-writes]

[Image description: Round icons on white backgrounds in a cartoony style. The characters are all from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Muted colors. Artist’s watermark is mistbix. All flags are Philadelphia variants of the original flags, meaning that they add a black stripe and brown stripe at the top to be more inclusive of people of color. In this version, the top stripe is a dark brown rather than black.

Catra holding a POC-inclusive version of the sunset lesbian flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, orange, yellow, white, light pink, and dark pink) and sticking her tongue out. Background is a textured light red.

Adora holding a POC-inclusive version of the sunset lesbian flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, orange, yellow, white, light pink, and dark pink) and winking. Background is a textured light blue.

Queen Glimmer holding a POC-inclusive version of Michael Page’s bi flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, pink, purple, and blue) and making a >:D expression. Background is a textured light purple.

Bow holding a POC-inclusive version of Michael Page’s bi flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, pink, purple, blue) and throwing a peace sign with his hand. Background is a textured light orange.

Catra holding a POC-inclusive version of Monica Helms’s trans flag (horizontal stripes of horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, light blue, pink, white, pink, and light blue) and sticking her tongue out. Background is a textured light red.

Adora holding a POC-inclusive version of Monica Helms’s trans flag (horizontal stripes of horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, light blue, pink, white, pink, and light blue) and winking. Background is a textured light blue.

Queen Glimmer holding a POC-inclusive version of Monica Helms’s trans flag (horizontal stripes of horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, light blue, pink, white, pink, and light blue) and making a >:D expression. Background is a textured light purple.

Bow holding a POC-inclusive version of Monica Helms’s trans flag (horizontal stripes of horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, light blue, pink, white, pink, and light blue) and throwing a peace sign with his hand. Background is a textured light orange.

Catra holding a POC-inclusive version of Key Rowan’s nonbinary flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, yellow, white, purple, black) and sticking her tongue out. Background is a POC-inclusive version of the sunset lesbian flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, orange, yellow, white, light pink, and dark pink).

Adora holding a POC-inclusive version of Key Rowan’s nonbinary flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, yellow, white, purple, and black) and winking. Background is a POC-inclusive version of the sunset lesbian flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, orange, yellow, white, light pink, and dark pink).

Bow holding a POC-inclusive version of Monica Helms’s trans flag (horizontal stripes of horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, light blue, pink, white, pink, and light blue) and throwing a peace sign with his hand. Background is a POC-inclusive version of Jasper V’s pan flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, pink, yellow, and blue).

Bow holding a POC-inclusive version of Monica Helms’s trans flag (horizontal stripes of horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, light blue, pink, white, pink, and light blue) and throwing a peace sign with his hand. Background is a POC-inclusive version of Michael Page’s bi flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, pink, purple, and blue).

Catra holding a POC-inclusive version of Wuvsbian’s seven-striped he/him lesbian flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, dark purple, light purple, green, yellow, orange, red, and dark red) and sticking her tongue out. Background is a textured light red.

Catra holding a POC-inclusive version of Wuvsbian’s seven-striped they/them lesbian flag (horizontal stripes of dark brown, brown, pink, orange, yellow, light yellow, cream, light blue, dark blue, and purple) and sticking her tongue out. Background is a textured light red.

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Flag info is sourced from various wikis, please correct me if I got anything wrong or if any of the flag creators change their name

best friend squad pride icons, with poc inclusive flags

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[lesbian flags, bi flags, trans flags - nb + lesbian flags, bi and pan + trans flags, he/him lesbian flag, they/them lesbian flag]

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

yes! i made a separate blog for my spop concerns because my main one was getting flooded lol

I'll keep this short and list out what I'm gonna post in this blog:

catra's "redemption" and what's wrong with it

concerns surrounding catradora

racist and ableist undertones in the show

bad writing and inconsistencies within the show

wasted potential of the show

memes about any of the above topics

reasons why c//a is abusive and romanticized by the narrative:

part 1

part 2

proof that catra and adora are adoptive sisters:

this is a safe place for queer people, disabled and neurodivergent people, poc and abuse victims. if you're a catra apologist or someone who thinks c//a is healthy, this is your cue to ignore this blog (unless you are willing to change your mind, in which case, congrats. you have more braincells than 90% of the fandom).

that's it for now!

[spopsalt]

https://www.tumblr.com/trashraccoonking/742937786263420928/im-sorry-but-if-you-can-forgive-the-white-man-for?source=share

Firstly, Hordak is more poc-coded than Catra ever was.

Secondly, it's still so funny argument. She was so forced to commit war crimes that she never once took the chance to escape, eliminated two people on the way to power and tortured with a smile on her face. And her beating, injuring and trying to kill Adora is perfectly justified because she's "betrayed". It's just how "not ya romance" works (despite the fact that it's ya novels that romanticize abuse most often). However, this person at least admits that she shouldn't have been forgiven so quickly.

Why does everyone act like Catra is so poor little meow meow who didn't want to commit war crimes (Even though she committed them gladly with a smile on her face) but just did it because her sister crush left her and totallyyy didn't ask her to come back one, nope! She just left Catra and had to commit war crimes, sure, whatever they say.

[blackcur-rants]

One “Once Upon a Time” hypothetical AU I love to play with in my mind is the one where, instead of being the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, Emma is just an orphan from the Land Without Magic whose parents died in a really mundane, unremarkable way like a car crash or something like that and she chose to find her home and connection with the fairy tale characters of Storybrooke and we really got to see her bonding with these characters as she and Henry discover who everyone is (oh, and the flashbacks are them mentally piecing together how everyone is connected and the differences between the actual events of the Enchanted Forest and the way they’re recorded in traditional storybooks). And even though she and Snow aren’t related to each other by blood, Snow White still becomes a mother figure to Emma and Henry much like Queen Angella does for Adora or Princess Celestia does for Twilight Sparkle.

And just for fun, Emma and Henry in this version are both autistic and that’s part of what drives the connection between them. And do I even need to tell you that there’s a lot more PoC and queer rep in this version of the show than in the original incarnation of the story? Both in terms of diverse reimaginings of classic European myths and fairy tales and in terms of adapting Asian and African and Indigenous American and Oceanian stories. Mayhaps the Dark Curse captured other worlds and created other Magical Havens like Storybrooke across the world and Emma, Henry, and Regina go across the world finding them and discovering their secrets.

@disregardcanon @lady-asteria @dachi-chan25 @whencartoonsruletheworld @strangesmallbard

hey you ever just think about all the ways abc’s once upon a time could have been a really good show