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been going insane over Bruce in his eating dome for 24 hrs now

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Pinterest showed me photos of puddle reflections and I couldn't stop thinking about this…

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please don't dogpile on me for this, but... i personally don't like wrong hordak. i get how he's important, because he shows how a clone could unlearn his beliefs when given outside support, and he also helps our heroes by mentioning krytis. but. his cult abuse trauma is played for laughs, and i don't like his overly upbeat personality. if ya'll want to p o l i t e l y explain why you like him, aside from the fact that he's cute, go ahead. but i just don't get the hype.

There's no need to worry; politely expressed opinions are always welcome here!

I wonder, anon, if perhaps it's not so much that you dislike the character, but that you dislike the way his inclusion was handled? I share your disdain for how his trauma was "played for laughs." A weakness in the writing, I think.

That said, I still appreciate his function of providing evidence for the clones not necessarily being robotic or monstrous or anything of that sort (without having to address "past sins" at the same time). While his upbeat personality is less appealing to me than Hordak's, I still appreciate what it informs the viewer of.

Though, y'know, anon, some of my favorite portrayals of him involve that upbeat personality being something of a coping mechanism for All That Trauma. Perpetual cheer and eagerness and optimism to combat the shock of everything. That's honestly how I've always interpreted him!

But to each their own; he needn't be a favorite for you, if you simply don't enjoy him c:

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Notable She-Ra Fanfictions List

Welcome.  This is my She-Ra and the Princesses of Power fandom-blog.  I am primarily a fan of Entrapta, Hordak and the Galactic Horde Clones.  I am an Entrapdak-shipper and, in fact, was one of the first, back when it was treated as crack. Formerly shadsiethewriter.  I am Shadsie on Ao3 and elseweb.   I am a fanfiction-writer and I also do fanart now and again.   ________________

A list of my noteworthy personal fanfictions.  I’m not including all of them, since I’ve been fairly prolific.  These are just some on my Ao3 profile that stand out for one reason or another; major series, short-fic collections and tidbits that may be of interest for anyone looking to kill some time.  Ordered by type:   Early Fandom Offerings - Fics done when the show was first airing, Season 1 and Season 2 fics.  Contains interesting material in terms of early fandom impressions and ideas that are interesting when compared to later canon.  

The Havoc Hypothesis - My first for the fandom. Season 1 fic.  Entrapta wreaks havoc in her new home with the Horde.  That’s it. That’s the fic.   Trapped - Entrapta-focused fic written and focused in Season 1. Entrapta during her time left behind in the Horde and rejoining the Rebellion, with all of the problems that entails.  Proposed theory back then, definitely canon-divergent now.   Entrapdak Firsts! 

Fearless - The first Entrapdak (Entrapta / Hordak) fic on Ao3.  Season 2 writing.  Hordak musing about this strange, fearless woman who has just barged into his life.  I wasn’t entirely sure what to make of my exciting new crackship then. It may not be the best entrapdak fic on the site, but as far as I know it’s the first.  The King of Loneliness - Early multichaptered entrapdak fic. Season 2 setting / written.  Canon-divergent from Season 2′s ending.  Hordak and Entrapta work together, grow close and figure each other out.  They end up working on a project together to not only bring the Horde High Command to Etheria (written before we knew anything about clones), but to make pockets of the atmosphere habitable for them.  A tale of war, tragedy, mad science and the price of “getting what you wanted,” but not what you needed. 

Doomberries - This one seems to be popular. Written in Season 3.  Entrapta eats food that was gifted to Hordak as part of an assassination plot.  Doomberries are a type of fruit that will rip your atoms asunder and fade you out of existence. There is no cure but one: For someone to cry for you. Entrapta doesn’t have many friends and the ones she does have are absent, on a suicide-mission to the Crimson Waste.  Hordak is distressed over her, but there is one problem: His species was not built with tear ducts and does not have the capability of weeping.  What will happen?  (Written during Season 3, before Season 4 showed us that Hordak and his kind are, indeed, capable of grief-tears).  This fic is therefore flawed, but it is popular, so it is noted here.  Fun with Shadow Weaver!  

Shadow Weaver’s Storytime - I decided to write the origins of the “Princess Ghost Stories” that Adora talks about.  Watch Shadow Weaver scare the living daylights out of a bunch of children on a Horde training exercise / camping trip!  Dead Doves - Some of my nastier / crueler horror fics. Proceed with caution. 

The End of Etheria - Season 1 written fic.  Taken from an idea I saw floated around a prompt site.  The Horde experiments with the corrupted First One’s disc-virus, applied to the Runestones through the Black Garnet.  Every Princess and Queen connected to a Runestone begins steadily losing their mind, devolve into tyranny and become the purest and cruelest embodiment of their natural element.  Exactly what it says on the tin.   Set Phasers to Stun - What if when Catra lost her head and tased Entrapta in the back the setting was higher than she realized?  The tale of an accidental murder and the consequences that follow.   The Final Ecstasy - Horde Prime, a clone and a ritual.  (Unless you are prepared for what those words entail, just don’t even with this damn thing)!!! Noteable for being the most decomposed of my dead doves - how deep the rabbit hole can go with me when I feel like writing overdark things for cartoons.  My Best of Hordak Collection - Hordak-centered fiction that I feel particularly proud of. 

An Unexpected Therapist - Someone recced this on TV Tropes. Post-series. The clones are having a difficult time adjusting to their newfound freedom and the concept of independence.  A lost-feeling clone named Pickles seeks Hordak out to make sense of all of this.  He spent a long time apart from the hive mind, after all, and has the greatest sense of independence as well as a steel determination to survive.  No one expects a warlord to become a therapist, but strange things happen on Etheria and it turns out that he’s just what his brothers need.  (Note: The name “Pickles” pre-dates the assignment of the loudmouth canon-clone in the first episode of Season 5 being named that by the spacebat fandom. That thing started with me commenting on a screenshot of the guy by calling him “Pickles!”  Imagine the guy in the story as that guy, or as some other random dude, I don’t care).   Never Let Them See You Bleed - Hordak had been reconditioned before the end of Prime’s War, but being that his defect is genetic, it was never a complete cure. His body begins tearing itself apart again.  Entrapta does everything she can, but is at a loss as he rapidly deteriorates.  She calls Adora in for help.  Adora finds that she cannot call up She-Ra so easily - that there is something blocking the magic.  Perhaps, in her heart, she does not want to heal Hordak.  Their relationship is…complicated… to say the least.  The story of a planetary hero and a dying former warlord getting to know each other.    (Bonus: First appearance of my recurrent OCs, Robin and Jerome. Here, they are not fleshed out, as they were meant to be one-off characters).  

Eighteen - A Hordak-origin story. It follows him from when his free will and defect begins to appear to his accidental exile in Despondos on Etheria and the rise of the early Etherian Horde.  Hordak was of a class of “generals” designed by Horde Prime for special operations.  When a physical defect appeared in one peculiar little upstart, that one, and the surviving members of the batch, numbering eighteen in all, were sent to the front lines to be among the shock-troops of a fiercely-fighting world with the expectation of it being a suicide-mission.  A portal opened in space, taking the battle-cruiser to an uncharted planet.  The clone who would become “Hordak” must devise strategies for survival along with a party of his Brothers.  The Scorpioni people think that these strangers from Heaven were sent to them by the gods. A tale of conquest, family and tragedy ensues from there until a last survivor of the “Messengers from Heaven” stands, along with the last princess of a once proud nation.    Imp! 

Teething Day - Imp sheds his choppers annually.  Babies do not like the feel of teething.  Imp wreaks a hurricane’s worth of destruction on the Horde every year during the time of his shed, chewing up EVERYTHING!  Spacebats!  

Robin and Jerome’s Excellent Adventures - A series focusing on a pair of original characters who are post-series Horde-clones.  While the series has a lighthearted name (I needed something to name it), the series itself tends more toward the melancholy, with sparks of dark humor.  Robin and Jerome are a pair of close Horde Brothers who have adopted each other as brothers in the family-sense.  The life they have chosen for themselves after being freed from Prime and self-actualizing is that of… traveling undertakers.  They have made it their mission to seek out their Brothers who fell in the war and were left unnamed in order to bestow upon them the gift of a name and a sense of identity.   Short Story Collections / Ficlets 

Dog Days in the Horde - A mishmash of various stories written from Seasons 1-2 on, mostly from prompts.  I left it open in case I get small story ideas that don’t fit anywhere else, but I’ve pretty much abandoned it.  All of the stories exist in their own little world.  Mostly Entrapta and Hordak, but all characters, basically.  One of my favorites is “Hot Stuff” which is about the Best Friends Squad and Angella, for instance.  (Note: I deleted a few of the stories I previously had in the collection for personal reasons, so if you remember a particular story where such and such happens and you find that it’s not there, ask me about it, I probably still have it on personal archive).  

Every Overlord Needs a Mad Scientist - Entrapdak Month, 2020.  A variety of stories focusing on Entrapta and Hordak as a couple, from prompts.  Some dark and brooding, some light and funny.  

Seven Days With Nerds in Love - Entrapdak Week, 2022.  Seven unrelated short stories with Entrapta and Hordak as a couple, from prompts. Same deal as above, only Fun Size.  

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at last! the long awaited cameo comic; enter the cloneiverse.

this is the speech my mom gave us before we visited my sisters college apartment for the first time, because her BOYFRIEND was LIVING with her BEFORE MARRIGE. egad! 

 years after the end of shera ‘mom clone’ will have a little house in dryl probably with 30 decorative horde symbols on the wall just in case anyone doubts that hes ex horde.

thank you to everyone who let me use their oc for this! @drawing-neleb​ @caffeinatedcorvid​ @thegreatmachine17​ @soranis-sunshadow​ @shadsiethewriter​ i managed to fit everyone in! 

the characters in the group shot are, from right to left: basil (thegreatmachine17​) , zee (thegreatmachine17​), yudi (soranis-sunshadow​), ‘mom clone’ (mine), ‘funny clone’ (mine), cyrus (drawing-neleb​), badar (drawing-neleb​), watchful (caffeinatedcorvid​), jay (thegreatmachine17​), jerome (shadsiethewriter​), robin (shadsiethewriter​), and emerald (thegreatmachine17​).

sorry if your oc got squished…

ID under the cut

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i colored a doodle for you all

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He’s upset because the daisy said she ‘loves him not’.

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Woe to my followers for I cannot post in a consistent fandom for the life of me lol

Anyways here's some no-mask edits of Shadow Weaver

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What do you do with a brainwashed army of cult survivors?

At the end of Heart Part 2, Etheria still has a population of thousands of Horde Prime’s clones. This is going to be, putting it mildly, a Problem for the Etherians. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen what happens to a cult follower when they are faced with conclusive evidence that their entire worldview was false, but you probably have some intuitive idea. Imagine if you said to a young-Earth creationist “Hey, here are multiple overlapping lines of evidence proving beyond reasonable doubt that life on Earth evolved over hundreds of millions of years,” or to a Scientologist, “Check out this evidence that L. Ron Hubbard was a fraudster who started a cult as a money-making racket!” You can probably guess that in each of those cases, the response is unlikely to be, “Goodness, I have been mistaken all my life! Thank you, kind friend, for relieving me of my false beliefs.”

As someone who’s left a cult, let me tell you, the clones are not all gonna react like Hordak or Wrong Hordak.

You might have heard of cognitive dissonance theory, but most people misuse the term, so I’ll quickly explain it. When humans encounter information which contradicts or disproves their deeply held beliefs, they experience psychological discomfort. This feeling sucks, and people will go to great lengths not to experience it. But when those beliefs are central to your identity and your place in the world, letting go of those beliefs also sucks, and people will go to even greater lengths not to do it. So they resolve the cognitive dissonance however they can. They might decide the person who gave them this information is an evil liar and lash out at them. They might find a way to convince themselves the information is in fact compatible with their beliefs after all, and then try not to think too hard about whatever mangled assemblage of the facts they have settled on, in case it falls apart under closer examination. They might modify their beliefs slightly to fit the facts ("Prime always said he would go away for a while before returning in triumph!"), and then maintain that this is what they thought all along.

As an aside, one of the landmark texts on cognitive dissonance theory is When Prophecy Fails, which tracks the actions of a doomsday cult after the world failed to end on their predicted date. Sure enough, the acolytes of this cult did not abandon their beliefs despite this pretty concrete evidence that they had been wrong. Instead, they started recruiting new followers as hard as possible. They tried to get social reinforcement for their beliefs (“This must be true—look how many people believe it!”) to help them cope with the empirical disconfirmation they’d just lived through. So yeah, this theory is highly applicable to cult behaviour. And Prime’s clones are quite definitely a cult.

So it’s fair to say that just because the Hive Mind is down and She-Ra has just kicked Prime’s ass into oblivion, the clones are not all gonna just accept that Prime is gone and his mission is over. Some of them are going to continue fighting, convinced that Prime is not really gone. Some will insist that their connection to the Hive Mind is still intact, and deliver messages as the word of Prime. At least one clone is going to claim to be the reincarnation of Prime himself, and begin recruiting followers. More likely, several clones will attempt this gambit, creating factions with names like The True Followers of Prime and The Glorious Servants of Prime. These factions will go to war with each other in service of their Prime (honourable, redeeming) against the enemy’s Prime (evil, destructive). As time goes on, these factions’ ideas about Prime’s teachings will diverge, providing new opportunities for conflict. If they’re allowed to go on long enough, probably some benign and progressive versions of Prime’s cult will emerge, teaching that Prime in fact existed to bring peace and freedom to the Universe, and that those warlike factions have strayed from the true path of Prime.

All of this gives the people in charge of Etheria a headache. Etheria doesn’t believe in retributive justice, and as brainwashed cult members, the clones have diminished responsibility for war crimes they committed while Prime was alive. So it’s fair to say they can’t kill them. But they also can’t just ship them all off to live unsupervised in a colony somewhere in case they radicalise each other and start another war. Sure, some of them will follow Wrong Hordak into accepting that Prime lied to them, and they will find meaning by travelling the universe, attempting to restore planets Prime destroyed. Some, like Hordak, will give themselves names and begin the agonising process of creating an identity for themselves outside of everything they ever thought was true. But what of the rest of them? They’re essentially adult children, ignorant of everything Prime did not want them to know. They also trigger PTSD flashbacks in a great many citizens of Etheria, who cannot look at them without remembering what they suffered under the Horde.

What do you do with that many brainwashed survivors? What does compassion and restorative justice demand? I don’t know if I’ll get around to writing this as a fic or not, so here’s the setup and you can let your imaginations take it where you like. I’m new to tumblr and to the spop fandom, so if you read this far I’d really appreciate a reblog. And if anyone else has already had similar ideas, I’d really like to read them.

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I watched the new She-ra and I only care about one evil dad

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Entrapdak Positivity Month: Worries

“Hordak, you don’t need to worry so much. It’s just early labor. I can keep working!”

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Ten and Ima

Ima, an Etherian of the Vulpinx species finds an injured clone in the woods. Prime has been dead for months, yet this clone is still very much alive but delirious and confused. 

Vulpinx people have little patience for others negative outbursts. Even less for beings who tried to conquer their world not so many months ago. But, Ima has seen the truth behind Prime’s rule over his “people” If the Princesses are vouching for their enslaved past with no sense of free will, she will believe them.

That doesn’t take away the difficulty of wrangling a big tall grumpy alien around. Took her weeks to get a name out of him. “My code was 10-WSC4” he had said on the last time she prodded him for an answer as to what to call him. She asked if she could call him “Ten”, he simply grumbled. She knew that meant yes.

How to teach a former space slave about life? There’s no manual. Ima knew that. Correcting him, keeping him in line was easy though. Vulpinx could be mean. So, when he would hiss or growl, he would get it right back and louder. Ima was thankful that they shared similarities in their displays of discomfort. 

Claws, fangs, pointed emotive ears. She knew that. She had those. So reading him was easy, for the most part.

Time heals many wounds and those which can not heal, it will cover up with new memories, sensations and thoughts. Ima had told him that many times. It seemed to be true. With each passing day, Ten had less anger and confusion. It evaporated in to curiosity and an eagerness to learn. Thankfully, Ima’s town close to her home had a library. Ten quickly picked up the system and spent the morning learning about various things through stories rather than educational text. When he would have a question, the sweet old librarian would fill in the blanks for him. Mrs. Plantera was her name. She had taken the task to educate the clones in the ways of free will through the books in her library. Yes, Ten was not the only clone in town. He avoided most of them though. 

The only person he fully trusted was Ima and Ima was far from the perfect picture of an “adjusted” individual. Vulpinx are rare and their culture is odd to other Etherians. Vulpinas had a certain “stigma” surrounding them. Others didn’t understand their seeming “need“ for physical affection. This was totally wrong of course. It was nothing like that. Ima knew that. Yet, the rest looked at her as an “easy win” The town was small, they knew her, they where nice. She loved them very much. That’s whys she had settled not far away from this little place with no name. No judgement from them. But she preferred her solitude in her cottage deep in the woods. Well, solitude plus Ten, who was not going anywhere.

Weeks passed, Ten learned. His mind changed and grew as did his hair and colors. Warm tones, Vulpinx colors. He had become warm too. Taught and influenced by Vulpinx culture. But just like Ima, saved it for the privacy within the territory of their woods and a few moments of weakness in town. No one is perfect after all.

(More to come, if you have questions, ask away!)

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クローンちゃん達のお迎え～ベルベットグローブにて～ Retrieving the Clones at The Velvet Glove

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ベルベットグローブに残ったクローン達が、植物園のようになった船内で環境に順応して新しい生活を始めてたらいいな～。

ノースリーブのクローンは、プライムの死後に生まれた子のつもりで描きました。

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@yunta0722 made this for me!!!  I took a while before posting it in case they did somewhere.  Posted with permission.   These are my Horde-clone undertaker-characters, Robin and Jerome - also their donkey, Jack!  

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Fan art dedicated to @doberaptor ’s bois! Chief Medical Engineer Third pilot Section Leader Quick Brother Little Brother the Welder The Softness of Ears by Doberaptor - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)

Let Me Believe……For A Little While…  (The story of Third Pilot) by Doberaptor - She-Ra…  And pose reference source: Rudolf Nureyev & Anthony Dowell in Valentino (1977)

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IMP and his dad.