#catra didnt know)/was a bad friend bc of all her shit and had to learn to be a better one and apologize/lesbian/mentally ill

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i have finally made a kin list

OH ALSO susie from deltarune too

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On the topic of she-ra villain ships: how about Entrapta x Hordak?

1. Why don't you ship it?

i never really understood this one at all. like, i dont actively hate it like i hate any catra ship, but i just dont get it? ignoring the whole "entrapta is autistic because we said so but the word autism doesnt exist on this fantasy planet and were not gonna talk about it" thing, there just wasnt any romantic chemistry between the two that i could see. i could see that hordak had feelings for entrapta for... reasons...? probably had something to do with "she sees through my hollow facade... she understands me like no one ever has..." but thats just kind of. dumb. sorry but if all it took to get hordak to fall in love with someone was for them to clock his daddy issues he wouldve had sooo many marriages and subsequent divorces.

and also i cant really see why people think theyre so cute when entrapta had like. no idea what any of them were doing? the entire time she was helping the horde out because she thought it was fun and interesting but she didnt know what they were doing. (im also not gonna address how stupid the whole "you were my friends and you abandoned me! (because you thought i was dead)" thing was) she didnt know their agenda, she didnt know who she was working for, she was just hanging out and building shit for fun, but as we see from season 5, she does actually care about doing good things and not bad things, so i think if someone sat her down and explained to her what the horde was doing while she was in their care, shed hop the fuck out of there the first chance she got. so the entire romantic arc between entrapta and hordak was built solely on lies of obfuscation, and is it just me, or is that not really as romantic as the writers think it is?

i cant muster the energy to get pissed off about it, its just soooo dumb and i dont understand why anyone thought it made sense.

2. What would have made you ship it?

maybe if entrapta was working for them from the very beginning and functioned as like. hordaks fucked up inventor pal who accidentally saw through his bullshit.

idk if id ship it even then bc its just so much funnier to me if the whole romance is one-sided and hordak thinks hes in a romcom or something while entrapta is like "heeheehoohoo robot go beep beep" and straight up doesnt give a shit about hordak at all

3. Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

entrapta was fun to watch when the writers werent using her as an angst punching bag, and it was pretty funny watching hordak be verbally tortured by a purple gremlin lady. she-ra was good when it wasnt busy being stupid

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i havent talked about catradora in a while lets do that. about the "catradora is abusive" take bc surprisingly there r still people saying that lmfao

like i keep seing those takes on tiktok now and it makes me think of that post about how characters are not Actual Living People but parts of a narrative that tells a story. like. catra and adora are not real ppl there is not an actual war happening where catra is a catgirl that scratches adora as they fight. yes, obviously physical violence exists in abusive relationships exist in the real world, but catradora isnt a story about an abusive relationship, so thats not what their real world equivalent would be. catra's story is about how growing up in an abusive environment (and more especially a religious one) affects you, it's a story about being traumatized and hurting and taking that out on the people around you, on getting worse and worse bc you refuse to get help. the show doesnt portray that as "its justified because shes mentally ill" tho, shes literally a villain through most of it, and all of her bad actions are shown to have bad consequences for her, like scorpia leaving. at the end, tho, she makes an effort to get better- she apologizes, for everyone she hurt, taking the blame. she doesnt force anyone anyone to forgive her, bc she recognizes that even if she treated them like shit bc she herself felt like shit, that doesnt excuse it. and she recognizes that adora was right to leave, that adora is allowed to have other friends and leave if shes toxic to her. catra's story is about healing and apologizing for the people that you hurt.

catradora im general is about healing, i think. their friendship wasn't the most healthy at the horde yeah, they were incredibly codependent there, because they were living in a incredibly toxic environment, and didnt know How to be healthy- and their story is about how they had to grown apart for a while, go through their own rock bottoms and come out on the other side, to heal and learn how to cope with their ugly emotions and be their own ppl separately, before they could mend their friendship (and form a relationship). its weird to me seeing ppl say that she-ra encourages both not taking responsibility for your actions and being in toxic relationships because its literally the opposite of that. neither of them could be happy before they learned how to not be toxic.

(and i mean catradora is about 8372974837293 other things too, about accepting that you're gay and religious trauma and etc, i didnt even talk about adora's story, the healing part of it is just what im focusing on here). also something that i realized is that at season 5 their roles where kinda flipped, i think. adora kept getting worse and worse, refusing to get help, and pushing everyone away, while catra was trying to get better, literally begging adora to try to get better too, and then leaving when adora refused to do so even if it hurt the people around her (she was literally planning to sacrifice herself without caring about how much that would hurt the ppl who loved her yall. its because of all the abuse she suffered and her terrible mental health, yeah, but just like adora wasnt obligated to stay and be hurt by catra when she was hurting, catra wasnt obligated to stay with adora.) a lot of people also said it was rushed, but 1-honestly yall say that about almost every kids cartoon, thats just how cartoons are, unfortunately they have to focus on plot and stuff so theyre deemed Entertaining and 2-her redemption is not over? we just saw the beginning of it. one of the last scenes was her apologizing, the show knows she still has a long way to go. anyways this is all i can think to say so im done akfbwkr sorry this is so repetitive and also ended in a completely different direction than it started im not a writer and i made 99% of this up as i went