Queen Glimmer just wants a nice, calm, non-deadly party for once. Surely her friends can celebrate Entrapta and Hordak's new spaceship without it devolving into complete chaos? But when Emily overrides all Glimmer's safety precautions to turn the farewell party into the wedding of the century, the queen of Bright Moon wonders if maybe peacetime means letting go.
(4,471 words. Rated G. Fluff, Post-Canon)
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In 2023, I took part in SPOP Futures, a charity fanzine for She-Ra and The Princesses of Power supporting Outright International and I'm finally sharing my fic from that zine!
This fic has...
the type of ensemble, wholesome full cast antics that you all have come to expect from me
Bridezilla Emily
Adora being a menace to buffet tables every where
Catra inadvisably wearing sunglasses indoors and in space
Entrapta and Hordak honestly having a great time on their sweet new spaceship unaware of all the drama happening behind the scenes
Glimmer being stressed out of her mind by space, her friends, everything
Spinerella hopefully not drinking motor oil
a small army of deadly but impeccably dressed bots in formal ware
space antics
a party that is definitely not an Entrapdak wedding but is also sort of an Entrapdak wedding
After finishing She-Ra 2018 I'm trying to work on my unified theory for why CatDora bothers me as the endgame ship. Cause as CEO of mentally ill cartoon women, there's something about it that feels a disservice to Catra's psychology and trauma. She is genuinely such an interesting character to watch because they so clearly lay out the abusive dynamic that informs her entire character, but by the kiss, I feel like they lost steam with it.
The biggest thing to me is the simple fact that Adora is basically a trigger for her. Adora's personality as someone who is constantly self-sacrificing and forgiving is something Catra has a deep hatred for because she believes she is worthless and unforgivable, and when people try to help her she feels they're using her to look better while she fails to get better.
The fact that ADORA herself was the one in that original dynamic that traumatized the hell out of her makes me uncomfortable with how Catra eventually just... stops getting set off by things. I just can't imagine how what happened leading up to their kiss would desensitize Catra enough to that trauma response that she'd be in love with her. Like in that same season she was fucking death gripping the table at hearing Adora's name, and in seasons earlier she straight up like dissociated when people brought up her heroics. Not only the unearned healing, but the "I've loved you all along" feels a bit patronizing to her past. That all her emotionality was complicated romantic feelings, and not... having really nasty childhood trauma.
i dont know what made me do this but i guess its a thing now yippee (i think thats a pretty common theme with my art)
its seriously been too long since i've watched she-ra and i dont remember a thing from this scene lmfao
also i mentioned to my dad that i was drawing she-ra and he thought i meant the 80's show and started talking about he-man and grayskull and stuff while i'm just sitting there staring at these hopeless lesbians