#she ra critical

[slothyykittee]

The biggest thing I learned when being a critic of other writers, is that pride will lead to your downfall.

Whether you are religious or not, you may have heard the story of Lucifer and how he fell from grace due to pride. That story can be applied to this situation.

Writers proclaiming in their heads that their skills are pure perfection, to the point of doubling down on any criticism they see. This issue is due to these people seeing their writings as an extension of themselves, which then see this as a personal attack.

We all know that criticism, no matter how constructive, hurts. You worked so hard and did your best on a project, only for someone to point out the flaws of it.

You end up feeling broken and sad. Despite your efforts, your project is not perfect.

But here's the thing: You are human. You are bound to make mistakes. No person that lived on this Earth never made a mistake. You need to consider that person's point of view. Sure, you feel hurt hearing their critical words, but that's short term. You need to focus on the long term: the benefits that this critical view will give you.

Constructive criticism is like a medical needle: it will hurt you the first time, but in the long term, it will help you get better.

Listen what others tell you. They want you to reach your full potential. Don't dismiss it, or that will lead to your fall from grace.

[thats-ill-eagle]

(Also applies to both yuri and hetero ships.)

It's all about the balance. Even if the abused partner is also an asshole, if they are mistreated by their partner without returning 'the favor' to them, that's not 'toxic relationship that is such a shitshow on both sides, that it's entertaining to watch'. It's just abuse that should not under any circumstances be romanticized or downplayed by the show/movie or its fandom, even if it's fictional.

[madnessandentropy]

Stans are so funny. According to them, Shadow Weaver is an incredibly skilled and intelligent manipulator and poor Catra (who is also incredibly intelligent) was manipulated by this evil woman.

She's so awful... until she manipulates Glimmer that is. She's so "obviously" evil, and Glimmer is so stupid and selfish for being easily manipulated when she's in a vulnerable position after losing her mother and being forced to grapple with that grief (and her trauma) while fighting in a war and unexpectedly becoming queen.

What a terrible person Glimmer is, she's so evil for working with the enemy and Adora's abuser (remember Adora's abuse only matters when tearing down Glimmer!) even though Catra works alongside a literal genocidal maniac.

Don't forget that Glimmer is abusive to Adora for yelling at her and arguing with her! Catra is Adora's true friend and partner, she only aids in genocide and regularly assaults and tortures Adora because she's traumatised!

[newbtheveryawesomeandkindanewby]

Darth Vader: "Luke... help me take this mask off. Just for once, let me look on you with my own eyes."

Vegeta: "I have a troubled history with these Namekians. I did them untold harm. So no, I can't allow even one more of them to perish."

Megatron: "Once I've secured a new home for our race, I will confess my crimes- all of them, and happily."

Catra: *Sneezes*

[bluelesbian2018]

My biggest criticism of She-Ra is that Catradora should have been more toxic.

Nate, if you're gonna make the greatest friends to enemies to lovers story of all time you should have gone full bonkers with it. Let them stab each other.

[terrabdectyle]

Catra and the Eren yeager of ch139 are realy similar...

Anyway i made this because i thought it would be funny🙂

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

ah, yes. SPOP. the master of "tell, don't show".

"how do we let the viewers know that Catra loves Adora? maybe make her do something nice for Adora or hesitate to hurt her? nah, let's just have the big bad evil villain point it out."

they literally had to make three different characters point out that adora and catra had feelings for each other, instead of showing it, especially with catra.

double trouble got the closest to the truth because they used the word "obsessed" and not "love". yes, that's all that catra's feelings towards adora were - an unhealthy obsession. i still don't like the fact that double trouble then goes on to say that catra "didn't want this" because she clearly did, but that's a topic for another day

but the fact that the only proof of catra's feelings towards adora is random screenshots of her smirking and saying/doing something borderline sensual (with the context usually being catra just manipulating and/or abusing adora as usual) or random characters pointing out that catra loves adora is so.. lazy.

and the fact that 90% of the fandom uses this as "proof" and are like "haha adora is so dumb she doesn't realise catra loves her". she is not dumb. why would you assume that a person who constantly enjoys hurting you and trying to kill you has any positive feelings towards you at all? this isn't ✨ gay repression ✨ it's literally a reasonable assumption (which was proven right over and over again).

is it really so hard to write a character who shows genuine affection? even if catra is mad at adora, why not show that she still cares? that part in s1 where she returns adora's sword and told her to escape the horde was nice. it made me feel like she cares about adora's safety and well-being, even if she feels betrayed by her. but then they ruined that by having catra tell adora that she did that because she didn't want adora to return. how romantic.

catra doesn't even show friendly affection, even when they were on the same side. she just belittled adora and constantly prioritized her own feelings over adora's. and when they're enemies, adora shows restraint and makes sure not to hurt catra too much while catra does the most heinous shit to adora with absolutely no remorse or hesitation. if she really always loved adora, she wouldn't be so quick to hurt her or control her.

but that's what you expect from a group of adult writers who still don't understand the consequences of war and abuse, and who constantly prioritizes one character over the rest. it's just embarrassing. i've seen fanfictions written by children that are better than this.

[misssakurapetal28]

One thing I have to admit about SPOP is that it just seemed like the other princesses disliked Entrapta for “being annoying” than the things she actually did harmful, which is dumb af tbh?

You have countless characters in the series who has done arguably worse than Entrapta has ever done, not to mention that the princesses aren’t prefect peaches themselves, but Entrapta acting out on her neurodivergent traits is where we cross the line? And the show had the absolute GALL to frame the majority of the princesses problems with Entrapta as Entrapta’s fault ENTIRELY? Like she’s the one who has to apologize and ONLY her?

This is what people were talking about as far as the show’s morality, bias and the acknowledgement of only the things that Itself wants to acknowledge. It’s not the fact that Entrapta is being held accountable for her bad actions as far as aiding the horde, it’s the fact that the princesses only seem to like and care about Entrapta when she can offer something useful in return. Other than that, screw her I guess 😂 She’s the creepy and annoying scientist who makes us uncomfortable, no wonder she’s alone right? 🤪

They just sprinkle nice moments between them here and there to make it appear that they care for her as much as the creators say that they do 😊

[bi-sapphics]

Hey i read your DNI and i have two questions:

1. Whats bad about she-ra o would like to learn

2. What do you mean that people wo think _4_ is like offensive to trans people? (Im a trans guy dating another trans guy and im all for people dating people who get them, its awesome, what could be bad about it?)

- in addition to the entire show having many racist/antiblack undertones (tiktok link lol), the crew itself is problematic; ND (showrunner) has drawn offensive Black stereotypes of bow, a cishet man has said dyke, and someone else made jokes about double trouble being a pedophile. after i post this ask i'll edit a twitter screenshot from when it happened. the entire series is a really bad case of "quantity over quality." their poc rep is diverse and many but very shallow and tossed-aside. it doesn't actually mean anything just because it's there. also apparently both hordak & horde prime’s VAs are Black. so is shadow weaver’s. pretty much everyone else, though...? yeah.

- your guess is as good as mine. there is no issue with it. but some transmeds love to claim that _4_ is oppressive and/or appropriating of t4t somehow, like someone else's relationship choices directly affects theirs. idk, i have too much common sense to know how to explain that to ya.

[sasaleleselfships]

Line art DONE!!

[madnessandentropy]

I love how Spop stans accuse every critic of not watching the show, being illiterate or having no media literacy when they themselves:

•Can't even remember the context of most scenes, especially the Catra ones

•Make up shit that never happened

•Straight up edit some scenes (e.g editing Adora's mouth into a smile during that dance with Catra in S1)

•Almost purposefully misinterpret scenes and episodes to support their argument

👆 and all of this in an attempt to fight with critics

[newbtheveryawesomeandkindanewby]

I hate algorithms sm man

[rayethefox14524]

Today in class an acquaintance of mine was talking about some show called ‘star and the forces of evil’ or something like that, and someone said “I hate that show, it was so good but the ending ruined it” and he said “shut up, you like she-ra”😭

[terrabdectyle]

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

okay, so is it just me or is it concerning that the whole "drunk adora" thing is clearly a result of catra infecting adora with a deadly virus and yet it's treated as a joke?

both the show itself and the fans make light of this situation. adora was clearly in immense pain when she was infected and yet the show quickly changes its tone afterward and is like "haha look, adora is fine! she's not hurt or traumatized at all, look at how silly she is!"

the adult equivalent to this would be if a person spiked someone else's drink with clearly fucked up intentions, and people treated it as a joke. but even this isn't an accurate comparison because adora is not just drugged, she had just gone through an insanely painful experience that she had no control over.

this scene shouldn't be so light-hearted and humorous. this just proves how little the show writers cares about adora. we have to go forward to s5 and compare this with how catra was treated after she got chipped by horde prime. because these two scenes are clear parallels - a character who gets mind controlled by a villain, goes through immense pain and is turned into a weapon to fight their loved ones (the last part is a stretch in catra's case but whatever).

catra gets to take some rest, she gets to lash out at people because of her trauma, she is shown to have constant nightmares, she's shown to be scared of horde prime and is uncomfortable with the chip on her neck. in short, her trauma is taken seriously.

meanwhile, adora's trauma has no lasting consequences. she just gets to run around acting stupid for a while, then go back to normal after she is rescued.

the whole "cartoon character gets affected by something equivalent to getting drunk" is a common trope. but the difference is that in other cartoons, it's usually an accident. in the owl house, there are two instances of this trope - willow getting her memory wiped temporarily and luz falling sick. both of these aren't caused by deliberate actions. amity was definitely at fault in willow's situation but it was still an accident, and she was clearly anxious and guilty about what happened unlike catra. similarly, mabel from gravity falls also has one of these moments, where she eats too much sugar candy (or whatever that was). again, in this context, it's funny because it's an accident.

again, the show fails to deliver when it comes to adora's trauma, but what's new?

[western-magical-girl-confessions]

“I know She-Ra is a comedy, but am I the only person who felt like the She-Ra writers made Bow liking crop tops seem abnormal and silly? It always felt like they show was making fun of him for being a guy who likes crop tops. Idk, the way the show tends to turn Bow liking to show off his midriff as a funny spectacle that the audience should see as goofy and weird.  

The show never makes a big deal when Mermista, Adora, Glimmer and Catra show their stomach. It just felt like the punchline of the joke was always “lol look at this boy who likes showing off his Midriff, he’s a boy lol” it felt like Bow just couldn’t be a guy who like’s midriff without the show constantly pointing and laughing at him. But then again maybe I didn’t get the joke?”