YESSSSS!

the ultimate deception but it's an ugly unfinished (sash)annarcy-esque animatic.

Realized that the top of Madoka's skirt is star-shaped and now I can't stop thinking about this

ID: Digital comic of Homura and Madoka from Madoka Magica. The comic has some panels and some free drawings. The page is tinted pink and purple, growing darker as the comic goes on. There are doodles of hearts, stars, and moons across the pages. Madoka tapping Homura's shoulder from behind. Homura's eye widens, filled with wonder as she turns to see Madoka seemingly glowing in her magical girl outfit. Text: "And to me, you were always a STAR" A panel of Homura and Madoka holding hands with just their hands visible. Text: " Guiding me forward with each wayward night" Madoka facing the right, bounding forward, intended to resemble the hallucination Mima has of herself, bouncing away from her through the town in Satoshi Kon's "Perfect Blue. Text: "Just out of reach" One of Madoka's red ribbon's flies in the air behind her. Homura reaches out for the ribbon, already holding onto the other ribbon. She seems to be shouting out. Text: "Just a little too far" The lines from Madoka's bouning swirl into chaos framing her lying down in water, crying yet trying her best to smile as her grief seed forms. Text: "The memory of something" A panel of Homura's hand holding a gun, her hand shaking. Text: "that died long ago." The scene fades into Homura on a rooftop, wearing Madoka's ribbon, looking down. Text: "Because how could you have died lightyears ago" Madoka walks, with yellow ribbons in her hair, talking to someone not seen on the page. Text: "When I see you here right in front of me."

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

not the smoothest, but already a very favorite animation😌

(no shadows yet, it's too difficult for me)

I think another part of the problem is that watching Madoka Magical kind of puts you in exposition mode. Let's be honest, some new part of the actual mechanics of how magical girls work is explained nearly every episode, so I can't blame portions of the audience too much for thinking that's what was happening when Kyoko told her story. You're always anticipating being told some new fact about how this twisted system works, though the fact that Sayaka didn't believe her maybe should've been a giveaway that this was different.

do you know what it is, i feel like it's a misunderstanding of why sayaka's and kyoko's wishes turned out poorly. kyoko's fucking self rationalization of the world needing to be balanced and her stuff about fucking never making wishes for other people is eaten up by so much of the audience without second thought and its insane to me maybe it's because not everyone has read different story but the reason kyoko's wish "goes bad" has nothing to do with the child who made it wanting to help her family and entirely to do with the fact that her father is a piece of shit like come on. yeah let's take the traumatised 15 year old completely on her word when she says it's her fault that her dad fucking murdered her family because we are incapable of reading between the lines

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Oh look, all of my favorite Lesbian ships!

But ESPECIALLY Chaggie!

I know tis ironic that the penitent "sinner" in this case is an angel while the object of worship is Satan's daughter, yet there's no couple that fits this archetype better! Vaggie absolutely has dark past to atone for, but because of that past involving religious faith she now looks to Charlie as sort of moral authority. How could Vaggie's devotion not be religious when in addition to having been saved herself SHE LITERALLY BELIEVES PEOPLE CAN BE REDEEMED AND GO TO HEAVEN BY FOLLOWING HER GIRLFRIEND'S TEACHINGS! Charlie is the only one Vaggie believes can get people from literal hell to literal heaven. Charlie is the path to redemption. For Vaggie that hotel is a cult dedicated to her girlfriend.

when a ship involves one character being so utterly devoted to the other that its borderline religious????? when the devoted character is written to be seen as a sinner, or damned, or a non believer??? and the other character an angel or god-like???? i simply eat that shit UP how can you not??

I mean, how did she even experience that? Because theoretically she should've lived through a whole lifetime in which Madoka didn't exist and Homura never met her. Madoka didn't just alter the last month and a half, she altered ALL time. But Homura was so experienced with time travel (or so in love) that she couldn't forget. So did she just live a whole life with these memories, that she knows can't be real, of saving this girl Madoka who doesn't exist over and over again, as well as inexplicable timestop powers? Or was the Homura we all know just dropped into the new timeline with with all her memories, hopefully not erasing that timeline's Homura, but instead gaining her memories of a life without Madoka in a world without witches.

Wraith arc must've explained all of this I guess, but I've never read it.

Okay but like what do you think Homura was thinking on the day after Madoka became a concept? What did she do on the day she realized her mission was over?

SPOP Appreciation Week 2025

This upcoming May will mark the 5 year anniversary of the finale of Dreamworks' She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. To celebrate, we're hosting a Big Bang with lots of fics and art, but we wanted everyone to be able to participate in some form.

Introducing SPOP Appreciation Week, a week of prompts to help us celebrate our fav and show the cast, crew and fandom itself there's still a lot of love for these characters out there.

SPOP Appreciation Week 2025 Prompts List 

Remember / Memory

Past, Present and Future

A Beautiful Wish

You aren't alone.

Imperfection Is Beautiful

Heart

We're Going to Win in the End

How to participate

What can we make? Anything! Text posts, edits, show meta, fanart, fanfic, or even love letters to the show, cast, crew, or fandom itself. The main point of this event is to celebrate the show and get more posts out there overall, so think outside the box.

Where do we share? Everywhere! Anywhere! AO3, Tumblr, Facebook, Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, etc wherever there's SPOP fandom.

Prompts can be interpreted anyway you like or ignored entirely if you want to do your own thing. Go out of order if that's what the muse wants, the point is just to make stuff and celebrate the show!

When you make your post, no matter what platform you're sharing it on, tag it #weloveSPOP2018 along with all the usual SPOP fandom, ship or character tags. Why this tag specifically? So if we do happen to trend anywhere, we ensure that Crew-Ra / Mattel / Netflix / Dreamworks et al understands which version of She-Ra we are celebrating.

We'll be reblogging our favorite SPOP Celebration posts on our sister blog, SPOPBang to keep them separate from the Big Bang posts so you don't have to tag us so long as you're using the #weloveSPOP2018 tag.

Remember: you don't need to make something long or complicated to participate! Whether it's silly memes, heartfelt posts about what the show means to you, fanworks inspired by the prompts, or using the prompts as a jumping off point to talk about your favorite scenes or character, we'd love whatever you have to share.

And if you have multiple things you want to post for each day, by all means, please do! The more, the better!

In addition to new content, we'd encourage you to reblog/retweet/re…bluesky older SPOP content during the celebration week to add to the nostalgia.

Tip: If you've got an idea for a post now, schedule it to post in advance so you don't forget! Tumblr and Twitter (well, on desktop anyway) let you schedule posts in advance natively. The app Buffer even has a free plan that will let you schedule posts on places like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky.

Here are the prompts with some suggestions of how you could interpret each…

Remember / Memory

Past, Present and Future

A Beautiful Wish

You aren't alone.

Imperfection Is Beautiful

Heart

We're Going to Win in the End

Remember / Memory

Could be…

Nostalgia about the show or past fandom moments

Reviving a long dead AU (even if it's not yours!)

Updating a fic or other WIP you haven't touched in a while

Past, Present and Future (This year marks the 40th anniversary of the She-Ra franchise overall!)

Could be…

Celebrate the original She-Ra and how the legacy of the original inspired the reboot

Explore how the character have changed over the course of canon or might change in the future

Talk about SPOP's place in the wider context of children's television or queer media

A Beautiful Wish (This one's on the actual anniversary of the finale release!)

Could be…

A thank you to the cast and crew for this wonderful show

A love letter to the SPOP fandom

An exploration of what the characters want or where they might be in the future

You aren't alone.

Could be…

A collaboration with a fandom buddy

A tribute to your favorite supporting characters

Focusing on friendships and the characters leaning each other

Imperfection Is Beautiful

Could be…

Celebrating three dimensional, flawed characters

Sharing an unfinished fanwork

Giggling over funny screenshots or animation errors

Heart

Could be…

The Heart of Etheria (whatever that phrase means to you)

Focusing on the scenes, ships and characters you love most

Love in all it's many forms both in the show and out of it

We're Going to Win in the End

This last one is all about finding hope in these uncertain times. A reminder that we must be strong, we must be brave, we gotta find every bit of strength that we have and never let it go. It's ending the week with love and determination and looking forward to a better future together.

Please reblog to help us spread the word!