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unityrain24 · 6 months

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ok people here's my essay. (also note that this was for my english class so it is written in a different style than i usually would. it had to be all formal and grammatically correct and such)

2212 words, analytical essay

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: A Queer Allegory for Religious Trauma

ND Stevenson’s She-Ra and The Princesses of Power is an animated Netflix original series rebooting the classic 80s show Shera: Princess of Power. This time, however, the show is chalk-full of diversity, varied body types, queer representation, pleasing colour palettes, and a friends-to-enemies-to-lovers lesbian romance. The first four seasons follow Adora (aka She-Ra) and the princesses of Etheria’s fight against the Evil Horde, using their magic to try bringing peace and justice to the planet. A portal is opened at the end of the fourth season, however, bringing the planet of Etheria out of the isolated dimension of Despondos. No longer separated from the rest of the universe, Horde Prime arrives at Etheria- not only bringing higher stakes than any season preceding it, but an entirely new layer of symbolism to the series. The final season was a clear allegory for religious trauma, an especially relevant topic for the show’s majorly queer audience.

When his armada arrives at Etheria, Horde Prime sends his army of clones and robots down to take the planet by force. Unlike the Evil Horde that had been trying to take the planet before Prime’s arrival, who were disorganized, messy, and industrial, everything under Prime is sleek, elegant, efficient, and most importantly: white. Horde Prime’s ships are white, Horde Prime’s robots are white. Horde Prime’s skin is white, his hair is white, his clothes are white, as are all his clones. Pure, unblemished white, with only sparing accents of grey or green.

In colour theory, white has a few meanings. The colour can represent purity, cleanliness, innocence, and even righteousness. This colour theory is heavily incorporated into biblical verses, metaphors, and artwork (and some might even argue that our modern idea of white comes from the Bible). In art, God and angels are almost always depicted wearing white, as is Jesus in his resurrection. Halos of white or light yellow are shown adorning holy figures' heads. Several bible verses use white robes or other white objects as a metaphor of the wearer’s purity. White is still used in several Christian rituals/customs today, such as weddings, baptisms, and more. White is one of (if not the) most important colour in Christian lore. Even in instances where pure white isn’t used, there is a clear correlation between light versus dark and good versus evil.

White has more than one meaning, however- on the opposite side of the coin, white can also represent coldness, blankness, emptiness, and loneliness. The most interesting thing about the show’s use of white is that it encapsulates both facets of its representation. Horde Prime uses white to represent his purity and perfection, but to the people of the colourful, messy world Etheria, this is a cold, eerie colour. As are Horde Prime’s ideals. His perfection and purity is synonymous to coldness. The white represents both- not only simultaneously, but as the same thing.

Horde Prime’s empire being entirely white is no coincidence- neither in-story by Prime, nor in real life by the writers. Horde prime uses white to represent everything he stands for, and the writers use white to represent everything Christianity stands for.

Horde Prime is a being that has lived an amount of lifetimes beyond comprehension- every time his body starts to grow old and fail, he selects a new clone of his to insert his memory and very essence into. So even though he has a new body, he is still him. And the reason for this? To fulfill his self imposed purpose of bringing peace and perfection to the universe. To thousands of planets he has been, one at a time, to reach this. Horde Prime believes there is only one right way to do things, and that humanity cannot be trusted to govern themselves.

Every planet he takes goes the same: he arrives with his ships, and slowly implants chips into the neck of each and every being on a planet. These chips take away the autonomy of the host, and they are left blank. No personality, no choices, no person. All their actions are perfectly automated and controlled by a hive mind, and Horde Prime can take specific control of and see through the eyes of any individual at any given time. With Horde Prime in control, there is no war, no famine, no pain. There is only peace, perfection, and purity. And anyone who does not conform, does not accept his gracious rule, are dealt with accordingly. Entire planets have been left desolate and barren, entire peoples subjected to genocide for not accepting Horde Prime. All dead in the name of peace.

These ideals upheld by Horde Prime are strikingly similar to Christianity. Perfection and purity are two of the main ideals of Christianity, in hand with righteousness. Christians strive to “be like Jesus,” to be their idea of a good person, to be loyal to their religion, and to make it into Heaven. Several rituals to “repent” exist when they feel they have not upheld these standards correctly- including prayer, confessionals, sacrament, and baptism. Even though true perfection, purity, and righteousness are typically seen as unattainable to everyone but the Godhead, it is common belief that constant trying will at least get you as close to it as possible. Conformity is another key aspect of Christianity, though it is not advertised, and to the exact extent it is upheld depends on the sect. In general, though, Christianity pressures every one of its followers (and even those who aren’t) to behave a certain way, to think a certain way, and to only associate with others among themselves.

Horde Prime’s way of upholding these ideals isn’t dissimilar to Christianity’s either. Much like Horde Prime’s Galactic Empire, Christianity has had a long history of forced assimilation. From the Spanish conquistadors to the pilgrims and other colonial settlers of North America, death and pain has come in the wake of the spread of Christianity for hundreds of years, amongst various sects of the religion. Native peoples have been murdered for their loyalty to their “savage” non-Christian ways, land has been stolen, and indigenous religions and other important cultural traditions have been changed past recognition or completely erased, all in the name of “saving,” all in the name of “love,” all in the name of “what’s right,” all in the name of God. Christianity is the only right way, Horde Prime is the only right way.

Its likeness to Christianization isn’t the only resemblance Horde Prime’s ways share with Christianity, however. When Horde Prime arrives at Etheria, three people are brought aboard his ship- Queen Glimmer, one of the Etherian rebels that had been fighting against the Evil Horde (and now the Galactic Empire), Catra, a high-ranking member of the Evil Horde that had been taking over Etheria before the Galactic Empire arrived (but is in love with Adora, who is one of the rebels), and Hordak, the leader of the Evil Horde. Hordak was a clone of Horde Prime’s that had been stranded on Etheria, which was in an isolated dimension. He spent his time in isolation trying to take the planet so that if he was ever reunited with Horde Prime, he would be seen as “worthy”. Horde Prime, however, is displeased by Hordak’s actions- claiming that Hordak was trying to take the planet for selfish reasons rather than for Horde Prime, and for giving himself a name. As such, Hordak must be “purified.”

In this purification process, Hordak’s mind is wiped, and he begs for forgiveness and to complete the process. He is then dressed in white and walks into a circular pool with liquid that reaches his waist. The liquid is electrified for several moments, and his screams can be heard, and then it stops. He is left blank, and Horde Prime and the other clones watching praise him for being the purest among them. Later, Catra is subjected to the same process against her will, and is now a mindless servant of Horde Prime as well. This process is almost identical to the Christian concept of Baptism. While exactly how baptism is carried out varies between sects (full submersion under water versus just a sprinkling, infant versus child, etc), the purpose remains the same- to purify past sins.

A more abstract similarity between Horde Prime’s empire and Christianity is the use of titles. Prime’s clones refer to each other as “brother” (and to Catra as “sister,” once she has been “purified”), and Horde Prime as “big brother.” Not all sects of Christianity use such titles to refer to each other, but some do; notably Catholic nuns or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). But even those sects who do not refer to each other as brother and sister often view Jesus as their “older brother” and God as their “heavenly father.”

Horde Prime himself has many more titles than simply “brother” or Emperor of the Galactic Horde, however. Other titles given to him include Ruler of the Known Universe, Regent of the Seven Skies, He Who Brings the Day and the Night, Revered one of the Shining galaxies, and Promised one of a Thousand Suns. In Christianity, Jesus also is referred to by many names. The Saviour, the Redeemer, the Son of God, the Son of Man, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Prince of Peace, the Lamb of God, and several more. In addition to titles, some of the phrases in general used by Christians and the Galactic Empire are common. Both use the word “rejoice” when telling of their faith. Amongst Christians, “glory to God in the highest” and “[God] is the same yesterday, today, and forever” are not uncommon phrases. “Glory be to Horde Prime” is a common phrase expressed by the clones, and even more so, the infamous mantra “Horde Prime sees all, Horde Prime knows all” repeated so many times throughout the season.

The titles used for each other perpetuate a feeling of conformity and a feeling of “otherness” concerning those who do not conform. The titles used for their leaders perpetuate subservience, power imbalances, respect, and devotion. The phrases used in relation to their leaders perpetuate devotion and omnipotence. These are true of both Horde Prime’s Galactic Empire and Christianity.

Horde Prime was a genuinely disturbing villain who represented every painful thing Christianity is made of- toxic perfectionism and purity, conformity, obedience, control, and omnipotence. Loss of expression and individuality. The fear of being constantly watched. These are things that anyone with religious trauma may deal with, but it’s especially true of queer people. Queer people have had a long history of oppression at the hand of Christianity (and colonialism in general). From outright murder to conversion therapy and other abuses, from abandonment to dismissal, Christianity has perpetuated all of it for centuries. And it’s still something that happens today.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has a majorly queer audience, due to both the creative process of the show and the representation within the series itself. Not only is the creator of the series (ND Stevenson) queer, but so was practically every character- whether they were a main character, side character, or background character with only a few seconds of screen time. One of the main plots of the show is the complicated lesbian romance between Adora and Catra. As such, the series attracted a good number of queer fans, and religious trauma (or at the very least, religious fear) is a topic that hits uncomfortably close for many.

Other pieces of media that incorporate religious imagery have a tendency to be unclear about how it is framed. Is the imagery shown to be wrong and the victim is right and prevails? Is the imagery shown to be right, and the pained victim in terrified denial? Is the imagery shown to be truly wrong but inevitably triumphant anyways, no matter what the victim tries? It is so muddy in so many pieces of media. The important thing about the fifth season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power was how it was framed. Perhaps it was because it was a kids show, or perhaps it was the queer creators’ spirit and defiance, but the series was clear in their framing of Horde Prime. The perfect white make the audience uneasy. Horde Prime’s retelling of his victories fill the audience with dread and then hollowness. The “baptisms” of Hordak and Catra are disturbing. Every aspect of Horde Prime and everything he stood for was presented as wrong. Without any doubt.

And even more importantly, the people of Etheria were able to prevail. She-Ra and the other princesses were able to defeat Horde Prime and his empire, and free those forced into subservience by his chips. Catra (and Hordak) were saved. The ships were destroyed. The people of Etheria were allowed to be free and express themselves and be people. This message was something very important to the queer audience. Not only was the fifth season an expression of queer pain, but an expression of queer hope. Neither thing should be ignored. Pain is valid. Hope is needed. To be healthy, both need to be recognized. To have a series that expressed both, and in such a queer way, was extremely important to so many people.

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daffodil-of-the-storm · 4 months

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The Emperor's Love - watercolour ink, watercolour, alcohol markers, and pigment ink on paper.

. . . He Weaves, He Makes, He Gives, He Takes.

He Reigns, He Conducts, The Grandest Orchestra of All, That of Perfectly Crafted Dolls.

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I have but a little poem this time, so here is an abstract from a song that I love, it is from Black Math, the song is called Sirens:

"How open is Your empty space I’m moving in We’ll see the end of something unfamiliar I saw your hand You took awhile The cold was crisp I thought your warmth Would break the silence But all I hear are sirens

You take me Far, I’m far from safety Lines where you try to chase me On hollow ground I’m navigating this mystery While I follow you into your history"

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Link to the song under the cut:

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#Horde Prime #Horde Clones #Horde Clone OC #Little Brothers of Prime #Galactic Horde #Horde Prime Clones #Little Brother the Companion #Daffodils and the Music of the Spheres #Little Brother Daffodil - Post-Silence #Spop #Spop 2018 #She-Ra and the Princesses of Power #She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 2018 #Spacebats

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kuurankaiho · 3 months

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Continuing my collab with the awesome Draculadana on IG. Original post here. (In spite of some similarities, this does not pertain to my Galactic Horde/Light-Bringer AU.)

Horde Prime has summoned his second-in-command Hordak and Hordak’s two Generals to send legions of clones into space conquest. Armored and armed, he will oversee the brethren upon the battlefield. Two attendants are accompanying him everywhere, ready to serve refreshments. They’re however a little surprised at his vehemence. Hordak cannot contain his eagerness to prove himself as a powerful leader and warrior to Prime.

The setting is a (different) Galactic Horde AU before Hordak’s banishment. Prime’s costume and some of the motifs were inspired by Thranduil and LOTR’s elvish designs. Hordak’s armor was adapted from some of my older drawings. Further inspiration has been gained from Masters of the Universe, especially Hordak’s earlier incarnations. We gave him a tech-saber as a symbol of the highest rank to distinguish him from the Generals. Equally their armor and taard s will bear different hues, once colored.

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#hordak #horde prime #spop #she ra and the princesses of power #motu #horde clones #spacebats #masters of the universe #galactic horde

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skipppppy · 6 months

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CRINGETOBER DAY 27: BABYGIRL POSE

uhhh he was gonna show up at some point. i’m the horde prime girlblogger. this was a rite of passage

#cringetober 2023 #babygirl pose #horde prime #spop #she ra and the princesses of power #the galactic horde #horde clones #cringetober day 27

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askvectorprime · 1 month

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Dear, Vector Prime.

You have not updated the site for a long time. What happened to you?

Dear Update Uncertain,

Fear not, nothing has happened to me! I have just been somewhat preoccupied with my duties as Guardian of Space and Time. The Shroud placed over the multiverse by my brother has lifted in places, and interdimensional travel is once more becoming something of a common occurrence. My work is never finished.

It seems that the legacy of Nexus Prime may soon be undone altogether: as worlds and creatures collide, Transformers from many different universes are being united in conflict with one another. It is my responsibility to smooth over discontinuities wherever they arise, and monitor the evolution of each timeline as the key players vanish. Furthermore, it seems that many entities from the wider megaverse have begun to bridge the divide to our local realities. Where they encounter my kind, these liaisons are usually collaborative in nature… but one particularly-devastating incursion has had grave repercussions for multiple universes, and I have been devoting a great deal of attention to the interdimensional relief effort. Also, I was recently invited by Safeguard and Bud to join them on a special episode of their podcast—I don't normally listen to podcasts, but when they asked my help in tracking down a counterfactual final season of Galactic Guardians, from an alternate timeline where it wasn't prematurely canceled… well, as you might gather, I'm never one to refuse a call for aid!

All of this is to express my deepest regret that I haven't had much time for correspondence lately. It breaks my heart that I cannot answer all of your questions, but rest assured, I read every one, and will answer as many as I can before my obligations draw me away once more. If my absence leads you to worry that I have suffered some terrible fate, then fret not… I'll always return to you before too long.

Has news of these developments in the multiverse reached you by other means? Are there any particular individuals whose whereabouts you wish to enquire after? Ask away, and I shall try to put your mind at ease!

#ask vector prime #transformers #maccadam #vector prime #legacy #shroud #nexus prime #multiverse #megaverse #safeguard #bud hansen #galactic guardians

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driftwoodthrone · 1 year

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The overarching arc of Picard/Crusher's unresolved tension being the current cause of destabilizing Starfleet? Making their breakup everyone's problem. Inconique tbqh.

#star trek picard #picard x crusher #the space opera of it all #rawdogging on casperia prime had galactic consequences i fear

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the-entire-cast-needs-therapy · 10 months

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The Galactic Horde Gender Post

So, for reasons (the reasons are this post), I got thinking about whether or not clones have a concept of transphobia, or gender at all for that matter. So, I’m gonna do a whole lot of rampant speculation and headcanon in the blanks to try to answer these questions. First off:

How do clones think about gender?

Honestly, I have no idea. But as far as I can tell, Horde Prime is a man. And his clones, made in his image, are also men- or at least intended to be. All the clones we meet use he/him and refer to each other as brothers. Of course, Wrong Hordak also refers to the people on Darla as “brothers”, even though almost all of them are women. But Catra’s “little sister” moniker indicates that Prime does understand that there are other genders, and that certain terminology indicates gender.

I would guess that the clones call people what Prime tells them to call people, and if given no instruction from the top, just use “brother”. Basically, the answer to “how do clones think about gender” is “they don’t”. They just do what they’re told.

Clone transphobia

So, to be clear, This Is Not The Transphobia You Know. Clones are operating with a different framework. As far as they’re concerned, outsiders can do whatever they want with their gender because outsiders are sinful freaks regardless. Inside the hive mind is a different story.

All this to say, I think yes, they would think any clone that turned out to be trans would be evil and sinful and disgusting, but not for the reasons people hold those beliefs on Earth.

So, as mentioned above, clones are made in Prime’s image. And they’re punished when they deviate from that image- conformity is the name of the game. If a clone was like “hey, I’m a girl, actually”, that is a punishable sin- not because men can’t be women, but because clones can’t be anything other than what Prime wants them to be. Prime made them all identical for a reason, he does not want variety among the clones. A clone that stands out is sinful, defective. A change in pronouns or presentation is a threat, not because of gender role bullshit, but because Prime hates individuality and all of those things are an expression of identity.

Oh, and another common trans thing, giving yourself a name? We all know how Prime feels about that. This is another thing that would differ from good old fashioned Earth Transphobia- clones wouldn’t be called the name they want, but they also wouldn’t get deadnamed, because they do not have given names. The clone equivalent to deadnaming someone would be to just continue acting as if they don’t have a name.

It’s less that the Galactic Horde hates trans people specifically and more that it hates any kind of nonconformity. But that hatred of nonconformity would manifest in behavior recognizable as transphobic.

#spop #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra #galactic horde #horde prime #headcanons #wrong hordak

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geekgirles · 1 year

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Hot take

Ben 10 Omniverse should have dedicated at least a full season to exploring the different universes and timelines where the Omnitrix users introduced in And Then There Was None come from. If not outright dedicating a full season to each character with Ben and Rook's adventures in the multiverse being the show's actual plot.

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carcrash-ventass · 10 months

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#nemesis #nemesis prime #resident evil #fire emblem #transformers #deep rock galactic #drg #burgoid

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cirusthecitrus · 3 months

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A lil collection of Prime memes from the pits of my google drive lol

#spop #horde prime #spop shitpost #horde clones #shera #the galactic horde #spacebats #my art #cirus doodles things #some of these are ooold i literally have no memory of making them

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sablegear0 · 1 year

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Kinda fucked up stuff nobody talks about in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

1) Dark Samus is capable of individual spaceflight. This is implied in the bonus end cutscene of Echoes, but confirmed in the Pirate Data in Corruption. At one point she leaves the Pirate battleship Colossus and just... goes to Phaaze? On her own? The log mentions she is gone for a long time, but AU 242 states that Phaaze is too far away for even conventional warp travel - this implies Dark Samus is also capable of either a HUGE warp factor (unlikely) or can create similar, but probably much smaller-scale wormholes to the Leviathans (more likely, but still very scary).

1a) Dark Samus’s psionic influence is strong enough to reach out to Samus all the way from the Pirate Homeworld (where she appears emerging from stasis in the very first intro cutscene) even before Samus is corrupted. There’s loose implication throughout the series that Samus is psionic-sensitive but not really capable of communication on her own, but we get confirmation that Dark Samus becomes a (powerful) telepath in the Pirate Data in Corruption.

2) The Galactic Federation are extracting fuel gel from Bryyo in the midst of an ongoing tribal war. A huge philosophical and societal schism tore Bryyo apart, literally and figuratively - the Lords of Science and Primalists battled for control of the planet and their war scorched the environment, leaving only a small habitable band around the equator. And the GF are just casually extracting resources from this planet, which nominally is still home to a population of sentients. According to the Bryyo Data logs, by the present time the Primalists have become “as savage as the predator beasts of the wild” but they’re obviously still capable of organization and tool use so they’re not animals. And this has been going on for a while, Federation data notes that Bryyo was discovered about a decade ago. It’s possible they made some initial efforts to keep peace and broker the establishment of their extraction sites, but no such negotiations or any relationship between the Reptilicus and the Federation are discussed in any scans as far as I can find.

3) Samus missed direct contact with the Elysians, a mechanical race created by the Chozo, by two weeks. Some quick math yields that the Federation came to Elysia about 15 years ago and brokered peace with the Elysian mechanoids, and Elysian logs mention watching the Phazon Crisis in real time: seeing a Leviathan strike a planet (either Urtraghus or Aether, probably the former) about 5 months before the game’s events, another leviathan striking their own planet only a month before, and a specific callout to the two week period after impact before Ghor appeared and was subsequently corrupted. The logs are written by an Elysian who has accepted their destruction either by phazon corruption or at the hands of the Pirates. We don’t know if there are any surviving Elysians still in stasis.

4) There are, according to scans and one of the Metroid Prime 3 promo trailers, thousands of Aurora Units in existence, all produced within the last 20 years. The highest number mentioned in canon is in Corruption, AU 486, which is credited with terraforming the planet Norion; an incredible technological undertaking. (Given that there are so many but we only have numbers up to the 400s, it’s possible that the more “civilian” units, those mentioned to be in government and business, might have a separate numbering scheme, or go by other names/designations.) AUs are huge and hyperintelligent synthetic organisms, but we don’t know what they’re grown from, or where, or how they are instructed and socialized. It’s also loosely implied (at least to my reading, and by several close associations with the Chozo-made Mother Brain) that the Aurora network hinges on their psionic as well as digital capabilities, hence 313′s ability to interface with Phaaze with minimal additional hardware.

4a) Assuming the Aurora network became corrupted remotely, this implies that the “virulent strain of phazon” that is responsible can be transmitted digitally, or possibly manifested psionically, in a target. Essentially, being in network-contact with AU 313 may have caused other Auroras to essentially psychosomatically infect themselves, with no transfer of actual physical phazon material.

#sable has a take #sable talks about games #metroid #metroid series #metroid prime corruption #dark samus #repcilicus #galactic federation #aurora units #samus aran #skytown #elysia #links in post

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