stuff (---), she-ra finale
I finished the show.
I loved it but I feel like I've been lied to yet again.
We were the Best Friend Squad too. We used to tell each other we loved each other and our friendship was the most important thing and it would save us all.
It doesn't happen. We don't say it anymore. Not even the ones who will still talk to me. Nobody but Peggy, really. (OK. give or take a couple, especially that weird frost lizard. <3 )
But still. It doesn't work. Things decay in the real world and that's OK. Why can't we have a show that'll tell us that's OK?
re: stuff (---), she-ra finale
Yeah. I love these crazy kids and I'm very grateful to Noelle for the huge blow she just struck for queer love and hope. And a contented purr from Catra is worth five quadrillion in small unmarked bills. But I also feel like I just drank a gallon of pink sugar water that was labeled as a health potion.
I sure don't feel any different.
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And I didn't get the Best Friend Squad, and I never even got a proper goodbye or chance to say I'm sorry. But I did get three cats, a lizard, a good job, all of you, and very pretty town that only sporadically tries to kill me. And that's OK. I'm going to be OK. Even if I get washed right into the sea tomorrow, it's OK.
re: stuff (---), she-ra finale
Unless I completely fail... and boy do I think I will... Parallax is gonna be something very, very different. Nobody's gonna get their true love. The world won't stop doing what the world does. Flowers won't grow where there's supposed to be stone, plagues won't be cured by crying, and the power of friendship will be about as enduring as it is in the real world, i.e., like a hunk of prettily painted plaster.
And... I say this through tears... it's going to be OK. Everyone's still gonna be OK. The world's gonna be OK. It'll be a happy ending, if you can deal with the fact good things end for good and the bad stuff never actually goes away. But it's gonna be OK.