Cimorene

comicon she-ra looks a bit like daryl hannah or something.

the result of sleeping poorly was waking up and having four different dreams--it was really hot in our room last night, and i unwisely took a nap yesterday afternoon, so, you know.

1. i was in a house with a lot of people. who was there? some aunts and cousins. also silviakundera, for some reason, and some people i didn't know, but i knew they were slashers. and also some pirates. but some evil people were coming to get some, but not all of us--the pirates were going to be safe and they were helping me hide, because the other people who were going to be kidnapped (killed?) had already escaped. they told me to hide in the bathtub, and i discovered a secret compartment behind it where the wall opened, and you could crawl under it, but there was blood there. ick.

2. in the second dream, i was she-ra, and we were doing some kind of covert operation to get hordak, but it was in, like, scotland, and hordak was living in a gothic castle. hordak had some affection remaining for me from when he'd raised me (=adora), but was still ultimately evil, and i was somehow helpless. it wasn't clear that he was going to really let me escape. but he gave me some directions. there was someone else there who was really going to kill me if she found me--shadow weaver or catra, maybe?

( the rest of these+2 more dreams )

it occurs to me that this story is going to practically require one.

you can't keep big secrets from your lover. i mean, "the box is your birthday present, but it's a surprise"? yes. "i am actually adora, and i only turn into she-ra occasionally by holding aloft my sword and saying 'for the honor of grayskull, i am she-ra'"? no.

so i think i will format some more persephone to put up, instead. yeah. sounds good.

remember, they're so slashy:

the problem with she-ra slash is that the vibe of the show doesn't go angsty very well, and angst is what i do. it really probably needs to be at least mildly humorous, because it's so campy, even though that is unintentional amusingness. i can do humor i guess. but i wanted to slash she-ra and frosta--and frosta's the ruler of some kingdom, n'est c'pas? she doesn't live with the rebellion. also, she doesn't know who she-ra really is, and it's gotta be distressing for her to have her lover only appearing when everything starts to fall apart.

("she-ra! where's adora?"

"don't worry about adora, she's safe."

"but that's what you said last week!"

"...")

so maybe when she gets horny, adora (her mild-mannered alter-ego) has to change into she-ra. and that begs the question of whether spirit (her horse) has to be there, if she's not going to engage in hero activities, to turn into swiftwind (the winged unicorn)? and does she get to say "for the honor of grayskull" when she holds aloft her sword if she's really changing not for honor but for sex?

(frosta: she-ra! this is a surprise! what's wrong?
she-ra: *purring* i missed you.
frosta: oh, you mean hordak's not up to anything?
she-ra: no.
frosta: *looking around* where's adora?
she-ra: don't worry about adora, she's safe.
frosta: *thinking* i won't if you come over here.)

more visual aids:


she-ra crying (frosta: what is it, my love?)


she-ra and swiftwind (she-ra: hurry, swifty! i haven't seen frosta in weeks!)


frosta is not happy. (frosta: where were you? she-ra: hordak kidnapped glimmer. i'm sorry, love, i came as fast as i could!)