Follow Your Passion: A Seamless Tumblr Journey
Mermista can’t stand Harley Quinn
Mermista: Ughhh! Can’t you just shut up for a few minutes?!
Harley Quinn: Awww, but why?
Mermista: For one thing, you don’t respect personal boundaries. Secondly, you never seem to think about the consequences of your extreme actions. And finally, your jokes are NOT that funny.
Harley Quinn: (shocked) You… you don’t think I’m… (gets teary-eyed) funny? ;-(
I haven’t seen a lot of crossover fanart of She-Ra and the 2019 version of DCSHG. But I found an opportunity to make a meme out of a screenshot I just took. No offense to any Harley Quinn fans, but I thought this would make for an interesting scenario if she and Mermista ever had an interaction like this.
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power belongs to Noelle/ND Stevenson, Dreamworks, and Netflix
DC Superhero Girls (2019) belongs to Lauren Faust, DC Comics, and Cartoon Network
Reading some of the articles Noelle has shared after the drop of Season 5 really opened my eyes to how difficult it must’ve been to make the show as gay as it was. I thought Dreamworks was just being super cool with everything, but she talked about how she really had to take her time with it; doing her best to be super convincing, being careful in picking the right times/vibe to meet with the execs, and not reveal all of what she wanted to be portrayed on screen all at once. How the catradora endgame she wanted was revealed to the exces later on, and how she broke down and cried when it was approved. It just goes to show what happens when actual LGBT folk run a show – they’ll actually fight for that representation! AND make sure it is good representation!
(I mean, would a cis-hetero have fought/pushed as hard for that rep? Or would they have just shrugged and been like “welp, it is what it is” and moved on? Previous shows have paved the way for She-Ra, but Noelle really pushed and pushed what they could show on screen)
Noelle also did a great job of making the representation feel normal. I’m tired of gay/queer characters having their gayness/queerness be their only defining characteristic/personality or dying off in the end, and She-Ra just set the bar extremely high for every future show.