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Hello friends
Ik for a fact that catra holds a grudge lol
Hope u love it!
Also on bsky🦋(same user)

Depending on the context, Catra's smirks can be either cute and very alluring.

Scary and intense.

Or very cool.

"Hey, Adora."

Catra. (My girl crush)

Adora. (Also, my girl crush)

The dynamic between Catra and Adora.

The "Roll With It" episode.

Seeing Glimmer being an adorable cinnamon who can most definitely kill you if she wanted to.

Bow being best boy.

Mermista being a huge, relatable mood.

MELOG!!! BECAUSE THEY'RE SO CUTE!!!

Frosta being Toph, but with ice powers.

Scorpia being...well, Scorpia.

The "Princess Prom" episode.

Seeing my favorite three female leads (Adora, Glimmer, and Catra respectively), and my Top 3 favorite SPoP characters just being themselves.

Queer Romance.

Dramedy.

The "Shot in the Dark" episode.

Tiny Bow dying for like, the umpteenth time.

Nearly everyone being obsessed with Catra in the "Roll With I"t episode, even though Catra herself isn't actually in that episode.

"Hey, Catra."

Appreciating the SPoP voice cast (Aimee Carrero, AJ Michalka, Marcus Scribner, Karen Fukuhara, Lauren Ash, Christine Woods, Reshma Shetty, Vella Lovell, Jordan Fisher, Lorraine Toussaint, Keston John, Genesis Rodriguez, Grey Delisle, and many more.).

I just realised that not only Baker and Madame Razz are both voiced by Grey DeLisle but also that Jordan Fisher (the VA of Sea Hawk) voiced Soda Pop and both Lonnie and Busgirl share a voice actor, Dana Davis, too!

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I love nearly every character from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

But there was something about Catra that made me fall in love with her character.

Maybe is was because of her cool cat-like design.

Maybe it was because of her heterochromic eyes; one blue and the other yellow, which looks like blue and yellow sapphires.

Maybe it was because of her wild and bushy brown hair; long or short. Which is similar to my dark brown 4C hair that's currently very short and shaved on the sides and back.

Maybe is was because her main colors are red, maroon, and black, which are on my my favorite characters.

Maybe is was because of her snazzy outfits.

Maybe is was because of her rebellious, tough, outspoken, blunt, sassy, clever, snarky, competitive, witty, ambitious, driven, no-nonsense, fierce, spunky, and feisty personality.

Maybe it was because of the way she fights with no powers or tech. Just her skills in hand-to-hand combat, weaponry, sheer spit, manipulation tactics, high intelligence, cunning, and play chess with her opponents are playing with checkers.

Maybe it was because personality wise, Catra reminds me so much of Megara from Hercules, Cassandra from Tangled: The Series, Sunset Shimmer from the Equestria Girls franchise, Nebula from the MCU, Ziva David from NCIS, Amanda Rollins and Kat Tamin from Law and Order: SVU, Elle Greenway and Emily Prentiss from Criminal Minds, Aisha and Musa from Winx Club, Prue and Phoebe from Charmed, and Arcee from Transformers Prime.

Or maybe is was because of her raspy, authoritative, smooth, velvetly, sultry, and soothing voice; courtesy of the amazing AJ Michalka.

Which yes, I love Catra for all of those!

The real reason why I love Catra as a character is because I relate to her in a way.

As a young mixed black woman who's currently in my early 20s, I've always struggled a lot.

With my loving, yet complex and somewhat toxic relationship with my mom.

To making bad decisions and mistakes nearly every day.

To my mom (who was born in the 70s and was raised in the hood of Chicago through her childhood) often mentioning my past wrongdoings and mistakes during my teen years and now.

Even comparing me to others such as my older brother, trash male celebrities, other mental disabled individuals who act more childish, are immature, obnoxious, are not very bright, and loud, a Decepticon at one point.

My mom often calling me selfish, disrespectful, difficult to live with, defiant, lazy, says that I'm "dangerous" and "unstable" if do don't take my medication like I'm supposed to.

On top of that, I'm neurodivergent who's also diagnosed with Anxiety, Bipolar, Depression, and I recently discovered that also I have RSD (Rejection Sensory Dysphoria) through the Internet.

So yeah, I've been dealing with my own metal health issues since I was a kid.

Plus, I have abandonment issues.

The people in my life that I know and care for either left me for their understandle reasons, or haven't communicated with me for months such as my Dad, whom I'm very close it.

I'm not a very social person, but I have a longing for wanting a close friends that's able my age.

But I'm scared of socializing and opening my heart because of four personal reasons;

1. I'll be misunderstood, and I'll be unfairly and harshly judge.

2. Other won't be on my level of maturity and high emotional intelligence.

3. They won't like the real me. They'll only like the surface level.

4. They'll leave me, just like nearly every one else in my life did."

To me, it's better to put up a smart-alleck, aloof, snarky, sassy, mature, cold, and emotionally detached front as a shield than to let other people in so I won't get hurt again.

So whenever Catra makes bad decisions, or says something hurtful, I understand and don't hate her for any of those things, because because I've been there and done that.

It's what makes Catra feal so real, flawed, human, relatable, and 3rd dimensional.

I'm so glad that I got to watch the entire SPoP series when I was about 18 or 19 years old back in 2022 when it was still on Netflix years ago at the time before it way removed this year on February 21st in 2026.

At that time, I rediscovered and rewatched other female lead and female empowering media such as The Legend of Korra, Charmed, the two Charlie's Angels from the 2000s, Disney Princess movies, Mysticons, Cleopatra in Space, and 2015 DC Super Hero Girls.

I got into SPoP because of Kenny and Montana from their Letts React channel on YouTube.

They reacted to analyze other animated shows such as Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.

And they did reaction videos to all of the episodes of SPoP in chronological order, and analyzed it and understood its characters.

What really motivated me into binge-watching SPoP was seeing Montana simping for and having the hots for Catra, and it made me go like, "If that brunette Catgirl is really that attractive and alluring, then I gotta watch that show independently and by myself".

And guess what?

I'm addicted to SPoP, and it's one of my favorite comfort shows along with Charmed, The Legend of Korra, Criminal Minds, TMNT 2003, the 2003 Teen Titans series, NCIS, the Justice League animated series, and Justice League Unlimited.

Oh, and I currently have the biggest girl crushes on both Catra and Adora respectively!

What can I say?

I love those two beautiful, complex, feisty, and badass ladies!

It's so cute and funny.

Especially with this exchange between Catra and Bow;

Bow: "Aww. That's your sneeze?"

Catra: "What?"

Bow: "It's just so...cute!"

Catra: "It's a normal sneeze!"

Bow: "I can't believe the whole time you were trying to kill us, you had the cutest sneeze of all time!"

Catra: "I AM NOT CUTE!"

Bow: "The angrier you get, the cuter you are!"

And that scene is from season 5 episode 8 "Shot in the Dark", one of my favorite episodes from SPoP!

Marcus Scribner and AJ Michalka as Bow and Catra respectively have great platonic chemistry and get comedic timing.

Also, Bow represents the SPoP fandom, myself included, in that scene when it comes to our love for Catra.

I also think that Bow did that just to tease Catra.

XD!