spindizzy | Reaction Shot: She-Ra episode 8 (or, MY GAY STYLE ICONS OMG OMG OMG)

Apparently this is the episode that Lex has been waiting for me to get to, so I'm cautiously intrigued. Or worried. Or both.
She's been invited to the All-Princess Ball! Despite not being a princess! (No, wait, being a princess is catching.)
They are so hype! Why do they only hold it once every ten years though?! (Is it because of the drama? It's because of the drama, isn't it.) Also, if every princess is going to be there... Why did you not just wait to ask everyone at the party? Or is there a "no politics at the party" rule?
THAT INVITE IS LONGER THAN THE LIST OF THINGS THAT MARK SHEPPARD'S BEEN IN. THIS IS GOING TO GO SO BADLY.
OH NO. Bow's going as someone else's plus one, how dare! (I'm pretty sure that's how friendship drama goes, right?)
Catra is plotting to overthrow IT'S MY GIRL!!! I FOUND OUT WHY LEX WANTED ME TO WATCH THIS EPISODE AND IT'S BECAUSE MY GIRL IS IN IT! HIIIII SCORPIA! (He saw me typing this and wanted me to know that it GETS BETTER and I don't know how because IT'S GOT MY TWO FAVOURITE GIRLS IN IT.
Scorpia is so hyped about hanging out in Catra's room, and Catra's just like "STOP BEING SO YOU AND HELP ME THINK."
SCORPIA IS A PRINCESS?!?!?!?!?! SHE IS THE MOST FLAWLESS ENTITY ON THIS SHOW.
"I'm sure it's covered in Force Captain Orientation." "I'm starting to think that I shouldn't have skipped that."
Okay yes, she is apparently from a family that capitulated to the Horde without a fight and used to wig out the other princesses somehow (is it the claws? It's the claws, isn't it.), but SHE IS STILL PERFECT TO ME.
CATRA AND SCORPIA ARE THE BEST. THEY ARE GOING TO THE BALL TOGETHER.
(Also I really want Scorpia to have her own best friend that became a sword lady, okay.)
Awww, Glimmer is worried about things changing! (I guess that makes sense when your mum is an immortal queen.)
Of COURSE Adora approaches memorising rules and who who people are like it's a military mission. OF COURSE. Also was there a princess there called Sweet Bee and if so is she fangirlpod's official Princess mascot?
"You know what theis means?" "That clothes aren't important and I should just keep studying?"
CATRA IS WEARING A SNAZZY SUIT AND FINGERLESS GLOVES AND AN UNDONE BOW-TIE!!!!!!
SCORPIA IS A BEAUTIFUL BUTCH GOTH LOLI WHO CAN SOMEHOW GET A BOLERO OVER HER CLAWS!!!!
Lex is laughing because this was the bit he was waiting for me to get to and HE WAS RIGHT, I LOVE IT, THIS IS SO GOOD AND SO PURE.
BOW, COVER YOUR MIDRIFF.
Oh wow, I'm so, so gay. LOOK AT SCORPIA! LOOK AT CATRA! LOOK AT THEM BEING THE BEAUTIFUL HIGH FEMME/SOFT BUTCH PAIR TOGETHER!!!
Seriously, Scorpia is going to be my style icon when I grow up, I just need to get buff first.
Awww, look at Perfuma and Bow giving each other accessories, that's so cute!
And look at Adora and Glimmer's beautiful dresses!
... But seriously I am ALL IN on Scorpia and Catra, I'm doomed, this is terrible, I love it.
Adora being scared to leave the sword with people is #OnBrand.
ADORA SHE CAN PROBABLY HEAR YOU POINTING OUT THAT SHE'S LIKE TEN.
"I'm eleven and three-quarters."
Frosta is SO DONE with everything. Her and Mermista would probably get on great if they weren't both too cool for like, everything.
"Are you here to watch the social experiment too?" That's peak Entrapta, good work.
Glimmer, honey, he's allowed to do things with other people too...
Mermista: "Hey, I'm here too, don't make a big thing over it." !!!!! INTERNALLY MAKES A BIG THING OVER IT
MERMISTA'S FACE IS THE EXACT ONE I MADE. GO AWAY SEA HAWK.
... SERIOUSLY THOUGH MERMISTA, WHY DID YOU BRING HIM, WAS HE YOUR RIDE OR SOMETHING?!
OH. he's just there because she needed a ride, it makes perfect sense.
Glimmer it is painful to watch you be like this. On the plus side, at least she seems to KNOW she's being a weirdo about it?
GLIMMER STOP BEING A WEIRDO.
Frosta is such a brat. SUCH a brat. But respect to Adora putting herself on Frosta's eye-level.
Thank you for asking why Glimmer is being so weird!
SCORPIA AND CATRA ARE HERE AND THEY LOOK GREAT!
I like the artistic choice of making everyone else at the party a cool palette and and all of the main characters a warm one, that's reall cool!
Glimmer "forgiving" Bow is making me shriek internally because GLIMMER, THAT WAS NOT THE AWARENESS OF YOUR WEIRDNESS THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.
But yes, Bow is being sensible and wanting to hang out with ALL OF HIS FRIENDS TOGETHER, and I think pointing out that Glimmer's fear of change isn't his fault is fair?
I TOLD YOU TO COVER YOUR MIDRIFF BOW, COME ON.
"She stole my snacks and asked me to spy on people with her. Is this what love feels like?" Catra you magnificent git.
THIS EPISODE IS SURE ABOUT CATRA MAKING ADORA FEEL CRAZY BY NOT DOING ANYTHING.
BOW, OH NO.
Catra and Adora dancing together is the best thing, and the fact that Adora has three separate conversations going on in varying levels of "Oh no, oh no," is great.
I LOVE CATRA THOUGH. "I didn't do anything. Scorpia, Kyle, and Lonnie, on the other hand..." BECAUSE SHE KNOWS ADORA. THIS LITERALLY ONLY WORKED BECAUSE SHE KNEW ADORA.
Ten year old with phenomenal cosmic powers? Excellent.
CATRA NO!
... OMG OMG OMG ADORA SAVING CATRA.
"I can get us out of this." "Oh Adora, I don't want you to."
LOOK I'M JUST REALLY GAY, OKAY, I AM WEAK AND THIS SHOW IS GOING HARD ON THE THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY.