The She-Ra Netflix reboot will be leaving streaming in February, due to the exclusivity contract with DreamWorks expiring, and I just want to take a moment to talk about how much I fucking hate Noelle Stevenson - sorry, I mean “ND” because that’s the name she goes by now that she’s a he/they.
And it’s not because I hate her work. Actually, I loved She-Ra. I loved Nimona and Lumberjanes. Noelle and I actually used to be tumblr mutuals a long time ago, back when she was still in art school. Then she made those doodles of the LOTR characters as hipsters and her popularity exploded soon after. I’ve been following her career since. It was so cool to see a female creator with her own (for the time) unique style, making stories about different types of female characters that you didn’t usually see (again, at the time). And it was cool to see one of my peers rise up from posting tumblr fanart to being a showrunner of their own.
So when she pooned out, it hurt in a way that it didn’t when it was some random. Because if you read that comic she made about her gender identity (it’s somewhere in this thread I think), it’s so obviously the result of her overthinking and being around a crowd of other genderspecials and wanting to fit in. Just…HOW can you make SO MANY stories of women and girls who don’t fit into a typical feminine mold, and then conclude that you yourself aren’t female, because you don’t fit that mold yourself. It felt like a betrayal. Like everything she wrote in her stories was a lie. Actually, girls, it’s NOT ok to be a tomboyish, grungy, not interested in makeup or fashion, or a lesbian! You’re actually a man instead! It’s so foolish and short-sighted. A great example of how the cult operates and completely changes a person’s brain.
Ugh. Fuck her, honestly. I’m glad She-Ra is getting pulled and I hope it never gets a DVD release.