Temple of Skelegod

(Listed in recommended reading order, not order of publication.)

Secret Origin of Skeletor

The Legend Begins

He-Ro Unleashed

Second Ultimate Battleground - (posted to my side blog by mistake)

He-Man vs. Skeletor FINAL BATTEL!

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Fall of Eternia arc

Homecoming

Trouble With Time Travel (He-Ro & He-Ro II Together Again for the First Time!)

Who else thinks the way “Orko the White” talks to Evil-Lyn in the last episode of Revelation, combined with their earlier conversations and how she reacted to his death, was heavy implied shipping?

“No one is born evil, Lyn! Be good and I’ll be your boyfriend!”

Orko’s age is…weird. Intentionally so. It’s left up to interpretation. Here you’re saying he’s an adult, but in all honesty we don’t know and that’s part of his core character concept.

I’d say this lack of a concrete age for Orko’s character came due to Filmation writers exploiting the fact that there are no age indicators in his design + no age was established early on. In some episodes he’d take on the role of a child character and the ‘older’ characters in the cast acted as his guardians. In others he wouldn’t. This back and forth with the writing created an ambiguity regarding his actual age that’s become a hallmark of the character.

The closest we came to an actual number age was one comic saying that he might be in the hundreds of years old, but that raises more questions than it answers. Given the inhuman lifespan, it’s probably safe to say he at least ages differently (potentially  much slower) than the Eternian characters. For example, he could be in the same age group as Adam or Teela is now, then stay in that age group for decades. And given that he’s a different species, this opens a lot of doors for inhuman life stages that aren’t even covered in the usual ‘hundreds of years old being’ guidebook.

And just from my standpoint, I feel like if one is to definitively say ‘he’s an adult of x age’, it’s not an accurate interpretation character because it gets rid of of the big things that makes him Orko. There’s supposed to be some mystery there and getting rid of that for the purpose of shipping just…makes him less interesting. Oddly enough, because Dre-elle is another member of his species, it keeps the unclear age intact because we can assume the same rules, whatever they are, apply to her as well.

And while it is a common trope to have child or teenage heroes, since Orko’s age is ambiguous, I just assumed he was a grown-up doing grown-up things and fighting grown-up battles. Adjusting to life on Eternia where his magic does not work right was just another grown-up issue for him to tackle.

But, I also recognize that this headcanon of mine comes from 200X and we are talking about Revelation here.

Rev is kind of annoying because Orko’s magical mishaps are not because of factors outside of his control (Trollan magic not working right on Eternia) like in previous canons. Revelation makes no mention one way or another how magic on Eternia differs from magic on Trolla. But, Rev does go out of its way to tell us that Orko has always been an accident prone sorcerer and that he was so bad his family was ashamed of him. (Which pisses me off, btw, but that’s a different post).

But don't worry! Because they'll tell you they were only protesting there because an IDF War Criminal (a.k.a. a completely normal former IDF soldier who they made up horrible shit up about) was invited to a talk at the community center. The talk that, by the way, took place 3 hours after school ended and parents arrived to pick up their terrified kids, which is when they decided to protest!

Jewish children who every single day have to pass through intense security, and get to play outside surrounded by a tall, concrete spiked wall, cameras, security personell and frequently also police cars.

This happens to be the location of Stockholm's only kosher store, the Jewish library, and the home of the orthodox and reform congregations.

Not to be outdone, they were also taking pictures of anyone seen entering the community center, and trying to identify them in their psycho groupchats to target them for harassment. Again, regardless of whether they were going to the talk, or going grocery-shopping, going to the library, or whatever. Just anyone participating in Jewish life in Stockholm.

And! When someone in the government (i.m.o. correctly) called these people "animals" for this disgusting behaviour, the leader of Sweden's biggest party decided that this was the Problematic thing that had to be called out and debated on national television; the only antisemitic thing that actually happened here was someone calling the protestors "animals" for targeting Jewish children, because the protestors also happened to be be jewish (secular antizionist jews who never partake in any aspect of public jewish life, and therefore never have to worry about this shit in the first place).

In short: ANU's interim vice-chancellor has apologised for the institution's failure to protect the psychological safety of Jewish students and staff during pro-Palestinian encampments in 2024. The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion hearings in Melbourne are focused on the experiences of Jewish staff and students at universities and the institutions' responses. Earlier, ANU's top academic was asked about a student who was asked to produce a death certificate for relatives killed in Gaza to receive an assessment extension.

Masters of the Universe Classics-Line mini-comics [MASTERPOST]

(Listed in recommended reading order, not order of publication.)

Secret Origin of Skeletor

The Legend Begins

He-Ro Unleashed

Second Ultimate Battleground - (posted to my side blog by mistake)

He-Man vs. Skeletor FINAL BATTEL!

--

Fall of Eternia arc

Homecoming

Trouble With Time Travel (He-Ro & He-Ro II Together Again for the First Time!)

“All magical girls are clumsy and personality-less”

…and it’s honestly the best of all the modern adaptations.

Have this bonus moment of Stinkor being a good friend to Tri-Klops in the episode that we didn’t catch during the liveblog. I showed this to my bro and got this commentary:

This is why we like Stinkor

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

Malkyn (Skeleteen) and Nyx.

Based on NYC ballet production of Midsummer Night's Dream