#Catradora high school au

[oshmosis]

[aure-magik-art]

Spoptober but make it December day 6

[rarijackistheshit]

Why, hello there! I just updated one of my stories on archive of our own and noticed something pretty neat.

1000 comments... Damn. Sure, we are up at 162 chapters and counting... but still! That IS pretty neat.

I wouldn't mind a few more of cource... *hint hint*

And the second latest, with NEW ART!

[lisra-writes]

Chapters: 4/10 Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Adora/Catra (She-Ra), Adora & Catra (She-Ra), Bow/Glimmer (She-Ra) Characters: Adora (She-Ra), Catra (She-Ra), Glimmer (She-Ra), Spinnerella (She-Ra), Netossa (She-Ra), Bow (She-Ra), Bow's Fathers (She-Ra), Light Hope (She-Ra) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Manga & Anime, Affectionate Insults, Getting Together, Canon Lesbian Character, POV Catra (She-Ra), POV Adora (She-Ra), Fluff, Light Angst, Idiots in Love, Slice of Life, Jock Adora (She-Ra), Adora Has Issues (She-Ra), Soft Catra (She-Ra), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Catgirl Catra (She-Ra), Falling In Love, Autistic Adora (She-Ra), Non-Graphic Violence, catra has a loving mom, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting Series: Part 1 of Discord Prompts Summary:

Catra is the new catgirl in school. Making friends is difficult if you have heterochromia, are shy and have sharp claws. On her way to school she meets a girl in kendo gear practising by herself. What do you think happens next?

OR

The High School Anime Au that *some* have asked for.

[baggebythesea]

I once had a AU where Adora was raised by Shadow Weaver to be a mean girl highschool AU

Then Adora meets Catra

Adora uses her mean girl skills to turn on Shadow Weaver and gets bad girl girlfriend

Even better Adora enjoyed being a mean girl anyway and Catra doesn't mind so Adora got to stay a mean girl and no more Shadow Weaver

YAY

Happy ending :-)

[aprillikesthings]

#I'm cackling over that last line#i know its a placeholder#but i can hear Glimmer trying to justify herself to her mom over something#“Ok yeah something something weed but it wasn't you know BAD bad like something something LSD or anything” (via @foolforshera

LOLOL

okay if I was planning to have a scene where Glimmer gets caught, I'd absolutely steal that, because that's totally how Glimmer would justify herself

IN OTHER NEWS I only have like one scene left and this chapter is finally dONE OH MY GOD IT'S BEEN MONTHS

but the scene I have left is, in fact, Adora Tries Weed, unless I move it to later in the timeline, which I'm tempted to do just because then this chapter only needs another editing pass and it's done aaaaahhh

ALSO WHILE I'M HERE one of the last times I worked on this one I'd written Catra thinking back to one of her and Adora's sleepovers during which she'd Realized Some Things and then basically engaged in multiple paragraphs of self-loathing, but it threw off the pacing (and was just. depressing.), and I think I managed to split it up in a way that works?

Also also, writing internalized homophobia (on top of already-existing low self-esteem) sucks? I'm writing things that make me want to reach through the screen and give her a hug!! Like baby, no. :( Poor thing.

This chapter also includes Adora going on a date with a boy...and thinking of Catra multiple times. Hah. (no, they do not kiss; I thought about it but I just don't want to write it tbh)

-finally open my fic doc to maybe think about writing in it

-spot this:

pfft

[circlique]

I’m a firm believer that on any catradora AU, Catra must remain a cat girl. To un-cat the girl for a high school AU removes the sheer hilarity of there being a cat girl in attendance and everyone just accepting it as normal.

[n7punk]

Pairings: Adora/Catra (Catradora). Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018). Series: Sapphic September 2024 @sapphic-september

Rating: T. Chapters: 4/4. Words: 10k.

Summary: Ever since Catra joined Adora’s class she has been obsessed with the other girl. She’s basically the class weirdo, but she’s somehow still so charming and seemingly beloved in a way Catra has never managed to be. Maybe Adora can teach her how not to get bullied if she can get away with talking to herself in public and still have friends, but there are a lot of little things that add up and make Catra suspicious of how many people know Adora at all. She’s trying to be the first. (Or, definitely just a high school AU and nothing else)

[uniasus]

I have faced in, a life wasted by Catrasredemption

fic rec! Shera Modern AU. 41K Catradora

Summary: Catra ran away from home, from her best friend and from her mistakes after a drunken car accident nearly killed her and Adora.

It takes three more years and a mental breakdown for Catra to finally get her life together and to a place that's good and healthy. She's happy, and accepted that Adora will never be part of her life again. She's made peace with the past.

At least until the past comes back to bite her.

Comments: This is an amazing fic. The set up is that suddenly all her old high school friends start following Catra's dog, and when they figure out who owns the account things happen.

What I loved about this fic was Catra having to relearn people. It's been a long time since her messed up high school life - since she drunkingly drove a car into a pole and hurt Adora and Lonnie. But she's made a ton of improvement and it's nice to see her defending her character growth. She knows she's messed up, but she's different. Get used to it or get out.

And her relationship with Adora is on pin and needles for awhile - they both had damage from the accident. But it turns out what really killed their relationship was Glimmar, and that was a messy situation done really well in this fic.

There's light hurt comfort here, and a bit of angst, but there's also a ton of support and I'm gonna go read the other 40+ fic this author has now because I'm sure they're all fabulous.

[oshmosis]

[thornsamigurumi]

spop saturday

been busy, back for spop saturday :)

What're the most creative or high concept fics or AUs you've ever seen in this fandom? heres some of what i consider the most creative :)

just one sweet kiss on your clay-cold lips by kurt_angles_tailbone -

In the Northern Reach, monsters infected by Entrapta’s disk emerge from the quarry and destroy the Horde base. Catra is separated from the rest and subsequently finds herself stranded in a blizzard with a drunk Adora in her care. (Season 2 White Out canon divergence) - lovecraftian monsters meet catradora

worms by @notahumanweirdo -

‘Catra… would you still love me if I was a worm?’

‘Duhhh. Would you love me still, if you were a worm?’

‘I-’

‘You’d have your own worm friends. Your worm job, and worm house. Would there… would there still be room for me?’ - love this, worm adora going on her adventure to find worm catra!

grace and favour by @jezmatronwrites -

Adora has gone, vanished from Heaven. Catra's getting over it, slowly. It's been over a century, after all. She is content to oversee her little corner of Paradise - monitoring and dealing with the minor issues of occult incursion on earth. That is, until reports of a major demon on earth cause worries among Heaven's bureaucracy. Catra decides to take the lead, if only to get away from the monotony.

It's been a while since she visited Earth - what surprises will be in store for her? What nefarious plans does this demon have? And will Bow ever stop trying to make other people fall in love? - one of my all time favorites, i think its time to reread it :)

again, from the top by sleepymaddy - catra and glimmer find themselves trapped in a time loop and have to work together to break out of it. it goes about as well as one might expect. - catra and glimmer in a time loop, shenanigans for days :)

as many lives as it takes ( be with you) by @n7punk - When Catra is eleven, she finds out there’s truth in the myth that cats have nine lives. When she is twelve, she finds out her unnatural life has consequences, and at fourteen she struggles to hide the effects that build with each accident. At sixteen she falls in front of the entire school. That’s the death where she is finally forced to run before they realize something is wrong with her and put her in a lab or something. She never would have expected herself to willingly be sitting in one six years later as one of her new best friends – the ones who picked her up after she had to leave the girl she loved and herself behind – runs test after test trying to find out why she’s like this. At twenty-two she finds the love of her life again. When she touches her, she blacks out. - turns out, 9 lives can suck, love this more every time i read it :)

[ari-kari]

Chicken

Winter, 1996. It’s the semester before graduation, and Adora is bonding over drinks with a few soccer teammates. Out of nowhere, one of them brings up a game that Adora’s never heard of before - “gay chicken.”

Naturally, Adora has questions.

(Catradora Modern AU, 18+ high school setting. Falling in love in the 90s. One shot. Explicit)

Friends With Benefits

Catra has been struggling in the lowest rungs of the Vegas cocktail scene for about a year when she comes across an interesting offer online - $100 to get fed on by a vampire. Sure, Catra’s never actually met a vampire before, let alone gotten her blood drawn by one. But she’s done worse things for less money, and shifts at the casino are drying up fast. Why not let some Craigslist rando suck on her neck for a few minutes?

As it turns out, there are quite a few answers to that question. They’re just not the ones Catra was expecting.

(Big Bang longfic in progress. Catradora Modern Vampire AU. Smut heavy, but fluff coming soon 💕)

Option Two

There are many ways to seize control of a human mind. Hate, envy, thwarted desire - all are powerful tools, and all have been wielded by Light Hope to great effect in the past.

But not this time. This time, Light Hope chooses differently.

(Catradora canon-divergent AU - alternate “Promise” fic. Angst with a happy ending. Non-explicit. Not actually centered on Light Hope she’s barely even in it 💀)

Pinned

Catra flees through the Whispering Woods. Adora chases after her. And instead of grabbing her by the wrists in their final encounter, Adora pushes Catra a bit further.

Things diverge quickly from there.

(Catradora canon-divergent oneshot set immediately following their confrontation in the Whispering Woods. Fluff, angst, and boatloads of sex. Explicit)

Shift

As the war reaches its final days, Catra and Adora struggle to define the boundaries of their newly-restored relationship.

(Catradora missing scene - prefinale. Spiritual successor to “Don’t Go” by annacharlier. One shot)

Vague Notions

When Adora’s lifelong battle with anxiety tips from “manageable” to completely out of control, she winds up in the last place she ever expected; a mental health treatment center, smack dab in the middle of nowhere. And she’s far from the only client here in desperate need of assistance.

(Catradora AU with full ensemble cast. Journal format from Adora’s POV. Very long fic, but worth it. Explicit.)

Wanting

The war is over. Horde Prime’s death has ushered in an era of unprecedented peace in Etheria, with She-Ra and the Alliance at its helm. And against all odds, Adora has feelings for Catra - loves her, even. Catra’s never had more to be grateful for in her life.

Somehow, it’s still not enough.

(Catradora post-canon. Very fluffy “first time” fic. One shot. Explicit.)

Next on the docket: Big Bang 2024, Despara Au, Interdimensional AU longfic.

Thanks for reading ❤️

[cinderella-ish]

Fic Reading Bingo: Blackout!

I finished with a blackout!

Okay, two caveats:

I've been dealing with the logout issue recently, so as I've been going back to make sure I've commented and left kudos on everything, I haven't been able to do so for every fic. I will keep at it until I get them all, though!

I'm actually still reading my fic of choice for "vampire AU" but I'm going to include it anyway because I'm pretty sure I'll be reading straight through to the end as soon as I'm done writing this post. (It's really good, y'all.)

This summer, I read 70 fics in 2 languages, 11 different fandoms, and by 67 authors, and that's an undercount, because A) 3 of those "fics" are actually entire series, and B) I read countless oneshots from OnigiriCat4Ever's various collections, but it was hard to figure out which ones I read this summer just by going through my history. I also found 2 new-to-me favorite authors (AO3: AveSolace and ohmygodwhy) and wrote or started 10 of my own fics while continuing my 2 WIPs.

I filled most of the squares without trying, just by doing my usual reading (okay, a bit more than my usual, since I don't work summers). Some were outside my comfort zone, like Omegaverse, or hard to find, like a fic with multiple authors. I probably still won't seek out Omegaverse in the future, but I don't think I'll avoid it, either. I enjoyed the fic I read, and I did mark a couple of others for later.

I very much avoided crossovers before this summer, but the one I read for this was beyond delightful, I marked several more for later, and I started writing two of my own!

Additionally, I met my goal of using only fics I love to fill out this card! I moved some around since last time to fill different squares, and swapped a couple out so I could let a few more fics shine. I'm sure you'll be seeing most of these in my next fic recs post!

List below the cut! Fandoms included are as follows:

Astra Lost in Space

Fruits Basket

The Hunger Games

JuJutsu Kaisen

Ouran High School Host Club

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Spy X Family

Crossover | of cats and curses, by faerialchemist Fruits Basket & She-Ra and the Princesses of Power | Tohru/Kyo, Adora/Catra | 6666 words Catradora meets Kyoru. As you might expect, chaos ensues.

Small Fandom | a piece of the sky, by evitably Astra Lost in Space | Luca/Ulgar | 2840 words Every person has a place they can claim as their own. Ulgar's happens to be another person.

Oldest Fic | Loophole, by Geoduck Fruits Basket | Gen | 463 Words Kyo has lost the bet. Akito demands that Kyo meet the terms of the agreement. There's only one teensy-weensy, itsy-bitsy problem...

Whump | End of the Banquet, by AveSolace Fruits Basket | Tohru/Kyo, Machi/Yuki | 55,197 words* (WIP) All the geopolitical tension in East Asia has come to a head. China has invaded Taiwan, and Japan is immediately drawn into the conflict. The Sohmas' lives are thrown into chaos, even as the Zodiac curse remains unbroken.

Character Study | 5 Times Shigure Claimed to be Selfish + 1 Time He Admitted the Truth, by TolkienScholar23 Fruits Basket | Gen | 1838 words* (WIP) Shigure insists he's the worst kind of man, and most people don't question him… and yet, somehow, his younger cousins tend to find themselves on his doorstep every time they're in trouble.

Rarepair | Setting Sail, Coming Home, by redelric Fruits Basket | Momiji/Kimi | 11,673 words Momiji claims his stake in his father’s business. Kimi is his secretary.

Multiple Authors | About Midnight, by CSHfic, VSfic Spy x Family | Loid/Yor | 2222 words The Forgers are invited to a party on New Year's Eve.

Magic | bone-white, soaked through, by chuuyasoup JuJutsu Kaisen | Geto/Gojo | 5166 words Satoru does not survive his fight with Toji. He doesn't stay dead, either.

Canon Compliant | Fourth Trimester, by AveSolace Fruits Basket | Gen | 6741 words Four and a half vignettes about the Zodiacs as newborns.

Omegaverse | Made Together, by Moonstorm69 Fruits Basket | Machi/Yuki | 13,121 words Yuki, a Beta, has spent most of his life hating his secondary gender. Yet when Machi enters her rut for the first time, Yuki is the perfect man to help his anxious, terrified girlfriend through this, if only she'd let him in…

Secret Relationship | All That, by himawaribees (series) JuJutsu Kaisen | Megumi/Yuji | 80,776 words* (WIP) Fushiguro Megumi and Itadori Yuuji first meet at a frat party and proceed to have lots and lots of sex.

Secret Identity | The Cost for Silence, by AveSolace Fruits Basket | Tohru/Kyo, Machi/Yuki | 56,711 words Someone has an axe to grind with the Sohmas, and they've managed to find the perfect piece of blackmail to use against them. And this person is willing to keep the incriminating evidence to themselves--for a price.

Free Space | an inch away (from more than just friends), by ohmygodwhy Fruits Basket | Kakeru/Yuki | 12,034 words Six years after high school graduation, Tohru and Kyo finally get married. Kakeru tags along as Yuki's plus-one. Reunions, bonding, and eye-opening revelations ensue.

Short Fic | La fièvre de Tohru (Fr)/Tohru's Fever (En) by Soffya Fruits Basket | Tohru/Kyo | 576 words (Fr)/588 words (En) Kyo took off his shoes, the house seemed empty. He went up when he heard a noise. Apparently, he was not alone in the house. Someone was coughing.

Take Your Fandom to Work | My Brother, by OnigiriCat4Ever Fruits Basket | Gen | 58,867 words Momiji has made a new life for himself in Germany. He has a job he enjoys, a boyfriend he loves, and a life that makes him happier than he'd felt in a very long time. It wasn't perfect, but it was happy, and he was satisfied…until Momo asked if they could talk.

Old Favorite | inertia, by miss_coverly (series) Fruits Basket | Tohru/Kyo | 59,032 words Kyoru Friends With Benefits AU

Unfinished/Work in Progress | desiderium, by tessohma Fruits Basket | Kakeru/Yuki | 22,502 words* (WIP) Yukeru Friends With Benefits AU

BIPOC Main Character | reaching across years, by ohmygodwhy Fruits Basket | Gen | 4559 words Shigure asked Ayame to collect some of Yuki’s things. Ayame said: okay. I’ll do it. I’ll do it tomorrow, in fact. 

Vampire AU | Bloodlust, by Aa_chanFan Fruits Basket | Tohru/Akito | 13,852 words* (WIP) Girl meets beautiful stranger, beautiful stranger turns out to be a vampire. Yet Tohru Honda is not as easy prey as she seems…

5+ Year Old Fic | Due Diligence, by galaxysoup Ouran High School Host Club | Gen | 1841 words Kyoya goes to Haruhi for parenting advice.

Under the Influence | Think we kissed, but I forgot, by cold_flame Fruits Basket | Kakeru/Kyo | 38,163 words Kakeru and Kyo meet at a party. Things escalate quickly.

Future AU | The miner's wife, by MockingJayFlyingFree The Hunger Games | Katniss/Peeta | 142,741 words In an alternate universe in which Prim was never reaped, Katniss married Gale at the age of 18, and Peeta Mellark became the lone victor of the 74th Hunger Games. What happens when their paths cross for the first time since that fateful incident with the bread?

Unhappy/Bittersweet Ending | In a Year or So Fruits Basket | Akito/Kureno | 3786 words A bleak look at Akito and Kureno’s relationship.

Ghosts | Magic, by alchemicink Fruits Basket | Tohru/Kyo | 1867 words Kyo helps Tohru get ready for Halloween

Soulmates | our dreams are not our own, by AnxietyAvocado Fruits Basket | Tohru/Kyo | 1460 words they say that your dreams are your soulmate's memories

@ficreadingchallenge

[lisra-writes]

Chapters: 5/10 Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Adora/Catra (She-Ra), Adora & Catra (She-Ra), Bow/Glimmer (She-Ra) Characters: Adora (She-Ra), Catra (She-Ra), Glimmer (She-Ra), Spinnerella (She-Ra), Netossa (She-Ra), Bow (She-Ra), Bow's Fathers (She-Ra), Light Hope (She-Ra) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Manga & Anime, Affectionate Insults, Getting Together, Canon Lesbian Character, POV Catra (She-Ra), POV Adora (She-Ra), Fluff, Light Angst, Idiots in Love, Slice of Life, Jock Adora (She-Ra), Adora Has Issues (She-Ra), Soft Catra (She-Ra), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Catgirl Catra (She-Ra), Falling In Love, Autistic Adora (She-Ra), Non-Graphic Violence, catra has a loving mom, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Lesbian Disaster Catra (She-Ra), Lesbian Disaster Adora (She-Ra) Series: Part 1 of Discord Prompts Summary:

IT’S CHAPTER FIVE TIME. THEY HAVE A CONVERSATION.

[mell0bee]

YESSSSSSSSS WRITING TAG TIMEEEEE EHEHHEHEHEHHEHEEEE

1, 5, 12, 16, 19, and 20

P.S: check more of your asks!!!! >:3

YIPEEE thanks kiki sorry it took me a bit to do this

1- the last sentence you wrote

“Oh my god, her voice must have risen like, three octaves when you smiled at her. “

some luz dialogue from luz & hunter’s guide, talking about willow to hunter, lmao

5- first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unfinished wip

“The gods of the pantheon seem to have their doubts, not seeing the greatness his uncle does in him.”

wow i had to pull this one from the VAULTS. i don’t actually have any current wip drafts (just a ton of loosely planned ideas) so this one is from like 2022. it’s an owl house mythology au loosely based off of hades (the video game) in which the golden guard gets reincarnated over and over and tries to escape. i like the concept but have no idea what the plot would be so on the shelf it will sit until i figure that out

12- a trope you’re really into right now

hmmmm not really a fanfic trope but ive been thinking a lot about crouching moron, hidden badass. specifically the variant where a character is deliberately hiding how badass they actually are by acting like a moron, at least partially. invoking this trope is like, how to make that character my favorite character 101.

as for fanfic tropes. uh. a favorite of mine that never gets old is childhood friends to enemies to friends to lovers. so many of the ships that have been giving me brain worms throughout the last 5 or so years fall in this category. *cough* sashanne *cough* narumitsu *cough COUGH* catradora. it’s the layer of being previously childhood friends and having that past pure and unconditional friendship. and then having that all torn apart and then rebuilt again. S-tier drama.

16- favorite place to write

99% of my writing is done in my bed bc im paranoid that if i wrote at my desk my parents would be able to see because they tend to randomly barge into my room. when im at college i tend to write a lot less but at least i can do it at my desk lmao

19- the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

for ‘the girl, the cat, and the black hole calamity’ i went down quite the rabbit hole of archaic and modern physics concepts like entropy, black holes & atomic decay. it was very fun and absolutely none of it ended up in the fic because i was like. why would 13yo anne care about this nerdy physics stuff lmao

i also have researched a lot (A LOT) of archetypal literature, historical figures, jungian psych, & various myths (specifically irish myth) which is on paper for the persona 5 swap au fic that im never gonna write buuuuut mostly was out of my own curiosity. when i was first learning how to write i read up on archetypical literature and campbell and stuff quite a bit so it was very fun to revisit. also this swap au lives in my brain rent-free. it would theoretically be a longfic covering the events of the entire game but i can’t do that. but im gonna have to do SOMETHING with it considering the sheer amount of effort ive put into the planning and reworking all of the main cast’s personas to the point where im pretty sure ive put more thought into my picks than the original p5 writers lmao

20- in what year did you publish your first fic?

cannot be bothered to find the exact year but i know i was 13 so probably 2016 or 2017. yknow what’s funny is i spent most of middle and high school thinking that when i got to college i’d stop writing fic and doing fandom stuff in general and yet here i am, going into my senior year of college, still on the same fandom clownery that i was 8 years ago. lmao.