#Summer SPOPtacular

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Area queen was just gonna close her eyes for a minute, forgot that's how naps get ya.

For the Summer SPOPtactular prompt, Lazy Day.

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Something for this week’s Summer SPOPtacular prompt: Retro Fashion!

And it’s obviously Castaspella because I am me

With the outfit idea provided by the amazing @tippenfunkaport

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She-Ra | Red Creme Fizz II: Subtext

SPOP Creative Flex Summer SPOPtacular | prompt: Mermaid

The nascent Princess Alliance is off to Salineas to recruit Princess Mermista, fight the Horde, and save the world - in that order. Catra and Adora start to face some of what their upbringing has made them, and reforge their bond stronger and healthier. But when Catra figures out who a certain mermaid following them really is, she finds herself having to play diplomat and find out if the Alliance is doomed before it begins, and if Glimmer is right about what can save Etheria.

I'm going to hit all the prompts with this series, and all of them will have red creme fizz (red cream soda!) in them. For better or for worse! This is the second story in the series and the first of the series actually filling a prompt!

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castaspella & Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra), Castaspella/Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) Characters: Castaspella (She-Ra), Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) Additional Tags: with voice apparitions of, glimmer - Freeform, Angella - Freeform, Modern Setting, Alternate Universe, Canon Species, no magic tho, Shenanigans, Snowed In, Snowed In Prompt, Summer SPOPtacular, alternate prompt, kinda cozy, Domestic, kinda fluffy too, Mild Hurt/Comfort, this is just some funny silly one-shot, it’s winter here so instead of a summer prompt I’m doing an alternative, it unfortunately doesn’t snow here hence me exploring this scenario, I know it’s long for just a “funny silly one-shot”, but I have a problem ok?, it’s called “I can’t write funny silly SHORT stuff”, and you may not even find this funny or silly at all, no I’m not crying Summary:

After a long day out at the ski lodge where they work at, Castaspella and Shadow Weaver are finally finishing their shift. It’s probably their favourite time of the day since neither has to speak, only tidy everything up and leave without so much as a “goodbye”. Yet, this time… they find themselves stuck. As a snowstorm rages on, the women are forced to spend the night at the lodge, perhaps longer, meaning they’ll have to interact. It will be quite awkward sometimes, funny, intense, and they might learn more about the other than expected… but perhaps it’s not a bad thing after all…

» —You are… » —Perfectly well aware that I should eat dinner now, not this— Shadow Weaver interrupted. —But that won’t stop me, because I don’t care— she concluded, opening the chocolate bar.

Plus a little drawing I quickly did of one of the last scenes...

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The SPOP Creative Flex is doing a Summer SPOPtacular, and this weeks theme was mermaids/pirates. I had a couple of ideas for what I wanted to do but eventually settled on doing a Seamista Little Mermaid AU! This is actually my first time creating content with this couple at the center, and I’m pleased with how it turned out! More importantly, I’m pleased that I didn’t give up and kept working at it even when I felt like I wasn’t good enough, because the only way to get better at something is to practice!

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For the Summer SPOPtactular prompt 🎆 Fireworks 🎇

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Tonight's drawing brought to you by the Big Budget Blockbuster prompt from the Summer SPOPtactular event.

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I'm not really happy with this drawing, but we're almost out of MerMay and I wanted to get this up while I was thinking about it. Plus we're running a Summer SPOPtacular event in the Flex server and I wanted to post this for the Mermaids and Pirates prompt for this week at the same time.

(I was drawing Sea Hawk too for this AU, but I couldn't make his body proportions make sense so I gave up on him)

Mermaid Assassin Mermista

I've been thinking about this Seamista AU where Sea Hawk is a mermaid hunter, capturing them for the highest bidder. He's unnaturally good at this because, he doesn't realize he's basically a reverse siren and his singing attracts mermaid. He's responsible for hundreds of mermaids in captivity or worse. When he discovers his unfair advantage, he's horrified and guilty and wants to stop, but gets basically trapped into one last deal to settle his debts.

Meanwhile the mermaid council have decided they need to take this guy out and they send Mermista, their fiercest assassin. She figures this clown will be incredibly easy eliminate and she can finally prove herself to her father, the king, but, turns out, Sea Hawk is surprisingly competent when he needs to be. And meanwhile Sea Hawk realizes who she is and that the daughter of the mermaid King would more than settle his debts if he can capture her. 

So they cat and mouse around each other, both hunting the other and of course they develop begrudging respect for each other's skills and start to like each other despite it all etc etc you know how romance stories work.

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For the Retro Fashion prompt for the Summer SPOPtactular, I had it in my head to do Glimmer in a vintage bathing suit pin-up style and then decided to do Bow too, for equality.

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She-Ra | Red Creme Fizz III: Not a Princess Like Them

Prompt: Retro Fashion

Scorpia isn't a Princess, just like them, but she's going to Princess Prom anyway - to ruin it for everyone. She hates doing it. And maybe herself, just a little. Face to face with who Adora and Catra have become outside the Horde and kindness from an inventor from the Whispering Woods, she might just find herself witness to the future of Etheria - and find her place in it.

Summer SPOPtacular and the third Red Creme Fizz! story - finally! I hope the next one won't take as long?

(Catra In a Suit being a canonical tag is very important. For reasons.)

This story was originally supposed to be called 'the Horde Whisperer.' That didn't happen.

Originally, this was supposed to be a light-hearted romp wherein Bow teased Scorpia into dancing with Perfuma and got her to join the Rebellion.

I couldn't write it. Days of fighting it. So I wrote a Catradora prom scene to loosen up my creativity, and - well, now we have this.

I am, apparently, constitutionally incapable of not writing epic, dramatic moments if I write in a setting long enough.

Bow still got his moment, thought, and if you've read Defiance, you know how I feel about Scorpia.

So. There we have it. The next one is already in process.

As always, thank you to my readers and commenters. Your give me life!