#catradora

[allshitsangiggles]

Omfg I can’t 😭😭😭 I love this

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

[spanishspatula]

Catradora yey!!

[dallasurr]

my stomach’s all in knots, you’ve got the one thing that i want

[n1-adora-fan]

As much as I wished I lived in a world where a lesbian kiss would save the universe from fascism, I do live in a world where a story with that plot point was created, given the budget (by large corporations no less!) to be executed fully, and reached a sizable audience which I think is cool

[manic-sapphic]

i'd say this is the last time i'll ever mention the jump in save the cat.. but i think we'd both know i was lying.

cause i know the first time i ranted on it my focus was on how heart-wrenching it is to think adora jumped without any idea or awareness quite yet of the fact that transforming without the sword was not only possible - but would actually conjure her true she-ra form, one far more seemingly invincible, able to innately wield her magic and abilities, displaying prowess and powers she had never before reached after all her training with light hope.

and how that meant she jumped just cause she couldn't stand the thought of catra dying down there alone, and even though it meant she might end up dying down there with her, one way or another, at least catra wouldn't have to face the end on her own.

but then i was making an amv using these scenes for literally prob like the 30th time lol annnd then the thought hit me - she had to have known there was a good chance catra wouldn't have survived the fall at all. and with the bottom cloaked in shadows, there was no way for her to know how far she, adora, would fall herself if she were to jump. so her own survival of even just the impact without her she-ra form was no guarantee, either.

but she still goes after her. she takes that risk. cause she can't just leave catra in the dark.

never could

never really meant to

never will again

and catra? ends up doing the same for adora. over and over. i'd add more examples but i hit my gif limit lol

<3

[yittzael]

I know, I know!!! Sorry; I know Catra is more into suits than dresses, but I wanted to draw her in my own style using some of these dresses...

I feel like she looks sexy. 🗣️🗣️ I drew these when I was in high school, that's why there are a lot of mistakes, sorry!!!

[livingdoll13]

this is actually so so fucking true and i cannot believe that it’s literally like fucking six years later and STILL people are saying the same silly shit about catra being primarily a sub.

and catra doesn’t just want adora’s love: she wants to be equal to adora. she wants adora to value her. that’s a major fucking piece of her character.

this post just sums up all my thoughts perfectly <3

Catradora are both tops and Catra is a dom, change my mind

(Actually, don’t change my mind. I’m not writing this to cause drama, I’m writing this because Catradora sexual discourse is frustrating me and I want basically a masterpost to link back to whenever I need to explain my apparently controversial views on this shit. Hopefully some other people will also find that it speaks to/for them and be able to use it for the same purpose. Please don’t troll me, I’m but a simple girl who needs to be understood. I am, however, totally open to respectful debate. :)

Okay, I’d like to take some time here to follow up on my previous posts about how Catra and Adora are both vers-tops and Catra is so not a sub. I feel a little silly writing a long meta about the sexual dynamics of a femslash ship in a cartoon aimed at kids and teens, but there’s reason for it. For some reason, lots of fics write one or both of them in ways that feel extremely out of character, perhaps to make them fit the mold for a particular kink or sexual trope. And people will write what “works” for them ugh, and I’m not kinkshaming on principle, but some of it feels extremely disrespectful to the characters. Particularly Catra, given her backstory and struggles so far in the series, and I find this rather troubling.

And unfortunately, some of these things that are written to fit some sexual trope have ended up entering the more general discourse and morphing the fanon interpretation of the characters into something urecognizable, something that would make the canon characters mad if they read it. That’s another big reason why I’m bothering to write all this.

Let’s start with a clarification: when I said Catradora are both tops, I meant they would fight each other for control of an encounter and that’s totally fine and we don’t need to make hard statements about who is the top because it comes naturally to both of them. But I didn’t mean they would necessarily want control for the same reasons or that they are interchangeable in the sack. IMO, Catra is a dominant vers-top and Adora is the definition of a service top (but also versatile if that’s what works for her partner). These may be unpopular opinions (honestly why?), but I am fully prepared to back them up. *cracks knuckles*

I’m going to explain my biggest point first and then put a bunch of additional thoughts under the cut. That point being we need to consider Catra and Adora’s relationships with power.

Here’s the thing. For Catra, power is safety, power is an accomplishment she is proud of. She has fought/longed her whole life to be taken seriously. She has always felt disrespected and like she lacked agency (both of which are true, actually), so feeling respected and in control is very important to her.

This is especially true of her relationship with Adora, as she feels like Adora has been controlling her for most of their lives and doesn’t respect her. She resents that Adora has been in the “power position” for ages and is actively trying to change that.

Didn’t anybody else see how she got off on those guards standing at attention as she walked by in 2x01, and how tickled she was standing on top of Dryl in 2x02, overlooking her troops taking it over? Catra gets off on power, why would she not also literally get off on it?

To Catra, giving up power would feel like a failure.

For Adora, power is a burden. Yes she is an absolute control freak, but that’s because she feels like she needs to control everything because if anything goes wrong it’s all her fault. Shadow Weaver instilled this idea in her when she was very young, the way she was groomed to be a leader in the Horde reinforced it, and now being She-Ra has made that feeling inescapable for her.

I’ve seen people use the “person who has a lot of power irl wants to give it up in the sack” concept to explain why they see Catra as a sub, but imo it works way better for Adora because she has always been saddled with power, even when she didn’t want it. I will get into this more under the cut, but we have seen Adora resenting and struggling with all her responsibilities on multiple occasions.

To Adora, giving up power would feel like a relief (once she got past the mental block of needing to control everything).

(This isn’t all to say that Catra would be running shit 100% of this time, I do actually think both are somewhat versatile in terms of top/bottom and dom/sub classification. I’m just making a hard case in this direction because I think they lean this way and because so many people seem weirdly convinced that Adora would 100% dominate Catra all the time and it’s weird and a little offensive.)

Now, let’s move on to my additional thoughts! The tl;dr of it all is: brattiness =/= submissiveness (quite the opposite, in fact), why the hell would an abuse survivor want to relive her trauma, this master/pet nonsense is racist af, Adora is not a starfish wtf, and Adora is a good little soldier who likes following orders.

(Plus new bonus content: Catra’s love and protection of Adora signals she’s a top, not just a dom.)

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[rinniiart]

Star-gay-zing in Whispers of the Forest AU.

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[thesamecatradoraeveryday]

[aprillikesthings]

I just imagine Catra looking at her in that outfit and thinking: that outfit is so unattractive. And yet. Adora is still super hot.

It turns out that Adora is not wearing clothes that are like Horde uniforms—for three years and five seasons, she's been wearing the same set of clothes that she ran away from the Horde wearing (they get magically cleaned every time she transforms into She Ra).

Catra finds out and is like "this is obscene" and drags her to the Brightmoon tailors

Adora keeps trying to go for clothes that look like military uniforms and Catra keeps asking her "is this what you actually want? Is this what would make you happy?"

Adora is so unused to that question that it takes her like three hours to finally realize she's allowed to be comfortable in her clothes and that's how she figures out she fucking loves flowy dresses

[6ey6ish]

when my ships match but so far, only one of them managed to undoom themselves gahshsjsjbs

[lumitradora]

i'm not sure what it is about these two "final" looks that gives off the same energy to me... maybe it's the established parallels between jinx & catra (traumatized angry BPD teen girls who lash out via committing war crimes against their oppressors since childhood), or perhaps it's literally just these two yellow icons (by okteavia & sailorsmoon respectively), but regardless they just feel authentic and i can't explain why.

actually, scratch that, i know exactly what it is! jinx was colored on with creativity that reflects her relationships to vi/isha/ekko, and catra wears adora's wing pin with a matching jacket to display the eloping to her wife. in both cases, it's a celebration of love + connection!

[foolforshera]

Well, look at that. A new fic!

*****

Catra held still, wondering where this was all going, as Lonnie pulled something up on her data pad and then turned it so she was sure Catra couldn't see the screen.

"So, what's the big deal?" Catra said.

"We found something about you."

Catra wasn't sure what Lonnie could have possibly have found that could have been worse then what was publicly known. After the war, there'd been lots of investigations and such to make sure that people got the help they needed and atoned for the damage they'd done. Catra had originally been shielded from that but had insisted on her turn when it became obvious that Adora was shielding her. It'd been one of their only really ugly fights after they'd got together but it'd worked out in the end.

"OK, so what's the big deal?" Catra said. "I can't think of anything that'd be so much more awful then what's known."

"It's… shit," Lonnie said as she shifted a little on the bench. "It's not that. It's your personnel record. It didn't really record anything until you were almost a teenager. We found the rest hidden in Shadow Weaver's room and… I… just look I guess."

Lonnie held her data pad out but Catra leaned back like she was being offered rotted meat.

"What is it?"

"It's your mother."

Read the rest at AO3!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63184246/chapters/161824219

[token-spop]

Omg Bow and Glimmer’s different hairstyles!!!!!!! SO CUTE!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!

When I saw these two image bases side by side, I knew I had to do both sets of the greatest childhood friends to lovers of all time

[sapphicides]

if you say you like “toxic yuri” but you can’t even handle caitvi or catradora then i’m gonna need you to pack it up