17 Bookmarks by jesss
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“Why are you here?” Adora asks.
Catra steps in close, gratified when Adora takes a shaky step back and then another, til her back is up against the wall of the gym. “Would you believe that I missed you?”
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When Adora transfers from Horde Academy to Bright Moon Prep in their final year of high school, she and Catra pretty much stop talking. Until they don't.
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25 Jul 2020
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kind of a freak accident by lunchables
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
22 Jul 2020
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It wasn’t until Adora collapsed into the backseat of the cab and went to pull out the address that she realized.
This was not her freaking phone.
a swapped-phone texting au
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- 2/2
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22 Jul 2020
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please could you be tender by erce3
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), She-Ra: Princess Of Power (1985)
01 Jun 2019
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“I mean,” explains Adora, “We were friends for so long, and all that. Don’t you–” she swallows, “–don’t you miss me, too?”
“You can’t miss someone sitting right across from you,” responds Catra. Adora can’t help but disagree.
She looks at Catra expectantly, and after a pause, Catra lets out a long breath. “Fine, fine,” she says. “You’ve always been my favorite ghost, skeleton in the closet, whatever.” Adora frowns over at her. Catra shrugs, evidently unwilling to say anything else. Catra gives her another look that punctuates this, a look that says stop asking for more and Adora, folding her hands neatly, does as she's told.
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14 Jul 2020
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Catra had never hated anyone more in her life, not even herself. She was sure that she had somehow died and been sent to Hell, forced to stare at the grown-up version of her childhood best friend on a dating app she only ever used for the brief validation of matching with pretty girls instead of actually talking to them. Maybe matching with Adora was punishment for just that.
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or: catra and adora match on tinder years after a falling out.
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- English
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- 9/?
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14 Jul 2020
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“We should have something that’s ours, you know?”
And Catra can’t fight her on that. It’s been years since the war, but old habits die hard, and Adora is still learning how to be selfish. How to just say no when she wants to, sleep when she needs to, let go of her burdens when they weigh her down. She gets better day by day. And if Adora wants to build something of her own from the ground up, so be it. It’s not in her nature to do things the easy way.
Catra laces their fingers together. She kisses the back of Adora’s hand. “I’m in.”
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Catra, Adora, and a home out in the woods.
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13 Jul 2020
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haven't decided about taking or leaving me by erce3
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
21 Nov 2018
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Sometimes, Adora gets the feeling she's done this before.
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08 Jul 2020
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at the end we'll start again by strangehunger
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
27 Jun 2020
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Adora dances through the strands of time programmed into the system. The first week, she jumps forward just a year or two — 2042, 2043, just before the breakup, back when they were still happy. In 2051, she sports the short, choppy haircut that was popular at the time. In 2066, it’s long, and dyed at the tips. She’s twenty two, over and over and over again, each weekend spent experiencing that age right on the cusp of adulthood as she weaves in and out of time periods, searching for Catra.
In the summer of 2044, she wanders past a sports bar and sees her own face, sweaty and breathless in an interview. Adora remembers this video — it was taken just before she received her first Olympic gold.
Adora keeps walking. There’s no way Catra would choose to be here.
________Adora has never had much interest in the Etheria program, a virtual reality simulation in which those on the verge of death and dementia can relive their glory days, dancing side by side with the consciousnesses of the deceased — but when she runs into a familiar face while visiting a dearly departed friend, she finds herself tumbling back into a romance she thought she had lost decades ago.
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28 Jun 2020
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They stay that way for a long time, Catra’s face tucked into Adora’s shoulder, Adora gently cradling Catra’s head. Adora is careful not to hug Catra too hard or make her feel restrained, anticipating the moment that Catra will start to pull away — but Catra doesn’t. She hangs on so tightly it hurts, her claws digging through Adora’s jacket and into her back, latching into her like she did when she was a kitten and didn’t know how much her claws could hurt. Adora tries not to wince, tries not to move a single muscle, worried that if she does the spell will break and Catra will struggle away, appalled at having shown weakness.
But Catra doesn’t let go. And so neither does Adora.
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10 Jun 2020
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"We'd play tricks on Kyle, stay up late whispering about... you know, whatever."
Twenty years. The nights before, during, and after.
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09 Jun 2020
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Adora is staring out into the distance, looking up at the sun, her eyes wide and guileless. Everything about Adora is guileless. She is as easy to read as a cloudless sky. Of course, they didn’t have cloudless skies, back in the Fright Zone.
Adora has never faked anything in her life. Catra, a practiced liar, can’t parse exactly how, though they grew up in the same place, Adora became what she is: a hero, even without the sword.
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or: 5 times they held hands after the war.
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05 Jun 2020
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constant as the northern star by rushvalleys
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
08 Jul 2019
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Catra is there when the new She-Ra is annointed, when she hears that battle cry again, when the stranger in front of her turns into the ghost of a memory.
The new She-Ra doesn’t look like Adora, and maybe that’s disappointing, but maybe it’s easier. When she turns, she is taller, mightier—but an imitation of someone Catra knew, loved, lost all the same. Gold traded for silver hair that glistens like opal against the light of the Sword of Protection’s runestone.
She-Ra eyes Catra, blue and just as bright as she remembers, as if she’s sought her out amongst the crowd of strangers.
As much as she wants to, Catra cannot look away.
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She-Ra, a study in reincarnation: birth, death, and rebirth.
Or: it’s a hard job loving a hero, but someone’s got to do it.
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05 Jun 2020
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keep on walking, come what will by strangehunger
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
29 May 2020
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“Aren’t you two—”
“If you’re done talking about Adora and Catra getting married,” says Entrapta, with all the subtlety and tact of a sledgehammer, “I have calculated the voltage needed…”
Wherever the rest of Entrapta’s sentence is going to go, it falls away. The whole room falls away as understanding hits Catra like a bolt of lightning, an electrifying shock to her system that leaves her reeling. Getting married? Her and Adora? Questions well up on her tongue — What? Why? — and she doesn’t realize she has fumbled through those fragmented inquiries until Frosta answers her.
“Um. You’re wearing Adora’s pin.”
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Adora and Catra get engaged. If only someone would tell them.- Language:
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05 Jun 2020
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split this yearning open by rushvalleys
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
17 May 2020
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Her first night on the ship, Adora watches Catra sleep. She charts the gentle tug up and down of her chest, stares at what once was impossible to want, forbidden from her reach.
She sits on the edge of Catra’s cot. Adora reaches out to trace the collar of her uniform, the white stained throughout with specks of blood and dirt. She rakes a gentle hand through Catra’s hair, the cut rough and ragged. She goes to cradle Catra’s face like she had on Horde Prime’s ship, to run a thumb across the sharp line of her jaw—
She stops. Maybe some things are still forbidden.
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Adora, relearning Catra, and Catra learning to heal.
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05 Jun 2020
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She throws her bag into her bike’s wire basket and turns to Adora with a raised brow. “Do I know you or something?”
“I —” Adora tilts her head, considering. “I don’t think so? Maybe we’ve seen each other around town.”
Catra’s eyes travel from Adora’s feet, up her legs, all the way up to her eyes in a slow crawl. She’s gripping her bike’s handlebars, frizzy curls escaping her updo and surrounding her face. “I think I’d remember you.”
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or: adora would recognize catra anywhere.
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05 Jun 2020
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being chill, being chill with you (oh it kills, they ain’t chill at all) by emdashcomma
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
26 May 2020
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When he looked across the room though, he saw Catra leaning back, tail lashing wildly behind her, staring at Adora like she was the first star to grace the Etherian sky. Adora was leaning forward, eyebrows slightly pinched, and looking at Catra like she alone could tell her why that was.
Kyle had a feeling that even if he got up now and knocked into every single bedpan on the way out the door, they wouldn’t have noticed him. They probably hadn’t realized he’d been in the room in the first place.
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if you’re in the same room with catra and adora you are automatically the third wheel
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04 Jun 2020
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Adora’s still getting the hang of this whole “wanting” thing, Glimmer and Bow put up with a lot, and Catra negotiates gainful employment.
Or: They’re intergalactic diplomats. There’s an incident.
Or: Five times Adora’s newfound possessive streak gets the better of her and one time it gets the better of Catra.
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- 13,709
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30 May 2020
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buried a hatchet (it’s coming up lavender) by erce3
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
28 Mar 2020
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“I don’t need you anymore,” Catra says coldly.
“I don’t care,” replies Adora. Her voice wavers for a moment, and then steadies. “We’re the only two people on this entire planet.”
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or, au where catra and adora get stuck in the portal instead of angella
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21 May 2020