Iorek's Catradora Unputdownables
The stories that grabbed me by the hand and whispered, "stay."
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Catra has been waiting to play Eye of Etheria, the reality competition show, since she was ten years old. Sure, most people wouldn't want to spend their entire summer locked in a house with 13 strangers while being filmed 24/7. However, the magicat has always believed she has what it takes to make it to the end and win the $500,000 prize. After years of trying to get cast, at 23 she has her chance to do just that. Looking to stop her though are 13 other houseguests, including one brilliant and beautiful woman, Adora. The two women begin their Eye of Etheria journey together as allies, but end up rising to the top of the two largest alliances in the house. Who will win? Adora's Rebellion or Catra's Horde? What will happen when these two realize they want more than the prize money? Find out all this and more on this season's... Eye of Etheria.
(This is a reality show AU based on the concept of the television show Big Brother)
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pancakes for dinner by the_deaf_pomegranate for ResFlower
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
12 Mar 2023
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Amnesia AU - Catra and Adora have been living their happily ever after for eleven blissful years when tragedy strikes and a brain injury wipes everything from Catra's memory. Adora's left with a growing deadline and no semblance of a plan for getting their family back.
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“We always have pancakes on Wednesdays,” Adora speaks firmly, bracing herself for the objection to come, “Routine’s important.”
Glimmer smiles softly, though it doesn’t reach her eyes. She moves over to Adora, a hand rubbing soft circles into her upper back. Adora pushes down the anger that bubbles illogically in her chest. It isn’t Glimmer’s fault that she’s here instead of Adora’s wife, or that Adora can hardly bear to be touched by anyone that isn’t Catra. Anyway, she’d appreciated the support from her best friends until today; in its own way, it had almost felt helpful before the unimaginable had happened.
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coming home to you (with my own blood in my mouth) by October_sky
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
18 Feb 2023
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“And… everything is kind of falling apart, with Catra gone.”
Adora feels every muscle in her body go rigid at once.
Catra.
Gone.
“Scorpia. What do you mean, gone?”
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Catra vanishes in the portal, and the Horde crumbles in her absence. But it's a a hollow victory for Adora, one that leaves her without answers or a path forward. So she leaves her life behind for a second time, giving up the sword and any connection it forged.Five years later a series of strange portals force her out of her life of seclusion and back into action. Who could be trying to get to Etheria? And just where did Catra disappear to?
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Where it started... by the_deaf_pomegranate
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
16 Feb 2023
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Catra's finally settled, six long years after she was abandoned at her lowest by the person she never expected to lose. But when a shadow from her past returns, her entire life uproots itself before she can even blink.
Bright Moon restaurant AU where hard of hearing advertising executive Catra becomes a thoroughly useless lesbian who can't cope for shit when Adora Gray suddenly appears back in town as a waiter at her local spot.
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But You Were Magic to Me by Poputchik
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
31 Jan 2023
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It should have worked.
They made it to the Heart. Adora woke up. They opened their hearts.
They kissed.
And then she was gone.
Catra had felt the weight of her - the warmth of her, in her hands. In her arms. There was a blinding light, and then:
Nothing.
No She-Ra.
No Adora.
Nothing but emptiness remained in the chamber of the Heart of Etheria.
After the kiss, Adora vanishes. Catra struggles to deal with the loss. She finds a book of letters that Adora has written to her over the course of their time apart (at the behest of Perfuma), and through them begins a journey to understanding the girl she loved and perhaps some self-discovery of her own.
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- Part 1 of We Come Alive or Come Undone
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all my stars aligned by petty_labelle
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
02 Feb 2024
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“How do you make this happen?”
“Me?!?!"
“Yes,” Glimmer sighed. “You’re the only one who knows them both.”
“The most I’ve ever said to Adora was ‘does this print double-sided?’ And my friend-” Bow paused. He didn’t really need to share any private details about the most fiercely private person he knew. “She hasn’t consented to this. I mean, no one has consented to any of this.”
“Because they don’t know about it! But if they did, and they had chose this, they’d be ecstatic.”
Bow felt his face crinkle at the brow. “So basically if every single thing was different about the circumstances?”
Glimmer narrowed her eyes. “Listen. I did a very misguided but well-meaning thing. And I think it was actually genius. So you’re going to help me fix it. Okay?”
Sometimes you try to do a good thing and end up catfishing your best friend for her own good. Glimmer knows that's not the best way to handle a problem but she's got this! Bow's here to help! He even knows the random girl whose photos she (accidentally?) used and, while he thinks Catra and Adora absolutely should stay at least one county apart at all times for everyone's safety, Glimmer (and the universe) has other plans.
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- Part 1 of all my stars aligned
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she undressed me with her eyes (and somehow you didn't see) by harrowhark
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
01 Aug 2022
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'Catra starts coming over a lot more, Adam notices.
She’s over for dinner a few times, and on the weekends it seems like she basically moves in. When she and Adora aren’t at their place, Adam assumes that they’re over at Catra’s.
It’s nice that his sister finally has a real best friend, Adam thinks. She has a lot of friends, sure. She’s really close with Glimmer and Bow, but they’ve always had each other. Adora has never really had one friend that she’s super close with, so Adam is happy for her.'
Or, oblivious brother Adam doesn't realise that Catra and Adora are more than just gal-pals.
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the one with the broken elevator by harrowhark
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
07 Jun 2022
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'Whatever. At least she’s almost home.
The elevator judders to a halt, but the doors don’t open. Adora frowns, pushing the open door button, but nothing happens.
“Oh, no,” Adora mutters to herself, pushing the button again, “not today. Please no.”
Adora starts hammering the button, hoping that the doors will somehow respond, but she stops when she realises there’s another person in the elevator with her. She turns around, hoping that she doesn’t look insane, and meets the gaze of the most gorgeous woman she’s ever seen.
Of course the universe would pick today to trap her in an elevator with a supermodel.'
Or, Adora and Catra get trapped in an elevator together.
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fifty first dates (or just three) by harrowhark
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
08 Feb 2022
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'The waitress smirks, pulling a pencil from behind her ear. A few messy strands of chestnut brown hair fall out of the equally messy but styled ponytail the waitress’ hair is up in. “Just wondering if you wanted to order a drink while you wait for the rest of your party.”
“I’m okay, thank you,” Adora answers, “I’ll wait until my date gets here.”
The waitress raises an eyebrow, like she’s surprised someone as awkward as Adora has a date. She smirks, and questions, “blind date?”
Adora feels herself blushing and wonders how the woman knows. “Uh, maybe.”'
Or, Bow and Glimmer set Adora up on multiple bad dates, and Catra is the cute waitress at the restaurant who's enjoying the show.
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find a new place to be from by sevensevan
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
19 Mar 2021
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On a cold night in 1910, something unexplainable occurs at a house outside of Bright Moon. Distant neighbors report red lights, strange noises, and horrible screaming. The police investigation finds no clues as to what may have happened, and no trace of the two girls who lived in the house, or their shadowy guardian. Without an owner present, the house is reclaimed by the bank, and then the state. It stands empty for decades, alone on its hill, the subject of ghost stories and urban legends.
A hundred and ten years later, Bow and Glimmer enter a supposedly haunted house on a dare—and find much more than they ever could've bargained for. For Glimmer, proof that the universe is much bigger than she had imagined it, and access to a destiny that she has been waiting to claim. For Bow, a new roommate—and, maybe, a chance to do what he does best: help someone.
(this is an ensemble fic—equal parts catradora and glimbow! there's lots for everyone!)