#catra being a cat

[violetrashie]

just catra being a cat and Adora being all chaotic 🤗I saw this image and could only think of the two of them, sorry

friendly reminder that I have a store for prints, stickers, t-shirts and so on here: SHOP

[crownspeaksblog]

The fact that this is canon. The fact that this isn't fanart is wild!!

[yardsards]

when characters have poofy messy but otherwise straight hair, i like to headcanon that their hair is actually naturally wavy/curly and they just don't know how to/don't care to take proper care of it. bc irl that is often the case (speaking from personal experience)

[virtualdimensionsss]

im midway through season 5 and oh my god when catra like comes out of her room and they all make space for her in the circle and give her food and they smile at each other across the circle. IM NOT CRYING I SWEAR

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

catra:

also catra:

[punkeropercyjackson]

"So you think that female character is a lesbian BECAUSE she dosen't like men?"Yes.The fuck

[humanoidtyphoons]

turns out i'm there for lucifer morningstar and him alone. gdi.

[cherrymoonvol6]

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[candyskiez]

Hm. Maybe only staying somewhere that I hate because I don't want them to replace me with someone else is actually really really unhealthy for everyone involved. Maybe I need to like. Chill.

[nny11writes]

WiP Wednesday - Well That Escalated Quickly (Catrapta Gets Married I Guess??????)

I literally just wanted to write a short cute one shot where Entrapta is so happy and in love she asks Catra to marry her and it’s a sweet morning. 

You will be PROUD to know it’s under 3k, but also somehow they got married at the courthouse same day after kidnapping Scorpia to be their witness and now Glimmer has punched Catra.

It makes sense, I promise! Just- how did I get here? :)

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

got called an abuse apologist today lads :(

[probablypettingacat]

I would die for her

[purpleambrosia]

Today I present Adora/SheRa lifting Catra off the ground like it’s her religion.

Catra (not really Catra) looks so small in the first picture. They look like a little baby. I say they because it Double Trouble “cosplaying” as Catra 😂😂

The second is her saying her cat girlfriend from dying from the explosion.

And the last one is Catra being a little shit. It’s screaming, “jokes on you bitch I love it when you man handle me.”

[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.

[midnightechoes]

Five years ago today, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power premiered on Netflix. I had seen a few preview articles about it, and liked what I saw. Those articles mostly focused on She-Ra’s, Adora’s, Glimmer’s, Bow’s, and Catra’s redesigns, and I thought they were fabulous. I loved Adora’s new red jacket and bouffant hair style. Glimmer’s entire redesign was inspired, and I loved that they made Bow black so we could have more diversity in the main cast.

It was She-Ra’s and Catra’s redesigns that caught my eyes the most, though. They made Catra an actual catgirl, and not just in the anime sense where she's just a cute girl with cat ears and maybe a cat tail. She was a full-on furry. It was a brilliant design choice. Honestly it’s no wonder that so many were instantly drawn to her.

And of course, She-Ra herself. I loved her new look, and her huge ass new Sword of Protection. In fact, I loved it so much that I drew this picture of her before the show even came out:

Then the show came out, and needless to say, I fell in love. And honestly, it changed my life.

I know, I know. That sounds very hyperbolic, and to an extent it is, but in a lot of ways, I’m absolutely serious.

Alright, I have to back up a little. Back when I was in college, and for a few years after, a couple of friends and I tried to make a webcomic called The Devil’s Gate. It was minorly successful but eventually floundered. Then I met some people and we tried to make a video game, which also failed. After those few years, I found myself on my own and trying to rework the concept of my webcomic. Making comics, creating stories, those have always been my dream, and I was desperately trying to figure out a story I could make work, something that I believed in. But it never truly got off the ground. By the end of 2015 I had given up on the comic, realizing that after working on it for years in different forms that I needed to step away from it.

I didn’t really know what to do after that. I was still doing my quick daily doodles, but I wasn’t writing, I wasn’t drawing anything of note. I felt emotionally and physically drained of my creativity. I was honestly getting to the point where I thought it might be time for me to give up on trying to be creative or making things all together.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power came out on November 13, 2018, but despite looking forward to it, I didn’t actually watch it when it came out. It wasn’t until that weekend that I decided to check it out.

I was instantly hooked. I binged through the entire season in two days, and did plenty of crying and cheering. And then rewatched it immediately. I was in love. I was obsessed. It had been a long time since anything grabbed me like SPOP did. I loved the characters. I loved the colorful, sci-fi-fairy tale world of Etheria. I loved how unapologetically feminine it was. And most of all, I loved how queer it was.

I hadn’t done a ton of shipping before SPOP. I’ve been down bad for harlivy for what feels like my whole life, and I was angry when Mika and HG didn’t get together in Warehouse 13, but more often than not I had just been conditioned not to look for queer things in mainstream culture, and even barely in subculture.

That is to say, when I was smashed in the face with Catradora I was surprised how much I glommed onto it immediately. I was absolutely taken with Adora and Catra and their relationship. Both characters were so relatable, and despite not quite being text (although the subtext was so loud and obvious it might as well have been text), it was impossible to not read their feelings for each other as romantic.

It wasn’t just Catradora, even if that was a lot of it. Spinnerella and Netossa being canon from the start was wonderful. How much Glimmer and Bow screamed “BISEXUAL DISASTERS” from the start was adorable. Scorpia’s crush on Catra was as cute as it was sad in its one-sidedness.

I had never really been in a fandom. That is, yeah I’ve liked things, loved things even, but I never found other people to talk about it at length, never found discords just for that thing, never read or wrote fanfic, barely ever drew fanart. 

But, I watched SPOP, and then I watched it again. And then I drew Catra. And then I drew Adora. And then I drew them again. And suddenly I was on AO3, a site I never frequented, reading Catradora fics. And then I had an AO3 account. That December I participated in Catradora Week 2018 (I’d never heard of this kind of thing) and drew two pictures for it and wrote my first fanfic.

By the end of February I had drawn more in the three months since the show had premiered than I had in the previous year. I was working furiously on a long, multi-chapter fanfic, and writing more words than I had in the previous couple of years combined.

I was inspired again.

In the 18 months that SPOP ran for, I drew more than I had in years, I wrote hundreds of thousands of words. I felt so rejuvenated and happy about my creativity and free for the first time in years.

It’s hard to put into words exactly how it felt. I was so close to giving up my art and writing, which honestly, would have been giving up a part of myself. An important part of myself. It’s not overstating that SPOP saved me, or at least my creative spirit.

I also learned about the wonders of being in a fandom and fandom things like fan weeks, big bangs, zines. And I made some wonderful friends that I cherish to this day.

Even as I inevitably moved onto other hyperfixations, my love for She-Ra hasn’t diminished. Plushie Catra and Adora sit next to me on my desk every day. Catradora art still hangs on my wall.

The inspiration that SPOP ignited in me hasn’t died either. It’s carried me through a tremendous level of creativity that I’ve been riding since the premiere. It let me create a ton of fan art for SPOP, and then RWBY and then the Witch From Mercury, and I’ve written a ton of fanfics for RWBY and Supergirl. And perhaps the best, that inspiration has helped me create more OC stuff in the last couple years than I had in a long time.

I owe She-Ra and The Princesses of Power so much. I am so happy that it exists and that it happened when it did. I’ll always cherish it.

And for real, Netflix, SPOP spin-off movies WHEN?!

[nny11writes]

Catra hadn't known what to say when Glimmer saw her leaving the station, but the two rode home while chatting easily enough. Like…like it weren’t no big thing at all. But it was a big deal. She’d gone to work, felt good about her work, spoke with several people, and got to watch the beautiful colors of the sunset paint the woman she loved in spectacular light.

And if felt so damn nice to let it quietly be.

Until it didn’t.