14 Bookmarked Items in Autistic Catra (She-Ra)
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Catra's world is measured in pain: dislocated joints, crushing fatigue, and the relentless calculus of survival. A shower can cost her days. When Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome steals her independence, pride becomes a luxury she can't afford. Enter Mara, a caregiver whose steady hands and unwavering respect offer Catra something she'd forgotten – dignity.
Washing away the grime of illness, Mara helps Catra find moments of peace, even hope. But when the fragile lifeline of professional care is threatened by a system built on denial, Catra faces her deepest fear: being trapped once more in a body she can't care for. Adora stands by her side, but love alone can't navigate the labyrinth of insurance or ease the suffocating weight of despair.
(Features both a Bad Ending and an Alternate Good Ending)
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A Moment of You by YanaSapphic for grayskull (curricle)
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
17 May 2022
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Catra and Adora move in together, but just as friends. Even though they are both completely in love with each other.
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Autistic Catradora my beloveds
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Catra is a fuzzy bundle of hate. Why is she doing this? Her fur is ruffled and chafes against her shirt, her tail is coiled tightly around herself and her claws are itching. Catra hates the masses of people looming around her, hemming her in, blocking her view and her progress. She hates all the layers of noise overwhelming her sensitive ears: the inane chatter, laughs, screams and the indistinct thrum of people and that doesn’t even account for the music. Which she also hates.
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Catra accompanies Scorpia to a ren fair!
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- Part 1 of Ren Fair AU
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A Constellation of Moments: Theme and Variations by enby_lydia
Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
18 Sep 2025
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Obviously, A Constellation of Moments is the base fic for the series. It provides a framework / timeline / much more in-depth exploration of everything going on. However, the other fics can be read standalone and (mostly, I hope) make sense.
The shorter fics are sort of AUs to ACOM? At the very least, they are not canon to it, but apart from the things that are changed in each one, everything else stays the same.
The timeline ranges (technically from Mara's time, but not much) from the BFS's childhood to about 15 years after the war. Everything is as canon-compliant as I can make it except for the fact that Catra is chronically ill (hEDS and POTS), and she's severely disabled by approx 3 years after the war (this does not change any events in the canonical series). Oh and there's also the political thing with Mystacor that I made up for Shadow Weaver's backstory that happens about 10 years before Hordak invades but I don't go into that in much depth at all.
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to read
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Until I Found You (all the things i did to avoid myself) by dylan_with_three_exclamation_points
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
05 Mar 2025
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(my story prompt was randomized ao3 tags that i figured out how to make smutty)
From a young age, Catra learns to hate her body and her sexuality after a rather traumatic sex talk from Shadow Weaver about her heats.
She tries desperately to suppress her sexuality, and ends up engaging in frequent self destructive sex.
Over the years, she hooks up with many different people as she internally fights between her sexual desires and her self hatred.
And finally, with Adora, she learns to heal.Updated so that every chapter includes songs! At the end will be the full playlist
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Smoke Rising Like Lifted Hands by enby_lydia
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
27 Apr 2025
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I generally write based on the philosophy ‘Catra is neurodivergent because Cat’, and here is a collection of scenes that tipped too far over into ‘Catra is neurodivergent because Autism’. I will be adding more scenes as long as I continue to accidentally write them.
Apologies for the incongruent title – I have a whole plan thing for the titles and this one just turned out a bit weird. It’s from Boreas by The Oh Hellos.
This fic is built on the same groundwork as ACOM but functions as a standalone.
Content warnings: child abuse, strong language
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Stand And Deliver (Your Heart To Me) by Lisra
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
17 Jul 2024
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They have been dating for a month. Catra needs a plan. Fortunately, she now has new friends.
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- Part 2 of Ren Fair AU
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- English
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“I know you don’t get these things either. That you’re like me. Don’t think I didn’t notice. But being better at hiding it doesn’t give you the right to be mean to me.”
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it's my catra and i get to choose the neurodivergency by hopelessgemini
Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
29 Jan 2023
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neurodivergents your catra
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and fall apart by hopelessgemini for crippledinafunway
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
29 Jan 2023
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in another world, adora thinks, testing the weight of the sword in her hand, maybe things could have been different.
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“so we take this thing back.”
“mhm.”
“we… hide it, maybe? Just outside the fright zone. somewhere we can go without raising suspicion.”
“i’m listening.”
“you train with it. until your next mission, you train with it. and when you’re sent out, you use it. you win the battle, you’re a hero, and shadow weaver wants to know how you did it. so you hide the sword again.”
adora frowns. “why hide it again?”
catra turns to look at her, eyes dark. “so she can’t take it from you.”
or, au where adora takes the sword back to the horde, and she and catra take over the world together.
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- Part 1 of it's my catra and i get to choose the neurodivergency
- Part 5 of trans catra cinematic universe
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trans catra cinematic universe by hopelessgemini
Fandom: Cosmoknights (Webcomic), She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
29 Jan 2023
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every fic in which catra has been written as trans (most likely nonbinary transmasc knowing me) i have ever written and will write. in no particular order, and some are scenes of larger fics. general content warning for discussion of gender dysphoria and surgery, as well as the concept of transphobia.
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TRANSMASC CATRA SUPREMACY WOOOOOOO
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the modern-with-magic werecat au nobody asked for
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adora and catra, separated by time and magic, find their way back to each other.
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there is a girl who seems to follow her everywhere. in her mind, in her memories, in real life, but always in her thoughts. she's everywhere.
there is a girl, and Adora knows her. she knows her, down to the expression in those yellow-and-blue eyes and her brilliant smile. she can read everything about her - what her downward glances and half-smirks mean and what they don't, what she'd say if she could hear her thinking, how to hold her close when she needs it and how to give her space when she doesn't.
too bad she can't remember who she is.
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- Part 1 of Bleeding Heart