#bb 26

Catradora Popstar AU by n7punk on AO3

Pairings: Adora/Catra (Catradora). Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018). Event: 2026 SPOP Big Bang @spopbigbang.

Rating: T. Chapters: 8/8 (completed). Words: 29k.

Summary:

Interactive Fic Preview Link

Around now is when participants in the 6th anniversary @spopbigbang start posting blurbs of their fics as a preview of the event starting on May 12th, but given my fic is... not conducive to blurbs this year, I thought the best way to preview it wouldn’t be a screenshot from the fic, but to give you a link to show exactly how deep I've gone on this.

Click the link. “kinda smacks” acts as a preview of both the story and how POP FEUD is told: the way the public experiences celebrity relationships in tweets, articles, blind items & rumors, and music. The Genius annotations work via tooltips, so hover over them to get a preview of what’s to come (and my HTML depravity, I created this entire fake Genius layout lol). All the song lyric pages from this fic are live on my Tumblr now, but you’ll have to follow the links in the fic when it comes out to find the rest of them!

This fic is in collaboration with @metalesbo, who has done some amazing art for it and also is the entire reason it’s eight chapters, so I can’t wait to share it with y’all! It’s a first for me in multiple ways, but now you might understand why my hiatus was so long: I was losing my goddamn mind in HTML/CSS mazes. I can't wait to finally post this because it has completely possessed me the last few months

After writing and working on HTML for 23 days straight, spending two months adding bells and whistles and tweets until this thing could fucking drive, and posting it for seven days, POP FEUD is finally done 😭 Realistically I have fics I’ve worked harder on writing, but this certainly felt like the most work I’ve ever put into a fic simply because HTML is not nearly as fun as writing lmao. This is my socmed magnus opus. If I ever say I want to do another socmed fic, Old Yeller me and I’m serious.

Anyway, these fic notes are beastly since the nature of the fic means a lot of things went unsaid, to the point I just could not keep track of things in one post, so this is the directory to the actual fic notes because yes, even these have to be complicated. I’m insane!! Anyway see all the fic notes posts as well as the credits for all the workskins and icons that I used and the links to the art!

This fic doesn’t have an epilogue section because I kind of already showed their epilogue is continuing to make music, climb the charts, and be gay for each other, and I’m also going to cover where the fic diverged from the original idea throughout the chapter notes this time instead of breaking it out to its own section.

Chapter 1 Notes & Playlist

Chapters 2, 3, and 4 Notes

Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 Notes

Credits (Workskins, Icons, and Art)

As always I had an absolute blast with the Big Bang and thank you to Tippen for all your work organizing <3