So here’s the thing: I loved this scene. Like, it was actually one of my all-time favorites from s2, BUT PART OF ME ACTUALLY WANTED KARA TO FAIL.
Hear me out: If she’d failed, they could have spent the rest of the season completely centered around the Danvers sisters trying to get back to each other because they love each other more than anyone in the entire universe. So we could’ve gotten back to the s1 roots of having the major story arcs revolve around the two of them and their relationship with each other. PLUS A FEW NEW THINGS TOO, GET THIS:
So we’d get this split in screentime of Kara trying to track Alex down, and then we’d also get to see Alex like crash-landing on some planet somewhere and trying everything in her power to get back home, or at least get a message to Kara that she’s alive. AND THEN, while she’s trying to bop from planet to planet, who does she run into???? THAT’S RIGHT, SHE FUCKING RUNS INTO ASTRA, WHO DIDN’T DIE AFTER ALL, SHE JUST TOOK THAT SPACE NAP WE’RE ALL CONVINCED ABOUT. So then the two of them begrudgingly work together to get home to Kara, and they get closer together as time goes by. And definitely fall in love. Because duh.
Meanwhile, Kara is doing everything in her power to find Alex NOT EVEN SURE IF SHE’S ALIVE…and just like…if she had failed to save the one person she loves MORE THAN ANYONE IN THE UNIVERSE, just THINK about how much more her character could have been developed. It wouldn’t revolve around pining over that dumb Daxamite dude, it would be about KARA and who she is, and how her failure to save Alex almost DESTROYS her because Alex has always been her strength. So now she has to learn to be strong even without Alex, and she and J’onn have to find a way to have HOPE again…because you KNOW J’onn would be terrified that he’d just lost another daughter to the effects of intolerance and violence between different alien races.
And then we can bring in some SUPERCORP as well, because Lena’s mom was the one who sent the ship with Alex et al across the fucking universe, so Lena can probably find or develop some kind of tracking device SO SHE AND KARA CAN GO ON A ROMANTIC SPACE RESCUE MISSION to save Alex. So now we’ve got a side Supercorp romance, and a side General Danvers romance, while still having the MAIN focus of the story be on our Danvers sisters and the strength of their relationship. That way at its heart, the show still has those underlying themes of HOPE and FAMILY, only now it’s fucking ELEVATED FOR THIS NEW SEASON…not only that, but it makes Kara and Alex’s relationship more DYNAMIC again…like…CAN YOU IMAGINE THE ANGST??? But also the humor of watching Alex and Astra try to get along, and Lena being like, Kara, we’re on a space ship together I FUCKING KNOW YOU’RE SUPERGIRL, JFC.
And then everyone’s all reunited, and ASTRA GETS TO HAVE HER REDEMPTION ARC which is rooted in her love for her niece, and in this newfound love for Alex. PLUS with hers and Lena’s help, you could rope this all back into the CADMUS storyline when they return home so we actually get some closure on that…and everything’s all about hope, and love, and family, and EVERYBODY BEING STRONGER TOGETHER AND SHIT…
Happy birthday to my loveliest, @mermaidandthedrunks! I meant to write you a much longer and much higher quality fic, but obviously I procrastinated too much and ran out of time. And whatever, you’re like fine. I guess I think you’re okay. So this is an okay fic for an okay person with an okay face who I miss an okay amount. (JK, but seriously, THIS FIC IS NOT VERY GOOD AND I AM SORRY.)
Title from The Fool by Ryn Weaver. Many thanks to @grevgrev for beta-ing and cheerleading. 🙂
Supergirl starts visiting Cat every week. She drops down on the CatCo balcony, silhouetted by the fire red glow of the sunset. Sometimes she wants to talk; sometimes she doesn’t. It doesn’t matter to Cat either way. The idea of being, well, friends with a superhero is already incredible enough. Celebrities have never really fazed Cat – well, there was maybe that time she met Hillary Clinton early on her in career – but by now it’s old news. But seeing Supergirl week after week, talking to her, that feels powerful. Beneath that S on her chest is an alien. Someone not from this terrestrial planet they call home.
She doesn’t mean to do it, but Cat starts waiting for Supergirl’s visits. She anticipates them with a buzzing urgency that grows louder as the week progresses. Cat lingers in her office until everyone else has packed up and left, using layouts and editing as an excuse to watch for the flutter of Supergirl’s cape out of the corner of her eye. She wishes she were better about catching Supergirl before she approaches – Cat likes to watch her land, touch down on the balcony so naturally. She doesn’t even have to think about it. There’s something marvelous about how graceful it is.
Tonight Cat catches her seconds after she arrives. Cat smoothes a hand across the side of her pencil skirt, picks up her drink, and pushes open the glass door. Supergirl’s in a contemplative silence sort of mood, and they sit quietly for a few minutes, both looking over the city. Cat watches the cars and people, miniature from above, go about their business, unaware of Supergirl’s gaze.
“You must have work to do,” Supergirl says, breaking the moment, her hair falling forward across her face. Her muscled shoulders hunch uncertainly beneath the tight fabric of her suit.
character A slowly falls in love with character B over the course of several years, realization hits them that they’ve been in love with B for a long time hits them like a truck
cool badass is actually a giant fucking nerd
The Power of Friendship ™
flat “what” reactions
sweet adorable characters with horrible tragic pasts
villains-turned-heroes becoming the Weird Uncle
characters that aren’t actually related having a parent-child relationship
characters that aren’t actually siblings having a sibling-like bond
“I can’t stand this person but I would die for them”
you will take these tropes from my cold dead hands.
THAT MOMENT WHEN YOURE READING FANFICTION AND A CHARACTER SAYS SOMETHING REALLY CUTE OR ANGSTY BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING THEY WOULD ACTUALLY SAY AND YOU JUST KINDA LEAVE THE COMPUTER AND WALK AIMLESSLY AROUND THE HOUSE TO CALM YOUR RAGING FEELS
i feel like wonder woman could get away with throwing batman over her shoulder to carry him away exactly once, just because she would have the element of surprise. batman prepares for everything but there are limits. if you were batman would you ever in a million years expect a woman who is two inches shorter than you in one-inch heels to just pick you up and leave like she’s carrying a bag of sand to build a wall. like you are the victim of a cartoon caveman from the fifties. i postulate that you would not. maybe in her arms like a lumberjack’s bride, but a fireman’s carry? while he is not only conscious, but entirely capable of moving under his own power? this is the one scenario that batman never prepared for and he suffers the consequences. she could never get away with it again and so she doesn’t even try but from that moment on the possibility is always in the back of his mind. he is on alert. he wants her to try again so he can prove it won’t work this time. she never gives him the satisfaction. he can never explain to anyone how he is suffering. no one will understand. he stands on a rooftop in the rain and broods.
I got so many of these that my answers are gonna be a little spread out, but here we go!
A- realistic: Alex only stayed in highschool her senior year for Kara. She took every AP and college credit course the school offered, and a few more they didn’t. That was the start of a major focus on her schooling and need to excel that led to the complete burnout a few years later- the one that led to her joining the DEO and finally finishing her degree.
B- unrealistic but hilarious: after calling dibs on her alien gun Alex spent weeks trying to replicate the design (and also adapt it into a rifle version for greater use in the field). Her attempts only stopped when she caused a chemical fire in the DEO labs that required a complete evacuation of three levels. J’onn was a very grumpy space dad for a week, and Maggie banished her to the couch until her hair grew back.
C- heart crushing: Alex hates the color orange now. It used to remind her of watching sunsets with Jeremiah but now it reminds her of Krypton’s sky and the night she nearly lost Kara. The night she took the life of Kara’s last real link to Krypton, the last person she loved that lived under that orange sky. And even though Alex remembers, she can’t share her memories with Kara, not without wanting to throw up.
D- unrealistic but I’ll fight canon on it: Alex wants kids, but she’s utterly terrified of actually having one. What if she’s just like her mother? What if she’s seen too much in the field and can’t be the parent her kid needs? What happens if she’s too hurt to hold a baby? (This one is only unrealistic bc the writers bungled the wanting kids storyline tbh)
Maggie
Sawyer, resident xenosexual, starts a blog. But when she starts dating 100%
human Alex Danvers, will she lose her alien-banging cred?
Not
likely.
Alex Danvers/Maggie Sawye, Alex Danvers/Kara
Danvers/Maggie Sawyer, Alex Danvers/Kara Danvers, Kara Danvers/Maggie Sawyer
and in particular Maggie Sawyer/Aliens
One-shot, less than 4k, 2017
AU-ish, Blogger!Maggie; Maggie is a sex guru;
explicit, funny, crack
Written exclusively from Maggie’s POV in blog
style. This is a hilarious crack fic and one of the funniest Supergirl fic that
I have read. Loved it.
While technically this is a Sanvers and Super
Sanvers fic, this is neither really a romantic fic nor really smut, but
unapologetically explicit and funny.
Favorite quote
Kryptonians- … Of course, their attitude toward
sexuality has always been a bit embarrassed, but as we know, from the Pink Book
of Arkhed–that great erotic novel–(Kryptonian eroticism involving mysterious
intimate underwater embraces, fucking not described) that the #1 romantic
Kryptonian love story was between two brothers who ended up on opposite sides
of a war, and while they were embracing naked in a pond, one slew the other,
for justice, and then himself. So, um, well, anyways …
“i just got turned into an incubus or a succubus and i’m like the least smooth and most self-conscious person on the planet so i’m literally starving because i don’t know how to seduce people” AU. BONUS POINTS IF THEY ARE A VIRGIN.
“i’m a siren and i keep accidentally forgetting that i have roommates now and and end up putting them in my thrall when i’m singing taylor swift songs in the shower” AU
“i’m a newly-turned werewolf without a pack and i can’t really control myself well on full moon nights yet and you keep finding me passed out naked on your lawn” AU
“i got cursed and turned into an animal and taken to the shelter and ended up getting adopted by someone who is really hot OH NO” AU
“i’m a med student who has a huge crush on the hot guy who works at the coffee shop who always gives me free drinks when i’m stressed and calls me princess even though i pretend i think it’s annoying but i’m extremely concerned about him because he always smells like smoke so i always give him lectures about how terrible cigarettes are for you and i may have made a powerpoint which is probably excessive but lung health is extremely important and oops it turns out he’s part-dragon or something hahahaha oops” AU
“my best friend got turned into a frog and now i’m being the best wingman/woman/person ever by carrying them around to bars and getting hot people to kiss them in hopes of hooking them up with their true love” AU
“i’m a history major and i keep getting into arguments with one of my classmates about things because they keep saying i’m wrong so i finally scream, ‘how would you know?!?’ and they’re like, ‘because i was THERE!’ and that’s how we all find out that there is a centuries-old vampire taking our British history class” AU
Succubus: Imagine Alex. She’s not a virgin, but she’s never liked sex cause all she knows is sex with a dude. The idea of -needing- to have sex with dudes makes her queasy. Enter Most Experienced succubus Maggie. Perhaps a mortal Lucy that Maggie aims Alex at, but it turns into all three of them getting along a lil too well.
Cursed into an Animal: this is Lucy. This is where she disappears to. She is Displeased to be named Gertrude.
The Dragon one: The med student is obviously Alex. Lucy is the dragon. Alex is dating Maggie and something Happens to her and Lucy knows who did it and they go off to rescue Maggie.
Frog kiss: An alien turns Alex into a frog, and kissing Maggie works, but a second kiss transforms Alex back into a frog. It takes getting kissed by Lucy while she’s in front form to actually fix Alex for good.
Question of Smoke 