listen you guys, this line like…it meant something to me. First of all, “Ma’ams,” When is the last time you heard that in a movie when referring to like, official action hero/secret agency business? Let alone said BY a woman? To two high-ranking women, neither of which are the main character, who is also a woman? I just. I need a moment.
One time when he was 18, he was fishing and found a baby salamander someone had tried and failed to use as bait. It had a huge gash in its side and didn’t look like it would make it. He put it in the bucket he was going to put fish in and took it home, then performed “surgery” on the little guy to mend the gash. It couldn’t move, so my dad fed it and nursed it back to health until the gash was healed. Since he’d taken it in as a baby, it wasn’t equipped to stay alive in the wild, so he kept it in a giant aquarium next to his bed. It stayed alive until my sister was born six years later.
His dad took him deer hunting once when he was in middle school. They hunted all day and never saw a single deer. At the end of the day as the sun was setting, they found one, and my dad yelled at my grandpa not to shoot it because it didn’t deserve to die. He hasn’t been deer hunting since.
Two people I used to be best friends with don’t have stable parents. My dad takes them out for lunch and out fishing regularly, and even though I am not friends with either of them anymore, he still makes time for them as if they were his own kids.
Sometimes I catch him crying at videos of dogs on the internet.
One time he was crying and I asked him what was wrong and he gave me a hug and said there isn’t always a reason. I’ve held on to that.
He told me that if (if) he dies, he wants to die by being drowned in a horde of puppies because otherwise, what’s the point?
He makes sure to say “I love you” to my mom and me every day, because he once told me he never once heard it from his parents as a kid.
Saw my mom looking at a bird, so he found out what kind of bird it was and drew a picture of it for her.
Heard me crying after a hard day and brought me a box of milk duds, because even though I’m lactose intolerant, it was an occasion on which they were needed.
Shows me every day that men who feel allowed to be open, vulnerable, soft, and emotional are so much happier than men who are told to keep it all inside.
also, to bring my point across, he signed us up for a father-son derby race this year (even though I am a daughter and also an adult lol). we spent like two weeks working on this car. it caught on fire but we won for creativity
and still my dad remains blissfully unaware of the fact that this post exists and also the fact that it has almost 11,000 notes. omg. I was not expecting this kind of reaction.
I think it’s overlooked sometimes how political Guardians of the Galaxy 2 actually got.
Thor Ragnarok and Black Panther are both about an evil thing, colonization, taking something not yours to take and fashioning it to your own needs. But Guardians 2 forms the first part perhaps of Marvel’s anti-colonization trilogy. Ego is the ultimate colonizer, having no purpose in his life other than taking things and making them into more of himself. To this end he’s become the ultimate eugenicist, too. Every time he creates offspring – potential second versions of him, not even people in his eyes – he tests them and if they’re not what he wants he kills them. He’s a slaver (he owns Mantis in every way that matters) a killer, a manipulator, an absolute monster behind a smiling face.
There’s a running theme in GOTG 2 about the evils of treating people as things.
The Sovereign do this too – they’re gold in colour, but they’re essentially white supremacists. (The slight satire of them also being basically really hardcore video gamers, who sit behind drones and make mass murder into a competition, was not lost on me either.) And Yondu, Rocket, Gamora and Nebula are all where they are because they were treated as things – slaves, experiments, disposables. The movie explores their traumas, and makes it clear that they’re justified in their rages.
GOTG 2 does with Ego what Infinity War somehow didn’t manage to do with Thanos, and completely and utterly kill the monster at the end of its story. Peter is granted by Ego all the power he could possibly want, as well as the promise of the family he’s always craved. But once he discovers that it’s all built on bones, he rejects it utterly, even at what he thinks is the cost of his own life. Ego’s not given an ounce of mercy or sympathy, not even from Peter, his own son.
Essentially GOTG2 follows almost an identical path to Thor: Ragnarok – a god (alright, demigod in Peter’s case) discovers that the powers granted to him came from a place of evil, and rejects them in favour of something better. Those two films and Black Panther form an epic “dismantle oppressive systems, even if they benefit you” triple-bill.
Was talking with @tomas-abe about this–have you ever thought
of a supergirl leverage au?
Honestly, I’ve talked so much about how Kara isn’t a
horrible liar—she’s a phenomenal liar. She makes everyone
think she’s a bumbling, harmless, ordinary, average human—her kindness isn’t a
lie, but as we’ve seen with RedK—it is a choice. And we’ve seen her with
Clark— “you really have the clumsy thing down.” But for Clark that was real. For
Kara, it’s an act. She’s the heir to a house renowned throughout the galaxy for
its scientists—and she was about to become the youngest person in Krypton’s
history to enter the science guild. But she was told over and over and over to
be ordinary, average, unremarkable—to hide herself, hide anything that marks
her as alien. She’s a genius in a room full of preschoolers who are just now
learning concepts that she’s understood since before she could walk—of course
she’s bored with earth science.
Supergirl isn’t a
lie, but it’s not quite the truth either—and neither is Kara Danvers. Both are
part of her, but at the same time they’re both personas that she embodies and
can step into almost at the drop of a hat—they are constructed and built. And
yes, when outright confronted, she is a horriblebluff—she can’t do it. But
almost everyone forgets or glosses over how much pain Kara must always be in,
the anger she carries inside of her of being the very last, of being sent away,
of being alone. They forget that she is not simply a human with powers but
forever and always Kryptonian with powers—like how everyone thinks of Clark, like
we’ve seen in Myriad how even Clark
thinks of himself, Kara never thinks of herself as human. She has a different
language and values and culture and religion and she fools everyone into
thinking that she’s just like them(for more about this,
here’s the post I made that’s a lot more comprehensive). That isn’t Kara’s
stage. This kind of complicated and woven falsehood is her stage. Sound like
anyone?
Kara would totally
be a grifter. Especially a Kara who wasn’t found by Clark, who wasn’t found by
the Danvers—this is Kara without a purpose, who sees her cousin flying over
Metropolis with the house of El’s Crest on his chest and doesn’t need her. She has nothing to live for—so she wanders, constantly
pretending to be someone else and she gets good
at it. She has a soft spot for swindling people who violate environmental laws
because it’s easier—and never goes
after anyone who doesn’t deserve it. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily legal. She’s also got a soft spot for
art—it’s marvelous, in a way even Krypton never was. And grifting is something
that makes her feel alive, covering up for just a little bit the gaping hole in
her heart where Krypton used to be. And really, she doesn’t have very many
ties, or attachments—she travels light, easily able to switch identities and
leave at the drop of a hat. There’s this undercurrent of sadness in all of her
identities, even with the happiest of her personas—which just makes her a
mystery and all the more magnetic to the people she’s trying to con—she’s able
to seem so damn genuine and sincere it’s addicting.
Not to mention someone who can easily see everyone’s
tells because of advance senses, hear their heartbeat and see infinitesimal
twitches and expressions that pass in a millisecond—she didn’t visibly use her powers as Cat’s
assistant, but she still kept the job for 2 years before using super speed or
strength—and that was because of how well she could read Cat, who went
through probably hundreds of assistants before finding Kara. That would be essential for a grifter. Plus, we know
that she learned English in less than a week.
An entire language in just a handful of days—being able to learn regional
dialect and adopt accents and
She goes by so many aliases, trying to run away from the
memory of krypton. But her current alias? Kiera. Kiera Deveraux.
Kara woke up alone on Earth and saw her no longer baby
cousin with their family crest on his chest doing perfectly fine—he’s grown, he
doesn’t need her. How would he even know about Kara in the first place, or any
of it? Kara’s been doing this since she was 13, and now she’s probably 30
something, maybe 32. We’ve had Clark even say—Kryptonians age very slowly. She
still looks like she’s in her early 20’s. She doesn’t seem to age maybe that makes
her even more legendary but she likes to use make up to make her look older
because that truly fucks with people,
although she never goes after bad
people.
One thing that is truly different from Krypton, and not in a bad
way, or a lesser way, is the way humans create art—she loves art. And it’s something that she bonds over with their thief.
As for who’s Nate, the alcoholic whose young son died
because of corporate greed, the mastermind who thinks of every contingency and
almost obsessively observes and
analyzes? Why, that’s none other than Cat Grant. Cat Grant
I’ll be honest, I have no idea where I would put them in that.
While I do read a/b/o stuff, I’m very critical of it when I do, and will turn back if it’s going a way I don’t like, which is, tbh, very easy for a/b/o stuff. I mostly look for stuff that gets into the world of it, and is less about the actual sex stuff. So, it isn’t really a universe setting I think about much.
For where Lucy/Maggie/Alex could go, I think arguments could go any way. I’m sure most people would go Alex Omega, Maggie Beta, Lucy Alpha because that matches the top/vers/bottom pattern a lot of people write them in.
But, as I said, arguments could be made for any combo, esp with how the plot goes, if it is a new thing to humans, if any suppressants are involved, stuff like that.
I see your tags of Alex as a beta being new and interesting and give you this AU in which Alex and Maggie don’t meet as they do in canon:
Alex has to hide her disappointment when she learns she’s a beta. No one cares about betas. Alphas are the large and in charge ones, and omegas are the only ones alphas ever look at. Neither wants a beta when there’s a chance to get the other. She knows she’s just gonna have to settle for another beta. And, sure, there might be a beta she actually falls in love with, but she is bitter about being ignored by 2/3’s of the population.
(Sometimes, Alex can convince herself she would’ve made a shit alpha and too desperate an omega.)
# oh my god yes # bonus if its a pre-series thing # like kara doesnt know alex is deo and still isnt using her powers and now she has to run # the plane crash never happened so the catalyst still isnt there yet tags by @randomthingsthatilike123
I won’t lie: totally pre-series. I am thinking Kara is still in college and she has no idea what Alex really does for work, just that she is terribly busy. Too busy to talk to anyone in the family. She misses her but Alex is being awesome and the world needs her to do that. And then, out of the blue, Alex is in her dark dorm room, turning the stereo up too loud and speaking so that only Kara can hear. That she’s in danger, that they’re coming of her and they have to run. They have to run as far away from everything they’ve ever known (again) to keep her safe. And Kara has no idea what the hell is going on, and it’s been months since she even heard from Alex, but there’s one thing she does know: Alex will always protect her.
OMG THE TAGS!! HJKJAHHFJAHKAL THIS IS GETTING TOO BIG AND I LOVE IT
you know i don’t think anyone ever told eliza that alex was on that plane like if alex travels a lot for the DEO and to keep up the front of being a lab rat–and considering she’s probably published as well, to keep up appearances and also to be like @ the deo yes I’m still useful–then Alex probably doesn’t tell Eliza every single time she goes out of the country
so there’s a very good chance that Eliza is under the impression that in a way the plane rescue was–the best word here I can think of is almost a whim in that it was a random act of heroism, but not quite because if Kara saved that plane then maybe it was something she was gearing up to do, especially as saving a plane is the first thing that superman did
maybe eliza doesn’t know that the reason why kara finally revealed herself to the world wasn’t because she wanted to be a hero or reveal herself but first and only she wanted to save alex
eliza undoubtedly loves alex wholeheartedly but alex doesn’t exactly talk to her much–eliza didn’t know about alex partying her way to failure, or the DEO, or how she felt about Eliza’s expectations (and once she did she actively and we see continuously try to change her behavior)–so a lot of that Thanksgiving dinner makes more sense with the lense of maybe Alex knowing about Kara’s plan and wanting Alex to stop her for a pre-planned reveal, rather than Alex possibly dying without Kara’s interference.
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