@davidharewood: The Boss. @chy_leigh
Tag: space fam
this started out like, wanting to draw kara in that costume i drew sam in(i need to tweak it still for kara) and then went all over;; ending up getting down a few ideas for suits, like first drafts kinda things c:
I still miss sam, i like glow-y stuff, and some of brainy’s boots in the comics remind me of uggs
My, I don’t think you can cook a turkey four different times.
It’s accumulating flavor.
Superfriends: We’ve adopted a clone.
Kasnian Soldiers: You’ve fudged up a perfectly good super soldier, is what you did. Look at it. It has familial support and capitalism.
I have not drawn any Supergirl art yet this season, so here is a mega Thanksgiving week super feast!
Poor, food-hapless Alex. Lena looks like she wants to help you feel better!
I love how this perfectly encapsulates this family: Eliza’s high expectations of Alex, Alex doing her gay best and being a bit of a disaster, and Kara trying to lift her sister up in the kindest way possible.
Eliza is actually so damaging to Alex. And we had them acknowledge it, once, briefly (I believe) in season 2 but it’s never mentioned again. I do think Alex still struggles with it and it shows here so well.
She’s trying to hard to keep up at work and please Hasley and keep Earth safe so she doesn’t have time for freaking cranberry sauce. Yet, when she shows up with the canned stuff she gets instantly judged…
Alex really can’t do anything right and I wish they would address that more because this is real world stuff and I wish they would show us a way to deal with it but also how damaging it can be. Eliza isn’t evil. Eliza doesn’t even bad intentions but that doesn’t mean she’s not hurting her daughter.
They did address this. It was the driving plot of the S1 Thanksgiving ep. Alex got drunk and fought with Eliza, Eliza yelled at Alex, Kara cut in after Alex stormed off to shut Eliza down for blaming Alex for Kara coming out as Supergirl. And later Alex full on asked Eliza why nothing she does is ever enough and Eliza realized she was wrong for how she’d treated Alex growing up.
That’s why the subsequent Thanksgiving/mid-season-Eliza-centric eps touch on the issue like this; it’s an update, of sorts. By no means perfect or ideal, but they exist to show Eliza IS trying, and because of that, Alex can let the small things like the cranberry sauce roll off her back now.
They opened up the dialog between them in S1. In doing so, they characterized their relationship to allow Alex to confront Eliza on the issues that cross a line.
Again, they’re not perfect and they never will be. But Alex was vindicated for all the shit Eliza put her through. That’s the only reason she and Eliza’s relationship can look the way it does now.
Question of Smoke 