Kara: Okay, time to go around and say what we’re all thankful for
Alex: This thanksgiving, I’m thankful for my alien gun
Kara: Alex
Alex: *drinks wine*
James: I’m thankful for not being a part of the plot anymore, so I have lots of time to work on my muscles
Winn: I’m thankful that my creepy girlfriend disappeared without a trace or a mention
Lena: I’m thankful for all of the companies I could buy for Kara.
Alex: *snorts*
Lena: I mean, for the world. For the good of journalism.
Alex: *snorts and chokes on wine*
Lena: I’m also thankful for all my sassy comebacks to douchebag men this past year
Maggie: CHEERS TO THAT
Alex: AMEN SISTER
Maggie: I’m thankful for this amazing family who has accepted me and loves me, and of course, for Alex, my beautiful fiancée, who I love more than life itself and is the best gift I’ve ever gotten
Kara: *cries*
James: *cries*
Lena: *cries delicately*
Winn: *ugly sobs *
Alex: HERE, TAKE MY ALIEN GUN, I LOVE YOU, SHUT UP, GIVE ME TURKEY
whERE is my thanksgiving au where kara posts an ad on craiglists about being an “alien gf for hire” to piss off anti-alien parents and lena hires her to take home to lillian
“is ur family always talking about those damn aliens and how they should jsut go back to their own planet and not take ur jobs?
wanna really stick it to them? look no further!
I can either
be openly alien the whole dinner, to make ur bigoted family feel inferior
or dramatically come out when the subject is brought up
will charm the pants of everyone in either situation! Will also throw hands with anybody you want me to (i wont kill anybody or seriously harm them) (this goes doubly for homophobic family members if you’re a lady)
honestly I see so many jokes about how lena constantly says she can always tell when Kara is lying and that she’s horrible at keeping secrets from her but the thing that’s tragic is that lena is actually pretty damn good at spotting what Kara’s feeling, even when she doesn’t know the actual details. it’s part of what makes them such good friends– they’re emotionally honest with each other.
so even if she doesn’t know that Kara is supergirl she probably knows when Kara is lying. And that’s why she always brings it up, she doesn’t know what it’s about but she knows that it’s happening. And can you imagine little 13 year old lena, watching her beloved big brother slowly descend into madness and she knows something is horribly horribly wrong, but she has no idea what and everyone tells her she’s imagining things, that everything is fine?
she’s never been more upset to discover she’s right.
lena may not know that Kara is supergirl but she does know that Kara is lying to her. except, Kara’s not lex–shes the best person she knows. and she’s not lying to any of her other friends or her sister, so it’s just to lena–she can’t fault Kara for that. she’s trying, but she’s a luthor after all. if the most moral person she’s ever met doesn’t trust her then maybe she shouldn’t be trusted.
i can’t stop thinking about the way kara walks into lena’s office as supergirl before confronting edge. she’s in FULL power stance, the most iconic and recognisable pose for a superhero. this is what supergirl looks like when they put her on lunchboxes. why then, if kara spends the episode saving hundreds and thousands of people, do we only see her strike this pose in a corporate office in front of a man who poses minimal physical threat?
it’s because with lena, they position kara as the classic, romantic, superman-like hero. we see this with the bridal carry, another iconic superman image. the way we see supergirl through lena’s eyes is the way that we see clark through lois’s – as a romantic lead. with mon-el and james kara never acted this gallantly, never struck this pose to instil confidence/safety in them or carried them or put her arm around them like a quarterback comforting his pregnant cheerleader girlfriend lmao (which i’ve already talked about in this way a lot!!).
in her relationship with lena, kara is allowed to fulfil the narrative duties that a male hero would, in doing so creating a whole system of romantic lesbian coding by signalling the viewer through iconic superhero imagery that lena is her lois. good morning everyone supercorp rise
I feel like this post symbolises one of the biggest problems with Supergirl as a show. I would adore Kara and Lena to become a thing but we know it won’t happen. The problem here is that Kara is only allowed to fulfil that typical ‘superhero’ roll around another female, because she’s female. Because the show still doesn’t put her on the same level as the males.
with all due respect i don’t think kara not being able to fulfil this romantic role around men somehow makes her lesser than male heroes. this coding between kara and lena shifts the heterosexual paradigm found in lois and clark in lots of important ways. although we’re visually signalled to a damsel/hero dynamic kara and lena offer mutual support to each other and their dynamic is one of equals.
my point is that kara’s heroic in her own way throughout the entire show but this visual language is borrowed from the legacy of superman’s heroism to position kara as lena’s romantic lead. whether or not that eventuates in canon/beyond subtext is beside the point.
Lena has the constitution of a forty year old financial analyst. She knows, because she’s drunk some of them right under the table, pissing matches with L-Corp’s banking and finance execs when they refused to get on board with her plans. Some of them had quit. Others had been impressed with her willingness to play their game and beat them at it. Others were glad they hadn’t lost their job and didn’t care who or what she was. Mostly she’d just been grateful undergrad in the engineering faculty had prepared her for dealing with asshole men who didn’t think a girl could hack it.
So she can drink, and she can drink well.
Tonight L-Corp played host to National City’s Annual Women in Science Gala, and it had gone amazingly well. Nothing had blown up, no one had tried to kill anyone, and she’d managed not to have a panic attack before her speech. It had gone so well she lost track of her drinks, and the glass of wine she’d poured herself when she finally got home has sent her sailing way past buzzed and right into, well.
Lena can drink, right up until she can’t. And she’s never been a good judge of when that might be. Tonight she hadn’t wanted to.
It was a good night. And her best friend hadn’t been there, even after she promised.
She squints at her phone in the dark, trying to type as she slips her toe against the back of her heel, unsuccessful in her attempt to get her damn uncomfortable shoe off her now noticeably throbbing foot.
yu should come ovr
She’s not so far gone that she can’t tell that message is a mess, and she smashes the backspace until it disappears.
are you awake?
There. That’s good.
kara danvers:hey, what’s up?
kara danvers:are you okay????
Oh. She didn’t think this through. She just, she wanted Kara to come over? Kara could help her get her shoe off.
i need yur help
She blinks, and then again, and it feels like it lasts longer that the first one, and she probably shouldn’t send that text.
She should probably tell whoever’s knocking at her balcony door to go away, too, because she really needs some sleep. Just as soon as–“Lena!”
What?
“Lena, if you don’t move in the next three seconds I’m going to rip this door open, and–”
“Wait,” she thinks she says, and for good measure waves her hand while she gathers herself enough to shift onto her side, made difficult by the skirt still zipped tight around her hips and thighs and, oh, Kara’s outside on the balcony.
“Are you okay?” Kara asks through the glass, hands on hips and cape fluttering around her shoulders. “Are you– are you drunk?”
“Nooo.” And okay, it’s not very convincing, so she sits up, pretty successfully if you ask her. “What are you doing here?”
“You texted me.”
And okay, yes, she did.
She did, and she starts to laugh, because she texted Kara and now Supergirl is standing on her balcony, and it’s still new, this knowledge that her best friend Kara and her city’s hero are one in the same, and she just really wasn’t expecting Supergirl to show up because she couldn’t get her shoe off. It’s still so new that she hasn’t fully processed it, and now here’s Kara looking at her like she really will break the door if Lena doesn’t assure her that she’s okay.
“No I didn’t,” she laughs, the tingle of something awful at the edge of her voice, and she drops back down against the bed, utterly exhausted. “I texted Kara.”
“Lena.” And Kara sounds so sad, Lena has to close her eyes. “I thought we–” And then the sound of Kara’s voice isn’t so muffled anymore, the air in the room isn’t so warm, and the side of the bed dips, Kara’s hand brushing the hair back from Lena’s face. “We talked about this.”
“I need help with my shoe,” she says, instead of whatever else is fighting its way out of her brain and into her mouth. “Please just help me with my shoe.”
Kara is very still beside her, and Lena doesn’t open her eyes, but then her shoe is slipped from her foot, and she hears the tap-tap of it being set down on the floor. “I’ll just–”
She may be drunk, but she’s quick where Kara is slow, and she grabs Kara’s cape before she can move away. “Stay,” she says, head tilting sideways to blink up at the face of her friend the superhero. “We should have that talk.”
I’m all for Lena having already figured out that Kara is Supergirl but what I’m really hoping for is that Kara makes the decision to tell Lena who she really is because she wants Lena to know; that it’s her choice. In whatever form she chooses to tell her.
Think about it: Winn is the only person that Kara has decided to share her secret with, with no underlying motive. Winn is her best friend and she trusts him and she tells him because she wants him to know. And that was in the pilot.
As for all the other people who know her secret? The Danvers, James (and probably Lois) find out through Clark, J’onn found out either through Hank or Jeremiah, Cat figured it out and then confronted her about it in a scene where Kara is extremely uncomfortable the entire time (and then is proven “wrong” by Kara), Maxwell found out through spying, Barry knows something’s up when Kara isn’t bothered by being on fire, there wasn’t exactly a real decision in telling Mon el and Maggie figured it out through Alex’s attachment to Supergirl. These are several people who know Kara’s most precious secret and it wasn’t something she had a real say in.
Now Lucy is a bit of a gray area because on the one hand, yes, Kara decides to tell Lucy who she is but on the other hand, Kara does so because she needs Lucy to trust her in order to protect Alex and J’onn. If the situation was different, Kara would not have told her.
This is why I’m just really, really hoping that Kara gets to tell Lena on her own terms. As someone who finds it very unfair that Kara hasn’t had a lot of say in her own life and as a supercorp shipper, Kara telling Lena because she trusts her and wants the other woman to know (whether or not Lena already knows) can be so good for both of them. A Luthor and a Super who trust and respect each other wholeheartedly.
Prompt! Can we see Supercorp but one where Kara rescues a baby and brings them home and Lena doesn’t wanna get her hopes up about adoption because she doesn’t want Kara to have to outlive her AND a child (Pref a fluffy ending but up to you?)
“Kara, honey, are you home yet?” Lena called out as she kicked off her heels and balanced the bags of take out in her arms.
The quiet of the penthouse greeted her as she hurried toward the kitchen. As she turned on the lights, the city outside disappeared from the large windows. Their home became its own universe, with just the faintest bit of galaxy outside.
Question of Smoke 