i’ve seen some people say that they think kara gave up on the rooftop when she was fighting reign and it makes me so mad???

motorcyclegirlfriends:

I don’t think they necessarily meant anything by it, at least the post that I saw and the people who agreed with it.

It felt like “let’s make this even sadder” rather than any kind of Kara hate. But as sometimes happens with headcanons in this fandom, in an attempt to make things more interesting for them, they compromised the truth of the character.

Really, if you think Kara gave up on that rooftop, you’re sorta missing one of the core messages of the scene. Particularly as conveyed in this moment:

“I’m gonna kill you.”

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Kara barely managed to lift her head to look Reign in the eye as she spoke. It was an active, relatively long and painful struggle to do so. And yet her words were defiant. 

This was a very purposeful moment to display that—despite being physically incapable of fighting at the moment—Kara was still resisting in the only way she was capable.

People probably read the situation as Kara giving up because she didn’t try to use her heat vision or throw a punch, but she barely manages to just push herself on her knees:

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She was even trying to use her weight and balance rather than physical strength to get her torso up straight.

For much of the scene, her head is lolling around:

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Trying to actually gauge what sort of physical injuries she had at this point and how they would have logically affected her might be too in-depth for a show that relies heavily on pseudo-science (beyond the concussion they pretty purposefully demonstrated to be the turning point of the battle). But we were meant to see that Kara was only physically capable of moving pretty minimally on her own at the time.

If she couldn’t even keep her head upright on her neck, throwing another punch was pretty much not an option.

Of course, she knew how bad off she was. I don’t think she was necessarily under the impression that she was gonna gain some sudden energy and defeat Reign in a couple minutes, or even that backup was on it’s way.

When she sees the drop she is in store for, knowing Reign’s intentions:

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Welp, that’s gonna suck.”

But the determination never leaves her eyes.

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It’s all she can really physically do to fight back, and she takes advantage of it.

And that’s important and purposeful. They made a point of it.

Hell, the remnants of that same determination are still around her eyes as she falls:

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And then from that point on I’m pretty sure she’s in la la land—

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—because she passes out before hitting the ground:

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But the reason the scene is so horrifying to witness is because Kara didn’t give up.

Reign got the upper hand when Kara was distracted by the bystanders, and then she utterly defeated Kara. Kara didn’t hold back, didn’t have the opportunity to win but miss her chance. She was fighting the entire time, as much as she physically could.

She just lost anyway.

The two feelings we’re meant to take away from the scene are the shock and horror of what Reign is capable of and admiration of the fact that Kara never gave in. Downplaying either of those things undercuts the true tension of the scene.

In fact, they highlight Kara’s heroic qualities because it ensures that when she falls, we know what it really means: 

The light has fallen. Darkness reigns.

orphanblaque:

as awesome a villain as reign is, i really wish sam hadn’t just immediately been overtaken by it. imagine her dealing with this revelation about who she is while going about her normal life, coping with the information she was given while trying to continue to be good person in the hopes that it won’t come true. a slow build to becoming reign while she internally fights against it, but every day the fight becomes harder. we see reign begin to take control gradually with sam steadily losing her compassion, caring less and less about her work, her friends, her empathy for humans draining out of her. but the one thing she holds on to the longest, the shred of humanity she has left clutching on to it as hard as she can, is her love for ruby. imagine seeing the people around her, in her life witnessing this change and having no idea what’s happening, with reign’s influence destroying all of sam’s friendships one person at a time. but other than ruby, the last person who is still trying to help her and who sam still manages to care about is lena. and then when reign truly takes over and begins to fulfill her purpose, and sam is gone and never comes back home, lena cares for ruby and keeps her safe. and ruby tells lena the things she’s noticed about her mom, like her super strength, and that she believes this new villain terrorizing the city is her mother. lena pretends that she doesn’t believe it, but she does and she shares this info with the core group and kara realizes that she can’t kill reign without killing sam. imagine that shit. 

I’m quitting Femslash Fandom

univcrse:

hijadepavlov:

When Clarke kissed Lexa in The 100, thousands of people rushed to binge-watch the show in order to catch up with the last couple episodes of the second season.
Though the show had never gotten the deserved recognition for its Filipino male lead nor any kind of criticism for the blatant racism in it, suddenly a horde of white fans was rushing to hype it’s “amazing” sapphic representation before The Debacle or to criticize its biphobia/lesbophobia after it all went to shit.

When the first rumors of Alex coming out in season 2 of Supergirl started circulating, again, a myriad of fans rushed to marathon season one so they could catch up in time for the return of the show, and were quick to start stanning Alex, Kara and Maggie, though most paid no attention to James Olsen.
Funnily enough, when Kara got with Mon-El, the criticism from these fans wasn’t that James/Kara had better build-up and that writing decision was blatantly anti-black; but that Kara had better chemistry with Lena, a white woman who should have been played by a disabled actress and instead had her disability completely erased.
These fans don’t criticize the ableism in that choice, the racism in sidelining James or the issues with Maggie Sawyer being promoted as latina when she isn’t, yet praise Supergirl’s representation for (white, cis, thin, able bodied and neurotypical) sapphic women non-stop. The only criticism seems to be that Kara/Mon-El is happening instead of yet another white F/F ship.

Yet, though these and many other examples (Orphan Black, Jessica Jones, Agent Carter and OITNB are ones that comes to mind) show that Femslash Fandom™ is always willing to collectively flock to a new show as long as there are (white) sapphics in it, it doesn’t look like they (we?) apply the same to all media.

A common argument by white sapphics who refuse to watch racially diverse shows is that there are no sapphics in them (for example, The Get Down), or that they are treated badly (for example, Jane The Virgin). It is impossible to have a conversation about how important the racial representation in these shows is without a white sapphic jumping in to derail the conversation, so one would expect that the combination of racial diversity and sapphic representation would be a winning match for Femslash Fandom™. And yet…

As predicted by many black fans at the beginning of the season, Queen Sugar’s first season, though critically acclaimed, went almost entirely unnoticed by fandom. The show is led by a black bisexual woman and her siblings, and Nova (the lead) was shown to be kissing her girlfriend from the very first promos that aired near the beginning of 2016. The show doesn’t have homophobia, Nova is a fully fleshed character and her relationship with her female lover gets decent screentime, which is way more than The 100 could ever say about Clarke and Lexa. Yet the great majority of Femslash Fandom™ completely ignored it.

For two seasons now, fandom has also completely ignored Rosewood. From the very first episode we knew that the show had a main black lesbian happily engaged to a white bisexual woman, and the fans watching it made sure to publicize it on Tumblr and Twitter as much as they could. Yet, now in the second season and with Pippy and TMI only getting more development and screentime as time passes, I have yet to see a single Rosewood gifset crossing my dash, much less one in the many Multifandom Femslash Blogs™ I used to follow.

The first season of No Tomorrow is close to an end and, save for the tweets from my friend @tryingtosprinklealittlefairydust, I had not seen it mentioned it at all. It’s particularly strange, since it’s been almost a month since episode s01e06 aired, and one would assume that a badass, hilarious, hot pansexual Indian woman kissing a beautiful, sweet, charismatic Latina would have Femslash Fandom™ running to catch up with it before the next episode.
Now, with Kareema and Sofia happily engaged, I can’t help but wonder why there is only one gifset of them together in the entire #notomorrowedit tag, and a grand total of maybe fifty gifsets for the show at all.

I shouldn’t be surprised anymore, really. It seems like lack of sapphics is always a good reason for y’all not to watch a racially diverse show, yet non-white sapphics are never a good enough reason to begin one.
Following femslash blogs is an endless parade of racist white ships that exist only at the cost of black and brown men being sidelined in canon, abusive ships and content from awfully racist shows that are hailed as progressive because white sapphics get to feel good about themselves at the cost of everyone else and, the fact is, I’m often everyone else.

As a chronically ill, neurodivergent bisexual latina, I’m not content giving up every other part of my identity to feel like I can be part of a community that doesn’t give a shit about me or any other sapphic who doesn’t look like Alycia Debnam Carey or whatever over straight white actress y’all are stanning for playing a lesbian on TV this week.

this is so so real. white feminism and Femslash Fandom are inextricably linked at this point and it alienates so many wlwoc

all of this + the fosters. it has loads of main characters of color and an interracial lesbian couple as one of the main ships, yet no one watches it?? even though the storyline of lesbians coming to terms with their sexuality after being married to men/having kids is so underrepresented??? and if u compare no tomorrow to wynonna earp where everyone FLOCKED and was hailing it as amazing and talking about how beautiful the wlw were from the earliest stages, way before they even kissed….it has everything to do with whiteness. Femslash Fandom cares about white women only.

*pretends it’s still monday in some timezone* What do you think Astra’s thoughts on GMOs are?

kendrickhier:

*pretends i was actually sent this on monday* Oh man, I am so late replying to this, you know how tumblr is with eating messages! Ahem. Right. GMOs, genetically manipulated organisms, this got a lot more complicated than I thought it would, real fast.

So initially I thought it was only about GM foods, right? And I think Astra’s perfectly fine with those, encouraging if nothing else; you take something nature offers and you improve it, why wouldn’t that be a good thing? Provided we actually execute it properly, that is, which I don’t know, because I’m not a Kryptonian. Or a scientist. Of course Astra would know all about whether these processes are harmful to either nature or ourselves in any way, but if we’re doing it wrong I think she’d try to correct us before she’d try to stop us.

But then I looked at the actual wikipedia page and discovered this transcended plant life and went into actual living organisms, including humans. That is where it gets complicated, and you are evil for asking me this. Fuck you, I love it.

So when it comes to living beings, we run into the fact that this is exactly what Krypton did with the birthing matrix and the codex and all that jazz; genetically manipulate the people to be perfect. Which would be fine, if it weren’t for the fact that as a twin, Astra was not considered perfect. Let’s not pretend like she wasn’t the protagonist of a dystopic story in a ‘perfect’ world. Her experience with this is absolutely horrid, and her lack of faith in people doesn’t help at all.

But she is 1) intelligent af and 2) indoctrinated by the same ‘perfect’ world. Much as it absolutely did not work out well for her, I think she does believe in the methods. I don’t think she believes their system was flawed (weak and willfully ignorant people aside), if anything I think she started to consider herself an abomination. Case in point: the immense self-loathing.

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So, in conclusion? More so than simply supporting it, I think she considers it a standard for an advanced sentient species. You probably won’t hear her encourage people to GM people, but you might hear her muttering about how primitive we are without it. 

weirddyke:

itsmydrink:

weirddyke:

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.

zor-elluthor:

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.

motorcyclegrrl:

motorcyclegirlfriends:

You know what I’d like figured out? What great Supergirl mystery I’d like solved? 

Does Kara eat a lot because she needs to consume a lot of calories since she expends her energy when she uses her powers, or does the sun suffice to recharge her powers and she just eats a lot because she physically can?

She is very plant like. Photosynthesis n all. I think it’s both. I think she is actually hungry AND the food does not make her fat, so she eats it ALL! giggle. We’re gonna eat it alllllll.

Let me share an angsty headcanon with you

supercatmeta:

Special post today, a meta by @caycelikessuperheroes!

At the beginning of this season we see Kara obviously still mourning the loss of Mon-el, the whole episode in fact is a reiteration of the idea that Kara just *won’t get over him*, that Kara Danvers is weak, useless, broken by grief, and the only thing left to do is is to be Supergirl, the girl of steel, someone who will survive the loss of a loved one because she’s more-than-human.

But the thing is, Kara’s never had the chance to experience what it feels to really be Mon-el’s girlfriend without haste, drama, or the outside pressure!

She was initially attracted to him because he was a fellow alien, a boy with powers, someone other than Kal-el with whom to share memories of Krypton and other worlds far away.

She took him under her wing and trained him, tried to teach him how to be a hero, how to blend in with humans, how to try to have a normal life on Earth.

She was badgered into a relationship with him at his insistence, and at the hand of everybody around Kara slowly taking a step back and leaving her alone, with no other options but to give in.

And in the end she was betrayed by the revelation he was in fact the prince of Daxam, once his parents showed up to bring him back.

Before she had a chance to live out her boring happy relationship with him, he was poisoned and gone, banished to the phantom zone, Kara on Earth was left to wonder and daydream.

In the very first scene we see her roaming green fields of wheat, some Kryptonian version of the Elysian Fields, Mon-el is there and they’re happy. We find out right away that this is a fantasy, this is what Kara’s been obsessing about since he’s been gone.

It’s clear at this point that Kara is mourning an idealised version of him: the Mon-el we see in that vision is no longer him but “the love that could’ve been” (if only he hadn’t been selfish, utterly uninterested in using his powers for good, if only he hadn’t lied about being the prince of Daxam, if only he hadn’t been poisoned in an effort to rid the world of the Daxamite invaders, etc)

In the meantime Cat is gone too. She came back from a year of hanging out in internet-connected yurts only to put all of her shares of CatCo in a blind trust fund and go follow Olivia in Washington.

In a moment where Kara’s life is in shambles, where she needs to seek refuge in normality and routine to overcome her grief, Cat leaves her once again.

We see Kara smile when she sees her on tv, but we also see Kara quit her job at CatCo on a whim: she doesn’t seem to care about being a reporter anymore, and why should she, now that the person who used to read all of her articles isn’t even the owner of CatCo anymore?

In one of my favourite scenes of the episode Alex challenges her decision to leave her job,

Alex: Since when do you quit?

Kara: CatCo isn’t the point for me anymore.

Alex: You spent years working your way up to be a reporter.

Kara: And it was a waste of time.

Alex: I would love to see you tell Cat Grant that.

Kara: Cat moved on. Why can’t I?

This tells us two things:

1. Kara’s bitter as hell about Cat leaving CatCo, this is no longer a leave of absence, this is giving up the project of her lifetime: in Kara’s eyes, Cat has “moved on”.

2. If Cat’s no longer the boss to impress, a mentor to look up to, then there is literally nothing keeping Kara tied to CatCo as a business, and perhaps even journalism as a profession.

“Kara Danvers sucks” she yells at Alex, and indeed Kara Danvers’s life does suck, her boyfriend is gone and when she needed her the most Cat has left her alone.

Kara’s bitterness and brooding tells us that she’s lost, looking for an anchor. Cat used to be her anchor, last season that anchor was the boy from Daxam, and with him gone, Kara’s only option is to retreat into what she knows best: Supergirl.

Which brings us to my main point: Kara’s grief is not about Mon-el, to an extent it isn’t even about Cat specifically. Kara’s grief is first and foremost about Krypton, about the life she was supposed to have, about getting stuck on the way to Earth and not being able to help Kal-el grow up, about the universe always incessantly throwing a spanner in the works.

It’s about loss, abandonment, it’s about the life that could’ve been, all the chances that she was denied. It’s the kind of frustration that even the strongest hero on earth can’t do anything about.

motorcyclegirlfriends:

Listen, I love our girls together and posts about how drastic they’re being on behalf of each other are funny, but it’s also important to remember the other important aspects of their characters and lives.

So just a reminder—

1. Lena bought Catco for more reasons than just making Kara feel better or to be with Kara. 

She’s an intelligent business woman and knows that the positive press she’s been getting is instrumental in her end game of making L-Corp a positive force, and it would actively turn to negative press with Edge at it’s helm. It’d be really really bad for her.

Lena buying Catco has been described in Supergirl press as her doing something big for Kara, but she would not have actually ended up buying Catco if there were not massive benefits for doing so. 

In fact, in an alternate universe in which she didn’t know Kara but was still getting good press from Catco and still was concerned about what Edge would do with Catco (a.k.a. the same situation but without Kara), she’d still buy it.

Others have already spoken more thoroughly about this idea but it bears repeating.

2. Kara was not singlehandedly brought out of her depression by Lena, and she wasn’t regularly lashing out at everyone except Lena. 

The only times that Kara was seen to react defensively were when she was confronted with how closed off she’s being—which is something that we’re lead to believe has only just been happening this episode since they’ve been giving her space. She hasn’t been walking around saying mean things to people out of nowhere, she’s just been keeping herself from feeling.

And Lena does not get any of that because Lena does not confront Kara. When she implies that there are other reasons that Kara is avoiding her, it’s about Lena’s role in it all rather than what it actually is for Kara—cutting herself off from everyone. So Kara just reassures her because she isn’t being prodded about what it actually is. It being Lena’s fault is nonsense, and it’s really easy to say that.

And when Kara says she quit her job, Lena doesn’t say “Um, what the hell?? Why????” she just gives her a reason to come back.

Which brings me to my next point.

Helping people is Kara’s main concern a lot of the time, and currently the only thing she is letting herself care about.

And Lena plays a big role in bringing Kara a little bit back to herself for this reason. But she’s the final push (other than Kara’s pushing of herself, which is important to remember, too) out of many little pushes that have helped Kara move forward.

James confronts her first and it forces Kara to say what she’s been thinking the whole time—Kara Danvers doesn’t help people. And he says things that she isn’t ready to accept now—that Kara Danvers does help people, as a reporter—but that will help her later when she has more reasons to believe it’s true.

Alex’s confrontation is rather messy and unsuccessful at getting through to Kara, until the end. Those final words, “Kara Danvers is my favorite person. She saved me more times than Supergirl ever could. So just think about that while you’re trying to get rid of her.” are exactly the counter argument for what Kara is thinking, and Kara is forced to sit with it.

When Kara talks to J’onn, she voices her deeper fear (as an argument for what Alex said), “I can’t help people if I’m broken.”

She thinks Kara Danvers is broken. And if she lets herself be her, she’d be failing Earth. Her mother. Her birth family. Her Earth family. Because she can’t help people that way, and that’s her purpose.

But J’onn gives Kara a specific example of how Kara Danvers has helped him. And—importantly—because of her grief. 

And when Lena asks Kara to go back to Catco, she’s proving that Kara Danvers can still help people, right now. This is a concrete thing example of something only Kara Danvers can do for someone. (Which is one example of why Kara really needs Lena to only see her as Kara Danvers, for the time being.)

It’s Kara’s entire support system that works together to help Kara.

1. James forces Kara to voice the idea Kara has—that she has to only be Supergirl because Kara Danvers can’t help people— so they can argue against it.

2. Alex gives a general counter argument that Kara has to consider, does consider—Kara Danvers helps her more than Supergirl.

3. J’onn gives a specific example for how Kara Danvers has helped him in the past—Kara Danvers’ grief helped him deal with his own.

4. Lena offers a specific example for how Kara Danvers can help her in the present—Kara Danvers is the only person who can help Lena learn to run Catco.

All of these are vital to Kara’s progression, vital to getting her to want to “wake up.” There is no one person who gets through to her. 

It’s everyone who cares about her helping her to move forward, together, and that’s kind of why it’s great.

So forgetting that would be a massive pity.


Posts prioritizing supercorp stuff over their other character content may make us laugh or feel good about their connection, but they are also often inaccurate to the full picture, and we should remember that.

It’s just as important for us, the fans, not to lose the individual within the romantic relationship as it is for the writers.

I read your post regarding Cat’s storyline, & I think what you said about the position/how THIS is Cat diving really hits the nail on the head. However, it’s how Catco was sold that is bothering me… a blind trust fund, really?! As you said, ambitious people “place someone competent in charge of keeping it intact.” This is Cat’s legacy. Don’t you think it’s awfully OOC that Cat had zero involvement in who bought her company? That she (presumably) wasn’t even aware that Edge was trying to buy…

bridgetteirish:

it? I find it hard to believe that after building Catco from scratch, Cat would sell the her shares with zero influence on the company’s future. If only because her legacy could end up in the hands of someone like Edge. Thoughts? I’m not saying they ruined Cat’s character or she’s no longer a role model, I just really disliked the way the writers handled the whole “Lena buys Catco” thing. It felt insulting to Cat’s character.


I wasn’t going to answer this, because I want this particular fandom divide to die… yesterday, but this ask isn’t hateful, or angry, or unreasonable.  It was thoughtful and kind and I felt it deserved a response.

This got long, but you did ask for my thoughts.  And this is the last time I intend to speak about it.  So here goes.I could try really hard to convince you to see it from my Point of View.

I could tell you how I’ve been reading a bit on blind trusts (I have) and that by virtue of the Ethics in Government Act, when Cat took a position as a high-ranking Government official she was required by law to place her shares in a Qualified Blind Trust to avoid conflict of interest.  I could tell you that the person chosen to manage that trust had to be someone entirely unaffiliated with Cat or her business.  And that she was forbidden, upon penalty of federal prison, to have any knowledge of, or handling in the sale of those shares.  It happened, according to federal law, without her knowledge.  Had Cat Grant sailed in to save her company and prevent the sale, she would have been in handcuffs by the end of the week and been given a semi-permanent cell in Club Fed by the end of the month.  

You could argue that Cat would never take the job as WHPS if this were the consequence.  That may be true.  I happen to disagree, for reasons stated in the post you mentioned.  I think her adventurous heart would do exactly this kind of thing and her legacy is still firmly intact.  

But here’s the cool thing.  It’s FINE if we disagree.  This is fandom and everyone has an opinion and it is not my place to try and sway yours.  I am neither eloquent enough, nor persuasive enough, nor influential enough to do so.  So, this is not a campaign to change your mind.  I’m fairly sure I cannot do that.  It’s okay to feel angry or sad or frustrated or whatever you feel at this turn of events.  I’m not going to get upset with people for that.  I will miss Cat too.  I’d give anything to have her in Kara’s orbit, but we don’t get that and, as I have spoken at length about before, I respect Calista’s decision in that case.  So, WHPS, and whatever comes after, in my opinion, is a pretty cool consolation prize.  But I’m a long-time West Wing and CJ Cregg fan, so take that for what it’s worth.

Now, I could give you a million headcanons about how Cat made Lucy Lane the executor of her blind trust, because, while acquainted, Lucy is not related to Cat, only worked for her for a brief time, is no longer employed by CatCo and is, by virtue of her military decoration and status with the Bar Association, probably above reproach.  And when Morgan Edge sailed in to purchase Cat’s shares, Lucy’s spidey senses likely told her to stall for all she was worth and Lena Luthor presented herself as a somewhat better alternative.  But that’s just a headcanon, and I’m perfectly aware of many people’s anger at the Lena angle specifically, so… grains of salt… everywhere.

The truth is, as evidenced by this post, I’ve always spoken better through my fic, so maybe I’ll let my fic speak for me in this case.

I wrote a story exactly a year ago this month, about almost this exact scenario.  Some of us saw this coming the day it was announced that Lynda Carter was playing the President.  It was also foreshadowed nicely in the show.  Cat announced her departure in 2.02. President Wonder Woman turned up in 2.03.  This… was not really a surprise.  And several of us have been joking about requesting royalties for having the idea first.

If Monday’s writing was problematic, then so was mine.  Cat has the chance, in my fic, to return to CatCo when it is made available to her, and she takes a different path.  And, in the end, everyone ends up somewhere unexpected. So, as I said, I’ll let my fic speak for me.  It’ll (hopefully) be more enjoyable than my endless tumblr rambles.

The Fall is Only the Beginning

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8153266/chapters/18685282

Cheers!
Bridge.