Tag: supergirl

eloquentdrivil:

randomramblingsbymyself:

overkill-max:

shatterpath:

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.

charlotteofoz:

comickergirl:

bridgetteirish:

racethewind10:

karatam:

Kara Danvers totally makes an appearance on Sesame Street as Supergirl

Kara as Supergirl, with Elmo and Grover and Big Bird (definitely with Big Bird) talking about how to deal with bullies. 

Kara in her suit and and cape with that smile on her face that makes people smile back whether they meant to or not and kids trust her instantly, talking about adoptive families and getting along with your siblings. And no she can’t say who her adoptive family here on earth is, because they need to stay safe but she can talk about how much she loves them, just like she still loves her biological family even though she misses them every day.  She can talk about the times it was hard fitting in with a new family and how sometimes someone might say something hurtful (and how sometimes that someone was her) but how family means talking and forgiveness and understanding and love whether you were born into it, or you found each other (and maybe she goes home that night and she and Alex don’t talk they just hug tighter than usual and Alex’ eyes are suspiciously shiny when she steals the remote). 

Kara with her chin up and her shoulders squared and her voice not shaking at all (J’onn gives her a nod when she comes back to the DEO and a quiet “good job, Supergirl,” that means everything) talking about being far from home and trying to adjust to a new culture and a new language and how it hurt when people made fun of her and how they live in a big world where a lot of people have to leave their homes sometimes for very bad reasons and how sometimes all it takes is someone holding out their hand and saying “you can sit with us at lunch” to make things a little better. 

Kara kissing Elmo on the top of his head and Elmo giggling, and then floating up to hug Big Bird so he doesn’t have to bend down. 

Kara definitely being invited back. 

Kara and Sesame Street

Reblogging again for the heartbreaking commentary.
The Sesame Street episode I never knew I always needed.

I consider it canon that in the universe where Supergirl and Superman are real, the Muppets are real also, and Superman has sung ‘Rainbow Connection’ with Kermit at least twice.

racethewind10:

supergirl-source:

I went to work for Cat Grant because I thought working in a media company run by a powerful woman who actually shapes the way people think would be the way that I could make a difference but instead I just fetch layouts and coffee. […] I’m not normal, I have the same powers he does. I can lift a bus, stop a bullet. Alex, I can fly.

#I really really love this quote#bc one of my biggest questions regarding Kara#is why she didn’t follow in her cousin’s footsteps#and basically /closeted/ herself#My personal headcanon is Kara’s greatest fear is hurting the ppl she loves#most particularly the Danvers#Like for the first ten years of her life.. Kara was able to be /normal/#reckless and stumbling and clumsy#then she arrives on a world where that same childlike recklessness can actually get people killed#a child with the strength of several dozen men#and one day.. she saw how being /normal/ can hurt someone#and she wound up hurting her sister Alex#Kara with her childlike hero worship.. hurting the one person she treasures most#her sister#an act that would terrify Kara#the world has its hero.. Superman#Kara does the one thing she believes will keep her hero in her life.. gives up using her powers (via @trancer21)

This makes that scene in episode 2 even more poignant,  because its not just Kara asking her big sister to have faith in her, its Kara asking the person she hurt, the one who means so much to her that she would give up everything for, to trust that she won’t make the same mistake again.