Kara only overhears the woman pleading with Mon-El thanks to superhearing, which she tries not to use these days. Maybe it’s that the voice is familiar, maybe it’s the drudgery of perimeter detail, or maybe Kara’s just had it with being a cog in the DEO’s machine.
They’re the public face of law and order now, since National City fell in the invasion. What few people remain don’t get much in the way of policing, but the DEO has taken over responsibility for most public services. There aren’t many resources, and people don’t much understand fairness when what they get is never enough.
Kara bites her tongue a lot, tells herself she’s lucky that Alex and Lena came up with a way to make her DNA pass for human. Being alien now is a death sentence, not that being human in a place like this makes anyone want to live.
“It’s not for me!” The woman insists, and Mon-El is clearly just as bored as Kara if he’s actually listening to a sob story. “It’s for my son, Carter.”
You’re a mystic who runs a shop full of mysterious artifacts and potions and you’re sick of uninformed middle-aged suburban moms asking for energy crystals and herbal weight-loss mixtures while throwing around made-up terms.
When a middle-aged woman rolled into my shop and told me she
was looking for ichor, I didn’t think much of it at first.
You get all kinds in a shop like mine, and doubly so when
you put up the right signs on your door.
The signs that let certain kinds of people know they’re welcome, not
just the collectors or the curious or the new age mystics, looking for this
root or that crystal or wanting to gawk at a jar of old bones, but the less
innocuous individuals as well. The kind
who mean business when they come looking for their… less run-of-the-mill
specialities.
hold open auditions, and cast nobodies. just as the original rent did.
im mostly saying this so i could audition for mark
But not just in NYC. And just like the original, do it under the guise of looking for rock stars. That is something I would love to see.
Wait you’re telling me Idina Mendel was a nobody when she was cast for RENT
Yep. She was a wedding and bar mitzvah singer before she was cast
not only idina but literally everybody in the cast was a nobody. i remember somebody (who wasnt the maim cast, i think?) said that they hesitated to start working on rent because their unemployment check paid more. rent was that kind of show
Y’all know when Mulan is sitting in the rain and watches her parents silhouette disappear as the candle is blown out and then her eyes squint in determination and the music that starts to play and you see her go into the family temple and light a match and bow in respect and then sneak into her parents room and switch the scroll for her hair brooch and then the way her reflection is shown as she pulls the sword and cuts her hair?? It’s literally more iconic than any marvel movie
Y’all know that there is heavy symbolism in that scene to show that Mulan is the spirit of the Great Stone Dragon and that’s why Mushu wasn’t able to awaken it?
im sorry What!! i never knew this! my life feels fuller!!! ahhhh
Mulan sits in the rain underneath the statue of the Great Stone Dragon (who is looking down on her), and suddenly decides on a course of action. She looks up, resolved to go to war in place of her father and runs into the temple where she lights the match and beseeches protection for her family. The stone she bows to and that we see lit up by lightening strike is that of the dragon, whose eyes are looking out after her, lit from underneath by the candles. The scene transitions to the divider in the house that also has an icon of the dragon. where she replaces her hair comb with the summons. Then we see the sword hilt, also the dragon, and as she draws the blade we see her face replace it. She ties up her hair, then as she opens the wardrobe, the handles are also the dragon. After donning the armor, the view shows her facing us, with the hilt of the sword (the face of the dragon) in front of her face, where she then turns the sword to reveal her face, and sheaths it. As she leaves, we flash back to the temple, and the eyes of the dragon flash as her grandmother wakes up.
The Great Stone Dragon resides within her. She is the protector of the family.
After this explanation, the scene where Mushu cannot wake up the stone dragon makes so much more sense. I appreciate the symbolism so much more. I noticed the dragon but didn’t notice she was constantly juxtaposed with the dragon!
B.P.R.D. “Hollow Earth” Story by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden & Tom Sniegoski Pencils by Ryan Sook Inks by Ryan Sook & Curtis Arnold Colors by Dave Stewart Letters by Clem Robins
Cat Grant and her companion Kara Danvers are scientists stationed deep beneath the barren surface of Saturn’s third moon, Titan. Their perfect world is interrupted when Maxwell Lord arrives with his strange red helper robot. The man’s fascination with the women spirals out of control just as Saturn goes into eclipse and cuts off communication with the rest of the solar system. Cat and Kara must fight the insane Lord and his killer robot running amok.
Based on Saturn 3 (1980). Max and his robot blow up. Cat takes Kara to Earth. They live happily ever after and do more crazy science.
TFW you’re bored, you’re going crazy because Supergirl is on looong hiatus, and you have a pile of Amazon boxes to get rid of. RANDOM PROJECT TIME.
I dabbled in prop making a few years ago, then fell out of habit. Thought I’d take it up again, and when I was brainstorming possible projects, I thought ooh it would be fun to make Alex’s favorite alien gun.
The body is cardboard and mat board. I shaped it with a homemade paste of white glue, acrylic paint, and baking soda. The light is a blue LED attached to the body of a marker I tore apart. This was super fun to make!
I’m having a conversation with one of my friends and I ask him, “What defines you?” and he responded with, “Nothing. A definition excludes the possibility for change.”
This is one of the best responses I’ve ever received to any of my questions.
I fell down a rabbit hole of research about inventions circa the 40s and was surprised by a bunch of things that have been around way longer than I thought and some that are strangely reccent, and compiled them into a list. Aka, a resource for fic writers.
Bananas (or rather, the ones we have today. The ones he’d be accustomed to, the Gros Michel, a sweeter, creamier species, went extinct in the 50s and was replaced with the bland Cavendish banana.)
High-fives (the low-five was actually invented first, around WW2, and he may have been familiar with that)
Buffalo Wings (invented in the 60s)
CPR (not invented until the late 40s, not widely known until the 50s)
Tiramisu (invented in the 80s)
Big Macs & McNuggets (while McDonald’s was founded in 1940, the former wasn’t introduced until the 60s, and the latter, the 80s)
Seat belts (the first car to have one was in the late 40s, and only became mandatory to wear them in the 80s. holy shit.)
Walmart (invented in 1962. Or really, the large-scale supermarkets as we know them today really)
Yellow tennis balls (prior to the 70s they were usually black or white)
Panadol (first sold in the US in the 50s)
The smiley face aka 🙂 (popularised in the 60s)
Now alternatively, here’s a list of things Steve WOULD (or possibly would) be familiar with:
I’m not sure why some of these surprised me.
Sunglasses (have been around a lot longer than I thought, and were mass produced in the 20s)
Nokia (was first founded in 1865. I’m not kidding. They began as a pulp mill and moved into making rubber respirators for military from the 30s onwards)
Nintendo (been around since 1889 as a toy company, during the 40s they made playing cards. Wouldn’t be implausible that he knew about Nintendo, perhaps from Morita)
Krispy Kreme (opened in 1937, didn’t spread widely until the 50s however)
Kool-Aid (introduced in the 30s)
Oreos (introduced in 1912)
Printed/graphic tees (didn’t become a trend until the 60s-70s, but they certainly existed in the 40s)
Hoodies (originated in the 30s, worn by workers in cold New York warehouses. Meaning, it’s entirely plausible Bucky could’ve been wearing hoodies in the 40s)
Malls (they weren’t called that back then, but they certainly had shopping centres or plazas since the 1800s)
Converse sneakers (invented in 1908 and have barely changed since!)
the docker/warehouse worker bucky image just got an upgrade i had never conceived of
Question of Smoke 