#catgrantawesome

[catgrantawesome]

White House Press Secretary Cat Grant

[mitski]

cat grant appreciation week day 1: favourite scene (any scene of cat giving advice to kara really)

every woman worth her salt knows that we have to work twice as hard as a man to be thought of as half as good.

[redfield5x5]

Cat Grant Appreciation Week | day 6: favourite relationship

↳ Cat x Kara

You inspire me, Kara. I can see the hero within you. Now get out and make me proud.

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Cat Grant Appreciation Week (Day Three, Favourite Funny Moment) ↳ The meta Flockhart/Ford reference. (1.19, Myriad)

[namiwave]

Cat Grant Appreciation Week - day 3: Favourite funny moment 

“My letter. Huh. Of course.”

[fictorium]

Cat Grant Appreciation Week

Day 4: Favourite inspiring speech or advice.

This is a breakup scene. It packs more punch than Kara’s actual breakups, for a start. Cat is hurt. By the end, Kara is devastated. But even in such an emotionally charged exchange, Cat is still bringing it as a mentor. 

She isn’t even mean. Not in the way she could have been. Kara gave Cat something so unexpected: a chance to know the son she gave away. Not only by getting him there, but by smoothing the path once Adam arrived. So when he showed an interest in her assistant? Cat saw a way not just to get him, but to keep him.

Who better to trust than it’s worth it, family always is Sunny Danvers? Surely she’s the last person to send Adam away. She does, and she breaks Cat’s heart right along with it.

Does Cat call her names? Threaten to fire her again? No. She uses her own failings, the ones so freshly dragged to the surface, and gives Kara a lesson from them. About priorities, about putting the work before the people you care about. About the difference between a career (a calling) and a life. A whole and happy life.

In fact, from this moment on, I think our relationship should be strictly professional. Boss, employee. That way, everything is very clear. Nobody gets confused. Nobody gets hurt.

It’s a rejection, one that stings Kara (and Cat herself, honestly) but in a lot of ways it’s the best possible decision for Kara’s job security and progression. In theory. We all know it’s better when they’re close, when they’re up in each other’s business, but when their personal lives have encroached on work this is probably smarter.

But the fact that even in heartbreak Cat still points out the mistakes to Kara gives away just how much she cares, how much she’s desperately trying not to. Sometimes the best advice is the toughest to hear.

[wondertwinc]

CAT GRANT WEEK - day two [favorite quote] ↳ “You know, the worst decisions that I've ever made in my life were based on fear. But you showed me that there was another way to be strong, by having faith in people. By believing that goodness would prevail. And because of you, I started letting people in.” [1x19]

[actualhumancryptid]

Cat Grant Appreciation Week - day 1: Favourite Scene. 

Yes, this is probably everyone’s favourite supercat scene, and I could chose a less obvious one, or a more Cat-centric one. But for me, this was a moment to fall in love with Calista completely. Truthfully, most of my fave Cat scenes are her being her meanest and snarkiest, using that killer comic timing to great effect. But this is the scene I love the most, based entirely on this small moment.

She had a plan, she was certain that her suspicions about Kara were correct. She was powerful and exacting in her execution, in getting Kara to pull that wall down. And yet for a brief second, when Cat realises she is right, she is the one who becomes vulnerable and overwhelmed by the truth of Kara. The snarky one-upmanship and self-congratulating is nowhere. Not here, not until she gathers herself together again. I love this moment, because she aimed to strip Kara bare, and yet we see Cat shaken by it and a little lost. If only for a second.