I made a joke here about how every one here has slept with at least one other person in this photo. Then I figured what the heck, let’s rank these ships. I’ll be keeping it to just couples, as including throuples would take a lot more time and they don’t really interest me. I’m also not necessarily going to go by the main comic continuity versions of these characters as much as whatever I think would be the best version of the ship. Lastly, please understand: I’m aware many of these ships involve characters who have never interacted before. That’s never stopped me before and it’s not going to stop me now lmao
#10: Kendra x Nia. Shoutout to their live action actresses both being queer in real life, but this is one of the few ships that I can’t quite see the picture here.
#9: Jo x Nia. This is another one where I just can’t quite see the picture here either. However, they are the only two women here that DC actively allows to be queer and not just for Pride marketing or Elseworlds, so they’ve got that going for them.
#8: Diana x Nia. Listen, Nia is my third favorite character here (with Diana as my #1), so I don’t love that most of her ships are this low, but it is what it is. Diana Prince being Diana “It’s called chemistry. I have it with everybody.” Prince is also doing some heavy lifting to keep this pairing from being lower. That being said, I think a version of Nia closer to her CW Supergirl incarnation’s age but with the personality of her comic book counterpart (one that isn’t constrained by the limitations of network television) and just about any Diana could be a fun, May/December-ish, queer romance.
#7: Diana x Jo. While I don’t remember seeing them interact, they’re both canonically bisexual, so the chances of them ever getting together may be low, but it’s never zero.
#6: Jo x Kendra. The DCAU Justice League gave us the blueprint for how a Lantern/Hawk relationship could work. Making it queer just makes it better in my opinion.
#5: Jo x Kara. I think if Jo around the time of Far Sector had come across a Woman of Tomorrow-era Kara, these two could’ve had a beautiful disaster of a fling together.
#4: Diana x Kendra. Again, one can simply turn to the DCAU Justice League to see the appeal lol. I know the show used Shayera instead of Kendra, but I think they have similar enough personalities (at least DCAU Shayera does with most versions of Kendra I’ve seen) that their different origins doesn’t really matter.
#3: Kara x Kendra. I’m giving this the slight edge over Diana x Kendra due to recency bias because of the new DCU Superman movie. Did I ship them before this movie? No. Did they share a scene together? Also no. But vision is the ability to see potential in what others overlook lol. For starters, they’re both assholes flawed, possibly even broken (to very different extents.) Being two young women in their 20’s with seemingly small social circles, it’s not hard to imagine them gravitating towards one another because of that. Would it be healthy? Probably not, but not every relationship is going to be… and as readers, sometimes we can enjoy a little toxic yuri… as a treat (especially if, as I headcanon, Kendra may have been the one to introduce Kara to alcohol, gave Kara the idea of traveling to red sun planets in order to feel the effect of alcohol and/or was the partner Kara chose to lose her virginity with.) Secondly… they’re both hot hahahaha
#2: Kara x Nia. Superdreamer is just an underrated ship.
#1: Diana x Kara. I have so many thoughts on them bahahahahahaha
They’re my #1 & #2 favorite female DC characters of all time
They’re DC’s #1 & #2 female characters who deserve to and should be allowed to kiss more women. Diana’s canonically bisexual, Kara is consistently bi-coded, they’re both kissing women in multiple Elseworlds, so there’s no harm in one more (they wouldn’t work in DC main continuity.)
My love for Supergirl really didn’t start until the CW Supergirl series, where she’s depicted in her mid-to-late 20’s. I’ve gone back and read all her post-Crisis comics since then but Benoist is closer to the version of the character I picture in my head when I think of Kara and Diana together.
Are they my first choice of queer romance for each other? No, but they’re probably within the top 4-5 pairings that I have for both of them. It also helps that Kara has no endgame love interest in the comics (she’s been with like one person more than she’s been with any other but they haven’t been together in forever and in my opinion, that ship is better than some worse alternatives but still pretty overrated.) And Diana has Steve… so she basically has no endgame love interest in the comics (Steve’s boring, he’s always been boring, he’s been killed off three times for being boring, most of her best stories don’t feature Steve as her love interest and Diana has now spent more of her history not being with him than she has spent with him.)
The benefit of them not being my first choice of relationship for the other is that both characters are often depicted as being likely immortal, while most of their love interests are not. I do enjoy the idea of them coming together later in their lives as well.
While their relationship would mean that they don’t have a human love interest to keep them grounded, which is one of the main arguments against het S*perwonder, I’d be willing to take that trade off here. 1) None of the other arguments against het S*perwonder really applies to Diana x Kara (Superwlwonder?) and 2) when people bring up the human love interests keeping Diana and Clark grounded, they’re referring to Steve and Lois, respectively. Diana x Kara doesn’t interfere with the iconic Clois and as I stated earlier, I don’t care for Steve, so it’s less of an issue here.
They’re already canon in DC’s Dark Knights of Steel (Zala = Kara, you can’t change my mind.)
I got excited for Dark Knights of Steel II next year, so this seems like a good opportunity for me to end this by resharing the image that broke my brain three years ago:
In considering the beliefs of the Native American peoples, there is not a single belief system. Each tribe developed their own relationship with their inner life as it connected with and contributed to their external environment and needs. In looking at the fairly pure statements of traditional Amerindians in such books as Black Elk Speaks, and Ishi, it is fairly obvious however that dreams were generally considered as a form of reality or information to be highly regarded.
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Dreams can be many things, from individual to absolutely collective, some of them have noise and no color, some have color and no sound, they all vary depending on the dreamer (self or not).
Despite all of that, they are full of meaning and beauty with so much symbolism involved: spirit animals, stars/astrology, people, creatures, flowers. Everything we see and know in our daily conscious and unconscious lives representing different things that lie in our subconscious either unsolved, unheard or simply just there. And I believe that the best part is that it all can be interpreted.
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Let me give you an example with the next dream:
“I once dreamt about a red and black demon, it was living in my home’s attic. When I found it, I didn’t ask for help (like I normally would have), I chose not to endanger its life. I knew that if father were to see it, he would kill it without a trace of doubt, he’s headstrong like that.
No, Instead I befriended it and was determined to help it get over its pain.
Soon enough, IT became a HIM, a him I learnt to love existentially as well as nurture accordingly. I couldn’t feel more proud. Sadly enough, the next day my father found it, and just as I expected, he killed him.
At least he died in peace, I thought. Honestly, I wasn’t sure how to feel about it”
Interpretation:
This was a dream of a 13-year-old girl, who was working hard on her healing relationship with her father. She was growing up, she was discovering and unveiling her own defense mechanisms and her own ways of coping with loss, herself, everything. The things that once seemed menacing as a child (the demon and its pain) were showing their true complexities, that nothing is truly a 100% black or white and how she was slowly starting to realize that within her daily physical life. In her dream, there was a high contrast between her ways of dealing with danger or ‘evil’ and her father’s, she was accepting that they weren’t the same and that she still had to figure out how that made her feel, she was no longer just an infant.
The house’s areas are also very meaningful. One might have a special connection to a certain part of their home, usually because they’re tied to small yet meaningful rituals or memories. The attic can represent the mind, forgotten things, purposefully hidden things; in this case, the demon was intentionally hidden there a long time ago, this was the girl’s pain coping mechanism as a child, hiding visibly menacing stuff from herself until she forgot. Now, in this dream, she’s accepting and uncovering her traumas red and black, a mix between dead and still bleeding wounds, she’s learning and feeling how to heal for it to become part of her as an individual and help her in her decision taking skills regarding her new relationships.
In the end, her father kills the demon, the thing she has been working hard on, YET notice how she wasn’t angry at him, even though she was sad she understood, explaining once again how she’s accepting the differences between him and herself
- I hope you have enjoyed this reading/interpretation :)
The happiness of the Light can be ours, and will be ours, for it is our home from whence we came, and to where we shall return. In the darkness we experience many things, and we learn to long for the Light, which, if we seek it we shall find.
Meanwhile, let us remember that we have been sent into the darkness to learn its lessons. Let us study it, and face it, for it is one with the Dweller. When we understand it, and overcome it, then will its darkness become Light, and we will be HOME.
You are the sum total of your past. If you stop blaming your present experience on others it gives you a wonderful opportunity to create a new future. Today, this hour, this moment is the most miraculous thing. What you do today, this hour, this moment reaches far into the future in an unbelievable way. If you are honest you can trace back your present predicament to the past. So your present attitudes, actions, thoughts, love or lack of it is creating your future. Remember that you are far more than you currently believe. You are Life, expressing now, this moment. Look around at what Life can do. It can express as an amazing number of forms and in amazing environments. That infinite potential is at the Core of you. We direct our lives with habits, beliefs and convictions that arose from life in the past. Tomorrow’s world calls to us of unprecedented change. Not only do we need to gather the best from what the past has taught us, we also need to be capable of leaping beyond that with the sort of creative dynamism that arises from our creative core. If it hasn’t, what will you do when it comes – and it is coming! Will you put up rigid defences hoping the rising tide will not breach your old castle walls? There is a huge shift going on in the way people are living and responding to challenges. You can most likely see this enormous social transformation or are sensing it through feelings of unease or despair about world events. The tidal wave of change, of the impact of global warming and the economic roller coaster ride has already reached the shore of your life. Don’t try to maintain the status quo with some sort of addictive anesthetic retreat. The revolution is not leading toward destruction but to an enormous evolutionary step forward. Defensiveness or avoiding what is happening leaves you in the backwaters. http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/habits/
If I believe on whatever the internet says about dreams and dream meanings. Here’s the meaning from http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/coin-coin/
Finding coins: Has in it not only a sense of finding things potentially valuable, and therefore allowing you more possibilities in life, but also at times confronts you with possessiveness, ownership, or sharing.
I was with my ex-colleague, also a graphic designer. Sabay kami nakakita ng coin, sa buhanginan. I found a 5 peso coin, and she found a 5 centavo coin. I felt proud and happy that I found a bigger coin. The end.
