#queerdox

[daybreakthing]

Queerdox ⚓

a term for being queer & not queer at the same time!

for 💤 anon!

etymology; queer, paradox!

tagging @radiomogai!

[whythinktoomuch]

I know this is hella late but Supercorp - Hogwarts AU or The Good Place AU!

Kara opens her eyes and sees a sign that reads Welcome! Everything is fine, and she believes it.

Then a woman walks into the room, greets her with the most gracious smile, and says, “Hello Kara. My name is Lena. I’m the Architect. Come on in,” and Kara follows her without question. 

From Lena the Architect, Kara learns three very important things: 

1. She’s dead. 

2. There is indeed an afterlife. 

3. She’s in the Good Place. 

Lena shows her around the neighborhood. It’s beautiful, perpetually sunny, has a froyo place with flavors like Flying through the air like a bona fide superhero, and somehow already feels like home. 

“Wow! So, you designed this place, huh?” 

 “Apparently,” Lena says dryly, which is a weird reply, but Kara doesn’t really mind it. 

“What does it mean to work for the Good Place?” Kara asks. “Like, are you an angel? Is that why you look so…” She kinda just gestures up and down Lena’s general frame. 

Lena’s cheeks tinge a bit pink. “It.. doesn’t really work like that,” she says before quickly changing the subject. 

There’s an orientation for all the newcomers and they learn about all the various amenities that their new home has to offer, which apparently includes an omniscient super-computer-like humanoid named Brainy. 

Besides Kara, there are four other recent arrivals—Siobhan, Eve, Sam, and Mike—and they all seem nice enough. When they’re introducing themselves, Mike kinda glances around the group and jokes, “Four chicks and I’m the only guy here? Wow, this really is the Good Place!” 

After a brief pause, Kara offers a polite laugh because no one else would and she’s always tried to be a nice person. 

Absolutely delighted by the attention, Mike shoots her a wink & double finger guns, and that inspires an actual laugh because of how ridiculous it is. 

“All right, that’s enough,” Lena says, and Kara faces forward again. There’s a slight scowl to the Architect’s sharp features, all sense of good humor dropped along with her amiable tone. “As I was saying…” 

For the first time since she’s opened her eyes, Kara can’t help but frown. She tries to ignore the pins & needles now prickling in her lower belly, because something like anxiety wouldn’t exist in the Good Place. 

(Would it?)

You can’t curse in the Good Place. Kara finds that out when Siobhan’s complaining about it over perpetually overflowing coffee. Though everyone else is quick to agree and express similar grievances, Kara is somewhat surprised. 

“Really? You can’t? I haven’t noticed…” 

Siobhan rolls her eyes, plucks at Kara’s pink cardigan. “Well, of course you wouldn’t.” 

A couple of people at the table snicker and Kara just drops her gaze back down at her coffee and doesn’t say much else for the rest of the conversation.

Later that night, Kara decides to give it a shot. Alone, tucked away in her bed underneath two layers of blanket, she quietly mutters to herself, “… What a bench.” It makes her feel a little better.

“Hey, is that allowed?” Kara asks, addressing a couple of Lena’s aides, or more specifically, the joined hands swinging between them. “You can, like, date and stuff here?” 

“Hm? Oh. Yeah, totally,” Winn says. “We were actually soulmates during our first go here.” 

James abruptly clears his throat and gives Winn’s hand a firm tug, but Kara’s already latched on. 

“Soulmates,” she echoes. “Wait, so soulmates are real?” 

Winn and James exchange a look, let out near identical uhhhhhhhhhhhh-s. 

“Brainy!” Kara calls out, and he appears with a small bloop! “Are soulmates real?” 

“Interesting question with an impossible definitive answer,” Brainy says, steepling his fingers together. “I can tell you that soulmates as a concept does indeed exist in many cultures, including the ones that you and 221 other residents here were raised in.” 

Kara points at Winn and James. “Are they soulmates?” 

“Winn and James had been assigned as each other’s soulmates for the first iteration of this neighborhood and in 37 other reboot scenarios.” 

Kara blinks because she doesn’t really know what to make of that answer. “Uh… Okay. Do I have a soulmate?” 

“You were also assigned one, yes.” 

“Really? Are they here? In this neighborhood?” 

“Yes.” 

“Well, who is it?” Kara asks. 

James tries to cut in, “Wait, Brainy, I don’t really think—” But Brainy’s jaw unhinges and he emits the most awful blaring sound, which makes everyone in the vicinity clap their hands over their ears. 

“My apologies,” Brainy says, clearing his throat. “But I’m afraid that that particular piece of information has been deemed confidential by the People Upstairs.” 

“Jeez, okay, but can you at least tell me if—” Kara’s question is cut off by an encore of Brainy’s terrible siren, and she’s forced to cover her ears again. 

“Jeebers forking kites, Kara!” Siobhan shouts from down the block. “Stop forking asking him questions!” 

“All right, all right, jeez. I’m sorry!” 

But after that, Kara spends her days trying to bump into her soulmate. She visits all the local venues and chats up as many people as possible, and though everyone seems friendly enough, no one really gives her that wapow! that she’d dreamed about back when she was still alive. 

Then she literally runs into Mike as she’s leaving the library, sending her glasses and all her books flying about, and… what’s that if not a classic meet-cute? She asks him out for froyo and he accepts. 

About a week into their courtship, Kara’s out on a walk and she can’t help but overhear a couple of raised, distressed voices—a supposed anomaly in the Good Place. 

“—of course, they’re gonna end up together! After all, they dated in real life, didn’t they? It only makes sense!” 

“Miss Lena, I understand that you’re upset.” 

“I am not upset, Brainy. But the fact is, we wouldn’t even be in this mess in the first place if the real Architect could have just—”

Kara slips on a misplaced pebble and tumbles into the alleyway, and Brainy and Lena fall silent at once. 

“Kara, goodness,” Lena says, rushing over. “Are you all right?” 

 “Yup!” Kara jumps to her feet, holds out her palms. “And not a single scratch on these babies! Courtesy of the Good Place, I’m assuming?” 

 Lena’s gaze softens considerably, a warm smile settling over her lips as she looks at Kara. “Yes. Probably.”

The way Lena’s staring at her gives Kara goosebumps and a tingly warmth spreading throughout her chest. It drives her to reach out and touch her fingers to Lena’s knuckles. Lena’s breath catches in her throat, but she wordlessly gives up her hand to Kara’s own, letting their fingers zipper neatly together. It feels right. 

“Wapow,” Kara murmurs to herself, blinking down at their joined hands. She then shakes her head, fixes Lena with a tilted head and a confused stare. “So… what’s this about you not being the real Architect?” 

Lena balks, her fingers twitch against Kara’s, but she doesn’t let go. Instead, she sighs and drops her head. “Gosh forking gambit…” 

[roseticospacebae]

top 5 supercorp fics!

Hey! Thanks for the ask. I’m woefully behind on fics right now, but I’ll do my best. 

1. Only a Matter of Mime by karalovesallthegirls

2. i’ll be your light, your match, your burning sun by Valkryees

3. A Foolish Wit by seabiscuit

4. An Ocean of Fire by IcarusandHerSun

5. but then, my homework was never quite like this by Jazzfordshire

(Also Stay the Night, Grace’s bakery AU, Where Lamps Go to Die, spit baby AU, Sunny’s 50 WIP, and probably 180 more. Lists are the WORST)

[snowonebutyou]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU WONDERFUL HUMAN BEAN!

THANK YOU NATHAN I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

[comickergirl]

Hi! I just saw the first 3 Supergirl cards you posted and they're so cool! I was wondering if at the end of the countdown they'll be available for purchase anywhere?

Hello!

As always, I really appreciated the interest that folks have in buying the countdown projects. However! This is not a licensed product, so NOPE, they will not be available for purchase. Sorry! 

[narraboths]

First impression: loud Superman. Current impression: loud BATMAN.

JDKGNFKGFDK WELL

[whythinktoomuch]

sunlight for the poetry prompt!

A Poem & Word Unit Palindrome in Reflection of Sunlight 

Sunlight dwindling in hidden corners, 

with secrets kept and names forgotten. 

Have I lost another loved one 

with certain regrets 

making 

regrets certain? 

With one loved, 

another lost, 

I have forgotten names and kept secrets 

with corners hidden in dwindling sunlight.

[whythinktoomuch]

3, 14, 21, 25!

3. Favorite line/scene you wrote this year

I think all the two fight scenes in the Hobbes&Shaw au (x, x), because I don’t usually get to write a lot of those, and it was pretty fun! And it was also fun to write a version of this fight scene, where Lena isn’t a trained fighter and Alex and Kara have normal human strength. 

Although, it’s a shame I couldn’t keep that last part, because Kara doing a Turkish get-up with Lena’s entire body would have been sexy as fuckkkkkkk. 

14. A fic you didn’t expect to write

The Frankenstein AU. Like, wow. Like, how. 

21. Most memorable comment/review

Noam’s comment on the TATA au, where they pointed out a typo that blew my freakin’ mind. 

"retcon mission" Idk if this is a pun or a typo but I love it either way

because how I wish I had thought of that! I have since gone back to "fix” it, but man, oh man, what a funny mistake. 

25. A fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

Valkyrees’s sink into you like water (pray you won't pull me under). 

You know how every once in a while, you’ll read something that’ll make you wanna quit writing forever because wow, maybe everything that needs to be said has now been said in the most perfect of fashions? This was that for me this year, lmao.