"how to get the savior to taste my forbidden fruit" was FOR FREE we ain't even have to do nothing she just gave that to us for us one of us one of us
FOR. FREE.
that time regina dreamed about emma choking her: free ✅
"enjoy my shirt": free ✅
that time regina waited for emma in her office by sitting on her desk with her legs crossed in her fuckass little dress, despite like 55 chairs around: free ✅
when regina offered emma the poisoned apple turnover and it looked like emma was gonna Eat Well: free ✅
lmao i would not be surprised if sideguitars already asked for this but if she has, i need you to write a second one pls
tit for tit or however the saying goes
🖤 kissing while crying / goodbye kiss / desperation
ok. ok, so like. like, you technically asked for this. just saying.
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It hadn’t seemed desperate at the time. There hadn’t been tears. It hadn’t felt like a goodbye. For that, Lena blamed herself. There hadn’t been any legitimate threat to National City in over a year, and she’d become complacent; they all had: J’onn was off-planet, Alex was with Esme and Kelly in Midvale, Nia and Brainy were mid-flight to their honeymoon. All who was left? Kara. Supergirl.
And Supergirl was always going to save the day.
“How can I help?” Lena had asked from their balcony overlooking the skyline. Three explosions blocks apart rocked the city, sending plumes of dark smoke into the air. Their Saturday afternoon picnic plans were about to take a rain check.
“Just get to the Tower and comms in from there,” Kara replied, her suit already on and attention wholly on the flames licking up the walls of glass.
“Are you sure? I can come and-”
“There are too many sites; I need you to help me prioritize.”
“Ok,” Lena nodded.
Kara aimed her shoulders to take flight.
“Be careful, darling,” Lena called. She looked on toward the chaos.
Only then did Kara glance back and catch the look of worry that always clouded Lena’s features. She closed the gap and, with two gentle hands, cupped Lena’s cheeks and pressed a reassuring kiss to her lips.
“I always am,” Kara winked, and then she was off, and then she was gone.
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It was raining.
Of course it was.
A cleansing. A nourishing. A load of bullshit.
The ground sank under her shoe; a poor choice in a downpour. Kara would have made a joke about that. Kara would have done a lot of things; should have done a lot of things.
Still, mud soaked and struggling with her footing, Lena trekked ahead toward the loitering of black umbrellas and somber expressions of people who knew Supergirl as Kara Danvers; people who didn’t know Kara Danvers at all.
A voice droned. It rang of a hollow religion that Kara Zor El didn’t practice, but appearances were needed. For what, Lena didn’t know. It didn’t matter anymore.
Eliza offered her a wet smile from her tear-stained face and Lena looked on. There had always been a small, selfish part of her that she'd always found comfort in knowing she'd be the first to go.
"I’m sorry about your wife,” some faceless colleague offered. “How unfortunate that she was in the building, too."
Lena looked on. She looked on and clenched her jaw at the ignorance.
She ignored the pleading looks from Nia and Alex; the soft glances of understanding from Kelly; the hiccups from Esme. She ignored them until there was nothing left to ignore but the sound of rain battering against rayon overhead. She ignored that by dropping the umbrella to the ground where the wind pulled it adrift. Droplets pelted and winds chilled.
Lena looked on.
The skyline was changed. A lot was changed.
Now, instead of working at L-Corp, she commuted to a wreckage site.
Now, instead of a warm embrace, she knew only of the cold surfaces of a lonely penthouse.
Now instead of the handsome smile meant only for her, she stared down at a granite slab chiseled with lies.
“Why wouldn't you let me come with you?” she whispered into the wind.
And Lena wasn't sure if she meant the battle or wherever Kara was now.
@deadbiwrites @fifteensjukebox @sssammich @damienns @sideguitars you're all enablers and i appreciate you deeply. i'm posting it tomorrow, because the ideas have been rising & marinating & there is now SO MUCH MORE OF IT and i really feel my particular flavor of insanity is more suitable for a friday night.
character ask game: let's go with kelly -- 8, 22, and 23!
8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?
Kelly Olsen is not only the superfriends therapist. Yes, she's one by trade, but I BEG the fandom, let her do something else. She can have fun and healthy relationship with them, and even advice them without being their therapist.
Also, also, when fandom literally kills her (in say s5/6 or post show) to insert whoever they ship Alex with; only to describe that character acting literally like Kelly 😭 Like you can write whatever floats your boat, but why kill my girl (or character assassinate her, in some cases). Just let he go other places, don't even mention her 😭
Can you tell she's one of my favorites?
22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to this character? Something you don't like?
At this point I'm happy when she's there, tbh. I do read dansen fics when I find them, and I adore when they explore Kelly's trauma over her previous relationship, or racial issues. That last one not everyone can pull off, but when it hits, it hits. And we know canonically that it's something that it's important to her. I love seeing Alex navigating Kelly's traumas that she so rarely express.
ALSO, Esme fics, my beloveds. And Kara and Kelly's relationship is so important to me, sisters-in-law my beloveds.
For what I despise, please refer to previous question 😅 But also, Alex doesn't need to be Kelly's buffer with the rest of the SF, she does have a relationship with them all...
23. Favorite picture of this character?
Hard to pick because, like Alex, I went a little weak at the knees when I saw her, but these two in particular (and I refuse to choose between them):
I’m trying to remember? I think it was Kara’s wandering hands that spun this off. I just wanted to try writing soft, sweet supercorp.
11. What do you like best about this fic?
Honestly, it’s really self indulgent. I love reading soft supercorp (and soft supercorp smut) so I wrote what I’d like to read, and I mustered up the courage to share it, so I call it a win overall!
12. What do you like least about this fic?
It switches from Kara’s perspective to Lena’s midway through kind of abruptly and I didn’t realize it until after I published it. Oh well. I’m still exploring and learning!
OK there are 2 black hearts in the list (confusing!) but I think you meant this one: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?
And, like, the clear answer here is Alex Danvers and J'onn J'onzz, alien-ICE agents extraordinaire, who lock people away in alien-Guantanamo (a comparison the show itself makes) without any kind of due process and then throw away the key. But hey, you know, Space Dad! Danvers Sisters 5ever! ...I might be full of salt about this.
(To be fair, no one on Supergirl [or...most Arrowverse shows, frankly] is covered in glory, as so many characters are either cops, billionaires, or perfectly happy to buddy around with them. Even Kelly Olsen, who I like and who many viewers see as a moral beacon and the voice of reason, served in the U.S. military in both Iraq and Afghanistan, which, you know, I personally think is a pretty bad thing to do, and kind of calls into question the popular reading of her character as someone who has all the correct progressive politics.)
shadowheart imposter syndrome i have been thinking about this nonstop ever since i started playing bg3 like 5 runthroughs ago. when i romanced her during a durge run, i was thinking about the intersection of durge have to suppress these desires (if you're doing a good play) and feeling like such a poser and scam artist and then shadowheart feeling inadequate after being so chosen for the biggest tasks of any sharran ever. anyway just had to drop in because of your tags lmao
I'm only on my second run (technically 1.5 cause I never actually finished the first one but I missed basically all of act 2 so I just decided fuck it) but Shadowheart's bluster just SCREAMS "I don't know what I'm doing" to me. Combine that with how quickly she's willing to trust you - something sharrans aren't supposed to do? - and then her suppressed memory I just have to believe that she's constantly battling with her guilt and desperately needing to prove herself to Shar.
