Aug 7, 2023
oh supercorp fic writers & their love of mangling the "gift horse" idiom
actual idiom: "don't look a gift horse in the mouth"
meaning: don't complain about the help/favors/good luck that comes your way
fics:
"on leading the gift-horse to water (and other mangled metaphors)" by @the-ominous-owl
"A Discovery of Denial (The Road to Romance is Riddled with Realizations)", Ch. 3, by @wr8tur
"i've just seen a face (i can't forget the time or place where we just met)" by @karalovesallthegirls
"they don't love you like i love you" by @searidings
go show these authors & these fics some love btw while you're at it. all FANTASTIC. (all authors are their same users here on tumblr except owly's uses hyphens, not underscores)
#is this like a thing? that i don't know about#like imagine i've just collected all these observations of a 'phenomenon' for it to have been intentional all along#btw i DID NOT SCRAPE i literally manually went to all my bookmarked sc fics and did ctrl+f on every single chapter for the word 'horse'#Y'ALL I JUST ACCIDENTALLY ERASED ALL MY WORK I AM GOING TO DIE. now i have to search them all again smh#well i got them all back. so now what#anyway these were all in my bookmarks bc they are GOOD! go read them#supercorp fanfic#supercorp#fic writing#idioms#supergirl#searidings#karalovesallthegirls#wr8tur#the-ominous-owl#ngl i had to gas myself up to actually @ them here haha 😅