Greeting her trophy wife

(they’re both the trophy wife)

Your life could mean so much, and yet you fly around in a cheerleader skirt. How did they do it? What did they say to make you believe? Look out the window and you will see fear, racism, strife. This country is a fatted heifer. I am here to cut its throat.

4.5 GB, 42 minutes. Red Daughter Supercut.

You & Me & Holiday Wine

is now COMPLETE on A03!

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Lena Luthor is going to die.

She’s going to die very soon and she’s going to do it right here on the road to god-knows-where, Colorado, her hands still clutching the wheel of this foul-smelling rental car, buried under five feet of snow for the remainder of the season until some fortunate family of possums digs her up in spring, probably. (Do they have possums in the mountains?)

But before she dies, she’s going to kill Sam Arias.

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In which Lena Luthor hates the winter holidays, until her best friend lures her to her cabin in the mountains where she's promptly held hostage by a very well-timed snowstorm and the irresistible charm of unexpected guest Kara Danvers. (But Lena will literally kill a man before admitting to that last part.)

oh i’ve been waiting ages to be able to post this—

@supercorpzine gave me an incredible opportunity to participate in their project again this year, and i’m unbelievably grateful. it’s been a brilliant experience, they’ve done so much incredible work, and i’m really honoured to be able to share this one with you x

(if you read the zine, you’ve seen the shortened version of this, but here it is in it’s entirety!)

thirteen birthdays

It’s nearly Lena’s birthday. She knows it’s coming, because she’s been watching the days creep forward on her calendar at work for weeks, but she still doesn’t know what to expect. Lena had always been largely content to ignore her own birthday. She’d buy the slightly higher shelf whiskey for herself, maybe, or book tickets to a particularly extravagant show in town, but that was the extent of it. Kara, on the other hand, had a history of placing heavy importance on birthdays.

She had first witnessed it with Alex; Kara spent two weeks planning the most intricately planned surprise party Lena had ever seen, complete with the participation of almost the entire DEO, a cake flown in directly from Alex’s favorite Midvale bakery, and some kind of heartstoppingly expensive, as-yet-unavailable-on-the-market, limited quantity body armour that Kelly had promised she’d love. And it was cute, Lena had to admit, the excess that Kara was willing to go to in pursuit of being sure that the people she cared about felt celebrated, but it also seemed like it was probably a little bit exhausting to be on the receiving end of all of that attention.

With Lena, it was different.

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I am going to need about 12 billion fix it / reunion fic now because Netflix is terrible and didn’t renew Warrior Nun, which was dirt cheap to make AND somehow still managed to pull the numbers it did with zero promotion.

And I am trying really hard not to side eye all the cancellations of diverse shows between HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and Netflix, but there is a pattern emerging that cannot be ignored — they’re all the racially diverse or LGBTQ+ shows getting the axe. Paper Girls, First Kill, the entire DCTV block, Batgirl, Tom Swift, Westworld, the Nevers, I’m Not Okay, Minx.

Warrior Nun S2 is just the latest one. It was set up to fail. They didn’t set up interviews for the cast, send it to reviewers, they put it between the Crown and Manifest S4, they didn’t promote it at Tudum. Simon Barry even said that they had zero promotion budget, and you could tell because we never got a release date, just “winter 2022.”

The fact that it did as well as it did, cracked the Global Top 10, and received high fan engagement and articles writing about it was a miscalculation on their part, and honestly I think an embarrassment to them. Because it shows how little they care about diverse shows that 1) don’t feature straight white male or 2) aren’t part of an existing IP/franchise. They were caught flatfooted when they realized how popular it could have been with just an ounce of support.

How do you kill things so prematurely, when you know there is an audience there? Even if they are renewed, shows aren’t safe, because they are reversing the season renewal. And in the case of HBO Max, they are making decisions that make zero sense - who kills shows that are mid-production or nearing the end of their production (Minx).

And why is it always us who gets cut first? It is never the straight white dude show. If something gets saved, it is the (maybe) gay white dude show. Like you can’t be 2 or more. You can only be one (1) and also that one show is all you get for representation.

And the fact that the decision makers are all conservative white dudes (Bezos, David Zaslav, and Reed Hastings) who love Trump and Elon Musk just makes me wonder if that is the goal in the first place.

Not to make money because they have enough. They just want to kill us by taking away all our representation in these shows, just to destroy our culture on purpose because they can take the damn hits to their belts.

I hate this. The promise of streaming as the safe haven for diversity was always a bit of a sham, but somehow this is worse, knowing the creative community wants to make these shows but studios don’t want to platform it. They’ll give us one or two seasons and then force the creators to abandon it with “you can’t shop it anywhere else for 3 years” clauses.

How the fuck are we supposed to see ourselves reflected in art if they keep taking our shows away from us? If not streaming, where the fuck do we go now?

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

#AVATRICE at all times: must keep my hands on her!!

WARRIOR NUN (2020-) SEASON TWO | dir. Simon Barry

Reblog this fat happy boy for a good night sleep tonight

Reblog this fat happy boy for a good night sleep tonight

The Unapologetic Self as the Truest form of Self

⤷ endless gifs of lena luthor ✳︎ 55/∞

KATIE McGRATH AS LENA LUTHOR SUPERGIRL 4.21 ⏤ “RED DAWN”

I can’t believe this is my last piece for the @supercorpzine

 I had a wonderful time participating for the last 5 years, thank you so much for all the support ^^

The lips I used to call home, so scarlet, it was maroon.

idk if this is a young fan thing or new fandom culture but some of yall think fics are abandoned way too quickly. a few months or a year or two is not unusual to go without a fic update. sometimes fics take longer to write, other times writers have rl events, or maybe there's multiple fics and one gets more priority. there are tons of reasons for fics not to be updated every week or every month. it also isn't uncommon for people to come back and update fics after a number of years—ive read updates that took five, or ten years. people's lives change, but they still want to tell their stories. personally, i never consider a fic abandoned unless the author has said so; though if it's been a few years i manage my expectations. but a last update being a year ago is... generally not a sign that a writer has abandoned their fic