Alex: Okay what should we watch?

Kara: What about... that 80's show?

Alex: NO!

Kelly: Don't you mean that 70's show?

Kara: Nope I mean that 80's show, the 2002 reboot of that 70's show, staring our very own Alex Danvers!

Kelly: Babe, you were in a TV show? How did I not know this?

Alex: Oh god

Lena: *walking in* I got popc... is Alex okay?

Alex: Look it was just something I did to help pay for med school and it got cancelled after one season, so it's probably not even worth talking about let alone actually watching. I doubt you can even watch it anywere.

Kara: It's on YouTube

Alex: *turns to Kelly* Promise you'll still love after seeing me with this hair.

Kelly: We have a child together, you really think a bad haircut is gonna put me off now?

Kara: You haven't seen it yet

okay lads what did we think of that

How I would re-write Supergirl Season 2/3

(as some one who stopped watching after season three, and also has not rewatched the series since 2020) (reign arc and heroes of the week will remain unchanged)

So, starting off strong, at Alex and Maggie would not have gotten engaged. Season 2 finale would have been Maggie realizing she was rushing into things, Alex being all "no I love you, I know I do" and Maggie being like "there is a whole gay world for you to explore... go do it." This would lead to sadness, a bit of tears (Chyler and Floriana would be AMAZING- daytime emmy nominee worthy performance).

Rhea would reveal Kara's identity to Lena in the finale. It would be casual too, she would be like "you are much better for my son Lena, that kryptonian isn't worth her weight in dirt here. I can't believe he would settle for a lowly slave." And then Lena would be all "reporter" and Rhea would be like "Yes Kara Danver's, former slave to a, Cat Grant I believe her name is" and then Rhea would continue on her spiel and there would be a cut scene as the camera focuses on Lena taking in the information

They save the day- Monel leaves for what ever reason he had to leave- don't remember, don't care. Also, Kara and Mon-el would have never dated, he would have just pined for her and James and Winn would be all "join the club"

Season 3

Alex mourned over her first lesbian relationship over the 6 month gap between seasons, Lena hasn't told Kara she knows.

First DEO scene of Season 3 is Alex talking to Kara (and invertedly Winn and James) about her most recent date on an app. It went bad, Winn chimes in like "what was it this time" and Alex is like "she was weirdly into ___" then J'onn walks in, like "Alex I am sorry to interrupt but there are pressing matter to attend to- there is a meta human down town" (que hero of the week intro)

Lena and Kara hang out, audience find out that Lena hasn't told Kara cause Kara has to leave to deal with a alien and does the usual "uh, I hear my named being called, ugh bye" and Lena just smiles and nodds, and sighs wistfully, staring after her (supercorp shippers go crazy)

Ep 2 or three we first see Sam and Ruby in line for Noonan's or something (why did they establish that as a brand, just to immediately ditch it after season 1???) and it's just a cute simple little "Hi, I'm Alex, let me help you out" but Sam is endeared and Ruby just smiles because (I love Ruby but honestly) she didn't have that much of a personality early on in the season

That same ep we see Lena reuniting with Sam. After that, when ever Sam and Lena meet each other (I don't remember when or how) Kara and Lena are like "you two know each other" and Alex is all blushy like "yeah, Kinda, I mean, not really" and Sam is like "yeah, Lena she is the girl from the place". Sam and Lena share a look (agent reign shippers go crazy)

Sprinkles of supercorp here and there- Just Kara and Lena doing their normal friend shit but Kara being like "woah, I am feeling things maybe"

At ep 8 or so Kara is at the bar with Alex and ask her how she knew with Maggie, that she liked Maggie. And Alex is all "well, I guess I always knew I liked girls but it was always objective. Like, I would think, she is so kind and smart and beautiful and amazing, any guy would be lucky to have her. But something about Maggie just forced me to realize that I was the one feeling these things, not some guy. I don't know, something about her just made alot of things clearer. Like, I realized I was the one driving the car, not a passenger. She made me stop being so passive in my own life" and Kara is quiet the whole time. Alex then ask "why" and Kara is all "no reason". Cut to Lena at L-Corp working on something relevant to the plot (supercorp shippers go crazy) (that conversation inspires Alex to ask Sam out- they then start to date)

Next ep, Kara goes to Lena's office, and is all, "there is something I need to tell you" and Lena is all "I already know" and Kara is shocked an all "how do you know" and Lena is like "in hindsight it was obvious. *list of things that hold double meanings cause miscommunication trope*" "Lee- I would have told you earlier but I-" "It's fine, I get it. You were doing it to protect me" "protect you???" "yeah- you're supergirl". Que Kara sighing and then freaking out, Lena saying Rhea told her, Kara being pulled away by some kind of supe situation, and Lena being all "go get them supergirl"

Kara admits her feelings at the end of the episode. Lena is shocked, but agrees. They agree to go on a date, a real romantic date and not a friend one, but oops- it's ep 9 which means Kara fights reign, goes comatose and then we get angsty, driven lena being like "we gotta fix Kara"

From then on, the show goes like usual, but Alex and Sam are dating and Kara and Lena are as well. The show ends with Season 3, Alex leads Deo, Winn stays but James leaves to help in the future but it really doesn't matter because the show it over. Supercorp is canon, Alex and Sam have a daughter and everyone lives happily ever after.

Edit: forgot to say this orginally but more Cat cameos. I love that woman so much- she has to come back at least twice in season 3 and be like "I leave the city for five minutes and you let her do WHAT? Agent Scully, why on EARTH would you let your sister fight a world killer??? Have you no brains under that thick skull" or something. I just want for her to be there, see Kara and Lena together and pull out of peice of paper from her purse that says "gay" and be like "I knew when you first walked into my office. No straight women would willingly be yelled at that often" or something. Idk, she was just very deeply missed

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can i do the same thing to you i did to sssammich and upend all the -corps on your desk or is that too greedy 🥴

looping in @yourlocalegotisticalqueerishere since it's easier to do these all in one post ! alphabetical order for funsies under the cut:

agentcorp - no...idk what to say really except the vibes are off for me. sorry chyler </3 i know you wanted to kiss katie so bad. i think alex and lena have similarities & differences (just like every character does with every other character lol) but i personally feel like their specific similarities & differences would cause them to either enable each other's worst aspects or to butt heads constantly. just my onion i know many people disagree and that's fine. also the triple hit of alex trying to nuke lena and justifying it by twisting all her previous good deeds to make them sound bad, lying about it to her face while asking for her help, and then not advocating for her to get her memories back and even encouraging kara to deceive her once again all in quick succession in s5 -- all of which got swept under the rug in s6 -- really soured me on the friendship s4 had built up between them. so i'm not even really a fan of their friendship. tragique :(

braincorp - they are my brotp <333 i don't ship them romantically at all but actually their relationship is probably my favorite relationship on the show period. it helps that they are my 2 fave characters lol but also they are so smart and so bitchy together and i love them <333 brainy is so ride or die for lena even when she gives him literally the worst advice anyone has ever given anyone else in the history of the world and lena feels safe with brainy to express how she really feels and they are kindred spirits. also the parallel to the comics dynamic between brainiac & lex luthor [which should've made it to the show!!! where was the original brainiac???] is poetic. braincorp 4 life !!!

dreamcorp - again i don't ship them at all but it's so bonkers that developing this relationship wasn't more of a priority for the writers. little sisters with asshole siblings who blame themselves for their mother's deaths (and also have magic powers i guess thanks s6 🥴)...the scenes write themselves! or so you would think. i liked that they had some rapport in s6 but also ngl it cracked me up in 6x07 when nia called lena "family" i was like girl this is your first onscreen conversation ever 😭 you are colleagues at best...oh well. i like the idea of them becoming found family though. i don't see the superfriends as a found family (they are actually this cool thing called 'friends' instead) but nia & lena specifically i think could come to lean on each other in a sisterly way.

guardiancorp - so as i've mentioned part of what really piqued my interest in guardiancorp was the reveal that james had 16 scars from lex yet he was able to look past that to see lena for who she was not just as lex's little sister. james as clark's best friend and lena as lex's sister are kind of inherently tied together by the superman/lex drama and i'm interested in how they can work through that to love each other anyway. one thing i find interesting about them is that they are deeply different in ways that could set them at odds -- lena is a luthor, james is team super; lena is a white woman, james is a black man; lena is morally flexible, james is much more morally steadfast/rigid -- yet they are able to find solidarity and common ground with each other despite those things and have each other's backs. a lot of people like to point to the scene where lena & james are completely out of sync at game night as evidence that they were never really right for each other, but the thing i always remember is that lena wanted to practice with him afterwards. she wanted to put in the work. that's actually very romantic to me. another thing i like is how protective they are of each other; morgan edge might call james lena's bodyguard and james might take a bullet for her and dangle morgan edge off a building for her but lena is also HIS bodyguard who would make deals with the DA for him and poison her mother for him. they're each other's guardians. also they are capable of being so powerful and bitchy together like when they went to confront morgan edge in 3x09 that was sooo funny and iconic. i do wish the show built them up better and let us see their friendship properly develop in 3a instead of having them flirt in a couple scenes and then not interact for 4 episodes and then have kara & sam hamfistedly tell us they have chemistry. if i were writing season 3 i would give them a slower build and probably not have them kiss until the balcony scene in 3x17. but oh well. if wishes were horses i would have lots of horses. i wouldn't even know what to do with all those horses. so it's a good thing wishes aren't horses, if you think about it.

kellycorp / goldencorp (that's the name i just came up with now that i am advocating for) - i quite like this idea because it's a kelly ship i can actually get invested in. hooray <3 i think kelly would be good for lena and, crucially, i think lena would be good for kelly. they both are more 'outsiders' to the superfriends than the other members are, as evinced by the two of them being the last to know supergirl's identity, and i think they could bond over that. i could see kelly feeling comfortable being displeased/angry with lena in a way she maybe doesn't with the other superfriends, while also holding space for lena's emotions in a way Certain Other People Who Shall Remain Nameless aren't always very good at. and i could also see lena really enjoying spoiling kelly with her wealth and kelly being kind of into it. also the fact that the showrunners seemed weirdly allergic to putting azie and katie into scenes together, meanwhile azie and katie were supposedly constantly flirting on set and working overtime to try and sneak goldencorp crumbs into the background, suggests to me that their chemistry was so palpable and powerful that TPTB were scared of letting them loose lest the fandom descend even further into ship wars. ...ok that last part is just a silly little conspiracy theory that i made up so please don't repeat it as fact or even as plausible speculation but also why Did the showrunners keep them apart so much 🤔 makes you think !

mirrorcorp [mirrorverse iris/lena aka a ship i invented] - so if you've never seen the flash you are probably thinking: who is mirrorverse iris??? i'm so glad you asked. mirrorverse iris is a clone of iris from the mirror realm which is NOT an 'evil universe' a la star trek, it is instead a world literally inside mirrors. mirrorverse iris was essentially created by mirror monarch (don't ask) for the purpose of infiltrating the normal world. she spends an arc impersonating the real iris and is similar in some ways but is also angrier, more ruthless, and more impulsive. in her last episode she figures out that she wants to be her own person and live life on her own terms not mirror monarch's and she defies mirror monarch during a fight with barry and then she dies. don't like that she died i wish she'd stuck around she was an epic character. but anyway this arc takes place in season 6b of the flash which you guessed it coincides with season 5b of supergirl. so my pitch is that instead of teaming up with lex to continue project nonsense lena goes on a sojourn to central city and meets mirrorverse iris who is impersonating real iris and undergoing an existential crisis/crisis of conscience. and the two bond and become friends. and then mirrorverse iris doesn't die and she and lena have to figure out who they want to be for themselves not just for the people who created them or tried to mold them in their image. and then they kiss about it idk just saying it could be good!

nationalcitydistrictattorneycorp - i mean. you've seen the scene. possibly the most sexually charged scene in the entire show. unclear to me why both actresses decided to play it that way but ok queens !

peggycorp - not my thing but i respect the warriors 👍

reigncorp - sam is imo the best & healthiest friend lena could ask for -- actually the best & healthiest friend anyone on this show could ask for -- but i don't really think their relationship is improved or made more interesting by them dating. i do think they have hooked up in the past and they decided they were better off as friends.

rojascorp - i'm not a rojascorp shipper actually but i believe in their beliefs...andrea and lena definitely dated, i see them as exes who still have affection for each other & sexual tension, i'm just not interested in the idea of them getting back together. if anything i actually worry that andrea might be too deferential to lena? i think she sees herself as deeply indebted to lena and -- whether you're looking at the pre-crisis more interesting timeline where she directly has blood on her hands or the post-crisis less interesting timeline where she tried to kill supergirl & accidentally put william in the line of fire -- i think she has a lot of guilt and she views lena as a moral authority in contrast to her morally 'tarnished' view of herself. which is interesting & juicy because most characters don't view lena that way. but i don't know that it's a great dynamic for a romance.

spheercorp - jack is sweet and rahul kohli is pretty. here endeth my thoughts on spheercorp. ...ok i guess i can say a little more which is that like rojascorp i prefer them as exes/bffs to them getting back together. i also will say that, while i think jack's death contributed to a disturbing trend on the show of killing off south asian characters, i do actually rather like it as a character beat for lena. i enjoy seeing him pop up in fics but in the show itself i think him dying is kind of a better story. sorry jacky :(

supercorp - i mean i think the premise alone is kind of epic and awesome. a super and a luthor but they're in love. like that's just plain cool. plus think of the awkward family dinners! i am always here for ships that will generate awkward family dinners. i also think they have a lot of great comedy scenes together which is always a plus to me shipping-wise, i like ships with a comedic bent. but there's also a lot of juicy drama/tragedy/gay divorce with them too which is also good of course. as a big fan of dramatic irony i like the secret/reveal as a storytelling device i just wish they handled it better post-5x01 (i think 4x22 and 5x01 actually kind of nailed it ngl). i like that they both used each other's kryptonite on the other person and yet they were able to forgive that and love the other person anyway. i mean the actual in-show process of forgiveness was wack but the idea is spicy. and i like that, as kara herself (clunkily) put it in the finale, they really do challenge each other and push each other to be better. as i've mentioned before theirs is a relationship where actions have consequences and where every scene they have matters and affects later scenes, which is unlike.....well, most relationships on the show, frankly. i also tend to think their scenes are just generally better-written and have more subtext (and i'm not just talking about the gay kind) and interesting things going on in them than most of the rest of the show's scenes. for all my many gripes about how s5 & s6 handled their fallout and then kind of just papered over it with platitudes, i still think their relationship is one of the best parts of the show and it's still the major thing that keeps me on the hook.

1, 12, 23 for the fandom ask game!

list 3 positive things about your current fandom(s)

We are so supportive of our casts' other endeavors - especially with Melissa and Katie, but I also see a lot of excitement for Chyler, Azie, and Nicole whenever they announce new stuff.

We have so many talented artists and writers here!! I am astonished by how much love and time and talent people have put into works in this fandom.

We are OBSESSED and will chase down every moment, every glance, every small gesture in this show.

12. compliment someone else in your fandom

Massive props to @luthordamnvers whose wonderful writing has made me appreciate AUs.

23. the fandom you're curious about because of a mutual

I recently finally got around to Warrior Nun because of all the stuff that comes across my dash. Absolutely lovely show that is gone too soon 🥺

Korra is still on my interest list 👀

Thank you for the asks!!

Ask game

Tagged by: @fazedlight. Thanks! 🥰

Last Song(s): Whatever’s playing in this Panera right now. But the song that has been an incessant earworm all week is “Last Resort” by Lindsay Mac. 

Currently Watching: The Way Home (Chyler Leigh’s latest show, which is surprisingly good for a Hallmark production.) and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Three ships: Xena/Gabrielle, Supercorp, and Wenclair (Why only three? What about my love of Dreamling, Ineffible Husbands, Wayhaught, and Valcarol, to name just a few?)

Favorite color: It varies, but usually either green or purple.

Currently consuming: Tea

First ship: Probably Xena/Gabrielle

Relationship status: Single 😔

Last movie: The Marvels. I love this movie so much!

Currently working on: beta reading a couple of fics for Mayhem and doing another playthrough of Wylde Flowers for “research” for a fic idea.

No-Pressure tags: @jadedloverart, @badcures, @livesvicariouslythroughfiction, @jedifighterpilot2727, @scifrey, @mycatismyeditor

Okay, I finally worked my way here.

For the '100 ways to say I love you' prompts.

17 for Tom and Chyler

23 for John and Cortana

24 for Riz and Vannak!

And I can finally answer! At least one. Will do the rest in reblogs.

Shoehorned this into an idea I’ve had for a few months. One of the few MWAS ideas that did not come from real life, though we do have a Roomba.

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17. “Watch your step.”

Chyler woke up to an empty bed and a light on in the kitchen.

Tom must be back. Chyler stood up and exited the bedroom, carefully dodging the robovac. “Tom?”

“In here,” Tom called from the tiny kitchen.

“Hey.” Chyler greeted her still-uniformed husband with a hug from behind.

“Hi,” Tom said in between bites of cheese. “Sorry I’m so late.”

Chyler flattened her cheek against his back. “Well, you’re going for the cheese, not the whiskey, so it couldn’t have been that bad.”

Tom humphed. “Wasn’t bad, just long.” He turned around to return Chyler’s hug.

The robovac trundled into the kitchen and bumped against a cabinet twice before continuing its lap around the room’s perimeter.

“I ever tell you how much those creep me out?” Tom asked as the vacuum crossed into the living area.

“Oh, please,” Chyler sighed.

“I’m telling you, it’s spying on us.”

“You know those things have been around for centuries.”

“Centuries of data collection,” Tom said conspiratorially.

“With which they have done absolutely nothing,” Chyler countered. “Not very good spies.”

The vacuum rolled along the edge of the couch.

“That’s what they want us to think,” Tom said.

“Do you want to vacuum your own rug?” Chyler asked pointedly.

“Not really.”

Chyler laughed and stood on tiptoe to kiss her husband’s cheek. “Well, if the robovac is a spy maybe we should go where it can’t see us.”

“Hm, good idea,” Tom yawned. “You go ahead. Let me put all this away.”

“Tom Lasky, putting things away?” Chyler asked with mock astonishment.

“Quiet,” Tom grumbled, but he was smiling.

Chyler smiled back and headed to the bedroom. She grabbed her compad on the way to the bed and started to look for new messages before thinking better of it. Roland would alert her and Tom to something urgent. Everything else could wait—

A thud and holler from the living area interrupted Chyler’s train of thought.

“Tom!” Chyler leapt off the bed and threw the door open. Tom was sprawled on the floor clutching his right foot, the Robovac slinking away like a kid trying to avoid Mom and Dad’s wrath.

“Watch your step!” Chyler exclaimed unthinkingly.

“A little late for that, don’t you think?” Tom gritted.

“What happened?!”

“What’s it look like happened?” Tom groaned.

“Is it broken?” Chyler bent over and tried to examine Tom’s foot.

“How should I know?” Tom dropped his head onto the floor. “Ah, hurts like a you-know-what.”

“I’ll, uh,” Chyler bit her lip. “I’ll pick you up.”

“I don’t think that’s happening, babe,” Tom said between hisses.

“I’ll call medical.” Chyler started back to the room for her compad.

“No need, Commander Silva.” Roland’s voice broke into the chaos. “I’ve already summoned medical attention. ETA five minutes.”

“Good.” Chyler nodded at the ceiling.

The robovac began dutifully edging around Tom’s side.

“Roland, turn this damn thing off!” Tom snapped.

“Right away, Captain.”

Chyler watched the vacuum return to its stand, then looked back to Tom. “How’s the—”

The vacuum began emptying its bin.

“How’s the foot?” Chyler asked once the noise subsided.

Tom lifted his head to glare at the robovac. “Told you that thing was bad news,” he panted.

The machine emitted a beep, almost as if in protest.

Sick in the head with a nasty cold, and also in love with this romance I dreamed up, for my Promises of Fools AU.

The maverick Jedi and the red-haired woman of the Stewjoni hills. She is his sun, and he is her star. She is the free bird who makes a warm nest, and he is the noble lion who keeps them safe.

She's a weaver, makes shawls and blankets and other fabrics. She collects bird feathers and rocks and memorizes the tides. She has a strong singing voice, and she loves dancing. She's a got a big soft heart, and she loves the golden yellow of the heathstars in the spring and summer.

When he settles on Stewjon, Qui-Gon becomes a part-time teacher, as well as the town handyman. He's particularly good with houses and barns. He also falls naturally into a role of town marshall. It surprises him how easy it is to keep busy. And there's all those rolling hills and rocky cliffs and rainy fields to walk in when he needs to stretch his legs.

Interesting how I don't see them as tragic, even though there is obviously tragedy in Rae-Lin's death when they've only been married 3 years and Obi-Wan is only 9 months old. It's not like they ever stopped loving each other. There was so much goodness between them, and they both changed each other for the better. And so much of her lives on in Obi-Wan, especially the Kenobi looks.

Top QuiRae songs:

'Fields of Gold', 'She Moved Through the Fair', 'The Whole of the Moon', 'My Lagan Love', 'You'll Be In My Heart', 'You Raise Me Up', 'My Heart Will Go On' all by Celtic Woman.

'Salt Water' and 'Thinking Out Loud' (even though that one's sad for them) by Ed Sheeran.

'How Does a Moment Last Forever' by Céline Dion.

(@authortobenamedlater Oh, is this how you feel about Tom/Chyler? I know Rae-Lin is an oc, but I feel like they're in a similar category. This is coming from the muddled, midnight sick brain. Also you inspire me to actually write a little more romance, so thanks.)

Just starting to reread Lavender and I saw your face claims for the first time! You said you used an AI generator for Doc, but I think she looks so much like the actress Sammi Hanratty. To me, with brown eyes instead of blue 💕

OMG Bestie!

I've never seen her before but YES OMG! She's perfect, really! Image below the cut for folks who don't want their image of Doc changed by who I picture (which isn't the right answer for how Doc looks btw, she's meant to be however you see her, be it yourself or someone else entirely!)

Yeah this is 110% Doc on outbreak day and when Joel shows up in the QZ. Only change I really have for her is that I always picture Doc with just an absolutely insane amount of curly hair. Just piles of curls that go a little everywhere unless she actively tames them.

Another face claim for Doc folks have shared with me is Chyler Leigh and I love her, too!!

Some else I love for Doc is Gugu Mbatha-Raw. She's so beautiful and so talented and I think just has the vibe ❤️

Face claims are so fun! I love using the you format for writing and leaving things open for people to develop their own appearance for a character (be it themselves or someone else) but I do love finding ways to visualize characters.

Thanks for reading, Bestie!! Love you!!

AO3 wrapped: 15, 29, 30!

15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

Holy cow. So many. The third and fourth chapters of my Fred/Kelly college AU story, the startings of my Halo/DnD crossover, a story idea I've been working over on and off for the Artemis Fowl fandom... I don't even know how to list them all, but those are the big ones.

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

I wrote this down for a York-centric RvB story and really loved it, but I haven't found the place to use it. I try hard not to swear - especially in my writing - which is the biggest part of why I haven't found somewhere to shoe-horn this into. But here's the line.

"That was where it all started. Not the straw that broke the camel’s back... just the straw that made the camel start to wonder what the hell anyone needed so much straw for."

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

Definitely rekindling how much I like Tom and Chyler's romance (which is entirely your fault, but whatever). I always loved those two, but never actually took the step to try to write something for them. Now that I have, my mind won't shut up with ideas for them here and there.

Since I've decided not to watch anymore seasons of Grey's. I want to take this time to talk about stuff I probably have no business talking about because I didn't watch the actual episodes. 😅

This is gonna be very out of order.

☆: As much as I like Bailey, Alex should have the board chair. Cristina left it for him and Richard shouldn't even be allowed to Nominate anyone. He's not even on the board.

☆: Maggie and Jackson dating each other is gross. People keep saying it fine cause they didn't grow up together. I don't care. Them being attracted to each other while their parents are dating/married is disgusting. Like that's literally your legal sibling.

☆: if I watched season 14, Casey Parker would have been a favorite character. I’ve only seen clips on him and top tier, him and Cristina and maybe Alex would have been so powerfully unhinged. Lol

☆: Idk the relationship with Maggie and Meredith but I think Maggie expecting Meredith to tell her everything about her life is a bit much, like it’s so much and she just met you. So obviously she’s not gonna be like here’s my life story. Idk what’s going on with Alex but you can’t fault Meredith for trusting him over Maggie she’s known the dude for like ten years…

☆: Maggie 100 percent should waited to be on better terms with Meredith before dropping the “we share a mom” bomb.

☆: I'm so confused on the Maggie and Jackson getting married thing. Because how would that have worked. Husband and wife while also being step-siblings. 🤮

☆: People keep bringing up Lexie whenever they see Maggie and calling her a lexie replacement. Listen one, Chyler Leigh wanted to be killed off the show, she and Maggie could have been friends or whatever. Stop trying to compare the them. Two, greys anatomy had Maggie planned since day one, albeit more so as a brother.

☆: I would have lowkey loved if Maggie was a brother instead of a sister. I just think would have been interesting. Probably something like

Meredith:"I've never had a brother before"

Derek or someone "what are you talking about? Isn't Alex kind of like having a brother?"

Then a cute scene of Alex and Meredith being like siblings. Idk

☆: the Nathan drama of season 13 is wild, after all that drama that happened when Meredith first met Derek. I can't even imagine her seeing someone know her sister Maggie liked and was actively going on dates with. [Tbh i have no idea if there were dates but the clip made it sound like that.] Nathan is trash for not telling Maggie he liked Meredith.

☆: I just saw Meredith and Jackson goodbye, and I actually like them. I remember when izzie came back to work after the merge and Alex, Cristina, Meredith and Jackson were all eating lunch together, and he said something and one of them was like "who invited you here?" And Meredith was all like "I did." That shit was cute. I wish season 10 and lower had more scenes of them being friends.

☆: I don't like Maggie and Jackson, but emotional cheating is still cheating.. it's exactly like what april was doing to Matthew..

☆: not Stephanie trying to blame the harassment complaints on Leah, like she wasn't one of the reasons Leah did it in the first place. Don't crap where you eat? (This is from the episode where Leah returns, I saw a clip on youtube.)

□: While writing this I'm low-key thinking about going back to binge the show for Alex, but he's goodbye is so bad, and I hate him and Izzie so much. I refuse 😤 also I heard Callie character development suffers a lot 😭

☆: Why would they have Callie keep dating the woman who killed her friend? Hate that (I watched the dinner scene on YouTube)

If I see anymore scenes that I'm like oof to, I'll make a part two

Even though I have zero business complaining 😆

One of the things I love so much about The Way Home is they do not let the other characters stay in the dark for too long about each other's secrets. The reveal of Kat and Alice knowing each other time have been timetraveling was great and we're only six episodes in. Now if we can find out what happened to Jacob that would be fucking great because Kat delivered him home and Jacob went inside and shut the door but that's all we see. The sheer panic on Kat's face when she returns to the future and sees that nothing has changed and Elliot was right about Jacob still being gone 💔....Chyler takes this episode she was acting her butt off!

Introducing: Madison Claremont

Fandom: House M.D.

Face Claim: Chyler Leigh

Full Name: Madison Jenna Claremont

Nickname/Alias/Pet Names: Maddy, Dr. Psych Ward

Age: 28

Myers Briggs Type: ISFP

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Love Interest: James Wilson

Occupation: Diagnostician

Collections: Pens

Style/Clothing: She’s pretty conservative in how she dresses. She prefers pants to skirts, flat to heels and doesn’t like showing much skin. It makes her feel too exposed.

Signature Quote: "When everything is just too much, and I can’t find some way to escape, I might…well, I don’t know, but I don’t want to find out."

Plot Summary: Though soft spoken and possessing a seemingly endless amount of compassion, Madison's capabilities land her a spot on Dr. House's infamous diagnostic team. House isn’t always an easy man to deal with, so Madison finds herself turning to the man that knows him best for comfort and advice, Dr. James Wilson. With him in her corner, Madison learns how to do her job effectively and deal with House without losing her mind.

Forever Tag: @arrthurpendragon, @baubeautyandthegeek, @foxesandmagic, @carmens-garden, @fawera, @themaradaniels, @that-demigirl, @iloveocs, @bossyladies, @b1rvt4, @getawaycardotmp3, @misshiraethsworld

Hello lovely helper! Thank you so much for all your amazing wonderful help so far <3 If it’s okay to ask, please? Do you have any lovely actor/actress faceclaims who can play the parents of Chyler Leigh, please? Thank you so much!! Hope you’re having a lovely week! <3

aw this was so kind of you, thanks dove!! of course! i love being able to help out when i can. my rules are just written in a bit of a strict way to try and discourage nonsense lol. for a mother, i'd suggest:

Allison Janney ( 1959, actress )

Connie Nielsen ( 1965, actress )

Dina Meyer ( 1968, actress )

Gillian Anderson ( 1968, actress )

Julianne Moore ( 1960, actress )

Laura Dern ( 1967, actress )

Robin Wright ( 1966, actress )

Sigourney Weaver ( 1949, actress )

and here for a father! i had this all written up the other day and made a mistake and the entire ask vanished so thank you for your patience while i had to redo my research. i hope this helps!

Bill Pullman ( 1953, actor )

Dean Winters ( 1964, actor )

Dougray Scott ( 1965, actor )

James Purefoy ( 1964, actor )

John Cusack ( 1966, actor )

Kevin Bacon ( 1958, actor )

Mark Strong ( 1963, actor )

Robert Englund ( 1947, actor )

Rufus Sewell ( 1967, actor )

Tobin Bell ( 1942, actor )

Chyler allowing herself to make a mistake in front of Tom from the vulnerability prompts? I feel like she's a big time perfectionist.

Also just gonna throw this out there, but "begging them to stay" sounds like it has great potential for some angsty injury feels with a Spartan pairing like John/Cortana or Fred/Kelly.

From these prompts.

Well this took me forever and ever to finish. And that was just the first prompt.

I had a more serious response for this, but I wanted to write something for this mini-AU ❤️

xxxxxx

“Tom? You—hold on.”

Tom sat with a bemused smile as the video feed in front of him shook and jumped to the soundtrack of a small child’s squawking. He’d finally managed to secure a real-time video call to his family on Luna, and for the first time in months he could watch the chaos unfold without a time delay.

“OK.” Chyler set her device on the counter. “You there?” She leaned down into the shot.

“I am.” Tom raised the volume on his headset and made sure the noise canceling function was on. Even so, it was hard to block out the constant drone of Flying Fortress’s engines and the other conversations going on around him in the room colloquially dubbed “the phone booth.” “Should I ask how things are going on the home front?”

“It’s—Kate! What is that? Oh, just Teddy. OK. Yeah, we’re good.” Chyler answered.

“Sounds it,” Tom observed dryly.

“Kate! Honey!” Chyler picked up the tablet and started walking across the tiny apartment. “Want to say hi to Dada?”

The camera display flipped around and Tom saw his daughter sitting on the floor playing with a brown teddy bear. “Princess Kate!” He greeted.

“It’s Dada!” Chyler said.

“Dada!” The two-and-a-half-year-old dropped the toy crawled toward the screen. Her dark curls flopped over her eyes.

Tom ducked his face out of view. “Now, where’s that adorable Kate?” He sat up and feigned surprise. “Kate!” He placed his hand in front of the camera. “No Kate!” He moved his hand away. “Kate!” He covered the lens again. “No Kate!”

The little girl giggled and squealed at the familiar game. Well, familiar to Tom. He wondered if Kate even remembered the last time they’d played.

She’s so much bigger than she was then.

She looks so much like her mom.

“You’re not causing any trouble for Mumma, are you?” Tom asked, trying to take his mind off the gnawing sensation in his chest.

“Not for me, but the teachers at Launch Pad tell me she’s a little escape artist,” Chyler reported as Kate reached out to the screen. “You know I went to pick her up yesterday and found her running up and down the hall?”

Tom’s jaw dropped. “What?”

“She must have slipped out while they were changing shifts,” Chyler jerked the tablet away. “Kate, stop.”

“I hope you had words with them.” Tom frowned.

“Tom, she’s fine.” The feed jumped as Chyler stood. “They have those tags for a reason. If she’d managed to get out of the building somehow it would have tripped the alarm.”

“Why doesn’t that make me feel better?” Tom sighed.

“Because you’re paranoid.” 

Tom scowled. “Daddy instinct, all right?”

Kate stood up and batted the display again. 

“Kate, don’t—don’t hit the End button!” Chyler jerked the tablet away.

“Dada!” Kate called.

“Hi, baby,” Tom chuckled as Chyler held the screen out of Kate’s reach. “Dada loves you.”

“Say ‘I love you’?” Chyler prompted.

“Ah ya yoo!” Kate responded, her tiny arms wrapping around her mother’s legs.

“Oh, I love you, Katie Bug.” Tom bit his tongue. He missed her so much. “Dada’s gonna see you next week, OK?”

“I can’t wait for you to get back,” Chyler said wearily. 

“I can’t wait to be back.” Tom watched Kate toddle back to her toys. “Kate probably thinks her dad lives in a computer screen.”

“She does not,” Chyler assured.

“And I’m starting to get claustrophobic in this tin can,” Tom added. “I’m ready to breathe air that isn’t recycled. And not have metal dust all over me. And see a color besides gray.”

“The last couple weeks is always the worst.” Chyler turned the camera to face herself and sat on the couch. “We’ve both been down this road.”

“I know, I know.” Tom rested his chin on his hand and took in his wife’s face. “I ever tell you you’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen?”

“That’s your deployment goggles talking,” Chyler said with a poorly concealed smile.

“Learn to take a compliment, hon.”

“I—oh!” A crash interrupted whatever Chyler was going to say. 

“Chyler?!” Tom sat up straighter in alarm as the tablet clattered to the floor.

“Shit!” Chyler exclaimed. “Kate!”

“Chyler!” Tom called loudly enough to draw some glances from the phone booth’s other occupants.

“I’m fine. Everything’s fine.” Chyler made a grunt of frustration. “You didn’t hear that, Kate.” Chyler picked up the tablet and pushed her hair off her face. “She knocked over that toy kitchen from your mum. I was afraid—”

“Shit!”

Tom’s jaw dropped. Chyler’s gaze shifted past the tablet.

“Shit!” Kate repeated the word with a toddler’s pride.

“Kate, remember, you didn’t hear Mumma say that,” Chyler said without looking at her husband.

Tom’s “Looks like she did” rebuttal got lost in laughter.

“Tom, stop laughing,” Chyler ordered.

Tom just shook his head. He was surely drawing even more attention to himself now.

“This isn’t funny,” Chyler continued.

“Yes, it is,” Tom managed to wheeze.

“Shit!” Kate hollered again.

“Kate, stop it,” Chyler admonished uselessly.

“Don’t give an order—” Tom had to stop and gather himself. “Don’t give an order you know won’t be obeyed.”

“What’s up with Lasky?” Tom heard someone ask behind him.

Tom wiped his eyes. “And you were always afraid she’d hear it from me.”

Chyler glared into the camera. “You’d better not tell any of your buddies about this.”

“There’s—” Tom looked around the room. “Eight other people in here! It’s too late!”

“You know what? You can stay in that tin can,” Chyler said. “And I hope you choke on metal dust.”

If he choked on metal dust now, at least he’d go happy. “Love you!” Tom grinned and waved at his bride.

Chyler ended the call, but not before Kate got the last four-letter word.

xxxxxx

Flying Fortress is a reference to the B-17. I thought it was a good name for a carrier.

The daycare story is based on Mr finding Bum Bum escaped from his Sunday School room one day.