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Why does every adaptation of Supergirl insist on turning her into a female Superman?

Superman and Supergirl have very different, almost opposite dynamics(which also reflect differing immigrant experiences, but I digress)

Superman was raised on earth by humans. He has no memory of Krypton, and in most continuities didnt even know it existed until he was much older. Theres a very real since that his 'homelands' culture is more foreign to him than his adopted one. While he repects his Kryptonian heritage, at the end of the day, Earth is his home, and humans are his people. You see this quite clearly in the fact that he generally prefers to call himself by his human name(clark) rather than his kryptonian one.

Kara on the other hand was raised on Krypton. She didnt arrive on earth till she was much older(teens or even twenties). She IS Kryptonian through and through. Earth is just where she happens to live because she cant go back. She doesnt understand human culture or even at times like humans very much. She is forever an outsider with only her cousin to provide some link to her past and culture.

But for some reason every film/television adaptation of Supergirl(except smallville) writes her with the first dynamic. And its like, why? We already have Superman for that.

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Hey sorry. Your boyfriend knows exactly what he wants and who he wants to be. He knows exactly why he walks and talks like a machine. He's now becoming his own self-fulfilled prophecy. Yeah sorry.

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people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.

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You eat walking tacos with a fork or spoon, hence the name. They’re sometimes also called tacos-in-a-bag. That’s what they’re called around my neck of the woods.

What are taco dip and walking tacos??

Taco dip is basically a layered dip made up of the sorts of ingredients Americans put in tacos, like seasoned ground beef, refried beans, cheese or cheese sauce, sour cream, lettuce, tomatoes, etc. Walking tacos are basically a bag of fritos with either chili or seasoned ground beef and a lot of similar toppings tossed in; usually cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and sour cream.

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What are taco dip and walking tacos??

Taco dip is basically a layered dip made up of the sorts of ingredients Americans put in tacos, like seasoned ground beef, refried beans, cheese or cheese sauce, sour cream, lettuce, tomatoes, etc. Walking tacos are basically a bag of fritos with either chili or seasoned ground beef and a lot of similar toppings tossed in; usually cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and sour cream.

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Me: *not a DC fan*

Superman:

Me:

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I am honestly deeply curious about people's preferences from this list. Mostly as I just made one of these and brought it to a potluck and it is gone. Leave your distaste for Midwest cuisine at the door please. Yes, all of it will fluff you up for winter, that's like 63% of the point.

But for real? Which one do you just... almost hate yourself for loving the most?

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maybe this is a fundamental difference in moral views because i think oppression isn't bad because it harms certain groups, it's bad because it harms people. it DOES harm specific groups, and that's a necessary part of understanding it, but the mistreatment is the problem, not the fact that that mistreatment is unfairly distributed

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The BIONICLE world has a canonical...hell?

Oh yeah, that's A Thing. I had been toying with that as a Fun Fact, but I kind of assumed we were all like

But I'm happy to hear I can put this back on the slate! So! Today You Learned about Karzanhi!

In BIONICLE, the main inhabitants of the world are these worker fellows called the Matoran, (the people the Toa protect) and they need to keep working for their world to keep functioning (this seems dystopian to me, but the story kind of glosses over that).

The Matoran have this legend that if you're a very good little worker you're sent to Artakha, a divine workshop island kingdom ruled by an entity also known as Artakha. They would work in this ultimate workshop with Artakha to create cooler gadgets and buildings than anywhere else in the world.

But if you're a bad little worker, you're sent to Artakha's brother, Karzanhi. There bad little workers go to his dark kingdom, and are never seen again...

Obviously we have Heaven and Hell parallels here. In the actual story, most of the characters don't believe this is real. In one book, the heroes come across an evil vine creature that's named Karzanhi after the legend.

But then a bit later we find out that Karzanhi is totally real...

Except... he's kind of a doof. See, bad workers weren't sent to his kingdom as punishment, they were sent because Karzanhi's job is to fix them (these are bionic beings, remember?). The idea was Matoran who were bad workers because they needed some kind of repairs were sent to his kingdom for him to repair and send back. But Karzanhi was garbage at his job, so instead of sending them back after "repairing" them, he just sent them away, or kept them in his own kingdom. The reason Matoran never came back was because he was hiding his own shoddy work.

In fact, he also doesn't realize anything exists outside of his own work. When the heroes pass through his kingdom trying to get to the Plot, he doesn't believe that they're saving the world because as far as he knows, the world is just peachy! When he finds out from them how bad things are, he decides to take a hand in world events himself. And predictably, screws things up even worse.

[He also eventually gets a set that looks nothing like his illustration, because mutation shenanigans, but whatever.]

So yeah! BIONICLE Hell! If you ever see me use 'WTK' that stands for "What the Karzanhi?" We in the BIONICLE fandom used it back on BZPower.

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reading lotr does have me going ‘i need to go out in the wilderness now immediately’

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fun fact: basically every mod on r/legaladvice is a cop. if you see a bunch of comments in a row that have been deleted for “offering bad advice”, you can replace “reddit” in the url with “ceddit” to see the same page with all the deleted comments still there, and roughly half the time the “"bad advice”“ is literally anything that suggests that maybe OP shouldn’t trust the cops

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flower river

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1. can we agree that we can say that pills are often over-prescribed out of laziness due to doctor’s not wanting to deal with the root cause, AND some people genuinely need them and some health problems can’t just be ‘fixed’ by lifestyle changes?

2. ‘if you’re dependent upon a pill you’re a slave, instead be dependent upon never coming in contact with materials that make up 95% of daily life’

3. ‘I’ll send you a link to my favorite products!’ which are most likely made with the same ingredients/owned by the same corporations, it just says ‘natural’ on the tin and you get a kickback every time some poor sap obsessively buys it to ‘cure’ their husband’s cancer. hate. malice even

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to the surprise of no one, emma stone’s name is actually emily

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a wretched old man

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Anna Fisher, first mom in space

Anna Fisher was around 8.5 months pregnant when she was asked to prepare for a trip to space. Four months after giving birth, she flew aboard Discovery as the flight engineer in 1984. And she became the first mom in space.