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i wish i was born as someone who could handle life

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I adore this. I’m fairly sure my fave ship is small-ish, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

It’s home. 💜☀️

This is a shout out to small fandoms.

Yes, there is five of us. No, no one is getting hundreds of kudos or comments.

But we all have immaculate taste and we are vibing. We are sitting in a cosy living room, taking turns reading stories. There is a fireplace and tea and rocking chairs. This is our house and these are our stories, inspired by and created for one another, with utmost love and care. And that's more than enough.

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(A billion years of technical-difficulties later, I got it to post! Thank Rao. >,<)

"Comfortable":

*Inside Cat Grant's Penthouse, National City, CA.*

Kara almost didn’t realize it. Sure, it was late, she didn’t realize that Cat was even tired, let alone starting to nod off on her shoulder. She was so enthralled in the movie and trying not to pinch herself, so she woke up and was back in her apartment, without an adorably-tipsy Cat Grant leaning on her shoulder. It wasn’t until her ears pricked the faintest of snoring sounds that Kara realized Cat was zonked-out using her shoulder as an adequate impromptu pillow, as the wine caught up with her and sent her off to hopefully not too much of a hangover the next morning.

The realization, however, sat heavy in Kara's stomach. “So, I am sitting in the middle of CAT GRANT’S apartment, and she’s asleep on my shoulder…” Kara pieced-together internally, her brain running a million different directions about what she should do. “I… I think I should go.” She relented, wanting nothing more to never have to move her perfect face, that of course looked stunning even if it was starting to drool on the sleeve of Kara's blouse.

Kryptonian Soul-Mate bonds don’t mess around.

“Ok, Kara… just slowly stand up..” she muttered under her breath, as she slowly started to shift out from underneath the snoozing woman, each small jostle or creak of furniture and floorboards making Kara’s heart leap into her throat. She was a super-powered alien vigilante with more powers than she could quantify, so super-not-waking-up-cute-girls-as-you-try-to-leave is one of them, right?

Shift, reaction, shift, reaction, it was a roller-coaster of emotions as Kara slowly slid out from underneath the sleeping Cat, and laid Cat down on the couch, covering her up with the blanket that was covering Cat’s lap. Tucking the blanket over Cat’s shoulder, Kara just took a moment to gaze on the blissfully-snoozing Multimedia CEO, and the reaction was almost immediate. The ‘warm and fuzzies’ like Eliza used to call it, and Alex would make fun of her for using as a descriptor well into high school… though once Alex met Sara, she had to admit she might have been a skosh wrong.

“I… love you, Cat…” Kara almost mouthed, her uttering of words so quiet only someone with super-hearing had a shot of hearing it. “I know that sounds crazy, but some day I hope I'll get the chance to make it all make sense…” she added, resisting the urge to cup her face. Kara could wait. Kara could be patient. She could wait for an eternity for Cat. That was the easy part. The hard part is the uncertainty. This wasn’t destined in the stars like it was on Krypton, so Kara couldn’t rest on any semblance of laurels… and that terrified her.

Pulling herself away, Kara tiptoed towards the front door, but along the way saw some paper and a pen on a side-table, and she immediately changed course to scoop the items up. “Least I can do is make sure she doesn’t think I left because I was mad, right?” Kara rationalized internally, as she picked up the pen, and looked to see the paper was Monogrammed stationary. That wouldn’t help her adjusting brain, but she could handle that later.

“Hmmmmm… what to say, what to say..” Kara racked her brain, until the perfect line dropped into her brain, and it was just cheesy enough to work, or so she hoped.

“Didn’t wanna wake you from your Cat-nap. Breakfast at Noonan’s? Kara.”

Kara looked at it, and her gut instinct was to roll her eyes and maybe admit that this was ‘too cheesy’ even by her standards, but something just seemed to insist that it would be fine, so, turning back towards the couch, Kara dropped the note on the coffee table in front of where Cat snoozed away, folded in-half with Cat’s name scribbled in a quick, but flowy fashion.

Sneaking her way back to the door, Kara looked back one more time, silently sighed, then pulled herself away to quietly slippout, striding quickly to the elevators, head swimming with a lifetime's worth of memories to placate her for the uncertain future.

-Chlo. 💜☀️

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So… it has been a minute. 😆

I am still kicking, largely just trying to settle back in as life shifts back to the “end-of-year” mode… and my favorite time of the year.

Autumn is so close… I have hope. Lolz

One of my goals for this fall is to really try to reclaim all of my myriad of plot threads and ideas, and either filter them out or try to put some more words to them… in that vein, here’s a small moment that… may be canon in some semblance in my Astraverse. :)

Also, if I missed one, it is Kara/ Cat, but my original AU gave Kara a different name, so if I missed one, my bad. Lolz

Okies, so, as promised, here’s a small one: (I have like, 4 of these kind of ideas being worked into 1-2 stories for a certain “Fall Festival” 😆)

Enjoy!

-Chlo. 💜☀️

P.S: posting as a secondary post because Tumblr for iPhone hates me. Lolz, semi-jk.

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Hahahahahahahaah, #calledout. Lolz

few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

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Y’know what I wish was a thing?

I wish that, on AO3, and other fic-places, there was…. I guess, a perpetual “like”? What I mean is, yes, I can send kudos, which is awes. But, part of me wishes I could send those same kudos EVERY time I read it, and want to kudos.

Just, I wish there was a simple, unobtrusive way to tell the writer of the fic “yes, this is the 375th time I’ve come back to this fic because I needed the serotonin boost, I just want to show my appreciation again (and again, and again, etc.).”

That would just be… the coolest thing. I just hope I wouldn’t drive certain people crazy with it. Lolz

El Mayarah,

Chlo. 💜☀️

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Reposting for visibility. 🩷🤍🧡

Chlo. 💜☀️

Y’know, what? No time like the present…

First and foremost, Happy Pride!!! 🧡🤍🩷

Second, I suppose a more-proper introduction is in order…

Hi! My name’s Chloe! (I suppose the username tipped you off to that, but I digress.) I am a 30-something trans-femme demi-sapphic woman living, begrudgingly, in the American MidWest.

I am a massive nerd (pop-culture, DC Comics, Music, among others), and well… as you can see also, my chosen last-name is Danvers… so I’m not even gonna lie when I say that my personal inspiration for the kind of person I want to be is Kara (Zor-El) Danvers herself. [Doesn’t hurt that I dumb-lucked into finding my personal Cat Grant… tis the silver-est of linings.💜☀️]

I am a fledgling writer, though I have largely been in a 10ish year slump of writers block… currently trying to claw my way out of it starting with what has been my brain’s salvation these last few years: fan-fiction.

And in that vein, I figure, how better to get to know me, than to talk about my favorite ships, and why they resonate with me. So, let’s do this. :)

Bechloe: My first ship, even though I didn’t realize it at first. I’ve come a long way as an individual, so much so I watched Pitch Perfect the first time and saw 0 sapphic subtext between Beca and Chloe. (That is VERY much not that case now, I assure you. Lolz) So, why them? I’m a sucker for a grumpy/sunshine dynamic (we will revisit this later, I assure you. Lolz) between two women, and especially watching the sunshine warm up the grump a little. ❤️

Also doesn’t hurt this ship’s chances that this Chloe is THE Chloe that my name comes from… aspirationally, that kind of girl is inside me, but life has made me a bit more of a Beca, if that makes sense. Lolz

SuperCat: I could go on for days about them. Once again, Grumpy/ Sunshine, and I mean, I am literally a Danvers, so… lolz. Suffice it to say, they are a pair put on my radar by ‘My’ Cat…. And I have not shut up about them ever since. Seriously, the fact my partner still encourages it is a Raosend. Lolz I won’t go into much more detail, because my writing will do that for them, in spades.. whether it’s SuperCat, or AstraCat…. (No, not Aunt Astra… but consider this a tease for my SG-rewrite. ;) )

Chenrich: “Life is Strange: True Colors” is my favorite game, of all time. I’ve platinumed it, and I’m working on the perameters of a playthrough that gives me different challenges. But all that being said, when I see Steph and got her vibe, I burst out in a laugh and called it my “discount Beca Mitchell dating simulator”.. and I was not disappointed. ❤️ (btw, my canon ending? Alex and Steph stay in Haven Springs, and get the Black Lantern and turn it into a nerd bar… maybe one day I’ll write it. Who knows? Lolz)

Avalance: this is my semi-unexpected one… my brain is almost always in National City.. but these two, they grew on me, so hard. It doesn’t hurt that my partner broke my brain by telling me she saw a lot of Sara in me… and it took me years to finally see it too. (Though I will always, shamelessly, be a Kara… lolz) Co-Captains for life, babe. 💜☀️

Alright, that just may be enough to prolly not tell you all that much. But I’m an open book! And my asks are actually open now. Lolz

Alright, one more random thing, because why not? So… when I world build, I sometimes go to weird tangents… like, I may not have fleshed-out plot-lines… but I have 3 seasons of villian progression, and I’ve created the ice cream flavor made for her by a grateful National Citizen… (it’s “Swirl From The Stars”.. Fic is a lifesaver, swear to Rao. ☀️)

Alright, I’ve rambled on enough. I hope this finds all of you well, and once again, today and every single day ever…. Happy Pride!! 🧡🤍🩷

El Mayarah,

Chlo. 💜☀️

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Pitch Perfect (2012)

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Reposting for visibility! :)

Chlo. 💜☀️

My asks, and anon’s, are open! (I didn’t realize they weren’t, oops! Sorry, awesome writer working on my Secret Santa!)

Both here and my Sapphic Apothecary are open, so by all means, ask away!

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Alright…..

Let’s do this thing!!

Chlo. 💜☀️

Prompts are out!

If you don't see yours in your inbox, check your spam folder to make sure it didn't end up there. And let me know ASAP if you see anything wrong with your prompts.

Hopefully everything is good to go, and I look forward to seeing what awesome things are created this exchange!

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Oops! This was meant to be here. Lolz.

Nailed it. Jk jk

Happy Saturday, or “SuperCat Secret Santa Prompt Day’! (to all who celebrate, lolz)

I am eagerly awaiting my e-mail, and hope I didn’t leave my writer too weird of prompts to work with. 🤞

So, in honor of such, and because I have main-lined season 3 of Bridgerton, very much under the guise that Colin and Penelope is subtextually sapphic as fuuuuuuuck, (“She” was Colleen, and ngl, took an episode to clock which one of them were closest to my fav pair of ladies… my brain is an interesting place. Lolz) here is a small moment/ snippet I had come to mind, while on Bridgerton-brain, and biting my tongue heating my ‘room-mates’ on their insert-name-here-phobic bullshit that is usually tangentially attacking something I stand for…. Here is a tiny little monologue, with no person or scene attached to it… but I really, really resonated with it… so I wish the same for any of you who need it. :)

El Mayarah,

Chlo. 💜☀️

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“why does that character have to be queer?”

why not?

“why does that character have to be trans?”

why not?

“why does that character have to be a poc?”

why not?

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Don’t mind this… it’s just “research”.. lolz.

WEDDINGS AND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS

Centuries ago, weddings on Krypton consisted of the trading of ceremonial headbands, united by cloth to bind their union.

Weddings on Krypton just before its doom consisted of the bride and groom standing on the Jewel of Truth and Honor.  Then, the ancient Kryptonian wedding ceremoney begins, with, “In the name of truth and honor I declare the marriage vows binding upon you! From this day forward, throughout all time and space,even unto eternity…”

They exchange wedding bracelets of a color variation unique to them, that no other couple is allowed to duplicate…

It ends with “Made husband and wife this day–and for all days hence. May the countenance of Rao ever shine on you” and then there is a wedding kiss.

Kryptonian law forbids divorce, so once the couple is married, there is no way to dissolve the marriage.

Perhaps because of that, for one hundred years, Matricomp, a computer who could judge relationships, had to pre-approve marriages to test the couiples’ compatability.  By law, a marriage could only go through if approved by Matricomp, and it was treason to defy its rulings. Until the computer went haywire and Jor-El managed to destroy it, rendering the law invalid.

The marriage of cousins was unlawful, unlike some cultures here on Earth.

It was traditional for newlyweds from all over Krypton to come to the Fire Falls for good luck.

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Saturday cannot come soon enough. 😃 ❤️💙

Sign ups are now open for Supercat Christmas in July’s Secret Santa!

SIGN UP FORM: HERE

Fic, art, edits, gifsets, and fanvids are all welcome. Minimum fic length is 1000 words. Sign ups close on May 19th, and prompts will be sent out by May 25th. The deadline to complete your prompt is July 27th.

Follow this blog (supersantafemslash) for more updates, and message me if you have any further questions.

Note: This summer exchange is only for Supercat. The main Secret Santa exchange happening later this year will be open to season one and Supergirl crossover femslash ships.

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