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Kara Danvers + absolutely losing her shit over what her crush just said

Bonus:

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i’m sure someone has already mentioned this, but if kara’s glasses are lined with lead and mon-el is vulnerable to lead, shouldn’t he be dying because of the prolonged exposure to her??

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Oh, come on!

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#emily has a type

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Dichen Lachman @ Survival Con (x)

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i’ve been mostly absent lately, still haven’t finished the last chapter of lessons in sex life, and my only excuse is power rangers. i'm currently trying to finish chap 5 so i can peacefully convert to trimberly trash fully and ascend to gay power rangers heaven

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I absolutely love Alex’s curly hair but part of me desperately wants her to straighten it for like a date night and for Maggie to see her and remember when they first met and to be SHOOK™

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The hair thing™ and The look™

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If you say “It’s just fiction anyway”, you’re part of the problem.

Real life influences fiction, but fiction influences real life. Fiction influences the way children are raised because children learn and become people by mirroring what they see and hear.

I am a sapphic individual, but I didn’t even know women could love other women before I was over ten years old. You know why? Because I never saw it. Ever. But I knew men could love each other, I’d been taught it was bad (saw them get beaten up and insulted on TV for being themselves).

I used to watched Sailor Moon, but only when I discovered the Internet and animes, did I learn that Haruka was in fact not a boy. The sapphic relationship was censored. I’m French, I was raised in France, in a country that was supposedly open-minded, not one of the many countries known for their censorship, but goddamn France.

Without fiction, I would probably still be trying to convince that one day I’ll really like a boy, because all girls do and that it’s normal to wait for the right boy (you know, the one who teases you and makes fun of you and pushes you around, like you’ve seen in your favourite cartoon or TV show?)

We learn from what we see and hear, it’s in our nature. And that’s why we’re only shown some things on TV, because people don’t want us to mirror certain things, to think that things like homosexuality are normal. You form your views on people, society and your surroundings in general, through what you see, and not just what your parents do and teach you.

Fiction matters and shapes our youth.

If you say “It’s the twenty first century, it’s all good now”, you’re part of the problem.

It’s not all good when being gay still is a crime in over 70 countries. It’s not all good when people still aren’t free to choose their own religion and to practice it the way they want. It’s not all good when we still hear “boys will be boys”. It’s not all good when girls are punished and humiliated while boys are praised for doing the exact same thing.

In high school, my philosophy teacher was a man of the church (though I wasn’t in a private school) who openly and very called me “the homosexual” during class, and his only apology when I mentioned it to him was “Oh, well, I didn’t know” (he knew, my teachers knew, but that’s a long story). I’m French, I was raised in France. And that was three years ago, not ten or twenty.

Don’t ignore the problems, don’t call them “just fiction”, don’t dismiss issues because “it’s the twenty first century” and you haven’t personally been confronted to them.

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Thank you.

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But Maggie, you don’t have to be guarded with me. I’m not here to judge you for things that happened in the past. I’m here to help you heal.

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So, how’d it go? Good. Thank you for making me do that.

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Dear @wtatennisfreak-blog,

Have you actually read my post or did you just interpret it as me being mean to your faves?

I’ve been watching Supergirl since season 1. I’ve read most of the Batwoman comics. I’ve been on tumblr long enough to know how things work around this beautiful hell hole. So no, I’m not new here.

Please enlighten me and tell me how Alex is an homage to Batwoman. Because they have similar haircuts? Because Alex has a problem with alcohol (which is non canonically acknowledged)? Because she has a career in the military? A younger sister? Is that it? If that’s your angle, then Alex is an homage to Kate Kane, not Batwoman. And even, that’s far-fetched because Kate Kane is Jewish lesbian who has known she was gay for years, who has witnessed her sister and mother get killed, and who has a father in the military, who decided to become a vigilante. And you know what Alex would never be, would never endorse? A vigilante.

If Alex Danvers is an homage to Kate Kane, then FeIicity Smo*k is an homage to Barbara Gordon because she wears glasses, is good with computers and was stuck in a wheelchair. Then Sara Lance is an homage to Dinah Lance because she’s a bisexual Canary wearing leather.

“Maggie on SG is basically Montoya.” YES. That’s my point. CW Maggie is a rip-off. She isn’t her own character. Just like FeIicity.

What is the point of taking a brand new character, give her as little background as possible, only to give her the name of a comics canon character who matters a lot to wlw already. Couldn’t they just make her an actual new character? Was it too fucking hard to find a name?

I know the CW likes to take comics canon characters and change a lot about them, I wasn’t expecting them to go by the book. Dinah Lance became Laurel Lance, a straight woman with a bisexual younger sister (because god forbid their main female character is openly bi, or that two sisters are both bisexual, that never happens in real life, right) and waited for her sister to die (a second time) to become the Black Canary. Laurel Lance still is Dinah Lance, she still has lots of traits in common, still is Black Canary (or rather was, but let’s not go there). Dinah Lance is one of my favourite characters in the comics, and her being changed to fit in the narrative of Arrow didn’t stop me from loving Laurel Lance more than I love any other character on a DC show.

You know what happens when series create new characters that don’t appear in the material they are based on, and make them interesting and individual and not just rip-offs? Alex Danvers happens. Harley Quinn happen.

If CW Maggie was named Karla Esposito or Alejandra Duran, everything would be the same as it currently is. CW Maggie still is the rip-off of a lover of Kate Kane with the name of another of her lovers. Doesn’t stop me from loving how Maggie is written (though there’s still too little of her). It was a lazy ‘Oh look, we know and love queer women in fiction!’ move.

What I’m trying to say is, the CW took the FeIicity recipe and applied it to create their Maggie. Took an existing character to do whatever the hell they want with it. FeIicity is Barbara Gordon with a different name. Maggie is Renee Montoya with a different name. But at least CW Maggie isn’t a toxic character with even more toxic fans (Long live Fefe!). The CW is disrespecting comics Maggie Sawyer and Barbara Gordon and many others to do what they want.

And doesn’t casting a white woman as a latina justify criticism? Isn’t it bad enough? What more do you need?

PS: I love CW Maggie, DC Maggie and Renee a lot. PPS: I love Laurel Lance, Dinah Lance and Barbara even more. PPPS: Please stop defending the CW and its racism.