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you have pregnant.

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What’s something you wish people knew about you, but you’ve never told anyone?

it's exhausting being 'nice' all the time and I wish I could have a do-over where I just go through life again but this time being completely 'honest'.

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it's the reporter in me

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Always.

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sg writers: omg don't you just love karamel and mon-el

literally nearly everyone: no we actually hat-

sg writers: omg i know right karamel is so cute and healthy. they're literally otp. here have some more

everyone: nah man we're cool we don't actually like karamel and don't think it's very healthy. maybe you should focus on sanvers more or explore supercorp or karolsen more. anything but kar-

sg writers: i love how everyone just loves karamel and mon-el so much, he's such a good character and boyfriend. can't have enough of him

everyone: um actually he's kind of an ass and no one lik-

sg writers: wow i'm glad we listen to our fandom and the media. let's keep karamel and mon-el

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#timeless

If you love Alex&Maggie (Supergirl) and you want reblog or like,this is the link of my reblog couples :)

thank you!

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it wasn't just the queer community that expressed concerns about all the red flags this character brought to the show, and the potential harm 'romanticizing' this relationship would do, especially to impressionable young viewers.

#Kara Deserved Better #No need for Mon-el

The more time passes and our society descends into the hellscape of misogyny, femicide, etc the worse this looks. I mean at the time it was bad, but in retrospect it’s so much worse. It just goes to show that (the mostly LGBTQ) fans were so right in demanding the character eff off and never come back and then being upset every time they kept trying to shove him down everybody’s throat as a “reformed hero” in unwanted future cameos.

“No more Mon-El” trending while they were filming the series finale… a moment. 🤌

Anyway it’s absolutely wild that they really made this character the lead heroine’s love interest for two whole seasons. Especially considering he was the self-insert for an IRL predator producer that put women through hell behind the scenes. I mean, it’s actually in print that several of the things that POS had the character say and do he actually said and did IRL towards women who worked on the show while he was co-showrunner.

Between them queerbaiting the lead ship for five seasons + this bs (which they tried to repeat by introducing a potential love interest in the final two seasons that started off yet again with treating the lead heroine like absolute garbage, stalking her, insulting her, and then them telling fans it was all just his cover and he was really a saint)…

SGCW aged like milk.

“giRL PoWeR” 🥴

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Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling Yoo-hoo!! ❄️

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so wholesome.

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I guess if you can't get something done, you just do it yourself.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Blind Items Revealed #3

September 15, 2024

The former  television superhero is now having to beg producers to give her serially unemployed husband, acting jobs.

Melissa Benoist/Chris Wood

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When you want to get on with your own show (that you headline) but you have to accommodate that one character that no one else likes or wants to do scenes with.....

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I like the idea of Mon-elle being an annoying nemesis or foil to Kara without all of the romantic red flags that were showcased. Now I am distracted by fan-casting the role.

Mon-el should have been a girl.

As a show, Supergirl has a history of taking storylines similar to Superman’s, and turning them on their ears by swapping out genders. Where Superman has a holographic father, Supergirl has one of her mother (we see her father for exactly 5 seconds in the pilot, while her mother is the one embracing her, giving her tokens and final parting words). Kara’s boss is female. New villains in S1 were often female. Even the most recognizable of Super villains– the Luthors– are presented in the forms of Lex’s mother and sister.

In keeping with that, the person in the pod should have been a woman. If they had, they could have changed literally nothing else about Mon-el’s character and it still would have felt fresher than the stale piece of bread character we actually got. Heteronormativity would have then actually worked in their favor, because without automatically defaulting Mon-el’s relationship with Kara to a romantic one, the character traits we hate in Mon-el (while still shitty) would have taken on a different perspective.

Let’s imagine it for a second… without the easy excuse of aggressive masculinity, Mon-el’s reaction upon waking would have told us she was part of a warrior class. Without the familiar trap of a man talking over/down on a woman, a female Mon-el’s criticisms of Kara could have come from truly different worldviews, or perhaps even jealousy over Kara’s circumstances (how well she’s adjusted to life on Earth, the happiness she’s found among her friends in spite of the loss of her planet, etc). Simply by existing between two women their dynamic would have provided novelty and layers– it’s simply so rare, that it would automatically be compelling.

Even the eventual introduction of Rhea as Mon-el’s mother would have more closely mirrored the parallels already drawn between Alex & Eliza and Lena & Lillian. Where Alex has the love of her mother but doesn’t realize it, and Lena craves the love of her mother but knows she’ll never have it, Mon-el would have been an interesting case of a daughter having her mother’s love, knowing it, and not necessarily want or need it.

Not to mention, were Mon-el a woman, her character development would have been practically guaranteed– because a woman is not allowed to exist on a show without carrying her own weight, and she is not allowed to be shrewish (which Mon-el’s current characterization would most definitely be labeled if he were a woman). The stagnant presence of Mon-el onscreen, and the application of improved titles of DEO agent and “hero” without any marked improvement of ability or character is a perfect example of male privilege and is a luxury that would NOT have been allotted to a woman.