#El approves

[cookiedough77]

i know people are saying the letter was a master manipulation plan by gabriel or that he didnt even write the letter himself

but i think it would be really hilarious if he just forgot he ever wrote that

he has no time to ask because adrien brings back emilie too so they dont dwell on it like the airheads they are

[jesncin]

Don't Call Me Superboy mini: Paul Westfield learns some DC!punk history and offers his thoughts.

[I know Mucous Membrane is canonically more of a late 70s band thing, I'm just adjusting based on my AU]

[codgod-archive]

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all these designs are available as stickers, and the first one also comes in pin form! and there’s a bonus sticker of one of my other drawings too xP the dead eggs in their little christmas outfits

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[im-not-buying-it-ether]

Okay, very dumb thought of the “Captain Marvel adopts Superboy Au” nature

Okay so, Kon dated Cassandra Cain for a hot second in comics

Cassandra Cain is worthy of the powers of Shazam

People normally introduce their partners to their parents

Kon: Hey dad

Cap: Yeha Kon?

Kon: wanted to introduce you to my girlfriend, Batgirl

Cass: (waves) hi

Cap, holding his hand out for a shake: Pleasure to meet you!

Cass: (shakes hand)

(Thunder strike)

Cass, now wearing a thunder symbol with her bat one: … ??

Cap:… well she’s universally approved so I can’t see a problem, be safe you two! (Flies away or something)

Kon: what

[pensat-i-fet]

Mis franchutes 🥰🥰

[pheavampire]

I watched the new French Zorro TV series

The one starring Jean Dujardin.

It has its flaws. I could write a whole essay about it. Sometimes the ideas are so crazy over the top that I thought it’s a bit too silly. Sometimes the plot elements don’t have a good build up or are a bit rushed.

But… I liked it. I really liked it.

I didn’t expect I would have so, so much fun watching it. The creators of the series are Zorro’s fans and it shows; there are more or less subtle references to the other versions I didn’t expect to see. But most importantly: I finally got Diego de la Vega who ACTUALLY has a serious dual identity crisis and real flaws - while still being a competent vigilante. 

Interestingly, the creators seem to assume the viewers already know who Zorro is and don’t really bother to explain it. It’s kind of like a „20 years later” fan fiction of the semi-Disney series with an addition of quite crazy French humor, so I wonder how the show is perceived by those who are not familiar with the character.

Too bad it’s only a miniseries.

[gayofthefae]

Me wanting to rewatch Stranger Things because I got a new interpretation but I am currently rewatching it already

[hooked-on-elvis]

EP Playing Touch Football

This ripped shirt reminded me of something Jerry wrote in his book. I wonder if this shirt ended up ripping accidentally, with a random, non-directed pull (maybe E even ripped the shirt himself, somehow), or if the guys still gave El a harder time than they did the other players every time he played with them (I didn't notice any other guys with the torn clothes).

JERRY SCHILLING'S MEMORIES OF PLAYING FOOTBALL WITH ELVIS:

At one of our bigger games in the spring of 1955, we’d been playing for a while when a couple of very large men showed up and asked if they could get in the game. They explained that they were semipro players, had heard about the Elvis games, and wanted to be a part of it. The rest of us were not so eager to play with these big guys, but as far as Elvis was concerned, these players were stepping onto his turf and he wasn’t going to stand down. He wanted them in.

We worked out the teams again to include them and got set to play. On one of the first offensive drives, Elvis was taking a break from quarterbacking duties and was on the line blocking. When the ball was snapped, this 200-pound-plus semipro hit Elvis hard and ran right over him. Elvis took his time getting up — he was obviously a little shaken.

Now, we played tough at these games, with all-out effort, and we regularly knocked the hell out of each other. But the point was that everybody got knocked around — nobody ever specifically targeted Elvis. You wouldn’t think twice about hitting him if that’s the way the play went, but nobody was ever going out of their way to try to hurt him. From the look of that semipro player’s first hit, it seemed that maybe these guys weren’t so interested in playing ball for fun they were going to teach “Pretty Boy” Presley a lesson.

As we got back into a huddle, it was clear that Red West was furious. “I’ll take that son of a bitch out,” he said.

“No, Red,” said Elvis sharply. “Damn it, no. Just play the game.”

We ran a few more plays, and it was the same thing each time —Elvis got a tremendous hit from this charging rhino. But Elvis made a point of hopping up a little faster each time and just shaking it off. It got to a point where the day just didn’t feel like fun anymore. All the regular players were furious, and we were all telling Elvis that the game couldn’t go on like this, but he wouldn’t hear it. He wanted to play through. I found myself lined up next to Elvis, with the same big guy ready to charge at him again.

“Hit me from the left side,” said Elvis. “What?” asked the rhino. “Hit me from the left side.” “Why?” “I got a few bones over there that ain’t broke yet,” said Elvis.

The big guy started laughing, and by the time the ball was snapped he was laughing hard enough that he didn’t have the strength to steam-roll Elvis. After the play, we took a break and the guy went over to his fellow rhino. In a few minutes they walked back toward Elvis. Now the big guys were all smiles.

“Excuse me, Elvis,” said the one who’d been knocking him down.

“We sure did enjoy the game. Hope there aren’t any hard feelings.”

Red was still ready to lunge at them, but Elvis just shrugged.

“No hard feelings,” said Elvis. “Just bruises. Good luck with your season.”

Their big faces lit up like they’d just been blessed by the Pope. They started to walk away, when the guy who’d been knocking Elvis down turned around and came back.

“Uh, just one more thing, Elvis? Our wives are over there—can we bring them over to meet you?”

“Sure,” says Elvis. “Bring ’em over.”

As Elvis signed autographs for their wives, it all came together for me; if he had let Red and the rest of us go after these guys, then he would have ended up with some more enemies. Instead, he took a little punishment and ended up with four new fans.

There were a lot of people in Memphis that wanted to knock Elvis down, figuratively and literally, but what I saw happen on that field with the semipro guys was something I’d witness over and over again: A lot of people thought they had something against Elvis, but I never saw anybody who spent any time with him walk away not liking him.

Excerpt "Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley" by Jerry Schilling (2006)

December 27, 1956. Elvis played touch football at the Dave Wells Community Center in Memphis with some friends.

[suzukiblu]

Ask game: hunch or shrug

"Look, seriously, we all get it," she says. "We just want you to know no one's gonna think anything bad because of you. Clark's great. Nobody's gonna judge. Nobody who matters, anyway. It'd be fine if you told the truth."

"You think I'm Clark's kid from, like, a teen pregnancy situation," Kon says slowly, really hoping he's misunderstanding her right now. "And you think I'm ashamed to admit it."

"It's a small town, Conner," she says gently. "Everybody knows everybody else's business. Clark's adopted. He doesn't have any biological cousins. And the resemblance is kinda, well . . . not subtle, you know?"

Kon . . . swallows.

"It's okay," she insists. "Really."

"Does everybody think I'm his kid?" Kon asks, staring down at his half-eaten sandwich and wishing he could sink right into the floor and never come back out. The others all glance at each other, then shrug.

"I mean, everybody at school, at least," she says. "Honestly my parents told me not to bring it up to you, but I thought that was kind of . . . shitty, you know? Like, if you feel bad about it, I mean. You shouldn’t feel bad about something like that."

Kon wants to burn down this whole fucking building and run away to San Francisco and stay there until he dies.

"Clark's not my dad," he says.

"It really is okay," she says. Kon wants to laugh.

Or cry.

"You think I'd be the ashamed one, if he were?" he asks maybe a little bit too close to bitterly, and everyone else at the table . . . pauses, all at once.

"Wait," she says. "What?"

"Clark's not my dad," Kon repeats, and then grabs his tray and gets up and just–leaves.

He really can't do anything else.

[non-cannon]

Supergirl AU idea that popped into my head either last night or this morning (what is time?) (I have not watched the show since it came out, and I never even finished it (I gave up around s4), so hopefully this makes sense since it only deals with s1 things):

What if Kara was able to grab something(s) to take with her to Earth as her parents shoved her into the escape pod? And what if (one of) the thing(s) she grabbed was the communicator Astra gave her? And what if Astra had her communicator on her when she was sent to the prison thing (I forget the name) in the Phantom Zone?

And Kara is able to keep a hold of her communicator when Superman finds her and brings her to the Danvers. And a few months, or maybe only a few weeks, into her time there, Kara is feeling really sad and lonely and finds someplace private and takes out the communicator. And she "knows" Astra is dead, but she wants to pretend like maybe she isn't and starts talking into it.

And since Kara's pod was used to tow the prison to Earth, Astra is also on Earth, and in possession of her communicator, she gets to hear how sad and lonely Kara is feeling. And at somepoint Kara mentions knowing Astra is dead, because she was on Krypton, so Astra is able to conclude that Kara didn't knowingly set her up for capture, and is completely innocent.

And Astra, despite knowing it's not the most strategic option, decides she can't listen to her beloved niece in pain like this and speaks up and comforts her. Also Astra knows that Non and the others would probably say she should convince Kara to join them and or to ignore her as a liability, but she doesn't want that, so she keeps their contact a secret while also urging Kara to keep it a secret on her end, which Kara does.

At first Astra doesn't tell Kara about Myriad, or her arrest, explaining her survival as being off planet for military reasons at the time of it's destruction. Astra also gives Kara tips for controlling her powers and for testing/exercising them safely without the humans finding out. And maybe this even leads to Jeremiah not needing to be taken by the DEO?

For years they keep communicating in secret via the communicators, but after Kara turns 18, she insists that they try and meet up in person, and Astra eventually agrees to it. When they reunite there is much hugging and tears, and Astra finds it harder to lie to Kara in person, so she eventually explains about her imprisonment and Myriad. Kara is first horrified to learn about her role in Astra's arrest, and her mother's role as well, and how her mother knew about Krypton's imminent destruction, but did nothing to stop it. And then she's horrified to learn about Myriad, because what does Astra mean her plan to fix everything is planet wide mind control/enslavement?

But Kara doesn't immediately act to stop Astra or anything. She doesn't even tell anyone, because she doesn't really know who to tell, and she doesn't want her Aunt to be arrested/hurt because of her again. And the two of them remain in contact, both trying to convince the other to see their point of view and come around to the "right" side. Considering the fact that Kara seemed to be well on her way to winning this argument in canon, I think she definitely wins here.

No idea how the changes keep propagating out and how things look by the start of the show, but Kara definitely gets to keep her Aunt.

[arctorres]

my little superboy redesign

(this is actually the most beautiful thing I’ve ever drawn)

[kiddoairaku]

have been reading kon comics lately and he's filling up my phone gallery lmaoo

[dorindameddler]

the outro for el hazard is this adorable song sung by the little lesbian <3

[canondestiel]

going on a new antidepressant 🙏 let this be the one that works

[gayofthefae]

Here's the thing about season 3. Nothing was a secret. There was no lining or buildup. They cleared up the miscommunication in episode 4 and she stood by breaking up with him anyways.

From there, just like I say about Will's feelings being unreciprocated, the problem is unactionable, so there's no lesson and nothing for us to root for.

Mike wants to get back together with El. She knows that. Nothing happens.

The L bomb was dropped as a false sense of momentum, because there actually wasn't any because him not saying it wasn't the problem so it shouldn't be the solution. Usually you have pining. Think the full season breakup story they did the following season:

There was pining. There was investment from US. Because there was setup for confession. Because something was withheld to be revealed. "You know I really like you but you don't know I love you" does not count. Lucas didn't know Max wanted to get back together. They had been broken up long enough and Lucas was respectful enough that Max couldn't be sure either. That setup investment for the notes passing scene. That set up his NERVES in it. That set up me being excited when I saw their first kiss in her 4x04 happy memories sequence. And satisfied to have predicted the Snow Ball as her happiest memory. If Max had known he definitely wanted to get back together as soon as she was ready again and wasn't going to move on at all, there would be no stakes.

Mike wanted to be with El. Then she didn't want to be with him. She can't have the nerves of confessing to him she wants to get back together because she already knows he does. He can't have the nerves of confessing he wants to because he already has. And they didn't establish them as friends solidly or for long enough like they did by establishing that Lucas and Max had ALREADY broken up as opposed to a 6 day breakup arc to make it so that they became unsure of what they once knew to me true of getting back together. Severity of wording changed and El loves romantic tropes in movies so it had influence but really:

Mike had no information to add that El didn't already have. El had nothing stopping her giving Mike information as soon as she had it. There were no stakes. So I didn't care. Whatever happened, cute. That was my thought process. But I had no real investment anymore, unlike when they were building to confession or fighting to get back to each other, because I knew as soon as she wanted to get back together they just automatically would be. So if you, like you were meant to, believed that Mike loved El and knew that she knew that, that scene where she said it back was cute. But not satisfying.

There is nothing to be resolved. We're watching events take place sequentially. Because when there are no stakes, there's no real goal either. Mike invented one for himself because he was uncomfortable with the idea of how comfortable he was broken up.

Tldr: Mike and El's relationship had no secrets and therefore no stakes or opportunity for confession in season 3. El telling Mike she loved him was cute, but not a "confession". Because, just like Mike telling her he loves her in 4x09, if we (think we) know how the other person is feeling and will react, we can't at all invest in the feelings of nervousness or satisfaction that the confessor is feeling.

Season 3 and 4 uninvested us by feigning plots in which they gave us no new information. And bored us. If you know exactly how a scene will play out all but exact wording, you will space out because you can. A writer never wants you to be able to space out and miss nothing. (Until they don't want you to miss what's happening when they take it away)

[balis77]

You know, I just realized that, considering not even the pod Clark was in could auto-translate to english, if we get Supergirl in this show she’s not gonna be able to speak english either.

So like, imagine it. Teenage Kara gets freed from her stasis pod, or whatever was keeping her this whole time. She’s frantic, but luckily there’s this adult Kryptonian there, and he’s got the House of El’s symbol on too! She doesn’t recognize him, but that means there’s more survivors and that means they can help her locate her cousin like she was supposed to do. So she starts asking questions. His name, the situation with her cousin, the fate of their people, etc... but then he doesn’t seem to register any of it. But he looks confused. He doesn’t seem to understand anything she’s saying. And then he starts talking, and in a language she doesn’t understand. It’s not Kryptonian, she doesn’t know what he’s saying. So then she gets even more frantic, trying in increasingly simple terms to try and figure out where Kal-el is...

And then she notices that he seems to get a bit of recognition when she says that name. A personal recognition. And then she slowly realizes just how similar he looks to her uncle. And then she realizes just how old he is. But if he’s... then that means...

Then she looks back at the pod/whatever she was trapped in and has a horrible, horrible realization.