#lauren luthor

[sillyfroggremlin]

watching/rewatching a show when you already have an established favorite character is great because every time they come on screen it's like

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[aquarii-doodles]

Back on my dc bullshit. I need to work on my 413 post. Progress and inspo pics under the cut :]]

[justalovelyblackgf]

If I were to cast more black women in “Smallville” : A Thread Part 2

(These actresses could be seen as side characters, recurring characters, love interests, guest stars or villains. They could even be used as face claims for OCs for any stories based in the 2000s-2010s! )

Disclaimer: These are MY opinions, inner thoughts, and head canons. I believe these women would’ve absolutely nailed a role in the series if they were given a chance back then. There’s nothing wrong about wanting to be represented in any media content such books, movies, and television shows that you enjoy, especially in genres such as sci-fi, fantasy, and period dramas. If you don’t like it, then keep scrolling! This page is basically a diary, so I’m gonna say what I’m gonna say.

1. Maia Campbell

2. Logan Browning

3. Lark Voorhies

4. Lauren London

5. Tatyana Ali

6. A huge honorable mention because she starred in action, sci-fi, and horror films, so I think she would be a great fit if weren’t for her passing.

Aaliyah (R.I.P.)

that’s all, folks! omg, i loved making this thread and i love what black women are doing successfully in all industries because we matter and we should be seen as such. 🫶🏾

[talas-first-lady]

The characters of Supergirl have been allotted one use of the word "fuck" per season.

Bonus points if you share the episode/scene/line they should use it in.

Other seasons

[whynot-animations]

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)

[diver5ion]

[xxdjsunsetxdxx-blog]

Random Ships I Like In No Particular Order:

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* Loubbie- Lou Miller x Debbie Ocean- Ocean’s 8

* Sabina x Elena- Charlie’s Angels (2019)

* Macgyver x Riley- MacGyver (2016)

* Magnum x Higgins- Magnum PI (2018)

* Shoot- Shaw x Root- Person of Interest

* Rizzles- Rizzoli x Isles- Rizzoli & Isles

* Wondercheetah- Wonder Woman x Cheetah- DC

* Camren- Camila x Lauren- Fifth Harmony

* Blackhill- Natasha Romanoff x Maria Hill- Marvel

* Xialing x Katy- Shang-Chi

* Peggy Carter x Dottie Underwood- Agent Carter

* Supercorp- Kara Danvers x Lena Luthor- Supergirl

* Daniela x Carla- In The Heights

* Mira Harberg x Laurie- Irma Vep

* Judy Hale x Jen Harding- Dead To Me

* Florence x Madeleine- Gunpowder Milkshake

* Ronance- Robin Buckley x Nancy Wheeler- Stranger Things

* Eleanor x Drea- Do Revenge

* Harlivy- Harley Quinn x Poison Ivy- DC

* Wenclair- Wednesday Addams x Enid Sinclair- Wednesday

* Meddison- Meredith x Addison- Grey’s Anatomy

* Emily x Stephanie- A Simple Favor

* Mercymaker- Mercy x Widowmaker- Overwatch

* Akko x Diana- Little Witch Academia

* Dovesso- Professor Dovey x Lady Lesso- The School for Good and Evil

* Cassie Lang x Jentorra - Quantumania

* Spideypool- Spider-Man x Deadpool- Marvel

* Superbat- Superman x Batman- DC

* Batman x Catwoman- DC

* Princess Audrey x Wonder Woman- DCAU

* Jon Stewart (Green Lantern) x Hawkgirl (Shayera Hol)- DCAU

* StephCass- Stephanie Brown x Cassandra Cain- DC

* DinahBabs- Black Canary (Dinah Lance) x Oracle (Barbara Gordon)- DC

* DicKory- Nightwing (Dick Grayson) x Starfire (Koriand’r)- DC

* Wondermagic- Wonder Woman x Zatanna- DC

* Daphne x Velma- Scooby-Doo

* Cassie Dewell x Jenny Hoyt- Big Sky

* Choni- Cheryl Blossom x Toni Topaz- Riverdale

* Bechloe- Beca Mitchell x Chloe Beale-Pitch Perfect

* Khalopatra- Kleopatra x Frida Khalo- Clone High

* Talia Burns x Margot Fairmont- First Kill

* Question x Huntress- DCAU

* SuperWonderBat- Superman x Wonder Woman x Batman- DCAU

* Wonderhawk- Wonder Woman x Hawkgirl (Shayera Hol)- DCAU

* Dana Scully x Monica Reyes- X-Files

* Barbara (Barbie) Handler x Gloria- Barbie

* Julethief- Carmen Sandiego x Julia (Jules) Argent- Carmen Sandiego

* Seven Of Nine x Raffi Musiker- Star Trek

* Larissa Weems x Morticia Addams- The Addams Family

* Swanqueen- Emma Swan x Regina Mills- Once Upon A Time

* Alicia Florrick x Kalinda Sharma- The Good Wife

* Danny James x Cable McCrory- Bull

* Kim Possible x Shego- Kim Possible

* Peachline-Princess Peach x Mayor Pauline- Mario

* Gelphie- Elphaba Thropp x Glinda Upland- Wicked

* SamBucky- Sam Wilson x Bucky Barnes- Marvel

* PeggyNat- Peggy Carter (Captain Carter) x Natasha Romanoff- What if?

* Maxine “Max” Baker x Abby Littman- Ginny & Georgia

* Ashrah x Nitara- Mortal Kombat

* Johnshi- Johnny Cage x Kenshi Takahashi- MK

* Barlissa- Barbara Howard x Melissa Shimmenti- Abbot Elementary

* Cabenson- Olivia Benson x Alex Cabot- Law & Order SVU

* Caroljess- Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel) x Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman)- Marvel Comics

* Bishlova- Kate Bishop x Yelena Belova- Hawkeye

* Chlonette- Chloe Burgeois x Marinette Dupain-Cheng- Miraculous Ladybug (in theory)

* Clawdeen x Draculaura- MH (Gen 1)

* Teleanor- Tahani Al Jamil x Eleanor Shellstrop- The Good Place

* Hanamusa- Jessie x Delia Ketchum- Pokémon

* Jemily- Emily Prentiss x Jennifer “JJ” Jareau- Criminal Minds

* Mellivia- Olive Pope x Melody “Mellie” Grant- Scandal

* Malvie- Mal x Evie- Descendants

* Mileena x Tanya- Mortal Kombat

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talk to me abt them if you want :)

couldn’t fit all the tags lol

[thatonebirdwrites]

DEO: Department of Extra-normal Operations

This will be an essay that looks into the ethical problems of the DEO. For the purpose of this essay, I am not concerned about the showrunners reasons for their decisions for how the show presents the DEO. I care only about examining the worldbuilding and stories inherent within the world created. So let's dig into some philosophy and theory. Whee! [Minor spoilers]

To start, this department was first created within the Superman/Supergirl universe in order to analyze alien activities after Superman reveals himself on Earth. It's made in retaliation to the appearance of powerful aliens that those in power deem possible threats. Already, the DEO's beginnings are rooted not in true protection but in stopping and eradicating what those in power deem a threat. It's roots start with dubious ethics.

Let's examine it's history:

It was led by Hank Henshaw, who is vehemently anti-alien. Henshaw is also slated to have ties to Cadmus, which experimented on aliens and attempted several rather horrific and genocidal attacks on aliens. (Note that in Supergirl: Season 2, Kara and Lena thwart Cadmus' activities. Lena Luthor saves the day by modifying an alien killing virus to be harmless to all living creatures. Bits and pieces of the worldbuilding around Cadmus showed that the aliens experimented on came from DEO facilities.)

Henshaw dies when Jeremiah Danvers "kills" him when saving J'onn J'ozz, who then takes Henshaw's place until exposed. He recruits Alex sometime before his exposure (Season 1). After J'onn is exposed in Season 1, Lucy Lane takes control. Then after J'onn helps Supergirl defeat the murderous Kryptonian Non, J'onn received a presidential pardon and was reinstated as director. He kept Henshaw's guise for publicity sake.

The show makes it clear that J'onn choses to be the Director to change the DEO. Yet, what evidence is there that this actually happens?

So that's the basic history.

We have a clandestine agency that has unethical procedures that doesn't change under a new director.

The DEO picks up aliens and throws them in a cell to never be seen or heard from again. This would likely terrorize the alien neighborhoods. This is never truly address in any meaningful manner by the Superfriends or Kara.

In fact, if anything, the show positions the DEO as being Good if Alex, J'onn, or Lucy are in charge (Kara, ironically is not in charge of the DEO at any point). However, the DEO becomes Bad if Lex Luthor or Lauren Haley or the real Hank Henshaw are in charge.

This creates a rather large ethical problem.

First of all, the worldbuilding builds up the argument that certain people are good and certain people are bad. The person we see skirting between those two extremes, and living in a morally grey area the most, is Lena Luhor. For the purposes of this essay, I'll put a pin into Lena's characterization and focus only on the DEO.

Secondly, we are told again and again what Kara/Supergirl's ethics are: justice and truth. Yet when we examine Kara's actions within the context of her DEO Supergirl duties, we are confronted with the following:

She must hide her identity, even from her best friend Lena, and thus deceives regularly. Her reasons for not telling Lena are rooted in the pressure from those at the DEO to not tell Lena but also in Kara's intense fear of loss. However, Kara will demand truth from others despite her hypocritical actions. This doesn't seem to fit solidly in the "good" category.

Her "justice" is defeating criminals. Humans go to the police to eventually have a fair trial. However, aliens are not afforded that same right. Her justice for aliens becomes judge and jury. Since she professes to "not kill," she at least doesn't extend that to executioner. This again doesn't fit solidly in the "good" category.

Thus, by examining Kara/Supergirl's actions, we see a disconnect with what the show claims is "good:" truth and justice. Yet, there is no true justice for the aliens fought and captured; their rights are rescinded (if they had any at all).

This is why the show must tell us who is "good" and who is "bad," because people's actions do not fit the show's claims of what "goodness" is versus what "badness" is. Thus the worldbuilding ends up defining Kara's actions as always "good" even if those actions cause harm to those around her.

[Side note: This isn't to say that Kara is "bad." It is to say that the binary within the show's worldbuilding lacks nuance for the complexity within Kara's understanding of the world and how she acts within that understanding. This binary simply cannot allow for such a complex examination as there is no room for it.

Because of this binary, the show actually butchers Kara's character to make her past "not good" actions as somehow "right" and "good" in the end. We see this with how Kara's harmful actions toward Lena (the lying, duplicity, deception etc) is turned into "I did just one mistake" when it wasn't one mistake. It was years of harm, but because the show paints Kara as "good," Kara is not allowed growth.

This binary of good versus bad is already nonsensical in the worldbuilding since Lena Luthor's very existence throws this entire frame out the window. Her actions, always with the intention to do the least harm and try to improve the world, don't fit neatly into the binary. The story often punishes her for this. (She breaks the binary too much I suppose.)

Yet when other people's actions fail to fit neatly into the binary, the show whispers: "Hush, don't look or think, believe us when we say this person is good and this person is bad.']

To reiterate: It's okay to capture aliens and disappear them without any right to trial If the Superfriends are doing it. This good/bad definition collapses ethics into meaningless words since the activities and procedures of both the "good" people and "bad" people don't differ in terms of impact on alien communities. This lack of differentiation is why we must be told who is good. Otherwise, how would we know?

To dig a little deeper, in Season 4, when Kara is on the most wanted list, she learns very little about the true plight of aliens. During this time, the DEO becomes "bad" under the control of Lauren Haley. Lena Luthor and Alex Danvers, who are both working with the DEO still, also work against the DEO but only to clear Kara's name. So justice is done for Kara's sake but not for the other impacted alien communities.

Once Kara's reputation is restored and she's no longer deemed an "enemy of the state," Kara returns to working with the DEO, as it is now labeled as "good" again because Alex is back in charge.

Ironically, the only person in Kara's friendgroup that questions the DEO is Lena Luthor. (Who in Season 5 will have her 'villain arc' only to be redeemed to the good side again at the end of Season 5. She's the only character, who is labeled a villain at one point, that is allowed true redemption.)

We learn very little about what alien communities actually think about the DEO and about Supergirl in particular. The most we get is the Children of Liberty plot line of Season 4; however, this plot line doesn't ever give us a solid viewpoint from impacted alien communities. Instead, we are confronted with:

We are told what alien communities are like and how lacking in rights they are. Very little of this is shown directly outside of "criminal aliens." Or the brief glimpses within Manchester's arc. However, Manchester is viewed as 'in need of redemption' despite having very real grievances with the state of things. The show then tells us that Manchester is 'bad' and the 'good' J'onn and friends must stop him.

The second time we see alien daily lives is Nia's return to her hometown, which is attacked by supercharged humans. This blended town of aliens and humans serve as an outlier. Nia actually admits that the town is unique and not representative to most aliens' experiences. So again, we don't see a direct experience of alien life in National City or other major cities.

Aliens either have significant powers that humans can justifiably find scary or they are human-like with little to no powers. Both are treated the same for the sake of the Children of Liberty plot line, which serves as an immigrant allegory. @fazedlight and @sideguitars did excellent analysis on this and the problems of these allegories based on the worldbuilding and story itself. (Note: thank you to fazedlight for finding the post in question! Click here o read their analysis.)

This makes it easier for the show to pretend that the DEO is "good" when the Superfriends are in charge. Since we don't meet alien families harmed by the DEO's actions, we never truly get an alternate perspective. Even Lena Luthor's critique of DEO is spat upon by the story, where her alien friends fail to truly counter her valid points. Instead, it's presented in the good/bad binary, which erases all nuance and ethical considerations.

Let's also consider the start of the Supergirl career. Kara is captured by the DEO 12 years after her initial appearance on Earth. However, prior to this moment, we had learned that Kara had nearly been taken by the government -- specifically Henshaw's control of the DEO. Jeremiah Danvers agrees to work for the government in exchange for Kara's freedom from being a government asset.

However, her saving Alex's flight puts her in the crosshairs of DEO, and eventually she is captured. Upon which she learns J'onn is in charge (not the original Henshaw), and J'onn's goals are revealed. He allows Kara to fight her first alien fights as Supergirl. Here we see that J'onn's methods have not actually changed anything about the DEO. The alien fight results in that alien being captured. Supergirl/Kara never hears what happens to the alien she fought and captured. No thought is given to the rights of that alien or if a fair trial will be given. Instead, we are told the alien is a "criminal' as if that somehow justifies the brutal treatment.

After Alex reveals she's an agent with the DEO, Kara fully trusts the agency.

So Jeremiah gave up his life to make sure Kara wasn't being used by the government, only for Kara later on working for the DEO, which is part of the government. Thus Kara ends up used by the government after all. The irony here.

Kara's blind spot here is:

she's privileged. A white-passing, human-passing alien. It's easier for her to hide as a human and not be clocked as an alien. Also, she's white, so less likely to deal with the complications of racism. The most she has to deal with is sexism and the DEO's procedures. This means she doesn't experience the worst the DEO and the systems that uphold it dish out to aliens.

Kara hasn't really interacted with aliens outside her friend group. She's relatively sheltered since coming to Earth due to Kal placing her with the Danvers and having to hide herself. She has no real knowledge of how aliens survive on Earth. This means she has nothing in which to compare the DEO's claims.

She blindly trusts Alex when it comes to DEO.

We don't see Kara questioning what happens to aliens until Season 3 (if it happens in season 1, I apologize as that season is a bit hazy for me). Here Psi saves Kara's life during a perilous mission. Kara then asks about her accommodations and finds out she has no window in her cell. She then demands Psi be given a cell with a window.

However, notice who Kara takes with her on that Season 3 mission: LiveWire (human but due to an accident became Livewire, so she's not an alien but a meta-human) and Psi (who is labeled a meta-human). So the two incarcerated people that Kara chooses are meta-humans and not actual aliens.

So again, we never see Kara interact with aliens outside her friend group unless she is interrogating them. Once the DEO is done with interrogations and the case "closed," those aliens disappear into these windowless cells. Which, need I remind that solitary confinement is labeled as torture for a reason?

Yet that is where aliens that are dubbed "too dangerous" end up by those with power. No rights given; left trapped in solitary confinement with (likely) no windows to never see the light of day again. Of course, because we are told the "good" people do this, it is thus "okay," despite it not differing in methodology with what the "bad" people did.

2. DEO's procedures don't match law. This is especially true when alien amnesty is put into law.

DEO changes NOTHING about their procedures after alien amnesty is put into law. This means that although aliens now have a legal right to a trial, the DEO does not provide this for them. No captured alien is given this right.

This means the DEO doesn't operate within the law.

So if the DEO can disregard laws if they so desire, then what is to stop them from terrorizing any citizen regardless of whether that citizen or alien or human?

What exactly is the ethics of the DEO?

Is the ethics dependent on who is in charge? But if one compares the tenure of the directors: Henshaw, J'onn, Lucy, Alex, Lauren, and Lex -- we see no difference in how the DEO acts.

They all target aliens and give them no rights. The aliens vanish into the cells never to be seen again. This includes some meta-aliens.

Some will claim that while the Superfriends are in charge only criminal aliens are thrown into solitary cells with no hope of release.

But that begs the question: Why do the Superfriends get to be judge and jury and/or executioner? What makes their decisions good but Lauren Haley's or Lex's or the original Hank Henshaw's decisions bad?

Why do the Superfriends get to decide that criminals get no right to a fair trial? Why do they not interrogate what is causing the criminal behaviors in order to change the conditions to avoid aliens resorting to "criminality" as defined by them?

In the end, it does not matter why an alien or meta-human engages in what the state has deemed "criminal" behavior; the methods used in capture and the end result is the same regardless.

The families of captured aliens see the same results regardless of whether "good" people or "bad" people are in charge of the DEO.

While alien amnesty is in law, the DEO, who is under Superfriend control at the time, does not alter their procedures to give the aliens they capture any rights. We never see the aliens or meta-humans captured ever given a fair trial. Nor do we see any programs to reform "criminals" or give them any chance at parole or redemption.

The only method for dealing with aliens and meta-humans uses a carceral prison system that is based in solitary confinement torture. Even the interrogation procedures used have elements of torture to them. In fact, many of the "interrogation" procedures use leading questions to entrap and force a confession under duress. None of these methods are conducive toward reform or fixing a system that deprives those captured of all rights.

Alternate systems for dealing with criminals are never explored. We never see transformative or restorative justice utilized. Both systems would require extensive dialogue with the communities harmed by the "criminals," and if there is one thing the DEO fail at consistently is dialogue with the impacted communities. Instead, their approach is top down, where their ideas of what is right and best is pushed down upon the communities they claim to serve.

Part of this lies with the fact the Superfriends can't engage in dialogue as long as they adhere to the oppressive methodology and practices of the DEO. Reform has failed to alter the ethical violations within the DEO. Alex Vidale wrote an excellent book called The End of Policing, which digs into the attempted reforms for police and how they have consistently failed. Vidale writes:

“At root, they [reformers] fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the police, since its earliest origins, is to be a tool for managing inequality and maintaining the status quo. Police reforms that fail to directly address this reality are doomed to reproduce it.”

The DEO at its root was created to manage the inequality inherent between human rights and the lack of any rights for aliens. It was also created to control aliens and maintain a human status quo. The Superfriends attempt at reform fails to address this reality, and thus were doomed to repeat it.

Vidale continues:

“Police argue that residents in high-crime communities often demand police action. What is left out is that these communities also ask for better schools, parks, libraries, and jobs, but these services are rarely provided.”

Services to better the conditions of so-called "high-crime" communities are not shown to be rendered in the Supergirl world, while the Superfriends are in control of the DEO. It is not more policing that is needed, but more services which do not get provided for most of the show's story and worldbuilding. Thus, the communities that struggle with survival, who often must resort to "illegal" or "criminal" ways end up with only punitive measures that continue the cycle.

It's only in Season 6 when the Superfriends are no longer with the DEO that we start to see them engage in dialogue with the community in general (Kelly's arcs in particular touch on this for the lower income area that she tries to help, which is shown to be a mixture of nonwhite humans and some aliens).

If J'onn and others truly are seeking to reform the DEO, then that requires them to be in dialogue with the affected communities and to put forth new procedures that provide rights to those impacted. This is never done.

3. The DEO suffers no consequences for its actions.

The "Bad things" that happen under the "Bad" directors -- original Henshaw, Lauren Haley, Lex -- aren't ever addressed. Nothing really changes; instead the "Good" guys get back in control and things continue.

Was any reparations made for those harmed by the bad actors? Are the families impacted ever given compensation? We see some aliens rescued from Cadmus in Season 2 and Lex's Power Plant in Season 4, but what of the families of those murdered by Lex and Henshaw? The show fails to address this.

Instead, we are told that the "good" people are now in charge again and only "criminals" are being taken and incarcerated with no rights.

The concept of "criminality" depends entirely on who is in a position of power to dictate what constitutes "criminal" acts. One of the biggest problems with "criminality" as a concept is that it fails to interrogate the why these behaviors happen. What led to the "criminal act?" Are the people engaging in the act just "bad" people?

Often when basic needs are not being met, people may engage in acts of desperation to meet those needs. These actions may fall under what that society deems as "criminal." However, if the people's needs were met, then they wouldn't need to engage in desperate acts to meet their needs.

Another reason for "criminal" behavior stems from people who lack rights in a society. The oppressed will often fight against their oppressors using a mixture of methods (sometimes nonviolent, sometimes violent) in order to win their rights and transform society for the better. Until they win that fight, their actions are labeled as "criminal" by those in power.

Some rarer individuals may engage in acts of harm because they enjoy it such as Lex. However, this is actually very rare. Property crime and burglary is far, far more common. Yet, even those engaging in horrific violent crimes are still afforded a fair trial. Something aliens in the Supergirl universe are never given.

There's quite a few scenes where the aliens fought by Supergirl are engaging in robberies/burglaries or other property crimes. Those that seek to violently mass murder is actually rarer, and often the big villain of the season. At no point does anyone in the show reckon with the reasons someone may choose to engage in "criminal" behavior. Instead, all "criminals" are painted as "bad" regardless.

J'onn professes to be "reforming" the DEO to stop its reign of terror among alien communities. Yet, the most crucial components in changing an oppressive system? We don't really see him utilize them until Season 4, but by then the DEO is in the hands of Alex, who continues the procedures put into place by J'onn,

Paulo Freire writes in Pedagogy of the Oppressed concerning the "radical" as in the person seeking to end an oppressive system:

"The radical, committed to [human] liberation, does not become the prisoner of a 'circle of certainty' within which reality is also imprisoned. On the contrary, the more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them."

J'onn recognizes that the DEO's methods are wrong and unethical. When he takes over and poses as Henshaw, he wishes to transform the system. Except, this is where he fails, because he justifies his changes by claiming that now the DEO only locks away forever criminal aliens.

No thought is given as to why these aliens are making these decisions. What pushed them to rob a store? What pushed them to attack? Did they feel like they had no other choice? Was there no opportunities other than to rob for what they needed? Or to fight against a system that they deem is harming them and their communities?

These questions are not analyzed at all by J'onn or the Superfriends. They do not listen to those most impacted by the DEO. The only time we see J'onn seem to listen is when he is trying to work with Manchester in Season 4, but that results in Manchester being presented as bad in the end, while J'onn is shown to be good. Where he tried to redeem Manchester.

Yet Manchester had valid points about the treatment of aliens. His methodology in fighting back against what he saw as oppressive system is problematic, but he listens far more than Kara and the Superfriends to those being harmed by the systems that created the DEO.

So J'onn and the other Superfriends are failing to engage in dialogue with those harmed by the DEO. They fail to unveil what is truly horrifying with the DEO: incarcerating aliens in solitary confinement with no fair trial and no hope of ever seeing the light of day again.

The justification that because they are "criminals" this is somehow okay erases all the contributing factors that may make up the circumstances that lead to the "criminal" behavior. Nothing is truly done to remedy the situations that may drive someone to what the state labels as "criminal" behavior. It also unveils a horrible truth. Any alien (or meta-human or even human) can be marked an "enemy of the state" and thus a "criminal," where all rights they had prior be rescinded. We see this happen to Supergirl in Season 4. The only reason she isn't locked away in a cell with no windows is because Alex and Lena don't allow it. Unlike most aliens the DEO fights to find and capture, Kara has people fighting for her. But what about every other alien? Who is actually fighting for them?

J'onn's attempt to reform the DEO falls into the biggest trap for all radical liberators: it is all too easy to become complicit with the system at be and justify this than it is to actually change it from within.

As Paulo Freire puts so succinctly:

“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it, and thereby acts to submerge human beings' consciousness.”

Thus the DEO fails to be reformed. It's reign of terror in alien communities is not truly diminished. Nor does those fighting to "reform" the DEO engage in any dialogue with those communities to determine their needs or ways to improve conditions to decrease the need to resort to "criminal" activities.

In the end, the DEO stays an oppressive, clandestine agency that has no transparency, answers to apparently no one, takes away the rights of those they catch, and disregards laws as they please.

What the Superfriends have failed to learn and understand is that oppression cannot be defeated by reforming the system that causes the oppression. In other words, liberation cannot be achieved be reform alone.

This is why the destruction of the DEO in Season 6 is perhaps the best result at least within the rules of the Supergirl world. The Superfriends could not reform it from the inside, and by trying to do so, they ended up complicit to a harmful system. As long as they were tied to the DEO, the Superfriends would never be able to live out justice and uplift the rights of aliens and humans alike.

ADDENDUM: However, the Superfriends decision to go full vigilante is a whole other can of worms. They do attempt to be transparent in their actions for the communities they serve, but is there a way for people to hold them accountable? That isn't fully addressed. However, that would require a full essay, and this essay is only about the DEO.

[periwinkle-the-11th]

Intro post!

i'm Peri!

I spend my time writing, reading, crocheting, embroidering, drawing, sewing, procrastinating my school work, and complaining about everything under the sun.

Heres my pronoun page!

I post all my writing and various creations over on @pericreatesstuff and my ao3 is Peri_Writes

Sidenote: Guess who's officially a college student!!!!

I don't post works on ao3 until they're finished and gone over by my beta, but my writing blog is mostly unedited snippets!

I'm in way way way to many fandoms so heres an incomplete list:

dc (specifically batfam and yj98)

pjo/hoo (I haven't read toa yet but its on my list)

kotlc

Kaleidotrope

Voltron (ik, i'm judging me too.)

bridge to terabithea

Atla

Daylight Shooting Star (if you know dss I am begging you to be my friend I have literally never met anyone else who's read it)

Marauders

Sk8 the infinity

Ohshc

The Sky Fall Trilogy by shannon messenger (once again if you've read it (and liked it) I am begging you to be my friend its so so underrated)

The Lost Books: Scroll of Kings (SO SO SO UNDERRATED)

I listen to way to much music way to often, heres some artists/bands i like: Set it off, pierce the veil, taylor swift, Fin (steffan argus), conan gray, PEGGY, olivia rodrigo, alec benjamin, one direction, Natalie jane, sadie jean, my chemical romance, fall out boy, NF, MARINA, Maren Morris, Dove cameron, girl in red, sabrina carpenter, melanie martinez, Avril Lavigne, Madonna, Ke$ha, little mix, Queen, Billy joel, Zara Larsson, Maisie Peters, Lauren spencer smith, ABBA, and literally so many more

and my tags:

#peri personal - just about everything not fandom related/interactions w people/my life

#peri complains - self explanatory really

#music rambles - rambling about music, mostly when new songs/albums come out

#allis adventures - various stuff about my sourdough! her full name is Allison Breadorthy and she is ALIVE

#baking Breadorthy - actually baking her

#peri crafts - self explanatory

#my memes - crappy memes i make, mostly reblogged from my writing blog

#writing related - self explanatory but its mostly me complaining about my fics, plot holes i find, and polls bc i'm indecisive

#friends <3 - my actual conversation style interaction with my mutuals

#wtf dc - for whenever i find out that something that sounds just a bit to out of pocket to be cannon in dc, is cannon in dc. (ex: bruce's grandmother killing her husband, the candle ritual, dick shaving his hair and going by rick, etc)

#janet's life - my self indulgent canon compliant backstory for Janet Drake

#lena and tim - my even more self indulgent au where Lena Luthor adopts Tim Drake after his parents die, the fic is being plotted currently. THE FIC IS CANCELED!!! LEX IS LENA'S BROTHER! LENA IS KON'S AUNT!! THE PLANNED TIMKON IS LEGAL INCEST! (why does this keep happening??? TvT)

#bravery points game - I've started playing a points game with my anxiety, where every time I do something that scares me/my anxiety told me would end in disaster I get a point! It's stupid but it's motivating, I'm being brave! (Even tho it's terrifying) I don't really have a points goal but I wanna try to get to 100 before the end of the year!

Thats all for now!! I'll probably update this once i realize i forgot smth tho

[gothikaxenon]

How I would recast the Total Drama characters as DC Comic characters

Gwen - Raven

Trent - Jericho

Geoff - Aquaman

Bridgette - Mera

Lindsay - Starfire

Heather - Blackfire

Leshawna - Bumblebee

Courtney - Star Sapphire

Duncan - Red X

Izzy - Poison Ivy

Cody - Beastboy

Noah - Brainiac 5

Ezekiel - Larfleeze

Dawn - Enchantress

Dakota - Supergirl

Mike/Mal - Two-Face

Anne Maria - Isis

Scarlett - Lena Luthor

Amy - Killer Frost

Shawn - Deadman

Sugar - Giganta

Sky - Wonder Girl

Jen - Zatanna

Tom - Lightray

Brody - Lagoon Boy

Crimson - Nightshade

Valentina "MacArthur" - Big Barda

Carrie - Miss Martian

Devin - Superboy

Dwayne Jr. - Kid Flash

Lauren "Scary Girl" - Harley Quinn

Mary Kate "MK" - Livewire

Julia - Golden Glider

Hezekias "Zee" - Plastic Man

Damien - Mister Terrific

Axel - Ravager

[playedbetter]

Winter Holiday Cheat Sheet 2023

My muses celebrate varying things throughout the winter season, as such here's a reference for who celebrates what. I highly recommend crtl+f.

For those from worlds without earth holidays I'll list what they celebrate in their verse closest to modern day earth.

Christmas

Jean-Paul Valley, Azrael, Jason Todd, Cleo Cazo, Maxwell Lord, Guy Gardner, Beatriz Da Costa, Owen Mercer, Grant Wilson, Lori Zechlin, Nick Necro, Bunny, Pierre Cobblepot, The Joker, Ragdoll, Lex Luthor, Hoxton, Vlad Kozak, Dallas, Kento, Joseph Baldwin, Dolly Harris, Pearl, Rust, Shade, Duke, Veron Locke, Jacket/Axel, Richard/Jacket, John Wick, Jimmy, Stephen Simmons, Cole, Cullen Rutherford, Zevran, Garrett Hawke, Zinna Lavellan, Sebastain Vael, Fjord, Caleb Widogast, Hajime Hinata, Izuru Kamakura, Mikan Tsumiki, Peko Pekoyama, Korekiyo Shinguji, Nagito Komaeda, Toko Fukawa, Syo, Juzo Sakakura, Kotoko Utsugi, Tsumugi Shriogane, Rantaro Amami, Mukuro Ikusaba, Kazuichi Soda, Yumeto Ariyoshi, Isami Kanda, Inuko Hachiya, Briar, Seraphine, Vi, Dr. Mundo, Mel Medarda, Sarah Fortune, Hana Song, Gabriel Reyes, Amélie LaCroix, Hanzo, Elizabeth Ashe, Quentin Smith, Caleb Quinn, Susie Lavoie, Lucy Westenra, Luis Serra Navarro, Billy Loomis, Norah Jakobs, Clara, Artemy Brukah, Peter Stamatin, Mark Immortal, Quentin Quire, Harrier Du Bois, Kim Kitsuragi, Goldilocks, Ophelia, The Narrator, Rosa Blackwell, Lauren Blackwell, Patricia Blackwell, Joey Mallone, Dolores Sinclair.

Hanukkah

Zatanna Zatara, Zachary Zatara, Theodore Kord, Eddie Bloomberg, Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne, Badger, Anders, Justice, Viktor.

Diwali

Dorian Pavus, Beauregard Lionett, Mollymauk Tealeaf.

Kwanzaa

Ekko.

Yule

Lori Zechlin, Alune, Aphelios, Mikaela Reid.

Lunar New Year

Jason Todd, Bunny, Alune, Aphelios, Hana Song, Mollymauk Tealeaf, Korekiyo Shinguji, Lukai Hwei, Shieda Kayn, Rhaast, Kim Kitsuragi.

None

Komand'r, The Adjudicator, Naafiri, Micheal Myers, Anna, Caliborn, Ayumi Maeda.

[gotham-gremlin]

Bruce Wayne, the advocate - the man who exposed many personal details and relieved an awful trauma to testify against Harvey Dent in court, the speaker at a Mental Health Awareness Seminar who brought an audience to tears, the person who willingly became a hostage of the Joker in order to ensure the safety of the random woman who'd been plucked off the sidewalk, the creator and sponsor of many worldwide charities (such as The Martha Wayne Foundation for Environmental Protection, The Thomas Wayne Foundation for Medical Expenses, The Grayson Foundation for Children Orphaned by Crime, The Todd Foundation for Homeless Children, etc.), the billionaire who personally pays the medical bills of any employees hurt on the job, the listening ear who helped Lauren Kelly through her messy divorce from Lex Luthor, the first prominent public figure to stand up for Lois Lane after her phone and computer were hacked, the Prince of Gotham who uses his power and influence for Good.

Batman, the protector - the ghost of city streets who personally carried a passed out college girl out of a party and onto her doorstep, the tall dark shadow whose cape shielded a lost and frightened child as he slid quarters into a payphone to call their parents, the righteous hand of the gods who snatched a raving drunk ex off a doorstep, the hero who ran into a burning building without a second thought to rescue a firefighter and the boy he'd been in there to save, the bystander who stood on countless rooftops to talk someone out of suicide, the stubborn prick who refuses to give up on anyone, the detective who brought closure to grieving families at long last, the unyielding force who lifted a car off a sobbing teenager, the strong hands slipped under the arms of a drowning child to lift them above the surface and the warm chest on which the child is cradled as they are carried back on dry land, the tongue of Mercy who forgives the unforgivable and defends the undefendable, the Lion-hearted Savior who never ever turns his back on the people who need him.

everyone shut the fuck up i'm in my feels

[ao3feed-supercorp]

Not Like I’m in Love With You

by Heres_a_gay_theres_a_gay

Lena went on a date and Kara is very bad at hiding her feelings about it. It works out in her favor though.

Song: Not Like I’m In Love With You, Lauren Weintraub

Words: 2546, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 16 of Songs of Supercorp

Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Kara Danvers, Lena Luthor

Relationships: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor

Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Getting Together, Fluff (?), Angst (?), Jealous Kara Danvers, a lil bit, Post-Canon, but also out of canon, we ignore the details here, Lena Luthor Knows Kara Danvers Is Supergirl, Kara’s a little stupid, lena’s just gay, song fic loosely

from AO3 works tagged 'Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor' https://ift.tt/oE8lnpL via IFTTT https://ift.tt/oE8lnpL

[justfandomwritings]

Fanfiction Recommendation Masterlist

Fandoms A-H

Chronicles of Narnia

Caspian/OC

When We Collide: complete; Rated K; Lauren is the Pevensies’ cousin who falls into Narnia with them during Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Maiden of the Mist: in progress; Rated T; Madelynn Scrubb longed for adventures like the ones her cousins told stories about of Narnia and she gets the chance.

DC

Lex Luthor/OC

Angel of the Battlefield: in progress; Rated T; a nurse at the penitentiary becomes a pawn in a war between Batman and Lex Luthor

Superman/OC

God Complex: complete; oneshot; Rated M; There was no way to save humanity other than tempting Fate.

Safe and Sound: in progress; Rated T; not very deep, mostly fluff about a little boy who talks to superman

Flash/OC

Serendipity: in progress; rated T; Flash saves a random girl, and through a stroke of luck she finds out who he is.

Doctor Who

Tenth Doctor/OC

Written in the Stars: complete; Rated M; OC goes to visit her best friend, Rose, and meets a man calling himself the Doctor

Family Christmas: complete; oneshot; Rated G; It’s Christmastime and even the Doctor shouldn’t be alone.

Encanto

Bruno Madrigal/OC

I Would Have You In My Dreams Forevermore: complete; Rated E; She knows how it feels to be ostracized for abilities you had no say in getting, and she may be the only person who truly understands him.

Metamorphosis: in progress; Rated M; Carmen is asked to marry Bruno, and it sends her life into a tailspin.

Fleabag

Priest/Fleabag

Absolution: complete; oneshot; Rated T; a year after the bus stop, the Priest and Fleabag see each other again

Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon

Jaime Lannister/OC

A Vow Without Honor: in progress; Rated T; “I made a promise to protect you. Honor or not, that is one I intend to keep.” - A story of a Lion and a Wolf, two beings brought together by the very same reasons that should have kept them apart.

Butterfly Effect: complete; Rated M; Jaime leaves the Kingsguard to give his father what he really wants, his son married and an heir for the Rock

Robb Stark/OC

Paying the Toll: complete; Rated M; Walder Frey insists Robb marry one of his daughters before he lets him cross the bridge

The Stark and His Frey: in progress; Rated M; Robb is an honorable man, and he won’t break his promise to Walder Frey; after he wins the war, he fulfills his promise.

Oberyn Martell/OC

The Sunspear’s Lion: in progress; Rated M; Tyrion’s twin sister is betrothed to Oberyn Martell, probably not Tywin’s best idea, at least not his best idea for his daughter’s safety.

Hamilton

Peggy/Lafayette

Oceans and Moments: complete; Rated T; Peggy is feeling forgotten, alone, and unnoticed until Lafayette finds her at the ball.

Harry Potter

Charlie Weasley/Hermione Granger

Naughty, Nice, and Spice: Rated E; complete; A shock of red hair at a Christmas party is all it takes for Hermione to know she's saved.

Instant Replay: Rated E; complete; Hermione can't help using the pair of omnioculars.

Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger

Manacled: Rated E; complete; if you don't already know that's on you.

Let The Dark In: Rated E; in progress; What if Voldemort never rose to power and Draco instead went to Durmstrang.

Good: Rated E; complete; Draco isn't interested in taking Hermione on cause she's too inexperienced.

Season Pass: Rated E; complete; Hermione dumps a quidditch fan for a famous quidditch player

Wait and Hope: Rated M; complete; Hermione loses six years worth of memories, including her relationship with Draco.

Must be the Whisky: Rated M; complete; Hermione and Draco have a birthday tradition

Apres Ski: Rated M; complete; Hermione and Draco are forced to share a room on vacation.

fever dreaming: Rated E; complete; ABO protective Draco helping Hermione with a stalker.

Unexpected Best Night Ever: Rated E; complete; Hermione runs into the last person she'd expect at a muggle concert.

Christmas Gifts: Rated E; complete; Hermione and Draco both want the same gift at the shop.

The Train: Rated E; complete; Draco makes Harry regret being nosey.

Lie With Me: Rated M; complete; Draco and Hermione strike a surprising bargain with more surprising results.

Sugar Flurries, Candy Storms: Rated E; complete; Draco and Hermione have an interesting definition of coworkers

All You Want: Rated E; complete; Omegaverse, Eighth Year doesn't go how Hermione expects.

Fred Weasley/Hermione Granger

so just give me one more night: Rated T; complete; Fred saves Hermione when she doesn't want to go to the Yule Ball with Krum.

Five Times Fred and Hermione Innocently Shared a Bed: Rated M; Complete; 5+1 with Fred/Hermione

Impractically Inevitable: Rated E; complete; Hermione and Ron split up, and Fred is there to remind Hermione who was the catch in their relationship

Season of Surprise: Rated E; complete; An accident with time magic brings Hermione and Fred an unexpected surprise.

Snowflakes and Soulmates: Rated E; complete; Hermione and Fred become good friends over the years and probably more.

Mark Me: Rated E; complete; Fred has a side job Hermione is only just finding out about.

George Weasley/OC

The Best Worst Valentine's Day: Rated E; complete; She has the worst Valentine's Day Ever, but George makes it all better.

Under the Mistletoe: Rated E; complete; Fred has to push George to make the move he's been waiting for.

Neville Longbottom/Hermione Granger

Potions Potluck: Rated E; complete; A party where you drink unmarked potions has a disastrous result for Hermione, and Neville saves the day.

Cracked: Rated E; complete; Hermione and Neville open a Christmas cracker with surprising results.

Matched: Rated E; complete; Hermione and Neville are matched up by a service that has a rather interesting clientele.

Neville Longbottom/Pansy Parkinson

Picked and Planted: complete; Rated M; Pansy Parkinson sends a marriage proposal to an unlikely individual.

Remember One Thing: complete; Rated E; Pansy wakes up without a key memory

A Dress With Pockets: complete; Rated E; Neville Longbottom provides Pansy with some much needed assistance.

Oliver Wood/Hermione Granger

Busy Days, Teddy, and Kiddie Quidditch Leagues: complete; Rated E; Hermione is late to pick up Teddy from his kiddie quidditch league.

Regulus Black/OC

dirty old town: complete; Rated E; muggle!OC x Regulus Black, Marauders Era, enemies to lovers

salt and the sea: Rated E; complete; James Potter's little sister catches Regulus's eye.

Remus Lupin/Hermione Granger

Those Who Can, Teach: Rated E; complete; Eighth Year and Lupin is back as DADA teacher with his favorite student.

Sirius Black/OC

Stray: complete; Rated M; Sirius's motorbike dies on him and he ends up caught at a rundown muggle diner

Snape/OC

Once Upon A Dream: complete; Rated M; a muggle friend of Dumbledore's is placed in imminent danger

Respite: complete; Rated E; the Hogwarts librarian is the only one who knows who Snape really is

Hunger Games:

Finnick/OC

The Sterling Nightingale: complete; Rated M; has a completed sequel as well; Finnick is forced into a fake relationship with a Victor from District 1 who, unbeknownst to him, is the spy all of Panem is searching for.

Gloss/OC

The Desert’s Edge: complete; Rated M; Gloss finds himself pitying a victor from District 5 and helping her in more ways than one, to much consequence.

[firecraker-art-lounge]

Mr. Wolf and Diane Foxington as Justin Hammer and Domino, in reference to their actors Sam Rockwell and Zazie Beetz.

I’ll do so in the name of Halloween.

And as an added bonus,

here’s Snake as Lex Luthor, Shark as the track suit guy from the Pizza Hut commercials, Piranha as John Laurens, Webs as Sisu and the kitty as a vampire.

Also Luggins as Ms. Swan and Fluffit as a famous YouTuber.

[ao3feed-samtory]

One - Shots (Varios)

read on AO3 here

by RomiEmison2914

Este libro lo había subido en Wattpad pero me lo elimino, así que despues de pensarlo mucho, decidi comenzar a subirlo en esta plataforma, espero no haya algun problema con ninguno de mis OS.

Words: 34623, Chapters: 2/?, Language: Español

Fandoms: Pretty Little Liars Series - Sara Shepard, The Perfectionists (TV 2019), Cobra Kai (TV), Rebelde (Mexico TV 2004), Fifth Harmony (Band), Victorious (TV), Glee, Demi Lovato (Musician), Selena Gomez (Musician), Elite (TV), Soy Luna (TV), Supergirl (TV 2015), Once Upon a Time (TV), Wednesday (TV 2022)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen

Characters: Alison DiLaurentis, Emily Fields, Mona Vanderwaal, Taylor Irene Hotchkiss, Camila Cabello, Lauren Jauregui, Tori Vega, Jade West, Rachel Berry, Quinn Fabray, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery, Samuel García Domínguez, Carla Rosón Caleruega, Ámbar Smith, Luna Valente, Kara Danvers, Lena Luthor, Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Emma Swan, Samantha LaRusso, Tory Nichols, Wednesday Addams, Enid Sinclair, Roberta Pardo Rey, Mía Colucci

Relationships: Dulce María/Anahí Puente, Roberta Pardo/Mia Colucci, Alison DiLaurentis/Emily Fields, Shay Mitchell/Sasha Pieterse, Mona Vanderwaal/Taylor Hotchkiss, Janel Parrish/Hayley Erin, Camila Cabello/Lauren Jauregui, Tori Vega/Jade West, Elizabeth Gillies/Victoria Justice, Rachel Berry/Quinn Fabray, Dianna Agron/Lea Michele, Selena Gomez/Demi Lovato, Spencer Hastings/Aria Montgomery, Lucy Hale/Troian Bellisario, Samuel García Domínguez/Carla Rosón Caleruega, Itzan Escamilla/Ester Expositó, Ámbar Smith/Luna Valente, Karol Sevilla/Valentina Zenere, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor, Melissa Benoist/Katie McGrath, Regina Mills/Emma Swan, Jennifer Morrison/Lana Parrilla, Samantha LaRusso/Tory Nichols, Peyton List/Mary Mouser

Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Alternate Universe, Character Death, Canon Universe, Teen Romance, Drama & Romance, Angst with a Happy Ending, Sad Ending, Sex

read on AO3 here