#trolls pride month 2022

[zoguy1]

So. Every June, I try to challenge myself by posting something for Pride Month. For the past couple years, it's been ships with cute little pride flags. This year, the priority focus will be on the Trolls Summer Gift exchange. But at the very least I'd like to show ya'll the ones I've made in the past.

2022 bundle:

Bi Hiccup x Gay Jack. Fun fact: This was the first gay couple I've ever laid my eyes on as a young child. I saw this ship and thought "I want that kind of relationship."

Bi Tony x Gay Rudolph Watching the 2017 movie, these two reminded me of Luca and Alberto so much.

Aro Merida You get it? Cuz she's an archer. It's funny. Laugh.

Bi Nan Fang x Ace Fu Yao The headcannon was based off of a fanfic I read a while ago.

Demi Ace Xie Lian x Gay Hua Cheng. I sevearly enjoyed the series. I occasionally eat fics of these two as comfort foods.

Pan Xu Xuan x Trans Xiao Bai White snake was basically 2 hours of "What you are doesn't matter, it's who you are that matters", THEE Pansexual anthem, and then the second movie Turned Blanca into a guy? This is cannon.

Ace Liu Qingge x Bi Shen Yuan Imma be honest. I didn't like SVSSS very much. Yandere's are not my cup of tea. And I was really hoping Shizun would have gotten with Liu-shidi instead.

Gay Luca x Gay Alberto I'm so glad Luberto was actually confirmed to be somewhat cannon. Though Nowadays I see Luca as bi, cuz if we're counting the concept art as apart of the lore, then Luca had a crush on both Alberto and Giulia.

Gay Jade x Gay Katie. Kate is the first character I actually felt scene as a queer person.

Genderfluid Shi Qingxuan I freaking love them so much. Easily my favorite character.

Aro Nezha This kid knows chaos and only chaos.

Pan Adam x Gray Ace Freddy I saw this crossover on DA and thought they made so much sense together. Adam the literal personification of nature, and Freddy the unification of humanity and animals.

Non-Binary Merz x Lesbian Alice These two are OCs of mine.

Aro Lesbian Isabela and Aro Lesbian Elsa. I ship this in a sort of queer platonic way. Like a "we don't really want to date people, but everyone thinks we're dating, and we just don't care enough to correct them." kind of way.

Genderfluid Camilo I want the ability to shapeshift so badly.

Pan Ao Bing x Bi Xiao Jiu Ya'll get brownie points if you know which Ao Bing this is and double points if you know who Xiao Jiu is. Lol. It was a random crossover ship I made because the company liked to crossover their medias for advertisements, and we see the adults interacting and having fun, and Nezha joins them. But we don't see the two teenagers interact at all.

Bi Verta x Bi Li Yunxiang Another crossover ship I made up cuz I didn't see a lot of Nezha Reborn and White Snake crossovers. Which surprised me, especially after Green Snake.

Gay Jiang Ziya x Gay Shen Gongbao These two lived in the same house together for 10 years and adopted a daughter together. I am convinced these two are a married couple.

Bi Mirabel There was a little bisexual rainbow on her dress. That's proof enough for me. Lol.

Lesbian Amaya x Lesbian Janai I loved seeing their dynamic in the show.

Non-Binary Kazi I love them. I'm glad they got more attention in the show.

Lesbian Susie x Trans Noelle "Why does Noelle have antlers. Is she trans? The Null the Null the Null the Null..."

Non-Binary Kris I love them. They literally never said a word, and I love them.

AroAce Krel Based on a comic I made.

Aro Blaze Another OC.

Aro Douxie Idk why, but I get that vibe from him.

2023 Pack:

Furry Omni Toby x Furry Demigirl Darci The moment Darci said she didn't want people to like her just because she was a girl, I felt that in my soul.

Bi Steve x Pan Aja I am not convinced Steve is straight.

Pan Simon x Gay Ao Bing This ship was inspired by a youtube video that had a list of crossover ships, this being on of them. And I freaking love it.

AroAce Sun Wukong and AroAce Tang Sanzang In Monkey King Reborn, out of everyone in the friend group, you can just tell that these two cared about each other the most. And I think that's just sweet.

Fuck. I can only have 30 images per post. I'll reblog with the rest of the 2023 pack.

[kosserdragon]

I keep on seeing people making these posts, but none for the Slenderverse so far, so I think I'll make this post as a show of courtesy.

As many know, Elon bought Twitter and is doing a LOT of damage, causing many to move here. I will let you guys know the proper etiquette of Tumblr, as I have had to learn over the time I've been here.

Let's get this out of the way. Yes, several Slenderverse creators are on here. Yes, they may see your art or writing. No, you don't need to tag them about your art. The ones that tend to see our creations have a habit of searching for fan creations themselves. Though I will admit, some of them will go out of their way to interact if they feel like trolling.

Likes don't really do much apart from alerting the OG poster that you like the post. And even then, many HATE it! Reblogs go far more than likes do!

Likes, however, WILL help out on the filter a bit. So will adding certain tags to follow, such as Slenderverse, (name of Slenderverse ARG), and the names of characters you like! Tags work the same way as hashtags, but tagging someone on a post requires the at symbol, or @.

We on Tumblr tend to be tight-knit too, so when one misbehaves, we tend to basically gang up on the guilty party. For an example, look at some of my past posts back during Pride Month of 2022. The beginning of it, anyways. People from Twitter should know what I mean.

All around, be nice, respectful, and follow Tumblr ToS. They tend to be a bit more sensitive on stuff that Twitter allows, and allows certain things that Twitter does not.

All around, even though we are from different platforms with different rules and vibes, those on Tumblr that don't want the crossover to happen will have to tolerate it. After all, the same thing happened years ago with Tumblr users going to Twitter for their NSFW to thrive. I wish you all the best in the transfer, and PLEASE don't make a further mess than has happened this year!

And if anyone needs a recap of that event and the account names to block, just submit an ask to me or a few others that are on here. I know the two accounts that they run.

[pashterlengkap]

Hate influencer Chaya Raichik rages at Disney & Kleenex for celebrating Pride eight months ago

Right-wing extremist Chaya Raichik is outraged that Disney and Kleenex partnered to celebrate Thailand’s Pride. Only she’s a little slow on the uptake this time. Thailand Pride took place back in June 2023, a full eight months before Raichik decided to share her disdain on her Libs of Tik Tok social media account. Earlier this month, Raichik posted photos of the rainbow Disney logo emblazoned on Kleenex packages and complained, “You can’t even blow your nose without having LGBTQ propaganda shoved in your face.” Related: “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” trolls Ron DeSantis by offering free banned books to Floridians “Looking for a good book? Try one some Florida students aren’t allowed to read.” “Imagine being so oppressed and marginalized that you get your own special tissues dedicated to you!” Raichik ranted. Stay connected to your community Connect with the issues and events that impact your community at home and beyond by subscribing to our daily newsletter. Disney partnered with Kleenex to go all in on LGBTQ propaganda. @Kleenex designed special LGBTQ pride tissue packaging with @Disney themed designs. You can’t even blow your nose without having LGBTQ propaganda shoved in your face. Imagine being so oppressed and marginalized… pic.twitter.com/FHOOhMOxqf— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 4, 2024 A few weeks later, another conservative outlet expressed their anger at the long-finished partnership. The conservative Independent Journal Bulletin used Raichik’s post as a launching pad to express its own anger over the Pride tissues. “Satan wants evil to be normalized, and this agenda is evil,” the article declared. It also blasted Disney for seeming “to constantly believe it needs to be involved with the LGBT crowd.” Raichik’s anger is far from limited to massive corporations. She regularly makes untrue and inflammatory claims against the LGBTQ+ community, and her posts have been linked to bomb threats at schools and hospitals across the country. A recent NBC News piece identified 21 instances since November 2020 in which schools or other institutions called out by Libs of TikTok for pushing “woke” ideology subsequently endured bomb threats. An additional 12 institutions targeted by Raichik experienced other forms of what Ingram refers to as “violent intimidation.” Other reports have found an even greater number of connections between the places Raichik posts about and the threats that follow. Media Matters documented 33 instances of threats and harassment directed at 25 different institutions after Libs of TikTok targeted them between February 2022 and October 2023.  Raichik has claimed that she is merely sharing information and can’t control how her social media followers respond to her posts. However, her account regularly echoes right-wing claims of LGBTQ+ people and allies “indoctrinating,” ”grooming,” and “sexualizing” kids — rhetoric that leads to violence against queer people and their allies. Her bio on X once proudly touted her being labeled as a “stochastic terrorist,” a person who uses mass media to provoke random acts of ideologically motivated violence. http://dlvr.it/T3DZgg

[qnewsau]

Gay footballer Zander Murray to retire

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/gay-footballer-zander-murray-to-retire/

Gay footballer Zander Murray to retire

One of the few out gay male footballers, Zander Murray, has announced his impending retirement. 

Scottish footballer (or soccer player to some) Zander Murray will retire at the end of this season.

Zander made headlines across the world when he came out as gay in 2022.

Following his coming out, he signed for Bonnyrigg Rose in January to fulfil his dream of playing in the Scottish Professional Football League.

However, since then he has returned to his original club Gala Fairydean Rovers where he will see out the rest of his career.

He told the BBC that he is happy to finish his career in a club that was so supportive of him coming out.

“I could just be myself. Not just on the pitch, but in the dressing room. I could just be myself and it was good that all my sort of initial fears about being in the dressing room again, how that was going to be scary, it was nothing,” he said.

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It’s been a big year since his announcement. He has taken part in a BBC Scotland documentary, was an ambassador for the Gay Games in Hong Kong and worked with the charity Stonewall.

He told the BBC his highlight though was leading the march at Edinburgh Pride.

“It was overwhelming to be able to lead something so amazing. It was monumental and something I’d been so afraid of for years,” he said.

“I had struggled for years not knowing where I fitted in, especially playing football. I never knew where I stood with people. So I just felt seeing all those happy, smiling faces that it’s beautiful to feel you are part of something.”

For Zander, his future is yet to be determined but he has an interest in coaching as well as further charity and advocacy work.

“Fifteen months ago I was scared. Now I am excited. I can see a path. There’s a space for me in this area. I always wanted to play football and I worried about what I would find in life that would give me that same buzz but I have found it,” he said.

Remaining out players

His retirement leaves only five male openly gay athletes at the professional or semi-professional level.

Australian Josh Cavallo plays for A-League side Adelaide United while Andy Brennan is with Victorian league side South Melbourne FC.

Elsewhere, Jake Daniels is with Blackpool FC in the UK, Czech Jakub Jankto plays for Italian Serie A side Cagliari and American Collin Martin plays for North Carolina FC.

Read more: Josh Cavallo names and shames trolls sending him abuse

For the latest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) news in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

[theyoungturks]

Fox News was forced to delete and article conflating Progress Pride Flag with pedophilia and accusing the Biden administration of promoting pedophilia. Adrienne Lawrence, Bennie Carollo, and Trae Crowder discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-tweets-and-deletes-article-conflating-progress-pride-flag-pedophilia "The Progress Pride Flag, created in 2018, includes pink, white, and blue stripes to represent transgender individuals and black and brown stripes to represent communities of color. The black stripe also honors victims of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The flag was also displayed at the Pride Month event at the White House in 2022, which was hosted indoors due to heat. In an escalation of its smear against the White House’s Pride celebration last weekend, Fox News falsely characterized the flag as “an homage to the cult of pedophilia infecting many institutions,” citing the founder of anti-LGBTQ troll group Gays Against Groomers, Jaimee Michell. A portion of the original article read: “Critics charge that the new design actually glorifies pedophilia at a time when children are being flagrantly sexualized in public schools and elsewhere against the wishes of their parents.”" *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt Unbossed with Nina Turner https://www.youtube.com/unbossedtyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 230615__TB05FoxNews by The Young Turks

[jade-green-butterfly]

Ooh, my Harmonia, guys!! =OwO= 💗 Check out this adorably awesome SynKaa request I got in February from the lovely and talented @butterbeanseventeen!! 💜✨ I wanted to take the opportunity to finally share with y’all and dedicate this wonderful piece to my dear sweet buddy, @x-elyssa-x since we both brought Kaa/Kanye to life together~💕 Also as a Pride Month bonus, I added Pan Pride hearts to SynKaa since me and Elyssa both headcanon this OTP of ours as pansexual~🌈💖💛💙🌈   A great BIG thank-you in a million to my dear Bean/Mia! >w< *mega-hugs* 💓 💓 I absolutely love, love, LOVE how you captured SynKaa together ever so preciously~💝😍😍💝 Me and Elyssa both do, we are so over the moon!✨ Hope you all like as well and I really do recommend you go check out Butterbean’s blog - she’s such a sweet bean, literally and amazing artist~! 💞 ✌ =^.^= Request done by @butterbeanseventeen​ Synth (c) Trolls TrollsTopia/DreamWorks Animation Kaa (c) Disney’s The Jungle Book Kanye (Kaa’s Techno Troll Form) (c) @x-elyssa-x & @jade-green-butterfly​ (Me~!)

*~Reblogs are also deeply appreciated as well, so please do reblog as well as like! Thank-you kindly!~*

[blooeyedtroll]

Day 1&2 of Trolls Pride Month 2022! Featuring Queen Poppy and Branch!

[fritzwulf]

A few of me and Neo’s fantrolls for pride month!

[sparklijam]

Ta-da~! Something for this month~! And my new icon picture!

I plan to do this with my OCs too! So expect more~!

[peikonlainen]

Pride month is finally here and so is my new icon 🏳️‍⚧️

[jully-catpark0208]

I'm Non Binary

[characterrevolvingdoors]

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[srbachchan]

DAY 5171

Obe,del-grr                         April  12,  2022                   Tue  10:13 PM

The concern for the medical has hopefully been resolved .. fever is down and the work went off well .. in the burning temperatures of the agricultural fields .. a bearing which many will be of concern, but yes we manage .. 

The heat and the ‘loo’ , the hot breezes that blow during these summer months, are a hazard agree .. but precaution and sense prevails .. lots of water and strangely an umbrella for me, one that I abhor .. 

  but before all of that comes the revelation that reveals the truth of many decades .. the superiority of the Son over the Father .. the biggest moment of pride that would bind any Father to his progeny ..

so there .. and I see and repeat it everywhere .. within the mind and the nearest now .. for a Father it is the ultimate .. you can knock me down any number of times in the ring .. but if I am getting up within the count of 10 and knocking the opponent out cold .. that is VICTORY .. BEYOND !!!

No ‘companion’ could stand the onslaught .. they even shied away from their presence in the ‘companion’ compartment , to their side of the ring for relief .. or perhaps they were travelling ticketless on the foot boards and got thrown off within minutes ..

और ये अदम सांड ( Adam  Sandler), का जो नाम लिया जा रहा है , इन लोगों की छपाई में , वो सांड सांड नहीं , एक डरपोक बिना किसी लज्जा के झोंकने वाला , नदारद  हो गया है , दुम दबा के  । भाग भाग भाग  !!!! 🤣🤣🤣 निकल यहाँ से , निकल  !!!

But your drums and blowing the invisible trumpet is not the style .. it comes from great training and reserve .. and they shall never get it .. for they only survive when they ‘leech’ on to fresh blood .. sprinkled with a pinch of common salt they drop off and perish .. 

the salt was not even needed here , they just dropped off .. feeble sick ailing and helpless .. such a pity .. may the Almighty give them the strength to stand up and take another blow to the head ..

“ good hard blows are delights to the mind “  !!

wrote my Father on a boxing book he sent to me from Cambridge when he was doing his PhD , after I told him of my entrance for the first time in the boxing ring at BHS, Allahabad .. Boys’ High School, Prayagraj now .. 

And on my visit to his College , St Catherines College in Cambridge in the 70′s and 80′s .. and was called by the Academic staff for a cup of tea, in remembrance of my Father’s presence during this days of 1952-54, when I narrated this tale to them they burst out into raucous laughter .. 

The Brits .. I tell you .. they just love the punch up !!!

and did you come across that tweet or reel or some such thing, where a Brit when being trolled pleaded :

‘please say something nice, at least about us British ‘ .. and the reply came :

‘thank you for being the cause of the Independence Day celebrations of the maximum number of Countries in the World ‘ 

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

cool ..

Rest rested restful .. 

GN

Amitabh Bachchan

[poptimus-prime]

So I haven't had lots of writing mojo in months and it was making me really sad but it came back today and I wrote exactly 491 words of absolute nonsense.

I need you to know this file is called "Ah Shit, I Can't Believe You've Done This" in my Google Docs. Also, Grandpa Ratchet getting trolled 2022.

“Care to tell me what you are writing, Rafael?” The medic inquired, gently tapping the child’s back to get his attention in case he had earbuds in or was otherwise up in space.

“Oh, just a thing.” He responded, continuing to type on his computer. “I’ll send it in a while.”

Ratchet smiled, glowing with pride. Up until now, Raf refused to share his Cybertronian writings with him unless it was during a lesson. But now, he was going to share a piece of writing! With him! He found his mind beginning to wander–what would Raf send him? A translation of a passage from an Earth text? Maybe a silly little Earth poem–he believed they were called limericks? Yes, a limerick–

“Uh, Ratchet? You alright?” Raf interrupted his train of thought. “You’re spacing out.”

“I’m just fine. Thank you for your concern.” He looked down and smiled sheepishly, ruffling Raf’s hair with his pinky before going back to his work.

Hours passed before the file finally plunked into his personal comm channel.

RE_Writing_Sample.x

Ratchet immediately sprang up from his work in storage and began to pace the room, hyping himself up to open it and read it. Raf had even made sure to convert the pdf file into something he could open without rushing to the main silo to upload it to the computer and open it using a human OS. Always a thoughtful child, Ratchet chuckled to himself.

He finally settled, opening the file and beginning to read. However, his face immediately fell when he began to realize what exactly Raf had sent him.

We’re no strangers to love

You know the rules, and so do I–

He remained silent for a long moment, breaking it only with three words.

“That little shit.”

Ratchet should have expected this when teaching written language to a 12-year-old human boy. He really should have. But somehow, he naively trusted that Rafael would be more mature. He trusted this child to not ‘shitpost’ with the ‘me-mes’ that the youngsters of this planet were obsessed with.

“Are you alright, Ratchet?” He heard Optimus’s voice from the doorway. He jumped a bit, turning to look at him with what must have been a haunted expression because Optimus immediately took on a concerned expression and rushed over. “What happened?”

“...Rafael just ‘rick rolled’ me in Cybertronian script.”

Optimus paused for a minute, processing what exactly had come from the medic’s intake. Well, he’d certainly never heard that combination of words before. He could barely contain the snorting chuckle at the back of his throat before he turned away, a closed fist against his intake as his shoulders shook.

“Hey, are you laughing?” Ratchet asked incredulously.

“...No.” Optimus barely peeped out before he began to run.

“You lying aft–get back over here!” The medic yelled out the door in the direction the Prime ran in.

This was absolutely humiliating.

But he supposed it beat a world-ending disaster.

[riimixxdy]

Ok let me rant abit (as if my sorry ass haven't ranted enough tonight)

Can anyone, just somebody tell me why I encounter so much homophobic and downright racist comments on an Innocent videos on my fyp?

Here's an example:

And yes he is talking about pride Month and there's a few more talking about just like the chinese being dangerous because they eat everything and of course all this has to be said by someone without a profile picture and is obviously a straight white male. I just don't understand why it is physically hard for these trolls to understand that there is bound to be people who are different from you there are always bound to be people from different cultures and generally believe different things and are raised differently why can't people understand that people are different every single human being is different. Also another thing these cis-gender people can't understand that being part of the LGBTQ+ is not a choice it isn't a choice. If it was I'm sure all those innocent people who were arrested who were physically harmed would have chosen to be straight wouldn't they? Because who in the right mind likes to be discriminated and even killed over a preference they can't chose! It's not their choice to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community.

And another thing why do men think they're superior? Is it because they have a different reproductive system then us and why till this day and age do who actively use social media still fight for white men supremacy? Why? I just want to know what makes you (people who support white men supremacy) think you're better then woman? What makes you think you're better than people of any other race?

NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MAKES YOUR BETTER.

You know why? It's because you've been left behind. Those affected by your selfish beliefs are starting to over take you. The women which were once suppressed by your distorted and disgusting beliefs? They're constantly helping improve our everyday lives. People of other races and religions who you reigned terror on for so many torturous decades? They're surpassing you. You've been left behind wake up. It isn't the 1880s anymore it isn't the 1700 anymore it's 2022. How long till you realize that what you're doing and what you believe in is causing actual harm? How long till you snap out of your post 20 century mindset. How long till you actually get up and contribute to society instead of complaining that people other than you get rights? How much more time do you want to waste until you realize that it isn't 1900s anymore and that society is evolving, it's growing and for the most part it's growing for the better, there's a reason people look down on your beliefs it's because it's outdated it's old it's in sensitive.

There has to be a limit. You can't stay Anonymous on the internet spewing your down right hurtful beliefs onto groups of people that can't chose how they were born like. You have to have a conscience you have to have a moral limit.

And another thing I absolutely hate. Those doing what I mentioned before but hiding behind the stone wall that is mental illness.

Ok let me get one thing straight mental illness does not make you an insensitive and morally disgusting person ok? A mental illness is defined as involving a change of emotion, thinking or behavior or a combination of 2 or more. Mental illnesses are associated with distress and/or problems functioning in social, work or family activities. (Taken definition from : https://psychiatry.org/patients-families/what-is-mental-illness#:~:text=Mental%20illnesses%20are%20health%20conditions,nothing%20to%20be%20ashamed%20of.)

There is no proof that mental illness will make you a personification of the mid 1800s

So stop.

[trashyeggroll]

Alex Danvers/Samantha Arias - train like an actual 🚂 please and thank you!

ahaha i appreciate that you specified 🤣 and thank you for the prompt!

#4 Train

trashy’s note: west wing fans will recognize this final exchange. i think about it all the time.

2022

Alex Danvers jerked out of sleep, instinctively putting out a hand to steady herself. Her palm landed on a table, and a half-second later, her brain caught up with reality: She’d nodded off while sitting up, the pull of gravity on her head having woken her back up. And no wonder she’d fallen asleep—the Amtrak train zooming from Seattle to Portland was rocking gently, their compartment pleasantly warmed by the sun. In the seat next to her, her wife, Sam Arias, had had a better plan, with her jacket tucked between her head and the window as she slept.

And their daughter Ruby, the reason for this trip, wasn’t in her seat, likely in the dining car with the crisp twenty Sam had handed to her that morning. They were on the West Coast leg of a grand college tour for their seventeen-year-old, who was angling her life towards med school and, as of the last six months, neurology. How much of that career path was related to the time Lena Luthor had had to drag Sam back out of her own mind… unconfirmed.

Whatever the root of Ruby’s motivations, the teenager was relentlessly dedicated to her goals, acting with the same integrity and decisiveness as Sam while speaking to a board of a directors with billions of dollars in weath between them. She was the president of her student council and played defender in a competitive soccer league, and her grades were near-perfect, like her SAT scores. But, she was still a seventeen-year-old, including all the hormones and emotions that went along with that age range, and Alex and Sam had been weathering the growing pains of young adulthood in addition to their unending pride in Ruby’s accomplishments.

Another passenger shuffling past their seats had Sam squirming out of sleep, her forehead momentarily wrinkling in a confused, cranky fog, but then her eyes found Alex, and the lines relaxed with Sam’s smile. “Are we there yet?”

“Still another hour.” The redhead leaned across the seats for a kiss, then decided against straightening up and instead dropped her cheek to Sam’s shoulder, snuggling closer and prompting a soft chuckle over her head. “Where’s our little thunderstorm?”

“Probably telling some poor barkeep all about her struggles,” yawned Alex, smiling when Sam’s arm curled over her shoulders and gave a squeeze. Truth be told, the college tours were like the vacations the family had never had time to take, and she knew that one day, Ruby would be appreciative of all the family photos they took in bucket-list locations: the top of the Space Needle, the Chihuly museum, the Fremont Troll. Sam’s high-pace executive world and Alex’s constant world-saving battles certainly hadn’t given them much free time over the years, but the flattened multiverses had helped; Alex could leave National City with a modicum of comfort, knowing that the Pierce family was there to help Kara in case any crises arose. Which they would, inevitably.

Sam’s phone buzzed, as if the real world sensed Alex’s reflection, and she craned her neck up to look at her wife’s face as she checked the message. To her credit, though, she set the phone back down immediately, albeit with a wistful sigh.

“Something on fire?” prodded Alex, sitting up a little.

“Something is always on fire when you have shareholders.” Sam met her eyes, lips shifting into a small grin, and the little laugh lines at the corner of her eyes were so endearing that Alex had to reach up and tug her chin down for a kiss. Soft brown hair fell over their faces like a curtain, and Alex took advantage to indulge. The years together felt simultaneously too short and like a lifetime, but the passage of time had done nothing to dull the shine of her love for Sam Arias, despite what movies and TV shows seemed to suggest. Alex flattened her hand on Sam’s stomach, reveling in familiar warmth, and let the kiss deepen, sighing as Sam’s tongue slid between her lips and—

“Gross.”

Alex was used to this impeccable timing, by now. Neither women startled, but simply sat up straight again as Ruby slid into her seat across the table, her brows knitted in the typical teenaged withering stare.

“There are other people in this car, you know.”

“Oh dear, sweet summer child,” teased Sam. “Please keep that attitude about PDA when you go to school.”

Ruby didn’t seem to appreciate the humor, offering a wan smile that looked so much like Sam’s, and then returning her attention to her phone. True to Alex’s suspicions, Ruby had returned with an armful of likely-overpriced snacks, chips and soda and candy.

“So…” began Alex, ignoring the suspicious grin Sam flashed at her. “Excited to check out nephrology at OHSU?”

“That’s kidneys. I want to study neurology,” Ruby corrected her without looking up from her phone.

“No, I thought neurology was your bones, like the skull.”

“That’s orthopedics.”

“Then what’s obstetrics?”

Finally, Ruby looked up from her phone, sighing. “Mom, you’re not gonna make me laugh. I’m trying to study.”

Alex nodded, and she put one hand on her wife’s knee, then extended the other one, open with her palm up, to their daughter. “You know, no matter what you do… We’re proud of you. And we know you’ll achieve whatever you set your mind to, okay?”

Sam squeezed her hand, nodding her agreement, as some of the tension melted from Ruby’s posture. She didn’t put her phone down, but she did extend her other hand to Alex’s for a quick squeeze. “You want some Cheetos?”

Of course she wanted some of those price-gouged Cheetos, and Alex knew that that response was more than it seemed. “Yeah, sure. We can split it.”

With that small family victory under their belts, the trio sat in companionable silence for awhile, munching on the puffy orange snacks.