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[fazedlight]

Write (supercorptober fluff)

Great idea, walking into a Luthor’s office while solarflared, Kara thought. 

It’s not like she could tell Snapper “no” to interviewing Lena Luthor - she was a rookie reporter, and she needed every article assignment she could get. Besides, walking into Lena’s office while solarflared was only risky if Lena both knew who she was and intended to harm her. After their first encounter… Kara just didn’t think either was likely.

But Rao, Kara was still kicking herself. After her last battle, Alex had told her to cool it with her powers to recharge. Now Kara was going to have to explain that she solarflared after a short flight across the city. Oh well, she thought, as she walked into Lena's office. “Well, I'm glad to see you decided to give reporting a shot,” Lena said, rising from her desk as the niceties were exchanged - Kara’s bus flub thankfully went unnoticed. “Although if you're here on the same day the president is in town to sign her Alien Amnesty Act, then…” 

Kara grinned. “I must be here to ask the sister of Earth's most notorious alien-hater for her take on the president's executive order.”

“I want to show you something,” Lena said, barely containing her excitement as she tugged her desk drawer open, revealing a small device inside. “It's an alien detection device - it allows humans to find out who among them is not truly one of them.”

Kara’s jaw dropped as Lena removed the device from the drawer. “W-why?”

“It’s the best of both worlds,” Lena explained. “The aliens will get the amnesty they need, and people will be able to tell who they are when they need to.”

“Don’t… don’t you think this device will force aliens back into the very shadows the president is trying to shine a light on?” Kara said weakly.

Lena furrowed her brow. “If aliens want to be citizens, that's now their right. But… if humans want to know which of their fellow citizens aren't actually one of them, then that's their right too.”

Kara’s body was screaming run. Or fly. Not that she could, when she was solarflared. But this device set a panic through her veins - what were Lena’s intentions? “How does it work?” Kara asked weakly, as her mind frantically searched for an excuse to leave.

“A simple skin test,” Lena said, pressing her thumb to the sensor for a demonstration, watching the device flash green. “This device is going to make us a fortune. Unlike my brother, I'm going to do it for the good of the world.”

The good of the world, Kara thought, eyes falling on the device. She supposed that a woman steeped in a family of lies might rebel by seeking truth. Kara could see how one could think that simply revealing truth would be good for the world…

But this woman had no idea of the danger that the truth could put people in, if not carefully concealed. They simply didn’t exist in that kind of world.

Kara’s stomach dropped as Lena held out the device for her to try, a playful smirk on the CEO’s face as she encouraged the cub reporter to test the device herself. No heat vision, Kara thought, wishing she could simply fry a wire. It would definitely be too suspicious to leave now.

But the look on Lena’s face… Kara was certain that the CEO had no idea what was about to happen. She was misguided - and hopefully that’s all she was - but Kara clung to the fact that she didn’t seem to have a clue who Kara was. She was just a woman trying to take control of a narrative, desperate to turn away from her brother’s path.

And that gave Kara hope.

As Kara pressed her thumb down on the device, she prayed her instincts were right, that the woman wasn’t the monster everyone suspected her to be.

The device beeped, and Lena stared down, confused at the bright red that flashed in front of her. In that moment, her entire demeanor shifted, as she slowly - achingly, worriedly - looked back up at Kara.

Kara watched as the emotions flit across Lena’s face, a complicated array that passed in mere seconds as Lena realized what she had done. Kara could feel the pounding in her own heart - but there was no hiding the remorse on Lena’s face.

But Lena was clever, and Kara sensed what was happening as Lena’s eyes moved from Kara’s glasses to her ponytail, the CEO mouthing flew here on a bus silently. Discovering that Kara was alien was just a small step from knowing who Kara really was.

But hope continued to bloom in Kara’s chest, as she watched the concern in Lena’s gaze. Perhaps it was foolish to trust the Luthor so early, but Kara just sensed… she wasn’t sitting across from her nemesis. Perhaps they could rewrite the narrative.

“A super, at the mercy of a Luthor,” Kara said softly, rising from her seat, proud that her voice didn’t waiver. “I should be terrified.”

Lena’s eyes darted between Kara’s, but Kara gave a small smile that she hoped conveyed I believe in you, before turning and making her way out the door. Snapper would have to get his interview another day.

Lena stood silently at her desk for a moment, staring after the reporter in confusion and awe, before a small smile crossed her own lips. Lena reached down to her phone, tapping at a couple buttons. Had Kara had her superhearing intact, perhaps she would’ve smiled at Lena’s words. 

“Jess, put me through to R&D. I need to cancel a product.”

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[heeeygracie]

A scene from @fazedlight ’s fic “Darkness in All Things” where Supergirl is a Worldkiller!

Thank you Mel!!! Happy Holidays everyone! 🩷

#gracieart #fazedlight

[msdanvers]

no one and nothing by @fazedlight ↳ commissioned by fazedlight

#fic rec #!! #supergirl #supercorp #supergirledit #supercorpedit #karadanversedit #lenaluthoredit #kara danvers #lena luthor #tuserabbie #dctvedit #myedits #myedits: supergirl #kara #lena #fazedlight #*commission

[luthordamnvers]

How I'd describe your fics:

Really thoughtful. You understand your characters and you know how to make them shine in a plot. And you balance it so well with the fun of the story, too.

I love how you tie in these unexpected facets of characters. Like in the Enchanted AU and how you used it to explore Kara's feelings on gender. I was blown away by that.

Your writing just really draws me in. I didn't expect to read a Dansen fic but I figured I'd give it a try?? And then you had this dance between Alex's stubbornness and Kelly's patience and really crafted something beautiful out of it.

Sidenote I really love how you write Nia & Brainy

Your writing and commentary have managed to brainwash me three times. The talent ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you so much, means a lot...

Also, what 3 times? 👀(rojarias... kelly?)

[ask game]

#ask game #fazedlight

[ekingston]

22 & 40 :D

hi & thanks so much!

What is it about watching the same two idiots falling in love over and over again?

1. familiarity brings comfort and builds a sense of community and 2. each (re)telling offers new perspectives & interpretations, and different ways for the characters to interact!

Write a 9-word fic.

“My letter.”

“Yes. Read it to me?”

“Now?”

“Please.”

#i love number 40–it’s such a fun exercise! #i have this problem where i stop reading when i start writing & it makes it tricky to keep up #but i love seeing new (or just new to me!) writers tackling these two! #ask me things! #more writing asks #fazedlight

[appropriatelystupid]

13 & 17 (both Kara and Lena)!

13. What's a character or ship you haven't written/ drawn yet but would like to some day?

i’d probably never actually write for not supercorp but if i had to pick a different ship for them:

kara: tbh i think i’d pick imra because i love the idea of them bonding over trash and leaving him with nothing

lena: jack is the only one worthy of her tbh

17. What's a book, movie, or show you think [character] would like?

kara: i think she’d be big into fantasy worlds because sometimes it lowkey reminds her of krypton but not superhero stuff because that’s just too close for comfort

lena: she’s got every romance book in the history of romance books because she, a) wants to let her brain shut down some, and 2) likes to daydream about her and kara in various tropes

fandom asks

#fandom asks game #fazedlight #appropriatelyasked #stupidlyanswered

[eqt-95]

1 & 17 for deep asks

1. what’s the best advice you’ve ever been given? I don't know if it's the best 'advice' but something I really loved went something like this:

The voice in your head worried about what other people think about you is the same voice in everyone else's head worrying about what other people think about them, and everyone else is always so busy worrying about what other people are thinking that no one has time to realize your shirt is on backwards.

17. what was your favorite color as a child and what is your favorite color now? As a kid it was purple because that's what people told me it was, and it never occurred to me to challenge it. Now though my favorite color changes every day (if you want the long version, I actually recently got an ask about this and answered it here). Today it is hex no. 2041D4.

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#i mulled over no. 1 in my head off and on today because i've gotten loads of good advice #but what i love most about this is the friendly reminder that let's me get out of my own head about stuff #thanks for the ask! #fazedlight #ask game #qs with quinn

[sssammich]

1 & 12 :)

the last sentence you wrote

Still, Lena only offers comfort by way of pouring Kara another glass of wine. 

this one is from a supercorp fic called 'tender, like a bruise'

12. a trope you're really into right now

im into all tropes at all times but i think in terms of reading i am really into someone confessing and the other person is all 'i don't feel the same way' but they're just dumb and are delayed in realizing their feelings OR they then fall in love with over time just as the person tries to get over them (this is very specific)

for a shorter answer, i've been on the hunt for some roadtrip fics

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#fazedlight #replies #ask game #thanks for the ask!!

[jadedloverart]

You should be SUPER proud of your art it's BEAUTIFUL ❤️❤️ hope you're having a wonderful day, and thanks for blessing our timelines!

THANK YOU 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

I was honestly so tempted to leave this ask in my inbox so I could look at it from time to time.

My day has been pleasantly filled with soup and drawing, hope yours was just as nice!

#fazedlight #asks

[thatonebirdwrites]

3 & 18

3. what is your favorite way to self care?

It used to be sitting in a park under a tree and drawing or journaling, but since I've been homebound because of my chronic illness (ugh, that and LongCovid), I can't get to a park without help. And well, sometimes I don't want to be around people when I'm doing self-care, so having to rely on someone to get me to a park is so stressful that I sort of gave up on my favorite method. So instead I will either turn on the train livestream by RailCowGirl on Youtube; it's her best of train cams, which is a mixture of her driving passenger trains and freight trains. It's all in Southern Norway, usually the route between Bergen and Oslo. It's a gorgeous landscape, quiet, and relaxing. I then turn on relaxing music OR I'll get out one of my ukuleles and just improvise songs. Or I'll improvise songs on the electric keyboard.

18. what is something you can’t bring yourself to get rid of?

I have this stuffed animal -- a Husky -- that I got when I was three years old. I don't even like dogs to be honest; well, it's not that I don't like them. It's that I'm scared of them since I was attacked by a large dog as a child. But I love that silly stuffed animal. It's gone everywhere with me. I always pack it with me, sort of like a good luck charm in a way? When I was in middle school, one of my younger sisters threw the dog off my bed and onto the floor of the basement, which was being painted grey. I was devastated. When we went to visit my Grandma in Wisconsin, I showed her Dog (who is an actor who plays King Bryant in the Stuffed Animal Games). She shaved off the paint and then repaired all his rips and tears. I think that's another reason I can't ever get rid of him. My Norwegian Grandmother worked hard to fix up Dog. Her stitches have stood the test of time and still hold up today. He sits on my desk and overlooks my home.

I actually wrote a short piece about him for a contest once, which maybe I'll share someday if and when I feel up to editing it. He's been to thirty-eight states with me, and we lived in seven of them.

Thank you for asking! :D

#uncomfortable asks game #fazedlight

[crime-wives]

🍄

supergirl + hunger games quarter quell = supercorp hunger games au

i made a moodboard for it here:

#supercorp #my wips #the hunger games #asking anya #fazedlight

[fazedlight]

“KARA!” Lena screamed. I killed her, Lena grieved.

She didn’t have time to linger as Eve attacked her again, Lena throwing one last punch before she found herself scrambling out of her jet. The explosion killed her, Lena’s mind shouted, thrashing in agony, a litany of damnation that she should never have brought Kara to Kaznia in the first place. It’s all my fault.

But to her astonishment, in the dark, a figure shifted ahead - blonde and burning and bright, and Lena thought for half a second to run back for the fire extinguisher, that Kara might be saved.

But as the figure turned, somehow unaffected by the flames that adorned her like a god, Lena halted. Kara looked concerned, confused. But she didn’t look injured.

Lena’s eyes drifted lower, to the bright S now etched on Kara’s chest, solid blue emerging amidst her burnt clothing. “Kara…”

“Lena,” Kara breathed, reluctance written on her face.

Lena hesitated a moment longer, before taking step after careful step, approaching the reporter as the embers continued to burn across her body. Lena’s hand drifted to the top of the suit’s crest, just below Kara’s neck, where yellow met red. Oh.

It was too much - the whiplash of the explosion, thinking that Lena had carelessly killed her best friend, to realizing that the reporter had once thrown that’s not a great question for a Luthor to ask someone in my family back in her face.

Kara Danvers was her best friend. Did she ever really exist?

“Lena…” Kara whispered again.

Lena dropped her hand, her eyes raised to Kara’s, looking her over again. “Don’t,” she said. Without another word, Lena turned on her heel, and went back to her jet.

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The flight back from Kaznia was longer alone.

Plenty of time for Lena to fume and grieve, for her to rage internally at weathering yet another deceit. Kara Danvers - or whatever the hell she was really called - had used her, betrayed her, spied on her. 

Somewhere in the back of Lena’s mind, there was a different acknowledgment - that her glide ratio in her custom-designed jet was good, but not good enough to reach the Kaznian runway when the engines had failed. That her assumption at the time that mountain updrafts had saved her ran contrary to the now-more-obvious explanation - that the kryptonian had saved her from aviation incidents three times now. 

Lena looked out the side of the window, where dawn was slowly rising. She desperately needed sleep, but was too wired from watching her best friend be blown up - and then revealed to be a traitor - and sleep was just… not going to happen. 

Lena could swear that she was seeing glints of red and blue, just behind her plane, a kryptonian possibly trying to stay out of sight while still being protective. It was infuriating.

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It’s not Kara, Lena’s mind begged, trying to convince herself that the dead kryptonian was the clone she had learned about in Kaznia. It can’t be Kara.

It was with overwhelming horror that Lena watched the footage of Kaznia’s failed invasion, her brother parading around a dead kryptonian in his lexosuit arms, the supposed traitor Supergirl. 

He was a hero. For killing her. It can't be Kara. It can’t it can’t it can’t-

Trying to still her trembling fingers, Lena picked up her phone, trying to figure out what to text, what to say, anything to get a response from the kryptonian that she had shut out. Operating out of instinct more than logic, she pressed Kara’s name to start a call instead, holding it up to her ear, her stomach twisting with nausea.

But luckily, it only took one ring before Lena heard a familiar voice on the other end. “Lena,” Kara said softly

Lena pulled the phone away, and hung up.

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There was no other choice in her mind. Not when Lex had regained legitimacy in the eyes of the country by “saving” it from Supergirl’s attack. Not when Lex sought to commit a secret genocide to solve the energy crisis and be named a hero. Not when Lena was the only person who would know where Lex would go.

Not when all Lena could see was Lex cradling Red Daughter in his arms.

The image was burned into her mind, and all Lena knew was that Kara was next - Lex would not rest until every kryptonian was gone. And Kara would be too kind and noble to seek anything but legal justice. But that wasn’t Lena - it wasn’t Lena when she decided to kill Morgan Edge, it wasn’t Lena when she decided to kidnap her mother from prison and poison her, it wasn’t Lena when she tucked her gun in her belt that morning.

A single bullet to the head, and Lex was gone.

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Kara’s door opened just a few seconds before Lena reached it. Lena supposed Kara could hear her down the hall.

Lena ignored the shock and concern on Kara’s face as she stepped inside, making her way to Kara’s window as Kara closed the door. Truth was, she still couldn’t face Kara at all.

“I’m sorry, Lena,” Kara started. “I tried to save-”

“Don’t,” Lena said.

Kara grew quiet, flanking Lena’s side, joining her as Lena stared out onto the streets below. Lena shifted. “I thought she was you,” Lena said. “When Lex killed her, I thought she was you.”

She could feel Kara shrink, uncertain of what to say, of how to move forward. And maybe Lena didn’t know either. But she could try. If… “Is Kara real?” Lena asked, her voice cracking. “Or just a mask?”

“I’m real,” Kara whispered, prompting Lena to finally turn. And Lena couldn’t help herself, seeking the warmth of Kara’s arms, the kryptonian all too happy to wrap Lena in a tight hug as Lena stepped into it. “I… sometimes I feel more real with you than anyone else.”

Lena swallowed harshly, burying her face into Kara’s shoulder, holding back a tremble. “I want to believe you.”

“I’ll spend a lifetime trying to prove it,” Kara whispered. “If you’ll let me.”

Lena took a slow, trembling breath. “Okay.”

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Idea taken from a tweet I saw floating around. If you're interested in a longer season 4 reveal, I also wrote No One and Nothing.

#supercorp #supercorp ficlet #mel writes ficlets #fazedlight #ever since I learned to make gifs I have gone mad with power

[katiemcgrathisdaddyaf]

Do you write fic? I feel like there was a post a bit ago where you were talking about your WIPs, but I have no idea what your ao3 is!!

ehhhh I dabble lol

while I’ve written quite a bit of supercorp fic for a long time, I’ve never actually posted any! I have posted a few Horizon drabbles and one shots tho but that’s it.

I haven’t shared my ao3 on here yet but I’m IkriesFreckles!

#fazedlight #asks

[rustingcat]

22 & 27 (especially in context of the huge project your supercorptober series was!!)

22. Share an excerpt from your favorite scene

Supercorptober was indeed huge, and the thing about very stressful time sensitive projects is that you tend to forget almost everything you've written the moment you publish it. So it took some refreshing skimming to remember, but I'm pretty proud of this bit, and especially the first sentences.

"You are Kara Zor-El Danvers. Your name tells a journey and your journey is not yet over. You are not a bad person for having emotions. You've been through a lot and you still came out on top. You are still so full of kindness, love, and hope. How can that be a failure? How can it be anything but the greatest thing in life? You are amazing Kara and I'm sure the rest of your journey would be just as amazing."

27. Did you do anything special to celebrate finishing a fic?

More writing, actually. Because finishing it on time was my top priority, this was the only fic I allowed myself to work on, and it was very frustrating. There were several fics I wanted to advance in, but simply didn't have the time, so once I finished the fic, I was finally free to work on other stuff.

I finished an update on my big fic I was really excited about, but then immediately afterwards I accidentally started working on a twilight au that consumed my life for a month until I basically finished it, and now I'm a bit burned out. Writing had been my very much needed escape from life, so my current predicament is very much not ideal. I really hope inspiration will hit again soon.

Thank you for the lovely questions, darling😘

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#i neen somwone to hit me with inspiration ray or something #fazedlight #rustingask #ask game

[luthordamnvers]

🤔

🤔What’s a story you’d love to write but haven’t even started yet?

S6 RedK Kara. I have a pretty good idea about it, I did an entire thread about it on twitter back in the day, but I have yet to even open a new document to try and write that one 😂

I also kinda wanna do a (supercorp) 'whoops, we woke up married post crisis'. Would it be different than others fics dealing with this? idk, I have no idea, but I want to explore that, maybe.

Thanks so much for asking, mel 💜

[Procrastinating Writing Ask Game]

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[ekingston]

WIP game: blonde

curiously underrepresented as well, but there’s fortunately the dead of winter AU:

#even in a zombie apocalypse you should set a little time aside for a lesbian italicized Oh moment #it’s good for the soul #dead of winter au #WIP keyword ask meme #fazedlight