#until it does

[vox-ex]

money

Supercorptober 2023

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.” ― Zadie Smith

——

It takes time for Kara to tell Lena she loves her. She starts and stops the words over and over in her head, in the park, in her apartment, on the street, and even once as a whisper against the shell of her ear, pressed into her side after falling asleep on the couch, the credits of movie flickering on the tv and her heartbeat settled into sleep.

And it's a silly thing, really.

But one way or another, the words would always get caught or slip away.

Would get mixed up, or maybe lost, in the ache of heart instead of its need.

Would wind up tasting bitter instead of saccharine, like it was trying to protect itself from the only thing of love it's ever really known — loss.

But Lena is not a dying planet. She is not a lost language.

She is warmth and light and the possibility of new things.

And yet, it still takes time.

To let the words out, to untangle them, to rearrange until they taste only of Lena. Her skin, her lips. Until her heart lets gives into its need. Her laugh. Her smile.

And she will admit it was selfish to want keep those parts of Lena to herself when she finally she did.

And she will admit it was foolish to think it would last.

But she never could have told you that telling the the rest of the world she loved Lena would happen like this.

----

"You should just tell her."

Alex says, eyeing Kara over her cup of coffee.

"I can't just blurt it out like that." Kara sighs

"Kara..." Alex's voice is tinged with both amusement and frustration. "You've been saying you're going to tell her for months now."

"I-I don't know." Kara looks down at her hands, fidgeting with the edge of her cape.

"You know she loves you too, right?" Alex asks, her tone softening.

"I know." Kara nods, trying to hide both the smile on her face and the crinkle in her brow, both of which might give her away."

"You know I love you too right?"

"Yeah." She mumbles. "She really doesn't like keeping this from Alex."

Alex laughs "Good."

"But also know she will understand."

----

Kara lets out a content sigh and breathes in the faint scent of cedar and citrus as Lena tucks her head against her neck, arms tightening around her back as she shifts them further into their tangled position.

"Alex thinks I should tell you how I feel about you."

Lena chuckles, and the sound reverberates into Kara's chest.

"Oh. And how do you feel about me, Ms. Danvers."

Lena looks up at her with shining eyes and a slight smile on her lips.

"I feel like I love you, and I never want to leave this bed." She presses a gentle kiss to the underside of Lena's jaw.

"Mmm," Lena stretches, "well, that might be a problem if we want to keep this rouse up since your Sister and our friends are coming in a little less than 30 minutes."

"Loving you is not a rouse," Kara insists, "you know that right?"

"Of course". Lena turned her head to press a kiss along Kara's forearm. "I enjoy this too, you know. There aren't many things in my life that I ever get to do without the world knowing."

Her lips curved in a hint of a smile. "But you should also know that apparently, there is a bet among our friends about when we will get together. Brainy accidentally told me about it in the lab yesterday."

Kara leans back into the pillow, startling Lena.

"What! Really?"

Lena laughs and pecks her lips once more before rolling out of bed, pulling her along with her.

---- Kara is hyperaware of the points of contact between them — their hands accidentally touching when she reaches for her cup, their shoulders pressed together as she sits down.

"Careful, darling." Lena murmurs from beside her.

Kara looks over at her, noticing the slightly bent fork in her hand.

Lena's lips quirked up into a smile, and she reached out to take it from her and replace it with her own unmarred one.

Lena's hand settles on hers.

"Relax, Darling."

It's soft.

Kara looks between Lena and the rest of the group.

Lena settles her hand on her knee, fingers inching just ever so slightly up.

So so soft.

Alex gives her a weird look.

"What's going on with you?

She looks around the room.

Looks at the mess of smiles and laughter and brightness.

She thinks about the bet they all have. Thinks about Lena in her arms that afternoon. There's a comfort that settles in both. The fact that their friends and family all felt like her loving Lena was just as inevitable as she had.

And it was.

Inevitable.

Even it took time.

And this, she supposes what happens next was inevitable too.

Even if it took time.

She stands up, nearly knocking the coffee table over, and reaches into her pocket, grabbing a fist full of wrinkled bills and, without even bothering to count them, shoves them down on the coffee table.

And it feels a little less like betting against her friends, and than against the universe itself.

"I take today...I bet on today."

Alex looks at the crumpled pile of money and her sister, confused.

Kara thinks maybe Lena was wrong about the bet.

But then Nia is giggling and Kelly has her head in her hands, and Brainy if trying hide from Alex who is staring right at him. And she knows she wasn't.

Lena's tugs at the bottom of her sweater.

"That's, that's not really how betting works Darling."

But Kara has already started talking, or rather rambling.

"I..." and she barely even gets past the first letter, not even to the first syllable, before the words start to sip, but then Lena's hand slips from her sweater into her palm and the she's looking at her with all that softness of hers, and Rao, Kara realizes how much she really, really wants to let the world know how much she loves this woman.

"I-love Lena...that's...I just...that's...I love her and I love kissing her and you should all know that."

Lena looks at Alex who is looking at Kara who still hasn't dared to at anyone but Lena.

Kara isn't sure she realizes that everyone leaves, but she remembers their bright smiles, hears the not very subtle "told you" Nia yells at one point, sees the hug that Brainy give Lena, and watches Kelly's soft wave as she presses a quick kiss to Alex's temple and tells her she'll meet her in the car.

Alex steps in front of her, blocking her view of Lena temporarily.

"You know you're Girlfriend's right...this isn't really how betting works."

Her cheeks tinge pink with embarrassment as she looks at the money again.

But Lena is still there, still has her hand.

"It was very sweet of you though," she said. "I think we can let the betting technicalities slide just this once."

And then Alex leaves too. With a knowing look and soft pat on her shoulder and with Kara promising to call her in the dawning.

"You feeling okay?" Lena asks when it's just them.

Kara nods, lacing their fingers together. "I know we said we could wait, but I just...you know..."

Lena smiles, bringing Kara's hand up to kiss her palm.

"Yeah..yeah..I do."

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#sg prompts #superrcorp #supergirl #supercorptober #supercorptober2023 #heaviness disguised as softness #softness disguised as heaviness #they are in love #the world just doesn't know it yet #until it does #my take on troupe where the whole group makes a bet on when these two fools will get together #sorry for the delay my brain got angry at me

[andromedism]

IASIP S6E7 Predictions

Megan Ganz is directing this episode so Something Will Happen that we will be giffing about and psychoanalyzing for the next seven days and beyond.

There will be a sexually explicit rating for this ep (😌)

The DTAMHD trailer will reveal nothing significant about the episode because nothing significant will happen in that episode…until it does.

I will throw up.

#i’m feeling so insane about tonight i simply cannot contain it #my other more unhinged theory is that DTAMHD is a diversion and something delulu is going to happen tonight #but i genuinely think the E8 trailer is going to be like ‘dennis needs to practice some self care’ *cut to him screaming on a beach* #and that’s it #but the second half of the episode is going to contain some of the most cunty acting glenn has done in a while #and nothing will happen #until it does #iasip16 #iasip #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #macden #macdennis

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I was going to make a joke about the ostensibly contradictory worldview where you have the CIA/“feds” causing all world events while somehow being laughably incompetent and inept and transparent but I suppose one could entertain the darkly humorous prospect that both are somehow true

#powerful enough to extend its reach to every corner of the planet #into the mind of any number of individuals at will #we are always surrounded by their all seeing all powerful agents #yet somehow stupid enough that it never works #UNTIL IT DOES

[j-a-nuary]

Today is a day of hearing and reading truly awful things at work.

Anyone got, idk, fluffy animal pics or something?

#it doesnt usually get to me #until it does #y'know? #sometimes you hear something that makes you think that humanity was a mistake #work stuff #blah blah blah #off topic #kiwi talks #DV advocate

[closeted-goth]

hmmmmm cannot stop thinking about the McL**d inquest. see u all in therapy or whatever Sheldon J. Plankton said.

#I'm fuken hard I'll type whatever I'm given and it will never affect me #until it does #and maybe this is the one bc i cannot stop thinking about it #the opening address of counsel assisting has been swirling around in my brain for the last eight hours

[overlymetaromantic]

Dungeon Meshi, or as I like to call it, Marcille's-increasingly-difficult-to-ignore-revelations-that-her-endless-devotion-to-Falin-may-in-fact-be-more-rooted-in-lesbianism-than-she-originally-thought

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi spoilers #delicious in dungeon spoilers #dunmeshi #dunmeshi spoilers #farcille #marcille donato #falin touden #falin x marcille #let's go lesbians let's gooooooo!!!! #listen I fully respect those who ship farcille starting from their school days it is very good #but I find it FAR funnier to think that Marcille does not realize her feelings are super not-platonic actually until WAY late lmao #let's pretend i can draw #I. genuinely don't know if this needs a mature label or any cws or not. I never draw anything that normally toes that territory lmaoooo #tumblr please don't get mad at me if I tagged this wrong!!! T_T

[nerdpoe]

Danny's found a way to dodge GIW trackers, as well as his parents. Their equipment hunts ghosts, ghosts run on emotion; so as long as he keeps his under a tight lid and doesn't feel anything ever, they won't be able to track him.

It works!

He's able to run from them, and goes as far as New Jersey. The plan was to stow away on a ship, and go to literally any country that wasn't America. He goes to Gotham, which hosts the one harbor he knows where no one will ask any questions.

But because of how weird he acted (completely emotionless during a Joker attack), he was fingered by police immediately.

He's handed over to CPP. CPP doesn't know what to do with a teen literally so traumatized that they don't show any emotion at all, ever. He keeps just...walking out of his placements. Just leaves without a sound.

Luckily, he's always caught, due to those placement houses having quiet alarms and him refusing to run.

They call the one foster parent they know who does.

Bruce Wayne takes in the strange, nameless kid who refuses to talk.

On paper, they gave him the filler name of 'John Doe', for lack of anything better to do.

Bruce does everything he can to make the newest arrival feel at home. Damian, for as territorial as he is, actually breaks out of his shell sooner than expected just to try to get the new kid to speak. To emote. To do something. Duke tries the open approach, then tries the 'no one will ever know, everyone thinks I'm an innocent goody-two-shoes' approach. Nada.

Tim even tries to trick him into talking, but nothing works.

Enter Dick; Dick heard about Bruce's new ward, about the situation, and decided to see if he could get the kid to open up.

Danny though. Danny's in trouble.

The Wayne Manor is weirdly secure, and he can't just walk away like he did his other placements. He can't use ghost powers or the GIW and his parents will immediately know where he is.

He really, really wants to take Bruce up on his offer and just spend the day relaxing. Respond to Damian's attempts to provoke him. Overshare about space facts with Tim.

But most of all, he really, desperately wants to get in a Pun Competition with Dick. He wants to laugh at Dick's jokes, and learn coolass gymnastic tricks!

But he can't!

If he relaxes with Bruce, he'll be content, which is an emotion. If he argues with Damian, he'll get annoyed, which is an emotion. If he sneaks out with Duke and breaks the rules, he'll get happy, which, again, emotion. If he overshares with Tim, he'll get excited, which is, yet again, an emotion!

The worst sin of all, he can't even show proper appreciation of the food the Butler keeps making him!

And now there's even more people coming over!

There's a quiet girl who keeps reading his body language and trying to get him to dance ballet, a blonde girl who keeps trying to kidnap him to take him to BatBurger, a guy with a stripe of white who wants to take him to a shooting range, and it just...he really, really wants to!

He wants to do all these cool things with them!

But he fucking can't!

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #danny vibes with dick the most #not that anyone knows that #breaks his little ghost heart that he can't have that pun competition #meanwhile bruce absolutely is running facial recognition #and hitting government firewalls and keeps having to shake off digital tracers #trying to find out who wanted that information #he smells a mystery #and he wants those answer #if cannot get them from their resident Doe #then he'll get it from whoever tortured the boy into silence #sidenote Damian just called Danny Doe instead of John #and danny responded to it quicker because it started with a “D” #that was noticed #now everyone just calls him Doe until his name is found

[pineapple-frenzy]

Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara

They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them

But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd

The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>

#zutara #zuko #katara #atla #book 2 au #my art #i mentioned in my last book 2 au post that i wanted to include short hair katara into it and y'all were so supportive of it!! 😭😭😭 #so this is how i think it would go #it would happen as katara is trying to evade one of zuko's fire balls #she manages to avoid it but since her hair is long it still caught on fire #she'd be pissed so she water whips the hell out of zuko #and then promptly forgets about it akfhkakdkakdj #even after the sparring session she still hasn't remembered cause 'oh no zuko's in pain i have to help him!' #it isn't until zuko even mentions it that she remembers #zuko thinks she's more calm than i thought she would be after burning her hair so he mentions it to her #little did he know katara just forgor aldjlakdkaljd #n e ways zuko does feel bad so she offers to help fix it up for her #i think after the haircut katara would find herself looking in mirrors when there are any around cause 'zuko thinks i'm beautiful?? really? #zuko doesn't know this tho and he thinks katara is till sad about the unwanted haircut so he keeps telling her that she looks beautiful #and katara just keeps losing it aldjlakdlald #in conclusion they are idiots your honor

[qweenofurheart]

the tim drake experience

#i wanted to explore his way of thinking so bad it’s so strange to me #i think he does things the hard way for the sake of doing them #and he probably carries a lot of physical and emotional turmoil which he doesnt acknowledge until it’s quiet #full time career in concerning the people around him !! 😀😀 #my art #batman #batfam #batfamily #batman comics #batfam fanart #batfamily fanart #dc comics #dc #dc fanart #tim drake #tim drake fanart #red robin #red robin fanart #stephanie brown #stephanie brown fanart #spoiler fanart #kon el kent #superboy fanart #conner kent fanart #conner kent #dick grayson #dick grayson fanart #nightwing #nightwing fanart #damn so many tags

[poobirdy]

bingqiu human/demon role reversal as requested by alliechickfics on twitter! for a modest donation to the listed organizations and individuals over at SVSSS Gotcha 4 Gaza, you too can get a prompt fulfilled in exchange.

#scum villain #svsss #bingqiu #luo binghe #shen yuan #shen qingqiu #mxtx #my art #blowing the dust off this account #the donation form is open until the 21st #i'll reblog a post abt the event that goes a little more in depth once this goes up #the idea for this au is that sy has been sealed in lbh's pendant for a Good While #up until ming fan steals/damages it and incidentally frees him #so ofc lbh is accused of housing a demon in the sect #what choice does he and sy have but to run tf out of there

[queerdraws]

Fanart for a snippet of my most favorite heartbreaking moment from swordsmans's fic bone-breaker ospreys mate for life (rated E)

#zolu #luzo #one piece #comic #i love this fic i love this fic AAUUGHH!!!! #this scene exploded my heart #okay so artist note luffy only has forehead bandages in SOME panels in his post-raid outfit #he doesn't at the post-raid party itself but he does on the hillside spectating the momo / marine guy fight #so i guess he just got a knock on the head at the party or something?? #his cheek bandage also switches sides between when he's recovering post-raid and the party #u never realize how impressionistic oda is w detail stuff until u gotta place patterns on clothing n bandages on boys #anyways very happy w how page 4 turned out #luffys autism stare n big big smile

[k-atsukibakugou]

“how many guys do you have on your roster, huh?”

“including you? four.”

“i’m gonna have you cummin’ on my cock, screamin’ my name and we’ll see if you still want those guys after the fourth time.”

#uh in my mind #this makes sense #i can’t tell if it does #but like #overstimulation until they’re the only one u want <<33 #yes this is about katsuki shut up #「mercury thirsts」

[cactiaintracist]

ThEM

#i didn't know just how much i missed them until we got them again #the definition of platonic soulmates being silly #why does he look like a hamster #doctor who #60th anniversary #dw spoilers #tardis interior spoilers specifically #14th doctor #10th dctor #donna noble #doctor donna #david tennant #catherine tate #text post

[beybuniki]

best friend with social anxiety

#idk what prompted my brain to come up with this but bakugo finds deku cowering in the communal room and he just knows whats up #and he stays there and cracks some jokes until deku feels a bit better #because he actually does that in the manga i love how bakugo tries to help his peers u can literally see his brain fuming #and he always comes up with sth! #and he knows deku so well like he knew damn well deku said sth cringe and it has been haunting him the entire afternoon #anway #bnha #deku #midoriya izuku #bakugo katsuki #all might slippers yyeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss

[camembri]

you wanted zoro to be on whole cake island to fulfil your weird desire to see zoro punish sanji. I wanted zoro on whole cake island because I think he's stupid enough to right place wrong time the plan and accidentally marry Sanji in full view of the whole wedding party in what becomes the most elaborately constructed comedy of errors ever written. we are NOT the same.

#need a fic where zoro genuinely does marry sanji on wci without planning it #type of thing to happen to goofy pre ts zoro #zoro in the same mindset in which he created the usopp sword: well i didn't mean to but i guess this solves the immediate problem #and ofc he just rolls with it #they look at each other after the dust settles like. hey wtf was that. and immediately blame each other #pre relationship AND feelings realisation on both sides #dont get me wrong i love fake relationship that becomes real but hear me out #legal accidental relationship thats extremely convenient and also funny until you pavlov yourself into being in love #vinsmoke sanji #black leg sanji #roronoa zoro #zosan #one piece #sanzo #zoro

[reineydraws]

kyojuro corruption arc

#kny #kny fanart #mugen train #akaza #kny akaza #rengoku kyojuro #renkaza #akaren #demon slayer #demon slayer fanart #comic #kny comic #incorrect kny #nah obviously kyo would never get tired of being nice #what he DOES get tired of is expectations though!!!!! #he doesnt even realize he's tired!!!! it's just that one day it hits him that he only ever feels comfortable to be TRULY himself #around the demon that almost killed him. why? bc he lets himself be mean and ugly to akaza--why should a demon deserve his courtesy? #doesnt even realize he's baring his vulnerabilities with all the hateful emotions he directs toward akaza #and the way akaza actually reciprocates with baring his own vulnerabilities too #until one day he realizes he's *waiting* for akaza and that he'd *miss* akaza if he didnt show. #so where does that leave him but in love with a demon? 😔 ohh temptation