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8 years ago Katie McGrath came on our screen as Lena Luthor and lives were changed and saved (mine included) 😭 Happy 8 years of Lena Luthor ❤️

And happy 8 years of supecorp ❤️💙

And mainly, happy Lena Luthor Day to Katie McGrath 🥰

⤷ endless gifs of lena luthor ✳︎ 51/∞

Alex during a salvageable situation:

(aka: how It’s a Super Life ruined everything)

The premiere of season 5 was simple. Kara fucked up, felt deeply sorry for it, and revealed her secret to Lena (driven solely by her guilt) after far too long of gaslighting her. Unfortunately, it was a bit too late, Lena was already (rightfully) pissed and about to exact a(n outsized) revenge about it. Easy peasy.

We see Kara struggle with it a little. She gives Lena the superwatch, looking super guilty the whole time. She brings Lena international treats, talks to Alex about how she’s nervous about interacting with Lena. But she seems to have underestimated the damage she’s caused - and Lena is going through a major disillusionment. 

Both of which are mostly in character from my perspective. But with the caveat that, I knew the basic summary of the Rift before I watched the show. So those were moments the characters were already building to in my head. (I know some people think that Kara’s reaction in season 3 was out of character, or that Lena’s reaction in 5A was out of character, and those are valid opinions that are worth exploring! If I watched the show unfold live, maybe I’d be in that camp too.)

We then see Lena’s betrayal and Kara scrambling to pull Lena back from the edge into an anti-villain arc. The Crisis happens, Kara visits Lena, and Lena calls Kara out - “What did you think would happen when you came here? That you'd tell me everything in a fit of selflessness, even if it meant that I knew how you betrayed me, and then I'd just keel over and forgive you?” Kara still knows she did something wrong, and vows to never do it again.

Aaaaand then It’s A Super Life (beloved/beloathed) happens.

I really liked the episode the first time I saw it. I was a supercorp shipper who hadn’t read a single fic. And on its face, I mean, they dedicated the entire 100th episode to the relationship between Kara and Lena and trying to repair it. It failed, sure, but they'd make up eventually (again, I was spoiled).

But that episode was really about absolving Kara. It was a bizarre conclusion. Kara no longer had fault, because any reality they tried out would’ve failed. … which makes no damn sense. Even if no reality could work (I’m skeptical), Kara didn’t know that at the time she made her decisions. She still has fault for the harm she knew she was causing (even if it happened to work out better than the alternatives she didn’t know about).

I think this is a narrative shift. This isn’t just about the in-universe “Kara believes she’s absolved”. This is a writer's ploy to change the narrative and make the audience think that Kara didn’t have fault. Writing this as a character flaw might’ve worked, maybe, if they had Kara reexamine her assumptions later. But as a narrative? … the shift fell completely flat.

The rift was canceled at this point. Suddenly it was no longer the story of two people’s flaws interplaying in the worst possible way. Suddenly it was: Kara is right, Lena is wrong, let us never speak of it again.

It makes everything that comes after really grating. The end of 5x19 (where Kara goes “maybe I’m ready to forgive you now” and shakes Lena’s hand) feels completely empty, because there’s no acknowledgement from Kara that she fucked up - a fact she fully understood at the beginning and middle of the season! It bleeds into season 6, where we never see Lena hash things out with the superfriends or with Kara post-return. It makes the finale (Lena’s “You made me a better person”) fall flat. At this point multiple people in the fandom have pointed out that it’s Melissa’s acting that is Kara’s saving grace (though even that has limitations, as many of us felt with Sadie). But Kara as a character really suffers - and with it, her relationship with Lena, and Lena's arc - because the writers did not make a convincing argument for their shift. 

The hero’s always right, I guess? The main character can’t have major flaws? (I hope someday we learned what instructions they were getting in the writing room 😂)

For my own sanity, I have a whole slew of conversations(/arguments) in my head that I place into season 6 to fix some of this (as well as making Mxy a liar who was trying to make his friend feel better, rather than those other timelines being real). But while they’re canon-compliant… they aren’t canon. What we needed was something on screen to make the relationship shine again, to have Kara revisit why her rationale absolving her in the 100th episode didn’t follow at all, and have Lena work through her issues with Kara and the rest of the superfriends. But we didn’t get that.

Hi! Gosh, that's super kind to call my fics great. :) I appreciate it! Honestly, I have so many fics that I loved reading. I'm not sure which of these will fit your preferences, but here are some of my favorites (I list the following because they hit me hard in one way or another). These range from 1k to 300k.

Don't go slow cause you're gonna be someone by robie (Supercorp)

All of pcrtifacts fics, especially make this place your home

one single thread of gold by scrappylittlegleek and Fresh Pair of Eyes (Supercorp)

Darkness In All Things by fazedlight (Supercorp) (I honestly love all fazedlight's fics)

Privileges by rustingcat (I also go back to rustingcat's Of Science and Love) (Supercorp)

Lena's Space Log by mycatismyeditor (Supercorp)

sam's supercorptober 2023 by sssammich (Supercorp)

Hell was the journey (but it brought me heaven) by luthordamnvers (Supercorp)

You're in my blood, like holy wine by jazzfordshire and i want something just like this (Supercorp)

Captain Underpants by asamiontop (Supercorp)

Of Kisses and Kara by TheUnforgivingMinute (Supercorp)

The Shape of Soup by ekingston (Supercorp)

Permanence by itllsetyoufree (Supercorp)

let me be easy to love series by coffeeshib or lay with me (like a renaissance painting) (Supercorp)

See All the Marks of My Wounded Past by luthordamnvers and snowydragonscave (Supercorp)

Bury the Dead by thornedrose44 (Supercorp)

ties that bind by sten06 (Rojarias)

love actually by sten06 (Rojarias)

Inhabit by Laetare (Supercorp)

The Magic of Constellations series by snowydragonscave (Supercorp)

Attachments by texadian (Supercorp)

Archive of Her Own by spicycheese

and if you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones by AssumingMinds19 (past Reigncorp, Supercorp)

Meet the Superfriends by FondWeirdIntrovert (Supercorp, Brainia, Dansen)

The Arctic Station by Forage (Supercorp)

Trøllabundin by BigMammaLlama5 (Kara/Lena)

An Ocean of Fire by IcarusAndHerSun (Kara/Lena, Sam/Alex)

when dinosaurs ruled the earth by drsattlers (Kara/Lena)

come feel this magic i've been feeling since i met you by homosectional (Supercorp)

let all your damage damage me by searidings (Supercorp)

take my mask, i'm home now by Melui (Supercorp)

you’re my remedy by amnesiayourself (Kara/Lena)

Anyway, that's the tip of the iceberg. I struggle with choosing favorites, there's so many I loved reading. Honestly, the talent of supergirl fic writers is quite breathtaking.

But hopefully you'll enjoy a few of those!

and isn’t it just so pretty to think

all along there was some

invisible string

tying you to me? ♡