It's not easy but it's worth it

In this fanfiction recommendation I have collected my two favorite Kara Danvers/Cat Grant (SuperCat) and my four favorite Kara Danvers/Cat Grant/Lena Luthor (SuperCarp?, SuperCatCorp) stories and a complicated story that I love that is mostly Cat Grant/Lena Luthor (read the full rec).

SuperCat was one of the most popular ships in season one and continues to be popular. The chemistry between both Kara and Cat and Kara and Lena is undeniable and while Cat and Lena never met in canon, this has never stopped anyone from shipping them in a polyamorous relationship with Kara. While not hugely popular, there is a decent number of fics on AO3.

Cat/Lena is a rarepair but in some of the polyamorous stories Cat and Lena are in a relationship first.

Featured stories - Detailed recs and links after the cut

Kara Danvers/Cat Grant/Lena Luthor

Between Two Mountains by fiddle_stix04 *

With Love’s Light Wings by writerstealth (orphan_account) *

Promise Not To Break by SpaceshipsAreCool  

I Wish I Could Carry You Away by PoppyCartinelli 

Cat Grant/Lena Luthor (it’s complicated)

Art is Expensive by DangersUntoldHardshipsUnnumbered *

Kara Danvers/Cat Grant (SuperCat)

Commander in Chief by fictorium

Asking Too Much by fictorium

let’s remember just some of the unexplainable whipped gay shit cat grant kept pulling over the years

harold, they’re lesbians

people are gay, steven 

i’m a lesbian, carl 

don’t be a transphobe, chad 

we support the gays, david 

Hayley Kiyoko - Japanese-American lesbian pop artist. She became a tumblr sensation when her MV “Girls like Girls” went viral on tumblr a few years back. She also coined the term twentygayteen and has been dubbed our lesbian jesus! Her first album “Expectations” was released earlier this year and its gaaaaay.

Sofya Wang - First generation Chinese-American lesbian pop artist. Her single “Boys Aside” was released in 2017, and several other singles were released this year. Her career is just kicking off, but I think we have a lot to look forward to!

Rina Sawayama - Japanese-British pansexual pop/contemporary R&B artist. She was born in Niigata, Japan and raised there until age 5. She came out by releasing the single “Cherry” and has said many of her songs are about women!

Thao Nyugen - Vietnamese-American indie/alt singer. She fronted the band Thao & the get down stay down and also collaborated with fellow lesbian artist Mirah to release music under Thao & Mirah. Give “With a girl like you” a listen.

Holland - First openly gay K-Pop Idol to debut! He’s 22 years old and his first song “Neverland” was released January 2018. He’s released a few more singles since and is huge with international fans.

MRSHLL - While Holland is the first openly gay K-Pop Idol, MRSHLL is the first openly gay Korean musician to ever begin his career in Korea. He’s a R&B artist and just released his first EP this year.

Poppy Ajudha - Queer British-Indian Soul/Jazz/Experimental artist. Her first EP “FEMME” was released this year and I can tell we have lots to look forward to from her.

Leo Kalyan - British-Pakistani dance/electronic singer who is gay & Muslim! He came out in his music video for “fucked up” and has released a few singles this year! He’s also just a very eloquent and inspiring guy.

Japanese Breakfast - The indie/experimental pop solo project of Michelle Zauner, a Jewish Korean-American queer/bi woman. She says she chose her name because she strongly identified with Japanese culture growing up, since it was the closest thing she could find in popular media that resembled Korean culture.

Qiao Qiao - China’s first openly lesbian singer. She released her first (and only, as far as I can tell) single in 2006, titled “Ai Bu Fen” or “Love does not discriminate.” The only photo I could find of her was from a tv show she was a guest on “gay connections.”

Vardaan Arora - Indian born queer pop artist & advocate for more queer South Asian representation! He’s open about his mental health issues and has amazing music. Check out his latest single “What if.”

Secret Guyz - A 3 member J-Pop group comprised entirely of trans men. You can find their music on youtube!

Ki-Yo - Openly gay Japanese pop singer, composer, and lyricist. He came out in 2015 during Tokyo Rainbow Pride and was featured in the photography project “OUT IN JAPAN.”

Harisu - Transgender Korean pop singer, model, and actress. She is the Republic of Korea’s first transgender entertainer and in 2002 became the second person in Korea to legally change their gender. She identified as female from an early age and derived her stage name from the phrase “Hot Issue.”

Doris Muramatsu - Member of queer folk group “Girlyman.” Listen to everything they’ve ever made because it’s all amazing.

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Pics that need to be true but they fucking aren’t collection

swanqueen edition

Oops this is true, my fault.

Picard’s all “will you please keep your hands to yourselves” and the Q are like “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he said something!!! aaahhh so cute!!!”

Q’s just trying to get them all to back off and explain that Picard isn’t a pet okay, he’s a sentient being and you can talk to him

Q keeps appearing on the viewscreen while Jean-Luc is on duty, but he is invisible to everyone else. JL has to pretend nothing is there, when all he wants to do is laugh at Q’s jokes or roll his eyes at him.

They’re doing it in the captain’s readyroom when Riker walks in on them. Q offers to wipe the memory out of his mind, but as much as JL wants him to, he doesn’t like the idea of Q messing with his crew’s heads without their consent. (consent is eventually given by a horrified Riker who just wants the vision out of his head)

Q blocks Deanna Troi’s empathy and partial telepathy when it comes to JL so she doesn’t suspect anything, but overlooks Lwaxana when she visits the Enterprise.

Hello ~ sorry for the late reply!

ALRIGHT SO. Here’s the list of Q-centric episodes on TNG:

S1E1 - “Encounter at Farpoint”

S1E9 - “Hide and Q“ 

S2E16 - ”Q Who“

S3E13 - ”Déjà Q“ 

S4E20 - ”Qpid“ 

S6E6 - ”True Q“

S6E15 - “Tapestry”

S7E25/26 - ”All Good Things…“

on DS9:

S1E7 - Q-Less

on VOY

S2E18 - "Death Wish”

S3E11 - “The Q and the Grey”