the other hilarious side effect of the “Clark gives all of his closest friends and family Kryptonian names” thing is the admittedly unlikely but hilarious realization by one (1) Lex Luthor that Bruce Wayne has a personally-gifted Kryptonian name from Superman and not him.
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How I felt being awake at 3 am last night pouring over Doyle's Kryptonian language guide to write something that will at most show up in the story twice and will be translated anyways for the normal reader
Also how tf does that fuckass dictionary not have the noun form of Dream? Head in hands you gotta do shit by yourself.
The first thing she noticed was that she was surrounded by large yellow things. They sat atop green stalks. Plants her brain helpfully supplied.
Strange, beautiful alien flowers.
They reminded her of a ring of gold, of a star swallowed by a black hole, of her mother’s eyes.
She hoped to the high council that they were not poisonous to touch. She crawled out of the shadow of her ship's burning wreckage. She stretched her hand out into the light of the foreign planet’s sun.
Oh, it was so warm.
this is a drawing from a fic I've written. its called Cracked Sunflowers.
I don't know Kara Zor-El that well as a character. but essentially the plot is that she arrives on earth on time.
fair warning, I deal with cultural misunderstandings, kryptonian culture and kryptonian biology.
I wanted to make them kind of weird aliens, I made them weird aliens. I have way to much fun worldbuilding.
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We happily blame the SBEW discord for helping me cook up the funniest ideas, one of which is Bruce is unwittingly getting called in by The Call to help other planets, one that happens to have a very handsome Kryptonian.
The fantastic art that comes with it! By @gh0stsh4rk! Their Kal comes with a beautiful tail and my favorite hc, Avian Kryptonians 🤩 so you can see why I had to do this. And Kal is just hiding his tail in the second image.
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Also as an extra treat! Kori with a tail from @longingforthecosmos. This was not done for the story, but I remembered this and went, ‘It’s perfect since Krypton and Tamaran are in the same galaxy!’
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On Saturday, I saw Supergirl with 2 work friends, and afterward we went to KFC for the tie-in meal. (The meal was good. Excellent drink and toy. I like the grown-up version of a kid's meal!)
It was a good time. I enjoyed the movie, but I'm already waiting for all the backlash about how bad it is because it has a female main character. People are so disappointingly predictable.
I didn't see the Superman movie last year. Frankly, with so many Superman reboots, I didn't see the point. But I was on board for Supergirl. I rather enjoyed the TV show, and I like this for what it is.
My only real curiosity is linguistics nerdy, not comic book nerdy. How was the Kryptonian language developed? I thought it sounded a little like Greek, but I could be WAY off base.
“She paid it no attention, her focus on the bright yellow rays that fell softly upon her. Lynn reached out, shielding her eyes from the blinding beams of light in the process, as if to catch them in her grasp. Her other hand laid above her stomach wound, staining her fingers a deep scarlet.
She took a shallow breath, her mind going fuzzy on the edges, and gave herself a moment to simply soak in the heat of the native sun, ignoring the pain for a short moment. She didn't have much time left, she could feel it. Her injuries were too numerous and too deep to be treated on a foreign planet.
Her eyes fluttered shut, once, twice, barely processing the sound of a distant shout before finally succumbing to the darkness.”
Or, A new Kryptonian appears out of the blue, crash landing on the Kent Farm in dire condition. What are her connections to the last Kryptonians? And why is she so familiar with the House of El?
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I love you, fanfic authors! You put so much effort and time into creating stories!! ...that I binge read in a fraction of the time it took you to write them.
But sometimes, there are things that take me out of a story...
And this is one of them.
Whenever Kara is written to say “Oh my Rao” ....it just sounds / reads wrong (to me).
Rao is not the Kryptonian translation of the word “God”.
If you want to take it as a literal translation, it actually “means” sun, or rather, it’s the name of Krypton’s sun. It is also the name of one of Krypton’s gods - Kryptonians have many gods (a polytheism).
Rao is just their equivalent of Zeus or Odin or Jupiter or Dagda... their main God.
Or like Roman’s mythology’s “Sol” who is the Sun-God, where we derive anything “solar” from.
So, Rao is a name. Like Jesus. So, where “Oh, Jesus!” be correct, “Oh, Rao!” would suffice as well. On that note, the exclamation “Holy Rao!” would be legitimate.
Or if you want a more every day language example:
If you talk about a person in their function or concept, you talk about “my girlfriend” but once you talk about them by name you wouldn’t add “my” (unless you are talking to someone who happens to have a presumably different girlfriend by the same name... or you are Lena in the comics).
But to top it off:
Kara keeps saying “Oh my God” in the show.
...a lot, and many a time when she doesn’t have to pretend to be average human-Kara.
...just a few examples.
I swear, there was once a supercut of Kara saying “oh my God” in the first couple of seasons on yt, but I can’t find it anymore... And, yes, she did once or twice exclaim “Rao!” in it / in the show.
And I believe, there is a general reason that may go beyond Kara trying to fit in and therefore using a common English phrase...
Kara spent the first 12 years (half of her life), her informative years on Krypton, where their religion and science played a major role in their society and culture.
Like Kara still hardly ever curses on Earth, even though she had spent over a decade here and got influenced by the American language and attitude to some degrees, something tells me, it is against her nature to use Rao’s name in vain (too much).
The thing is, we don’t really need to “kryptonize” anything or everything.
“Oh my God”, “Golly”, “Rao!”, “Holy pancakes!”, “Shit..ake mushroom!”, ... there is a long list of viable options that neither break canon nor have Kara go OOC.
Sooo... I am not asking anyone to go back into their already written stories or wips and change this to humor me.
But I hope this may make you reconsider the usage of the phrase moving forward. Or stick with it. Your choice. I’m not your mom.