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The Four Thieves 

This week we are doing a @maggiemerc If/Then double shot*:

 Another Statement of Causality 

Summary: If Callie is meant to be with Arizona and Cristina is meant to be with Owen but Callie and Owen are married with kids then something must change. The status quo must shift. A continuation of 8x13 "If/Then."

and the sequel

Causal Fallacy

Summary: Sometimes there is no link between cause and effect. Sometimes it is just the natural world bearing down on you and devastating everything in its path. A sequel to the Alternate Universe episode, "If/Then" and Another Statement of Causality. Callie and Arizona are at a loss with how to make it work with three kids. Cristina and Owen are blindly moving forward damned the costs.

Don’t forget to give some love to the writer @@maggiemerc !

by maggiemerc

Rating: M

Words: 23560

multi-chapter, incomplete

Description: When Maggie notices her new girlfriend is acting suspicious she starts to investigate and uncovers a group of people unravelling after the loss of their cornerstone.

And you know better, because it is unfinished, and hasn’t been updated since July. But you fall desperately in love with it anyway.

(it’s this supercat au by maggiemerc by the way. I want to cry. I can’t believe I can’t read more. I don’t think I’ve been this devastated since I reached the never-to-be-finished ending on goldflecks’s rizzles wip. It’s that good.)

and then you feel guilt at your own unfinished rizzles wip. which you know is one of the best fics you’ve written (though not the best thing you’ve written, because you did quit that fic to finish your real novel), because you added layers and thought and actual work to it. and you wonder if you elicited this same feeling of sad helplessness in a reader. if I didn’t hate Angie Harmon so much right now (when I look at Jane she’s all I can see), I’d be finishing my abandoned rizzles fic. because my fic-writing superpowers are back for now. But is anyone reading rizzles still? does anyone care? I’m hardly a BNF. 

(my abandoned fic was this.)

Chapters: 20/20 Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan Characters: Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Emma Swan, Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard, Mulan (Once Upon a Time), Aurora (Once Upon a Time), Captain Hook | Killian Jones, Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time), Bluebeard - Character, Cora (Once Upon a Time) Additional Tags: Femslash, Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Quest, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Series: Part 1 of The Monomythical Adventures of Regina Mills and Emma Swan Summary:

Bear with me for a second here. Credit where credit is due - I started thinking about this after reading the most recent chapter (10) of maggiemerc’s fic (sorry, it won’t let me @ you) I Can Do This (which I’m enjoying, btw) so it’s entirely possible there’s some meta about this that I missed (link me to it if so?)

All these theories will address show canon, not the fic.

But it mades absolutely no sense that there would be significant quantities of kryptonite on Earth already if a) Krypton is, as Kara claims in the show, 2000 lightyears away and b) Krypton was destroyed roughly 36 years ago, given that it’s probably safe to assume that the debris from Krypton is travelling at significantly less than the speed of light.

Possible explanations that occur to me (I am not a physicist):

Kara is wrong - Krypton was much, much closer than that (in the comics I believe it’s supposed to be around 27 lightyears which is more plausible but that’s still relatively close to the speed of light). This also makes it more lightly that a significant quantity would get to Earth.

it’s been much, much longer than 36 years since Krypton exploded (as in, Kara and Clark were travelling much slower than the speed of light)

Some debris got dragged along, somehow, with one or both of the pods

Some debris went through a wormhole and thereby got to Earth faster than if it had travelled in a straight line

or maybe it just went through the Phantom Zone? That’s kind of like a wormhole right?

Krypton was spewing kryptonite long before it exploded, and the stuff has a long half-life

there is or was another source of kryptonite, other than Krypton. maybe it even occurs naturally on Earth and everything we know is a lie! maybe it’s actually all artificial! who know?

someone took kryptonite from Krypton at some point in the past and brought it or sent it to Earth, for whatever reason

time travel??? idk