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i wanted to show tori the pilot of lois and clark (1993) and i just. completely forgot that it's about our local Genius Billionaire trying to privatize the space program to set up colonies 😵‍💫

it's like... i realize the whole franchise has always been extremely unsubtly anticapitalist, so it should not shock me, but. too close, man! too close!

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/ John Rogers Cox, Gray and Gold, 1942

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WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR AURA?

GREEN. climbing ivy, snake eyes, frogs, rainboots, koi ponds, abandoned places, clovers. your essence is green: you are bright-eyed and cerebral, unearthing questions. you are devoted to your pride; you struggle to feel worthwhile if you do not have any answer for everything. it is hard for you to not fixate intensely and be certain you are not mundane. you are the orator. you are the totem. you find kinship in like-minded individuals of forest, sage, chartreuse, and jade, who share your desire to learn. you are also drawn to the creative souls blue and orange, who will help you grow and know it is okay to stay guessing. however, you may struggle to get along with the bleeding heart personalities of pink and yellow who are too wrapped up in pleasing others.

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i did try to make it clear in my [wip! i must keep stressing because. i hate it] carrd through omission, but since i am unsurprisingly interacting with more canons than usual this week, particularly clarks:

i do read a lot of comics and watch a lot of stuff and i do borrow liberally from Whatever I Enjoy/whatever suits me --- so i obviously do, have, like, my little #visions. but i don't expect them to apply to every instance of every character. that would be boring (and probably seemingly would come out of nowhere for a lot of people, because lana is extremely underutilized and often a caricature) (which i genuinely am not bitter about, That's Comics, but it is what it is!). like, i wanna world-build. i am here to compromise. all i expect is that you don't bring assumptions to the table about my portrayal, and --- of course --- i'll act accordingly.

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i've been out of town but i will be home later this afternoon and i'm planning to be around here more, again, so! giving this messy post a little boost. until then ---

i never posted lana's carrd because i kept being like, "it's too conversational" (only way i could get myself to write the thing) and i keep meaning to re-wire and refine it. so i have to say that. but also, since today is so full of unexpected super-joy, here. at least i can offer a passable rundown of [gestures vaguely] what's up. and i WOULD really like to get some plotting going 😌

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i never posted lana's carrd because i kept being like, "it's too conversational" (only way i could get myself to write the thing) and i keep meaning to re-wire and refine it. so i have to say that. but also, since today is so full of unexpected super-joy, here. at least i can offer a passable rundown of [gestures vaguely] what's up. and i WOULD really like to get some plotting going 😌

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Well. Hi

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I can't get over this little girl.....pretending to be long dead while someone digs up her body out of the ground. The jewelry laid out beside her...the hair clips....this is everything

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i would have watched tasm years ago if anybody had bothered to tell me martin sheen was in it. appalling that NONE of you people know how to talk to me

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somewhere, there's a party

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Murder In A Small Town (2024—) | Season 1, Episode 1 "The Suspect" | Kristin Kreuk as Cassandra Lee

“You checked me out.” “Librarians call it research.”

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a big (dare i say 'super'?) thank you to @koiscarrds for helping me refresh things around here; the graphics are beautiful, you're beautiful, i owe you my life, etc.

(the rest of you: his commissions are open!)

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dc's lana lang, written by laurel (they/them) since 2018. private, plot-focused, and selective. 21+ only.

rules + stats / timeline.

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When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder. If I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

— Mary Oliver, from “When Death Comes” in "New and Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 1992)

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i know that in their five minutes of "clark and lana go to college" the show only had her studying astronomy because she had Just Seen Aliens [that she knew were aliens] [that's a whole other issue we're handling a LITTLE differently here. but i digress] but i actually don't hate it for her. it would be a healthier way to engage with the [gestures vaguely] trauma. and she might be a big reader / token "let me write your english papers" girl in high school, but she would absolutely feel like most kinds of liberal arts majors were wastes of time (sorry) (i don't know why i'm apologizing; i was one of you) (though to be fair, it's more that she doesn't think higher education is worth the money to study something you don't need degrees for). i like that most comics that have included her since have made her Science Girl. i like even more that they have used it to both pit her against lex and show that she will outsmart him at every turn 💜

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I have only two emotions, careful fear and dead devotion.

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[this is just a note to myself to make a post about all of the PHYSICAL trauma lana endures, and how it definitely has consequences that we definitely are not going to ignore] (aka our girl just got her leg crushed AGAIN)