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[supergirlmayhem]

Artists Needed!

Calling all artists! WE WANT YOU!

Come show off your skills. Sign up for Supergirl May-hem now!

Whatever art medium you prefer, flex it here! If you like to draw or paint, we'd love to see it! If you like to edit videos or make gif sets, that's cool too! Digital art and photomanipulation is awesome! However you like to create, we'd love to have you onboard! If you're unsure if your art medium is accepted, just send us a message or an ask!

Artist Sign-up sheet!

[sanversandfriends]

Today we're delighted to hear from @rdshirt, a longtime Sanvers fan and 2022 Big Bang artist. She'll talk about the importance of finishing things, and why, as she puts it in the intro to her A03 piece, we should all "sign up for the scary stuff."

Thanks, Redshirt!

Tell us a little about yourself. How long have you been creating fan art? What were some of your first subjects and what ships/characters in the SG universe have you illustrated? 

 I never did any fan art until I signed up for the Sanvers Big Bang. That was the first time I had ever made humans that managed to actually resemble the humans they were supposed to be. (Know that meme where the horse starts out great on one end and looks like a toddler drew the other end? Well…all the drawings in the figure art class I took all remained headless for a reason.) It was exciting to learn the new skills and have it finally click for me.

What are your favorite mediums to work with? 

Since I was young I’ve been an oil painter. Though I did have a long hiatus from that, because I promised someone a painting and when I didn’t deliver I felt too guilty to paint anything else. Good news, I’m back painting again. (Y’all I had to finish that painting before the person died and I felt guilty for the rest of my life.)

For the fan art, I’m using Procreate to make digital artwork. I like it for this, because I can play around and change things easily.

What kinds of scenes do you enjoy illustrating? Do you have any favorite tropes or themes? Imagery that you like to work with? 

 I enjoyed the ranch scenery of my Big Bang. I’m comfortable with landscape and it allowed me to ease in to (*cough* procrastinate *cough*) the portrait part that I was nervous about. I’m excited about the imagery in my Finish-the-Fic match. It is very visual and there are a lot of things for me to play with.

 Any advice for aspiring fan artists? 

Do it. Do it because you want to and it makes you happy. Even if you’re scared. Even if you don’t think you’re “good enough”. You’re always going to see all the flaws in your own work. But I guarantee 99% of other folks seeing it are just going to be excited because there is fan art of the thing they also love. (And don’t worry about that other 1%, what they think doesn’t matter.)

Do you have a gallery of online work you’d like to post a link to?

I don’t have a gallery, but the Big Bang I did the art for is The Long Way by jkbtseriously (JessAnn), maybe go give that a read if you haven’t  https://archiveofourown.org/works/43060836/chapters/108205251 

[bigbangsanvers]

Who You Thought I Was

written by JessAnn

Rating: Teen and up audiences

Warnings: None

Summary:

Alex Danvers makes up one-half of the country duo Better Angels with her sister Kara Danvers. Alex has a secret that she’s kept buried for years. She’s known she was different from a young age, known that she liked girls the way that she was supposed to like boys. But she’s also seen artists lose everything, their fans and their careers, for coming out of the closet or from being outed. Alex is determined to keep her truth to herself, but Alex isn’t prepared for meeting Maggie Sawyer.

Additional tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending

With art by Sanvers_L

Check out the work on ao3 for more art!

These works were part of Sanvers Big Bang 2021 and were revealed on November 27.

[valorianknights]

This is a screenshot I took yesterday of a comment I made on AO3 and Oh my Rao! I had this fic bookmarked and I went back to read it.... Now I'm back to shipping Sanvers and Toybird again.

I'm looking through my Sketch books for some art that I drew of Snowie and Winn so I can post it tomorrow or as soon as I find them. Whatever comes first😊

I'm going to start drawing some Sanvers art since I'm feeling inspired ✨ and I think I found the author's Tumblr account and I immediately followed.

So.... @boldlyshamlessfangirl if you ever read this, THANK YOU SO MUCH for introducing me and then making me fall in love with Sanvers.

I had stopped watching supergirl after season 1 and only occasionally watched some episodes like the crossovers and all episodes with red daughter so, I didn't know I missed out on such a great ship.

I'm going to make so much fan art for your stories, because they're great. I'm going to go back and read your other docs right now.

ALSO. I CREATED A SHIP NAME. WHAT????

[femslashhistorian]

I posted 2,704 times in 2022

That's 459 more posts than 2021!

53 posts created (2%)

2,651 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@femslashrevolution

@inkedroplets

@fanficmemes

@crazyfanficbish

@fandomkaleidoscope

I tagged 2,656 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#fan art - 830 posts

#supercorp - 597 posts

#supercorp fic rec - 396 posts

#pitch perfect femslash fic rec - 320 posts

#bechloe - 286 posts

#fanfiction - 286 posts

#fanfic rec - 282 posts

#other femslash fic rec - 136 posts

#korrasami - 132 posts

#supergirl femslash fic rec - 123 posts

Longest Tag: 50 characters

#abigail bellweather x tally craven x raelle collar

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

NCIS: Hawai'i but it’s only Lucy Tara/Kate Whistler (Kacy)

Watched the whole playlist on YouTube and really enjoyed it. They are a cute ship. 

And here is a link to the #Kacy (Kate / Lucy) supercut/playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6cOmV2NfEE9nMSP8fFegM0ILG91iPFol

I’ve started to look for fic on AO3 and yay, there is a good amount for a relatively new show/ship.

21 notes - Posted April 24, 2022

#4

Supergirl Femslash Ships & Fics Retrospective 3: Astra/x

Welcome back to the Supergirl (TV 2015) femslash ships & fics retrospective. This is the first part in which we focus on femslash ships of a particular character and a selection of fics and fic recs. In part 3 we focus on Astra In-Ze and her ships. 

Table of contents

a) A quick introduction to Astra

b) Astra's ships overview

c) Alex/Astra fic recs

d) Alex/Astra/Maggie fic recs

e) Astra/Maggie fic recs

Series Overview: Supergirl Femslash Ships & Fics Retrospective

Part 1: Introduction, the TV show [tumblr [WordP]

Part 2a: List of F/F Ships [tumbl] [WordP]

Part 2b: List of Polyamorous Ships [tumbl] [WordP]

Part 3: Astra/x [tumbl] [WordP]

Part 4: Andrea/x [tumbl] [WordPress]  

(links to be added once the parts are done)

a) A quick introduction to Astra

Astra In-Ze was a Kryptonian general, the twin sister of Kara's mother Alura and thus Kara's aunt. She was put in prison for eco terrorism and together with the other inmates of in Fort Rozz was one of the few survivors of Krypton's destruction. As a Kryptonian on Earth she has similar powers and weaknesses as Supergirl.

On the show Astra only appears in season 1, in which the was one of the main antagonists. Astra is an original character created for the show, who did not appear in DC comics before.

Astra was a fascinating character and one of the highlights of season 1. It was sad that Astra never got a redemption arc, but considering the quality of the show's writing, it is hard to imagine that it would have been satisfying anyway. Aw well, this is what fanfiction is for, and there are indeed several fics with redemption arcs for Astra.

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b) Astra's ships overview

Astra/Alex Danvers (GeneralDanvers)

This was the first pair I shipped in Supergirl and the one that made me fall in love with the show and the fandom.

When I watched the first scene Alex and Astra had together I thought wow, this is kinda gay and a lot of subtest. I wonder if they will ever do anything with it. Of course, they didn't.

But looking at AO3, I realized that I was by far not the only one who saw the potential for this ship. Unsurprising considering the source material, there is a lot of potential for angsty and darker fics, but there are also a few lighter AUs.

Link to AO3 relationship tag: Astra/Alex Danvers

Astra/Alex Danvers/Maggie Sawyer (General Sanvers)

If you shipped Alex/Astra and were open for/to polyamorous relationships, this was the natural progression to combine Astra with Alex's season 2 canon relationship. Not the rarest ship but pretty rare.

Link to AO3 relationship tag: Astra/Alex Danvers/Maggie Sawyer

Astra/Maggie Sawyer

See the full post

22 notes - Posted March 28, 2022

#3

Scrolling Through Lists of Possible Loves by Netgirl_y2k

Summary:  Corporations, rather than kings, make matches.

Great Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell (Sansaery) fic

Sansa gets tested on her 18th birthday. She is matched with Margaery but is in denial that she might be gay.

I loved this soulmate take. They don't just meet and fall in love, but eventually there is a happy ending. Highly recommended.

26 notes - Posted June 26, 2022

#2

Supergirl Femslash Ships & Fics Retrospective 4: Andrea/x

In part 4 of the Supergirl (TV 2015) femslash ships & fics retrospective we focus on Andrea Rojas, her femslash ships and a selection of fics and fic recs.

Table of contents

a) A quick introduction to Andrea

b) Andrea's ships overview

c) Lena Luthor/Andrea Rojas fic recs

d) Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor/Andrea Rojas fic recs

e) Kara Danvers/Andrea Rojas fic recs

f) Samantha "Sam" Arias/Andrea Rojas fic recs

g) Samantha "Sam" Arias/Lena Luthor/Andrea Rojas fic recs

Series Overview

Supergirl Femslash Ships & Fics Retrospective

Part 1: Introduction, the TV show [tumbl] [WordP]

Part 2a: List of F/F Ships [tumbl] [WordP]

Part 2b: List of Polyamorous Ships [tumbl] [WordP]

Part 3: Astra/x [tumbl] [WordP]

Part 4: Andrea/x (this part)

...

(links to be added once the parts are done)

a) A quick introduction to Andrea

Andrea Rojas joined Supergirl in Season 5, when (a heartbroken) Lean, who felt betrayed by Kara, sold CatCo Media on to her friend Andrea, who is also the CEO of Obsidian Tech.

Andrea has a secret identity and powers as Acrata and appeared in several DC comics and shows before, but her backstory and character were heavily tweaked for the Supergirl TV show.

To be hones I did not watch enough of Season 5 to really understand the plot and background around Leviathan and the medallion that is linked to Andrea's powers (and from what I have seen of the show this might not have made all that much sense away...) What is important to know (and is often referenced in fic) is that to get the medallion, Andrea needed to betray Lena (and break her heart).

While at first it seemed that Andrea was just another shitty boss for Kara at CatCo, she turned out to be a fascinating character with a lot of shipping potential.

I read somewhere that Andre was so high maintenance that she might as well be a Maserati and obviously this is the car she drives in several of the stories.

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b) Andrea's ships overview

Lena Luthor/Andrea Rojas (RojasCorp)

In canon Lena and Andrea are former best friends but many fans interpret their history as ex-lovers. Andrea and Lena definitely have history (some of which is explored in the show) and a lot of chemistry. While shipping Andrea with Lena an obvious shipping choice, this is a relatively rare pair, especially considering that there are few long fics and in a large part of the fics in the AO3 ship tag RojasCorp is not the actual or main ship.

Link to AO3 relationship tag: Lena Luthor/Andrea Rojas

See the full post

33 notes - Posted October 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

International Fanworks Day 2022 - Classic Fic Recs

In case you have not seen this.

“On February 13th, 2022, AO3 made a news posts encouraging users to post their recommendations of "classic" fics, while acknowledging the definition of classic may vary from user-to-user. These were the fics recommended that day in the comment section.”

This is an excellent collection on AO3 that includes a many brilliant femslash fics: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/IFDRecs

Many fandoms, including (there are more).

Harry Potter

Marvel Cinematic Universe

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)

Warehouse 13

Pitch Perfect (Movies)

The Owl House (Cartoon)

The Old Guard (Movie 2020)

Supergirl (TV 2015)

Note on the number of works / filters:

There are 74 to 129 F/F fic in the collection.

If you just set the include filter to F/F you get 129, but this includes some fics in which the F/F ship is the background/side ship to a main ship which is M/M or M/F.

If you set the filters to include F/F and exclude M/M and M/F the number is 74 (but this might exclude fics in which the main ship is F/F ...)

This has bigger impact in some fandoms (such as Harry Potter) and less in others.

Here is a link with the filters to get the narrow F/F selection.

64 notes - Posted June 4, 2022

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[aaamyrc]

“it’s okay, i’m here”

[seungwannie-s-hyunnie]

‪“I’ve earned through hope and faith of the curves around your face, that I’m the one you’ll hold forever”‬

— Wake Up - Coheed and Cambria

‪Took me a while to finish this, I was kinda busy but yay! Not the best work but I tried. 🤷🏻‍♀️‬

SANVERS IN BED WITHOUT THE TANK TOPS, THAT’S WHAT WE DESERVE.‪

[theatre-nerds-unite]

"I'm not here to judge you for things that happened in the past. I am here to help you heal."

[esthadrawings]

Sanvers is endgame 🏳️‍🌈

And we know it

[geofenderwrites]

Ok, I started this about a month ago. Idk why I posted it now but... consider it an early Christmas gift. Or a late Hanukkah gift @sapphicscholarwrites @peggycarterislife @awesomeakimi

[wadi-korrasami]

my digital drawing of Agent Alex Danvers

(tap for more quality)

[mdverse]

My contribution to the Supergirl Summer Collaboration; for the fic Not all heroes wear capes by MorganaStorm24 on ao3

[sanversandfriends]

One way to spark a writer's enthusiasm about a WIP is the promise of accompanying fan art. Not only is it exciting to see your story brought to life, but to paraphrase @Morganastorm24, even a small shift in perspective can inspire you to take a wildly different approach. Today, she'll share some of her inspirations along with advice on how to get started or unstuck.

Tell us a little about yourself. How long have you been creating fan art? What were some of your first subjects and what ships/characters in the SG universe have you illustrated?

I mentioned in my writing answers that I've been doing it for as long as I can remember, and the same applies with art. I'm generally a very creative person - writing, drawing, crafting - you name it, I'll happily do it. 

I inherited my creativity from my grandparents, or so I'm told. My grandfather used to drive buses back in the 50s and 60s and on his breaks he'd park up somewhere and sit and sketch his surroundings. For no reason other than he wanted to and liked doing it. He also enjoyed woodwork and crafting miniature models of things out of wood. He built me my very first dolls house and I helped him to decorate it and furnish it with miniature furniture.

My grandmother was a seamstress for the theatre and made all the costumes for various productions. She'd sketch the designs out first, and then sew all the costumes by hand. She was also a writer, though she kept her stuff very private, because it was a hobby for her but not one that she felt comfortable enough to share. Sometimes, I can understand why, because I feel the same. Growing up, I loved spending time with both of them because they shared their skills with me. 

What are your favorite mediums to work with?

Photoshop is a big favourite of mine, because you can do pretty much anything, so long as you can find the right images to merge together. I also love using pro-markers and other comic book markers.  What kinds of scenes do you enjoy illustrating? Do you have any favorite tropes or themes? Imagery that you like to work with?

I love to do anything, as long as I have a clear vision of it in my mind (when using photoshop), or I have an image I can use as a reference (when I'm drawing by hand). The only thing I can successfully draw freehand without any reference is a horse (my lifelong love of the animals showing through there). When I worked in a children's nursery, we often drew large images for the kids to decorate which would then be displayed on the walls. I was always the one who ended up drawing said images, and to be honest I loved it. When I left that job to start my current one, I was gifted two of the last things I'd drawn - the rose from Beauty and the Beast, and the Coca Cola Christmas Truck. I've kept them to this day, and they're in a protective folder in storage. 

Any advice for aspiring fan artists?

One thing I learned in art lessons when I was at school (and it has stuck with me to this day), is that if you're struggling to draw something, change the perspective. My art teacher told us the following story about a disabled man, and I've tried and tested this method myself. It really does work!

A young man in a wheelchair was asked to draw his wheelchair. He hated the thing, saw it as a hindrance that cut him off from everything that he'd been able to do before he was confined to it. It was a reminder of his past life and everything he had lost, so when he tried to draw it, he was full of anger and resentment, and eventually threw his pencil down in frustration, declaring that he couldn't do it.

Instead of giving up on him, his teacher took the wheelchair, turned it upside down and told him to try again, but don't draw it as a whole. See the individual shapes and draw those. Focus on one shape at a time. So the young man did. He drew what he could see - circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, cylinders - and when the teacher took his piece of paper and turned it round, he had drawn a wheelchair.  All because changing the perspective of the subject and breaking it down into basic shapes had made his brain approach the task differently.  So if you're ever stuck on something and you don't know how to move forward, or do what needs to be done, try looking at it from a different angle. It could be literal, like turning the chair upside down, or it could be figurative, like seeing a circle instead of a wheel, a tube instead of a handle, that sort of thing. Change the perspective and you might just surprise yourself.

Thanks for sharing with us, Morgana--and for making us continue to swoon over Alex!

And Maggie!

And Lena!

And...

[bigbangsanvers]

out of the shadows i come (can you give me a reason to stay?)

written by sparklingsparkysparkles

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Summary:

Eight years ago, disillusioned DEO agent Alex Danvers walked away from the spy life and settled down in National City's quiet suburbs. Eight years later, she returns to a supposedly reformed DEO just as aliens are on the brink of revealing their existence to the world. There she meets, among others, a Pulitzer winner who claims he once had lunch with Condi Rice, a tech wizard who can hack into a nuclear silo blindfolded, and a detective who sends her heart racing every time she looks her way.

Set in a world where Superman doesn't exist.

Or

What happens when a True Blood fan writes a Supergirl fic.

Additional tags: Sanvers - Freeform, Sanvers Big Bang 2021, Alternate Universe, AU where there's no Superman and the world never found out about aliens, Alex and Maggie don't break up, But do they live?, one way to find out

With art by eks4s

Don't forget to check out the work on ao3 for more art!

These works were part of Sanvers Big Bang 2021 and were revealed on December 20.

[broken-into-lines]

[queercapwriting]

#SanversWeek in just a few days!!!!

Are yall suited up???

Day 1 (Sunday) – Intimacy

Day 2 (Monday) – Nerd Girlfriends

Day 3 (Tuesday) – “You’re drunk.”

Day 4 (Wednesday) – Hogwarts AU

Day 5 (Thursday) – Domestic

Day 6 (Friday) – Smut

Day 7 (Saturday) – Soulmates AU

Make sure you tag all of your creations with the hashtag #sanversweek and #day1 #day2 or whatever is appropriate within the first five tags.

Otherwise, I won’t be able to reblog!

Also, make sure whatever you write for #day3 (”You’re drunk”) is 10000% consensual!!!! (Remember that Alex or Maggie don’t have to be the ones that are drunk, and yall will get your fill of smut on Friday #day6, so I’m just sayin.)

Happy creating, yall!!!!