#sara alder

[uselessgayshit]

I don’t remember what episode Sarah Alder showed up in Tally’s bedroom like that was a normal thing to do but I started writing this all the way back then and never finished. So if the latter half sucks that’s cause I made myself finish it just to get it out of my notes app.

I Came For You

She opened her door into her dimly lit room. Just one lamp shining a low, warm orange glow against the wall. She hadn’t realized how much stress she had been holding onto when it came to Raelle until she saw her face and took the first deep breath she’d taken in a long while.

It was the exhaustion that made her miss the shadow in the room at first. But as she blinked, hand rising to the light switch, she saw the outline of a figure against the window. Her heart jumped in fear at first until she recognized it. They had been linked once after all.

She flicked the switch and the lights illuminated the dreary room. She stared at the woman, meeting dark eyes and her heart beat hard in her chest as if it was trying to get out, to find its way to where it belonged.

She was taken aback, surprised. She hadn’t thought she would see Alder so soon and the burst of serotonin made her almost woozy. She swallowed past the growing lump in her throat, refusing to let any of it show. She pressed her lips thin. “Well, you really know how to make an entrance.

She shut the door behind her. “Are you here ‘cause Rae’s back?”

“I came for you.”

Her breath hitched in her chest under the intense scrutiny. There was a dark fire burning in those eyes.

Alder stepped closer.

Water welled in Tally’s eyes, and she put a hand out, pointer finger up to stop Alder from moving any closer. “No. No, you don’t get to do this.”

“Tally…”

“No, you made me feel crazy.”

“That wasn’t my intention.” Alder hadn’t taken Tally’s gesture to heart. Her hand reach out, entwining with Tally’s, as she stepped into her space, brushing a piece of her hair, that had fallen in the three witches reuniting, behind her ear. “You’re not crazy.”

Tally couldn’t help but lean into the touch as Alder rested her hand against her cheek, long fingers brushing against her skin. “There is just… so much to do. And we don’t have much time.”

She sucked her teeth between her cheeks and diverted her eyes from those that seemed to look deep within her. “So, let me guess. You need my help to find another piece of the First Song.”

She tried to step around Alder but the woman grabbed her wrist so she couldn’t completely escaped.

The air felt hot.

She stared straight ahead at the window. She wasn’t sure she would be in control of herself if she looked anywhere else.

“Tally.”

“Don’t.” She turned around in a huff, stripping off her sweater and throwing it on the ground.

“Listen to me.” Tally glanced up. Sara pressed her finger under her chin, lifting i up even further. “I came here for you. Not for the first song. For you.”

Tally’s eyes glanced to Sara’s lips and saw the slight upturn, almost mocking as of Sara knew that she’d melt immediately.

Sara stepped forward which was an almost impossible feat seeing as they were already chest to chest. Tally stumbled backward, back hitting the chest of drawers behind her.

Sara’s eyes raked down her body. Tally gulped, eyes wide, full of disbelief that any of this was happening at all. “You came here for… this?”

Tally gasped. Sara’s hot breath ghosted across her neck as her lips trailed down Tally’s neck, leaving wet marks all the way to her collarbone. “Hmmmm. You are a prophetess, after all.”

Tally shivered. Sara’s lips spread into a smile against her skin.

Tally’s hands white knuckle gripped the wood behind her. Sara’s hands at her waist were firmly pinning her in place.

Sara pulled back enough for eye contact, dark eyes reaching Tally’s. “Unless I misread -“

“No,” Tally responded quickly, grabbing at the leather of her long coat. “No, you didn’t.”

“Then what happens next?” Sara said with a searing gaze and a titled smile that sent heat surging up from Tally’s core.

“I don’t need my Sight to answer that.” Tally surged forward, up on her tiptoes, and crashed into the feeling she had been striving to find ever since she was cut from the Biddies.

Sara wasn’t soft. She was hard edges, and rough touches. Her teeth bit into Tally’s skin, sending shivers down her spine.

The back of Tally’s knees hit the edge of the bed and she fell. Sarah dropped her long coat to the ground. “Tally Craven…”

There was no point in pretending that hearing General Alder call her by her full name didn’t affect her beyond propriety. It always had and she had always swallowed her reaction. This time she didn’t need to. She bit her lip, letting her legs part slightly, looking up into Sarah’s face, beckoning.

Sarah’s arms were twisted behind her back. Tally could hear the zipper being pulled. Tally leaned forward, reaching down to the edges of her t-shirt, and with her tongue licking at her lips, pulled it up and over her head. Sarah’s intake of breath was more of hiss than anything else as Tally revealed her bare chest.

“You are my ending.”

Sarah made a sound in the back of her throat and the lock on the bedroom door clicked shut. It hadn’t even occurred to Tally - she was completely swept into Sarah’s orbit. It was an issue she had whenever Alder was present. Everything else faded away.

Sarah dropped her dress to the ground. Tally didn’t know what she had been expecting. Black. Lace. Something along those lines. But Sarah’s underwear and bra were the same gray, taupe of her outerwear. There was nothing skimpy about it but as her eyes dragged up Sarah’s body, the only word that came to her mind was “sexy.”

Sarah stepped out of the dress toward the bed, bending, her hands sinking into the mattress on either side of Tally, bringing their faces within inches on one another.

“Do you want this?” Her emphasis on the “you” was impossible to miss. They had once been connected, mind and body, Tally used to strengthen Sarah. After she had left the Biddies, Tally had wondered herself if her feelings were a lasting effect of that or something more. There was still a part of her that wished to have that back, that closeness. But this was something different entirely. Her entire body buzzed with anticipation. Heat coiled in her belly and the wet warmth between her legs was impossible to ignore. None of that was part of being a Biddie. Tally had fallen in too deep with Alder in a multitude of ways.

“Please.”

Sarah’s head dropped and Tally’s fell back as goosebumps erupted on her skin under Sarah’s wet lips as she left open mouthed kisses across her chest. She kissed over the swell of Tally’s breast, tongue flicking against a nipple. Tally gasped as she pulled it between her teeth, gently biting it.

Her head snapped forward and she caught Sarah’s devious eyes, looking up at her from her ministrations. She kept the eye contact as she moved down, over Tally’s trembling and twitching stomach - she couldn’t tell if it was nerves, anticipation, or a bit of both.

Sarah’s tongue licked up the inside of Tally’s thigh, and she couldn’t suppress the giggle that escaped her mouth. She was ticklish and apparently the arousal wasn’t enough to overcome that.

“Hmmmm.” Was Sarah’s only response. Teeth nipped lightly at her skin and her fingers clenched, twisting the comforter between them.

“Tally, careful.” The vibration of her lips against Tally’s clit did nothing to help matters. She had never thought about it, her voice as her magic, what would happen if she used it unconsciously. But she did feel as if there was a liquid under her nails and look down to see a shiny silver stream of light flowing from her fingers.

The calmness in Sarah’s eyes didn’t seem to call impending doom, so she wasn’t concerned enough not to focus on where Sarah’s tongue currently was. A breathy, low, “fuck,” escaped her lips. This was nothing like Beltane.

Nothing against Gerit but that had been purely lust built by the atmosphere they had been engulfed in. Besides, remembering Beltane, she couldn’t help but remember Sarah with her hair down, her tight corset, her bare shoulders. Tally laughed, hand clamping quickly over her mouth.

Sarah’s ministrations paused. “Are you alright?”

She caught her breath, stomach twitching from laugher. “I’m sorry.”

“About?”

“Thinking about how sexy you looked at Beltane when you’re right here in front of me.”

Sarah smiled and wiped Tally’s slick from the corner of her mouth. “I remember your excitement from that day. How does it hold up?”

“It doesn’t.” And in a rare fit of daring, Tally reach out to press Sarah’s head back down.

She gasped loudly, breath sucking into her lungs. Everything was always ruined.

“Tally?”

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”

Arms snaked across her body, between sheet and bare skin. Lips dragged up her shoulder the back of her neck. Hot breath whisked against her skin. “Tally.”

“I — I can’t help you.”

“With the First song? You’re the only one who can help me, Tally.”

“Something is coming… with Raelle.”

Fingers pressed against her cheek, turning her face. In the darkness it was hard to see Sarah’s features. Her dark eyes disappearing in the night. There was a moment in which she was surprised Sarah was there at all; as if the night had been a dream. And then her shallow breaths caught up to her and she gasped again.

Sarah’s thumb stroked her cheeks. “What did you See?”

The vision had been enmeshed in a dream. It was hard to parse details. “A Witchbomb. The end of the world.”

She ran her hands through her hair, getting caught in tangles. Sarah took her hand and squeezed it in her own, kissing her knuckles.

Tally was frantic in Sarah’s calm. “I need to stop it.”

“We shall.” Sarah said, her voice a mix of what Tally had come to know. Alder now softened by being in bed. “I came for you for more than one reason, Tally Craven.”

“Oh.” Her heart dropped even lower in her chest. Her fear of what was to come mixing with what now seemed trivial. But it didn’t stop an emptiness from beginning to grow between her ribs and her heart.

“Neither more important than the other.”

Tally scoffed, for some reason becoming aware that she wore nothing. She could make out the hint of Sarah’s smile in the dark. What hurt the most was the it wasn’t hiding anything. They both knew that statement to be false, but the sentiment was understood.

“This really was real then.”

“You are the beginning and you are my end.”

The shift wasn’t lost on Tally. There was something of a sadness in the words, different from the night before. Tally wondered how much she could actually See, and what Sarah Alder already knew.

[battlecouplesoulmates]

A tribute video to some of my favourite female characters. Here's a list of everyone included:

1) Kara Danvers & Cat Grant – Supergirl 2) Clarke Griffin & Lexa Woods – The 100 3) Gabrielle & Xena – Xena Warrior Princess 4) Buffy Summers & Dawn Summers – Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5) Dina & Ellie Williams – The Last of Us 6) Sara Lance (& Ava Sharpe & Zari Tarazi) – Legends of Tomorrow 7) Wednesday Addams & Enid Sinclair – Wednesday 8) Amy Pond – Doctor Who 9) Ryan Wilder (& Mary Hamilton) – Batwoman 10) Regina Mills (& Snow White) – Once Upon a Time 11) Dinah Lance – Birds of Prey 12) Emma Swan (&Regina Mills) – Once Upon a Time 13) Chloe Fraser & Nadine Ross – Uncharted the Lost Legacy 14) Octavia Blake – The 100 15) Sarah Alder (& Tally Craven) – Motherland Fort Salem 16) Root & Shaw – Person of Interest 17) Alice (& Claire Redfield) – Resident Evil 18) Poison Ivy (& Harley Quinn) – Harley Quinn 19) Harley Quinn – Birds of Prey 20) Jack & Miranda Lawson – Mass Effect 21) Ava Sharpe – Legends of Tomorrow 22) Natasha Romanov & Yelena Belova – Black Widow 23) Karolina Dean (& Nico Minoru) – Runaways 24) Hilda, Sabrina & Zelda – The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 25) Clara Oswald – Doctor Who 26) Ashildr/Me – Doctor Who 27) Eve – Xena Warrior Princess 28) Anne Wheeler – The Greatest Showman 29) Korra & Asami – Legend of Korra 30) Rose Noble & Donna Noble – Doctor Who 31) Rose Tyler – Doctor Who 32) Imogen Temult & Laudna – Critical Role 33) Melinda May – Agents of Shield 34) Aneela Kin Rit – Killjoys 35) Lena Luthor – Supergirl 36) Liara T'Soni – Mass Effect 37) Michonne Grimes – Walking Dead the Tell Tale Series 38) Clementine (& Violet) - Walking Dead the Tell Tale Series 39) Yasmin Khan & 13th Doctor – Doctor Who 40) Aria T'Loak – Mass Effect 41) Commander Shepard – Mass Effect 42) Monica Rambeau – Wandavision 43) Yang Xiao Long – RWBY 44) Daisy Johnson – Agents of Shield 45) Waverly Earp – Wynonna Earp 46) Dutch – Killjoys 47) River Song – Doctor Who 48) Aloy – Horizon Forbidden West 49) Naoe - Assassin's Creed Shadows 50) Wynonna Earp – Wynonna Earp 51) Martha Jones – Doctor Who 52) Wanda Maximoff – Wandavision 53) Hope Mikaelson – Legacies 54) Willow Rosenberg – Buffy the Vampire Slayer 55) Faith Lehane (& Buffy Summers) – Buffy the Vampire Slayer 56) Regina George – Mean Girls 2024 57) Grace (& Freddie) – Stray Gods 58) Alex Danvers – Supergirl 59) Neytiri – Avatar the Way of Water 60) Ruby Sunday – Doctor Who 61) Elodie – Damsel 62) Moana – Moana 2 63) Isabela – Encanto 64) Mirabel – Encanto 65) Keelin (& Freya) – The Originals 66) Luisa – Encanto 67) Ruby – RWBY 68) Weiss – RWBY 69) Blake – RWBY 70) Isabela – Dragon Age 2 71) Azula – Avatar the Last Air Bender 72) Raya – Raya and the Last Dragon 73) Mulan – Mulan 74) Raffi (& Seven) – Star Trek Picard 75) Delle Seyah Kendry – Killjoys 76) Callisto – Xena 77) Namaari (& Raya) – Raya and the Last Dragon 78) Bill Potts – Doctor Who 79) Iris West-Allen – The Flash 80) Michael Burnham & Emperor Georgio – Star Trek Discovery

Anyone who can't see it on youtube can watch it here

[shinyasahalo]

Top 60 AO3 TV/Streaming Service Fem Ships (Sept. 11, 2024)

(F/F) Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor (Supergirl) 21,811 fics

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[tipsythrifters]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: (Varley) Alder High-Rise Short 5.5" in Black.

[lunastationquarterly]

You come to Luna Station Quarterly for good stories. We are grateful for that, and for you. Yes, you. Who can follow along when things get timey-wimey, who do not flinch when grief needs its space, who embrace magick and wonder and transmutation and alternate realities with aplomb, who still believe in monsters and witches and aliens and dinosaurs, and who most of all are not afraid at this late hour to read about love in all of its permutations. You are who we do this for, year in and year out, season after season. Welcome to The Station. May you leave, if you must, larger than you came in. This issue features:

"37 Seconds to Say Goodbye" by R. J. Howell

"Cry to the Moon" by Keira Perkins

"Monstrous Attractions" by Cindy Phan

"Resurrecting Tessa" by Nicole Walsh

"To the Moon and Back" by Emmie Christie

"Brave Stupid Creatures" by Mac Bowers

"Victory and Vanilla" by Hesper Leveret

"Be Not Afraid of the Angel beneath the Stairs" by Sara Playfair

"Secrets Locked in Metal Scrap" by Marie Croke

"Sue Dhingra's Cat" by Shikhandin

"Grown From an Alder Wolf’s Skull" by Anna Madden

"Date Night" by Alex T. Singer

"Close Encounters" by Emi Macuaga

"Everything is Idaho" by Eliza Sullivan

"The Cierin-Croin" by Wendy Nikel

"Thistle and Spice" by Dorianne Emmerton

"Homoncula" by Neva Bryan

Thank you for your support and please spread the word about the new issue!

[once-upon-a-womens-soccer]

Dark hair and strong jaw is all it takes to take out most lesbians

[fortsalemdaily]

1x03 // 1x10

[allgusgurls]

SEASON FINALE REACTION to Motherland Fort Salem!!!

[smallfrost]

do you think there is duality within the characters themselves?

Oh my goddess, yes!!! And I’ll just say that others have done a wonderful job of pointing them out already so I will link to their original posts:

Raelle as Lesbian Jesus (jokes aside) is a perfect example of self contained duality. She is both civilian and a witch. 

But she also has duality from her persisting death wish coupled with her being a fixer/giver of life.

TCM part 1 and part 2 together show that while Raelle’s element is water, she has fire within her. And Scylla too - the embodiment of fire has water tendencies as well.

And countering Raelle... while Scylla embodies death as a Necro, she is fighting for freedom and life (by being a dodger and part of the Spree)

Anacostia is torn between what she believes in the military and the paths she could have easily gone down...

I’d say Abigail is a High Atlantic but is more than her name. While she represents everything about modern high witch society, she is a unique individual who stands on her own. 

Tally appears innocent but it actually doesn’t represent her personality at all (you have no idea who I am, do you). And she represents freedom of choice (chose to conscript) but ultimately became the most enslaved by becoming a biddy.

And of course there is Alder... the ultimate beacon of freedom who in reality is stuck in her own limbo of being enslaved by the system she created. 

So yeah... there are so many examples of internalized duality within the characters themselves in addition to between characters. These are just a few... I’m sure there are other examples as well. 

[milfshakess]

General Sara Alder in 1x02, My Witches

[crazyintheeast]

Reason number 478 to watch Motherland Fort Salem. General Sara Alder looks like a Milf version of Lena Luthor

[angieschiffahoi]

listen, if next episode scylla doesn’t act like the little shit she is with alder what even is the point of having them torture her 

[thundergrace]

Anyway, Alder made Anacostia cry, so, at the very least, she must pay for that.

[o-flairegan]

Work in Progress picture of my General Alder chalk art piece. I still have quite a few more hours left on this 2ftx 3ft piece. Hope you like it so far.

[magicalstripedhorse]

My lovely friend (ahem future wife) and I had another go at a collab and folks... I will never not be blown away by her skill ❤️

We decided to try characters we haven't drawn yet, so we present you with the incredible duo of Lyne Renee and Demetria McKinney as General Alder and Anacostia Quartermaine

Please do yourselves a favor and follow her on IG at @_iamcornish_, she's really phenomenal!

[minighostpan]

UPDATE: 

This was made before last night’s episode s1e9

So yes i get the point that Alder is not at all lawful after what she did to the president.

REMINDER: It’s all just for fun. You can all make your own with what you think is a better alignment. Cheers.

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Alright alright alright! Gather up, the long awaited Motherland Fort Salem Alignment Chart is here!

Thank you @useless-les-bien for sourcing the images for me! I am useless at that it seems.  Thank you to @bowerbirdboy for your input and the rest of the peeps at MFS Research Institute for the discussion on where best to put everyone.

The balloon still cracks me up every time.