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lena just gets on with her life every episode even tho shes been manipulated into horrible situations by her abusive mother and almost murdered by her brother several times WHILST getting blamed for everything they do NOT TO MENTION been thrown off a fucking balcony and been absolutely sure that she would die in the fall yet she ISNT EVEN FAZED by it is honestly?? unrealistic

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How well do you see color?

I’m cry I scored 60, I feel blind

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swanqueen kisses 💖

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This is now the third year in a row that I’m thirsting for Kara to give Lena a huge soft scarf. Based on that Elizabeth Olsen video

I wanted to finish this in like..november. At least I got it done before the year ends lkjlsfd

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Redbubble

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and i hate the moment, the almost moment that started it all.

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wicked thing, carved into my heart

“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you, Rio,” Agatha spits out sinisterly, and roughly presses a smiling Rio harder against the ground. “Mmm, but I thought you liked when I bite.” Rio half-laughs, half-moans, sensually biting her lip. The hand wrapped around her neck is persistent. She strokes Agatha’s wrist with her thumb, a gesture of affection contrasting with the overt dominance of the scene. “Incorrigible.” Agatha’s voice is vehement, almost a snarl in its intensity. She's looking down on Rio, flicking hair out of her eyes. “You’re enjoying this.” “Is that so terribly wrong of me?” Through hooded eyes, Rio’s smile doesn’t waver. “Maybe you shouldn’t look so delicious covered in blood, then.” - alternatively, rio always wants more & if she gets hurt in her wanting—that's on her. agatha is a tangled mess of feelings & a habitual runner.

the friends (exes) with benefits agathario fic

read here on ao3, ch1

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after work

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Interlude

A little something of what might've happened between Agatha's death and her reappearance as a ghost at Teen's. https://archiveofourown.org/works/60499198

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male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

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agatha asserting rio doesn't have a scar and it's not even said in some bitter denial, it's not about refusing to see rio's pain. it's just this statement of a fact. death bears no battle scars. death does not carry the marks of almost, of could have, because those scars are for those left alive. death does not carry the marks of what she has taken, because those scars are for the ones left to mourn. so what kind of scar can death have?

and rio says you are my scar. a living, breathing thing. unhealed, bright red and angry. not my grief, not my pain, not my sorrow, you. because through you i saw what death means. this is the scar that death can have. a reckoning with herself.

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Can we take a moment away from Agatha's all encompassing grief for her son and acknowledge Rio's grief as well? Because she's Nicky's mother too.

She is Death, her son was never going to live, and unlike Agatha, Rio had nothing to rage against.

She's the cycle of life and the inevitable end but does being the personification of that really change anything about the fact that she had to take the soul of her own son?

She gave Agatha the one gift that was in her power to grant - even though it was against her own nature and against the natural order of things - she gave her love time.

And Agatha had six years with Nicky.

Rio didn't.

She might have been able to watch him through every dying flower he plucked from its stem and she might have caught a few moments when Nicky was at his closest to her - likely whenever it had been a while since Agatha had killed the latest batch of witches and used their life force to extend Nicky's life for a little longer - when he slept and the delirium of someone terminally ill granted her access.

But those would have been stolen glimpses. Brief, and precious, and painful.

And Agatha could hate Death. Could take all that grief and turn it into anger. She could hide her pain behind that fury. There's a sort of relief to that.

What did Rio have?

Love so strong she broke the natural order that governs her? A son she could only love from a distance as he grew... but couldn't grow up? Eternal hatred of the one person in eons she had ever fallen in love with?

And maybe Rio can visit Nicky in whatever corner of eternity she had helped him cross over to - I hope she can, it would be far too cruel otherwise - but does that really erase the tragedy here?

And on top of that pain there's also the fact that Agatha has avoided Rio for centuries and ultimately asks Rio to promise her that she would never ever have to see Rio's face again.

Death can be cruel. But I think sometimes mortals win that particular game by a mile.

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three of swords (heartbreak, sorrow, grief)

plus the lines because i still prefer the clean look of it

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after finding out that billy's "is this how nicky died?" lines were added in post, and that the actors filmed it as though it was a decision agatha reached without any prompting... i thought we deserved a version with that audio edited out

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“You don't have a heart." 

“Yes, I do. It's black. And it beats for you."

And now Rio's heart doesn't beat anymore 💔

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monopoly on the road

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The Seer’s Timeline

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I CAN DO THAT?!

Set somewhere in S6, wherein Kara and Lena are still in a rocky place but there is tension. 👀👀👀 (I mean there has always been some, since season 2 but you know what I mean 👀👀👀 and to answer Kara’s question, since season 2, Supergirl! Lol kidding)