#but she is also a fool

[vox-ex]

just this once

Supercorptober Day 18 “secret”

thanks to kmsdraws for the prompts

Kara keeps a different kind of secret from Lena

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Kara stares out of the window of the Medbay, her eyes following Lena as she paces back and forth. She has a phone pressed to her ear, her hand gesturing around the empty space as she talks. She looks a little tired, a little worried. Kara feels at least a little guilty for the second.

"Ow!"

Alex steps in front of her suddenly, breaking her view of her wife. She looks both annoyed and concerned — more annoyed than concerned, if Kara's being honest.

"Oh, stop it. One that didn't hurt; your powers came back almost as soon as we got you under the sunlamps. And two, you deserved it."

Alex sighs and takes a deep breath, adjusting the sensors on Kara's chest as she takes one more reading.

Kara rubs her shoulder, glaring at Alex as she stares up at the monitors.

She can feel the places where the blood still sticks to her skin and in her hair. She needs a shower or, at the very least, a change of clothes, but Alex won't let her leave just yet despite the fact she is obviously healthy enough to be smacked on the arm.

"You should also be glad I'm the only one who seemed to notice the little stunt you pulled out there."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Alex scoffs, "You don't know what I'm talking about?"

She knew exactly what her sister was talking about.

"Stepping in front of Lena like that so you could take a full blast of Kryptonite square to the chest?"

And yeah, that sounded about right.

"You're lucky she didn't see you because she was too busy casting a spell that was going to save all of our asses."

Kara crosses her arms and sticks out her chest a little, causing some of the monitors to beep angrily.

"I was protecting her."

Alex unfolds Kara's arms and starts removing the offending wires.

"She had a protection shield up."

"It could have failed," Kara tries in her defense.

But Alex just raises her eyebrow, "Has it ever?"

"Well, no, but —"

"But what?"

Kara looks down, biting her lip.

"Nothing."

Alex steps closer, poking her right in the middle of the forehead.

"No, no, not nothing. Crinkle!"

Kara tries to duck away.

"Hey, ow!"

"Oh, stop with the ow," Alex crosses her arms, "tell me what's got you leaping in front of speeding bullets for no good reason."

Kara shifts in her place on the exam table. "It was an energy blast, not a speeding bullet." She looks up at her sister, "and I had a good reason," then up at Lena, still pacing in the hallway," like the best reason."

And before she realizes it, her thoughts are drifting past the walls around her and back to two nights ago in their apartment.

They had been lying together on the couch, Kara pressed against Lena's side, her head resting on her shoulder. Lena was reading a book while Kara tuned in and out of an old black-and-white movie playing in the background. It was one of those they had watched a million times, but neither could remember what it was called.

Kara's eyes had just started drooping shut when an odd sound got caught in her ear. She paused the movie and sat up a little.

"What?" Lena asked, looking up from her book.

"Nothing, sorry." I think I'm just tired.

"Do you want to move to the bed?"

"No, no, I'm good here."

Kara settled down again, tucking herself back into Lena's side.

But she couldn't get comfortable. And the more she tried to ignore the noise, the more it seemed to grow until it was all she could focus on. It was a steady sound, almost like a heartbeat, but not quite. It was too fast, too faint.

She sat up again, this time more slowly so as not to alarm Lena again.

Kara put her hand on Lena's stomach, feeling for the source of the noise, but there was nothing there.

"I ate enough dinner, I promise," Lena says with a chuckle, patting Kara's hand and giving it a gentle squeeze.

"No, sorry, it's not that."

Kara slides down a little more this time, her head resting just below Lena's breasts.

And there it was.

A heartbeat.

The faintest of heartbeats, but a heartbeat nonetheless.

Kara felt the gentle tug of Lena's fingers carding through her hair.

"Are you sure you're okay?" She asks after a moment, her voice barely above a whisper.

"Yeah," Kara replies just as quietly, her eyes welling up with tears as the reality of what she hears sinks in.

And she almost tells Lena right then — almost lifts her up from the couch and swings her around, and kisses every inch of her.

But there's a fear somewhere buried under all that joy that she could be wrong.

And if she's not, it's a moment she wants to be Lena's, for her to be the one who gets to shout it at the world first.

So instead, she just holds her a little a tighter, kisses her a little deeper, and asks forgiveness for the secret she will keep from her just a little longer.

Kara's thoughts snap back to the present and the medbay door swinging open so hard it hits the wall.

And all of a sudden, the sound that had been in her head became a steady rhythm that seemed to fill the whole room.

"Lena?"

Kara's heart raced right alongside it.

"What is it? What's wrong?"

But Lena just shakes her head and reaches for her, cupping her face in her hands.

"I-I'm fine, I wasn't fine, I-was, I wasn't feeling well yesterday —"

And then she starts pacing again, but the room isn't as big as the hallway, so really she just turns around and then turns around again, her hands running through her hair — phone still held in one of them.

Finally, she stops. Looks at Kara. Her blue-green eyes wider than they were a second ago, darker, but still impossibly beautiful.

"That was the doctor," she shrugs her shoulders, like it explained everything.

"I—I'm pregnant."

And maybe it did.

The words hung in the air for only a second before Kara had her in her arms, the two of them laughing and crying and everything in between as they clung to each other.

"I love you so much," Kara whispers into her hair, tears streaming down her face as she presses kisses to Lena's temple, her cheek, her jawline.

"I love you," Lena let fall back in between the breaths she was trying to find room for, her voice shaking slightly.

Gently Kara puts her back down on her feet but doesn't let go of her.

"Wait," Lena says suddenly.

"What? "Are you sure you're okay?" Kara asks, hands already starting to move across every inch of her.

But Lena just swats them away and then hits her on the shoulder.

"Ow."

Kara pulls her hands away, startled, and takes a step back. But Lena keeps her close, palm resting against the center of her chest, moving with her.  

"You knew. The other night on the couch. You could hear them."

And Kara can only nod.

Lena hits her again.

And Kara leans her shoulder back to absorb the impact.  

"Seriously, what's with all the hitting."

"That's why you stepped in front of me?"

Kara looks at her sister, who just has a knowing smirk on her face."

"Wha — how did you even find out about that?"

But Lena's face is soft, and her voice gentle.

"Darling..."

But Kara is already shaking her head before Lena has even finished speaking.

"I know, I know we agreed nothing would change just because you're my wife and that I can't just turn into some foolish idiot every time I think you might be in danger, but I-you'll have to forgive me just this once."

Lena steps back into her arms, and pushes the hair from her face, ignoring the dirt and blood that had dried onto her skin as she presses a quick kiss to her cheek.

"Just this once."

Kara nods, hands sliding from her hips up to the small of her back, bending down onto one knee so she can place a kiss on her stomach.

"Don't worry, little one, I'll always protect you and your mom."

#supergirl #supercorp #supercorptober #supercorptober2022 #this is a hc I have always liked #so it was fun getting to write a version of it #protective kara danvers is the best kara danvers #but she is also a fool #a fool who loves her wife #Alex has seen enough

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike vs Vanny on ordering pizzaplex food

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #mike schmidt #fnaf vanny #fnaf vanessa #fnaf #security breach #fnaf movie #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #Mike and Vanny definitely have different approaches to the wrong order #now that Mike knows Vanny’s secret he has to help her hold back her rage #Nessa here is already intense as is without being evil mode #least she has Mike to cool her down #she’s never gonna stab him so it’s actually fool proof #though Glitchtrap is not happy BAHA #DUDE by this point despise this sleepy guy #ALSO staff bots mentioned!! let’s get a hand for the pizzaplex staff bots 🩵🩵

[lesbicastagna]

went down a rabbit hole of this subject.

Filippo Lippi, painter and carmelitan friar, and Lucrezia Buti, a nun, meet and fall in love while she poses as model for an altarpiece. Classic.

#dont be fooled by the canon of dynamic that seemed to get more artists going. she was absolutely into it #they eventually eloped together and gained the blessing of cosimo de medici to abandon their vows. they even had kids #also the painting thats in the first 2 is a famous of his but i cant find that its actually supposed to be lucrezia #the altar piece was another one. but he did draw her in other things after too. one time as salomè too #<- so jealous its unreal #art #oh but also dont be fooled by these paintings romantic approach he was not this handsome and also she was 20 and he was way older

[comradekatara]

ty lee is by far the most underrated atla character imo. as far as minor principal players, it’s easy to disregard her as the least fleshed out fire nation kid, the most underdeveloped. her role as a foil to any of the main characters is vague, and many people just assume she’s there to bring some sort of levity and humor to azula’s plotline. she’s dismissed as the pretty ditzy girl, or even (shudders) “the bimbo.” but when you actually make the effort to consider what we do see of her, to extrapolate from her few yet crucial scenes anything regarding her underlying motivations, you quickly realize that one of the most layered, multifaceted, compelling, intriguing, ambiguous, and perhaps even straight up insane characters in the entire show has been hiding in plain sight all along. and also that that’s the entire point.

#SHE DIDNT JUST FOOL AZULA (& al) SHE ALSO FOOLED US! THE AUDIENCE!!! #or well. most of you. not me tho im different #ty lee #I love you commentary on femininity and power dynamics girl #it feels like only mailee and tyzula shippers actually give a shit abt her #(tysuki shippers too i guess) #but even individually she is just. SO fascinating!!!! #masks & performance & acrobatics & taking you down from the inside!!!!! #I need to write an actual longass character analysis of her someday #I know I already kind of did but it was pretty shallow iirc #I think I can go deeper.

[aq2003]

like the important thing you must keep in mind about ten when you see him do literally anything is that he's soooooooooo so so so bad at actually isolating himself from other people. so TERMINALLY bad at it. he thinks to himself "i don't need human connection because everything i do causes pain and destruction to those around me :(" but then he experiences a crumb of human connection and his heart starts to spill out of his chest

#tenth doctor #dr who #doctor who #yeah i say heart singular cuz he said 'i suppose they break my heart' in the next doctor and i have perma brain damage over it #btw. this is why him and martha in the first half of series 3 are Like That. he trusts her deeply but he also doesn't want to form #another deep emotional connection bc look what happened with rose! right! i think partially the reason why he #has his moments of opening up about his past is because he thinks 'well she isn't going to see me again after this' #'i might as well tell her if she asks. it may even scare her off'. this is INSANE. he is INSANE. and he is so fucking STUPID #fool! you are developing a connection with someone!!!!!!! not pushing them away!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #look at what you are doing to martha's self esteem bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #10 era

[saionjeans]

i love how during nanami’s drive she’s like “touga you gotta listen to me this guy is fucked up i just saw him performing some of the most horrifically unspeakable acts of violence” and akio is like [chuckling smugly] “hmmm….. what you saw….. yes, of course, a child’s mind is clouded by their limited perception….. and yet…. what you think you saw is merely an illusion…… due to solipsism.” and nanami doesn’t even pause to consider it, immediately she’s just like “what the fuck is this evil freak talking about.”

#u #nanami #akio #touga #he can’t trip her up with his fancy words she knows what she saw!!!! #that scene makes my gut churn so bad #like even worse than all the other car scenes #bc nanami is ACTIVELY trying to escape #and they KNOW it and they’re lording it over her???? #the fact that they have all the power to control where she goes and how she lives her life #and when she rejects touga with everything she has #he still lets akio. um. ‘show her the end of the world.’ #touga redemption arc but every time he remembers that evening he cringes so forcefully that he literally dies and now he’s dead because he #took too much psychic damage remembering his own actions. #like he’s also just really embarrassing himself here #trying to act like he’s in on some cosmic joke that nanami doesn’t have access to #NO!!!!!! YOU LOOK LIKE A FOOL AND YOU ASSAULTED YOUR BABY SISTER. DIE. #anyway. i love you nanami i love you nanami i love you nanami i love you nanami

[kastillia]

Truth is only an illusion.

#mizuki date #mizuki okiura #ai the somnium files #ai nirvana initiative #aistf #i didn't get a chance to mention it here but i bought nirvana initiative as a christmas gift to myself and played it earlier this year #honestly nothing will beat the mizuki route from the first game for me but i had fun #also knew i was in for a ride right off the bat bc uchikoshi pulled out that fourth wall break immediately #i wanted to draw her for the m prompt but i couldn't get it right #but now here she is :) matching her- #...i want so badly to say big brother but date is technically her adoptive father #which on one hand is very funny #but on the other hand very weird #uchikoshi posted a very cryptic message the other day but it was also on april fools so idk what to think smh this man is killing me #my art

[catlover4536]

Coming here to say masc presenting Julie is one of my favorite Julie ideas out there and that, of course, I needed to make a femme presenting Frank to compliment @cyanwyrmy and their wonderful Julie!

#welcome home #frank frankly #julie joyful #not a genderbend #fanarts! for u! #I'll admit...I've had this lineart for a long time #I wanted to color them too...but I botched the job! #also my LINES...the colors...they eat them #which I'm still sad about...this has to be one of my favorite line arts ever #maybe one day I'll try coloring them again...on digital #for now tho #making this to tell you masc presenting julie has lived rent free in my head since they were presented #and I would be a fool for not helping to include their partner in crime! #i love these two besties so much #sooo tempted to just post julie tho...I swear she is one of my best line arts out there #my art #masc presenting julie I adore #genderfluid julie joyful #repeat: not a genderbent for either

[dreamsy990]

some of the less nice thoughts about being aroace

extras below the cut

sketch

closeups on my favorite panels

bonus: adios

#doodles #kingdom hearts #roxas #axel #olette #aromantic #asexual #aroace #do i tag pence. hes in the background of one panel #ehhhh sorry pence no tag for you #also not tagging soriku and namixi #i mean by the logic of 'theyre in one panel so i wont tag them' i also shouldnt tag axel but. he has dialogue so #anyways i have a very irrational love of olette whenever i need a random side character in a kh comic? olette #i think she uses webmd. anyways im done talking about olette #so let me clarify about this comic #im aroace. this is all just things ive thought before #im not saying in any way these thoughts are real. theyre just thoughts #thats why it ends with 'but there isnt. its just me.' there IS nothing wrong with being aroace. even if it feels like it sometimes #im not trying to send a message im just trying to express a feeling ive had for a while #anyways. the aroace community is super positive and i like that. but not everything i feel about it is that positive #sometimes it feels like im missing something yknow #this comic seems like its about roxas. but its about me. congrats youve been fooled #drafted something similar to this for aro week but didnt finish it in time so this is spiritually part of asaw 2024 #btw sorry im not posting as many drawings lately #schools kinda stressful im pretty tired and busy most the time #i am throwing this drawing to you like a slab of meat to a pack of hungry dogs. take this meager ration in these trying times #alright i think thats it bye now

[wifegideonnav]

reason 1927363 that i love the locked tomb characters is because none of them are fucking cool. yes they all have their moments. but all of them are deeply incurably cringe at their core. representation matters yknow? finally someone brave enough to say that lame girls can be protagonists too

#camilla hect is obviously the closest anyone in these books gets to cool #but don’t be fooled!!! she’s a weirdo and a nerd and a librarian and she’s way too busy being obsessed with her boy best friend #to reach any kind of actual coolness #op #surprise I’m making a post lol #I’d say something like ‘sorry guys I’ll try to be more active in the future!!1’ but que será será im not actually in control of when or how #much I post #it just happens when it happens #also this isn’t even a new post everyone’s made this post I’m just feeling this rn

[kuijoon]

haha wow art that totally didn’t take 6 hours hahahaha

#was so close to giving up #sampo koski #sparkle hsr #hanabi hsr #hsr #masked fools #giovanni hsr #anyways gonna ramble about what I was thinking #this is supposed to be the tavern and they have screens where they broadcast others performances (Sampo’s monologue made it seem like #the person behind the screen saw his performance #also he doesn’t have his mask (entry ticket to the tavern) so he isn’t physically present #but rather showing the events of Belobog #sparkle is in the front because she seems to like being the focus #(for example the bp where she wants the audience to keep their eyes on her while sampo wants the audience to be part of the show) #Giovanni is just there because I like him #I would’ve drawn zhongshan too but I didn’t know where to place her sorry #my art

[puppyeared]

renaissance dogys

characters belong to @canisalbus

#i love i loveeee ludovica sm shes so cute. ive only known her for 5 min but i fell in love with her design and i love her friendship #with vasco ^_^ i think them having each other makes hiding their sexualities a little less lonely so thats sweet #ik in modern au shes considered an old friend of vascos but i originally assumed she and vasco fake dated in college or smth #to get their parents off their backs until they came out properly and continued to stay in touch as friends after LMAO #im not very familiar with period fashion so i had to look at renaissance costumes as reference. but i have to admit i love the #high waistlines used in some of their dresses.. i have a minidress with a similar high waistline pressed against the chest and sleeves #also if u squint machete is holding a little paper bag in the 2nd photo which is supposed to be his lunch courtesy of vasco <3 #idk what ludovica would wear in modern au but i thought poet shirts might suit her because theyre like somewhere evenly between #masc and femme. to me anyway.. based on observation lesbians seem to love poet shirts and i think she looks good in one #these are all shitposts.. ill draw serious art of them one of these days i promise #i listened to fools rush in and it reminds me of them.. especially when it goes 'though i see the danger there / if theres a chance #for me then i dont care' like its so poignant and bittersweet.. a little indulgent when u think of those small moments they have togethr #save me gay catholic furries... gay catholic furries... gay catholic furries save me #my art #myart #doodles #fanart #others ocs #canisalbus #fur #furry art #machete #vasco #vaschete #ludovica #sfw fur #furry

[chiquilines]

Its been ages,,, i missed them

#man ive been playing supermassive black hole on LOOP #for essentially the entire drawing #ITS SO THEM #IM INSANE ABOUT THIS I GOTTA TELL SOMEONE #LIKE #YOURE THE QUEEN OF THE SUPERFICIAL/HOW LONG BEFORE YOU TELL THE TRUTH #AND TOGAS LITERALLY A SHAPESHIFTER??? #and dont get me started #baby im a fool for no one/but ooh baby im a fool for you #cause ochako got over deku she worked so hard not to be a fool #and bam enter toga stage left with her gorgeous smile and bloody knife #GET FOOL'D OCHAKO #im being insane #ive been staring at this for days theres something not right about it but i cant put my finger on it #but i havent posted in ages so here #a gift anyways #also kids dont take IB itll eat you alive🫵 #toga himiko #ochako uraraka #togachako #toga x uraraka #mha #bnha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #wlw #chiquilines draws

[samanthamulder]

THE X-FILES (1993-2018)

SEASON FOUR — The truth will save you, Scully. I think it'll save both of us.

#txf #tv #txf4 #the x files #txfedit #tvedit #scifiedit #horroredit #.gif #thexfilesnet #*txfrewatch #this season did NOT have to go this hard... #most insane moment to me is in elegy after mulder asks her 'why can't you trust me?' when scully sits in her car and cries #and as a parallel mulder crying at home (bottom left gif) after scully tells him 'it's easier to believe the lies isn't it?' and #that she was made ill just as a means to make him believe. to fool him #INSANE SEASON for insane people #& what I already said the other day: it's also the season where they're both just stupidly attractive. :') #it's also the best acted I think (for both of them. and not just thanks to better writing) #...I still prefer s3 tho :') because I love the silly episodes too much and this season just doesn't have those (except small potatoes) #also...I watched this so quickly omg...💀 like I started on saturday I think? um... :'') #but I have to take a break now anyway. because of the horrors (adulting) so it's nice that I got this far at least!

[the-most-pathetic-edge-marquis]

the thing is. once bella goes to volterra it’s over. she will always become a vampire. she doesn’t have a choice--she has a choice about how, maybe, and when, but only within bounds, (and only if she’s willing to give up a normal life and go on the run anyways), and her story will always end the same way. of course she’s going to pick edward, she might as well have an illusion that she’s doing it out of love!!!

twilight is a horror story

#i am a fool and a buffoon who tried to write a 'bella runs away at the wedding' fic #and i have been slamming my head against the impenetrable wall that is the volturi deal for months #so i'm thinking a lot abt this #hmm. #also it doesn't fucking help that edward keeps trying to convince her she DOES have a choice #like. eclipse is (allegedly. loosely. in a very poorly executed way.) abt bella making the choice #& dealing with its consequences #but she doesn't have a choice!!!!!!! #she can't live a human life!!!!!!!!!!!!! #that's how new moon ends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #and everyone in eclipse just ignores that?!

[weaponizedmoth]

"Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a vampire in love with a human. Better integration than I could possibly have dreamed."

(just some Sundown The Vampire in Retreat fanart. More details and B&W vers. under the cut, etc).

:)

#I thought this movie was really cute and charming in a lot of ways #also I love Bruce Campbell's look in this one so much I had to draw him #I wanted to make him really warm to contrast her vampiric appearance which is more or less what they do in the movie #although he's pretty gray #I also like the costume designer's attention to detail like everyone is dressed more or less like they would be at the time they died #and a vampire western is just one of those ideas you pull from a hat that sound insane and are #but anyway charming film! I watched it twice this year! Then what! It's full on youtube so it's easier #I feel like she looked more like the actress in the sketch ALSO her actress played Muffy in April Fools Day????! #I fucking love that movie so much and Muffy is my girl she's like such an insane genius I love her to death #that movie is like a very long Are You Afraid of the Dark episode and this movie is a fairy tale with vampires. Iconic choices honestly #sundown the vampire in retreat #bruce campbell #I usually don't tag actors or actresses but I deserve this one #fanart #artists on tumblr #art #digital art #illustration #my art #digital drawing #robert and sandy