Last Farscapes

I've been meaning to write another Farscape post, and now I have a chance! We will see how much I've forgotten in the last few days.

( Through s4 and Peacekeeper Wars. )

And that is ALL THE FARSCAPES! Worth the price of admission, my friends.

I expect I shall poke a bit around the fandom tomorrow, but if you've got recs for fic or vids or meta or whatever, I would love them! And I didn't come out of the Farscape experience shipping anyone very hard, so whatever's good is gold.

On Supergirl

I was talking with... poisonivory? greenygal? a while ago on the subject of (shock!) Supergirl, and we got to the part where I say I don't trust Mark Waid to write her because of the interview he gave once where he said he thought Supergirl's defining characteristic ought to be "sweet".

Because seriously, what is that. "Sweet" is not even a personality trait! It is a nonspecific catch-all from someone who doesn't know you very well, assuming you come off as a little bit shy or a little bit considerate or a little bit cute. No *wonder* Kara did nothing interesting when she headlined the threeboot Legion title. Dear Mark Waid, you do this professionally, you should know better.

So then I thought about what *I* would pick for Kara's defining characteristic. For context, I'm talking about the Supergirl baby!Karen built in her head out of Silver Age comics and has carried around with her since. There's recently been another wave of posts from fans who'd had trouble finding female heroes to connect to as kids. But I *did*, and I am glad for it.

 
( Top 5 Kara character traits! )

 

There are more things I could say about Kara, but if you keep those 5, chances are I'll believe you wherever you spin the character. (And anyway, 5's such a nice round number.)

Myself, I tend to write her as somewhat angry and entitled and still bleeding from everything she's lost, and I know there are Supergirl fans who would shun me for such blasphemy. I think there's a level of alienness that she'll never (want to) lose, no matter how long she spends on our planet, and that she'll always think of herself as Kryptonian *first*. Oh, and she has superpowers, of course, of course.
 

Meme!

Who wants a sentence of porn? Perhaps it is you? If so, leave me a pairing!

Usually here I'll handwave a disclaimer about likely fandoms, but perhaps we have only recently met on DW and you would be left guessing at what I'm into! Just in case, here's a handy list:

DCU, White Collar, Farscape, Good Omens, Nu!Doctor Who & spinoffs, nu!BSG, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Grey's Anatomy, Sandman, Star Trek: the new movie... or just about anything I've written before.