Ragestorm AU - Kara comes back from the Phantom Zone with a new set of powers and a whole lot of unresolved issues.
She dropped to her knees and braced one hand on Alex’s shoulder, reaching for Kara with the other. The moment their fingers touched, Kara’s world fell back into place. It felt right and natural and true and real and oh God, she’s home.
“How… how long?” Kara had asked. Lena finally took the initiative, running velvet pads over Kara’s dry, cracked skin, her voice low and strained with barely held back emotion.
“Three months.”
why isn’t anyone allowed to be wrong anymore? it’s okay to be wrong. being wrong, and realizing you were wrong, is how you learn and grow.
HORIZON ZERO DAWN (2017) dev. Guerilla Games
one day I woke up and realised all the waiting and yearning was actually me living my life and it’s happening right now and it’s still good even if it’s not perfect and there is no moment when all your dreams get fulfilled and everything makes sense. like… this is it. this is life. you’ll waste away your youth waiting for some imagined future if you don’t love life for what it is now and make the most of it
shoutouts to those of us in our thirties on this hellsite, eating cold leftovers out of a tupperware with our right hands and scrolling thru some absolute filth on ao3 with our left. we contain multitudes.
Obsessed with the concept of a character who has never been treated kindly or gently in their life (or in a very long time) and suddenly being treated gently and with care and being stunned and then overwhelmed by it.