[3:47 PM] Aleph: but yes
[3:47 PM] Aleph: hilarious supergirl idea
[3:48 PM] Aleph: so basically, as far as I can tell timelinewise, Krypton went kablooie and Superman landed in REE 1980, Kara touched down around 2004 (age 13), Kara started working at CatCo some nine years later in 2013 (age 22) and the action starts in 2015 when she's 24.
[3:49 PM] Aleph: So
[3:49 PM] Aleph: what if we make two subtle changes
[3:50 PM] Aleph: the first is to have Kara not get trapped in the Phantom Zone, because I am all for Kara and Kal-El landing at the same time and feral 13-year old Kryptonian girl ON A MISSION with a baby to protect in a strange new world while still suffering from PTSD and with no legal identity etc etc etc.
[3:50 PM] Aleph: but that's been done
[3:50 PM] Aleph: so the second is perhaps the more interesting one
[3:51 PM] Aleph: because it's convenient that Kara wound up crashing now, in the Information Age, the Digital Age, the age where humans are starting to get some real technology on our side
[3:51 PM] Aleph: what if she'd landed earlier? Much earlier. What if you shift all the important events - the births of the relevant cast members, Krypton's destruction, Kara's landing - what if you shift them all back, say...
[3:51 PM] Aleph: ... about 200 years or so
[3:52 PM] Aleph: 1780
[3:52 PM] Aleph: the middle of the American War of Independence
[3:52 PM] Aleph: Stick a teenage Kryptonian with a baby to protect and the heart of a hero into the middle of that
[3:52 PM] Aleph: see what happens
[3:53 PM] Aleph: because that, I feel, has the potential to have very interesting effects on the course of history.
[3:53 PM] Aleph: ... also it allows for high society Cat Grant whose mother probably supports the British and who is hip-deep in the Revolution and, like
[3:54 PM] Aleph: this is a thing that I need to see
[3:54 PM] Aleph: immediately
[3:54 PM] Aleph: somebody write this at once
[3:54 PM] Aleph: if you make it a hamilton crossover I will not complain in the slightest
[3:54 PM] Joll-Lee O'Malley: u do it
[3:55 PM] Aleph: dude do you have any idea how much shit is on my to do list
[3:55 PM] Joll-Lee O'Malley: Definitely not and I apologize.(edited)
[3:55 PM] Aleph: i literally have ten multi-chapter plotbunnies from like
[3:55 PM] Aleph: ... nine different fandoms
[3:55 PM] Aleph: not including this one
[3:56 PM] Aleph: plus seven oneshots
[3:56 PM] Aleph: oh god atlas
[3:56 PM] Aleph: I still need to write atlas
[3:56 PM] Aleph: :heart:
[3:56 PM] Rook: who would Kara support?
[3:56 PM] Rook: or rather
[3:56 PM] Rook: what side
[3:57 PM] Rook: I know somewhere between Jack and Shit about Supergirl, having only watched bits and pieces, but I am a wonk about the American War of Independence
[3:59 PM] Rook: truth be told, it seems like it'd be more interesting if she and the other weirdos (that is the characters that are not from Earth? I believe) landed in 1880 if we're just zooming around by centuries(edited)
[4:00 PM] Thaumus: I haven'T watched the show, but is the show's krypton as much of a hierarchical society as it was in the comics?
[4:01 PM] Rook: frankly the 1880s just seems so much more interesting to me to juxtapose all this stuff against
[4:01 PM] Rook: supergirl is about, uh, what... Superman is A Thing right?
[4:01 PM] Rook: so, here's a thought
[4:01 PM] Rook: 1889
[4:01 PM] Rook: lex luthor is like
[4:01 PM] Rook: andrew carnegie
[4:01 PM] Rook: a steel and rail mogul experimenting in wicked black magics
[4:02 PM] Rook: Honestly that sounds fucking rad
[4:03 PM] Fernandel: I'd read that.
[4:03 PM] Fernandel: Like, in a fucking heartbeat.
[4:03 PM] Rook: like, you have Clark Kent, the Kansas homesteader
[4:03 PM] Rook: imagine
[4:03 PM] Rook: Little House on the Krypton
[4:03 PM] Fernandel: Juxtaposing supergirl trying to be
[4:03 PM] Fernandel: well
[4:03 PM] Fernandel: supergirl
[4:04 PM] Rook: womens' sufferage in 1880s america
[4:04 PM] Fernandel: While also having to deal with the misoginy of the time
[4:04 PM] Rook: suddenly
[4:04 PM] Rook: it's a lot easier when you can FLY AT THE SPEED OF SOUND AND PUNCH LIKE CHOO CHOO TRAIN
[4:04 PM] Rook: in some ways
[4:04 PM] Fernandel: And the suffragettes
[4:04 PM] Rook: yesssssss
[4:04 PM] Fernandel: Sounds awesome
[4:04 PM] Fernandel: CHOO CHOO
[4:04 PM] Fernandel: bitchslaps Pinkerton detective into wall
[4:05 PM] Rook: I like the idea of Lex Luthor being some kind of rail mogul a'la Andrew Carnegie
[4:05 PM] Fernandel: "Oh, I'm sorry. My delicate hand must have slipped."
[4:05 PM] Rook: although it's critical to note
[4:05 PM] Rook: carnegie became a rail mogul because of one simple reason
[4:05 PM] Rook: he started from the steel (I believe?)
[4:05 PM] Rook: lex luthor, BUSINESSMAN EXTRAORDINARE WITH HIS RAILROAD MONOPOLIES
[4:06 PM] Rook: CONTROLS THE EXPANSION WEST
[4:06 PM] Fernandel: SPEAKING OF RAIL MOGULS
[4:06 PM] Fernandel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8XbhbkwKdw
YouTube
No Name
Hell on Wheels Theme Song


[4:06 PM] Rook: +1
[4:06 PM] Rook: ...
[4:06 PM] Rook: i actually really like this idea
[4:06 PM] Fernandel: I like it too actually
[4:06 PM] Rook: @Aleph ur welcome
[4:06 PM] Rook: hee, @Fernandel
[4:07 PM] Rook: listening to this, and it's not really appropriate
[4:07 PM] Rook: but it's kind of close
[4:07 PM] Rook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34I2dCO8U8A
YouTube
MrCafferata5
Who Did That To You-John Legend (Django Unchained Soundtrack)


[4:07 PM] Fernandel: I just thought "rail mogul"
[4:07 PM] Fernandel: And thsu
[4:07 PM] Rook: mmhm :D
[4:07 PM] Fernandel: HELL ON WHEELS FUCK YEAH
[4:07 PM] Fernandel: Man, I just love me some slide guitar
[4:07 PM] Fernandel: With steel strings
[4:08 PM] Rook: yeessssssssssss
[4:08 PM] Fernandel: Gotta have steel strings
[4:08 PM] Rook: yes
[4:08 PM] Rook: have you heard this?
[4:08 PM] Rook: <3 john legend
[4:08 PM] Rook: @Aleph
[4:08 PM] Rook: i have given you
[4:08 PM] Rook: a better idea than your already cool one(edited)
[4:08 PM] Rook: you're welcome
[4:08 PM] Rook: <3
[4:08 PM] Fernandel: If she's not writing it
[4:09 PM] Fernandel: I will
[4:09 PM] Rook: please do(edited)
[4:09 PM] Rook: please God write it
[4:09 PM] Fernandel: when I have the time
[4:09 PM] Fernandel: So like never lol
[4:09 PM] Fernandel: Fuck
[4:09 PM] Rook: i kinda have the time after this month but i'm not into supergirl
[4:09 PM] Rook: not really
[4:09 PM] Rook: only watched a bit
[4:09 PM] Fernandel: Supermaaaaaaaan
[4:09 PM] Fernandel: Supermaaaaaaan
[4:10 PM] Fernandel: Kansas Farmer Boy vs Evil Rail Mogul Luthor
[4:10 PM] Rook: that is a beautiful sentence and I did not realize how much I loved it until just now
[4:10 PM] Fernandel: Luthor loses and returns East
[4:10 PM] Rook: no, no, no, Fern you're not thinking right
[4:10 PM] Rook: lex luthor
[4:10 PM] Fernandel: thinks he will be fine far away from Kansas
[4:10 PM] Rook: in DIESELPUNK POWER ARMOR
[4:10 PM] Fernandel: And then supergirl turns up in New York
[4:11 PM] Rook: FUELED BY INDUSTRY AND WICKED BLACK MAGICS BOTH
[4:11 PM] Fernandel: Fucking sold
[4:11 PM] Fernandel: I am actually legit sold
[4:11 PM] Rook: "THIS IS WHAT MAN IS MEANT TO BE, YOU BOY-SCOUT, YOU 'SUPERMAN'! CAPITALISM IS THE FUTURE! PROFITS ARE THE ENGINE OF INGENUITY! STOP RESISTING!"(edited)
[4:11 PM] Rook: "No, thanks."
[4:11 PM] Fernandel: I don't know even know Superman that well lol
[4:12 PM] Rook: punches him into a river
[4:12 PM] Fernandel: If you kept Superman's power more lowkey, it might even work
[4:12 PM] Fernandel: Or if you made it about the farmsteader community vs evil capitalist Luthor(edited)
[4:12 PM] Rook: like, you can even do a properly Western-y thing here! Lex Luthor wants to build his railway right through a homestead, and on a certain route
[4:13 PM] Rook: but that would destroy a town or village or what-have-you because reasons
[4:13 PM] Rook: so it's just Superman fighting to not have his home of Smallville demolished
[4:13 PM] Fernandel: EVUL REAZONS
[4:13 PM] Rook: Superman and the American people versus AMORAL CAPITALISM
[4:13 PM] Fernandel: Doesn't this seem to fit together far too conveniently for you lol
[4:14 PM] Rook: god
[4:14 PM] Rook: i love this
[4:14 PM] chibipoe: It isn't Superman without lots of inappropriate subtext between Clark & Lex. Smallville taught us nothing if it didn't teach us that.
[4:14 PM] Fernandel: Hah, indeed
[4:15 PM] chibipoe: Seriously, all the girls in Smallville are just window dressing to distract you from Clark & Lex's undying romance.
[4:15 PM] chibipoe: and Clark is totally the sub.
[4:15 PM] Fernandel: Don't care, honestly
[4:15 PM] Rook: superman v. lex luthor and it's basically just an enormous superhero western
[4:15 PM] Rook: god
[4:15 PM] Rook: i want this
[4:15 PM] Rook: so badly
[4:15 PM] Fernandel: I want more RAIL MOGUL LUTHOR
[4:15 PM] Rook: hmmm
[4:15 PM] Fernandel: Okay, I'm saving this
[4:16 PM] Rook: these are not incompatible I feel
[4:16 PM] Rook: yes
[4:16 PM] Rook: yes good