All I know about my dream last night is that I watched the Iron Man 3 trailer
And Steve had frosted tips
And the world’s oldest snowboard (THOR WAS GOING TO TEACH HIM)
And Tony all but said, “GET IN LOSER WE’RE GOING SHOPPING”
And he let Steve steer his bitchin’ Camaro through Beverly Hills (from Tony’s LAP) while Natasha and Pepper sang along to the radio
And Steve bought a purple shirt sleeved sweater that said something like “MUSCLE SHIRT” on it
And I had to watch it three times to convince myself this was going to be the real movie.
#god i loved this scene SO MUCH #because she’s scared. she’s scared and everything’s going wrong and she just wants to huddle into a corner and do nothing at all #she’s just had to face her worst fear‚ something she can’t control‚ can’t manipulate‚ can’t fight #everything is going horribly wrong and honestly if she hadn’t answered i doubt anyone would have specifically noticed #but she gets up anyway. she pulls herself together and she radios in and she goes to stop clint. #some guy who totally missed the point complained in a review that it was unfeminist to have had her be scared and i say fuck that #do you have any idea how wonderful it was to see a heroine who freaks out and then pushes past it‚ sir #who is ALLOWED by the narrative to freak out‚ who is not shamed for her fear‚ who can be afraid without it defining her #because it was pretty fucking wonderful to me
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TESSSA. TESSSSSSSA. You missed the greatest ever episode of QI I watched it in the kitchen while I ate my supper i think Stephen Fry became STRAIGHT in it and Alan Davies won by +11 points. Everyone else was a woman and they just said cheeky things the whole time and when they said how they hated the word “breasts” Stephen Fry confessed how he loved “titties” and he meant the word but by the 98th time he said it I think he was a practicing heterosexual.
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And happy holidays to all of you, and to all of our favorite fandoms!
Merry Christmas, y’all!
Tony, hold your horses. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeez.
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Why the frown, Steve?
—Avengers #32 (1966) by Stan Lee & Don Heck
Not saying Jan wouldn’t tap it, though. ILU Jan.
avengers deleted scene - steve rogers.
thought i’d upload this here in case it gets yanked off of youtube. enjoy!
brb sobbing myself to death for the rest of the night
The image above was created from gathering all of the significant named characters from released Marvel Studios movies as documented on the Marvel Movies wikia.
It’s pretty sad. As you can see, only 22% of the characters are women and half of them are love interests. There are over twice as many supporting characters who are men than women (and none of them function as love interests like the women do.) 84% of the characters are white.
60% of the characters are white men, including all the main characters 77%of the characters are men 76% of the men are white 81% of the characters (both genders) are white All of the women are white Allof the characters of color are men None of the characters are women of colorOut of all the films, Thor probably does the best in introducing diverse side characters. Natalie Portman and Kat Denning’s characters pass the Bechdel test within the first five minutes, and some of the Asgardians are played by people of color including Idris Elba’s Heimdall and Tabano Asano’s Hogun. Four white women characters are introduced instead of the other films’ average of one or two. But even then, there’s no question that the main characters of the film are Thor and his brother Loki.
Marvel is working off of decades of existing properties that for years solely focused on white men and a the demographic market of white men. So it makes sense that many of the films would have an abundance of white male characters. Beyond ratios, what doesn’t make sense is that even in the comics there is also an abundance of characters of color, etc. that they are ignoring or underutilizing. There are already five completed films where the titular character is a white man, with more to come. There are no films in the works where the titular character is a person of color or a woman.
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Women made up at least 40% of the audience of The Avengers, yet only one out of the six Avengers–Black Widow–was a woman. Women also made up 40% of attendees at this year’s ComicCon. Why, given the scarcity of female heroic leads in the existing Marvel films, did Marvel choose to announce the addition of several more male characters but only one new female character?
Read the full article at Racebending.com: On Marvel, Mandarin, and Marginalization
This is so sad. (Also, another reason I am super bummed we are getting *#*#$ing Ant-Man before a Black Widow movie, and I don’t even care that I love Jan.)
(…Also, and completely off the “hey more POC and ladies plz!” topic: Phil Dunphy was in The Incredible Hulk? I assume, because it’s the only movie I didn’t like and hence haven’t watched in five years? If the actual character Phil Dunphy had been in it, presumably I would have liked it more.)
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I think I just died.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
NO. IT’S TOO EARLY. I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THE AVENGERS 2 UNTIL AT LEAST 2014!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly I get really weirded out being in these franchise fandoms because when I see dates like this all I do is think things like, ”Who even knows what country I’ll live in,” or ”I’ll have two advanced degrees by then,” or “By the third Avengers movie I’ll, like, have children.” Or, at my most pessimistic, I think, “At least in the ungodly hellhole that will be my shameful existence in 2015, I will have The Avengers to see me through.” There, that’s cheered me up.
WHAT I’M SAYING IS THREE YEARS IS A REALLY LONG TIME. I COULD BE A MARRIED BORN-AGAIN CIRCUS PERFORMER IN BELARUS, I DON’T KNOW THREE YEARS FROM NOW ME’S LIFE.
ALSO I LOVE THIS POSTER.
Loki’s apology
“Do not tell my parents” heh.
Thor: Listen well, brother—
Loki: …I’m listening…
Thor: YOU WILL FILL OUT THIS DAMN FORM
Loki: A fine form. Not meant, I think, for me.
Thor: YOU WILL FILL IT OUT, OR I SWEAR BY THE EYE OF HEIMDALL I WILL TELL FATHER
Loki: Is this happening?
Loki: IS IT?!
—MM
I like to imagine Thor also threatened him with Darcy and her taser.
Okay, so this one is #213, for tafadhali. She requested Avengers-ness, and I found that thing saved in my prompts so - voila! I feel like it…didn’t come out the way I wanted it to, though. Sorry!
“You know,” Darcy said, tossing the taser high above her head and lazily watching it flip end over end. She caught it in the flat of her palm and sent it spinning upwards again. She smirked at the expression of Loki’s face: he was striving for bored and exasperated, but his eyes were riveted, cat-like, on the taser, and each time she threw it into the air, he leaned forward a bit, straining, frustrated, against his bonds. “This would be a lot easier if you just signed the damn thing. Look!” She held up the ad-libbed apology. She’d brought it to this morning’s meeting as a joke (one of her odd-jobs as an intern included taking notes at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s monthly meetings, although this one had been called in special due to the Loki Emergency) but Thor, as literal as ever, had thought it was a brilliant idea. He’d dictated to her what he wanted filled into the blanks himself, looking solemn and worried, while Loki watched on, completely nonplussed. Darcy had taken the liberty of filling in the right hand side of the apology herself, to the best of her knowledge of Loki and the way his mind worked.
“I even filled it all out for you!” Darcy said, grinning and waving the apology in his face.
Loki turned his head to the side and sniffed, then peeked out at her from the corner of his eye, still warily watching the taser, which she had attached to her belt. She didn’t want to have to use it - he was, after all, tied up, and the chains they had him in certainly looked unbreakable. Then again, he was the god of mischief, and if anyone was going to find a way to escape, her money was on Loki. Either way - god and/or would-be-world-dominator or not, Darcy didn’t like to tase a man when he was down. She’d kept the door open just in case, and glanced at it now, and this seemed to please Loki: he turned his face back toward her and settled more comfortably into his kneeling position on the floor, rolling his shoulders and offering her a wide, smug smile.
Damn, Darcy thought. She wasn’t sure why they had assigned this particular task to her. Most likely because no one else wanted to do it, or couldn’t be trusted not to beat the stuffing out of Loki (Thor included). Darcy wouldn’t be able to do much damage, even with her trusty taser, so she supposed she was the safest choice to throw into the cell with him. The thought wasn’t at all comforting.
“Come on,” she groaned, aware that she had already ceded some of her minuscule leverage in the situation, and removed the taser from her belt. For good measure, she flicked it on, enjoying the slight hum and the way Loki recoiled just slightly. He would be transferred, once he apologised, to a Miss Adler in some detention realm or another. From what she’d heard of that woman, Darcy thought Miss Adler might have more luck getting Loki to sign the apology - her methods involved a leather riding crop and ball gags and questionable injectible substances. Darcy didn’t envy Loki at all and she might have even pitied him, had the task of getting him to apologise not fallen to her.
He was smirking at her now, drawing this out because it was the only thing he could do, tied up and held captive as he was. Darcy checked her watch. Half-past six. She should have been out of here by now. Greeeat, she thought, turning the apology over in her hand and frowning down at it. She liked her internship, she really did, but it was really starting to bug her how often she got the short end of the stick.
Yaaaaay! Thank you, CT! I love long-suffering Darcy and her taser, and poor eternally optimistic Thor. Thor, you can’t just train a cat Loki. Cats Lokis have their own lives.
Disney Avengers!
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AUs I Want That No One is Writing: Jane Carter (Paula Patton, MI4) is another of Peggy Carter’s (Hayley Atwell, Captain America) badass secret agent nieces.
(Instead, everyone keeps writing x-overs with the Renner, which…I get it, I totally do. I am willing to compromise and combine the two! Hawkeye tries to poach Jane from IMF! Natasha is one of the assassins she’s supposed to be spying on! She and Steve bond! It will be beautiful.)