#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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Woman 1: Christine, look— it’s the Black Widow!
Woman 2: It’s her all right— Madam Natasha! There’s a woman with her own mind— definitely the Gloria Steinem of the jumpsuit set.
And for the first time in many days— the Widow smiles.I’ve posted this before, it’s still like, top ten moments in comics, for me. So much of the discussion about female superheroes, today, reduces them to things for men to look at. And here’s this moment, from a time when feminism was this new-fangled, radical notion, that flat out embraces Black Widow as someone for women to look up to. And she draws power from this, and contentment.
Sure, yeah, superhero comics can be the fantasies of adolescent white dudes. But they can be everyone else’s fantasy, too— dismiss that at your own peril.
From Daredevil #91, by Gerry Conway and Gene Colan.
Natasha’s face in the last panel!
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It’s really not that complicated. I’ve got red in my ledger, I’d like to wipe it out.
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AVENGERS GENDER-SWAPPED CASTING
Reblogging that gender-swapped Avengers fanart earlier made me decide to actually post gender-swapped casting I’ve been tooling around with in my head for some time. I’m not totally happy with it — Evan Rachel Wood: too young? Eddie Redmayne: too young-looking? What would you call a male Black Widow? Do I actually think Claudia Black would be a good Tony or do I just think she’s hot? — but I’m happy enough for now. Thoughts/suggestions?
Also, just so you know: there is no part of me that doesn’t ‘ship Thor/Iron Woman in this casting.
Lady Avengers! and Black Widow lmao
Based on the official poster with some tweaks (Bruce based on his individual poster). Thanks to everyone who came to the livestream!
Nnnnnngh. I’m not even that into Jeremy Renner (sorry, y’all), but Lady Hawkeye there is giving me palpitations.
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New Avengers posters
You’re so, so close, Tony, but this is the pose:
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