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any pronouns, lesbian, absolute NERD, insecure asf but i guess it's a package deal

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Agatha: house of harkness will be superior to anything and everything I've ever seen before I can just tell

like first of all: Katheryn Hahn. need I say more? but also, HOUSE of harkness? house of M???? also witches and backstory and maybe some sapphic content (a long shot but just imagine all those gay witches....) 

anyway I will be passing away when that show come out 

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okay, something that’s been on my mind these past few days is what Nia DaCosta, the director of Capt Marvel 2 has said about the snap being Steve Rogers fault and the fanbase’s reaction

and I agree with her. vision should have been sacrificed and that way the stone would have been destroyed and the avengers, primarily wanda, could have focused their energy on actually killing thanos. plus, I think that was sort of the moral of infinity war? (among other things) but like, in infinity war they were unwilling to sacrifice and lost because of it. in endgame they learned the value of sacrifice and were able to win, thanks to that 

is it just cap’s fault? no, of course not. it’s understandable that he and the others didn’t want to kill vision but cap’s logic of ‘we don't trade lives’ really irks me because they’re unwilling to kill vision for that reason but are okay with sacrificing hundreds of wakandan soldiers? (not to mention the fact that vision had literally been the one to suggest it and was 100% okay with it) 

anyway, all the pissed off fanboys who are using this as an excuse to hate on the marvels, brie larson and Nia DaCosta need to calm tf down because she’s right and I will defend that to my grave 

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If anyone needs me I'll be in a little melty puddle on the floor

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something that just... makes me sad is that like whenever I see captain marvel show up on screen half of me is so happy because I love her and I love carol but I can already hear the fanboys crying and complaining and it just adds this heaviness to every carol danvers performance and it really makes me genuinely sad 

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raymond holt x the balloon arch remains the greatest ship to ever have sailed 

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women and marvel: not a great relationship and it doesn’t always feel like it’s getting much better. yes, we now have two female lead mcu movies (compared to the, like, 22 male lead ones) and they were both amazing, but going forward into phase 4, we need to talk 

I’ve already made a post about Sharon recently but now my post is about women in phase 4. 

marvel has always had very questionable talent when it comes to writing good, complex, proper female characters. it’s gotten better, though that isn’t hard seeing as natasha in iron man two was basically a prop. with wandavision, black widow and now Shang-chi with the introduction of xialing, marvel has finally began to give it’s female characters depth. they’re well written but...

all of them are becoming evil. now, there should be female villains. 100%. but marvel is turning all its newer developed female characters into villains, from Yelena to xialing to wanda. am I overreacting to this a little? maybe. but what’s mostly annoying me are wanda and Yelena. xialing is seizing control after a life of having none. she’s building her own empire after escaping the bonds and restraints of her past and father. that’s great (still kinda want her to be ‘good’ but also she’s a great villain) 

now. wanda. I love wanda, following from wandavision. In the mcu movies, I always felt that she was underdeveloped and utilised. she was there but never invested in. we were just expected to like her, but in wandavision, they gave us a reason to. we got incredible writing and development but... it all fell into the horrible trope of ‘woman looses male lover and goes crazy/looses control’. wanda’s whole development stems from the sexist trope of women going crazy and being unable to control their powers without their male counterpart. essentially her whole villain arc is sort of based around that. and Yelena, who's whole life has been about being controlled and now she’s free to make a choice and she’s working for Val? I'm sort of okay with that (even though I feel like it contradicts where we left off that the end of black widow) but since she escaped the red room, she’s been searching for the control she never had but now she’s being manipulated and lied to by Val into choices she wouldn't otherwise make? forcing her to become a villain? 

idk I just don’t like it. again, I'd love to see more female villains, but why are all the well written female characters the ones being turned into them while the female protagonists’ stories still continue to centre around their male counterparts? (There are exceptions, of course. the women in black panther are a spectacular example of that and Katy in Shang-chi was pretty decent, even if she was mostly there for the more childish comedy) 

and not to mention the whole Christine dying over and over and having no other function than to motivate strange 

anyway idk where I'm going with this and I haven’t really explained it well because I'm just not good at that but marvel really needs to start thinking about their female characters in more depth (as well as their poc characters. I'd say queer characters as well but they actually need to canonly introduce them first. and their disabled characters. basically, marvel needs to do better with their representation, which isn’t a shock to hear) 

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what if ep5 spoilers

it’s the way Peter in any universe can literally manage to get adopted by ANYONE. Tony, Pepper, Happy and now Hope and the literal Cloak of Levitation? he’s got reverse daddy issues like wtf 

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what if episode 5 spoilers

wow!! another amazing misogynistic incarnation of Sharon Carter in this what if episode!!!

honestly. at this point, I've given up on her character. like, when I first watched the mcu, I despised Sharon but as I got older and read more and watched more, I realised I didn’t hate Sharon, I hated the way she was portrayed and written. she was never given any real characterisation. she was always a plot device, always there to be useful but for no reason. she was pretty much useless, in the nicest way possible (she did good stuff, but we never got to learn anything about her character, which undermined all of her decisions) 

and then of course, they turned her into a love interest for her aunt’s ex a few days after she died. they didn’t show her grieving over the aunt she was supposedly close to at all. they barely showed her dealing with the repercussions of her aunt’s organisation, that she worked for, turning out to be hydra. they hyped her up for falcon and the winter soldier so much and she was in it for, like five minutes with very confusing plot twists that didn’t really make much sense (though I did like how she was bitter over the fact Steve left her to fend for herself, though it was mostly just a one-liner) 

and now in what if, she was there but she had little to no purpose other than to be there, look pretty and serve as a plot device. she did virtually nothing in the episode and once she was turned, she was pushed away like a rag doll. like, when everyone else was turned it was like oh no!! and they were legitimate threats but Sharon was just... floppy. bucky was just like meh and no one gave a shit 

her skill is constantly undermined and she’s always sidelined for the other characters on screen. she's never given development or character or personality traits. I want to love the character because we don’t get all that many female characters on screen but I just can't. she has so much potential and I’m praying that they do her right in armour wars or whatever it is she’ll be in next but I'm not hopeful 

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r u gay

terminally

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(very slight shang chi spoilers (trailers))

pls everyone out here saying ”wong is the sensible one” and “the mum friend“ when he yeets himself into a dark web fight club and chilled with abomination BECAUSE HE COULD

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nothing but respect for my kings 

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I just wanna say how grateful I am that marvel made peggy buff when she took the serum. like, as a female who’s more muscled than other people and who has wide shoulders and shit, it was so refreshing to see a buff female superhero. it was also nice because of how de-sexualised it made her compared to other female superheroes, who have perfect hourglass figures and are very petite with small waists and flat stomachs. it was more realistic and was just so nice to watch 

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Phil Coulson is bisexual pass it on 

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what if spoilers

Betty ross and... Natasha Romanoff as ex-girlfriends??

yes please

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okay wait so maybe some of my wandavision paranoia is coming back but like... that didn’t seem like strange? at all? and that sign with the pic of Peter saying the hidden devil or whatever is just making me think Mephisto

ik ik I should’ve learned from wandavision but WHAT IF GUYS

(also Strange’s super suspicious ‘careful what you wish for, Parker’ idk it just sounded very demon-y) 

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I love Spiderman but ffs can people stfu about the no way home trailer? we have Shang-Chi, the eternals and what if right in front of us stop crying over the fact we don’t have a trailer yet, the movie is still going to release 

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marvel movies (and marvel itself) isn’t without it’s flaws, obviously, but I think that one issue marvel faces when it comes to movies and TV shows is that the expectation is way too high. Like, obviously for the most successful franchise, like, ever, their products have to be good but I feel like people have this unrealistic expectation that every single marvel movie is going to be some sort of endgame

which of course, it isn’t. endgame was the culmination of 22 movies and an entire franchise. of course it was epic and on a whole different scale. now when marvel makes movies that centre around one specific character and don’t involve massive cameos and aren’t used as major world development projects, people say the stakes are “too low” when in reality, the stakes are high, just maybe not as high as in other marvel movies. for example, I saw a lot of people say black widow’s stakes were too low (which I disagree with, obviously. what was at stake was the freedom and lives of women all around the world but if that isn’t important enough for you...). however, if that movie was made outside of the mcu, the stakes definitely wouldn’t be seen as too low. 

things like wandavision, which focus around one character and are more about development of character and exploration of a theme are criticised when they’re perfectly good projects, just not on the scale of infinity war and endgame. people forget when it comes to marvel movies that the whole point of a movie/show/whatever is to enjoy yourself, which they often do, but then they spend weeks picking over the fact that there was no major avengers cameo in a project about one character 

(also, it’d like to add that this criticism has largely centred around female-lead projects. there are only three of them but they’re the ones who get this kind of hate the most)

anyway I have no idea what the point of any of this was, and of course, it isn’t to say that marvel doesn’t have it's flaws (it does. a lot of them but that’s a different topic)