Thank you for your cooperation

[dsmsix]

[critter-of-habit]

I had Yelena thoughts just hear me out okay

[chaxan08]

Me after hearing/seeing Yelena in the Thunderbolts trailer:

[kpfun]

HAWKEYE (2021) | 1.03: Echoes

[stardustrider]

"Bob..." Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes // Thunderbolts* 2025

[sun-stardustt]

sunshine tolerator protector yelena belova

bonus:

[peter-pan-demonium]

How many people have slapped Yelena in the face without getting slapped back?

[nottherealmax]

At some point in the next movie, I'll need someone to actually say to Yelena something like: "I don't think you want me here, but I'll stay anyway."

[calisverse]

𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐆𝐇 as 𝐘𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐀 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐀 / 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐖

Thunderbolts* (2025).

[thunderboltswift]

[jinx-on-mars-19xx]

@ londonbeautifullife on insta 🖤

[littlewidowlena]

// She needs to stay the f*ck away from bathrooms //

my comfort actress who refuses to accept a happy role

[yelenasbitch]

Chapter 3 of my fic Duality of Man has just been posted... its a bit dark and not what everyone will like, but go check it out maybe?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37670086/chapters/94038640

also, thank you to the lovely wife @einbinder for beta reading even though you hate the fic xx

[official-buckybarnes]

[mimir-anoshe]

Thinking thoughts and people have made comparisons to Yelena having a soft spot for adopting test subjects. Aka Guinea pig boyo and human puppy boyo - Bob.

Don't know if I was just being slow, but I realised Yelena saving the Guinea Pig (who thanks to this fandom I've now started calling Cucumber in my head; it's my lore name for him now) from the same lab Bob got his powers, taking him out of a literal maze he's trapped in...

It was 1:1 foreshadowing for Yelena going into the void - a maze of void rooms that acts as a prison of guilt and trauma that you're trapped in - to pull Bob (Valentino's human guinea pig) out.

Cucumber really is a symbolic allegory for Bob, the cutw guinea pig gang who get adopted by 5'3 ex russian assassin turned hero. That little show of her seeing someone who needs help, and setting them free whilst keeping them close to her even though it's just a little guinea boy. All of that is a microcosm of what she would do for Bob through some beautiful little storytelling and set up by the writers. She even hugs cucumber by the end of it all.

It highlights from the beginning that she's exactly the person Bob needed to help him through that maze and out the other side, because she can see the bigger picture, she can reach through those walls and pull him out. And Bob is the exact type of person - same as Cucumber - that Yelena wishes to protect and care for, by being in her life he can help her through her own grief and abate her loneliness through love. And they're both cute as fuck.

I don't know if that was obvious for everyone else but I got there eventually. Damn I love this movie.

I also headcanon that the guinea pig has super powers, but thats neither here nor there. Cucumber having his own void eldritch god would be hilarious and terrifying. Like a flerkin on steroids.

[melinoe-cupcake]

Bucky and Yelena's dynamic was well established. A good mentor-mentee duo.

Bucky looks too done to lead the whole team, but has enough in him to help Yelena make it her purpose to lead the team well. We see her follow his lead and guidance, taking his experience and wisdom into whatever she does next in the plot.

Even hugging bob out of his anxiety and loneliness came from Bucky pointing it out to Yelena that the approach of beating up Bob's darkness up was not right, after which she does her super-cool obstacle course to get to Bob.

This trend continues into the post-credits sequence too and I'm looking forward to seeing how it grows.

[langdonfranks]

florence pugh in sicily for bvlgari's high jewelry launch | may 19, 2025

[littlewidowlena]

Her confused expressions always get me,,, like she always looks like it’s her first day on earth <3