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[678i0u]

#LOKI, A CONFIRMED BISEXUAL

[lafoliedefougere]

🎵🎶🎵 LOKI'S BI AND SO AM I 🎶🎵🎶

[sakura-haruka]

#my last two brain cells 

[lafoliedefougere]

Nihilist Loki: an icon for our times

[lafoliedefougere]

So I'm an Asian woman in my 30s, and I hope y'all youths know how lucky you are to have shows like the Irregulars and Shadow & Bone representing so much diversity. I grew up on the OC and Gilmore Girls, the whitest shit, and had so few people I could see myself in. I genuinely wonder if I'd be a different person if I'd had a Bea or Alina to see myself in.

[allofthefeelings]

I realize I have barely stopped complaining for four months, but I honestly think that if anything we should be talking even more about how Marvel’s first two phases gave us one female superhero each, the token woman on each of their two teams (nothing so much as a solo movie, don’t be silly, we had to wait ten years for that), and in the culmination of the Infinity Saga, both of those women were thrown off a cliff.

We as audience had to watch them plummet to their deaths. We had to look at their lifeless broken bodies at the bottom of a mystical space ravine. We were supposed to see one of those deaths as something to cheer for in its heroism. We had to accept that an abuser’s claim of love that the recipient denied was still love, and had exactly the same import as the love of a best friend.

We had to see men feel Emotions at the top of those cliffs in the immediate aftermath of these women’s deaths, and then see men with romantic interests react with rage and violence at each loss. We didn’t get to see emotional reactions about the value these women’s lives had held. We had to hear that even when everyone else can be brought back to life, there’s no way someone can ever be freed from the soul stone, and these women were just the necessary casualties of this plot device.

And then they had the audacity to give us that all-women fighting scene, which should have been a rousing moment for those of us who are invested in female characters, but instead rang fundamentally hollow, when Natasha wasn’t there and the Gamora who was there wasn’t the one we had followed through multiple movies of growth. That scene told us that all women are interchangeable, and now that we have enough OTHER women the two we started with aren’t necessary and their absence doesn’t even need to be acknowledged within the scene.

Of course neither character is missing from the future of the MCU; Civil War-era Natasha will be in the Black Widow prequel movie and pre-GOTG1 Gamora will be in GOTG3. But the characters the audience has formed attachments to are permanently gone. They didn’t get to say goodbye to people they cared about. If they were mourned, we didn’t get to see it.

I get that it’s a movie. I get that it came out over four months ago. But we should absolutely still be angry. They both deserved better.

[hermitreunited]

this very much. samesies that I haven’t really let it go and I’ve already written rants about this but I still feel this way very much, okay!? and the way it’s phrased here in the top paragraph really cut right to the essence of how insulting and traumatic this is

and I’m going to crib from some things other people have pointed very well and just add that the all-women fighting scene is the epitome of using women’s bodies as carefully arranged props, to be seen and not heard. I hadn’t thought before of how much that is true of Gamora’s death scene in part 1 as well, because she rightfully protests that what Thanos feels towards her Is Not Love, and her words are pushed right off the Murder Women Cliff along with her body.

and the point about both of the women we lose being our two og female team members? excellent. people had a lot to say about endgame being a movie about the og avengers team and insert explanations why it’s okay then to leave out Okoye or Carol or Valkyrie etc, but how does the loss of Natasha fit in there? it’s the celebratory send-off for the og team of avengers that launched this incredibly ambitious and successful series of films, and the most heroic and impactful place for our og female team member is broken on the ground hundreds of feet below her male counterpart? cool. thanks for the #feminism, marvel

[chujo-hime]

#idk i just think about the pictures of those little girls with stars in their eyes at the premieres so excited to see a girl superhero!! #being part of the team!! #and then dead at the bottom of a cliff is where they get to see their role model end up #why is this the rep we are giving to our kids #they deserve so much more god this makes me so mad

This is something so important that I think a lot of us older female fans shouldn’t forget. A whole generation of girls have grown up watching first Natasha and then Gamora on-screen, only to see both characters - their superheroines - end up this way in IW and Endgame. I can’t imagine what it would have done to us if at the end of Return of the Jedi, Leia had laid dead at the bottom of a cliff while Luke and Han survived the movie. 

[allofthefeelings]

This hit me like a truck.

It’s so easy to rely on the fact that these movies are PG-13, and think of the audience as at least teens. But they’re not. The toddler- and kid-sized shirts we see at Target have audiences. The child-sized Halloween costumes exist for a reason. There are kindergarteners playing Avenger on the playground, and until the last year or two girls’ choices were pretty much Gamora, Natasha, or sidekick. And those are the only characters dead with no recourse and no memorial.

Kids want to be superheroes. Endgame told them their options are supporting characters who only show up at the big fight for a Moment, or corpses at the bottom of a cliff.

[lilacbreastedroller]

a chapterbook: *came with a stitched in ribbon bookmark, had a cloth spine, had those rough edged finished pages, or came with a map*

8 year old me: i am a 500 year old librarian and this is the most valuable book in my collection. i rescued it myself from a castle as it burned to the ground. *gingerly runs my little grubby hands down its spine and gazes wistfully out of the school bus window* i am the keeper of all civilization’s knowledge

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

I like how there’s a dinosaur whose genus is essentially “big Paul”

I … actually didn’t see that part of the Wikipedia article on Magnapaulia and … wow.

The generic name is a combination of the Latin magnus, “large”, and the first name of Paul G. Haaga, Jr., the president of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

Big Paul

(image by @thewoodparable)

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Guess who just had a terrible awesome t-shirt idea!

[lafoliedefougere]

I'm picturing a crossover with the Beastie Boys: "Big Paul's Boutique"

[estradiol]

Imo the “bad boy who’s only nice secretly/after you get through his layers” trope in media functions as propaganda designed to get you to second guess yourself and your experiences in order to give bad men a chance. Some things need to be taken at face value and if he treats people like shit he is in fact a bad person even if he’s nice to you sometimes. Stop looking for hidden meaning and depth in his actions. He’s not misunderstood he’s just an asshole and it’s not your job to shovel through the shit to get to the disappointing “good” parts

[lafoliedefougere]

👏👏👏👏

[symbiote-spideypool]

peter and wade are fighting side by side and when peter runs out of web fluid, he grabs a gun off wade’s belt and wade has this transcendent moment of i’m going to watch spiderman shoot my gun at a real live bad guy

but peter just fucking throws it at a bad guy’s face and knocks him out cold

[sensei-wrong-deactivated2018121]

The impact causes the gun to go off and shoot wade in the dick. Spider man spends the next several minutes frantically apologizing while cable laughs his ass off for the first time in years.

[brendaonao3]

Pretty sure I’ve read this comic

[qualitydoggo]

@wishem please omg just a quick doodle or something even

[wishem]

I am sorry Cable looks like that

[mistermustachio]

Don’t you dare apologize for perfection.

[lafoliedefougere]

Reblogging to ensure this becomes canon

[neilnevins-deactivated20240617]

When you get a text asking if you want to go out and it’s after 9 pm

[albertothechihuahua]

this is the money dog, repost in the next 24 hours and money will come your way!!

[lafoliedefougere]

Captain America: Civil War - an assortment of [SPOILERY] thoughts

I thoroughly enjoyed Civil War, and I was pleasantly surprised by its light tone - the trailers made it look far more dark and serious than it ended up being (perhaps a dig at BvS:DoJ). I'm really glad they dispensed with the traditional city-smashing third act - I guess given the themes of the film they couldn't really in good conscience do that. The final three-way fight was both emotionally and narratively effective, but never laying on the emotion too thickly. Stark finds out this horrible revelation of his past but he deals with it as Stark - he's still a quippy asshole, trying to kill the machine that killed his parents. 

Cast and character wise, everybody got a little development - I particularly like what they're setting up with Vision and Wanda. The Russos' strength lies in rendering superhumans human, and every character in this film is driven by distinctly human emotions - vengeance, anger, love, betrayal, hatred, friendship. Daniel Bruhl makes everything he's in better, and he does a great job at portraying a smart, human villain. 

Special mention must go to the super-newbies - Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa and Tom Holland as Spidey. I would 100% watch a full movie of Tom Holland as Spiderman, and I'm desperate to see the Spidey-Stark relationship develop into what it is in the Civil War comics. Tom Holland was utterly delightful as Spidey and reminds me of a young Jamie Bell. It was really nice to see a Spiderman free of the overly complex emotional burdens that no real 16 year old would have. I'm interested to see where they take Spiderman:Homecoming. As for T'Challa, it was so refreshing to see him fight both as T'Challa and Black Panther. No messing about with him - cowl is off within his first few scenes. He plays T'Challa with all the gravitas that the character demands, without rendering him SOOO SUPER SERIOUS HURRGGHH that you're emotionally drained every time he opens his mouth (like another superhero film of recent times that I could mention). I'm really excited to see more of Wakanda and T'Challa in Black Panther. 

Faults and weaknesses - I would have obviously liked more women in the film. I don’t think it passes the Bechdel test. I’m surprised Maria Hill didn’t turn up (she’s instrumental in the comics) and I didn’t like how Wanda was basically the object of various dudes protective intentions - she could eviscerate all of you (except Vision). Other than that... after a first viewing, it’s hard to find anything major to fault. 

Other miscellaneous highlights/thoughts:

I loved the close quarters fight choreography of Winter Soldier - the opening fight scenes on the boat are so vividly imprinted on my memory - and CW did not disappoint on that front either. I loved how close the camera stuck to Widow as she blitzed through that market in the opening scenes.

Whoever wrote that 100% fan service shot of Steve valiantly flexing his guns to restrain Bucky in the helicopter - thank you. Now someone make a gif of it. 

Every scene with Bucky, Falcon and Steve in that silly little car was pure gold. 

Falcon was great comic relief without ever becoming too much of a joke. "Do you like cats?" is undoubtedly one of the film's top quotes.

I really enjoyed sassy Clint! I feel like the Russos have read Fraction/Aja's Hawkeye run and drawn a little of that dry, nasty wit out of it. Now, will there be a Pizza Dog?

I'd love to see Natasha/Bucky be a thing (#IShipIt) but I don't think it's going to happen.

Cap/Sharon Carter is creepy. I know at least one other person agrees with me. 

Everyone in the cinema gasped when Martin Freeman appeared - I hope he gets more to do in the next films. 

[asgardianwarriorprincess]

[lafoliedefougere]

I love looking back at how patently ridiculous the early Thor comics were. 

[tiny-loki]

LOKI NO

[lafoliedefougere]

Fake Lucas Lee Posters (via imgur http://imgur.com/a/VvLDa)

[flavorcountry]

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.

[simpleescapism]

Holy shit this is a serious contender for the best post I’ve ever seen on tumblr.

[lafoliedefougere]

Person: What do you want to be when you grow up???

Me: Peggy Carter.

[mcbuckwheat]

Winter Soldier