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Belle and Killian are beautiful and noble toward each other. Despite their shared past they are so worried about the other well being and have a sincere conversation about redemption and past mistakes. They have such a good progression since the first time Killian attacked Belle and the best arc from enemies to friends.
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a collection of my favorite tweets regarding the Ever Given in the Suez Canal
happy 1st bday to... this.
I personally am declaring this to be a new International Holiday
Happy 2nd anniversary to the Suez Canal blockage!
Ever Given Week, 22 March to 29 March (observed)
22 March - Ever Given Eve. Many celebrate by completing some small task they’ve been putting off, symbolically clearing blockages in their own lives.
23 March - Blockage Day! The main celebration. The exchanging of memes.
24 to 28 March - Hilarity ensues. Memes continue to circulate. The best are saved for next year’s observances.
29 March - Clearance Day. Festivities wind down. A more solemn occasion.
SEBASTIAN STAN 28th Critics’ Choice Awards January 15th, 2023, Los Angeles
In case you’re sad, have a smiley Sebastian
His life had been punctuated by horrible awakenings, in and out of cold sleep as the ark ship conducted its centuries-long odyssey. Each time he had found himself in another time, another world, less fit for human habitation. That was what the nightmares were about: not the cold itself, which was only a trigger. Not even that he might not wake, though that had been a real possibility with the Gilgamesh’s failing life support. He feared waking once more into a world he didn’t understand, where everyone else had rushed ahead and left him behind. - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin
Wintershock Springtime!
“i can’t get over ditching jane and darcy and sif and basically all the great mcu ladies”
no offense but tell me five things about darcy that aren’t ripped from someone’s self-insert fic
Exsqueze me? But are you talking trash about Darcy Lewis, Queen of Tasers?
It’s one thing to not want her in Ragnarok but she is one of the most complex female characters in a long time.
1) Darcy Lewis is the only character in any franchise that has any actual common sense.
At the beginning of Thor, Jane and Erik want to drive into a tornado but Darcy has enough sense to stand up to her friends and say no.
She only drives into the storm because Jane grabs the wheel, forcing her to turn.
Do you know how rare it is for any character to have even a shred of common sense? So few that the concept should be renamed rare sense.
I know I don’t have to scream at the screen for the character not to do the stupid thing because if Darcy Lewis is there, she has enough sense to tell people not to do the stupid thing.
How many other MCU characters can you say that about? If your answer is anyone other than Phil Coulson, you’re the one self inserting fan fiction.
2) Darcy Lewis is the only female character who UN-appologetically defends herself.
Thor, a man who is much larger and physically stronger, who could easily overpower two young women and a senior citizen, who seems drunk/on drugs, starts to act belligerent and hostile.
So she tasers him.
The scared woman trope has been used for eons: lone woman hears someone breaking in so she grabs a baseball bat/knife/feather duster to defend herself. The audience is scared for her safety because she’s a poor, helpless maiden and he’s a big, bad predator.
But we’re not scared for Darcy. Why? Because Darcy Lewis doesn’t second guess her instincts. She has the confidence to keep herself and her friends safe!
Later, at the hospital when Jane tries to deflect her own blame by pointing out that Darcy tasered him, what does she say?
Darcy Lewis is PROUD of her actions, she owns her decision to keep her friends safe from Schrodinger’s Rapist.
Our sexist society says that women should be nice, even to their own detriment but Darcy Lewis is an example of putting yourself and your own safety before men’s ego & comfort.
I hope that more women in the real world decide to take a page out of Darcy Lewis’ playbook.
3) Darcy Lewis speaks her mind.
You know you were thinking it. For once the everyman trope is played by a woman and she does a fabulous job of being the audience surrogate but let’s put that asside.
Darcy Lewis is honest and doesn’t care about society’s expectation that women should stroke an ego as if her life depended on it.
4) Darcy Lewis IS the backup plan.
Even though she’s a poli-sci major, Darcy decides to go for an internship in the “hard” sciences with Jane. Armed with nothing more than her common sense, bravery and honesty, Darcy decides to follow Jane to London.
At one point in Dark World, both Jane and Erik fall off the map and SHEILD doesn’t returning her calls. Darcy makes the most logical call in the history of the MCU!
Sidebar here: how many times did you ask why the Avengers never showed up in Iron Man 3? I bet it was more than zero.
Darcy is left to deal with the Convergence, an actual-sci problem, by her poli-sci self.
She doesn’t fall apart, she doesn’t let her male intern take over the decision making, she just goes about saving the world the best way she knows how.
Darcy finds Erik and hatches a plan to get him out of the hospital and when the battle starts she doesn’t run away to hide, she does her part.
5) Darcy Lewis is funny.
Men are funny and women laugh at their jokes. That is the pre-ordainded hierarchy of the world.
Only Darcy Lewis is having none of your chicanery. She is witty, sarcastic, dry, charming and knows she’s awesome. She doesn’t need your approval or support because at the end of the day she knows how to take care of business.
And she still gets her man.
A sixth thing: She is Jewish.
(Since Kat Dennings is, and visibly so)
Darcy Lewis is the most realistic person in the MCU. She fell into something larger than her, made connections and kept them despite it not being her thing. She found something she’s good at and people who need her and stayed to help. She went through hell and reacted as civilians were likely to, she panicked and helped however she could. If you don’t like her don’t like her, but don’t say she’s useless. She’s (and Jane) are two of the most realistic women in the MCU, which is likely why so many people have so many issues with them.
This. All of this.
Not to mention if you take the movie tie in comics as canon, it appears she’s quite skilled with computers as well.
ALL OF THIS.
for fluff today, might i offer you one of my all time favorite ships.... WINTERSHOCK!!!!! this one is small acts of love like brushing lint off a shoulder or fixing a shirt
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warnings: none really, the context is the trial of bucket barnes to see if he's culpable for the actions of the winter soldier
promptober masterlist!
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darcy stands in front of him at the door, stomach churning with anxiety that threatens to overwhelm her every sense. bucky’s face is calm and almost emotionless in that way that only he seems to be able to detach enough to get to.
“it’s gonna be okay darce,” his lips pull up into a half smile at the sight of her chewing on her lip as she looks him over.
darcy offers a small smile in return as she stomps her nerves to the back of her mind. a long court case behind them, and today they would get the verdict on whether or not her boyfriend would be acquitted of all charges or sent to a maximum security prison.
they both hear voices coming towards them and she knows she only has a moment before the door will open and they’ll be asked to re-enter the courtroom. doing a final pass over bucky, from head to toes, she reaches out and flattens the back of his collar down.
“you're right,” she whispers, staring into the icy blue eyes she's built her home in, “it’s gonna be okay.”
Meet Cute
Pairing: James “Bucky” Barnes/Darcy Lewis
Rating: Teen and up audience (for swearing)
Warnings: Swearing; mild violence; Darcy’s taser can be used more than once (because in my world Tony never died and he totally hooked a girl up)
"And why were WE asked to play chauffeur to this scientist?"
Bucky was grumpy. He was beginning to think he maybe should have just said no to Sam. But, no, here he was traveling in the middle of the night to retrieve some scientist.
"Apparently Doctor Lewis is a friend of Thor. Known her since his first arrival and all. Bruce asked if we could make sure she was safe. Special favor." Sam patiently responded. He was getting used to the two moods of the man next to him, grumpy and grumpier.
"Friend, huh?"
Sam shrugged, "Friend. There has been recent, credible chatter about her. The not so friendly kind. She's being moved to another, secret location but Bruce is concerned enough to think she might need a little extra, temporary, protection."
Bucky gazed out the window. To be honest, it's not like he had anything else going on and Sam was a good guy and usually decent company, if annoying at times. When Sam had shown up out of the blue and asked if he'd like to help it didn't take long for him to pack a bag and join him.
Bruce had asked for their help. He liked Bruce. The big, green doctor was calm and sensible and one of the few people he could tolerate for long periods of time. If Bruce felt strongly enough about the threat to this scientist then he'd give him the benefit of the doubt.
Soon they were pulling into the parking lot of a small building. A van was parked haphazardly by an entrance which in and of itself was not alarming. What was alarming was a man lying on the ground not far from the door.
"Shit." Bucky muttered under his breath. Sam stopped the vehicle and the both jumped out, hands going in jackets for weapons.
They both cautiously made their way towards the door. "I'll see if there's another entrance," whispered Sam.
Bucky nodded, face grim as he checked the pulse of the downed man and finding he was still alive, merely unconscious, he watched as Sam rounded the corner then quietly headed to the door and put his back to the wall next to it. Listening, he heard loud voices from deeper within the building. He didn't hear anything closer so he turned quickly into the doorway, gun up.
Inside was a hallway with doors opening to either side, several feet from the entrance. The door on the left was open and that was where the noise and light was coming from. He walked over to it then stepped just inside to find a man grappling with a woman, the woman in question loudly cursing the larger male.
"You asshole! Let me go," she bites his arm.
"Ow, you bitch!" He then proceeds to throw her against a metal file cabinet and she falls to the side, stumbling, before grabbing a chair that was nearby and hitting him in the side with it. He grunts before pulling out a gun and aiming it at her head. She freezes, eyes big, then snaps her left arm up, shoving his gun hand up while bringing her right hand up from her side and shooting him in the center of his chest with her taser.
Bucky watches in slight awe as the small, dark haired woman smirks with satisfaction at the other man as falls, shuddering and drooling to the ground. "Lady Sif taught me that one, asshole!" Then she notices Bucky. " Oh, fudge. 3? Hey, I'm armed! Back off! ". She points the now expended taser at him.
Bucky gives her what he hopes is a reassuring smile then raises his left hand in surrender while putting his gun away. "Doctor Banner sent us. Are you Doctor Lewis?"
"Us?" Darcy looks confused for a moment before Sam pushes in through a second door at the other end of the room. Sam takes in the scene and, noticing the man still twitching in the ground, relaxed with a smile.
Darcy places her hand on her hip. "Wow, Dr. B sent in the big guns, huh? Well, you guys have any zip ties or anything? These two aren't going to restrain themselves."
"Two? " Bucky moved forward and peers down around the corner of a desk that had been blocking his view of a second unconscious man. His eyebrows shoot up and gets a good look at the woman in front of him. Long dark hair, blue eyes, full, generous lips and a pretty coke bottle figure under the turtleneck sweater and jeans she was wearing.
He watched as she tugged her crooked glasses back into place and bit her lip and gestures at the unconscious men and cocks her hip. "Yeah, these two. I mean, I used my taser on both of them so we have a little bit longer but it'd probably be best to get them restrained before they get themselves together."
Sam grabs a power cord off the table near him and proceeds to restrain the men while Bucky just stares back at the small doctor. Bucky steps forward, and extends his hand to Darcy, “James Barnes and this is Sam Wilson”. His breath catches as she gives a brilliant smile and shakes his hand. “Darcy Lewis. And it is a pleasure to meet you”.
Sam stands after tying up the goons and realizes she’s still holding Bucky’s hand and the two are just staring at each other. He clears his throat and smirks as the two startle a bit and blush - seriously, Bucky blushing?
“You might want to grab anything important so we can get out of here before their reinforcements arrive,” Sam says.
“Right!” Darcy smiles once more at Bucky then heads over to her computer.
Bucky watches her and quietly mutters to Sam, “Just how good a friend of Thor is she? Is she a friend or a friend friend?”
Sam shakes his head. “Why don’t you ask her? I’m going to walk outside and check on that guy in the parking lot”.
Sam leaves the room and Bucky shuffles his feet. She was just so pretty. But now was not the time to sit there and get goofy over a pretty face. She was just attacked and there might be more coming. His protective instincts kicked in and he strode over to her to see if he could either help or hurry her along.
“Um, can I help with anything?”
She flashes that dazzling smile at him again. “This is it. I learned years ago while I was working with Jane to keep all the important stuff close by.” She waved at the laptop in front of her then closes the laptop and puts it in a bag. “I’m all yours!”
Bucky grins at her statement and she blushes. “I mean I’m ready to go with you. Away from here. Ok. Um, this,” she lifts the bag, “is the important stuff. We can get the equipment later.”
Bucky is having a hard time reconciling this pretty, blushing woman with the badass that put down two men nearly twice her size but he’s loving it. He can’t get over how taken he is with her and wonders if when she’s safe would he, could he, ask her out.
He offers to hold her bag but she declines only to wince when she tries to put it on her shoulder. “Ow. Guess I’ll be bruised from that idiot. Can you help get this over my head?”. Bucky helps her get the strap over her head so the bag rests comfortably across her body and goes behind her and lifts the strap to free her hair from under it. “Comfy?” he asks and he’s dazzled again by her smile.
“You know, if this situation weren’t so serious I would totally ask you out for coffee or something.” She shrugs, “but I’m sure you have plenty things to keep up you busy-no time for that sort of thing, right?”
Bucky smiles, “I think I would like that. But maybe we can make it dinner and a picture, doll? Or some dancing?”. He offers Darcy his arm and she takes it.
“That sounds fantastic.”
“Um, I’m not gonna have some Norse God hunting me down for moving in on his girl, right?”
Darcy laughed. “No! He’s just a friend.”
“Well, then. It’s a date.”
having used tumblr as a teenager is a vaccination against using tiktok today
So, India is dying.
Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.
If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.
Also READ THIS!!!
hi guys! rb this one with petition links instead :)
This is honestly the scariest part of being in this country. Every day someone I love has tested positive. Every hour on the hour there's news of overrun hospital beds and lack of BASIC necessities and mass communities of people DYING. It's fucking scary and the government is doing SHIT about this. And I'm really really scared that by the end of this we would have all lost a big chunk of our humanity because how much tragedy and loss can any one nation of people handle
i found out that Robin Williams was paid $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladdin, which went on to gross over $504 million worldwide.
Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting (estimated at the time to be worth $1 million) as a way of thanking him for his work.
Yeah and he was so furious about the way that disney treated him that he refused to accept the painting. Disney completely fucked him over because disney doesn’t care about anything other than making money.
Before he was scouted for aladdin he was working on a passion project (ferngully) when disney caught wind of the fact that a smaller animation studio had got comedian smash hit robbin williams. They tried at first to get him to only work on aladdin but robin refused to stop working on ferngully. Disney didn’t like that so they actively sabotaged the production of ferngully by doing things like renting out locations which the ferngully team had already paid to use, but nobody can turn down disney money.
There’s a good reason why robin refused to voice the genie in aladdin 2 or any of the videogames he appeared in. Fuck disney
Dude, we got Aladin out of it. That’s worth destroying some random project that probably wasn’t going to be any good in the first place.
EXCUSE YOU?! Ferngully is a fucking MASTERPIECE.
There is no way on earth some b list indie movie is better than aladdin, a contender for best animated movie ever.
Indie movie? Not only is it a good film, it was produced by 20th Century Fox, one of the biggest film studios on the planet at the time. Why do people assume that any animated film not made by Disney must automatically be inferior? There are plenty of creative voices out there that just don’t fit in with the Mouse Monolith.
Anyway, there’s a reason why Robin Williams was only paid $75k to play the Genie: he actually refused a multi-million dollar offer and took a pay cut in exchange for Disney’s promise that they wouldn’t use his name or the Genie character to promote the film. Williams hated the idea of his name and voice being used to sell merchandise to kids, thinking that it was predatory and that it cheapened animation as an art form. So he asked Disney to promise not to put his name in any ads, and only give the Genie a small spot on the film poster. How’d that work out?
YEAH, NOT GREAT.
This is the original theatrical poster. It’s pretty much the complete opposite of what Williams was promised by Disney. The ad campaign hyped the hell out of Williams being in the movie: if you look at the old TV ads, Aladdin himself is barely in them, it’s pretty much a Genie sizzle reel. And of course, they made an Mt. Everest’s worth of Genie merchandise and marketed it directly to kids. Williams was livid, and refused to work on any Disney project for years (which was right around the time that he became the hottest comedian in Hollywood. Disney played themselves.) That’s why Genie is voiced by another actor in the sequel and the subsequent Aladdin TV series.
Four years later, Williams patched things up with Disney (after one of their top execs publicly apologized to him) and he agreed to play the Genie in the direct-to-video film Aladdin and the King of Thieves. This time, he didn’t even bother trying to appeal to Disney’s good faith: he took a million dollar payday, at that point the biggest payment an actor had ever received for a direct-to-video film. And he agreed to let them use his name in advertising, which Disney was not shy about: the words “starring Robin Williams” are PART OF THE FILM’S LOGO.
I had to reblog this addition, because brand loyalty amazes me. ‘Disney’s name is on it, so it HAS to be superior.’ Smh
Yeah I’m reblogging this version too because damn. Fuck you Disney
Also even if somehow Aladdin really was the absolute best movie ever created, that doesn’t excuse Disney acting like dicks to get it made? This dude’s position is honest to God just “I don’t care they treated him like crap, I like the movie.” Wow.
“Grandma, it’s me, Anastasia!”
Anastasia (1997) Ocean’s Eight (2018) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) The Witches (1990)
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Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), WandaVision (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Darcy Lewis Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Darcy Lewis, Thor (Marvel), Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Christine Raynor, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Clint Barton, Jane Foster (Marvel) Additional Tags: Bisexual Bucky Barnes, WinterShock - Freeform, Past Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Minor Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Darcy Lewis & Thor Friendship, Thor is a Good Bro (Marvel), Bucky Barnes & Sam Wilson Friendship, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, post - falcon and the winter soldier, Post-WandaVision, Steve’s Not Old, just retired, tony’s not dead just retired Summary:
Bucky is on the road to recovery. Darcy is a gorgeous bump in the road, or is she the end of the line.
Bucky/Darcy: nobody asked for it but I’m doing it anyway.
Hi there. I’m going to recommend some of my favorite Darcy/Bucky fanfics. Nobody asked for it, but #yolo I’m doing it anyway. If you love a fanfic that isn’t here, please message it to me!
I’m going to continue adding to this list so feel free to follow me for updates.
Coming soon: Steve/Darcy, Steve/Bucky/Darcy, Darcy/Loki.
Let’s do this!
Anything written by Anogete on ao3 is pure gold. She writes Bucky/Darcy and I swear, while I’m reading it, I hear a chorus of angels.
Some personal favorites…
To Bucky Barnes, From Darcy Lewis - A fic where Darcy calls Bucky Sergeant Sexy and somehow it works.
Daybreak - Remember all those pesky little words that turn our favorite World War II vet into a raging psycho killer? Yeah, Darcy helps get rid of those bad boys. Sex happens.
Pulling Me Under - Bucky and Darcy somehow manage to have a lot of sex all while trying not to develop feelings for each other. Darcy in this fic is a complete badass. When I grow up, I wanna be her.
Every Inch of Me Is Bruised by seibelsays - I don’t want to spoil too much of this but please read it. It’s absolutely beautiful. Basically, Darcy loves Bucky in two timelines…present day and WW II.
When I waked, I cried to dream again by Ladyboo - Darcy and Bucky love each other in a thousand different timelines. Reincarnation. Lots of sadness but it’s worth the read.
Three Weeks, Ten States, and One Million Reasons to Fall for You by leftennant - My all time favorite Bucky/Darcy fic. I never wanted it to end! Bucky and Darcy somehow get roped into going on a roadtrip with lovebirds Steve and Natasha. They end up falling in love and become the cutest couple ever.
Will You Greet Her With a Knife by danger_floof - Bad guys keep attacking the tower and Darcy runs to the panic room. Only, the panic room is occupied by some hot guy with a metal arm.
No Time Like the Present by Triangulum - Bucky asks Darcy to hide him from an overprotective Steve Rogers. How can you say no to that?
Please Mister Postman by sachertortes - Classic frienemies to friends to lovers fic. Darcy and Bucky hate each other (it’s hilarious) but have no idea that they are actually each other’s penpals? It works, just read it.
Someone is Bound to Figure it Out by Zephrbabe - Tony tries to get Bucky and Darcy together. Turns out, they don’t need much help in that department.
Snow Globe Scene by emma98 - Okay, this is it. This is my FAVORITE Bucky/Darcy fic. It’s short and sweet. Read it if you like fluff and ~magic~.
Potato by ZombieCyborgAssassin - Total crackfic but it made me smile. Bucky, Steve, and Sam overhear a conversation between Jane and Darcy.
Eight ways to say I love you by brightsee - Bucky tells Darcy he loves her eight different ways, eight different times, and in eight different situations. My HEART.
Blind No More by Tonight_At_Noon - ALL HUMAN. Darcy has to stop saying yes to blind dates.
Gift Shop by sachertortes - Bucky brings Darcy little gifts from his missions and it’s really cute.
Not Exactly Oscar Material by sachertortes - All human (kind of?). Darcy is a romantic comedy celebrity who has to get into a fake relationship with bad boy actor James Barnes to get publicity.
I will continue to add to this list so feel free to follow me for updates.
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Darcy Lewis/Steve Rogers gif
Don't judge me on this gif...it just happened okay? I know it's not that great!
