I'm at a convention and I just saw Captain America pick his nose. He truly is an accurate mascot for this country.
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I'm at a convention and I just saw Captain America pick his nose. He truly is an accurate mascot for this country.
Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr/Ghost Thunderbolts* (2025) dir. Jake Schreier
Falling for scams does hurt people, actually
TW: Human trafficking, SA, torture, discussion of scam farms
I see a whole bunch of people arguing that they would rather risk giving to a scammer than ignore someone's gofundme. I also see people saying things like "I can't believe some sick people are profiteering off genocide" and like, me neither, but I feel like you guys really don't understand who actually runs these kinds of scams and what they are.
Scams of noticeable scale-- like scam asks being sent from hundreds of accounts to every user on Tumblr!-- are typically related to organised crime in poor countries, not Susan from Milwaukee who wants a new coat and has no scruples. People get trafficked by gangs to scam farms in Asia and Africa where they're worked to the bone and tortured trying to get idiots in wealthy countries to part with their money. Genocide profiteering is pretty much the least evil thing these people do.
Here's a UN article on it. Obvious warnings for content related to human trafficking and SA.
Transnational crime syndicates based in Southeast Asia are fuelling the trafficking of people, either forcing them to commit crimes or for s
When you donate to a scammer, you fund these organisations and give them a reason to exist. It's possible some of the fundraisers are legit. I honestly find it unlikely given I'm not seeing any from any other countries where urgent fundraisers would seem to have great reason to exist but which haven't captured the same level of attention on Tumblr-- the number of Sudanese, Congolese, Ukrainian, Burmese or Uyghur fundraisers in my DMs is a fat 0. In any case, there are safer ways to help.
If you want to help (which is great!) you don't have to take the risk of paying for human trafficking. Donate to legitimate charities which have the resources to safely and effectively ensure the money and help is getting to the right people. Funding human trafficking rings in Myanmar is not a good risk to be taking while trying to help.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has caused immense suffering, with countless individuals displaced, harmed, and killed over the years. Tens
Bucky and Ava both know a bit about being manipulated and used.
Tel Aviv last night
Following the devastating news of the murder of 6 hostages, us Israelis are striking and protesting for a deal.
Saying we don’t want a ceasefire deal is just wrong. There are protests nationwide, school and most businesses are closed in protest.
We want a ceasefire / hostages deal . Bring them home now❤️🎗️
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Can anybody explain to me why the protests are against Israel's policy though?
What do you object to? Benjamin AGREED to the deal already.
He may have agreed to it but unfortunately he’s also delaying it… The main issues are
-Him insisting on including the Philadelphi Corridor & not ending the war already
-Thus delaying a deal in may that included the recently murdered hostages and many other hostages (women, children,elderly, injured…)
Everyone has been saying this- Hostages’ families, Israeli & us officials, other Members of the knesset…
*I’m honestly surprised you asked considering it’s all over the news .
Anyways, I hope he’s ✨✨never elected again and faces prison time ✨✨
How’d he get elected in the first place? Genuine question because every single Israeli I’ve had a convo with has been heavily against him. I remember a friend told me it was something about not enough candidates but Idk that didn’t make sense. There’s also the fact that I’ve been hearing of protest for a while. So are all (or at least non-heavily-right wing) Israelis against him and his actions or is there still a group of people (citizens) who still support and agree with him?
the prime minister specifically is selected by the president, i think based on who they believe is most likely to form a government—not always the party that holds the most seats in the knesset. that's why in 2021 we ended up seeing a unity government between yesh atid (17 seats w/ party leader yair lapid) and yamina (7 seats w/ party leader naftali bennett) despite likud holding 30 seats total. in order to form a coalition government you need to hold a majority out of the total seats of the knesset (120, so minimum seats needed is 61).
there are a lot of reasons why bibi keeps being selected as prime minister. his party is the most popular, having received 1.1 million votes in the most recent election and holding 32 seats in the knesset. he's steadily gone further and further right when it comes to the parties he'll work with and imo the standards for who the far right will consider working with are much more relaxed than the standards that left-wing parties will hold. on top of that...other israelis like @homochadensistm would be able to explain better than me how he's sort of "bought out" the haredi voting bloc lol
israel also doesn't have ranked choice voting, so if a party you vote for doesn't meet the electoral threshold then your votes are essentially thrown out. in the most recent election, i think around 325,000 votes between two left wing parties, meretz and labor, were thrown out because they failed to reach the electoral threshold. for some perspective, Shas (right-wing haredi political party), the third largest party in the knesset with 11 seats, received ~393,000 votes. i think it was the leaders of meretz who refused to sign an electoral agreement with labor which would have allowed them to share votes, and they faced a lot of criticism for this decision after the election.
that's my understanding of why he keeps being chosen for prime minister anyway. currently, his coalition government only holds 64/120 seats in the knesset. this is by no means a huge majority, which explains why you're seeing such large protests against decisions the government makes, and also why you'll meet so many israelis who are against bibi + the current government.
This is a great explanation of Israeli politics! Thank you, I wrote a bit as well but it’s so much to explain Xx
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Marvelous Mermay: Starr-Fish
Ava Starr, A.K.A. "Ghost," from "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
Ava is one of my favorite characters in the MCU, and I'm anticipating her appearance in "Thunderbolts."
Happy Festivus everyone! This year, the Feats of Strength will be hosted by the Grandmaster.
It's happening!!!
Both Bucky and Ava will be in the Thunderbolts movie!!!
Winter Soldier and Ghost finally meeting (or meeting again, still my headcanon they knew each other at SHIELD/Hydra)!
I'm finally getting the Winterghost content I've waited for!!!
Be careful this Saturday the 24th
The reason would warrant a trigger warning, and this post might not reach people who have that subject filtered in their tags.
Some sickos have declared April 24th to be the "National Day" for something very sick. It may be a sick joke, but be careful all the same.
Women especially, but men and intersex people too, and definitely kids, be careful. Stay safe.
Another thought that just occurred to me -- it's possible the "she" being hyped for an Episode 5 cameo on TFATWS is not Shuri, but rather, Ava Starr AKA Ghost.
I know it's unlikely, but PLEASE let it be true!
Bucky + Ava=WinterGhost
Also WinterStarr and StarrBucks
I don’t? Understand people who refer to cacw Bucky as “sex on legs” when in cacw he looked like a sad potato with horrible hair. like?
I mean Bucky was pretty much a frozen vegetable for the worse half of 70 years, why wouldn't he look like a sad potato with horrible hair?
Usually I ship canon ships, but only in MCU do I have a crack ship/rare ship as my fucking OTP. And when I go to AO3, this is what I see:
we need more, please. I’ll try my damnedest to write something, too.
I'm trying to cut down on fanfics, but...some time!
Winterghost RISING from the grave like this is ... pretty fucking apt, ship name considered.
Also @scotchandwhitelies you better not keep stringing me along like this because 🥵
Okay, who here is a WinterGhost shipper?! I think the community is growing and I just wanna know where we’re at.
Hre-HEM.
MCU tea-- Stans
Tony stans: I mean I'm with you guys in theory, but you often get carried away. Yes, Tony deserves far more love and gratitude than he's given on-screen; but there's a fine line between love and smothering.
Tony is not a delicate glass baby deer. Tony's feelings were not hurt when Nat wrote "textbook narcissism." Tony didn't care when Thor lifted him up by his goatee. Nat was guilting Tony into joining the Avengers by speaking his first language--snark. And Thor throttling Tony while Tony casually said "use your words buddy" was funny.
Steve Rogers is also not a real dude. This is fiction. So stop freaking out over Stony or DomesticAvengers. Some people cope with a badly written "hero" by writing him as a villain, and other people do it by fixing his writing so he actually acts like a hero. Someone wants to make Steve Rogers likable again, let them.
And for the love of Thor's thunderous balls, stop painting Loki as Tony's saintly guardian angel against villain!Wanda Maximoff. I shouldn't have to explain the irony of this. (Exception: if it's part of a fanfic that believably develops Loki and Wanda into these roles.)
In short: tone it down. Tony Stark himself is the last person who'd want to be babied like this.
Steve Rogers stans: Get help. Literally.
No, not all of you. But those of you painting Tony as a villain for his reaction to that video (especially if you've used the phrase "grainy old video"). Those of you who think always being "right" makes a well written character and a great role model. Who think being a "hero" means always looking for a fight. And that anything you don't like to hear is "abuse" or "evil."
I've seen crazy fans in all different fandoms, but never anywhere else have I seen people act like this except among MCU Steve Rogers stans. This is the only character whose fans I have blocked because I genuinely felt they had legitimate mental health issues, that I might worsen by continuing to argue with them.
Never mind the pigs who project all of Steve's flaws onto Carole Danvers, call her a "Mary Sue," and then unironically praise Captain America for "always being right."
Caption Marvel stans: Well uh, I guess you exist, and you probably accuse everyone who isn't crazy about her character of being "sexist," and I guess I should scold you for it....but I can't cuz I don't care.
Carol Danvers has surpassed Tony Stark in getting unfairly trashed by delusional haters, with the added dimension of blatant sexism, her fans have every right to be paranoid. So I say, stan away, carry on, as you were, etc.
Loki stans: Your fave is a villain. Literally. Literally literally. As in, his literary purpose in this fictional narrative is to serve as one of it's villains.
I haven't actually run across too many Loki stans. But like any suave, hot villain, he has fangirls trying to paint him as a pure victim, and it's a bit disconcerting.
You know, you can love a character without defending everything he does. You're even allowed to love a villain. Because you know, these are fictional characters.
If you love Loki because he's pretty and looks so sad, that's fine. But I'm pretty sure we're supposed to love him for being a hammy, and arguably complex, antagonist. And many of us do.
Bucky Stans: You...well you don't actually exist. "Bucky stans" are really just Steve stans who ship Stucky, or Steve haters who stan/mourn Bucky's potential as a character. (I'm the second one.)
But none us us can pretend to give two farts about the Bucky Barnes of literal onscreen canon, so far at least. Movie-canon Bucky never stands up to Steve post-Winter Soldier, and never makes out with him either.
Wanda stans: Like Bucky, she doesn't have her own real stanbase.
She has fans to be sure; I'm one of them.
But the ones acting crazy, painting her as a helpless victim of the evil Tony Stark? Steve stans. Their blatant disregard for the most basic things about her character ("...and yet she never blamed Tony for anything!" Yes, I have seen that.) reveal how little they know or care about Wanda. If "Civil Fart" had made her "Tonky's" token girl instead of Steve's, the same people now babying her would be digging up all her past crimes like nifflers in a jewelry store.
Vision: I... don't have anything one way or the other to say. I've never seen Vision stans acting in any negative fashion, now that I think of it. I do suspect some are secretly just Tony stans, who if not for "Civil War" would surely realize how dull Vision truly is. But either way, I have nothing to fault them for. I do find it odd and random to see people gushing over this walking pancreas and freaking over Wanda sending him halfway to Australia; but Vision all in all has a very benign fanbase, far as I can tell.
If the Grape Diet Data is you "baby" and you'll fight to the death for him, I don't understand it, but that's cool.
The Avengers Vs. Rubber
Stephen Strange: Informs Stark and the Avengers that this tire is one of the deadliest magical artifacts missing from the Temple of the Kamar-Taj, and it is his and Wong’s duty to bring it in. Thaddeus Ross: Robert’s first human victim (after the rabbit). Cheers erupt as his head explodes. Loki: Is outraged to be out-magicked by a rubber car tire, and will not stand for this! Yet, continues to get his ass whupped. Wanda Maximoff: Has a telepathic face-off with Robert. They have the same powers, and she empathizes with the tire’s plight, but it must be stopped. This is going to be epic. Steve Rogers: The suspicious vet, refusing to eat the turkey. Thor: Did eat the turkey, but Asgardians are immunte to the poison in it. He smashes his plate down and demands “ANOTHER!”
Rocket Raccoon: “So if it’s a tire, a tire is like a car’s arm or leg, so do I just snag the whole tire? Or does the tire have a limb, like its hubcap or air-pipe or something?” Tony Stark: Throws his all into trying to blast that tire, while tossing witty quips at it, but the conversation is so damn one-sided…. Bucky Barnes: Watches from the back of the desert-audience, without using his binoculars, just staring ahead at the madness under his disheveled emo hair.
Pretending that in another reality, Tony and Natasha don’t fucking die and Steve stays in the present but retires, pretty much; Ava is given a chance to join the Avengers and Tony and Bruce work on an experiment to allow Ava to function normally but still have the ability to phase through things. Once the surgery is completed, Ava becomes closer to the Avengers, but finds solace in her companionship with Bucky. One night, Tony, Bruce, Steve and Nat catch Ava and Bucky sleeping on the couch, curled up on each. It’s one of the first real sleep both have had in a long time.