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Feeling insane about this
Logan not only held onto the photograph after the fight until he fell asleep but also kept it with himself until what he thought was going to be his last conversation with Wade.
Just prior to going into the chamber to destroy the Time Ripper, Logan gave the photo back to Wade because the man didn't think that he'd make it. He wasn't someone who expressed their emotions too eloquently but in that moment his expressions and voice conveyed what his heart truly felt. Seeing Wade teared up and realising that that moment could be their very last together, Logan let the voice of his heart take over.
That was their declaration of love.
fun fact: Bucky never voluntarily fought!
He was drafted into WWII, brainwashed against his will for 70 years, targeted and forced to run, then pulled into his best friend's wars, and finally feels he must atone for all the harm he was forced to do. He didn't want to be here, and he can't escape
“Because the truth is too awful” could be taken so many different ways.
“Because it was simple. He was a boy, and sometimes, boys die. He went to sleep, kissed me goodnight and his mother needed him home. And I couldn’t save him.”
“Because he was the abomination. Not the Darkhold, not me. I got addicted to power and had succubus magic I couldn’t always control, but he was the one who couldn’t live without murder.”
“Because I kept killing after he was gone, when he didn’t need it anymore. I used his song to murder innocent witches, even though he died to stop the bloodshed.”
“Because I didn’t respect his choice, Rio’s job or her motherhood, and let him go. I kept killing in a desperate attempt to get him back—and blamed his mother, my love, for his death—even though he was always going to die, I always knew that, and his life was a miraculous gift.”
It’s all of these. It’s none. I love Jac Schaeffer for that, and so hope we get more chapters.
I'm introducing two of my friends to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., here are their thoughts so far:
Season 1
Ward was the least favorite from the start, one of them described him as "working as part of the team by making everyone look better because he was so much less interesting than them"
Friend 1 felt that Skye was a targeted attack on them, who very much has A Type for favorite characters
When Simmons jumped out of the plain in FZZT and Fitz was screaming for her: *uncontrolled screeching*
Friend 1 knows quite a bit about physics and computer science so she was verifying the science jargon, she was pleasantly surprised by how frequently it was actually accurate
Friend 2 had a love web for season 1, which I will now attempt to recreate:
Ward and Fitz should kiss, but Fitz and Simmons should also kiss, and Skye should kiss both of them. They greatly suspected Ward and Skye were gonna kiss but they weren't happy about it. Coulson and May have a "deep intertwined history, both of them are too emotionally repressed. They might have had a thing years ago but never talked about it, they have such intense feelings about each other that they cannot be away from each other. Codependency to the point where the lines between platonic and romantic blur. My favorite kind of ship."
"Skye has terrible taste in men"
Raina: "incredible, love her"
Friend 2 is 1000000% on the Fitzsimmons train
"Mike Peterson should have gotten more, I really liked him"
Friend 1 really wanted to see Akela Amadore again (the agent from Eye Spy)
Favorite episode: T.R.A.C.K.S. (1x13)
Favorite characters: Fitz, Simmons, Skye
*Edit, after asking them directly: Fitz, Simmons, Skye, and Raina
Other Parts: 2 3a, 3B, 4A, 4B
Marvel Really Said ‘No Romance’… and Then Wrote All This Tension Anyway
Today’s post is technically a Ship Scream… but not really about actual ships.
It’s about those “non-couples” — the ones that were never meant to be romantic, never written that way, and yet somehow… the potential is there.
Lately I’ve been doing a Marvel rewatch, and rewatching is honestly dangerous, because it makes you notice things you completely miss the first time — when you’re just caught up in the excitement of what’s happening.
And what I realized is that the MCU, whether intentionally or not (and this is just my perspective), has created very strong emotional tensions between certain characters that could have evolved into something more.
Not necessarily should have, but… they could have.
And I found myself going full Ship Scream over three in particular.
Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanoff
Let’s start with the one that probably surprised me the most: Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff.
In Captain America: Civil War, I absolutely loved the dynamic they built.
You see traces of it again later — especially in Avengers: Endgame, in that quieter scene where they talk while Steve is leading those support groups, following the kind of work Sam used to do with veterans. That detail alone creates this subtle emotional thread that always connects Steve back to Sam Wilson.
Now — I’m saying this as someone who loves Steve and Peggy. They’re timeless to me.
But if the story had never found a way to bring him back to Peggy… I genuinely think Natasha would have made more sense than Sharon (who, in the MCU, was never really developed in the same way she is in the comics).
Because with Natasha, Steve brings out something rare.
She shows a level of vulnerability and humanity with him that she doesn’t easily show with others.
Yes, she has a deep bond with Clint — but with Steve, there’s something different.
They’re opposites: – he’s light, she’s shadow – he’s ideal, she’s survival
And that contrast? That’s exactly what makes it interesting.
You wouldn’t expect someone like Steve to connect with someone as “broken” as Natasha — and you wouldn’t expect Natasha to find stability in someone as morally grounded as Steve.
And yet… that’s exactly why it could have worked.
Namor & Shuri
This one? I know. It makes no sense.
And yet: Shuri and Namor.
Watching Black Panther: Wakanda Forever again, I realized how strong their chemistry actually is.
I don’t even know if it’s intentional or just something that comes from the actors — but it’s there.
Their first interactions feel almost… regal.
He treats her like a princess. She meets him on that same level.
There’s a mutual recognition there.
And then there’s that moment — when he gives her the bracelet.
Yes, it’s part of a larger strategic plan. He wants Wakanda as an ally.
But at the same time… that bracelet belonged to his mother.
That’s not just a political gesture.
It’s one of the only objects that connects him to his origins, to his family — and we know how much that matters to him, considering everything he’s done in her name.
So giving it to Shuri? That’s not nothing.
And the fact that she keeps wearing it — until someone points it out — also says something.
There’s something there that goes beyond alliance or manipulation.
And honestly? The tension between them — even the conflict — makes it even more interesting.
Enemies to lovers is always a possibility.
Will it ever happen? Probably not.
But it’s fun to see it.
Robert "Bob" Reynolds & Yelena Belova
And then the one that really got me during this rewatch:
Yelena and Bob.
This one is completely improbable.
And yet… I love it.
Because what you have here is a dynamic built on contrast, but in a different way than Steve and Natasha.
Yelena is strong, trained, dangerous — shaped by everything she’s been through.
Bob, on the other hand, when he’s not Sentry, is fragile.
Mentally unstable. Struggling. Broken in a completely different way.
And somehow, she becomes the one who can reach him.
She’s the one who: – steps in first – tries to stabilize him – actually gets him to listen
And I think that works because Yelena herself has walked through her own darkness.
She understands what it means to live with internal chaos.
And because of that, she can understand him.
At the same time, being around him softens her.
She drops that cold exterior, just a little.
And he, in turn, finds strength next to someone who is so grounded, so decisive.
It’s not the same dynamic as Steve/Natasha — but it carries that same emotional weight.
The Beauty of “Non-Couples”
None of these are canon ships.
They’re not written as romantic. There are no explicit hints that they ever will be.
And that’s fine.
I’m not someone who forces things that aren’t there or needs them to become canon.
What I appreciate is something else:
the way these relationships are built.
Because regardless of labels — romantic, platonic, enemies, allies — these interactions are written with so much depth that they create something real.
Something that makes you feel.
And sometimes… that’s enough to make you ship them anyway.
sometimes your trickster god husband glitches through time and all you can do is stand there and look devastated
The entire dynamic of this scene is PEAK ‘guy who pretends he is fine but is the softest most emotionally compromised piece of wet cardboard you’ve ever seen’ (mobius) x ‘guy who is actively falling apart but will reassure the first guy at all costs even if his own organs are leaking through spacetime’ (loki).
Mobius: 😑🧍♂️We need to talk about the fact that you keep disappearing.
LOKI: I DONT KEEP DISAPPEARING
Loki immediately disappears like a glitching little Victorian ghost in a silk scarf who drank too much space absinthe.
MOBIUS: 😐 you just disappeared.
Loki: looks like hes about to throw up.
Mobius, immediately: I AM ON THE BRINK. I AM ONE HAND-GRAB AWAY FROM KISSING YOU RIGHT NOW OUT OF SHEER PANIC. YOU JUST VANISHED IN FRONT OF MY MALEWIFE EYES.
Mobius is like “😓it looks horrible.. it looks like youre being born or dying or both at the same time..”
that is a time husband line.
that is a my beloved is in peril line.
you can physically watch mobius go from:
• 😐 “you just disappeared” →
• ☹️ “it looks horrible” →
• 🥺 “it looks really painful”
And Loki is all: oh just a little space-time slip darling! pay no attention to the fact that i looked like i was being exhumed from the void!
Lokis got his reassurance face on like: “I can handle it :3” “im bendy and full of lies :33”
Loki instinctively soothes Mobius: its okay, its okay. not “i’m okay,” not “don’t worry about me,” but comforting mobius for being upset.
Mobius meanwhile is on the edge of taking this man home immediately, wrapping him in seventeen blankets, sitting him down with tea and honey and a very serious talk about how they cannot keep doing this. This is no longer Agent mobius this is malewife distressed from spousal body horror mobius.
Also, Loki immediately recognizes that Mobius is scared for him, not of him. Mobius is not recoiling because Loki looked monstrous, he’s recoiling because he thinks Loki might be in agony and trying to brush it off, and that’s unbearable to him.
Just saw a braindead take that the pointed use of red & blue lighting for over a decade of Daredevil and Daredevil Born Again „means nothing”
Yes sweetie, the constant use of bisexual lighting in Daredevil & Daredevil Born Again means nothing!! Totally! Matt being red and Dex being blue doesn’t mean a thing! Their identities being called upon and symbolised by lighting when they both wrestle with their calling is soo unintended!
Matt choosing to leave Daredevil behind & half of his face being in red when it comes back to him is such a chefs kiss it makes me sad that even such obvious and beautiful use of it is flying over people’s head.
