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Shuri is currently in her 20s in the MCU. Letitia ships it.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
She’d been silly to let this get away from her. To think he was truly confiding in her, telling her his hopes and fears and dreams. To think, against all odds, that they’d actually become friends.
She sees it now for what it was, all along — a farce, on both sides. Why else would he hide this one thing from her?
Perhaps he’d been stringing her along from the start. Had known that she would fall for him, like so many others before her had.
But enough is enough. Shuri makes her choice in a split second.
Title: within these walls
Summary: Bridgerton AU. Shuri and Namor are this season's most-coveted jewels, but an intimate betrayal and its immediate aftermath leaves them both reeling -- for more reasons than one.
A rare fandom cross-post (and I know I've been quiet for a while, hello, yes, it's nice to briefly be back)
I'm in the Shadow and Bone fandom, and after an 8-month wait, Netflix has just canceled the show and blamed it on the strike.
This show was the first of its kind I'd ever experienced - a truly excellent fantasy show that centered diverse, disabled, and queer characters at the forefront without ever sacrificing the story.
If you could take a moment to sign and share, I'd be super grateful. We have a very slim shot of saving the show, but we will not go quietly, either.
A rare fandom cross-post (and I know I've been quiet for a while, hello, yes, it's nice to briefly be back)
I'm in the Shadow and Bone fandom, and after an 8-month wait, Netflix has just canceled the show and blamed it on the strike.
This show was the first of its kind I'd ever experienced - a truly excellent fantasy show that centered diverse, disabled, and queer characters at the forefront without ever sacrificing the story.
If you could take a moment to sign and share, I'd be super grateful. We have a very slim shot of saving the show, but we will not go quietly, either.
A rare fandom cross-post (and I know I've been quiet for a while, hello, yes, it's nice to briefly be back)
I'm in the Shadow and Bone fandom, and after an 8-month wait, Netflix has just canceled the show and blamed it on the strike.
This show was the first of its kind I'd ever experienced - a truly excellent fantasy show that centered diverse, disabled, and queer characters at the forefront without ever sacrificing the story.
If you could take a moment to sign and share, I'd be super grateful. We have a very slim shot of saving the show, but we will not go quietly, either.
“Instinct is all it is, really. It always points you to what someone wants, Shuri,” and more so than the first use of her name, she’s thrown by the way that he looks at her, like he just knows.
How could he possibly know?
“You don’t know what I want,” she protests, but the words ring hollow, spoken more to convince herself than him. It’s a bare-faced lie too, she realizes, even though the dizzying proximity of his frame in front of hers has her weak in her knees. Tells her she knows exactly what she wants. What she’s wanted for a long time, really.
“ Don’t I ?” he murmurs, and he’s closer now, much closer, when did she let him get so close, anyways?
I am so happy to get to reveal this beautiful artwork I had commissioned by one of my favourite artists/long time shipmates @anonymousmink! Thank you so much for taking the to make this!
This is a scene from the very first nashuri fanfic ever, written before BPWF even came out! It's a fanfic I adore and one I'm currently in the process of making a podfic for! So many thanks to @wakandawinterprincess for writing and sharing that amazing story with us!
Oh my GOODNESS this is absolutely insane! Thank you for tagging me, I'm simply blown away. This artwork is so so beautiful - you captured some unbelievable details 😍 I've always wanted someone to adapt this fic and this moment in particular, so you absolutely crushed it. To both the artist and OP who made this request - thank you thank you for thinking of me in this moment ❤️ 😊
After seeing disagreeable claims critiquing the end of Wakanda Forever float around for the nth time, I felt like organizing my qualms and putting them neatly into another blog. These are just my musings.
"Shuri should've killed Namor! Sparing him was wrong!" I apologize for my harsh phrasing, but this is a horrible and brainless take, especially when it's from begrudged shippers or anti-Wakanda Forever recasters 😭. Whenever I see it, I can't help but wonder if anyone who says this or agrees genuinely likes and (especially) understands Namor and/or Shuri's actual characters. And no, I do not mean the surface aesthetic of or attraction to them.
If you knew and understood what kind of character Shuri (at least in the MCU) is, you would know why she spared Namor's life after nearly taking it. If you understood the important messages carefully baked into the film, you'd understand the writing choice of Shuri sparing Namor and Namor not being the "incorrigible villain who deserves death."
Asking the silly question of why she didn't kill him in the form of critique, or worse, saying she should have or somehow should give him hell after the fact (fortunately, a regressive immaturity neither character has), is a clear show of media illiteracy. It neglects both characters and at least one pillar theme of Wakanda Forever. If Shuri killed Namor, Talokan and Wakanda would unnaturally be eating away at each other for eternity, allowing the surface colonist nations to swoop in as the destabilization process was done for them. The true villains and enemies that put them in that situation where they collided with one another would gain access to their vibranium and technology. Game over.
Shuri Was Never In Her "Villain Era"
The simple answer, Shuri is not Wanda Maximoff 😊. Goodnight. (Author's note because someone was troubled by this tongue and cheek remark: I don't hate Wanda at all. I meant what I wrote: Shuri is not Wanda, just Wakandan. People want her to be Wanda and have a Wanda arc when she is not and will not. 🫡)
Even at the lowest of her low, Shuri is no villain. Shuri was just a young woman trying to find what kind of leader she was in the midst of grief, inner turmoil, and human anger. I don't know why some fans say she had a "villain era" or want her to canonically have a "villain era," but ok. That is not Shuri, nor would it have filled the hole in Shuri's heart, as said by Nakia. It was not just because it endangered Wakanda and would spearhead them in an eternal war either. Although, that is reason enough for Shuri not to kill Namor.
Who Princess Shuri Truly Is
Princess Shuri is a natural healer, teacher, and creator. Shuri loves, designs, creates, innovates, builds, and protects. Shuri has people who would die for her and trusts her to make the right choice in the end, faithfully standing beside her even when they recognize that the trajectory she currently set them on wasn't a good one. Why do you think this is? Because they know and trust Shuri. They know her brain is as big as her heart.
Shuri is not inherently destructive. That was the uncharacteristic result of her gripe with death (thinking it meant gone) and destructive handling of her grief. Ryan Coogler even pointed out how Shuri's state was unhealthy and dangerous. Shuri and Namor were both grieving and asking themselves painful questions.
That is why Killmonger is who appears to her. Killmonger is a violent, radical character (made that way by neglect, grief, loss, militaristic molding, and the suffering African Americans face) who almost carelessly sent Wakanda spiraling into mayhem. He became the people he hated, in the wise words of T'Challa, and was an unworthy king, in the wise words of Shuri. If such a man is comparing himself to Shuri and is who her subconscious elicited on the Ancestral Plane (which Shuri seems to be taking to her grave now, refusing to tell Nakia), maybe she's not doing alright? Just a thought!
This is also why Ramonda took her out by the river. It's why M'Baku said what he said at Ramonda's funeral. It is so she can mourn properly. So she could heal properly. Something she wasn't doing since the day T'Challa died.
Killing Namor would've destroyed her, not just her people. It wouldn't have sated her despite in her rightful anger, feeling it would. It would've just sent her past a point of no return.
"Show him who you are." Ramonda told her this after she struggled on her own with killing Namor. Why do you think Shuri hesitated even without Ramonda's influence (which was just her presence and reminding Shuri who she already was) yet? It didn't feel "right" to Shuri as their moment together (watching the Talokan sunrise), how Namor paralleled her, and how their people were alike flew through her mind's eye. Shuri hesitated, not because she was "soft" or "nonsensical mushy writing." Shuri saw what they were and what this was. She thought beyond herself. As Editor Michael P. Shawver said, Namor's line of, "only the most broken people can become great leaders" is what they focused on. It is what Shuri finally realizes at the bitter end. They relate. The narrative, characters, and actors all recognize this; I don't see how some audience members do not.
She and Namor were perpetuating the destructive cycle of grief and vengeance while setting that example for their people, but she was strong enough to pull herself up and break that chain. Then she offered her his hand for the sake of not only themselves, but their people. She saw firsthand the beauty of Talokan. Like Namor admired Wakanda in the beginning, she admired Talokan. She remembered her visit to Talokan in the mix of her nation's beauty.
"Vengance has consumed us. We cannot let it consume our people."
Not "my" people. Not "your" people. Our people.
Shuri realized many simple yet, at the same time, humanly complicated truths of how they had connectivity and were broken, trying to be the best leaders they could be. Neither of them was the villain but are what they were due to the bitter hand life dealt them and the situations they faced.
The Real Theme of Black Panther's Wakanda Forever
This movie also had clear themes of:
A) how POC/indigenous infighting sucks and is counterproductive
B) connectivity of black and brown, from culture to shared wounds
C) the scars of colonialization
Shuri killing Namor would defeat the carefully woven narrative and betray all these well-built things. I know some of you guys don't like to hear this, but Namor is not of the archetype of Killmonger, nor is he the real "villain," so he was handled accordingly.
“We talked to so many experts and really made relationships with them, because there was a lot to go through,” says Beachler. “There are a lot of parallels between Africans and Latin Americans as far as the colonization of their communities and cities, the enslavement of their people, the lies that were told about their culture, the misinterpretation of their words, and the ways they were made out to look demonized in order to elevate a European country.”
Shuri Getting Her Lick Back
"Shuri should've beaten Namor until-" or "She let him off the hook unpunished!" If you paid attention to the movie, you'd see she literally beat him within an inch of his life? She definitely did get her lick back just as Namor got his. Wanting her to get "more" licks after the fact is regressive.
Shuri:
isolated and trapped Namor to weaken and drain his energy
ferally clawed both of his wings, taking out his ability to fly
made him bleed and bruised him up
roasted him in a firey explosion, effectively charring him and rendering him temporarily paralyzed
Shuri didn't play patty cake with him; she made an immortal bleed and fear death. She had him gasping for air on his back at the mercy of her spear tip. She made him yield and call off the troops. She made an ally out of him on her terms who exalted her strength and is currently bandaged up, flightless, and awaiting to aid her (rather than striking first, waging war as originally wanted). It's more than enough and was the best course of action. What do you mean? What are you talking about?
i love your work but it's crazy how you say "if you don't like it, just block" in your bio. but then you reblogged a nashuri anti. idk i just find it a bit hypocritical, is all
anon, I'm EXTREMELY suspicious about your tone. doubly so bc you say you like my work, but didn't think to message me your concerns under your actual handle. which is very odd.
but sure, i'll bite. let's assess if i'm a hypocrite or not.
first of all, a quick skim through this blog will show you this is the ONLY nashuri anti I've ever reblogged from in this way.
now, did I break my own rules of engagement?
no, and here's why: when I say "don't like, just block" that has STRICTLY to do with instances where folks find their shipping tastes offended by me (and vice versa).
the post I reblogged - and indeed, the shots I fired - have nothing to do with my opinion on the ship at all. what I WAS doing was coming to the defense of a longtime mutual whose beautiful work was being targeted by these wackos. it was no longer just an "I don't like this ship and that's my opinion!" type of post, but a very personal, hurtful slander that was clearly meant to cause pain.
the friend in question did not ask me to defend them, but I felt that I should, given the absurd amount of fire their very innocuous edit has come under. you'll note again that my reblog has nothing to do with discussing the particulars of the ship itself, and instead is strictly aimed at defending my mutual, who did not deserve to have their name dragged through the mud in that way.
so, to make sure it's clear: I don't engage with antis on ship war dynamics. I don't care to. and I'm open to hearing out instances where I appear to be violating those self-imposed rules.
standing up against online bullying, however? is absolutely not that. hope that's clear xx
posted this on twt alr (vampdizzy if u wanna be moots :3) but the fuck is this
i love letitia to PIECES bro like that is my girl. my pookie. my skrunkly. but…she’s guyanese british. tiana is african american. we need an african american actress. and don’t pmo getting started with tenoch. tenoch is neither south asian nor is he black. he is nowhere near the same shade as naveen either. n*shuri (or n*muri, what the fuck ever) shippers are so deluded and lowkey racist. i need y’all to be normal for TWO SECONDS! and use critical thinking. so damn focused on this doodoo ass ship that you can’t even see how racist ur being 😭 sorry for the rant but this irked me so bad. y’all alr know how i feel abt this shop too liek
Incredible you chose to screenshot and bitch about OP like a coward instead of going to the post directky, how absolutely embarrassing 😂 and even worse that your points hold no depth whatsoever 💀
Newsflash! @fandomsleaveuemotionallyscarred is a casting director at Disney! Letitia and Tenoch are the live action leads now!!
Do y'all *know* how edits work? It doesn't mean OP is saying this is the *correct* casting, or the one that *should* be used. It's literally just... imagining two pretty people in those roles, in what could literally be an Alternate Universe prompt, nothing more. You might know that if you actually *knew* OP instead of choosing to jump to your wack-ass conclusions about their intentions and the ship as a whole.
Next time, use that energy to address racism when you see it IRL baby, not for fandom edits online that got you pissy 💀 oh, and the "follow me on twt for more useless cyberbullying! :3" at the beginning has me DEAD HOW EMBARASSING X2
But yeah, sure, it's the Nashuris who need to be normal lmfaooooooo 🥱
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
She’d been silly to let this get away from her. To think he was truly confiding in her, telling her his hopes and fears and dreams. To think, against all odds, that they’d actually become friends.
She sees it now for what it was, all along — a farce, on both sides. Why else would he hide this one thing from her?
Perhaps he’d been stringing her along from the start. Had known that she would fall for him, like so many others before her had.
But enough is enough. Shuri makes her choice in a split second.
Title: within these walls
Summary: Bridgerton AU. Shuri and Namor are this season's most-coveted jewels, but an intimate betrayal and its immediate aftermath leaves them both reeling -- for more reasons than one.
