clintbartondeservesbetter

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

holy shit i just finished the three eps of iron heart and just.

stane’s son is in the show and maybe getting arrested and like what is going on with hood

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

AITA for trying to save my friends’ life?

I know the title might make this seem obvious, but apparently everyone is mad at me.

I (30M) have these two coworkers who have become friends, let’s call them L (26M) and J (26F). Anonymous post since I work for the government.

Anyway, I’ve worked with J and L for roughly six months. They’re pretty nerdy and awkward, so I thought I’d be nice and try to be friendly with them. I don’t understand most of what they say and they’re honestly really annoying, so this was a very charitable gesture on my part. Since they’re highly intelligent, the relationship does have certain benefits in the field.

On to the issue at hand. As I mentioned, I work for the government. So my SO (supervising officer) informed me of a covert operation that was of immediate importance and I was assigned to go undercover with J and L since their branch was under investigation.

At the end of the assignment we’re meant to cut ties completely, which I was prepared for. However, as it progressed it became evident that my SO expected me to terminate these agents. I’m trying to be vague as this is all highly sensitive, you understand.

But I’d become rather attached to J and L, they really are like awkward little lizards you keep around to add ambience, and I thought they could be valuable in the future. The idea of killing them was not appealing.

So, I made a very, in my opinion, logical choice to do what I could to save their lives. Instead of shooting them in the head as I was expected to do, I jettisoned them out of an airlock in a containment pod over the ocean.

I know that might sound bad, but as I mentioned they are incredibly intelligent and could plausibly find a way to escape (which, to be clear, they DID). I think this was an admirably ingenious decision, since I’d be clear with my SO as no regular person could have survived this, but also clear by J and L since I gave them a chance.

But now my SO is angry with me and insisting that I should have personally finished the job, plus I’ve heard through my contacts that J and L are “furious” with me and feel “betrayed?” Which seems very clearly irrational to me since I saved their lives.

So, AITA for saving my friends’ life and completing my assignment?

Edit: Yes, I suppose this could be construed as “attempted murder,” but the whole thing is that they SURVIVED as I knew they would.

Edit: Okay guys, stop attacking me. If you lack reading comprehension, just say that. I SAVED THEIR LIVES because they definitely would have died if I hadn’t done what I did. And I don’t know where some of you got this idea that I’m in Hydra, because I’m not. But even if I was, that doesn’t make me a Nazi. I swear, you’re all so dramatic. Like watch the news?? SHIELD were the terrorists, and Hydra was only briefly associated with Nazis in the 1940s. But this is all besides the point! I kept this anonymous for a reason. You know doxxing is a crime right?? Which I know because I’m a government agent, okay?? Do you understand the concept of a low profile? Obviously i can’t tell you what branch of government I’m in, but I’m not Hydra. Calm down.

Edit: Also! I was literally abused as a child, okay? So maybe I’m not great at forming friendships, but it’s not my fault. My brother gave me some profound trust issues and this is NOT helping. And I have, like, PTSD from all the incredibly confidential cases I’ve been involved in. You know you’re basically attacking a veteran, right? You should be thanking me for everything I’ve done for this country. It’s actually really ableist. And this is not a platform for all your Hydra conspiracy theories okay? You’re completely derailing my original post with irrelevant speculation.

Edit: You can stop now! I get it. You think I’m the asshole. Whatever. And I am not “crashing out,” okay? As if I care about the opinions of a bunch of teenagers on Reddit. And that’s what it is: and opinion!! That doesn’t make you right. I’m deleting this.

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

team iron man because, in an ideal world, the accords is the best option. in the right hands, the government i think should have, at least, some say in the avengers. obviously it isn’t an ideal world and we have seen the government in the mcu abuse power. but i still think that some related to the accords is best.

this is not to say that i am anti team cap. i 100% can understand why people are team cap and agree with him.

Why?

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

I know, the layout of the episode is so fun and the way the plot is revealed is wonderful, and then skye is shot.

T.R.A.C.K.S. Is such a fun episode, why does it have to end in such tragedy? 😭

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

okay I’ve been looking through some tags and realized there’s some disagreement on this so poll time!

limiting selection to characters who were present for almost the entire show.

and I don’t mean who has “main character energy” but more like “whose story is this?”

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

best bit of data i have ever read lol

Have you ever wondered what season of Agents of SHIELD has the highest average episode title word count? No? Too bad!

But first, some other random stats:

The most common episode title length is two words, with 35 episodes being two words long

However, there is one season that does not have any two-word titles, which is, funnily enough, season two

The longest episode title is a whopping nine words long!

Of course there is no episode title with the shortest word count, but the episodes with the fewest number of characters are "FZZT," "BOOM," and "Leap"

Now for the results of this very silly analysis:

The season with the lowest average episode title word count is season three, with an average of 2.09! The highest any episode got was 4 words, so not a shocker.

Next is season one with an average of 2.18, then season six with 2.5, and then season four with 2.82.

Third place is season five with an average of 2.9. This one is really bumped up by "The One Who Will Save Us All."

Second place is fittingly season two with an average of 3.24. It's got two of the only six-word titles, so honestly I thought this one was going to win. But no, that would be...

Season 7! With an average of 4 words per episode title. As you might have guessed by now, this is the season with our only nine-word title: "The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D." But even without that one it would still win, since almost all of its titles are three words and above.

What should you do with this information now? Forget it, probably? I don't know, I'm not your mom. But thank you very for reading this completely pointless post. It was a good way to procrastinate for far too long.

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

Clint: you know sometimes i forget that monkey actually exists

Clint: it’s like unicorns but not fictional

Natasha: you need to shut up now

Clint: ok there is no… why aren’t you stabbing me??

Natasha: i don’t feel like it today, maybe tomorrow.

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

you hurt me over and over again (please keep doing though)

and when everyone forgets peter, the team will think tony invented time travel for the glory of it. They will believe that Tony came back to get the taste of fame in his mouth again, not in order to save someone he loved. They will be pretty sure they remember Tony skidding up to the building in a fancy car, one of the only people who never lost anyone, abandoning his family purely to be the hero again.

He always was a selfish bastard.

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

happy pride month everyone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈❤️❤️

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

Kamala Khan and Daisy Johnson my beloved pair of "excited fangirl gets into way more than she expected and ends up getting traumatized far more than she ever needed to". They deserve betterrrrrr

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

bucky calls joaquin pipsquick since he is the new falcon

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

Clint and Tony are the type of friend who fight all the time but would make out if asked.

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

100% ward wouldn’t pull the trigger on fiztsimmoms not because he couldn’t stand to see them dead. it out of cowardness

kinda related, when people say that he isn’t that bad because if he had different circumstances he may of been good. yes if it wasn’t garret who brought him into shield he probably wouldn’t be hydra but he still may have been a back stabber. just because he could of been good doesn’t make him good

It's so endlessly fascinating to me that a lot of Ward fans seem to have interpreted the scenes where he doesn't shoot the dog and where he drops FitzSimmons into the ocean as a sign that he had the potential for goodness and redemption, because like.

No???? Absolutely not what those scenes were trying to convey????

Yeah he did it because he didn't want to kill them, but in doing so he condemned all three of them to an objectively much crueler and painful fate. I'm sorry but killing someone with a bullet to the head is quicker, entirely painless, and (in terms of murder methods, at least) humane. Instead, he condemned that dog to slowly starve and FitzSimmons to slowly suffocate.

Yes, he didn't want to kill them. But instead of being a good person and actually helping them, he chose to be selfish and cruel.

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

it’s kinda sad that tony never got to hear great war by taylor swift (according to the internet he died on oct. 18 and the song came out oct 21)

the song is so steve tony coded

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

ok like. i maintain that S1 of agents of shield is one of the best written seasons of tv ever. like. it’s so well done. the clairvoyant reveal? is SO fucking clever. the WARD REVEAL?? soooo well done. honestly this season is a masterpiece and everyone should know it

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

Hey there! I stumbled across your blog and wondered if you're a fellow fan of Riri Williams. She's a superhero named Iron Heart. If you love Riri too, are you hoping for anything specific in the upcoming movie? I want to see her have at least a few conversations with her mum and a few more with her (step)dad. I hope to at least once see Riri chit-chatting with him about aeroplanes. If you aren't a Marvel fan, sorry for bothering you. Have a wonderful weekend!

I am a marvel fan but i haven’t read the comics(only recently watched the movies) so the only knowledge i have about riri is from the trailer, but i do think that she will be a fav. hope you have a wonderful weekend too ❤️

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

Riri Williams….you deserve so much better than 90% of marvel fans