#AVA APPRECIATION

[wistfulwatcher]

1.03 A Gig's a Gig | 4.09 A Slippery Slope

[itslilacokay]

okay. i did it

i gave the rocketcorp worker who held the pencil more character (thankyou @midgetmoth for the name idea)

[miss0atae]

There is something quite "funny" that Emmaly, a country that has an economy based on gems and gold and prides itself with their technology and culture, is also pretty misogynistic and treat women are lesser, even if they are part of royal families. I guess it is to keep it real.

Ramil already shown last episode what he thought about Ava's desire to compete in the Royal Fencing Competition. He can have a "friendly" competition with her, but he never saw her as a real competitor.

Of course, it's probably because he was raised this way by his father who also don't really like this idea and always saw his son as the true winner of the competition to give him the throne. There was always some contempt when he talked about Ava, in the previous episode. Deep down, he never saw her as a threat to his son.

Even a character who is supposed to have no heir and looked so happy for his fellow prince to get to have his son back, is having such backward views on women. You would think, after losing his consort, he would see things differently...Alas not really.

Even Ava's father seems to agree with their ideas, in some way, if we believe his freaked out face. He is her father and he seems to love her, but he has never thought it was possible for her to compete for him to have the throne. He was resigned and that's also infuriating.

Thankfully, we had Khanin to remind these misogynists that the world is not stuck in the 17e century. Time to grow up!

The true heroine of this episode was Ava.

[newavengers]

I can't believe I had to read the words "John Walker is a victim" with my own two eyes. A man who has had everything handed to him, then took the serum because he got beat up by the dora milaje (who he considered himself superior to). He stole the serum. It's the same as dirty cops who pocket evidence. Then he murdered a man who was surrendering. Now, I don't know about you, but it sounds like that's a direct parallel to the obvious racism and brutality that our police employs on black and brown people. :) Yet, he's a victim. In Thunderbolts*, we're supposed to feel bad for him because he ignored his crying baby and wife, and focused on his social media presence? Not only that, Wyatt Russell, was asked in an interview what John was doing for Valentina, and he said probably killing a lot of people. So, yeah, he's obviously a victim. Such a victim. The biggest victim of all time. And yes, I understand the U.S military fucks everyone up, but white people are given countless chances, whereas, if a black character had the same resume as Walker, y'all would CRUCIFY him/her.

[justanotherrcblog]

TOP 10 RC LIs

Do (or don’t!) include LIs from finished stories only or as well as you like, I restricted mine to ongoing stories for the sake of my sanity

In no particular order:

Top row

Felonia (ABH), Vesper (WTC), Sha’arnez (TTS)

Middle row

Lucien (WTC), Vellora (TTS), Ava (SL), Vincent (SL)

Bottom row

Dmitry (HSR), Onyx & Tallis* (WTC), Cain (HSR)

Hon mentions: Anna (HSR), Sue (LSE), Sirin (HWT) & Shen (WTC)

Tagging: @reneedenoailles, @haruyuki728, @ivomartins, @aslanvlad, @rckspeaks, @miss-nymphetamine, @dutifullynuttywitch, @sazanes, @oyiiiii, @yeullove, @dmitryswifey & @luciferiangirrl

*im counting them as one entry, its not cheating if they’re poly!!

[poorlydrawnstickmen]

Day 11

[hazardsk8r]

thought of my old vicdark au from months ago and a fucked up idea came into my head.

:D hi @trashbins-stuff

[avassiilva]

[moon-x0]

Thunderbolts* sexuality + gender headcannons because why not

Bucky Barnes: Bisexual, demisexual,

Yelena Belova: Aroace, Pansexual, bigender

John Walker: Bisexual, grayromantic

Ava Starr: Aromantic, graysexual, lesbian

Alexei Shostakov: Cupioromantic, Bisexual (heavy lean on men shh)

Bob Reynolds: Lithoromantic, Asexual, Omnisexual

Valentina De Fontaine: Lesbian, closeted genderfluidity

Mel Gold: Demiromantic, bisexual with a fem lean, f lean demigirl

Bonus!

Antonia Dreykov: Nonbinary, aroace

Void: agender, aromantic, prolly ace too but it’s more of a like ‘I can’t do this’ and ‘I kinda don’t care but I would’ rather than a ‘I don’t want to do this’

Sentry: Demiboy (male lean), Omnisexual

[wistfulwatcher]

[itslilacokay]

Favorite underrated ava/AvM character go!!

UHHH UH UHHH UUUUHTHIS GUY WITH THEIR SILLY DRAWINGS

love that guy. hes so silly

havent done a design for em but i kindof want to now

[greendreamer]

I wish I had pony forms designed for the Thunderbolts* new Avengers. You know, saved the day with the power of friendship. Friendship is magic.

[adaisybyanyothername]

I watched Thunderbolts…

There is so much I could say, but mostly I just want to say thank you… I’ve missed my Marvel days… this universe has been there on many very bad days when I needed it & this fandom has meant so much to me throughout my lifetime; but this movie was the first one in a while that felt like that which I loved & missed so much. Like not only the artistry, creativity, & magic of artists in their element; ideas inspiring ideas (Florence doing her own stunts🤩) & switching from CGI to realises just cause. And the amount of thought into the details (giving plenty to nerd out over and squeal about in fangirl as we inevitably rewatch), even the costuming grew on me (it made sense for the characters). But also being a new story with a life of its own (not a remake or “cookie cutter best seller”) nor cut off from that of before, more like something that was meant to happen and be the next step.

And help me take those next steps in my own life, grief, ptsd, and therapy journey (as fictional stories are a great way to live it out).

The mental health & grief representation was so excruciatingly well-done… at times so painful to watch I almost thought they went too far, but at the end of the day I think it was the grit they needed. It is messy & imperfect, and painful & raw, but real… very real. (While still having the wit, humor, levity, depth, & range of emotions Marvel is known to write so well) and bringing it in the midst of well-choreographed fight scenes, character arcs, flawed heroes & heroic villains.

And of course, the stand out (to surprise no one as Yelena has always been a favorite for me and positive representation) but this brought it to another level… the way they did grief representation, ptsd, guilt & shame & regret, depression & mental illness… all the way to found family. Friends becoming a part of something more. It had all the big, hard feelings. And she was the hero I needed today & going forward.

Not to mention some great Bucky Barnes moments (that answered more of the questions I've been asking about him in politics😂). A new fan favorite in Bob! Some possible ships, and definite FRIENDships. More time with Ava. Some fantastic quote (not to mention FOUR ;-) looking forward to as we go forward! And what I'm sure is going to be some great easter eggs to read up on!

… Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go do just that!🫶

… And you can consider this ALSO a Thunderbolts (YELENA BELOVA) fan page now — okay it was always that (I’ll always love the MCU) BUT STILL!

👏👏👏

[paulinamakes]

You know what this episode of The Next Prince was desperately missing? RAMIL AND PAYTAI

[emo-hermit]

A bunch of HCs and small analyses that I remembered from my Live Feed document on watching AVA. Aren't to be taken too seriously but I think I'll stick with them.

Separated screenshots and some fun writings below:

for the first one, I felt it'd be fun to note how I found the colour gang acting a bit like young teens during AVA S2/AVM S1. The one that differentiated from this was Purple, who I felt had a personality like a 17 year old who felt they had to "be better" than their younger peers, also wanting full control or to be seen highly. They still acted childish, of course, hence 17. As the seasons progress however, especially by the start of AVM S3, the group mature into an age range that sits comfortably between 18 and 19. In comparison, Purple regresses emotionally into more childish manners, which I notice gave him a common "youngest of the lot" hc. This is because of him finding a parental figure in KO and therefore feeling safe to return to childish mannerisms.

unpictured is the fact I also gave purple an autism HC alongside yellow. red's adhd is already pseudo-canon (not stated in media but talked about by Becker) so i like to call the red/yellow dynamic the AuDHD pairing.

The race HCs were brought upon by the matador short, where I thought "for the sake of niceties, i'm assuming Green is just latino now", which I honestly had a lot of fun with. In comparison, I had a lot of fun with the idea of Yellow having albinism and therefore nystagmus (if you saw my previous post on the fandom art styles, Yellow is specifically depicted using the HC). I wrote this on the Live Feed:

Autism + nystagmus (an eye condition) = poor hand-eye coordination, in theory

A thought I had with Blue was from my personal feelings that Becker using Blue for AVAddiction and still keeping the whole netherwart thing felt very "good on paper, a bit hypocritical in retrospect". So, the concept came to mind of netherwart being an analogy of alcohol rather than a substance. Of course, the message still stands, but alcohol to a lot of people is seen more casually in comparison to what the buttons referred to. It also made me think of the common "chronic pain" HC given to Blue following AVM E20, and the idea that the whole buttons thing/netherwart overuse could be a result of Blue trying to avoid chronic pain/numbness.

Either way, I've been doing a lot of thinking since my uni trip (which I had a lot of fun at, but there was no service, so I had to just think of ideas in my sleep and return to them later). I was wondering if there was actually some AVM/AVA fandom discord somewhere, or just places for general community. I want to talk to people rather than fighting for Tumblr notes. In other words, I'm asking to meet people and make friends in places outwith this algorithm. Care to help?

Anywho this isn't much drawing at all, mostly words, but I appreciate your attention. I'll maybe make more stuff soon as the academic year closes up. There's a Green x "Above and Beyond" by RIProducer art piece with my name on it. Have a good one! - EMO

[kalcifers-blog]

Rendering practice with Purple