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Thinking faster doesn’t inherently make you smarter and I think that leads us to 2 conclusions:

1. Barry is always smart enough to do those things, he just needs more time

2. The artificial speedforce mainly empowered Barry to make dumb decisions faster

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I know that a lot of people love WandaVision and what it did for MCU Wanda’s arc, but I truly wish that people would stop acting like it’s some groundbreaking feminist achievement when it fundamentally failed it’s only major female character of color.

Monica Rambeau is an amazing character and, having already been announced for Captain Marvel 2, she’s definitely going to get a lot more development in the future. However, Monica having one or more future appearances in the MCU doesn’t excuse the way that WandaVision’s creative team gave Monica a great set up – a victim of the Snap who lost her mother in the five years she was gone, who returns to work only three weeks later and is immediately sucked into a grief powered sitcom au/mental torture suburban hellscape where she is cast as a friend of the Star of the Show™, who is then blasted out of the Hex for reminding that woman of something no one is supposed to know about – and then, outside giving her powers, did absolutely nothing with it.

Monica could have been a strong counterpoint to Wanda – another woman struggling with grief who has been into Hex and therefore can understand both the absolute horror of what Wanda is doing and the reasons why Wanda might have gotten to that point. The show could have given Monica scenes that explicitly articulated why she has empathy for Wanda (before her speech in episode 7) or that had Monica or those around her reckoning with how far that empathy can or should extend given what Wanda is doing to the people of Westview. The show could have explored Monica’s own feelings about suddenly gaining powers that she, like Wanda, presumably doesn’t understand or the motivations behind her continual disregard for her own safety prior to gaining powers. But it didn’t.

While Monica was given some amazing scenes (breaking through the Hex, her speech to Wanda about accepting her own grief), the most constant element to her characterization post-expulsion from the Hex is Prioritizing Wanda/a White Woman. When Monica, Jimmy, and Darcy are sneaking around the base and Monica is talking about wanting to go back in, she is portrayed as fundamentally blasé about potentially ending up back under Wanda’s control, an experience she previously described as “excruciating, terrifying, a violation”. When Darcy follows up with information about the effects the Hex has already had on Monica, Monica has a more character based reaction – one that seems influenced by her trauma from her mother’s battle with cancer. Yet, that sort of moment rarely happens for Monica in WandaVision. Mostly, Monica gets her powers, briefly tries to get through to Wanda, is interrupted by Agatha, and is then removed from the board via a run in with Fietro/Ralph for the entirety of episode 8 and a good chunk of the finale itself.

In the finale, Monica not only gets almost no screen time, she gets a scene that, for me, fundamentally ruined what enjoyability there was in her WandaVision arc. Monica’s final scene with Wanda comes after even Wanda has seemingly accepted the horror of what she did in Westview and immediately after Wanda walks past Westview residents who are clearly not happy to see her. It’s also the first time Wanda and Monica have shared a scene where Monica hasn’t been under Wanda’s control or where Wanda hasn’t been immediately antagonistic towards Monica. So there’s a lot that could have been done with this moment. What the creative team chose to do, however, was to use Monica to once again center/prioritize Wanda, having her state that “they’ll never know what you sacrificed for them” – a line that might have some emotional resonance for those still crying over the final Wanda/Vision scene, but that also makes no sense for Monica, a person who understands the horror of being under Wanda’s control, to say. And then, since they weren’t done shoving Monica’s character arc under a bus, they have Monica declare that she would have done the same (mind control, hostage taking, mental torture) thing.

I get that the writers likely wanted to make sure that Wanda exited the show as a sympathetic character and that they probably thought that Monica, who understands the pain of losing someone, might naturally want to console her at least a bit, but the way they did it was painful and made no sense coming from Monica. Even if Monica isn’t the star of the show, her arc deserved the same sort of thought and care that Wanda and Vision’s got and, at bare minimum, she deserved better than being made a mouthpiece for whatever sentiments most immediately benefited Wanda.

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Little fanart for wolfychu!!

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Every girl has had the experience where a creepy guy asks for our number and we don’t want to give it to him, but we also don’t want to get gutted in a back alley. “Give him a fake number!” I hear you call, okay and then he says “okay let me call you real quick!” Because they are learning. “Give them your number and then block them!” Okay and then they can plug it into something like Spokeo, pay $10 and know everything about you. So what do you do?

First pick a fake name, I use Jessica, then download the Google Voice app, hook it up to your email, pick a number, and set up a fake greeting with your fake name. You can set it to ring your actual phone like a normal call or text but they don’t have real info on you.

Go forth and don’t get murdered, ladies!

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Scared of me and my family because we’re so awesome?

SHAZAM! (2019) dir. David F. Sandberg

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i love people who are incredibly book smart but otherwise stupid as shit. i have a friend who got a 4.0 in college but had to ask me if there were calories in soap

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why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead

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ATTENTION ALL GIRLS AND LADIES: if you walk from home, school, office or anywhere and you are alone and you come across a little boy crying holding a piece of paper with an address on it, DO NOT TAKE HIM THERE! take him straight to the police station for this is the new 'gang' way of rape. The incident is getting worse. Warn your families. Reblog this so this message can get accross to everyone.

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I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

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Drawing Short & Tall People

Any tutorials (or just advice in general) on drawing short/tall people? I see a lot of stuff on how to draw average-sized people, but when I go to draw someone who ISN’T average-sized, I find myself at a loss… Help?

Play with proportions.

The average adult human is said to be about 7 heads tall. This doesn’t mean all people, or even that most people are actually 7 heads tall though. Plenty of people are above and below that measurement.

To draw someone shorter, you can sever a head or two. Or add them on to make them taller. Most of that height tends to be in the legs, but there is some variation in torso height. It’s also important to note that head sizes vary as well.

I googled up some photos of people of differing heights and made a quick head count overlay:

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This is the most petty thing ever and I’m 100% here for it ⚡️⚡️

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Iris:

Cancels a date so she can spend time with Barry watching the particle accelerator turn on, something she doesn’t care about but knows it’s important to Barry so she wants to go

Visits Barry all the time while he’s in his 9 month long coma

Tells Barry about the red blur that’s been saving people because it’s something impossible that she knows Barry would usually be interested in, since he’s spent his whole life researching the impossible

Puts herself in danger by blogging about “The Streak” because she wants to help Barry, who she thinks has lost his faith in the impossible, believe again and prove to everyone that Barry is not crazy for what he saw the night his mother was killed

Saves herself and the rest of the hostages from Clock King

Only stops loving The Flash because she saw him viciously attack Eddie

Wants to work on important news pieces that will make a difference in the world

Tries to figure out what happened to her colleague when he stops showing up to work, even though he said horrible things to her.

Is kind to and becomes friends with Linda, even though she’s secretly jealous of Linda

Does research on the “burning man” to help Caitlin

Supports Eddie when he’s framed for murder and finds a way to prove Eddie’s innocence

Deduces that the people with powers, including The Flash, got them from the particle accelerator explosion

Talks Barry through his attack from Grodd and gives him the power to overcome the psychic attack

Tries to comfort Eddie after his kidnapping and, even though she has feelings for someone else, denies them because she doesn’t want Eddie to feel like a second choice

Encourages Barry to follow his heart and save his mom, even though she knows that alteration in the timeline will drastically change her life

Gives Barry space when he asks for it after the singularity

Tells Barry, who’s feeling guilty and undeserving, that what happened isn’t his fault and that Central City still believes in him

Risks her life to expose criminals taking advantage of the poor

Gets Henry to come back to Central City to help Barry after his defeat by Zoom

Forgives her mother for abandoning her and Joe

Wants to protect her father from the pain of knowing he didn’t get to raise his son

Tells Joe the truth and apologizes for lying

Welcomes her new brother into her life

Risks her life trying to get her brother out of the drag racing scene

Wants Barry to be happy, so she encourages him to date Patty and gives him relationship advice (that we know would have saved their relationship if Barry had wanted to follow it)

Defends The Flash when her new boss tries to discredit him

Misses Eddie and still thinks about him everyday

Helps Barry by driving him around after he loses his speed, comforts him and assures him he’s still a hero, worries about him when he has to save Wells without his powers

Helps Barry and Cisco with their Flash hologram

Tells Barry that she wants to be with him and it doesn’t matter to her if he’s The Flash or not

Figures out how to stop zombie Tony from killing everyone by using herself as bait

Is able to convince Barry to leave the speedforce

Goes with Barry to his mother’s grave, something he’s been afraid to do since his mother’s death

Wants to make sure Barry is being realistic, so he doesn’t get hurt

Comfort Barry after his father’s murder

Tells Barry to take all the time he needs to heal because she will wait for him

Knew that something was missing from her life in Flashpoint, but that goes away when she meets Barry in Flashpoint

Helps Barry through the trauma of saying goodbye to his parents in Flashpoint

Physically helps Barry get to Thawne so they can reset the timeline

Is the only one who is not angry with Barry for creating Flashpoint and convinces the others to forgive him

Tells Barry that no matter what she will love him and they will find each other

Wants Barry to know that she’s dating him for him, not his powers

Brings Barry lunch

Never complains when he has to leave their dates early for work or being Flash

Worries about her brother when he get speed because she doesn’t want him to get hurt

Encourages her dad to date because she wants him to be happy and knows he likes Cecile

Refuses to let Barry put her life above the lives of other, and begs him to keep protecting the city even if it means solidifying a future in which she dies

Doesn’t want Barry to compromise his values by killing, saying her life isn’t worth losing what makes him a hero

Risks her life to expose a dangerous gang

Wants to marry Barry, but doesn’t want him to propose out of fear

Looks past Barry’s ulterior motives for proposing because she’s so in love with him and wants to marry him

Doesn’t get angry when he says they need some space from each other, offers to leave their loft so he can stay there

Still shows up to help the team even though her and Barry just broke up

Figures out how to save Barry and Kara from dying in their comas by having Cisco vibe her there

Gives Barry true love’s kiss, which wakes him up

Accepts Barry’s next proposal

Again, doesn’t want Barry to let a bad guy go free even if it means saving herself from Savitar

When Caitlin turns into Killer Frost and disappears, Barry still wants to run to the future to figure out how to save Iris. She tries to convince him to wait on that until they can save Caitlin

Is more worried about what will happen to Barry, her dad, and her brother if she’s killed than actually being killed

Is not angry or scared to find out that Savitar is a version of Barry

Comforts Barry and helps him cope the knowledge that he is Savitar

Is thrilled to see a pain free Barry happily living his life and wishes he could always be free of his pain

Tells him she’s loved him since they were kids and is able to jog his memory

Loves him, painful past and all

Gives Joe her engagement ring so that if she’s killed, Barry can give it to someone else one day, because she wants him to be happy even if she’s dead

Goes with Savitar so that he doesn’t hurt Joe or Wally

Doesn’t want HR to die for her

Is the only one who immediately forgives Savitar and doesn’t chastise Barry for trying to help him

Saves Barry by shooting Savitar in third person self defense

Is heartbroken when Barry goes into the speedforce, seemingly dying

Ignores her own pain from losing Barry so she can do what he wanted by keeping the team together and saving the city

Is distraught when she sees Barry in a delirious state

Risks her life to bring Barry out of his delirium

Wants to deal with the conflict in her relationship with Barry in a healthy way, so she takes Caitlin’s suggestion of couple’s therapy

Tells Barry that she will shoulder his burdens and that he is not alone with the infamously misinterpreted line, “You are not The Flash, we are.”

Comes up with the idea that saves Barry’s life from his self destructing suit

Fears that she and Barry won’t be able to get married like they planned, so she wants to marry him immediately

Spends her bachelorette party helping Caitlin/Killer Frost fight Amunet

Defends Caitlin when Cecile and Felicity initially don’t want to help

Comforts Barry when he becomes obsessed with Devoe

Isn’t even angry when her wedding is ruined by Nazis

Comforts Felicity even though it was her wedding that was just ruined

Fights the Nazis and helps save Kara

Tells Barry that she is “Happy, excited, and honored” to be his wife

Makes an objective executive decision that Barry would have wanted her to make, even though it was hard for her

Tries to be strong for Barry as he’s going through his trail, even though it’s killing her

Almost reveals Barry is The Flash because she’s desperate to save him from a life sentence, but respects his wishes when he tells her not to

Visits Barry in prison everyday

Is the one who takes down Dawfstar

Comforts Barry when he is exhausted from trying to find a way to deactivate the detonated nuke

Comes up with a way for Barry to deactivate the nuke, something Jay, Jesse, Caitlin, Cisco, and Harry couldn’t do

Lays with Barry as he rests, happy to spend time with him no matter where they are

Gets superspeed unexpectedly and risks her life saving people

Supports Barry in his stance on not killing Devoe

Fights Marlize and puts her own safety last by letting herself be stabbed, so that she can open the pocket dimension, freeing Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco

Worries about Barry after Ralph’s death and comforts him as he grieves

Uses her blog to expose Devoe

Tracks down Marlize

The fandom: 

Iris is useless. She’s not a genius so she can’t help the team at all. She’s selfish too. She never loved Eddie and only loves Barry for his powers.

Me:

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From when I was a kid to when I was an adult, things were always changing. But no matter how different things became or what new challenges I had to face, I always had the other thing that my life was marked by. And that’s you. You’ve always been there.

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Hairstyles on white female villians

When the Flash writers won’t let Iris or the rest of the black/biracial women wear their natural hair but the white female villians can have these hair styles.

Now I know some people are going to think “It’s just hair, no need to make a mountain out of a mole hill.” I would proceed to tell you the problem with that statement. No it is not just a hair style in the Flash. By giving the white femals villians these hair styles the Flash writers are implying that people with these hair styles are associated with bad people. These hair styles are associated with the worst of the worst. Candice and people like myself have been asking for people who know how how to do black hair and make up. I have been asking for new hair styles for Iris and mainly other black/biracial women in the show to have variety of hair styles and yet the show does the bare minimum of changing up hair styles but the only time we actually see ethnic hair styles is on white female villians. Another problem is that people will call traditionally black hair styles ghetto, rachet or go unprofessional but yet when someone like Kylie Jenner or Kim Kardashian feel the need to be “edgy” or “cool” what are the hair styles they go for? Oh right hair styles that are traditionally meant for black women such as box braids, twists, cornrows. The moment a non black woman or white woman wear those hair styles then all of a sudden it’s edgy and cool? I feel the exact same way seeing the white female villians wearing ethnic hair styles. So anyways those are my thoughts on that. I am open to having a discussion about this please keep opinions respectful.

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