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young philinda moodboard

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May and Coulson watching tv together. when may’s in charge of snacks, they’ll have cold beer. once Coulson got a bunch of heart-shaped strawberry chocolates and champagne when it was valentines. May looked at him like what is This but she ate them anyway. They both knew she enjoyed them.

random aos headcanons

may actually does enjoy watching tv. she sometimes sits down and tries to get away from life with fiction

daisy still reads fanfiction whenever she needs time to rewind or relax

jemma occasionally reads it. you can always tell when you hear her squealing loudly

fitz and hunter are swifties

fitz likes red velvet and chocolate whereas jemma prefers vanilla

fitz puts chocolate chips on things whereas jemma puts sprinkles

besides purple, daisy likes green

jemma wears socks in the house

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remember that episode in season 1 when Coulson says that “may wasn’t always like this” before Bahrain? And then later when may sorts through some of her ahem, emotional trauma, internalised guilt, she pulls a PRANK on fitz? And no one knows who did it but may smiles from the cockpit?

and now I feel so cheated??? that we didn’t have more prank!fun!melinda may,, because it would have been an Amazing way to show that she’s dealt with her trauma, she can laugh again, she feels secure and safe with the people she’s with. imagine the comedy. she switches coulson’s shaving cream for whipped cream, she switches salt and sugar shakers so fitz’s first black coffee of the day tastes like a fine “what the hell”, she puts honey on one of the meeting chairs and Coulson cusses her until he starts laughing,,,,, we were really robbed of happy!may

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AOS headcannons, Quarantine edition

Melinda may 100% has a black mask

Phil got on ALL the food trends (banana bread, dalgona coffee, those little Korean lunchbox cakes, 100-strand candy)

Melinda may probably bought a bunch of gym equipment (“may, you ALREADY have a punching bag” “this one is for special occasions”)

Deke has invented 196&7: new gadgets for boredom relief

almost all of those gadgets have been used to annoy Fitz at least once.

Daisy got a Netflix acc and has watched 95% of all Netflix

she only got an account because Mack forced her to, otherwise she’d just stream illegally.

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Goddess I want to see Ming-Na Wen and Michelle Yeoh kick ass together

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microdosing on therapy by projecting my issues onto fictional characters and creating and consuming content about them working through it and being supported during the process

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Is Kora (the closed captions) Daisy's half-sister or full sister? I'm going with half-sister

This is crazy late but I believe she’s her half-sister. We know that Jiaying has been around for a looooong time (since her power can theoretically make her immortal) so I don’t think it’s too much of an assumption to think that Jiaying would’ve had other families in the past. This is just my guess tho! Not really sure if it’s canon. x 

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I am loving this.

Legend of Korra / Agents of Shield crossover AU head cannons -

Lin Beifong and Melinda May are absolutely best friends.

Fitz-Simmons spend soooo much time trying to analyze Kya’s healing water so they can replicate he healing properties.

Deke is terrified of Lin.

Mack and Bolin are bros.

Fitz-Simmons also spend a ton of time on analysis of bending powers vs inhuman powers.

Yo-yo has fun messing around with the air-babies.

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Do you really think friendships can last more than one lifetime?

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IM GONNA CRY WAIT IM LAUGHING SO HARD-

SO SOMEONE WAS LIKE WHOS UR COMFORT COUPLE AND ME BEING THE PHILINDA WHORE I AM I SAID PHILINDA W THIS GIF

AND THEY LITERALLY REPLIED

AND I SWEAR IM LOSING IT RN AHAHAHAHA

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I will carry the scars forever

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so beautiful

Fandoms don’t die when their source material ends.  Far from it.  A fandom is what you make of it, and most fandoms don’t fully come into their own until long, long after their source canon has first been published, or released in theaters—or stops airing on television.  If my years in fandom have taught me anything, it’s that you need to build the fandom you want.  Keep on creating.  Keep on connecting.  That’s what fandom always has been.  The fandom you love dies if you stop.  The source of official content might stop, and sometimes it’s just time for that to happen.  Pick up where it leaves off.  Find new ways of parsing, reshaping, and transforming what already exists.  Feel what you need to feel, but don’t stop if letting go isn’t what you want.  Among many other things, I’m devoted to a single novel that was published 28 years ago.  We occasionally get, say, a radio or television adaptation, but those several hundred precious pages are all the canon we have. The rest of what fills a fandom that has lasted nearly 30 years, glorious and constant and endlessly surprising? Is us.

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Agents Of SHIELD Series Finale Easter Eggs And References

This is it. The last two hours. What is it they say? It’s all been leading to this? Yeah. 

As always, and for the last time, if you haven’t yet watched the episodes, you should stop reading now. This list of Easter eggs assumes you’ve already seen the episodes.

Spoilers.

Also, I’m going to say, since I’m writing about two episodes at once here, and I’m assuming everybody reading this has actually watched the earlier episodes of the show, I’m probably not going to explain every single callback to earlier storylines. When series end, they tend to do even more than usual, and I think most people will pick up on the majority of them. So, they might not all be here.

Now, let’s go.

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S7E12 “The End Is At Hand”

Malick wants to set Kora free

I’ve pretty much said this since Kora met Malick, but yeah, their dynamic is so, so, so much Ward and Kara. It’s creepy. But I think Kora recognizes it more so than Kara did.

The Fitz stance

I love that Deke recognizes that Fitz has a certain stance when he tries to jog Jemma’s memory. Does he know that they stand the same way sometimes? Probably.

The blue and purple of it all

Okay, so maybe this is just my tv, but the stuff in space is very much in Daisy’s color palette. Purple has always been her color, and a lot of the stuff in space the last two years has had either a lot of red or blue. When Daisy heads into the chronocom ship, there’s a lot toward the blue end of the colors, showing that this is still Daisy’s story.

Garrett being left to die

I know they call this out in the show, but I do like Garrett being left to die by the bad guys too and realizing he can switch sides, just like in the original timeline.

The shock stick

Admittedly, I don’t remember what this is called, but this a very Whedony throwback. It was first used in the second episode of the series by Grant Ward in Peru. It’s based on a weapon used in the series Firefly. I don’t think it’s been used on the show in quite a while.

Jemma wants a suit

Is Jemma the only member of the team who hasn’t had a formal tactical suit/super hero costume. I think so. She’s had the standard SHIELD ones like everyone else, but not the suits like Daisy, Bobbi, and May have worn. Even Elena doesn’t wear the standard one. Of course she wants one.

Jemma’s rambling

While DIANA is melted away in her brain (which, uh, seems like it would not be good for your brain, just saying), Simmons starts to ramble a whole lot. She references a lot of past events in the show, but also, she kind of sounds like dialogue in Alice In Wonderland, which just seems fitting for a woman who keeps ending up in strange places she doesn’t want to be in by strange travel devices.

The 084 Meet Up

I love that we get slightly familiar faces without them being named. I mean, Victoria Hand is obvious, but not sure who the rest are. I also love that we get pay off for what Enoch and Koenig bonded over when he was left behind way back when. The two of them (and the rest of the Koenigs) distributing 084s throughout time to loyal agents for this moment is genius.

And yes, both episode titles are said out loud in both episodes.

S7E13 “What We’re Fighting For”

Quantum Realm

Yes, that’s the same realm they use in Avengers: Endgame to gather the infinity stones and move between timelines. Fitz is using some Ant-Man tech.

1983 NY

I just want you all to know that there was a major blackout in New York in 1983 in Manhattan…. On August 11, as reported in the New York Times on August 12. The same day this episode aired. I did not know this random bit of information. I googled it.

Back to the season 6 finale

When we get the first tidbit of FitzSimmons backstory for Jemma’s refrain of “we had time,” we get to see Fitz, Simmons, and Enoch go back to the events of the season six finale as they intercept Piper and Flint. Not only that, but the people Jemma brings with her to the temple to save everyone are the actual team. That is some paradox level science fiction right there. Very comic booky. (Edited to say: I can’t believe none of y’all corrected me because I had season five here when this just happened in season six! I literally woke up in the middle of the night remembering that I wrote it wrong. Hahahaha)

The stars in their skies

I love that this episode really laid it on that Jemma’s first love was astronomy. We get the scoliosis story again, but we get to see how Jemma has worked her love of the stars into her life. Her favorite star system as a child is where she starts her family, what she names her daughter after, and she even repeatedly utters the phrase “stars in your skies” as a nod to love. Nice.

A situation in Moscow

Look, all I’m saying is that last time SHIELD was in Russia, Bobbi and Hunter were disavowed by the agency. And Mack is now there with a helicarrier? Hmm.

The anniversary meeting

This is very reminiscent of how Natasha leads her meetings from afar in Avengers: Endgame, though probably enhanced by whatever alien tech Fitz and Simmons have put together here. It’s perfect that Daisy, Sousa, and Kora are in space while Mack and Elena are still part of SHIELD and May is teaching at the Coulson Academy. I really thought Mack would retire, but he just can’t let go, huh? Fitz and Simmons are really the only ones to truly retire. Though Coulson has more time.

Piper’s wish

She gets an LMD/Chronocom version of Davis. I just - that’s adorable. She wants her best friend back. And yes, he’s tech. They didn’t go back and save him. Fitz and Simmons built him because he mentions being programmed to be stupid.

Code 136

The code Coulson puts into his briefcase to get the keys to his new Lola? Yeah, that’s how many episodes there are of the show.

Edited to add: And one I missed, courtesy of VFX guru Mark Kolpack:

And that’s it. The end of the SHIELD we all know. I hope some of these actors will come back to play these characters once in a while for Marvel all over again because I think, despite it ending at a solid point, we’re all going to miss this show a lot.

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This. Damn. Scene.

I’ll be honest - I don’t know why, but I didn’t actually cry much during these episodes. They got me in the feels repeatedly but I expected to be balling my eyes out by the end and that just didn’t happen.

However, knowing that this team, while not exactly working together anymore, are still very much a family (I guess in a more conventional way now) and plan to regularly meet up to talk about how their lives are going (and are also just fun and generous aunts/uncles/grandparents to Alya) makes me so emotional in a good way.

And then they just had to end on Coulson and Daisy, after everyone else left, talking about how people just need someone to believe in them - that was honestly the perfect way to end that scene, with the relationship that started in the pilot because Coulson took a chance on someone he believed in.

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I LOVE HOW THE THEME FOR THIS SEASON WAS FAMILT

FATHER, MOTHER & DAUGHTER reunited ♥

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“It’s funny what can happen when someone believes in you.”

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Honestly, I have so many feelings about Deke: his arc, who he was and who he became and I am honestly so so so happy to see where he is today. Deke honestly deserves to be the director of SHIELD in that other timeline.

“The fact, no matter what the outcome, this will be the last time we are all in the same room together. Ever.”