#daredevil love story

[graves-doodles]

Behold, my favorite blorbos 🤲

[expensivemistake]

real homies break you out of prison.

[browsethestacks]

R.IP. John Romita Sr. (January 24, 1930 – June 12, 2023)

[vertigoartgore]

Daredevil vs. Elektra by a young Alan Davis (when he was working for Marvel UK). Used back then for the cover of The Daredevils #10.

[shaniartss]

[pastafossa]

Pasta you are an absolute menace…I just figured out where you got Jane Hind from.

The third labor of Heracles: capturing the Ceryneian hind aka a deer that was hunted by him for over a year

“I am definitely not a hound I am instead an animal of prey”

I am not worried you are going to use more events from the story later

(Im kind of embarrassed I didn’t pick it up sooner considering I’m a classics major)

FUCK YESSSSSSS!

Like, I adore Greek Mythology and the classics, and I grew up watching Xena, Hercules, and also hunting down every last Greek and Roman Mythology text my tiny hungry Pasta hands could reach, and so the Hind from the labors absolutely played into it. Her (false) name in my initial drafts and outline was originally just, 'Jane Doe', a placeholder I would swap out a different name for later. But I got used to Jane, and then went, '...wait a fucking SECOND, I know another word for Doe!' Jane Doe -> Jane Hind.

Hind = Doe.

And so her name is symbolic with multiple layers.

Jane Hind is a variation of Jane Doe, aka: no name known, an unidentified person. This was her intent as a joke when she chose it, without really thinking of anything deeper, and so it's absolutely one part pun, but also:

Jane Hind, a play on the Ceryneian Hind, and like you said: 'Definitely no predator here, only prey, *deer noises*' but also a 'Yeah I be runnin from shit and I am FAST and you're gonna have to work to catch me motherfuckers'. She is the trophy that her hunter is searching for, the prey he requires if he wishes to free himself, and at the moment, she is guarded and protected, watched over by the Devil God one who's deemed her sacred. The Evil AU Heracles will have to get around our stand-in Diana if he wants to carry this Hind away. We'll see if he's as successful in Hell's Kitchen as he was in the myth.

Additionally, a little bit of foreshadowing of the myths Ciro taught her (seen again with the story of the Calydonian boar).

I FUCKING LOVE THAT YOU SPOTTED THIS, DO NOT BE SORRY, I RARELY GET TO TALK ABOUT IT.

[heatherfield]

The animal he bestrode was a broken-down plow-horse, that had outlived almost everything but its viciousness. He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck, and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genuine devil in it. Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. —The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, Episode 10 “The Haunting of the Hollow” [x]

[thedevotionaltour]

Daredevil #16 - "Enter...Spider-Man!" (March 1966)

Written by Stan Lee Art by John Romita Sr. (pencils), Frank Ray (inks)

[1988-fiend]

A Tale of my fellow Funko for all who believe in little Fangirl miracles…

So a few weeks ago I was shopping with my bestie when I said “Hey can we stop into Hot Topic?” Because after all the gorgeous hype with pre sales and my mutuals, I wanted to at least catch a glimpse of IF this lovely Marvel Man had even made it to the shelves.

Oh he had all right! AND he was on sale! $10

So for a #treatyoself moment I went to check out and gave the lady my phone number for rewards (for the three to four times I might be in a HT annually) Then a Christmas/Holiday miracle happened.

Cashier Lady: “Oh! You have a ten dollar credit.”

Me: 😳

Her: 😀

My friend beside me (who thought I was aware of this and thus why I wanted to step in the store) 👍🏻

The store: *ambient noises as my brain tries to compute*

Me: ☝🏻😳 (thinking in order to use said credit I’d have to buy something else to validate it) “May I—? May I use it on him?”

Cashier Lady; “Yes of course!!”

Me; “You’re sure?”

Cashier Lady; “Yep!”

Me; *lets out a muppet noise of fangirl happiness that catches the attention of other employees—for they know the call of the fangirl*

Store; 🥹❤️🙌🏻

Me; “Do I owe you anything? Like for tax?”

Cashier Lady; “Nope!” 😀

My Friend; 🎉

Me; *thanks everyone profusely as I leave the store giggling in awe and triumph* 😭😭😭

Morale of the story (for me) not all wealth is gold 🌹

💓💓💓THE END💓💓💓

[notnursenightingale]

He had the courage of a lion, and the cunning of a rat; and if he’s not in hell today, there’s no such place. I know but one good point to the man—that he was fond of his wife, and kind to her.

|| Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Beach of Falesa”

[jyrinestories08]

Instead of just bringing other older characters from the MCU like kingpin, kate bishop, ant-man, daredevil for the mcu spider-man college storyline

Why not just give us characters that we haven’t seen yet in the MCU like gwen, harry, felicia or even a mcu version of norman osborn

If you people are going to say is “but he already fought green goblin in smnwh”, the reason why i want to see a mcu norman osborn is just to see how peter would interact to a guy that he hates so much and i want to see him as the main bad guy for the arc so peter can feel gaslighted by harry since harry is his best friend and he doesn’t want to say that he’s spider-man or saying that norman is a bad guy

And also…why not make a romantic subplot between felicia hardy who is in her teen college years and peter would somehow have feelings for her and move on with mj

“But he loves mj so much”

I feel like he has to move on already for her since that he’s in a different school already, he moves on the stark stuff, happy doesn’t even know him anymore, aunt may died, his best friend and girlfriend doesn’t even know him anymore and so he is now in a new life, no stark tech, no wealthy home, just a life where it’s hard but you can make it better

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay but like Peter Parker reincarnated as dick grayson angst

[kayvsworld]

it may seem like a Double Standard that i'm annoyed at matt for his neverending violence but i love frank instantly. false. matt's violence annoys me because it is annoying but frank's violence is ok because he's never done anything wrong in his life including the many homicides

[pastafossa]

The Glorious TRT Gift

I needed to make this one its own post specifically so I could link it on my TRT masterlist.

One of my highlights of going to the con was finally getting to meet with @wonderlandmind4​, who I’ve been chatting with for ages after bonding over the fic. It was one of those friendships where you finally meet and you feel like you’ve always known each other. There is no awkward period, no ‘um who are you exactly’. Just boom, we’re hugging, we’re chattering, we’re getting kicked out of Panera because we lost track of time while talking and they’re closing, we’re exchanging friendship gifts. And there was one in particular that was very special. If you’ve been around on tumblr, then you may have seen my mentions of her teasing about whatever this TRT gift was. I know she told a couple other people at the con, but when she finally gave it to me, I was just... stunned, and I immediately teared up.

She'd created a funko display of black suit Matt and a custom Funko Jane she'd ordered. It was set above the streets of the Kitchen, complete with beautiful, glittering threads she'd made and attached herself, with the Hell's Kitchen skyline at night as the backdrop.

Jane even has her key necklace, along with her leather jacket! Seriously, the fact that they have not just a red thread, but Matt also has his white thread signifying his love for his city, is just... perfection.

Girl, this is one of the wildest, sweetest, most thoughtful things I've been given and I have repeatedly teared up when proudly showing it to friends and family. My geek friends on my socials are literally losing their minds over it. I literally carried this in the Keanu Jesus tote bag with me every time I left the car on the ride home because I wanted to make sure nothing happened to it. The second I got home, I was rearranging the Matt Murdock shrine so I could set it up front and center. And I've been looking at it and touching it on and off all day, just stunned that someone loved TRT enough to make it. It is absolutely perfect and I love it so, so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 😭

[thedailybullshit]

For FUCK’S SAKE, they can’t have Frank spill his guts to Matt in a heart wrenching retelling of what set him down his path of retribution during what Frank thinks are his final moments & then have Matt & Karen hold hands & kiss in the rain in what is the most blandest & least dynamic pairing possible in that show.

Matt & Frank have more chemistry beating the shit out of each other & random goons while covered in blood for what amounts to an hour of screen time than Matt & Karen have had in all their interactions throughout the damn series.

[somuchbetterthanthat]

I've tentatively tried but I don't think I'm going to be able to write the proper full Matt and Karen story I kinda want but then I remember, hey, I love rambling on tumblr about stories i desperately need but am struggling to put into proper writing words so like,

I'm just thinking of post S3, Karen slowly learning to enjoy peace, and reflect and learn to live with her past better, and of course that ties well to rebuilding her friendship with Matt now that they both know each other more, because he's struggling with stuff as well, and so they're both in each other's orbit and Foggy doesn't seem to be able to stop trying to give them occasions to be alone together with a wink that says 'i know what's going on here' and eventually it gets so much that Karen is like "oh my god Foggy I love you but please stop"

because she assumes that Foggy, in his genuine happiness to have, well, happiness back in his life - his friends, the firm, a clear purpose, is sort of trying to rebuild a past himself that was never quite right: that is, Matt and Karen in dopey love with each other. And while Karen can't deny that she used to have feelings for Matt, she's more than okay with being his friend now, and actually she's pretty sure if Matt and her fell in love with each other it would.. not end well.

and of course the discussion would sort of culminate in a moment of Karen going "wait." because they're joking about being Matt's romantic interest and it just. clicks, for her, that this is something Foggy's been thinking about. That this is something Foggy is thinking about, right now, with a gentle edge of denial and bittersweetness, and she goes "oh my god"

because All the while this was happening Matt and Karen were trying to be extra good and supportive to Foggy because Foggy and Marci broke up, and so Karen repeats "oh my god" and Foggy is like "nope. nope, whatever you're thinking, page, you're wrong --" but he looks a little panicked, now, and she's like "how LONG?" and Foggy is like "I am NOT answering that." and she's like "Foggy. Come on." and he's like "I don't know! I don't know? Few weeks maybe?" and Karen is like "Few weeks? Are you kidding me?" "Or maybe always!" Foggy says, waving his arms around. "I don't know, but I realized a few weeks ago. Maybe. If there was anything to realize. Which there isn't. You hear me, Karen? Nothing is happening here. There is no crisis of feelings or, actually, sexuality, for Foggy Nelson, happening, right now. None whatsoever."

"Oh my god," Karen says, again. "Oh my god."

(Of course, Karen being Karen, she ends up prying towards Matt. She feels utterly foolish and ridiculous, having never considered it - well, she did, she supposes, like, in the first couple of weeks of them all together, but then Matt and Foggy kept being so -- so hetero and, she assumed, she guesses, and to be fair, apparently, it WAS what was happening back then, for Foggy at least, just two bros being dudes, or whatever, but now, with all the new context--)

(Matt looks like a deer in the headlights when they finally talk about it. He laughs it off, at first, like she's being absurd, but oh, she knows Matt Murdock's tricks now, he can't FOOL HER anymore, and so she goes /oh my god/ and Matt is like "don't tell him. I don't -- I just got him back, Karen, It's not worth, it's not worth ruining that--" so painfully earnest and quiet and sad and resigned, and she's like "how..how long, matt?" and he's like "It's not -- it's not like there was, a, a big moment or anything. I just. I've always loved him.")

Karen Page decides she is most absolutely ensuring those two get together by the end of the year. It works. btw.