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[xmcu-fietro]

people with chronic fatigue—how do you manage the fatigue when you have a lot of things to do?

my doctor thinks I may have fibromyalgia but she’s been overall pretty unhelpful/dismissive, and I need a few tips for figuring out how to conserve/boost energy as I finish the semester and prepare for a busy summer. Caffeine doesn't help me because of my ADHD, and sleep rarely helps.

Specifically, is there anything that helps energy while standing up? I don’t have any issues with walking, but when my fatigue/muscle and joint pain/muscle tension flares a lot it makes standing up pretty exhausting, so outside of making myself go to classes when I can I pretty much stay in bed or on the couch as much as possible, but that’s not good for my grades or my mental health.

Any help is appreciated!

[fouralignments]

I posted 2,138 times in 2022

That's 472 more posts than 2021!

361 posts created (17%)

1,777 posts reblogged (83%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@iwillshipyouman

@can-of-pringles

@musicalhell

@groot-the-tree-writes

@xmcu-fietro

I tagged 1,126 of my posts in 2022

Only 47% of my posts had no tags

#dadneto - 266 posts

#peter maximoff - 266 posts

#erik lehnsherr - 251 posts

#charles xavier - 225 posts

#quickson - 222 posts

#quicksilver - 201 posts

#magneto - 185 posts

#cherik - 174 posts

#x-men - 133 posts

#stepdad! charles xavier - 101 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#headcanon: erik knows how to cook and bake super well as it brings him closer to the memories of his mother and he wants to pass it down to

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Ok, Dadneto and Quickson fandom, I love you all. But I am not feeling the Peter is falling loser idiot son when compared to the more competent badass that is the Erik Lehnsherr.

Peter has the most potential to be the smartest person in room even smarter that the resident smart person Hank McCoy.

Now, why do I say this? Because of the Star Trek: Prodigy episode 'Time Amok' where due temporal anomaly the crew are each in different time dilations so for some 10 minutes seems like 10 seconds, while other in the slower 10 minutes seems like 10 months or 10 years. This was the case for Rok, the youngest around eight, where she teaches herself advanced mathematics and engineering and by the end of the episode she fixes the ship and become an engineer.

Relating this to Peter, because of his powers of superspeed time is different and the holding thing that's holding him back is his self-doubt and self-confidence issues.

Peter is damn smart just look at the recuse the X-Mansion. He has to think about force, how students are going to land, who needs to get out first etc. The dude probably has a good understanding of physics and engineering. Honestly, I think Peter plays dumb and pretends not be as smart as he is until the situation demands and helps out.

He would be a killer in strategy and give Erik and Charles a run for their money in a game of chess.

178 notes - Posted May 19, 2022

#4

Soft dadneto is the best dadneto!

198 notes - Posted June 11, 2022

#3

When they say that we couldn't have Peter as a Horsemen and a father and son relationship with En Sabah Nur to contrast with Dadneto and Cherik.

With Oscar Isaac and Timothée Chalamet chemistry in Dune, also in Scenes of Marriage. Isaac could have pulled it off the father figure role. In my mind he should do more of them.

WE WERE ROBBED IN X-MEN APOCALYPSE!

211 notes - Posted February 14, 2022

#2

Headcanon after the battle in Cairo. Charles is bald and has lost his gorgeous fluffy hair. Everyone has regrouped and Hank is checking for injuries. While Peter's leg is getting a splint to straighten his leg Erik helping him as well straightening out piece of metal to use as a splint.

However, Charles notices that Peter is distressed, and it isn't about not telling Erik that he's his son; and he isn't talking. Due to his armor and their plane crashing (woops! there goes their clothes), he cannot wear his watch. That watch grounds him in the reality that everyone else experiences. Like Peter's minutes are hours to his friends, hours are like days; in a way he lives in his own time displaced reality.

So, Charles gives him his watch and Peter gives him a hug.

Which confuses Erik.

227 notes - Posted January 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Apocalypse: I will rule the world. I will rule all of mutantkind. All will bow before me!

Charles: Bitch please... (rolling his eyes)

Apocalypse: What do you have that I don't? I've gathered the strongest mutants to ever walk the Earth!

Charles: I have a rebellious 20 year old speedster just given several pots of espresso.

Peter: WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Erik: Dear god, Charles what have you done?!

262 notes - Posted January 2, 2022

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[can-of-pringles]

[Inspired by @mcu-fietro and @you-see-something-strange-here s' posts]

Peter in the past: My dad always goes crazy whenever someone hurts me. Maybe he goes a bit far with the protectiveness... but I personally wouldn't go overboard.

Peter if someone hurts Rosie: I understand now.

[sunflowerharrington]

🎨Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls - Ralph Bohner🎨

haha, boner. this is a crack fic, please do NOT take it seriously!

(not requested)(and thank god it wasn’t, i am ashamed)

(this gif, man) (he’s really hot tho so i can forgive, a little)

summary: how ralph bohner came to be.

or

a writing exercise i did to get in the mood for writing, featuring marvel’s worst thing they’ve ever done. sorry ralph, we didn’t need to see ya, mate. originally, ralph wasn’t even in this but now he is. not sorry about it. i just based this purely off the fact that i am a literal woman child and also the fact that ralph and peter are not the same person.

tags: language, uhmmmm… ralph bohner and the dick joke, fietro, fake peter, oc has a pet spider, inspired by a tiktok my sister sent me, writing exercise. anything else? i’ll tag it when i’m done, not edited at all (i need motivation so this just… happened.) they’re teenagers in this (i wanna be kendra so bad).

notes: you can definitely tell when i do something in docs and when i do it straight on a tumblr post… yikes. think ya can tell it hasn’t been edited at all and was done in like ten minutes maximum. started off as just describing the atmosphere but then ralph bohner popped up to say the thing he’s gonna say… (haha, get it?)

wc: 888

Kendra stares blankly at her wall, watching the spider crawl up and down and walking in loops over the small spirals of pink paint on the surface, now wearing what looks like little pink boots. She smiles, moving closer to her friend, watching as the spider crawled into a corner of the wall and went asleep.

She breathed out softly, just looking mindlessly at the spider, deciding to scoop her up in her arms to stop her from sticking to the wall when the paint dried, not wanting her to be stuck there forever. She carried the spider over to her little sanctuary and placed her down on the soft leaves, pink paint bouncing off the green in the leaves, brightening the sanctuary. She popped the lid back on and then set the sanctuary back down on her desk.

Kendra walked over to her bed and sat on the edge, taking her sketchbook off her nightstand, with drawings of creatures and nature, her favourite drawing being the one of the girl with the pink hair. Kendra’s favourite colour was pink, and she used it everywhere; from her walls to her everyday makeup (tinted lip balm). She flipped to the drawing she was doing for her best friend, Peter, and began adding more and more details to her friend’s beautiful face, until she noticed something;

A presence in the corner of her room, as if somebody was watching her. She pressed the lead of the pen down onto the paper again and completed the outline of his body and head, and it appeared in front of her, like a hologram. She gasped, her hand shaking as she added Peter’s nose, lips and eyes, and some clothes: A purple and blue Hawaiian shirt, a black leather jacket and some light wash jeans.

There was a knock on Kendra's door, and her mom entered the room, also looking at the presence in shock. “Pete? I thought you were at school?”

No answer. she tried again, still no answer. Kendra tapped “Peter” on the shoulder and he slowly turned around, looking down at his faded hands.

“Mom, I- I think whatever I draw comes to life. That’s n-not Peter, his hair is silver, not blonde. I didn't have a silver-colored pencil…”

“Don’t be so ridiculous, you’re talking nonsense, Ken,” her mom said, turning to leave the room. “And it’s the middle of winter, why is he wearing a Hawaiian shirt?”

She left the room, and Kendra was left alone with her creation, who was wandering around her room, bumping into her desk and her chair. she quickly wrote down the first name that came to mind and called it out. “Ralph? Can you hear me?”

Ralph turned to look at Kendra, his blank expression inspiring her to write emotions down on the page; happiness, sadness, fear, excitement, proudness, love, etc. Anything she could think of. And she gave him a funny surname. She drew him slightly different to her Peter, and used the lead of her pencil to swap his hair from blonde to silver. “You look just like him now.”

“Like who? who are you?” he asks, sitting down next to her, looking down at the paper. “What are you drawing?”

“You,” she simply said, drawing small tattoos on his arms and one tiny one on his right hand, and she added more details to his hands and clothes.

“Can you give me a big dick?” he asked, more like an order than an actual request, bursting into laughter when he saw what’s written on the page. “Haha, boner. You’re funny, man! Are you drawing me? Oh, you said you were. Uhm… Hey uh… Can you draw me like one of your french girls?”

He began snickering. Oh God, he’s just like Peter. 𝘛𝘰𝘰 much like him.

“No, absolutely not.”

“But wouldn’t it feel so good sucking on a big dick? Bet you’d like that.”

“God, Pe—Ralph! I don't want to suck your dick!” Let it be rephrased; he is the unfiltered (she didn’t even know you could get more unfiltered than Peter), completely and utterly honest version of Peter. “Fine, I'll draw it bigger so you stop annoying me.”

She began drawing again, and Ralph watched closely as the pencil drew lines on the page, and he felt himself growing. A gigantic grin grew on his face too, and he threw his arms around Kendra, kissing her on the lips. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

Okay, she needed to teach him to not do that.

“No problem.” She rolled her eyes, setting the sketch pad and pencils back down on her dresser. “How the fuck am I going to explain this to Peter…?” She muttered under her breath, her mind running a million miles an hour (still not as fast as her twinkie-loving best friend, however).

“So, ya gonna draw anything else?”

“I already drew you, Ralph. And if I do it again I'll clone you!”

Ralph pouted, grabbing the pencil off her, “Fine. I’ll draw something myself.”

“The power only works with…” a butterfly appeared out of thin air, causing her to slow her words. “…me… Welp, I guess it doesn’t.”

“We can become millionaires by drawing lots of money, whatever your name is. Miss girl, is what I’m gonna call ya. Ok? I’m gonna draw loads of stuff for us.”

taglist: @cooperdays-gf , @xxlangdon, @unlivingdreams <3

“miss girl” - ralph in tate’s fanfic, march 14 2022.

[crimefightingspiderguy]

Okay okay okay, hear me out.

Let’s pretend that the witness protection person was found/wasn’t relevant and that’s why they never brought it up again. Let’s look then at the Ralph Bohner is an actor theory.

Truly, Ralph Bohner is an actor. So is everyone in Westview post hex. Dottie said her name was Sarah. Meaning that Wanda renamed the people of Westview with more “stage” like names. So what if all of the residents of Westview have a headshot with their name on it in their house? That’s their identification for Wanda in a sense. That would mean that Ralph Bohner is a stage name given to him by Wanda. We know that Pietro or Fietro was given to him by Agnes. Then when her control is removed he becomes Ralph because he’s still under hex control. But who was Ralph pre-hex?? I think Peter.

There are many things hinting at this. They’re subtle, but they are there. As someone who has studied writing in college, I think that the lines and personality they’ve given this mystery character were done on purpose. I think that all of the evidence we’ve collected as fans is correct, pointing to him having a very similar personality and behaviors to Peter from XMen, that is.

I think it’s possible that in one of the next marvel movies when we take a look into the multiverse, we’ll see that Peter Maximoff has already broken through into a different universe and he ended up in Westview (it might be because that’s where he was at the time in his universe or random chance) and until he could get things figured out he crashed at an unused home (that was next to an empty property so he didn’t have to worry too much about neighbors being suspicious). He was in that random home when Wanda showed up and when she created the hex, she turned him into the actor Ralph Bohner. That’s why he laughed at the Bohner name, because it’s not his. That’s why when Agnes found him and put him under her spell and began calling him Pietro he never really confirmed/respond to that name either. He only ever nodded/titled his head or said Uncle P when addressing himself. I think part of his old self was fighting through the mind control, and that’s why he was acting strange when asked about his identity and he still acted in a way that old Peter might.

WandaVision was a show about Wanda and Vision. I know that, and I fully understand that. I had little to no issues with the rest of the series, but this is one thing that I cannot understand about the show because it was too dumb of a character out come for it to even have needed to be in the show. It could have literally not happened at all and they could’ve used the screen time for more important characters and their development, making the show better. But they chose this route and I choose to believe it has a meaning for future projects when they have more time to develop him and not take the attention away from Wanda or Vision.

As I’ve said too many times before, this is entirely my opinion. I will not stand being attacked for my opinion as I am entitled to it, same as everyone else.

[ohmydarlingstarling]

WANDAVISION SPOILERS

I have this idea that I wanna run by you all.

Also if there’s a better format for posts like these, someone please let me know.

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Okay okay okay, so we all know that Evan should’ve been secretly Peter Maximoff, and I’m kinda pissed they just decided to set that one go and make him some random Boner in west view (yes I spelled that wrong on purpose)

But

BUT

BUT

He still can be.

Hear me out.

Hear me out.

In episode four, Jimmy buddy mentions having someone in the Witness Protection Program. That persons identity was not revealed as of yet.

In episode six, Fietro says he was “blasted onto the street by some chump and then he ended up here”. This could easily refer to Agnes taking him over.

But!

In Dark Phoenix, Peter gets knocked into the street through the Dark Phoenix’s childhood home, and then disappears for the rest of the movie.

So, there is a chance (even if it’s minuscule, I still have hope) that Peter Maximoff is within our universe, perhaps he was blasted through universes by the Dark Phoenix, and was found by whatever government that decided to hide this knowledge from the overall public. They send Peter to a quiet town in WestView, New Jersey to keep him out of trouble. He’s given a new identity in the Witness Protection Program, and “Ralph Bohner” is really the type of name he would choose, isn’t it?

Maybe. Maybe not, but it’s just a theory !

[thatsinterestingveryinteresting]

episode 9 spoilers for wandavision

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ok but if fietro is ralph why does he act like quicksilver from the xmen universe under agatha’s magic?

that’s the one thing that’s tying my soul to this one theory

well also the fact that he’s named ralph bohner cause thats such a peter thing to do you cant tell me otherwise

and if the necklace gave him this new personality and is controlling him why is it so similar to peter maximoff’s personality, cheeky, immature and a bit of a goof? why not the personality of aaron taylor johnson’s quicksilver, this snarky impatient speedster that we all know and love? if they wanted to “recast pietro” why give him the wrong personality??

also, in episode 6 he himself said something along the lines of the towns folks’ personalities not being far below from their sitcom ones

would that apply to him under agatha’s magic? i would assume so if it’s like a similar spell

the one thing that can easily be disproven is that his super speed could be from the necklace. i mean it’s not agatha herself doing it, cause she implies that she can’t do what wanda’s doing: magic on autopilot, so i can assume that she probably can’t give someone just straight up superspeed? i don’t know how magic works here but either way, his superspeed can either be his or just given to him which is the one thing proving that he probably isnt peter maximoff

but im pretty sure that he might be coming back somewhere because 1. it’s evan peters, a lot of people like his quicksilver and im pretty sure a good lot of people are kinda disappointed that he didn’t end up as quicksilver (ill say for myself that i found it really funny and just glad that the guy is in the marvel cinematic universe now even if its as a random guy) 2. he still has a lot of unanswered questions regarding his character and marvel isn’t that sloppy when it comes to fleshing out characters 3. again, why evan peters? i mean if it’s just a cameo then fine, i’ll let it go. but of all people, why cast the xmen quicksilver as mcu quicksilver?? probably just to fuck w/ us but it’s just weird?

i cant promise this is my last post regarding evan peters as peter maximoff in wandavision because im still in denial so far out of the 5 stages of grief

[wandaposting]

wandavision: the criticisms post

tl;dr: i liked the show, but there were aspects that were annoying and dumbfounding to me and here’s the post that covers That ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

this was gonna be my comprehensive wandavision review post that had both cons and pros, but the cons kind of ran away from me lsdfjs SO YOU’RE GETTING THIS FIRST. if you find my views diverging from yours in either direction, you’re valid, please don’t shiv me. this is just how i Feel in a somewhat shitposty (as per usual) format. 😔

the big con list:

the way wanda’s actual villainy gets brushed away by the narrative: or specifically the way wanda strolls past the people she mentally tortured and traumatized for a week to apologize to monica, who then goes “gg girl i would’ve done the same :)” and then wanda leaves that entire mess—that she caused—behind her and bails lol. that scene is a microcosm of my problems with this show’s attempt at portraying what the creators have described as her ““complexity””. they want us to feel sorry for her, but not in the way that we can sympathize with walter white while still acknowledging he’s broken bad. rather, this show seemed to want to paint her as more of a victim than the people she victimized. they still want her to come out looking heroic and triumphant and rewarded from her journey with new powers, a new superhero outfit, a new superhero moniker. and that falls flat when you realize she’s basically been a self-absorbed asshole throughout the course of this show. she was confronted no less than four times, and told point blank that a few thousand people were suffering under her control. that is not something we can excuse with depression and denial. that means that at multiple times she is making at least the subconscious choice that her happiness matters more than the wellbeing of her meat puppets, which includes children, across the span of a week. i don’t see monica rambeau “doing the same thing.” the fact that they made her say it while the townspeople glared on in miserable silence just rubbed me the wrong way. if they really wanted to make her responsible for westview, while also wanting her to come out looking remotely good, they needed to invest in a much more substantial redemption arc for her than “i didn’t mean to, gonna go self-exile now.” or even holding everything else constant, they could’ve delivered a more nuanced take where westview was in dire straits before her arrival. the westview she initially drove through already looked economically depressed, so i don’t know why they didn’t just follow through with this. but they could’ve made it so that by granting herself happiness and prosperity, she could’ve spread that genuinely throughout the citizens. instead of hex vision waking norm up in horror, you could’ve had him begging to be put back under. that way, her decision to accept and face reality head on could also be reflected by the people of westview. where everyone, perhaps aided through wanda’s mind link, decides they shouldn’t let fantasy consume themselves at the expense of improving their actual reality. there’s still moral ambiguity, there’s still mistakes being made, we can still side-eye wanda for doing the equivalent of drugging people, but at least these npc’s would've gained something from wanda blundering into their lives. but no she made 3 thousand people suffer through the literal plot of Get Out, giving them life-long ptsd and trauma with nothing good, and i think that’s bad. if she has more haters after this series, i can’t even blame them. but apparently she has a shit-ton more fans after this series, so... OH WELL, IT IS WHAT IT IS sdkfjkls

TYLER: which brings me to the thought that, if this show had hayward acting like a three dimensional human person with the bare minimum intellect required to run SWORD ... instead of an incompetent jackass scooby doo villain ... a lot of us would be spamming #HaywardWasRight. tyler hayward might legitimately be the worst villain mcu has ever produced, like edging past malekith. is he supposed to be an analogue to real world tr*mp appointed deputies? unlike agatha, he’s not even entertaining to watch. he’s the ted cruz of the mcu, which is bizarre when he was introduced as the strict but not particularly vexing or unreasonable successor to maria rambeau in episode 4. it ended up feeling extremely contrived how the show attempted to aggressively signal us with “hayward bad” and “wanda good, actually” through the lens of monica, darcy, and jimmy. it’s like they had to make hayward come across as Extremely Dumb in order to make wanda come across as the more sympathetic party, when she was the one doing [gestures vaguely at wall of text above].

and SPEAKING of agatha: she also ended up being the exact kind of simplified reductive cackling “gimme ur powers wanda” evil super witch that i didn’t want her to be. that’s all.

the theorybaiting: i didn’t care about the lack of mutants/doctor strange cameo (lol what happened, charles murphy)/multiverse/blue marvel/reed richards/mephisto/nightmare/chthon (altho we did get the darkhold wink wonk) so much that it ruined my experience. ralph bohner was disappointing, but i got over it. my issue here is more that they deliberately baited a more interesting story than they delivered, and i think they shot themselves in the foot with that. the first 7, even 8 episodes had set up this atmosphere of mystery and intrigue, only for them to wrap up all these questions with the most boring, uninspired answers possible. question: what does hayward want and what is he up to? answer: hayward is simply a stupid dingus. question: who is agatha harkness and what is she up to? answer: an evil witch who just wants to steal yo powers. question: who is fietro? answer: lol boner. question: was it wanda all along? answer: yes, but no it was actually agatha, but actually yes, but she didn’t mean to and is kind of sorry and now she’s gonna fly away so have fun with your ptsd, westview. ????????? yeah they could have ... done some of that better.

the pacing in the end: i remember when they said it was gonna be “around 6 hours,” and we got 4 and a half hours of actual content instead... they should have given us that extra 1 and a half hour to flesh out the finale. the sitcom portion was fun, it feels like the sitcom portion was prioritized in the writing room, and that the overarching narrative beyond the sitcom suffered to accommodate it. when it came time to break away from the format, they stumbled. so in the beginning, there were segments that felt authentic to the era but were fairly critiqued as “dragging on” ... and in the final episode, we had... the final episode. monica and wanda’s ending conversation felt unsatisfying, both wanda’s apology and monica’s acceptance of it rang particularly hollow [also gestures vaguely to wall of text above]. the appearance of white vision should have had much more of an impact on ... everyone, especially wanda. except the dude just dips and no one mentions him ever again. i feel like hex vision being revealed as the the vision that had always been ~part of her should have also had more ... fleshing out. darcy and jimmy basically ended up having no arcs in this show. they served as stand-ins for the audience, and because they were written to feel sorry for wanda (in a situation where she was absolutely deserving of more scrutiny), the audience too gets manipulated toward doing so.

there’s probably more to add but i’m running out of brain juice BUT THOSE WERE THE BIG ONES STORY-WISE

[moonbaby26]

Well we’re on the precipice now, folks! Series finale of WandaVision incoming. To be honest I wasn’t expecting to get so hooked as I’d been out of the MCU for several years now. The X-Men were always more my flavor when it came to the Marvel properties, but with the film rights previously split between Fox for the mutants, Sony for Spider-Man, and Marvel Studios for pretty much everyone else, I could never have what I really wanted.

And maybe it’s still too soon to dream. But whatever happens tonight, I’ll still be happy for all that they’ve given us thus far. Really, well done to the show runners, writers, actors, costume designers, set design, all of it.

Yet, this is also our last chance to hope for our own headcanons to come to be before we find out the truth. Here’s my wishlist for the finale.

Spoilers below if you aren’t yet caught up with the previous episodes!

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1. I want “Fietro” to be confirmed as the Peter Maximoff from X-Men. I really would be shocked if they didn’t go this route though. Because why waste Evan Peters if not? Why throw away this chance to open the door for the X-Men to enter the MCU in a larger capacity. You know we all want it! Don’t chicken out on us!

2. Vision not to be truly dead again when it’s all said and done. Preferably the Vision that Wanda made in the hex merging with White Vision, to return the soul to the body so to speak.

This one is hard though. Story wise, it makes more sense for him to die again. If he lives, happy ending for sure, but then what would Wanda’s struggle all be for? The main plot seems to be about the natural path of grief.

Many people resonate with Wanda because we all have experienced tragedy and loss of some kind. But you can’t really ever “fix” it. It would take away the chance for more character growth for things just to be back to all happy at the end. It’s a bit of a bad lesson if she gets everything she wanted because she wouldn’t go through her grief process fully and stayed in denial. It doesn’t work that way.

So yeah, I don’t know. Also, would they really want to write Vision out of future projects? Not to say anyone ever truly stays dead in superhero media though. There’s always retcons and alternate timelines.

3. The twins, Billy and Tommy, getting to age up one more time into their Young Avenger selves and surviving. If Wanda can’t keep Vision, so that she can move to the acceptance stage of her grief for plot reasons, then at least getting to keep the twins outside of the hex could be a bit of a compromise. She would gain new family, even while coming to terms with the ones she’s lost. I know if going strictly by the comics, they end up getting taken away from her and reborn elsewhere though.

4. Magneto!!!!! Lol, this is just pure fanservice dreaming at this point. But The Mandalorian finale gave us Luke Skywalker in his prime when we thought we may never see him again outside of the bitter old hermit from the sequel movies. It was so emotional and cathartic, I would love Marvel fans to have a surprise moment like that.

I know in WandaVision interviews we’ve been teased with some awesome cameo to come, and then had it recanted as blown out of proportion, or just referring to White Vision later. But are they still just toying with us to try and keep the surprise?

Personally, I hated when the X-Men movies glossed over familial relationships that could have made stories much more powerful. Like Mystique not being revealed as Nightcrawler’s mother in Age of Apocalypse, or Quicksilver never getting to tell Magneto the truth of being his son.

Heck, just the little lines in Deadpool 2 of Juggernaut talking to Russell saying that having to wear a helmet to keep his brother (Xavier) from controlling his mind was fairsies because his brother was stuck in a chair was great to me. That fan love from the writers to remind us that they hadn’t forgotten who Juggernaut really was. I want my mutant family connections!

To have Magneto blow into the place as this new powerful threat, only to reveal he’s just there to pickup his kidnapped, illegitimate himbo son would be the end of me in the best way.

We shall see! The finale doesn’t air until 3am my time, so I’ll be catching it before work in the morning since I don’t have the willpower to stay off social media all Friday. But I won’t post any spoilers here after watching. So you’re safe. Goodnight all!

[princeescaluswords]

For all they go on and on about "nothing is black and white!!!!" stans sure do have the overwhelming tendency to portray the dynamic between the two noble white families as "Hales Good, Argents Bad!!!" which utterly erases the nuances of the show. They want it both ways in where the rich white werewolves are unfairly persecuted, yet also Peter and Derek kill as casually as breathing, whether you be human or an unfortunate omega passing through.

One of the things I have learned from engaging in the Teen Wolf fandom is that the phenomenon of fandom itself has evolved to a point where they believe they  don’t actually need the shows they follow anymore.  “Fans” don’t have to attempt to understand the theme, the characters, the plot or any -- as you put it -- nuance of these works whatsoever.  I had one person tell me that they only paid attention to the scenes with Stiles in them and then turn around in the same conversation and complain to me that the writing didn’t make any sense.  They’ve been taught that it is completely acceptable to only consume the parts of the show they feel they want, like a vulture picking over a corpse for the juiciest bits.  

You might ask what’s wrong with that?  Unfortunately, the behavior allows the audience to project their own fantasies onto show narratives and to bring their own prejudices into the fandom community.  This turns fandom into a frustrating and unwelcoming place when these fantasies and prejudices involve racism, misogyny, heteronormativity and other behaviors that perpetuate cultural exclusion.

And fandom is beginning to influence more and more the way shows are made.  In the recent televised hit Wandavision, the production knew that casting Evan Peters as “Fietro” would create an amazing amount of buzz in the fandom community, which helped generate viewership, even though the character could have been played by anyone else.  Shows didn’t use to include facets that required the audience to have watched a different movie by a different studio.  That’s what fandom has done.

In Teen Wolf’s case, fandom decided who the good guys were and who the bad guys were and what their primary ship would be 16 minutes into the first episode.  Sarcastic, nerdy white boy ignored by his crush -- check.   Good-looking broody white man with a tragic past -- check.  After that, nothing else mattered to them.  Thus, the parallels between the Argents and the Hales -- families who believe they had the right to determine the course of Scott McCall’s life, families with power and wealth and privilege, families betrayed from within -- went completely over their head.  That Scott developed a relationship with Derek as a brother and as Allison as a lover -- parallel, what parallel?  The Hales and the Argents are the villains and the antagonists of the seasons of the show, because for all the tragedy of the Hale Fire and the tradition of the Argent Code, they tried to continue their battle on the backs of innocent teenagers.

Recently I asked a BNF, Athena Dark, what she thought the theme of Teen Wolf was.  Her reply was, to paraphrase, that does a television show have to have a theme?  Can’t it just be enjoyed? And this is a fan who developed a primer on color theory for the show.  This is a fan who argued that the genre of a show which scores its fight scenes with dubstep is cosmic horror.  This is a fan who suspected benevolent characters of trying to summon a demon and artificially engineering the main characters rise to be the ... main character.   This is a fan who argued the putative and often-described hero of the piece is actually a cautionary tale in the same vein as Anakin Skywalker.  This is a fan who argued, based on the main character telling someone that this was his story in the last episode, that the entire series was unreliable narration, the point of which was ... I still have no idea what the point of it would be, since it was never used for any effect by the production.

I choose to believe that Athena Dark didn’t really confuse ‘theme’ with ‘moral,’ but I still have to point out that her conclusion supports the premise of this post.  She is an exemplar of the fandom.  They, too, can work out elaborate theories and headcanons which ignore parts of the show for which they didn’t care or to which they didn’t pay attention.  They don’t need a theme because a theme encompasses the entire show and not just the depth of Peter’s v-necks.  It’s all for their enjoyment, so if they create an alternate reading of the production where Scott is a bad friend and Stiles and Derek were destined to be an eternal love, what’s the harm?  

But there is harm.  I could point you to Stitch’s articles in Teen Vogue about the harm fandom does with its misogynoir all the time.  I could ask you think about the hijinks endemic in the Supernatural fandom.  Or to think about the damage done to the Star Wars franchise when the fandom got obsessed with a patricidal Space Nazi.   Teen Wolf’s been finished for three-and-a-half years, and we’re still arguing if Scott McCall was Latino and, if so, if he was a hero or just a monster in disguise.

Anyone who watched the show for the show would have seen that both the Hales and the Argents were antagonists to Scott and helped forge him into the protagonist as he helped reclaim both of the families from evil and tragedy.  It wasn’t Stiles that brought Derek to the point he was in the series finale.  Derek didn’t come back for Stiles, he came back for Scott.  It wasn’t Peter who brought Chris Argent to the point he was in the series finale.  He got a new family because he came back to help Scott.   

And the only way for Fandom to deny it is to pretend they were watching something else.

[xmcu-fietro]

discovered today that my Peter Maximoff Lego has a crack on the side of his torso, which explains why his arm has been really loose. (Is it silly that I'm a little sad about that? Is it even sillier that I'm in college and have an emotional support Lego of a hyperfixation??). I can't really replace the piece because the replacement has the classic yellow Lego skin and it wouldn't match the rest of him :/ I guess I could either try to glue the crack shut (not sure if that's even possible since the crack is so thin?) or buy a different replacement torso/jacket, but it'll bother me that it's not the same. Plus his spiderman friendship bracelet has been missing for a couple of months, so all in all the life of Lego Peter Maximoff is in complete shambles

[themonkeycabal]

WandaVision Episode 9 Spoilers

I can't believe we're already at the finale. 

This has been better than I expected, though I didn't have any particular expectations one way or the other. I had hoped it would be bonkers, and it's had its moments, but I didn't expect it to be breaking my heart. I'm glad Wanda (and Elizabeth Olsen) got this moment to shine. It was very well done, and it's been nice to have fun with a Marvel property again. It's been a little while.

My wishlist for this episode is simply that somebody, anybody punch Acting Director Dick square in the face. And also that Jimmy Woo arrests him. A lot.

Other than that, I don't know what to expect, or how they wrap this up in 30 minutes.

Previously on: Wanda finally earned the name Scarlet Witch after Agatha made her relive the worst moments of her life. Harsh, Agatha. Vision uttered a line that launched a thousand gif sets. And Hayward revealed his genius masterplan which is a reactivated Vision, devoid of color and powered by the energy bleeding from Wanda's hex. I'm sure that will go swimmingly for him.

Let's see how this all ends.

Agatha still has magical tethers around Billy and Tommy's necks, which obviously Wanda doesn't like. Agatha gives the boys a tug, knocking them back, and Wanda lets loose, walloping Agatha. The boys are now free, but Wanda tells them to go to their room. They object, she insists, Tommy grabs Billy and they zoom off. Wanda hits Agatha again with a hex, but Agatha sort of collects it into a little glowy ball in her hand. Oops.

"I take power from the undeserving. It's kinda my thing."

Wanda notices her hand turning gray and gnarly — the look of somebody about to be magically mummified. Agatha hits her with a hex and taunts her some more.

"You're clearly in over your little, red head, so why don't you surrender your magic to someone who knows what to do with it?" Agatha, you're pushing your luck. "I'll let you keep this pathetic corner of the world all to yourself. What do you say?"

Wanda says she will throw a car right at your face, Agatha. I laughed. Didn't see that coming, did you? Knocked Agatha right out of her boots.

As Wanda is investigating, Director Dick's white Vision floats down behind her. He's creepy looking.

Wanda walks over to him, staring at him. "Is it really you?"

He puts his hands on her face, all gentle like, but it's a lie. He starts to squeeze. "And I was told you were powerful."

Gross, AD Dick. I hope you get stepped on by Ant-Man when he's being Giant-Man.

Sitcom World Vision (hereafter just plain old Vision) makes a timely reappearance, and takes out Not!Vision. He wants to know where the boys are, Wanda assures him they're safe, and she apologizes for everything and that she should have told him what was happening, "the moment I realized what I'd done". Poor Wanda. He tells her it's alright. She says she can fix it. Not!Vision climbs out of the burning remains of a camper.

Agatha reappears to note the awkwardness of the situation. She asks Wanda who she's going to choose, the ex or the boyfriend. What happens when Wanda hits you with more power than you can contain, Agatha?

Wanda tells Vision "this is our home." He agrees, "then let's fight for it." I hope for the best for you two crazy kids! Marvel has a dicey record on happy endings, though. Sorry!

Vision takes off towards Not!Vision again. Agatha flies off, too, and Wanda follows.

Across the street Monica is pounding on a window, calling for Wanda. Fietro, lounging with a guitar in his … stoner den?, tells her nobody can hear her. Can we talk about how Monica's SWORD uniform looks like ST:Next Gen unis? I can't stop seeing it and it's distracting. Anyway, she tries to escape, but, Fietro is still all fast and stuff, so she's thwarted.

In the sky, Vision and Not!Vision battle. Not!Vision says Wanda must be neutralized and Vision must be destroyed. Hmm. Not!Vision tries to rip out the stone in Vision's forehead but Vision goes intangible. More fighting with intangibleness. It's pretty cool.

Outside Westview, AD Dick is feeling cocky as he watches both Visions on tracking monitors. I loathe him so much. Jimmy Woo is brought in handcuffed by a pair of SWORD goons. I'm sorry, who the f is SWORD? Like, they have arrest powers now? Dick says "hey, it's my favorite member of the Bureau." New wishlist: everybody gets to take turns punching AD Dick in the face.

Dick asks his minion to reconfirm mission objectives while Jimmy listens carefully, mentally noting each and every violation of federal law and the Sokovia Accords. 

The minion says she can't get through to not!Vision, his system is overloaded. A cellphone rings on a desk nearby and Jimmy eyes it, then tells Hayward that he'll never be able to cover up these shenanigans. 

While Dick is busy boasting and the SWORD goons are doing everything but paying attention to their prisoner (in my head all the SWORD goons applied to SHIELD but Maria Hill laughed at each and every one of their applications and then called Pepper to laugh some more and then texted choice bits to May tagging them "RE: LOL"), Jimmy eases over and grabs the phone.

"Wanda canceled her show,” Dick says with the sort of confidence only an enormous prick can muster, “so there's no footage proving there was ever more than one Vision."

Jimmy points out that that is dumb, because there is other footage, from SWORD HQ and stuff, and probably evidence of tampering. He casually sits on a table, shaking his head, like he's just so disappointed (i'm hoping he's somehow managed to use the phone to record the monolog-ing) .

Dick is still too far up his own ass to notice Jimmy being sneaky. "No one's going to care once I've eliminated Wanda Maximoff. They'll believe that the Vision that emerges from the Westview rubble is the one she illegally tried to bring back to life."

Wait, bringing him back to life is illegal? You're full of shit, Dick. And also, an extremely terrible person, who will destroy a whole town for … something? A Vision weapon? Who are you fighting, Dick? BTW, I award him no sympathy points for surviving in the post-Snap world. So if he's been scarred by that or whatever, I don't care. Trauma doesn't excuse murdery megalomania. As has been said before: Cool motive, still murder. I hope Vision intangibles him into a lamp post that gets peed on every day by a parade of small dogs.

"They'll thank me for recovering such a valuable asset. You could be part of that victory, Jimmy. If only you had a little more … vision" says the smug prick who is asking for it. And by it I mean something both terrible and humiliating to happen to him asap.

Jimmy fake laughs back. "That's a good one, Hayward. Okay, I'm convinced. The trouble is my friends at Quantico will probably have something to say about your plan. When they arrive. Inside the hour." heh.

Oh, poor Dick doesn't like being mocked back. He tells his brain-dead goons to remove Jimmy. The goons throw Jimmy into a … stack of hay? In a fenced in cage thing? As you have on your pop-up military facility. Where he sets to work removing his handcuffs with a clip he also stole, because Jimmy Woo is cool like that. Close Up Magic! See the things you can learn from criminals. "Flourish" lol. 

He calls his friends at Quantico. "I was hoping you could get here … inside the hour?"

Back in Westview. Wanda is looking for Agatha while the town goes about its business. Weirdo delivery guy drives by "Don't shoot. I'm just the messenger. ha ha."

Then she gets hit in the back by a purple hex. Ouch. She has hit the pavement hard kind of a lot in this episode already. That hurts, my dudes, I know this from personal falling down experience. Wanda's hand, by the way, is still looking ashy and not very healthy.

Agatha taunts her from a rooftop. "Did you know there's an entire chapter devoted to you in the Darkhold." How could she know that, Agatha? Also, boo the Darkhold. That bit of nastiness led to the Framework, and I'm still a little scarred by that myself. "That's the book of the damned," says the witch standing in front of a billboard for "Squeaky Shine" lol.

Agatha produces the Darkhold and recites from it, "The Scarlet Witch is not born, she is forged. She has no coven, nor need for incantation." Wanda insists she isn't a witch, nobody taught her magic.

Agatha continues, "Your power exceeds that of the Sorcerer Supreme" Steven Strange will like that. Not much. He's so twitchy about things like that. "It's your destiny to destroy the world." Always with the destinies. FREE WILL FOREVAH!

Wanda insists she's not the Scarlet Witch thingy. Agatha says "oh really?" and uses her mojo on Emma Caulfield. Hi Emma Caulfield! She seems to be 'awake' and introduces herself to Wanda (who knew her as Dottie) "My name is Sarah. I have a daughter, she's 8, maybe she could be friends with your boys. If you like that storyline. Or the school bully, even. Really anything, if you could just let her out of her room. If I could just hold her." Wow, ouch.

Speaking of free will or the lack of, Wanda accuses Agatha of doing this, but Agatha says "She's your meat puppet. I just cut her strings." Poor Wanda. And now Agatha wakes up the whole town, who all head towards Wanda.

And we cut to Fietro's den of manchildness. Monica asks what that place is, but come on Monica, it's clearly a den of manchildness. Fietro is making himself a smoothie and explaining the purpose of a mancave — chillaxing.

Monica ignores him and rifles through his bills and whatnot. She finds a headshot of Fietro with the name "Ralph Bohner" underneath. Because, people just keep their headshots lying around willynilly. Wait, are we saying Ralph is an actor? Lol. 

Fietro meanwhile is planning for a Steven Segal marathon — my dad and I watched all of those movies and for the life of me I could not tell you why. We didn't *like* them. I mean, mostly we laughed, but still. Why?

Anyway, Monica is trying to solve the mystery of Fietro. It's not Agatha's house (obviously) it's Fietro's (Ralph). He's an ass and asks if she wants to fight some more, so she flips him over her shoulder and pins him down, trying to figure out how Agatha is controlling him. With her new glowy eyes, she notices the bead necklace he's wearing sparkles in a magically way. She rips it off and Fietro becomes Ralph.

Elsewhere the Visions are still battling in the sky and the boys are watching from their bedroom. They lose sight of dad, but Billy gets a vision of mom in trouble in the town square. He and Tommy run off.

The townsfolk are confused and scared. Wanda tells them they're all going to be fine. "When you let us sleep, we have your nightmares." Ouch. Wanda insists she kept them safe. Wanda, sweetie, you're very far in over your head. 

"You feel, you feel at peace," she tells them, kind of hoping that works. It doesn’t. "We feel your pain." "Your grief is poisoning us." "Please let us go." This is an awful thing to do to Wanda, Marvel!

It escalates with all those voices begging her to free them and she screams, grabbing her head, and when she does that, red light appears around the throats of the townies, silencing them, choking them. Wanda realizes and puts her glowy hands up "stop, stop, I'm sorry", releasing them all.

"If you won't let us go, let us die." Wanda promises to let them go. Agatha wonders what's stopping her from actually doing it.  

"Heroes don't torture people." Agatha's a very sink-or-swim kind of teacher.

That does the trick and Wanda throws her arms back and yells to the sky, releasing her power up at the hex surrounding the town. "Go, all of you. Now, go." The people run and the town flickers through the eras and the barrier starts to fall.

Outside, Director Dick tells his morons "this is it, we're going in!"

The Visions keep on battling, but as the barrier falls, Vision starts to falter himself. I was afraid of that.

The Morons roll in with their big trucks and big guns because … reasons. I have a very low opinion of SWORD. Maria Rambeau's agency deserves better than this shitshow.

Vision falls and it looks like bits of him are chipping off. He hits the ground hard, he gets up, but he's glitching, too, falling apart as Wanda takes down her spell. He reaches for her. The boys appear now, too, screaming for mom, but they seem to be flickering as well, flying apart in pixelly pieces. Poor Wanda.

Agatha says "Now do you see? You tied your family to this twisted world and now one can't exist without the other." This is terrible. "Save Westview or save your family." TERRIBLE.

Wanda pulls the hex into herself again, recreating the barrier. The kids and Vision recover and run to her. Outside, as the hex closes, Jimmy Woo is, yet again, left to stare at the barrier, cut off from the fun inside. Poor guy, lol. But, his FBI buddies are arriving, so at least he won't get lonely.

Agatha throws a hex at Wanda and Wanda throws up a shield to protect her family. Which Agatha starts to draw towards herself like the magic vampire she is. Greedy Agatha. Wanda's arms are all gray. And SWORD rolls into town square, because that's what this confrontation needed — these dipshits.

Anyway, the Family stands ready to face Director Dick and his morons, in a quality recreation of the Incredibles family pose. "Listen boys, your mother and I never really prepared you for this," dad says. Because your boys are like three days old, Vision, it's okay. "But you were born for it," Wanda assures them very fiercely. Get 'em, sister!  

As they square off, Vision's like "oh crap, it's the other me, back in a mo'" and flies off to tackle Not!Vision who's trying to sneak up behind them.

They destroy the town library and Vision wants to know why Not!Vision gotta be like that. "My programming directive is to destroy the Vision." 

Ha ha, says Vision, a loophole. "But, I'm not the true Vision, only a conditional Vision."

Hmmm, says Not!Vision, and they stop fighting, "I request elaboration". Hey, Vision, move into Not!Vision's body and you can be true Vision again! Problem solved, my work here is done.

Back to the street where we find Dick and his Morons and Agatha who is not making this situation at all better. The morons point their guns at Agatha who magics them up off the ground like thirty feet in the air, "Same story, different century. There will always be torches and pitchforks for ladies like us, Wanda." I'm not going to say you're wrong, Agatha, and God knows these SWORD morons are morons, but you're also a pain in the ass. So …

Anyway, then Agatha drops them and Wanda reaches out to catch them. But once caught, she does let them drop the last five or six feet. They'll be fine, but also they deserved it, so I laughed.

"Boys, handle the military. Mommy will be right back." They're my new favorite family.

Wanda flies up to tangle with Agatha and Agatha is super ready except … Wanda throws a curveball and disappears. Suck it Agatha.

Down on the ground the SWORD morons continue to cover themselves in glory and point their guns at CHILDREN. I don't care if they're powered children, you know what I'd like, I'd like if one of the morons would just be like "um, but … they're kids and how about no? I'm going to get Jimmy Woo! He'll know what to do. Don't try and stop me!" That doesn't happen.

Billy freezes the soldiers in place and Tommy super speeds by and steals their guns and hats. AD Dick, being the absolutely loathsome, vile, lower-than-a-maggot, piece of shit that he is, gets out of his humvee and shoots at the CHILDREN.

Monica, who has just arrived to the party, runs and throws herself between Dick and the boys, taking the bullets meant for them. Her new powers render her sort of … I don't even know. Not quite intangible, but she kind of looks like a ballistics gel dummy and the bullets go through her but they slow down a lot as they pass and then just sort of fall on the ground. Dick, crossing the line into pure evil, fires again, the bullet misses Monica and heads towards Billy, who just raises his hand and stops it with his power then he grins at Monica.

"Nice tricks," she tells him.

"I like yours, too," he says.

Dick tries to fire AGAIN! But he's out of bullets. He only had four? Or maybe his gun jammed. Anyway, like the brave man he is, he runs to the humvee, gets in, reverses at speed, stops and looks like he's going to put it in gear and drive at them because the dude is unhinged. But! Lo! It's Darcy and the funnel cake truck, that is apparently built like a tank, though come to think of it, it probably was an armored vehicle in the real world.

Anyway, she t-bones Dick's vehicle, thwarting his evility for the moment. "Have fun in prison." Lol

Back to the Visions. They're having a philosophical debate. "You are familiar with the thought experiment "The Ship of Theseus" in the field of identity metaphysics," Vision prompts Not!Vision.

  "Naturally." And Not!Vision helpfully spells it out for us. "The ship of Theseus is in a museum. Over time its planks of wood rot and are replaced with new planks. When no original planks remain, is it still the ship of Theseus?"

  Vision presses his advantage, "Secondly. If those removed planks are restored and reassembled, free of the rot, is that the ship of Theseus?"

To sum up, neither is the true Vision, both are the true Vision.

"But I do not have the mind stone," says not!Vision.

  "And I do not have one single ounce of original material," replies Vision. "Perhaps the rot is the memories. The wear and tear are the voyages. The wood touched by Theseus himself."

Not!Vision says he doesn't have the memories, though, but Vision insists he does, the data is still there, hidden. Not!Vision says nah, Vision must be the true Vision because he believes himself to be. But, Vision says that's not true anymore, he plays the reverse card, "upon meeting you, I have been disabused of that notion." This is the most philosophy nerd game of 'not it' ever.

Vision continues to try to get at Not!Vision's memories. "As a carbon-based synthazoid, your memory storage is not so easily wiped. May I?" Not!Vision allows Vision to touch the glowy bit where the memory stone used to be, and Not!Vision is flooded with Vision's memories. Not!Vision's eyes go … normal, I guess you'd say, no longer robot-like and glowy.

"I am Vision" he says and flies off. It was a lot to take in, I guess. He needs a little me-time.

I guess we're going to have to go back to calling Vision Sitcom!Vision, anyway, he goes outside and the boys run over to him and there's hugging and stuff.

Agatha stalks them from the rooftop, but it seems she might have forgotten Wanda for a second, because Wanda appears behind her and does that thing she does where she makes you see your worst fear. Enjoy that, Agatha!

Agatha sees herself bound to the stake in the woods again. Her coven dead. Wanda is there in the vision, too. "You see the difference between you and me, is that you did this on purpose."

The coven rise from the dead and shuffle to her while Agatha begs for it to stop. But, then Agatha gets control of herself, I guess, and the undead mummy witches start saying Wanda's name and pointing at her. You're just no fun at all, Agatha.

Now the coven ties Wanda to the stake. "You can't win, Wanda. Power isn't your problem; it's knowledge." That is, actually, very true. Wanda's Scarlet Witch headpiece appears on her all magical-like, marking her as the Scarlet Witch of myth, I suppose.

"Give me your power, and I will correct the flaws in your original spell. And you and your family and the people of Westview can all live together in peace."

If Agatha is so smart, why doesn't she just take Wanda's power, hmm?

"And no one will ever have to feel this pain again. Not even you," Agatha tries cajoling, but that was the wrong tack to take. Wanda gives her the head tilt of imminent ass-kicking, and her powers explode outward, flinging way the weird creepy coven of zombie mummies. Then Wanda knocks them both back into Westview.

She starts hammering Agatha with her powers. "Take it, I don't want it." Vision tries to fly up to help her, but she blocks him with a spell.

Witch fight in the clouds. Every time Wanda misses Agatha, her hexes hit the shield. Outside Jimmy Woo looks on, concerned.

"There's more," Agatha says, "I want it all." Wanda's looking a little mummified, but she's still flinging hexes left and right while Agatha cackles evilly. Eventually Wanda runs out of steam and just sort of hovers there.

"About our deal. Once case, a spell can never be changed." You're terrible, Agatha. Very cruel. "This world will always be broken. Just. Like. You." Low, Agatha. Lower than dirt

Agatha gathers herself and tries to hit out at Wanda with all that yummy power but it just fizzles. Nothing happens. Oh noes, Agatha, what's wrong?

Wanda starts looking like her normal self again and behind her glows a giant rune. Oh, dear, Agatha, you taught Wanda something. When she was missing Agatha and hitting the shield all those times, she was actually casting runes. LOL to you.

The sky is angry and red and stormy. Monica, Vision, and the boys look on.

"In a given space," Wanda says, "only the witch who cast them [runes] can use her magic. Thanks for the lesson, but, I don't need you to tell me who I am."

 The Scarlet Witch headpiece reappears and now Agatha has her a fright. I like you Agatha, you're rotten in fun way, but you took it too far, sister. Wanda takes her power back with prejudice and she is transformed into the Scarlet Witch. Updated version of the classic costume. Nice, I like it.

"Oh god," Agatha gasps, "You don't know what you've done." Wanda drops her on the ground more gently than she deserved.

Agatha asks if Wanda's going to lock her up somewhere. And Wanda says, yeah, here in lovely Westview. "I'll give you the role you chose; the nosy neighbor."

"You have no idea what you've unleashed. You're gonna need me." "If I do, I know where to find you." lol

And Wanda turns Agatha back into Agnes. "Hiya, hon. Say, that some kind of getup you're wearing. Did I leave the oven on, or is that just you, hot stuff."

Wanda says goodbye and walks over to her family, kissing her boys.

Vision says their dream home has turned into a fixer-upper. "I know you'll set everything right. Just not for us."

"No," Wanda agrees because Marvel likes to hurt us all. "Not for us."

Monica kind of bounces on her toes, trying to get Wanda's attention, but probably also not entirely wanting Wanda's attention. Wanda gives her a hesitant nod as she and Vision leave with the boys.

The field around town starts to shrink, the circus turns back into the SWORD base.

They get home and tuck the boys into bed.

"Big day today," Vision says. "Your mother and I … are very proud of you both."

"Very proud," Wanda agrees. "You know, a family is forever. We could never truly leave each other, even if we tried. You know that right?"

They kiss their boys goodnight. Outside the window, the field flickers and fails. "Boys, thanks for choosing me to be your mom."

The town of Westview returns to its sad old self, street by street. Wanda turns out the lights in their home.

But, Vision turns one back on. "Oh, I read somewhere, that it's bad luck to say goodbye in the dark." "No, you didn't." You guys are killing me.

Why did this have to be so good and sad?

And finally the collapsing field reaches their street, they watch it coming. 

"Wanda, I know we can't stay like this, but before I go, I feel I must know, what am I?"

She touches his face. "You, Vision, are the piece of the mind stone that lives in me. You are a body of wires and blood and bone that I created. You are my sadness and my hope, but mostly you're my love." Stupid show, my screen went blurry there for a second.

Vision cries a bit, they both are a little astonished by the tear. 

"I have been a voice with no body, a body but not human. And now, a memory, made real. Who knows what I might be next." Aww, Vision, I love you.

Here comes the field.

"We have said goodbye before, so it stands to reason—" "We'll say hello again." STUPID SHOW why do you have to make me feel things?

The field collapses and everything is stripped back into nothing. "So long, darling." And Wanda stands in the empty lot, in the foundations of the home that never was.

She walks away again. Poor Wanda. And back into town. The people look at her, they don't seem happy. I don't know why she chose to do that, she does have a car. Ah, she's going to talk to Monica.

"They'll never know what you sacrificed for them," Monica says. "It wouldn't change how they see me," Wanda tells her. "And you? You don't … you don't hate me?" "Given the chance, and given your power, I'd bring my mom back. You know I would." "I'm sorry, for all the pain I caused."

Wanda promises to figure out her power and then files off. The End.

Heartbreaking. Good, but heartbreaking.

Mid-credits scene. Jimmy Woo is large and in charge. He's setting up the incident response in town, ordering folks around (in his good natured way).

Jimmy spots his friend. "Monica!" "Authority looks good on you, Jimmy." "Where's Darcy?" "Something about ‘debriefs are for the weak’?" lol "But we can thank her for that." 

And down the street AD Dick is being arrested. Nobody punched him in the face. I'm sad. Darcy came closest, I guess. What with hitting him with the very large truck. It will have to do.

Monica is summoned to the theater by another agent. Hmm nobody there. The agent follows. "I was sent by an old friend of your mother's." And the agent is a Skrull. "He heard you'd been grounded. He'd like to meet with you."

"Where?"

The Skrull points up. 

What was Fury's Skrull buddy's name? I don't recall. I didn't actually like the Captain Marvel movie. I felt like they told it backwards, and also they should have just cast a younger actor to play young Nick Fury. That bugged me. And I wanted more of Annette Benning’s character. Anyway … I guess we know where we’ll see Monica again. 

Well, that was fun. Like I said, I'm not sure what I expected from this series, just that it be some degree of fun, I guess. But it was much better than whatever I had half-envisaged. AND SADDER, MARVEL.

Thank goodness for the multi-verse. I'm sure we'll see some version of the boys again. And also Not!Vision, who is probably also Vision at this point, knocking around the world, trying to find himself. Talk about identity crisis. I feel you, brother. Stay safe, get plenty of whatever passes for rest for you!

See you guys in a couple of weeks for Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I WANT NO TEARS FROM THAT ONE! Unless it's tears of laughter. 

ETA: FOR THE SECOND POST CREDITS SCENE THAT I MISSED. Stupid Marvel hiding things from me. Thank you, @beelzebufo

Mountains, a mountain lake, a place I’d like to be right now. Wanda sits on the porch of her lonely little cabin. The tea kettle whistles and she goes inside. There’s a rattling and whispering from the other room, where the astral projection(?) of the Scarlet Witch reads the Darkhold and her children call for her. I don’t know, Wanda, seems dicey, that’s not a very nice book. 

FOR REAL THE END THIS TIME

[bitchfury]

why Disney+'s wandavision did(n't) work

As someone who has been a Marvel fan for a long fucking time, you can bet your ass I was ready for Wandavision to come out, and did it deliver? yes.

*spoiler alert

Okay, listen...

why it didn't

I love wandavision as much as the other guy, but the sole reason wandavision didn't work was because of the theories.

And yes, I AM talking about our beloved fietro bohner.

plus a bunch of other theories that were made present every Friday, like honestly, why do I watch these 'theories and recaps' videos?? I was so ready for wolverine to come slashing through the screen and disappointed when Evan peters was just a dick joke. (But here's hoping it might evolve into something else, right??)

When the last episode aired and all the wandavision-disney accounts made their Friday posts, like 75% of the comments where talking about how crappy the show was and how they wasted almost 2 months watching the show.

Here's something that took me a SURPRISINGLY long time to learn when you're a part of the Marvel fandom, or any fandom :

WATCHING / CREATING THEORY VIDEOS WILL SET YOU UP FOR FAILURE.

Now say it with me, because those 75%ers where also talking about how they expected our lovely Doctor Strange to make an appearance, Agnes' rabbit to be mephisto (that, or the mailman, or her husband) and vision and the kids to... survive. Which I don't doubt they will, but it's 9 episodes guys, come. on.

I trust Marvel in what they are doing and I strongly believe you'll have a LOT more love for Wandavision when the second Doctor Strange movie comes out.

*I'll probably do a recap of the entire show + some theories people had later this week (Friday? 😏) if you want me to.

why it did

WANDAVISION IS THE BEST SHOW RIGHT NOW, OKAY? It hurt me reading those comments, because it had the best build up and really dug into Wanda as a person.

Just because some fancy man with a red cape didn't appear (sorry Strange) doesn't make the show any less good, because keep in mind - it's called wandavision for a reason. -

Wandavision worked because it shows us the romance between both of our favourite powerful avengers, something we didn't get to see much of in Age of Ultron or Infinity War. Most importantly it shows the misery of Wanda after Vision's death in Infinity War, and how she deals with it slowly, with the stages of grief through each episode.

There's also a lot of build up to how powerful Wanda really is, if she actually made the hex, or if someone was making her do this. Eventually revealing after Agnes begs her to tell the truth, that she made the hex out of her own torment.

Also after Hayward being a complete dick.

(But seriously, who shows someone the love of their lives' body and says 'you can't bury it'. Like???)

Could we also talk about how Hayward literally lied when showing the video of 'Wanda taking Vision's body' because... She didn't take it??? She just remade him??

Then there's the build up to 'Scarlet Witch' by Agnes!! And Wanda's outfit transformation was AMAZING.

*Also a new superhero, Photon is introduced ;))

so... did it work?

yes. Wandavision DID work. Truly, the only thing holding the show down was the theories that where widespread and made everyone expect a different outcome, but if you REALLY think about it, this is an awesome build up to 'The Multiverse of Madness'

Have fun at Westview!

[lifesucksheres20bucks]

THOUGHTS I HAD FOR EPISODE 8 OF WANDAVISION **spoilers**

Okay here we goooooo

Will i cry

Who knows

OMG PURPLE MARVEL LOGO

AGATHA ORIGIN STORY YES

WITCHES ARE KILLING A WITCH???

Oh betrayal

Katheryn hahn is so gorgeous wtf

They just her stronger im assuming instead of killing her

Yass queen

Eat the souls of the other witches

Just killing everyone

How nice

Just witch things ™️

Is agatha trying to get the gang back together

THE REAL US??

SO SEÑOR SCRATCHY IS SOMEONE

Damn agatha

Fuck i love her

FIETRO

SO WHO IS THIS PERSON

LIKE WJO IS FAKE PIETRO

Is agatha going to teach wanda

Its the feel im getting

Agatha jelly

She wants want wanda has lol

Señor scratchy sus

TO YOUR NOT BROTHER

Dont need to rub it in

This is like the best of marvel, i swear

WHERE ARE THE BOYS

FLASHBACKS OMG

OMG HER PARENTS

OMG LITTLE PIETRO

LITTLE WANDA

OMG THEY DID HAVE MALCOM

She wanted to be like the shows

Omg bro i didnt want to see her origin story

This is breaking my heart

THE STARK BOMB

I stg if we see the real pietro imma cry

SOKOVIA

HYDRA

Wanda needs a hug and therapy

I want to give her a hug

My god poor thing

I love this origin story but man my heart

OMG THE SCARLET WHICH APPEARED TO HER WHEN SHE GOT HER POWERS

Wtf

Omggggg

So she had the right huh...mutation if you will, to get the powers

CIVIL WAR WANDA

Vision just wants to help :’)

VISION LOOKED AT US AGAIN WHY

Girl is depressed

She needs therapy.

Vision :’))))))

My fucking heart

Why am i crying

GIRL BOSS

GOING TO GET HER MAN

SAVING THE CORPSE

She just wanted a funeral for her mans

Wanda’s head tilt is so powerful lol

Hayward can die

I’m his next of kin :(((((

HOW ARE THEY CHOPPING THROUGH VIBRANIUM

SENTIENT WEAPON FUCK OFF

OMG HAYWARD U MANIPULATING BITCH

SHE JUST WANTED TO BURRY HIM AND HE MANIPULATED HER

HE WAS WAITING FOR HER TO TAKE HIM

WHAT A SCUMBAG

She cant feel him anymore:((((((((((

I HOPE WANDA KILLS HAYWARD

SHE LEFT?????

Im so confused

WHY IS SHE IN WESTVIEW

THEY BOUGHT A HOUSE FOR THEMSELVES BEFORE HE DIED

THE NOTE I CANT

HOW DID SHE RECREATE HIM IF HES STILL IN THE LAB

Im so confused

Katheryn hahn can step on me

IS SHE GOING TO EXECUTE THE TWINS

CHAOS MAGIC YES

SCARLET WITCH

OMG THEY SAID IT

SCARLET WITCH

ITS THE FIRST TIME IT GOES INTO WANDAS EYE IN THE POST CREDIT SCENE

ITS USUALLY VISIONS EYE

WHAT HAPPENED TO MONICA AND PIETRO

Or fietro

THEY MADE VISION

BUT WHITE VISION

Like in the fucking comics

HOLY SHIIIIIIT

were in for a fucking ride next week.

ARE WE GOING TO GET A FIGHT BETWEEN REAL VISION AND WHITE VISION?????????????

BC I SAW PROMOS WE HAVENT SEEN YET WHERE VISION AND WANDA ARE DEFENDING THEIR HOME AND VISION IS STILL THERE

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR VISIONS FUTURE??? WILL THEY BE ABLE TO REVIVE THE REAL VISION ???

wtf happened to monica and pietro from last weeks post credit scene?????

i still have questions on fietro! did she take another human and made him believe he was pietro or did she create him???

bc if its the first one maybe it is peter from x-men???

also hayward can die

i want vision or wanda to murder hayward

so bad

omg i can’t believe we got white vision i saw a theory but didn’t think it would happen holy fuck

also the twins :(((( i hope they gonna be okay

katheryn hahn can step on me

also according to my calculations all 8 of these episodes total 5 hours and we were promised 6h so my guess the last episode is going to be an hour long (lets say 45mins of actually show time and not 15 minutes of credits lol)

HOLY FUCK

[rottentigerr]

My feeling about WandaVision's finale ⚠️SPOILERS⚠️

Little disclaimer: I may be wrong on many if not all of this, but they're just my thoughts, my interpretation, let's just agree to disagree

Where to start? I have so many crossed feelings. I went to the finale expecting none of my crazy theories to become true and accepting the director's warning about how it won't be as exciting as what the fans came up with. So I don't really feel disappointed and was able to enjoy and appreciate it. It wasn't perfect, there's still some things I didn't like, but all in all, I loved it.

I'm honestly surprised, because even tho exactly what I didn't want to happen happened, it felt right. I didn't want Vision and the twins to disappear, but the show has clearly been set up for it. Like I said in a post before, it makes sense, I didn't want it to happen, but I could see it was what the show was aiming at. It goes with the feeling of the show. Grieving and moving on.

It's heartbreaking, it hurts. We want to live in a fantasy world were everything is perfect and we never lost anything, only gain. But it's not the truth, at some point we have to accept what happened to us, we can't live in a lie, it'll hurt us and those around us. So yes, even tho it hurts, it's the right thing to do.

And after the heartbreak, I felt hope. Hopw for a new beginning, one were things can be done right, and the fantasies can become real, in healthier way:

After Hex Vision gave White Vision his memories back and he took off, it made me happy. The Ship of Theseus moment was very beautiful, very touching. The whole series I was fearing Hex Vision would die and that'd be it, goodbye Vision forever. It made me so sad just thinking of him being gone, didn't even care if it was the right thing, I wanted him to stay, to have a chance at living, because he deserved it. But this episode made me understand why he'd have to leave. Hex Vision was always Wanda's creation, still Vision but not fully I suppose, half Vision, half Wanda. Obviously I don't love him less for that, but once I embraced that way of thinking, it was easier to let him go, I even feel like he didn't really disappear, just went back inside Wanda, were he belongs, that way he'll always be with her. "We'll say hello again" I truly believe that.

And now, White Vision (who I should really call just Vision, since he is the original Vision, but will call him like that to not mix with Hex Vision), he out there, somewhere. He just got his memories back, he's probably confused and maybe even (probably) remorseful. He'll have to discover who he really is, and that's what I always wanted for Vision, to have more dept and exploration. Maybe right now, he doesn't love Wanda, because he just got back the whole feelings thing, but I can't wait for them to meet again. And saying this hurts me, but even if like in the comics once they meet again things are just not the same, at least they're both alive and well. But I'll keep on hoping they will still be in love.

The last post credits scene let me know the twins will be back, I hadn't really doubt it, I knew even if they disappear they'll be back, I doubt Marvel would just waste the characters like that, specially now that the fans clearly love them. I don't know how, but we'll see them again. Still, their last scene broke my heart.

About Fietro, I don't buy the whole Ralph thing, like many pointed out already, he could be the person under witness protection. And besides, Bhoner is such a ridiculous name, Peter would totally make that joke. In my opinion, Marvel wasting Evan Peters like that would be so stupid and what for even? It can't be a coincidence that they just happen to cast the same actor that played Quicksilver in the X-Men, that doesn't make sense at all. So no, I'm not buying that. Still bothered me thay they delayed it, but they better confirm it on the Dr. Strange 2 movie.

I'm curious about Agatha's future. I know Wanda kept her on Westview, but then she undid the hex, could she keep her controlled for long after she's gone? Will she be back? The "thanks for the lesson" was a nice call back tbh, I'm kinda disappointed she won't teach Wanda like in the comics, but at the end of the episode it really didn't feel right anyways.

Thank god the director got arrested, I wanted him to get his ass beat tho. Can't wait for Monica to explore her new powers. And, is the person the skrull was talking about Nick Fury or someone else?

Also, who was the big cameo Elizabeth Olsen was talking about? That did disappoint me, because it wasn't a fan theory, they said Luke Skywalker level, but let us down on that one.

About the Multiverse: I'm not that bothered about them only hinting at the Multiverse rather than fully introducing it. This is Wanda's story and the begining of her new journey and The Scarlet Witch's origin story. This is also said to be the first part of the Multiverse Trilogy (I think), I do believe they should've done more, give more hints, I understand this is supposed to be about Wanda, not the multiverse.

There's still more to talk about, but I'm ending this here

[crimefightingspiderguy]

Except they couldn't use anyone else, it had to be someone that had previously played Quicksilver otherwise the casting gag wouldn't work and there have only been two live action Quicksilvers. So you might want to prepare yourself for the possibility of Fietro not being Peter.

Okay but also no? Because unless they plan on making Quicksilver from XMen canon in the MCU, they could’ve literally gotten ATJ body/stunt double/look-a-like and I’m telling you not many people would question the choice (considering how many times we’ve gotten recasting in the MCU and no ones batted an eye). In fact they didn’t even have to bring him in at all because at the end of the day he didn’t help get Agnes answers like she wanted, like yeah he was a nuisance to her and gave her grief, but his purpose was to get answers, to be Agnes eyes and ears. The point of my post was the fact that there has only ever been one other casting of quicksilver, doesn’t matter to Wanda. They put anyone in front of her who acts like or resembles her brother, the plot still works. It’s literally just a nod to XMen fans. Because not everyone in the MCU fandom watches XMen. My brother hates the XMen movies but liked Quicksilver so when he first saw the cameo he was like wait who is that? Then he remembered the character from XMen vaguely enough to be like ooooh I get the gag. Because at first he was like oh funny they recasted him and are joking about it, it wasn’t until after when I explained to him and he vaguely remembered. Like it’s not crucial for them to get Evan regardless of him being the only other person to get the role because not all MCU fans watch XMen so it was literally a nod to XMen fans that they have access to those actors now, and potentially their characters.

Anyway, I saw you sent in another thing too about ATJ not being available but I won’t be wasting my energy responding because I’m entitled to my theories just as much as you are and I did address it in my original post which you clearly did not read. But this is my blog and I can post my theories all the doo long day. If you have a problem with my theories kindly keep scrolling because I’m dying on the XMen Quicksilver is Fietro hill and at the end of the day it doesn’t really fucking matter if I’m wrong because it’s all fiction and MCU will still be making bank if one fan decides I’m not gonna watch much of the new phase because they aren’t going in the direction I’m interested in ��