#i remember in mcu fandom

[essayofthoughts]

#vox machina's story is that much stronger for vax having permanently died for several reasons#but one of them being that if vax hadn't died there isn't really anything narratively for him to DO.#vex and percy raise a family and lead a city. keyleth leads her people. grog learns to read. scanlan and pike get married and then divorce#and scanlan runs a mercantile enterprise while pike rebuilds a wholeass religion while running a bakery#even tary's leading a non-profit adventuring brigade and getting married#what is vax's 'happy ending'. i will be soft with keyleth and love my sister forever :) like great. anyway#vax was someone who yearned for purpose and he became a celestial champion. that's an actual STORY#critical role#cr meta tags from @burr-ell

But exactly this - if you don't like Vax's choice, that's fine, you're entitled to your feelings, but it was still a choice that player and character made, and which gave both purpose and joy. To tell someone they can't make a choice that brings them those things because you don't like it - I mean that's TERF shit baby! That's "your choices make ME unhappy therefore you shouldn't be allowed to make them". It's shitty!

Yeah, Vax's ending is sad, but Vax's ending also gave the character purpose and is something Liam has said repeatedly he is happy with and at peace with. The Raven Queen didn't force shit - simply enforced the rules of her literal godly nature and was very open with Vax what those rules were.

People make their own choices. To try to deny that because you don't like it, or because you think there's external factors - I mean maybe there is, we live under capitalism for example, but we still make choices. To take that way from people is to deny them agency. To take it away from characters is to make them boring.

i truly am baffled by some of the cr fandom when it comes to the topic of the gods and c1 and death in general because. the raven queen didn’t kill vax. in fact she gave him more time. she Does get the blame from keyleth and some from vex but even those two by the end were more so just holding grudges wrapped up in their own issues that were exacerbated by vax’s choices. but it was always vax’s choice. which, y’know, i’m aware of a portion of the cr fandom’s propensity for dismantling every interesting choice a character makes into something forced upon them, but the role of fate in exandria has never been like bad faith you must adhere to the path chosen for you, it’s much more like what brennan has spoken about wrt specificity: as one makes more choices they become more particular to a given outcome. but that’s not some curse by the gods that dooms characters that’s literally just. what living is.

and of course death is a complicated thing that everyone approaches differently but. god the amount of people who view vax’s dynamic with the raven queen as an injustice or his death as some unforgivable thing the raven queen caused some how? in the words of laura bailey, Were We Watching The Same Orb? it isn’t an injustice that vax, completely willing to pay whatever it cost him to save his sister, was bound to the Deal He Agreed To. his role as the champion was one he found meaning and purpose in. further, it was the raven queen that allowed him to be resurrected later in the campaign. like, it isn’t fair that vax had so little time but it is time he chose and time he was given, but vox machina tends to fall on the reaping the benefits side of unfairness of power in exandria. if what makes the gods — particularly the matron of ravens — irredeemable is that they have the power to make choices that mortals can’t like denying someone’s resurrection, how irredeemable must the group of heroes called vox machina (whose members drop like flies to be revived moments later) be to the everyday person who just has to watch the people they love die and make peace with it?

of course it sucks that vax could not have a happy ending or epilogue like the rest of vm, except of course, vex has a family and is happy and loved, and keyleth is strong and alive and protected, and i think that looks a lot like what vax wanted most.

[papanowo]

new year new fandom and whatnot

[cephalosaur]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is it just me or did both of Tony's kids debut wearing an Iron Man mask?

[writeraid]

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but this bothered me when I first watched episode three and it still bothers me two years on. .. ... how the FUCK did Marc get the hat back in Cairo?

like they VERY CLEARLY show us him loosing it. He runs into a clothes line on the rooftops and it flies off. and he doesn't have it on for the rest of the interactions with that group of guys/the one teenager. It's still missing when he goes to the Avatar Meeting Thing.

and then

BOOM

cut to him all undercover (he's not that great at it, lets be honest here.) and it's BACK!! Did this motherfucker go all the way back for his hat? I mean, I have a feeling it's sentimental in some way (it's a Cubs hat, he grew up in Chicago and we clearly see that he was a fan in (at least) his childhood given the banner in his bedroom in ep.5), but like. I NEED to see how he got it back. Did he put it in his pocket?? I know from experience that if the pocket is big enough you can squish up a baseball cap and put it in there. But like it is obvious so.

Oh my gods this motherfucker went back for the hat.

WHERE IS THAT SCENE, MARVEL? I NEED THAT SCENE TO OVERANAYLZE OVER, MARVEL.

okayI'llstopnow.

[silverpen-and-paper]

💚 2011-2013 loki ask game 💚

i haven’t seen a 2011-2013 loki ask game before (or any loki ask games, actually), so i decided i’d make one! there are thirty-one questions, so if you want, you could answer one for each day of this month (+1). or you could go by the normal ask game rules. or you could answer them all at once in a single post. up to you :D

(fans of ragnarok and the series can participate too if you’d like! the questions are aimed mostly at the 2011-2013 era fans, but i’m not gonna ban people from having fun)

post dividers by @/cafekitsune

pick a favorite movie: thor (2011), the avengers (2012), thor: the dark world (2013)

how did your interest in loki begin? (optional: how has it evolved over the years?)

what do you think happened in the time between loki’s fall from the bifrost and avengers 1?

how do you interpret loki’s “death” in thor: the dark world? (“it was an illusion,” “loki was actually wounded but it was part of the trick,” “loki didn’t intend to pretend to die at all,” etc)

do you have any headcanons/theories about loki’s biological mother?

have you watched any deleted scenes from thor 1, the avengers, or thor 2? if yes, choose one deleted scene that definitely deserved to have stayed in.

which do you prefer: jotun loki with horns (a popular fanon design), or jotun loki without horns?

pick one (or more) of loki’s powers and explain how you think it works.

favorite loki quote?

favorite tom hiddleston quote about loki?

how would you describe thor and loki’s dynamic to someone who has never seen the movies?

do you think laufey actually abandoned loki to die, as odin said, or do you prefer the theory that laufey put loki in the temple for their protection?

do you have any headcanons about asgard? (phsyics, culture, environment, history, etc?)

do you have any headcanons about jotunheim?

do you have a favorite loki fanfic? (if you’re a fic writer, you’re allowed to choose your own)

do you think loki would keep a journal? if yes, what kinds of things do you think they’d write/draw/glue/etc in it?

choose any ship involving loki and share your opinions of it, whether positive or negative.

what do you think loki’s biggest fear is? (if not *the* biggest, one of the biggest.)

find an insect/arthropod that reminds you of loki (aesthetically, behaviorally, etc).

what hobbies/interests do you think loki has, outside of magic and fighting?

headcanons about loki’s childhood?

what styles of midgardian outfits would loki be most comfortable in?

headcanons about loki’s jotun form?

what song lyrics remind you of loki?

loki’s worst moment?

loki’s best moment?

say you go back in time and get hired as the director of a mcu loki movie, series, or episode that you dislike. assuming you’re already changing the biggest stuff you criticize, what is the pettiest thing you’d change?

if you could have one of loki’s powers, which would you choose?

if you could watch one movie/tv show with loki (as in, you are both sitting on the couch together and watching it), what movie/show would you choose? what would loki think about it?

imagine you were in loki’s place — you’re the frost giant baby that odin took from jotunheim. what do you think your life would be like?

has loki ridden a bilgesnipe? (would you ride a bilgesnipe?)

[littlefankingdom]

"Well, people can ship whatever they want and you cannot stop them. Yeah, these characters are aro/ace/aroace, but headcanons don't hurt anyone. You cannot gatekeep characters, learn to share."

I'm going to share your organs with the black market.

[m1dv1ght]

Another Marvel Fic idea, okay so i recently saw a post that was like, what if Howard Stark tried to recreate the serum and he tested it on Tony yadayadayada that not really important but it gives context on how I thought of this.

BUT IMAGINE if Howard had another kid, older than Tony (specifically a daughter because im imagining Emma Dumont as Polaris for the fc) and like Howard tries to recreate the serum and he tests it on her and like she ‘dies’ or something but tony was really young so he has vague memories of his older sister and like its just silently agreed upon to never speak about her.

Until years later Fury is talking about bringing someone else into the Avengers initiative, and Tony is just… thats my big sister, and he is like shook because not only is she alive but she looks the same as she did when she died, and she hasn’t aged a day. OR MAYBE takes place Age of Ultron and she gets found with Wanda and Pietro and And then, idk something happens thats all i got so far.

[starch1ldz]

Stucky blurb

cw for graphic depiction of Bucky's arm pre amputation + more or less canon depictions of violence

He wakes up in a snowbank, cold having seeped through to his bones long ago, it seems. As he comes more and more aware he also becomes more aware that his left arm is completely numb, and when he looks at it there isn't even much there to look at.

He's lost most of his arm, save for shreds of muscle and skin and shattered bone, everything nearly blue black from his shoulder down. That terrifies him, Bucky thought he'd seen everything. And now here he is, laying in the freezing cold snow wishing beyond wishing that he could hug Steve one last time before he dies of fucking Hypothermia.

Not blood loss, he's pretty sure his body is too cold to even try to keep blood pumping in what's left of his left arm, he can't feel his still intact fingers or his toes. He stares up at the bridge that he'd fallen from, realizing it's completely illogical that he survived the fall with just a mangled arm.

That's when he zeros in on the sound of footsteps crunching in the snow, he wonders how long he's been there, laying limp and unconscious in the snow. It looks like it's nearly nightfall, and he realizes he's been here for at least eight hours. He doesn't want to think about the fact that he might not have even fallen from the bridge today. The fact that he has absolutely no idea how long he was out.

Then there are agents dressed in all black surrounding him, little emblems of octopus on their uniforms. He realizes too late it's HYDRA, the very people they'd been trying to eradicate. And suddenly the strange happenings that have occured since Steve saved him from that wretched place that smelt damp and like his own blood make sense. They'd changed him.

He's not alive now out of luck, he's not lying there in the snow with not a scratch on him besides his arm being torn to shreds because he's lucky. No, that scientist had a plan for him. He realizes and feels sick with it as the soldiers start to get him prepared for transport, he's not completely sure he wants to know where he's going.

He wishes he had the courage to kiss Steve. Just once. To hell with the law against queers, to hell with Steve's Catholic descent. To hell with it all. If James Buchanan Barnes could go back in time, even just a day, he would take Steven Grant Rogers by the collar and kiss him so hard they see stars. If only.

No, instead he's being lifted into a truck and taken away. Taken to his imminent doom, he doesn't know what they'll do with him, but he knows it'll be nothing good, and he is rendered immobile by the frost bite that's undoubtedly nipping at his extremities. He's not ready for when he can feel what's left of his arm.

He doesn't know it yet, but he's going to get very used to not knowing. People, places, things... Himself.

[bistrocule]

You're in fandom? Name every fanfiction.

-- Terry (he/it)

[eloiscbridgerton]

gonna start daredevil born again... here for frank kastle and karen page only

[mumblesplash]

mcu and mcu-adjacent writers who acknowledge sleipnir’s backstory but try to spin it so the original myth was ‘a misunderstanding’ or change it into something more palatable are fucking cowards. loki is that horse’s biological mother and if you can’t face that you don’t have what it takes

[cheruibim]

Side Note

I like seeing other peoples views/ opinions/ takes especially if they're different to mine.

No matter how much I try to see something from another characters perspective I'm probably not going to be as understanding if they're not one of my favourites.

So, I like seeing the other side of things and the opinions of those who's favourite characters aren't the same as mine.

[writeraid]

I need to feel something that isn't 'it snowed and now I have no energy I'm wasting time', reblog/reply to this with your favorite Moon Knight things. (hcs, over-analyzing, screencaps/gifs, weird comic tidbits(LOVE those)..etc)

(and keep it sfw..please..not that I don't trust y'all but also..i don't trust y'all.)

[vengeancemoths]

comics fandom is bad

[cubedcoffeecake-33]

getting over my guilt and insecurity and opening my Ao3 inbox for the first time in a long long time and going to start to reply to comments and seeing. the oldest unread comment is from 2000+ days ago.

holy shit. am I?? fandom old?????? god above what is this passage of time what the fuck

[parking-spot]

Hey why was I reading so much torture fanfic in middle school. Like actual torture. Like author in depth researched torture methods used in actual wartime. It was in such graphic, meticulous detail too. Hey what was wrong with that child.