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late night calls at aunt marygay’s

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A doodle I'll never finish or clean up, but I thought it was fun to make I don't know if anyone else will enjoy it I'm experimenting with a mix of like, cookies and humanoid in style, but it's not doing very well.. they look too young (the beasts) and I'd like to make them look older but I'll figure that out another day

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She loves selfies☺ miguel x lyla

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thinking about ghostwalker enemies to first name basis pipeline

walker going from "lady ghost" (derogatory) to "ghost" (respectful) to "ava" (affectionate)

while ava goes from "dickhead" (derogatory) to "walker" (respectful) to "dickhead" (affectionate) to "john" (endeared)

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things are getting serious with the guy I hate

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Propaganda I'm falling for:

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my favorite boblena headcanons:

their rooms are closest in the avengers tower. they often have sleepovers and spend time together in each other's rooms.

bob cooks for yelena everyday.

cooking and cleaning generally grounds and calms bob down but it's also how he expresses his care for yelena. and yelena loves coming home to him fussing over her.

bob takes care of yelena's guinea pig when she is away.

bob calms himself down by holding something of yelena's.

they love holding hands. a lot. smtng about always sticking together.

yelena is the only one who can keep the void away and make everything bright when he is struggling.

bob helps yelena overcome her alcohol addiction.

bob doesn't always understand's yelena's humor but he finds her endearingly amusing nevertheless.

bob often calls her "lena".

even though alexei taunts bob and says he must prove that he is worthy of yelena, he actually believes that yelena has found her soulmate.

yelena is very protective of bob. whenever she thinks he is in danger, she starts moving like she is a deadly superman. she is acting like his bodyguard even when he is sentry.

sentry and the void personas are sort of competing for yelena's affection.

sentry is in awe of yelena and sees her a reliable leader. she gives him a purpose and is the only one he obeys as he feels like she lights his way.

while the void taunts her, to his own frustration, yelena's suicidal ideation makes him anxious. he thinks that if there ever was harm her way, he would put her in the void so that she is forever with him.

yelena had a very little, if any, romantic/sexual experience before bob. the red room did not see her fit for seduction. bob had relationships but they were short and meaningless.

bob is trying to learn russian so that he can communicate with yelena in her native language.

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Bad dog

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So the latest leaks for Doomsday are pretty insane and reinforce my feeling for Boblena. As Bob is going to play a huge part in this movie and it's almost guaranteed 😭

But I think Yelena too will be a big part of it. You have to take the leaks with grains of salt because we don't know what the final product will be. But I'm excited!!!! 🫠🫠🫠

More Bob's backstory, more void, more angst.

I also have a little part of me that's scared. They better not screw this up.

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JOHN WALKER and AVA STARR Thunderbolts* (2025)

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THIS ART STYLE IS SO COOL

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thinking about yelena teaching bob russian. he’d be a perfectionist about it because he really wants to hold conversation with her in russian. he wants to feel like they have their own secret language.

one day alexei catches him saying something over and over in russian as he’s doing the dishes, he vaguely makes out that he’s trying to say he wants to go out and has to stop the protective papa bear in him from going crazy when he realises bob is rehearsing how to ask yelena out in russian.

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thunderbolts fandom only existing for like... four days and already having so much absurd and annoying shipping discourse is just another side-effect of this enshittification of fandom that's been happening since *check notes* voltron and the pandemic imo.

but one of the most annoying recent fandom trends is forcing characters into this nuclear family dynamic and the way it's made shipping discourse unbearable. "alexei's the dad, bob yelena and ava are the big siblings and bob is the little brother," on paper, is a harmless headcanon. the problem is the weaponization of these family headcanons to fuel ship wars.

bob and yelena have a deep bond in thunderbolts. you can interpret it as a sibling dynamic. you can also interpret it as romantic or queerplatonic or literally whatever you want. the problem is the same people who call bob yelena's "little brother" are simultaneously saying that any romantic interpretation of their characters is "incestuous weirdo behavior."

like, can we not?

and while boblena is the ship that's taking the most heat right now, i've been seeing hostility towards any variation of any thunderbolts ships. john/ava, john/bob, bucky/alexei, bob/void (which, lmfao, is SUCH a typical ship to me that people getting up in arms about it just proves we've let too many normies into fandom spaces). even yelena/kate is catching strays right now. and it doesn't have to be this way.

again, can we not? just say you're not into any of the ships and move on with your life.

these are not siblings. these are grown adults who grew to care about each other after experiencing traumatic events. "found family" trope has gotten so out of control it genuinely makes fandom less fun.

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I want to talk about Bob.

I want to talk about Bob and how fandom treats characters with mental illnesses, because I’m already seeing this shit.

Spoilers below the cut.

His arc is so good, and yet some people are really just focusing on making him into “UwU babygirl” material. I know, this is tumblr, home of the babygirlified characters.

But there’s heavier context here. We’re talking about someone who survived an abusive childhood and overcame the addiction he used to self-medicate for a wildly unrepresented/stigmatized illness.

His memory loss is not cute. It’s traumatic. He’s traumatized.

Yes, it’s important that he absolutely can be seen as a love interest, as a favorite blorbo, as a comfort character. In fact, I think he will be for many people with mental illnesses. His story resonates.

But there’s a systemic, historic pattern of treating mentally ill folks as children, or incapable.

The situation with Valentina is a metaphor for conservatorship. She handles him, makes decisions for him, all while talking down to him.

Don’t let fandom do that to him, too.

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the depressed woman pulling the man from the literal void of darkness and despair...