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Can we please talk about how good the marvels is because I loved the film so much but none of my friends have watched it so I'm currently fangirling on my own 😭

Ohmigoodness yes! Anytime dude!

Sorry im seeing this so late but yeah!

It was such a great movie with such great and funny moments

But yeah you can dm me if ya want to talk that way.

What was your favorite part?

Mine was the definitely the part with the flerkittens 😆

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Carol Danvers & Valkyrie

The Marvels (2023), dir. Nia DaCosta

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when a film has more cats than white men, you know it's a good one

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The Marvels spoilers ahead

I went to see The Marvels again and I had some thoughts about ValCarol as they have taken up a lot of my mind.

Carol immediately went to hug Val when she got there, needing that comfort from her friend (possibly more than) and I really liked that scene between them. Val held her hands and gave her words of encouragement and it was so sweet! Val even had a nickname for Carol but I did find it interesting that it was her hero name and not her actually name.....I wonder why that is.

Val was so soft and patient with Carol and I wonder if she wants something more with Carol but maybe knows or thinks that she's not quite ready for that, a romantic relationship.

Or maybe they do have something more but haven't put a name on it or made anything official....I dunno

Carol hasn't at that point fixed her relationship with Monica and was still trying to fix/deal the situation she caused with the Skrull/Kree. So even tho she's lonely, I wonder if she thinks she isn't ready for love, either romantically or from family. She's just a little lost and vulnerable and it was an interesting character arc thing...I don't know what to call it.

Or I'm just spouting possible headcanons and just wanted to talk about them cuz I lost it during that scene with them. Ohmigoodness! I was so excited when Val showed up cuz I've seen in the past some like teasers for a ValCarol ship but didn't think it would go anywhere and then it possible did and I lost it!

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In The Marvels there's a vulnerability to Carol that we don't really get in her earlier appearances. There's a few glimpses of it in Captain Marvel, but not much, and it's certainly not visible in Endgame (not as a fault of that movie, she's just not very close to the center of that movie). But I find the exploration of that in this movie really appealing.

You have this woman who is incredibly capable, incredibly powerful, and generally very self-sufficient. And you see the way that over the years that's worn her down. She's the mighty Captain Marvel-- one of the most powerful people in the galaxy. And she's absorbed that view of herself, that that is who she needs to be all the time. She needs to carry it all, to fix it all.

As Captain Marvel that's meant that she works alone and she's always off to fix a new problem. More importantly, it led to her nearly disastrous decision to destroy the Supreme Intelligence, and from there to an inability to directly confront that failure (tactically or emotionally) or to accept help in fixing it.

As Carol, it's cut her off from anyone else except a few carefully distanced professional friendships-- she is friends with Fury, and Valkyrie, and Yan, but there's also a coolness there, and with all we're given the impression that she keeps them at arm's length and only comes around when necessary. And again its created an even bigger problem-- she stayed away from Maria until Maria was dying, and never came back to Monica at all.

It's never directly connected for us in the movie, but there's a pretty clear connection here back to the first movie. That careful distance wasn't present with Yon-Rogg. With him she was playful, open, she'd come to his room in the middle of the night. She trusted him. And she was utterly betrayed. He used her, trapped her, manipulated her, stole her life and her memories, tried to kill her. And back then, she only regained her identity when she broke free from him. That experience has made her wary.

But she's also just off-balance. Her memories were taken and she still hasn't fully gotten them back, so she's unsteady in those old relationships. And she's indestructible and powerful but it does her no good in dealing with actual relationships. She meets a problem that she can't punch or blast, and her flight instinct kicks in.

So when The Marvels starts out, those years of being alone and trying to be Atlas carrying the world on her back, have left her shaky. She's scared to talk to Monica. When she does come face to face with Monica, and Monica initially rejects her, Carol visibly shrinks. In dealing with Dar Benn, she's running scared--not scared of Dar Benn, but scared of failing again or messing things up more, and it makes her impulsive, and causes her to push away Monica and Kamala. And it's all a vulnerability that she covers up with cockiness and bravado. She doesn't show people that vulnerability. Instead she shows them the invincible Captain Marvel who can fly into suns and move planets.

And this movie uses the power-switching to handcuff her to two other people to force her out of that destructive pattern of total self-reliance and running from being close to anyone. It physically will not let her run away from Monica and Kamala, and it turns her attempts to do things by herself against her.

Kamala is there to model for Carol a sort of emotional openness that she hasn't known in a long time (if ever). Her heart is all the way out on her sleeve and Carol needs to see that. When Monica discusses her mom's death, Kamala literally shows Carol what to do on the simplest level by hugging Monica and forcing Carol into that hug. And it matters that Kamala is a child doing this, because that simplicity is key. Carol doesn't need to FIX the situation, and Kamala isn't burdened by that mindset. Kamala can approach with this childlike openness and simplicity, not overcomplicating it by trying to find the perfect thing to say or do, and it turns out that's all Carol needs to do too. And so simple hugs become incredibly powerful in this movie because it's just about being willing to be there with some and to hold them, and in the end Carol gives that back to Kamala when they hug after losing Monica.

And for her part, Monica models to Carol that you can be strong and part of a team. Monica has grown up and become a captain and become a superhero. She's incredibly capable. And also very very comfortable working as part of a team. So despite her tension with Carol, she's able to bring that easy team dynamic to the group and get Carol to embrace the team instead of being hampered by it.

Once Carol is able be at ease with being vulnerable, once she can open herself up to others, once she can share her burdens, that's when she finally is able to come home to Earth after nearly 40 years.

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The rumored wife of the company president suddenly appeared at a social party by @yuri_kyanon

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Miorine: This is my wife. Suletta: I'm Suletta. It's been a while since I've been to a big party like this...

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Some moments where Kamala was a total mood:

1. Asking Fury and Monica why their tablets are transparent when everything is top secret.

2. Geeking out when she puts on a comm unit (and Monica saying something like baby we hear you loll)

3. Making sure to find out what SABER stands for.

4. Getting excited at Fury having 'intel' on her.

5. Dancing on Aladna.

6. Agreeing that she's totally writing fanfic after seeing Yan and Carol together.

7. The Kree hiding from her in fear and her telling them she can't fly so can she have a space ship or something.

8. Going after the SABER crew with the flerkittens.

9. Sweeping her house when there was a literal hole in the roof 😭😭😭

10. Carol saying she feels lonely and her immediately replying that she will drop high school to spend time with Carol so she doesn't feel lonely.

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I shouldn't loose my mind over every tiny gay breadcrumb Marvel gracefully grants me like it's not the freaking bare minimum in the 21st century... only to queerbait me anyways.

But dammit the Marvels was everything and made my little sapphic heart scream from joy.

! The following list contains huge spoilers! Feel free to add more :)

- Kamala writing super sapphic fanfics about her and Carol

- VALKYRIE AND CAROL GWJSKSJDVJHD

- Kamala remarking that the evil kree lady was "surprisingly/ incredibly beautiful" (or some similar heteronormtive thought, sorry I don't remember the exact wording)

- the way Valkyrie looked at Carol seconds before leaving

- Carol and Valkyrie touching so softly I'm about to loose my mind

- Valkyrie in THAT suit

- Carol stressing at least one thousand times that she has less than zero feelings for that Prince and that they have a special relationship (aka both are gay and just married for cover)

- Valkyrie calling Carol "Marv"

- Kamala's visible brain malfunction when Carol did literally ANYTHING (but especially when she came to lift her)

-Carol in tanktops

- Carol being an absent parent to Monica after being unable to process the loss of her "friend" Maria (they were so in love!)

- Carol and Maria arguing over the custody of Goose (cat lesbian behaviour)

Feel free to add more :)

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The Marvels (2023) + text posts

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Oh to be a cute, little, alien cat monster riding on Captain Marvel's shoulder as she flies.

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Insane how they confirmed young avengers & x men in the mcu in one movie

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just got done watching the marvels and i hope i’m not the only old valcarol shipper who felt SO vindicated after living off crumbs like these

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Hercules is one of my favorite movies, and definitely had to redraw this scene with my favorite couple Korra and Asami. Hope you like it guys! ✨

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So we all agree this is what happened at the end of Monster High Two? (Spoilers ahead)

Clawdeen and Toralei hold hands and be gay. With the award winning scene of

Toralei, holds Clawdeens hand and caresses her scar gently, “Looks like youve got a few scars of your own now.’

Clawdeen, “Well I guess we finally have something in common.’

Toralei, “We’re were-creatures Wolf. We Share the Moon’ (fucking god who wrote that that’s the best fucking line ever that’s a love confession I SEE WHO YOU ARE TORALEI)

they gaze into each other eyes

Clawdeen, “I guess we do.”

Deuce and Clawdeen break up like literally right after and part as friends. (Cause deuce is going on some Gorgan ritual for a year)

Clawdeen and Toralei have another duo scene where they interlock hands AGAIN.

we end with the fucking grim reaper appearing and Frankie waking up dramatically (YES FUCKIBG FINALLY A MONSTER HIGH MOVIE BASED ALL ON OUR NON-BINARY FRANKIE)

so uh, Be Gay do Witchcraft?

also I FUCKING CALLED IT ELLIS WAS THE BAD GUY I LITERALLY KNEW IT. NO ONE LOOKS LIKE DOUCHEY AND ISNT A BAD GUY

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So we all agree this is what happened at the end of Monster High Two? (Spoilers ahead)

Clawdeen and Toralei hold hands and be gay. With the award winning scene of

Toralei, holds Clawdeens hand and caresses her scar gently, “Looks like youve got a few scars of your own now.’

Clawdeen, “Well I guess we finally have something in common.’

Toralei, “We’re were-creatures Wolf. We Share the Moon’ (fucking god who wrote that that’s the best fucking line ever that’s a love confession I SEE WHO YOU ARE TORALEI)

they gaze into each other eyes

Clawdeen, “I guess we do.”

Deuce and Clawdeen break up like literally right after and part as friends. (Cause deuce is going on some Gorgan ritual for a year)

Clawdeen and Toralei have another duo scene where they interlock hands AGAIN.

we end with the fucking grim reaper appearing and Frankie waking up dramatically (YES FUCKIBG FINALLY A MONSTER HIGH MOVIE BASED ALL ON OUR NON-BINARY FRANKIE)

so uh, Be Gay do Witchcraft?

also I FUCKING CALLED IT ELLIS WAS THE BAD GUY I LITERALLY KNEW IT. NO ONE LOOKS LIKE DOUCHEY AND ISNT A BAD GUY

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"We're were-creatures luv, we share the moon."

Seriously, were they NOT trying to make that a flirty moment between these two?! Cause they shared WAY more chemistry there than the LITERAL KISS Clawdeen had with Deuce just the scene before this one!