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Is Make You Feel My Love from the POV of Patroclus’s spirit unable to comfort Achilles or is it Achilles singing to the body he cradles?
Asking for a friend.
#make you feel my love#bob dylan#adele#patroclus#tsoa#achilles#the song of achilles#tsoa madeline miller#tsoa patrochilles#greek mythology#patrochilles#peggy-sue has feelings#i am in distress#i’m not okay#enneagram 4
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do you ever read scifi or fantasy in french? i am trying to read more sff that was originally published not in english but it's not easy to find 💀
I do! It’s not my favourite genre but one of my friends loves it so I read a bunch of SFF books every year ahead of her birthday to try and find a gift for her. I’m glad I do this because it’s allowed me to discover N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy which was amazing, and I don’t know if I would have picked it up otherwise!
Here are some French-language authors I’ve read or plan to read (unfortunately English translations are few and far between :( I bolded the names for which I found English translations—if you read in another language you can check out the non-bolded authors, there are often translations available in other languages long before English ones)
When it comes to classics you've got Pierre Boulle (Planet of the Apes of course; also Garden on the Moon, which is (deservedly imo) less known), Jacques Spitz (La Guerre des mouches—it was translated but not into English), René Barjavel (The Ice People, Ravage, Future Times Three—I read them a long time ago but I remember them as very sexist even by French classic standards), Bernard Lenteric (La nuit des enfants rois), Alain Damasio (La Horde du Contrevent—maybe too recent to be a classic but it’s everywhere. I was surprised to find no English translation!), Bernard Werber (I feel like he rehashes the same 3 ideas again and again but some of his earlier stuff was fun), Alexandre Arnoux (Le règne du bonheur), Jules Verne of course, Stefan Wul (Oms en série which was adapted into the film La Planète sauvage—Fantastic Planet in English. I like the film better!) And some I haven’t read: Georges-Jean Arnaud, Serge Brussolo (I liked his Peggy Sue series when I was in middle school but it spooked me so much I haven’t dared to pick up any of his SFF for adults, like Les semeurs d’abîmes), Élisabeth Vonarburg.
Newer authors: Estelle Faye (L’arpenteuse de rêves, Un éclat de givre—I tend to like her worldbuilding more than her plots); Sandrine Collette (The Forests—if you count speculative fiction as SFF) (I didn’t like it at all personally but others might), Jean-Philippe Jaworski (I really liked Janua Vera; didn't like Gagner la guerre but it was mainly because I have a low tolerance for rape scenes in fantasy books) (he’s about to be translated into English according to his editor), Stéphane Beauverger (Le déchronologue)
More authors I haven't yet read: Pierre Pevel (The Cardinal's Blades—I've been told it's "17th century Paris with dragons"), Romain Lucazeau (Latium), Laurent Genefort (Lum’en), Christian Charrière (La forêt d’Iscambe), Roland Wagner (La saison de la sorcière), Aurélie Wellenstein (Mers Mortes—I love the synopsis for this one), Magali Villeneuve (La dernière Terre, trilogy)
And non-French, non-anglo SFF authors: Maryam Petrosyan (my review of the Gray House last year was that I understood maybe 1/3 of it but I liked it anyway!), Hao Jingfang (haven’t read her yet), Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (idem), Jaroslav Melnik (I’ve read Espace lointain (originally Далекий простір) but didn’t like it much), Andreas Eschbach (The Carpet Makers), Walter Moers (I read The City of Dreaming Books back when I was still learning German and found it very charming), Liu Cixin (I loved The Three-Body Problem but The Dark Forest was so sexist it made me not want to pick up the third volume), Lola Robles (El informe Monteverde, translated as Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist), Elaine Vilar Madruga (Fragmentos de la Tierra Rota), Tatiana Tolstaya (The Slynx), Karin Tidbeck (Amatka), Emmi Itäranta (Memory of Water, The Moonday Letters), Angélica Gorodischer (I’ve read Kalpa Imperial and found it only so-so but it always takes me a while to warm up to characters or a setting so I struggle with short story collections. I’ll still give Trafalgar a try) Also my favourite fantasy book as a kid was Michael Ende’s Neverending Story, I was obsessed with it. I re-read it in the original German a few years ago and it was still great.
#ask#book recs#i feel like sff has long had a poor reputation in france. like it's seen as 'not real literature'#not necessarily by readers but by literary awards and mainstream outlets that promote books#the genre doesn't get a lot of attention from those so it's hard for authors to become well-known#it's often seen as a genre for kids and teenagers—i know i had an easier time finding sff books by french authors when i was younger#scifi for primary school kids like christian lamblin's le survivant or philippe ebly's space operas in bibliothèque verte#or sff for middle school kids: the peggy sue series; linus hoppe by a-l bondoux; more recently the nuées series by nathalie bernard#but yeah in the adult sff aisle of nonspecialised bookshops it's mostly anglo authors + always the same handful of french ones
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Avenger Lane Chapter 9: American Football
Summary: You and your wife Quinn move your family outside of New York City to Avenger Lane; a small private suburbia. There you face your toughest obstacle of your marriage. Will your marriage with Quinn be strong enough when a certain redheaded beauty captures your attention?
A/N: I promised I would drop something by the end of the week. Here's a small chapter. ;) I promise you Nat and Reader are happening.
Parings: Quinn Fabray x Reader / eventual Natasha x Reader(slow burn)
Warnings: Reader has a Penis
Previous Chapter. Next Chapter
It was mid morning in late August as you stretched your limbs breathing in the smell of freshly cut grass and morning dew. For a brief moment you were back on that old field at McKinley high. The track and cross country teams jogged. Coach Sue Sylvester calls the Cheerios practicing their pyramid sloppy babies. Coach Beist yelling at Finn for bringing donuts to practice. You were so far down memory lane that you didn’t even notice Natasha drive up on Clint and Laura’s golf cart.
“Y/N’s already running drills.” Clint chuckled, grabbing his cooler.
The three friends walked over noticing Quinn who sat at a picnic table watching you run your old football drills she too was reminiscing of the good ole days.
“Morning Quinn.” The three amigos grinned walking up as the blonde turned around with a smile.
“Morning.” Quinn said sweetly.
“See Laura, why didn’t you wear a shirt with my last name on it like Quinn?” Clint smirked
“Gross I threw those out years ago they all smelled.” Laura cringed, taking some contents out of her grocery bag.
“Where are the girls?” Natasha asked, looking around.
“With my sister and niece.” Quinn responded. “Where’s Bruce?”
“Oh he’s out in Manhattan working on a new project.”
“On a Saturday morning?” Quinn furrowed her brows.
“Science never stops.” Natasha smiled back, shrugging. “Are you playing with us too?” Gesturing towards Quinn’s T-shirt.
“God No, Y/N wouldn’t let me wear my old Cheerios uniform.” She rolled her eyes.
“Gotcha.” Nat nodded before walking towards you.
“Hey.” Natasha cleared her throat seeing you in light football gear. Some Shorts over tights and an old jersey on your back.
“Hi.” You grinned.
“You seem super psyched to get to play again.” She chuckled.
“Yeah it feels like riding a bike.”
“Sooo did you talk to Quinn about the job offer?” Natasha kinked her brow.
“Uhh not yet.” You gulped seeing her concerned expression you weren’t ready to tell people about the pregnancy it was still too early. Your wife hasn’t even gone to the doctor yet.
“Y/N-”
“Y/L/N!” Steve shouted from his jeep.
You waved seeing Bucky in the back and Peggy in the front.
“We’re finishing this later.” Natasha scolded you as the other’s walked toward you both.
“So a few people are late but I figured when everyone gets here you and I could choose teams.” Steve grinned, giving you a brief hug.
“Coin toss on who chooses first.” You nod.
“Sup broskis!” Thor grinned holding up a beer as he stepped off of Val’s golf cart. Carol and Val grabbed a couple of bags as Thor set a cooler on the ground before rolling it over towards the picnic table.
Soon Tony was parking his golf cart when you turned to your wife who was prepping everything along with Peggy and Laura.
“Can I get a golf cart?” You ask, feeling left out.
“What? No!” Quinn huffed.
“That’s what I said.” Peggy laughed.
“I never get fun stuff.” You grumbled.
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“Alright call it.”
“Heads.” You call out quickly.
“Tails.” Steve nodded.
You and Steve looked at Peggy who flipped the coin.
“Heads.” She announced.
Steve grimaced hoping you wouldn’t take his first pick.
You looked at the people before you before choosing your first choice. “Thor.”
“Hell yeah chosen first.” Thor fist pumped.
“Bucky.” Steve smiled in relief.
“Val.”
“That’s what’s up.” Val smirked, walking over and standing next to Thor.
Natasha internally huffed at you not choosing her.
“Sam.” Steve smirks.
“Picked second but that's okay.” Sam grumbled.
“Carol.” You nodded, you knew Carol and Val together was key. Plus you remember Carol mentioning soccer and lacrosse. Doesn’t hurt that Val and Thor played rugby.
“Tony.” Steve smirked.
“Sorry kid, too slow.” Tony chuckled, joining Steve.
“I think you mean you’re too slow, Old man.” You smirked back. “Clint.” He actually did play football.
“Ouch.” Tony huffed.
“Well Nat, come join the team.” Steve grinned.
“The betrayal.” she glared at you.
You chuckled. “I'm sorry Nat but everyone on my team has played sports.”
“I was in ballet!” she huffed shoulder checking you.
“Save it for the field Romanoff!” Steve clapped, having them huddle up.
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The score was 24 to 3 that was only because Natasha kicked their field goal.
You watched Steve snap the ball and your eyes went straight to Sam figuring he’d hand it off to his running back, but a flash of red caught your eye. You smirked; he thought he was slick. You began hauling down the field closing in on her.
“Gotcha!” You laughed, wrapping your arms around her waist, lifting her up. She yelped giggling as she held the ball. “Nice try gingersnap.” You smirked, snatching the ball from her grasp. “But you gotta be quicker than that.”
She looked at you with her jaw hanging. Thor and Carol laughed high-fiving you.
“Damn, Rogers, you have Spam, Tony, Bucky, and Nat. I have these misfits and still whooped that ass!” You chuckled, acting like you were bending them over.
“Damn it Steve I told you they would know the ball was with Nat!” Bucky huffed.
“Y/N is calling our plays before we even do them!” Sam huffed.
“Is she reading my lips?” Steve whispered before looking over his shoulder to see you flirting with your wife.
“Look at that, they're flirting, not even paying attention or huddling.” Bucky shook his head.
Steve frowned that his team was the only one in a huddle. You were too busy saying things you want to do to your wife, Clint was acting like he was humping the ball at Steve, and Val was also flirting with her wife. Thor was the only one practicing his throws only because his wife Jane said he was throwing sloppily.
“Let's take ten.” Tony muttered before walking over to you seeing your wife walk away to help Peggy and Laura with lunch.
Tony approaches you as you grab some water.
“Hey kid.”
“Hey Tony.” You grinned.
“So…You made a decision yet?” Tony asks for help.
“Uhh…” You look behind you to see if your wife was in earshot. “Some things came up and I haven’t-”
“It’s okay kid the job is yours when you’re ready.” Tony left before you could say anything.
“Hey Nat, walk with me, talk with me.” Tony muttered looking back making sure no one was close enough to hear.
“What’s up weirdo?” Natasha chuckled, falling in step with her friend.
“I found something out about Y/N, and Y/N deserves to know. I just don’t think it should come from me and I don’t want it to come from her parents.”
“What do you mean?” Natasha asked, slightly surprised Tony would know anything.
He sighed looking back leaning against a tree as he watched you talking to your wife.
“Y/N, was accepted into MIT on a full ride.”
“Wait what?!” Natasha hissed her neck, nearly getting whiplash.
“My buddy down at MIT said she was accepted but that someone turned it down.”
“Well it wasn’t Y/N or her parents. So that leaves…” Natasha trailed off as she turned to look at Quinn who had her hands all over you.
“Now we don’t know if it was her-“
“It obviously was.” Natasha tried her best not to glare at her.
“Look Y/N deserves to know, but I can’t break it to the kid. It’s going to break their heart. It could ruin them Nat, and all I could think about was Y/N’s happiness. They have been together since high school. They have two little girls… I just can’t.”
“So you’re putting it on me?!” She exclaimed.
“I can’t put that on Frankie and Sophia.”
“Tony-“
“Please?”
“… Well I know now so I guess-” Natasha sighed.
“Thanks Nat.”
“You owe me.” She mumbled.
“Deal, I’ll text you the documents.” He grinned before eating some raisins.
“Hey losers! S’go, I'm gettin’ hungry.” You shout, rubbing your tummy. “Babe, grab me a plate and a couple beers, I won’t be long. I’m having a victory feast after this.”
“You’re such an asshole when you play football.” Val snorted, giving you a light shove. “I love it.”
“Such a jock.” Carol grinned.
“You’re a dick, Y/L/N.” Steve laughed.
“Why are you so sure you’ll win.” Bucky, rolled his eyes playfully.
“You are down by 4 touchdowns!” Carol, flapped her arms.
“Romanoff, if I would have know you ran like that I would have picked you.” You taunt with a devilish smirk that makes her loins ache a little.
“You’re an ass for having me picked last.” She flipped you off with a laugh.
“Oh thank you I’ll use this later.” You grinned, flipping her the bird before putting it in your pocket.
“Woooow, you are a different person playing this game.” Nat gasped, laughing in disbelief.
“If you can’t take the heat, get outta the kitchen, Ginger Snap.” You smirked backwards jogging to your team.
“We have the ball losers!” Thor laughed, twerking his butt towards the other team
“Alright Revengers huddle up.” You called out. You ran through the last play before breaking the huddle and getting in line.
You all clapped before getting in line.
Thor began chanting. “Brooklyn 99! Brooklyn 99! Hut! Hut!”
Needless to say you scored one more time and won the game.
“Great game-“ you say to the other team high-fiving them. “Now move so I can eat. Big papa’s hungry.” You barked shoving past Sam and Bucky.
“I don’t think I like you this way. I’m calling your mother about this.” Tony huffed.
“Do it!” You taunt as Quinn sets your plate down with an ice cold beer next to it.
“Thanks baby.” You grin as she sits next to you.
“You’re welcome.” She smiles as you dig in.
“Wow, not even waiting for us.” Steve laughed, grabbing a plate.
“Winners don’t wait for losers.” You after taking a bite.
“I don’t know I kind of love this side of Y/N.” Carol shrugged as she and Val grabbed a plate.
“Honestly me too.” Bucky whispered to Steve.
The blond furrowed his brow at his secret lover. “Excuse me?”
“Oh come on! Look at Y/N!” Bucky huffed. “The muscles, the bulge. Calling themselves Big papa. Y/N is-“
“If you finish that sentence I swear.” Steve glared elbowing Bucky in the gut.
“Don’t be jealous.” Bucky grinned before slapping his ass in line.
“Shut up I’m not-“
“Oh you so are.” Bucky chuckled, grabbing a beer before following him to a table.
Steve gave him another glare before digging in.
Bucky chuckled at his jealousy before looking around making sure no one was watching. “You’re still the only thing I need.” He gently ran his hand near his inner thigh before eating.
Steve cleared his throat trying not to get a hard on. “Good.” He made a mental note to finally give that divorce lawyer a call.
“You’re right Y/N this is a victory feast.” Clint chuckled clinking his beer bottle with yours.
“Losers have to clean.” Val smirked.
“Except Nat, she's the only one who actually scored.” Carol snorted.
You were laughing when your daughter was calling your phone.
“Be right back.” You said standing up and walking away.
“So Y/N’s birthday is in a few weeks and I wanted to invite you all and let you know that its a surprise party. It’ll probably just be a glee/karaoke party Y/N had mentioned to me the other how much they miss singing and playing music.”
“That sounds great, Quinn consider us there.” Peggy smiled.
“Definitely.” Thor nodded.
“We won’t say anything to Y/N.” Val smiled.
“Oh Nat, will you please let Wanda know?” Quinn asked.
“Of course.” The redhead nodded.
“Sorry about that, our daughter just wanted the password to our Flix account.” You chuckled. “What did I miss?”
“Just Bucky's whining.” Sam rolled his eyes playfully.
“He’s a sore loser.” Steve chuckled.
“Okay, Sam, you cried when I beat you at Uno.” Bucky huffed.
“Hey! I don't cry.” Sam punched Bucky’s arm.”
“Now, now, boys, not at the table.” Nat smirked as Bucky placed his fist down.
“Sheesh I’m not playing cards with you guys.” You chuckled.
“Uh you’re kidding right? You moped the floor with us and boasted about it.” Bucky chuckled.
“Hey what can I say I’m a different person on the field.” You smirked.
“I kinda wanna see how you are at basketball.” Sam eyed you.
“Y/N was a point guard.” Quinn smirked.
“Baseball?”
“All star.” You grinned.
“Jeez.” Sam muttered.
“Why? Do you like getting your butt smacked?” You smirked.
“Alright Y/L/N I see how it is.” Sam cackled.
Natasha bit her lip watching the way you looked at your wife. She didn’t know how she was going to tell you, or even when, but she knew it needed to happen at some point. You deserve to know that someone close to you ruined your college career.
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What if S2E05
Ew. Genuinely do not recommend watching, purely from a writing point of view. It feels like I've just watched someone wanking off to themselves and walked away covered in goo.
I'm just saying 90% of the fanfics on AO3 is less stomach-churning than this crap.
Cut for language.
This episode starts off with just...the most wankerish introduction ever from The Watcher. What is this, 6th grade creative writing? His speech was basically "the bestest Mary Sue to ever Mary Sue is to Mary Sue in this upcoming Mary Sue episode! Did I tell you she's a Mary Sue?"
They really just...cut Sam out of his first and major appearance in the MCU. I mean...between Sam's glaring omission and somehow having the lead Widow antagonist (other than Melina) being a Black woman, in an episode featuring Ms Brexit...I'm not saying you should join the dots but the dots be damn there.
How come she gets to yell at Fury and Nat for hiding Steve from her but everyone is pretending that Steve would be fine with Peggy never telling him about Bucky. The math ain't mathing.
Fury tells her to sit out of the fight and Peggy whirls on him with the most possessive Karen snarl, "I'm Peggy Carter and we're talking about ~Steve Rogers~" Just. EW.
Steve literally has no personality or character beyond "UwU I just wanna be your lover~" the whole way, which. The writing was just not good enough to carry off and it just comes across like a juvenile self-insert fanfic.
OH FFS Not only is she stealing this whole Winter Soldier storyline she gotta steal NAT'S MOVES of beating up the Winter Soldier just FOR FUCK'S SAKE GET YOUR OWN PLOT WOMAN.
"Even in Russia girls grow up dreaming of being Captain Carter."
EWW WHY???
I can't believe this script got greenlit. She's the best she's flawless she's got a perfect love story and everyone wanna be her! Without showing you anything that proves that.
Pffft the shield dropping and the sob story (which Steve fanfic did they lift that monologue from because it sounds awfully familiar). At least they didn't try pulling the end of the line.
Oh and Steve saves her ass at the end of the day.
So not only is she a Mary Sue, she's a Mary Sue who still fucking needs a man to finish off her job. Like. This is the dumbest kind of story telling.
Sebastian doing an old man voice was the much needed breath of fresh air in this episode until I remember that it was probably a trial run for his Trump voice.
*Scrubs brain*
BTW Bucky clearly was not a morally corrupt character like Pierce and I guess...no shit, he wasn't the one who used Operation Paperclip to recruit Zola into the organisation, but I'm not sure the general audience would make that distinction.
#anti peggy carter#anti what if#bucky barnes#steve rogers#anti steggy#fuck it was so bad i don't think i'd be able to sleep#honestly this episode single handedly ruins bucky steve and nat and cuts out sam#it is SO bad
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What if s2 ep9 very long review (with spoilers!)
Nothing worst can't happened to the what if serie. I knew it, I was prepared from it. I already think about plot for season 2 and "Supreme can be the final bad guy?" Was already an option in my mind and I like the idea.
Oh and I don't want to read someone telling me "You only the goth boyfriend meow meow fangirl and a anti Carter" I'm not, I 100% know Supreme isn't like I headcanon him, here I'm only taking fact from the show.
I'm going to start with what I find cool into the episode:
I like the fact Captain Carter is the main character of the serie. I like the fact Kahori is a more important and powerfull character than Stephen. I like they changed Stephen monster form. I LIKE the fact Stephen is the bag guy of the season, great idea.
And the biggesst problem is that to every of these point have a "but" and a big one.
I like Captain Carter episode into this season, I started to feel tired during the 1602 episode and seeing her at the final episode ALONE vs Supreme... no Marvel I can't beleive she's stronger than him. She's a super soldier, she's intelligent have a militar formation, but NO she can't use 6 infinites stone like nothing and being more powerfull than Stephen. They are no built up for this (With Killmonger in the first season we have an explanation, he know nano technology, he worked during the whole ep on Ultron armor) Here Peggy use nano bot and the stone like she breath, with a ligth and funny attitude than upset me. She's like this during the whole episode btw. Girl... the multivers is going to die and you're laugthing and Having fun... where is the Carter who understand how in pain Stephen is, and how important the multivers stability is. And everyone at the end gives her their powerfull weapons to figth, good idea btw, but the way it is I can't avoid the Mary sue original fanfic in my head. "She's beautifull, so intelligent, so kind and strong than everyone like her." Carter writing during the whole season is weak like this for me. Compare to the first one, it's a total down grade I'm sorry. And once again I like this character, I have nothing about the idea of having a female warrior as a main character but please PLEASE make her a good writing character in a first place! The interaction between her and Stephen in the first season was well writed, subtile, here we have dial from power ranger episode: "Stephen It's not you!" "I'm not anymore!" Come on!!! I heard that a thousand of time and it's still not working here!
Kahori... Kahori my poor girl... I wanted YOU as a main character of this episode. Imagine someone totally stranger to Stephen's story behing manipulate by him because he looks nice and discovering he's a total unwell crazy demon. Using the 6 stones one by one, because she already knew how to use one. I'm doing what if here... but for now we again got the "side kick color character" syndrome. She has no used into this episode, Carter doing everything alone. I'd love to see here kicking Stephen's butt alone because they are so much more sens than Carter! She fougth Conquistador, she used to infinite stone, she can figth Stephen who is stealing energy from other univers.
And Stephen... I don't even know what to say about him. The whole developpement of his character totally vanish. I HATE when writers makes step back between season to fit their new story and here it's not working. I can totally admit my vision of the character into the first season is not the same as everyone but the best part of the character is that... he could turn to be a bad guy, but he learned his mystake and choose to change. That the most beautifull part of him for me, it's full of hope and positivity. Here turning back to a vilain again isn't a good idea but the fact it's AGAIN because of Christine and acting like everything never happened.. come one. You can totally point the "savior syndrome" he has and only wanted to capture vilain to fixe destroyed univers in general. Pointing the fact it's not his "pain" who turn him evil but his hyperfixation to save ppl. Comparing him to Uatu who choose to doing nothing. Here we never had an interaction between them. I hate the fact they erased his "fragile and unconfident" side into the first season.
I find the final battle as a down grade to the first season. Technically and in storyboard side... they only used old Stepjen technic idea we already saw in the same way and with a "BUT Carter is stronger", in a total lazy way. I still can't believe Carter is stronger than him, She's a super soldier with a shield, he's an overpowerfull sorcerer, ridiculously overpowerfull. I wanted to see FOR ONCE IN MARVEL a figth not around "who's having the bigger one??". We already see how powerfull Stephen is into the first season and the fact they won against Ultron thanks to Carter's Leadership and intelligence. Why you don't use it here?? It's lazy at this point. I wanted a REAL scene where we saw than Peggy has more mental strength than Stephen. Here we have the exact same scene as s1 ep4 but in "Hahaha it's not working on me because... I'm me!" Please can you just leave this episode alone and admit Stephen is over powerfull but less intelligent than Carter? And than Carter doesn't have an unhealthy way to see her dead relationship with Steve. Here the end is still "BAWH!! Carter push Stephen into his own machina Hahahah!! Because... she has a shield and him overpowerfull magic power?"
I feel it into the whole season but the fact we've got 30min epidoe instead of 40min hurted a lot the show. And we totally miss 10min into this final episode to have EMOTIONS. The end of the episode wasn't a good idea, Stephen sacrifice himself to bring back his world but without him, it's perfect on paper but here... THEY ARE ZERO EMOTION??? The butterfly
could go on Christine's shoulder, we could have a sadder sountrack, something more subtile like Stephen still into reflexion of object around here, watching her but can't interact with this world. I don't know but something more than a dial to thanks Captain Carter like she saved the multivers ALONE. HELLO??? And Kahori?? Is she okay??? Where she is?? Maybe I miss something at the end... But the Carter attitude of not even being sad for his Friend Stephen... I hate it once again. And Uatu... UATU??? Stephen saved your life??? He's your friend too??? And... it's totally your fault if he turns evil again, you bring Nat into a new univers at the end of season 2 and you let Stephen alone?? And never interacted with him like you did with Carter??? Wtf Uatu at this point you're only a Carter fanboy ?? You deserve better too!!!!
They are a thousand of plot hole that I'm tired to see... the "magic armor", the bad guy who keep all the vilain/hero alive into the same place "I don't see what bad can happened?", the vilain suddenly becoming stupid and less powerfull for no reason. Like... you have the time stone from the beguining??? As I said before the "sidekick color character", the non respect of fan like... poor Killmonger's fan here. The no used fanservice. Like, it's cool to see cowboy Loki and ThorHulk... but they are no use here. The characters who suddenly all became Clowny Ironman style. Like Stephen made jokes and have a funny side into the first season but it's around Party Thor who has the power to bring fun around him, or when he's less confident to hide his insecurity here he's just... funny all the time for no reason. Same for Carter here. The five years old dial like Peggy having fun of Stephen's cape and him having fun of her British flag... guys what are you?? Children??
I'm so sad to only have Carter at the end and no mention to the guardian of the multivers here?? Like... imagine the drama of the whole team against their old friend! And the perfect way to show her more powerfull power is her leadership, not throwing shield to ppl head.
Yeah as a conclusion I totally can accept one or two mistake like this... but here it's only making out of the show, feeling nothing for the character. The total opposite of the first season. I totally understand WHY it's that bad. I feel they've got less money, less time, less freedom. Than disney were behind they're backs like "we need to sell Carter action model, nothing else." But it's easy to say it's only Disney fault. I personnally put the fault on the writers and director's shoulders. Pushing a Captain Carter without thinking "why" she is a good character. That's the biggest mystake of the second season.
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also, the hypothetical 'devo peggy-sues to the start of ethersea' fic is just a long string of devo thinking to himself 'ah yes, i will fix this thing we did wrong' and taking some sort of action that inevitably leads to everything becoming a million times worse. for example,
immediately calling the chaperones on guthrie instead of going along with his little sea portrait heist. good: beck doesn't end up orphaned! the paintings don't end up destroyed! bad: guthrie now has a major grudge against them. amber now thinks devo is a narc.
carefully checking for any sign of danger whenever they come back to Founder's Wake so they don't do the Sallow Part Two: Part Two. good: no Sallow Part Two: Part Two. bad: cambria takes the opportunity to get more creative, which nobody is ready for. amber thinks devo is weird AND a narc.
keeping zoox from mindmelding with every giant animal he bumps into. good: ???? bad: devo singlehandedly stunts zoox's entire character development arc. amber thinks devo is weird AND a narc AND massively overprotective for all the wrong reasons
confronting brother seldom very early on about You Know What: i feel like i don't have to explain why this is a bad idea and why devo should have thought it through
#taz ethersea#i'm only 15 episodes into my relisten and my memory for the specifics of the later arcs ain't great but like. LOOK#i just know for a fact that he's the worst possible person to time travel back to ''''Fix Things''''#he's way too overconfident in his ability to do so and also Very Wrong#also from amber & zoox's perspective their new crewmate is just.... terribly suspicious. you thought the canon dynamic was tense? just wait
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Thinking about how great CATWS was and how Marvel dropped the ball on all the characters from that movie.
Steve? Got character assassinated beyond repair.
Natasha? Killed off, didn't even get an on-screen funeral and her only solo movie was more about introducing Yelena than her.
Bucky? Never got a prober story, was victim blamed, and will possibly die in Thunderbolts.
Nick Fury? Got character assassinated in Secret Invasion.
Maria Hill? Was killed off in SI.
Sharon Carter? Turned into a villian.
Sam Wilson? Unlike the rest they haven't completely fumbled the bag with his character but he was still screwed by FATWS in many ways, and his first solo movie doesn't look very promising either.
Also consider that their sequel to the movie where we find out Howard Stark knew about Nazis in SHIELD (the specific Nazi that tortured Bucky and killed members of the 107, and tried to kill Steve) ...was a movie where Howard is assassinated by Hydra and yet Bucky gets blamed and brutally attacked for it. Even though this is the same movie where we find out Bucky was mind-controlled.
And their sequel to the movie where we find out Peggy knew about Nazis in SHIELD is..... Uh. Nothing. They never address it. A character who died offscreen gets screen time wasted on a fulblown Royal funeral (attended by people who didn't even fucking know her!!)
They treat her like some kind of living saint, to the point where she's now a full blown Mary Sue, with yet another bloody tv show where every storyline must be about her, and her possessing Steve, and Steve is reduced to a Stepford Husband wheeled out to repeat 'Peggy. Is. Perfect' type lines. 😬 (Steve. Blink if you need rescuing.)
All Bucky's everything now belongs to Peggy.
Oh, apart from the blame of course! He gets to keep all of that! 🙂
(Oh, and as per What If, Sam is no longer part of CATWS, his own intro movie, and even Natasha's own movie is now about- guess who?? Peggy! And Peggy having Steve!)
Apparently Sharon has been turned into a villain in the comics, too. Just as they start product-synergy introducing MCU!Peggy to over-ride comics Peggy. I wonder why...
(It's so funny that TFATWS assigned MCU-Sharon MCU-Peggy's annoyance at being overlooked by men (cough the man she's relentlessly hitting on cough) and decided that this would be her villain origin story... and yet nobody has connected the dots to Peggy and her behaviour?)
Sharon and Sam's characterisation only feels like an organic continuation because, frankly, the MCU never bothered to write them being particularly nice people to begin with?
Sam being a fratbro-style dick to Bucky in TFATWS, with a side of dispensing unsound self-contradictory counselling advice, is consistent with being a dick to Bucky (and arguing against helping him) since CATWS and quitting a counselling job at the drop of a hat. (Only the 1980s movie locker-room homophobia queerbait is new.)
Sharon being a villain is consistent with being a Carter not being asked to join the 'bringing down Hydra' team in CATWS,
dressing up as the same profession as Steve's dead mother to 'befriend' him while she's just spying on him (contrast: the calling-out Nat got from Steve just for not telling him something),
staying in SHIELD while they were hunting down Steve and Natasha,
immediately joining the CIA (aka, the people who just happen to have a superhero-proof electric chair and want to shoot Bucky on sight, who also have Everett 'ex-husband of Madame Hydra who laughs at the idea of Bucky getting a lawyer' Ross on staff),
...which is easily infiltrated by a (thinly-veiled-Hydra) villain who wants to mind-control TWS to bring down the Avengers (deja vu??),
being snippy to Sam for no reason,
continuing to lie about herself beyond the point of it being necessary, and also being a creep who expects a thank you kiss from Steve just for doing one basic helpful thing when asked. *phew!*
But the geniuses who inherited the job of writing her in TFATWS can't see any of that... They see no issues, so they think they've written her 'turning' bad. The writing is still shonky because it still isn't self-aware about what it's portraying. The cognitive dissonance is still dissonant.
(Same problem with Fury. They keep giving him 'bad' things to do, showing him instinctively first joining the 'bad side', eg. Pierce's SHIELD, the Kree, etc. But with the exclusion of Steve yelling at him in CATWS -- and only so that Nick gets called out, but not precious Saint Margaret, ofc -- it's never addressed. They can't do anything interesting with the moral charcoal that they've accidentally cooked up, because they aren't even aware that it's there. 🤦♀️)
We were mercifully spared from Joss Whedon's terrible ideas for Maria... (supposed to be a villain in A1, baffled as to what to do with a female character so obviously she should be hinted as a love interest for Steve out of fuckn nowhere in A2) ...only to end like that.
Outside of that AOU Avengers party, where she was chill and kinda gay, I feel like the best characterisation we got for her was when- was it in one of the Spidey movies?? -she was a Skrull. 😤 If only I could say the same of Steve...
#anti tfatws#catws meta#anti mcu#mcu critical#CACU: the character-assassination cinematic universe#toAyourQ#dat's me#hey nonny#imagine the captain america movie we could've got if ryan coogler directed it he's the only one who's been nice to bucky#or better yet the 3 spiderverse guys#now there's a bunch who know how to write an antifa character!#shit even quentin tarantino would've given us a better CATFA
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Misc Marvel Fic Recs (part 7)
ghosts in the machine by hollimichele
History, Peggy has learned, never tells the whole story.
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romantic tomography by pigeonstatueconundrum
Remaining neutral about Eddie Brock was much easier in principle when he’s the unseen ex of your girlfriend, a little harder in practise when you’ve helped him through the worst week of his life.
“Pay up.” Anne flops down next to him on the couch two months later. They’re still fishing bits of the Life Foundation Rocket out of the Pacific, but no evil or chaotic neutral ex-terrestrial goo has been recovered. Supposedly.
Dan fishes the promised $20 out of his wallet, “He finally told you.”
Dr Dan Lewis would like to stop feeling like the third billed in the romantic comedy that is his life.
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call every girl we ever met maria by irnan
"You're telling me," Rhodey said, gleeful, "you're telling me that you've been shot, stabbed, sewn up, been riddled with shrapnel, had a magnet implanted in your chest, spent two years poisoning yourself with palladium, spent twenty years as a functioning alcoholic and had a vasectomy and you still managed to knock Pepper up?"
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decoys by littlerhymes
The serum makes Steve stronger, but not bigger. Instead of a superhero, he becomes a spy.
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Respectibility, Politics by brawltogethernow
Per the prompt, "the Spider-Man fic where anti-mutant bigots think JJ is one of them because of how he is about Spider-Man and he experiences no personal insight whatsoever in reaction to this but is so offended he dedicates the front cover of the Bugle to spotlighting the X-Men for like three days straight and Peter is keysmash feelings".
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Blips on the Record by ambivalentangst
Flash, let it be known, doesn’t like Peter. He’s too good at everything—infuriatingly so—and nobody ever calls him on his bullshit, like with AcaDec nationals. Flash has to put his all into everything he does for a fraction of the attention Peter gets for his bare minimum, and it pisses him off, to say the least, so sue him for looking for chances here and there to knock him down a peg.
However, when he notices, he shuts his entire operation down.
Maybe Peter has a decade on his age when he was in the thick of it, but Flash remembers what it was like. He gets having school be a safe place, and nobody, not even himself, is going to jeopardize that for Peter.
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Flash Thompson’s story is not simple, Peter Parker can always use someone else in his corner, and secrets are had and protected by all.
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Far Out by Bergen
It all started the way it usually did; with Tony doubting his own sanity.
“Happy,” he said, turning the paper over, then turning it back, squinting at it. “What the hell is this?”
Happy barely glanced up from his phone. “How should I know? I just drive you around, I don’t try to understand your designs. You’re the one who left it in the back of the car yesterday.”
Tony turned the paper towards Happy, tapping a finger against the scribbles in the margin. “I didn’t write that. I thought it, but I didn’t write it. What sorcery is this?”
“Oh shit, sorry,” Happy said, expression resigned. “I’m guessing the kid went through them when I drove him to school this morning. He has no regard for personal boundaries.”
“The kid.”
“Um— My girlfriend, she has a—“
“Your stepson did these calculations?”
“That’s not entirely—“
“Bring him to me,” Tony commanded.
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Where the Need is Greatest by Niitza
In which Steve Rogers takes one look at the history of American military interventions since the end of World War II and nopes straight out of it, follows in his Ma's footsteps to become a paramedic, joins Doctors Without Borders, gets sent on an unsanctioned humanitarian mission to Syria, and somehow still ends up being a determining factor in Hydra's downfall - all of this without throwing a single punch.
Somehow, he's okay with it.
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If you wanna be my lover (you gotta get with my friends) by mindshelter
MJ still remembers Ned’s initial disbelief when Peter—infamous for missing class back in sophomore year, suspended for two weeks freshman year—finished his bit of the group write-up four days early. The work was perfect, and so was Ned's chemistry grade. After that it was Peter this, Peter that, Peter parted the Red Sea, it’s true, MJ, I was there; I saw it. MJ, hey, are you listening?
Then Ned says, “We should invite Peter to join AcaDec.”
or;
peter isn’t rock bottom on midtown’s social ladder; he’s underground. friendless, rumoured to get into street fights. ned declares him bestie material anyway, and mj catches feelings.
she also meets tony stark(?) in foodtown, of all places, and makes a spider-man(??) sighting.
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Cannon Fodder by KieraSayre
During the war, Steve and Bucky get stuck with press duty. Sometimes reporters are racist assholes. The Howling Commandos decide to take this as an opportunity to get creative.
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you had your soul with you by napricot
Three timelines and a Reverse Time Heist.
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Peggy/Daniel/Jack, #20
:D thank you! I hope you enjoy - it's always a treat to write these three.
Peggy/Jack/Daniel #20: kiss on a scar.
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In the morning sunlight, the whole bedroom seems golden. Lacy curtains diffuse the light and offer some measure of privacy, although the larger of the two windows overlooks Daniel's overgrown backyard instead of the neighbors across the street. Still, new housing presses close, and Jack's car parked out front for the better part of a week is enough to set tongues wagging, she knows.
It's a concern that feels distant right now, in the hazy warmth of a Saturday morning; currently, a more pressing concern is the fact that Daniel's queen-sized bed really isn't big enough for all three of them, especially given Jack's appalling habit of starfishing across the center of the mattress. On his other side, Daniel has solved the problem by lying half on top of Jack and anchoring himself with an arm across his ribs, but Peggy is in dire peril of tumbling off the narrow strip of mattress and onto the floor.
"This is ridiculous," she says under her breath, and nudges at Jack's knee until he moves it with a sleepy mumble, allowing her to squirm into a more secure position.
"Sorry," he yawns, without opening his eyes.
"I'm sure," Peggy retorts, with a tartness she doesn't really feel. On Jack's other side, Daniel snickers quietly, not asleep after all.
"None of this ever came up in etiquette school, sue me," Jack complains. He yawns again, halfheartedly covering it with the hand not pinned beneath Daniel, then turns toward Peggy to offer her a sleepy kiss.
"I'd be shocked if it had," she says, but she's completely lost the battle against her smile. Daniel shifts, draping himself over Jack's back and leaning across his shoulder to kiss her as well. Then he kisses Jack's cheek, the back of his neck, and the spot on his shoulder where there's a fading, puckered exit wound from the bullet that nearly killed him a year ago. Jack closes his eyes with a contented hum as Peggy smooths her thumb over the matching scar on the front of his chest.
A lingering reminder of the terror that brought them together. Like the bullet wounds on her body, it'll never completely disappear, but it's fading now. Impulsively, she leans down to kiss it.
"Peggy," Jack murmurs. His hand is in her hair now; when she slides her hand across his bare hip, she meets Daniel on his other side. Their fingers tangle together, holding Jack between them.
"Mm?" she asks, and presses her lips to his skin again.
"Nothing," Jack says, and there's a thread of laughter in his voice now. "By all means carry on."
"Thank you, I think I shall," Peggy says archly. Daniel lets out an amused noise, and Jack shakes with laughter for a moment, and after that there are no more words between them for a while.
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(For these kiss prompts!)
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Bars, Drinks, and No Regrets
Pairing: Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw/ Bartender!fem!reader
Characters: Bartender!fem!reader, Penny Benjamin, Amelia Benjamin, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, Jake “Hangman” Seresin, Natasha “Phoenix” Trace, Robert “Bob” Floyd, Reuben "Payback" Fitch, Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia, Javy "Coyote" Machado, Neil "Omaha" Vikander, Billy "Fritz" Avalone, Callie "Halo" Bassett, Brigham "Harvard" Lennox, Logan "Yale" Lee, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (briefly mentioned)
Warnings: Drinking, kissing, Jake is a bit of an asshole BUT for a good reason, the blond little shit thinks Bradley’s mustache is a porn stache’, Jake and Natasha have some... tension, Bob is a sweetheart, Natasha and Bradley are besties, Natasha loves the reader (and will do anything to get her two besties together), the students are not subtle when it comes to bets, Jake adds a “that’s what she said” at some point (I have no regrets for that)
Word Count: 2,259
* Set a few months after the movie
Also, there should be more content with all 12 students, they’re all adorable
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“Peggy Sue!” You shout, running through the front doors of the bar.
“Still not my name,” she says, cleaning another glass.
“It gets your attention though,” you point out, tossing your bag on top of the bar top as you sit on one of the unoccupied stools.
“I see you’re,” she glances over at her clock. “Almost on time.”
“Yeah, roommate trouble, something I would rather not talk about right now.” She has an inkling as to why you say that and hopes the pilots- Pete’s former students are around somewhere.
“Okay, but you’ll tell me if something’s wrong, right?”
You nod, “of course.”
“I think she’s lying.”
“You should know better than to but, into a conversation, Amelia,” you say.
“You should know when to ask people for help. You know you should ditch your roommates. They’re not the nicest people,” Amelia points out.
“Well, if it makes you feel better, I have. Natasha and Callie are moving in later this week. Now, I have to get ready for work. Please, feel free to talk about me as much as you want.” You walk away from the mother-daughter duo and head for the back before running back towards the two to grab your bag then making your way towards the back room.
The group enters the bar, whooping and hollering.
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“You should have seen your face Hangman when you knew you weren’t going to be able to pass me,” Reuben says.
“Looks like you kids had fun,” Peggy comments.
“We sure did ma’am. The suns at its highest peak, meaning more tan for me,” Jake smirks.
He and Reuben make their way towards you, watching as you toss your rag on your shoulder, preparing to make their drinks. “And yet, it seems as though the sun makes you dumber than you were before you walked outside.”
Jake leans against the counter, leaning in, “aren’t you just a ball of sunshine?”
“Talk to me when you get out of your “I’m too cool for you so I have a toothpick sticking out of my mouth” phase,” you snatch said item from him, tossing it into the small trashcan under the bar.
“Now, that was uncalled for. If Rooster was here chewing on a toothpick, you wouldn’t be coming after him like you do me.” A sly smirk tugs at the corners of his lips, “could that mean you have a crush on me?”
You glance up at him through your lashes, “yeah, that’s totally it. I’m all hot and bothered for some toothpick chewin’ punk.”
“You wound me, sweetheart,” he places his hand over his heart, adding onto the charade.
“Please tell it’s not true. Tell me Bagman is delirious,” Bradley says, sitting on the stool placed in front of where you stand.
“You know I only got eyes for you, sugar,” you say with a sweet tone. “But it looks like the late afternoon partiers have arrived and wishes to be served.” You walk away, prepared to help the customer.
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The two men walk back towards the others, handing everyone the drinks they ordered.
“You should just man up and ask her out,” Jake says, drinking his beer, watching Natasha take her turn.
“Yeah- wait- what? No, no. We’re- we’re just friends.”
Jake, Mickey, Reuben, and Bob take a sip of their drinks, hiding their smiles and smirks.
“Uh huh. Whatever you say, stud,” Jake pats Bradley’s back before venturing to the other side of the room where he spots some fresh faces.
Natasha gives switches places with Logan so; she can sit beside Bradley.
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“At least Bagman has the balls to admit when he likes someone,” Natasha comments.
“He’ll talk to anything that walks.” The man in the Hawaiian shirt sulks in his seat.
“That’s true but,” she pauses. “At least he can acknowledge his feelings for his… lady of the night.”
The two start chuckling.
“You could have used any other phrase and you use that?”
“No, it hits the nail on the head.”
“I can’t ask her out.”
“Why not? She likes you and you like her. What’s the big deal?”
“You mean besides the fact that I’m hardly ever here and- wait- wait- backup. What’d you say?”
“The part about you two liking each other or the fact that you’re coming with one excuse after the other.”
“The- she likes me.”
She takes a sip of her drink, “yeah. Did you… not know that?”
“I didn’t want to give myself false hope.”
“Oh. Now, you don’t have to worry about false hope so, go over there and ask her out.”
“I can’t even talk to her without sounding like a complete dou- like Hangman. How am I going to stand there and ask her out?”
“Take another sip, sit up straight, then walk over there and ask her out before I do it for you.”
“That’s not as easy as you think.”
“Really? Why?”
“She’s so- she’s- I can’t.”
“Fine. I’m going to put an end to your puppy dog love before I move in. I’m not gonna deal with her talking about how she wants to be with you and thinks you don’t like her. I’d rather live with you two being together. It’ll be better for me and Halo in the end.” Natasha slams her glass on the table before following you back to the center bar.
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“Hey,” she says, sounding like another customer.
“One second,” you hold your finger up to the customer. You pour a few more drinks for the small group, smiling at the girl getting her friend’s drinks. “Here you go.” You walk away, stopping in front of Natasha. “Oh, it’s you. Hey.”
She gives you a quick smile, “you need to ask him out.”
“Who?”
“Don’t play dumb with me. You know who I’m talking about.”
“I do,” you pick up a glass and start cleaning it, setting it with the others. “But I also know, he’s not into me and doesn’t like me like that.”
“He does. He really does. Ask him out, please.”
“Then why does he act like Bagman?”
“He’s an idiot and you’re amazing. Obviously, he’s gonna get tongue tied and says stupid shit.” She reaches across the bar top, setting her hand on top of yours, “ask him out. I’m begging you to ask him out, for mine and Halo’s sake. Ask the idiot out.”
“You’re really talking him up right now,” you chuckle.
“I’m serious.”
“So am I. Maybe we’re not meant to go out-”
“You are.”
Another small group of customers enters the bar, asking for drinks.
“Bye, Tash.”
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She groans, walking back towards the others, snatching the pool cue from a certain cocky blond.
“Luck out?” Jake smirks.
She glares at him, “no.”
“She wouldn’t steal Rooster’s girl from him,” Javy adds, not realizing the ammunition he gave to his friend.
“Oh, wait,” Jake says. “I forgot she’s not his girl. He doesn’t have the balls to ask her out. He knows she needs a real man not some guy with a porn stache’. Ain’t that right, chicken?”
The man in the Hawaiian shirt is fuming now.
“You’re just pissed off because your hookup told you she had a date tonight.” The smirk on Jake’s face falls, “is that how we’re doing things tonight?”
The two stand toe to toe with one another.
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You walk out from behind the drink station, aiming for the pilots. “Hey.”
No one moves.
“Hey!”
The two turn to look at you.
“You two wanna fight, do it somewhere else. I’m not gonna stay late to clean up your blood. So, you now have two options, either you get out and continue with this little pissing contest or you don’t fight and stay here, have another drink. What’s it gonna be?” You lose your breath, reaching to hold onto his shoulders.
His mustache tickles your upper lip. Bradley pulls back a little, giving you a moment to breathe.
You owlishly blink, covering your saliva covered mouth. You gulp, pulling your hand off his shoulder. “Wow, that- uh- wow!”
“Are you okay?” He asks with a light chuckle.
“Just peachy. Could’ve used a little warning though.”
“I’ve been told the element of surprise is a good thing.”
You angle your head, finally looking into his eyes, “it’s great. It’s great. I just-”
Penny calls for you.
You point over your shoulder, “that. I have that.”
“You mean you still have to work.”
You dumbly nod, humming a “yes”.
“Can I stay until you get off and take you home?”
The blood and oxygen seem to have finally returned to your brain because you’re back to normal. “You bet your sweet ass; you’re staying. I’m not letting you go after that. I’m expecting there to be more of that tonight.”
He chuckles, his hands hold onto your waist, “yes, ma’am.”
You suck in your bottom lip, squinting your eyes at him, “you’re gonna be trouble for me, aren’t you?”
“I can’t make any promises.”
You smile, pulling him for another kiss, breaking away when Penny calls for you again. “I’m coming!”
“That’s what she said,” Jake whispers.
Your hand slides down Bradley’s side, flipping Jake the bird, “you’re so immature.”
“Hey! I’m the reason you two are gonna be fucking later.”
“I’ll believe it when I see it.” You give Bradley a sweet smile, pecking his lips before pulling away, “I’ll see you later.”
“Yes, ma’am. I’ll be over here waiting for you.”
“Who knew you could be such a sap.”
“I did,” Natasha and Jake say.
They turn to look at one another, “no you didn’t.” “Yes, I did.” “Stop it.”
“Okay, while thing one and thing two continue to argue. I’m gonna go back to work.” He nods, removing his arms from around your waist.
You took two steps before Bradley calls you back. “Yeah?”
“You forgot something.”
“Wha-” It takes you a second to realize he’s kissing you again. You wrap your arms around the back of his neck, smiling into the kiss which gets him to smile. You break apart and break into a fit of laughter. “Okay, okay,” you pat his chest. “I’ve seriously got to get back to work.”
“Okay, one last-”
“One last nothing, Rooster,” Penny wraps her arm around your shoulders. “We’ve got to get back to work. You two can make up for lost time later.”
Your lips tug into a wide smile, you glance over your shoulder, “I’ll see you later.”
“See you later.”
“See you later.” Jake groans, “we’re gonna listen to you two be all cute, cuddly, and shit now.” He turns to Javy, “why’d we get them together again?”
Javy shakes his head, “I didn’t do anything, I had no part in this. That was all you two,” he points to Jake and Natasha.
“That was all Bagman.”
“Woah! Woah! Slow you’re roll their Princess Phoenix, I had just as much a part in this as you did.”
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You shake your head, setting another soda in front of Bob.
He looks up at the sound of the bottom of the bottle clinking on the tabletop and shakes his head.
You offer him a small smile, “I know you didn’t order another one but, you’re the only one that’s been good.”
“Good?”
“You’re the only one who didn’t medal with what was going on between Bradley and I.” You lift the bottle off the table about a centimeter and set it back down, “and this is your reward.”
He looks away, “thank you.” Bob takes a sip, “how did you know?” He asks, fiddling with the label.
“Well, you see, Javy and Mickey playing darts.”
He nods.
“They’re doing there “I won a bet” game of darts. Reuben, Callie, and Logan are watching waiting for their turns while Billy is counting the money to make sure they all get their fair share. Then we have the two that are neck and neck with a slight hint of sexual tension,” you point to Jake and Natasha. “You already know what they did so, there’s no need to explain it. Then we have Bringham and Neil who are going to order another round of drinks since they lost because the loser had to buy, at least, two rounds. So, that about what ten of you?”
He nods again.
“Bradley obviously wasn’t a part of this. He’s observing the others and debating on coming over to talk to me as we speak. Then there’s you, my good child.” You two share a chuckle before you lean in with a serious expression, “if I find out that you actually did have a part in this, just know, I will hunt you down, Billy Bob. I’m not gonna tell you what I would do but, I can promise that it won’t be pretty.”
Bob gulps, quickly nodding his.
The smile returns to your lips, “good.”
You peck Bradley’s lips before returning to work.
He walks over to where Bob is. “You alright?”
The man wearing the wired frame glasses assures him he’s fine. “She can be scary when she wants to be.”
Bradley smirks, “I know.”
He glances over his shoulder, seeing the open seat, he takes off giving Bob a quiet goodbye.
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“Hey, there,” you greet him.
“Hey back.”
It’s safe to say that night ended with the two of you smiling and in need of a shower.
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After Natasha and Callie moved in, it’s safe to say they’re happy the two of you are together but, you two could at least try to be a little quieter.
Continue to: Part 2
#top gun: maverick#top gun maverick#top gun#top gun x reader#top gun: maverick x reader#bradley bradshaw x reader#bradley rooster bradshaw#rooster bradshaw#bradley rooster bradshaw x you#bradley rooster bradshaw x reader#bradley bradshaw x you#bradley bradshaw x fem!reader#bradley rooster bradshaw x fem!reader#bartender reader x bradley bradshaw#bartender!fem!reader x bradley bradshaw#bartender reader x bradley rooster bradshaw#bartender!fem!reader x bradley rooster bradshaw#crazyk-imagine
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Pokémon Fic Recs
Because I read a lot of fics and am always on the prowl, so I felt like sharing a non exhaustive rec list under read more. Feel free to add recs on reblog if you want!
Savoir-Faire: To Know and To Do - This is the one. If there is a fic I beg everyone to read it's this. multi-chapter but not that long PLEASE do it. MC of an alternate XY was cursed by rampaging Legendaries with immortality. 10 years later, jaded Marguerite Linden du Bois is finishing her paper on Pokémon World Sociology, taking a newbie trainer for the road. Read for Humanities Things, Ghost-Types, the apathetic weight of immortality, worldbuilding, the workings of Pokémon League, Research Assistant Darkray, Royalty and more. I am begging you to read it.
Ashes of the Past - Peggy Sue fic where Cyrus destroyed the world and Arceus decided the best way to deal with that was send Ash back to the start of his journey (after some Aura training). Saphroneth writes fights *amazingly*, specially around Orange Island, where he took a break and came back with a glow-up. Fic is dead now, but consider reading, if nothing else, the Suicune or the Tobias Fight.
A professor and student + The 48 - I have this unproved feeling there is an overkill amount of “Ash is traumatized after Kalos" but this is The one about it. Kukui takes care of Ash in Alola and helping the boy set some boundaries and stuff. This and the wider “The 48” series are amazing Ash, and you can find great longer fics and one-shots alike here. Adults but not grown-ups (Alola Supporting Cast one-shots) and Left Behind (Ash and a Future Ash end up swapping time places during XY while brock is visiting) are real stand-outs.
You Thought - Aliens invaded and took over the Pokémon World, but actual Pokémons still give them trouble. The premise may seem weird, but it is a means for amazing descriptions of how even the common Meowth could be terrifying and disruptive for an outside-context watcher.
A home can be found - Lillie during and after OG SM, finding a new family with Kukui, Bunet and her friends.
What the Sun Leaves Behind - Hau is inheriting Hala’s spot as kahuna after the latter died, and Gladion shows up to give him a pep talk when Hau runs off into the woods from nerves. It is tagged as Hau/Gladion but it is really a platonic deal.
A Little Bit of Maschiff - Juliana decides that getting a Maschiff of her own is the perfect thing for her friendship with Arven. She gets more than she bargained for, with Arven helping her tame the wretched beast.
The Clues - isshushipping. 5+1 One-Shot Fic of N being In Denial about Team Plasma during BW.
colder in the summertime - One-shot. Morty is cursed. Read for pretty boys in cold fever, nosebleeds, exhaustion, the whole shish-kebab.
Read It Now.
Collateral - Faller!Touya, and the International Police helping him, while his friends try to find him. Sad. Great.
Pinky Promise - Gloria/Hop One-Shot. Hop fighting for dear life to get Gloria a Christmas Gift.
Massive “The Kids Are Doing Fine” energy. Adorable.
The Earth, the Sky and the Sea - An enigmatic narrator retells and expands the Hoenn Weather Trio story. Excellent atmosphere.
HIS2435: Sinnohan Myths and Legends - Cynthia giving a College-level History Class. Chaos Mayhem Etc. Lots of author touches and headcanons and references but can be comfily (and hilariously) read on its own.
Masahop/Train shipping section (I may have a problem)
Do you believe in love at first sight? - Hop getting a crush on Gloria, slowly realizing over the years he’s actually in Love with Victor. Vic is the MC/Champion. The fic has a charmingly unique Victor (chronically ill/frail immune system - Hop gets to care for his health a Lot it’s cute), and feels very Earnestly Adorable in Hop’s bisexual crisis. writer is requesting feedback so please give them some love!
Kiss Your Neo Champion - Hop got his Neo Champion clothes. He has a boyfriend. What is not clicking
Sunshine Riptide - Instead of Words, I’ll put these excerpts here:
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WIP Folder Tag Game
The lovely @insert-witty-user-name-here has tagged me because she knows the absolutely unhinged amount of WIPs in various stages that I have lol. But I also love sharing them out of context and talking about them because that often motivates me so here we go! And thank you!
Rules: reveal the titles of the documents in your WIP folder and tag as many people as there are documents (or as many people as you want). Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!'
I went in rough order from most recently created/worked on to older ones so you can see how at some point I just stopped counting my found family and general “Time Crew” based ideas because I lost track lmao.
Sleeping around untrustworthy people 5+1
Gator Pres Reconciliation
Cat chapter 8
Prayer TC
Collapse TC
God of Outcasts Returning
Found Family- Frost Giants
Hugsssss 5+1
Big Sister Sylvie
Do you have a better plan—(the original Drabble is done and posted but there is a part two WIP in the same doc!)
TC- Ghosts
Found family- Guilt
Freeze- TC
Protective- TC
Birthdays- TC
Love Letters- TC
TC- Restored
TC- Playground
Time Crew Fic 9- Void Road Trip
Touch Starved TC
TC Reassuring
TC Unfairness
A few I have mentioned before ina few tag games like this because some have festered in WIP hell for that long 😅 though I’m not including every single much older one, just a few of my favorites and/or ones that actually have something there to work on! But for any new people/people who didn’t see these!!
Sylvie and Peggy Vs the End of the World
Sylkius Christmas
Loki Found Family 5- Boastful
Found Family 8- Kid and Genderfluidity
TC- Kitchen Sink
And a few I haven’t made documents for but I have little notes made about them in one larger document called “All Loki Ideas” where I compile them and highlight different colors based on if they’re done or in progress or new/untouched ideas and organized by category or ship so if I have a particular person/ship I want to write but no solid idea I can go hunting lol. Some descriptions are all I have and others I just put in the first sentence and there is more!
Loki waking up with a nightmare/panic about Mobius not knowing him, and Mobius helping him calm down and reassuring him that he knows and loves him
Exploring the deep empathy and attempts at understanding Mobius felt when having to go through Loki’s life
Lokius inspired by songs/lyrics (there are lyric snippets and/or actual ideas for most of these if anyone is curious! Also yes there is a lot of Taylor Swift, sue me 😅)
Superman-Taylor Swift
Cardigan-Taylor Swift
Happy endings are stories that haven’t ended yet- mayday parade
London boy- Taylor swift
The man who can’t be moved-the script
When the day met the night- panic at the disco
The joker and the queen- ed sheeran
New Year’s Day- Taylor Swift
Delicate- Taylor swift
I’m yours- the script
Haunted- Taylor swift
Loki having a nightmare about Sylvie (and Mobius?) dying, and having to contend with it
Lokius reunion (this was noted before s2 even came out but hey guess it circled back to being relevant 😭)
Mobius and Loki (and Sylvie?) moving into a home together and having small domestic moments like having a “picnic” on the floor
Drunk Sylkius- Sylvie and Loki drunk and arguing about who’s more hedonistic
Drunk Sylkius- Folksy Dope fan club with sylvie and loki goofing off and praising and gushing over Mobius
B-15 and Sylvie spending time together, sorting out feelings
C-20 and Sylvie growing closer after she is rescued
If any of these are interesting to you, and you want to know more/see a snippet (if one exists!) please let me know, I love rambling about all of these ideas and sometimes talking about them gives more inspiration! 💕
Certainly will double tag some people (and am going to tag the originator in her own game lol bc I also want to see her stuff!) but that’s expected from me!
@insert-witty-user-name-here @starport-seven-five @mirilyawrites @lgwilt @dreamycloud @cha-melodius @blackbirdofasgard @loki-is-my-kink-awakening @nostalgia-tblr @bushs-world @queen-of-meows
And anyone else who would like to share!!
#loki#lokius#sylkius#fanfic#fanfiction#WIPs#wip ask game#loki found family#loki series#mobius m mobius#lokius fanfic#ao3 author
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One of the most subversive and original figures in 1980s popular culture was a whey-faced, cherry-lipped, matchstick-thin child-man who wore a red bow tie, white tasselled loafers and a shrunken grey suit, and lived in a giant playhouse with sentient furniture and a floating head. This was Pee-wee Herman, created and played by the actor Paul Reubens, who has died aged 70 of cancer.
The character appeared on stage in The Pee-wee Herman Show during the early 1980s but did not become known internationally until the release of the film Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), which marked the doolally debut of the director Tim Burton. US cinema in the Reagan era drew heavily on the iconography of the 50s and early 60s, whether for purposes sweet (Back to the Future, Peggy Sue Got Married) or unsavoury (Blue Velvet, Parents); this big-screen outing for Pee-wee, who was already suffused with the spirit of bygone children’s shows such as Howdy Doody and Captain Kangaroo, fell somewhere in between. As with the stage and TV incarnations, the film’s undercurrent of kinkiness and innuendo never contaminated its air of gleeful innocence.
In a story modelled on the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves, Pee-wee travels across the US in search of his beloved stolen bike. Along the way, he meets the undead truck driver Large Marge, poses as the wife of a convict, charms a gang of snarling bikers by dancing on the bar in platform heels, rescues the occupants of a burning pet shop (saving the snakes for last because he’s scared of them) and ends up at the premiere of a Hollywood movie about himself.
Pee-wee’s nasal voice and honking laugh seemed cultivated to irritate every bit as much as his playground rejoinders (such as “I know you are, but what am I?” repeated ad infinitum). But Reubens’s single-minded focus on playing him utterly straight – if that’s not the wrong word for a character steeped in camp – was vital to his success, which ballooned with the children’s TV show Pee-wee’s Playhouse (1986-90).
“We never tried to do ‘a-kids’-show-but-weird,’” he said in 2014. “I feel like my commitment to Pee-wee, the concentration required to stay in that character, makes it real to me.
“It’s a throwback and has lots of homage elements to it, but I always considered it a full-on real kids’ show even though it had all this adult humour in it. I took a lot of pride in being able to figure out ways to do stuff that could be seen by kids and grownups.”
Pee-wee’s Playhouse pushed the surrealism of the film even further. In one episode, Pee-wee marries a bowl of fruit salad, which is wearing a wedding veil. Years later, the scene was held up as an example of the character’s progressiveness, though in truth it would be a challenge to find a moment from Pee-wee’s oeuvre that did not serve that function.
Whether filling his 1988 Christmas special with LGBT+ performers and allies such as Grace Jones, kd lang, Cher and Little Richard, or hiring strapping, shirtless construction workers to build an extension made of fruitcake on the side of his playhouse, Pee-wee personified queerness without frightening the horses. One of the show’s messages, said Reubens, was that “nonconformity isn’t bad”.
Bumps in the road arrived in the form of a lacklustre film sequel, Big Top Pee-wee (1988), and two scandals: the first in 1991 when Reubens was arrested and fined for masturbating in an adult cinema, and then in 2002 when a police search of his collection of vintage erotica resulted in a misdemeanour charge for possession of child pornography, later reduced to probation for possession of obscene material.
He was born in Peekskill, New York, to Judy (nee Rosen), a teacher, and Milton Rubenfeld, a former founding pilot of the Israeli air force, who went on to sell cars and to own a lamp store. When Reubens was nine, the family moved to Sarasota, Florida. He was educated at Sarasota high school and Boston University, and studied acting at the California Institute of the Arts, where his classmates included David Hasselhoff.
He became a regular fixture on the comedy club circuit, and appeared 14 times on The Gong Show, the competitive TV variety series. “You could go on more than once if you were in disguise,” Reubens explained; he acquired membership of the Screen Actors Guild after winning the contest.
It was as part of the Los Angeles improvisational comedy group the Groundlings that he first developed Pee-wee Herman. He also went on The Dating Game (known to UK audiences as Blind Date) as Pee-wee, having filled out the application form and auditioned entirely in character.
After failing an audition for the 1980-81 season of Saturday Night Live, Reubens borrowed $5,000 from his parents to produce The Pee-wee Herman Show. It ran for five months in Los Angeles, later touring the US, and led to a one-off HBO special as well as absurdist turns on Late Night with David Letterman, during which Reubens never broke character.
“I always felt it was conceptual art, but no one knew that except me,” he said. “I went out of my way to make people feel Pee-wee was a real person. It worked way better if people were going: ‘Who the hell is that?’”
His non-Pee-wee appearances were largely restricted to the years after Pee-wee’s Playhouse ended in 1990. Burton gave him a cameo as the Penguin’s father in Batman Returns, and he played a vampire in the original film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (both 1992).
He starred in the family comedies Dunston Checks In and Matilda (both 1996) and played a flatulent superhero in the comedy Mystery Men (1999) as well as a pot-dealing hairdresser in the crime drama Blow (2001). Most of his subsequent roles took the form of animation voice-work or eccentric guest spots on sitcoms, such as 30 Rock (2007) and What We Do in the Shadows (2019).
Pee-wee’s periodic returns were always greeted with affection. A new version of The Pee-wee Herman Show, which reached the stage in 2010, and the delightful, Judd Apatow-produced Netflix film Pee-wee’s Big Holiday (2016), gave Reubens a chance to repair definitively any lingering damage done by his arrests.
“I wrecked it to some degree, you know?” he told the New York Times. “It got made into something different. The shine got taken off it. At a certain point, I just wanted to have a better end to my career.”
He is survived by his sister, Abby, and brother, Luke.
🔔 Paul Reubens (Paul Rubenfeld), actor and writer, born 27 August 1952; died 30 July 2023
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Would you like to describe the personality of Howard Stark? And understand what kind of person he really is. I think he is hiding behind a mask... (sorry, english is not my native language)
Hi! First of all, no need for apologies, I get what you're asking! <3 <3 Long post ahead!
So, as it is known, I really like Howard for similar reasons why I like Tony. They're scarily similar and I can never stop thinking how much Tony would not like to hear that. I have a few Howard posts where I describe what I think of him here, here, and here mainly. Anyways, onwards!
See, there are different Howards to consider here. The one we see in CATFA and Agent Carter and the one we hear about from Tony, Fury, ect. I like talking about Agent Carter Howard the most because he's just so interesting.
Is he wearing a mask to hide his true emotions? The fastest answer is yes, but I think it's more complicated than that. It's that questions (something I sometime apply to Tony as well) "How long does it take for the mask become who you truly are?" Because there reaches a point where the person you constantly project isn't just a coverup. I think Howard's bravado, occasionally asshole-ish ways, womanizing, deceit, ect - all those less savory aspects are a piece of who he is, but it's not all he is of course. He has a ton of great qualities, usually shown in his friendships.
I've said before that I think Howard is an incredibly fractured character. I think he knows exactly what he's feeling most of the time, but never knows how to deal with the emotions he feels. He's obsessive to the point of self-destruction, and when he does self-destruct (or ends up hurting other people), he feels incredible amounts of guilt that never fully goes away. Instead, he uses that guilt to fuel his next project that will surely fix all his problems (until it actually ends up causing more messes).
I don't want to woobify Howard because I don't think that's what's going on with him. I do think he shield his emotions from others - not really from himself, but he does dampen them. I don't think Howard knows how to process heavy amounts of feelings in a proper way. Unless he's cornered, run down and essentially forced to. And he does have a few vulnerable moments we see in Agent Carter. When Peggy confronts him about lying about Steve's blood (he breaks down, basically declares his love for Steve, and talks about how deceit is how he was able to get anywhere due to his origins), when the villain captures him and threatens to blow New York to shreds (he tells them that they can do whatever they want to him and begs them to leave innocent people out of it), when we hear about what happened when the military got their hands on his failed experiment (he punches the guy in charge and locks up all his more dangerous inventions), the plane scene (Howard feels immense guilt over Steve crashing and dying, and desperately wants to find him and bring him home). These are all moments of genuineness we get from him...albeit moments where there is no other option but to be vulnerable. Regardless, this is 1000% mask off, last ditch effort Howard and I love that.
Of course there's like, an incredibly huge gap between Agent Carter Howard and the Howard we hear and see from Tony, Fury, ect. I suspect that Howard did undergo a pretty dark change in how he conducted himself sue to various things...starting with being the head of SHIELD during the end of WW2-Cold War. Could you imagine? Lol. And we already established that Howard doesn't deal with guilt well. In fact, I'd say that when it came to him taking "necessary sacrifices" he probably shut down his more...inconvenient emotions off as long as he could before he drunk himself into a stupor...then onto the next day.
When it comes to Howard and his family, specifically Tony, well, I don't think there's much I can say that I haven't already said. Howard loved Tony. Howard missed Tony when he wasn't there (Maria's words). Howard was also a bad father because he neglected Tony. Howard saw a kid that was too similar to himself and that seemed to be one of his biggest fears going by what he said in Endgame. I don't think he knew what to do with that whatsoever. Maybe he thought the less he had to do with him, the less Tony would turn out like him. Maybe he thought he could cut down the influence. Maybe all the dark things he's seen, done, ordered, ignored convinced him that he had nothing to offer in being a father, or that he'd make Tony worse. Maybe he thought Obie, Maria and Jarvis had Tony set straight well enough. Who knows really. Every loving thing Howard has said about Tony was told to Tony by a third party (Fury, Maria).
Howard is kind of an enigma, except not really. We don't know specifics, but it's so easy to put together his character with canon, context clues and US history. I like Howard, a whole lot. I don't get many opportunities to talk about him unprovoked so thanks for this ask!
#sometimes I wished I knew how to insert gifs on this site to illustrate my points better#anyways#howard stark#trash gremlin stark#agent carter#post office#thank you anon
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So I just read an anti-Peggy meta on a Chinese blog which I can't verify (and I'm not sure whether any English comics readers have summarised these), but basically Peggy is a Frankenstein of all three of Steve, Bucky and Sharon's characteristics and storylines but without truly reflecting their values, which is why her characterisation is a mess.
Her character background is taken mostly from Sharon: "secret agent, kickass, independent, self-assured". Sharon was the original female Cap America.
Stuff her character took from Bucky (I have no way of verifying this but this seems like a lot more than I expected, also this is translated back from Chinese so there's going to be differences to the original words): (Source)
Peggy walking in on Steve/Lorraine -> Bucky walks in after a French spy forced a kiss on Steve, Bucky apologises while Steve goes all flustered and runs off, "You don't believe in me!"
Steve and Peggy's talk before diving into the ocean -> all of Steve's thoughts pre-dive was about Bucky, "Bucky's figure is like a windswept rock, carved into my mind."
Steve thinking about the date with Peggy after waking up -> the first thing Steve says upon waking is Bucky, and he then searches the world for Bucky
Steve staying in SHIELD because Peggy found it -> Steve stayed in SHIELD because one of the founding members looked like Bucky
Steve carrying Peggy's photo around -> after waking, Steve got some of his belongings back, but along with it Bucky's uniform and photo, which he kept with him everywhere. He'd often take out Bucky's photo and caress it and weep.
Steve seeing Peggy in Wanda's illusion -> Steve always sees Bucky in his dreams
Steve's "dance" promise with Peggy -> Steve and Bucky's Grand Canyon promise, and Steve went there by himself to draw Bucky's picture, pretending they came together.
Steve going back to the past to be with Peggy -> Steve went back to the past to find Bucky, but when he did Bucky died, and the Bucky in his own world disappeared too. When the SHIELD director who looked like Bucky contacted Steve, in a moment of confusion, he agreed and returned to the present.
The "no, you move" words was a climatic scene for Steve in the comics, but was taken from Steve and given to Peggy (via Sharon). As we've discussed elsewhere, this never worked because we have not, demonstrably, ever seen Peggy plant herself in the face of overwhelming pressure and refuse to compromise on something.
I really like this next bit, so I'm going to translate it word for word:
You think it's a tragic love, but it was stolen from Cap and Bucky's relationship.
That is Captain's "right partner", that's his insurmountable love from WW2, his 65 years of pining, the existence that he can neither let go nor speak about, he's the quiet grief in his dark nights, he's the exhilaration of their reunion, he's the heartbreak in his every almost-found but repeated disappointments, he's his exhausting search.
And someone stole everything from the original, except the suffering.
And I think that's my biggest issue with this character, because she's been written as a Mary-Sue of sorts, with a whole bunch of retroactively added privilege -- which, I dunno, maybe made her feel more appealing to some of the audience, but widened the gap between her and Steve. Steve, who has not lived amongst privilege, and whose whole being is around not letting privileged folks take advantage of others -- against her, a highly privileged woman, who used that privilege to gain more privileges, who then used it to take advantage of others. They are so diametrically opposed in their motivations that I just can't see them working out without either of them breaking character.
Apparently in House of M, she and Steve married, but she could not fathom why Steve continued to oppose unfair policies from the government. Steve lamented only Bucky understood him, but Bucky died during a mission, and Steve stepped down from Cap and divorced Peggy. At the end, an aged Steve walks beneath the streetlights, mourning the words Bucky once said to him. This is a much more likely outcome for their relationship if both remained in character, than whatever EG was.
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FANFICTION
SPOILERS FOR DOCTOR STRANGE AND THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS!!!!
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¡John Krasinski!
Reed Richards x Reader
The One Exception
part 1
(Mentions of Stephen Strange x Reader)
𝑾𝑨𝑹𝑵𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑺: REED RICHARDS LIKE THIS MAN HOT, Arguing, Violence, Blood, Death, and the reader being overpowered (lol) SMUT IN PART 2 EHEHHEHEEH. SO YA SAFE FOR PART 1 Me being lazy and not going to spell check rn. I will soon LMAO
𝑨/𝒏: Hello everyone! I am so sorry my Moon Knight people. I have been so busy with my Doctor Strange needs I simply had no motivation until late. After MOM though I will be doing many doctor strange fics and mainly focus on him, plus the characters in the movie. EVENTS WILL BE CHANGED/Out of order for plot sake.
𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚: You are one of the original members of the Illuminati. For many years Reed Richards had been in love with you despite Stephen Strange owning your heart. Years after Stephen's death you finally have been moving on. However, this new 616 variant catches your attention and Reed does not like that.
(Gif by me 💅)
Most the gifts have my @ marvelsimp tiktok logo except like a few I did post a mini gift set.
(Y/n) (L/n) walked into Reed's lab, being somewhat of a scientist herself, but preferably his assistant during free time. However, not much freedom for extra activities is given to members of the Illuminati. (Y/n) felt like that was a long and complicated story. Which it really wasn't. It started many years ago when her previous lover, Doctor Stephen Strange, had developed an idea of heroes uniting so that when the earth, or universe, needed them they would be there. It consisted of herself, the Phoenix, Charles Xavior, Captain Peggy Carter, Mordo Sorcerer Supreme, Captain Marvel, and Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four. She had fought battles alongside each member but never as a collective group. They functioned accordingly and fairly. Earth has been saved countless times against powerful enemies, such as Thanos...A topic (Y/n) avoids.
For the last couple of months, the unofficial couple, Reed and (Y/n), have become close. More time was spent together on short missions and in his lab. They each came out of long-term relationships. Reed and Sue were the ideal couples. Always by each other's side. Worked in sync like Stephen and (Y/n) once had. Yet inside Reed never could fully commit having romantic feelings for (Y/n). After Stephen's death, she became secluded from everyone except Reed.
"Mr.Fantastic, odd seeing you here " She called. "How is my favorite scientist?"
Reed looked up from his microscope green eyes flickering with excitement seeing (Y/n). He stood up 6'3" frame towering over everyone. "I am doing quite well! Here to assist me once more? With all this time you spend with me people may talk." Reed comments walking over to his desk and sitting the sample disks down. He never was afraid to say what is on his mind. The smartest man in this universe had confidence in himself and his mind.
(Y/n) chuckled taking a white lab coat off the hanger. "Let them I have nothing to hide. Unless you are ashamed. Plus with your crazy ex-"
"Oh come on. Sue is not crazy may be a regrettable choice to date a teammate. But not crazy. Coworkers should not date- in a way." Reed sighed knowing they both had romantic entanglements with fellow heroes and colleagues. Neither ended well for both parties.
"Tell me about it. The last boyfriend I had kinda was murdered."
"It wasn't murder he knew the consequences."
"He was trying to save the universe Doctor Richards!" (Y/n) argued back.
"So it's Doctor Richards now?! We voted on this. The tally was in and we had to do what is necessary."
"What? To play God? To act like we are better than everyone else! You betrayed your friend. We all did! Like your friendship meant nothing."
"I was the ONLY one who sides with you (Y/n). Shouldn't that mean something? Why don't you go yell at the others about your dead fiancee's problems." Reed sighed his good day ruined.
"Whatever. You are always the same Reed. You care only about yourself." She threw her lab coat down and walked off.
Reed slowly sat down on his chair. Looking at the papers in front of him. He felt pressure on his chest. Did he just ruin his chances with (Y/n)? "Fuck." Reed said shoving everyone off his desk in anger
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They had been called together by Mordo in an urgent message about a variant from earth 616 landing on their world. With time to spare before their meeting (Y/n) walked into Christine Palmer's lab to see who the visitor from 616 is. She froze to looking at Stephen Strange- except this one had a goatee. His ocean blue orbs meet her (e/c) spheres.
"...(Y/n)?" He whispered walking to the glass. The last time this 616 Stephen saw his (Y/n) she had been knocked through a portal with him.
"Not...your (Y/n)...You are from 616...Are we- a couple on your earth?" She asked gently. So many properties occurred after her Stephen died. To see if in other realities if they were together or who dies first before things could take flight. However, the question seemed idiotic seeing the shining ring on his finger.
"2 years now. Married for 1. Here?" He asked looking this (Y/n) over. She backed up and quickly escaped tears streaming down her face. Maybe she needed to sit this one out. 7 long years after her Stephen was taken. It took nearly 5 to look at other men. Reed had been that one exception. Perhaps that is what bothered her. To be in love with Reed Richards. Because 7 years is short right? She felt conflicted about exactly her intentions with pursuing Reed is.
Not long passed as this Stephen stood in front of the Illuminati. Facing judgment, once again, the punishment would be death. The moment replayed in their heads as Charles showed what happened to their Doctor Strange.
"There had to be another way- we can't - please...please dont do this." (Y/N) begged them. Stephen sat on his knees fingertips black from using the dark hold's magic. It was a selfish want not caring about the other universes he destroyed. All she wanted is him.
"This is hard on everyone (Y/n)," Reed comments touching her shoulder but she shoved him back.
"We can leave if you want. I and Captain Marvel can-"
"Shut up Peggy!"
"Please, my love calm down," Stephen whispered (Y/n) slowly walked toward him. "I know what must be done. It's how we keep order...I love you (Y/n) Strange. You are my one and only. I love you...I love you in every universe." He cupped her cheeks giving her a gentle kiss goodbye. "I'll always be by your side. In your heart. You own my love...I wish this didn't have to be so hard. I did it for you. Damn everyone else. In this world and in every universe you are the only person that matters to me."
"Stephen, I won't be able to love again. We can leave and find another universe." She whispered looking into his blue diamond eyes. "We can run-"
"I have decided. I chose this fate because it's the only one where you live." He admits. "I will love you forever...I'm sorry my gem." With a passionate kiss that was when the memory ended for you. Stephen had sent you through a portal landing in the sanctum, alone, and without him.
(Y/n) took a shaken breath looking at 616 Stephen. He felt pity on you. "They killed you. I won't be here to watch it again." She stood looking at him one last time before walking off. Before she even could make it out the door the alarms went off, every Ultron bot scurrying into. Instantly fire covers her body burning her clothes away and leaving the signature green and gold costume colors with the Phoenix emblem in black across her chest (basically Jean Grays' costume from the comics lol). Emily ran into the lab. Christine looked at her panicked. "Wanda is here to take Chavez. They went to stop her." She adds pointing to the direction where Captain Marvel had blasted Wanda to. (Y/n) nods and flew off landing just in time to stop Wanda. She had began to lift Reed into the air. "WANDA!" (Y/n) yelled and with a ball if energy hit the Scarlet Witch back into several walls.
"Reed are you ok?" She asked pulling him close. He nods cupping her face after being moments away from death.
"Bolt, Peggy, Charles...she killed them." He whispers.
(Y/n) felt a pain shoot in her body, no...all her friends. The people she cared for. The Professor was like a father to her. Her eyes began to glow losing control of her powers. "This isn't our Wanda. 616 is dream walking remember that." He said.
"I don't care. She killed my friends and almost you. Plus she is after the girl and 616 Stephen."
The fight between a Phenoix and Choatic witch could not he decided who might win. Two forced equally balanced in strength. But mentally Wanda could overpower (Y/n)
"You know I could find a universe where you died." She comments getting up spitting blood out if her mouth. "I could even make you...a little hex of you own. A never ending life with Stephen and kids even." Wanda adds her devils temptation. "Or maybe add Reed...You would like that right?" She asked one step at a time walking closer. "To be with you lover again. Spend the life every variation of yourself has...but you. The unlucky one." (Y/n) was in a trance getting offered an apple from the devil herself. One simple bite and it call could be hers.
A voice yelled her, called to her, Reed...Suddenly back to reality she narrowed her eyes. "I think I'm good." (Y/n) blasts Wanda away one more not knowing where. She falls to the ground Reed quickly by her side. Having someone in your head is never pleasant. (Y/n) groaned having a pounding headache. "Did...We win?"
Reed sighed, "No. I have no idea...what is going to happen next. Wanda...is powerful. Dangerous. The alarms had stopped perhaps they left." (Y/n) rests her head against Reed's chest. He picks her up taking her to the medical bay. She remembers looking up studying his features. Fluffy brown hair with hints if white on the side, perfectly trimmed beard, plump lips and gorgeous green eyes…
Three days she had been in bed. Resting unable to do much of anything but sleep. A loopy and incoherent time blurry dreams and reality mixed into one. The chaos wielding witch sure did a number in the Phoenix who held back her own strength.
"Morning." Reed said looking her over. Each day Reed came by or simply slept in the very uncomfortable chair. "Feeling better?" He asked checking your monitors.
"Yeah I feel...more aware of my surroundings." (Y/n) sat up looking to Reed. He smiled unable to remove his eyes from the angel in front of him.
"I love you." He blurts out catching (Y/n) off guard. "I mean. I have been in love with you since the battle in New York." He confessed sighing deeply. "I knew Stephen had your heart. For 6 long years I watched you and him. Hell I even got with Sue in hopes to forget about you. No matter what I did I only thought about you! I sides with you because even if I couldn't have you I wanted you to be happy. To know in every universe you two end up together...It was my burden no matter what to always lose you."
(Y/n) looked at him before pulling the man into a kiss. She whispered feeling his soft lips around hers. A gentle but passionate need stirred in her stomach. Her gentle hands tangle in his mess if brown locks. "I want you…" She whispers
To Be continue.
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