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Marvel Meow Infinity Comic #18 (2023)

by Nao Fuji

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If you didn't want to be assimilated into my found family then you should have killed me when you had the chance

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so i started reading the All's Fair series by @lovelyelbowleech and it mayyy have consumed my every waking moment for the past few days so! i felt some fanart was in order

first image is of sokka and zuko's daily hair shaving ritual, which makes me feel All sorts of things. the trust! the casual intimacy! it's just (clenches fist) so good

next is, in order: ichika, shen, kazuma, and guo. all the ocs in this fic are So Good, i love them dearly

and last is just some old zukka doodles i had lying around and never posted 🦑

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They stopped for a photo op and sent it to Dick

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never getting over how genuinely distressed tai lung looks when po does his shuffling trick. mid fight this man stops and panics because he cant figure out a childrens magic trick

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i like to think sokka was alive until really soon before lok, allowing for extended old man antics between these two

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it’s the middle of summer why am i drawing cold fluffy donuts

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Alligator Loki #1 (2023)

written by Alyssa Wong art by Bob Quinn & Pete Pantazis

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see you

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informing everyone that yuuji is the little spoon. because i have visions in my mind about fanart where yuuji just drapes himself over megumi. megumi is cooking? koala yuuji on his back. megumi is reading? yuuji curled up on him fast asleep. megumi is standing? yuuji has his face in his chest, arms around his waist, and legs around his thighs and he should be falling he should have fell but he stays on.

#itafushi #itadori yuuji #fushiguro megumi #jujutsu kaisen #jjk

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Gojo : you see how nanami's blushing when I flirted with him?

Megumi : dude, he literally punched you in the stomach.

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Favourite boys.

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orange

Red Hood: Congratulations you just won a lifetime supply of lemons! *tosses orange at his feet* joker: you only gave me one orange? jason pulling out a gun: Yep.

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i'm back on my "mcu steve was in the darkest timeline because he never experienced the canon event of tony stark giving him a home and a family" bullshit. post-ice steve was isolated, grieving, lonely, going through ptsd and survivor's guilt and he was constantly fixated on how he had no home or family or identity beyond cap. post-ice in the mcu, SHIELD stuck him in the costume and sent him back into the field, reinforcing the idea that he was nothing more than the empty shell of captain america.

"All my life I've tried to find a place for Steve Rogers—but still he lives under the more colorful shadow of Captain America… Perhaps it's Steve Rogers who's the legend—and Captain America who is the reality! Perhaps I was born to be a red-white-and-blue Avenger—and nothing more! But there must be more to life than endless combat! Others have found a home—a family—why can't I? Or, is Steve Rogers destined to walk alone forever—until the final battle—until he walks no more?"

— Tales of Suspense Vol. 1 #75 (1959)

"[...] But, even in the center of a crowd, I'm an outsider—a misfit! Only when I'm costumed as Captain America do I seem to come alive—to have a mission—a purpose! But, as Steve Rogers, I'm merely a name—a hollow shell—with no roots—no real life to call my own! Other men have friends—wives—loved ones!"

— Tales of Suspense Vol. 1 #92 (1959)

in the comics, the canon event of tony stark, the first person steve meets in the 21st century, giving him all of those things — a purpose, a home, somewhere to belong as himself and not just cap — changed his entire life.

"The first week after I came out of the ice… It was a dark time. I'd lost everything. My best friend. All my friends. All I had. I didn't know what I could hang on to. And then Tony Stark came in with this little… handheld cinema. Future technology. He showed me a newsreel. Right there, I saw a man walk on the moon. For all mankind. And in that moment, I felt hope again."

— S.W.O.R.D. Vol. 2 #6 (2021)

"Mr. Stark, when I woke up in this era, I had no one. Nothing. You gave me a purpose. Somewhere to belong… You gave me a home."

— Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War (2006) 

meeting tony and the avengers, creating those friendships and connections, living at the avengers mansion with them, gives steve hope that he can still find happiness and belonging in the present day.

i always found it ironic that in the mcu steve projects this ideal of happiness and domestic life onto tony. this scene in ca:cw is a perfect example of that disconnect between the reality and what steve assumed on the surface was tony achieving what he never could — having a partner, his own family and kids. (the fact that cacw tony is 4 seconds away from a heart attack at all times and too busy running around firefighting PR crises just further drives home the irony.)

and then in a cruel twist of fate, mcu actually gives tony all of these things: home, family, wife and kid. we see steve witnessing tony having these things and knowing it's all possible, but just not for him and not in this era. (and ultimately, tony only gets to have these things for a brief period of time before having to give it all up.)

mcu steve never got to have the experiences that have shaped every other universe's steve rogers. the presence of tony stark, his friendship, his home, his love (whether platonic or romatnic), that formed the foundation of steve's purpose within the avengers, is intrinsic to steve finding hope and happiness in the modern day. the mcu changing such a crucial canon event rewrote not only the core of mcu steve's story but the trajectory of the cinematic universe. and in the end, the writers sent steve back to the past because they believed after 6 movies and 7 years, he had nothing left to live for in the present and i honestly can't think of anything more tragic.

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Jason was, in fact, not in the mood for pizza.

Commission for the lovely @xaphrin!! Thank you so much for commissioning me 😭 They wanted to see JayRae caught in the act! I had so much fun doing this