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theyluvlyss · 5 months

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𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐞

⚠️ spoilers after the cut ⚠️

it was so cute and good, and the references were funny lmao !!

"batman's a fascist🤬😌 !!" - george lopez

and personally, I've been found xolo maridueña attractive, my mom watched cobra kai the minute she realized it was a karate kid spin-off/story continuation, so he was already a household name/face for me, so I was already super glad to see him take on the role of jaime reyes and knew he would do well.

also-also-also, it was amazing to see his character be brought to life because I remember being tiny and having the fattest crush on jaime after watching justice league vs. teen titans, so I felt the way I felt then, now, all over again😆. also, once again, the representation?! *french kiss*💋 spectacular. they were right when they said it was practically the black panther for latinos lmfao.

also, once again, I found myself deeply relating to the main character, his job/life struggles and the way he was feeling all of that pressure coming down on him so fast from all of these outlying forces,,, yeah🥲.

unlike me, though, his family was his support system. and I so deeply loved that for him and watching his bond/connection with his family on screen was so heartwarming and refreshing (especially for dc lmao we know how they be, traumatizing their characters💀), and then basically adopting jenny kord😭💜.

lord, and when the dad, alberto, died...I felt that in my chest bro, I was crying, like, milagro screaming out for her mom, dude...

💔...like truly...

also, miss susan sarandon, hello ?!? I know she was evil, but as usual, she ate down💅🏽. if you know me, you know I will root for speed racer's mom no matter what role she's in, like, susan did that fr, she plays evil so damn well, I almost hated her😭.

but yeah, all in all, super cute and fun movie, I loved it a lot, and I definitely can't wait for the dceu to expand on jaime and his family and superhero life, especially knowing he's basically the start of the whole dceu reboot thing. james gunn, do my boy right or I swear to god, I'll re-write and re-cast the entire dceu myself and do it better. that's a threat and a promise🥰🫵🏽.

anyways, jaime reyes will be added to my list or something like that soon, and when I do that, I'll happily take requests for him cuz wheeew...! fine ass man😻🥴✨️💙.

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serialadoptersbracket · 1 month

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Full Propaganda: Bruce Wayne/Batman

1. “Look at how many Robins there are. He has a problem”

2. “Batman has so many kids, so many. He just keeps adopting them. And then he puts them in costumes and sends them out to fight crime”

3. “I have a strong feeling Batman has already been submitted before and for good reason. That man sees an unattended child and is like "is anyone gonna adopt that?" and not wait for an answer”

4. “Na na na na na na na na na na na na BATMAN!!!!”

5. “This man has problems.”

6. “I mean. Come on.”

7. “He has so many kids I only included the ones that I probably missed a few. There's a running gag that if he met a child crime fighter he would just adopt them on the spot. He's such a serial adopter that DC made a whole webcomic about it called Wayne family adventures. At one point he missed his daughter's ballet recital so he rented out the area so she could still show him how well she did”

8. “cmon now, ive seen your pfp he's probably the reason this bracket exists [mod note: ur wrong lol], the man has an adoption problem, he is HOARDING orphans, he is hoarding not just orphans tbh there are many of his kids who are unofficially his kids who have still living parents. Also there was Tim too before his parents died.”

9. “he's adopted,, so many,, they just look at him with sad eyes and he succumbs. j”

10. “Dude blinks and like 10 children appear, orphaned, at his doorstep. Fixes his trauma about his dead parents by being an alive parent. Over and over and over again. I mentioned a few of his kids from different timelines and universes but thats just like. 3 of the most well known ones its doesn't come close to covering the hundreds of different Batgirls and Robins hes taken under his wings throughout the multiverse. In the beginning the adoptions were spaced every 24 weeks. Then 12 then 6 then every 2 weeks. The last one was in a week. In 4 days we could be seeing an adoption every 8 hours, until theyre coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double adoption in seven days.”

11. “I feel like he’s the trendsetter for adoption addiction”

12. “Genuinely could not tell you if I got them all. I feel like I'm missing six.”

13. “He’s a traumatized baby girl with too many kids to keep track of”

14. “I'm sure someone else has already submitted Bruce Wayne and his entire gaggle of adopted children. But I want to make sure he does get in and add to anything that may have already been submitted.

Propaganda Begins Here: Bruce cannot help but adopt children who he believes are in need of guidance. Dick Grayson was adopted after his parents died in a trapezing "accident", where Bruce legally adopts him as he felt empathy for the boy's loss and none of Dick's family wanted him (https://comicvine.gamespot.com/dick-grayson/4005-1691/).

As for Jason, Batman found him stealing tires off the Batmobile in order to sell for cash to survive on the streets after his druggie mother had died and criminal father had run away, taking him as his own as Jason had no where else to go after running away from Ma Gunn's school for troubled youths Bruce had placed him in (https://comicvine.gamespot.com/jason-todd/4005-6849/).

As for Tim Drake, Bruce adopted him after Tim's parents had been kidnapped and Batman had been unable to save them from being poisoned, his mother died and his father in a coma. Before this though Tim had convinced Batman to take him on as the new Robin, believing Batman needed a Robin to keep him sane (https://comicvine.gamespot.com/tim-drake/4005-9290/).

Finally, Cassandra Cain was adopted after Batman saw she was able to overcome her demons, providing for her the fatherly loved she had always wanted (https://comicvine.gamespot.com/cassandra-cain/4005-65230/)

These are only Bruce Wayne's adopted children, he as an entire Bat Family which include Damian Wayne (his biological son) as the latest robin and other individuals who have taken up the mantle of the Bat or were/are part of his team at a young age who he has cared for such as Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) and Stephanie Brown (Spoiler)”

15. “please for the love of god bruce stop adopting people i can’t keep track”

16. “Look at how many kids he's got

Im pretty sure the batfam is seriously like one of the best known hero groups,

Old Batman and Robin comics were literally a foundational part of my childhood and then I grew up and found out that later Dick got like 8 siblings”

17. “Man can't deal with empty nest syndrome and cannot look past an orphan child without adopting them. He takes in Dick when Dick is 12 (he eventually does adopt Dick after Dick is already an adult), after being one of many people to witness Dick's parents die. After Dick went off to do his own thing he met Jason who was living on the streets after his Mom died. After Jason died, Tim shoved his way into Bruce's life saying that Bruce needed a partner in crime solving after Jason's death (Tim still had parents who were alive at this point, they did eventually die and was taken in by Bruce). Cassandra's circumstances I'm not fully clear on but she was raised by her bio dad to be a living weapon and she ran away (from my understanding at least) and Bruce took her in. Duke was taken in after his parents were hospitalized due to a Joker attack and were/are unlikely to recover. Bruce also mentors other children heroes including Barbara Gordon and Stephanie Brown, both are close to his kids and are sometimes seen as under his wing as well, but neither see him as a parent.”

18. “This man is known for picking up kids who need a home. He’s the batdad who sees a kid who has suffered like he has and just has to pick them up.”

19. “I'm not as invested in DC Comics as some other people are, but as a very lowkey fan of the bat family for other lowkey fans, I can direct you towards the webtoon Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, which I want to make very clear IS NOT PART OF DC CANON, but can give you a good idea of the little family that Bruce keeps for the purposes of this poll.”

20. “He and his many children fight crime and get into shenanigans”

#serial adopters bracket #propaganda #bruce wayne #dc comics #not a poll

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ladytauria · 19 hours

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2, 3, 9 and 15 are screaming at me 👀 I would love to know more about those!! - 🍊

(gen) rr pack & (gen) red hood’s robin (rr)

<333 so!! these first two are actually kind of connected.

i started writing red hood's robin first, and then i decided i wanted to do an omegaverse take, which spiraled into pack. and THEN i shared pack with @deepwithintheabyss, who gave me the idea for "sweetness of honey." (the rr vampire au came after "pack"--i had a very specific craving at the time 😂)

editing in some further context bc i realized i forgot to. add that. lmao

in “red hood’s robin” jason still tries to steal the batmobile tires and batman takes him to ma gunn’s. the theater thing doesn’t happen, though. instead, he ditches the house and ends up back on the streets.

it’s inspired by a fic i read—one by iselsis, i will link the exact one in a bit <3

“pack” starts more similarly to “the sweetness of honey” though jason isn’t being given as a gift this time, lol.

a snippet from red hood's robin ->

“Hey, Mister Hood,” he says, faux cheerily. “What brings you here tonight?” Despite himself, Tim snorts. “Patrol. Isn’t it past your bedtime?” The boy bristles, a scowl on his face. “I don’t think that’s any of your business,” he says brashly—but there’s a slight waver to his tone, and his gaze darts down to one of Tim’s guns. Tim is still impressed. If he wasn’t so unnerved, he’d be a damn good liar. “I think it is,” Tim says conversationally. He leans against the alley wall, hoping to put the kid at ease at least a little. “You know, you have me at a disadvantage. You know my name, but I don’t know yours.” The boy fidgets for a second, and says, with conviction, “Peter.” Tim just nods, despite being sure it’s a lie. It’s almost definitely his ‘working name’, which turns Tim’s stomach. He ignores it. “Well, Peter—I don’t know if you’ve heard, but… I’ve got a bit of a thing against children standing street corners.” The boy looks shifty again, before screwing his face in something like disgust. “What, the Red Hood’s against loitering now?” Tim laughs, amused again despite himself. It feels… good. Makes him conscious of just how little he’s been laughing lately. “You know damn well that’s not what I meant,” he says, amused. “But, sure, kid, I’m against loitering. And I think you and I need to have a chat.” The kid’s face turns ashen. Tim winces, and immediately reassures him— “You’re not in trouble. I’m not going to hurt you.”

a snippet from pack ->

There’s something wrong with Jason’s nest. No matter how many times he readjusts it, it’s still... lacking. It shouldn’t be. It has more bedding than Jason has ever had access to in his life, making it just as plush as he’d always craved. There are lots of blankets, too, soft and thick and warm. And the nest is drenched in his scent. No one would stumble upon it and think it had been abandoned. But it’s still— Wrong. Jason whines, deep in his chest. It’s loud, louder than he could usually afford to be, living on the streets or at home, but he doesn’t care. He’s tired and sore and he just wants to rest, but he can’t, because his nest is wrong and bad and he doesn’t know how to fix it. It isn’t fair! He climbs out of it. Maybe he can tell what’s wrong with it if he looks at it differently. Moving backwards, towards the window, he tilts his head. From here, he can see the problem. His nest is big—empty. A little omega like himself isn’t nearly enough to fill it. Jason frowns. And then he hears footsteps. They sound like they’re a few rooms away, but it’s all Jason needs to remember—he’s not alone. There’s an alpha here, too! An alpha who gave him such nice nesting material to work with, and a good den to build in. So why isn’t the alpha in here with him? …had Jason been bad? He doesn’t remember being bad, but… it would make sense. Jason is always bad. Mama and some of his teachers had disagreed, but they’d been the only ones. His sire was always mad at him for something, and after mama died, well— Jason’s done a lot of bad things now, and maybe it was because he had to, but— It doesn’t matter. Most of it still makes him feel awful. Jason slumps a bit. He doesn’t want to be bad. He wants to be good, and to curl up in his nice plush nest with the alpha that’s been so good to him. Oh! Of course! The nest! Surely, once the alpha sees how comfortable and plush Jason’s nest is, he’ll want to stay, and he won’t be mad anymore. Or at least he’ll be willing to give Jason a chance. Brightened, he climbs back into the nest, swaddling a blanket around his shoulders. He takes a breath and then pack calls, trying not to sound too needy. (His sire had never liked needy pups.) The apartment quiets—not that there had been much noise before. Jason waits, holding still and trying to be patient. He’s rewarded by the steps resuming, though this time drawing closer. The alpha raps on the door, and waits for Jason to respond with another, softer, call before he finally enters. Jason whuffs in greeting, pleased. The alpha looks… confused, but he smiles at Jason. He can’t be real mad, then—though Jason knows adults are good at hiding that, sometimes—so Jason smiles back. “You’ve built a lovely nest, Jason,” the alpha says, and Jason preens. He knew the alpha would be pleased. It really is a very nice nest. “Alpha,” Jason says, request and demand all in one. He pats the nest. The alpha’s brows raise, just a little; and then his mouth twists. Jason’s stomach sinks. “I don’t… know if that’s a good idea,” the alpha says slowly. Jason can’t help it. He whines. His sire always hated it when he got whiny, but— He’s tired and sore and he just— He wants— “Please? I’m sorry, I’ll be good, I promise!” The alpha’s face crumples, and he immediately drops to his knees beside the bed. His arms raise, as if to hold Jason, before dropping again. Jason scrambles forward, another little whine in his throat, and the alpha catches him in his arms, pulling him down into the floor and cradling him. Jason grips tightly to the back of his shirt, burying his face in his neck. He’s warm, and he smells so safe. “Oh, pup,” he murmurs. “You didn’t do anything wrong. I’m sorry—I didn’t mean to upset you.” He strokes Jason’s curls, swaying them slightly. “I just—” He cuts himself off and sighs, holding Jason a little bit tighter; smelling of guilt, but also enough affection to make Jason warm to his toes. “I would be happy to nest with you, Jason.”

(jaydick) a small kiss (prompt fic)

the full prompt is "a small fleeting kiss which is immediately followed by a passionate, hungry kiss". i talked about it (and shared a snippet) here!

(jaysteph) wifejay

kind of like with the first two, this one is also connected to another wip idea on my list xD

a long time ago i read "the honeymoon phase" by kuro49 (as well as crookedspoon's wifey 'verse fics) and it. left an impression. i LOVED the idea and i wanted to write wife!jason stuff for jaytim.

and THEN i was like: you know what else would be fun? jaysteph.

have a snippet ->

Steph’s feet ache. It’s been a long day, and she’s glad to finally be home. Even gladder when she opens the door and smells something absolutely heavenly in the air. “Honey, I’m home,” she calls, shutting the door behind her. She shoulders her coat off, hanging it up with her purse before sitting down to tug off her shoes. “Welcome home, dear,” Jason calls. The warmth in his voice makes her smile. That smile widens when she reaches the kitchen. Jason stands at the stove, wearing a frilly eggplant covered apron. Sheer stockings climb up his legs to hug his thighs. His dress flirts with old-fashioned modesty; the flared black skirt and petticoat falling three inches above his knees. There are accessories she can’t see, but which she knows are there—a golden band wrapped around his finger, and a clutch of pearls around his neck, almost a choker. Almost a collar. Steph plasters herself against his back and hooks her chin over his shoulder. She doesn’t bother resisting the urge to grope his ass through his skirt, delighting in the way he shivers. “What’s cooking?” she asks. “Beef stew,” he says. “And fresh bread. It’ll be out of the oven soon.” Steph kisses his neck. Perfect—gives her some time to slip into something more appropriate. “Good. I’m starving.” She smacks his ass when she pulls away. He sucks in a sharp, surprised breath, an absolutely adorable blush on his face. There’s an extra bounce in her step as she makes her way to the bedroom. She strips, leaving her clothes in a trail on the floor to the closet. Toward the back of it is a set of pressed black slacks, a button up, and a blazer. She picks one of her ties—nearly all of them purple—and then grabs a sports bra and a pair of purple boxers from her drawers. After a moment’s thought, she puts on her harness, too. She leaves the tie crooked on purpose, and makes sure to rumple her clothes, to better sell the idea she’s been wearing them all day. The outfit is completed with a small, gold band; twin to the one on Jason’s finger. God, Steph loves wife nights.

[ wip ask game ]

#🍊 anon #asks and answers #tauriawritesfanfic #i have actually shared the RHR snippet but it's been a long time and ive done edits since then #im p sure i went with jason being about 12/13 in both RHR and pack??? and then tim is 19. so. bigger age gap than usual lmao #dcu #batfam #jaysteph #abyss i’m tagging you so much today 😂💖#wip ask game

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bullet-clubs-bitch · 8 days

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Can i request a NSFW fic with Billy Gunn? I'll leave the plot up to you and your wonderful writing skills

Splish splash

Billy Gunn X fem reader (18+) SMUT, oral (f receiving)

Summary: Billy takes care of Y/n after she breaks her foot during her match. What happens when she slips and falls in the shower and can't get up?

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The worst part of breaking your foot was having to have someone sit outside the bathroom in case you fell in the shower. I hated having Billy sit outside as he waited for me to shower. As much as he claimed he didn't mind It made me feel weird at times. What if I actually fell? He would have to see me naked. I would look like an idiot spread out on the shower floor with half of my leg wrapped in plastic. It was fine at first. Billy wouldn't dare to look at me wrapped in a towel as I hopped to get clean clothes. He said if I ever fell he would close his eyes the whole time and not even peek. Now all I could feel was his eyes on me. He would help me from the bathroom to the bedroom and offer to help me put my stupid pants on. I would always decline but always wondered what if.

After yet another long day I knew a hot shower would get my mind off of how I was feeling. Unfortunately, Billy would still be my guard dog if I died in the shower. I knew it would happen at some point but this time I really did fall. Like an idiot I dropped my shampoo and when I went to pick it up BANG, I fell right on my ass.

"FUCK!" I yelled as painfully fell.

"You alright in there?" Billy yelled though the door, voice filled with concern,

"No! I fell!!" I yelled to Billy on the other side, embarrassed

"Okay, I'm coming in!"

"Don't look at me!"

"Okay, okay. I'll keep my eyes closed"

Billy threw a towel at me and I tried to cover up as best as possible as he tried to help me out of the shower. It was awkward, to say the least. Once I was in a standing position and was able to fully wrap the small towel around my body. Billy opened his eyes. "You alright?" Billy asked me quietly. "No" "Here let me just carry you the rest of the way" I let Billy pick me up and he carefully walked across the room, placing me on the bed carefully. "Let me see" "No" "Come on Y/n, I just want to make sure you didn't hurt yourself more when you fell" I hesitated at first but ended up dropping the towel. Feeling vulnerable underneath Billy.

He winced at the bruise that started to form on my hip. "Ouch, that looks like it hurts," said Billy "No shit" I responded angrily. "Do you want me to kiss it better?" He asked shyly "What?" "Do you want me to kiss it better? It will make you feel better? Let me help Y/n. Let me make you feel better" I was at a loss of words. What does he mean make you feel better? I was fine up until I fell. I didn't like whatever it was that was going on but I couldn't lie and pretend like I didn't want this.

"Just be careful," I told him nervously "Don't worry baby, I will be so gentile" I didn't know what I was expecting Billy to do. Like he mentioned, he placed a delicate kiss on my bruising hip. Then he began to leave more soft kisses along my body. Kissing my hips, my thighs, and my chest, he praised my body with kisses before nuzzling between my thighs. He left kisses and small bites all along my inner thighs.

My body was filled with anticipation, waiting for his next move. Just then we made eye contact. He was asking for permission, I gave a slight nod and I noticed that his eyes turned a deep dark blue.

Billy took his time, slowly sucking and niping at my inner thighs before he began to slowly eat me out. He kept his promise, he was gentile, every move was delicate as if he was scared he would break me. He was slowly making me come undone and I hated and loved it at the same time. He delicitly kissed my clit before he began to suck on it. He was killing me, I covered my mouth to hide the moans that fell out to which Billy didn't like. "I want to hear how good I make you feel baby. Don't get all shy on me now darling" I could feel my cheeks turn red at his comments.

I pulled rather hard on his hair as he passionity ate me out. He was a messy pussy eater but it just added to the sensation. I started to feel that knot growing in my stomach, I needed more. "Tell me what you want baby, tell me what you need" "I need more, I need to feel more" I didn't even recognize myself with how pathetic I sounded. "Harder" I could feel him laugh at my comments, the vibrations sending sparks throughout my body. Just then I felt Billy start to finger me, adding to the growing sensation. He started with two but was quick to add a third, finding my sweet spot effortlessly. He was rough, eating me out like his life depended on it. He knew I was close. "That's it right there baby, cum for me" he praised and with that I came hard.

Billy continued to eat me out during my orgasm, licking up every drop. When I finally caught my breath Billy pulled away. I coudn't help the wine that left my lips from the loss of contact. "Fuck, you taste so fucking good, so sweet" I blushed at the complement. With Billy now standing above me I could see the buldge in his pants. I coudn't help but palm his clothed erection. "What a needy girl. I just made you cum" Billy said seductivly. "I need more, I need to feel you in me"

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i-loathelucy · 20 days

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more about “the doll”

ooc: hey!! there’s some more important info abt lucy that i wanted to share + some not as serious lucy fun facts. this is kind of lengthy so everything is under the cut 💜

personality / misc hcs

she hates that she has to be addressed by her callsign. she wasn’t called her actual name for years—she was only addressed as Subject Number 27 in the lab—she wants to be just lucy again.

lucy calls her brother “jem” a lot because when she was first learning to talk she had trouble saying “jeremy” so she said “jemmy” instead.

she and scout butt heads a lot because of how ideologically different they are, but they love each other dearly. they both are very protective over the other.

she shows her affection through acts of service. she’s very bad with her words.

lucy loves loves LOVES tea and sweet foods and drinks.

besides her work uniforms, she doesnt really have any clothes of her own. she has a couple of dresses (all gunne sax) gifted to her by spy for her 16th birthday.

the work/combat boots she wears are horrifically beat up. they’re worn out because they’re all she wears. she has another pair of shoes and mary-janes as part of her uniform, but these shoes in particular are cherished by her because they were the first piece of clothing she was given after being rescued from the lab.

because she didn’t grow up in boston for too long, lucy doesn’t really have a bostonian accent, but when she says certain words, it kind of slips out.

lucy has a slight gap in her front teeth. her teeth didn’t grow in properly. she was playing baseball with her brothers when she was four, and a stray pitch knocked one of her baby teeth out and the other lodged into her gums.

as part of her training for her “psychic abilities” she had to learn how to do multiple complex actions or tasks at once. this is the reason why she knows how to play multiple instruments (piano, fiddle, some woodwinds), why she’s very skilled in ballet, why she’s a skilled singer.

lucy was told that fighting is a lot like dancing. she really internalized it. she moves very gracefully and fluidly the field—however, normally she moves very stiff and awkwardly.

lucy was taught different languages in the lab as part of her “educational enrichment.” she’s best with french and struggles a little with german. she tries to teach herself russian (mainly for heavy)

lucy is mixed. in my hc, her ma is filipino.

she is not comfortable in her own body. she feels like she’s somewhere in between being a girl and being a boy but she doesn’t know how to express that properly.

lucy is ace.

lab related

lucy is incredibly pale due to being stuck in that dark lab for a decade. dark circles under her eyes are more visible because of this.

she has high pain tolerance due to training procedures in the lab. they needed to make sure she could still use her abilities even when her body was under high stress or running on incredibly low amounts of sleep or being dehydrated or dangerously hungry. many of her natural body “cues” are not normal. the mercs need to keep her in check because of this.

lucy has a really weird relationship with food because of the lab. even though she hated what they forced her to eat, those foods still bring her comfort.

she had to mature way too fast and way too soon. she felt she had to “kill” the child that she was in order to survive in the lab. but that child never truly “died” so lucy is in a really bad balance of being fiercely independent or concerningly codependent.

she has bad dreams nightly. her nightmares involve her being found by the AiHB and them killing or torturing the people she loves. or it’s her death in the lab. someone else being experimented on and she can only stand there and watch. her being unable to save someone because she can’t overpower their attacker. she would calm herself down by going to find scout or sniper or spy to make sure that they were there and safe and well.

lucy had to keep a journal in the lab. there were drawings and written entries in it. scout took the journal, then spy stole it from him and he keeps it with him after that. they both wanted insight on her mental state. scout never learns spy stole it from him—he just thought he lost it. lucy does not know that this happened.

lucy becomes very paranoid over her privacy. of people listening to her conversations in secret, hidden cameras.

she becomes especially sensitive to the mistreatment of animals.

she has oddly specific fears and all of these are because of the lab—she’s afraid of black vans, she’s afraid of dotted fabrics. the sound of EKG machines.

she was terrified of men in white coats, so she was terrified of medic. she wouldn’t talk to him, she couldn’t be in the same room as him. he mistook her genuine fear of him as her trying to intimidate him. after that, he actively makes sure to assure her he is nothing like the men in the lab.

addressing the RED and BLU lucy of it all

so when i was first making lucy’s character, i had the comics in mind more than i did the game. there are implications in the comics that are different from the games. the most important one to lucy is the whole “spy is a deadbeat” thing

because in the games its heavily implied (but. basically canon.) that the father of RED scout is BLU spy. the father of BLU scout is RED spy.

but in the comics, RED is kind of written as if they are the only team. making RED spy the father of RED scout.

so for me i have been treating comics lore lucy differently than game lore lucy. she has the same story no matter what—she will always be scout’s little sister and second child of the spy, but the exact semantics of her differs.

because i realized kind of quickly that both a RED and BLU existing in the same space at the same time would be a little problematic logistically. because both lucys work as assistants to the administrator who is authorized to go down to the respective RED/BLU base that her brother works for. but i feel like both teams would definitely realize “wait, if she works for the administrator…then she…”

so there IS. a RED and BLU lucy, however they do not/cannot in the same timeline. they’re in parallel timelines to each other.

because this is something that is interesting to me, both lucys have knowledge of the other but they don’t realize that.

they both think that the blips they see or things they hear are not related to an “alternate timeline.” they both simply think that they’re experiencing side effects from their meds or their psychic abilities.

how did this happen? a procedure performed in the lab went horrifically wrong. lucy’s abilities at this point are wildly out of control. she unintentionally caused a power surge and lucy almost died due to the machines she was hooked up to.

this event happened at the same time across the main RED lucy and BLU lucy timelines. there’s more about this but it gets kind of even more confusing but. anyways does this at all make logical sense? probably not! is this at all necessary? absolutely not but im keeping it in bc i think its cool lol

RED lucy and BLU lucy

RED lucy prefers to act as support, usually acting as the team’s second sniper or giving medical aid to anyone she sees in base. RED lucy is a lot more defensive than offensive. she uses her abilities more for self-defense or disorienting the enemy to allow someone to get out of a dangerous situation. she avoids the frontlines she’s more afraid of getting killed on the field or getting captured because she knows she’s easy pickings to the other team.

BLU lucy would be found on the frontlines near her brother. she feels much “safer” there, because she thinks it would be easier to kill or capture her if she’s alone. she uses her abilities to cause major distractions to lead the enemy into surprise attacks.

RED and BLU lucy both consider sniper to be one of their closest friends. they both consider pauling to be a sister figure.

i really like how a lot of people portray BLU as being more serious than RED. so that means BLU lucy is a much sunnier person. she processes her trauma in the lab differently—she cracks more jokes and laughs more easily about it. her viewing it as a fucked up joke is how she ignores/suppresses her trauma.

they both are left handed.

okay this was a fucking lot lmao if you have any questions i will gladly answer them. thank you for reading or getting this far 💜

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Haterating and hollerating through the '90s:

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (1990): Carrie Fisher scripted this witty adaptation of her novel about coked-up, pill-popping actress Suzanne Yale (Meryl Streep), who overdoses in the bed of a strange man (Dennis Quaid), ends up in rehab, and learns that the only way the production insurance company will let her keep working is if she stays with her mother, an aging singer-actress-diva (Shirley MacLaine) whose love for her daughter is equaled only by her tireless determination to upstage her. (No, it's not autobiographical at all, why do you ask?) Fisher's deftly paced, funny script weaves in various serious mother-daughter moments without ever becoming mawkish, and offers a fabulous part for MacLaine, who has a ball poking fun at herself as well as Debbie Reynolds, Fisher's real-life mother and the obvious basis for the film's lightly fictionalized "Doris Mann." Curiously, the weakest link is Streep, who never quite sheds her customary air of prim affectation and always seems ill at ease with Fisher's layers of self-deprecating, sarcastic humor. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Apparently not, although I had questions about Suzanne's rehab friend Aretha (Robin Barlett). VERDICT: MacLaine's finest hour, but Streep's primness keeps it "good" rather than "great."

TERESA'S TATTOO (1993): Painfully unfunny crime comedy, directed by Melissa Etheridge's then-GF Julie Cypher and costarring Cypher's ex, Lou Diamond Phillips, along with an array of incongruously high-profile actors like Joe Pantoliano, Tippi Hedren, Mare Winningham, Diedrich Bader, k.d. lang (!), Sean Astin, Emilio Estevez, and Kiefer Sutherland, most in bit parts (some of them unbilled). The headache-inducing plot concerns a couple of brain-dead thugs whose elaborate hostage scheme hits a snag when their hostage (Adrienne Shelly) accidentally dies. Their solution is to kidnap lookalike Teresa (also Adrienne Shelly), a brainy Ph.D. candidate, and disguise her to look like the dead girl — including giving her a matching tattoo on her chest — in the hopes that the dead girl's idiot brother (C. Thomas Howell) won't notice the switch until it's too late. This truly bad grade-Z effort, barely released theatrically, feels like either a vanity project or a practical joke that got out of hand, and is interesting mostly as a curiosity for Melissa Etheridge fans: The soundtrack is M.E.-heavy, and Etheridge herself has a brief nonspeaking role. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Technically? (Etheridge has no lines and lang plays a Jesus freak.) VERDICT: May erode your affection for M.E.

BLUE JUICE (1995): Tiresome comedy-drama about an aging surfer (a terribly miscast, painfully uncomfortable-looking Sean Pertwee) who's still determined to continue living like a 20-year-old surf bum with his obnoxious mates, even though his back is giving out and he's perilously close to driving away his girlfriend (a disconcertingly hot 25-year-old Catherine Zeta Jones), who is keen for him to finally cut the shit. Meanwhile, the scummiest of his mates (Ewan McGregor) doses their pal Terry (Peter Gunn) and gets him to chase after an actress from his childhood favorite TV show (Jenny Agutter) in hopes of dissuading from marrying his actual girlfriend (Michelle Chadwick), and their mate Josh (Steven Mackintosh), a successful techno producer, flirts with an attractive DJ (Colette Brown) who's actually furious at him for building a vapid techno hit around a sample of her soul singer dad's biggest hit. The latter storyline probably had the most potential (although a weird scene where Josh is castigated by a group of outraged soul fans seems like a lesser TWILIGHT ZONE plot), but none of the script's various threads ever amounts to much. CONTAINS LESBIANS? It doesn't even pass the Bechdel test. VERDICT: If you happen upon it, you may be tempted just for Zeta Jones (and/or Brown), but the rest wears out its welcome with alacrity.

HIGHER LEARNING (1995): Potent story of simmering racial tensions on the campus of a university that definitely isn't USC (writer-director John Singleton's alma mater, and where most of the film was obviously shot), let down by incredibly heavy-handed execution. (The film's final shot is of the word "UNLEARN" superimposed over a giant American flag!) A capable cast (including Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Connelly, Ice Cube, Tyra Banks, Cole Hauser, Laurence Fishburne, and Regina King) tries to maintain a sense of emotional reality through Singleton's frequent excursions into overpowering melodrama, but there are so many competing plot threads that few characters have any depth; curiously, the script's most complex characterization is in the scenes between budding white supremacist Remy (Rapaport) and Aryan Brotherhood organizer Scott (Hauser). Singleton made this film when he was 25, and there's no shame in its sense of breathless ambition (even if it inevitably bites off more than it can chew), but the overwrought stridency undercuts its intended impact. For a more effective treatment of similar themes in roughly the same period, try Gilbert Hernandez's graphic novel X, originally serialized in LOVE & ROCKETS #31–39 and first collected in 1993. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Jennifer Connelly gives Kristy Swanson a bisexual awakening. VERDICT: The '90s through a bullhorn.

CRASH (1996): Divisive David Cronenberg adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel, about a movie producer called James Ballard (James Spader) and his desperately horny wife (Deborah Kara Unger), drawn into a loose-knit group of car-crash fetishists organized around a man called Vaughan (Elias Koteas at his creepiest), who stages recreations of famous celebrity crashes like the 1955 accident that killed James Dean. Despite some pretentious dialogue about "the reshaping of the human body by modern technology," the controlling idea might be better summarized as "anything can be a paraphilia if you get weird enough about it." Part of what offends people about the film is that Cronenberg deliberately treats the entire story with the same frosty clinical detachment, rendering the "normal" sex scenes just as remote and perverse as the characters' fixation on the grisly aftermath of car wrecks; the point is that there is no line, just different facets of the same erotic longing, which each of the (admittedly unsympathetic) principal characters embodies in different ways. Spader, Kara Unger, and Koteas are very good, as is Holly Hunter, in perhaps the bravest role of her career, but Rosanna Arquette is underutilized. A worthwhile companion piece would be Steven Soderbergh's 1989 SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE, also with Spader, which is much more highly regarded (though almost as contrived and scarcely less perverse), perhaps because it seeks to titillate where Cronenberg does not. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Briefly. (See previous note in re: underutilization of Rosanna Arquette.) VERDICT: Icy but interesting.

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it probably wasn't a great idea to go see GOTG vol 3 right after our cat died, but its cathartic footprint surprisingly outweighed the heavy stuff. we're both utterly jaded with the MCU but the guardians was always our special movie, the little pearl of musically driven nonsense that we discovered and bonded over as a fresh couple. So we knew we wanted to see it off on its final voyage sometime. truth told I've grown my own sideways direction away from the movies and the wonky optics of gunn's filmmaking in particular, but it is undeniable that his work stands out specifically because it deeply, sincerely gives a shit about love, as clunky as it can sometimes be in that articulation. And not on a level of lip service or self-indulgent wankery either, but in viewing empathy as the legitimate red-hot center of the universe that unlocks and heals all things. Love it or hate it, that's the bet he goes all in on and commits hard enough to make the rest of the drivel feel aimless by comparison.

and yeah there's some truly bad efforts at injecting nuance in the eco angle of it all (rocket's biggest character turn comes from him realizing all life is sacred regardless of intellect level, yet we still need a fanfared end credit beat of him *very* casually justifying culling a herd of predators? maybe leave that part unsaid if you won't do anything deeper with it?), but it almost feels like a necessary trade-off for sticking with that core through the thick and thin. Gunn's storytelling has always been sorta fable-like in its rigid moral doctrines, with all the good and the bad that would entail. Definitely pays off in affording them moments of real catharsis though, and the truly lost art of wrapping things up with everyone dancing and screaming their joy out without a hint of cynicism about it.

felt like a goodbye to many things, both in its text and outside of it. I found myself embracing those implications

#guardians of the galaxy spoilers #guardians of the galaxy vol 3 spoilers #it really is a sincere ode to love from a perspective that has a limited understanding of it - but it IS sincere #and that sadly stands out it today's slog of mainstream media #text #great needledrops though. when florence came on I had an out of body experience #did NOT expect to hear that song out of a raccoon's zune

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Just some kin positivity for my ats/btvs kin buds (it's a long one)

Other Freds out there- we are strong we are fighters and we did not disserve the ends on screen gave us.

Gunn- Sweet sweet Gunn, what happened to me was not your fault. You didn't know what you were signing and that's ok. I do not blame you.

Wesley- I may not have loved you in my timeline but I still hold great affection for you and you disserve to be happy. Know that you were happy in my timeline and once the fire died down you and Cordelia had a lovely domestic life.

Cordelia- My bestie, you also disserve so much more than what the on-screen cannon gave you. It is not your fault our creator was so horrible to your actress. If it helps any in my timeline you continued to be a badass and kicked much demon butt in that final(ish) battle.

Angel- my boss, my friend, you try so hard and I see that. While I can never apologies for the way Spike and I were in my timeline, know that the PDA wasn't out of disrespect to you. I still think you are a champion for what it's worth.

Lorne- Lovely lovely Lorne, though you don't enter my memories very often I see you as a bright spot. You always did the best you can as well and that's more powerful than you know.

Harmony- You are such a sweetheart, I don't blame you or hate you. Even thought I went all "grr" that one time in my timeline it was mostly sire feelings. I thank you for being the exception to the no-soul = "bad" rule they tried to paint.

Spike- My love, you disserve so much better than how you were treated. No matter what timeline. Weather that be a better Buffy, a Better Dru, Angel ,or my own Spike (I miss you so much). I do not blame you for the end of s6 of btvs either.

Buffy- I may be hard on you in my mind sometimes but it's just left over from my sire feelings, you are a lovely person and I admire your strong morals.

Willow- I cannot thank you enough for how many times you saved both Spike and I. You are so, so sweet but strong at the same time.

Xander- I don't blame you for being his self-insert at all. You are a sweetheart.

Anya- I wish I had known you, you did so much and seemed like such fun to be with.

anyone else I missed know that you are valid and do not disserve to be hated on because of our creator.

With much love- AU!Vampire!Fred (Angel: the series)

#fictionkinfessions #fictionkin #fredkin #angeltheserieskin #btvskin #atskin #chara love #mod party cat

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marveloustimestwo · 7 months

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Hi Robin! This question is related to GotG vol 3, in case someone hasn’t watched it yet

I’m still in denial about it (I watched it the first week that came out) even when the guardians themselves had a good ending, I consider them a very important part of my life… and don’t let me start with Lylla, Floor and Teefs

Anyway, I was thinking about that world of humanoid animals it had so much more potential imo! I would love to see more of them honestly but the High Evolutionary killed them all and James Gunn left so… I don’t think there is another person who could do them justice, you know what I mean? What you think about it? And, same with the guardians, it hurted my soul to “let them go” (if that’s the right way to say it?) I know the actors can’t/don’t want to play them forever and that’s perfect cause it would be tiring at some point but idk, I’m feeling nostalgic, I’m sorry for the rant 😅

Same, to all of this. The Guardians have a very special place in my heart. While I love the Avengers as a team, I adore the found family trope, and I feel like the Guardians fit that so much better than the Avengers ever did.

That's why even though they did get a good ending where nobody died, I both love and hate the fact that they split up at the end. I never like it when the found family splits up at the end, even though I can recognize that they each have their own goals and arcs to accomplish individually.

And good lord, the humanoid animals. It's such an interesting concept! Not even the creation of them, because that was traumatizing enough. I loved Lylla, Floor, and Teefs, and seeing what happened to them was awful.

But to see the like, creation of that world full of humanoid animals after Rocket figured out how to fix the High Evolutionary's original problem. To see it be built and how that sort of thing would function is fascinating. We saw a bit of how it was. They had their own language and culture in a way, but it was also very similar to Earth. Not even Marvel's version of Earth in the current timeline, where they have a bunch of fancy tech and time travel.

That Earth was like a 1990s, early 2000s version, which is likely because that's the last time the High Evolutionary bothered to check in on it. The cars, the TVs, the clothes, all pointed to that time.

And while he made these humanoid animals to be the perfect, peaceful beings he wished we were, we see when the Guardians visit that his plan is failing. There's crime occurring and these creatures hurting each other for whatever reason.

There is so much potential there, and it would be very cool to see that world expanded on and see the lead-up to what happened in GotG3. But while I do think it all is interesting, I do think that James Gunn is the only one who could do it all justice considering he was the one who started and ended Guardians' stories. He really did them justice.

Without him, it likely wouldn't be what it was really meant to be if that makes sense. And while I love the Guardians and don't like seeing them split up, I do feel like it was a very good ending for each of them.

And please don't apologize for ranting, I love talking about stuff like this <3

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I have been a bit ‘meh’ on some of Marvel’s recent output, but I liked the first two Guardians movies a lot, and this is the same team, so I thought I’d give it a go! And I think it turned out to be a good thing I did.

Though warning: if you like animals this one’s going to be rough on you.

The Guardians are settling into their life right now, with some doing better than others. After everything that happened with Gamora at the end of the Infinity Saga, Peter’s more than a little torn up. But when Rocket gets injured, the only way to save him is to gain information from the one who experimented on him to make him the way he is: the High Evolutionary.

The High Evolutionary, however, is a massive douchebag (if experimenting on animals wasn’t a big enough clue) with tons of resources and manpower at his disposal, so getting the data they need to heal Rocket is pretty difficult to get their hands on.

Uh, so this movie’s pretty dark? There is a REASON that PETA loves this movie. There are a lot of fuzzy animals, and there are terrible things that happen to them! So be aware of that going in. With that notice there are probably a couple of Plot points where you can guess a couple of the plot points that are going to happen in the movie, but it’s not exactly a surprise for the savvy viewer.

Despite that darkness, it doesn’t really seem to lose hope. It’s a dark movie, but in the end it views that darkness as something to be left behind. From some of the trailers, I was sure that the movie might end in a way that’s apocalyptic to our characters. And while there are certainly moments that will probably be tearjerkers for those invested in the characters, it’s not a ‘everyone dies’ sort of movie.

Something I’ve thought about is how the last two Thor movies were compared to Guardians of the Galaxy in tone because they’re funny and weird and involve space. But the difference, for me at least, is that James Gunn actually develops and cares about the characters in his movie. He doesn’t always give them due attention, to be fair, but they’re more than just punching bags for jokes to happen to. I think here Gunn gives attention to characters who he hasn’t always given their due in past films (mostly I’m thinking of Draxx and Mantis).

There’s a Hallway Scene?? I didn’t expect that. Okay, for those of you not in the know–Daredevil on Netflix started this trend of “the Hallway Scene”, a fight scene through a hallway which is done in one take. Generally it’s done with practical effects, though it’s not here. Daredevil does it in every season, and some of the other Marvel Netflix shows had their own equivalent.

Well Guardians of the Galaxy jumped on that long after the bandwagon had left the station, but it’s still awesome. Again, it’s not built on practical effects, but it’s a fight scene in a hallway with all the Guardians, done in one take (or at least, designed to look like it). I’m impressed that they managed this.

This movie feels thematically heavier than the previous ones, too? Maybe that’s just a me thing. There’s a lot in the first two movies about family, abuse, about redemption and all of that, and much of it is here, too. But the High Evolutionary sees himself as a God stand-in, and so in the conflict you get this idea of him as an abusive deity that punishes his creations for problems they can’t help and being envious of his own creations.

[Tor had an article arguing that ALL the movies in this trilogy are about abusive religions, which I think is a stretch, but an interesting idea anyway.]

TV Tropes also posited the theory that you could read the relationship between Rocket and the High Evolutionary as a metaphor for the relationship between Gunn and the Disney Corporation (they rejected him and then pulled him back when they felt they needed him), but I suspect that wasn’t an intentional reading. Fascinating to think about all the same, though.

Let’s just say I am interested to see what critical conversations pop up after this movie.

I think if you’ve been keeping up with these characters, and are invested in their stories. then you should definitely see this movie. I don’t know if this is the last time we’ll see these characters, but the whole movie has an air of finality about it, and it resolves a ton of arcs and threads. It’s a pretty darn good movie. I don’t know if I’d say it’s as good as the previous two movies, but that’s only because I’m still turning it over in my head.

#Guardians of the Galaxy #Movie Munchies #MCU

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First I want to say you have probably hit on and shared all of the nuances around issues with Gamora's treatment in the mcu since Infinity War better than a lot of people. It's applause worthy really. The way you understand the importance of her relationship to Peter, to Nebula and the team. The way you understand why her death actually wasn't done well. All of it and I'm probably going to be reading everything multiple times. Thank you for showing Gamora grace and love when the movies haven't always done that.

Secondly someone sent you a comment about the creep song in vol 3 and how that looks compared to Gamora's treatment. I think their comment points out exactly why I can't let go quite yet about what the movie did and didn't do. There is almost a the cruelty is the point element to how when 2014 Gamora shows back up she's basically a non entity to some of the guardians. It's like she doesn't even exist as a human being to them anymore. This alone would be upsetting but they also act as if 2018 Gamora didn't really exist either. There's something chilling about a movie so overt in showing pain and suffering and how horrifying that is and then when you look at 2018 Gamora it doesn't even acknowledge her pain and suffering. It's also cruel to 2014 Gamora because even though she at first really doesn't want to hear about the Gamora who died or what it was like before, how must it be for her to see all these other people who apparently knew her too and were her family and they appear as if they feel nothing about her. The whole situation was uncomfortable and hard but it must have been so lonely and emotionally isolating to be stuck with a group of people where this dynamic is playing out.

This is also why I'm still not quite over Gunn's comments about real family. He placed Gamora in an emotionally taxing position where she hardly knew anyone, had very little support, she had to take on the responsibilities with these people, see some of their raw moments and just as she's opening up to it and more comfortable he's hinting that she doesn't belong. Like most of that experience didn't count for much of anything. That seems really cruel to me. Which when you switch gears and look back on all the things 2018 Gamora had done before with the guardians and all the ways that was ignored in vol 3, makes the cruelty even more visible. Is he really saying nothing she does counts and has any lasting importance. Or is he just blind to how it looks. Because it doesn't look or sound all that great.

I'm learning to make peace and I'll move on and I know we all will. But I'm not understanding how more people don't see any of this or when they do they either think it's fine or use it as a weapon against Gamora. Even on a critics level I don't understand why there's not more pushback. Do people really think all the writing around this was good. I know some of it is but lots of it isn't. At the very least how isn't anyone questioning why only Nebula and Peter, and mainly Peter were shown to have feelings about her dying. Plus people really aren't praising her role either so surely more people than just us die hard Gamora fans know something isn't right.

Thank you 🫶 I get a LOT of pushback for it and I have for years, but I love this character so much that I’ll aggressively protect her especially when it seems like no one else will. I’m just glad to know I’m not alone out there in feeling like something is just not right with how she’s been treated.

People can continue to try and explain away the “real family” comment to me as many times as they’d like but I just don’t see how no one can seem to grasp that it doesn’t matter what his intention in saying it was when we’ve seen firsthand how quick people have been to try and disregard her completely and his comment of her having a “real”, separate family from the guardians has done nothing to blur this line in the sand people have drawn. Nothing he’s done, both on Twitter and explicitly in the movie has done much to make it seem like she’s allowed to be part of this family. She’s been excluded everywhere, even down to the kids toys at mcdonalds and no one seems bothered by it because it’s so so EASY to just write her off and exclude her when everyone else does it in the movie besides Peter. There’s so much more they could have done with her and even though Zoe acted her ass off and did a fantastic job it’ll just always bother me how much of an afterthought her character seemed to be this time around.

#callie.txt #answered #anonymous #Gamora deserved better

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just finished Angel (finally) and overall, I think I liked the finale? I just felt like this last plot was kinda rushed. I wish it was spread over like three or four episodes instead of just the last two.

It’s weird, I don’t really have a strong reaction to Wesley dying, (I like him I swear, but when you kill off so many characters Whedon, it’s kinda hard to!) but I cried when Illyria pretended to be Fred for Wesley in his last moments. I like that she was becoming more human and feeling grief for him. She grew on me and I wish we saw her more. I was very obsessed with the way she’d quickly jerk her head to the side. Amy Acker played her very well.

Also screamed when she told Gunn he’d be dead within 10 minutes because she called Wesley’s death as well. So it’s implied Gunn died. (I just looked it up to confirm and uh, I’m not taking the comics into consideration. That whole thing sounds ridiculous. Plus I’m not a comic book person.)

As for Lindsey dying…well no love lost there. (also Christian Kane was looking kinda attractive in these episodes and I have no idea why lmao. I never really paid much attention to his looks before but something in these episodes did it for me I guess.)

Kinda annoyed they made Harmony betray Angel but kinda not cause that is in her character. I wonder if Angel had confidence in her like she said, would she still have betrayed him? Probably. What I can’t figure out though is how she found out his secret plan. Even if she suspected something/knew something was going on, he never even told it to her. Anyway I still like her character.

Lastly, I know a lot of people love season 5 but it wasn’t my favorite. I liked it, but I really was more into the earlier seasons: angel’s apartment or the hotel, when the gang was more tight-knit and fighting smaller cases together and Cordelia was alive…(will literally never get over that honestly).

Anyway I think that’s all my thoughts for now. I started Buffy last July so it’s been a long time comin’ finishing the Buffyverse!!

#ats #angel the series #ats finale #power play #not fade away #anyway someone talk to me about ittt!!!

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Thank you so much for your post about Gamora and the way grief has been portrayed for her compared to other characters like vision. I have felt all alone for years in being upset that Gamora's death just didn't get treated like it was supposed to. From the beginning it was mostly framed around what it meant to Thanos and then slowly confined to Nebula before landing on Peter to do all the emotional work while eveyone else who was part of Gamora's life acted like they had no clue what was going on. Vol 3 felt like watching some sort of long con cover up job with people trying to pretend a murder never occurred. I don't know what Gunn was thinking because we all saw Gamora die. It was one of the stand out moments in one of the mcu's biggest movies. We have video evidence of the murder so why are they acting foolish.

Then fandom has been another mess. People thinking there just wasn't any time to have anyone else say any words about her death even though it would take less than 1 minutes for a sentence about how hard it's been for everyone. Some people are acting like Gamora never did anything before dying and the whole team was run by all the guys. On top of that writing fic has been pushed as a solution to this whole situation and it's not that simple. The canon has turned the abuse and murder of a woman into something we're all supposed to be okay with because Thanos was sad and most of her family thinks she has memory problems. Fic isn't going to fix this.

It hurts because you can see how in real life reactions to tragedies and loss can be different when people who aren't white are involved. It feels like the mcu mostly had time and space to care about some characters who died in IW and EG and not others based on the same criteria. I thought as time went on it would get better but instead it kept getting worse. First the idea to have 2014 Gamora instead of bringing 2018 Gamora back to life. Who really sat there and thought doing that was the way to go as if all Gamora's growth and healing was meaningless. Then the holiday special taking no time to address how Gamora's death had been for the team. Now we have vol 3 with its entire debacle of a storyline for Gamora where she's popped back in to deal with a mess she didn't help create with people she doesn't know and with no explanation of what she's been going through in the years since EG. Nobody knew what they were doing or where they were going with any of this and it shows. Gamora never should have been murdered in the first place. But since they went there the least they could do is not treat it with idiocy.

you're definitely not alone anon! the lack of mainstream popularity for gamora's character definitely made the experience of grieving her feel very isolating. like all my irls who aren't In This Deep with mcu who just casually follow were def more focused on the avengers characters and their stuff in iw or just weren't in deep enough to care much beyond it being a summer blockbuster (which is also valid!) so it rly felt like no one else grasped like just how much that movie imploded the gotg franchise

i must admit i second guess myself and my feelings toward the gamora situation a lot bc it just feels so weird that it seems like not many other ppl rly talk abt it the way they probably would if this kind of thing happened to one of the lead avengers characters or something. like it feels like most mcu viewers don't even realize the depth of what's happened which is so ?!?!??? so it's nice to see there are others in fandom like you who get it <3

and yeah, i agree with everything you said here. i think it's fair to say fandom often reflects like society in the ways they regard characters of different backgrounds, and i'd argue that's definitely happening here with gamora at least to some extent

#ask #the gamora situation

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Some more random thoughts about "The Lost Slayer" Buffy series. But I'm going to break from the norm I've adopted for this series so far and not put everything under a "read more" this time. So, major spoilers for that entire series ahead, beware. If you want to read the series yourself and don't want anything spoiled for it, you probably want to stop reading now.

Buffy and Willow's friendship in the saga--despite the awkwardness in it, and it getting a little fractured a bit--means the world to me. Mainly in that, even with all that, they work things out and still remain the best of friends. And the fact that Willow stayed in the thick of things in the horrible, apocalyptic universe for Buffy, according to Oz kills me. Kills me! -sobs-

Willow and Oz breaking up in the future--because Oz had to kill Willow's vampire-ified parents to save her, Xander, and himself from them, and then Willow not being able to forgive him for that--breaks my heart. But I also think it makes sense, of course. It reminds me a bit of some Fred and Gunn stuff in AtS. And that one line in the book where Willow thought something about, "She couldn't imagine her life without Oz," or whatever, made me think, "That could be foreshadowing that Oz is eventually going to leave her here in S4, sadly, but I also think it's more than that." And I was right. It was this whole Willow not being able to forgive him in this AU, and them breaking up for that reason thing. And I really liked that foreshadow and how this whole thing was set up.

Speaking of Oz, I really loved seeing him in this book and it makes me wish we'd gotten to see more of him in S4. I know it's impossible, because Seth Green wanted off the show, but I guess that's what things like this are for:)

Backing up a bit... Holy crap, the fact that Willow's parents tried to kill her (a second time for Willow's mom, after the "Gingerbread" thing) is so fucked up, and must be so traumatizing for Wills. Ahh! Poor Willow! This whole thing gives me so many feelings.

So, there's a moment where Buffy kisses Xander in here, and while not being a Buffy/Xander shipper (I don't really think the author Christopher Golden is, either), I was more than okay with it. I got the feeling that it was moreso Buffy trying to give Xander something to hold onto/look forward to, because he'd changed so much and become so depressed after everything they'd lost, largely after his losing Anya. And she thought if she didn't, he might go into the upcoming battle in a very reckless and almost suicidal way. (And Buffy thought Angel was dead at this point, so why not give Xander hope and perhaps try to move on with him, maybe?) And fortunately, she was able to reach him. But Xander still died:(

And ahh! His death killed me! And his funeral was so sad! And I think it's fitting that that's the thing that made Buffy and Willow adamant that they were going to find a way for Buffy to go back and fix things.

I also really appreciated the scene where Buffy avenged Kendra, even though I see Dru as a victim of her circumstances (something I really got into in the tags of another post).

Somewhat off-topic of this, but on the topic of Dru, I suppose, The SpikeDru in this book was also great.

And then Wesley thinking about how he'd actually really respected Giles and Giles' attitude towards the Council, and hated to see what had become of Giles as a vampire and the Big Bad of this series... and all the things Wesley in general in this book, really. He's so good here!

And Faith was so awesome! And led the Slayer front for five years while Buffy was imprisoned! And tried to save Joyce from getting killed from Spike, but alas. (And Joyce even came to Buffy in her dreams and told her that Faith tried to save her, before Spike killed them both [also, it's super depressing that in this universe Spike of all people kills Joyce]).

...That's all I can think of right now. There might be stuff I forgot to mention.

Edit: Oh. And the "The Freshman"/"City Of..." parallel we got here, when Buffy thought about calling Angel, but hanging up and not talking to him--because she doesn't know if she'll have the strength to talk to him--in just needing to hear his voice after he'd died in the horrible apocalyptic future she'd seen, that thankfully she's now stopped.

#buffy the vampire slayer #the lost slayer #the lost slayer series #buffy the vampire slayer the lost slayer series #spoilers #buffy books #buffy tie-in books #long post #also parker being complete garbage and giving us even MORE reason to hate him #Oh and even though Willow and Oz breakup they remain friends and Oz still remains a part of the fight #Largely for Willow because he's still in love with her tbh

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