#I’m gonna say it again but he better be in multiverse of madness

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Thoughts on Multiverse of Madness (contains major spoilers!!!)

- I’ll start by saying over all, I liked it. It was fun, crazy, definitely visually stunning and captivating, it some insanely awesome scenes. It was very enjoyable. BUT I had some big issues with it.

- first, I feel like it was rushed in the beginning. Things went too fast and there was no build up, it was just kinda like “hey this is happening” and it was especially that way with Wanda’s villain arc and I’ll be talking about her first.

- literally it was so rushed and felt ooc because it was right off the bat. Her villainy and motivations originally felt very shallow. It was all so surface level and lacking for like the first half of the movie. Once again, she felt so out of character to me, like it wasn’t even the same character I know and love.

- I will say though that it was FUCKING AWESOME to see what she was capable of. I lived for seeing her power be so great and loved that the movie gradually continued to show us more of her ability. Seriously, the further in we got, the more awesome she was.

- also will say that I liked it being pretty comics book accurate.

- however, I really just don’t understand why they chose this story line for her. It was so unnecessary and undid every bit of character development in Wandavision. It would have been better if there was some kind of build up to her realizing what she could have from America’s powers and she’d slowly getting more corrupt. But she went villainous off screen and it was shown within the first few minutes of the movie. I didn’t expect it to happen so quick. And I understand the whole thing of her being corrupted by the dark hold, but that just felt like a cop out. An easy way to justify making her like this when there was potential for real depth and dimension here.

- also gotta say I LOVED HER BREAKING THE 4TH WALL

- but, towards the end, there were some real good character moments for Wanda. The line of“I wouldn’t ever hurt you, I wouldn’t hurt anyone. I’m not a monster.” hit so hard. And just that whole scene in general. It made me feel so much, and honestly it was super in character and very well done. I loved it.

- but I’ve gotta say I’m kinda surprised they didn’t make Vision a more important point here. I know she let him go in WV but if they were gonna undo most of that development anyways, why would she not care more about him. Like really, if she’s going to a new reality where her kids exist, why would she not go to one where she has her kids AND vision. It doesn’t make sense and that would be infinitely more in character.

- I also don’t think she’s dead. There’s no way in hell she is. 1. If she actually was, it’d be much more emotional, especially since she’s such a well liked and huge character. It has almost no emotion to it, even less than previous mcu “death” scenes where the character turns up later (ie. Bucky, Loki, etc.) 2. They wouldn’t kill off one of their most popular and most profitable characters, especially not in her prime time. This is Wanda’s golden area, the hype is all hers, she’s pulling in awards, she’s getting tons of talk. She’s too valuable for the mcu to lose.

- now, I do like what they did with strange here. I feel like they have him a lot more depth and made him much more likable than before. Not that he was unlikeable, but more so you feel more connected to him after this movie, like you got to know him.

- I love that they took his worst traits and exaggerated them in his variants. Why? Because it’s very interesting to see this cool, all powerful superhero, humbled and not be portrayed as perfect by the narrative.

- But even more than that, it shows that you don’t have to be perfect to be good. It’s all about what you chose and how you try to be, and owning up to your mistakes. Because even though the other Stranges weren’t so great, our Strange made the right choice and did the right thing over and over again. He tried to be the best he could and proved everyone who doubted him for his flaws, completely wrong.

- I also liked seeing the more emotional side of him. I liked seeing have so much love for Christine, but putting hers and everyone else’s best interest above his deepest desire.

- I also really really loved the father-daughter like thing he had going on with America. Some may see it as more of just a mentorship or something, but I definitely feel that parent relationship and I could feel that he really cared for her. It reminds me of Tony and Peter, but 10x better.

- I have mixed feelings on the reveal of Donna. Idk. I do like the insight it gave us into his character. But I feel that it was dropped to quickly and it was a shame it wasn’t explored just a bit more. It almost felt random and irrelevant. Like yes, I do get the thing of them both saying “we don’t talk about that.” and it showing how much Strange bottles up inside (kinda a small theme in this movie, hm?). I like that and I felt so bad for him when he said “I couldn’t protect her.” But also I just wish there was more of a pay off to it, I just wish it didn’t feel so misplaced because it could’ve had more impact.

- also liked the growth of his magic in this, he had quite a few new tricks up his sleeve.

- I’m very curious about what the screaming was at the end. Also wondering about the end credits, when he suddenly was fine? Was that a time jump, different Strange? Also curious to see where his character is going from here and how it’s going to play into the bigger part of the phases 4 and 5 of the mcu.

- also super cool that we have a new character introduced that I’d never heard of till today and I wonder what role Clea is gonna play from here on out.

- speaking of new characters, I fucking loved America. Like love love love love loved that girl. God she was such a little sweetheart. Her powers are awesome for one, but who she is is awesome too.

- I think she had great development in this movie, I loved that they made her not be able to control her powers. Is it a bit cliche? Maybe, but they made it work so fucking well. I felt for her, because she couldn’t help any of this, she was just a young and innocent girl who was scared but tried to be brave anyways.

- my heart hurt for her when she said she killed her parents. imagine, growing up with that heavy of guilt and fear of your own capabilities. That poor bby. 💔

- but once again, loved the relationship she built with Strange. I also love how as time went on, he helped her have more faith in herself and really gave her that needed boost of confidence. But fuck, I also felt terrible when she was going to sacrifice herself. She’s such a sweet kid omfg.

- also, I love love love love that she had the idea to show Wanda the horror of what she actually wanted. America sat up that powerful moment. Her badass fighting scene was followed up seamlessly with one so emotional.

- also love her spunk, and sass, and she was so cute trying to learn other magic and in her robes. I’m so excited to see more of her in the future.

- I was so worried about the cameos in this movie. Like going in, I was anxious that the movie would be relying too heavily on them….but I was wrong. It was very well done.

- first, I loved seeing John Krasinski as Reed Richards. I LOVED IT!!!! Like literally he was so perfect for that role and it was just fucking great. Perfect in all senses. (Also very sexy)

- Maria was a bad bitch, being the one to survive longest and gave Wanda a run for her money.

- I have mixed feelings about Captain Carter. I originally was not excited about her being in it because of the fact that she was such a huge role in “What If?” And I didn’t want a repeat of that. But I truthfully didn’t mind her too much in this.

- however, I fucking HATED!!!! AND I MEAN HATED!!!!! The fact that she said “i can do this all day.” No. No. No. No. No. I will not accept that. I’m not even a big Steve stan, but that is his and only his to say and they should not have made her rip it off and take away the value. Steve says that iconic line so many times because he was a disable bullied kid, showing his bravery and putting up with hell to stand for what he believed in. Peggy Carter was not that. She’s not the same.

- also I just don’t even really understand why she was a part of the Illuminati in the first place because she is way less powerful compared to all the other characters that surrounded her. Also don’t understand how she didn’t die sooner. I feel like they just wanted to give her as much screen time as possible here but I don’t feel like she should’ve been an Illuminati member at all because realistically, there’s nothing that special about her to be in such a position. I didn’t mind her, but it would’ve been better to see a different character, especially since we already got our fill of Captain Carter in “What If?” and I feel like the more she pops up, the more it undermines Sam.

- anyways, continuing on, the scene where Professor X enters Wanda’s mind has to be one of the coolest fucking scenes in the entire mcu. It’s one of my new favorites.

- the visuals in this movie were just so good omg.

- also liked the further explanations of the dark hold and the souls of the damned. That was cool as was the antithesis, the book of Vishanti. Once again, the magic in this movie was amazing across the board.

- The cinematography was amazing too by the way. Not just the CGI but the way things were shot, the way it felt almost like a horror movie at some points, the way it was just so pleasing to the eye the entire time. I loved that.

- also i was kinda expecting Mephisto to appear at some point. I never have taken that seriously before but for the first time I actually wondered if he’d appear because of how much talk about the dark hold, the forging of the scarlet witch, etc.

- also was kinda thinking Shang-Chi was gonna make a cameo and Loki too but neither happened.

- last thing I can think of right now, is that I kinda wish we would’ve gotten another post-credits scene that had more connection to what’s coming up in the mcu. Bc that short little one about just what’s next for Strange, isn’t enough for me 😩. I fr was hoping for something new to freak out about.

That’s all.

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my thoughts on the multiverse of madness movie below the cut. obviously, SPOILER WARNING. spoilers spoilers spoilers all the spoilers. SPOILERS.

overall, this movie was so disappointing. i was really hoping for better but i can’t say i’m surprised by what we got. (and i knew when stephen said, “wanda’s gone” that i wasn’t going to like the rest.) that said, it’s hard not to get your hopes up after wandavision was so fucking amazing. anyway, here are my semi-incoherent feelings about why i disliked this movie. fair warning, i’m gonna rant a lot, so if you liked the movie and just want to keep liking it in peace, this post is not for you lol. if you are also feeling sad and let down by this movie, read on.

the wanda we saw in this movie might as well have been a completely different character from the one we saw in wandavision and the prior movies. the darkhold corruption was just shorthand for “she’s evil now.” she has no agency, the darkhold is running the show. wanda maximoff was effectively erased by it.

there are ways to write villains, especially female ones, that aren’t boring and don’t remove their agency. this was not that. it was a slap in the face to anyone who loved wandavision and what it did with her character. it felt like marvel decided “oh we’ve got a female who’s too powerful now so we’re gonna make her evil and get rid of her.” because what else could they possibly do with a powerful woman amirite??????

make her do bad things for a reason. make her complicated and fucked up and horror-movie terrifying and murdery for a reason. an actual reason, not just “the darkhold made her do it.” agatha read the darkhold too. she got more substance from like a two-minute origin scene in a half-hour episode of wandavision than wanda did in this entire movie. agatha might have been corrupted by the darkhold too (idk), but she was still agatha. her personality still mattered, her backstory still mattered, and she was still making her own choices. wanda in this movie was just a two-dimensional mustache-twirling villain. she wasn’t a person.

the writers for these movies really love their heteronormative stereotypes and gender roles too. and look, like, if you don’t want to pay to have the actors for vision and pietro and wanda’s parents in the movie, that’s fine, but don’t act like they don’t exist. all the wandas in this movie cared about were her westview children. where was vision in the multiverse? you telling me he didn’t survive in a single one? what about pietro? what about her parents? why didn’t 616 wanda/scarlet witch care about them at all? vision got like one single mention in the entire movie. but noooo she’s a mom now so that’s her entire identity. news flash, it’s possible to be a mom and still care about things besides your kids! you are, in fact, still a person!!

also, how did multiverse wanda’s kids even come to exist? either a) she created them in the other multiverses the same as or in a similar manner to how she did in westview and was living happily ever after with them, or b) she got pregnant and gave birth to them non-magically. if it’s the first one, why doesn’t 616 wanda do the same thing?? she’s the scarlet freaking witch! she created vision and the boys once. why not do it again? she can study up on how to do it without enslaving a town in the process! how would that be any different/not as good as stealing her multiverse self’s kids? they’re not even the same kids she lost! she could just bring the boys back like she did with vision, only now she’s super powerful and can figure out a way to do it without creating another westview. you’re telling me that’s impossible but stealing america’s powers and killing her and traveling multiverses isn’t? at least stick a throwaway line in there saying something about how she tried other options first and failed. and if it’s the second one, whoooooo did she get pregnant with (or not, i guess)? if it was vision, how?? can he do that? where did the kids come from? where is vision or whoever their other parent might be in the multiverse? why isn’t the other parents in any of the photos in 838 wanda’s house?

another thing i didn’t like was how they handled 838 wanda. she had powers, but she barely used them until the very end. she barely even had any lines in the movie. and toward the end, when they’re in the in-between space or whatever where the book of ashanti is, the second she’s released, all 838 wanda cares about is getting back to her boys. because apparently the only thing a mother is capable of caring about are her kids? not, like, multiversal destruction or saving america’s life or helping strange fight off evil!wanda or anything. i mean, okay, i guess, that could be what 838 wanda is like, but then if that’s the case, why is she suddenly so compassionate toward evil!wanda in that cringey “they’ll be loved” (BARF) scene? evil!wanda TERRIFIED tommy and billy! she put 838 wanda through hell! 838 wanda should be all guns blazing, powers on full-blast, trying to get that woman the fuck away from her and her kids. again, you can have this scene if you give us a fucking reason for it, but the movie did not. not even close.

and you’re telling me that evil!wanda, willing to murder anyone who got in her path, willing to kill an innocent teenager to steal her powers, suddenly stops it all when 838 tommy and billy are afraid of her? that’s not how people like that work (and not how they wrote her at all in this movie up until that point). wanda wants to control literally everything. she wants to control the world and the multiverses (allegedly so she can protect tommy and billy but whatever). she’d think she could convince tommy and billy not to be afraid of her. or she’d mind-control them. or any number of other things. she wouldn’t just have one minute of them freaking out and be like “oh shit i guess i am a monster after all, never mind, i will stop my evil ways.” after killing all those other people and repeated attempted murder of america didn’t have any affect on her at all? IT MAKES NO SENSE. and no even slightly logical person would assume the boys would be fine with her replacing their real mom. did evil!wanda consider this at all? if not, why????? that makes no sense! but i guess the darkhold corruption just makes it so she’s evil whenever the plot needs her to be and then not evil when it’s time to wrap things up at the end.

so yeah, then that’s all it takes and suddenly evil!wanda decides to kill herself (presumably) and destroy all the darkholds in every multiverse? that is an extreme sudden reversal after she was willing to go to all the lengths she did. why is she suddenly capable of “good” now? i thought the darkhold corrupted her and made her evil. did she overcome its influence somehow? they sure didn’t fucking show even a hint of that. but now because it’s convenient to the plot, she’s suddenly capable of sacrifice. sure.

and if this is really the last we get of 616 wanda, i’m going to be even more pissed off. not an onscreen death, so i’m hoping she’ll be back and that she’ll be, you know, a PERSON, and not an evil cardboard cutout. i guess with the darkholds everywhere destroyed that’s possible. but uhhhh dr. strange sure seemed like he was still having some kind of darkhold-related issue during the mid-credits scene, so presumably the darkhold corruption over 616 wanda would still exist too.

other things i didn’t like:

dr. strange is boring af. he’s arrogant and full of himself, and he’s been that way from the start. i’m supposed to care that he was an asshole to christine back in the day and now he’s lonely and sad about it? too bad. that’s what happens when you treat people badly. also, fucking move on. it’s not healthy when you’re still hung up on someone like that. but the movie treats it like it’s this ~*~tragic~*~ one-that-got-away sob story. you know what, i’m so sick of media expecting us to feel bad for powerful men who behaved like assholes. hawkeye who vigilante-murdered a bunch of people gets a pass and a redemption and a life, we’re supposed to feel bad for stephen, and then wanda gets what she gets in this movie.... you’ve got to be kidding me. and dr. strange is the same person at the beginning of the movie as he was at the end. no character growth. how am i supposed to care about someone who doesn’t even change or grow as a person? who doesn’t even try? stasis = death. that’s like one of the basic rules of storytelling lol.

america can’t control her powers the whole freaking movie, then suddenly at the climax, a MAN tells her to trust herself and that she can do it, and suddenly she’s got complete and perfect control over her powers. yep, she just needed a dude to tell her she could do it. sure.

and why, now that america’s got control of her powers, did she not immediately start looking for her moms????? what the fuck is she doing at kamar-taj learning magic? why would she care? why would she need to? why would any of that be more important to her than finding her moms?????

the writing of the female superheroes in 838 was crappy. you’re really telling me captain carter and maria marvel were cool with executing 838 strange, their fellow team member, because he fucked up and did some dreamwalking, even after he stopped doing the bad stuff and helped them defeat thanos? and they’re then like, “yeah but you’re dangerous, so we’re gonna kill you.” and also you’re trying to convince me that any version of dr. strange would just be like “yeah okay that’s cool, i’ll just sit here and let you kill me and not try to fight it at all.” yeah right. gimme a break.

and if agent carter and maria marvel get to be such vastly different versions of themselves across the multiverses, why are all the multiverse wandas living the same happy domestic life with her two kids? what about x-men wanda? (i haven’t read the comics but i’ve read a few wikipedia articles about mutants and house of m and how she’s magneto’s daughter, etc.) what about multiverses where wanda’s parents didn’t die? where she never encountered the mindstone? the premise that literally every other multiverse has carbon copies of wanda and her boys living happily together is ridiculous and goes against the movie’s own logic (and i’ve only seen the movie once so maybe i’m remembering wrong, but i’m pretty sure that’s what evil!wanda said in the beginning, that literally every other version of her gets her kids).

also where were tommy and billy’s powers? they were just normal kids in this movie. they threw random objects at evil!wanda to fight her. no super speed, no mind-reading magic-y stuff? why? why are they different than they were in westview??? it’s fine if they are, but give us a friggin reason???

and why the fuck did evil!wanda need to threaten to kill people to get wong to tell her what he knew? wanda is a telepath. she is a mind-reader. she fucks with people’s memories as her primary technique. that’s her whole bag, as darcy said. she could just go into his brain and get what she wanted and be done in two seconds flat. again i say, she’s the scarlet fucking witch. given everything else she’s been doing, this would be a cakewalk for her. lazy fucking writing. and wong wouldn’t give in that easily anyway.

ultimately, this movie just felt empty of any depth. a paint-by-numbers marvel movie with a bit of a horror twist. wandavision makes me cry multiple times, across multiple episodes, every time i watch it (and i’ve watched it a lot), for a host of complex reasons. every character in it, down to the nameless background characters, feels like an actual person. i care about them deeply. but i didn’t come close to crying in this movie, or even feeling excited or satisfied or worried for anyone. it was just empty.

anyway. i was so disappointed. because you can see all the ways in which this movie could have been great. you could have a fucked-up evil wanda who is an actual person with reasons (no matter how convoluted and disturbing) for doing what she does. (for starters, look at catra from she-ra. or look at mcu agatha harkness!) there were some incredibly cool visuals happening, some creepy and fucked-up concepts, some great cameos and multiverse characters. that’s the thing that hurts the most, is that the threads of something incredible were there. but marvel gonna marvel.

and some lazy writing moments that just made me roll my eyes: america literally is like “you told wanda exactly where you’re hiding me?” and they were just like “yep, don’t worry, it’s fine” and didn’t even try to hide her somewhere else??? come on. that’s idiotic. one of your primary forms of magic is portal teleportation!! it would take you two seconds to stick her somewhere else just as a basic precaution! and wanda fucking up and saying america’s name and thus giving away that she was the one hunting her down. like. i could give that a pass if it were the only issue i had with this movie, but jesus christ. you’re just trying to make her look inept or are you lazy?

things i liked:

some of that creepy imagery. wanda’s arm shooting through the reflections like a corpse trying to rise out of the grave. the dreamwalking bit where 838 wanda sees a photo of herself turn and look at her. great creepy shit there. there’s more but i’m blanking at the moment.

america chavez as a character, generally. she could have been more developed, but the actor playing her was incredible, and she’s just super cool and she had a gay flag pin.

america chavez having two moms onscreen. could it have been better representation/did it feel a bit token-y? absolutely. but i’m happy they were there at all

the wanda/scarlet witch visuals in general. loved how creepy and horror-y it got. i don’t do outright horror, but this toed the line and was just the right amount of creepy horror without it being too much for me. (i weep for how good this aspect of the movie could have been if the writing/character development hadn’t been such trash.) also loved her creepy scary scarlet witch look and the creepy possessed-838-wanda look. i will be editing the actual events of this movie out of my mind and recreating a better version using these visuals thank you very much

loved seeing maria rambeau again, especially as a version of captain marvel. god i want an entire movie of her.

same with captain carter. fantastic costume. loved seeing her, wish she hadn’t been written so terribly. so much potential there

so yeah. i’m going to be grieving the loss that was this movie for a bit.

and for the record, any reblogs i do of gifs from this movie are not endorsements of the movie. just of wanda looking hot or america chavez being a badass. lol.

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So I meant to make this post last week, but, gonna be honest, I wasn’t feeling super great up until a few days ago.

Now that I’m starting to feel like myself again (and with the recent announcement regarding who will be writing Secret Wars), I figured that now is the time to make an addendum to my post about today’s writers (at least in Hollywood, anyway) don’t seem to do any research, be it for adaptational purposes, or just to enhance their own work to make it better/flesh out the world and characters a little.   

And honestly, I feel like Michael Waldron is a perfect example of this (with Jessica Gao being a close second).

I’ve made no secret that I have very mixed opinions and feeling regarding Multiverse of Madness, mostly staked in my love of Doctor Strange in general, and his MCU counterpart in particular. I tend to be a lot kinder to it than most, as I do think it’s a decent film that needs another rewrite or two before it could’ve been something great. But let’s be clear, I actually don’t entirely blame Waldron for what went wrong with this film. From what I know about the production, it really seems like Kevin Feige is the real villain of Multiverse.

I recently discovered watching MauLer’s take down of the film (I skimmed through it, tbh) that, as Waldron puts it, he was hired by Feige to come on board shortly after Derrickson left. Now that part I knew, as I’d been keeping up with the film’s production on and off since the initial announcement back in 2019. What did surprise me, though, was that they already had sets being built when Waldron came on board, meaning that not only were they still building sets that were made for the Jade Bartlett draft, it also meant that shooting was set to start soon. This meant Waldron was left to write a new draft with very little time to prepare (three weeks) according to him. And...well, this is where I’m actually going to defend the man for a moment.

Do I blame Waldron for performing the job he was hired to do? No. Unless your Harlan Ellison or (maybe) John Hughes, NOBODY can write a polished shooting script for a big budget film in three weeks. It simply doesn’t happen, and I put the blame entirely on Feige for that one. It’s INSANE for him to think that Waldron (or anyone for that matter) could turn in something worthy of being called a Doctor Strange film in that timeframe, especially when he’d already wasted time, resources and freaking MONEY creating standing sets and character designs for the original script that was discarded because he wanted his precious Multiverse saga, and couldn’t be bothered to wait another film or two before getting to that.

So yeah, I don’t blame Waldron for that.

That being said...I do blame Waldron for what happened after. 

It’s no secret that the film industry (Marvel included) was shut down for a bit due to Covid, and Multiverse was no exception. This means Waldron was given a second chance. He could watch the first DS film, read some comics, do a quick wiki search and figure out which Doctor Strange comics are essential to the character and which ones he should read to write a new draft. You think he did any of that? Nope. Of course he didn’t.

This is what I mean about how we’re heading into an age of writers who don’t seem to do any research. Instead of studying Bartlett’s draft extensively, reading up on some comics, hell, maybe even phoning up Benedict and consulting with him on basic DS lore, he doesn’t do any of that. Instead, he just makes up his own plot and makes Wanda the villain because “Marvel wanted a Multiverse movie, so I had to figure out who’d be a threat to it”, even though he could’ve easily re-worked Nightmare into his plot if he’d been bothered to look up anything about the character. I mean, dreams are established to be windows into the lives of one’s Multiversal selves, how hard would it have been?

And before anyone chimes in and says “Well, he was probably busy with other projects”, I’m sure he was. But guess what? If you’re a professional writer in any capacity? You’re ALWAYS working on several assignments at once. Especially if you’re freelance. And yeah, sometimes you don’t always turn out something great. Sometimes you have several projects going on, and you have to whip up something that’s not your best due to time constraints. It happens. But if you’re passionate about writing, you’ll still put in the time and effort to make something worthwhile. You’ll do research and try to understand the material you’re writing about. And if fail that’s fine, because at least you tried.

And Waldron very clearly didn’t. 

I’d hate to say “Don’t quit your day job”, but if you don’t want to put in the effort to improve your craft than maybe you should stick to being a producer, Waldron!

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Escort To The Multiverse Chapter Two - Can You Fuck Her Or Not?! (Sexual Content, Escort Service, Degrading)

So.. Finally weekend again. I love Fridays. Not only because of the weekends, but also because Fridays are when Escort To The Multiverse is posted. Stay tuned.. This will only get worse (Better) and worse (Better) and worse (Better) (Dark, Twisted and Toxic) Anyway. Hope you enjoy!

You bump into Jenna on your way out. You don’t know what to say to her. Or what to ask her. So you just look at her. Jenna is the first one to talk.

– Are you mad at me, YN?

You look down on the company card in your hand. Take a breath, and then you look back up at Jenna.

– Not mad.. But, why don’t you want to go? Now I have to go, and I don’t know what I’m going into.

Jenna places both her hands on your shoulders. And look you right in the eye.

– Listen, YN. It’s not like they hurt you outside of the sex part. But they’re always together. And they’re both into hardcore BDSM. And I’m not talking regular hardcore BDSM. So, yeah. I’m not going to lie to you. You will have bruises from here till tomorrow once they’re done. On the other hand, if you do a good job. They will treat you right. Like after, if you know what I mean..

You look at Jenna. If she says it’s rough, it’s rough. Will you be able to take it?

– I’ve never done anything like that before. Some light spanking, if you can call it that. Why am I being sent on this?

Jenna gives you a quick hug. It’s not like you meet the other girls outside work. But you are friends. And you do support each other, when you need it.

– Listen, just let them take control. And try to like it, at least pretend to like it. And they’ll probably finish fast. They love to be bad guys. Just let them. The more you give them what they want, the faster they’ll finish. Trust me, I know.

– So, just like any other job? Moan, swallow, leave?

Jenna laughs a little. You force a smile. You don’t want to admit this. But you are nervous for this job. Especially after what Jenna just told you.

– You’ll do fine, YN. You know how to do this. And if you want to talk after, just call me. OK?

You give Jenna a nod, before you leave to find your dress, and to get your hair and make up done.

It’s almost eigth when you reach the SHIELD building. It’s big, and for a minute you’re afraid that you won’t find the right door in time. But you find it, and press the call button.

– Come on up to the 14th floor!

The voice sounds old and almost angry. God how you hope he isn’t one of the guys you’re suppose to meet. The door opens, and you walk inside. Another deep breath, before you enter the elevator and push the button with the floor number on. As the elevator climbs, you look at yourself in the mirror. Just to make sure that everything is in place.

They’re not gonna like me, they’re not gonna like me. The words echoes in your head, as you take another look at yourself in the mirror. Your brown hair, your small boobs. They wanted a blonde, like Jenna, with big boobs and a flawless smile. Not a brunette with small boobs and a petit body. You sorta hope you’ll be sent packing. These guys scare you although you’ve never met them.

The elevator stops, and the doors slides open. And you look straight at an old man, with slightly grey hair and well, an old face. Fuck, please don’t be one of them. Please don’t be one of them. The old guy looks you up and down a couple of times. You swallow. You’ve learned to not speak, unless you’re spoken to. It’s Part of the job. You’re there to provide a service, not to make friends. The older guy clears his throat.

– You’re not the regular one…. What was her name again?…. Jenna! You’re not Jenna!

You look at him. Are you supposed to answer that, or is he simply stating the facts?

– Ehh.. No, she got double booked tonight, so you get me instead. I hope that’s not a problem.

Please don’t be one of them. Please don’t.

– Well, that’s not up to me to decide. Alexander Pierce.

The guy offers his hand. You take it. Pierce? No, he is thank God not one of the guys. What was their names again. Ray? Joe? Fuck, you can’t remember!

– YN!

Alexander keeps looking at you.

– No last name? Don’t you service providers have last names?

You don’t answer, you find this guy to be very condesending and rude. And you want to get rid of him as soon as possible.

– Well, follow me!

He turns and walks, you follow. It’s nothing new to be treated like this on a job, but this guy. It’s like you don’t even exists to him. Like you’re a shadow. And it makes you uncomfortable. He did call for a girl. And he got one. What is his fucking problem?

You reach a door at the end of a long hall. Alexander turns to you.

– Wait here!

Then he opens the door, enters the room, and then closes the door behind him. You can’t hold back the urge to listen in, so you press your ear up against the door. Nothing new that either. You often overhear conversations you’re not supposed to. That’s part of the job.

– It’s not the regular one!

Alexander’s voice. So he is angry that Jenna didn’t show. You can hear a laugh. Someone somewhat younger.

– Well, given the treatment we gave her last time. I don’t blame her.

The voice is strong. Fuck. Rough. Another voice sounds.

– How does she look then?

Then footsteps, you quickly get back in the middle of the hall. Then Alexander opens the door, and gestures for you to enter.

The two guys are both tall and dark. One taller than the other. The tallest one has penetrating green eyes and so much hair gel in his hair, that he would probably stick to the roof, if his head touched it. The other one has messy hair, like a kid coming home from soccer practice. Hazel brown eyes, and his muscles is showing through his tight t-shirt. But they both look pretty decent.

– I thought you said blonde?

The tallest guy turns to Alexander. Then he walks over to you, lifts up one of your arms.

– This one doesn’t even have any meat on her bones. I mean, just look at this!

He puts his hand under one of your breasts. You have to really concentrate not to slap his hand away. No customer has EVER treated you like this before.

– Can you fuck her or not? That’s all I need to know!

Alexander sounds irritated, and you don’t know if it’s because of you, or the guy mocking your appearance. The tall guy takes another look at you. Then he looks back at Alexander.

– Sure, I’ll take her! Looks good enough. Do you suck dick?

He turns to you. You look at him. It takes a lot not to snap at him. Who does he think you are? Fucking scumbag.

– I do whatever the client wants me to do, Sir!

The tall guy turns to the slightly shorter one.

– What du you say, Rumlow? Do we like this one?

The other guy takes a couple of steps towards you. Looks you up and down.

– I can do her!

Alexander gives both of them a sharp nod, before he leaves the room. You’re alone with them. What the hell do you do now? Wait for instructions?

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[maximons]

Okay! I’m back from seeing Multiverse of Madness, and I got some thoughts. I’m gonna put some spoilers under the cut, but it was pretty solid. It wasn’t exactly the movie I had hoped it would be though. And no, I don’t mean in an ‘I wanted more cameos’ way, but really just a movie called ‘Multiverse of Madness’ feels like it should’ve been...bigger than it was? Idk, I don’t mind a good character study, but using the multiverse to do it just fell a little flat to me.

But again, it was a pretty solid movie. I had fun, and it was definitely way different than any other MCU film, which is always refreshing. I sure want Sam Raimi to come back for a Doctor Strange 3, because I think what he brings to the character made him way more compelling than we’ve seen so far imo.

TLDR; Fell flat in some ways, and I had some personal grievances, but overall a good character study with some awesome (and fucking terrifying at times) action. Would see again, but maybe not till it hits Disney+. 7.5/10

Spoiler talk under the cut

Okay, so as someone who was a dummy and actually did spoil myself beforehand, I was actually still pretty surprised at how some things turned out. Note to self: Don’t let stan twitter tell you how things are gonna unfold before seeing how they actually unfold.

 I’m just gonna go on a bullet point rant from here on out so prepare for that.

So many people online led me to believe that they just turned Wanda evil out of nowhere with no explanation but like....they said several times she was corrupted by the Darkhold? Did ya’ll miss that? I’m not saying that it makes what she did okay cause...oof girl made some choices, but still. 

While yeah, Wanda does some pretty fucked up things in this movie, people acting like she’s this irredeemable monster...relax. If you can forgive Loki, you can easily forgive Wanda down the line. Shit, Hawkeye killed more people than Wanda did here, but I’m not gonna start a whole debate over it. Wanda was for sure the villain here, but the way some people are treating her compared to others that have done objectively worse?...Yeah, don’t sit right with me, but anyway.

Side note, defending Wanda from these antis is gonna be waaay more annoying to deal with now.

There’s a lot of talk of how this movie ‘throws away Wanda’s development from WandaVision’ by making her the villain, which eh...I see their point, but WandaVision did end with her reading the Darkhold, so it’s not surprising this is where she ended up here. Still, it does seem like a rehash of her doing a bad thing and then fixing it in the end. Just way more extreme.

Nobody actually thinks she’s dead....right? Like the way people were talking about it, I thought I was gonna have to reach and be in denial about her being alive for my sanity, but nah. It’s not super obvious, but...it’s pretty obvious she survived. Big bright flashing red light out of nowhere for no reason? C’mon. Also the whole thing just sorta...happened. If that was Wanda, been in the MCU for 7 years and just finished headlining her own show, Maximoff’s death scene...it would’ve been a SCENE, trust.

The way the movie flip flopped between ‘Wanda’s a good person, she’s just corrupted’ and ‘She’s an evil witch that needs to die’ so much just gave me whiplash. I get why towards the end they were like ‘yeah, we gotta kick her ass’, but almost immediately Strange went from ‘You did the right thing, that was never in doubt’ to ‘SHE ENSLAVED A TOWN, GOTTA GET HER’ Like...which is it my guy? 

Okay, moving on from Wanda now, let’s talk about America. I love her. She’s my favorite new Phase 4 hero as of now, and I can’t wait to see more of her.

I like how they introduced her as someone not having any control over her powers, and while I get that people see that as nerfed, it makes sense. She’s a kid with powers adults can’t even handle, and she’s handling better than most adults would, so.

Also...the scene with her moms? That was enough to cause a ban in all these countries?...Really? I just...okay. Good luck over there.

Strange’s development in this movie was pretty good. I really don’t think Wanda stole the focus at all honestly, this was very clearly Strange’s movie. I liked him better here way more than his first movie.

The CAMEOSSS Specifically REED FUCKING RICHARDS YOOO. That was so surreal to me actually seeing John Krasinski play him. I trulyyyy hope he’s the main Reed, there’s no way he can’t be after this.

Black Bolt and Charles's death scenes are gonna haunt me man, they’re just...oof they’re brutal.

DID ANYONE ELSE CATCH THE 90S X-MEN THEME WHEN HE WAS WHEELING OUT CAUSE MY GOD

Last thing, I really wanted this to be a team up movie with Strange and Wanda, they’d be an awesome team. I’m sad we didn’t get that, but...maybe one day

Okay, those are my jumbled up thoughts on this movie. This is gonna be one I think about for a while for sure

#MoM spoilers #doctor strange #wanda maximoff #marvel

[nekosd43]

I got like Quadruple tagged so here’s two memes at once from @epersonae​ and @ungarmax​!

list 5 things that make me happy lately

ttrpgs in general but recently most of my pre-pandemic in person games have gone back to being in person again and GOD i missed rolling dice at a table.  Online games are wonderful, but the energy of sitting at the same table with people is just unparalleled, truly did not realize how badly I was missing it.

Literally just The Mountain Goat’s new song Training Montage.  I’ve listened to it like 8 times TODAY.  I’m so hyped for another themed album from them and I look forward to screaming “I’M DOING THIS FOR REVENGE” with a huge crowd of people next time i get to see them in concert.

I got to give some awards at work yesterday and I gave one to this incredibly sweet kid who was so shy at the beginning of the year but has just BLOSSOMED in our in-class discussions and I was just so proud of him and he was just so overjoyed to have been chosen for the award I’m literally riding off the high of the smile in his eyes.

I recently have gotten into novelty button up shirts.  I look killer in every single one and I love how I feel in them.  I also recently started occasionally wearing a binder on days I feel more masc and I look SO GOOD in the shirts when I wear it.

Gotten back into friendship bracelets.... it’s really fun I don’t have more to say than that lol

Tag people you want to get to know better

Fave color: im turning into a rainbow gay, i love all of them, but if I HAD to pick, blue, black, and orange.

Currently reading: I just finished reading the Pedals to the Metal graphic novel that I’ve been unable to get my brain to hone in on despite owning it for two years.  Maybe two years from now I’ll be able to focus enough to read Crystal Kingdom.  I’ve also been thinking about picking up house of leaves again.

Last song: truthfully it’s the mountain goats but on this computer it apparently was porter robinson’s Years of War

Last series: mine is the same as Zack, Legend of Vox Machina is the last show I watched I think... gonna start Stranger Things season 4 soon.

Last movie: took my mom to see Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, it was Okay,

Sweet / Spicy / Savory: Sweet

Currently working on: finishing the school year, getting another job, I’ve got two WIP horny fanfictions that someday I’ll get back to... started another friendship bracelet today lol...

tagging: Whoever wants to!

#meme #thanks for the tags guys!

[freddieslater]

Pietro needs to be in at least one more movie for the simple reason that I can’t just use scenes of any of Aaron’s other characters and pretend it’s him like I would for James Potter. We have very limited choices for scenes here, Marvel, please give us Something.

#ignore me while I ramble #pietro maximoff #aaron taylor-johnson #mcu #marvel #I’m gonna say it again but he better be in multiverse of madness #I mean I know he Probably won’t be but I can hope!

[iliveinarainbow]

!SPIDERMAN NO WAY HOME SPOILERS!

i don’t know how to do the thing where you “hide” the rest of the post so i’m just going to write this and hope i don’t spoil anything to anyone

again to take up space i’m going to say that as the second post credit scene we got to see the trailer for doctor strange in the multiverse of madness and WANDA OH MY GOD MY BABY WANDA was there and i may have screamed just a little when she appeared

i’ve just seen the movie and i LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT, i’m so ridiculously happy with the way they dealt with everything and i’m so glad i went to watch it at the cinema bc oh my god the way everybody (including myself bc i’m dramatic) SCREAMED when andrew and tobey showed up was everything i needed -i had so many expectations for this movie and let me tell you they were met and exceeded

i’m so terribly upset about aunt may but i was one of the people who thought happy was going to die and i’m SOOOOOO happy that that didn’t happen

i’m not even gonna comment on the villains bc they were just pure perfection and there’s that, i have nothing to add except maybe that they all looked particularly hot in this movie

andrew being the one who saves mj when she falls was a bit “cliché” i suppose but i don’t even care, i loved it and i’m so glad he had that moment and as someone who had to suffer at the cinema watching gwen die this was everything i needed

my baby matt murdock (daredevil) deserved better, he got little to no screen time and heart been broke so many times, he was literally there for ONE SCENE and like a split second of another one :(

i don’t know how i feel about the ending where everyone forgot about him, but i’m really curious to see how they’re going to deal with that later on

#spiderman no way home #no way home spoilers #spiderman #peter parker #no way home

[inevitably-johnlocked]

A Little LOKI Theory Post

*SPOILERS FOR LOKI E1-3 BELOW CUT*

I am loathe to admit that I love the new LOKI TV series, mainly because of the Mobius/Loki dynamic, the interesting sci-fi plot, and just... I so far surprisingly like every episode. This was the show I had such low expectations for, because I didn’t really like LOKI – I felt he was the Moriarty of the MCU, overused when they didn’t need him, and making me annoyed by an actor I love.

EXCEPT I’m also a sucker for character-driven, psychoanalysis stories, like all these D+ Marvel shows are, and it’s leaving me super shocked about me liking characters I didn’t before. I’m fully invested in all these characters now.

I think the only reasom I really wanted to see this show for was because it ties directly into the next Dr. Strange movie, so YEAH, I’m in love multiverse and time travel things, so it was inevitable that I would enjoy this show, I think.

AND of course, I’ve theories and speculations because there’s a lot to work with, and I LOVE stories like these, so I decided I would take some time out and stretch out my meta-writing grey cells. And I wanted somewhere to have my theories/ideas written out before they come to fruition, because DAMNIT I have headcanons and hopes and dreams.

So here we go, spoilers below cut. Please note I know nothing about the comics aside from what other theorists and reviewers have mentioned:

The TVA are “the bad guys” but I think it goes deeper than that... Like the whole Timekeeper thing is really sus. I think it’s only one Timekeeper, who is Kang the Conqueror, who maintains the Sacred Timeline to ensure that he stays in power to PREVENT the Multiverse War which I think he knows happened to stop him. I also think Renslayer is behind all of this suspicious thing; I learned that in the comics Renslayer is a love interest for Kang, so like........... SUS.

AND I think Multiverse War they talked about in the beginning of the show IS the Multiverse War they’re ABOUT TO HAVE. This is a show about non-linear time, and there’s hints about multiverses in the next Spiderman, and Dr Strange is LITERALLY called “Multiverse of Madness”. Wild Theory: Maybe Doctor Strange IS one of the Time Keepers following the Multiverse War.

Loki initially wants to learn the enchanting that Sylvie does for his own selfish gain, and I think he was lying about breaking the TempPad so he would force her to open up. HOWEVER, I think he had a sudden change of heart after learning about the TVA’s Variant Staff; we already see him sort of fond of both Mobius and remembers Casey’s name, so I feel like that he will end up using this knowledge he gained very differently.

Further on this point, they established in Ep 3 that TVA agents / staff need actual real memories to “manipulate” them. So, I think Loki will use this power he learned from Sylvie (I mean, she explained to him how to do it, and this show is really good at using the “Chekov’s guns” given to us) to bring Mobius to “his side”, and TOGETHER they take down the TVA and make it what it should be. Mobius is very dedicated to the TVA, so I really do forsee that it will be Loki “freeing” Mobius as the catalyst to swaying to siding with Loki until the end. He’s a good man with a big heart for humanity, so I think he will totally side with freeing everyone else.

On that note, I think the reason Mobius is fascinated with the nineties is because he’s a variant jetskiier pulled from the nineties. I suspect in his original timeline he probably had a jetski accident and died, but in the Variant timeline, he survived, and out of pity I think Renslayer “saved” him and recruited him. The TVA wiped his memories after he couldn’t cope with the fact that he was SUPPOSED to die.

ALSO still on Mobius, I think every time he keeps questioning too much, he gets his memory wiped, which would explain why he never remembers leaving the cup stains on Renslayer’s table.

I think there’s more to Miss Minutes than meets the eye. Another theory I had was that she was similar to VIKI in iRobot, essentially running the company to her programmed “laws” after the TimeKeepers passed on. So like there’s no TimeKeepers at all, but there was at one time, and Miss Minutes was left to her own devices.

Another theory similar to this, is the Doctor Who episode, The Long Game, where everyone wants to be promoted to “Floor 500″ because it’s rumoured to be a paradise and is the top floor no one has ever returned from; It turns out it’s run by an alien that feeds on the human or something similar, and the people who went to the top floor ended up frozen husks of who they were. Not saying it’s this exact thing, but more the idea that everyone thinks what’s upstairs is a magical wonderful benevolent corporation looking out for what’s best for everyone, but instead it’s one evil thing doing stuff for their own purpose. Eh.

Another rogue theory: Mobius IS a Loki variant, which is why he’s obsessed with Loki himself, knows Loki better than Loki knows himself, and either knows and omitted it, or DOESN’T know but naturally is intrigued by the Loki Variant and him always finding out the truth is WHY his memory keeps getting wiped, and why everyone is always squeamish about having a Loki around. Mobius mentioned that Loki is the one Variant they have stopped more Lokis than any other Variant....

On that thought: IF Lokis are the most common Variant they capture, I think a LOT of the TVA are Loki Variants, trapped in the forms they were presenting as when they were brought in, and because magic doesn’t work in the TVA, they CAN’T turn off the glamour, had their memories wiped, and in turn could now be Codenamed Casey, or Mobius, or B15........ An abstract theory, but I think it’s interesting.

And another, since I learned that it is in the comics: Mobius is a clone drone. This one saddens me and I really hope he’s not. Because I love Mobius.

I think Sylvie was a Variant who worked for the TVA, but somehow had an awakening and wants to free everyone else... the only thing against this theory is her seeming surprised that her magic stopped working when she arrived at the TVA. If she was an agent, she would know that magic doesn’t work within the TVA.

And I think this series will inevitably – if the rumours of a Season 2 are true – have the Mobius / Loki dynamic solving Time Crimes... a.... Holmes and Watson if you will. :D HAHHA.

So yeah. This list will change obviously for the next 3 weeks, and I had a lot of fun with this so I will probably keep it up.

Some things I hope happen by the end:

A giant “probably not going to happen because this is Disney”: I hope they pay-off the “bisexual” confirmation by the end of this... highkey with Mobius (damn it I ship them okay), but lowkey just even a passing remark about anyone LOL. I really ship Lokius, okay. I need this dynamic in the MCU

PLEASE DON’T KILL CASEY, we love Casey. #FREECASEY

I’ll be really honest here, I will effing GROAN and be a not-happy Steph if they do the ship that I think they’re gonna do: Sylvie x Loki. Which is weird to me that Disney would be okay with self-love, but the OBVIOUS initial dynamic of Loki x Mobius is too much, “look we gave you bisexual Loki, aren’t you happy enough??” Just. I dunno. It’s weird / a pet peeve of mine that a lot of online reviewers are bitching about “woke” Disney the one time they ACTUALLY FINALLY let a title character say they’re queer, but are all “UWU SYLVIE AND LOKI ARE GONNA GET TOGETHER BECAUSE LOKI LOVES HIMSELF UWU”. Even though Loki spent legit more screen time with Mobius, and literally did everything he told Sylvie that he wouldn’t do around people he doesn’t trust around Mobius ALREADY?? It’s like they already forgot about the first two eps. LEGIT the whole dagger=love metaphor LITERALLY happened in the previous two episodes, but alright chiefs. Anyway. Sorry, it’s stupid to be bothered by it. 

We’re gonna get that heart wrench moment that the other two shows had, and I TRULY BELIEVE it’s gonna be between Loki and Mobius when Loki tells / shows Mobius the truth. LOOK I JUST WANT MORE OF THEM OKAY. And I need my heart ripping moment in this show within the next two eps LOL. We got one in WandaVision. We got one in FATWS. GIVE ME ONE IN LOKI. MAKE ME LIKE LOKI.

Anyway, so that’s my rambling. Thanks for taking time out to read all this. I miss theorizing, and this show is perfect for me to do it. I’m not AS good at these shows as I was with Sherlock, but it’s still fun, because it’s new and my brain is full of headcanons and idea things. I’ll write again after Ep 4, I think. <3 Thank you lovelies for letting me do this!

#my ramblings #my meta #my theories #loki spoilers #loki #loki meta #not sherlock #i just really miss writing meta #and i now ship lokius #so give me lokius fics please #long post under cut

[zep-writings]

Multiverse Madness

CHAPTER SIXTEEN.

Summary: Winter is here and Arlo is quite excited about it, which always makes Steve smile.

Warnings: Bad words and smut.

Pairings: Steve Rogers x OFC Arlo Stark.

Notes: I do not own any of the characters present in this story, except for Arlo Stark, an original character. This is pure fiction.

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Multiverse Madness Masterlist || Main Masterlist.

Chapter fifteen

“Oh my god!” Arlo yelled across the house.

Arlo had woken up a few minutes earlier and had walked to the kitchen where Steve was already drinking his coffee, visibly a lot more awake than she was.

“What the hell are you yelling all of the sudden?” The soldier wondered, jumping a little and looking up at the young woman.

“It’s snowing!” Arlo squealed like an exited five years old.

“Relax. It’s just snow! You sound like you’ve never seen it before.” Steve chuckled and shook his head, a gentle smile spread on his lips at Arlo’s excitement.

“Well…” Arlo turned to him, a small pout on her face that made his heart melt even more.

“Wait… You’ve never seen snow?” Steve frowned, surprised. “Didn’t you have it on your Earth?”

“We did. It just never snowed where I lived. It was always so warm.” Arlo explained, slightly biting her lower lips.

Steve opened his mouth to say something, but, at that moment, Bucky entered the kitchen, still half asleep and yawned loudly. “Why the hell are you yelling like this? It’s barely eight a.m!”

“Buck! It’s snowiiiiiiiiing!” Arlo shrieked.

“So? It’s only like rain but colder. What’s the big deal?” Buck rubbed his eyes and yawned again, dropping on a chair next to Steve who pushed a cup of coffee towards him.

“You’re such a grumpy old man.” Arlo teased him before turning back to look by the window.

It had probably been snowing for a few hours because the ground was covered of a deep layer of fresh powder and big snowflakes were still falling. Arlo looked like a little kid, her eyes shinning as if it was Christmas morning and Steve couldn’t help but smile seeing her like this. He loved how excited she could get about the small things that seemed so normal to him.

“Let’s go outside! Pleaaaaaase!” Arlo begged turning to the two men and just by the looking she was giving them; Steve knew he was screwed. He could never say no to her.

“Can you at least let me finish my coffee?” Steve questioned and Arlo simply nodded.

“Yeah, I’m gonna pass, I think I’ll stay inside.” Bucky commented.

The young woman sat by Steve’s side, sipping on her cup of coffee but she couldn’t stay still. She was too excited and the only thing she wanted to do was go in the snow. She finished drinking her cup way before the men did, slightly burning her tongue while doing it, and went straight to her room to find the warmest clothes she could find. As she didn’t really own anything for the snow, she simply slipped a pair of jeans on and a warm sweater. She walked back to the living room and waited, not very patiently for Steve to be ready as apparently Bucky hadn’t decided to join them to go outside yet.

When Steve finally joined her, a few minutes later, a huge grin spread on her lips. He took his jacket and put it on before turning toward her.

“Come here for a sec.” The soldier said, grabbing a hat and placing it on Arlo’s head. “Much better.” He offered her a huge smile and she felt her heart skip a beat.

“Thanks Stevie.”

“It looks really great on you.” Steve added grabbing a pair of gloves.

The soldier finally pushed the door open, and a second later Arlo was outside, feet in the white powder and already grabbing a handful of snow. She looked even more like a small kid seeing snow for the first time as she threw a snowball toward Steve and hit him in the arm.

“Oh really? You want to play?” Steve smirked as he bent to grab snow as well.

Soon they started a snowball fight, throwing it at each other and laughing like they were back to being kids and it felt great to forget everything for a while. Steve remembered when he used to play in the snow with Bucky and his sister and Arlo could just imagine herself play with Morgan the next time she would see her. Before long, Steve started chasing Arlo around, trying to grab her as she laughed happily. He easily reached her and, just at that moment, she tripped, grabbed his arm and pulled him down with her as she fell into the powder. Arlo laid down in the snow, Steve on top of her as they both laughed loudly.

It took them a little while to calm down and Steve couldn’t help but think Arlo looked absolutely gorgeous with her cheeks and nose tinted red by the cold and the snow. They both couldn’t stop smiling like idiots and soon her eyes fell into Steve’s as he pushed a lock of hair away from her face. Her breath shortened; she was suddenly very aware of the closeness between them as only a few centimetres separated his face from hers. Her heart was banging loudly in her chest and she wondered if Steve could hear it. They looked at each other for a while before his nose came brushing against hers and Arlo could clearly feel Steve’s hot breath against her face. It smelled like fresh mint.

“Who wants to go sledding?!” Bucky’s voice made her jump and brought them both back to reality. In a matter of seconds Steve was up, his face slightly flushed, and he pulled Arlo back up too.

Arlo and Steve exchanged a quick look, as the young woman felt herself blushing too. The soldier turned his head toward his best friend who was walking toward them, Captain America shield in one hand and a real sled on the other.

“We’re not taking my shield sledding!” Steve informed.

“Why not? I’m sure it’s a very good way to do it.” Bucky joked, a smirk on his face.

“No way. Put it back.”

“Fine. You’re not funny Stevie.” Bucky complained before he dropped the sled in front of them and went back to place the shield in the house.

When he came back, Arlo and Steve hadn’t moved or exchanged a word. Both of them felt a little awkward to be honest and neither of them knew how to tackle the elephant in the room.

“I’ve never been sledding before.” Arlo admitted, finally breaking the silence.

“You’ll love it. I’m sure. It’s quite fun.” Bucky explained as the three of them started walking up the closest small hill near the house.

“I actually broke my arm sledding once when I was a kid.” Steve remembered, smiling softly.

“I remember that. We were eleven I think.” Bucky chuckled.

“Yeah. I broke so many bones in my body before the serum I stopped counting.”

The two best friends exchanged a look and a chuckled before Steve put down the sled and turned to Arlo.

“You go first since you’ve never done it.” Steve offered her but she looked up at him and bit down on her lip.

“Yeah, huh… I’m not sure.” Arlo whispered and Steve could tell she was nervous.

“Seriously. You fought aliens, you lived on another Earth and yet you’re scared to go sledding?” Bucky teased, a soft smile remaining on his lips. “Steve will do it with you.” He winked at his best friend.

Steve rolled his eyes. “Yeah, of course I’ll go with you. I mean, if you want to.” He offered Arlo.

Arlo nodded. “Thanks.”

“Sit in the front, I’ll sit behind you, and I’ll hold you, okay?” Steve explained.

Arlo nodded once again and took a sit at the front of the sled. She was a little nervous but as soon as she felt Steve arms wrap around her waist, she relaxed a little. Steve put his legs on each side of her body, and she wrapped her arms around them.

“Ready?” Steve asked.

“Yup. Ready.” Arlo confirmed as Steve pushed the sled a little.

The sled started to slip on the snow and slowly took speed as they went down the hill. Arlo burst into laughter, leaning a little more into Steve’s chest and soon they were at the bottom of the slope.

“I love it! Let’s do it again!” Arlo said, standing up and grabbing Steve’s hand in hers as he chuckled.

Steve, Bucky and Arlo kept on sledding for a while, before another snowball fight started setting Bucky alone against his best friend and Stark. Arlo was happy, very happy at that moment and she almost wanted time to stop for a while, just to enjoy the time with her friends and to embrace how she felt.

****

Arlo was cold. They had been back inside for about an hour now, sitting by the fireplace but she still couldn’t feel her fingers. She was sat by Steve on the couch, her legs resting on his, listening to Bucky talk about his next mission. He had been called by Sam to help on a case about super soldiers and was leaving the next day. Steve wanted to help, as he always did really, but he had promise to help Arlo on her search for Dylan so Bucky had assured him it would be fine without him. When Bucky left the room to go pack a bag, Steve turned to Arlo.

“Want something to drink?” Steve asked her.

“No thanks.” Arlo rubbed her hands together.

“Are you still cold?” Steve frowned.

“Not really. I just can’t seem to warm up my hands.”

“Come here.” Steve turned toward her.

He kept her legs on his which only brought them closer together. Arlo smiled gently at him as he cupped her hands in his and brought them to his lips to blow gently on them. Arlo’s breath seemed to stop in her chest as the soldier’s warm breath made her shiver. Her eyes flickered to his lips for a second before meeting with his. She found herself drowning in the blue of his eyes as he kept on blowing softly on her hands, his gaze never letting go of hers.

“It feels good…” Arlo admitted with a shy smile.

“Are they still cold?” Steve asked and Arlo shook her head. “Good.” He simply added.

Soon, one of Steve’s hands found its way to Arlo’s cheek and gave it a gentle stroke as his eyes glanced at her lips. And for the first time since Steve had realized how he felt about Arlo, he really wished no one would interrupt them.

Steve was the one who broke the few centimeters separating their face as he gently finally pressed his lips against Arlo’s. The kiss was soft, tender and full of love. Their lips moved perfectly together for a few seconds before they were interrupted… Again!

“Guys, did you see th…” Bucky started but he immediately stopped when he realized he definitely didn’t have a good timing here and had interrupted something between his best friend and Arlo.

“What did you lose?” Arlo asked, moving away from Steve to his disappointment.

“Nothing, not important. Sorry. Go back to whatever you were doing.” Bucky said waving his hands in the air and walking out of the room again.

The silence that settled between Steve and Arlo was a little awkward, and neither of them knew what to say or do. Arlo was the first one to move as she stood up from the couch and gave a stupid excuse to leave the room. As soon as she had, Steve sighed loudly, pinching the edge of his nose between his fingers. Did he just screw up everything between them?

For the rest of the evening, things were weird and tense between them. Arlo avoided Steve’s gaze and didn’t talk much, simply listening to the two best friends’ conversations. She didn’t cuddle into the soldier’s chest during the movie and even left to go to bed before the end of it. Steve was cursing himself because he felt like he had screwed up big time, but the truth was, Arlo was freaking out. She knew she liked Steve a lot, even more than a lot if that was possible, but the kiss had triggered something in her.

She had laid in bed for a few hours, she had heard Bucky and Steve go to bed, but she couldn’t fall asleep. The only thing her mind was able to think about was the way Steve’s lips felt on hers, the way her heart stopped in her chest when he kissed her and the way she had felt so disappointed when Bucky had interrupted them again. She was scared of letting her feelings for Steve out, but at the same time she didn’t want to hold them back anymore. She deserved that, didn’t she?

Tired of turning and tossing, she got up from the bed, determined to go talk to Steve. She threw the soldier’s hoodie she still had in her room on and walked to the door. At the moment she opened her bedroom door, she found Steve standing there, in front of her, his hand raised as he was about to knock on her door and for a while, they stared at each other.

“Look Arlo, I’m sorry about earlier. I know I shouldn’t…” Steve started but he was stopped when Arlo’s lips crashed onto his.

He was taken by surprise, and it took him a split second to realize what was happening. When he finally did, he wrapped his arms around her waist, bringing her closer to his body as she wrapped hers against his neck. The kiss wasn’t shy like the one they had shared earlier; it was full of passion. His tongue brushed softly against her lower lip, and she opened her mouth, deepening the kiss. For a moment, it was like nothing else around them mattered; it was just them. Eventually they broke the kiss and Steve kept his forehead against hers as they both caught their breath.

“I’m sorry I made it so awkward.” Arlo finally whispered. “I guess I… I freaked out a bit…”

“It’s okay.” Steve smiled softly.

“Better late than never, right?” Arlo added, chuckling slightly.

“You should tell that to Buck.” Steve grinned.

Arlo met his eyes again and for the first time she realized how much love he had in his eyes, and it was a little overwhelming. She was broken in so many ways, and yet he had chosen to fall for her, to come back to 2023 for her and she sure didn’t want to mess this up. She loved him, more than she even ever loved Miles and a part of her felt guilty about it, but the other felt lucky that Steve seemed to feel the same way.

And the truth was, Steve did feel the exact same way. He had loved Peggy, cared about her deeply, but with Arlo everything was different, deeper, and he wanted to make things work. Gently, he pressed his lips against Arlo’s again, one of his hands slipping slowly into her neck to deepen the kiss. It felt so natural and so much like home every time their lips met than he never wanted it to stop. However, he eventually had to break it off again.

“I should let you go back to sleep.” Steve whispered unwillingly and he stepped back a little, letting go of her.

Steve wanted to do things properly, he was a gentleman, and he didn’t want to rush her into anything she wasn’t ready for. Nonetheless, Arlo didn’t want to let him go. She grabbed his hand softly before he could start to walk away.

“Stay.”

“You sure?” Steve wondered, squeezing her hand.

“Yes. I don’t want you to go.” Arlo admitted.

He looked at her, looking for any sign that would show him she wasn’t okay with it, but he couldn’t find anything. He followed her back to her bed and laid by her side as Arlo took off the hoodie she was wearing and quickly snuggled into his chest. She placed her head on his shoulder and looked up at him dropping a peck on his jawline. ‘I could definitely get use to this’ Steve thought.

They stayed like this for about an hour, talking about anything and everything in between a few quick kisses. Arlo loved to be able to kiss him whenever she wanted, and she loved even more the nickname he gave her right before she drifted to sleep.

“G’night baby.” Steve whispered as she fell asleep, a soft smile on her lips and he followed a few minutes later.

****

Chapter seventeen

#chris evans fanfiction #Steve Rogers #steve rogers fanfiction #Steve Rogers x OFC #steve rogers x original female character #arlo stark #marvel fanfiction #multiverse madness #MCUfanfic

[bigskydreaming]

You're asked to choose one and only one or DC's future stops existing immediately. your choices:

1. Jason Todd the anti-hero who seldom works with only a couple of the bats he doesn't hate, for example Dick and Cass VS. Jason Todd who came back with healed body but broken spirit, folded back into the Gotham gang and learns to be part of the society again.

2. Tim Drake who makes all of his mistakes as canon but realizes he's been wrong and apologizes to people VS. Tim Drake back in his first iteration, a cute little brother character who is a reader insert and a fun teenager.

3. JayKyle VS DickKyle.

4. Jason Todd with a sword VS. Damian Wayne with a sword.

5. Chris Kent VS. Jon kent.

Okay but which DC future? Its omniversal future? Its hypertime future? Its multiversal future? Its Elseworlds future? Its dark multiverse future? Mwahahaha your threat is useless because the sheer wtf of DC's continuities, timelines and conflicting declarations of what to even call their multiomnihyperverse makes it impossible to target simply A future! DC's overly unnecessarily complicated nature renders it functionally immortal and impossible to ever truly destroy, take that Darkseid.

I mean. But anyway. Whatevs:

1) I honestly do prefer the idea of Jason someday fully reuniting/reintigrating into the Batfam as a whole, because fuck it, the found family I'm here for is the one where they actually act like a family....I just think it takes actual work to get to that point and I get irey when people are like we're here! We found it! And its like meanwhile, abusive dynamics still abound. Mmm. No thank you. But even though I've been on a huge Jason and Dick and Cass kick for like, forever, I do still aim for him having a dynamic of his own with the rest of the family.

Like the thing is, I hate playing the favorites card in families, and I think the emphasis on so and so being Bruce's favorite child or so and so being this kid's favorite sibling, etc, like it really does feel like to the detriment of the whole family, because once you start validating the idea of favorites, ESPECIALLY in a found family that is CONTINUOUSLY growing....I think you're kinda shooting yourself in the foot because you're kinda creating a situation where either no future new additions to the family can EVER be Bruce or one of the kids' 'favorite' or else you're innately positing that said fave status is conditional and even a current fave of Bruce or a sibling can be bumped down the ladder by the addition of a later arrival....

Which is LITERALLY the entire essence of the eternal conflict between Dick and Damian and Tim fans. Its not even that Damian is Dick's favorite, allegedly, its that prior to Damian's very EXISTENCE, fans felt comfortable declaring Tim unilaterally to be Dick's 'favorite'.....and then all it took was the addition of a single family member who had specific NEEDS in regards to Dick's attention and focus, largely because of his age and needing a legal guardian while Tim was old enough to literally jet set around the world on his own.....and like, everything went up in flames in large corners of fandom.

So I'm just like, death to the fave family member myth, its just incredibly counter productive to the idea of found family as a whole especially when it usually only exists to prop up a preferred character as better than others via the proof of see, these other characters say he's their fave or whatever...but also like, its not even necessary?

Because the thing is, you can have Jason reintegrated into the whole family overall, and still prioritize your personal narrative FOCUS on characters you like more than others, like say Dick and Cass.....because of course its natural for even people in the same family to have entirely different DYNAMICS with different family members....and these dynamics don't have to come with a ranking system in order to prioritize which ones you just focus on more in a story. Because its not necessarily that Dick has to be Jason's fave brother, y'know, just for Jason to prefer spending time with Dick simply because he's more comfortable with him due to knowing him longer or being more secure in the idea that Dick doesn't judge him based on their greater shared history.

This doesn't mean that Jason doesn't care for his other siblings, that he can't have strong dynamics with them as well, its just about finding a reason for why these two specifically might be in a story without the others that doesn't demand putting a definitive ranking on which one Jason considers his FAVE. Just like Damian doesn't have to be Dick's FAVE just for them to have the super close canon relationship they have, even relative to the other siblings, because there's everything needed in canon already to establish that the mere fact of Dick essentially RAISING Damian for a year, and being the first one in the family to really take a chance on Damian, like, this lends itself naturally to them maybe more naturally gravitating towards each other than other siblings due to comfort level and familiarity, etc, but it doesn't have to be like....oh but yeah, I just like Damian more than you, Tim, y'know?

So my answer on this one is a total cop out of both, both is good. Jason totally reintegrated back into the family, but with dynamics that still lend themselves fairly easily towards story lineups where its just him running missions with Dick or Duke or any other one or two specific family members even if for no other reason than they gel together best in the field, y'know?

2) Hmm. I honestly really do love and miss 90s Tim Drake and just....don't see him in a lot of what I read these days. I'm like no, why did he have to go, he was doing so well! BUT I'm also on a big accountability kick, and like, I'm so steeped in fics where Dick GROVELS for forgiveness for every little slight he's ever done real or imagined, with every character but Tim in particular, so its like.....I'm not gonna lie, I really have a preference these days for seeing stuff where its literally anyone actually owning up to shit they've done to Dick and apologizing or groveling or making it to HIM, like, completely unconditionally. In the same manner we usually see Dick apologizing, glossing over any reasons he might have had for doing what he did or feeling the way he did, and saying oh it doesn't matter, putting the entirety of his focus on what HE did and why it was wrong no matter what and he's sorry.....that's what I would kill to see from more fics, just in reverse.

Because so often even in the all too rare fics where we DO see other characters apologizing to Dick for shit, its watered down with Dick volunteering that oh he messed up too, it was a two way street, and its like no! This is Pettiness Hours! I want the unconditional apologies! Give me the groveling! From anyone, I don't care at this point, lol, just show me characters actually PUTTING IN THE WORK to make it up to Dick for harm they've caused him, even if completely unintentionally or via neglecting his feelings or considering the repercussions their actions or words would have on him. Aaaaaaand, frankly, Tim's a good place to start there, because of how one sided all the takes on their conflicts have been for so many years. I mean, if people need a place to start, Batman and Robin Eternal gets enough praise it can't be pretended that people in fandom don't know that story exists, so how about some stories where Tim says he's fucking sorry for punching Dick in issue #4 or #5 of that one, and it was uncalled for and he was clearly just looking for an excuse to unleash some more of his resentment and upset for the Spyral/Forever Evil stuff, and family deciding that its totally okay to punch Dick whenever they're mad at him and need to work off some aggression so they can then finally forgive him (for now) is a trend that needs to die in a fire post-haste? I mean just as an example.

But the thing that kills me about fanfic trends is like....the sameness of so much of it. There's SO much room for variety and diverse takes, and like....I don't actually hate Tim! I'm just cranky because of the imbalanced nature of most content out there for literal years at this point. Push the pendulum BACK in the other direction, create some balance by showing the flip side of things.....and that leaves a lot more room for me and others of like minds to then be more amenable to - and even interested in - other stories that don't scratch this particular itch, but don't need to, because other stories are doing the scratching by then, y'know?

And THEN like, at that point, I would be ALL FOR more stories that are just callbacks to classic 90s Tim who I adore, with his skateboarding and his EARNESTNESS and his go-get-em spirit and also the gumption. All the gumption. I like that Tim. I do miss that Tim. But like, for the moment, like, I want accountable Tim because I am tiiiiiiiired of groveling Dick and tbh at this point its not enough for me to just see people move past putting Dick in that position and just have mutually respective and doting brothers Dick and Tim having adventures together......nah, first I want some reciprocation. Ngl. Gimme the apologies for actual mistakes actually made.

3) DickKyle. Easy question, c'mon, you gotta know that. LOL. ;)

But yeah, I've been shipping these two off their like, two shared pages from way back in the Obsidian Age story years before Jason even returned, let alone was in Countdown together with Kyle, so like, its no contest. I don't mind JayKyle, I certainly prefer it to JayRoy tbh, but there's not a ton of appeal in it for me, particularly in how its usually depicted, because like....the entire basis of JayKyle is that they DO have stories together and spent a whole year worth of weekly issues traveling the multiverse together in Countdown.....but there's like, practically no trace of their actual dynamics from that series or any specifics of literally any issue from that entire comic in most fics I’ve read, so its like.....idk, it tends to come across as more generic, not in the sense that it cant still be interesting, but more in the sense that it feels like just someone paired with Jason just because history between them EXISTS without any interest in exploring what that history actually IS....and at that point, its like, well there's no reason TO prioritize that ship over DickKyle for me personally, when like, I have a shit ton of headcanon reasons for why those two in a pairing specifically. *Shrugs* My logic. Its not for everyone, but it works for me.

4) Jason with a sword or Damian with a sword? I don't understand the question. Both. Both is good. All the characters should have swords. Swords are awesome.

5) Chris Kent vs Jon Kent - oof. I adore Jon, I really do. I love his dynamic with Damian, I love a lot of their specific stories, the parallels between them as friends and Bruce and Clark as friends....its all very bien. But I gotta give this one to Chris, because I'm always gonna have a soft spot for him because I'm a sucker for all abused kid heroes, and I just miss that funky little dude so much. There's so many stories we didn't get with him and were just ripe for the picking, but nooooo, DC's like lol you can't have nice things, here we just rebooted the entire multiverse and now Clark and Lois never adopted the son of Clark's worst Kryptonian rival and raised him with tender love and care awww does that make you sad, were you invested in him, WELL TOO BAD, HE'S GONE NOW AND BASICALLY NEVER EXISTED, NOW GIVE US YOUR MONEY ANYWAY MWAHAHAHAHAH.

Yeah. I'm still not over that. Probably will never be tbh, so I with great grudge-bearing do affirm that I'm gonna go with Chris on this one and like, he is a Priority for me and I'm still very keen on the idea of him and Duke being besties for random reasons that might not make sense to anyone but me, but eh, whatever.

[owlheartt]

Hey guys guess who finally finished chapter 4 of Star Sanses Extended? Anyways this chapter is called Lunch & a Game

Ch 1 on AO3 this chapter on AO3

Perhaps Papyrus should’ve picked a game he was more familiar with. As it turns out, Munchkin was… a competitive game. To put it lightly.

“I place a curse on Ink.” Error announced, grinning. Dream brought his hand up to his face and massaged the bridge of his nose.

“Error, first of all, you want to save your curses until the end of the game-” Dream began.

“I’ve changed my mind. I curse Dream.” Error said, his grin switching to a scowl.

“ERROR, PERHAPS YOU COULD SAVE THE CURSE CARD FOR WHEN YOU’RE MAD AT SOMEONE, OR WHEN YOU CAN WIN.” Papyrus suggested.

“Yea, and I’m mad at Dream.” Error said, giving Papyrus a “duh” look. Error was exhausting.

“Alright. What’s the curse.” Dream said, sighing. Error held up a card, facing Dream. Papyrus leaned over a bit so he could read it too. ‘Curse! Lose the Footgear You Are Wearing’. Papyrus threw a glance at the cards on the table in front of Dream. None of them were even Armor, much less Footgear. Dream glanced down too, his golden eyelights flitting to his cards then back to Error. “You do realize that I-”

“I don’t fucking care! You’re cursed!” Error snapped. Dream took a deep breath (his 10th in the 4 minutes they’d been setting up) and took the curse. Then he dropped it in the discard pile, maintaining eye-contact with Error.

“Fantastic.” Dream said in a honey-coated voice. “That there was the effects of the curse. Ink! Your turn!” Error was visibly stumped (Papyrus could’ve sworn there was a little loading button in front of his face), then Ink distracted them.

“I KICK DOWN THE DOOR!!!” Ink yelled, slamming his hands on the ground in front of him. One eyelight was an orange target and the other was a blindingly gold star. At least Ink was enjoying this game. Dream reached out and flipped a card at the top of the deck, revealing a monster card.

‘Level 16 - Hippogriff’ the top read. Ink’s bravado snapped away.

“Hey Dream..?” Ink said.

“...Yes?”

“What level am I?”

“1.”

“Oh.” Ink scrunched up his face with one eye light turning a sky blue question mark. “Does that mean I lose?”

“If you stick around to fight it, then yes, you’ll lose.” Dream explained as patiently as he could. “But there’s an option to run away. Look, right below its name, it says ‘Will not pursue anyone of Level 3 or below,’ Paper, could you check to see the rules for fleeing?”

“OF COURSE FRIEND!” Papyrus snached up the rules and opened up the paper. Let’s see… Fighting Multiple Monsters, Asking For Help, there! Running Away. “IF NOBODY WILL HELP YOU…”

“Just read how to run away, please.” Dream said.

“ROLL THE DIE. YOU ONLY ESCAPE ON A 5 OR BETTER.” Papyrus looked up at Ink. He was juggling the dice.

“Squid!” Error snapped, causing Ink to drop one of the dice in his eye socket.

“Yes?” Ink said politely.

“Roll the fucking die.”

“Ok!” Ink grinned, setting the rest of the dice down. Then he shook his skull to the point that Papyrus was worried it would come right off. After a few moments though, the die that had been dropped inside flew out of Ink’s eye socket, righteously hitting Error in the skull.

“Fucking Void, Squid!” Error said, bringing a hand up to rub the madly glitching area.

“It’s a 3, what does that mean?” Ink asked, holding up the die.

“THIS IS WHEN ‘BAD STUFF’ HAPPENS!” Papyrus said.

“Well duh,” Error said.

“NO, I MEAN THE ‘BAD STUFF’ ON THE CARD!” Papyrus explained. He put down the rules then held up the card. “YOU ARE STOMPED AND CHOMPED. DA DA DA DA, STARTING WITH THE PLAYER ON YOUR RIGHT, EACH PLAYER MAY TAKE ONE TREASURE CARD FROM IN FRONT OF YOU OR (WITHOUT LOOKING) FROM YOUR HAND.”

“Well I don’t have any Treasure cards in front of me.” Ink said.

“Wait, it says that it won’t pursue anyone of Level 3 or below- maybe that was an automatic escape for Ink,” Dream said, pointing to the part of the card he had read aloud before.

“What does it matter? Make a decision and let’s move on. I don’t want to listen to you mistakes blathering on about the rules forever.” Error said, glaring at the rule sheet discarded on the floor. Papyrus clapped, the sound muffled by his gloves.

“HOW ABOUT THIS: HOUSE RULE! IT DOES MEAN HE ESCAPED.” Papyrus smiled, proud of himself. Dream nodded distantly.

“Alright. Ink, you fled, discard the Hippogriff.” Dream said. Ink picked up the card, fumbling it a little, and moved it to the discard pile. Dream watched him, then spoke. “My turn.” He flipped over the top card, revealing a Level 2 Pit Bull.

“Whacha gonna do goldy? You’ve only got one level.” Error said, taunting. Dream sighed and pointed to a card in front of him. ‘+3 Bonus - Huge Rock’ it read.

“I have 4 Combat Strength total- I win the battle and get 1 Treasure.” Dream dropped the defeated monster in the discard pile before pulling a Treasure card. “Paper, your turn.”

The game went on like that, Error attacking the others as often as he could, Ink always having to be walked through his turn, Dream calmly directing the game (if not with a bit of spite for Error), and Papyrus simply enjoying himself. Really. Despite the seeming chaos, the cards were amusing and the interactions felt… special. He had only ever played games like this with his brother. And Sans was special and important - no doubt about it! But… now Papyrus was playing with his friends. Friends. Sure, Error was barely being civil, but he was still participating. Maybe… maybe the multiverse was Papyrus’s calling. Maybe it was where he belonged and where he would finally make friends.

After 15 minutes (give or take) Sans announced that lunch was ready. They agreed to return to the game later, then went to the kitchen where Sans was slouching next to a pot of mac and cheese. It was the cheap stuff, the kind that all you really had to do was heat up. Either way, it was good enough, and it didn’t look burnt. Papyrus snached up one of the bowls his brother had stacked and a plastic fork from the counter before remembering he was a host. Papyrus grabbed the rest of the bowls and started passing them out along with forks. Forks that looked suspiciously like Grillby’s take-out forks that Sans said he’d thrown away.

After everyone had a bowl, Sans asked Papyrus to serve while he went to get some chairs. The brothers typically ate on the couch, but they wouldn’t all fit on it, especially with the distance Error liked to keep from everyone else. Papyrus scooped mac and cheese into each bowl, though Error scowled hard enough that Papyrus just gave him a little.

“Feel free to get more when you’re done!” Papyrus said, smiling. Ink was already shoveling his lunch into his face, which made Papyrus laugh a little internally. Error took a shortcut (it mostly looked like Sans’s, but Error’s was glitchier) out of the kitchen, and Papyrus could see his scarf hanging over the couch moments later. Dream nudged Ink, gently guiding him to the table with the skeleton brothers’ pet rock as a centerpiece. Sans reappeared, dragging a few chairs that looked a bit too much for him.

Papyrus quickly dropped his mac and cheese on the table before rushing over to help his brother. The brothers set up the chairs (Dream thanking them and the two chaos bringers focusing on their lunch) before settling themselves down. Sans let out a long breath, drawing everyone’s attention to him.

“so. may i have an explanation now?” His white eyelights scanned the room, taking in his guests.

“Ah, right, I’m so sorry,” Dream said in a rush. “I’m… ah… how about we start with introductions! Hello, my name is Dream. I’m the guardian of all positive feelings in the multiverse. This is-”

“sorry buddy, did ya say ‘multiverse?’” Sans cut in.

“Did I forget to mention that bit?” Dream shot a look at Ink, seemingly reflexively. “How familiar are you with the concept of a multiverse?”

“vaguely,” Sans said, waving his hand. “a buddy of mine an’ i talk about it every now an’ then. she’s more invested than i am.”

“Yada yada there’s a multiverse yada yada this is the true timeline something something the three of us are abominations.” Error said languidly. Dream’s face went blank and he blinked in surprise (or confusion, Papyrus couldn’t tell). Sans just raised his eyebrows. Papyrus couldn’t help but feel like he’d been thrown for a loop. Abominations? True timeline? Were there… false timelines? What defined false? Papyrus just thought his home was the original, not the “only right one.”

“I- no,” Dream said, holding up a stiff hand. He took a deep breath in and let it out slowly. “This timeline, Undertale-”

“sorry ta cut ya off buddy, but i’m just gonna grab a notebook real quick.” Sans stood up and walked over to the wall behind the TV. When he reached it, he blipped right through, before appearing again in his chair with a blue-covered notebook and a black mechanical pencil in his hands. “‘pologies, feel free to continue.”

“Right. This timeline, called Undertale- do you need me to spell that for you?”

“nope.”

“Undertale is the original. Its creator is a creature called Toby Fox, I’d recommend asking Ink if you want more details about that.”

“OOH OOH OOH!!!! Are we talking about creators?!?!?” Ink leaped up, fumbling his bowl, the mac and cheese miraculously staying inside (not that there was much left).

“Not right now, Ink,” Dream said calmly. The disappointed skeleton dropped back to his seat, the poor chair rocking a little. “All other timelines are a variation of this one, more or less. Some, specifically Error, consider it the ‘one true timeline.’”

“I’d be happy to elaborate if you numbskulls want,” Error growled. It sounded reminiscent of a cat with the added glitches.

“thanks for the offer, kiddo, but I’d like to know a bit more of what this guy has to say first. dream, ya said your name was?”

“Yes. My name is Dream. As I said, I am the guardian of positivity. This is Ink, he’s the guardian of the multiverse itself, and he helps creators. Over there is Error, he’s… this is going to sound pretty bad, the destroyer of timelines.” Dream winced. Sans glanced over to the glitching skeleton. Papyrus looked over at Error too. He was just sitting there, and he didn’t look nearly as dangerous as he had before. He was just a guy, not a deadly… er, what could he be called? Papyrus had instinctively reached for the word “psychotic,” but that would be using the term wrong. Error just had anger issues. Well, maybe he had more, but Papyrus wasn’t about to pry.

“that would explain a lot, huh,” Sans said, widening his lazy grin. “so, oh dear destroyer of timelines, why is mine still here?”

“It’s the true timeline, haven’t you been listening?!” Error shot Sans a glare, and Papyrus couldn’t help but tense. “I don’t destroy just whatever! I destroy abominations. Alterations of this bullshit.” Error raised one arm and gestured around the room, presumably indicating the whole timeline. “Though if you keep this up asshole then I might just destroy you too.” Sans raised his eyebrows, clearly contemplating how much he was willing to push that. If Papyrus knew Sans at all (and he did), then Sans was probably also planning to push a few buttons in the best way he could think of.

“good ta know,” Sans said, nodding absently. “anythin else i ought to know?”

“There are other multiversal beings, Error isn’t the only destructive one, there is a void and two known anti-voids though likely more, oh, and Paper is currently substituting for a friend of ours, Blue.” Dream ticked things off on his fingers as he went. “There could be more, but it’s been a while since I introduced someone to the Multiverse.”

“paper?” Sans looked over at Papyrus, who shifted nervously. He didn’t know why, it wasn’t like he was hiding anything? Maybe it was Sans’s scrutinizing look, or that Papyrus didn’t like nicknames. That must be it, no nicknames. His brother would taunt him for at least a month about getting a new nickname.

“There are many Papyruses in the Multiverse, and if you’ll notice, Ink, Error, and I are all Sans-ish. Paper needed a nickname, and he picked this one himself,” Dream said. Papyrus was thankful Dream had explained before he had tried, otherwise Papyrus was certain he would trip over his words.

“a nickname, huh?” Sans raised his eyebrows at his brother playfully. “should i get one too?”

“You are welcome to, especially if you wish to leave your timeline. Most nicknames are based on their timeline’s name or things they like- like colors!” Dream said. He lifted his hand, hesitating as he looked around the room. Then he set his arm back down. Papyrus, glancing around as well, noted that no one’s name was really based on colors.

“for example?” Sans said.

“Ah, see, he isn’t available right now, but Blue!”

“HIS TIMELINE IS UNDERSWAP. LIKE DREAM SAID, I’M TAKING HIS PLACE FOR TODAY.” Papyrus grinned. Sans sat up a little straighter, showing a teensy bit of pride.

“no kiddin’? what’s his role? hope it ain’t like destructo over there,” Sans said.

“Hey, can I like. Get some more of this goodness?” Ink butted in. He had (somehow??) managed to get cheese all around his mouth and some on his forehead. But, of course, the bowl was empty.

“feel free to help yourself.” Sans gestured to the pot in the kitchen, and Ink bounded off towards it.

“Ey, rainbow bastard! You better not make a mess!” Error barked at him.

“What do youuuu care?” Ink huffed.

“I don’t like messes,” Error said. His glitching was just a low buzz, which Papyrus was beginning to understand as calm. “That’s my whole thing, you idiot.”

“you two seem friendly for complete opposites,” Sans said.

“Squid over there refuses to leave anyone alone.” Error still had a scowl on his face, but the glitching didn’t get more intense. Papyrus laughed a bit to himself, Error must like Ink’s company more than he’d like to admit.

“that’s everything?” Sans asked.

“Yes, I believe so.” Dream smiled at him.

“so. what are the rules for tellin’ folks?” Sans leaned forward towards Dream.

“Tell no one. You could seriously fuck up the timeline.” Error said, dropping his bowl on the floor.

“Uh actually- it’s entirely up to you. There aren’t rules for incodes-” Dream got cut off.

“ya keep mentioning incodes, what’re those?”

“Incodes are beings still tied to their timelines, like you and Paper. Blue is also an incode, which is why he couldn’t make it today. Ink, Error, and I are outcodes, which means, well…” Dream trailed off, his eye lights going a little glossy.

“Dream doesn’t really have a home. Error and I made our own!!” Ink said, brushing right over a topic his friend struggled with. Speaking of, Ink didn’t seem to struggle with anything. Was he just… invincible? What a pleasant way to be. Perhaps Papyrus could ask him how he did it (if Ink could focus long enough to answer).

“how exactly do ya… make your own?” Sans asked.

“Hah! As if we know,” Error said, rolling his eye lights.

“YOU DON’T KNOW HOW YOU MADE A WHOLE TIMELINE?” Papyrus asked incredulously.

“It’s not like either of us remember it,” Ink said, shrugging. “Our memories are short! C’mon Paper, you know that!”

“I JUST… THAT’S A LOT NOT TO REMEMBER. HOW DO YOU JUST FORGET THE WHOLE PROCESS?”

“So? Sometimes Squid doesn’t know his own core swallowed name,” Error said.

“so, now that we’ve tried to process that, nice to meet you three,” Sans said. He gave curt nods towards each of Papyrus’s new friends. “dream, i trust that my bro is safe with you?”

“Of course, though Paper does a fantastic job of handling himself.” Dream pointed out. It made Papyrus feel kind of warm, enjoying the feeling of open trust from a monster that just met him. Especially with how useless he’d been during the fight with Error. Sans paused a moment, his gaze lingering on Papyrus, before walking to the door. He sneakily took a shortcut right as the door closed, disappearing into thin air nearly unnoticeably.

“Heeeeey!!! Do you guys want to hang out at Outertale??” Ink said excitedly, setting down a nearly empty bowl of mac and cheese. Goodness, how was he eating that so quickly?

“No.” Error said.

“Don’t we have a game to finish?” Dream tried.

“Actually, fun fact, I’m done hanging out with you shits. Have a horrible day.” Error stood up, opened a portal to who knows where, and left.

“Hey!!! Wait up!!!” Ink whined, racing to make a portal to (presumably) follow.

Dream sighed. “Well, I suppose I’m glad Error’s gone.”

“SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT OUTERTALE?”

“No, it’s the one timeline Error hasn’t tried to destroy yet.”

“AH.” Papyrus paused. “WHY?”

Dream started, giving Papyrus a surprised look. “I- I guess I’ve never thought about it. It was just… a fact about Error. There are some things none of us question about the two, and they never bother to share.”

“SO… SECRETS?” The more Papyrus thought about secrets, the more his SOUL hurt. He and Sans had been keeping things from each other for so long… he felt relieved that he had told Sans about the multiverse.

“Not really. More like mysteries?” Dream brought a hand to his face, tapping his chin. “I don’t think they purposely hide things, just that they don’t like talking about it. Though they do try and dodge specific questions. And they give different answers for other ones.” Dream looked up at Papyrus again. “I guess they are secrets. Just doesn’t feel that way.”

“LIKE THE ENDING OF A STORY? NOT QUITE A SECRET, BUT IT’S NOT SOMETHING YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO KNOW?” Papyrus liked making comparisons. It showed he understood and could apply things.

“Exactly!” Dream smiled pleasantly. Much more genuine than earlier.

“...DREAM?”

“Yes?”

“WHY WERE YOU SO STRESSED EARLIER?”

Dream wrinkled his face. “Error is always a pain, and I didn’t want to spend Lun-”

“NO.” Papyrus interjected. “I MEAN WHEN I FIRST MET YOU.”

“Oh, uh…” Dream’s composure melted for a split second before he pulled back a fake smile. It was interesting how different it was from his genuine one. “Ink was all over the place, haha! That little dude is a mess.”

“NO, I DON’T THINK THAT’S IT.” Papyrus looked at Dream. He could see how uncomfortable his friend was getting, but it didn’t sound like Dream told anyone his troubles.

Dream sighed. “How about we go for a walk?”

#owl's writing #star sanses extended #dream sans #error sans #ink sans #classic sans #utmv #undertale multiverse #classic papyrus

[cheshire-salvatore-mikaelson]

Loki spoilers ahead for my friends who haven’t seen it yet. (DON’T READ IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED)

Ok, Loki fandom, I’m seeing a lot of things that are pissing me off. I’ve been seeing them for a while but it’s really annoying so I’m gonna put this here for anyone who might agree with me. If you don’t, then when can have an adult conversation about it, but if your gonna send hate to me, please don’t comment.

NOW FOR MY OPINIONS!

1) The finale was amazing!!!!!!!!

Yes it was predictable, but it was also validating to know that all the clues in the last few episodes weren’t letdowns (like X-Men Pietro in WandaVision). Not to mention Marvel kept this secret so well that I’m shocked it wasn’t leaked. 

I was so happy when I saw Kang there, and we got a bit of his backstory from one of his variants for the new Ant-Man movie. Not to mention we now know how the multiverse got created and it’s very possible either Loki or Sylvie will show up in multiverse of madness.

ALSO this show was written with the IDEA that a season 2 was HAPPENING. (Sorry for the people who knew this, but I’m seeing some posts that makes me think some of us have forgotten this important fact.) I didn’t think the whole story would be wrapped up in a bow like WandaVision or TFATWS. This was gonna tee up a season two like any normal TV series does.

2) Loki kissing Sylvie is not the end of the world for the love of god.

I am Bisexual. Putting this for context concerning the next paragraph.

Loki is Bi meaning he likes men and woman, so it’s not horrible that he kissed Sylvie. Is it strange/cringe to watch Loki kissing a version of himself? A bit, but a) they’re not related nor share the same DNA according to the MCU so stop saying it’s like incest, b) they ARE COMPLETELY different people with different life experiences, and c) it’s not the end of the world; it’s just one of those canon things that you wished never happened like Steve leaving Bucky, at the end of Endgame, for Peggy after Steve went to her funeral, in Civil War. (Or, for Whovians, the whole Timeless-child story arc in Season 12)

Then I saw a post saying it ruined Loki’s character. It didn’t ruin shit! Loki’s character development is still in tack. HELL! HE GAVE UP THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE KING TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE. AND HE OPENED UP, TRUSTED SOMEONE, AND FELL IN LOVE. It was Sylvie who didn’t trust him. If your gonna be angry at her (as a character the actress is lovely) be angry that she didn’t trust him then fucked up the universe because -ya know- Kang the fucking Conqueror, and not because she kissed him.

I still love his character and I love this show. It’s become my new comfort show.

Not to mention with her kicking him out and us seeing that close shot of him being hurt by this action…I HIGHLY doubt he’s gonna immediately take her back when they cross paths again. Also this was the first step in Marvel’s plan to bring in LGBTQIA+ people from the comics to the big screen; it’s a baby step (for anyone wondering, they made an announcement about this). They’ll get better at it and will eventually represent everyone (or at least that’s my hope).

Plus I don’t know if Mobius is gay or not (in comics or MCU). So there’s that fact too. I get the representation aspect of wanting Loki and Mobius together but maybe that’s just not apart of Mobius’s character. Or maybe Mobius season 2 will have the character development that makes it canon because tbh there’s still a lot about Mobius we don’t know.

P. S. I ship Lokibus but it doesn’t make me hate that it didn’t happen. I knew it probably wasn’t and all of you were getting your hopes up because I didn’t get that vibe off of this pair before I saw everyone on Tumblr shipping them. It’s clearly not where the writers wanna take Mobius’s or Loki’s character this season. However, my feelings with Loki and Sylvie as a couple are complicated because - I’ll admit - I cringed when I watched the kissing scene…but it’s not like Tom Hiddleston is kissing a Tom Hiddleston CGI-ed to look like a woman. That would be weird and concerning. (For more of my thoughts read the beginning of point 2)

And finally…3)

MARVEL!

(And I can’t stress this enough)

PLEASE.

RELEASE.

SEASON 2.

OF.

LOKI.

BEFORE.

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA.

IN.

2023!!!!!!!!

Or at least give me some Loki type content in Multiverse of Madness. Like Dr. Strange finding Sylvie crying in a palace outside of time (with Wanda possibly.)

I can’t go a whole year with no new Loki content again like 2020…I just - I CAN’T! Not after this gem of a show that only made me love Tom Hiddleston’s acting even more and adore Sylvie and Mobius.

Now again I would like to restate that if you don’t agree with me we can have an ADULT conversation about this. But if your gonna send hate BECAUSE you don’t agree with me - don’t comment. These are my opinions and I’m not trying to force anyone to think like me because of it.

*bows*

Thank you for coming to my Ted-Talk.

Enjoy President Loki because he’s a gem! 💎🐊

#loki spoliers #loki #internet don’t kill me #these are my opinions

[nebulousfishgills]

I got this interesting idea for how this season of Loki could end.

So, imagine with me, if you will...

It's the end of the season, all the timelines have been fixed, every discrepancy accounted for, the antagonist defeated, everything back in it's proper place... except one thing.

Loki realizes that he is the last anomaly and he has to return to his own time and play out the rest of his life like he is supposed to in order for the timeline to completely restabalize. This means that he's gonna have to leave Mobius and the TVA behind. It crushes him because at this point in the series, he's grown close to everyone and has had such amazing adventures. This is the first place where he has truly felt acceptance, almost like your standard found family trope.

Somehow, he had to have known this was coming; this is what they had been working towards for the past long while. Admittedly very sadly, he prepares his goodbyes and grabs the Tesseract to open a time gate/portal thing to return to his own place in the timeline.

Mobius is the one who stops him from leaving just yet. Loki starts to force out his goodbyes before being cut off.

"Wait, I have a question for you."

"Don't make this harder than it needs to be."

"I'm not, just hear me out. If you had the chance to stay, would you?"

"What's your play?"

"It's just a question: If you could stay, even if it meant abandoning your timeline and family, would you stay?"

Loki thinks about it for a minute. All the problems he has caused for Earth, his family, and all the good he has done fixing the timeline. Loki just nods in response to the question. Mobius smiles at the God.

"If you want, we can just put the Tesseract back and let you stay here as an agent. That's really the main problem, taking an Infinity Stone out of its place in time."

"You could really do that?"

"Sure, why not?"

"But what about my effect on my timeline? Taking me out of it would probably keep it damaged."

"There's an emergency measure we have that can remove your presence completely from that timeline. All those events you caused will find a way to happen without you if we remove the code. That's why I'm asking. Because no one would remember you."

Loki keeps thinking, again remembering the hurt he caused in that timeline. Maybe it's better this way, he thought. He agrees to the proposition. Mobius takes the Tesseract to send it back and shakes Loki's hand, welcoming him to the team while dubbing him Mr. Tesseract. You know, to commemorate the time.

A little while later, Loki remembers something he was shown about his future, one of the last things he says to Thor before he dies in one particular timeline. He opens up a time gate to get to that timeline.

Cut to New Asgard. Thor is hanging out in a field, probably exercising on a lovely warm day. He suddenly hears a woosh and a ding. Then, the crunch of feet on grass. Thor turns around and we see his face light up once he sees Loki, his back facing the camera and his hands in his jacket pockets.

"I told you the sun would shine on us again."

Fade to black.

***

I kind of like this idea because a) it makes true Loki's promise like the showrunners hinted might happen, b) it sets up a possible season 2 seeing as there are rumors of it being already in development, c) sets up Loki being in Love and Thunder, as well as Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and d) gets the waterworks going.

Let me know what you think!

#marvel #movies #avengers #disney plus #loki #disney + #loki series #tom hiddleston #loki series theories #just an idea

[mimsylovesloki]

Episode 6-Play by Play Reactions (Spoilers)

I’m so nervous and excited. Disclaimer: I have spoiled a few minor things for myself for this episode because I’m a self sabotaging dummy who does this whenever I get anxious about a form of media I am watching.

I’m so friggin nervous ahhhhhhhhh

Please tom Hiddleston, don’t do me dirty

Screw you renslayer

Istg if anyone betrays anyone I’m going to riot

Man I miss Classic!Loki already

Isn’t this the music that played when Steve?

OH MY GOSH IM GOING TO CRY WITH ALL OF THE AUDIO REFERENCES

Lol the peter quill lines are perfect because I legit just watched GotG

Nelson Mandela?

Vision???

Lmao Sylvie saying “open your eyes!” Gave me legend of Zelda breath of the wild flashbacks

My heart is rattling against my rib cage with excitement and anxiety

Spoopy castle

Aha another scene or at least location from the trailers!

Oof they’re both anxious too

Pretty gold veins

You were pruned before he even existed? What? No you weren’t? You were kidnapped but not pruned. You were only just pruned lmao.

If kang isn’t the baddy I’m gonna look like such an idiot

AGHH!

Good God that stopped my heart.

He who remains?

KANG?

I don’t trust you Miss Minutes

Man I wanna kill Thanos

Miss minutes I don’t trust you, TEMPTRESS!

If he could make it work, then why couldn’t he allow the timeline to break free normally then huh?

“We write our own destiny now.” Bite me Miss Minutes

Ren Slayer I hope you get chucked into space

How self aware is miss minutes exactly?

I’m actually surprised that Renslayer doesn’t know who it is

Miss minutes is so creepy what the freak

The music is so damn good

“Are we sure he’s even still alive?” Judging by the opening of the door, I’m assuming that yes.

Uhhh hi?

Is this kang?

Or Ryuk lmao

I’m hoping he’s more serious than this jokey seemingly unserious dude. I need some angst.

Is this Kang?

Cmon

So much for easy to kill I guess

Where’s doctor strange when you need him?

I bet classic!loki could kill him easily…

I miss alligator Loki and kid Loki…

Doctor strange sanctum vibes

Hey heart, can you stop beating in my chest? You’re gonna kill me

HAHAHAHAHA YESSSS MOBIUS

Kill her please. I won’t be sad. Do it.

You’re not sorry. Shut up.

HAHAHAHA YEA BOIIIIIII

Ohio? Oh gosh is this a school?

RENSLAYER???

Hahaha she’s just a principal

HAHAHA BREAK THEIR MINDS

Don’t you dare insult my Loki. Love you Sylvie, but she’s nothing compared to Loki in my mind and never will be.

This music is gonna give me a heart attack

Help

Oh so this has happened before?

Wannabe God…

My BPM has got to be like 100

Paved the road? Soooo are you a Loki or???

Who are you? Please be kang or else I’m gonna friggin have to eat a rock like I promised.

This dude is literally a Fan Fiction writer oml

Sylvie? Please trust Loki. Don’t betray him.

Yea yea Renslayer I know that it’s crazy your whole life is a lie but you’re an idiot.

You’re a variant too you dumb dumb.

Yea you betrayed him. You betrayed the timeline.

Where the hell are you going?

PRUNE HER

DO IT

OH COME ON

PRUNE HER FOR CRIPES SAKE

Ughhhhhhh cmon Mobius…

In search of free will? What? Then WHY NOT TAKE MOBIUS WITH YOU

Dang that was disappointing Mobius got knocked down that easily…

Oh my gosh Tom Hiddleston’s voice is rumbling in my headphones good God

Kang?

Kang?

KANG THE CONQUEROR?

PLEASE

GIVE ME AFFIRMATION

Oof even he has variants

Dude loves Apples more than Ryuk

But he also sat on the chair like L

Is he like a celestial? Related to one?

Hush you wannabe Saint

Alioth?

Okay but HOW did you harness its power. What’s your technology then? You can’t just say that and not explain how.

Is he drunk?

Okay L

He’s like L, Light Yagami, and Ryuk all in one.

Your variants? Then who are you?

GAMBIT LIKE FROM THE X MEN UNIVERSE? I’m kidding… sigh…

Okay mandalorian

My heart is still beating fast why

If I don’t make another appearance again, know I died of a heart attack

Why would he give up control huh?

Is he a Loki?

“I’m older.” Dude you look like you’re 30 tops. What’s your secret? How are you immortal if you’re only man? Or are you not a midgardian?

Both sitting with swords.

Multiversal war heh? DOCTOR STRANGEEEEE THEYRE AT IT AGAIN

He’s kinda calling her out a lil lmao

Both of them

HEART CAN YOU CALM DOWN?? I TOOK MY PILLS! WHY YOU TRYING TO GIVE ME A PANIC ATTACK.

Hello? Something happening you didn’t expect?

Threshold?

Of what?

This dude is a good actor. He’s playing the demented, crazed, power man well.

What’s the third option? There can’t only be two.

My heart is friggin dumb. Can you not??? I’m legitimately annoyed by how hard and fast it’s beating.

What’s that in your hand buddy?

Bud?

What, is it an honesty detector or something?

You can really tell this guy is tired of life and everything

Aaaaand they’re fighting

Girls girls, you’re both pretty. Can I go home now?

Oh no…

Sylvie, no, stop it.

SYLVIE!!! Trust Loki!

Cmon there has to be a third option

Sylvie DAMMIT

TRUST HIM

Protagonists fight before the climax cliche *ding!*

GET OUT OF MY HEAD CINEMASINS

Dammit now she knows magic too

HE DOESN’T WANT THE THRONE YOU DUMB DUMB

“I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want a throne. I just want… I just want you to be okay.”

OH?

OH?

HELLO?

It’s the onceler fandom all over again

Kiss and betrayal

COME ON MAN

Loki can’t catch a break. He just gets betrayed again and again.

How did she know how to use that.

Oop. Rip.

“See you soon.”

Sylvie, you messed up.

Now what?

Poor doctor strange. Dudes gonna have his hands full lmao.

Tom Hiddleston BETTER be in Dr. Strange Multiverse of Madness

My chest is actually moving from how hard my heart is beating what the heck

Poor Loki

All he knows is pain and hurt. And whenever he thinks he’s getting love, love, like a dagger, hurts him.

CMON TOM DONT MAKE ME CRY WITH YOUR STELLAR ACTING

How is this going to end????

WHAT

WHAT

WHAT

Mobius???

WHY DID MOBIUS FORGET HIM

NEW STATUE? IS IT TOO LATE?

WHAT

THATS THE END????

WHAT?

BUT

BUT

BUT

WHAT???

WHAT

WHAT

WHAT

WHAT

WHAT

HOW

WHY

WHAT THE HELL?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN CREDITS??????????

Funky music but…

WHAT

WHAT IS HAPPENING

WHY DID MOBIUS FORGET LOKI

WHY DID THE TIME KEEPERS STATUE GET REPLACED?

END CREDIT SCENE?

SEASON 2 CONFIRMED OKAY SO

AGHHHHHHHHHH!

I—WHAT?

BUT

BUT

WHEN IS SEASON 2???

HOW LONG WILL I HAVE TO WAIT?

WAS THAT KANG OR DO I HAVE TO EAT A ROCK?

WILL SEASON TWO FOLLOW DIRECTLY AFTER SEASON ONE OR IS THIS LEADING UP TO THE DR STRANGE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS AND WILL SEASON TWO FOLLOW THAT?

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

MY HEART

SYLVIE WHY

YOU TRAITOR

BUT AT LEAST IT WASN’T A BETRAYAL IN THE WAY I FEARED IT WOULD BE

BUT STILL

I AM LOOKING AT THE CREDITS IN THE OTHER LANGUAGES TO SEE IF THEY REFER TO HE WHO REMAINS AS KANG

I DON’T WANT TO EAT A ROCK

MY BRAIN IS MELTING

MY HEART IS… AGHHHHHHHHHHH

#loki #loki laufeyson #loki odinson #marvel #marvel cinematic universe #mcu #disney #avengers #loki on disney+ #loki series #marvel studios #loki spoilers #loki episodes #Loki ep 6 #Loki episode six #Loki episode 6 #loki finale #loki season 1 #loki season finale #loki reaction #sylvie laufeydottir #mobius m mobius #mobius #ravonna renslayer #judge renslayer #Renslayer #hunter b 15 #kang #kang the conqueror

[stranger-who-writes-fiction]

Gonna make full use of my ‘comic rant’ tag and roast Future State: Superwoman.

Spoilers! And yelling! Of the disgruntled kind!

So a few things at the start here: 1.) I wanted to love this book. I wanted it to be great. I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt, in spite of some iffy stuff in the solicit text. So this rant is not coming from a place of having decided this was going to be awful ahead of time. 2.) My tolerance for bad Supergirl comics is pretty high! Takes a lot for me to actually come out and say that a particular issue is trash. Reader: This story is trash.

It’s not ‘middle-aged white guys writing/drawing a story about sending a minor to a potentially hostile planet fully nude’ trash, mind you. It’s the compost bin, rather than the landfill. Slightly nicer trash, but it still stinks to high heaven. Allow me to expand!

PROLOGUE - SUMMARY: ...I actually can’t summarize this comic b/c it would devolve into a lot of senseless yelling. We’ll just have to tease out this terrible plot as we go along. 

PART I - DEAD DOGS TELL BAD TALES: The comic opens with Kara standing at Krypto’s grave. That’s not why this comic is trash, but it bears mentioning. Because why. Why would you do this. 

PART II - IN WHICH IT ONLY GETS WORSE: So, Kara has a running inner monologue, and the main thing we gather from Kara’s thoughts is that it was Krypto who taught her to be a hero. On paper, that sounds very sweet! In practice, it reads as Kara having no moral center whatsoever—whatever good qualities she might possess, she did not learn from her parents, or her foster parents, or friends, or fellow heroes. Nor do they come from within Kara herself. Nope, t’was Krypto who taught Kara not to be a jealous rage monster. That is not hyperbole--Kara’s walking around angry about her cousin all the time and she’s like, ‘It was you, Krypto, who taught me not to judge, and to let go of anger.’ Listen, I love Krypto, but this? This is, as the youth would say, a bad look.

PART III - THOSE CERTAINLY ARE...SOME THEMES: The set-up here is that Kara is on the moon, and has established a sanctuary for alien refugees. That’s a dynamite idea! I love that! Buuuuut Kara didn’t look at the plight of alien refugees and say, ‘I want to help!’ Really, she didn’t even look at herself and say, ‘I don’t want others to feel like I’ve felt.’ No, she said, ‘Earth won’t accept me as a hero, and Clark didn’t name me protector of Earth, so. I’m out!’ (Honestly, if your moral compass is so whack that you need a dog to walk you back from Hulk-Smashing...can’t say I blame Clark for not picking you, Kara!) But apparently, the people on the moon don’t really like her either. And it is literally never explained why. There’s a whole montage of Kara fixing stuff and saving lives and all the moon folk just glare at her. This makes both the moon people AND Kara look like a**holes, because they come across as ungrateful, and she comes across as a glory hound. Thanks! I hate it! So the ‘peace’ Kara’s found on the moon isn’t really peaceful at all, cause she still resents her cousin, and people still don’t like her, in spite of the fact that she’s constantly performing acts of service for them. 

Also, side note, I’m just now realizing this is an entire population of alien refugees...and Kara is somehow still the odd one out. Like, Earth I get, because everyone else is a human and maybe freaked out by the super powers. But a bunch of aliens? WHY. Why did you do this. Why did this need to be set on the moon with alien refugees if you’re not going to interrogate Kara’s identity as an alien refugee herself AND all of the aliens are inexplicably humanoid in appearance and utterly ordinary in terms of power levels.  

Like. This is not the CW show, where they have a budget, and a huge ensemble cast to serve. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE. AAARRRRRGHHHH.

PART III CONT’D: There’s also this weird ‘birthright’ element introduced...like, Clark and Jon stole Kara’s ‘right’ to be earth’s defender which is...a terrible reading of Kara’s modern origin. It brings in the idea that Kara is a ‘chosen one’ and because she didn’t get to be that chosen one, all of her hero work is for nothing. Never mind the whole central conceit of what makes Clark and Kara heroic...that they have this incredible power, and choose to do good with it. Nah...it’s all about her ‘right’ to protect the people of Earth! And mean ol’ Clark took that away! THANKS. I HATE IT. 

PART IV - A POOR USE OF SPACE: So, all of the Future State books kind of struggle with the issue of too much exposition, which is understandable. They have to introduce an entirely new status quo in a very limited amount of literal page space, so you *really* have to have a handle on how you allocate your time and focus.  

Introducing a brand new, lore-heavy heroic character who gets all of the development and dynamic art and pulls focus away from the character you’re meant to be writing is a bad use of a two issue limited series.

Like, this is a crappy Supergirl comic but it’s a great backdoor pilot for a Lynari ongoing, I guess. 

Imagine if in the Jon Superman book, they introduced a random, brand new best friend for Jon, and he got the big character arc instead of Jon. That’s something you save for an arc in an ongoing title, NOT A TWO ISSUE EVENT COMIC.  

Back to said new character, there’s a lot of forced attempts to parallel Kara and Lynari, but Lynari’s backstory is so confusing, rushed, and poorly explained that it’s like: okay, they’re both...angry? And the moon jerks hate them? ...uh. Okay.

(I’m gonna bring back my ‘why is this set on the moon, even’ question so that my ‘poor use of space’ header becomes a better joke.) 

PART V - I'M HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO...B/C THERE SURE AIN’T ONE HERE: I’ve already mentioned that Krypto was apparently Kara’s conscience so when Lynari’s aunt arrives to...kill them? (again, everything about Lynari’s backstory is rushed and poorly explained) Kara gets real mad and basically pulls a Gothel: ‘You want me to be the bad guy? Fine! Now I’m the bad guy.’ But thank goodness Lynari is there to tell Kara no! Don’t murder the giant aunt eel! Lynari then steals Kara’s powers and gives up the swamp jewel that’s been hidden inside their body and now their aunt is less murder-y!

WOW. Couldn’t even give the big damn hero moment to Kara in her own book, huh?

So the day is saved. It takes Kara a while to regain her powers, and it’s only then, when she’s no longer ‘above’ the moon jerks, that they’re like, ‘oh, we like her!’ There is a bit of narration about how that attitude is awful. But that narration is provided by Lynari. See, the inner monologue is no longer Kara’s thoughts, but rather it has switched to Lynari’s point of view. They’re telling us this story. And do you know why?

PART VI - WHY THIS COMIC *SUCKS*: KARA DIES. SHE’S THE FRIGGIN’ ‘SECOND GRAVE’ OF THE TITULAR ‘TWO GRAVES’

Fudge this comic to heck.

See, Kara dies on the moon, presumably of old age. She’s buried next to Krypto. And this random character who we’re suddenly supposed to care about tells us her story. Not Clark. Not the Danvers. Not Brainy. Not even one of the supporting cast members from her solo title. No one from Kara’s life is mentioned at all, save for Jon and Clark, and they’re pretty much relegated to flashbacks of Kara punching them. 

PART VII - TIME TO COMPARE DEATHS, I GUESS: First and foremost can I just say that I hate that’s a sentence that I’m typing about Kara in the year of our lord, 2021. But okay: Kara’s big famous death in Crisis stopped the entire DC universe cold. Everyone paused in the middle of the destruction of the multiverse to mourn her loss and honor her (GENUINELY HEROIC) sacrifice. Clark and Barbara--two established characters with a strong connection/relationship to Kara--offered lovely eulogies. 

This one: Kara gets to die of old age in obscurity after a lifetime of striving to be recognized and only achieving it by de-powering and serving a population of jerks. 

Not the warm and fuzzy ending you think it is!

(Meanwhile, Clark lives for millennia and spawns an entire dynasty of Els, all of ‘em out there, protecting the cosmos. I was looking forward to House of El in the hopes of maybe seeing some Kara stuff but NOPE. Thanks to Superwoman, we’re probably not gonna see any future Kara stuff beyond this! G R E A T)

And like, the argument could be made that this ending makes Kara happy. This is the life she chooses! She wants to be alone and garden on the moon! Except, we get zero insight from Kara regarding the remainder of her life. We only have Lynari’s narration and some montage shots...nearly all of which focus on other characters. But honestly, even if we did get Kara’s side of things, I doubt it would shed much light on her feelings, bEEECAUSE...

PART VIII - SUPER BLAND: This Kara really has no personality outside of ‘detached and vaguely bitter.’ I like Sauvage, I think she’s an incredibly talented artist, but here, Kara is stiff and her expression often reads as aloof. She’s very pretty, but it comes at the expense of being expressive. (And I know Sauvage can do expressive stuff...because Lyanari gets to be expressive.) Like...I love that shojo manga vibe but this is a Kara devoid of spark and warmth. 

...Like...Melissa Benoist’s portrayal of Kara is right there... 

I’ve already sort of touched on this but her inner monologue doesn’t have much personality either. She’s just parroting the same, ‘I need to do as Krypto taught me!’ nonsense for both issues. Until, of course, we shift to Lynari’s narration, and lose Kara’s thread entirely. 

PART IX - LET’S WRAP THIS UP: This book frustrates me to no end because it had a lot of stuff going for it. It’s got a female writer and artist--still a rarity for the Supergirl book--it’s a limited series mostly free of continuity and character baggage, and it’s not tied down to the grimdark cyberpunk stuff happening in the Gotham books. YOU COULD’VE DONE ANYTHING. And, once again, DC goes with a pitch that’s: Kara is angry, Kara resents Clark...and Kara dies.

It’s also happening...right as Kara has no dedicated ongoing title, the movie’s been shelved, the TV show is entering its sixth and final season, and all promotion has shifted to new CW and HBO shows. 

*screams into the void* 

MAAAAAAN I hate this book. I hate that it retroactively makes me hate the Andreyko run a little bit--a run that I took to be about a traumatized young woman forced to confront her grief, and who leans on a beloved animal companion for comfort. Here, Krypto is L I T E R A L L Y the reason Kara’s not constantly frying folks with her heat vision. 

I hate that this book has made me use the word ‘literally’ so much in this rant.

I hate that this could possibly be more in continuity than Millennium.

Remember Millennium? Where Kara was in like...five pages? And she was warm, and kind, and promised to help Rose because it was the right thing to do, and oh yes, WAS PRESIDENT OF EARTH?!??! AND A CLASSY OLD LADY!?!?!?!?! WHO WAS STILL ALIVE AND KICKIN’ IN THE FAR FLUNG FUTURE!?!?!?!?!

I hate that I’m using my lunch hour to rant about how much I hate this comic.  

I hate that DC editorial seems hell-bent on erasing the interesting aspects of Kara’s character to sand her down to ‘the angry one’ or ‘Batman 2.0′

PART X - LET’S END ON SOME (?) POSITIVES: Don’t read this book! Don’t do it! Don’t waste your time and money!

Instead, check out ANYTHING ELSE. If you want mom!Kara, read Tom Taylor’s ‘Last Daughters of Krypton’ in the DC Nuclear Winter special. If you want heroic oldlady!Kara, read Millennium. Honestly? Pick up anything by Bendis that has Supergirl in it. It is miles away better than this. You want angry Kara working through her grief? Andreyko, Red Lantern, even Infected. ANYTHING BUT THIS. HECK, grab Superman of Metropolis instead! That has bad Kara characterization but at least she doesn’t end up dead. 

Anyways. This comic is bad. I wish it wasn’t! And this is now the SECOND TIME IN A ROW that Kara’s book ends on a terrible note before the character disappears from monthly comics for an unknown period of time.  

*screams into the void again*

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