#bizaartalk

[bizaar]

me: "Eddie catches your hand before you can take it back and sweeps the pad of his thumb across the ridge of your knuckles. He tilts his head in a way that could almost be confused for bashful, particularly in the way it causes his hair to fall and obscure part of his face — you reach up and brush it back for him."

also, me: "He’s frozen to the spot, unable for the life of him to make his legs move as he watches the blood bubble up from the wound in Eddie’s forehead and leak down into his eyebrow — that thing went for his face. It literally tried to bite his face off!"

#bizaartalk #the dichotomy of man #sometimes i get worried that this is not the kind of stuff that people want to read #but then i remember that this is the kind of stuff that I want to read and I say oh well more for me #cruel summer blurb #make sure you're caught up because i should have an update out by the end of the week if all goes to plan #it's a longer chapter #and it's gonna be a hard one to read but i think it'll be worth it

[juuneaux]

What if I just fully and unironically started playing Dragon Age again….

#bizaartalk #dragon age #it’s been 84 years #what if I just…. /gestures vaguely/

[bizaar]

You know as much as I love Stranger Things season 4, season 1 remains my favorite simply because of the unabashed horror that I feel like we lost along the way as the Russia/Hawkins lab plot lines grew.

I am, at my core, nothing but a girl foaming at the mouth for a good scary monster, and I feel like we never got back to that real sense of foreboding and danger that was the looming threat of the original demogorgon …

#bizaartalk #stranger things #don’t mind me I’m sitting in my car outside work thinking about the scene where Jonathan Nancy and Steve fight the demogorgon #like slow mo lighting Vecna up is one vibe #but it’s no Steve wailing on the demogorgorn backlit to flashing Christmas lights #I am a horror fan and I miss the horror #send tweet

[bizaar]

I like how other fic writers in this fandom are like “fluff, smut, happiness”

And I’m over here like “…danger 😎”

#bizaartalk #all of this to say I’m almost done with chapter 10 and reader is GOING THROUGH IT #cruel summer #Eddie says ‘R no’ and Reader says ‘R yes’

[bizaar]

🌻 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your mentions, anonymous or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog 🌻

Lordt okay let me think… 💙

1.) I work for a literary agent who specializes in romance novels — to date I’ve written most of Cruel Summer at work when it’s slow.

2.) I have an art blog which is also technically my main (although i haven’t drawn anything in over a year so does it really count?)

3.) I’m getting ready to publish a horror novel 🫣

#bizaartalk #you would not believe how much of published romance novels are all the same story #particularly contemporary romance #it actually drives me insane

[bizaar]

YOU GUYS (gn) OH MY GOSH WE JUST HIT 100 FOLLOWERS 🤩 that’s i n s a n e thank you so much for all your love and support on my angsty little fic it truly would not exist without you 🥰

How should we celebrate???? Requests maybe??? Let me know!!!

#bizaartalk #I can’t even believe there are 100 of you weirdos I’m #i love all my little fic friends thank you guys so much for being here

[juuneaux]

Nothing is more satisfying than getting your friends to watch your favorite show @eowynstwin

#me: hounding her to watch what we do in the shadows #her: casually watches 7 episodes in one go #bizaartalk

[juuneaux]

Soooo it’s officially birthday week, time to be completely self indulgent 😘

#bizaartalk #I feel like I’m so annoying every year the first week of July #but what can I say #this bitch worked hard for her self love #she gon’ fLAUNT it #I’m gonna be 28 in six days #man #ya girl has been on tumblr for like 12 years

[juuneaux]

I know it’s a long time after the fact now but I have a lot of thoughts about Loki as a show and all the opportunities it missed with the TVA and the concept of the timeline as a whole (and basically how they played out the least interesting plot thread they could manage) but more than anything I’m just really bummed how they completely missed the mark with Sylvie/Lady Loki.

Tldr, Hela was the Lady Loki we deserved.

#bizaartalk #maybe I’ll get my thoughts in order someday #but honestly that show needed to be about Loki and all the other variants trying to get back to their timelines and wreaking havoc #and Loki needed to get his character development in deciding not to be like the other Lokis not just by watching a home video of his death #and Lady Loki needed to be a Loki #Sylvie was just…. not a good or interesting character

[juuneaux]

What if I just came back to tumblr full time and pretended like my entire online community didn’t get scattered to the wind in the great tumblr purge...

#bizaartalk #Twitter is hard and terrible for art #raise your hand if you wanna go back to the good old fandom days

[juuneaux]

I’m never so frustrated to be poor and not famous as I am when the Met Gala rolls around how are all of these rich famous people so far off the theme every single year do you even know how I would POP if I had the means to attend this event????

#bizaartalk #big mad about it

[juuneaux]

Me, vibing, thoroughly enjoying ALL THREE Hobbit movies while everyone in my mentions shit talks DoS and BoTFA

#bizaartalk #the hobbit #an unexpected journey #the desolation of Smaug #battle of the five armies #I watched all three two days ago and had a realization #fandom gets an overall opinion about something and tries to force it down everyone’s throat until it’s the perceived belief #well I say hell naw son #the killiel romance is sweet #botfa rules #Thorin is king of my heart even when he’s King Crazy Pants #😌 #we will from now on be vibing and enjoying the things we enjoy unabashedly and without outer fandom influence #in which Luci reverts back to her 2012/13 fandom habits

[juuneaux]

I’m watching An Unexpected Journey for the first time in years and I’m filled with feelings 😭😭😭😭

#bizaartalk #the hobbit #feelings I’ve not felt since 2012

[juuneaux]

just binged American Gods two weeks ago and i FEEL. SO MUCH. i don't really interact w the fandom at all but oh my heart ;-;

Oh Nonny, I feel you. I’m half way through season 2 and I have a lot of Mad Sweeney feels

#asks #bizaartalk #i love one (1) leprechaun

[juuneaux]

Who is gonna talk to me about Love Death + Robots because i have a lot of feelings ♥️💀🤖

#love death + robots #love death and robots #bizaartalk #it goes so hard #and i was so pleased #time to watch it a hundred more times

[juuneaux]

Free and Full

Of Emotion — A Review of Captain Marvel

SPOILERS AHEAD

Captain Marvel is, in the simplest of terms, iconic. It’s titular character, Carol Danvers, is a powerhouse addition to the MCU and the satisfying result of something a long time coming. Brie Larson is a joy to watch, there are delightful cameos sprinkled throughout, and don’t get me started on the cat, he practically steals the show. The movie as a whole is everything fans of her comic have been waiting for and promises an exciting tie in to next month’s highly anticipated Avengers Endgame. Without putting too fine a point on it, Carol Danvers kicks ass. She is strong, she is funny, and she is powerful like almost no other character we have seen.

Most satisfying of all, she is never objectified or sexualized. There are no leering, slow motion shots panning across her body, her suit is practical and no different from that of her male counterparts. She has no love interest and isn’t forced into a tedious “will they won’t they” plot. Carol’s defining trait is her humanity.

Perhaps most interesting is that she is fully rounded from the moment we meet her. She is already well on her way to being Captain Marvel when the story begins. Her journey is not that dissimilar to that of Thor’s in his introductory film, she has her powers, she has her suit, and her journey begins from there. Her origin happens largely in flashback and exposition, so we don’t spend the movie watching her go from bright eyed recruit to jaded veteran as one might expect from an origin story. Carol is more or less the same person at the end of the movie that she was when she began, she never loses faith and she isn’t forced to lose a part of herself along the course of her journey in order to grow, and that’s oddly refreshing.

Though a stranger to earth, it is never a handicap in Carol’s place. She isn’t made to look helpless or bumbling as she sprints through 90s Los Angeles, “dressed for laser tag” and with a young Agent Fury tailing after her.

Captain Marvel treats its heroine with respect and gracefully circumnavigates the treacherous territory strong female characters often fall into. Yes, she is tough, she is outspoken, and headstrong, but balancing all of those perhaps now cliche traits grafted onto strong female characters, Carol is allowed to have a wide range of emotion and is never compromised by it. She is sad, she is angry, she is confused, and yet she remains in control.

On paper this doesn’t sound much like something to strive for, but historically a woman characterized as such can often fall into the trope of the Hysterical Woman.

It is something strikingly prevalent in media that a strong woman must stifle her emotions in order to make her power valid. If not, she is depicted as irrational, less disciplined, unstable, and thus prone to mood swings and violent overreactions. A woman with great power and strong emotions is volatile, dangerous, unstable. As much can be seen in X-Men’s depiction of Jean Grey as she struggles to maintain dominance over her alter ego as the Phoenix. Time and again, she is warned that she needs to learn to control what she has, for the sake of those around her as much as herself. She is told she is dangerous. With bursts of emotion come bursts of power and then the accompanying fear of that power, built on a bedrock of the warnings she receives from her peers and mentors; control yourself, they tell her, until of course, they need the beast, then it’s ‘let go, Jean’. With that kind of back and forth it is almost no wonder she becomes unhinged. She is made out to be the villain, turned to the dark side, fighting against her friends who try and save her soul until the defining moment when in a burst of high emotion someone is killed, a friend, a loved one.

Captain Marvel does not even bat an eye in the direction of this trope, and to put it frankly, Carol Danvers don’t fuck with that.

Yon Rogg, her Kree mentor played by Jude Law, tells Carol throughout to control herself, get a handle on her emotions, use her head not her heart, and Carol meets his demands with quips and humor typically reserved for characters like Tony Stark and Peter Quill. She, unlike Jean Grey, is never made to struggle with the burden of controlling herself, despite the warnings. As she is often reminded “what has been given can be taken away” Carol isn’t worried, because she as a character has been allowed to have the confidence that even without this incredible power, she can still pretty much kick anyone’s ass. Like Tony Stark without his suit, Carol knows what she’s about and what she is capable of, even when she doesn’t know who she’s meant to be. She wields her power with joy and with anger and without worry, and for that she is made free in a way that most “strong female characters” these days are not.

Even in the climax, when the gloves are off, Law’s character continues to warn her of her emotions. Carol, unchanged and empowered by the knowledge of who she is and what she’s meant to do with her power, owns and trusts her emotion still and uses them to spectacularly vanquish Yon Rogg when he reverts to his old tactics of patriarchal rhetoric and attempts to goad her into one more fight.

“I have nothing to prove to you.” She says, standing tall over her former mentor, a man who lied to and manipulated her for years, knowing the truth of those words there in the end as well ae she did at the beginning. That right there is power in its own right.

Never does the film downplay any aspect of Carol’s personality in order to make her more likable for male audience members. We are expected to take Carol as she is, and as a woman who often struggles with how big her emotions can be, it’s empowering to see Marvel didn’t try to stifle hers.

Bolstered by themes of humanity, the desperation of refugees fleeing unending war, and the closeness of a found family, the film succeeds at being not only iconic, but entirely relevant without beating you over the head with its messages. Tie that to its soundtrack filled with nostalgic bops including the likes of No Doubt, Alanis Morissette, and TLC, and Captain Marvel boasts a brand of 90s girl power that is guaranteed to rouse your inner magical girl like nothing else out there. Do yourself a favor and go see Captain Marvel.

#captain marvel #carol danvers #captain marvel spoilers #brie larson #marvel #bizaartalk #basically i loved it and i cant wait to see it again