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we NEED to abolish the idea fantasy woman with sword always = feminist btw. sometimes fantasy woman with sword is a misogynist thats part of the rich tapestry of life and worth writing about. visenya would NOT rock with absolute primogeniture when it wasnt applying to her she was a visenyaist above anything

#asoiaf #visenya targaryen

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the way in which jon and robb's futures are foreshadowed by the mother of the other: robb dying too young and becoming a ghost that haunts their siblings, a reminder of innocence and happier days, and jon dying and being brought back to life, a shadow of what he once was, a dark mirror to himself

#catelyn stark #lyanna stark #jon snow #asoiaf #robb stark

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Bless her, she’s so done😭

#daisy johnson #aos #the epitome of 'can't believe this is what i signed up for'

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season 1 daisy johnson character analysis

1x01-1x05: daisy is found parked in an alley inside the van she called home. we know she was bounced around foster homes as a child and that her past is a lot darker than the writers even mention. she’s 25 years old and a member of an international virtual organization that aims to inform the public of everything big organizations wants to keep them unaware of. pretty early into the season, we find out why she does it - she grew up with no knowledge of where she came from, and shield was responsible for hiding that information.

we also know daisy getting captured and brought into the plane was her plan so she could get closer to finding out who she was, and we have this image of her as a person who never takes the rules seriously and makes everything into a joke because she clearly isn’t planning on hanging around very long - she just wants information on her past, that’s it. except in looking for her family, she finds another one. or a seed of what could be a family. in episode three we already get the scene when she goes “i want this. bad,” and we can see right there that this girl will do everything she can to be a good fit in that potential family. her will to make it work is so strong that it’s enough for her to choose it over her years-long hacker life in episode 5 (when we meet miles, who, granted, had been lying to her).

1x05-1x13: if you imagine someone with her background, you would think they would have way more barriers protecting them from catching any feelings at all, but that doesn’t happen with daisy. she seems to have reacted differently than most to her past trauma - it takes her little to no time to figure out coulson, fitzsimmons, even ward (let’s ignore the double agent situation). emotionally, daisy seems to have developed an ability to make herself important to people around her - maybe so they won’t want to leave her behind. i also think the fact that she grew up with no one on her corner makes her want to prevent that from happening to anyone else, so she’s always trying to be there for them. we see that time and time again with the people they encounter over the first season, especially the girl who thinks she’s being punished by god. and obviously, her being drawn to ward and may even though they are downright rude to her at first, i think stems from their very noticeable (to her) hurt. daisy sees this kind of stuff better than most people around her, and i think even feels it to some extent. her trauma didn’t turn her cold and closed off, it made her want to take care of everyone around her, and it also made her more understanding than most. i think that’s why we see such a big difference in dynamics when she’s getting close to different people. she sees what people need and tries to make herself into it. fitzsimmons need a friend to mess around with; ward needs someone who sees his feelings when he’s not able to communicate them, and who pushes him to want to share; may needs someone who doesn’t remind her of her past (i delved into that here).

coulson is more complex. meeting akela amador, we see that before his death, he was colder in his work relationships, more bound to rules. and after his death, there are a few changes, but i think he still needs someone who will help him take the leap, someone worth bending the rules for. more than that, i think he needs a real connection. one that he couldn’t keep with fury because of the nature of their relationship, with audrey nathan because he, well, died, or with may because she was emotionally unavailable. daisy is the one to come in and offer warmth. we see that when she hugs him for the first time - it wasn’t something he saw coming or even felt comfortable with at first, but it was good. it also shows when she keeps calling him A.C. because he is “cool”. she is the personification of the life (a daughter) he could have had, if he’d said no to fury all those years back. for daisy, coulson was someone who cared, and she didn’t have that, probably ever. she was a daughter, but until she met him, she had no father. and even after all she went through, she was innocence, and he was wisdom. and they needed each other.

1x14-1x18: as we all know, episode 13 is when quinn shoots daisy. personally, i really like the one that comes after it because it gives us some insight on how much she means to everyone in the team, and their different ways of dealing with the idea of losing her. when she wakes up, daisy is more driven than ever to become a better agent and to not be helpless. s1B shows her growth into an asset that is not only needed, but is reliable, and into someone who is worthy of the SHIELD badge she eventually gets.

1x19-1x22: finding out about ward can’t have been easy for daisy. i mean, after searching her entire life, she had found something, a family that felt real. ward being HYDRA took that away from her. once again, she had trusted that her relationships with a group of people would last forever, and once again, that was in jeopardy. not only that, but the psychopathic double agent who killed several people in cold blood had fallen in love with her. having lost her parents and every good relationship she thought she had in her life, daisy probably already thought she was a magnet for bad things (look how miles, a guy she knew for ages, turned out). so obviously she was pissed, and we can see how much she struggles with keeping her emotions in check in order to carry on with the mission. that’s when we get the start of the maydaisy era and, i think, her growing need to make sure that she is not a liability to those people, to remind herself that she can do good. that the fact that SHIELD fell days after she got her badge, that the guy she liked turned out to be a traitor, that a village and an agent had been killed trying to protect her- it couldn’t be her fault. because she may not have heard that guy saying wherever she goes, death follows, but i’m pretty sure she had already noticed a pattern, and she was going to try like hell to change it. 

throughout the season, to me, one of the saddest things is how actively daisy tried not to be on anyone’s bad side so they wouldn’t toss her out, but i think her effort to be what everyone in the team needed was one of the biggest reasons why the team became a family. that, and the fact that somehow, her need to make sure no one ever felt alone like she did, turned her into the glue that held them all together. 

#agents of shield #daisy johnson #aos

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"emotionless robot feels for the first time" trope but instead of it being because of love or compassion its hatred.

#aos #AIDA #ophelia aos

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new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years

#Huntingbird #aos #bobbi morse #lance hunter

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After fighting against the name, the female protagonist starts calling herself the "Destroyer of Worlds". This happens despite her having never actually destroyed a world.

Small Sottishman's wife drags their friends across the universe looking for him while said scottishman is pretending to be an alien engineer on a space ship

Clarke Gregg's love interest, the badass stoic warrior played by Mulan, gets empath powers that allows her to feel the emotions of everyone she touches.

They go full Twilight with this, making her unable to feel Clarke Gregg's emotions since he's a robot.

Speaking of Mulan. She killed a god. Literally.

So I've finally finished Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and not only did I enjoy the last three seasons way more than I thought I would, but I was not prepared for how delightfully unhinged the show became. Some of my favourite plot points included:

The female protagonist has a long-lost sister with superpowers who becomes the key to the entire crew returning to their original timeline through the Quantum Realm. Said long-lost sister is not introduced or even hinted at until the last five episodes of the entire show.

Half of one season takes place in a dystopian 2091 where the young twenty-something scientist couple not only meet their grandson who is the same age as them but said grandson returns to the present, becomes a series regular, and calls them "Nana" and "Bobo" in some Once Upon A Time worthy family tree shenanigans. Oh he also gets stuck in the 80s and claims he wrote Don't You (Forget About Me)

Phil Coulson dies in Season 5 because in order to stop an evil AI -turned-human-turned evil because she got dumped by a small Scottish man he has to become Ghostrider. The entire season builds up to this in a way that makes it feel very much like the actor is stepping away from the show and retiring the character, only for them to cast Clarke Gregg as an evil deity from another dimension in Season 6 and as a Life Model Decoy that may as well just be Phil Coulson in Season 7

Patton Oswalt plays multiple identical characters who all work for SHIELD. This is never fully explained.

“Mata Hari Calamari”

The final season is a decade-hopping gimmick with matching genre episodes that beat WandaVision to the punch

One character is a robot anthropologist who just wants to be best friends with the same small Scottish man. He has canonically been trained to perform in alien brothels and eventually becomes a bartender in the Crazy Canoe in 1955. He is one of the absolute best parts of the show.

One plot line follows said same Scottish Man and robot anthropologist as they get stranded in outer space with their only way home being to gamble in an alien casino while their friends attempt to rescue them but accidentally take LSD instead

"I found that bluffing was much easier if you kill someone and take their skin."

Area 51 is canonically a SHIELD base

#agents of shield #aos

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Peggy Carter was fr on another level; she would've glared at Thanos & he would've apologized and handed her the stones

remember that time when AoS practically stated that the reason for Hydra waiting 70 years to come to power is because no one dared to make a move while Peggy Carter was in charge?

#agent carter #peggy carter #daniel whitehall

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And that's how Daisy found out about lemons.

#agents of shield #aos #daisy johnson #the real mystery is how she hasn't died of scurvy

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Anyone have any fanfic recs where Daisy joined the avengers and isn't a cry baby with 0 control over her powers? One where she isn't, somehow Tony's kid and where she stays single through most of the fic?

#daisy johnson #agents of shield #the avengers #u're asking for the impossible my dude #and i'm here for it

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Lowkey one of the messiest things the did in Jessica Jones was have Karl Malus be obssessed with octopi just so we'd suspect that he's Hydra

#jessica jones #karl malus #what was that even about

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No but the way her fanfiction would have these characters in character too because she knows them and she'd totally use that to her advantage.

And then I imagine she'd get comments like "yo that's really ooc of Cap to do" and Kamala would have no way to defend herself because she can't just say "No, I saw him doing the exact same thing last week at the Avengers BBQ"

Everyday I am reminded that Kamala Khan writes RPF (real person fanfic)

#kamala khan #ms marvel

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Those people have clearly not watched Agent Carter. Daniel bight not be the best fighter around, but he's smart

Constantly frustrated by people who paint AoS!Sousa as some helpless, voiceless victim who “only has Daisy for everything he wants and needs” rather than an independent adult who is capable of making his own choices. He chose to stay with the team (despite being given the choice to leave) and be there for Daisy, both choices he openly and clearly stated he wanted in the show.

#agents of shield #agent carter #daniel sousa #dousy

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if bobbi morse had instagram

#aos #agents of shield #bobbi morse #fun fact: in the comics bobbi fakes her death when she joins shield #so as to not put her family at risk #imagine them stumbling upon her insta

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#peter parker #spiderman

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AITA for going after my ex-wife's kidnapper/torturer even though he threatened to kill my coworker's ex-husband who she still loves?

So i (30sM) have a sort of rollercoaster thing with my ex-wife (30sF), but recently she got kidnapped by a guy (lets call him W) and his crazy gf and i realized i really do care for my ex-wife. I've been wanting to avenge her attack for months and I finally got an opportunity, so i called in an experienced coworker (40sF, call her M) from her extended leave of absence to help me get the guy. She has a history with him too so i figured it would be perfect.

Anyway so we find where he works now and storm the place, but then W threatens to kill M's ex-husband who she still has feelings for. I get her hesitation, i do, but this is my chance and im not losing it. So i went ahead and shot W and he ordered a hit on M's ex-husband. He lived, but barely. He lived though! But now everyone at work is mad at me. Aita?

#agents of shield #lance hunter #aos #brilliant #aos crack

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nothing will ever be funnier than that bit in agents of shield where coulson says "get ready for a large file transfer" and then shoves an entire filing cabinet out of a 4th story window

#aos #agents of shield