Captain America / Police AU
I feel like I ought to have something more interesting to say about these AUs than just “I would watch that” again and again, but…uh…I would watch this.
July 5th, 3:25 AM
Steve hung up after a moment of awkward silence. He was unnerved by how it had taken the guy less than 30 seconds to figure him out, jokingly or not. He decided to take Tony’s advice; he’d go to him or JARVIS for all his tech related problems from now on. Calling technical assistance numbers could wait until he didn’t stick out like a sore thumb in this modern age anymore.
The IT Crowd: “Are you from the past?”
BWAHAHAHA! Amazing.
but we will never be victims again.
Aww, man. I sure do like those X-Men films. Did I ever mention that the first X-Men movie was the first movie I ever owned on DVD? Well, it was. And XMFC was one of the first movies I ever owned on BluRay. So when the next form of video entertainment comes out, there better be some kickass new X-Men movie I can buy, you know?
Control, or “Do you really think I’m pretty?”
Here is the required post about the Avengers film, that Loki interrogation sequence, and themes of weakness, expectation, and vulnerability. When I say required, I mean that everybody else is. But I will soldier on bravely, just like every other person on the internet in love with their own opinion.
So, Natasha’s most constant recurring themes are themes of control. Comic books are vast and largely un-sum-up-able, but every character has central metaphors that shine through multiple arcs and adaptations, and I think questions of control, questions of agency, are a huge part of her equation. Duane Swierczynski is the current writer on Birds of Prey, but he also did a run on Black Widow, and this is something he had to say about it:
From the very beginning, she had no say in her own destiny, which is a very noir, very dark kind of outlook on life. And yet, she fought back from that and has now taken her own life in her own hands again. I guess I respond to those kinds of characters. Characters that seem screwed, who are also talented but are put in a difficult position and who fight their way out of it. That’s what appeals to me about her. Despite the convoluted, difficult life, she’s come out on top. And now her mission, the way I see it, is that she wants to free other people from being controlled and used. That’s her thing, I believe, and why she is equally super hero as she is a spy.Natasha is someone whose specific skillset was forced upon her, something beyond her immediate control, but it’s also the only means she has to take her own life back.
Ooh. Awesome Black Widow meta. These Marvel movies may make a comic book fan of me yet.
I hope they make a Reluctant Hero 5.
Yeah, I don’t know if these are actual translated movie posters or someone having fun with Photoshop, but either way they are HILARIOUS. I especially like #3—it’s true! John McClane IS extremely unlucky to keep ending up in those horrible predicaments!
Happy Star Wars Day!
Oh, man, I was seeing stuff about Star Wars Day on tumblr, and I was vaguely baffled, but…I get it now! May the fourth! It’s a PUN! I love puns!
This episode of “I am an oblivious doofus” brought to you by the number four.
I know lots of people enjoy this scene, but it really pissed me off. Like, “Ha ha! We played on your insecurities and fears that no one would ever accept you for who you are to drive you away from your friends, and then we used you to power a machine, knowing full well that it would kill you, and the strain was so much for your body that your hair started going white at the ripe old age of sixteen or seventeen or however the hell old you were at the time! And now we’re making fun of you about it! Ha ha! Aren’t we clever!” The only person in this gif I can really enjoy is Rogue.
#the real ot3 of this trilogy #i don’t understand how you can’t see it #katniss hunts; peeta bakes; haymitch drinks #and like #the three of them are just externally linked together #not just because haymitch is their mentor #but because all three of them have the experience of being participants in the hunger games #living through it and having to endure the horrific trauma it brought #ot3 forever man #also this photoset is fairly light hearted and my tags don’t really fit it#but WHATEVER #what is a gale
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