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[captainsophiestark]

Sleight of Hand

Jimmy Woo x Reader

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Written for Fictober 2024!

Fandom: Marvel

Day Twenty-Four Prompt: "You didn't do anything wrong!"

Summary: Jimmy gets a little help from his spouse to master the card trick he saw Scott Lang do.

Word Count: 1,118

Category: Fluff

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She cautiously stepped around the corner, coming face to face with...

I froze, my attention drifting from the book in my hands at a weird noise behind me. It sounded like some kind of fluttering, but when I didn't hear it again, I went back to my book.

...coming face to face with-

"Shoot!"

I set my book down. The noise had come again, along with something light hitting our hardwood floors before my husband, Jimmy Woo, huffed. I marked the page in my book, set it down, then turned around to look over the back of the couch.

I frowned when I saw Jimmy with one empty hand out in front of him, like he was waiting for a handshake from someone invisible. He hadn't noticed me watching him, and after a moment of intense concentration, he jerked his arm quickly like he was trying to shake something out of his sleeve. Lo and behold, a card fell out. He tried to catch it between his fingers, but he missed, and instead it fluttered to the floor.

"Argh!"

"Honey." Jimmy's head snapped up to look at me as soon as I spoke. "What are you doing?"

"It's this card trick thing... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your reading."

I shook my head, turning on the couch to face him more fully.

"It's okay. What card trick thing?"

"You remember that guy I told you about? Scott Lang?"

"The ant guy? Yeah."

"Well, the last time I checked in on him, he did this card trick where he just made a card appear in his hand, like out of nowhere. It was actually really cool, so... I've been trying to teach myself how to do it."

I stared at Jimmy for a minute, processing. He stared back. Finally, I smiled.

"Okay. Let me help."

"Really?"

"Yeah." I stood from the couch, strecthing a little before walking around to join my husband. "I need a break from all the bad decisions the main character's making in my book, anyway. Let's learn some couples closeup magic."

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I'd assumed it would be a fairly easy trick to learn. Don't ask me why, but I just figured it would take us maybe an hour, tops, and we'd both be making cards appear and disappear like pros. That was very much not how it went.

A few hours after I'd first noticed Jimmy practicing, we were still watching videos and trying to do the trick slowly, quickly, and everything in between with no luck. Technically, we were doing a little better than when Jimmy had first started, but the trick was still escaping both of us.

I watched carefully as Jimmy tried to do it again, and to me, it looked perfect. But the card still dropped to the floor instead of sliding smoothly into his hand.

Jimmy sighed, shoulders slumping as he looked up at me.

"What did I do wrong?"

"You didn't do anything wrong! That should've worked! What the fuck is it with this trick?"

Jimmy laughed, shaking his head as he leaned over to pick up the card again.

"I'm glad you decided to help me. I was getting pretty frustrated, but seeing how much more frustrated it's making you is weirdly making me calm."

I huffed and crossed my arms. "Glad I could help. But seriously, I feel like you're doing everything right. I can't tell what's wrong, or why it's not working."

"It has to be the finger movement," he said, setting up the card again. "I'm fumbling it when I'm obviously not supposed to."

"Frankly, I'm not convinced it's possible to pull this trick off without fumbling the card. Are you sure that Lang guy wasn't messing with you?"

Jimmy laughed again. "Pretty sure, but I guess you never know."

I just sighed as Jimmy prepared to try the trick again. I watched, but not as carefully as before. I'd been looking for some clue as to where we were going wrong for hours now, and hadn't been able to find it. Maybe it was just going to take a lot more practice, no matter how we tried to do it.

Jimmy took a deep breath, then extended his hand. I didn't see the card move, but suddenly, it appeared in his hand. Nowhere near the floor. Exactly how the trick was supposed to work.

"OH MY GOD!" I shouted, jumping up in the air the moment the shock wore off. Jimmy grinned, laughing in disbelief as he stared at the card in his hand. I didn't give him much time to savor it before tackling him with a hug. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ACTUALLY DID IT!"

Jimmy laughed again, absolutely joyous, as he wrapped his arms around me. I pulled back a moment later, just enough to kiss him. After all that work and frustration over the past few hours, it felt amazing to see him pull off the trick perfectly.

After a moment, the two of us calmed down slightly, taking a step apart even though the gigantic grins were still on our faces. Jimmy's had more of a lopsided tilt to it, which made my heart race.

"...Do you think we're celebrating this a little too much?" he asked. I immediately shook my head.

"Hell no we're not. Do it again."

Jimmy took a deep breath, resetting the card and actually starting with his hand by his side this time. He lifted it, and in one smooth motion, the card appeared in his hand, extended towards me. I actually screamed, jumping up and down, and after a moment Jimmy joined me.

I pulled Jimmy in for another kiss, and when we finally broke apart, he was still giddy. He did the trick another few times in a row, and although he stumbled a little on one of the moves, the card still didn't hit the ground. He was getting smoother every time.

"This calls for a celebratory dinner," I decided. "I'll get something started, you grab some wine. We toast to the defeat of the magic trick that thought it could defeat us."

Jimmy laughed. "Sounds like a plan to me. Thanks for all your help. I can't wait to use that trick the next time I need to give somebody one of my cards."

"You know I'm always here for you, including and especially for stuff like this. No card trick, random guy you see at work, or Avengers-level threat can stop us."

"Damn right."

Jimmy grinned at me, and I leaned in for one last kiss before heading to the kitchen. Sometimes the smaller, less important victories felt the best, and one of my favorite things about my amazing husband was how willing he was to celebrate those moments with me.

Although, after all the time we'd spent today, this victory felt far from small.

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[hellomystraightlacedfriend]

Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #33

Dylan Park-Pettiford/Jodi Nishijima

[itsjuliak5]

I gasped so loudly when Marielle Scott and Ryan Bergara made their cameos in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” and I was the only person who reacted to them in my theater, so I can only imagine how confused everyone else must have been.

[comicchannel]

Marvel Legends Series Build a Figure Disney+ WandaVision Agent Jimmy Woo Hasbro F3701

Link para compra BR: https://amzn.to/4ec1Cjp

Buy here: https://amzn.to/3Am62pR

[hjbirthdaywishes]

March 23, 2024

Happy 50 Birthday to Randall Park.

[antvnger]

Huh….it did happen twice.

That’s crazy, Kit. @indoraptorgirlwind

[a-motherfucking-marvel]

Darcy: …uhhhhhhhhh

Monica: :(

Woo: fuck

“[to Woo and Monica] I’m proud of us for not dying.”

— Dr. Darcy Lewis

[vertigoartgore]

2009's Agents of Atlas Vol.2 #1-5 variant covers by Ed McGuinness, Dexter Vines & Justin Ponsor.

[shrilleth]

The absolute shenanigans that would go down if these five were in an Agents of Atlas show

[avengerphobic]

shang-chi looks pregnant here

[rei-ismyname]

X-Men and the Agents of Atlas

Being a temporally strange team, you'd expect the Agents of Atlas to have dealt with most superhero teams. You'd be spot on, and here's their dealings with the men of X.

During an operation in Cuba in the 50s, Atlas ran into Marvel's Forrest Gump - Wolverine. Their goals aligned and they worked together for a time, but Logan refused a debriefing and detonated the bomb he strapped to M-11, my favourite sentient automaton.

In the 60s, the X-Men enlisted the help of Ken Hale - Gorilla Man - to find Chuck after he got himself lost in a cursed temple.

Much later, during Norman Osborne's Dark Reign, Atlas were attacked by The Avengers. They had just made peace when...

M-11 recognised Logan's voice as 'that asshole that blew me up in the 50s.' He blew his arm off.

About a month later, their teammate Venus had been kidnapped by the real Venus/Aphrodite and they were having difficulty finding her. They decided to borrow Cerebro without asking..

... and got a face full of X-Men.

They fought a fighting retreat with Cerebro and escaped to their city beneath San Francisco, but got X-Men'd again.

Though they weren't ready for Mr Lao, Jimmy's consigliere.

In a historic first, Namor de-escalated a conflict. Only because his cousin Namora is an Agent of Atlas... and Atlas is allies with Atlantis.

And thus it was that after half a century of superhero flirting they became allies. The robot got the last laugh though. They found Venus, too!

[do-you-ship-this-comic-ship]

[oliveroctavius]

It's been a while since I read the first Agents of Atlas lineup but I think about it intermittently because it's the most tailored-to-me concept ever despite fumbling the ball in the second half so bad. It's a modern era lineup made of entirely 1950s stock characters (both on a publishing history level and an in-universe lore level, they're from the '50s) that faces mostly fifties type pulp scifi threats. But it centers on James Woo as an interesting comic history anomaly. He's from a Jack Kirby yellow-peril esque comic that made the unusual move of making the protagonist secret agent Chinese-American presumably to try to offset the grossly caricatured Chinese villain.

The comic starts to do this thing that I'm always wishing adaptations of old comics would do: it addresses the foundation of the era the character is from and the biases that shaped them. It gets into the fact that Jimmy Woo would never have been "allowed" as a '50s hero if he wasn't given a caricatured Foreign Chinese enemy to fight against. It observes how Jimmy's relationship with his own heritage is never addressed (in a Doylist sense because he's a re-skinning (lol) of the generic American secret agent, in a Watsonian one because of the pressures of assimilationism). And it makes gestures to start undoing this; for instance we learn James' birth Chinese name and it's Woo Yen Jet,

and then they're like "and of course Yellow Claw's real name isn't Yellow Claw that would be silly" and you're like "of course" and they're like "yeah his real name is Plan Chu aka Master Plan" fuckin Master Plan. are you for real

It's like there's an understanding that posing everything culturally Chinese as evil is stupid and xenophobic even where it can be claimed to be not racist, so they try to give a Chinese heritage back to Woo, but they're "giving him back" this super caricatured fifties style conception of Chinese culture with only slight corrections for authenticity (why does chinese dragon have wing on it?) and it's like, you made us sit through this much repetition of fifties xenophobia only to give up after deconstructing it only maybe halfway? and putting the job of both owning and removing traces of caricaturedly evil Chinese business influence as Jimmy's responsibility? At some point ignorance holds open the gap that hatred opened.

It's a shame because I love Jimmy as a Guy (I love time-displaced weirdos who have developed bizarre attitudes from growing up in an era unfriendly to one or more facets of their identity) and I love the team lineup. (There's some other weird stuff going on there including Venus hiding out in Africa which isn't even imported from the 50s iirc but in general they were just really well chosen and interestingly characterized.) AND I love stories that sink angry teeth into questionable comics history instead of sweeping it under the rug but it turns out that can be botched badly enough that I just wish we were fighting actual aliens or hollow earth robots or something instead.

[hjbirthdaywishes]

March 23, 2023

Happy 49 Birthday to Randall Park. 

[antvnger]

((I was watching the beginning segment of Ant-Man 3 again and there's always this one part I'm confused at. Who are those people that Scott and Woo look at? The part where Scott narrates something like "friends you didn't know you had". Those people they 'toast' to or whatever don't look familiar to me at all lol))

((Lol and they probably won’t unless you’re familiar with BuzzFeed Unsolved. That’s Ryan Bergara and his wife, Marielle Scott. They’re big fans of Marvel, so they got a cute cameo as Ant-Man fans paying for his lunch.

And I personally think they couldn’t get better cameos as fans for anyone better 😉))