#daisy is the only marvel superhero

[ducklooney]

Unpopular opinion, but I kind of wish Disney would focus a little more on other characters from the classic Disney universe (Mouseverse, Duckverse, Dogverse) and not just the Sensational Six characters (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Pluto and Goofy) plus Chip and Dale and Pete. By this I mean Scrooge, Horace, Clarabelle, Oswald, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Gyro, Ludwig, Grandma Duck, Fethry, Gus, Gladstone, Ortensia, Mad Doctor, Beagle Boys, Magica, Glomgold, Rockerduck, Sylvester Shyster, Phantom Blot, Darkwing Duck, Jose Carioca, Panchito Pistoles, Aracuan Bird, April, May and June, Gosalyn, Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse, Chief O'Hara, Detective Casey, Scuttle, Mortimer, Figaro the Cat, Max Goof, Neighbor Jones, Brigitta MacBridge and others characters.

By this I mean with regards to the latest Disney animation shows "A Whole New Sound", Hot Ones and these What If Marvel comics. Like you can't make superheroes and super villains out of these characters I mentioned?! Scrooge as Professor X, Glomgold as Magneto or Magica as Red Widow? It seems to me that Disney (I mean the American official one, not the European one for sure) ignores these characters and thinks they don't exist. Really disappointing in my opinion.

Feel free to reblog this and comment if you agree or disagree with this.

[upat4amwiththemoon]

can I request a Daisy Johnson x reader fanfic where reader works at shield and is the (secret) daughter of Coulson and May and only a small circle, not including Daisy knows who readers parents are. Reader and Daisy met at shield hq and Daisy ends up ranting to Coulson about the girl she met and after a while Coulson realises Daisy is talking about his daughter?

Accidental oversharing

Summary: The secret daughter of Phil Coulson and Melinda May.

Pairing: Daisy Johnson x female!reader, Philinda x daughter!reader

Warnings: none

Word count: 772

a/n: day 1000 of wishing Marvel gave us more Daisy Johnson content

Tags: @thought-of-you-and-me @rafecameronswhore

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“Oh shit!” A stack of papers falls to the ground as Daisy’s body bumps right into someone in the middle of the SHIELD headquarters’ hallway.

“I’m so sorry.” The other woman mumbles as she kneels down, starting to gather all the papers from the ground. “I wasn’t looking where I was going.”

“No, it’s my fault,” Daisy picks up the few papers that flew further away.

The woman gives Daisy a small smile as she stands up, now holding all of her papers. She takes a double take, her brows scrunching together. “Aren’t you the Quake?”

“Oh god,” she cringes at the mention of her superhero name, “please call me Daisy. I hate that name.”

“Okay, Daisy. I’m Y/N.” Freeing one of her hands, Y/N reaches it out to shake Daisy’s hand. “It’s nice to meet you.”

It’s not that Daisy doesn’t pay attention to the people working at SHIELD, because she does, she makes sure to be at least polite to everyone (who deserves it), but right now she can’t help but stare at the woman in front of her, taking her in fully. “Uhuh.” She nods, shaking Y/N’s hand softly.

“Okay.” She lets out a small laugh before pulling her hand away from Daisy’s weak grip. “I really have to get going, but I’ll see you around, maybe.” Y/N waits for a couple of seconds before walking away.

“Yeah…” Daisy whispers, her eyes following her until she finally registers reality. “Wait what?” Her eyes widen as a visceral need to get the woman’s number comes over her. She desperately looks around to find the woman, but the sea of people has already hidden her from sight. “Shit.”

Daisy has no choice but to continue her way to Coulson, who called for her at least 30 minutes ago.

“Hey, Daisy?” Coulson’s hand waves in front of her face. “Are you listening to me?”

Daisy sighs, coming out of her dreamland as she focused her gaze on Coulson. “No, sorry AC.”

“What’s going on?”

Leaning her head over the back of the couch, Daisy smiles softly as she reminisces what happened not too long ago. “I bumped into someone, a woman, today. I don’t think I’ve seen her around before, because I’d definitely remember her if I had.”

“Someone finally caught your eye?” Coulson has a small grin on his face as he listens to her talk.

“What do you mean finally?” She scoffs, rolling her eyes before going to explaining. “She was so beautiful and nice, so cute, and I was acting so weird around her.” Daisy lays her hand over her face, a small grimace on it. “But I couldn’t help it! I got completely mesmerized by her.”

Though Coulson wanted to tease her at first, his grin turns into a genuine smile. Daisy hasn’t really paid attention to people after everything that happened with Ward and then Lincoln, so he is truly happy for her.

“I didn’t get her number though.” She mumbles. “But her name is Y/N, do you know her?”

At the mention of her name, Coulson’s brows raise. “Y/N? About yay tall, great hair, smiling all the time?” He gestures with his hands, wanting to make sure they’re thinking about the same person.

“Yeah! So you do know her?”

“Ask her number from May. I’m banner from that duty since I apparently don’t know how to judge a person’s vibes well enough.” He says it as if it’s the moat ridiculous thing he has ever heard, but there’s fondness in his tone.

Daisy furrows her brows, now lifting her head up properly to watch Coulson. “You know her well? May too?”

“Mhm.” He smiles, his arms crossed over his chest. “She is our daughter.”

There is a prolonged silence as Daisy tries to wrap her head around the sentence. “Daughter? You-“ she opens and closes her mouth, her wide eyes stuck on Coulson’s grinning face. “I know you two are together, but long enough to have a whole adult daughter?”

“Very few people know.”

“Why wasn’t I one of those people?”

“Security reasons. Don’t worry, none of the people on the team know.” Coulson takes out his phone, informing May that Daisy is now aware of their daughter.

“But-“ Daisy huffs before shaking her head. “Philinda daughter…” she mumbles.

“Please don’t call her that. May might hurt you.” Coulson pats Daisy’s shoulder. “Do you want her number?”

“Yes! Yes, I want her number.”

“Go get it from May-“ Daisy is already on her feet, “she is getting the bus ready.” And Daisy is gone, leaving Coulson to chuckle by himself.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I don’t know why, but I’m feeling oddly nostalgic for the good ole days when “Agents of SHIELD” was still premiering. I mean, today, it has a fairly solid reputation as a sci-fi action superhero show. But if you only started watching after the show ended, you have no idea just how much drama this show created. There’s like…whole arcs of drama with AOS. I actually kinda miss the drama, it was lowkey fun to follow.

Off the top of my head, there was the:

* “1st season is complete garbage, why is this even a thing” arc.

* “Stand With Ward” arc. Just…Grant Ward in general.

* “Jemma has a space boyfriend/the creators ruined Fitzsimmons” arc.

* “10 PM time slot is gonna kill this show” arc.

* “Fandom hates that Fitz has a Nazi Doctor alter ego” arc

* “Is this show even canon after season 5” arc

* “This show wants to be X-Men so bad with the Inhuman persecution” arc

* “Did the show blow its budget? Where are the lights?” arc (subplot: Ghost Rider really ate up the budget, that’s why we could only afford Gabriel Luna for 9 out of 22 episodes)

* “Season 6 was really fucking weird” arc

* “Fuck this show for killing Fitz. Wait, I forgot he’s technically not completely dead” arc.

* “Fuck this show for teasing which main member of the team will die in the S3 finale” arc (side note: the drama from this was milked so much that I remember Marvel actually made a poll in which you got to vote who you think was gonna die. Lincoln won the poll, followed by Fitz.)

* “I hate how the show just forgot that Daisy used to be Skye the hacker. It’s like they completely erased Skye from the canon in favor of the comic character. She doesn’t feel like the same character anymore.” arc (yes, this was an actual complaint I saw from people at the end of season 2/the beginning of season 3)

Ah…good times, good times. Marvel TV show drama nowadays feels much less interesting in my opinion. AOS was a drama goldmine.

[pomegranate-belle]

WIP Folder Game

RULES: make a new post and share with us the titles of your documents in your wip folder(s) and some detail if you wish, no matter how old, random, or disconcerting. Sort as you see fit (or don't). Ask the person who tagged you a question about the title(s) that most intrigue you from their list, and tag as many people as you'd like to join the game!! Have fun :)

Thank you to @daisytarget for the tag!!

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First off I keep my WIPs mainly in my phone’s Notes app, and I have 160 in the Daredevil subfolder alone so. This is obviously not going to be anywhere close to everything, lmao — I’m also only going to list things that don’t have chapters posted already.

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What Do We Burn Besides Witches? (LOTR): an attempt to poke at the MGiME trope with bonus “Westron is not English”, but the MG gets immediately imprisoned because Denethor is deeply suspicious, lol

Free-Range Dumbasses of Middle Earth (LOTR): another MGiME, this time lampshading the “Valar brought the MG to Middle Earth to save more people” and instead the MG is brought to Middle Earth by Sauron in an attempt to fuck up the timeline and our heroes’ victory. It’s also my excuse to bring in an Uruk-hai OC for the lulz, godspeed Kazoth buddy you are going to facepalm so much.

Claudeleth RomCom (FE3H): Claude and Byleth arranged marriage except drop in some Disney-Sleeping-Beauty-style identity shenanigans where neither of them knows the other is their betrothed and they fall in love with each other and angst about it :)

Chrobin Role Swap (FE13): Chrom’s the amnesiac, Robin gets a cool sword, Naga is evil, and Grima is just trying to perpetuate the natural cycle of life and death.

The Parable of Kestrel and Nightingale (Storm Hawks): Insert Dark Ace backstory here.

Graham Lives AU (OUAT): Graham doesn’t die in S1, and everything changes as a result.

The Nickel Samurai (PW): A random mishmash of scripts, cast interviews, and novelizations for the Nickel Samurai show.

Wrong Miguel (ATSV): an AU where the Miguels met and pulled a Prince and the Pauper, but Spidey!Miguel is the one who ended up dying, and Normie!Miguel has to try and take his place.

200th Work (Marvel comics): currently a misnomer since I’ve now hit 200 works, this is a college era AU where Matt is a public identity superhero. And also secretly a vigilante.

Pushing Daisies/DD Crossover (Pushing Daisies & NMCU): Matt and Foggy end up in Papen County to look for Elektra, and also to deliver a suspicious brass pocket watch to a certain pie shop owner.

Break the Window, Smash the Lock (NMCU): MattFoggy rival thieves AU!

MikeLoki Fantasy AU (Marvel comics): Loki is a god of lies imprisoned for hundreds of years, Mike is a mirror shade (doppelgänger creature created by standing too long in front of a magic mirror). They make a deal.

Terrible DD RPF (NMCU): Foggy finds out about RPF fanfiction of Daredevil and can’t help but read it.

Watching the Sentinel (NMCU): College era, Foggy introduces Matt to 90s TV show The Sentinel, about a guy who gains enhanced senses. Matt tries not to freak out and give anything away.

Tagging @missmoochy, @blissful-thinker, @inkforhumanhands, and anyone else who wants to do it :3

[skyler10fic]

My Daisy Johnson x Carol Danvers fic

Here's a list of all my Daisy x Carol fic so far!

2024

New Year's Revelations (9,667 words)

Over Christmas and New Year's, Carol is moving back home to the LA area after years away in Houston. But she has a secret: she's been in love with her best friend and old college roommate, Daisy, for years. But Daisy has a secret of her own. :) From friends to getting snowed in with only one bed!

Love at First Snowfall (1,000 words)

Daisy's grumbling about having to share a snowy family vacation with another family in their cabin ends suddenly when she meets their gorgeous daughter. Love at first sight might not be real, but this is making a believer out of Daisy. Luckily for her, Carol is a confident woman who goes after what she wants. And what she wants is Daisy. Like the snow outside, these girls are falling hard and fast.

Hey Sweetheart (4,112 words)

Carol is away for a conference and Daisy is home alone, but Carol has a Valentine’s surprise in store that finds Daisy in an opportune moment.

Arrangements (1,805 words)

Princess Daisy has been matched with a suitor who can help her achieve her goal of peace between the natural magic and acquired magic realms.

Angel (100 words)

Carol's no angel, but Daisy calls her angel anyway...

Wanna Surf on Your Heat Wave (1,000 words)

Carol and Daisy take a much-needed vacation to Tahiti, which brings a new level to their relationship!

Sweet Fantasy (5,000 words)

Carol and Daisy are in a new relationship and on vacation for the first time at their friends’ wedding. They are also ready for another first, which reveals fantasies and dreams they can make into reality.

Prodigal Daughter of the Milky Way (3,395 words)

Agent Daisy Johnson is sent to space to find the long-lost Captain Marvel and discovers someone quite different than she had pictured.

Anesthesia Amory (473 words)

Drugged up post-surgery Carol is thrilled to learn she is married to her crush.

The Tempest in the Tower (1,000 words)

Daisy has been banished to a remote tower by the sea. Luckily, she has a fiancee who has come to announce her release and take her to a safe place. But first, they spend a night together alone...

Lightning Strikes Twice (34,937 words)

Fates are intertwined when Melinda May and Phil Coulson are sent on a mission to recover a missing child in a supernatural storm and the child they come back to Shield HQ with is not the one they were sent to find. The little girls switch places involuntarily and grow up into superpowered adults. When they meet, they discover they are bonded by an experience no one else understands. History repeats as they must rely on their love and found family to fight their abusers: the mighty Kree empire.

Ready to rock (868 words)

Maria Hill assigns Carol (who is bored and temporarily powerless on Earth) and Daisy (who is overwhelmed with a sudden influx of new inhumans) to a bold initiative: a training program for the Young Avengers. Despite a team rivalry, Carol and Daisy will have to bring together young enhanced agents and inhuman agents to form a new generation of superheroes.

Alter Egos (2,782 words)

Daisy Johnson might be falling for her new roommate, but she has to hide her secret identity as the masked vigilante Quake. Her superhero rival, Captain Marvel, gets hurt one night on the job, and behind the helmet lies a surprise!

Stay With Me (1,469 words)

Carol wasn’t usually one for insecurity, but it threw her to see Daisy so completely surrounded by flirtation. Everyone of every gender at this house party was into Daisy, and Carol felt like a nerd compared to all of them.

Passed down like folk songs (884 words)

Daisy bumps into Carol at a pumpkin patch and they both feel like they know each other from somewhere...

No Tricks, All Treats (833 words)

Daisy's bakery is the final stop on Carol and little Monica's trick or treating with Halloween fun and silly fluff.

In My Room (1,082 words)

Daisy and Carol have been cast in the same movie, but with very different levels of fame. As their friendship blooms into mutual pining, they get a bit obsessed and lovesick along the way, but admitting their feelings would carry consequences for them both. (Part of the WIP below!)

Picnic poetry (1,000 words)

Carol has a special literary date night planned for Daisy.

Girl Friends to Girlfriends (1,917 words)

To earn money for a Christmas vacation with their friends, housemates and best friends Daisy and Carol sell their old stuff at a garage sale, but in the December chill, the conversation they’ve been avoiding reaches a tipping point everyone but them saw coming.

The Gift of Time (6,299 words)

A mysterious Christmas gift transports Carol to a future she needs to see, beginning with waking up in bed next to her superhero-coworker crush on the morning of Christmas Eve!

WonderGirls (11,573 words so far)

Daisy Johnson is cast in her first big starring role as a superhero in a Wonder comic-book action film after her long-running TV show ends. She's out as bisexual in the industry and to her show's devoted fanbase, but it's hardly newsworthy in comparison to the brightly shining stardom of her A-list celebrity idol-turned-new-costar, Carol Danvers. America's Sweetheart has a secret and she's under a lot of pressure to keep it that way as Wonder Studios tries to market their characters as love interests for Pride clout without infuriating the haters and bigots. Will rainbow capitalism land on their side toward real progress or will fear win out over love, both in the movie and behind-the-scenes?

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2023

Wonder (4,554 words)

In a world of elemental magic, orders and houses train novices in the ancient mystical arts and help them find suitable careers to use their talents. But for young witches, the power of true love can tempt them away from the high ambitions their magical families have for them. Can Daisy of the House of Shield and Carol, Captain of the Mar-Vell Order, have it all?

You Remind Me of Someone (4,908 words)

Carol is injured in battle, causing a bout of amnesia! There’s nothing medically accurate in this fic, but it sure makes Daisy sad. Watch her deal with her emotions while caring for her wife, and watch Carol unknowingly fall for her all over again. Spoiler alert: Happy ending guaranteed.

Curiosity Caught the Carol (1,193 words)

Daisy sneaks out of the base one night to track down the superhero hottie who helped her team earlier in the day.

Penetrating Questions (2,785 words)

Carol has a fantasy that requires Daisy’s input, but all Daisy knows is that Carol wants her to come over to “talk about their relationship.”

Sweet Like Honey (28,688 words)

Daisy and Carol enjoy plenty of sexy time on their honeymoon, but they also go on some romantic dates and meet other guests at the all-LGBTQ+ Pegasus Resort on Cape Cod.

To Have and to Hold (43,113 words)

Daisy and Carol work to plan their wedding in just a few months! It starts with a horrible Valentine's Day that leads to setting a date and then on to picking a venue to wedding dress shopping with their bridesmaids to sending invitations to photoshoots to walking down the aisle. Join them on their wild ride of romance, found family, and making decisions that will become treasured memories.

Visibility (5,649 words)

When Carol and Daisy try to get involved in a cliquish corporate LGBTQ group full of gossipy gatekeepers and walking queer stereotypes, Daisy teaches them a lesson in queer inclusion and decides to bring more bi visibility to work.

Home for the Holidays (14,226 words)

The Forest Key (1,000 words)

As a superhero and Shield agent, Carol is tired of her freedom being debated by other agencies. But when she discovers a key in a forest and unlocks a door to a much harsher world, she realizes her reality might be the escape another powered person like her needs.

Fall Back Into You (3,478 words)

Carol Danvers and Daisy Johnson were high school sweethearts, but when leaving for university pulled them apart, they broke up and went their separate ways. Now they are adults who just got jobs after graduation...

Sparks Fly (1,000 words)

Carol and Daisy keep adding new dimensions to their relationship: friends, then best friends, then roommates—but they know there’s another they want to explore. That is, if it doesn’t burn down all the others.

Seasons Meetings (1,459 words)

Daisy brings her new girlfriend home to meet her parents, and Phil and Melinda are thrilled.

Mistletoe (1,934 words)

A new decoration provides a romantic holiday reconnection after a stressful December!

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2022

that's why i love fall (7,689 words)

Carol is a park ranger in a growing mountain town. Daisy is a cybersecurity city girl in town for a job interview at the town’s biotech lab. Under the autumn leaves, fate brings them together (aided by Daisy’s parents, Phil and Melinda). As sweet as a PSL and with as much plot as apple pie.

Mission Accomplished (5,989 words)

Shield agent Daisy Johnson needs a night off to relax from chasing Captain Marvel across the galaxy before the Kree get her. She goes to a gay bar, and guess who she finds?

Let’s Get Physical (710 words)

Carol plans to go for a run on a Saturday morning but rain gets in the way. Daisy suggests an alternative workout. ;)

Reveal (22,836 words)

It is time for Carol, Daisy, Jemma, and Fitz to finally find out the secret behind the Secret Warriors program they signed up for when they entered Carter Academy last year to become Shield agents. But Daisy and Carol have another secret they must share with each other—and the world—before it tears them apart.

Recruit (18,888 words)

Daisy has to make a decision that impacts her future, but when a school camping trip goes awry, will she and her new friends rise to the occasion and help defeat the evil Pantheon? And will Melinda May’s Shield team survive their mission to reclaim what Pantheon has stolen from them?

Rising (9,915 words)

In a very different alternate universe, the Johnson family is not quite what they seem. Daisy, 16, is a high school student and a hacker for a multinational underground white hat organization. Her dad, Phil Johnson, is a professor at Carter Academy. What she doesn’t know is that Carter is not just a university for future federal agents, but those agents work for an organization called Shield. Daisy’s mom, Melinda May, is one of those Shield agents, and her team is fighting the evil Pantheon organization. In this family full of secrets, much will be revealed and futures changed when Daisy has a run-in with Pantheon herself.

[theblossomingofluigi]

Almost finished with chapter 20 of the fic. But here is some fluffy head canon stuff for you. Mario and the gang go to the movies, how would they react to ...

Mario: His taste in movies is straightforward—he loves seeing the good guys win and the bad guys get what they deserve. Films like Avengers: Endgame and most superhero movies hit the mark for him. Mario's the type who would cheer out loud in the theater during the big hero moments.

Luigi: Superhero movies aren't really his thing. Luigi finds them too loud and visually overwhelming, and since he hasn't kept up with the Marvel films, following all the characters and plotlines can be confusing. He doesn't dislike them, but he doesn't go out of his way to watch them either.

Peach: Superhero movies aren't really her style either. Like Luigi, she finds them too loud and wishes they had more pink. To her, Mario is the only superhero she needs. However, she makes exceptions for female-led superhero films, as she sees herself as more of a hero than someone who needs rescuing.

Daisy: If it involves punching something, she's all in. Plot? What plot? All that matters to Daisy is that someone’s getting their butt kicked. She's right there with Mario, cheering and hollering during the fight scenes. She doesn’t care who’s fighting, as long as it's a good brawl.

Bowser: He can’t help but sympathize with the villain in superhero films. So what if Thanos snapped a few trillion people out of existence? That’s just smart resource management. Sending an entire army of superheroes, bending time and space, just to take down one guy?... and his entire army? Seems like overkill to him.

[that-cartoony-villain]

ive started a rewatch of marvels agents of shield because my tiktok is filled with edits and people being hopeful about daisys return in secret invasion which i havent seen yet cause i have no time

but ive forgotten how gay some of it is... i wanted to get to the episode where we meet bobbi because its bobbi and simmons interactions with her once she knows theyre on the same side is such a mood lmao ALSO i forgot fitz and "jemma" - the one he creates in his head after the brain trauma - have a talk about how muscular mack is, like baby boy, if you want to be cradled in his big arms just ask, you can say it's an experiment!

and last but not least, I've missed daisy (skye at the moment) so much ;-; she has always been my favorite since the moment ive met her and has only climbed the ranks of favorite superhero for me, if she doesn't show up in secret invasion I'll be very sad

[cogentranting]

I made a claim that there is a trend that won't allow female leads of superhero movies and tv shows to have and end up with a male love interest. So I decided to back that up with some stats. I looked at 60 different lead characters of live-action superhero tv shows and movies from Marvel and DC, sorted them into different categories by gender and type of ending (see the details below the cut).

My findings:

While 95% of male lead superheroes have opposite sex love interests, only 61% of female lead heroes have opposite sex love interests. 62% of male leads end up together with their (female) love interests. Only 22% of female leads end up with their (male) love interest (in fact I can only find 4 examples, as opposed to the 26 male examples. All four are tv shows. I do not know of a female lead superhero movie/movie franchise that ends with the female lead happy together with her male love interest.) In contrast only 5% of male leads have no love interest whatsoever, as opposed to 22% of female leads. Women are also more likely to have their love interest die, with 17% compared to the male 10%.

The categories I used:

A. ends up with their love interest (the lead themselves MAY die. For example Tony Stark does get to marry Pepper and have a child, and then dies. Oliver Queen has a similar situation and then also gets an epilogue together with Felicity in some sort of afterlife) B. Has a love interest but doesn't end up with them (they split up; the love interest ends up with someone else; they are permanently separated) C. The love interest dies D. No canonical love interest E. The series is still ongoing/was cancelled mid-story-- there IS a love interest but it's not clear if they end up together eventually or not (EA-- will probably be together/implied they will; EB-- doesn't seem like they'll be together; E-- I have no clue. I recognize these are open to interpretation, that's why they're classified separately) F. Same Sex love interest

"What do you mean by a "lead"?" They have to be THE main character of their series/movie/franchise. Generally this is the title character. Ensembles were included only if there was a clearly discernible main character (e.g. Peter Quill in GOTG). The only times I counted co-leads was in the cases of Agents of Shield (both Daisy and Coulson), TFATWS (Sam and Bucky), BVS (Clark and Bruce), and Hawkeye (Clint and Kate).

Marvel male leads Tony Stark A Steve Rogers A Scott Lang A Clint Barton A T'challa A Nick Fury A Phil Coulson A Peter Parker (Maguire) A Marc Spector/Steven Grant A/EA Danny Rand EA Michael Morbius EA Matt Murdock (Cox- Netflix) EA Peter Parker (Holland) EA Bruce Banner B Doctor Strange B Loki B Luke Cage B Matt Murdock (Affleck) B Peter Quill C/B (I'm counting it as a C, his version of Gamora died) Frank Castle (Bernthal) C/B Peter Parker (Garfield) C Thor C Shang-Chi D (but if I had to guess, will end up with Katy) Sam Wilson D Bucky Barnes E (I'm counting Sarah Wilson as a canon love interest. If not, he's in the D category) Eddie Brock E

Marvel Female Leads Peggy Carter A Daisy Johnson A Kamala Khan EA Jessica Jones EB Natasha Romanoff B Jennifer Walters B (I'm counting Matt as a love interest for her show, but I don't think there's any chance of them being together past what we saw. Categorize this as an EB if you prefer) Sersi C Wanda Maximoff C Shuri D Kate Bishop D Carol Danvers D 26 M 11F

Marvel Male Stats A- 8/26 31% A+ EA- 13/26 50% B- 5/26 19% B + EB- 7/26 27% C- 4/26 15% D- 2/26 8% E- 2/26 8% A/B/C/E (has some sort of love interest regardless of ending)-- 24/26 92% (alt if you don't count Bucky as having a love interest, 23/26 88%)

Marvel Female stats A- 2/11 18% A+ EA- 3/11 27% B- 2/11 18% B + EB- 3/11 27% C- 2/11 18% D- 3/11 27% E- X A/B/C/E-- 8/11 72%

DC Male Leads Hal Jordan A Arthur Curry A Jaime Reyes A Clark Kent (Cavil) A Clark Kent (Hoechlin) A Clark Kent (Welling) A Oliver Queen (Amell) A Barry Allen (Gustin) A Jefferson Pierce A Dick Grayson (Thwaites) A Barry Allen (Miller) EA (or maybe A) Bruce Wayne (Pattinson) EA Bruce Wayne (Bale) A/C Bruce Wayne (Affleck) D Billy Batson D Black Adam D DC Female Leads Courtney Whitmore A Kara Danvers (Benoist) B Diana Prince C Harley Quinn (Robbie) D Sarah Lance F Kate Kane F Ryan Wilder F 16 M 7F DC Male Stats A- 11/16 69% A+ EA- 13/16 81% D- 3/16 19% DC Female Stats A- 1/7 14% B- 1/7 14% C- 1/7 14% D- 1/7 14% F- 3/7 42% A/B/C/E--4/7 57%

Total men: 42 Total women: 18

DC + Marvel Men A- 19/42 45% A+ EA- 26/42 62% B- 5/42 12% B + EB- 7/42 17% C- 4/42 10% D- 2/42 5% E- 2/42 5% A/B/C/E--40/42 95%

DC +Marvel Women A- 3/18 17% A+ EA- 4/18 22% B- 3/18 17% B + EB- 4/18 22% C- 3/18 17% D- 4/18 22% F-3/18 17% A/B/C/E--11/18 61%

Additional Explanations:

I only included movies/shows from after 2000.

If a character has multiple love interests I categorized them by their most important or final love interest. Being together with someone at the end of the series automatically puts them in the A category. If they don't end up with anyone, I made a judgment about which love interest was most significant and grouped them according to that. For instance--- Daisy Johnson has 3 major love interests (Ward, Lincoln, Sousa) but she is grouped as an A because she ends the series in a relationship with Sousa. Frank Castle I counted as a C because while Karen is maybe a love interest, his wife and her death are the more significant story factor.

I excluded movies/series that are an ensemble without a clear lead such as Marvel's Runaways (or where I didn't know enough about the movie to determine if there was a clear lead, like Suicide Squad). I also left out movies that I just don't know much about (like Deadpool, Elektra, or Watchmen). I left out Cloak and Dagger because I'm incredibly unclear whether they are meant to be future love interests or not. All X-men properties were excluded because determining A) who counts as a lead, B) are the different versions different characters and C) what endings count as canon was just a mess so I decided to skip it.

Why is Fury on this list as an A? He's the lead of Secret Invasion and is married. We might not see his wife again but last we heard they're happily married.

Why did you specify Matt Murdock as (Cox-Netflix)? Right now it's unclear if the main MCU Matt and the Netflix Matt are the same continuity, though it seems like they are not. The Netflix show ends with the suggestion that Matt and Karen will get back together at some point. She-Hulk and what's been seen so far of future Daredevil appearances don't acknowledge Karen.

Why is Peggy a lead/does Peggy really end up with her love interest? She's the lead of Agent Carter though not the lead of a movie. If we're counting Agent Carter separately, she ends that show in a relationship with Daniel. They are different ways to interpret timelines and which shows exist in which timelines etc. but regardless, Peggy is the lead of a show, and ends up married to either Steve or Daniel.

Why are same-sex relationships counted separately? Because I'm specifically looking at a trend regarding putting female characters in relationships with male characters. I contend that it stems from a sexist view that doing so portrays the woman as subordinate or lesser than her male partner, even if she is the main character. This "issue" is side-stepped by putting the lead in a relationship with another woman.

Why isn't Hope Van Dyne (Wasp) a lead even though she's a title character? Because functionally she's still secondary to Scott in the story. When I allowed co-leads they were never each other's love interests. Often the second lead is the love interest of the male lead, which skews the data. Gamora is a similar situation.

Further takeaways: 2 male heroes (Oliver Queen and Bale Batman) have a significant love interest turn out to be evil and betray them, plus an additional 3 (Iron Fist, Daredevil, and sorta Loki) that have some sort of minor betrayal that ends with the love interest on the same side as them. That's 5 or 12% depending on which number you take (I'm more inclined toward the 5%). 2 women have a major love interest turn out to be evil (Daisy Johnson and Sersi) and an additional three have a more minor betrayal with a turn around (Peggy, Courtney, and Kara). Which is 12 or 29%. Plus an additional 2 that were victims of an abusive relationship of some sort with an all out supervillain (41%).

In the above stats, characters were only put in the C (dead love interest) category if that is their main love interest. If they later end up with someone, they are in a different category. If we look at characters who had a love interest die at some point (whether permanently or not) stats are affected thusly: Male characters who have a love interest die: 12 Female characters who have a love interest die: 6 29% of male heroes have a love interest die 33% of female heroes have a love interest die

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❤️🧡🤍🩷💜A WLW ASK MEME❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 List the top 10 ladies you’ve been obsessed with Ever Of All Time! Then send this on to 5 sapphic mutuals 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

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This list is not gonna be in a preference order because if I tried to do that I wouldn't ever stop crying. Also I have been documentedly obsessive about IRL women hello Mackenzie Davis I am free on Thursday but to avoid sounding creepy this list will be composed of fictional characters. I burst into tears writing every single entry on here because I am so normal about women lol.

tl;dr here is the list:

Laura Kinney (Marvel Comics)

Princess Amelia "Mia" Mignonette Thermopolis Grimaldi Renaldo (The Princess Diaries)

Elizabeth Swann-Turner King of Pirates (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Myka Bering (Warehouse 13)

Bennett Halverson (Dollhouse)

Daisy "Skye" Johnson (Agents of SHIELD)

Natasha Romanov (Marvel Comics / Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Rogue (X-Men / Marvel Comics)

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb series)

Cinderpelt (Warriors)

with honorable mentions to Cameron Howe (Halt and Catch Fire) and Amelia Pond (Doctor Who) because there simply was not enough room!

Laura Kinney (Marvel Comics) - I started reading superhero comics at 16, when a friend at school gave me access to her collection. I have also, since I was too young to articulate it, been drawn to stories about "human weapons," particularly women. (Literally only a couple of years ago it occurred to me that perhaps growing up in fundiegelical culture, which is prone to calling its congregants "warriors for Christ" and using a lot of rhetoric about "God's soldiers," might have had an influence on this preference! I May Be Stupid etc.) Laura Kinney is the female clone of Wolverine, but she has two claws on each hand and a foot claw (yes it’s the kid in Logan, though they changed some stupid shit in that version). I first met her at 16, randomly picking up X-23: Innocence Lost at a Borders one evening and immediately being sucked into the story of a teenager who knows nothing but violence, except for the sole person who sees her as human (Sarah, her surrogate mother). Laura’s comic backstory is fucked-up in a way Marvel really leaned into with their 00s characters - she was forced to slaughter her own mother! then she was a victim of child sex trafficking! then she tried to have a normal life but her past came back to haunt her and she was forced to leave behind everyone she loved to keep them safe! - and I don’t think most of it holds up great, except for Target X which is cute because she and her cousin skip school and steal a car to be normal kids for a day. Anyway! I loved her immediately because in my teen brain, this character was one I could truly read EVERYTHING about, and ever since she has been my daughter. Marjorie Liu wrote an amazing series for her in 2011-12 which had her become Gambit’s little sister and Jubilee’s girlfriend bff, and Liu is to this day the writer I have seen do the most interesting stuff with her. She at one point was using Wolverine as a code name and she got a little sister, Gabby, and that was also good. Anyway, she’s the ur-example of “child weapon learns how to be a person” and also she’s angry and sad and doing her best and I love her the most.

Princess Amelia "Mia" Mignonette Thermopolis Grimaldi Renaldo (The Princess Diaries) - While I very much enjoy and am fond of the films, my Mia Thermopolis is the one in the book series. I first read these at 13, and immediately I recognized Mia as a kindred spirit. Mia in the books is riddled with anxiety and self-doubt, prone to people-pleasing but will push back if she reaches her limits, passionate and loyal to sometimes self-sabotaging degrees, and a connoisseur of pop culture. Every time I open a Princess Diaries book, I feel like I’m hanging out with my best friend, and to me she is. A dream of mine is to make a character that feels as real and dear to readers as Mia feels to me. I am not and never have been great at doing “girl” (hi, butch), but Mia was and is a glimpse into a world that I always felt on the outside of. The books are certainly not perfect but I will never get tired of hanging out with Mia.

Elizabeth Swann-Turner King of Pirates (Pirates of the Caribbean) - I got into these movies kind of late, just before the third one came out, but Pirates was one of the most significant fandoms I have ever been in. It taught me about meta, how to analyze subtext, and how to multiship. Elizabeth was a big part of that, being a cool bitch who got to fight and did not take shit from anyone and was also part of a ship full of Yearning. I used to think I had a crush on Will and that’s why I was so into the ship but…no it was Elizabeth. I wanted to be in Will’s place so I could kiss Elizabeth! She’s smart and capable and passionate, and when you’re 16 that corset line sounds really cool, sorry. And she’s the Pirate King and gets a badass rallying speech. Also she gets to wear a sick pirate coat in At World’s End, which is less questionable for me, a Chinese person, to be wearing, and my mother-in-law made a dream come true and made it for me. As far as I’m concerned she was only stationed on that island for as long as it took for baby Liam to be transportable, and then she put him in a sling and ran around being a fucking awesome pirate king again. (Movie 5 does not exist to me, nor does “Henry,” his name is Liam, thank you for understanding.)

Myka Bering (Warehouse 13) - I actually did NOT start watching this show for the gay content, I started because one of my college roommates/best friends was enjoying it and we both found it deeply charming. I actually thought Claudia was going to be my favorite, but Myka quickly took that spot in my heart. I found her deeply relatable, as someone who tends to keep myself pretty emotionally distant until I trust someone, and as a fellow Bad at Being a Girl sufferer. Myka starts the show wary of everyone, but wanting to do her best, and she slowly begins to let her new team in and start to trust them. One of my favorite Myka things is how well she knows herself and what she wants. And of course there's the HG of it all - her insistence on saving and trusting HG even after she betrayed them the first time is so indicative of how much she wants to believe in people. I really hate what this show did to her by the end, because to me it was devastating to watch this incredible, self-assured woman turn into somebody who apparently had feelings for her self-admitted brother figure and whose entire arc was about that now?? It sucked!! But anyway, that's not what I think of when I think of Myka. I think of her hitting Pete with a snowball and then doing a little hop of joy.

Bennett Halverson (Dollhouse) - Bennett is the reason I met my wife, and she is also played by Summer Glau, who I rarely post about anymore but who is involved in multiple shows that are part of my heart, so Bennett had to go on this list. She was one of the most significant characters that fell into my "angry and sad" women niche, as her whole thing is that she's out for revenge against the girl who broke her heart. AND YES SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH CAROLINE I HAVE RECEIPTS. (god this essay is TWELVE years old?? nobody @ me if it's bad) I love Bennett because she's me, or at least, a really stark portrait of the kind of person I could have become in a similar situation. Bennett feels like an outcast and Caroline seems to be the first person who ever showed her positive attention, to a degree that clearly turned romantic on Bennett's side. She's also devoted to Caroline to a degree that is objectively unhealthy ("You're not pissed because I used you?" "I'm hurt that you wont") and her memories of Caroline leaving her are colored by her misunderstanding of why she did it; Caroline was trying to protect her and take the fall for what happened, but Bennett didn't see it that way at all. I am very...dramatic...in my head and 1000% I would've been like that in a similar situation. It's really good B and I met each other and are obsessed with each other exactly the same amount because we would be terrible partners for anybody else. Anyway, Bennett's fucked up and I love her so much and Bennett/Caroline is why I'm like this now.

Daisy "Skye" Johnson (Agents of SHIELD) - If I were pressed to pick one favorite character, period, it would almost certainly be Daisy. SHIELD and I have had a special relationship from the moment it was first announced; if you look I still have a few posts tagged "s.h.i.e.l.d." and a minor regret of my life is that I was too late to get into the pilot screening at SDCC '13. Anyway, similarly to Myka, Daisy wasn't my immediate pic for favorite, but she quickly became my favorite, especially when I found out Chloe Bennet is also a "Chinese dad white mom" girl like me. I called it from the first character bio that she would be divisive, and she was, because fandom is horrible, but to me she is the best character. I wrote an entire essay about how much it means to me that she's biracial, even if I do not love the Inhumans stuff necessarily. But I remember spending the first season and a half desperately wishing for her to be biracial, and then she was! And she's also so funny and brave and kind and angry and sad and good above all else, she does her best to be a good person. I recognize a lot of my worst tendencies in some of hers; B and I joke that sometimes I will "drive off in emotional van" when I try to shut down and process big shit by myself. But I also relate to her in a lot of positive ways as well: we're both deeply loyal, passionate and hopeful. When they teased someone being killed off in the s3 finale, I literally had a panic attack the morning of the finale at the thought of losing her. When the show finally ended, I was happy she survived and even happier that they had her reconcile with her mom and her surprise sister, and now she and Kora and Danny are hanging out in space and sometimes Daisy goes home to hang out with her girlfriend Jemma. If she never comes back in MCU canon, I'll take that ending for her.

Natasha Romanov (Marvel Comics / Marvel Cinematic Universe) - WELL SPEAKING OF CHARACTERS WHO GOT FUCKED OVER LOL. Never mind the Scarlett Johansson of it all, I love Natasha with a tenacity approaching lunacy. (Not as much as my friend Amy, because Nat is her most special blorbo, but almost that much, I think!) Once again: Natasha is a living weapon character who is emotionally closed off and snarky and also very angry and sad, and also she was one of like 3 women in the MCU in the beginning so of course I became obsessed with her. Her comic counterpart is a little different, of course, but the same notes are there, and once again Marjorie Liu wrote the best arc for her (The Name of the Rose, which deals with themes of motherhood and infertility way better than some films I could name). Some of my love for her is me truly putting my hard-earned fandom analysis skills to work with the pittance of canon information I have to work with, and some of it is the five months I spent writing an AU where she didn't die in Endgame and also she and Laura Barton were polyamorous that whole time. (I did a lot of sobbing in the car when I found out about her death, and I'm resolved to never watch Endgame again.) That fic is my tribute to her, so I guess if you want to know all my feelings, go read it.

Rogue (X-Men / Marvel Comics) - Rogue was the X-Men character I imprinted on when I watched the movies at 16 (hey is that a pattern I see here?) because she was sad and emo and, although I didn't know it at the time, I wanted to kiss it better. I affectionately refer to Anna Paquin Rogue as "Diet Coke Rogue" because she's a very bad interpretation of the character, but also I love her. My favorite version of Rogue is actually in the X-Men: Evolution cartoon, where they made her an angry and sad goth (again: pattern) but with her usual reserve and level of sass. But I love every version of her, and I can't wait to watch the new cartoon because I have been sorely lacking in Rogue lately and I miss her. If I can't pick Laura, Rogue is my favorite X-Men character always and forever. Also, I felt so strongly about her and Gambit that I made a 40-part powerpoint presentation to explain their love story to B, while I was on a road trip with my family. This was one of our notable courtship gifts because she had also imprinted on Diet Coke Rogue and I needed her to understand how epic Rogue and Gambit's relationship is. Someday we will cosplay as them.

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb series) - The newest entry, but she made it on here by dint of being, well, so intensely relatable. I too am an awkward butch with a praise kink raised in a weird dead-end religion who falls to pieces in the presence of a pretty girl, whose brain is completely full of jokes and memes to cover up my various damages, and who is so bad at expressing my feelings to the object of my affection that I spent literal years pining after them only to do something exceedingly reckless to try and prove my love (I did not kill myself so they could use my corpse, but it was equally stupid and dramatic, and I have a 1/2 success rate - one of them was a guy, long story). Gideon Nav is Weird Girl turned up to 1000 and I love her for it. I am very short and chubby and not at all muscly, but I love cosplaying as her because in our souls we are the same. If we never see her again I will not recover.

Cinderpelt (Warriors) - I am genuinely not sure if I've ever explained Cinderpelt on this blog, so here's a quick summary: Cinderpelt is the first apprentice of the POV character Fireheart, and quickly endears herself to everyone by being enthusiastic and clever. She wants to be the best warrior ever. As an apprentice, she is hit by a car and survives, but her leg is injured severely enough that she is unable to continue warrior training, so she pivots to becoming a medicine cat. (Yes, Warriors is very ableist and this is not even in the top 5 worst examples.) We don't get a ton of insight from Cinderpelt on her thoughts about this until she's a bit older, but basically she determines that she will ensure the Clan is protected and cared for just as valiantly as she would have as a warrior. She becomes one of Fireheart/star's closest friends, and a constant source of comfort and wisdom throughout the first two series. Somewhere in there, I decided she was my favorite character. Enter series 2 book 5, Twilight (I am almost 15 when it comes out), which features a climactic battle as badgers invade the ThunderClan camp while Cinderpelt's best friend Sorreltail goes into labor. The way I remember it is Cinderpelt kicking absolute ass to protect her friend and maybe killing at least one badger, but I think I may have edited this to be more epic in my mind. ANYWAY she dies from her wounds and I cry for like an hour. In the next book, it is revealed that StarClan (cat heaven) thought Cinderpelt was so cool that they wanted her to have a second chance, and she got reincarnated as Cinderkit. I think this is maybe where the mythology really went off the rails objectively, but you won't convince me it was anything but beautiful. Now she lives as Cinderheart, who had her own journey through rehabilitating an injury but has become a badass and respected warrior herself. (There is also some bullshit about Cinderpelt having been in love with Fireheart lalalala I do not care she is a cool bitch and more than her relationships!)

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D REVIEW

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a significant entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), blending elements of action, drama, and science fiction over its seven-season run from 2013 to 2020. Created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, the series follows the adventures of a clandestine government organization, S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division). Following the aftermath of the Battle of New York, the show explores how the world copes with the emergence of superheroes and the myriad of supernatural threats that follow.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D REVIEW (2) From its premiere on September 24, 2013, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has captivated audiences with its intricate plots and character development. Each episode delves into various subplots and arcs that enrich the overall narrative, connecting it to the larger MCU while establishing its own identity. The show's blend of humor, action, and emotional depth makes it a must-watch for any Marvel fan.

Plot Overview

Set against the backdrop of the Marvel universe, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. kicks off with Agent Phil Coulson, portrayed by Clark Gregg, who leads a team of agents in investigating unusual phenomena. This includes encounters with superhumans, aliens, and otherworldly threats. Key characters include Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet), Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker), Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), and Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen). Over the seasons, the characters face personal struggles, moral dilemmas, and complex relationships that evolve alongside the overarching narrative. The series comprises 136 episodes and is recognized for tackling themes such as loyalty, sacrifice, and the consequences of power. As the seasons progress, the plot becomes more intricate, introducing time travel, alternate realities, and the ramifications of artificial intelligence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3T-evQZiQo

Season Highlights

- Season 1: Introduces the main characters and the foundational premise of the series, setting the stage for future developments. - Season 2: Expands the scope of the series with the introduction of the Inhumans and explores the darker side of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 3: The stakes rise as the team confronts a new threat in the form of the Hive, an ancient Inhuman. - Season 4: Features the introduction of the framework, exploring a simulated reality that tests the team's resolve. - Season 5: The narrative takes a bold turn as the agents are thrust into a dystopian future. - Season 6: Delves into themes of family and sacrifice while introducing new threats and allies. - Season 7: Concludes the series with a thrilling finale that pays homage to its roots while bringing closure to character arcs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4du3_6QGm8

Characters and Cast

One of the show's strengths is its well-developed characters. The ensemble cast includes: - Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson - Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson - Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz - Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons - Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May - Brett Dalton as Grant Ward These characters not only contribute to the plot but also provide viewers with relatable struggles and growth throughout the series.

Reception and Impact

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. received a generally positive response from critics and fans alike. It holds a rating of 7.5/10 on IMDb, reflecting its popularity and the loyalty of its fanbase. Critics praised the show's ability to intertwine humor with serious themes and action sequences, making it a unique offering in the superhero genre. The series also features crossover events with the MCU films, solidifying its place in the broader narrative. Notably, it provides insights into events occurring alongside major films, enhancing the viewer's understanding of the MCU.

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Where to Watch

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is available for streaming on platforms such as Disney+. For those interested in rewatching the series or experiencing it for the first time, the platform provides a convenient way to access all seasons. For more in-depth reviews and episode guides, consider visiting Rotten Tomatoes or IMDb.

Conclusion

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stands as a remarkable addition to the Marvel legacy, blending humor, action, and drama in a way that resonates with viewers. With its engaging characters, intricate plots, and connections to the MCU, it has earned its place as a beloved series among fans. Whether you're a die-hard Marvel enthusiast or new to the universe, this show offers a compelling journey worth experiencing. Read the full article

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Custom Die Struck Lapel Pins in Pop Culture: A Look at Iconic Pins in Film and TV

In the world of pop culture, custom die struck lapel pins have made their mark as iconic symbols in film and television. These small but impactful accessories have been featured in various iconic moments, adding a layer of depth and meaning to the characters and stories they are a part of. Let's explore some of the most memorable custom die struck lapel pins in pop culture and the significance they carry.

Die Struck Lapel Pins: A Brief Overview

Custom die struck lapel pins are crafted using a stamping method that creates a raised and recessed design without any color. This technique allows for intricate detailing and a sophisticated, elegant look. Often made from materials like brass, copper, or iron, these pins are prized for their durability and timeless appeal.

The Enigmatic Pin in "Mr. Robot"

In the critically acclaimed TV series "Mr. Robot," the protagonist, Elliot Alderson, is rarely seen without his signature black hoodie and a distinct custom die struck lapel pin featuring a computer motherboard. This pin serves as a visual representation of Elliot's role as a cybersecurity engineer and hacker, embodying his deep connection to technology and the world of cybercrime. It acts as a silent yet powerful emblem of his identity and purpose, underscoring the show's themes of technological subversion and personal identity.

The Timeless Elegance of the Pink Ribbon in "The Great Gatsby"

In Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel "The Great Gatsby," the character Daisy Buchanan is often adorned with a delicate custom die struck lapel pin in the shape of a pink ribbon. This pin symbolizes Daisy's association with wealth, femininity, and the societal expectations placed upon her. Its subtle yet impactful presence serves as a visual motif, echoing the themes of love, materialism, and the illusions of the Jazz Age.

The Iconic Shield in "Captain America: The First Avenger"

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the custom die struck lapel pin takes on a heroic role in the form of Captain America's iconic shield emblem. Steve Rogers, before becoming the super-soldier Captain America, proudly wears a small replica of the shield on his lapel. This pin not only foreshadows his transformation into a symbol of hope and resilience but also represents his unwavering patriotism and commitment to defending freedom and justice. It becomes a poignant symbol of honor and courage throughout his journey as a superhero. 

The Enduring Legacy of Custom Die Struck Lapel Pins

From their subtle yet profound presence in "Mr. Robot" to their symbolic significance in "The Great Gatsby" and the superheroic emblem in "Captain America: The First Avenger," custom die struck lapel pins have undoubtedly left an indelible mark on pop culture.

These small accessories have the power to convey profound messages, enrich character development, and evoke emotions without saying a word. As we continue to witness their presence in film and television, it's clear that custom die struck lapel pins are more than just decorative pieces – they are iconic symbols that resonate with audiences on a deep and meaningful level.

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🚀 Decoding Elon Musk's Unbelievable Success Secrets!

Musk: The Quirky Space Cowboy 🚀 Elon Musk, the real-life mad scientist and rich dude extraordinaire, is like the modern-day version of Ozymandias – just without the ancient ruins and desolate wastelands, and with way more Twitter followers. This guy is like the king of the nerds, ruling over a kingdom of electric cars, reusable rockets, and memes that sometimes make even less sense than his grand plans. Picture this: one moment he's dancing like no one's watching (but everyone is) at a Tesla event, and the next he's launching a car into space like it's just another Wednesday. He's so rich that his net worth could buy you a whole fleet of Teslas, yet he tweets like he's just discovered the internet. Elon's CV reads like a superhero origin story. He's the CEO of not one, but two major companies. He owned the social media platform that birthed keyboard warriors, and oh, by the way, Marvel used his swag to craft Tony Stark. Talk about goals! Remember when Elon first sashayed onto the scene? He had this epic to-do list: end climate change, make Mars a vacation destination, unravel the mysteries of the universe using AI, and maybe just save humanity in his spare time. No biggie. For years, Musk's fan club treated his plans like gospel truth. Sure, he hadn't taken anyone to Mars yet, but he did make rockets that are basically the Energizer bunnies of space travel. And let's not forget how he jump-started the electric car scene – he basically made electric cars cool, like James Dean for the environmentally conscious. To decode the enigma that is Musk, we turn to Talulah Riley's book – not because Musk was her second and third husband (seriously, that's more commitment than I have to finishing a bag of chips), but because her romance novel Acts of Love sounds suspiciously like Elon's life. It's all about a misandrist writer who falls for a biotech billionaire on a mission to save the world. Sound familiar? Musk's public image is like his secret sauce. Back in the day, he was as socially awkward as a penguin at a disco. He even worried he wasn't as glamorous as the competition. But this dude turned things around – he morphed from "Shai Agassi, Founder of Glamour" to "Elon Musk, Lord of the Universe." Elon's social ascent was like a rocket launch. He needed people to know him to buy rocket parts, so he decided to become Mars' number one hype man. It worked, and suddenly everyone was like, "Hey, there's that dude who's all about Mars!" Then came the infamous year of 2018 – Musk called someone a "pedo guy," smoked weed on a podcast, and tweeted that he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private. Whoopsie daisy! Lawsuits rained down like confetti at a New Year's Eve party. But wait, there's more! In 2020, Musk said, "To hell with nice," and ditched his PR team. Now he's the press release king, and his favorite email response? The poop emoji. I kid you not. You know how they say a new Musk scandal a day keeps the actual news away? Well, it's kind of true. With a Musk controversy buffet, it's hard to focus on just one serving. It's like trying to pick a favorite ice cream flavor at Ben & Jerry's – you end up with brain freeze and no answers. So, is Musk a bad boss or are his employees just slackers? Acts of Love's Radley Blake could clear this up. Radley's a control freak who only fires people who don't give "maximum effort." His employees are so motivated they don't even need Red Bull to sprout wings. But in real life, Musk isn't exactly the "Employee of the Month" poster child. People report him stomping through Tesla factories, red-faced and firing folks like it's a carnival game. One executive said they had to stoop in meetings to seem smaller than Musk – like they were at a toddler tea party. And don't even get me started on workplace safety. Tesla factories were apparently more dangerous than your grandma's staircase in a haunted house. Musk's dislike for the color yellow (yellow tape, yellow paint) led to some questionable safety practices – it's like he's running a risk assessment in a Tim Burton movie. But Musk is a romantic hero in his own right. He's got a tragic past and a longing for love. Childhood bullies, check. Troubled relationship with his dad, check. He's like a wounded bird in a billionaire's body. No wonder he's looking for someone to save him from all that money. The dude's been married more times than I've accidentally sent screenshots to the wrong person. He's got enough kids to start a soccer team, and he's probably planning to send them to Mars for summer vacation. But hey, at least he's not alone, right? He's got Twitter, his second favorite significant other. So there you have it – Elon Musk, the eccentric entrepreneur who turned himself into the star of his own romantic novel. One minute he's making rockets, the next he's tweeting like a kid who just found out they can use their teacher's chalkboard. Will he save the world? Maybe. Will he keep us entertained? Absolutely. 🚀🎉# Musk: The Quirky Space Cowboy 🚀 Elon Musk, the real-life mad scientist and rich dude extraordinaire, is like the modern-day version of Ozymandias – just without the ancient ruins and desolate wastelands, and with way more Twitter followers. This guy is like the king of the nerds, ruling over a kingdom of electric cars, reusable rockets, and memes that sometimes make even less sense than his grand plans. Picture this: one moment he's dancing like no one's watching (but everyone is) at a Tesla event, and the next he's launching a car into space like it's just another Wednesday. He's so rich that his net worth could buy you a whole fleet of Teslas, yet he tweets like he's just discovered the internet. Elon's CV reads like a superhero origin story. He's the CEO of not one, but two major companies. He owned the social media platform that birthed keyboard warriors, and oh, by the way, Marvel used his swag to craft Tony Stark. Talk about goals! Remember when Elon first sashayed onto the scene? He had this epic to-do list: end climate change, make Mars a vacation destination, unravel the mysteries of the universe using AI, and maybe just save humanity in his spare time. No biggie. For years, Musk's fan club treated his plans like gospel truth. Sure, he hadn't taken anyone to Mars yet, but he did make rockets that are basically the Energizer bunnies of space travel. And let's not forget how he jump-started the electric car scene – he basically made electric cars cool, like James Dean for the environmentally conscious. To decode the enigma that is Musk, we turn to Talulah Riley's book – not because Musk was her second and third husband (seriously, that's more commitment than I have to finishing a bag of chips), but because her romance novel Acts of Love sounds suspiciously like Elon's life. It's all about a misandrist writer who falls for a biotech billionaire on a mission to save the world. Sound familiar? Musk's public image is like his secret sauce. Back in the day, he was as socially awkward as a penguin at a disco. He even worried he wasn't as glamorous as the competition. But this dude turned things around – he morphed from "Shai Agassi, Founder of Glamour" to "Elon Musk, Lord of the Universe." Elon's social ascent was like a rocket launch. He needed people to know him to buy rocket parts, so he decided to become Mars' number one hype man. It worked, and suddenly everyone was like, "Hey, there's that dude who's all about Mars!" Then came the infamous year of 2018 – Musk called someone a "pedo guy," smoked weed on a podcast, and tweeted that he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private. Whoopsie daisy! Lawsuits rained down like confetti at a New Year's Eve party. But wait, there's more! In 2020, Musk said, "To hell with nice," and ditched his PR team. Now he's the press release king, and his favorite email response? The poop emoji. I kid you not. You know how they say a new Musk scandal a day keeps the actual news away? Well, it's kind of true. With a Musk controversy buffet, it's hard to focus on just one serving. It's like trying to pick a favorite ice cream flavor at Ben & Jerry's – you end up with brain freeze and no answers. So, is Musk a bad boss or are his employees just slackers? Acts of Love's Radley Blake could clear this up. Radley's a control freak who only fires people who don't give "maximum effort." His employees are so motivated they don't even need Red Bull to sprout wings. But in real life, Musk isn't exactly the "Employee of the Month" poster child. People report him stomping through Tesla factories, red-faced and firing folks like it's a carnival game. One executive said they had to stoop in meetings to seem smaller than Musk – like they were at a toddler tea party. And don't even get me started on workplace safety. Tesla factories were apparently more dangerous than your grandma's staircase in a haunted house. Musk's dislike for the color yellow (yellow tape, yellow paint) led to some questionable safety practices – it's like he's running a risk assessment in a Tim Burton movie. But Musk is a romantic hero in his own right. He's got a tragic past and a longing for love. Childhood bullies, check. Troubled relationship with his dad, check. He's like a wounded bird in a billionaire's body. No wonder he's looking for someone to save him from all that money. The dude's been married more times than I've accidentally sent screenshots to the wrong person. He's got enough kids to start a soccer team, and he's probably planning to send them to Mars for summer vacation. But hey, at least he's not alone, right? He's got Twitter, his second favorite significant other. So there you have it – Elon Musk, the eccentric entrepreneur who turned himself into the star of his own romantic novel. One minute he's making rockets, the next he's tweeting like a kid who just found out they can use their teacher's chalkboard. Will he save the world? Maybe. Will he keep us entertained? Absolutely. 🚀🎉 Read the full article

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@skyler10fic: #2015 was a huge year#AoS feels like it belongs here too even though it doesn't fit the theme of titles#I remember WW feeling like a huge gamechanger in the theater#but it ended up being Captain Marvel that had the real cultural impact I think

I was honestly going to start with 2015!!! Supergirl, Agent Carter AND Jessica Jones! Heroines were thriving!!! (I know Peggy is not a superheroine but whatever, she's a special agent/spy in a superhero franchise). Big year indeed. But then I was like - wait if I go further back I can include WW tv series and it will also show an evolution of the productions... So here we are!

Before I decided to focus on titles I was indeed considering including Agents of SHIELD: It always felt like it was Daisy's show as much as it was Coulson's (even if they insisted on putting Coulson bigger in the posters). I would have also included Legends of Tomorrow, as Sara Lance/White Canary became the face and lead of the show, even if she didn't start as so (though she was one of - if not the most - popular character from the get go).

You think Captain Marvel had more cultural impact? Hmm I don't know, I think Wonder Woman had a bigger reach, specially as she was already a known character even outside geek audiences, and had a mostly well received first film. Of course, WW84 dissappointed and the DCEU was messy and ended, so only Captain Marvel is still going.

I mean, I enjoyed both CM movies (a shame they suffer so much because of biggots and perhaps a little MCU fatigue in the last 3 years), but personally I still prefer the first WW film. I like that they gave Carol a little team though, I thought Diana could use a superheroine friend in her movies too (like Wonder Girl or something).

Titular Women in Live-action Superhero Media

Cathy Lee Crosby as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (1975)

Lynda Carter as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (1975-79)

Helen Slater as Kara Zor-El / Linda Lee / Supergirl in Supergirl (1984)

Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-97)

Ashley Scott as Helena Kyle / Huntress, Dina Meyer as Barbara Gordon / Oracle, Rachel Skarsten as Dinah Redmond in Birds of Prey (2002-03)

Halle Berry as Patience Phillips / Catwoman in Catwoman (2004)

Jennifer Garner as Elektra Natchios in Elektra (2005)

Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers / Supergirl in Supergirl (2015-21)

Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter in Agent Carter (2015-16)

Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones in Jessica Jones (2015-19)

Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Olivia Holt as Tandy Bowen in Cloak & Dagger (2018-19)*

Evangeline Lily as Hope van Dyne / The Wasp in Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018) and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel in Captain Marvel (2019)

Sophie Turner as Jean Grey / Phoenix in X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Ruby Rose as Kate Kane / Batwoman in Batwoman Season 1 (2019-20)

Margot Robbie as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Helena Bertinelli / The Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Dinah Lance / Black Canary, Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

Margot Robbie as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl in Stargirl (2020-22)

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch in WandaVision

Javicia Leslie as Ryan Wilder / Batwoman in Batwoman Season 2–3 (2021-22)

Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane in Superman & Lois (2021-)

Scarlett Johansson Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in Black Widow (2021)

Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop in Hawkeye (2021-?)**

Kaci Walfall as Naomi McDuffie in Naomi (2022)

Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel in Ms. Marvel (2022-?)

Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022-?)

Letitia Wright as Shuri /Black Panther in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel in The Marvels (2023)

Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in Echo (2024-?)*

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*While not directly reffered as such in their shows, "Dagger" and "Echo" are, respectively, Tandy's and Maya's codenames in the comics.

**This also goes for Kate and the "Hawkeye" codename, but in her case the show implies she will use it in the near future with the blessing of Clint Barton (the original Hawkeye, who also stars in the show).

[skyler10fic]

My Ao3 Wrapped

Thanks to @spicedrobot for the template (here) and hat tip to @sequencefairy for doing this first!

This year was mostly about posting consistently for me, whether a long multichapter like Lightning Strikes Twice or short fics for the ficwip events and prompts. Lightning Strikes Twice is probably my favorite simply by virtue of the amount of work and time that went into it, but besides that, Prodigal Daughter was really different from my usual. New Year's Revelations, which I posted the end of on New Year's Day a year ago, is also a favorite, but not technically written in 2024 ;)

Fics/WIPs under the cut. I am always happy to answer questions about any of these!

Fics posted to Ao3 in chronological order:

New Year's Revelations (9,667 words) -

Over Christmas and New Year's, Carol is moving back home to the LA area after years away in Houston. But she has a secret: she's been in love with her best friend and old college roommate, Daisy, for years. But Daisy has a secret of her own. :) From friends to getting snowed in with only one bed!

Love at First Snowfall (1,000 words)

Daisy's grumbling about having to share a snowy family vacation with another family in their cabin ends suddenly when she meets their gorgeous daughter. Love at first sight might not be real, but this is making a believer out of Daisy. Luckily for her, Carol is a confident woman who goes after what she wants. And what she wants is Daisy. Like the snow outside, these girls are falling hard and fast.

Hey Sweetheart (4,112 words)

Carol is away for a conference and Daisy is home alone, but Carol has a Valentine’s surprise in store that finds Daisy in an opportune moment.

Arrangements (1,805 words)

Princess Daisy has been matched with a suitor who can help her achieve her goal of peace between the natural magic and acquired magic realms.

Angel (100 words)

Carol's no angel, but Daisy calls her angel anyway...

Wanna Surf on Your Heat Wave (1,000 words)

Carol and Daisy take a much-needed vacation to Tahiti, which brings a new level to their relationship!

Sweet Fantasy (5,000 words)

Carol and Daisy are in a new relationship and on vacation for the first time at their friends’ wedding. They are also ready for another first, which reveals fantasies and dreams they can make into reality.

Prodigal Daughter of the Milky Way (3,395 words)

Agent Daisy Johnson is sent to space to find the long-lost Captain Marvel and discovers someone quite different than she had pictured.

Anesthesia Amory (473 words)

Drugged up post-surgery Carol is thrilled to learn she is married to her crush.

The Tempest in the Tower (1,000 words)

Daisy has been banished to a remote tower by the sea. Luckily, she has a fiancee who has come to announce her release and take her to a safe place. But first, they spend a night together alone...

Lightning Strikes Twice (34,937 words)

Fates are intertwined when Melinda May and Phil Coulson are sent on a mission to recover a missing child in a supernatural storm and the child they come back to Shield HQ with is not the one they were sent to find. The little girls switch places involuntarily and grow up into superpowered adults. When they meet, they discover they are bonded by an experience no one else understands. History repeats as they must rely on their love and found family to fight their abusers: the mighty Kree empire.

Ready to rock (868 words)

Maria Hill assigns Carol (who is bored and temporarily powerless on Earth) and Daisy (who is overwhelmed with a sudden influx of new inhumans) to a bold initiative: a training program for the Young Avengers. Despite a team rivalry, Carol and Daisy will have to bring together young enhanced agents and inhuman agents to form a new generation of superheroes.

Alter Egos (2,782 words)

Daisy Johnson might be falling for her new roommate, but she has to hide her secret identity as the masked vigilante Quake. Her superhero rival, Captain Marvel, gets hurt one night on the job, and behind the helmet lies a surprise!

Stay With Me (1,469 words)

Carol wasn’t usually one for insecurity, but it threw her to see Daisy so completely surrounded by flirtation. Everyone of every gender at this house party was into Daisy, and Carol felt like a nerd compared to all of them.

Passed down like folk songs (884 words)

Daisy bumps into Carol at a pumpkin patch and they both feel like they know each other from somewhere...

No Tricks, All Treats (833 words)

Daisy's bakery is the final stop on Carol and little Monica's trick or treating with Halloween fun and silly fluff.

In My Room (1,082 words)

Daisy and Carol have been cast in the same movie, but with very different levels of fame. As their friendship blooms into mutual pining, they get a bit obsessed and lovesick along the way, but admitting their feelings would carry consequences for them both. (Part of the WIP below!)

Picnic poetry (1,000 words)

Carol has a special literary date night planned for Daisy.

Girl Friends to Girlfriends (1,917 words)

To earn money for a Christmas vacation with their friends, housemates and best friends Daisy and Carol sell their old stuff at a garage sale, but in the December chill, the conversation they’ve been avoiding reaches a tipping point everyone but them saw coming.

The Gift of Time (6,299 words)

A mysterious Christmas gift transports Carol to a future she needs to see, beginning with waking up in bed next to her superhero-coworker crush on the morning of Christmas Eve!

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WonderGirls (11,573 words so far)

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me whenever Marvel doubles down with their "Hydra are not really Nazis" bullshit:

[ghostfox]

I’m just really sad because Agents of Shield used to be my absolute favorite show. You could show me a thirty second clip and I could tell you what season and episode it was in. I would rewatch episodes all the time on Netflix, find time every Friday (or Wednesdays back in the day) to watch the newest episode, and I remember sucking my friends and family in to watching it with me. I loved it. But I hate season five.

I hate what they did to Daisy, I hate the way the show characterized Fitzsimmons (I never really shipped them in the first place, but still. I could at least stomach them until the second part of this season), I hate the unnecessary drama that had to be added in for some reason, and I hate that now the writers don’t give Simmons a personality anymore outside of Fitz. Honestly, I only really enjoyed Daisy’s fight scenes, the brief Skimmons hug, and the Philinda kiss.

It’s been five seasons and they still let Fitz get away with anything, force Daisy into situations she doesn’t even want to be in and find some demented way to punish her for any mistake she makes, and use the same old “the universe keeps pushing us apart” bullshit with Fitzsimmons.

I used to get so excited for this show but now I don’t even really know if I’ll watch season six.