#it aint good writing or even twisty

[fatbottombucky]

Marvel Series Are Weird... Right?

SPOILERS FOR HAWKEYE SERIES+ MORE

I find it so odd that Marvel has given A LOT of their characters massive character overhauls for their series... just to possibly never use them ever again (AKA them dying)

Hawkeye, for instance, I never really liked him- a better term would be 'cared for', especially MCU Clint- I just never found him that interesting and I thought adding his family in Ultron seemed weird, rather pushed upon us as some weird character development by Joss.

The show... is amazing. I went in for Kate Bishop, I'm now walking away from episode 4 with a newfound love for Clint (I fell in love with him in episode 1 tbh).

We see Clint having to deal with Endgame, a year on. So it's been a full year since the death of Natasha, which is STILL prevalent for him. Honestly, Natasha plays such a key role in his series, I thought she'd be referenced once or twice, but it's been multiple times with a few past shots of her. It's clear Clint has survivors guilt.

Clint is partially deaf and uses a hearing aid. This is from being around explosions and made worse from Endgame during the last fight. Clint told his wife about Ronin and she actively helps him (from home) with trying to get rid of his Ronin past.

Clint isn't a great father, but he's trying very hard to be present which is very difficult and can emotionally affect men because their relationship with their children is strained- I love that his series is touching on this, where he makes promises and REALLY struggles to follow through and leaves him feeling guilty about letting his family down.

SO... we get all this emotional development, plus some character development. We see him secretly enjoy Kate Bishop's questions and her excitedness over... him. The show pokes fun at the fact Clint doesn't have great branding and actually, people forget about him- which he finds nice cause his job is to be discreet.

Someone on TikTok called Clint the 'Passive Avenger', he didn't want or sign up to be one, but Loki making him passive in Avengers and having to watch as he had no control over himself made him become an Avenger.

The ending theory of Hawkeye is that Yelena (Natasha's sister from the movie Black Widow) is going to assassinate Clint, due to the fact, someone has put a Black Widow hit on him (she was chosen because Valentina Allegra de Fontaine told Yelena Clint killed Natasha).

We go through all this development with Clint, we find out so much about him, and his relationship with Natasha. Only to have him die?

What is it with Marvel and giving characters extreme character overhauls only to kill them, we had done to us with Loki, which I still haven't forgiven them for (despite getting a Loki series). The whole ten years with Loki and him being a villain, to passive and then, finally, redemption to only be killed by Thanos. I went on a journey with that character only... to have him die.

Same with Vision, I never really cared for him. The WandaVision series was AMAZING!!!! I learnt so much about him through Wanda and he taught her to let him go; to grieve. I think that series was emotionally beautiful but they did it again. They gave Vision a lot of development only to basically kill off the Vision we came to like.

Am I the only one slightly miffed by this?

IDK the thought of seeing Clint struggle to be a father, to being an unwilling mentor to Kate and dealing with his grief over his best friend... if they kill him off it's gonna suck. I think, at least, one original Avenger should get a chance at retirement (not accounting for Steve cause he had to go back in time to do his retirement) but also still be in this world.

I also think Clint should be the one to have a proper happy ending in the current MCU cause of Nat's sacrifice, she willingly gave up her life so he could see his kids (plus millions of others) again. She did that for him cause she knew, despite who he had become, Laura and his family will make him be Clint Barton again.

The whole killing characters off just so you don't have to mention them in future phases is just weird to me. Killing characters off for shock endings and twists is boring. Killing characters off because the actors are moving on is also lame, i mean, they never have to actually appear again they can just be named.

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big plant update because i have depression 

this is canach, i am pretty sure he is a torch plant (a type of aloe?) which is exciting because then he has the potential to get to 10 feet tall. since i moved him into this bigger pot a couple months ago hes had a bit of a growth spurt which is wild! i had him in a slightly smaller pot before and he barely grew the whole time he was so its great that as long as i keep giving him a bigger growth space, he’ll keep growing

everything from my finger up is new growth, w/ my finger for some kind of scale

he’s had these smaller growths at his base for a while. ive debated separating and repotting them but im not confident enough to do so without damaging the root ball yet... maybe if they get bigger i’ll do it in the spring but i dont want to risk too much over the winter yknow lmfao

next is tegwen... im not good at plant identification but i think shes either an echevaria or a graptoveria. shes had a bit of a rough patch... a lot of my plants have to be honest haha... but her new growth is very tight and healthy looking so i think shes doing well! her stem is quite extended from the soil line because i had an issue with some kind of root rot in one of my plants that almost spread to her because they were sharing a pot at the time, but i quickly repotted her and shes bounced back

these black marks are actually burn marks. my window is south-facing and the sun has been super low and bright for a couple of months now, and i unfortunately noticed too late that her leaves had literally been scorched by the sun :0 these marks have sort of scabbed over like scars now which is really interesting even if i do feel bad for letting her get burned 

finger for scale lol... the root-rot victim tegwen was sharing a pot with was this eschevaria i called carys. the main plant had 2 heads both of which perished but i managed to grab a few of these little offshoots who have been growing pretty well. fingers crossed for these... (the lone leaf is from a different plant, i had a couple that i took a chance with and only this leaf managed to grow a root, the others shrivelled... heres hoping for it)

trahearne... my dear trahearne. victim of an asshole cat who sat on him enough to fully snap him in half. i took these stems from his corpse and planted them and honestly theyre thriving, theyre incredibly strong and healthy and i even found another broken stem behind my radiator like 3 weeks later, planted that and THAT managed to bounce back. literally unkillable this bitch, love it. no idea what kind of succ he is except the immortal kind (maybe some kind of sedum?)

dearest ceara, i think she might be a sedum too? her stem is kind of twisty because i moved the pot around too much and she kept changing directions to get the most sun and now i had to rotate her again because her long offshoot stem was hanging directly over my radiator and was starting to look a little dried out but i couldnt water it more because the main plant was in a good state and i’d have ended up overwatering like a fuckin trolley problem but the track i chose is having a twisty stem rather than killing 5 people.

lol she looks overwatered in this pic. aint that life

wow literally in the space of writing this post the sun has set enough to change the lighting. anyway this is my jade plant malomedies! my biggest success story! he was originally like a quarter of this size and hes just grown and grown. got him at the same time as trahearne and a little fenestraria i called caithe (who unfortunately died after flowering twice) about 2.5 years ago (ive been keeping succulents for 3 years total so like... hes my long runner lol)

noticed recently these white dots on the leaves that are apparently just because of mineral deposits in the water and the timing of these leaves lines up with when i filled my water bottle from the bathroom tap bc i was too lazy to go downstairs so ;| its nothing to worry about and i think it actually looks really pretty lol.......... wild how plants can just do that

ok now get ready to press F bc this is my current struggle . . . . .

:weary: even looking at her makes me wanna die lmfao.......... no idea the ID but this is wynne... she had a fungal infection. ive never had to deal with a fungal infection before. i think it was white fungus bc it was big grey patches and the leaves were just dying... i had to cut off all the infected leaves and the ones that were left over arent doing well because i got paranoid of mildew and rubbed off all the epicuticular wax or whatever its called but they still have some strength so its like... maybe she’ll bounce back. maybe. maybe. u_u

this is her new growth... you can see where i rubbed the wax off in my zealousness :( i have my fingers crossed for her but like... can she really recover from something like this? am i powerful enough to bring someone this far gone back from the dead? who knows but i hate looking at her bc it makes me feel like a failure lmfao

lest we forget, in remembrance of plants past: caithe (fenestraria), faolain (eschevaria), riannoc (yucca), niahm (yucca), kahedins (yucca), original trahearne (???), original carys (eschevaria)

[onlyjihoons]

my boyfriend does my makeup voiceover; johnny ver.

ty tie-dyevibes said:hi i was already soft for jeno and that voiceover thing got me shookt. if you're taking requests one with the resident chicago boy himself would be amazing

a/n: at first i wasn’t really sure if i had much to write because johnny was on lipstick prince before, but @markleetrashh told me he couldn’t even find a mascara so here it is, though its a lil short,, i hope you like it:)

jeno ver. // request

ok so

this was heavily requested by your viewers

because

1. johnny was hot

2. he’s your bf

3. he’s been on lipstick prince so he should be good

4. they just like johnny 

and by alot, i mean

every single video, there would at least be like 30 people commenting for it

or more

surprisingly, johnny was really excited about the idea and you didn’t really need to bribe him or whatsoever

it was more like johnny begging asking you if he could do your makeup voiceover

so right now, on your shared bed, he’s recording for it

“hey guys its johnny here”

“i’ll be doing y/n’s makeup voiceover for today! woohoo”

“shall we start?”

“so, here is barefaced y/n, ooh she looks so pretty”

“johnny seo!”

“now she’s gonna paint her face with foun...dation? with too faced born this way foundation”

/sings born this way by lady gaga horrifically/

“and with this egg looking thing, she’s blending it all out”

“now for the concealer,, wait, y/n aren’t you supposed to conceal before foundation”

“i do it the way i like”

“anyhow, its from benefit called boi-ing industrial strength concealer, she’s putting it all over her blemishes”

“boiiiiing!!”

“i think she has blemishes because i kiss her too much on her face-- ow! okay okay IM SORRY BABE”

“now, she’s gonna draw her brows?? with a marker??”

“oh no she’s getting a twisty pencil out”

“i thought you’re drawing your brows with a marker today, i guess not”

“and then she does this thing where her brows magically appear all nice and sharp on ON FLEEK i know that word, babe”

“the brows aint on fleek babe its, straight, wyd”

“i do what i want johnny, just keep talking”

“i guess today she’s gonna look like an average korean with au naturael stuff”

“am i looking like your average korean now, johnny??”

“no, babe, you’re prettier, way more beautiful than the average”

“so now she’s getting this palette of brown stuff, that looks like eye shadow”

“it is eye shadow, goddamit johnny you were on lipstick prince”

“i remember no shit”

“on it says Naked 2, i don’t know what she’s trying to tell me rn”

“its just the name of the palette, don’t overthink”

“while we’re talking, she gets some white glitter and brown glitter stuff but her eyes don’t look like they’ve been punched so that’s good”

“rn she’s gonna do eyeliner, I KNOW THIS”

“con.gra.tu.la.tions”

“using a marker she’s gonna draw a line on her eyes”

“and then she uses this thing with a brush with black icky stuff to coat it on her eyelashes”

“done!! here y/n’s eyes look rlly nice”

“now she’s getting too faced sweet peach glow thing”

“with the peach thing in the middle, she’s putting it on her cheeks”

“then the another white thing on the side on her cheeks too?? wow y/n isn’t that too much product”

“lastly she’s gonna do that gradient thing rowoon did that gained him those noona hearts”

“with peri pera peri’s ink in i dunno some red colour”

“and then she’s done!! she doesn’t look goth and all that, i really like it”

“that’s it for today guys, thank you for watching”

“please remember to like, share, and subscribe to y/n’s channel!”

“and show some love to y/n too”

“byeeeeee”

and then johnny stops recording

“babe, that was so difficult, those makeup look the same”

“what did you even learn from lipstick prince”

“that rowoon just gets the noonas everytime”