#mcu positivity

[lavendercupids]

dont think about how agatha all along could be considered as a queer allegory. dont think about how agathas mom telling her shes born evil is the exact same thing so many parents have told their children after they came out. dont think about how lilia hating the witch stereotypes is the same way queer people who dont fit typical lgbtq stereotypes feel. dont think about how when lilia said i loved being a witch after so much time spent hating it is how queer people feel when they can finally appreciate and accept and love who they are.

[she1smyscar]

You guys don't understand ( actually you probably do ) , but Agatha saying "Ask a straight lady" is the best line ever cuz us gays be saying shit like this CONSTANTLY and straight writers trying to write gay and lesbian characters never understand the assignment and for a Marvel Witch show to be the first one with such a relatable and REAL line for us is NOT what I saw in the cards as far as representation goes, but here we are. And I'm obsessed with it!

[mischievous-thunder]

Laura wants to know everything about her new Papa

[iheartsteve0704]

I truly hope Kathryn Aubrey and Jac know just how monumental this show and agathario has been for queer girls who like girls and grew up with the famously straight MCU

[yellowwwcrayon]

one is giving bringing my roommate to the hospital after he got food poisoning from stealing my leftovers vibes and the other looks like grandson helping depressed grandfather to bed after a violent bout of alcoholism

[ironspidersblog]

[quartings]

Happy 10th anniversary to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1!!!

This series and these characters mean the world to me, and I can't believe that through all the insanity of the last decade, they managed to get 3 amazing films, 3 crossover appearances, and 1 holiday special!

I'm also happy that the critical and commercial success of this series had a butterfly effect of getting James Gunn his current spot of head of DC! Hopefully the next 10 years of DC movies and shows will bring us even more amazing stories and characters!

[little-cereal-draws]

Layla: do you ever want to talk about your feelings, Marc

Marc: no

Steven: I do

Layla: I know, Steven

Steven: I’m sad

Layla: I know, Steven

[serenastark-official]

🎄✨ Merry Christmas, everyone! ✨🎄

This time of year always reminds me of the things that matter most—family, friends, love, and a little chaos (because what’s Christmas without a little Stark-level drama, right?).

Christmas in the Stark household is never just about the lights (although Dad insists on a ridiculous amount of arc reactor-themed ornaments) or the presents (Morgan and I are in an ongoing debate about who the better gift-wrapper is—hint: it’s me).

It’s about family.

As I sit here, with Morgan’s laughter echoing through the halls and Dad’s holographic reindeer projection gone rogue, I feel so incredibly grateful for the people in my life. Mom’s in the kitchen trying to outdo last year’s Christmas dinner (spoiler alert: she’s already winning), and somewhere, Loki and Laurya are conjuring “festive mischief” involving enchanted snowflakes.

Life isn’t perfect, and it’s not supposed to be. But in moments like these—when everyone I care about is under one roof, teasing, laughing, and just being themselves—I realize how much warmth and light we can create for each other, even in the coldest of seasons.

Here’s to twinkling lights, cheesy holiday movies, cookies that may or may not survive Morgan’s "taste test," and to the people who make this season bright.

I hope your holiday season is filled with love, laughter, and maybe even a little magic. Sending hugs and Christmas cheer your way. Remember, you’re never alone. You’ve got me

Love always, Serena P.S. Dad says we’re naming his runaway hologram Rudolph 2.0.

[cabinetofquriosities]

I am challenging myself to write as many Agatha All Along fics as I can before tomorrow. Let me know if any of you have suggestions you want to see for a one-shot!

[sunflowerdigs]

Here's my thing (after watching some of the Thor movies). MCU has queer-coded the fuck out of Loki since his introduction because he has been a villain (it's at Jafar levels, honestly), and now that queer fans are reasonably asking them to put up or shut up because there's a man he's not related to that he's gotten extremely close with, MCU is like "Bisexual? Who is she? We don't know her. Genderfluid? Do they even exist? Male friendship is all that you should expect from us."

Of course, I'm grateful for what we've gotten because it's not nothing. The Lokius friendship has at least been allowed to exist as it is without negative commentary or jokes at its expense (in fact, much of the humor around it bolsters the romantic subtext, like the shots of people reacting to their adorable bickering). But still. Given the amount of feminine-coded and queer-coded characteristics MCU has given Loki in order to, honestly, make the audience other/dislike him from the jump and make their job as creators easier, Marvel could, at the very least, acknowledge Mobius as a positive romantic possibility for Loki. And stop pretending that people who see something romantic there are imagining things, as though Loki being attracted to a man is wishful thinking.

[bromcommie]

so I was digging through the Vast Legally Grey Junkyards of the Internet in search of better quality footage from AoU for my edits, specifically the scene with the CA FASCIST grafitti in Sokovia—which I unfortunately didn't find, but what I DID find was a bunch of deleted/expanded scenes that I didn't know/didn't care enough to pay attention to before. Which is fine. Most of it is techno babble and rushed plot setup. However. This stupid-ass ten second clip makes me literally insane. It makes me. Want to kill and maim and chew on the bars of my enclosure. And not in the sense that the contents make me oh-so-emotional, but because the potential of them could. Because what do you mean.

What do you mean those four and a half lines were cut for pacing/time when it's a ten second difference and the rest of the scene is in the film anyway. What do you mean you cut it because it didn't fit the narrative. It's literally couched in two minutes of plot it could've been so easy to slip it in there. A passing reference that would add at least a smidgen of depth to both the (already fucking incomprehensible) plot + politics of the antagonists, and to one of the main fucking characters. Like you were SO close what do you mean you cut every feeble attempt that was made to scratch the surface of Steve's character outside the whole nightmare scene we're supposed to feel so bad about what do you MEAN.

The fact that this minimal exchange—paired with that graffiti scene where Steve is confronted with the actual legacy of Captain America and what he's come to mean to people around the world and then quite physically discards the identity + him still circling back to the mantle at the end of the film anyway because he doesn't know how to do or be anything else, feels like he's too changed for this idea of a normal life that stems from before the war and the ice and doesn't know how to live without carrying that, without being useful in this one specific way—has more meat on its bones in the whole lead up to Civil War and ultimately Endgame than half of this movie's sledgehammer-over-the-head lines about home and family with Barton's kids laughing in the background or whatever like some fucked up C list hallmark movie is downright infuriating to me because like. You clearly thought about it. It passed through your head. You wrote some version of it into the scene. You shot it and edited it and watched it a few times and then you went "nah off it goes to the cutting room floor, we have enough of that. Add those seven and a half seconds to the 20-minute long, entirely CGI Hulk sequence, that we need more of. Surely that will fix the pacing issue".

Side note: this is me not even getting into the fact that, at this point in the franchise, this would have been one of the few lines we'd get of Maria actually saying something or interacting with anyone in a way that is even marginally removed (which this barely is) from simply delivering plot information. This is the only time we kinda get her view on something or even an inkling that she used to be a goddamn intelligence agent. And how that history informs her view of the situation and how it could possibly clash with Steve's own. And that woman is in every fucking movie. (Not to mention the fact that the two of them were just in a movie together, for Christ's sake, and going through something together you could pretty fairly characterize as traumatic and bond-inspiring to boot—and in AoU we can barely tell they even know each other. I mean the bar is so low and they still managed to limbo right under it.)

[she1smyscar]

Straight (gay) from the mouth of Nicky's father 🥴

[mischievous-thunder]

A few days later:

Wolvie bear found a freak like that at long last

[tonkysexist]

Now is an important time to remind you that the MCU is a vessel for American military propaganda. They will be including the zionist propaganda character Sabra in the next Captain America movie. I better not see even ONE of you say “You guys just can’t handle when women are powerful” or “she’s a girlboss” when talking about a symbol of genocide and an apartheid state.

[therealraewest]

Honestly it would be so funny if they introduced Hunters Moon to the MCU show because so much of Marc's motivation in season 1 was trying to keep Khonshu from choosing Layla as his next avatar, because surely a god can only have a singular avatar at a time and it may as well be him

Meanwhile Badr out here as Khonshu's second Fist like