#mcu-ish

[spidey-official]

guys im like insanely single. stop asking about deadpool and torch and daredevil and whoever the fuck else you guys think i have a thing with. i do not. i, instead, have this very cool thing called a civilian identity. who is so, insanely not interested in revealing himself to the general public, which also means keeping work and play separate. calm down and leave me alone about it

[thisshadowwrites]

i have seen gay porn less homoerotically charged than whatever the fuck they were doing in that hyundai civic

[lukreziaaa]

“We were gone for quite a while. But no matter what happens next,

the galaxy still needs its Guardians.”

[jamesbukkakebarnes]

let's ignore the fact that i've been super inactive and focus on them 💕 i just want yall to know i think abt stevebucky (and alpine) constantly 😭

anyway it's my birthday, and ive been doing a lot of Thinking and idk, i think im gonna start posting art w/o worrying abt if it's good or not. so here's steve and bucky and little alpine sleeping in (i love that for them) 🩷

[ourflagmeansheartbreak]

Rewatching WandaVision and remembering just how bad Agatha traumatised 13 year old Billy like

[harpoonsnotspoons]

He can't stop telling people what went on in the Honda Odyssey

[gloriousburden]

Avengers Loki demanding that you kneel before him, and you get all flustered before you do so. You kneel, but quite hesitantly for someone who’s wellbeing is at stake. You’re looking up at him and nervously spit out something along the lines of.. ‘Um… I haven’t really done this before..’ and Loki, not realizing you misunderstood and took his demand in a completely different light, is a little confused by your reaction and just thinks ‘Obviously ???’

And he’s thinking really hard about this. A god hasn’t attempted to subjugate midgard in a while.. Considering your kind’s lifespan on average, obviously you haven’t done this before.. Oh, the humans are so silly. Such lost creatures.

[textsfromthetva]

The Onion + Loki (8/?)

[hydrasheadscientistmcu]

The Lab

ask me questions! Ask about my experiments, what I work on, I would love to share.

/Artemia Stár is the head scientist of HYDRA and does highly questionable research and methods to obtain said research. She believes knowledge is above all else, including human life. She works for HYDRA because they are really the only people willing to supply her with the means she needs to do her work. She is highly intelligent and always ten steps ahead. She has ways to put anything right back on her track. Usually it’s a ‘you don’t bother me I don’t bother you’ kind of deal unless HYDRA captures you to be a Subject. She is highly organized with tons of backup plans, because as already mentioned she believes knowledge to be above all else and so will go far lengths to protect it. She is also comparable to being almost entirely emotionless, and does not give pity or remorse to her subjects. To her, failure is simply a stepping stone, and she sees information in all situations and is a master at using that information later.

appearance: Dark-ish red hair, pale skin with no freckles, and gray eyes. Wears simple black clothes and a long white lab coat that contains tons of hidden pockets. She almost always has a pen and clipboard with her./

(feel free to rp, just if it’s a detailed one take it seriously and it kind of bothers me if you like, are inconsistent and stuff. Idk. It’s a writer thing maybe. Just respect how my character (Artemia) would act etc. like no, she does not have better rooms. She has basically prison cells that are bigger and all white. Also she most likely wouldn’t interact with children and I don’t like it if someone is being overpowered or changing thing just so it ends up better for them)

has a younger sister: @notascientistfromthemcu

[voylitscope]

The way I am insulted by this email I got after I watched CA:TWS last night:

Hey, did you enjoy Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Did you enjoy Steve Rogers as a character? Did you enjoy literally anything about Steve and Bucky's relationship? Well, we actually hate when people like those things. We hate it so much that we're going to suggest you watch MCU movies in an order that makes absolutely no sense and would confuse you deeply if you really did it. We're going to suggest you make a totally illogical jump in films and watch Endgame next!

Like, I don't really think that whatever algorithm Disney+ uses to send out these marketing emails takes any of that into account. But. For fuck's sake.

[rainbowsuitcase]

crack

Steve looks him in the eyes exactly once on the quinjet from Germany, flinches away like he's been burned and does his best to not even look in his direction again.

As far as first soulmate meetings go, Tony thinks this one could have gone better.

He tries to confront Steve about it on the helicarrier, but when he shouts, "So we're just not gonna talk about it?"

Steve replies, "No," in such a harsh and definite tone that it shuts up even Tony.

After the battle, Steve and everyone else moves into the Tower and Cap does his best to avoid Tony at all cost. And while Tony is the absolute best at avoiding personal conversations, even he has some kind of a limit.

When he's in the kitchen and Steve steps out of the elevator, notices him and makes to turn right around, it just bursts out of him. "Okay, what the fuck is your problem with me?"

Steve opens his mouth but hesitates to say anything, so Tony continues.

"Because I get it, okay? I don't exactly love you either. But we should at least fucking talk about it."

"Tony," Steve sighs. "I don't have a problem with you."

Tony snorts. "Could've fooled me."

He can actually see Steve's jaw clench. "The problem," he says quietly, "is that you're a Stark."

"Well, fuck you too, Rogers."

"No-" Steve clicks his tongue, frustrated. "Tony. You're Howard's son."

Now, hatred of Howard is something Tony can more than handle. "Okay, sure." He nods. "I hate that guy too, fuck him, he was an ass-"

"He was also my soulmate."

"What."

Steve stares at him.

Tony wants to scream.

Maybe they really didn't need to talk about it.

[rancid-zinnia-onthepatio]

MCU's Mysterio was lackluster.

DISCLAIMER: if you like MCU Mysterio THAT IS FINE. I probably love a character you dislike! This is my opinion, it’s not fact.

I become very passionate about characterization, so it’s likely this can be seen as an overreaction to other people. But this is what I like to do so :DDD (I love over-analyzing characters)

So, I’ve obviously been in a Mysterio phase the past little while. I watched Far From Home because I had only heard from people around me about the MCU version of the character. I never watched any MCU movies (besides NWH when it came out), so I didn't know what to expect. At this point, I have watched all of TSSM, read Mysterio’s first issue and a couple others from that era, watched his episodes in the ‘94 cartoon, read Webspinners, and Amazing Mary Jane. I say I have some understanding of what/who Mysterio essentially is.

MCU’s Mysterio, in my opinion, isn’t a good representation of who Mysterio is as a character. The movie seems to only understand him at a surface level. What similarities does MCU’s version have with the common comic consensus? He’s good with technology (and some acting), he’s a liar and a manipulator, and was underappreciated by the people around him. They both also mention illusions, as that is Mysterio’s ENTIRE shtick.

However, I’d argue MCU’s version doesn’t really delve as much into that aspect as it could. Yes, at the time of Mysterio’s debut in the comics, CGI wasn’t really a thing. Perhaps the MCU decided to “modernize” him. But instead, it felt to me, like someone painting an old Victorian house beige to modernize it. Changing his practical effects/magician knowledge to an understanding of holograms feels cheap. Comic Mysterio would absolutely HATE exclusively using CGI. Do other variants use holograms? Yes, TSSM used them a few times. But he also included practical props and magic tricks. Mysterio is a multi-media creative, not just a technician. (To me, anyway.)

The last scene of the movie that features Beck had the perfect opportunity for him to use a robotic clone instead of ANOTHER hologram to trick Peter while he was dying. The smoke surrounding him could've been emitted by the drones, but it was holographic too.

But, holograms are all MCU Beck knows. The other members of his crew had all of the creative or technical traits that the multi-talented stuntman of the comics would have. His character, Quentin, wasn’t even his idea. (Quentin isn’t even his real name, apparently. But we never find out his real name, we just know him as Beck.)

He’s a liar and a manipulator, sure, but that's the most he has that's really in line with who Mysterio is.

He doesn’t have that signature ego the traditional Mysterio is solely reliant on. (To the point where most jabs about him made by Spidey are about said pride. Even in an old PS2 game he called a large robot version of Mysterio “almost as big as [his] ego.”)

When he saves the city from the water elemental, he simply salutes and leaves while the crowd cheers. Mysterio would encourage the cheering, revel in it, as that’s who he is. Hell, even while fighting every elemental in the movie, he does not even try to make a snarky remark or make himself seem cool. (He never even speaks! Only when Peter joins him in fighting does he speak during fights, but it's only to Peter.) Webspinners gave us the idea that Beck knows he’s not the coolest guy ever, but as Mysterio, he can be greater. There is no separation between Beck and Mysterio in the movie, there’s hardly a mask he is putting on (or rather fishbowl). Sure, he tells Spider-Man that “Mysterio is the truth!” seemingly to make Mysterio a symbol, but it falls flat for me.

Usually, Beck and Mysterio are almost two distinct people. Mysterio in the movie has no signature voice or way of speech that makes him grander than the average joe Beck is.

MCU Beck’s given backstory can be interesting, if it weren’t for how it is framed. Note: I do not care about Tony Stark or any of his friends, everything I know about him is surface level. Beck expresses that his holographic technology was taken by Stark and insulted. Supposedly, Beck was fired for being, as he put it, “unstable.” We do not see what this really means. How this scene read to me is that a rich man took advantage of an employee, and thus framed him as mentally unwell to discredit him should he speak up. It could be from my knowledge of Disney’s employee treatment that gives me this icky feeling seeing this scene being framed as “unreasonable” in a way. How dare Beck, a man who’s life's work was stolen and insulted by someone much more powerful than him, get angry at the MCU’s golden boy?

Could Beck be an unreliable narrator here? Absolutely, but from what I heard this is not the first time something like this happens in regards to Stark.

Beck, to me, didn’t read like a loser who puts on a fishbowl to take on a much bigger personality. He feels like a man who you could replace with anyone, and it wouldn’t make that much of a change.

It is such a difference watching that movie, then watching any of his variants in cartoons or reading them in the comics. It’s not even an interesting difference. It’s not a twist on his character that makes me go “Oh, that’s cool.” I'm just left disappointed.

If Beck wasn’t framed as an irrational, short-tempered monster after his “twist reveal,” there could be something to say about his character. He has a legitimate reason to be upset, but it sucks that that is the only motivation he has (and that this motivation drives him so up the wall that he’s willing to kill Peter and mass amounts of people. Mysterio is rarely framed as a killer, from what I’ve seen.).

Yes, Beck is traditionally a very petty man. But my issue is that the backstory also just HAS to include Tony for the sake of Disney's meatriding of him and for Peter's grief the whole movie.

If we use this backstory for him, it could be a representation of lower wage employees being treated as disposable. It could give him some much needed depth. This depth is lost when he gets the “angry killer” characterization after his reveal. It no longer feels like a backstory that makes the audience sympathetic towards him, it feels like we’re just supposed to see that story as the supporting evidence for him being “unstable.” (Because Disney doesn’t want us to side with the lower wage employees that they regularly take advantage of. Look guys! He’s the villain for a reason!)

I could be wrong. This could be a show of how a grudge can turn you into a shell of your former self and lead you down a bad path. Perhaps Beck did have some mental health issues that enhanced his irrationality and anger, but I don’t think that was the intent at all. The framing doesn't feel like we're supposed to feel bad for him. But I do to an extent.

MCU “Quentin” Beck does not feel like Mysterio. He just feels like a guy who knows how to make holograms and maybe says the word "illusion" five or so times.

The illusion Peter is stuck in before he gets hit by a train is actually the only scene I like. There are creative visuals and trippy imagery. But that's one scene, and it's not even that long. Disney, you made the pink elephants on parade segment, do that more.

I simply wished we got the pathetic theater major we ("we" as in Mysterio likers) know and love.

tagged: @mango-water, @cronchyy2, @bluebutterflytears

[curlyhairedintrovertsworld]

madame web is cool (no, seriously fr), but wouldn't it be cooler if it was more canonically connected to the spider man movies? peter parker having four spider aunts??? like yes??? an aunt who always seems to know things before they happen? an aunt that teaches and supports his love/curiosity for academics? the aunt that is sweet and awkward just like him? the cool aunt that lets him eat too much ice cream and buys him all his lego and science gadgets? our peter could have had it all, and he would have deserved every bit of it

[hainethehero]

[sunnysideprincess]

[When The Fire Burns]

Fill for prompt purpleicedteas submitted to @tonysbirthdaygala event

"tony is touched starved and is in desperate need of some cuddles - maybe more" and "bdsm au"

Ao3 link

[worstloki]

I like the jotun horn jewelry/decoration thing but i think it wouldnt be like. Gold. Bc where are they getting gold from? Where are they mining it and smelting it and stuff? Idk why. It just doesnt compute in my brain, it doesnt seem to fit their whole thing and mentslly i csnt imagine the place having a ton of gold thst didnt get ripped away when they lost the war. Even though aesthetically i get that it looks nice.

I don’t even mind Jotunheim naturally having a lot of gold *in the past*, (or whenever) I just don’t like the way people use it as an orientalism-vibe literary device. There’s often no explanation given for the gold either, especially in a post-colonised world unless there’s a note on ‘this is ALL the gold Jotunheim had left and LOKI has it bc he needs to look pretty (and like a woman)’