#thinkfast

[wakandas]

1. thinkfast - prodigy / speed

[redibinch]

David Alleyne has had Tommy Shepherd erased from his memory. Please never mention their relationship to him again.

Thank you.

[the-spideytorch-fanboy]

10 2025 predictions:

Johnny Storm and Peter Parker make out with tongue on panel

Johnny Storm and Peter Parker make out with tongue on panel

Johnny Storm and Peter Parker make out with tongue on panel

Thinkfast get back together

Johnny Storm and Peter Parker make out with tongue on panel

Sam and Roberto finally confess their love to each other

Johnny Storm and Peter Parker make out with tongue on panel

Bobby Drake finally gets a long-term boyfriend

Johnny Storm and Peter Parker make out with tongue on panel

Johnny Storm and Peter Parker get married on panel

[indigo-brainspark]

I refuse to believe the Young Avengers were a stable superhero team. They are the most toxic hateful teen friend group ever. the cassie-jonah-nate love corner that escalated to homicide. the spirit twin combo of "i have no idea how to control these powers" and "i have control and also live to antagonize all of you". kate bishop w her three different romance storylines – sometimes at the same time – with members of that same group. the bickering and gossip and general animosity. you'd think oh wickling is fine, they're a stable relationship. WRONG. DAVID WITH A STEEL CHAIR, A CRUSH, AND AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.

and after that's done, he hooks up w the brother of the guy he just convinced Teddy to take a break from dating. then america chavez is over here raised with the idea that her now-teammate is a god who created her world.

so you think. surely that's it. what more can there be. fuck u. spirit twins' demon brother is currently propositioning cassie's dead (ex??)-bf & also young avengers member. everything's on fire and they all hate each other but there's no one else they'd trust to watch their backs.

[morgangalaxy43]

Scott totally rivals Vision in terms of not having any straight kids between Rachel dating Betsy and everything that Cable and Wade have going on

[plutonicbees]

studying for a degree in yapology

[fightabear]

Someone return him to David.

[blankie-greenie-anon]

Where was that post that was like "Marvel's next Pride issues should be of their queer characters having beef with other queer characters and being messy, having affairs, threesomes, etc." because I want to add ThinkFast to it.

I want David and Tommy to accidentally go to the same bar with their dates, and they try to be all "We broke up amicably, so we can party in the same place without it being weird!" And then 1 ½ drinks later, the two of them are making out in the restroom. And one of them asks "Why did we break up again?" and the other says "I honestly can't remember." And they continue making out.

And later, Gwenpool in her own Pride issue peeps in to answer "You don't remember because the writers were too lazy to come up with a reason! And now, after lots of angry fanmail, they realized their mistake!"

Here's your daily reminder to email officex@marvel.com to let them know that breaking up ThinkFast was a huge mistake! 🤗

And their dates find out, of course. Drama ensues. The issue ends there.

[runlikethewynd]

Drew David and Tommy to cope with that dreadful news of them breaking up...❤‍🩹

ThinkFast, you will always be famous~! 🥺🫶🏻

[woaghhh]

david looks so good and tommy is working so hard looking in the other direction

[chaoticjjcakes]

Ok, so I’m gonna go on a little rant on here.

I’m a marvel comics fan, my favorite comics were the young avengers comics and absolutely loved the dynamics between the characters. I particularly loved Tommy Shepherd, also known as Speed. Out of the entire lineup of Young Avengers, I somehow saw a piece of myself within his character. But his treatment in Marvel Comics definitely leaves something to be desired. Especially with the whole thinkfast breakup which is is my last straw.

First of all, the writers reasoning for breaking breaking Tommy and David up is ABSOLUTE HORSESHIT! Tommy has no connections to the x-men, no connections to Krakoa, ITS NOT EVEN CONFIRMED IF HE AND BILLY ARE MUTANTS OR NOT! (Which is a whole other ballgame I don’t wanna get into) Their reasoning is flimsy at best and bullshit at worst because of this, and it gets even worse when you introduce a new love interest so soon after they break up OFF PANEL with a seemingly insulting dig at Tommy within the comic.

Second of all, I’m worried how this will affect Tommy’s appearances in comics. The last time we saw him was the scarlet witch and quicksilver miniseries. He barely, if ever gets any appearances anymore and the ones he does show up in, he was with David (Which is probably why the writer thought Tommy was an X-men connection). Tommy is frequently left out of major story arcs and team-ups, leading to me feeling that he is somehow forgotten by the writers and creators at Marvel. While Tommy has been a part of the Young Avengers, he is often overshadowed by other more prominent characters like Kate Bishop, America Chavez, Cassie Lang who’s with Antman, Noh-Varr whos with the guardians of the galaxy, his mother, his uncle, even his own twin brother! He’s often underutilized as well and when he is there, he’s just the goofier version of quicksilver.

Third, we barely get any sense of actual character from him and in moments we do it’s just immediately dropped. First example: scarlet witch and quicksilver #3, where he actively mentioned Davids supposed death (cuz he definitely didn’t know that David was actually alive? I’m kinda confused about this?) and he seemed to be kinda disassociated from with stating he wasn’t there until Pietro snapped him out of it. This isn’t the first time someone has died and Tommy wasn’t there. He finds his mom’s dead body before Trial of Magneto and later in issue 1, seems disassociated when talking with Kevin. In the infinity comics, he states that people always forget about him. I see that he probably often finds himself overlooked and underutilized within the vast universe of superheroes.

Just to headcanon with fact: It’s somewhat implied he may have been neglected. I mean we barely know anything about his life before except that his parents were divorced and he was in and out of juvie until he was a teenager. Considering that they didn’t give a shit about him, leaving their child alone to the court system, and then not contacting him. (Though I doubt he would want that.) He so desperately wants a family, and he sees that in the young avengers, in the magnet family (even if they’re a little fucked up, they’re infinitely better). The team breaks him out, and a kid who looks exactly like him says they’re brothers and this powerful witch is their mother. He doesn’t want to believe it. He can’t believe it because that means he has another family that actually cares about him. Then they find out about everything Wanda went through and he takes in the connection even further. The team goes on a few missions and find out they could save his mom, and then they go through trauma via teammates dying and and the avengers/x-men fighting over his spirit mom. The team decides to breakup, he doesn’t want this to happen, the only thing he has being taken from him, he doesn’t want this to end. But it does, and it hurts, especially because his brother is willing to let go of it so easily. And it’s even harder because he’s living with him, his boyfriend, and other family who’s too nice and so he leaves and no one apparently cares. He goes on with heroics alone, working jobs, meets David and recruits him for a stakeout, then gets kidnapped by an entity. He then comes back almost a year later and has to take it in stride. He goes through so much traumatic and sad shit and either no one cares or they’re too busy. He doesn’t have much support. David seemed to be the only support he had and they’re broken up now. Wanda has her own shit, Pietro has his own shit, Billy has his own shit. HIS OTHER TEAMMATES HAVE THEIR OWN SHIT!

I’d imagine he’d have some type of resentment towards everyone, especially Billy. He has the perfect husband, perfect family, has a great relationship with their spiritual mother, and has unimaginable power. In the infinity comics master pandemonium seemingly implied Tommy has some kind of powerful potential, but we haven’t seen that yet. They haven’t even made any foreshadowing towards that. But I’d imagine after the whole break up with David, he’d have a mental breakdown from all the shit he went through. His boyfriend dying twice while he wasn’t there, after the second time David breaks up with him then gets a new boyfriend almost immediately (I don’t know the timeframe, I’m sorry), I’d crack too.

Considering all of this I introduce the following options:

1.) Put him in a new team. Have him be apart of a new team of youngish heroes, or better yet make him a mentor. He’s great with kids. I can’t think of any actual teams he could be on, but just let him be a part of a team. Please?!

2.) Have him interact with more characters. Have him interact with his family more. Wanda, Pietro, Lorna, Billy, fucking Magneto and Luna, give him more interactions with them. Have him mention talking to Kate Bishop. OR ELI BRADLEY ANOTHER CHARCTER YOU’VE SEEMINGLY FORGOT MARVEL!

3.) Give him his own miniseries. Or a fucking arc. I wanna see my baby do something cool, not play second fiddle to Billy for once. Billy gets several different comics to appear in and has so much power. Give Tommy a power upgrade like in the fanfics. Develop his powers more, like those headcanons where he could manipulate time and space. If the writers on ao3 can do that, you can do it too. Or better yet, have him be an antihero, that would absolutely fit him better. Didn’t he literally kill people when he first appeared? Have him be a bit more violent when dealing with bad guys. Not completely sociopathic, just a bit chaotic.

Anyway, please stop sleeping on Tommy Shepherd Marvel, he has so much more potential, you don’t even know.

Thank you for listening to my Ted-Talk!

Edit: Another thing I’d like to add to this is the fact that in other universes, Tommy is the magic twin…

Or Billy and him have unimaginable power…

So I know that Marvel can explore this. No excuse to just throw Tommy to the wayside like this while Billy gets all the glory.

[tommyheadcanons]

I headcanon that Tommy is still together with David

[boy-venus42069]

Hello, I realized I’ve been like absorbing soooo much white gay comic content (Superbat, Scogan, Spideytorch, etc) and I was wondering there were any like black gay or even interracial gay ships from Marvel/DC that I could engage with? I used to read X-Factor so I’m familiar with Thinkfast, which is now like not even a thing anymore apparently? 😭😭😭 But if anyone has any recs I’d really appreciate it cuz I wanna see some black queer canon,fanon, and fanart if there is any.

[lemonyinks]

Back away from her.

I was in an imra mood, so i had to redraw one of my favorite panels from Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) #123

She's so badass here

+ word bubble version that i didn't like and a closeup that i liked <3

[morgangalaxy43]

It’s funny to me that Vision and Wanda doesn’t have a single straight child

[plutonicbees]

okay well now I'm sitting here thinking abt how much tommy absolutely cared for david and "i can't lose anyone else" and "I wasn't there. I wasn't there." and feeling so much guilt for how this is the second time david has died without tommy during their relationship

and then when david does come back from the dead (again), they break up, so tommy still loses him.

and david is supposedly getting a new boyfriend? so quickly after the end of this relationship? amicable breakup or not, there's no way tommy isn't feeling all fucked up about this

i'm so fucked up abt this. where did it all go wrong :(