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5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

yes and no. i can’t, at the top of my head think of specific pairings that i shipped before fandom that i don’t anymore; but there’s definitely ships that i was divorced from when i entered fandom that i now really loudly am passionate about just because i know fandom is horrible to them. the most particular example i can come up with is pepperony, because i definitely went through a period right at the start of fandom where i ended up, by accident, following a lot of anti pepperony stevetony blogs and i was still quite new to fandom so i read a lot of meta that in hindsight was clearly from a Pepper comes in the middle of my white mlm ship perspective than it actually was productive and insightful perceptions of characters. So i definitely had a period where i wasn’t very pro Pepperony, ive since moved past that and recognised my own misogyny in that line of thinking.

 i was also kind of into ironstrange for a brief period post IW, until i realised that most, if not all ironstrange fics (at the time anyway) were just replacing Steve Rogers with Stephen Strange, and it just felt more Anti Steve than it was pro ironstrange. The same exists to a degree with ironbat, because you’re actually hard-pressed to find ironbat content not set in a post CACW world; but i was lucky enough to come to ironbat much later, so it didn’t affect my enjoyment of the ship as much. 

9. Most disliked character(s)? Why?

WANDA FUCKING MAXIMOFF. I appreciate that there’s people who like her, and I guess each to their own, but I despise mcu Wanda. I can’t stand the fact that everyone is so comfortable to gloss over the fact that she willingly!!joined HYDRA!!a nazi organisation!!for the sole purpose!!of KILLING Tony Stark!!and that’s somehow okay!!

I’m just - im not sure right if i just watched a completely different film than everybody else, but Wanda literally joins HYDRA for the purpose of getting back with Tony, FUCKS WITH EVERYBODY’S MINDS and then faces zero repercussions,,,literally confirms on screen!! that she purposely sent Tony into a self destructive state by showing him his worst fears,,,,joins forces with Ultron!! only leaves Ultron when she realises that Ultron doesn’t plan to spare her and her brother in his quest to kill humanity,,,says some bullshit line about Ultron doesn’t know the difference between saving the world and ending it, who do you think he gets that from? KNOWING FULL WELL THAT SHE SENT TONY INTO A SELF DESTRUCTIVE STATE IN THE FIRST PLACE,,,never apologises for everything that she does

and then in CACW she fucking loses control of her powers in Lagos!! killing and injuring people!! and still somehow plays the victim!! PUTS VISION THROUGH THE FLOOR when he tries to protect her (again, bearing in mind that she literally just killed people and isn’t an american citizen, which actually means that Tony agreeing to keep her in the Compound was likely Tony’s way of protecting her from worse scenarios because we all know how nice the US is to immigrants,,,especially quote unquote dangerous immigrants)

and then!! empties an entire parking lot!! onto Tony!! just because she was upset!!! 

anyway i fucking hate her

10. Most disliked arc? Why?

i think the fact that Tony’s arc ends with him dying. I hate the direction most arcs went in Endgame, but i particularly hate Tony’s because the explanation was that Tony had five years of a good life so clearly he had his happy ending and it was okay for him to die but somehow the same was not okay for Cl*nt or Scott because they had a family to go back to. like!!so did Tony!! you gave him a daughter and a wife!! he also had a family to go back to!!

also there’s something very fucked up about how Tony, the character who goes through the most visible trauma - i have meta somewhere about how Iron Man is the only superhero to visibly take on damage) - both physically and mentally (bearing in mind that his whole arc in im3 is his fight against pstd); and wins,,,he learns to deal with his trauma and recovers and fights it -- and is then shown to die. it’s a very subliminal message, but the fact that he doesn’t get a happy ending, this character that we see persevere through both internal and external struggles, the fact that his arc ends with him dying; it’s just fucked up.

and then you watch hoco and ffh and you realise oh!! it doesn’t fucking end there!! you’re just going to milk Tony as this cash cow and come up with this whole new list of laundry defects that he has,,,for villains to get mad about,,,because god forbid the villain in a superhero film actually have beef with the superhero himself,,,no it’s much better for him to dislike the superhero’s mentor and for the superhero to just get caught up in the drama,,,,and let’s make the man who’s arc STARTED with him stopping weapons production make a shit ton of weapons and give it to some teenager,,,completely negating all his character development because he’s clearly just right back where he started -- with his tech in the wrong hands,,,

and basically i just have a lot of beef with how Tony’s character is handled by the R*ssos and i think the R*ssos should be blacklisted from making films cuz they clearly have characters they favour and when you make ensemble films like this you have to give due credit and consideration to all characters - not just kill the ones you don’t like. 

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