#widow reponses

[the-blackest-spider]

STARTER PROMPTS : Assorted Secret Agent / Spy Prompts

Accepting (Mutuals Only)

@poeticphoenix​ left a message: "Do you know how to drive this thing?"

"I would hope so," a small snort left the petite woman as she tossed some red curls that had slipped over her shoulder back, "it is my bike after all." a hint of smugness was wrapped around her words before she moved to straddle the metal beast with a touch of grace. Just about any movement she made was like that, fluid as a dancer's, even when fighting brutally there was a beauty to it.

She eyed the other redhead with some curiosity and amusement, both showing in the deep green of her eyes and the slight curve to her full lips. A thought, an idea crossed her mind, causing her head to tilt a little while she continued to look at him, those rogue strands of red once again slipping over her shoulder.

"Do you like it?" She inquired before tossing him an offer, "I can take you for a ride if you want." She only had one helmet, which she held out to him out of habit and politeness.

[bellne]

I can't believe I somehow missed a spoiler for this game

I saw the death flags and dismissed them 'cause I thought they wouldn't dare kill Azura when she's a playable character.

It was especially depresing 'cause I married her to Kaden and his epilogue was all "despite being married, he still did whatever" and I stood there like bro. Bro. His wife evaporated. He's a widower, he has no reponsabilities to his wife anymore.

[flightlogmcu]

Flight Log Blog #8

Hey Everyone!

So...I may have fell asleep on Monday and forgot to post, but I'm glad I waited til today cause BOI did things kick off this week!

1. BLACK WIDOW TRAILER

https://youtu.be/RxAtuMu_ph4

NATASHA IS BACK! The Black Widow trailer dropped on Tuesday, and every second of it was amazing. I really missed Natasha as she's such an integral character in terms of Marvel, and to get one good glimpse (albeit 10 years late) of her life pre SHIELD is amazing. The movie comes out May 2020!

2. GOT7 MAMA 2019

https://youtu.be/BE2FsGqILvw

Now... we're all aware that GOT7 isn't respected like they should be, especially by the MAMA. It wasn't any different this year either, but I'd like to focus on the positive.

GOT7 received 2 awards at MAMA; Best Dance Performance, and World Fan's Choice. The boys did a stellar performance which is no surprise there, and looked handsome to the point of trying to kill me.

And of course you can't have GOT7 at an award show without them being absolute crackheads. Bambam was his shy self when the camera pointed at him, and his derp face when JB was giving his speech was priceless. And the boys had their table confiscated due to water bottle flipping, playing with the lamps, and just general 5 year old behavior.

But of course THE moment that everyone is talking about is this:

JYP for some reason decided to perform and his outfit was...yeah. Jackson's face explained what we all was thinking and it ended up going viral. Leave it to Jackson Wang to be the most talked about person just for being himself.

Despite some people (Mnet, JYP, Korea) tried to put GOT7 down, the boys were the highlight of the event. And I'm proud that the boys will still shine no matter what.

3. FLIGHT LOG ASKS & UPDATES

So a couple of cool asks that I received this week hone in on Jackson and Yugyeom's abilities

I read at some point that you gave Jackson the power of invisibility. Considering what he has said in the past about that particular topic, how would others who know both of these facts about him react? -Anon

Jackson's abilities of invisiblility are fairly new, so he's got plenty of chances to mess around with them or use them in a fight. Since Jackson's abilities are either unpredictable and plentiful, the only people who know what his powers are are Dr. Strange, Tony, Daisy, and Mark to a certain extent. With the Avengers, they understand that Jackson's invisibility is a good tool to use, but for Mark and Daisy its used as a prank in which the general reponse is "Jackson I swear to God if you pull that again I will deck you in your face".

Just how far do Yugy's powers extend? -Anon

So this runs into spoiler territory so I can't say much, but Yugyeom is similar to Elsa in which its powerful and hard to control. However, you all will get the basis of Yugyeom's powers in the last chapter of Departure III. I know that sucks because the last time I updated was in August but I will try to make sure you all get a good amount of this story done before the year is done.

That wraps up this very eventful week. I'm currently on the road, so sorry if this post looks a bit weird.

See you Monday! (For real this time)

[spanishskulduggery]

Widow Dildo Story reponse: I think she was just too stressed with what was happening at the time that she didn't give much of a response other than a very strange look lol. The interpreter didn't even realize his mistake until several weeks later when he asked an interpreting friend why she may have looked at him weird. Sorry for a bad climax to the story. :p

idk “bad climax” made up for it to me ;D

[nerdylittleshit]

The problem with the DCEU or Plot vs Characters

Now, before I start this post I would like to say this isn’t in any way intented to be wank. While I think that the movies of the DC Extended Universe have their problems I don’t think they are as terrible as some people made them. If anything they did entertain me. This post is rather a reponse to a comment I saw a lot in reviews for Wonder Woman: that WW saved the DCEU and is the first movie to get good critics. So, let’s take a look back to the movies of the DCEU so far, let’s see what they did right, what they could do better and what I think is the main problem of the DCEU.

One of the biggest problems of the DCEU is, and there is no way we can’t talk about this, Marvel. Marvel has already established their Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DCEU now feels like a response to it. Unless you are a die hard DC fan most people are familiar with the movies of the MCU and will likely compare these two cinematic universes. And so far it seems like the MCU is the better one. Of course the comparison isn’t balanced. By june 2017 the DCEU contains four movies, the MCU though 15, with number 16 (Spiderman: Homecoming) at the ready. But in a way it feels like this part of the problem. The DCEU tries to do the same thing as the MCU, which ultimately is to bring their established characters together (because why else would they share a universe if not for them to meet?), but they are trying to do in a faster way.

The MCU started in 2008 with Iron Man. By the time we saw the first ensemble movie, The Avengers, four years have passed and we had another Iron Man movie along with three other origin movies (Captain America, Thor and the Hulk movie nobody ever talks about). By the time the Avengers movie came around we already knew these characters because they either were given origin movies (Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Thor) and were otherwise introduced as characters (Nick Fury, Black Widow, Loki). The only new guy was Hawkeye. Avengers worked because it didn’t need to introduce and established its characters. Ensemble movies are always harder when it comes to the characters, simply because they are so much and you can’t give all of them the same screen time if you want to tell a story as well. Simply speaking what the MCU did was to establish and develop their characters in their respective solo movies - they are the character moments so to say - whereas the ensemble movies (Avengers 1&2, Captain America: Civil War) move along the plot. (Of course the solo movies have plot as well and the ensemble movies have character moments, it is just a very abstract way of categorizing these movies).

Now, compare this to the DCEU: Man of Steel (Solo/origin movie), Batman v Superman (ensemble movie), Suicide Squad (ensemble movie), Wonder Woman (Solo/origin movie), Justice League (not released yet but another ensemble movie). The ensemble movies are the ones fans want to see - I remember the exictement over the first Avengers movie because for the first time several superheroes would work together on a big screen. But these movies only work if you have established the characters we see first. Instead of taking their time as the MCU did what DC did felt rushed. They didn’t take their time to establish their characters, which I think is the main reason the movies didn’t work. But let’s take a closer look.

Man of Steel (2013)

I liked this movie for the greater part. I have to admit I wasn’t that familar with the character of Superman/Clark Kent, despite general pop culture knowledge. I haven’t seen any of the other many Superman movies or shows like Smallville, so I had no real expections watching this movie. The reason I liked it though is that it takes its time to explore the character of Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman. The conflict of being a child of two worlds, about finding out who or what he is and whether or not he owes this world to save it was what made this movie worth watching. All of those character moments were the strong points of the movie. I admit I wasn’t particular interested in all the action we saw in the second part of the movie; the big fights and explosions are never my jam. But the movie did establish the main character, it showed us the person Clark is and the hero Superman is and much of the conflict we saw in Batman v Superman (the potentional abuse of power) was already brought to life as well.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

First things first, if you haven’t seen this movie yet, please watch the extended cut. They cut out around 30 minutes of the movie; not only character moments though (who always get cut out first) but plot points as well. The overall tone of the movie doesn’t change and neither the things that didn’t work, but it is the version that makes more sense while watching/feels more coherensive.

As I said I feel the DCEU rushed things. Releasing an ensemble movie so soon felt like a desperate move. The only character that we already know is Superman (and well Lois) and therefore to no surprise the scenes that worked for me the most were the ones regarding Superman and the main conflict of the potentional danger of Superman/his powers. As I said they continued these themes from Man of Steel, so we were already familar with them and they didn’t need a lot of explaining.

The problem is that Batman v Superman needs to be a second Superman movie, a Batman movie and a teaser for Wonder Woman and Justice League all in one movie. That is a lot to handle and the reason the movies feels a bit stuffed. Because boy is there a lot of plot. I guess they wanted to establish Lex Luther as a criminal mastermind and tell a complex story, but with everything that was going on it were the characters who suffered the most.

Batman is the character that doesn’t need another origin movie and feels like he is well known enough to simply throw him into the movie. But the more I think about it the more it would have made sense to release a Batman solo movie before Batman v Superman. It would have established the character (and for that we don’t need an origin movie per se) and explained the character better. I had some problems with his character, because he did seem like an overly agressive guy, a one man army to live out male fantasies of violence, near a psychotic breakdown. What happened to that guy? Robin’s death was mentioned but it might have played a role in it. Showing us how Robin died would have (probably) explained this dark version of Batman and would have already introduced the Joker and Harley Quinn (as Suicide Squad established they were responsible for Robin’s death). (It still wouldn’t have explained the Martha twist though, because it still doesn’t make sense, no matter how you look at it).

Same goes for Wonder Woman. I know they probably wanted to introduce her as this mysterious woman, but everyone who saw a trailer or just the movie poster knew already who she was. The photograph was meant to tease the Wonder Woman movie. But just imagine Wonder Woman would have been released before Batman v Superman. Diana would have still remained a mystery, because she seems to be nothing like the woman we saw in her solo movie. We know that 98 years passed between her first adventoure and Dawn of Justice, which leads to the question what happened in between. Did she return to Themyscira? Did she stay in the human world? If so why are there no more records of her other than some very recent photos and the one from 1918? Also remember the end after Superman sacrficied himself and Lois comes to the scene? She looks at Diana who shakes her head; there is a silent understanding between the two of them. With the knowledge that Diana lost a lover as well the scene makes way more sense.

In short, less plot, more character moments, establishing character in their solo movies before releasing an ensemble movie.

Suicide Squad (2016)

Even worse than Batman v Superman we didn’t know any of the characters before this movie. What they did then was exposition. Lots and lots of exposition. So much that it seemed that they forgot about the second act and we were rushed to the third act. The movie didn’t even try to balance out their characters, but focused instead mainly on Deadshot and Harley Quinn. Which worked for Deadshot, because his story/motivation was simply: everything he did he did for his daughter. Harley Quinn though? I still have questions about her and her relationship to the joker (and it sucked that she wasn’t a character on her own but a woman defined by the relationship to a guy). We hardly saw anything of Harleen Quinzel and the reasons why she fell for a psychopath. And they didn’t even bother with some other characters at all. Slipknot was only there to show us that Amanda Waller meant business and why exactly was Katana in the movie? In all fairness the movie was entertaining but completely missed to make me feel for the characters. Of course you can’t give all of them their own origin movie, but as I said before they could have introduced Harley Quinn and the Joker in a Batman movie for example.

Wonder Woman (2017)

The movie that did everything right. I couldn’t care less about the big bad or the big fight at the end, but it didn’t matter. Why? Because I watched the movie for the character. And they did everything right in showing us who Diana is and what she stands for. The reason why the no man’s land had such a great impact and is the one everyone talks about? Because it is the moment Diana became Wonder Woman. Even though it is an action sequence technically it is a character moment. Not only managed the movie to establish the main character but the supporting characters as well. We feel Diana’s pain after Steve died, because we know about the character and the relationship these two had.

So what does it mean for Justice League? By then we are familiar with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. The movie will introduce us to Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg though, so we will likely see a lot of exposition and bringing the gang together stuff. In order to make the movie still work I think they have to focus more on the characters this time, especially the ones we haven’t met yet, and their relationships with each other, instead of presenting us another complicated plot. The plot is always secondary to the characters, because in order for the plot to work we need to care about the characters first. To me Man of Steel and Wonder Woman are so far the best movies of the DCEU because they are character driven. Let’s hope they took some notes after the sucess of Wonder Woman and we will see more solo and/or origin movies in the future before we get another ensemble movie. 

[dragonie]

for the uncommon oc questsions: 36, 40, 43 for your choice! (also A and B if you want)

once again I’m gonna choose Mari to maintain an even balance!

36. Do they actively seek romance, or do they wait for it to fall into their lap?

She doesn’t seek romance much, although that’s more out of circumstance than personality - Nate and her were high school sweethearts so in the pre-war world it’s been a long time since she was single, and in the post-war world she’s been recently widowed and lost everything and the situation is not really conducive to looking for love; the thing with Preston just kind of happens. In an AU without all this shit surrounding her she’d probably be more proactive.

40. How sensitive are they to their own flaws?

She’s pretty sensitive to them. She doesn’t take her reponsibility to the Minutemen lightly, so evaluates herself quite critically after every mission, and tends to blame herself for anything that goes wrong.

43. If someone asked them to explain their sexuality, how would they do so?

With an uncertain shrug, probably. She’s bi but she doesn’t really start to figure out her interest in women until after the war. Factors such as her initial hesitance to confide in Nate in case he got jealous, the later deterioration of their relationship, her increasing isolation, and pressure from society to fit into the idealised image of a housewife left her with basically no one she dared to talk to until after the world blew to pieces. Afterwards, however, she starts to work things out with the support of her new friends.

A) Why are you excited about this character?

Answered here!

B) What inspired you to create them?

Well, for one thing, I needed a Sole Survivor :P Quite a bit of her backstory comes from me trying to reconcile the whole white-picket-fence image Todd gives us with like, actual pre-war canon from the series lol. Other things were developed while playing the game, like finding a leather jacket and saying “of course she wears this,” or picking up a Hot Rodder magazine and saying “oh of course all her power armour will have flame decals.”

[jdrespling]

AMC, Regal close all theaters in reponse to coronavirus pandemic

America’s largest movie theater chain, AMC Theaters is closing all of its locations due to the coronavirus pandemic. Late last week, it was announced that many major cinema chains, including AMC would show films at half capacity.

On March 16, AMC officially announced that all of its cinemas will be closed for the next six to twelve weeks, starting today, March 17. 

Read More: ‘Black Widow’…

[the-blackest-spider]

"🙋" + favorite brand of hair brush

Send "🙋" + any headcanons you want to know about my muse.

Accepting | Open

Because I headcanon Natasha having ridiculously thick and curly hair (to read said headcanon go here) she needs a brush that will go through her hair, but gently and that can be used on wet hair, because a comb is a bitch to get through thick, curly wet hair and it pulls something terrible when it comes to any tangles. So a wet hair brush, one with good reviews on amazon (or other verses equivalent of).

[the-blackest-spider]

What's your favorite food?

Random Asks | Always Accepting

"Strawberries." She stated without any hesitation, "preferrably sweet and juicey ones." She didn't mind a little hint of tartness, but not too much, and there was nothing worse than biting into a strawberry and it being dry.

[the-blackest-spider]

How do you feel about how dependent Clint Barton is on you? If you weren't there, what a different person he'd be.

Angst Inducing Anon Asks 

Accepting | Open to anyone

A derisive snort left the Widow', those green eyes somehow growing sharper, and yet there's a flash of something else, something deep and personal, guilt is what she'd call it, but not exactly.

"You have it wrong…" her head shakes, red curls moving with the motion, "I've always depended on him… and he'd be who he is, I'm the one who changed, but…" she hesitates for a moment, teeth digging into the plump flesh of her lower lip, her gaze briefly wavering.

He would be safer, better off if I wasn't here… if I was still dead.

"Nevermind."

Those thoughts were forced away, she knew better, and she knew if Clint ever found out she felt that way it would hurt him deeply.