I want Loki and Bucky to be best friends. I need them to be a chaotic duo. I need them to bond over being mind controlled, being confused by modern day midgardians, to play random pranks.
I love them both so much, I just love the idea of them being really good friends.
If I had a nickle for every time I had a ship that was in hindsight canon for a good 12 years but never got complete confirmation because for one part it would have been a “cultural” no-go for half of the target audience and for another part the ship will absolutely not mention The Thing unless they are likely to die within minutes (that way we do get an one-sided verbal declaration); regardless, everybody they meet just assumes they belong together, including some of the writers; … then I would have two nickles. Which isn’t much, but weird that it happened twice.
I know we like to make fun of Bucky having the weakest serium. Like he’s constantly being beat up by super soldiers. But I think he has one of the strongest. Like Steve. He just holds back a lot of his strength because he doesn’t want to hurt anyone to badly; even in a fight.
In the fight against the winter soldier and Captain America (in CATWS) Bucky is dominating the fight against Steve, Sam, and Nat. The only reason he leaves is because he had the perfect escape route when Sam kicked him and Nat shot a rocket launcher at him. There are plenty other fights like this when Bucky is being controlled.
I think he holds back his strength because even in a fight, he knows he can kill someone with one punch and he hates the idea of it.
(Also this scene when he could have easily killed that flag smasher and just impaired the knife into the floor as a warning so he didn’t actually hurt them. )
Well, it’s official. Fictional men have ruined real men for me.
You’re not going to read me poetry that puts into words all that we can’t say because we’re too busy protecting our found family, but at least there’s pining? Darling, no thank you.
We don’t have a Latin phrase that immediately evokes our relationship? Romance is dead.
We don’t have a theme song? What are we supposed to dance to right before Armageddon then? Riddle me that one, Batman.
You’re not going to make up a story to express your undying love for me, without actually expressing your undying love for me? Honey, just no.
We’re not going to have a “rivals-who-learn-to-respect-each-other-over-time-to-friends-to-lovers” arc? Why are you even here then.
If I tell you that I love you at an important moment in the plot are you going to say you love me too or are you going to respond with a sarcastic one liner? These are the important questions, dear one.
I just had a thought. We all love morally grey guys with dark hair, but who was the guy like that we all grew up with? Percy Jackson.
He’s a skater boy, intimidating. He is a mama’s boy which makes it better but he literally decided to go on his first quest to find his mom, in the process becoming a national fugitive at 12. Just to try and punch Hades and actually fighting Ares. He became the prophecy boy and did all the good stuff partially out of spite.
There is a reason he was taken instead of Annabeth. He is the lover that would tear the world apart if you got hurt or taken. He would have torn apart Olympus until Hera gave her back, memory intact. He would give you the world if you asked for it. He would give Annabeth anything she asked for.
He’s the hero of the story we grew up with, so it makes sense that he is what we are attracted to. He is basically our blueprint. You don’t have to agree, but I realized this earlier today.
The moment you realize that Nico Di Angelo could have seen Disney’s Snow White in theaters, when it first came out in 1938. Little baby Nico sitting with his sister and watching Snow run from her evil stepmother. Oh wow.
That moment when you’re staring at your ceiling and realize (not for the first time), that you are so behind in the Rick Riorden books and you feel terrible because you know the spoilers but you just don’t have access to them. Or you have every book except the one you need. And you need the first and second. Gah. I have started both Trials and Magnus Chase…I’m a bad fan.
So…I was just thinking about how I watched Good Omens with my mom, who read the book when it came out. I instantly got hooked on these characters and love them dearly. But my first instinct was to grab two of my most religious friends and make them watch it with me.
Lucky for me; they both love it and one even cosplayed a Fem!Aziraphale to my Crowley. I love them so much.
So this is an appreciation post for them (I doubt they will ever see this) and Good omens. I love it.
Everyone on the Squint team on Bones, obviously Bones, but Zach, Hodgins, all the other interns, Cam, I see them as autistic-coded. May just be me but the way they interact. The way Hodgins needs Angela to help him focus while Booth dose the same to bones…I love it.
I know there is no justifying the terribleness if JKR naming the one of the only POC characters two last names of different cultures. Just because they are historically “Asian”. Nice, lumping everyone on a continent together.
But I had a thought that could redeem this.
What if her name was Cho-Chang. As in one complete last name, from both parents of varying cultures. And what if (this is a guess, I don’t know if this is an actual thing but I think it’s cool), outside her family, no one actually knew her first name. Like everyone calls her Cho because that’s the first part of her last name and while it may not be her first name, it’s considered a sort of nickname.
I also like to think that her being a Ravenclaw (while it may be a stereotype, rude) is because she is extremely intelligent, creative. She is the character we like to bash for crying a lot. But it makes sense, her boyfriend was murdered. And yes, she and Harry kisses but people rebound. Especially when they are mourning, plus Harry and Cedric both being triwizard champions created a connection between them. And Cho just wants her boyfriend back, so she projecting him onto the only person like him.
Cho gets a lot of flack, and she doesn’t deserve it. She’s grieving and a textbook way. She had to be smart, in any kind of way. Doesn’t have to be academically, to get into Ravenclaw. To be honest, I just want her happy.
*I am in no way defending JKR, I just thought of this and thought it was a cool idea.*
