Drawing for halloween day request 1: Loki in a dark ritual

Kinda wanna be kissed kinda wanna be stabbed

And he’s having a smoke and she’s taking a drag

Loki + tumblr [237/?]

you've heard of evidentiality now get ready for credulity

"i can't believe it happened"

"i believe it happened"

"i believe it might have happened"

"i don't believe it happened"

"i don't care whether or not it happened"

This post suggests the theoretical existence of at least 4 undiscovered types of butter

This is my truth 😌

ever since i was a little girl i knew i was gonna need a miracle

ever since i was a little girl i knew i was gonna need a miracle

s1 doctor who (2005) is so special to me. they had the budget of a potato. a dustbin eats a guy and burps in the pilot. it only really picks up around ep 5. nine in his jacket. rose in her peak dumbass era. the special effects that are just so bad so awful so terrible. the introduction of captain jack harkness the world was never the same. are you my mummy? what do you mean the time lords are dead doctor what the fuck do you mean you killed them all. bad wolf? bad wolf? fucking iconic.

Forlorn Edward in Tresco Gardens Sciliy (Archipelago)

- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

This right here? ⬆️ Circle it, then underline it.

You can't offer your opponent a compromise and expect them to just accept it.

Especially when the 'compromise' in question involves people's basic rights, dignity, or safety.

lord take all of my pain and sufferig and give it to elon musk

#we are in the darkest timeline

This was a whole thread, here are some of my favourites:

Marvel women, written by men: 🧍‍♀️I can’t have babies 👶🏻😫😢 I’m a monster 😢😢 yes this is the deepest my backstory can get btw 😉😨 isn’t it harrowing 😱

Marvel women, written by women: I will subject an entire town to my will if it means the chance to see you again. I will drink my grief, knowing I am damned and that I cannot protect you, and will still sing out my heart to crowds of thousands in the hopes they will keep you safe when I’m gone. I crave power so intensely that it has overpowered any sense of loyalty to anyone, and I will betray again and again and again, but I will still be wounded when you betray me because it was you. It was you.

Hm.

Yeah, and Natasha also deceived Ultron, guided the entire team to Sokovia when no one else knew where that robot was, she was willing to lay down her life to save the people there, she decided to stay when Banner was more than ready to take off...

Like... I know many people are mad at that line, but to try and act like Nat did nothing else in AoU always sits bad with me. And frankly, it doesn't make a female character any less feminist or whatever for not being able to have kids AND being sad about it. It's not just "oh, I can't be a momma, I'm so sad". It's a huge violation of her body's integrity and she went through it not like Yelena, she wasn't brainwashed. She (thinks) she's a monster because she (thinks) she let them do it to her. It makes perfect sense to me.

I'm furious at EG for her treatment, but AoU? Nah.

Also not to take away from this point because yes, good, but -

The line "you're not the only monster on the team" is delivered with important precontext. The only reason Natasha says it is because Bruce is saying that he can't give her a normal life and he's wondering what kind of happiness he could even provide for her. The idea of companionship alone being enough didn't occur to him at all, so he immediately leaps to - kids. She wants kids. That's what couples do. They raise a family. We are standing in a house full of children. He thinks that a white picket fence and 2.5 kids will make Natasha happy and that's the one thing he can't give her, and that makes him feel monstrous, because he feels so outside of the realm of "normal" adult behavior. He's Hulk. He breaks things, he doesn't create them. He's a monster simply by his nature now, a result of what was done to him.

Natasha recongizes this immediately and cuts to the chase by saying she can't have kids either. The white picket fence and 2.5 kids isn't the point here. Bruce is. Natasha then also explains about her surgery, an equal violation of her bodily autonomy and says, carefully, "you think you're the only monster on the team?"

She does not mean, genuinely, that they're both monsters because they can't have kids. It's because they can't have the same level of "normal" that it seems everyone wants around them. They can't have Clint's life. Not to the same extent. Natasha says this to reassure Bruce that the kids are not the point, but also to reach out and reassure him that he's not alone.

Natasha and Bruce can't have that "normal," and they both feel removed from society to an extent for unrelated reasons, and the only interaction they have with it is when they kill. It does make them feel monstrous. Especially with the added context that both Natasha and Bruce in the course of MCU make it clear they do want bio kids. Doesn't mean they can't adopt but it wasn't their first choice and they're allowed to want bio kids and grieve that they can't have that.

Like the thing is - Natasha is a very important piece of AoU, and when you look at it, Bruce is more her love interest than the other way around. But the important thing to remember is that narratively, they're not just love interests. They have discussions and relationships with other characters. If you remove them from the story it falls apart. Is their relationship a good part of AoU? No, I wouldn't say so. It's not the best written, the chemistry was awkward and disjointed, but this scene has never bothered me, because the layers to it are incredible.

Natasha could also equally mean that because of the lack of bodily autonomy, it made killing easier. It made everything easier. (What is everything, Natasha????) You think you're the only monster on the team? I don't feel anything when I kill. When I perform graphic acts of violence. You've been upset about hulk for the last day, but I don't share that level of guilt. We're the same Bruce. We're the same were the same. Why do you think I picked you? You make me feel seen because you know what it's like to have your bodily rights taken away. You make me feel like a person not just an experiment with a skillset. I can't have kids and I can never be normal but neither can you and we can share that grief together