YA #5: the freakout prologue
I, um. Have my own impressions of that preview, but it’s likely we’re missing more information and I could be wrong. Pessimism, cynicism, JiM spoilers, and YA preview spoilers inside.
yeah but if you try to use the “i will kill you” line to villainize thor u best be takin a few steps back because I will write you a fucking essay on why you need to stop now please
its not like he ever means it anyway
they both know he’s…
YOUNG AVENGERS CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS (8/9)
THOMAS “TOMMY” SHEPHERD
ALIAS
Speed
POWERS AND ABILITIES
Speed is a mutant who possesses the power of supersonic speed, which also enables him to become intangible and as well as the ability of molecular destabilization. He also has superhuman strength, agility, durability, and reflexes.
ORIGIN
Tommy Shepherd was born in New Jersey to Frank and Mary Shepherd, who divorced while he was still young. He has spent most of his life in and out of juvenile halls. Due to “accidentally” vaporizing his high school with his powers, he was placed in a high-powered facility.
After Hulking was captured, the Young Avengers used the Avengers Fail-Safe Program to locate reinforcements to help them free Billy, and tracked down Tommy. They released him and he joined the team.
READ MORE ABOUT TOMMY SHEPHERD
Foggy is the closest thing Matt has to family. They’re closer than most brothers are. So it’s really affecting Matt in ways that he doesn’t even consciously acknowledge at this point, but he will be forced to recognize later. Since he put his life back together and made an effort to start enjoying it, the loss of Foggy is something he’s never really considered. Now he’s grown aware that this could be the Jenga piece the loss of which could topple his entire Jenga tower of sanity.
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Agent Coulson is down
#gif warning #avengers #okay but why does nOBODY EVER TALK ABOUT THE GENERATION GAP #come on guys this is the MOST INTERESTING THING #look if steve had lived through the war he would have been part of that post-wwii generation #imagine steve in the 60S GUYS #you think he would have put up with those young folks disrespecting those soldiers and his country by protesting the war? HECK NO #remember that scene at the beginning of ca:tfa where he tells off that guy in the movie theater? THAT WOULD BE STEVE IN THE 60S #and tony is in his 40s!! tony is gen x! tony is NOT EVEN A BOOMER #tony is TOO YOUNG TO BE A BABY BOOMER tony is YOUNGER THAN OUR PARENTS #tony doesn’t know what it’s like to live in a country that’s in total war! tony doesn’t know what it’s like for loyalty to your country t… #to be something that almost everyone has! #look guys we make fun of america ALL THE TIME we mock patriotism and nationalism and the usa CON STANT LY #when steve hears the word soldier he equates it with the word hero #and when tony hears the word soldier he hears an insult. #because steve’s war is wwii #and tony’s wars are vietnam and iraq and afghanistan and tony knows that when america fights wars it is not necessarily the good guy! #and steve cannot even BEGIN to comprehend that #steve barely knows what WATERGATE is for god’s sake steve probably still trusts the government #steve doesn’t know about jfk conspiracy theories! steve doesn’t know about the patriot act #(and let me remind you that in 616 canon steve actually fought a war to bring down the expy!patriot act) #god america has grown up SO MUCH since steve’s day #americans are sarcastic and cynical and plugged into the media 24/7 #americans depricate themselves constantly americans hate america more than anybody else does #pearl harbor turned america into a unified force for change in the world; 9/11 turned america into something paranoid and bitter #steve no longer represents america #he represents what america wishes it had ever been #and tony? tony understands the usa a whole lot better than steve does and he knows it and steve never will #and tony understands how war can destroy and steve only understands how it can save #holy christ why would you write porn when you could write about that
Avengers: the Children’s Crusade #9
WHOA I never noticed this panel of scott and kate before? god this actually makes me unbearably sad like holy shit his daughter and her
girlfriendbest friend just got murdered and yet here he is with the avengers welcoming her into the fold with support and encouragement.and obviously kate would’ve heard a billion stories about scott from cassie, kate’s probably the one who knew better than anyone what it meant to cassie to have scott back for that short while, and in catching scott up on her life cassie would’ve talked about kate more than anyone, about the other girl on the team, the one with no superpowers, just a bow and arrow and a quiver full of sass, a role model if ever there was one, and scott would know how kate protected cassie from the very beginning, how she was there for his daughter at a time when he couldn’t be.
wow you know what I can’t handle this at all
I’ve reblogged this a lot lately but no fucks are given because those comments are new.
Tommy Tommy Tommy
I had a dream that Tommy ended up in Wolverine and the X-Men to finish his GED and ended up becoming a permanent fixture there. Here’s hoping that besides YA.2 #6 Tommy will be added to a team!
Can I just tell y’all how NOT SYMPATHETIC I feel towards comics!Clint right now? Dude, you fucked up in ways that make so little sense in my head I cannot even. I can only hope that there is SERIOUS grovelling in your future.
Clint has never been…
“The Lady Darcy submits to the will of no man,” Thor said with a grin. “Tis a foolish soul who would even make an attempt to-”
-The Best of Life and Asgard, scifigrl47 (x)
Yeah, I love Darcy. I love that the movies allows Darcy to exist. I love that she’s someone who’s there to support the main female character and she is this FORCE, this gleeful creature who doesn’t flinch from any of this weirdness, who has her own style, even sitting in an abandoned gas station in the middle of the goddamn desert. I love that she takes all of this in stride, that she doesn’t melt down and she doesn’t fight Jane over Thor, that she snaps to work in an emergency, and does her best to support her boss/friend at all times.
I love the thought of her on that roof, side by side with Jane, pop tarts and iPod and stupid fandom jokes included. I love that she tasers Thor, and doesn’t feel any guilt or get slapped down for it by the script. He was big, he was threatening, he was obviously irrational, and she protected herself and her friends, and that was her choice, and she sticks by it.
I love that Darcy IS. I love that she’s there, not as a love interest or someone to ‘steal’ Thor or mock Jane or create conflict. I love that she’s truly a friend. And the narrative doesn’t mock her for it. Every “Mary Sue” accusation I’ve gotten in this fandom has been for my writing of Darcy, and it’s funny to me. My actual OCs never get that accusation, but Darcy, with her honesty, and her moxie, and her loyalty and her utter owning of her life and her body and her sexuality?
Somehow, she’s the character that’s ’wrong’ for the narrative, that breaks the fourth wall with her awesome. And you know what? I’m fine with that. Viva la Darce. 8)
