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after seeing so many of my favorite ships go up in catastrophic flames when they should have EASILY stuck their landings, the finale of mrs. davis was extremely fulfilling on multiple levels. and NO i don't mean in a biTteRsWEet way either.

#mrs. davis #i'll never be over the butchering of ichiruki and reylo till the day that i die #but mrs. davis had such a satisfying ending #i had completely forgotten what that felt like #everything was resolved and nothing was a stupid reddit theory #and they were not allergic to romance #the main ship was beautifully handled #everyone should watch it #which of course means no one did #it has a female lead who isn't male gazey #has a focus on spirituality and mother-daughter relationships #machismo is parodied etc. #sister simone #elizabeth abbott #betty gilpin #preston john wiley iii #jake mcdorman #simone/wiley #elizabeth/wiley #lizzie/wiley

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well there's your answer! fifteen year time skip confirms their ghoulish commitment to keeping both reylo and ben dead dead dead for all eternity

#reylo #ben solo #they don't give a fuck! #so stop giving them money

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this is all i hear whenever baghra speaks

#shadow and bone #sab #darkling #aleksandr morozov #baghra #baghra morozova #the darkling #alexander morozov

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does anyone know if a haladriel/sauriel supercut exists? i'd like to watch their scenes over again in one piece if anyone has done the kindness of stitching them together

#halbrand #haladriel #saurondriel #galadriel #sauriel

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my favorite thing is when people see any remotely protagonist/antagonist flavored het ship gaining some semblance of attention and immediately start bellyaching about the existence of reylo.

yes of course, because reylo is the first ever sort-of-but-only-superficially ETL ship in recorded human history. it must be that these other productions are blindly following the crazed reylo trend. even though reylo was conceived by LF while they were working on TFA and so couldn't have originated purely within fandom, and even though it was only canon for 5.7 seconds before being wiped off the face of the earth and never acknowledged by SW ever again.

it can't be that ETL often engenders a lot of qualities that viewers might find intriguing like exaggerated tension, high stakes, moral conflict, dramatic emotional arcs, betrayals, possibly a dash of physicality or intense eye contact between maybe romantically unattached characters. no it's definitely because some CEO is betting that even the most perfunctory replication of two characters who kissed once in 2019 will earn them enough extra cash to warrant a brand new offshore tax haven if echoed in their own project.

#reylo #yes this is about Those Ships from ROP and WF #the best part is that ben doesn't even serve the same function antagonist-wise as the other two guys #he's not even a proper villain and it was patently obvious he was never supposed to be to all but the most braindead #the ROP comparison is especially hilarious to me considering it's a prequel #meaning there's zero chance JRRT will rise from the dead to destroy the established book canon #just because a tv show was filmed a little sexy and some people liked that #ben solo #haladriel #saudriel #saurondriel

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sharon's unceremoniously trashed white suit tfatws concept art being hastily pasted into that comic con poster doesn't mean anything for her re: CA4. they're just using sharon to disguise their pathetic lack of female representation, as usual. the same thing they did during promo for tfatws before it came out (expectation: she's an important heroic character who eventually fights alongside sam and bucky. reality: she's a minimal-screentime plot device masquerading as an incompetent villain in a show with no female lead.). they have no qualms with false advertising if the perceived aura of girlboss feminism gives shareholders the warm and fuzzies.

because of this stupid design choice she's become a visible target for fandom attacks and cruelty, for the millionth time. it's like no matter how many years pass these creeps never let up, even though they got what they wanted. and it would all be endurable if WE ever got even a single thing we wanted and evc deserved.

it's not that they CAN'T treat sharon right, it's that they WON'T.

#anti mcu #sharon carter #emily vancamp #anti-mcu #remember in the face of negative reception feige proudly praised the pb garbage? #yeah we're screwed for life unless he gets amnesia #or the mcu sharon fandom suddenly grows exponentially enough to drown out the extremely loud antis on almost every avenue of social media #the best we can hope for is that she just never appears again so that we don't have to watch her burn down king's landing #they've had the opportunity to give sharon her due repeatedly for years and years now #and look at the culmination of all their allegedly herculean efforts #the mcu's religious adherence to their One Woman At A Time policy causes unfortunate image gaffes like this from time to time #whenever sj was unavailable for promo during the previous CA films then evc would be swapped in to appear at events or talk shows #even tptb had enough self awareness to realize that their packs of male actors needed to be offset by at least one female #lest the general public get the right idea about the mcu's business purpose #boy dollars #everything is about boy dollars #revenge wasn't male gazey and evc wasn't sexualized #so even though she was perfect for sharon she was completely unsuitable for the mcu #a magical place where redditors routinely say the black widow solo film is the worst of all natasha's appearances on film #they wax poetic about her acting #but it's really just because her vacuum sealed derriere didn't conspicuously graze the camera lens every 14 minutes #don't worry though #they will graciously tolerate the next mcu sharon when she's inevitably recast with the latest 20-something sexpot du jour #like feige originally wanted in the first place #or at least they'll pretend to tolerate her until she gets thrown off a cliff or becomes a mother or gets replaced with a younger model

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so jane getting mjolnir was just fridging with extra steps

#anti mcu #anti-mcu #jane foster

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i decided not to watch the rest of st because of what they did to chrissy (in addition to the, you know, general lack of quality) but i heard about what happened in the second half and SPOILERS

eddie is dead now too?? i'll allow myself a smidgen of schadenfreude

i guess besides both eddie and chrissy living, this is technically the °•. °•. sEcONd beSt OpTiON .•° .•°

but i'm still going to die bitter and hate everything forever

#chrissy cunningham #cheddie #chreddie #eddissy #eddssy #edissy #edssy #eddsy #can you tell i have no idea what the consensus on the ship name is lol #anti stranger things #anti-stranger things #d/uffers can still choke of course

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WHYYYY GOD WHYY!!!

SHE COULD'VE BEEN A HERO IN A SUIT LIKE SHE WAS ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE, THEY HAD IT ALL PREPARED LIKE WE THOUGHT, HOW COULD THEY TAKE ALL THIS AWAY FROM MEEEEE

HOW COULD THEY RUIN HER AFTER ALL THIS, IT WAS ALL RIGHT HERE, WHO'S HORRIBLE IDEA WAS IT TO DESTROY HER AND WHY IS KEVIN FILLED WITH SO MUCH DISDAIN FOR EVC THAT HE HAPPILY AGREED TO IT??!!

WHHYYYYYYYYYY

#sharon carter #anti mcu #anti-mcu #emily vancamp #EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE AND EVERYTHING HURTS #not even all caps can convey the depths of my eternal agony and anguish #throwing myself off every building on every planet in every galaxy

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jaimie alexander interviewing on the red carpet for the premiere... disastrous non answers...she didn't even need to train for filming... it's going to be even worse than the leaks...war flashbacks to evc and her terrible tfatws press interviews...when they shaft your character so bad but you still have to pretend the storyline makes sense...or you have to mindlessly promote the product when you didn't get an ounce of earnest effort or interest from the writers... and your character is belittled and sidelined over and over until your inevitable grisly end... oh and you don't have any cheesy anecdotes about palling around on set with your costars because you were barely there to begin with... hell world the sequel

#lady sif #sif #jaimie alexander #sharon carter #emily vancamp #anti mcu #anti-mcu #at least evc's canadian-ness gives her some aura of ~positivity~ when she's giving her fake non answers #another significant female character humiliated #just a typical thursday night at headquarters #tw is a plague on this franchise

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children pretend tfatws gave sharon a PERSONALITY like what personality? putting her hands in her pockets? manipulating kids? having a prop phone as her primary scene partner? saying cool words like 'apeshit' and 'hypocrisy'? fighting off her own goons? handing her asset over to be killed? not having any friends? emily gilmore liquor cart? being a lady hustler? being incompetent? not having discernible goals? having her character arc off-screen? not bringing a bulletproof vest to a gun fight? not getting invited to parties? never suiting up? DOA concept art? ranking 8th in screentime? being aimlessly abrasive so bozos feel safe from canon kissy kissy ruining their y/n fantasies?*

sharon already HAD a personality in the films, it wasn't magically cancelled out by steve's tongue despite what dozens of paternalistic think pieces commissioned by feige would have you believe

#sharon carter #anti mcu #emily vancamp #anti-mcu #*it's this one. it's the only one they care about.

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st has been going exponentially downhill since after s1, but i've been power skimming through s4 and i want to vent

if they didn't have winona ryder's name & performance to attach to the show in s1, i think they would have had a harder time getting the mainstream audience they have now. but she gets sidelined over and over again, and now she has nothing to do but run after h/opper (with loathsome m/urray) while the us military almost guns down her children in her own home. and i say this as someone who wants jopper together

i really liked the s/teve/jonathan/n/ancy trio fighting the demigorgon in s1 and thought it was a highlight as much as anyone else, and i'll always support turning around antagonists, but i'm tired of s/teve as a concept. it's so clear they have nothing for him to do or be but he's popular so he gets to stick around (and apparently retread something with n/ancy??) he's less a character than joe k/eery being himself in vintage jeans (not that lack of substantive characterization isn't a problem for other main cast members, but it's more grating for him)

i don't want any more new male characters. they're all self indulgent and they just waste more screentime. is that why this season is so needlessly long? to fit in all these new people (white males) that we're forced to care about because the plot demands it? if you ever need reminding about who's running this show, there it is. why does it matter that satanic panic was a thing during this era? does it have to specifically drive the story now? is that why d/ustin and m/ike fall back into d&d when w/ill was chewed out for still being into it before? mostly to justify e/ddie's existence?

speaking of justifying e/ddie's existence (and j/ason's for that matter), if i have to see another girl's mutilated corpse one more time... chrissy has an eating disorder so we sympathize with her and care when she's killed, but that's too bothersome to deal with if she stays alive. so instead she's killed so that e/ddie (and j/ason) have something to do and a reason to interact with the established cast, and in e/ddie's case a reason for the established cast to rally around him and protect him (also someone else to sing s/teve's praises). it's a very introduce-my-self-insert-OC-as-a-cousin-of-a-main-character-so-everyone-has-to-pay-attention thing to do. neither e/ddie nor j/ason nor chrissy existed until now, but only chrissy dies to create a plot for the other two (men). what's it called when this happens?

i haven't finished the s4 episodes that are out yet, so i don't know if they ever explain why b/renner is alive. but i doubt they do. i'm so sick of eleven being sucked back in with these disgusting people, slimy o/wens too, papa this papa that, vile. why take away her powers if you can give them back so easily? it was just a detour about doubting m/ike's love? and now it's being undone so who cares. i'm not saying i don't want her powers restored, but the way she was cornered and dishonestly coerced into it is rotten

i have no idea what their problem is with jonathan. i hate the stupid stoner bit they have going with a/rgyle. i also hate how it's impossible to openly criticize popular content without people being willfully obtuse. i asked a simple yes/no question on reddit about whether or not nyu is mentioned again (i was confused about the emerson vs. community college thing in e2) and anyone who replied just launched into a defensive stance about how emerson is just as good for photojournalism as nyu or how jonathan is allowed to change his mind about something he liked as a kid or a reminder that he explained he wants to stay close to his family. none of which remotely explain why nyu isn't on the table vs. emerson with n/ancy. i know why they did it, because it adds unnecessary relationship drama for jancy, but does it have to be at the expense of what seemed to be a significant character goal for jonathan?

i hate how things have become even more gory and the scenes are interspersed more frequently than before. it makes it harder to avoid seeing gruesome stuff when the show didn't use to rely so much on gross out

i also hate how w/ill is still an emotional torture punching bag. when has he suffered enough, given up enough of his childhood? i know m/ike is also getting older and it's harder to maintain close friendships at a distance like anything else, but i still think at heart he's a kind person. i wasn't sold on that with the thin apology to w/ill or his waffling with eleven. i think it's a disservice to all three characters

d/uffers claim they had this planned out until s5, not even slightly believable. the only thing they had in mind initially was a standard male coming of age 80s nostalgia trip where one weird girl who vanishes as quickly as she appeared changes the lives of four boys over one crazy summer. she's sadly dead but their world will never be the same. virgin suicides for nerdy little boys. so many retcons and plot holes keep surfacing, why even pretend it was always meant to happen this way? of course, all 'miniseries' end up making this claim when their success allows them to run until the wheels fall off

i know successful actors as a whole are a privileged class, but r/obin and the obvious nepotism casting annoy me. i thought she was alright in s3, if not a little overrated, but now she suffers from the same sorts of issues as s/teve does. she has a lot of screentime but not much to do, who she is as a person isn't as prioritized, she's just there being cool and likable and helping i guess? she's someone for s/teve to talk to? whenever shows go downhill they just bloat the cast until the core story is completely watered down and the plot moves people around because it has to. what is this show even about at this point?

#jancy #joyce byers #chrissy cunningham #jonathan byers #anti stranger things #anti-stranger things #eleven #jane hopper #jane ives

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while i'm glad an arab actor has A Job (especially playing an arab character) i can't help but feel bitter and sad whenever i see other female 'love interests' treated fairly well by the mcu and/or fandom.

of course feige's motives are less than altruistic and given the consistently brainless behavior of 99% of fans, a lot of the gushing is performative and meant to prove they are Not Racist/Sexist. but even given all that, it's hard to enjoy the earnest emotional arcs/collaborative fight scenes/proper character development given freely to some actors (as they should be) without thinking of how those same things are stringently withheld from another.

once again it proves they know how to make the audience respond positively, so i'll never believe for a second all the lip service claiming they did sharon a service by 'promoting' her to role of friendless profiteer.

#sharon carter #anti mcu #emily vancamp #anti-mcu #all the emotional baggage of being an mcu sharon fan The Few The Proud #makes it difficult to observe better handled female characters without the undercurrent of jealousy #don't get me wrong #i'm palestinian myself and i like layla a lot #i just want the same things for sharon too! #why can't my first daughter be as blessed as my others... #i know how great it could have been and it kills me!

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may 4 is loathsome to me because it's the time of year when certain sectors of sw fandom happily indulge in ben erasure and trot out their standard gOLdEn tRIo fantasy gifs for the sequel trilogy so that you can't even tell H+L ever had a child at all

#ben solo

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remember when sharon dramatically warned zemo at gunpoint 'this isn't over' because he cost her everything and the writers decided that meant the next scene she'd serve him whiskey then swiftly exit stage left from her own living room so that he could continue to share more screentime with sam and bucky than she ever had in her entire mcu career

#sharon carter #anti mcu #emily vancamp #anti-mcu #don't get me started on walker the surprise third lead

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why was it only sharon who hid in madripoor after the events of ca:cw?

according to tfatws, it's the preferred destination because "madripoor doesn’t allow extradition."

the ridiculous implication being that she isn't competent enough to avoid capture and thus needs to rely on legal provisions at least in part. this isn't a problem for steve, sam, natasha, or wanda, who are stealthy enough to traverse europe et al. incognito. but sharon, who is formally trained in high-level espionage, can't lay low in any other corner of the globe besides criminal hotspot madripoor, where she's forced to develop black-market entrepreneurial skills instead of using her already honed hiding abilities to...hide elsewhere.

of course, this is all setting aside the abject stupidity of sharon insisting in episode three that she wouldn't dare risk returning to america after being in exile for seven* years then casually promenading around nyc in episode six with scarcely a pair of groucho glasses to her name, all with zero consequence because her pardon was actually just caught in a narrative spam filter this whole time and no one bothered to check.

*presumably; people involved in the films or show refuse to admit that they never decided if she was snapped or not and they still don't know because it's a trivial story detail for a character who's been downgraded to the status of bumbling henchman.

#sharon carter #anti mcu #emily vancamp #anti-mcu

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sif erasure walked so sharon erasure could run

#lady sif #sif #sharon carter #emily vancamp #anti mcu #anti-mcu #can't wait to see those old leaks become true #when t/hor finds sif on ice madripoor and then TW unceremoniously kills her #there should be more sif fandom + sharon fandom solidarity #both shafted in their respective stories #although at least sif will die still a good guy #sharon won't be granted such a mercy #the situations aren't totally analogous since no one is as hated by both the fandom and tptb as evc is #sif is mostly demoted and ignored #but if i had the energy i'd be complaining about what they did to her too