#AND AND AND it is wayyyy more consistent for sams character to see the good in ‘monsters’ so I think they missed a HUGE opportunity

[acesammy]

Your opinion on sambenny? 👀💜

It’s good! Back in the day when I read practically any spn ship, I remember reading a fair few Sam/Benny fics. I feel like Benny is such a stoic and interesting character that it’s fun to see him in Situations and therefore makes him fun to ship. Gonna be real tho, I don’t really think about ships much anymore outside of sastiel 😅

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#Like he’s a fun dude to just perform thought experiments with #Still tho I maintain that Denny is perhaps the Only good dean ship #Idk I’ve definitely fallen out of shipping #if I ever was really In to it in the first place #but yeah I feel like Sam and Benny could make such a strong couple bc they both have very steady personalities at this point in the show #And they deserve eachother (positive) #AND AND AND it is wayyyy more consistent for sams character to see the good in ‘monsters’ so I think they missed a HUGE opportunity #to have these 2 bond a bit more #you just KNOW Sam would’ve softened towards Benny so fucking fast if they had the opportunity to talk more #spn #lea answers asks #thank you!!!! #I love seeing your Benny stuff on my dash #the idea of a sambenny witch/familiar AU was so powerful I think I blacked out for a minute #Were I not in the middle of a sastiel witch/familiar drawing …

[luna-rainbow]

I’m so sad that it looks like Wanda’s going to be the main villain of Doctor Strange 2. I know it’s what a lot of people want and that it’s a famous storyline with her, but just because a story is iconic or famous doesn’t mean it’s not ableist as fuck. I don’t understand it, I thought that we were tired of seeing women portrayed as going mad and becoming evil but everyone seems to be actively rooting for this. Idk I guess I’m just so tired of my two favorite characters (Bucky and Wanda) being constantly vilified by Marvel, not to mention their horrible vilification of people with mental illness.

That was exactly my reaction to the news too! (This might devolve into a long off-topic rant). Of what little we've heard about Dr Strange 2, there's 2 things I'm worried about.

First, I'll talk about Wanda because my rant about Dr Strange went for wayyyy too long. When I heard the news I was unsurprised (because of WV ending) but also annoyed. Wanda's entire character arc so far, and particularly in the series, was about reconciling with the depth of her trauma and controlling her powers. This girl has been through a lot, and she gets things wrong a lot too, but consistently, she is trying to do the right thing. Her growth throughout the the movies and the series was all centered around her desire to not hurt people, but also her struggles to manage her own pain and not let it manifest in a way that hurts the people around her. The resolution of WV was her willingly give up the illusion that she craved - the family, the home, the brother, her love - so people stopped being hurt. Given MCU's poor track record of carrying through character development, I feel like her becoming a villain will just mean they will ignore all the growth she's made and negate the suffering (and sacrifice) she put herself through to give it up. Sure, she caused the problem in the first place and people were hurt, but her loss and grief as she wiped her sons and Vision from existence is real.

And yes...it will continue to perpetuate the message (as TFATWS did with both John and Bucky) that people with PTSD are not only sad, they're raving mad and murderous and need to be kept away from society for their own good.

In the next part of my essay I'm going to talk about Dr Strange, so feel free to skip.

I really looked forward to his first movie (cocky surgeon, good cast, magic) but I walked out disappointed. It wasn't bad, per se, but the plot seemed eerily parallel to Iron Man (cocksure millionaire learns humility) without having the heart of Iron Man. I think part of it is because there was nothing grounding Stephen - Rachel McAdams' character was no Pepper for sure. It also never brought Stephen back to his real life to show us what the real world consequences of him becoming a superhero meant, so it existed in this weird sort of vacuum of time-space, which lessened the impact of his character development. The emotional climaxes were all derived from short term relationships. I feel like this is the first movie MCU really fumbled the characterisation - you can see the great actors trying to make something out of what little they had, but we just never got the heart of Stephen Strange. We don't know what holds him to this world - as we do with Tony or Thor or Steve - we don't know what he's fighting for, what or who he loves, what he sees in the world that makes him want to put his life down for. Remember this is a guy they established as a self-centered cynic right at the start. I just didn't get a moment where he looked at the world and thought, "Ah...as much as humans are nasty little shits, there is still some beauty in this world that's worth protecting." Not me and my cynicism on full display.

Sorry, the purpose of the long rant above is to say - it sounds like they're turning Dr Strange 2 into an ensemble movie, and we already know how the last solo-turned-ensemble fest went. Stephen Strange really needs at least another solo movie to develop him. I want to see more of his rivalry with Mordo. I want to see how he balances his superhero duties with his real life. I want to see his relationship with Christine develop into something more substantial. I don't want him to be in a movie where he gets dragged along by the plot, gets sidelined to introduce new tentpole characters, and only saves the world because that's his superhero duty. Side-eyes TFATWS.

That said, it's being directed by Sam Raimi, so maybe there is some hope.

#dr strange #wanda maximoff #stephen strange