For the fanart, could you do Val full shieldmaiden stlye, post-battle?
I am so proud of this! I love it, if I can say so myself.
I think that the equipment of the skjaldmær (shielmaiden) is quite historically accurate.
The swan feather cloak is not. I chose it because Val, shieldmaiden version, reminded me of Hervör (also a shieldmaiden from the Hervarar saga ok Heiðrek). And Hervör + Val reminded me of the homonymous valkyrie from the Vǫlundarkviða, also a swan-maiden.
Hey so what does everyone envision Val's sigil on her stick to look like. I explained that really badly so... the stick that Val used in the War of the Sanctuaries is supposed to have a sigil so that she can charge it with her magic and also knock people out but what does the sigil look like. Only asking because I found a really cool fucking stick that as perfectly cylindrical so I'm going to sand it down, use some really dark wood stain and add the sigil. So yeah any help appreciated. I'm going to tag people I think would be really good at designing this but anyone can help. Pls. @maidofdarkness23 @nicstylus @the-ghost-of-a-spirit @billygaysanguine
wanted to make a post ranting about how much tlat fucked over val but it's so bad that it isn't worth the brain power it would take to write an essay so here's a list of bullshit. tlat spoilers obviously
this movie just unnecessarily made val into a slutty bisexual who has commitment issues? like, why was she like "an orgy sounds great" while thorjane (the straights) were like ew
the way they reduced her to the token black friend who is there purely to support the white mains??? like that was the vibe I got from the trailer but this was somehow worse??? she got virtually nothing???
why are the asgardians respecting thor more than val when she's their king and the one whose been taking care of them while thor's been fucking around having his fifteenth midlife crisis???
tessa said that there was a version of the script where her whole storyline was just about finding a queen and she had to step in because it was dehumanizing and the focus on val needed to be about her being a person who happened to be queer... but where was this person? we got some grrl power king status scenes and a couple of blink and you'll miss them lines about the valkyrior and that's it
how did we not get a single flashback about the valkyrior even though we know an extra was cast a valkyrie
she got nerf'd and kicked out of the final battle and was absent for like most of the last 30 minutes
some kids got more of a hero moment in the final battle than val did
pretty sure she actually had more screen time in ragnarok than in tlat
she had literally no character development or plot. she is literally just a body there to fight
no fr there's this whole ass scene where she's basically a body for korg?? it was very strange and didn't serve a purpose but she had to do it while because I guess thorjane are too important to do it
thor says that zeus was his childhood hero when it was previously val, and like yeah you can have more than one hero but come on
we are three movies deep, why doesn't val have a first name??? tessa implied she would get a name and then she just didn't????
val doesn't get to talk about her beloved herself - it's just korg babbling at her about her commitment issues and mentions an ex girlfriend
val lowkey compares jane to her sisters but their entire friendship is basically offscreen
there's this bit where korg says thor doesn't discriminate who he loves and it cuts to a montage of thor with a bunch of white women and idk that feels like an attack on the idea of a black woman being his love interest
also this isn't about val but thor's characterization was just so fucking awful this entire movie like holy shit who the fuck was that man baby because that was not the person at the end of ragnarok or even iw/endgame. like, what the fuck did taika do to my man??? but that may need to be its own post
in conclusion this movie sucks ass. is it queerbaiting? no, val is explicitly queer (and korg but who cares about that pile of rocks), but it's not a good movie and just a horrible movie for val in particular. if you're a qpoc or a woc who was excited to see val finally get her moment in the sun then don't even bother
watching the marvels was so fun pls go watch it but also i need everyone to know this very specific thought process:
carol has def slept with dar-benn the amount of ex lovers energy off of them is insane, she was dating maria and they were serious until carol lost her memory then they were on and off, but carol was always there and maria never stopped loving her and carol and valkyrie are dating thee power couple of the mcu i love them
Veronica:Hey, your semblance can invigorate or debuff people depending on what you say. So what happens of you use it while singing?
Valerie:I can’t dictate how a song makes you feel. I could sing a happy song and it might make you sad. An upbeat song might make you sluggish depending on how you feel about the song.
Veronica:So what I’m hearing is only good things could happen if Party Rock blasted at a club and you song along.
Valkyrie totally tried to stab someone when she was smol. Like before Skug era.
She'd probably been told not to after accidently doing it, but hadn't been told why not.
So some very unlucky person became victim to a smol child's experiment about why stabbing was bad.
Gordon probably told everyone about it proudly.
oh absolutely
i reckon she experimented with different stabbing implements too. to see which one was most bad.
on one notable incident, she stabbed someone (beryl) with one of those like. two pronged forks you use for turkey at christmas.
gordon talked about it for the next to years at every opportunity. he's never been prouder.
I loved a mind full of murder because the stakes where high but the world wasn't ending and then at the end Cadaver is like 'the apocalypse is coming' and I just thought ohh.........again.............