happy holidays, from the avengers
reblogging myself because it’s time to bring this back.
happy holidays, from the avengers
reblogging myself because it’s time to bring this back.
janet decides tony needs mood disks, natasha needs a new sequined belt buckle and, most importantly, sam needs a sequined falconer’s glove. she thinks they hate their gifts but it turns out they all lost something that they need to use them. which means nat and sam actually do love sequins, as we’ve all suspected.
tony actually does hate his gift, though. tony’s a dick.
Another year, another batch of superhero films centered on white men. With the X-Men franchise pushing its female characters further and further into the background, Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow is the most prominent female lead in a major superhero franchise. And she’s never even fronted a film herself. Even as female protagonists make inroads into sci-fi and action films, they’ve remained largely shut out of the superhero movie craze launched by Bryan Singer’s X-Men, legitimized by Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, and revolutionized by the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’ll all change in the next few years as various studios finally bow to pressure and start making female-driven superhero films.
I’m overjoyed that female-fronted superhero films will theoretically be here in two to three years. But that doesn’t mean we should stop demanding more from an industry that already has six films centered on a white guys named Chris and 11 on millionaire playboys. In addition to a Captain Marvel movie and a Black Panther movie, Marvel’s docket includes eight films centered on white men. D.C.’s Wonder Woman announcement also came alongside a slew of male-driven projects. Why are superhero studios so timid when it comes too diversifying their worlds? Female-led blockbusters like Hunger Games,Lucy, Maleficent, and Divergent are regularly dominating at the box office. And given that Marvel can turn a talking raccoon and an anthropomorphic tree into household names, we’re well past the point of worrying that audiences won’t show up for female-fronted superhero films.
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"Cap and Black Widow are are very different people. It’s kind of like this odd pairing. She has very questionable morality, and she makes a living, lying. Cap couldn’t do it, if he tried." - Chris Evans
This wonderful Bucky/Nat cover by Phil Noto for BW #8 in July!
Swooning
"James, we’re not asking you to choose."
College AU: Or Bucky has a drunken threesome with his girlfriend and his best friend, and it all turns out better than he could’ve ever hoped.