Who will redeem, head the call for America. Who’ll rise or fall, give his all for America. Who’s here to prove that we can? The Star Spangled Man with a Plan!

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chujo-hime:

i forgot to mention this when the issue came out, but i want this to be a real game you guys

Of course, I might have to face Iron Man again! He beat me once…But this time it shall be different! - Tales of Suspense #53

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brandnewfashion:

I don’t even wanna know how much time and money Tony has spent on new quinjets for these dorks.

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"Criticisms about representations of gender (or race and other diversity) are often countered in fandom by sociological or scientific analyses attempting to explain why the inequality happens according to the internal logic of the fictional world. As though there is any real reason that anything happens in a story except that someone chose to write it that way.

Fiction is not Darwinian: It contains no impartial process of evolution that dispassionately produces the events of a fictional universe. Fiction is miraculously, fundamentally Creationist. When we make worlds, we become gods. And gods are responsible for the things they create, particularly when they create them in their own image.

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Laura Hudson writes about the shortage of women characters in Star Wars fore Wired.com in her article “Leia is not enough:  Star Wars and the woman problem in Hollywood.”

“Science fiction in particular has always offered a vision of the world not myopically limited by the world as it exists, but liberated by the power of imagination. Perhaps more than any genre of storytelling, it has no excuse to exclude women for so-called practical reasons — especially when it has every reason to imagine a world where they are just as heroic, exceptional, and well-represented as men.”

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“But please, I want to make it right.”

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New Steve/Tony Fic

missbeckywrites:

In a New York Minute, written for Sakuratsukikage.

5100 words, rated PG-13.

Shortly before Valentine’s Day, Steve and Tony are accidentally outed to the world. Already uncertain of where they stand, now they have an additional worry to contend with.

Read it here on AO3.

Seriously, this is so amazing.  It’s great, it’s romantic, there’s just enough conflict, and the relationship between them is perfect.  I love it so much—I’d list my favorite parts and things about it, but I want you to read it for yourselves!  

Thank you so much for this, it’s incredible.

kinlochhold:

hotaru29:

kinlochhold:

hotaru29:

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The Alistair headcanon about Eamon being a conniving, mustache-twirling supervillain who will use puppet-Alistair as a tool to control all of Ferelden? Mwa-ha-ha! Or a different Alistair-is-a-half-witted-sex-teddy-bear-who-lives-breathes-and-eats-cheese headcanon? (Did I mention cheese? /snark)

I’ve been toying with the idea to break this down by reblog but I don’t wanna deal with the angry backlash so let me just state a few things here

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Not to mention that it is entirely possible (and preferable, IMO) to send Eamon’s ass back to that fish-stinking village, thus removing him from having any day-to-day influence over Alistair.

That said, I don’t like Eamon, at all. And I do think he can be problematic to King Alistair. But whether he’s problematic depends on a specific set of variables, all of which are controllable by the Warden/player. Don’t want Eamon pulling strings? Harden Alistair. Send Eamon back to Redcliffe. Done. *wipes hands*

Well, Ferelden isn’t an absolute monarchy, so the king (or the person controlling the king) wouldn’t be in charge of every holding automatically, so the control of territory still applies.  But other than that, yes, exactly.  Alistair does have a brain.  He might be emotionally attached to Eamon, but he is capable of knowing when he’s being manipulated, and putting a stop to it.  And the Couslands do outrank the Guerrins.  And it’s not like Teagan is a completely null variable here, either.  Neither is Anora.  And neither is Alistair, good lord.  So yes, other than that, totally 100% agreed.  And while Eamon may be power-hungry … 

Let me just say that I don’t like the guy much either, but it’s not a horrible thing to be power-hungry.  In a country that would otherwise not be united, is it really worse to have a person who has old-fashioned ideas bringing things together?  I’ve never liked the notion that having a shred of ambition makes you turn cacklingly evil.  That being said, I do think Eamon being in control of Ferelden would be bad for the country overall.  I just think people aren’t giving Alistair—even unhardened Alistair—credit for possessing any brains or backbone at all.  Both of which he has.  Yes, even unhardened.  And I’m kind of tired of his character being reduced to soft, cute, awkward, easily manipulated, likes cheese, manmeat.

He’s a lot more than that, and he has a lot going on (like most DA characters).  He might not be the most able to stand up for himself or the most perspicacious ever, but give him a LITTLE credit.  This also doesn’t seem to be taking into account at all the fact that Alistair might, I don’t know, grow and change after becoming king, and learn about his new position?

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I’m not sure whether she’s your daughter or your enemy

Neither is she

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