(Source: coppercorn, via apeacebone)

Fantastic Four Director Eyeing Michael B. Jordan For The Human Torch →

destronomics:

itsachipndip:

(Just don’t read the comments.)

(You read the comments, didn’t you. I’m sorry.)

OH MY GOD THIS IS BRILLIANT

(via lhacier)

"But Natasha is the only one who mines her own vulnerability. She’s the only one who makes it into a performance. And there’s something radical in acknowledging that feminine vulnerability as a performative, as something fake we are taught to expect and to mimic. That can be our superpower. We can be strong in ways men never will be because we face bullshit they will never have to face. That’s not justice, but it is power. It is strength. It’s control."

this super great essay about black widow and feminism (via helio-phile)

(via starkoholic)

ladymangoberry:

I was gonna draw this for Valentine’s Day but I don’t really have the patience to wait /DDD lolz

(via and-umar)

mental-elemental:

In all fairness though, I think Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wins the award for “Biggest regret of accidentally successful text post.”

(via salutationtothestars)

For all the women I have loved who were dragged through the mud

seananmcguire:

aiffe:

I’ve read a lot of great essays about how fandom is female-majority and creates a female gaze and a safe space for women and etc. But spend five minutes in fandom and you’ll have an unsettling question.

Why does a female-majority, feminist culture hate female characters so much?

It’s not a question of if it happens. You know it does. You can go into any fandom and see it. Some fandoms are worse than others, but it’s always there. Scroll down the Tumblr tag for any show, movie, book, comic, whatever, and you’ll see nothing but love for the men, and a lot of unjustified hate for the women, maybe with a few defenders here and there insisting on their love for the women in the face of all that hate.

To be clear, we’re not talking about female villains. Male villains get just as much hate. It’s fine if you hate Bellatrix Lestrange or Dolores Umbridge, you’re supposed to. (I personally stan for Bella, but I realize that wasn’t the authorial intent.) This is about people hating Hermione, Ginny and Luna, but loving Harry, Ron and Neville. This is about how ambiguous male antiheroes, like Snape, Zuko, or pretty much any male vampire protagonist can get away with walking that fine line between good and evil and not only remain sympathetic, but be even more beloved for how ~tortured~ he is, but when a female character is morally gray that bitch has to die.

So you can’t tell me it’s okay that you hate Sansa because you also hate Joffrey and he’s a dude. They’re not comparable. It isn’t even comparable if you pick a female antihero. Let’s do this apples to apples, here.

We all know that fandom does this. We all know that it’s fucked up and symptomatic of internalized sexism. What’s really fucking weird about it, though, is that the women doing this hating often aren’t ignorant. These are feminists. These are women who can go on meta-analyses of the writing. Some will hide behind pseudo-feminist reasons for their hate—oh, it’s the writing, we just aren’t given strong female characters! (I saw this used for the women of AtLA: Katara, Toph, Azula, et al. This was about when I just backed away slowly because I know a lost cause when I see it.) I’ve seen women who denied being sexist, but couldn’t name a single female character they liked. And it’s always that the female characters aren’t good enough, even when they obviously have a double standard, and they’re measuring women on an impossible scale full of contradictions and no-win binds, while the men are just embraced and loved pretty much for existing.

The reaction nearly every time one of these women is called out is not to say, “Huh, you may have a point, I should examine the way I judge and process women’s actions more closely,” but an insistence of their feminism, followed by a more detailed description of why that particular woman is terrible and she hates her, as if the whole point were not that fandom is already oversaturated with that kind of hate, and as if the person doing the calling out were not already 110% done with that bullshit.

Particularly telling is that male-dominated corners of fandom do not have this problem. They fetishize, they objectify, they ignore. They don’t hate like this.

We know it happens. What I want to know is WHY.

Theories follow below the cut.

Read More

Wow.

Just…wow.  And so true of my experiences as both a fan and an author.

(via minorearth)

everybodyilovedies:

Yes. Yes good. Yes.

For a while I was VERY CONFUSED as to why Cap was randomly getting dressed in the middle of this hanger bay area, but then I remembered that last issue this is where they were all standing discussing stuff, so he must have just taken off his shirt/helmet to get patched up and then gotten re-dressed. I think.

Question: Who gets to do the patch up and no wait I want that job give it to me.

(via chujo-hime)

theivorytowercrumbles:

Samara Humancast [click for larger size]

Thanks to the awesome taterborn, I have the first in my humancast commissions. Yes, asari have relatively similar features to humans, but the lack of variety in their presentation is still a flaw I want to see changed.

(via werewolfau)

hermeliin:

Avengers #9

(Source: whatnotness, via starkoholic)

moviepassinc:

Marvel Studios Begins Production On ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’

Marvel Studios announced today that Captain America: The Winter Soldier has started production in Los Angeles and the sequel will also film in Cleveland and Washington D.C.

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” will pick-up where “Marvel’s The Avengers” left off, as Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C. 

- moviepass

(Source: moviepass, via 01001010x)