guys you WILL hear about Secret Invasion’s sins from me but uuuuhhhhh probably not today because I still haven’t finished packing for a weeklong trip to another country. let me just say that it’s been a REALLY long time since I got out of the first episode of a show going “oh, you guys HATE hate women” with a double-fridging (one offscreen).
also who at Marvel decided to go with “the shapeshifting lizard people who control NATO are siding with Russia” in the year 2023
it’s a triple fridging if you count Maria Rambeau, who appears and has lines in a flashback to CM but otherwise is never mentioned (since she died offscreen in Wandavision)
also I am starting to think this show takes place in a universe where Nick Fury didn’t run SHIELD, which has never been mentioned.
guys you WILL hear about Secret Invasion’s sins from me but uuuuhhhhh probably not today because I still haven’t finished packing for a weeklong trip to another country. let me just say that it’s been a REALLY long time since I got out of the first episode of a show going “oh, you guys HATE hate women” with a double-fridging (one offscreen).
also who at Marvel decided to go with “the shapeshifting lizard people who control NATO are siding with Russia” in the year 2023
guys you WILL hear about Secret Invasion’s sins from me but uuuuhhhhh probably not today because I still haven’t finished packing for a weeklong trip to another country. let me just say that it’s been a REALLY long time since I got out of the first episode of a show going “oh, you guys HATE hate women” with a double-fridging (one offscreen).
everyone wants what Captain America: The Winter Soldier had but no one is willing to commit to a single thing established in that movie, including the guys who made it.
my big problem with Phases 4-5 is that large chunks of it are literally incompatible with Phases 1-2 and the parts of 3 that weren’t shoehorned in to set up for 4-5 and I’m always going to prioritize the Infinity Saga over anything else the MCU ever does again. also it’s just LAZY, my gods, so much of it is all tell and no show.
gently reminding myself of my theory that that double snap in Endgame literally broke the universe and rewrote reality and THAT’S why almost nothing lines up with Phases 1-3, not because Marvel Studios gave up on continuity.
I have an Oystercard that hasn’t been used since 2016, which is the last time I was in England. Does anyone know if it’s still valid or if I’d have to get a new one? (aside from probably having to put more money on it.)
the only oyster cards that run out are kids’ ones! :) you should be fine
Thanks! Mine I got originally in 2012 when I was in England for grad school #1, but it’s been a minute (uh, clearly).
About 600 words written today – I am Stressed today. I am traveling tomorrow on a redeye, so don’t expect a progress report tomorrow; option is open the rest of the week. I hate traveling and I am not looking forward to this, but I am committed so it is what it is. (I hate traveling because I have traveled A LOT over the course of my life, usually for school, sometimes to visit family, pretty rarely for actual vacations (unless it’s going back and forth between school and home, which isn’t the same thing). Just leave me at home in peace, you know?) At least it’s an evening flight, which means I can pack in the morning – afternoon, it’s me – and don’t have to get up at 4 am. Everything other than the packing is done. :/ Also I watched SI ep 2 and I uh. hated it. (I also hated ep 1, to be clear.) so even without the travel I may stop attempting to keep up, this doesn’t even have the FATWS advantage of needing it for my ongoing fanfic, which was just about the only thing that got me through FATWS. actually, I got out of SW and I swore I wasn’t going to watch things I wasn’t enjoying just because I thought I had to, and the way Marvel’s been going it’s not going to have any effect on anything going forward anyway and will probably be immediately get contradicted in The Marvels, because I assume the two teams weren’t allowed to speak to each other.
Snippet from Of Home Near chapter 9.
She hesitated for an instant, then looked over at Natasha. “Will
you come?”
Natasha glanced up. “I didn’t think I was allowed out without
a chaperone.”
“I’m the chaperone,” Peggy said.
Something flickered briefly in Natasha’s eyes, but all she did
was nod and then go back to staring at her coffee. She didn’t look as desperately frightened as
she had the previous night, but Peggy could still remember it, like the worst
possible thing that Natasha Romanoff Rogers could think of was Steve Rogers in
the hands of Department X.
Peggy wasn’t afraid.
Peggy was angry.
“They say anything yet?” Jones asked.
“We’re letting them sweat,” Peggy said. “Also most of them
have concussions.”
She flicked a glance at Natasha, who just said, “It doesn’t
matter. We’re trained to resist
interrogation.”
“All men break,” Dernier pointed out. “And all women.”
Natasha didn’t answer.
Her grip on her coffee cup was white-knuckled. Peggy stared at her, wondering what on earth
she could possibly be so afraid of. It wasn’t
as though they were dealing with Hydra; the Soviets were, after all, their
allies.
Yes, the kind of allies who send strike teams into
nightclubs and put undercover agents into secret government agencies and kidnap
military officers –
my big problem with Phases 4-5 is that large chunks of it are literally incompatible with Phases 1-2 and the parts of 3 that weren’t shoehorned in to set up for 4-5 and I’m always going to prioritize the Infinity Saga over anything else the MCU ever does again. also it’s just LAZY, my gods, so much of it is all tell and no show.
