The Thing I Hate The Most About The Mcu Besides All The Atrocities Is The Fact That It Means In The Mainstream

the thing I hate the most about the mcu besides all the atrocities is the fact that it means in the mainstream lexicon “marvel” = mcu and not marvel comics. Every time I see that post thats like “I love people who are surprised that there aren’t men kissing in marvel” I go but there Are men kissing in marvel. There Are. I can show you men kissing in marvel if you come down to my cellar

the reason Matt caught that brick in nwh is bc he knew May was freshly single and he knew it'd be hot

DAREDEVIL (2015-2018) 3.01 — “Resurrection”

fact: the most illegal thing to happen on the daredevil tv show is having charlie cox’s majestic, infamous hairy tits waxed down for the entire 3 seasons

My phone rings and the man on the other line is Joe Quesada and he says to to me “I found Matt Murdock.” And I go “What?” and he goes “I found Matt Murdock!” And I’m thinking to myself, is he drawing Matt Murdock? What does he mean he found Matt Murdock? Is Matt Murdock running around in the streets, blind? What’s going on? And he says “There’s this actor.” Oh! Oh, we’re talking about an actor that’s going to play Matt Murdock… On what, Joe? We don’t have Daredevil! It’s across the street! And he goes “Yeah, but it will happen, I know it will. And when it does, I found the guy who can play Matt Murdock.” So it’s got to come back, it’s got to go to the movie studio, they got to decide that television division do this thing and then we got to find somebody that’s gonna make the show that we wanna make… So what are the odds of that happening? Well, the person that Joe picked out is the person that we cast, and that is Charlie Cox. — Jeph Loeb about casting Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock

I find I have to mention this to people a lot: the way to check your own fandom racism or anti-blackness isn’t how you react to the flawless POC characters, but how you react when POC characters have flaws. 

Like, I’ve known people who tear down Simone from The Good Place, and when I pointed out that none of her flaws are even close to those of Eleanor, from season one or even currently, and suggested that they should consider whether biases are influencing their hatred for the character, they cited their love for Shuri from Black Panther, and characters like her. Shuri is not a hard character to love; she never challenges the audience to see her in a complex way. She is funny, smart, and never burdensome to anyone.

Myself, I hated Katara from Avatar when I was younger. Now, I am able to identify the internalized misogyny and racism in my dislike for her; I hated her because she was inconvenient at times and wasn’t always nice to the characters I liked. Similar deal with Frank Zhang from Heroes of Olympus. But both of those characters (and all characters) were significant for what they represented.

Fandom racism isn’t just hating POC characters for no reason or ignoring POC ships; it also manifests in the double-standard where we’re willing to forgive white characters for more things than POC characters.