Happy Birthday Peter!

Happy Birthday Peter!

Happy Birthday Peter! Our spider boi turns 20 today! (Aug 10, 2001). 🕷 🎉 🎁 

No Way Home Predictions

No Way Home trailer spoilers

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So I just watched the No Way Home trailer and here is my prediction:

1. Strange becomes Peter’s *4th* (or 5th if you count those 2 seconds with Mysterio) father figure

2. Strange dies in one of the next movies because all of Pete’s father figures do that.  

-Phoenix

Bucky’s Phone

Sam and Bucky’s texts pre TFATWS 

Stucky and What If...

What did I tell ya’ll? WHAT DID I FUCKING TELL YA’LL?!?!? Like three posts ago I literally talked about how if the MCU had gender swapped one of our boys then Stucky would be canon. And what does marvel go and do in What If? They make Steve to Peggy as Bucky was to Steve in the MCU and called it romantic. 

Look, I am starving for some quality queer rep in marvel but its almost funny how hard they try to show that Steve and Bucky are not gay for each other only to make them even gayer. Every. Damn. Time.  

-Phoenix

Black Widow

Ok. I watched Black Widow about a week ago and I loved it! But she needed a trilogy.

Story Time! My dad has always been a fan of the Iron Man movies but would not let me and my sister watch them because of the way he treated women. Understandable. But one evening he called us out and let us watch the bit in Iron Man 2 where Natasha beats up all the Hammer Tech Goons. Mind you this was way before I even knew what the word trans meant let alone knew it described me so I still though I was a girl at this point. 

That scene blew my mind. My sister and I thought it was so cool! She was competent woman who didn’t need the mans help and was actually better than him in the context of the scene! I had never seen something like that on TV before! I was so excited! We made my dad rewind the movie so we could watch that scene over and over again. 

Looking back I can’t even describe how powerful a trilogy with a strong, badass woman lead would have been for me. Because that two minute scene made me feel unstoppable.

I am so excited for all the little girls who get to see Black Widow and Captain Marvel and Scarlet Witch and The Wasp and all the other badass Marvel Women!    

What If... Zombies

Spoilers for What If... Zombies

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Wow. So I just watched What If... Zombies and just wow. Marvel really is dead set on ripping my heart to shreds arn’t they. It’s really strange to see how carelessly they kill off characters in these episodes. In movies they hold on to characters till they can’t anymore but in this show... they can kill them off over and over and over again because it’s the multiverse. They can do whatever they want. 

Ok but what they did with Bucky and Steve. Bucky having to kill Steve to help save the world? Thats a strong echo of CA:TWS when he almost killed Steve to destroy the world. Also, Bucky is my favorite character so his death hit but as soon as Steve died I should have realized he was gonna go down too. Seeing them stand against each other, one unintentionally trying to destroy the world and the other having to fight his longest and best friend to save it? It was a painful subversion of the beginning of the helicarrier fight. They really be giving me all the feels. 

Also Peter? Holly sh*t marvel can you please give the boi a break? Seriously. Hearing him talk about all that he’s lost and how he needs to just keep smiling hit me pretty hard. I’ve been struggling with activist burnout recently and have had a really hard time being at all hopeful for the future. So his speech just hit a chord with me. Anyways sorry for the rant. 

-Phoenix