We burn in blood

Dear Emma, I wanted to write this to you, I wanted to say this to you while I still have as much of me as I do. […] So I wanted to come out here while it’s still quiet so that I could look you in the eye in case— before I’m all gone and tell you that you are the love of my life because you make me laugh every day and you make my life worth living and you make me feel like I’m not alone. And if things were normal, then you’d be the person that’d make it okay that I gotta grow old and die someday because at least I got to spend some of that time with you. But things aren’t normal and so I guess instead, or as well, I love you because you stayed. Because when things got scary you knuckled down and you stayed. And you got me through each day. And I hope I did the same for you, or I hope that I can still do the same for you somehow.

John unironically says “y’all” and “bless your heart.” Yelenas the only one who takes it as a compliment

Bob has exactly one pair of cowboy boots and they’re the light of his life. He wears them when he wants to be fancy

John and Bob get into arguments abt if Florida counts as the South. Geographically it is but it’s got a very different culture

Alexei can answer every single question about Ohio ever. He can list the terms of minor politicians from the 80s to the present and the official names of minuscule dirt backroads in the middle of nowhere. He knows the state bird and flower and— and all of it

To contrast this, the team once asked him what state a picture was of (it was California) and he said Tatooine

Ava talks in her sleep. John likes to talk back like they’re having a coherent conversation

John goes all out for the Super Bowl. The others humor him bc it’s fun enough

Bucky introduces the team to Hydra-licious. It’s a line of hair care products that Hydra used on him while he was brainwashed (bc even villains have to look good). He claims it was the only good thing to come out of Hydra. And as much as the group hates to admit it, it’s the reason why their hair is so fabulous

Ava is a serial leftovers stealer. This causes constant fights

What needs to come next, obviously, is a story where Natasha can square this movie with her future. CA:TWS ends on a very similar note as The Avengers, with them going their separate ways but with the promise that when they’re needed, they’ll be back. How does she get to that, though? “When I joined SHIELD, I thought I was goin’ straight… but I guess I just traded in the KGB for Hydra”

Neill’s career climbed an upward trajectory from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. His portrayal of real-life spy Sidney Reilly in the 1983 TV miniseries “Reilly, Ace of Spades” was met with acclaim and largely marked his breakthrough on the international stage.

He played a Soviet submarine officer in the 1990 film “The Hunt for Red October” and the husband of Holly Hunter’s Ada in the Oscar-winning historical romance “The Piano” in 1993. Other notable roles include a haunted astrophysicist in the 1997 sci-fi horror film “Event Horizon” and a middle-aged Merlin, the wizard from the tales of King Arthur, in the 1998 NBC miniseries of the same name.

The latter role earned him one of two Emmy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations.

In the 2010s, Neill maintained his presence in TV and film with roles in the British crime drama series “Peaky Blinders” and New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi’s 2016 comedy adventure “Hunt for the Wilderpeople.” Neill had more than 150 screen credits.

In 1991, Neill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to acting. In 2007 he was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, the New Zealand royal honors system, and in 2022 he accepted a knighthood.

Following his reprisal of the role of Dr. Alan Grant in the 2022 film “Jurassic World: Dominion,” Neill revealed he had been diagnosed with a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He described his cancer battle in his 2023 memoir, “Did I Ever Tell You This?”

In an interview with The Guardian in 2023, Neill said he would like to live “another decade or two” but that he was “not afraid to die.”

Finally finished this 17 hour project for neo_jpeg's art contest :D it was such a fun challenge, I'm not usually a background person... back to comms!

Some closeups