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man y’all remember when the avengers movie came out and everyone headcanoned that all the avengers would live together in the tower and had all these cute posts about various fun ways they could interact and then the movies literally never had any of them even be friends
I want to state, for the record, that “all the avengers would live together in the tower” wasn’t collective headcanon, it was canon. The very last scene of Avengers (2012), the one they left us on, is Tony redesigning the tower, designing a living area for each Avenger. That was, canonically, what was supposed to happen, in canon, and they just changed their minds and decided to… not. For whatever goldarn reason.
GHHFDGJHFDS THATS EVEN FUNNIER WHY IS MARVEL LIKE THIS
Also it was canon for literal decades in the comics. First it was Avengers Mansion which was Tony’s Manhattan family home and then Avengers Tower when Tony built it. At one point Avengers Mansion couldn’t get their trash carried away because in order to operate in the US they had to be an embassy and NYC trash carriers don’t service embassies.
“never had any of them even be friends”
Literally what the fuck are you talking about?
those people are wearing button-downs and suit jackets at their place of employment, after a work party. (Dr. Cho and Maria Hill are both still there.) they’re not depicted as enemies, sure, but this is still pretty firmly in the realm of “coworkers.”
Tony and Bruce canonically hang out. Natasha and Clint are best friends. Steve and Sam are close enough friends that it leads to a comically awkward dynamic that Sam and Bucky don’t get along easily. Steve and Natasha literally have a whole arc of building trust between them and becoming close friends in Winter Soldier and it’s a relationship the movies continue to treat as important to them. If She-Hulk can be considered canon, Steve once told Bruce about the time he lost his virginity over drinks. A lot of the Avengers canonically do live together at the compound for a while and Tony has a moment in CW griping about who’s been pouring coffee grounds down the garbage disposal.
Like yeah, I think some relationships were under-served in the movies, Tony and Steve particularly, but you don’t have to literally live with your co-workers for them to also be friends. If anything what ppl seem to think is missing in these relationships just indicates they’re workaholics who have little in the way of personal lives, not that they aren’t friends.
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I've recently been doing a lot of reading about what makes the Romance Genre™ the Romance Genre™ and as it turns out the most important thing a story needs to be a romance is that the couple have to be unambiguously happily together in the end. That's it. Apparently, if this isn't true of your couple in the end then your story cannot be of the Romance Genre™, then it's just literary fiction. And this is actually such an insane revelation to me like I can't stop thinking about it because it explains why so often when I've attempted to read Romance™ and 9 times outta 10 I'm annoyed because I feel like these characters get together and it costs them being interesting. I cannae get over that the reason so much romance sucks ass is because the only hard rule is basically "these people MUST be together even if it would be better if they weren't because god forbid the reader is confronted with the notion of impermanence" like....I can't really explain the depths of how silly I find this rule and how much it goes against what I find compelling to read/write about wrt to romance. It's akin to finding out that the Hayes Code is fully enforced in 2026 and everyone agreeing the Hayes Code is how movies should be made because otherwise it doesn't count as a movie. That's how this revelation of "you haven't written a romance story™ unless your characters unambiguously live happily ever after" makes me feel. I personally prefer to think of romance as a method, as means, as a set of knives to cut characters open and go rummaging around for hidden treasure that can't be found any other way, if you will. Who cares if the characters will live "happily ever after"? Here's a better question, are they even yet living?
I understand your frustration, and I think what you are really annoyed at is books being written poorly, but I also understand why this genre requirement exists and I sympathize with it. When I reach for Romance, it's because I want to know that it will be okay in the end. There is something comforting in knowing that no matter what happens, what trials and tribulations come along on the way, these two people will come out okay, alive, and in love.
Sometimes you just need that? To relax. To have security in a world that feels like it's on fire. To believe in the possibility of true love against all odds, even if you don't believe it in real life. I think there is a beauty in that.
It's a bit like how the genre convention of a detective story is that the crime will be solved. It would be much more realistic if that wasn't the case (at least some of the time), but that's not what people are looking for when they reach for an Agatha Christie book!
There’s a lot of things about romance genre conventions that make me typically prefer good romance sub-plots in other genres to actual romance novels. Just about every time I pick up a romance something about it makes me think Imagine a version of this that’s actually really smart, not so predictable, more character-driven than plot-driven, like actually GOOD good but I know that’s not really what typical romance readers want.
Some exceptional romance novels actually do some more nuanced things with the premise and have slightly deeper characterization than you’d typically find in the genre, but I get that’s not what the genre is really about. People expect comfortable predictability from them and they like the typical character archetypes and that’s fine.

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people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW
tumblr users baffled by the concept of engaing with things that aren't YA fiction and fandom.
Percy Jackson came out when I was an adult, my dear OP. I was, in fact, a high school teacher.
This was my first exposure to Greek myths. It was more than 20 years old when I got a hold of it. It is old enough that it might have been Rick Riordan's first exposure to Greek myths.
“i should take a walk for my mental health” boring, tired, i don’t even really wanna do it tbh
“i need to check the perimeter” i need to check the perimeter
sorry it really is so fucked up that one of the best preserved artifacts from the cannibalism expedition is a preserved slab of corn beef from the botulism lead poison canned food. i cant believe we have that
like i love this thing so much. its so viscerally appalling in every single way. franklin expedition mystery meat i'm your biggest fan
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So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon
#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

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*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”
i love that it’s a carefully worded, well-written, non-inflammatory answer too. which asker wouldn’t know because they won’t read it. i love website
Not the Spongebob tieeee 😂 I'm dying
Uploading this bc i need to delete it from my phone for space but i want to keep it somewhere because the punchline made me cry laughing when i was really high
AMADEUS (1984) + IMDb trivia

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