"I'm stronger than you know"

samanthaswishes —> starlightquake

It’s fine now. Evacuation only lasted a couple of hours, and the fire is pretty much out. Was pretty crazy cause the fire was on a hill that’s on the edge of the neighborhood I live in. Just SoCal Summer things.

The way it was revealed was an alert was being sent out in the middle of the night, someone wakes up, turns on a light, and when the light turns on, Daisy is revealed. She then goes, “Daniel, wake up” as the camera pans over to Sousa in the same bed. Then one by one, the rest of the team is revealed: Mack, Elena, then May.

I think my brain was just in shock cause I woke up before it could get to Coulson or Fitzsimmons and when I woke up, it was one of the dreams that felt so real.

Like it wasn’t even one of those “I was apart of the story” type dreams; I was literally actually watching a marvel movie in my own house, and my mom in my dream just went, “hey, isn’t that the agents of shield people?” and I just went “WHAT!?”

It’s 2026, and there are still people who think Daisy is in the wrong for the aftermath of 5x14.

Reminder that Fitz, fully in control of himself by that point, violated and assaulted Daisy by drugging her, tying her down, and non-consensually operating on her (and potentially paralyzing her) without any form of pain relief, and he had no remorse for what he had done, and she was gaslit and victim blamed for not being okay with it and being (rightfully) mad at him.

Yes, he was having a mental break, that I don’t disagree on, and he definitely needed help for it, I wish he had gotten it, but it was not Daisy’s responsibility to get or be that help for him. She had EVERY RIGHT to talk to him the way she did. Truthfully, she never had to talk to him again. He doesn’t get a pass for his bad decisions. I feel for him that he had to go through that mentally, but that doesn’t give him the right to do what he did and act like she should be okay with it. Just because he felt it was the right thing to do in his own mind, doesn’t mean he gets to go through with it without consulting anyone, without consulting HER, and making sure it was okay to do so.

Again, at the moment he decided to go through with it, he was no longer the doctor. He was himself. He still didn’t take accountability for what HE DID to her, FULLY IN CONTROL. Not the doctor, HIM. If he was still in the doctor mentality, the conversation might be slightly different, SLIGHTLY. Like if he didn’t have memory of it, if he had absolutely no control over his body, etc, but he came to before cutting into her. He was in full control. And even in those other circumstances, Daisy SHOULD still be able to be upset after being violated.

She did not need to comfort or baby him to make him feel better about it. She did not have to treat him better just because he’s sick. Daisy did not need to feel guilt for the way she spoke to him for what HE did to her.

She did not need to forgive or care for her abuser.

And I’m not about to say every decision Daisy made in season 5 was perfect. She was, understandably and rightfully, emotionally charged, sometimes acted on her feelings instead of logistics, and put into a position she wasn’t quite ready for (yet. She definitely could have and would have succeeded had circumstances been different.) However, that was taken advantage of and instead of being supported and listened to, she was ignored and assaulted after just finding out her father figure was going to die, after having just been human trafficked out in future space (let’s not pretend that’s not what happened because that’s literally what happened.)

I’ve always been mad about the distreatment of Daisy after 5x14, but it’s only grown much more in this day and age. I feel it’s even more important to talk about it now. I’m so over people in this fandom (and other fandom spaces) perpetuating straight up abuse, misogyny, gaslighting, victim blaming, and ableism in today’s world. I get it’s “just a show” at the end of the day, but it’s exhausting, and honestly quite disgusting, to see people who say they’re against these things turn around and push the idea that victims should be okay with what is done to them just cause their “helpless little favorite” was the abuser.

I truly wish the storyline around Daisy’s inhibitor had been about her rediscovering herself and her pride in her inhuman heritage and her confidence by being encouraged as a leader by the team instead of being told she’s going to destroy the world, and ultimately agreeing, and GIVEN THE CHOICE to have the inhibitor removed.

I wish Fitz’s storyline with the doctor and his mental state was more about him willing to talk about it, seek help and guidance from the team, and rising above the guilt he felt from the Framework instead of treating him like he was helpless and needed constant babying and ego boosting from everyone else. Truthfully, I wish he got better writing cause he started out as such a cool character for me when I first watched the show before getting to this point in the series.

The two of them could have had an amazing character arc of understanding each other’s guilt (Daisy’s sway from Hive (in which she was in a position where she had no control over her thoughts and actions) and Fitz’s artificial life as the doctor) and how they can move on by helping, supporting, and understanding each other and themselves, coming to terms that what they went through was not their fault, but instead we got the bullshit story of assault and gaslighting.

There’s also the problematic look of a white man taking advantage of and violating a woman of color, but I hope that is clear enough for people to understand without me having to spell it out but racism has always been a bit of a problem with this fandom as well.

Daisy’s ending should have had something to do with the inhumans.

They literally set her up in season 2 to be their next leader, and the rights and protections for inhumans was something that she fought for and believed in so much in seasons 3 and 4.

And then by season 5 they just… had her stop?

Season 5, the show only treated inhumans and Daisy as tools. As a means to an end instead of actual people with emotions regarding the use of their powers and their heritage.

I feel like Daisy could have either rebuilt something like Afterlife or created some sort of program to keep inhumans safe. Not some sort of list like The Index or the Sokovia Accords (cause as we see in seasons 3 and 4, that made things so much worse) but something or someplace where Daisy knows she can keep her people safe.

Plus, to be honest, if I was Daisy, I wouldn’t want to go back to space after having been sold to slavery and tortured in space and then later traveling space for a year to find the man who essentially assaulted her and have to pretend that never happened. Yes I’m very still pretty about all of that. No I will never shut up about this because what do you mean they let him get away with it?

In this inhuman venture, I still believe Daniel and Kora would be by her side through all of it. Daniel, of course, being the guy who would support her through anything and was the only person to not invalidate her feelings and actually show genuine care for her. Kora, I have mixed feelings about her as a character overall, but as Daisy’s sister, she’s the last familial connection Daisy has, especially when it comes to their inhuman heritage, so I feel like they’d be able to take this on together.