#detectableninja

That fairy lights: if a crystal ball could tell you the truth about anything, what would you want to know?

“will I ever find a healthy, fulfilling relationship?”

sunrise: pick a quote and describe what it means to you personally.

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” –Jean-Luc Picard 

When I first saw this episode I was kinda floored because yes it’s absolutely right. It helped kinda cement the idea in my brain that you can’t control everything in life and life is about coping with the shit that gets thrown at you the best you can. Failure doesn’t make you weak, it makes you human, and that fact in and of itself should inspire you to try harder until you eventually succeed. 

messy bun: the world is listening. pick one sentence you would tell them.

“have empathy and compassion for those around you as well as yourself–the world will be a kinder place.” 

love: have you ever fallen in love? describe what it feels like to realise you’re in love.

nah, but I imagine i’d feel like finding safety and comfort after a lifetime of fear and abuse, like the absence of anxiety, like a hug from a friend after a difficult week, like affectionate annoyance, and like sleepy morning kisses.

June: To Kill a Mockingbird. Maybe I’ve read “better” books since then, but I first read TKAM in elementary school and it’s kinda stuck with me since.

July: Favorite song changes all the time. Right now it’s Salt by Bad Suns. Favorite band is The Neighbourhood.

send me a fandom and i’ll tell you:

my beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world fave:

This is hard, but it’s got to be Bruce Banner. The man needs hugs.  Lots of them.  And the MCU portrayal, particularly in Avengers, is like the 80′s Incredible Hulk TV show come to its full potential. 

 my trash-s*** fave:

Let’s just be honest, Loki.  Gosh, I wish he had a prayer of a canon redemption arc.  The character in Thor had so much potential, and then…Avengers.  Ugh.

my I love to hate them fave:

The World Security Council, all of them.   The most effective villains in this franchise are shadowy organizations and you can’t go wrong with the originals.

my I hate to love them fave:

Wilson Fisk. I’m really tired of Daredevil making me have feelings about Wilson Fisk. He is a villain goshdarnit, why is he so freakin’ sympathetic?  Love might be going a little far but I think when I finally finish the thing I am going to have mixed feelings no matter how the showdown between him and Daredevil goes.

my I wouldn’t piss throw water on them if they were on fire non-fave:

Odin.  I have never seen a non-anime character screw up father-ing by accident so badly.  He is responsible for Loki, and thus for the Invasion of New York, and so for like, half of the shenanigans on Agents of SHIELD and Daredevil.

my I didn’t care about them either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about them now I can’t stand them non-fave:

My apologies, but Quicksilver.  He has been in one movie.  You all have the right to be as attached as you want but I have the right to care about JARVIS more.

my I could take them or leave them kinda non-fave:

This is actually hard.  I have feelings about lots of people.  I have feelings about the dude who was playing Galaga in Avengers.  Maybe Darcy’s intern from Thor: The Dark World? I don’t really care about him much.

my I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender, there will be no white flag above my door. I’m in love and always will be fave ship:

Pepperoni/TonyXPepper.  I know they have issues.  That’s why it’s fun.  I will always be here for their bickering.

After watching Daredevil, FoggyXClaire is gunning for this position, but I watched Daredevil this week, so I’m not ready to name that my favorite ship yet.

my dirtybadwrong fave ship:

Let’s go with SteveXDarcy, which I find really cute even as I acknowledge it to be non-canon and possibly OOC.

my they’re cute together and I dig them but I’m not all that terribly invested kinda fave ship:

Clintasha.  I thought it was cute but I didn’t freak when AOU happened, either. Actually, I don’t have that much against BruceNat, besides how ickily it was executed.  

my I didn’t care about this ship either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about it now I can’t stand it non-fave ship:

I don’t have one.  I get annoyed with all the shipping, sometimes, but not with the ships themselves yet.

my MAKE IT STOP non-fave ship:

This post is shorter than the others because the Marvel Fandom is just so big. Relatively unpopular fics have more hits than some fandoms I’m in have fics, total.  And there are literally dozens of active, prolific, amazingly talented writers who are very well-known.  So, consider this more of a “good authors you probably haven’t heard of” post than a “definitive rec post” because it qualifies as the former, and is definitely not supposed to be the latter.

Detectable Ninja has a good handle on the entire team’s personalities and voices.  They very competently mix humor and drama in their writing. They also have a good ear for dialogue, and a sense of timing that serves them equally well in dramatic and comedic moments.  Ten Feet Tall is a particularly interesting fic, with a unique premise—what if the whole team, not just Natasha, performed the Lullaby on Hulk that we see in Age of Ultron.

Imaginaryturtles is especially good at humor.  The way she writes Tony Stark is particularly in-character, both in the way he speaks and acts.  She’s got a knack for picking out canon details and pulling a story from them—which Reloj, a post-Iron Man 3 fic about Tony trying to obtain a Dora the Explorer watch—clearly demonstrates.

If you would like to see more Maria Hill, tielan has a lot of fic for you.  Her use of language is deft; she has an excellent sense of pacing and a gift for imagery. She’s quite competent at getting inside of the character’s heads, as well. The Tools to Hand presents a speculative AU ending for Captain America: Civil War.

hello friend i want you to know you fucked up  this got really long

☆ - happy headcanon: bruce runs a science youtube channel a la scishow. he loves it. he’s behind the camera so he doesn’t have to worry about anything going wrong and he does a lot of fun chemistry experiments and informative episodes about a bunch of different stuff and guest stars including: bill nye, various mythbusters members, jane foster, neil degrasse tyson, etc. he also helps run a science program for underprivileged kids in avengers towers and he is just really happy to be teaching people and spreading science love. (i cant take exact responsibility for this bc im pretty sure angryqueermermaid and i talked about this before)

☮ - friendship headcanon: okay consider: bruce/thor brotp. thor isnt scared of hulk at all. actually, he invites the hulk to spar and bruce kindly declines and thor completely understands. instead thor sticks to bringing bruce some asgardian biology to play with and introduces him to jane and oh my god bruce and jane are good friends and they’ll talk for hours about nuclear stuff. thor only has a grasp on the basics of nuclear physics but its enough to make him smile when he hears them talking about it. also thor is perfect for cuddling. he is large and warm and soft and a little loud.

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon: bruce has the best garden. actually he has like five. he has his outside garden that follows the seasons and it’s nice to remake something every spring and it’s lovely and mostly flowers. he has a greenhouse inside that he grows lots of vegetables in and donates them to the food kitchen down the way. he has a ton of potted plants on his floor and a few in his lab, from succulent to flowers and even some cherry tomato plants to snack on. he also has a zen garden with cactuses. and a lab garden that’s mostly made of asgardian bio and other weird/rare plants. 

☯ - likes/dislikes headcanon: he likes quiet places and accurate science films and swimming and long kayak trips and quiet sunday afternoons and winter strolls in the evening. he dislikes hospitals and closed spaces and loud, sudden noises and the way he can’t stop playing with his watch when he’s upset. 

▼ - childhood headcanon: bruce used to hate science?? he was a little more artsy and his first few science teachers put an emphasis on math in science and math is not his strong suit, but then he had a great bio teacher that showed him how science was a lot less rigorous than a lot of people thought and how biochemistry could create things as well as destroy them and also he had really thick dorky glasses.