Avengers Fic: Lullabies and Failsafes
It had only been a matter of time before Bruce Banner lost his fight with the Hulk.
That had always been somewhere buried in the back of the SHIELD files, that Banner would eventually, and likely in a spectacular manner, be washed away by the sheer force of the Hulk. The fact that the two of them had somehow coexisted in Banner’s very human body and mind for so long was a medical miracle that no one had questioned.
SHIELD had just made backup plans. That’s what they did. Contingency plans and worst case scenarios, paperwork and files and powerpoint presentations. SHIELD was always waiting for a point of failure, and The Avengers Initiative was no different. Eventually, and everyone knew it, the Avengers would fall apart. SHIELD had plans for when that happened.
Phil Coulson’s name was on the majority of those plans as the primary author.
It made sense. He had interacted with the majority of them more than most SHIELD agents, and, with the exception of Fury, far more than anyone else in the chain of command. Even before being assigned as their liaison, he’d started planning for when one, or all of them, turned on SHIELD, each other, or the world.
Some days, Phil Coulson hated his life.
Awwwwwwwww
People of the internet, I present to you: Sokka’s Waterfall.
New vacation spot.
I must paint it.
That is super cool. Also, I can’t help but find it extremely funny that a Fire Nation waterfall is in Iceland.
Iceland does have a lot of volcanoes, though XD N
ow where to get plane tickets?
Abbey, when we all take our inevitable trip to Iceland, we’re visiting this waterfall, okay?
(via water-tribe-warrior)
Loki, why wasn’t Winter Soldier in the Avengers Movie?
Loki/Dr.Horrible Crossover, with Bucky Barnes
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
30 Days of Peter and Elizabeth - 12 The moment that made you ship them
I find jealousy as a plot device to be so unbelievably boring, so this moment was just…fucking. GOLD. seriously. favorite.
(via ashinan)
(via ifitgivesyoujoy)
Prompt 1: Team Mascot
By: teabeforewar (Team Moran)
Moran and Jim - Not a Fairytale
WHY WOULD YOU POST SOMETHING LIKE THAT
LEGIT TEARING UP HERE
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
A B B E Y
(via cumberqueen)
(Source: hemsworthss, via belle-the-lorage)
(Source: breakingbats, via storming-like-a-bitch)
Sam threatens me into behaving myself with sad-fic.
Wut.
I will do it. And if I do, you will cry. <3
#so let’s talk about this #this is loki’s big opening number #this is how he introduces himself to the new realm of earth #his opening volley #his brash declaration of war #’i am loki of asgard’ #except you’re totally not loki #and you’re the only one in the room that knows it #so what are you trying to prove loki? #who are you trying to convince? #why claim your home here and now when no one is around to notice? #because no matter how much loki hates his family #no matter how much he hates his realm #no matter how much he hates the æsir #he hates not being one more #he hates being jötunn more #therein is loki’s most childish and saddest fault #he tried so desperately to remain an æsir #he killed his own father in a hopeless futile scheme to make it not so #he razed jötunheimr to try and scour their stain from his body #being a jötunn was so foul to his mind that murder and genocide became viable courses of action #he clings desperately to his æsir identity before turning around and denying thor as his brother with his next breath #so long as no is around to see it he cleaves to his title of loki of asgard #but never to his brother’s face #because then thor wins #again #thor is right again #and loki would rather be alone than be wrong again
Okay, we have to add on to this. Because is the thing about Loki in the Avengers that really gets us. See, he’s incredibly intelligent. He’s a trickster; he has to be. He had to know, right from the start, what the probably outcomes of this whole thing were. He had to. Maybe he tried not to, maybe he lied to himself, but somewhere deep down, he had to have known. But he went ahead and did all this anyway, so why?
‘Because I am the monster who parents tell their children about at night,’ he said. He was one of those children. He truly believes he’s a monster; he will look back on his life, on his childhood, and twist every memory, every action and outcome, in order to prove this to himself, because that’s what the brain does sometimes when we’re afraid and hurting. Loki hates himself; in his mind he is a monster, ruining all he touches, unworthy of his brother’s love. Not capable of being ‘fixed.’
Loki spends the entire film pissing off as many powerful people as he can, especially Thor. He probably knew that dropping Thor wouldn’t kill him, and that knife he stabbed him with? Too short to do any real damage. He knew Thor would survive. So why do it? Because he wants Thor to hate him. Because it’s easier. Because Thor caring for him hurts too much, even though he wants it too.
Because we don’t think Loki was counting on surviving this whole escapade and because Loki figures that as long as he’s going to die anyway it might as well be at the hands of the brother he loves so much, in spite of everything.
Because then Thor could be the martyr, the king who sacrificed everything, even killed his own beloved brother, in order to protect his people. And Loki would be free.
This.
aaaaaaaaaagh
this is why we can’t have anything nice
well fuck all of you
FUCK
(Source: hiddlestonr, via ifitgivesyoujoy)
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I would like to introduce you to my new sidekick, the Blue Ear!
This is a message to Anthony Smith, my new four-year-old sidekick from New Hampshire. If you haven’t heard of Anthony and his story, click here.
Unfortunately I don’t have a way to send this to Anthony and his mom, so I’m hoping that with the power of Tumblr we can generate enough awareness and that someone at least knows how to contact her.
Stay Blue!
Clint, you’re awesome.
