luckster31:

I literally started crying in the cinema at this because seriously fuck you, Steve. There are so many people going ~SEXUAL TENSION~. But no. No. This is just cruel. And tony’s comebacks are in no way even close to being as mean; for tony they’re rather weak and stumbly. Because do you see his face there? Steve just fucking ripped him to shreds. And i’m crying now; this just breaks my heart. You’ve seen the footage, Steve? Really? Have you really? You’ve seen him as he watched kids being killed by his own weapons? You’ve seen him being tortured? You’ve seen the only person who believed in him as a person die in front of him? Do you actually get that there is a fucking hole in his chest? That the fact that he’s even alive is a fucking miracle like a hundred times over. One which he’s clawed into existence with his own hands and genius. You’ve seen the closest person he had to a father literally rip his heart from his chest? You’ve seen how he then had to kill that closest person he had to a father? You’ve seen how he was dying all alone and yet STILL attempted to save everyone around him? WITHOUT HIS SUIT Oh yeah you’ve seen the fucking footage haven’t you? I don’t think you get, Steve how much you can’t take those words back. Years from now they’re still going to be rattling around in tony’s head echoing every crappy thought he’s ever had about himself. It just makes me so mad. I love you Steve, but nothing justifies what you said to him. Nothing.

But here’s the thing - all of this is true, yes. But Steve is just as hurt as Tony. He’s alone and completely out of his depth in the world. He won’t sleep because he’s already slept for so long and is obviously suffering from PTSD. He still feels like he should be fighting a war and doesn’t know what use he can be if he isn’t in one. Because that’s what he was made to be. The reason he’s even alive is because he was made to be a soldier. He was made to be the best soldier there is. But now? Now he doesn’t have anything to do. Except start fighting the same battle he thought he had won by crashing that plane.

And Tony doesn’t back down. He picks at that weakness - the fear that “everything special about him came out of a bottle.” The fear that without the serum he would have gotten beaten up in alleys for the rest of his life, never doing anything worthwhile. The fear that he has no place in this new world because there are people like Tony who can find ways to make themselves strong on their own. Not only that, but he’s also reminding Steve that the guys he knew, the friends he lost - their sacrifice doesn’t mean anything anymore. Not really. Because  there are people like Tony who can see the other ways out. Who can find the better way.

That’s the thing about this scene - Tony and Steve manage to find the most sensitive nerve and attack it. They both hurt each other in the worst way possible. And ten minutes later they are the only two of the entire group working together to try and keep that helicarrier afloat. Ten minutes later, Tony isn’t mocking Steve for not understanding all the technobabble he is spewing and Steve is seeing the proof that Tony isn’t as selfish as he thought. And it’s an amazing moment because after that? After they work together to get that engine working again? They’re a team. Steve follows Tony when he walks off. They figure out what they have to do to find Loki and decide that they have to go and stop him. And when they’re on the battlefield? Tony’s the one who tells Steve to give them their orders. 

I’M SORRY I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELS.

winchesterlicious:

I was gonna put this under a read more but whatevs I DO WHAT I WANT

I was actually honestly super confused when Pepper and Tony were still together in The Avengers. I totally thought that after Iron Man 2, they’d just go back to being workplace friends or whatever

mostly because throughout both Iron Man movies and The Avengers (for the brief times we saw Pepper) I personally thought that Gwyneth Paltrow and RDJ had like…no chemistry

like there was such a lack of chemistry that it made me physically uncomfortable 

they were so devoid of any chemistry whatsoever that Bruce Banner cried himself to sleep about it, cuddling his test tubes

but I guess maybe that’s just me?

maybe it’s because I don’t like Ms. Paltrow’s acting style that much? Or that it was kinda OOC for Tony to suddenly be monogamous and stuff idek? 

also I thought she was going to end up with Happy dshgkjhd (she did in the comics, sorta)

I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHY I’M TALKING ABOUT THIS

it just sort of bothered me 

???

So, I wasn’t a huge advocate of Pepper/Tony. But in the Iron Man films, I could definitely see it. I don’t know if they had much chemsitry, but I thought they fit well together - at least within the framework of the Iron Man films. Pepper didn’t take any shit from Tony and Tony both needed that and cared about her. She was one of the only people that had actually stuck around him for any amount of time.

But I don’t really see it in The Avengers. Mostly because it seems like Tony is doing pretty well on his own and I always felt like Pepper was an intermediary. She was someone that obviously cared about Tony and would continue to care about him - but she also wasn’t under any delusion that they would be together long-term. Mostly because they wouldn’t fit together in a long-term relationship.

Their personalities, at least for me, just don’t seem like they would mesh long-term.  I don’t think that, with Pepper, Tony would let himself grow as a person any further. He would continue as he was and that would not be enough for Pepper because even though Pepper pushes him, she doesn’t expect him to truly change who he is in any drastic way. 

I don’t even know if that made sense, but…yeah. That’s how I feel.

heavenandhellcastiel:

• she murdered John Winchester’s friends (even called John to listen as she murdered his friend Caleb)
• she attacked John Winchester and held him hostage for the colt
• she worked with YED 
• she took possession of Sam’s body looking for revenge and tried to have Dean kill his own brother
• she tried to have demon!bobby kill Dean
• she is the reason Ellen and Jo died

Don’t ask me to have sympathy for her. Because I wont. 

Okay, I’m a little confused here. Because yes, she did all of these things (except for Ellen and Jo - that’s on Lucifer, not Meg; Meg was ordering the hellhounds, but Lucifer was ordering Meg and after Meg set the hellhounds on them at the start, she never ordered them again; so if we want to play semantics, then it was the hellhounds that killed them).

ANYWAY. It’s obvious that she is changing now and that the reason she did all of those things was for similar reasons to why Sam and Dean do what they do. I’m not saying you have to have sympathy for her, but it’s not like she is the most evil demon we have ever seen. She had reasons for doing everything she did. Motivations. Which humanised her. We didn’t get that much with Alistair or Lilith or even Ruby. Meg has been the most humanised of all the demons and it’s been done in a way far more subtle than any other. Because it’s clear she isn’t human and that she wasn’t always on the same side as Sam and Dean. But her reasons for opposing them? Just as valid motivations as Sam and Dean’s and every other hunter’s on the planet. 

I’m not saying you have to be sympathetic to Meg, but using these reasons as an excuse for that and trying to make her out to be this completely terrible and vindictive character because of these actions? That’s not right. Yeah, she’s vengeful. So are Sam and Dean. Yeah, she makes horrible choices for her life. So do Sam and Dean. She really isn’t that different from them, she’s just the bad guy because when she did all this crap she was on the other side of the battlefield. 

And don’t even get me started on the fact that we can have sympathy for Lucifer, who was the orchestrator of pretty much all of these things in one way or another, but not for Meg. 

Be prepared for Supernatural feels.

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I can understand why you wouldn’t think that, but I believe that at the end Morgana was of the belief that everyone who followed Uther’s rules of magic and let sorcerer’s be killed would be a potential threat to her. I don’t think she saw the crowd as innocent people - I think she saw them as guilty because none of them ever tried to help a sorcerer. 

And she hates Gwen and Arthur in the end because they stand in her way. She has no way of knowing that Arthur won’t perpetuate the law of all who practice magic are killed. She believes that the only way she can survive in Camelot is if she is in power. The thing is that the betrayal of her trust changes Morgana. She’s not the same person after that. She sees the world and all of its people differently after that. Just as Uther is blinded to magic being good, Morgana seems to be blind to the possibility of magic being evil. She seems to be of the mindset that the ends justify the means and if magic is no longer outlawed then the world will be better because she won’t feel trapped anymore.

It doesn’t really make a lot of sense, but I think Morgana is at least a little bit mad after Merlin’s betrayal. Spending a year with Morgause and learning magic from her and thinking about how Merlin betrayed her and about how Uther hates everything to do with magic and how Arthur might hate magic as well twisted her mind. She’s not really thinking clearly anymore. She’s obsessed with becoming queen and with defeating anyone who stands in her way because she has this insane idea that if magic is no longer outlawed, everything will just get better.

It’s been a few days (and multiple viewings) and I still feel just as raw as I did when I watched the episode for the first time. But I need to say something about it. Even if it feels like I’m driving a knife into my heart while I do it.

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I’m going to start out by saying that this will probably be all over the place and ridiculously long. Even after I edit it. The reason for this is because the feelings I have for Sam Winchester can most accurately be described as to how a mother grizzly bear feels about her cubs when they are in danger. My brain is able to say that he is only fictional, but my heart somehow hasn’t gotten the memo yet. So I apologise in advance for any inconsistencies or rants that occur because of this and I will applaud you if you manage to get through the entirety of it.

Also, because I feel so strongly, not all of this will be objective. This is more of what my point of view of Sam is. So some of that might be objective, but some of it might not. More importantly, this is not by any means all of my feelings about Sam Winchester. I have way too many feelings about individual scenes to fit them all into this analysis. This is just a lot of them.

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Since it was requested by an Anon.

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Adding tags into text to make for easier reading:

#this is one of my favourite promo pictures for fringe ever#and it’s not just because of how beautiful it is#i find it absolutely fitting that olivia is the one portrayed with equations leading to/from her head#because she’s always trying to understand#she wants to know everything and wants to know the why and the how#but so often she just can’t#because it is so far outside her realm of understanding#and she tries to understand#she reads books on advanced physics and mathematics in her free time from work#but it never seems to help and all she can ever seem to do is react#character analysis#in tags#that’s been happening a lot these days

toburnmybrothersbones:

Yeah, as soon as he said that my bullshit radar went off like crazy.

But see, that’s not how Sam is. He doesn’t see it as “constantly reliving 180 years of torture” (and was it really 180 years? Did we ever hear an actual number?). 

Sam has proved time and time again that he is ridiculously good at dealing with shitty situations. He might let things get to him for a while, but it isn’t long until he gets it under control and wraps his head around it (even if sometimes that turns to using anger to deal with it).

When Sam said this I really didn’t take his words at face value. He wasn’t really saying “I’m okay with it.” He was saying “I can deal with it. I can tell it’s not real. If it’s not real, it shouldn’t bother me.” 

Sam is just good at dealing with shitty situations - at least when it pertains to himself. It’s only when those situations start involving others that he has any true difficulty in dealing (and even then, he’s still usually the one with the calm head. Who was the only person that didn’t lose faith during the last half of Season Five?). 

So yeah. This is a case of Sam saying one thing and meaning another.

True, true.

The problem the fandom has with Sam is that as much as he cares about Dean, he can still differentiate himself from Dean. Dean doesn’t really have an identity outside of Sam. It was drilled into Dean’s head to protect Sammy. That’s pretty much how Dean defines himself. He is who he is because of Sam.

Sam, on the other hand, actively searched for an identity outside of his family. He started making it clear that he was his own person when he was a teenager. He wanted to be more than just a hunter and a huge part of that is due to the fact that Sam doesn’t remember ever having a normal life. So when he saw people with that normal life he envied it. He wanted it because it was something he never had.

Really, the differences between Sam and Dean can be boiled down to this: Dean remembers having a normal life, however briefly, and Sam doesn’t. Everything that happened before Stanford with Sam? It’s because he couldn’t remember ever being normal. All he could remember was being a freak. The reason Dean relies on his family so much and they are the most important thing to him? He remembers at least a little of what it was like before. He knows what it is to lose family.

And wow, I just started ranting there. I JUST HAVE TOO MANY SAM WINCHESTER FEELS. THEY CANNOT BE CONTAINED.

Since I’m going through and editing some old posts, I’m putting the tags that I originally wrote for this in the actual text so it’s easier to read.

#i don’t care what you say#i am never ever going to get over this#and you will never ever convince me that sam didn’t take it out of that trash can#because there’s no way sam would have just let it end like that#even after this he still believed in what they could do - in dean and cas and bobby - and he would have continued to believe in what that amulet meant to them#he would have told himself that it didn’t matter if dean didn’t believe in him or the amulet anymore - because sam couldn’t really blame him for losing faith in him#he would have told himself that it still mattered to him#because he still believed in dean and knew how very wrong his heaven really was#because the amulet meant just as much to sam as it did to dean#he watched his brother wear it everyday for years and years and the first time he took it off was when sam took it off his body#he wore that amulet for four months when dean was dead - four months of the amulet being the only thing of dean that he could hold onto#there is no humanly possible way that sam left the amulet in that trash can#no possible way#character analysis#in tags#like a boss

doctorwholia:

Someone I follow doesn’t like Balthazar

what

how

why

HI, THAT’S ME.

Mostly because I never really connected with him and every single thing he ever did could have been just as easily accomplished by Gabriel. 

Balthazar’s past was never really revealed to us. We only ever had glimpses and most of his backstory is complete conjecture. The thing that was supposed to define him in the end was how much he cared for Castiel, but I never got the feeling that he was in it for anyone but himself. I understand that he supposedly cared about Castiel a great deal, but I never really saw that.

Gabriel, though…Well, everything that Balthazar did that was noteworthy was something that Gabriel could have accomplished. Except perhaps for stealing the weapons (and where did that go anyway? That’s right, nowhere). 

And the thing is that Gabriel’s backstory is so much richer than Balthazar’s could ever even hope to be. Here is a character that completely defined himself by how much he loved his family. He defined himself around his love for his family. And then his family starts fighting. His family starts ripping itself apart and Gabriel just can’t take it. 

There is so much more to Gabriel’s character and Balthazar, to me, feels like a cheap carbon-copy. But I can see why people like his character, I just can’t. Because I love Gabriel too much. I love him more than almost any other character. The only character that has affected me more on this show is Sam. Gabriel is, by and large, my most favourite supporting character and always will be. It is impossible for me to look at Balthazar and not see him as a photocopy of Gabriel.