Tag: aos

agents-of-frickle-frackle:

let’s be real though for as big a dad as coulson is he’s an even bigger fanboy

News just in: Skye does some IP lookup sneaking and discovers that the biggest BNF fanfic writer in Captain America RPF fandom is on the Bus with her.

Bonus points: the slash is super hot, and now she’s slightly freaked out that her mind has unknowingly (very happily) gone to the sex place with Coulson’s Cap fantasies. She always thought she was up there writing reports or some shit, but now she knows The Truth.

homoacethaliagrace:

actuallyclintbarton:

homoacethaliagrace:

oh right, i rambled about it on twitter but i forgot to post it here: it’s official, aos is a fandom, which means SORTING HEADCANONS!

skye is definitely a slytherin, with some secondary ravenclaw traits (more reasons to love skye to pieces,…

I think you mistake wanting to be strong, which could be equally Gryffindor or Slytherin, with wanting to be brave, which is what really defines Gryffindor house. Pettigrew, despite his later choices, really and truly desired to live up to the Gryffindor ideal of courage and nobility. He wanted to do the right thing, but ended up failing out of cowardice. Ward never once envisioned himself as brave or noble, probably not even at age eleven. He did what he had to in order to survive, which is an incredibly Slytherin trait. He wanted to be strong, yes, but not because he wanted to be able to live up to his own morals (of which he apparently has none). The only reason he wanted to be strong was to either defeat his enemies (i.e. burning his house down) or to keep surviving under the direction of those stronger and smarter than he is. So yeah, he’s basically Crabbe and Goyle type Slytherin.

I’d also note that while the Sorting hat does take personal choice into account, it does occasionally decide that it knows better. Neville Longbottom asked to be in Hufflepuff because he was intimidated by Gryffindor’s reputation, but was overruled. If Ward asked to be in Gryffindor, I’m guessing the same sort of thing would happen.

Less mistake, more I think that Ward, at age eleven, might mistake one for the other. I think Ward at age eleven is a different prospect to Ward as an adult, too, and I was thinking more about what he would have been like at that age, before The Well, before that ‘defining moment’, where cruelty and abuse has already happened, but he hasn’t embraced his hate in the way he describes, the defining moment that led to the arson, that led him to Hydra.

Also, digging deeper (probably too deep for a casual Sorting, oh well) there’s a lot of influence of culture and family in what happens in Sorting. If we’re working on the premise that Ward is Wizardborn, there would be pressure to be where his family was, and if his family were traditionally Slytherin, then that’s where he’d be likely to be placed. However, if his elder brother was already at Hogwarts and already in Slytherin, I can see Ward pushing with all his might to be Sorted into the House diametrically opposite it. If he’s Muggleborn, and the first of his family to go to Hogwarts, I think the waters are a bit more murky, even though Slytherin isn’t traditionally a House inclined to Muggleborns. (Incidentally, my first ever Potter fic was about the fate of a Muggleborn Slytherin during the Books Six and Seven.)

dammit-mcu:

headeyyarchive:

The Cavalry.

#THIS IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT FFS #this is not just a cool nickname for her #most titles like that are held by (white) men #as a proof of their unparalleled hypermasculinity #one that comes from bloodshed and slaughter #titles like that earned and not easily #but this isn’t most titles #this is something melinda got as a token for her trauma after Bahrain #it’s like a brand seared onto her forehead #and to her it’s ugly and accusing and associated with so much pain #so while on the one hand i’m very happy a woman of colour gets to hold a Big Badass Nickname #while simultaneously deconstructing it #i’m extremely unhappy when the fandom refers to her as that (via stardust-rain)

actuallyclintbarton:

homoacethaliagrace:

oh right, i rambled about it on twitter but i forgot to post it here: it’s official, aos is a fandom, which means SORTING HEADCANONS!

skye is definitely a slytherin, with some secondary ravenclaw traits (more reasons to love skye to pieces, she’s ME)

coulson is probably a gryffindor? though i’d probably accept hufflepuff if only because i don’t care all that much whoops

fitzsimmons are ravenclaws, i spent a good while thinking around it to make sure i wasn’t biased because science but no they’re definitely ravenclaws

may is probably also a slytherin, i think, but if i had to pick another house for her, it’d be hufflepuff

trip is absolutely a gryffindor, there’s no doubt in my mind

and uuuuugggghhh only because i have to, ward is a slytherin IN THE MOST BORING WAY POSSIBLE

#ward is a slytherin the way crabbe and goyle are slytherins

I’m gonna throw out the wildly controversial Sorting of Ward as a Gryffindor. I’m doing that for a number of reasons. Not because I’m holding up his life choices as anything noble but because a) Ward survived, against all odds, his childhood, and b) the Hat takes into consideration a person’s wishes. I think, above anything, Ward wants to be strong, and while Slytherins are resilient and resourceful, I think Ward himself, at age eleven, would see the Gryffindors as the embodiment of strength and want to be a part of that strength, both as wanting to be a strong person himself but also because in the company of strong people he would be safe. I think he’d see Slytherins as too close to his home life, too close to his brother – a lot of individuals taking power and using it for their own ends, both good and ill.

And finally, I Sort him as Gryffindor because what people tend to forget is that Peter Pettigrew was a Gryffindor, and also the Dark Lord’s right hand. Peter Pettigrew was a Gryffindor for the reasons I have listed – because he wanted to be strong, and wanted to be protected – and Grant Ward reminds me of no other character in the Harry Potter canon so much as he does Peter Pettigrew.