scifigrl47:

johnbodyheat:

butterflykiki:

scifigrl47:

An AU where Frigga rules Asgard and raises her children while Odin runs around, I don’t know, stabbing things or something.   Sif and Val can protect the realm on their own, so that frees him up to take some really long naps.  No one cares how long your Odinsleep lasts, dude, really.

Where the new incarnation of SHIELD is helmed by Maria Hill, because she’s actually experienced and the next in line after Fury.  Sharon Carter is her second, and they both bitch out the Avengers on a regular basis.  Coulson can continue shepherding his bus of broken toys around, except with Maria needs May’s support.  Victoria Hand is, of course, shacked up somewhere with Sitwell.  Not sleeping together, mind out of the gutter.  But they were both behind on “Game of Thrones,” and with both of them being fake dead, it seemed like a good chance to get caught up.

Where Pepper Potts smashed through the wall and rushed Maya Hanson to the ER and now Maya heads R&D and Pepper runs the company and Tony just plays with his bots and is perfectly happy inventing completely unmarketable stuff.

Where Natasha is the poised, controlled public face of the Avengers because she can actually handle it without showing up drunk or having a panic attack or telling a reporter to do something anatomically impossible.

Where Betty has turned down job offers from StarkIndustries and SHIELD but takes a post with Empire University, just close enough and just far enough away.  She teaches and does the research she wants to do and in her spare time, she founded a group of scientists that serve as public interest watchdogs and whistle blowers.  They focus attention on military, government and industry work, demanding transparency and high safety standards.  She meets Bruce in the park, once a week, early in the day or late in the afternoon, when there’s fewer people and less chance of something happening.  She holds his hand the entire time, and sometimes that’s all they do.  Walk and hold hands.

Where Gwen Stacey goes to London and still writes to Peter, emails and real letters, because she will always be his friend and his lodestone, even if they’re not together any more.  Because part of being an adult is realizing that you can love someone, and have that not be enough.  Sometimes.  Loving someone.  Means letting them go.  And wishing with all your heart for them to be happy and safe.  And Peter loves her, and is so happy for her, because he is growing up, and becoming the hero he’s always tried so hard to be.  And Gwen sets him up with this girl she knows back in New York, maybe he’ll like Mary Jane, and maybe Mary Jane would like him…

Where Peggy Carter builds up SHIELD with dozens of the female intelligence workers and codebreakers and technicians and secretaries, stolen from the US Military and Betchley Park and Hedy Lamarr is the ultimate spy and the one who explained to Howard Stark just what would happen to his balls if he didn’t learn to keep his hands to himself.  It involves liquid nitrogen and he learned to keep his hands to himself.

Where the contributions of the women of this verse don’t begin with being a love interest and end with their death.

Where they create a vibrant, brilliant, balanced world, not in spite of the male characters, but with them.  Because it’s a better world with them in it.

this, yup.

Is it a better world with them in it, though? The male Asgardians, Sitwell, Coulson, Banner, and Stark all seem to be pretty useless in this scenario. You could ace all of them and nothing in this world would suffer for it. The only one who retains any kind of relevance is Peter. 

In all seriousness. Did you just try to hijack a post about how we need more female representation to say that having the women there renders the men, what, unimportant? That having your favorite charcters only be mentioned or important when it relates to the actions or emotional well being of a character of the opposite gender isn’t what you want to see? That it would be sad that focusing entirely on one group of people rendered the other half of them completely irrelevent?

I didn’t say what Thor, Loki or the Warriors Three were doing. I didn’t say what Bruce was doing. I only mentioned them in relation to how they impact the women’s lives and this is exactly how media treats women. I said that Tony was HAPPY with his ability to do exactly what he wants and avoid the things he’s spent three movies avoiding. Despite this, you’ve jumped to the conclusion that they’re irrelevent just because the above answer doesn’t focus on them. The narrative doesn’t say they’re irrelevent. It just implies they’re uninteresting. Not worthy of our focus. “It’s fine, they can be the romantic interests and the perky sidekicks!”

Welcome to the background radiation of my life. Erasure sucks, doesn’t it? Only difference is, I’m decring the ACTUAL FRIDGING and ERASURE of female characters. You’re displeased with the fantasy of something that comes close to equality.