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Is it just me or does CEvans’ face look kinda…different somehow in the video he posted recently on his twitter? Thinner, or longer, or just a subtly different shape somehow.

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I have to admit I haven’t seen the video; I don’t really go on twitter and candid videos of celebs tend to make me cringe. But I do know that one of the demands of being in the Marvel stable of actors is that you have to do a lot of physical modification. RDJ and CEvans both bulk up for the films and then drop muscle when they’re between them (I think RDJ put on something like thirty pounds of muscle for Marvel and dropped it for the Sherlock Holmes films, which at the age of fortymumble is a feat in and of itself). Evans has talked about how his body really wants to weigh about 180 pounds, but when he’s filming at Cap he’s closer to 220. So depending on when that video was filmed, he might have been shedding muscle weight, or he might have been gaining muscle weight and shedding the like, half pound of body fat he has. 

Also depending on how it was filmed, there may be a bit of video distortion that’s most evident in facial features. So it may have nothing to do with the muscle gain/loss (which continually impresses me as a physical achievement and horrifies me because that can’t be good for you physically).

I got nothin, Anon. 😀 

If it’s the video I watched the other week, the one with his brother and the singing, I’m pretty sure I remember noticing when I watched it that it was mirrored – the decals on their shirts were backwards. While it doesn’t make a massive difference for all people, Chris is someone who has very noticeable asymmetry with his expressions. He smiles more with one side of his mouth than the other, one of his eyes blinks ahead of the other, etc. It could be that you’re picking up on those differences and not knowing why, just that his face looks subtly ‘wrong’ or different. For the same reason, some people find photographs of themselves disturbing – because they’re used to seeing their faces in mirrors, not as they actually are.

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philosophykitten:

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yoats:

doodle.

Hey iamshadow21, it’s your fic! 😀

Fun note: Wal-Mart now carries Marvel knee high socks, and in addition to the shield, Cap’s has little wings.

Even MORE fun fact, I bought a pair and snipped the wings off to use them on a hat.

OH MY GOD THAT’S AMAZING.

TONY, STOP. NO MEANS NO.

(Tony would totally want to do all kinds of tests on Steve’s headwings. He would also get very very angry at the lack of logical physics surrounding their ability to make Steve fly.)

Mr. Badge, I have a question. What are your thoughts on Phil/Steve as a ship? Because I found myself thinking about that ship, and it somehow makes me happy? I don’t appreciate when unexpected ships make me happy, but I’m still happy.

copperbadge:

LOL, if it makes you happy, I say ship it. The whole point of fandom is we do it because we enjoy it. 

I think Phil/Steve has to be approached somewhat carefully because there’s a weird power imbalance there – I’m not sure who’s actually higher in the chain of command, but Coulson also has an idealized version of Steve Rogers in his head that probably doesn’t correspond super-closely with reality. So either you have to deal with that in direct terms, or you have to discuss them getting to know one another better so that we know Coulson’s not in a relationship with the comic book character in his head, and Steve’s not taking advantage of the adulation of a fan. Unless you’re into writing that kind of darkness, in which case knock yourself out, I don’t judge. 

But sure, I think it’s a perfectly valid ship with some interesting aspects to it, especially now that Coulson is heading SHIELD. (Or is he? IDK, I haven’t seen the last like, half dozen episodes, I need to catch up.) 

If anon wants a rec of a great treatment of this ship, I can highly recommend Ask Galatea by thingswithwings. Sweet, gentle service submission and fantasy fulfillment that just leaves you wanting more.

About xkit guy and why he left us

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chloro-ephydriad:

callofvalor:

Some of you may have noticed that xkit guy has not been active for a few months and while most of you still have functioning xkit extensions, you may have noticed that there have not been any new updates or have been experiencing glitches and xkit guy has not fixed it the way he normally does.

My xkit has actually stopped working a few weeks ago and default tumblr has been a hideous and extremely inconvenient place ever since. I was talking to chimis-changa​ about it and we were joking about how xkit guy was like a superhero and tumblr staff are the…questionable characters that cause trouble for him. chimis-changa​ decided to investigate, he found out why xkit guy has not been active and it freaking sucks.

xkit guy (his real name is Atesh) has been good to us. He made dozens of really useful extensions that made our tumblr lives easier, he has diligently kept track of all the inconvenient tumblr updates and actually took time off from his paying day job and spent hours trying to fix everything because people were calling for xkit guy to save them from terrible design choices and he always tried to deliver.

and then someone sent a message to The Abusers and Predators on Tumblr page about something that he allegedly said to them, but they had no proof. The Abusers and Predators blog then made a post asking people who may have been harassed by Atesh to come forward but no one did. And because this website is full of self righteous assholes who always jump to conclusions without waiting for actual legit proof or even take the goddamn time to read everything carefully, they decided to go ahead and send Atesh a ton of abusive and cruel hate mail even on his personal blogs. 

The Abusers and Predators blog has posted this post explaining that they were not accusing him and that they were only asking for people to come forward if they had similar experiences.

Apparently, because of the enormous amount of abuse he was getting, Atesh decided to leave tumblr. His last message was:

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Congratulations to every person that sent him abuse. You have driven someone who was innocent, that spent hours of his time, time that he could have spent at work earning money, trying to help you. We don’t even know if this has made him suicidal but it might have, and that is not fucking okay.

Personally, I want to make it up to this guy. He has not deactivated his blogs yet so I am going to try to send him as many kind “thank you”s and as many “i am so sorry people are assholes” as i possibly can. If you would like to do the same, the links to his blogs are down below. Maybe we can drown out all the terrible messages he got. Maybe he will decide to log in someday and see that we appreciate all the hard work he did for us.

Please remember that there was no proof he did anything and he was never given a chance to defend himself. Don’t be a dickhead. How would you feel if you were accused of something like this when you didn’t do it?

please help me make it up to him:

This is one of his personal blogs (warning: nsfw)

And this is the other (this one is not nsfw)

I have never been more disappointed in the tumblr community than I am right now.

I’ve had a couple of asks about XKit Guy and why he left/how we can ask him back, and this is the best suggestion I’ve seen *points up*

But it behooves us to remember that a lot of this doesn’t seem to have come out until Tumblr’s official programmers broke it again and XKit guy didn’t just show up to fix it. I always kind of wondered how long he’d stick around given the ebb and flow of demand for his services without a ton of regard for his actual self.

I’m not trying to scold everyone or anything, but maybe it’s time to stop depending on a college student doing this out of the goodness of his heart and make a genuine, concerted effort to lobby the actual programmers to stop fuckin’ shit up. 

Anyway, it’s a thought.

While I appreciate the good intentions of the OP, I think it’s worth mentioning that any flooding of attention is incredibly stressful if you’re already in a bad place, and just bombarding this poor guy with messages – even if they’re positive – might just make things worse. Please, if you’re wanting to support someone, don’t become yet another problem. He left for a very good reason, and slamming his other web presences with message after message is not the answer. If you want to send him support, do it once only, do it in a calm, respectful manner, and don’t beg him to return to his previous role. Also, don’t make your message a vehicle for venting about tumblr staff or the hate mail crowd – that’s heavy, depressing emotional bullshit he has to deal with on top of everything else. Then, step away and don’t bother him again. He’s got a life to live that is important and is not about making your tumblr experience more convenient.

Please Don’t Support Groupon

dragonschilde:

Trigger warning for mention of molestation/sexual assault

I’m going to say this upfront – this post is going to get really personal but reblogs are welcome, as are comments.

Anyway. My adopted dad was at one point a portrait photographer and ages ago he ran a Groupon. He’s not a photographer anymore because he molested both my sister and I. Three or so years ago I finally found the courage to tell my mom what happened and she kicked him out. There were criminal proceedings and he ended up being charged with a felony for child molestation and a misdemeanor (communication with a minor for amoral purposes). I’m not going to bog you down with all the other repercussions of his actions. All of the court proceedings and charges are public record so anyone could access them if they wanted to.

Less than a month ago, when a friend was looking for someone to do professional head shots, Groupon ran an ad (on their mobile app) asking if she was interested in my Dad’s photography business. The ad stated that if enough people responded, they would contact him for a new Groupon offer. The ad had our family’s home address attached (where he no longer lives).

While shocking, the ad in and of itself wouldn’t be a problem if Groupon had been willing to remove it. However, they have shown (via an exchange of multiple emails) that this issue is not very high priority. The emails have been mostly automated and when we finally got a hold of a person they basically told us to do research to find the contact information for another Groupon employee instead of giving us the information of the appropriate person. Please, please, please don’t support this company.

tl;dr Groupon ran an add for an for a person convicted with a felony for child molestation (who is a registered sex offender) that published the home address of his victims. They have been uncooperative about removing the ad. Please, don’t support them.

Is there any way you can signal boost Agent Carter again every week? I saw that you had already, but you are a huge impact on a bunch of people on this site. It would be fantastic and would really help.

copperbadge:

Okay but…can we all take a moment and just realize that fandom’s not the problem with Agent Carter’s ratings? (Sorry, Anon, this has been stewing for a while.)

Like, yes, I will absolutely namedrop it a couple of times a week, but I am seeing a lot of posts that border on berating fans over Agent Carter’s supposed failure to thrive, and I have a couple of issues with it.

One: Do we really think fans not watching is the problem? Every fan I know is watching and talking about and trending and posting gifs of this show. If Agent Carter isn’t doing well, can we stop yelling at each other over it? We are supporting the fuck out of this show and I’m gettin’ pretty tired of the implication that if Agent Carter fails, it was the fans’ fault. Fandom is backing this show. Fandom is also tiny compared to the general population. It’s not the fans who aren’t watching. It’s everyone else. 

OR IS IT? 

Two: Let’s look at the actual ratings, shall we? 

Ratings for Tuesday, February 3rd: For its time slot, Agent Carter beat out everything else on network television except NCIS. [Source] It beat out New Girl and Supernatural. So what the fuck? 

Between January 27th and February 3rd: Ratings were flat, which means Agent Carter didn’t drop, and it didn’t rise. [Source] And again, it did better than EVERY NETWORK SHOW except NCIS. (Which, wow, NCIS LA is really the most watched show in that time slot? Maybe Agent Carter is in the wrong demo slot.)

So is it the fans that are the issue?

Or is it the studio that never planned to give this show a chance, and the news coverage that’s saying Agent Carter’s tanking when it is, in fact, doing pretty fuckin’ well for a first-season “miniseries” show in a Sunday night slot up against NCIS and Supernatural? 

Like, maybe there are serious talks of it being cancelled or not renewed. I don’t follow entertainment news super closely. But it’s probably not the actual numbers impacting that, which means even if as fans we somehow manage to raise MILLIONS more viewers to raise the numbers, which I don’t think we will, they may not care. 

Three: Some people are finding the show deeply problematic racewise, and I see their point. I’m seeing people who want to love this show unable to do so because they feel erased and belittled both by the show and by the shouting about the show, the shouting that is, in some cases, shouting them down. So if you don’t want to support it, or if you’re angry at it, that’s okay too. You are under no social obligation to fandom to back something that is hurting you. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a problem in fandom, not you. 

IN CONCLUSION, can we stop telling ourselves Agent Carter lives or dies by our word? Because it is literally, right now, living out the old adage that a woman has to work twice as hard as a man to be considered half as good, and that’s not our fault. 

/whines sam ur a fairy can i ask why people tag some comic as Wednesday Spoilers? I always thought most comics had monthly issues (I am a real newbie and it just seems like a real silly question)

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A…fairy?

*dons sparkly dress*

Wednesday Spoilers is a catch-all warning for “comics that came out this week”. Most comics do have monthly issues, but not all comics come out on the same day of the month. New comics always come out on Wednesdays, however, and there are new comics every Wednesday, so tagging “wednesday spoilers” is a way of saying “this is a spoiler for the issues that were out last Wednesday that you may not have bought/read yet”. 

Like, the first Wednesday of the month you might get Spider-man and Hawkeye, second Wednesday Ms. Marvel and Daredevil, third Wednesday She-Hulk and Angela: Asgard’s Assassin, fourth Wednesday Deadpool and Spiderwoman. But “wednesday spoilers” can apply to any of those, depending on week, and lets people who can’t get their comics on Wednesday easily block spoilers.

*taps you with his fairy wand*

*swirls off in a cloud of glitter*

Someone, please draw Sam as a fairy with a sparkly dress made out of comic book covers. Please.

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I googled “golden retriever in a fairy costume”. I was not disappointed with the results.

GODMOTHER RETRIEVERS

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How long does it take??

The 17 000 km journey takes about 327 hours. That’s over 13-and-a-half days. [x]

ROAD TRIP!

Bring lots of snacks. And no babies.

I scrolled past this, just thinking ‘oh, yeah, babies crying for two weeks would be annoying’. And then I saw that it was @copperbadge who reblogged it and my mind went to The Snowpiercer Place. Sam, no.

1) Why did you choose your URL?

Way back in the heyday of Angelfire, when you chose your URL, you had to choose from a set handful of two-letter combinations and then your chosen handle went on the end. ‘ia’ was one of the options, so I chose that and made my username ‘mshadow’. The 21 is because I like the number 21 and because some websites I’ve created accounts with, iamshadow has already been taken.

2) What is your middle name?

I don’t give out personal information, but I will say that it’s old-fashioned. Like my first name, which a couple of you know, it’s a name people associate more with old ladies than people in their thirties. I was given it because there were people with that name a few generations back on both sides of my family tree.

3) If you could own a fairytale/fictional pet, what would it be?

I used to want a pocket-sized dragon. Common, maybe, but no less awesome for it.

4) Favorite color?

Right now, probably purple, but I have strong loves for peacock blue, duck egg blue, jade green and cool yellow.

5) Favorite song?

I don’t really have one? I have very eclectic tastes and have handfuls of songs I like in many genres. If I had to pick one I come back to a lot, even though I don’t listen to a lot of electronic music, it’d be Massive Attack’s Teardrop. It was on one of my Triple J’s Hottest 100 albums that I bought around the time I left school, and I found it soothing to listen to on repeat while I was writing, many years before I was dignosed autistic and learned that aural stimming was a thing. I still use it sometimes when I get anxious to mellow me out and calm me.

6) What are your top three fandoms?

Right now, Marvel/Avengers is my primary, but I dabble in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, CSI, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie’s Marple/Poirot, White Collar, Welcome To Night Vale, and Endeavour/Inspector Morse/Lewis.

7) Why do you enjoy tumblr?

I love the fan content, especially the amount of visual media and meta.

8) Tag all 9 of your tumblr crushes (they have to do all 8 questions too who can do this if they like)

No obligation for anyone to do this at all (I rarely do memes myself), but people I love dearly and follow avidly on Tumblr include: @actuallyclintbarton @jabberwockypie @kath-ballantyne @randomyayness @neurowonderful @spiralstreesandcupsoftea @the-wordbutler @literalbookworm and @copperbadge