Tag: skye

nitegnome:

“I like to think about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy in the universe is created and none is destroyed. That means that every bit of energy inside us – every particle – will go on to be a part of something else; maybe live as a dragonfish, a microbe, maybe burn in a supernova. And every part of us now was once a part of some other thing – a moon, a storm cloud, a mammoth, a monkey…thousands and thousands of other beautiful things that were just as terrified to die as we are. We gave them new life. A good one, I hope.”

– the Beginning of the End

female awesome meme: favorite female dynamics [4/20]
     ↳ Melinda May and Skye; Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
“You know, I never gave you enough credit for this whole zen warrior thing. But I gotta admit, it’d be nice to feel nothing right now.”
“You think I don’t feel anything?”

teslamaple:

nerdwegian:

Wee, this is my 10,000th tumblr post! o/ Naturally, I wish to celebrate with Clint/Coulson feels, so I made this.

Clint/Coulson AU – when SHIELD falls, Clint Barton barely makes it out alive, suffering retrograde amnesia in the process. Phil Coulson and his team find Clint, and attempt to teach him about the man he is, by showing him the man he used to be. However, in a misguided bid to spare Clint unnecessary pain and provide him with a fresh start, Phil decides to leave out a few details about their relationship…

Oh my god are you kidding me? This is gorgeous! Love it! Particularly Clint’s dream/memory and then Phil’s “we were”. Damn I love gif fic. *____*

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.

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.

spiralstreesandcupsoftea:

placesbetween:

I just realized through a conversation with Ashley that the reasons most people disliked (or still dislike) Skye are the reasons I fell in love with her instantly. It’s also why she is an exceptionally ground breaking character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Skye is not easily defined by her job. She doesn’t have a singular passion or lens through which she looks at the world. She’s young and learning and soaking everything around her in, trying to figure out where her home is and who she is as a person. Skye is Skye first and hacker second.

I feel like every other female (except for Darcy) in the Marvel verse fills a very defined role of ‘bad ass field operative’, ‘science geek’, or ‘administration’. Hell, the majority of them had to go through multiple films (and some are still waiting) to get any definition outside of their profession or role as a love interest at all. Natasha didn’t get it until Avengers (though IMO they only touched on it there and really gave it definition in Winter Soldier), Pepper didn’t really get fleshed out until Iron Man 3 and Maria Hill is still a complete unknown on a personal level. 

Agents of SHIELD and Skye were SUCH a fantastic move in the right direction for Marvel in terms of starting out a female character as more than a profession or love interest. Skye was a character that was ill defined in terms of life goals and who she was. We met Skye when she was just beginning her journey. She was our protagonist and as she discovered who she was, we were along for the ride. Basically she was every male protagonist ever. And yet people hated her. And people called her a Mary Sue. And I am not saying there were no problems with the writing or presentation of the character. I know the beginning was a little uneven. But where I saw a diamond in the rough with Skye, most people dismissed her. 

The sad fact is, if she was a male character I have no doubt she would have been treated completely differently. She still isn’t treated all that well. A big faction of the fandom treats her as a cardboard stand in for furthering Ward’s character FFS, despite all she has done and how much we have seen her fleshed out. Trip came into the show very similar to the way Skye did in terms of having a backstory connected to the plot, and not being defined by one aspect of who he was. But nobody cried Gary Stu. I wonder why that is?

If a female is skilled at more than one thing, if a female doesn’t fit into a very specific box, then she is considered unrealistic. If a female has a huge impact on the plot AND knows how to do something outside that? Incomprehensible. Never mind that I can close my eyes, spin in a circle and bump into 50 male characters who share those same traits with Skye (and Trip) who are deeply beloved. 

When it comes down to it, a lot of the issues people had with Skye come down to the fact that for the first time Marvel no longer decided to baby the male audience and slowly introduce a dynamic female character to them. This time, they threw it in their faces and the fact that Skye is currently on a list titled ‘characters who make us want to punch our television screens’ says it all. 

Skye isn’t your scientist. She’s not doing your paperwork and she isn’t beating up bad guys while wearing a tight catsuit. She’s us. And that is why you should love her instead of condemning her for being more than her job or a romantic interest. 

she is us. and we don’t have to automatically see that as a bad thing.