Tag: agents of shield

kittenskysong:

They Deserve Better

Day 2 Headcanons

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Nick Fury is listening to the defunct SHIELD distress signal channel and using it to find agents left in the cold after the fall of SHIELD. While he doesn’t always swoop in like a guardian angel like he did for FitzSimmons many agents find themselves suddenly given passports, money, rescued from undercover ops, or released from international prisons without an explanation. He feels responsible for them because he was in charge when everything went to hell and he brought many of them or placed in them in the positions they are in and he still believes in SHIELDs founding goal of protection.⌋

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

carolyn-claire:

frecklestherobot:

purplexeyed:

Fuck the word “Mary Sue”. It is literally shorthand 90% of the time for “your character is female and doesn’t act how I want a female to act so I don’t like her.” Or “your character is female and a self-insert/wish fulfillment and that makes her bad.” As if a large chunk of male characters AREN’T self-inserts or wish fulfillment characters.

You know what I’ve noticed? That the qualifications of realistic or relatable are only applied to female characters in these genres. No one questions that Steve Rogers apparently learned French, computer and technology skills, an advanced fighting technique, and had the free time to catch up on history and pop culture between The Avengers and The Winter Soldier. But Skye is good at computers and can learn how to be an agent rather quickly? MARY SUE WHO DESERVES TO DIE.

SO many male characters are Marty Stu self-inserts, like, pretty much ALL of them. Men don’t care; hell, they’re into it. Women don’t care if male characters are “too good to be true” either. Why is that? Why are we so ready to buy into those ridiculous male characters but balk at the female ones?

It’s called misogyny, and it needs to fucking stop.

When I first started writing actual fanfic (as opposed to RPG fun) I was pretty much nerve-wracked any time I needed to write from a female character’s POV, because EVERYONE at the time was screaming MARY SUE any time you did so.  I spent literal years waiting to be attacked for daring to have a female voice in a fanfic.

YEARS.

How fucked up is that?

Our western media culture is so messed up around storytelling. There are problems around Skye, no question but wow are there problems around Ward and Coulson too and I don’t see that called out anywhere.

I don’t read them but I smile every time I see character/reader stories and other self inserts. You go, writerpeeps. Go write yourself into the hero stories and the having a life stories and the I just want to hold his hand stories. 

Write. Write the effing things. Be all the things. Dream all the things and fuck ‘em otherwise. How else are we going to be in stories but to push and shove our way in.

And the people writing those stories? They’ll remember those stories later in their twenties and thirties and they’ll vote with their dollars and their attention.

And finally, goddamnit, why not have a female hacker? It could so easily have been a male role and they didn’t do that. There are a whole set of women on that show that are competent around their jobs and chosen careers and that is something to celebrate.