today i learned that yelena’s name means “bright/shining light” and if you think about how she’s really the beating heart of the thunderbolts* and how alexei says she lights up every room she walks into and how bob—whose alter ego is literally the physical manifestation of his own darkness—immediately latched on to her because for all her prickliness, she managed to make him feel safe and wanted and seen, i just….yeah i’m not okay
i watched thunderbolts yesterday night and i am not the same person i was before i sat down in that theater. the mental health representation, the anti heroes banding together, the start of their redemption arcs, yelena's monologue, john walker being (surprisingly and unfortunately) funny, bob's entire character in general, james buchanan barnes (obviously), THE HUG??? someone needs to sedate me before i do something insane like trying to shift into this universe to be friends with everyone as if it's still 2020.
this is exactly what i was thinking during the entirety of thunderbolts!!!
I wanna see Steven Grant and Bob interact 🙏
The thing about gen z tiktok slang is that while the worst most aggravating examples have done active damage to society. The good ones are absolute hall of fame linguistic all-timers I find myself struggling to live without
I think the biggest appeal of enemies-to-lovers is that it forces the leads to learn to like each other before they feel attraction to one another. Which is possibly the most demisexual approach I could take to reading romance
America’s Ass. America’s Ass(hole).
Bob giving up control of his life to the physical embodiment of his depression and then beating himself up over it and the void just becoming more powerful as a result is such a perfect metaphor. like yeah, that's exactly how it is, you can't beat depression with self-loathing, you need support and purpose and the people you love and loves you. they pulled it off beautifully
it will never not be funny to me that if i read a fanfic centred around jason and dicks relationship it will 90% of the time be dick desperately trying to bond with jason to make up for lost time bcs they weren’t very close before jason’s death, and then if i crack open a comic with the two of them it will more likely be jason showing up on dicks doorstep grinning wildly and dick saying god fuck why couldn’t the joker have done a better job WHY ARE YOU BOTHERING ME
i love the thunderbolts with absolutely everything in me but guys. did no one but sam learn anything from catfa or catws
Did I think Thunderbolts was cute? Yes.
Do I also fundamentally disagree with a government run superhero team that borderline disrespects everything Sam Wilson went through to remake Captain America? Also yes.
i remember all of them.