Hasn't Everyone?

[redbrunja]

But at the same time, I really want details. Tell me more, tell me more, did they think Jason Todd would ever sexually abuse someone? Did they think Steve Rogers would be a Republican?

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

RIGHT? ISN'T THAT HORRIBLE? FUCKERS, CLINT WOULD BE THE STAY AT HOME DADE, HOW COULD YOU NOT SEE THAT?

Oh, man, Natasha/Clint pregnancy/baby fics are some of the most appalling things ever.

[sugar-fey.livejournal.com]

I've read one or two Clint/Natasha baby fics where I could kinda buy it, and a handful of fics that I enjoyed if I pretended the characters were not Clint and Natasha, but generally they're pretty terrible.

Also the 'Skye/Ward are totally a younger Clint/Natasha!' stuff. Uh, only if you know nothing about Clint or Natasha's personalities. :/

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Also the 'Skye/Ward are totally a younger Clint/Natasha!' stuff. Uh, only if you know nothing about Clint or Natasha's personalities. :/

I read this, made a sound of horror, my mom asked me what was wrong from the other room, I told her, and she made a face like she'd been sucking on lemons.

You can make a case for similarities between Clint and Ward, I feel, but Natasha and Skye? FUCK NO. They're pretty much opposite in every way that matters. (And it doesn't help that, imho, Skye is a fucking terribly designed and quite inconsistent character.)

[sugar-fey.livejournal.com]

Natasha and Skye have nothing in common. You could make a case for Natasha and Melinda, maybe, but in general I think 'Character X is just like Character Y!' tends to sell both characters short. Two characters shouldn't be exactly the same, that's bad writing.

I stopped watching AoS after episode 3, but it seems like the writers aren't quite sure what to do with Skye? Everyone else serves a function on the team, and Skye is sort of... there. If I find myself disliking a female character I try to examine why I dislike her, to see if my dislike is legitimate or if there's internalised misogyny going on. Usually I come out neutral towards the character or even liking her, but with Skye... she's not as dull a character as Ward, but she's pretty poorly written.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Skye is very poorly written. She's supposed to be this anarchist hacker with lost her family young, but she reads like a wishy-washy naive little girl.