Thank you all!!

[sandy79]

First things first - thank you all so much for the wonderful birthday messages that filled my inbox (both here and on LJ) today. I felt very much loved by you all, and my heart is still trying to calm down from the joy you brought to me. Once again, thank you all so much for them; every message will be saved and treasured for eternity, promise!

But what kind of birthday gal would I be if I wouldn't share a bit of "virtual" birthday cake with you all? I didn't get most of it explicit today, but it all came together just right on time.

A) A Meme, snagged from daria234 (among others)

Fandoms: White Collar, MCU, SPN, NCIS LA, Magnificent Seven (the TV show, not the movies), Leverage, Rizzoli & Isles, Lethal Weapon (only Season 1), Lucifer (only Season 1), Almost Human, Star Trek Reboot

Give me a show/movie/fandom and I’ll tell you:

- my favorite female character
- my favorite male character
- my otp
- my ot3
- my rare pair
- my anti otp
- my favorite pair of enemies/rivals/antagonists
- my favorite cast member
- a character I’d die defending
- a character I just can’t sympathize with
- a character I grew to love


B) Two new pics from Matt's latest Todd Snyder campaign (plus one new favorite; click on the thumbs to see them full-size)




C) Some new Avengers: Infinity War posters (that you might have seen already; click on the thumbs to see them full-size)



Red (Tony Stark, Dr. Stephen Strange, Wong, Peter Parker)
Yellow (Wanda Maximoff, Vision, Sam Wilson, James Rhodes)
Green (Natasha Romanoff, T'Challa, Bruce Banner, Okoye)
Purple (Thor, Peter Quill, Gamora, Rocket, Groot, Drax)
Blue (Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Shuri, Nebula, Mantis)

Guess which one is my favorite out of these five? XD Though I gotta say, Chris Hemsworth looks mighty fine as Thor, too. Now, all this gal needs is a physical proof that my favorite archer is also part of this intergalactical "party", and I'm a very camper. Alas, there's more to come about Infinity War, but I have to sort through it first. So be prepared!

Comments

Sorry I'm late

[vexed_wench]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Re: Sorry I'm late

[sandy79]

Hey, no problem at all. We here in Austria have an unspoken rule about Birthday wishes - as long as the birthday boy/girl hasn't eaten any Sauerkraut, they still can accept wishes after the big day. And since I don't plan on eating any for the near future, I'll gladly accept yours. Thank you!!

[sherylyn]

Happpppppy Birthday!! I hope it's been glorious for you!! <3

[sandy79]

Thank you! *tacklehugs* Yes it was, especially with all the wonderful messages you all sent me!

[dariaw]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

For the meme: MCU

[sandy79]

thank you!!

- my favorite female character

Natasha, ever since her first appearance in "Iron Man 2", she's the ultimate badass woman in the MCU, but I wish they would finally show us a bit more about her past in the Red Room beside the flashback scenes we got in "Age Of Ultron" (or finally solve the mystery about the Budapest mission ;) )

- my favorite male character

Ever since I saw "The Avengers" back a few years, Clint Barton (as I seem to continue my apparent "thing" for archers XD), but recently, he's got to make some room for the man with the most tragic story in the MCU ever - James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes. Can't really explain why he never showed up on my radar before, but now he's here, and I like to think he's gonna stay.

- my otp

Het: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff, from "The Avengers" on. And while I also love Clint & Laura's interactions in "Age Of Ultron", I slightly prefer our two spies together (but there's a wonderful ongoing collection of stories with a triad of Clint, Laura & Tash on AO3)

Slash: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes. These two were skirting my reading premises for some time, but like with Bucky himself, they only made it into the yard recently, so to speak. And while I read pretty much everything with these two, I slightly prefer AUs (something that's going on across all my fandoms).

- my ot3

Again, a two-way answer ;)

a) Clint/Laura/Natasha - mostly for the reason that we get to see Natasha letting her guard down a bit whenever she's on the Barton farm, but also because you would expect some jealousy or rivalry between the two women, but you get some wonderful conversations as well as some steamy make-out scenes.

b) Clint/Bucky/Natasha - I know, a bit surprising considering my slash OTP, but there's a collection on AO3 where Clint and Tash already live together (Clint is a delicious mixture of the MCU Clint and the guy from the comics), then they meet Bucky, and voilà, a very funny, and very sexy threesome is the result.

- my rare pair

Bucky/Natasha: Given their history (at some point, they apparently met in the Red Room), it's one of the most interesting pairings out there. Can they start again, or is their violent shared past too much to handle? And does Bucky even remember her, at all? (in the comics, they were a couple at some point)

- my anti otp

Bruce/Natasha - seriously, what the heck what they thinking in "Age Of Ultron"??? Don't get me wrong, I love Bruce, especially the way Mark Ruffalo nuances him, but why forcing a relationship (that goes beyond friendship) on us? We live in the 21st century, for heaven's sake. Is it really necessary to push two characters together, who were perfect as friends in my opinion, just for entertainment? (sorry for the mini-rant, but that's the only downside I can see in AOU). Runner-up: Steve/Sharon (just can't see any real chemistry between them *shrugs*)

- my favorite pair of enemies/rivals/antagonists

I have to go with the Maximoff twins from "Age Of Ultron", though I love both of them. I really was shocked by the end of the movie, especially because now we were robbed of more "you didn't see that coming" banter between Clint and Pietro. And I still can't help but laugh when Pietro tries to catch Thor's hammer XD

- my favorite cast member

From around the time I saw "The Avengers", it was Jeremy Renner (and I'm still looking forward to every new movie of his that comes out - "Wind River" finally gets aired around here). These days, I'm also quite into Sebastian Stan. You would never believe when you just see him in "The First Avenger", or even more in "The Winter Soldier", what a funny guy he is. His press interviews, mostly of them with Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson) are already legendary and definitely leave you in stiches. Just look them up on YT, you won't regret it XD

- a character I’d die defending

Both Clint and Bucky, hands down. Once you see the man beyond that first exterior, you realize that they both had their fair share of guilt and false accusations loaded on them. Especially Bucky, as shown in "Civil War". And yeah, he says to Steve on the plane that while he was brainwashed for the better part of 70 years, going on those missions was still his own decision, but I like to think that this line is more a product of said brainwashing than his real opinion.

- a character I just can’t sympathize with

Pretty much all the main villains in the movies so far (except for Loki, who's just wonderful crazy), but most of all Alexander Pierce from "The Winter Soldier" (to an extent, Brock Rumlow and Jasper Sitwell)

- a character I grew to love

Again, Bucky. Which is quite surprising, seeing that I barely took notice of him when I first saw "The First Avenger". But the way Sebastian portrays him in "The Winter Soldier", and further in "Civil War", you can't help but being drawn into the character. What I usually do is reading up on the character in question, and with Bucky, it just gets more and more heartbreaking, especially when you take Seb's approach to Bucky's scattered mind in "Civil War" also into the equation.

[dariaw]

I can totally see Clint/Natasha/Laura or Clint/Natasha/Bucky!

I would have loved more Pietro and his hateship with Clint lol

I've seen Sebastian and Mackie in their interviews on YT - sooooo funny. SO with you.

I love Bucky too <3 I think in Civil War, he said that even though it wasn't his fault "I still did it" - not that it was his choice, but that it was still his actions, something he feels responsible for.

Thanks for the explanations - it made it really fun!!

[sandy79]

thank you! And I somehow knew when I typed the reply that I had the quote wrong in my head XD (simply put no time to check it ;) ) As for the two pairings - just check my AO3 bookmarks (I'm huntress79), you'll definitely find some stories.

[reijamira]

Again, Bucky. Which is quite surprising, seeing that I barely took notice of him when I first saw "The First Avenger".

Same here. I didn't even take notice of him in CATFA, and after watching the movie I completely forgot he was even in it. Shame. Really. I guess I wasn't ready for Stucky when I first watched CATFA. Now, though, I'm completely blown away by Bucky's character. The things that guy had to endure, the ways in which he was tortured and manipulated. It really gets to me. I've always had a thing for the tortured hero type.

[pipilj]

Belated birthday wishes hope you had a great day

[sandy79]

thank you! And I had a great one!!

[reijamira]

I love the blue poster the most! :D