talkin' about my girl

[kaydeefalls]

Interesting blog post linked on my f-list today: Is Thor a feminist movie? (Yes). I thought Thor was an okay movie -- it kept me entertained, but I don't feel particularly fannish about it -- but the one thing that really did strike me was how good it was with the women. (Like the post mentioned, a superhero movie that passes the Bechdel test in the first five minutes? How often does that happen?) My biggest gripe with the Avengers movieverse as a whole is the overwhelming maleness of it -- kickass ladies like Pepper Potts, Jane Foster, or Peggy Carter aren't even going to show up in the Avengers movie, I guess because they're "just" the love interests and that would detract from all the manly bonding of Avengers Assemble! or some shit. (On the other hand, Joss Whedon tends to be pretty good with women -- not perfect by any means, but he tries -- so clearly I should withhold judgment until the movie is actually released. Maybe Black Widow will get an awesomely empowering storyline.) But Thor gives us Jane -- an incredibly smart, career-oriented, passionate woman who absolutely does not compromise her work or her desires for the hero; DARCY, whom I adore beyond all measure and is the sort of sarcastic sidekick who in ANY OTHER MOVIE would've been cast as male; and of course the Lady Sif, who kicks ass and takes names and refuses to allow any dude to take credit for her own awesomeness. And that's pretty fantastic.

I mean, I think it's fairly obvious where my own Marvelverse allegiances lie, but if anyone wants to rec me any good Darcy/ANYONE fics... (musesfool has written a couple of excellent ones, by the by -- Darcy/Steve and Darcy/Clint.)

...and now I kind of want to write Darcy/Sif. Shit.

Comments

[musesfool]

Thanks for the rec!

And you should TOTALLY write Darcy/Sif. That would be awesome!

I have the same reservations about the Avengers movie. Like, they create all these really cool ladies and then they don't ever use them. They're just ancillary to the men. And you can bet Peter Potts, CEO of Stark Industries, or John Foster, brilliant astrophysicist, would get their own movies or at least a chunk of time in the main show, but as ladies, they don't get that consideration. I'm hoping the movie does well enough that they can be incorporated into the sequel somehow. And seriously, if Jane doesn't get namechecked in terms of how Thor gets back to Midgard, I'm going to be seriously pissed.

[kaydeefalls]

You're welcome! Though I probably completely failed at commenting on your fics, shit...

Word on the Avengers reservations. It's just so FRUSTRATING. I mean, I kind of get that it's already a pretty big ensemble cast with the Avengers themselves, and actresses like Gwyneth Paltrow and Natalie Portman aren't exactly cheap to hire, but...still. And pretty much the entirety of Thor's interest in Midgard at the moment revolves around Jane, so...

[newredshoes]

I still desperately want Sif/Peggy Carter. I know it could work, dammit!

Also, there's always taserlove for all your Clint/Darcy needs. Emotion in Motion is particularly wonderful.

[kaydeefalls]

Will definitely check that out, thank you! :D

[such_heights]

DARCY/SIF YES PLEASE.

And yeah, this is my trouble with the Avengers - I love the dudes generally speaking but it's just not as much fun for me with Jane and Darcy and Pepper and the rest there as well. Yay Natasha, but I want MORE. (Also, Natasha/Pepper, y/y? WHERE IS MY SUPERHERO FEMSLASH ALREADY. My life, so hard.)

[kaydeefalls]

SRSLY. Blah blah Bruce Banner blah blah Steve Rogers JUST GIVE ME MORE PEPPER AND DARCY ALWAYS PLEASE.

(I feel like Pepper/Natasha is a default background pairing in a lot of Steve/Tony fic -- or, like, in all of the two Steve/Tony fics I've bothered reading because I'm not a fan of the pairing -- but I've yet to see it as a main pairing. Then again, I very rarely seek out any sort of Avengers fic at all, so possibly there is a bounty of femslash that I'm just missing.)