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a simple kind of guy

@simplekindofguy

yo! miguel here, a twenty-something brazilian journalist passionate about the simple things in life. trans* stuff. tv shows. books. animals. love. feminism. architecture. nature and landscapes. menswear. and the eventual porn.
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favorite writing feelings

  • when you write a line and you know it’s a quote a fandom would love and yell about and put on aesthetic edits and analyze over and over again 
  • when you’ve been doing slow, steady, gradual work on a project, making a little progress at a time, and suddenly something clicks and the words are flowing so easily and typing feels like flying 
  • when your character has been through so much and it’s finally, finally paying off and they’re learning and growing and you know they’re going to find joy and you feel a little burst of love for them like they’re a real person 
  • when you write a funny bit and laugh at your own humor 
  • when you’re rereading something you wrote and you’re like oh my god???? this is GOOD??? I did this? I did this! 
  • when a friend who’s read your work talks about your characters and legitimately cares about them and it feels like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • when you find a song that perfectly encapsulates a story/character and you listen to it over and over because it just feels right
  • when you have a brand new idea and it’s so fresh and full of possibilities and you can’t wait to start writing things down and fleshing out characters and figuring out all the details 
  • when you’ve been working on a project for so long that the characters are like old friends and you look at the writing and know how much love and labor and time and effort you’ve put into it 
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Interesting how in most stories the good side is always talking about how important emotions are, and how kindness and compassion is what separates them from evil, yet this cold, methodical way of thinking is considered “ultimate good” from the pov of Natalie and the Elders.

In Natalie’s defense, being a whitelight is kinda like a call to duty in terms of wanting to make sure that good can continue to do good, and not necessarily help everyone you meet, ie why whitelighters don’t heal everyone they see get injured. Even the sister don’t just write a healing spell and use it at every moment someone experiences any injury. As far as Natalie is concerned good must be able to operate even if someone else might get hurt or die. It’s not exactly noble, but not ignoble. Just like, hyper rational.

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“I thought it was a fitting end to a story that has affected so many people. I thought it was very endearing, innocent and wholesome in the way that it keeps those characters in their time. I thought it was quite beautiful and very tasteful of Marvel to finish this 10-year story in a very simple storyline about two human beings — and one of them doesn’t even have any superpowers. So, I thought the tone of it, to end there, after some extraordinary things of trauma, action, effects and powers… to just have two people slow-dancing was very beautiful.” - Hayley Atwell 
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a timeline of 616 hawkeye’s deafness

because the average person is thrown off by constant retconning

1964 - 1983:

he was not deaf upon his introduction

1984 - 1996:

clint was deafened in hawkeye (vol. 1) #4 which came out in december 1983. this was an act of sacrifice, as he and mockingbird were being mind-controlled to fight each other to the death (comics!) by a sound frequency, and so he used his own sonic arrowhead on himself:

the extent of his deafness would vary due to inconsistencies in handbooks and writing, but usually people went with this:

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his deafness (by its mention or the use or appearance of hearing aids) would be referenced in about 10-12 issues over those 12 years

1996 - 1998:

along with the other avengers, clint was killed during “onslaught” and showed up in another (grittier! 90s!) iteration, so it’s a little iffy on whether these characters are considered the same as their 616 counterparts (they’re technically them but in franklin richards’ pocket dimension so…). but here’s how he showed up in a panel:

1998 - early 2014:

upon his revival, clint was no longer deaf, and this was the explanation:

it was still acknowledged that he had been deaf previously, and jennifer walters even mentions that clint knows sign language: 

2014 - present

clint was again deafened in hawkeye (vol. 4) #15

and though it’s been established that clint experienced abuse at the hands of his father, the series retconned that as a result of this abuse, clint experienced bouts of hearing loss in his childhood, and that he learned sign language at this time

currently, clint wears hearing aids in the comics, though sometimes it’s a wash whether they’re “stark-tech” and not really visible or not (very series dependent)

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