This is a multifandom blog. Sorry about that. I am definitely not quality.
(Source: fed-by-birds)
3rd February 2013
Reblogged From adamwarlock
Notes: 1546
So I’m not totally sure you all realize just how bad-ass Natasha is, so here’s a glimpse:
Natasha got attacked, drugged, and had her stomach split open. She gets rushed into surgery, and
she can feel everything.
The Black Widow’s first “costume” was actually a very swanky evening dress and fur.
—Tales of Suspense #53 (1964) cover by Jack Kirby
How Not To Make A Black Widow Belt!
- Drink a shit ton of soda!
- Rip the top of those bitches off with your TIN SNIPS!
- SPRAY PAINT!
- SUPER GLUE bits of black elastic between each of your soda bottoms! (not pictured)
- Paint one of those little bastards black and put a red hourglass symbol on it! But make sure you freehand it so it’s as CRAPPY AS POSSIBLE. (not pictured)
- AND DONE! Enjoy being A BAMF!
There are wolves, they would say. And there are stories about wolves and girls. Girls in red. All alone in the woods. About to get eaten up. Wolves and girls. Both have sharp teeth.
(Source: singalellaby)
I outlived all the men who raised me. I stayed young while they faded and died from bullets and disease, or old age. You forget so much. You forget them. Friends. Family. You put aside what can’t be changed. Like death.
— Black Widow; The Name of the Rose
(Source: elvoret)
(Source: mishasteaparty)
Killing people is easy. Making them suffer is an art.
Black Widow #5
(Source: somethingcomics-old)
My only complaint is these restraints. I’d like them a little tighter, please.In 1999, Gail Simone, with the help of a few other fans, compiled a list of female characters who had been raped, killed, tortured, depowered as a plot device within superhero comics. She called it, “women in refrigerators.” You see: violence against women is far more likely to have a sexual context than the gobs and gobs of violence against men in superhero comics. Sometimes it’s even drawn to titillate— I’m reminded of Ultimate Wasp’s cannibalized corpse, her still-perky breasts.
Women in refrigerators is a memification of the superheroic glass ceiling. With one obvious exception, the most a superheroine can hope for, thanks to factors of history, is the upper B-list. Any reader will tell you: that’s where comic book characters go to die. Characters who are well-liked but don’t sell comics on a regular basis are the perfect crossover-fodder, see also the curse of the Giffen League. That’s why, when it comes to summer blockbuster finale deaths, Steve Rogers became a saint and Janet Van Dyne (my personal top Avengers leader) became an afterthought. Basically, Women in Refrigerators is a memetic way of saying that women will be harmed in service to a male-driven narrative far more often than a female-driven narrative will throw dudes under the bus.
I repeat what you probably already know because Marjorie Liu decided to put Natasha in a refrigerator. And she didn’t go halfsies: she put Natasha naked tied-up in the hands of the enemy. Inside a refrigerator.
