Kate and Yelena really just interacted for like an episode and a half and alot of us really went “yes these two right here, I will ship them”

As a treat, I present a different blonde & brunette pairing to the three others I draw.

Happy International Florence Pugh Day to those of us who observe! lol. Here’s how Kate and Yelena’s first birthday together in MAU goes down. All thanks to Ri being a snooping nightmare. You guys wanted early relationship? Here is 4.1k of pure early relationship domesticity/fluff.

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Kate raps her knuckles thrice against the dark walnut door. She is speedily compelled to bite back a smile when she hears the over-the-top, disgruntled groan from somewhere on the other side.

“Knock again, mommy.”

“Pretty sure she heard us.”

Yelena swings the door open to find the now familiar sight. Since Yelena moved into this temporary rental, every time there’s been a knock on that door, one or both of the women currently standing across from her has been responsible. Yelena is even more dumbfounded than usual because the regular visitors have arrived with props…and treats. Ereka is wearing a party hat and holding a foil balloon with “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” written in bold, colorful letters and Kate is holding a single cupcake with a lit candle in the center.

“Happy Birthday, Yelena.”

Yelena furrows her brow.

“How do you know it’s my birthday?”

“You told Ereka.”

“I didn’t tell her anything.”

“You told me she told you.” Kate peeks down at Ereka, perplexed.

“Mommy taught me how to read her birthday on her driving card. It’s month. Then day. Then year. Yours said zero eight, then one six. August is month eight and today is day one six. It’s your birthday.”

Yelena is only further flabbergasted. 

“When did you see my driver’s license?”

“YOU FOUND OUT BECAUSE YOU SAW HER LICENSE?! HOW?!”

“It was on the thing.” Ereka points at the side table by the couch where Yelena’s wallet sits next to her keys. 

“The stone corrupts all those who wield it, it is fueled by their ambitions and dreams. So we need someone with no ambitions, no dreams, someone who doesn’t care about what the future holds for themselves. That’s why we found you.”

The first thought, in a moment like this, probably should not have been what came to your mind. Well, fuck you too, you thought, half incredulous and half apathetic. You leaned against the doorframe with one shoulder and eyed the group of three wizened people before you. Why was it always the elderly who came with big quests or brought important items that had to be hidden away?

Also, if you didn’t care about the future, didn’t that mean you didn’t care about the stone either? You might as well give it to someone else. Maybe someone better suited than you. There was this little girl across the street who had an acorn necklace and played in puddles and always sat very still until the every last stray cat felt safe enough to eat what she brought them. Maybe the stone should go to her, she at least gave a shit.

You debated arguing or refusing, but your disinterest won out in the end. “Sure,” you answered, holding out a hand for them to plop the stone into. You weren’t scared of it, especially since it looked utterly unremarkable. If you tossed it into a river, no one would be able to tell it apart from the other rocks.

The three wizened elders, apparently the smartest of their magic circle, exchanged grave looks and you waited until they were done with their silent communication and their leader stepped forward.

“We entrust you with the Stone of Possibility, never use it and always hide it,” they said, voice solemn and carrying the sort of undertone that spoke of great importance. You blinked slowly. “Give it to no one, no matter how noble their hearts, how pitiful their tale or how silver their tongue.” You couldn’t help but imagine a genderless person sticking out their tongue dripping with mercury.

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FLORENCE PUGH as YELENA BELOVA HAWKEYE EPISODE 5: RONIN (2021) dir. Bert & Bertie

BLACK WIDOW (2021) — dir. Cate Shortland

Please enjoy this updated meme:

The Seven Daughters Of The Cailleach Foraoise

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a great forest with trees so tall that they shut out the sky, and it was always dark in that place. A single road passed through it, one side to the other, and no wise traveler ever ventured off that road.

In the forest to the east of the road there was a great hill, with a tower on it, and in that tower there lived a wizard. He was solitary and ill-tempered, but if someone in trouble came to him humbly and begged his aid, he did not usually refuse.

In the forest to the west of the road - or so it was said, for it was not visible as the hill and tower were - there was a great dark hollow with a house at the bottom of it, where the forest witch, the Cailleach Foraoise, lived with her seven daughters. She was ill-natured and dangerous, but still, she had been known to give aid to those willing to pay her price.

It happened that the king of the land had grown cruel and dangerous, and he taxed his people to starvation, he poisoned their land and slew any who displeased him. He slew even his own sons, when they defied him, and all went in terror of him. This king had three nephews, the sons of his sister, and they saw that soon they would be in danger from him as well, so they fled his castle by night, and took the road through the dark forest.

When they reached the river that ran through the heart of the forest, they stopped and took counsel of each other. They must do all that they could to save the kingdom and its people, that they agreed, but they debated what that was until the youngest spoke.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE 

Look, some years aren’t graded as A/B/C/D/F or even pass/fail, but Last Bastard Standing. In a few weeks I will still be here and 2021 won’t be, so we’re going to count this as winning.

10/10 absolute badass response @marta-bee

god, it’s brutal out here

To me? To me, you were everything….Exactly. You don’t care. You don’t care.

"You can't take her there, she's only six."

"You were even younger."

A few lines I haven't often seen in edits and mentions about Black Widow. The intro scene was amazing and a complete eye opener to the dark side of both the Marvel Universe and real life events. Young women, children in general, have suffered under the hands of people who have power and chose to abuse that rather than help them.

However that scene in particular gutted me because we see Natasha as a child, pleading for Yelena the way no one, to her knowledge, had done for her. We know now her mother had tried, but to her belief no one had vouched for her.

Yet Natasha, still a child and a subject to that abuse and knowing what repercussions she may face, put her entire life on the line for her sister.

Natasha Romanoff deserved better. At the very least, a damn scene of her funeral because there was no shortage of friends and family that mourned her.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)