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widowbitesandhearingaids:

so this took me forever to figure out how to articulate but my biggest problem with Nat’s characterization (or lack thereof) was the way she was flirting with Bruce.

Like Steve said, he’s seen Natasha flirt up close and personal. She uses her sexuality as a weapon or a distraction, whatever fits the mission. That’s what she was trained to do by the Red Room. She was trained to be all flirty and coy to get what she wants. That was her training.

Which is exactly why it felt so wrong in the movie. Natasha wouldn’t flirt with Bruce if she liked him because any kind of flirting would feel like subjugation and deception after using it as a weapon in her arsenal for so many years. That’s how she was trained to kill. The way she was flirting with Bruce felt like she was buttering up a target or a mark. It was awkward and forced and just so wrong because if she really cared about him, she wouldn’t beat around the bush, she would say so straight out because that is the exact opposite of how she was trained to interact with people.

Natasha Romanoff was trained to use sex and her looks as weapons and you really expect us to believe that she’d be comfortable using those same techniques to interact with someone she genuinely cares about? No fucking way.

See I have this theory about BruceTasha.  And I may get accused of being a crazed Clintasha girl, but here goes.

Natasha was behaving like Bruce was a mark because he was.

Let’s look at the evidence.  For some bizarre reason, Natasha has been selected as the one to calm the Hulk.  As I’ve said in a previous post, this makes no sense – Tony would have been a more natural choice.  But what if she, or even Fury, decided she had to be the one because she is so good at manipulating people?  She can manipulate the Hulk into calming down, by presenting this calming façade and getting him to let Bruce come back into control.  And she manipulates Bruce too, so that he trusts her, will listen to her, and stay with the Avengers for when they need him.  She flirts with him to make him feel wanted, so that when she needs to, she can bring out the Hulk or put him back again.  And we see this in action at the end of the film, when Bruce comes to get her out of the cell Ultron has her in (the reasons why she didn’t just escape are enough to fill another entire post), when she tells him ‘I adore you’, the most awkward line in a ‘relationship’ built on awkward lines, and then promptly pushes him into the chasm to get the Hulk.  Because, as she says, “I need the other guy.”

She knew that moment would come, sooner or later, and she needed Bruce to trust her enough to get close to her, and Hulk not to kill her when she did.  And how does Natasha get people to do what she wants?  She flirts with them.  She seduces them.

And that scene at the very end, when she’s staring at the black wall after he’s left.  I refuse to believe she’s pining after him like a lovesick puppy.  I think she’s feeling guilty because she so thoroughly manipulated someone on her own team, using the tactics she was first taught in the Red Room.  And she hates that she used the training she so deplores on a team mate, even if she had to, even if it did save the world.  And she hates that she’s lost a potential platonic friend because of it.  Because I think platonic friends – who don’t see her as this sexy body, but as a person they love for who she is inside – would be incredibly important to Natasha.  She can have any man she wants with the batting of her eyelids, but what she wants is friendship, like any normal person has.  And you can see this in effect in The Winter Soldier, in the scene on board the ship with the hostages when her unannounced side mission puts her and Steve in danger, and his is visibly angry with her.  And you can see her kicking herself, beating herself up, because here’s this man who trusts her, works with her, and doesn’t see her body as something to covet, and she’s disappointed him.  She’s worried she might have lost that valuable friendship.

So yes, I’m going to chose to believe that the reason why the scenes between Bruce and Natasha feel forced is because they are.  She is forcing herself to do this to someone she’d rather have as a platonic friend because she needs to be able to control both halves of Bruce’s nature, so that when the time comes to it, she can both take the Hulk out and put him back in his box.  She needs to be able to summon the Hulk when he’s needed, and lull him back into submission before he can hurt anyone.

And she does that the only way she knows how; manipulation through flirting and seduction.

So yes, the reason she’s behaving with Bruce as she would a mark is because that is exactly what she was doing.

#i like this#not just because it’s a way to explain that awful relationship#but because i could see where it came from too#last movie Nat was scared of the hulk because he wasn’t the sort of person she could manipulate and control#that is she couldn’t deal with him the way she deals with everyone else#but this indicates she can#it just. ..takes more effort#And if this was something she started doing while shield was still up and Nick still thought of her as someone who is comfortable with everything?#that makes more sense#And it was working so she kept with it even without orders#and her guilt over it would be worse because she wouldn’t have just been treating Bruce like a mark#she’d have been lying in some way to everyone on the team because she wouldn’t want them to know she was manipulating Bruce#(And it wouldn’t work if anyone on the team knew)#so yeah guilt over lying#it might also explain why Clint#her best friend#‘didn’t see it’#because maybe she was keeping it from him because she didn’t want him to know#or maybe because he knows that that behaviour from Nat isn’t… well maybe he knows what her emotional manipulation vs her real feelings is like better than anyone else#And anyone else?#well Nat is used to fooling people isn’t she?#And maybe she started this before Steve and her were bros#and like she knows Steve wouldn’t approve of this kind of manipulation of friends#but it’s working so well#And on the scale of lies she’s told before this one is so miniscule#and it’s doing so much good#And so she keeps with it#even if she’s not happy about it all the time#headcanon accepted#meta  (via greekamazon)

bakuraryxu:

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unicornkin:

tokenwhitefriends:

yelnatszeroni:

unicornkin:

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unicornkin:

bugcore:

You’re right and you should say it

Someone needs to make a monster fucker and furry scale where the Monster Fucker side is the plant from Little Shop of Horrors and the Furry side is the tigers from zootopia

so heres my take on this

Thank you

where’s the skeletons

i added a whole nother axis for this

OASKRJJSJSJENE THIS IS A LOT BETTER

where do the angry birds land?

if you get off on angry birds then you land in hell

spookyccino:

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punk-rock-pidgey:

swimmingferret:

chyna-r:

silenthill:

chyna-r:

silenthill:

imagine a crocodile with horse-like legs… unstoppable… i would love to ride one o’ those into battle

are you..high 

….carry on 

Fun fact these ‘crocodile cousins’ with ‘horse-like legs’ existed and was known as a ‘sabre-toothed cat in armour’ due to it’s speed out of water and long fangs. There was the ‘DogCroc’ ( Araripesuchus wegeneri) and ‘BoarCroc’ (Kaprosuchus). The DogCroc (featured above) was only around the size of a small dog, with its skull easily fitting into the palm of someones hand. It lived during the Lower Cretaceous-Upper Cretaceous period;

*Comparison of a DogCroc’s skull to a Sarcosuchus skull. (Sarcosuchus is the largest known crocodile species and was large enough it could even prey upon a T-Rex and could weigh up to ten tonnes and be over forty feet long.)

However the BoarCroc (Kaprosuchus) was twenty-foot long and could gallop across land and preyed upon dinosaurs.

That’s a fucking dragon

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Yeah

and here I was thinking of a crocodile with literal horse legs like some kind of fool

enigmaticagentalice:

I mean I SAY I love the ‘Enemies to Lovers’ trope but what I really MEAN is that I love the

‘Enemies to Resentful Allies In A Time Of Crisis to Grudging Mutual Respect to Growing Fondness Concealed By Snark to Hurtful Betrayal to Slow Reconciliation With A Greater Understanding Of Each Other to Strange But Solid Friendship to Unexpected Feelings In A Time Of Crisis to Denying Their Feelings While Growing Closer As Friends to Epiphanies Of Love In The Worst Possible Circumstances to Mutual Pining to Unbearable Sexual Tension to Lovers’

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