{"id":93468,"date":"2016-07-08T04:12:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T04:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/08\/widowbitesandhearingaids-lets-pretend-for-a\/"},"modified":"2016-07-08T04:12:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T04:12:59","slug":"widowbitesandhearingaids-lets-pretend-for-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/08\/widowbitesandhearingaids-lets-pretend-for-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/widowbitesandhearingaids.tumblr.com\/post\/127566666207\" target=\"_blank\">widowbitesandhearingaids<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>let\u2019s pretend for a minute that Natasha\u2019s characterization isn\u2019t always tied to the white dude opposite her and pretend that she\u2019s been fleshed out the way she deserves to be:<\/p>\n<p>Can you just imagine her interactions with the other characters of the MCU?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Natasha being away on a mission during the events of im3 but when she finds out, she breaks into Pepper\u2019s hospital room and refuses to leave until she\u2019s better, then hunts down the remainder of Killian\u2019s men and makes sure that they <i>never<\/i> go near her friend again. Consequently, Natasha makes it her business to have a standing lunch date with Pepper at least once a month<\/li>\n<li>Thor taking her to Asgard and the Warriors Three and Sif being so beyond taken by the mortal woman who \u201cstands with gods and triumphs against giants.\u201d Sif even comes down to Earth every once in a while to visit<\/li>\n<li>Natasha properly mourning Coulson\u2019s death, not just braving it stoically. He was her friend and coworker before he knew any of them. Natasha being wrecked over Grant Ward\u2019s betrayal, because she helped train him herself<\/li>\n<li>Darcy tripping over herself at meeting another Avenger &#8211; not just another Avenger, but the <i>Black Widow<\/i>. And Natasha being horrified that she and Jane run around with Thor and Loki and all of them with no defense training and insists on teaching them<\/li>\n<li>Tony accidentally walking in on Natasha during a very severe panic attack (because Natasha has PTSD and anyone who disagrees can fight me) and waits it out with her, trying to make her as comfortable as possible. He passes on whatever advice he can, but generally he just tries to support her however he can<\/li>\n<li>Tea breaks with Bruce, trying to conquer her fear of the Hulk by forcing herself to be around the man. Plus, Bruce is a wonderful storyteller, and because of SHIELD\u2019s pursuit of him, has been all around the world. Natasha tries not to feel too guilty about that<\/li>\n<li>Being Maria Hill\u2019s plus one for fancy governmental functions because Maria can\u2019t stand politicians and Natasha loves scaring the hell out of them. They always go and get drunk together afterwards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>God, there\u2019s just <i>so much potential<\/i> with Natasha that we\u2019re not seeing because she\u2019s being reduced to a sex object<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>widowbitesandhearingaids: let\u2019s pretend for a minute that Natasha\u2019s characterization isn\u2019t always tied to the white dude opposite her and pretend that she\u2019s been fleshed out the way she deserves to be: Can you just imagine her interactions with the other characters of the MCU? Natasha being away on a mission during the events of im3 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/08\/widowbitesandhearingaids-lets-pretend-for-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1242,11792,3598,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}