Emily Vancamp as Sharon Carter in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
Here’s an example of what we call a “soft no”. Sharon turns down Steve’s offer in a way that’s meant not to insult him but never actually uses the word “no”.
Steve clearly gets the message, though, and importantly offers to leave her alone. Sharon’s comment afterwards gives him an opportunity to try again later, but he doesn’t press and respects her rejection of his company even though it’s probably hurt his feelings a bit.
Just in case you ever wonder “What would Captain America do?”; there you go.
never do something steve rogers wouldn’t do.
Unless it’s jumping out of a plane without a parachute, you probably shouldn’t do that
I just have to add – I’ve seen interviews with Marvel people where they say that this scene demonstrates that Cap’s awkward with women and doesn’t know how to ask women out on a date. And it drives me crazy, because – as the OP says – Steve behaved perfectly here. It was a very charming, nonthreatening offer, and he accepted her rejection with good grace. You can’t help but feel that to Hollywood, the fact that she said no means he asked badly – which is exactly how I’d expect Hollywood to think, namely, the idea that men should keep pressing and pushing women until they say yes
Okay, it’s official, I’m gonna host it this year. Spread the word to all the Tasertots out there, if you think someone would be interested in this, let them know!
I’m gonna do two things: Secret Santa and Santa’s secret little Elves too. Wait, what’s that? Elves?
Secret Santas: If you sign up to be one of these, you will, like last year, basically sign up to GIVE and RECEIVE a special Tasertricks-related gift. Art, writing, graphics, videos, whatever else you can think of! I will be making a little sign up sheet so that each person can put in their preferences so I can try and match you up as best as possible! More info will be on that sheet.
Secret Elves: I know at least one person has expressed that they’d love to, but don’t think they could participate in Secret Santa. That’s okay! You can be an Elf instead and they’re just as wonderful!
I’m not 100% sure what to do here, whether to a) have the Elves sign up and be assigned someone like with the Santas or to b) have free reign. However, a sign up may make sure no one gets left out.
Basically, the Elves will send anonymous messages to their assigned Tasertots and spread joy! Send them words of kindness, motivation, praise, maybe even send little Tasertricks thoughts (this would especially be good because it is a Tasertricks exchange!), for example, little imagines. “Imagine Loki is feeling low self-worth and goes over to comfort him the best way she knows how.”
The Santas are, of course, welcome to send kind messages to their assigned Tasertots too.
Please feel free to send me your thoughts! My ask box or my messenger is open! I will answer asks privately unless otherwise stated! Or if you ask anonymously, I will obviously post publicly but with the tag #TTSS16 So send any thoughts or questions to me, Dawn (gyoroandururun.tumblr.com)!
I will work on the sign up and post it up hopefully sometime soon! You will get the month of December to work on your gift/send your love! (Not that you can’t do that anytime of course!)
Dawn, this is such a great idea!!!
I’ve been kind of out of the fandom lately, don’t know why exactly, but yes, please do this <33
Having seen various incorrect, incomplete and inaccurate lists of Norse gods circulating Tumblr, I have decided to write my own and also include common terminology alongside. I will also include other beings who exist within the old lore and modern traditions.
I have opted to include the names in Norwegian, with translations in parenthesise after, along with a brief summary of some of the associations given to some of those gods. Be aware that, as an overview, brevity is necessary here and the individuals should not be oversimplified to basic aspects in your practice!
Æser (Æsir, Male Gods)
Balder (Baldr, Baldur) – Light, purity, rebirth
Brage (Bragi) – Poetry, eloquence, wisdom and music
Delling (Dellingr) – The new day, dawn
Forsete (Forseti) – Justice and reconciliation
Frøy (Freyr) – Vaner, virility, fertility, the sacred religious position of royalty, prosperity, good weather and sunshine
Heimdall(Heimdallr) – The senses, premonition or foreknowledge
Hermod (Hermóðr) – Bravery, spirit, possibly a former mortal hero/king elevated to the Æsir
Hjuke (Hjúki) – Man, lunar activity, lunar phases, moon craters, brother of Bil (the Scandinavian children in the moon)
Hod(Höðr, Hodr) – The blind god, darkness, rebirth, second chances
Some Asgard!Flowers that Loki leaves for Darcy. She’s sure they have names but she calls them impossi-flowers because Jane obstinately tells her that such intertwining shapes are impossible. But neither of them are botanists, and Darcy gives them silly names like Captain AmeriFlower and Pink Arrowhead Daisy.
Loki, for all his wits, hasn’t figured out that no flower on Midgards looks like an Asgardian flower and that Darcy knows it’s him. He preens internally when she waltzes around with those flowers in her hair. Thor elbows him in the ribs and waggles his eyebrows but apart from that neither God says anything. Because that’s how Asgardians do romance, slowly but surely and with a lot of forethought. Darcy’s happy to play along, but Jane can’t wait for Loki to ask Darcy out the Earth way because those – totally impossible – flowers are setting off her allergies.
Darcy quizzes Loki endlessly about the ins and outs of magic, using her extensive knowledge of Harry Potter as a baseline. It was a rather hit-and-miss tactic when it came to what was correct and what wasn’t. Loki raised an eyebrow when Darcy astutely defined the difference between ‘transfiguring’ something and ‘charming’ it. But horcruxes were not, in fact, a thing and flying on broomsticks was dismissed as juvenile and disturbingly phallic.
“Well, I suppose it’s not wildly inaccurate that magic tends to be inherent in a being rather than a skill that can be acquired by anyone. But the notion that one would require such primitive amplifier as a ‘wand’ is preposterous. I could send magic through any proxy I choose but why bother, when I can do it directly?
“Any proxy? Even me?” Darcy asks, with a twinkle in her eye.
“Of course.”
“Would I be able to control it?”
“You’d be able to steer it, if you will. But I control the flow of magic through you.”
“So I’d be the wand,” she says gleefully, to which Loki rolled his eyes, “Can you show me?”
I actually should not have used the tag for that word, so I have corrected myself by removing it (the reason for this is explain below). However, Icelandic, especially in a grammatical sense, has not changed very much from its Old Norse past-self. In fact, the standard for Old Norse is based off of Old Icelandic, which was still Old Norse, but only one out of a handful of dialects. There were four major dialects, split into two categories (West Old Norse and East Old Norse, which both stem from North Germanic, or Proto Old Norse):
West Old Norse Old Icelandic Old Norwegian
East Old Norse Old Danish Old Swedish
For this week’s word, which is vápn, the modern Icelandic version is vopn. They are very similar, which is why I sometimes use the tag Icelandic as well. Yet, they are not the exact same in this case, and so it probably is misleading to leave the tag.
Other words are the exact same in both Old Norse and modern Icelandic. Some examples are: mikill (great), dóttir (daughter), ferð (journey), skip (ship), and fyrir (before; for). Furthermore, a vast majority of word are only different by a single letter of variation, as is the case for this week’s word. Others like this are maðr (maður, man; person), sterkr (sterkur, strong), and góðr (góður, good).
I honestly should be a bit more careful and restrict my usage of that tag for only when both words are exactly the same. Although, I have used this tag so often to demonstrate the similarities that exist between Old Norse and modern Icelandic. Either way, there is a justification to using the Icelandic tag when discussing Old Norse, but it is better to be cautious and not mislead anyone into thinking that they are still the same language, because they definitely aren’t. In the end, Icelandic is simply a language that has uniquely held onto its older roots, which reside in Old Norse.
Nonetheless, I do thank you for bringing attention to this so that I can improve myself in only using such a tag to indicate when the words are not just similar, but identical. I hope this discussion was helpful to you and others!
Went for the second one because I like drawing hair 🙂
I like the ida of Loki surreptitiously leaving Darcy flowers, trying to be all subtle and anonymous. Except he doesn’t realise that flowers don’t come in blue and gold, or silver and orange, or iridescent mint colours on Earth. So Darcy knows it’s him, because it can only be him or Thor and it ain’t Thor. But she doesn’t want him to stop if he’s caught, so she lets him leave her Asgardian flowers on her laundry pile, or in a little crystal jug next to her breakfast.
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