Agents Of Shield - Blog Posts
I'm being stupid again...
I previously had a Coulson thought the other day, but couldn't remember where he grew up, so I googled it, right? Then I did some v v light research about the area, and uh....
You've gotta be joking me...
there's a lot of love for computer science genius skye/daisy johnson, but i think a lot about pattern recognition anaylsis expert daisy too. she was the first to react to Fitz's run-down of the Peruvian 0-8-4, clocked how highly militarized the Hub was about Ward and Fitz's mission despite the brief being about disabling a weapon, saw the connection between Hannah Hutchins and Tobias Ford and this is just off from the top of my head from season 1 alone.
she knew something was happening in SHIELD when the Iliad crew hunted for her in the Retreat. she understood fitz’s theory of using her powers to open the Kree Monolith when he was still halfway explaining himself. she found Ivanov and Coulson’s connection in 4x14 The Man Behind the Shield, which ultimately revealed Ivanov’s motive. she even knew that there would be some incident or event in which they will need her powers back in season 5, which was her entire reason of staying behind.
also the Framework. it’s essentially a world made of binary. it makes sense that even if she didn’t have her avatar’s memories, she caught on when May and Coulson pointed out AIDA’s strategy in 4x22 World’s End. May saves the girl in Bahrain, the Cambridge Incident happens, Hydra reveals themselves and blames the Inhumans. “It’s me. I’ll be the monster. She wants the same fascist state she had in the Framework.” she was there for ten days tops and she got all that without the memory duplicity thing? she fucking rocks
Listen, season 6 of AoS may overall be a bit of a low point when compared to season 5 and 7, but at least it delivered some BANGER episodes
"Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson" and "Inescapable" I shall love you forever
HELLO HI YES YOU
ARE YOU GETTING TIRED OF A LOT OF RECENT MCU PROJECTS BC THEY JUST REPEAT THE SAME ASPECTS AND THE CHARACTERS DON'T SEEM TO EVER SHOW UP AGAIN
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SOMETHING MCU-ADJACENT BUT NOT TO THE POINT OF REWATCHING ALL THE MOVIES?
THEN MAY I PRESENT TO YOU: AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.
COMPLETELY MCU WITH THE PLOTS WE KNOW AND LOVE ONLY DONE CONSIDERABLY BETTER THAN THE MCU EVER COULD
FOUND FAMILY!! PINING!! ANGST!! SEASONS-LONG RELATIONSHIPS!! WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT
TRY AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. TODAY
“wherever she goes, death follows…”
— maybe, but so do you and so does may.
they spend months looking for her after hive— exhausting resources trying to bring her back during.
coulson follows her into an old alien tunnel.
may follows her back into that prison full of watchdogs.
they quite literally carry her back to the main timeline even if it means she never forgives them.
“…wherever she goes, may and coulson follow.”
I really don't like it when people try to present Team Cap and Team Iron Man as being the same thing, bc they're very clearly not? (And sorry for doing this type of discourse in 2025, but it needs to be said)
Because let's be honest, the mainline MCU didn't really focus on the Sokovia Accords past Civil War. It's not present in Doctor Strange, Black Widow, Homecoming (at least in a large capacity), certainly not Ragnarok or GOTG 2, Black Panther, and almost no one cares by Infinity War. When we look at the projects post Accords, there are hardly any moments where they matter, and by 2025, they're fully repealed. Nine years of being active, five of whom were during the Snap, meaning only four years, and most of the projects don't go very in depth. That tends to lead mainline audiences into believing it was never that bad in the first place and that Cap was being selfish
But we see how the Accords really effect everyday powered people in the supplemental material like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. After being introduced, powered people had three options
Go into hiding. Live a normal life. Never show off your abilities
Sign the Accords. If you were part of a government agency like S.H.I.E.L.D., it is heavily implied you had to sign or you couldn't work for them anymore
Don't sign and show off your powers? You go to the Raft
This went for everyone, it didn't matter if your power was making farts smell good, you counted as powered. Imagine the bank down the street is getting robbed, with these in place, you couldn't do anything about it if you weren't signed or you risked going to jail; they're awful options
Or what if you were signed? Great, now all your information (powers, weaknesses, danger level, LITERALLY EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU) is held in a massive server that can be easily hacked and accessed. We see in AoS s4 that signed Inhumans are getting harmed bc the Watchdogs, a hate organization, was able to get their hands on their information and find out exactly where they were. POWERED PEOPLE WORE TRACKERS THAT WAS CONSTANTLY BEING UPDATED ON THEIR LOCATION. THAT'S FUCKING WRONG IN SO MANY WAYS
Let's switch gears for a sec here and go to another side, where thankfully, that isn't happening to you, but you do wanna make some kind of change in your community. You notice that people are going missing, that there's weird power outages and decide that's worth looking into, so you go to the council and present your case. Now, as we all know, politicians never agree on anything, so the chance of getting an immediate yes is almost impossible (I'd argue 1% is far too generous in this case). It may take weeks, months, or the decision is swept under the rug and oopsies, now the entirety of Florida is covered by a blanket of darkness!
Or you get a no, and actually, they want you to check out this tiny little village in New Zealand, and so you have no choice but to go. You quickly realize that this isn't really worth your time and feel like your services are required elsewhere, but again, you're not able to back out. When you return, you find that London has been utterly destroyed. This is a situation that Steve himself brings up, and it's something that absolutely could happen! There are just endless risks to this
Then, of course, the worst scenario, being sent to the Raft, which, bc it's in international waters, they can do whatever they want to you!! Doesn't matter if it's inhumane, no one can do shit about it. It's stated in "Jessica Jones" that prisoners aren't allowed to have any contact with the outside world, and if you go in there, you go in for good. Almost no one makes it out. Again, it doesn't matter who you were and what your powers were, you would be stuck inside with the worst of the worst. WANDA MAXIMOFF WAS IN A SHOCK COLLAR AND STRAIGHTJACKET. How in any situation is that okay??
Steve understood this, understood the true consequences of handing themselves over to hundreds of governments. He wasn't against having regulations (neither am I) but he knew this wasn't the right way to go
One side holds all the power. The other holds nothing. This is in no way equal
Agents of B.A.R.B.I.E. -> Skye (a.k.a. Daisy Johnson)
This Barbie is an Inhuman!
There was a mini earthquake in San Diego/Los Angeles area I always just think Daisy Johnson is saving the world
Gotta love a guy who's consistent in his hobbies
this post is so cursed im so sorry
Agents of Shield for the fandom ask game!
Oh, sweet!!!!
Send me a fandom and I'll tell you...
The first character I ever fell in love with: probably May or Skye!
A character that I used to love/like, but now do not: *looks directly into the camera like I'm on The Office*
A ship that I used to love/like, but now do not: Skyeward. Ahhhh, for the good old days.... or something
My ultimate favorite character™: May, of course!!! She's AWESOME
Prettiest character: maybe Daisy? Wait. No. Sousa
My most hated character: you'd think it'd be Ward, because he sucks. And he's up there. But I think I'll go with AIDA
My OTP: Philinda my darlings. Also Dousy
My NOTP: Fitz and AIDA, naturally!
Favorite episode: As I Have Always Been kinda lives rent free. Also, FZZT is SO good. Ooooh, and I really love the season two finale
Saddest death: ohhhhhh gosh. Either Tripp or Coulson
Favorite season: Probably three or seven
Least favorite season: six
Character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but I hate: I have no idea🤣
My ‘you’re a piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: Lance Hunter!! I love him and yet I freely admit he's a trainwreck
My ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: Fitzsimmons. If I had to choose one, I'd say Fitz
My ‘they’re kind of cute, and I lowkey ship them, but I'm not too invested’ ship: honestly? Probably also Fitzsimmons. Don't get me wrong, they're really cute, they're just not my personal favorites!!!
Thanks for the ask!!!
I’m so interested to know how other people perceive the team and Daisy’s arc in the beginning of season 4. I feel like I’ve seen a lot more of the “I’ll never forgive the team for how they treated her in S4” sentiment recently, which is interesting because I’ve never taken that perception away from that storyline at all.
Did the team say or do hurtful things? Yes, for sure. (I usually see the aforementioned comment on videos on that one scene with Daisy, Mack and Fitz)
But does Daisy also do and say hurtful things? I honestly think so.
That’s what makes that part of the season so phenomenal to watch, story wise. There is not black and white, good or bad, there just is. That is the reality of grief, that is the reality of mental health struggles, that is life.
There are no “right” answers when coping with the impossible, honestly. I think there are healthy and unhealthy ways to handle things, sure, but it’s not really a moral issue, on its face.
I mean, between the team and Daisy there are some rough interactions. Fitz is certainly a little hypocritical when he’s criticizing how Daisy handles things, given that he wouldn’t have reacted well if it had been Jemma. But He has been there for Daisy, up until this point at least, with Ward, her powers, they’ve been through a tremendous amount together. He feels abandoned and, yeah, he’s expressing it in a less than ideal way. But he cares. You know he cares about her. He and Mack wouldn’t be so angry if they didn’t care.
Mack is upset when he finds out Yo-Yo’s stealing the bone pills for her because 1) he’s been lied to for months, and 2) more importantly, it makes it seem that Daisy doesn’t trust him enough to directly come to him for help. That’s the thing. He would’ve helped her, probably given her anything she needed medically. She never needed to get Yo-Yo to steal any of it. It’s frustrating, it hurts. Mack is genuinely a deeply loving person, you know it’s killing him to not be able to get through to her.
Everyone on that team wants to help her, more than anything. They are begging her to let them in. I mean, lest we forget Coulson gave up his fucking job, in part, to keep chasing any lead he has on her.
When blaming the team for the rockiness at the beginning of season 4, you’re completely ignoring the fact that Daisy is actively running from them the entire time. She doesn’t want them to find her, and I really get it, honestly I do. I deal with things the way she does, radio silence, isolation, running away, being avoidant, self destruction, etc, etc.
Who could blame her, honestly? The anger and the self hatred and the guilt and the grief. Lord knows I’d take off, shut myself out. How do you even begin to manage that kind of pain, especially when it’s still fresh?
Well, you manage it any way that you can. For Daisy that means trying to atone for all of the pain she caused, which, are also things that caused her pain. Especially at the beginning of the season, it doesn’t matter how much she’s told that she is forgiven. Lincoln was at peace with his decision to sacrifice himself, Mack forgave her for hurting him while she was under the influence of Hive. Nobody is directly blaming her, except for herself. To try to heal from the pain she is in, would mean being able to extend herself grace, mercy. The only person who needs to forgive her, is herself. And she just- can’t.
She believes that all she does is hurt the people around her, which is what she is grasping onto to justify hurting herself. The hard truth of living that way is that when you’re stuck in your own, self harm, self hatred, shame-spiral is that you are the only person who can break out of it.
That’s a huge part about what I love about the storytelling of this arc. It’s genuinely some of the best mental health representation I’ve seen in a show like this.
Obviously, mental illness is not your fault. Being stuck in a bad place is not your fault. Daisy is not at fault for her grief. Her descent into isolation and a self-hatred, suicidal, shame-spiral does not in any way mean that she is a bad person. But there’s only so much another person can do when it comes to a battle that is completely contained within your own brain.
The team never stopped caring about her. Coulson, May, and Yo-Yo, specifically, never gave up on her. That’s important. She would’ve most likely been dead if they had stopped giving a shit about her. That’s significant.
But they’re not mind readers.
To go back to the scene with Mack and Fitz too. I think that scene is really important because it’s Daisy being confronted with the reality that her actions, her running away, isolating herself, really is hurting the people that love and care about her. She runs away to protect them from that very reality, of course, but how could they know that?
She doesn’t want them to care, and she hopes that if she just pushes them hard enough, if she bares her metaphorical fangs, they’ll stop. She’s accepted being alone, she’s accepted her own self destruction, because even if it hurts them at first, even if she’s absolutely miserable, they’ll be safe. Inside, she’s unwilling to admit that she needs them, and she’s acting in a way that allows her to avoid the cognitive dissonance of her actions (i.e. yo-yo stealing the pills they’d willingly give her if she asked).
But the fact that she’s hurting them doesn’t push them away. It just makes everything hurt more for everyone. She wants to embody that hurt, she’s cannibalizing her self to try to take on that pain but it doesn’t make anything better.
This storyline is not a case of right and wrong, if anything it’s an antithesis to it. It’s about how the ambiguity of life and grief and mental health are like tangled strings, messy and knotted, it’s about the love and effort and dedication it takes to hang on to/fight your way back to the people that love you, it’s about the strength it takes to carry on and forgive yourself, and, as May tells Daisy once she comes back, it’s about that: “you can’t choose who cares about you”.
One half of my otp: *dies*
Me: it’s funny how you think dying is going to get you out of this ship
“You’re a hacker Skye, not Seal Team Six”
Give it two years Miles
“it's different, watching your friends go before you, isn't it? i have been through that, as well. it can be harder to stay than to leave.”
credits – unknown || balthasar, losers || @/inanotheruniverese || anne sexton, a self portrait in letters
Driving lessons with the SHIELD family.
5 seconds later...
Driving lessons with the SHIELD family.
As the ultimate dad, one of Coulson's many duties is to teach his kids to drive...
...
Driving lessons with the SHIELD family.
Agents of B.A.R.B.I.E. -> Leo & Jemma Fitzsimmons
These Barbies are scientists!
Hii!! I feel like I haven't seen you in ages, I hope you're doing great!! If it's not too late, could I request a Dousy lockscreen? Thank you, and have a nice day!!
Awww, thanks!!! I am doing great, I have delicious chocolate 😂 back at you, I how you're doing well, too!! Oh GREAT request
Gosh I love these two. Thanks for the ask!!
Sometimes a family is a brilliant Biochemist, her husband who's whereabouts and when-abouts she cannot know without putting him in mortal danger, their grandson who is the same age as them, and a Millennium-old Sentient Synthetic being who all live on a time-traveling plane. and that's beautiful.
SOMETIMES a family is a young woman with earthquake powers, her surrogate mother with no emotions of her own, her surrogate father who is now an android BUT has a lot of feelings, and her constantly-bewildered boyfriend who was meant to die in 1955 who all live on a time-traveling plane. and that too, is beautiful.
AND SOMETIMES, these two families (plus a Colombian Speedster with robot arms and her boyfriend, their leader, with his large and powerful form) come together to create one bigger even more beautiful family, who all live on a time-traveling plane.
Agents of B.A.R.B.I.E. -> Phil Coulson
This Barbie is a dad!