A compliation of my Endgame reaction posts from Tumblr

[dira]

Under the tag: all the spoilers, none of the squee. Click at own risk.

My Endgame reactions on Tumblr today, a play in three acts.



#1

My reaction, after twelve hours:

[STOP READING THERE IF YOU REALLY ENJOYED THE MOVIE AND ARE HAPPY ABOUT HOW IT ENDED, I WAS UP REALLY LATE LAST NIGHT AND I’M TIRED! HAHA!]

…Anyway, I wish I actually meant that humorously in the sense that I was awake until 2 in the morning between seeing the movie and hashing out my feelings about it, but, no, I just mean…

Look, I can see ways to bend and twist and reconstruct the material that movie gave us into a lot of fun and enjoyable and great fic? But at this point I don’t even want to because I am just. so. fucking. tired. of engaging with a canon that thought THOSE were good endings for the characters I’ve spent a decade bonding with. What the actual fuck. I keep trying to like, rank the original six’s endings in order of which I am most to least mad about, but I just–what the actual everliving fuck.

Also it is sort of impressive, in a trainwrecky way, how many character arcs get warped into incoherence, grim futility, or total fucking nihilism by the gravitational pull of these endings. Like. Wow, I retroactively dislike other movies because this is apparently where you were going that whole time! AWESOME. THANKS I HATE IT.

https://dsudis.tumblr.com/post/184459811109/endgame-thoughts-i-guess-spoilers-under-the-cut

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#2

Another Endgame thought, this one about Steve and his storyline. Which I am not squeeing about in this post.

Okay, so, everyone always sees a different version of the same movie, right, we all know that.

But it is fucking SURREAL to see a character’s ending and go “wow that was an only barely metaphorical suicide concluding his six-movie arc of depression and alienation, I need to go huddle with The Magicians fans now” and then have people cheering about what a beautiful and romantic and life-affirming happy ending it was.

https://dsudis.tumblr.com/post/184465063904/another-endgame-thought-this-one-about-steve-and

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#3

Third and perhaps most inevitable Endgame Thought

…oh no I just spent an hour plotting out the fic I want to write to fix EVERYTHING.

https://dsudis.tumblr.com/post/184467130094/third-and-perhaps-most-inevitable-endgame-thought

Comments

[crimson_rising]

Ugh, I feel you on a deep seated level, especially with regards to Steve. I just don’t? Understand?? How people can think that was a wonderful ending for him??? Also it sucked as the ending before the credits because then I had s completely sour taste in my mouth for those gorgeous credits.

OTOH, I can’t help but be glad that the fixit-fic bug bit you 🤷🏾‍♀️