Well Fucks? Get To It!

I just finished watching The Punisher s1 (I know, kinda late) And the part that spoke to me the most was everyone being kinda charmed by Frank Castle : Sarah AND David Lieberman, Billy, in some way, Karen, Dinah… I see you bc same

just rewatched s2ep11 of Punisher and i’m deadass confused how Karen and Frank aren’t gonna end up together. they have to. there’s no other choice. Karen asked him to “make it mean something” that she came to visit him. she was willing to throw her entire life away to help him and he couldn’t let her. she told him to choose to LOVE SOMEONE instead of the war. she begged him to love her. he practically admitted he did but couldn’t do a thing about it. they almost kissed!! and they’re not gonna be endgame??

Yes.

years later and i still think about that tps2 scene with karen’s shoes. everyone’s freaking out but the guy in the morgue was just happily skipping around in those heels, and Frank—of course, of all people—just happens to notice while he’s in the middle of escaping with Madani.

in my head, after all that, frank finds out about the shoes from madani and either 1) goes on some mission to get the heels back from the guy, but is thoughtful enough to swap them out with another pair, or 2) just buys karen a new pair, way comfier and definitely expensive.

then he just casually sneaks them into her apartment with a note that says, “owed you a pair”

Since I've seen it floated about how Frank and Karen getting together means the end of Punisher-Frank (it doesn't, just would require some changes to how he's handled); I'll go with the flipside. If Matt and Karen were to get together, then how long before Elektra shows back up and either there's another LT or Matt again picks Elektra over Karen. Like before I would've tapped on the comics but now after a rewatch, its very damn clear that Elektra is always going to eclipse any other person. Which that'd just be a repeat of s2 and regress most characters, but especially Karen. There's drawbacks to every side of the equation, which means that's a nonfactor. Daredevil needs to take a hint from Luke Cage in following the chemistry & story that is Kastle, not Jessica Jones s2-3. Just ftr I like s1 but god is it annoying in s2-3 in its insistence on bucking the chemistry to force in rando guys. Luke/Claire is -chef's kiss- and is a case of a Matt floated love interest who didn't match with him, thus going her own way w/ another love interest). Same as Kastle. Mattlektra not only has the chemistry, the story, but also bonus points is it tickling the comic fans special spots by being accurate to their pair.

God the next year is going to be so damn annoying with these types of anti bullshit.

EVERYONE BE QUIET I CAN HEAR CHEESE

Not to be a High School English teacher on main but:

His heart beat faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

And I think it describes at least one of the reasons that Frank keeps pulling back right where Karen is ready to kiss him. We know that he feels like he’s dangerous to be around and he wants her to be safe and believes that means being not anywhere near him. We know that he feels like he is supposed to be dead, shouldn’t move on from his family’s murder and specifically from still seeing himself as married to his dead wife. But I also think that he’s terrified to kiss Karen because he knows that it will change him if he lets her in.

Right now his grief is effectively a super power: he’s driven, reckless, accepts no rules but those of his own heart/internal compass. No one can stop him because he’s a dead man walking. But if he lets Karen in, lets her breath new life into him, he will be a living breathing man again with something to lose. He is terrified to be human like that again.

(Not that he’s not already being impacted by this: he does care what she thinks, he does experience the panic of impending loss when she’s threatened. But he’s trying, so hard, not to let that transform him.)

As a bonus, we know that Frank and Karen both read that book (every high school student in the United States was assigned it in 11th grade at the time they were teenagers and there is evidence that both of them actually did their English class readings).

So it’s entirely possible that Frank might even make that connection for himself. They could even argue about it (I don’t think Karen would appreciate being compared to Daisy, even if that’s not actually the point Frank was trying to make).

THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) Dir. Gavin O'Connor

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