Mediavengers
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| Name: | Mediavengers, nottonyharrison |
| Date(s): | -2022 |
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| Type: | edits |
| Fandom: | Marvel Cinematic Universe |
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| URL: | https://mediavengers.tumblr.com/post/190078798233/mediavengers-mediavengers-round-up-august-ew, main/other url = https://nottonyharrison.tumblr.com/ , AO3 url: https://archiveofourown.org/series/45997 |
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Mediavengers is a tumblr blog focusing on Manips of News Media sites to include the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For example, they frequently create fake magazine covers or spreads featuring the characters from the MCU and made up headlines in the magazine's style. Often the image is accompanied by flavour text, such as dating the article.
This could be seen as a sort of Media au, similar to Social Media AU, reflecting the popularity of such kinds of works in the MCU fandom; see also document!fic.
From their about page:
MediAvengers is an in-universe media spoof blog that takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. MediAvengers has no affiliation with Marvel, Disney, or any other companies laying claim to any of the characters featured on the blog. This blog is 100% about creating fun fanart, satirising the media, and worldbuilding.
Posts/Asks
What's your favorite cover you've done? I'm really interested because you seem to favor political stuff later on and at the start you mostly did tabloid parodies.anonymous ask
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So I guess what i’m most proud of, and what are my favourites are two different things that kind of cross over a bit. Combine that with the fact this whole thing started out as me being frustrated with the hyperbolic and invasive nature of trash rags, rather than a real attempt at creating any kind of in-universe media and I guess I have a lot of weird feelings about a lot of the stuff I’ve done over the years.
I’m most proud of You Know Who He Is: Stark Naked mostly because not only did it take a bunch of research to get the look of a GQ magazine right (which, by the way, is a magazine I have never read in my goddamn life!), and then the added effort of writing the copy and then trying as hard as I could to get Tony’s voice right throughout. I spent literal days reading it back out loud with all of his intonations and inflections to try and get the whole piece as spot on as I could.
What are my favourites though? Honestly, I really do prefer the political or technological ones. Every time I look at Rhodey on the cover of Wired I’m like fuck yes that is awesome and YOU DID THAT. I think about that time I put the Hydra symbol on Cap’s helmet as a commentary on the media’s constant quest to either vilify political figures or put them on a pedestal, and the use of sensationalist imagery to sell copies and Then they went and did Hydra!Cap in the comics a couple of years later and I was just like… No I did not want to be this kind of prophet. I think about the Economist cover where I couldn’t figure out what the reaction would be to literal aliens coming out of the sky and decided to just go with a safe for work version of What the Fuck.
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Some pieces referred to:
Potentially published after the events of Captain America:Winter Soldier
The Economist might publish something like this after the events of Captain America: Civil War
Prophetically foreshadowed Hydra!Cap before he was canonized, this was commentary
Potentially after the events of Black Panther
Examples of their fanworks
Covers
"Cover's subtitle: HOWARD STARK'S RIGHT HAND WOMAN"
Mediavengers commonly makes tabloid articles which speculate on the dating lives of Avengers; this is only one example
Longer Narratives
- You Know Who He Is: Stark Naked The article and cover was created, formatted into images, and also transcribed from the images; and mediavengers has stated this is one of their favourite pieces ever done.
- New York's Mightiest Heroes The article and cover was created, formatted into images, and also transcribed from the images.
- The Battle of New York: Take 2 A series of movie posters/promotional articles about the fictional movies that might have been made after the events of the first Avengers movie