A kid from Brooklyn

Your body is made of the same elements that lionesses are built from. Three quarters of you is the same kind of water that beats rocks to rubble, wears stones away. Your DNA translates into the same twenty amino acids that wolf genes code for. When you look in the mirror and feel weak, remember, the air you breathe in fuels forest fires capable of destroying everything they touch. On the days you feel ugly, remember: diamonds are only carbon. You are so much more.

Oh my god the difference between me and other people. How does this show do THIS?

Till the end of the line. 

The unsung heroes.

That was one of the most horrifying, painful, beautiful parts of the movie.  So many of them weren’t prepared, so many were administrators who had no clue that the STRIKE teams had turned, let alone that a killing machine like the Winter Soldier was on the loose.  

So many of them died.

And yet none of them hesitated.  Despite the propaganda Pierce had unleashed, despite their orders, despite everything, they still responded.  Their sacrifice, their heroism - they gave the last full measure of devotion, and I can’t imagine that Steve wouldn’t attend the memorial service, even if he had to use a wheelchair or a cane because his own wounds hadn’t finished healing.

"Captain’s orders" indeed.

without these people, there IS no Captain America.

I will reblog every version of these people, every commentary that’s written about them because god I cried my heart out over these scenes. The people who kept to their oath and swore to be the shield, and they were.

Just a Kid From Brooklyn

A late post (especially since i have to get up early tomorrow)…but I refuse to  sleep until I have this posted up! I’m super stoked to finally have a Captain America design that I’m really happy with! It took countless tries to get the colors the way I wanted/to a satisfactory level, but I pulled through! ^_^ Even though I overall had fun making this, I don’t think I’ll be doing another stained glass design any time soon lol…

I’m amused that the only person mourning Natasha’s husband, who, incidentally, destroyed the big bad Communist mega-weapon and saved Natasha’s and Cap’s lives, is Steve. 

Avengers #44 (1967)

"To the ones who cared and who were there from the start. To the love that left and took a piece of my heart. To the few who’d swear I’d never go anywhere where are you now?”

Captain America #25 by Adam Hughes

Steve Rodgers, Captain America

CAN YOU FEEL THE FREEDOM?!

#I AM DISTRAUGHT #THEY LITERALLY GO FROM HIGHSCHOOL-ESQUE ENEMIES TO FIRENDS IN THE SPAN OF A DAY #A ///DAY/// #THEY START OF THINKING THEY KNOW WHAT THE OTHER STANDS FOR #BUT FIND OUT HOW SPECTACULARLY THEY WERE WRONG #AND IN THE PROCESS #DISCOVER #THEY MUCH PREFER #WHO THE OTHER WAS UNDERNEATH #ALL ALONG - via dirtyovercoats

“If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?”

— Margaret Atwood, Power Politics: Poems