This isn't payback, is it?

You can only reblog this today.

I went to see Captain America: Civil War w/ my bestie 2 days ago and all I can say is… Stucky is real STUCKY IS REAL.

stucky and lindy hop :’)

(original gif)

pick your battles. pick… pick fewer battles than that. put some battles back. that’s too many 

I went under, the world was at war, I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost.

The lack of care given to Steve after his awakening, especially in terms of addressing his grief, survivor’s guilt, and PTSD, will forever infuriate me.

THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hey dude, you should literally be catatonic from grief and loss and shock but how about you jump right into fighting this mess we made while you were under??? Oh and while we’re at it, you’re gonna be ridiculed, marginalized, and treated like nothing more than a real life action figure.

No one will be particularly kind to you and at the end of the movie, you’ll go off alone while we’re all paired up.

Sound good???

OMG YES, so much this. Two weeks. TWO WEEKS. That’s the only adjustment Steve had between ‘hey, welcome to the 21st century, we do so hope you enjoy your stay’ and ‘hey man, we have this little alien problem, you think you can help us out with that?’. And there form of catching him up is handing him a manila envelope with personnel files on the Commandos, Howard and Peggy and all but Peggy had big red DECEASED stamps on it. That’s so cold, so impersonal. He had to sit there, in a horribly lit apartment, and read those stamps, one right after another, alone.

It took two years for Steve to meet Sam, the first person to ask him how he was doing and if he was happy (and yes, to be fair, I realize that Natasha was trying to help, in her own way, by encouraging him to go out and meet people). Honestly though, just thinking about Steve during those two years breaks my heart. Especially since we have a basis for comparison. Steve’s awakening in the comics was nothing like that, there he had people who reached out to him and took it upon themselves to help him adjust from the get-go. The contrast is heartbreaking.

YES to all of this!  Imagine how much more sense CACW would have made (and how even more heartbreaking it would have been), if Tony had reached out to Steve at the end of Avengers, given him a place to stay while they built the team together…*sings We Could’ve Had it AAAAAALLLL”  Not blaming “Tony.” That was Whedon’s call to send Steve off on his Lonely Motorcycle Ride of Not Dealing With Things.  

                                                                                                                                           #this #steve rogers #everyone goes on about Tony’s ptsd #which he has  #but fuck  #Steve was ripped from the world he knew #he lost everyone but Peggy  #and he just gets sent out into the world #until ‘btw we fucked up with this ikea lamp that you died trying to destroy. also like half of us are nazis. oopsie"  #and Steve goes with it #and everything is fucked up #and Steve is playing at being a supersoldier  #his insides still half frozen with trauma and grief  #he plays it pretty  #even though Tony is a dick to him #and it’s another slap in the face to  #know that Howard became a terrible father  #and there is a seed of bitterness in his son #that Steve didn’t live to see in howard #Steve takes the mission to save the world #because that is what Cap would do  #he’s carrying the shield like a mask  #because the man he was #is still in the ice #he isn’t ready to be himself but in  #the blood on his knuckles seeping into the wraps  #he’s a shell as much as the winter soldier is later  #bucky went into hiding  #living a sparse life as he put pieces of himself together (via @typhoidmeri)

that guy is pissing his pants over that smile this kind of fear is what i aspire to inspire

Okay no but real talk, this was the moment.  This was the moment in Cap 2 where I knew the Russos got Natasha.  The costuming and everything else, yes, good, on-point, but this is the first time we’ve really seen the Black Widow at her most terrifying.  Tony touches on it, certainly, in IM2 - she’s a double, triple imposter; she’s figuring him out, keeping an eye on him (does he need help?  Does he need to be taken down?) while disarming him by being the kind of woman he’d bed and discard, has a hundred times…but those weren’t weaponized moments, they were strategic.  But on the Lumerian Star, we see Natasha in action in much the same way we see Steve in action, sliding easily from one performance to the other.  The first is that of watching Steve for cracks that might appear – trying to set him up, trying to keep him in a world he’s very clearly denying, not unlike what she was sent to do with Tony.  And the second (which, notably, is a version of herself she shuts her comm off before producing) is this: deadly, dangerous, and terrifying; playing the role that was placed on her as an insult, a joke, and that she reclaimed as an honor and a horror story against the people that tried to make her a monster.

Because this is what Age of Ultron got wrong.  We already know damn well that Natasha is competent; that’s never been a question.  But TWS is the first time we begin to see the underpinnings of that competency: where they come from; what they cost her.  The Red Room tried to make Natasha into a weapon – they tried to take her body, her sexuality, her agency away from her; tried to make her the “femme fatale” in every stereotypical sense of the term.  The Black Widow title was meant to be very much literal: no man could resist her, much less survive her (to paraphrase Bucky in 616).  But Natasha saw that; she always understood that.  And Natasha was always more than they believed of her.  She took the training; she took the mantle.  She took the pain and the suffering and the torment that created the Widow, and she took the rage that came with having the name made into a joke, a pejorative at her expense, the “whore-slut-spy” she never was.  It’s the same reason Bucky remains the Winter Soldier, despite the fact that his life and body was taken from him in its creation.  Because the Soldier, like the Widow, is a legend.  And legends are valuable; legends don’t die.  Legends grow, and they transform, and they become bigger, and scarier, and more terrifying than any one human being can become.

Natasha Romanoff never believed herself to be any of the things the Red Room reduced her to.  But the Red Room gave her a weapon that they couldn’t take away; that they never had control of, for all of their arrogance in believing they did.  

This is Natasha Romanoff, Black Widow.  But it’s also Natasha Romanoff, the survivor.  She knows what they say about her – and as long as she knows who she is; as long as she knows she’s worth more than the pejoratives, the slurs, and the attempts to cage her in…well, then those things, those things are only a weakness to them.  

Legends are so often warnings, after all.

You know its gonna make it that much better, When we can say goodnight and stay together.

He’s fast, strong. Had a metal arm .

consent through fear is not consent

let’s repeat that again:

consent through fear is not consent

And while we’re at it:

consent through guilt is not consent either

Consent through pestering, begging, and pleading is not consent either.

Who needs to do finals homework when you can draw Bucky with his hair tied in a bun?! Also what are colors? I just don’t know!

Inktober Day 9 - Soldier Steve Rogers

I’m three days behind inktober because of uni, but I will catch up over the weekend!