99MillionsMiles

happy pride month

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but mom how will other people know that you, a white Texan, are a Christian

same

Jesus

I bet those two are couple now..

I’m gay

me too

This is such a great story

update from Houston pride 2019! we’re friends

This is lovely

the right partner

sistren

KEY ⚓️ ATLANTIS | 210418

I NAMED THESE ‘DAD HUG’ 1 2 AND 3

this post had such strong ling vibes i had to draw it immediately 

i feel like they’re never going to actually address bucky’s mental health issues and the fact that he’s unfairly using sam as a scapegoat because then that would mean addressing the fact that steve left them both was deeply selfish and is negatively affecting the both of them.

i was going to write a longer post about this but i just do not have the spoons and i know if i dont say it now, i’ll never get around to it.

one of the story’s biggest problems is refusing to address the elephant in the room - that steve’s decision to go back in time is not only one of the major causes of the current conflict, but has also left sam and bucky arguably traumatized.

and they wont ever talk about it because, as the show keeps pointing out, steve was a good man. he is a legend. an icon. and thats one of the big reasons zemo hates him and other superheroes. its the reason why walker feels its just a mantle and a shield and not an ideology. the show doesn’t want us to see steve as a selfish person because that means walker is not all that different from him.

but at the same time, sam has been left with a legacy he feels does not represent him. and where is steve to help him through this? he’s obviously not dead, the show would’ve established that. so he’s either in hiding (as implied by the conspiracy theories) or he’s in his own alternate reality, completely avoiding any consequences of his actions. there is NO ONE who has enough power to vouch for sam and stand up to walker with him. he has to do this entirely on his own, but he is also isn’t allowed to be angry with steve for it because the show doesn’t want US to be angry.

and for bucky, the one stable figure in his life is gone. he’s only fairly recently gotten his agency and mind back and then his childhood best friend, the one who has given up everything for him just disappears. sam is literally the only person left that he can trust and i was under the impression that maybe bucky didnt answer sam because he was afraid if he opened his heart to someone, they might leave too, so its better if he leaves first. but since they wont ever delve into bucky being abandoned by the person who cared for him the most, they’re just going to have him put all the blame on sam with no cathartic resolution to it. they wont ever have him say, “i’m actually mad at steve for leaving and putting you in this position.”

so the show wants to have it both ways. they want the characters to be affected by steve’s decision, but they dont want sam or bucky to actually be resentful of him for leaving since that means steve wasn’t as good as we thought he was.

This. So much of the show, particularly the supposed contrast between Steve and Walker, just falls apart when you remember where Steve is and what he’s done (arguably who he’s been all along, but that’s a different story). The MCU is once again pulling ye olde cinemanarrative dissonance on us: the characters are lauding Steve as this incorruptible figure of moral purity and are burning bridges to honor his legacy, but at the same time the only reason they are in this situation is that Steve chose to define his life by selfishness and abuse of power. And that just doesn’t square.

Now, if it was a show that cared about things like narrative, and hey, it still might be, the final two episodes would have Sam and Bucky come to terms with what Steve did by putting the shield on Sam, and they would both move past him. Maybe Sam would pick up the shield on his own terms, because the idea of Cap has merit and is worth rehabilitating. Maybe he would choose to leave it behind and be his own kind of hero. It won’t happen, because the show has obviously been written under the assumption Steve died in battle in EG, and the Mouse will not allow their merchandise to be acknowledged as controversial.

What if Bucky hadn’t been captured?

Steve why are you big

#CAN YOU IMAGINE#I’M LAUGHING#STEVE GET YOUR PUNK ASS BACK HERE#suddenly the crowd likes steve a hell of a lot more#“oh this is STEVE” they say#“buchanan’s steve?”#“yeah that steve”#“thought he was littler”#“SO DID I” bucky says “SO DID FUCKING I” (via pageleaf)

This is definitely one of my favourite post in the tumblr