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★"Focus? Not with you around."★

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HELP. Which background??

This is my labor of love for Bucky. Illustration by me in Procreate, mostly with willow charcoal brushes.

Please credit me if you share this on other social networks! @Anne Kostecki

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can’t get over when famous gangster lucky luciano was like “hey lansky seems like quite a hassle getting all those nazis offa your terf you want us to help ya out” and meyer “Left Russia Because of Pogroms and Became A Gangster In The US” lansky was like “no. no getting to beat the shit out of nazis is reward enough for us. sorry lucky this one’s personal don’t worry about it”

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The Thin Man (1934), directed by W.S. Van Dyke

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saw a post where someone fundamentally misunderstood bra sizes so i wanted to help clarify

a common misconception about cup size is that a DD is just the size of a boob. however, the way it actually works is that cup size is a relative measurement.

the first measurement you need is the measurement all the way around your ribcage, right below your tibbies and this measurement is the band size. the second measurement you need is the measurement around your chest where your tibbies stick out the most and this is called the bust measurement.

the difference between the band measurement and the bust measurement determines your cup size where AAA is a difference of zero inches and a G is a difference of 6 inches.

THIS SYSTEM IS INCREDIBLY CONFUSING!!! and it often leads to a lot of people not understanding which bras they need!

this is why a lot of people get mixed up when someone has a size of 34DD vs 44DD because they are comparing two entirely different body types that happen to have the same cup size in name only.

hope this helps!

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Gomez & Morticia Addams by Denver Balbaboco

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I’ve been working and reworking this Bucky Barnes portrait 🙃

I’ve rewatched Civil War, and damn Bucky is 🔥

This drawing will eventually include the metal arm, and I know I’ll get a headache trying to get it perfect.

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Is leaving kudos on fanfics not common courtesy anymore?

Something I've noticed on AO3 in the last two years is the lack of kudos and comments left on fanfics.

Fanfics have an increasing number of hits, but their kudos and comments remain minimal.

I understand that leaving comments is daunting, but kudos is the easiest thing you can do to show support and appreciation for an author.

Part of me wants to blame BookTok and the commercialized consumption of books.

Readers are more demanding and impatient for content, but they're quick to move on once a book is published. It's a constant demand for 'More, more, more' without appreciating and/or supporting authors. And these readers are now getting into fanfic.

I don't want to complain because it's not productive. But if you're new and getting into fanfic: Support writers.

Support means leaving kudos on AO3, and if you're able, leaving a comment. It's simple courtesy.

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Ability to stab - (2024)

Bucky wearing the perfect t-shirt for his job on the field 😁

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TED LASSO (TV Series 2020– ) ➼ Episode #2.6: The Signal 🖕

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Dancer Lisan Kay worshipping her cat. 1942. Source.

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no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive 'vegan leather' and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket' bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate's back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather... its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years...

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Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a respondibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

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I need a scene in Thunderbolts where Yelena and Bucky trauma bond over being brainwashed and the most important people in their lives leaving

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I've always assumed one of the few choices that Hydra gave the Winter Soldier was his weapons. They wanted him to be the most effective weapon for them, so they let him choose the guns and knives that he found worked best for him. I doubt what he looks for in a weapon has changed much. I also imagine that Hydra had caches of weapons all over the place that would still contain a lot of old WS gear Bucky could raid if he wanted too.

Also for some reason, I keep imaging one of the Winter Soldier’s handlers, "The Asset does not believe that gun is sufficiently disco enough."

Question: Why does Bucky have his old Winter Soldier gear in Thunderbolts*?

He has the Skorpion vz61 (which he also holds in the poster) plus the back harness.

And he has the belt, including the knives in the back and the grenades for the M4A1

And obviously, he's also using the modified FN Mk 13 that shoots disc-shaped grenades/explosives which he used to blow up Fury's car in TWS.

(Gif credit: @sebastians-stan )

So, did Bucky raid an old Winter Soldier supply cache, assuming Hydra had doubles of everything for him? Or is it his old gear?

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Dazzled

Some Labyrinth fanart for the Battleship gift exchange :)

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