#In Conversation With America

[sydneighsays]

Can I rest now? 😭

[clip from: TMA ep 111 Family business]

This is probably going to flop 🧍🏻‍♀️🫶🤭😙🫴❤️

[VD: A grayscale Magnus Archives animatic of Jon and Gerry talking in episode 111 of The Magnus Archives. Gerry, a ghostly goth, and Jon, a thin brown man in a graphic T-shirt, sit together at a table. Gerry says scornfully, "Playing politics with things they didn’t understand. Reckoned her tradition was less the academic and more the, uh…" Jon offers dryly, "V-Village witch?"

Gerry laughs, pleased, and asks, "You sure you don’t know her?" He sighs, sobers, and says, "Yeah. But deep down what she wanted wasn’t all that different from the ivory tower idiots she hated. Y’know, I think, secretly, she dreamed of starting a little mystic dynasty of her own." He grimaces. "With me."

Jon says a little eagerly, "Like the, the Lukases? Or the Fairchilds?" Gerry corrects, "Well, Fairchild’s just a name, they’re not really family." Then he does a finger gun and says, "The Lukases, though, yeah."

He turns away, pensive and frowning, and says, "Thing is, it’s harder than it looks. What’s out there… doesn’t care about blood." Jon, grinning a little, says, "Well, I-I mean, except for the vampires…" Gerry scowls, "Yeah, obviously except for the vampires." Jon looks abashed, and Gerry looks down sorrowfully to say, "But they care about your choices, your fears, not your parents." End VD]

[ID: A still of the scene where Gerry scowls and says "Yeah, obviously except for the vampires" to an embarrassed Jon. End ID]

Described by princess-of-purple-prose

[ghost-in-the-corner]

Day one of hell sucks. It's okay to mourn what we lost and what's to come today.

But day two? We set aside our despair and pick up our anger.

Day two, we begin to fight, to revolt. Fighting is the only way we can make it through.

[royaltea000]

This man has no idea how close he is at all times to being attic wifed

[glorious-spoon]

from the department of absolutely nitpicky bullshit, one thing that has eternally driven me up a wall about CA: TWS is that steve's handwriting is wrong wrong wrong for a man who would have learned to write in the 1920s

he would have learned the palmer method! he would not have a millennial half-cursive scrawl! come on! you don't any old people working for you who could write out a list?? you could even give him a draftsman's hand if you're afraid your viewers can't read cursive!

[typewriter-worries]

folk songs everyone should listen to at least once

I'll Be Here in the Morning by Townes Van Zandt 

One of These Things First by Nick Drake

Something on Your Mind by Karen Dalton

Cannock Chase by Labi Siffre

I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind by Vashti Bunyan

Love Is Our Cross To Bear by John Gorka

Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains) by Connie Converse

Ventura Highway by America

I'd Have You Anytime by George Harrison

By The Time I Get to Phoenix by Glen Campbell

April Come She Will by Simon and Garfunkel

The Kiss by Judee Sill

[coffeeandjuice]

Steve: what’s the most important thing you think you’ll write in your life?

Tony on his fourth cup of coffee of the day: a suicide note

[cpericardium]

Me, reading book: huh how come the character didn't push back against this racist remark [remembers that last week the first thing the woman next to me on the flight asked me upon sitting down was if I liked panda express and I smiled and nodded] you know what never mind

[luckyricochet]

“Excusez-moi...Je suis au paradis?” “What?” “Is...is this heaven?” “It's Pennsylvania.” “Even better.”

THÉODORE PELLERIN as GILBERT DU MOTIER, THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

EVERY LAFAYETTE SCENE, 14/? ✧ 1x03, FRANKLIN (2024)

[bamboo-bees]

Where were you on that one, John 🤷

[kecobe]

New York, 1954 William Klein (American, born France; 1928–2023) Gelatin silver print, printed later Christie’s, New York

Signed, titled, dated in pencil and credit stamp (on the verso)

[protagonist-art]

he's dead by the time rdr2's story begins but i'm pretending he's not

[ghost-in-the-corner]

Rumor has it that Zuckerberg has bought TikTok and they're waiting to release that info officially until after the inauguration tomorrow

If that's true fuck it I'm not staying on TikTok

[robertdowneyjjr]

a soulmates au where your words only show up after you’ve met your soulmate. sort of like an insurance policy, you know, so you’re not left wondering whether every other person you meet is the one if your words are too generic.

in this universe, captain america has been recovered and active for several years now. he runs missions and saves the world with his ragtag team of superheroes formed by SHIELD. steve's become a celebrity, which he doesn't love, but it's something he learns to live with because that's life for public figures in the 21st century.

tony never became iron man because he walked away from his father's legacy the second he turned 18. he and howard are still working on their relationship, but maria couldn't be prouder and tells tony so everyday. he built his own company from the ground up and it's thriving under his leadership. he's only marginally famous these days and he tries his best to stay out of the limelight, guarding his private life as much as possible. that's how it's been for twenty years and he's happy.

they meet on a day when steve is tired, irritable and angry. he's just returned from a mission where two of his teammates were injured because of the faulty information they received. he goes out on a walk to let off some steam and he's just slipping his phone back into his pocket after rejecting fury's fifth call for a debrief when he slams right into tony.

tony was having a good day. he'd just sent out a new set of designs and decided to reward himself for it. he goes and gets himself a fresh, delicious, life-affirming cup of coffee and is just stepping out of the cafe with aforementioned cup when a walking brick wall comes out of nowhere.

good news is, tony had ordered a cold brew. once every few weeks that's just what he's in the mood for and it had been one of those days. bad news is, instead of drinking it he is now wearing it.

sticky and cold and more than a little shocked, tony barely has time to recover and figure out what happened when steve starts tearing into him.

“god damn it, watch where the fuck you’re going! that could have spilled all over me! idiot!” steve yells at tony. and on a normal day, he’d be apologetic and he’d never curse like this at a stranger. but he really didn’t need yet another thing to go wrong today and he’s on a short fuse.

maybe later, when he’s calmed down, he’ll think back on the cute man with the giant brown eyes staring at him in disbelief and start beating himself up over how he behaved.

at the moment, all tony can do is look at steve’s pristine white t-shirt that somehow has not a single drop of coffee on it, then look back down at his own chest. he has no words except, “wow. you’re a fucking asshole.” and he just turns around and walks away.

tony gets home and strips off for a rinse before he gets ready for his flight to london for a week of meetings. all the while he can’t help but think that angry blond man looked vaguely familiar and he can’t place where he knows him from. he doesn’t notice the new string of words tattooed down the side of his thigh until he’s in his hotel room half a day later.

meanwhile, steve gets home after his walk, after he’s checked on his teammates, after sitting with fury for three long hours to debrief, and finally washes the day off of him. before he gets into the shower, he notices something different about his reflection.

along his left bicep are the words, wow. you’re a fucking asshole.

he thinks back on the cute man with the big brown eyes and a chest full of coffee and wonders how in the hell he can fix this mess.

[moonrosegirl]

Me trying to explain Sailor Moon to my Cuban cousin who doesn’t speak English: es como supermán, pero con lesbians

[chaos-pigeon]

A post based on an actual real exchange my boyfriend and I had-

*Tony, Stephen and America listening to Red Wine Supernova by Chappel Roan in the Sanctum as per America’s choosing*

Tony: “what’s a wand and a rabbit?”

Stephen: *stops and stares at him*

Tony: “I heard you like magic, I’ve got a wand and a rabbit”

Stephen: “you- you don’t know… what that is?”

America: “aww bless his heart, he’s such an ally that he’s gonna turn into a lesbian man 🫶🏼”

[actual-corpse]

Im pretty sure I just overheard a girl who plans to vote for Trump say, "Trump's been president for 4 years and nothing happened....."

Girl... you do know that it takes a few YEARS for us to see the effects of policies put into place by a president like...

Trump started removing policies that helped guarantee consumer and worker safety, and we JUST NOW felt the effects through the listeria outbreak.

PLEASE DO SOME RESEARCH PLEASE.

I'm fucking terrified. We either get one of the biggest acts of domestic terrorism to date, or we get 4 years of what could become a tyrannical dictatorship, which removes ALL OF THE RIGHTS WE FOUGHT HARD TO GET!