#cafta

[imposterogers]

if u never watched catfa then u literally don’t know who mcu steve rogers is. that is the most authentically steve rogers he could be — before the trauma and before losing bucky and before being told he’s a legend and history rewrote his story. he was a little shit who got in back alley fights and thought fondue was a euphemism for sex and loved his best friend so much it hurt and drew himself as a performing monkey. who was quick to smile and quick to throw a punch. who cried in a bombed out bar over a glass of liquor that wouldn’t effect him. disobeys direct orders, and goes on a one man mission to save his friend and illegally tries to enlist under six different fake names despite having chronic illness. jumps on grenades and goes to art school. who was vindictive and a little mean but so so so caring and empathetic. who’s mother was his moral compass, even if she was never on screen. that was steve n if u can’t appreciate cafta than well that’s on u

[booksandabeer]

"Shared Life Experience"

"Believe it or not, it’s kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience." (Steve Rogers | CATWS)

I was looking for visuals of Steve's transformation for my thesis... and instead this happened and I gave myself A Pain. Now you get to feel it, too. You're welcome, everybody!

[stucky-headcanon-bot]

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[cloudinterlude]

Time to remember that the troops did not like Captain America at first lmao. Understandably so, I'd even say. Steve made the Captain America that everyone grew to love. That admiration wasn't just handed to him. Steve built everything that was revered in Cap. Not the other way around.

[theculturedmarxist]

I don't know what the situation is like lately, but last I looked Honduras was an absolute nightmare thanks to the Obama administration.

In 2009, Honduras experienced a coup d’état when the Honduran Army ousted President Manuel Zelaya on orders from the Honduran Supreme Court. What followed was succinctly summarized by Honduran attorney Oscar Cruz: The coup in 2009 unleashed the voracity of the groups with real power in this country. It gave them free reins to take over everything. They started to reform the Constitution and many laws — the ZEDE comes in this context — and they made the Constitution into a tool for them to get rich. As part of this process, the Honduran government passed a law in 2013 that created autonomous free-trade zones that are governed by corporations instead of the countries in which they exist. So what was the outcome? Writer Edwin Lyngar described vacationing in Honduras in 2015, an experience that turned him from Ayn Rand supporter to Ayn Rand debunker. In his words: The greatest examples of libertarianism in action are the hundreds of men, women and children standing alongside the roads all over Honduras. The government won’t fix the roads, so these desperate entrepreneurs fill in potholes with shovels of dirt or debris. They then stand next to the filled-in pothole soliciting tips from grateful motorists. That is the wet dream of libertarian private sector innovation. He described the living conditions this way: On the mainland, there are two kinds of neighborhoods, slums that seem to go on forever and middle-class neighborhoods where every house is its own citadel. In San Pedro Sula, most houses are surrounded by high stone walls topped with either concertina wire or electric fence at the top. As I strolled past these castle-like fortifications, all I could think about was how great this city would be during a zombie apocalypse. Without collective effort, large infrastructure projects like road construction and repair languish. A resident “pointed out a place for a new airport that could be the biggest in Central America, if only it could get built, but there is no private sector upside.” A trip to a local pizzeria was described this way: We walked through the gated walls and past a man in casual slacks with a pistol belt slung haphazardly around his waist.  Welcome to an Ayn Rand libertarian paradise, where your extra-large pepperoni pizza must also have an armed guard.

In Honduras, the police ride around in pickup trucks with machine guns, but they aren’t there to protect most people.  They are scary to locals and travelers alike.  For individual protection there’s an army of private, armed security guards who are found in front of not only banks, but also restaurants, ATM machines, grocery stores and at any building that holds anything of value whatsoever.  Some guards have uniforms and long guns but just as many are dressed in street clothes with cheap pistols thrust into waistbands.  The country has a handful of really rich people, a small group of middle-class, some security guards who seem to be getting by and a massive group of people who are starving to death and living in slums.  You can see the evidence of previous decades of infrastructure investment in roads and bridges, but it’s all in slow-motion decay. I took a van trip across the country, starting in Copan (where there are must-see Mayan ruins), across to the Caribbean Sea to a ferry that took my family to Roatan Island.  The trip from Copan to the coast took a full six hours, and we had two flat tires.  The word "treacherous" is inadequate—a better description is "post-apocalyptic."  We did not see one speed limit sign in hundreds of kilometers.  Not one.  People drive around each other on the right and left and in every manner possible.  The road was clogged with horses, scooters and bicycles.  People traveled in every conceivable manner along the crumbling arterial.  Few cars have license plates, and one taxi driver told me that the private company responsible for making them went bankrupt.  Instead of traffic stops, there are military check points every so often.  The roads seemed more dangerous to me than the gang violence. The greatest examples of libertarianism in action are the hundreds of men, women and children standing alongside the roads all over Honduras.  The government won’t fix the roads, so these desperate entrepreneurs fill in potholes with shovels of dirt or debris.  They then stand next to the filled-in pothole soliciting tips

Democratic Party candidates and congressional leaders have shed crocodile tears over the deaths in the Rio Grande and postured as defenders of immigrants. These sentiments are belied, however, by the fact that Democratic President Barack Obama, the “deporter-in-chief”, and his then secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, presided over the coup that devastated Honduras, driving its people in desperation to flee the country despite the threats of death, persecution and being thrown into a US concentration camp. After Zelaya’s overthrow, kidnapping and expulsion from the country, the Obama administration sought to preserve a veneer of commitment to “democracy” in Latin America—and deniability for its military, intelligence and diplomatic operatives—by publicly deploring the ouster of Zelaya. Clinton, however, pointedly refused to describe the military’s seizure and deportation of an elected president as a “coup,” a designation that under the US Foreign Assistance Act, would have required the Obama administration to cut off aid and ties to the coup regime. The administration likewise failed to demand Zelaya’s reinstatement. Given that the US accounted for 70 percent of Honduran export earnings and provided the guns and aid upon which the country’s military depended, it had unquestioned power to force a reversal of the coup. Its formal reservations notwithstanding, however, it was soon revealed that top US officials had been in discussions with the military commanders and right-wing politicians who organized the coup shortly before Zelaya’s overthrow. A conservative and wealthy bourgeois politician of the Honduran Liberal Party, which regularly alternated power with the equally right-wing National Party under US and military-dominated regimes, Zelaya earned Washington’s enmity by becoming swept up by Latin America’s so-called “Pink Tide”. This collection of bourgeois nationalist governments was able, thanks to the commodity boom and the rise of China’s economic influence in the region, to adopt a posture of populism and independence from US imperialism. For Zelaya, the clear attraction was cheap Venezuelan oil and loans. However, US imperialism, which had sought seven years earlier to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a civilian-military coup, was determined to eliminate a government aligned with Venezuela and Cuba in Honduras.

[calleochonewscom]

Enfrentamiento de CAFTA: Hondureños se mantienen firmes contra el neocolonialismo corporativo

[terragustavo]

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Dirty Dishes

Bucky x F!Reader (CATWS/CACW time periods)

You and Bucky share an apartment in Bucharest. Some nights are fine, others are tough. Nights with storms are especially tough.

WARNINGS: Angst, Bucky having flashbacks, panic/anxiety attacks

18+ Impressions On the Inside of Your Thigh

Beefy!Cowboy!Bucky Barnes x F!RanchHand!Reader

Head Ranch Hand James "Bucky" Barnes has had a very, very long day. Only way to remedy it is to make you squeal.

WARNINGS: grinding, pet names/name-calling, making out, dirty talk, oral sex (f!receiving)

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18+ FOXHUNT

WS!Beefy!Bucky Barnes x F!Avenger!Reader

Not only has HYDRA successfully executed their infiltration on S.H.I.E.L.D., but they have also reclaimed their finest weapon. Your safety isn't the only thing that's compromised.

WARNINGS: being hunted, implied non-con elements, violence, cursing, blood, bruising, beating, passing out, forced nudity

18+ Chains Around My Feet

Bucky Barnes x F!Reader; established relationship/friendship and most of work is told out of Reader's POV.

Being held captive and experimented on definitely wasn't in your job description. After what seems like months in HYDRA captivity, rescue finally arrives– but what is rescue if not relief from the suffering?

PLEASE SEE POST FOR FULL LIST OF WARNINGS major warnings: graphics horror elements, blood + gore, whump, hurt and absolutely ZERO comfort, major character betrayal, major character death, DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT

18+ FILTHY, IMPETUOUS SOULS

parings: Protective!Avenger!Bucky Barnes x Sniper!Agent!Curvy!F!Reader

After what you assumed would be a successful mission, things veer off-course and you're stuck with Bucky Barnes in Istanbul with no way out until morning. The tension between you comes to head and nothing will be the same again.

warnings: enemies to lovers, angst, canon-level violence with just a bit more blood, guns, reader is a sniper/sharp-shooter, hate-making out, degradation, fighting, insults and cursing, teasing/banter, reader and bucky don't know how to talk about their feelings (or to eachother), spanking, doggy, angry-horny, rough-ish sex, pent up anger, pent up sexual tension, power dynamics, protective!Bucky, vague hinting to Bucky's PTSD, no use of y/n, reader is tagged as curvy and is described as such but body description is kept to a minimum

Honeysuckle

Bucky x F!Reader

The adventures of one James "Bucky" Barnes and our reader, Honeysuckle, mixed with a lot of mutual pining, with some help from Sam 'Wingman' Wilson. No real story line, just a mix of one shots that might end up loosely connected one day.

WARNINGS: mutual pining, requited love, idiots in love, slow burn, tooth-rotting fluff, maybe a little angst, established friendship, yes this takes place in the Tower

This House Had Swing In It - Coming Soon/Being Rewritten

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If You Go, I Go

CAFTA!Closeted!Pre-Serum!Steve x CAFTA!Closeted!Sergeant!Bucky Barnes

It's Bucky's last night before deployment. The evening does not go the way Steve, nor Bucky, thought it would.

WARNINGS: angst, loneliness, pining, closeted feelings, messing with canon

Dancing in the Kitchen

slightly possessive!Best Friend!Steve Rogers x Best Friend!F!Reader

Tony dumps you. Steve picks you up and puts you back together again.

WARNINGS: fluff and angst, insecurities, verbal abuse and insults/language, VERY SLIGHT possessiveness, emotions™

18+ ALL TIED UP (IN A BIG RED BOW)

Art Student!Frat Brother!Steve Rogers x Film Student!Sorority Sister!Reader

Inexperienced and still freshly-traumatized by his first heartbreak, Steve Rogers decides to finally move away for college after taking two gap years to work, save, and help his Ma around the house. It’ll be good for him. Away from his ex. Away from his hometown. He's excited to finally chase his dreams and begin again as a promising fine arts student at Richards College. Well, almost. Thanks to a generous scholarship spanning the next four years of his life, Steve is required to participate in on-campus Greek life. It’s simple: join a frat. They shouldn't be too intimidating. At least they're not as bad as they are in the movies, right? Right..?

general series warnings: frat bros being frat bros, sorority sisters being sorority sisters, manipulation, coercion, blackmail, fluff, angst, whump, explicit forced s3xual acts, slow burn, dissociation, nud1ty, dubcon (bordering noncon), forced drvgging, mentions of kidnapping, emotional damage, Steve's just trying his best, Bucky and Sam are major frat bros, Tony and Clint are somewhere I swear

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The Weight

Modern!Avengers!Stucky

Steve betrays Bucky in the worst way possible.

WARNINGS: angst, cheating, emotional damage/hurt, no comfort, swearing, mentions/desc. of vomiting

Coming Soon

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[imposterogers]

something that makes me scream is that steve didn’t know bucky had gotten his orders and was leaving the next day. he’d gone to the film, saved bucky a spot (if you notice there’s an empty spot next to him in the theater), and gotten in a fight. bucky knew to find him in the alleyway behind the theater, bc he was supposed to meet him there. steve is taken aback when he sees bucky’s uniform. when he hears he’s been assigned to the 107th (the same infantry steve’s father died serving for). this isn’t jealousy -- this is fear. bc bucky is really leaving for the warfront, and steve is stuck in nyc. all bucky wanted for his last night was steve by his side, but the only thing steve wanted was to find a way to go with him. 

[stucky-headcanon-bot]

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[queen-of-the-avengers]

CAFTA: Final Part

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Female!Reader

Word Count: ~2.2k

Warnings: canon violence, and angst

Author’s Note: any and all comments are appreciated <3

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"Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait," Schmidt says as he comes from out of the shadows, "but I must say you do it better than anyone. However, there are limits to what even you can do, Captain. You may have all the powers, Y/N, but they do not compare to what I have in store for the world. Or did Erskine tell you two otherwise?"

"He told me you were insane."

"Ah. He resented my genius and tried to deny me what was rightfully mine, but he gave you everything. So, what made you so special?"

"Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn," Steve answers.

Schdmit gets angry and punches Steve twice in the jaw, and you yell out for him to stop hurting your friend.

"Don't fucking touch him you piece of shit!"

Schmidt turns to you and grabs your jaw so hard that it starts to leave bruises where his fingers are.

"The power you hold. The things you can do. You'd make a valuable pet, won't you?"

"Go to hell," you spit in his face. He backhands you, sending you crashing into the two guards who are holding you. "We can do this all day."

"I'm sure you could. Unfortunately, I am on a tight schedule."

Schmidt takes out his weapon and points it at Steve's face, but the Captain isn't worried about it. There is a huge window that overlooks the snowy mountains, and Schmidt notices four men o ziplines racing towards the glass.

"So are we."

Schmidt tries to shoot Steve, but he grabs one of his guards and places him in front of himself. The shot disentigrates the guards right as your team busts through the windows. Schmidt takes this moment to escape while your team starts shooting at Hydra. Your team can handle the soldiers while you and Steve search the place for Schmidt.

Peggy, Colonel Phillips, and the rest of the 107th are on stand by, and as soon as they get the word, they all start to move in.

Schmidt is located in one of the tunnels leading further into the base, and Steve rears his hand back that's holding the shield. He swings it so that the shield bounces off the wall and sticks in between the doors that Schmidt escapes through, stopping the doors from completely closing.

You and Steve run toward it but get stopped by a man with flamethrowers. There is a door next to you that you hide behind so that the flames aren't touching you.

"Now can I play?" you ask.

"Give 'em hell."

The man stops using his weapon to see if you're going to come out, and you do. You stand in the middle of the hallway just as he uses his flamethrower on you, but instead of dying like he hopes you would, you absorb all that fire to give you more power. The flamethrower stops but your body is still on fire. You extinguish the flames from toe to head, and you cough to let out the smoke you breathed in.

"My turn," you growl.

You thrust your hands out in front of you and a wall of fire forms between you and the guard. The wall of fire shapes and molds to the hallways dimensions so that the guard has nowhere else to run for safety. You heat the flames ten times hotter than what a human can withstand. When you take a step forward, the wall of fire moves further from you. The guard tries to use his flamethrower but he can't fight fire with fire. The fire is going to kill him whether or not he wants it too. You push the wall of fire down the entire length of the hallway, allowing it to burn the guard's body from the outside in.

By the time the flames die out, he's a charred body on the floor.

"Damn, you didn't have to go so hard," Steve says.

"You said 'give 'em hell', so I did. Let's go."

Steve yanks his shield from between the two doors which close once you two pass through it. Schmidt is already getting on the plane to escape that's at the beginning of a runway. If you don't get on this plane before it takes off, you're not getting on it at all. Soldiers from both sides are fighting everywhere, but you have a way to bypass them all.

"Get ready to fly, Steve."

You grab his upper arms and lift him in the air with your areokinesis. The plane is already taking off but you're faster. You fly with Steve down the runway to catch up to the plane. It has big blades swirling on the back of it that you have to watch out for. One mistake can cost you or Steve's lives.

Schmidt starts to take off just as you landed on the landing tires. They have not yet been pulled back into the plane, giving you the only access available to get Schmidt. You look back at the runway to see Peggy and the Colonel inside a car just watching you take off. She has such a worried look on her face because she cares so much about Steve.

After this, you're going to buy their hotel room.

Once inside the plane, you see bombs with different state names written on the side of them. This Red Skull is going to send bombs to different parts of your country if you don't stop him.

"He's going to kill a lot of people," you whisper.

"Come on."

There isn't a single guard on board which is kind of stupid on Schmidt's part. If he thinks he can outwit both you and Steve, then he's got another thing coming for him. You two make your way into the cockpit where Schmidt is supposed to be. He's not sitting at the control desk so he must be around here somewhere.

"You two just don't give up, do you?"

You turn and see Schdmit holding one of the Tesseract weapons which he fires upon you. Steve uses his shield to protect the both of you so you won't get hit. You send a gust of wind at Schmidt, casing the gun to be knocked out of his hands. 

That gives Steve a fighting chance against him.

"Nope!"

Steve can handle Schmidt all on his own, but if you had the weapon he made from the Tesseract, you can end this whole thing. The weapon is off tot he side just begging someone to use it. As they fight, you manuver around them to get the gun. Schmidt sees what you're doing, so before you can get to the gun, he grabs you and throws you over to the control panel. Your weight causes the panel to be broken in some spots, allowing for auto pilot to be taken off.

The plane goes down but everyone else goes up. There isn't gravity whe you're free falling, which Steve can use to his advantage. You have your air powers to help you stay in one place but Schmidt and Steve don't have that ability. The plane is going to crash if you don't do somethign about it. You have to level her out.

There are a bunch of buttons on the control panel that still work, and thankfully, the auto pilot just needs to be flipped to the "on" position. Steve and Schmidt come crashing down to the ground loudly.

"You could have the power of the Gods! Yet you wear a flag on your chest and think you fight a battle of nations! I have seen the future, Captain! There are no flags!" Schmidt yells.

"Not in my future!"

Steve grabs his shield and throws it at Schmidt, sending him crashing into the middel console. Whatever is inside of it pops out, and you stand there in complete shock from seeing the Tesseract face to face after so many centuries. This thing will give you answers about who you truly are and what power you possess. If you can get it from him, you can start running tests on it.

"The Tesseract," you whisper.

Last you heard it was back on Asgard, so you don't know how it got on Earth to begin with.

"What have you done? No!" Schmidt gasps.

He picks the cube up to study it but the cube has had enough of his constant abuse. Energy starts to pour out of the cube before shooting straight up to the cieling. The Space Stone can be sued a portal to wherever the user wants it to go. Schmidt had no idea of the power it truly possessed, so he doesn't know where he wants to go.

The Tesseract chooses for him, and it creates a portal to somewhere in space. This is what you can do. The Tesseract allows you to create portals to wherever you want to go. You can't do the other side of space, you can't go anywhere you haven't seen before, and you can only make a portal for things a certain distance away from you. You've jumped a few planets at a time, but you've never tried for more than that.

The Tesseract's energy envelopes Schmidt as it transports him somewhere in the universe. You're not sure where, but at elast you'll be rid of him. The cube falls to the ground once Schmidt is gone, but it's so hot that it burns right through the metal of the plane.

"No!"

You try to grab the Tesseract, but it falls through the hole it burned and down to Earth. You could go after it, but Steve needs you right now. He rushes to the control panel to try and find a place to land this plane, but he doesn't know how to fly a plane any more than you do. Schmidt made it so that the plane won't stop until it reaches it's destination--New York.

The only way to land the plane is to crash it.

Steve finds the line of communication in hopes someone out there might hear is distress signal.

"Come in. This is Captain Rogers. Do you read me?"

"Steve, is that you? Are you alright?" Peggy asks from the other side.

"Peggy! Schmidt is gone!" you yell to her.

"What about the plane?"

"That's a little bit tougher to explain."

"Give me your coordinates I'll find you a safe landing site."

"There's not going to be a safe landing, but I can try and force it down," Steve replies.

"I can get us out of here, Steve. I can fly us to safety."

"But then thousands of people will die. We have to land it somehow."

"I'll get Howard on the line he'll know what to do," Peggy says.

"There's not enough time. This thing's moving too fast, and it's heading for New York. I gotta put her in the water."

"Please, don't do this. We have time. We can work it out," she begs.

"Peggy, right now we're in the middle of nowhere. If we wait any longer, a lot of people are gonna die. Peggy, this is our choice," you say as Steve begins the decent into the waters below.

"Peggy?"

"I'm here."

"I'm gonna need a rain check on that dance."

"Alright. A week, next Saturday, at the Stork Club," she says. Even though you can't see her, you know she's crying. "Eight o'clock on the dot. Don't you dare be late. Understood?"

"You know, I still don't know how to dance," he chuckles nervously.

"I'll show you how. Just be there."

"We'll have the band play something slow. I'd hate to step on your—" 

The plane crashes into the ice below, cutting off all contact between you two and Peggy.The plane was too fast to hit the water so it hit the ice instead. Both you and Steve are thrown from your places at the front to somewhere else. The back of the plane is ripped off on impact, and you're ejected from the wreckage.

You hit the icy cold waters with a gasp while Steve sinks into the ice below. Everything is so peaceful below the surface of the water. You could be here forever just to escape your life. No one would ever know where you are.

No, you can't do that to Steve.

You gasp awake and allow your air powers to create a pocket around your head so you can breathe underwater. You breach the surface in the middle of the wreckage with no sign of Steve anywhere.

"Steve!" you yell and haul yourself out of the water.

Your pyrokinesis allows you to stay warm so you don't get hypothermia--not that you could if you tried.

"Steve!" you yell again.

Steve is either in pieces, dead, or just missing. He could have sunk deep into the water which would take weeks or months to try and find him. He could have gotten stuck in the ice, but if you were to melt all the ice, then you'd create tsunamis across the world from the rising sea levels.

First Bucky and now Steve. When is this heartbreak going to end? No one is around to hear you scream, but you let out the most heartbreaking wail for your best friend and the love of your life. Earth was supposed to be a new start for you, and for the first nine hundred years, it was.

Now, it's a painful reminder of what you've lost.

Peggy, the rest of your team, Colonel Phillips, Howard Stark, and everyone else thinks you and Steve are dead. You can leave Earth without worrying them because they don't know to go look for you. Searchers will make their way eventually, but who knows in what year they'll find this wreckage.

You need to leave Earth now. It's taken so much from you, and it's time to find a new planet to call home.

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[calleochonewscom]

Honduran communities stand tall against corporate neocolonialism amidst CAFTA showdown

[hannaxjo]

I just realized that there is this funny theme in all the Captain America movies when it comes to his love interest. All these movies have like the "love interest", towards whom the movie kinda nudges the viewer.

In CATFA it's obviously Peggy. Pretty much from the beginning you can guess that she's supposed to be Steve's love interest. The conversation in the car about how no one ever really has had an interest in Steve, the flirting in the bar about the "right partner" and off course the kiss right before Steve gets off the car.

In CATWS its Natasha. There is the use of multiple traditional romance tropes. Nat trying to set Steve up with other people, Steve not wanting to go on dates with said other people, fake dating and off course, the kiss in the escalator.

In CACW it's Sharon. There's the tension between them from the previous movie, them mourning Peggy and the discussion after the funeral, her helping them nonetheless, and off course, once again, the kiss.

So each of these movies have "the love interest", but there's one common theme with them. None of them end up together at the end of the film. In CAFTA Peggy stays in the past while Steve ends up in the future (where Bucky is). In CATWS Steve wishes for Natasha to be a friend to him, and we find out that he wants someone he has "shared life experience" with. (Not soon after we find out Bucky is alive, and he becomes Steve's main focus, with whom he shares the "big emotional moment" of the movie). In CACW Steve and Sharon don't even really interact after the kiss. And the whole plot is once again taken over by other things. (And the main relationship we focus on is the one between Steve and Bucky, as Steve chooses Bucky over Tony).

What was my point with this...well there's really no point. I just find this interesting. You're free to draw your own conclusions, i just wanted to voice my thoughts.

[frogyourbog]

i saw someone talking about how steve acted like a child in cacw because tony proposed government interference and steve just stormed off and i’ve hit a weird intersection of being able to have Thoughts about this because I’ve been reading the 2006 civil war comic run, and I just finished a cafta rewatch but Steve didn’t oppose the Sokovia Accords because he wanted to stomp around and refuse to listen Just Because he opposed the Sokovia Accords because the proposal was that they wouldn’t be able to involve themselves in anything not approved by the government. steve knew what it was like to have the ability to help people and not be able to bc of the government THATS why he doesn’t support it and he knew there would be a time in which people needed help and the government wouldn’t let them help because of political or infrastructure reasons. Steve isn’t just a child trying to make people mad he’s got a reason to do what he’s doing

[imposterogers]

something the first avenger did so well was show the nuances of friendship between steve and bucky and actually let them have more than two lines back in forth. they were best friends for twenty years. twenty years! they loved each other, they pissed each other off, they knew each other inside and out. a perfect example of this is their argument when steve tries to enlist; 

bucky: you're really going to do this again?

steve: well, it's a fair. I'm gonna try my luck.

bucky: as who, steve from ohio? they'll catch you. or worse, they'll actually take you.

steve: look, I know you don't think I can do this.

bucky: this isn't a back alley, steve. It's war.

steve: I know it's a war.

bucky: why are you so keen to fight? there are so many important jobs.

steve: what do you want me to do? collect scrap metal in my little red wagon?

bucky: yes. why not?

steve: I'm not gonna sit in a factory, bucky. come on. there are men laying down their lives. I got no right to do any less than them. that's what you don't understand. this isn't about me.

bucky: right. 'cause you got nothing to prove.

truly one of my favorite convos between them bc it displays not only their closeness but the subtext of their relationship. bucky’s worst fear is that steve will end up on the warfront. steve is scared. because bucky is leaving him, and pretty soon it won’t just be “men” laying down their lives. it might be bucky. steve also thinks that bucky doubts him, like everyone else does. bucky ‘right cause you have nothing to prove’ bc he knows steve feels lesser, and that people don’t see his worth (but bucky always did).