#definitely-not-captain-america

[definitely-not-captain-america]

I'ma say this, especially in lieu of season 3.

One of my favorite things about the Umbrella Academy is what a perfect example they are of a wildly dysfunctional family. Every single one of them is fucked up. They're all dumb, they're self-absorbed, they're assholes, and they still love each other.

I think that hating any one sibling is the wrong way to do it. Some of them have done terrible things that I hate or disagree with. There's no need to excuse them for their behavior, and at the same time, there's so much more to people and life/our minds are just not simple.

Was it okay for Allison to behave how she did for the majority of season 3? No. At the same time, she's grieving. She lost her daughter and her husband, two people she deeply loved and was very committed to. She had relationships with them that the other siblings didn't really get to form with other people (Viktor and Sissy had very different circumstances, Diego and Patch had different circumstances), and people talk about how no one acknowledged Klaus's struggles, or Five's sacrifices, but no one does that for Allison either.

I actually kind of liked how they portrayed her grief. It's not just crying in sweats and an oversized jumper and drinking a mug of tea. Sometimes it's angry, and making really bad decisions, and taking it out on everyone around you. Grief can do terrible things to people, it clouds our judgment more than anything, and while it doesn't make their actions okay, I think we need to give people more space when they grieve. It's a complicated situation and we can't act like it's simple or easy.

Anyway, I'm still team Allison, just like I'm team Everyone Else. I hope she is able to heal and get what she wants and needs in life, and I hope the same for the rest of them. (Ngl, at the end of season 3, I thought she died to save her siblings, and she was in her version of heaven, which ofc would've had Claire and Ray. That's why I thought she wasn't with her siblings. I don't think she was being selfish either, but again, I don't really know what happened, my working theory is still that she died.)

[miss-americanbi]

nobody haunts the others’ narrative quite like steve and bucky do to each other

[dameronology]

marvel men + love languages

steve rogers - physical touch + words of affi

the sacred combo!! steve is a clingy mf - either always having his arms wrapped around his s.o, a hand on their leg or on their waist, and if he's not with them, he'll be texting you all day, asking how you are and just chatting. steve has had to learn to live every day like it's his last, so he'll never go to work, bed, or even to the shops, without telling you he loves you. it's just part of his routine, really.

bucky barnes - acts of service

bucky is not very good with words, or with expressing himself. even before hydra, it was something he struggled with. so, acts of service are his main love language. it can be little things - making coffee in the morning, putting the laundry away when he knows you're busy - or bigger things, like taking your car into the shop when you forget, or building new furniture, or shaking down your weird co-worker who was kinda mean the other day. he finds so much purpose in just making your life easier (in a healthy way!!).

sam wilson - quality time

sam is a man of quality time. he has to work away quite a lot and is always on the go with work and his tasks, but when he does see you - and he makes sure it's a fair amount - he tries to make it count. hell, it doesn't even matter what you do, as long as he's with you. sam does try to make sure you're always having a good balance of chill time and fun activities though, so he always plans the best day.

frank castle - words of affirmation + gifts

aight this might seem weird bc frank is not very good with words (try and make him form a sentence without a swear word or abbreviation, i dare you) but the ones he does say, he always means. especially when he says that he loves you and would probably kill for you. but, it's frank's famously bad way with words that make you realise how much he loves you - because you're the only person he will verbally open up to and be a complete and open book with. as for gifts, every single one he has ever bought you has been the most thoughtful, sweet things; stuff you wouldn't even think to buy yourself. it's just a testament for how well he knows you.

matt murdock - physical touch

this one feels fairly obvious tbh, because alongside his hearing, matt's touch is his the sense he relies on most. he loves your voice and the way you sound but most of all, he loves the way you feel. whether it's the feeling of your skin against his, your fingers all tangled up, or when you kiss him, he just fucking loves it. physical touch is matt's favourite way of knowing you.

[bietrofastimoff23]

The tabloids been real quiet ever since the news dropped about John Walker’s boyfriend, Sentry.

[instupendousskylie]

SAM WILSON AND BUCKY BARNES ARE GAY AND IN LOVE AND MARRIED.

[risrambles]

sambucky go to a fair and for two whole hours bucky is destroying sam in every single dart throwing, water gun shooting, and aim-centric game while sam slowly goes more and more insane and even calls joaquin in for back up, but they’re no match for bucky barnes and his ww2 sniper AND winter soldier assassin aura

[pastelwizardart]

Drawing of Captain America holding a puppy ♥️

[mentalmeles]

Y’kno, for all of CA:CW’s faults, at least it never treated Bucky’s left arm as a joke.

When Bucky loses his arm in this film, it isn’t because he suddenly forgets how to move away from an opponent that’s suddenly in his space and touching him (TFATWS) or he throws some clearly ineffective punches at an enemy and, for whatever reason, doesn’t think to change his strategy (Thunderbolts), but because he got blasted by Tony Stark’s arc reactor point blank after using an incredible feat of strength to try and stop him. And when his arm is blown off? It’s treated with the appropriate amount of shock and horror. It frames it as a terrifying moment for Bucky and makes him feel incredibly sympathetic. He just lost a part of him in an extremely brutal fashion in the fraction of a second. It wasn’t something he could’ve predicted or easily avoided (unlike future instances where he loses his arm…again 🙄).

But now? Now his arm is used as the butt of stupid jokes. Rocket wants to buy it. Nebula STEALS IT off screen to use it as a Christmas gift. Bucky spills some sauce on it and the only way to wash it is by running it through the dishwasher. He now has to lose it at least one ☝️ time in every new thing he’s in like it’s some quota that has to be filled. Like. The MCU writers seriously can’t think of anything involving Bucky’s arm that doesn’t take away his dignity as a disabled person while also showcasing him as the strong, competent fighter he is?

Literally the only genuinely funny thing involving his arm is when he threw a punch at Peter, leading to the latter catching it and immediately exclaiming how cool it is. And that happened in Civil War!

I don’t know. Civil War definitely could’ve been a much better film, but at least it got that part right.

[ad-astra-per-aspera-1389]

"You're Captain America? ... It's just... you're an asshole"

Now I'm thinking about 16-17 Bob learning about Steve's Captain America in high school, and looking up to him once he was out of the ice, knowing he'd never be like him. Bob was going through a very rough patch of his life when the shield was switching hands...do you think he even knew about Sam becoming Captain America before Bucky told him? Bc I think Bob would accept Sam as Cap much more quickly, since Sam is a good person, just like Steve was.

[atlas-on-earth]

just rewatched avengers endgame with my mother and i cried because of steve's ending (not in the way the writers intended) and my mother just looked at me with knowing in her eyes bc she knew i'd go nuclear. now in our house we call him the bad writing boogeyman.

[winterrreynolds]

you’re lying to yourself if you dont believe they were endgame. steve would’ve stayed if natasha was alive and i stand by that xoxo

[definitely-not-captain-america]

The Magnus Archives entities in tarotesque style from TMA wiki. Part 3/3.

Artist unknown. Please message me if you know the artist so I can give credit.

[emdashbitch]

Bucky "described as academically gifted, reads obscure for the time nerd books, gadgets gadgets gadgets gadgets, is always shown seamlessly using the latest tech and plays into his therapist's perception of him being from the 40s by giving her a flip phone instead of his actual phone so he doesn't have to share his private life with her, literally a cyborg and is deeply socially confused by the modern era" Barnes: I want to spend my last night before the war at NERD CON and forget my date exists, omg look Steve the car flew!!

Steve "described as a strategic genius yet punched a monitor screen thinking it would stop an AI, cares that the tech works so he can break it/crash it/cause anarchy with it, 'it appears to run on some kind of electricity', practicality is the goal unless it's fun to be Extra, famously uses the same weapon he used in the 40s, and collects friends like Pokémon everywhere he goes in the modern era" Rogers seeing a flying car: ...huh yeah that's real cool Buck. anyway, I'm gotta go break the law for the sixth time brb

[definitely-not-captain-america]

We had a tomcat that belonged to my neighbor just down the street who roamed around and hung out in other people's yards. He was a big fluffy orange cat named Tiny, and he was friendly and well-socialized, and he liked to rest in our front yard.

We had a coffee table right under the window overlooking our front yard with a cat bed, and our 12 year old cat named Kamoon loved that window and would sit and stare out of it for hours. He was a fancy show cat that my grandma got to keep her original fancy show cat company, so we often joked that when we got Kamoon, we acted as his retirement. If he was walking down the hall and someone was walking towards him, he'd go back the way he came from. Indoor cat through and through, and not real tough.

Then one day Tiny was in our front yard, and Kamoon was incensed. He was a calm cat, never hissed or anything, but he was growling and pacing and thrashing his tail at the window as Tiny rolled around in the grass. My dad opened the front door to shoo Tiny out, and Kamoon, who my dad dubbed the Cowardly Lion, bolted out of the front door and chased Tiny down to the edge of the yard.

Now, Kamoon was a big cat. If he stood on his hind legs, he could see clear over the table and his chest could reach it. Our basement had a low ceiling (about six and a half feet) with large vents, and Kamoon would jump from the ground to the vents and hang out up there. He was big, but he wasn't intimidating. He had tiny little paws and a judgmental stare, but that was it.

Until Kamoon chased Tiny to the edge of the yard. He stood all tall, tilted his head the way cats do when they're being menacing, and he puffed out his fur to look bigger. Tiny cowered and eventually slinked away, and Kamoon came back, did a victory roll in the dirt, and received his fifteen minutes of fame from my family, as well as his new title, Defender of the Realm. Of course, Tiny came back after that, but each time he did we let Kamoon out, and Tiny would slink away again.

Then one night I had a very vivid dream that Tiny was gathering with the other stray cats in the area to stage a coup to overthrow Kamoon. We'd see them meeting in the alley right by our house, and different cats would sit across the street, just watching. One day they surrounded the house, and we tried to chase them off, but some ran inside to usurp the Defender of the Realm.

A few days after that dream, my brother told me he saw Tiny sitting with some other cat outside in the alley by our house, and they kept looking at the window where Kamoon was, watchful as ever. It never came to an official siege of any kind - likely the neighborhood cats were too intimidated by Kamoon to ever attempt such a dangerous feat - and Kamoon remains Defender of the Realm to this day.

Y'know I think of myself as a person with an adequate social life but I just realised that somebody with an adequate social life would not be nearly as invested as I am in the ongoing soap opera drama of my neighbourhood's outdoor cats

[bangchansrose]

you know what? fuck trying to avoid thunderbolts* spoilers because i am NOT going to wait to defend sam wilson (or anthony mackie) while people drag him for some bullshit reasons

[imomnba-x07]

Ridiculous to me that years after the show I’m still forced to argue with Bucky Stans about treating Sam like an actual human instead of just a trauma therapist I’m loosing my goddamn mind. Some of yall need some serious reevaluation about how you understand the underlying principles of mental illness and how unjustified trauma does not excuse unjustifiable behavior. ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BUCKY PUTTING BLAME ON SAM. Bucky even recognized his wrong doing and apologized so why are some people still trying to make excuses for the guy when even he wasn’t excusing his own behavior???? What are we doing??? Why are we still having to have the same conversations over and over again???