#iw chars

[majimasleftasscheek]

I still don't know what's less believeable: that THAT GUY survived his game to bartend in IW, that Kiryu met him afterwards, or that Kiryu BEFRIENDED him afterwards.

honestly all are so equal klsdfkjlsdfklfd

LIKE for me I think the least believable is survived cuz a certain other someone didn't so it's like -squint- how come he got out fine lmao

kiryu meeting him is pretty on brand since the side plots are just about meeting old peeps constantly and befriending him also on point since kiryu forgives like everyone and their brother if they show even an inkling of remorse or change or he like always tries to find the good in someone etc etc

[overdevelopedglasses]

Sunday six time yayyyyy! and... I actually have RGG stuff to share??? what is this???? I cooked for a second and I think I *finally* have the missing piece for a fic that's been in my WIP document for so long. Maybe I can edit it soon? Perhaps?

Anyway I got tagged by @four-white-trees @jichanxo and @phantasy14. Tagging the usual @mike----wazowski @passthroughtime @woundedheartwithin @fire-tempers-steel @skysquid22

“There’s this person… I’ve known them for a long time. You see, I’ve only just realized how important they are to me,” he fidgets with a bracelet on his right hand, “I’m not sure if it’s love. Fuck, I’m not sure what it is. But, I know I can’t have a future without them. I have to abandon this way of life for that future to even exist. It’s hard, and I’m risking my life to do so, but I know I can do it, because I know what my purpose is now.”

He looks up at Yagami, and Yagami sees a hidden determination within them.

“All I want to do is protect them.”

Yagami looks over his shoulder, and sees Kaito smile at Shinumi. A warm feeling envelops him as he darts his eyes to the ground.

“I think I understand,” he says in a low voice.

[full---ofstarlight]

more isadora if u even care <3

[ai-dump]

abandoned staircases beautiful staircase designs by robert davis, in the style of baroque chiaroscuro drama, canon eos 5d mark iv, national geographic photo, backlight, burned/charred, uhd image, intricate art nouveau --ar 2:3 --v 5 --iw 1 --ar 4:5 --s 500 --c 20

[pythonprogrammingsnippets]

python perlin noise procedurally generated roguelike infinite world game with a simple player class

import numpy as np import noise def perlin_noise_2d_to_np_array(x, y, range_w, range_h, scale, seed): noise_data = np.zeros((range_h, range_w)) for h in range(range_h): for w in range(range_w): nx = x + w ny = y + h noise_data[h][w] = noise.pnoise2( x=nx / scale, y=ny / scale,base=seed,octaves=8,lacunarity=0.1 )+.5 return noise_data def get_ascii_char(value, maxvalue=255, chars=""): if chars == "": chars = " .,-~:;iW#$8@" # we're bringin our own set return chars[int(value / (maxvalue / (len(chars) - 1)))] def display_2d_map_str(map2d): the_str = '' for h in map2d: for w in h: if(w>1): w=1 if(w<0): w=0 the_str += get_ascii_char(w*100,100) #print(w) the_str += "\r\n" return the_str print("BEGIN - EXAMPLE") class cPlayer: def __init__(self,xx=0,yy=0,sscale=4,sseed=123): self.x = xx self.y = yy self.scale = sscale self.seed = sseed self.view_w = 60 self.view_h = 30 self.offset_x = 0 # find where our character is on the view self.offset_y = 0 self.the_map = None self.last_move = '' def get_map(self): o_x = (self.view_w/2) o_y = (self.view_h/2) self.offset_x = o_x self.offset_y = o_y n2d = perlin_noise_2d_to_np_array( self.x - (o_x), self.y - (o_y), self.view_w, self.view_h, self.scale, self.seed) return n2d def viewport_str(self,w=40,h=20): self.the_map = self.get_map() the_str = self.display_2d_map_str(self.the_map) return the_str def view(self): print(self.viewport_str(self.view_w,self.view_h)) pass def move(self, the_dir=''): if the_dir == '~': # repeat the_dir = self.last_move if the_dir == 'u': self.y -= 1 elif the_dir == 'd': self.y += 1 elif the_dir == 'l': self.x -= 1 elif the_dir == 'r': self.x += 1 self.last_move = the_dir def rescale(self, the_dir=''): if the_dir == '+': self.scale += 1 elif the_dir == '-': self.scale -= 1 def display_2d_map_str(self,map2d): the_str = '' hh=0 for h in map2d: ww=0 for w in h: if(w>1): w=1 if(w<0): w=0 if ww == self.offset_x and hh == self.offset_y: the_str += "P" # place player on the middle else: the_str += get_ascii_char(w*100,100) ww += 1 the_str += "\r\n" hh+=1 return the_str player = cPlayer(xx=2323213,yy=23,sscale=5,sseed=123) ch='' while ch != "q": player.view() ch = input("dir (press enter after) [w,a,s,d or +,- or q]:") ch = ch.lower() # any case will do if ch != '': ch = ch[0] # just take the first character print((ch)) if(ch == ""): player.move("~") # repeat last move if(ch == 'w'): # go up player.move('u') #yy -= 1 elif(ch == 'a'): # go left player.move('l') #xx -= 1 elif(ch == 'd'): # go right player.move('r') #xx+=1 elif(ch == 's'): # go down player.move('d') #yy+=1 elif(ch=='+'): # zoom in player.rescale('+') elif(ch=='-'): # zoom out player.rescale('-')

[superzeroic]

Infinity War Characters ▶ Bruce Banner

[bericas]

today i drove through the suburbs and pictured i was driving home to you.

[radiantbeams]

my friends, who have seen a collective total of FOUR marvel movies, want to go see endgame on tuesday and like... theyre gonna be so LOST

[mlmstarfleet-blog]

The real progress made this year was me accepting that sometimes u just gotta fall in love with fictional men n put all ur emotional stability into their state of existence

[iamnesta]

Happy Galentine’s Day, Amy!!!

@brkln-99​, I hope you’re having an amazing day and that you are stress-free and surrounded by people you love. I only recently started following you, but your blog is literally goals. Since I know you like Marvel and B99, I made you a video edit of the Infinity War trailer but with clips from Brooklyn Nine Nine. I really hope you like it !! even tho i suck at making videos

I’m sending good vibes your way 💜💜

special thank you to @protectpeter and @keerys-joe for organizing the whole galentine’s thing!! thank you!! 

[treatmcnt-blog]

         ‘ allllriiiight. ’ brooks claps once and settles down into his chair at the break in the half circle. it had taken him a while to get the chairs where he wanted them, so he was pleased when it was finally finished ... he hated to keep the group waiting. the room was big and they were in the far right corner by the window. there wasn’t much to see outside but it would be easy for someone to focus on something out there if they needed to. ‘ so, um. well -- first, thanks for this, ’ he gestures towards the group ... they were all staying in one spot and he hadn’t seen��any eye rolls yet ... so this was progress. ‘ for this exercise i’m thinking less guided imagery and more semi ... ‘guided ... but not really because i want you to be doing the talking’ visualization. ’ 

         ruth - barely - looks up from the papers she’d been scribbling on and uncrosses her legs so she’s able to lean forward slightly, ‘ i’m not shutting my eyes ... i don’t do that. i’ve got things going on ... so, i’d like to go sometime in the middle and i’ll just - ’ she waves a hand in front of her face, red pen woven in between long fingers, ‘ let my eyes glaze over and we’ll do it that way ... sound good, sweetheart? ’ she smiles at brooks but then turns to wink at ryan ... inspired by her feistiness. 

         dottie was seated in front of her chair with one knee pulled up to her chest, the other leg resting on the ground. occasionally, she’d reach forward and pick at the leg cap on dylan’s chair, but for the most part she was able to stay still. she doesn’t protest ... she won’t care until people actually start talking. she already had her eyes shut tight ... not exactly relaxed ... but she’d get there. 

        ‘ okay, so - uh ... shut your eyes or don’t ... but not too tight ... you don’t want to pop a blood vessel ... hah ... ’ he shakes his head and shuts his own eyes, ‘ deep breath in ... deep breath out. imagine yourself in a comfortable safe space ... there’s a screen in front of you counting down from ten ... nine ... you’ve been given the opportunity to observe your future self five years from now ... ’ he pauses, dottie mumbles a ‘woah’, ‘ when i reach one ... that’s your guys’ cue to talk, okay? don’t everyone speak up at once - you’ll all get turns. as soon as you’re able to visualize ... go ahead share what you see. ’

                            ‘ eight ... seven ... six ... five ... four ... three ... two ... one ... ’

[charcubed]

Char please I need to hear more on your Steve was snatched by Hydra theory, like how and when did that happen? Up until which point in time do you think Steve was still Steve and not some imposter? My money’s on the end of IW, IW was the last time we saw the real Steve Rogers

Here’s my theory, even though it doesn’t involve HYDRA: what if Nomad Steve was captured by the TVA right after the end of IW because he did some real Steve Rogers shit out of grief and altered the timeline so they had to arrest him and send a variant from an alternate reality which is EG Steve….. And one day he’s gonna pop back up thinking the TVA had him for just a few months but it’s actually been 6 years because time passes differently at the TVA (I sent this ask to someone else some time ago so I just copied and pasted it hsgfhd)

Hello Anon! Great news: I'm going to procrastinate doing freelance work by spending a great deal of time answering this!

Firstly: I salute you and your theory. I would probably read 100 different variations of What Happened To Steve Rogers, including this one. Why NOT involve the TVA? Fuck around and find out! Sounds fun!

However, that is not my personal theory about what's going on in canon. So, by request, I will elaborate on my theory for you.

When Was The Last Time We Saw The Real Steve?

To your question on when was the last time we saw the real Steve Rogers and not an imposter... In my heart? At the end of IW. In terms of what I think is unfortunately most realistic moving forward in the MCU, in terms of story / business decisions? More or less the last time we see the real Steve is at the end of Endgame, when he gets on the quantum platform to go ~put the stones back in the timeline~ (which, of course, made zero sense.)

I'll tell you why that is: while I think there's a solid argument to be made story-wise for Steve being an imposter for all of Endgame, I don't think in practice they'd actually ever do that or have that be the reveal.

Why? Because...

• Endgame is their crowning jewel in the MCU, it's theeee ultimate hero movie, Steve wields Mjolnir, etc. and logically they wouldn't want to retroactively compromise any of that. Much to my personal disappointment. Cowards.

• If Endgame Steve was always a villainous imposter, that means in the end he gets all of the infinity stones to himself. There's really no way to make that work in context of future plot points.

Instead, I feel Steve's out of character behavior in Endgame, his slightly unusual clothing/appearance, and his lack of mention of the people he lost from the snap could have all been a deliberately-curated red herring to keep casual viewers from questioning the end Stevepeggy scene. If you take out the Stevepeggy end scene, his behavior by itself is not really that damning. Steve looking at the compass with Peggy’s picture can actually be explained as him being encouraged by her memory and past wisdom; Steve looking at her in the 1970s can also be simple nostalgia. And as upsetting as it is for those of us who know and love Steve's character, him not mentioning Bucky / Sam / Wanda in the few scenes we got doesn't mean that we can't infer he was mourning them off-screen; not having him mention them on-screen just insures that they wouldn't be as strongly top-of-mind for casual viewers right before the Stevepeggy ending.

So they could have carefully placed all of Endgame's little weird OOC bits for Steve like breadcrumbs to make casual viewers think the Stevepeggy end scene makes sense from a character perspective, and then those viewers were automatically a bit more inclined to hand-wave the ways it logistically doesn't make sense. "Who cares if we don't understand how Old Man Rogers got there? Steve deserved his happy ending." or "Obviously Old Man Rogers got there because of XYZ reasoning. It's not that big of a deal. Just roll with it because he deserved to be happy with Peggy." Etc. Convince them it was foreshadowed by dangling Peggy throughout the movie, and then those viewers say it shouldn't be questioned.

Steve's Ending: Weird & Getting Weirder

Casual viewers aren't questioning it, maybe, but we are questioning it, because...

• We know Steve Rogers' character, and we know he wouldn't have left his friends behind to go live with Peggy in the past or in an alternate universe's past.

• The writers / director couldn't publicly agree on how the logic of that scene worked when they were questioned, which I maintain is bizarre as hell.

• The Loki show demonstrates that you cannot fuck with the timeline and get away with it, because of the existence of the TVA. Or at the very least, at the time of Endgame, the Sacred Timeline was still being enforced by the TVA. We're told that the thing with time traveling to get Infinity Stones was TVA-sanctioned, but not Steve's ending. We hear nothing about that.

• They've had multiple chances to clear up once and for all where Steve Rogers is or if he's even still alive, and the fact that we don't know what became of him is emphasized in TFATWS. It means that, for some reason, they're keeping his whereabouts a mystery and thus open to future relevance.

• Steve has been name-dropped in nearly every phase 4 Marvel media property since Endgame; "What If" even directly addressed his ending and subverted it. Even when he's not named explicitly, the themes of his ending with Peggy are also repeated multiple times throughout phase 4, but in a way where a surface level reading of that ending is being actively contradicted at every turn. We have been shown over and over that that kind of scenario–an idyllic life with a lost love–is never happy truth, or created without consequence.

In short, fuckery seems to be afoot!

So, suppose you operate under this simple baseline premise to start the theorizing:

Old Man Rogers is, somehow, not Steve.

Therefore, the first question: where is Steve–or more accurately, who could've taken him? And the follow-up: why?

I Think It's HYDRA

The prevailing theories people talk about are Skrulls or HYDRA. I land on the latter, and I'll do my best to break down why.

• Red Skull. Steve certainly could have been snatched at any point and by anyone during his jaunt with returning the stones (because how fucking asinine is it that we're meant to believe it took all the Avengers to get the stones but only one to put them back when they aren't even in their original forms?), but I think it's fairly notable that Red Skull was on Vormir. There are two different times he was technically freed: 2018, when Thanos got the stone after sacrificing Gamora. And 2014, when Clint goes back in time and Natasha is sacrificed. He was cursed to be the guardian of the soul stone, so the soul stone being removed means his curse was broken. This means Red Skull is canonically out there, and he's batshit crazy. That's one classic HYDRA villain in play.

• Zola is alive. "What If" has helpfully informed us that there was a copy of Zola alive and well in the Siberian base seen in Civil War, which was not destroyed in the main timeline of the MCU. Two HYDRA villains.

• Madame Hydra. Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine has only had 2 small cameos thus far, and we don't know for sure what her version in the MCU is going to involve. It's true that we don't know what she's up to. But it's not unrealistic to speculate that she could have some sort of connection to something HYDRA related, considering her varied comics history. Two and a half HYDRA villains, ish.

• Steve Rogers is being turned into a symbol. For one thing... The shield. That was wrestled with in TFATWS: Captain America as symbol, what that shield means to different people in different ways, Sam's reluctance to take up the mantle, etc. Now, going forward, the shield will be redefined by Sam Wilson becoming the new Captain America. But also... now we are also getting things like Rogers: The Musical. We don't know much about this yet, obviously, but I'm really interested to see how it's involved in the Hawkeye show especially considering it's already been teased in the promotional material. Regardless, its very existence is an example of how in-universe the stories of the lives of the heroes are being commodified, especially (in terms of how they're framing it) for Steve's. The heroes are no longer seen as people, if they ever were. They are, as Kate Bishop says to Clint in a recently released clip, more about "branding." Sam Wilson will be redefining the shield moving forward in a Cap context, but simultaneously, the world is still enamored by Steve Rogers as a symbol in his own right. And that is ripe for manipulation as a Trojan horse to control public opinion... whether in the context of things like this by themselves (is the musical portraying Steve accurately, or is it painting an inaccurate picture of him the world accepts as fact?) or in future (is this propaganda that makes the public see Steve a certain way and continue to love him, to set up a fake or brainwashed Steve coming on the scene later?). [EDIT – Rogers: The Musical was brought to Disneyland! In July 2023, I wrote an analysis of it in the context of this theory, regarding propaganda and revisionist history.]

• It fits the MCU going forward, and plot-wise, it makes the most sense. Connecting to the above point, one of the many things openly and repeatedly being tackled in the MCU is the theme of legacy. And sure, Old Man Rogers could be a Skrull, but... what would be the point of it, other than just retconning Steve's ending? Narratively, what would that convey and how would it be interesting? How could it be used to enhance the stories of the MCU at all, and/or what layered story could be told there other than "Steve Rogers is trapped somewhere and was impersonated by a Skrull"? It doesn't really set much up other than acting as a retcon, and that's not a good enough reason to pull that kind of a rug pull.

Whereas if Steve was taken by a group like HYDRA... it's actually to a purpose. They'd do it not just to kill him, but to remove him, use him, and tarnish his legacy. If you want to create further instability to control a country, you manipulate or sow doubt in a patriotic symbol. We got a taste of this with John Walker in TFATWS, and the ways the government wanted to / tried to use him. But now, the MCU is teeing up the idea that not only was the shield a patriotic symbol, but also that Steve Rogers himself was a symbol–or is potentially becoming one in the eyes of the public. How can that be utilized for HYDRA's purposes?

This is what the controversial Secret Empire arc comics storyline was about, where an evil Steve shows up and supposedly it's revealed that Steve was always a HYDRA double agent, but (for readers) it's quickly subverted as untrue. Events unfold from there.

(Side note: It's also worth noting that the Secret Empire story starts out with an old man version of Steve being de-aged after having a jaunt in an alternate timeline before being co-opted by HYDRA. Much as I hate the idea of the Old Man Rogers concept being kept so that he was actually the real Steve on any level, they could try to go with this angle, even though I really don't think it jives with the existence of the TVA. With my "HYDRA snatched Steve" theory, I tend to operate under the assumption that Old Man Rogers is someone else using a convincing technological mask, like the kind we've most recently seen in Black Widow. But if they try to say that Steve lived a life in another timeline and aged there, that doesn't mean that A) the Stevepeggy scene was real for sure or B) he lived a whole lifetime with her. He could have gotten old doing whatever the fuck, been snatched, and then de-aged by HYDRA. I do think a variation where Old Man Rogers was actually Steve is less strong from a logistics perspective, though, again because of the TVA / Sacred Timeline stuff.)

Anyway.

So in the MCU, they could do a loose adaption of the Secret Empire comic storyline somehow. And/or they could combine the Secret Empire arc with a loose adaption of the comics storylines where Red Skull implanted his mind into the body of a Steve Rogers clone (yes, that exists lol).

But regardless... the baseline of what I'm implying as my theory is that Steve is trapped/taken somehow in connection to HYRDA. Then, an evil HYDRA version of him could later show up on the scene, and the public would either listen to him or become distrusting/jaded by his villainous existence because he's Steve Rogers. It's a gateway to a fascist takeover, and it would be right up MCU HYDRA's alley.

Depending on how it shakes out, you would then have a situation that includes tackling story elements of things like... Steve's friends have to insist they know that's not Steve, but what's true? What's real? Can they trust themselves to know? When was Steve taken, and how, and why didn't they all notice? Also, can they arrest or attack or try to interrogate a fake Steve Rogers / Captain America who's on the national stage, and who's being openly analyzed by the public because he's just returned from the grave yet again?

If Bucky and Sam and co. know it's not Steve, then is the real Steve trapped in this evil Steve's mind somehow, like what happened to Bucky as the Winter Soldier? Then they can't just kill him in case that's true and there's still a version of Steve to save, right? How do they figure all this out, what are the answers to these questions in the MCU version, and how do they simultaneously stop HYDRA from taking things over if HYDRA's corruption once again runs deep within the United States government?

You've got a spy thriller + political intrigue + further commentary on heroes as symbols, legacy as a tool that can be molded and manipulated, the past coming back to haunt us in the present, and the insidious endurance of white supremacy contrasted against Captain America now being Black. Etc. It would tie together a lot of nice seeds and themes that have been threaded through phase 4 so far already in multiple corners.

Soul Stone Potentials

Couple this with the potential second half of the baseline premise about Endgame:

Let's presume Old Man Rogers is, somehow, not Steve–and then let's also presume the potential for the dance between Steve and Peggy not being real.

So, how could it be fake?

The soul stone's powers have been deliberately shrouded in mystery so far. We've not seen it do much of anything yet in the context of the MCU, but in theory, we're told it can manipulate souls. We've also seen a glimpse of the Soul World, its own version of a pocket dimension that also has comics basis. Thanos sees baby Gamora after using all the stones; originally, in Endgame, Tony was meant to see an older version of Morgan after using the stones himself. The latter scene was cut because it was confusing to audiences, since Morgan isn't dead. But recently I've started wondering if maybe that's because Thanos didn't see baby Gamora just because Gamora was the sacrifice. Instead, maybe he saw baby Gamora–and Tony was meant to see "older Morgan"–because in the MCU's version the Soul World was projecting images of their loved ones to them so they had to mentally reconcile with the consequences of their choice.

If the soul stone is in play in this regard, Steve's dance with Peggy could be part of some kind of vision keeping him trapped in a pocket dimension of the Soul World–whether literally physically trapping him, or just trapping his consciousness while his body is taken over and used. (The other time we saw Steve and Peggy get their dance in oversaturated warm colors, it was Steve's brain being manipulated by Wanda, and it became a nightmare.) In the aforementioned Secret Empire comics arc, the Cosmic Cube was used to this effect: the real Steve was preserved in / trapped in parts of the Cosmic Cube and shown visions of his friends and family, while evil HYDRA Steve was taking over America. (Real Steve was eventually restored / pulled out, and physically fought evil Steve to defeat him.) They could use the soul stone in a similar way, since it's not too far off of its Soul World dimension, and since the Cosmic Cube / Tesseract already has its own established powers in the MCU.

Why Would the MCU Do This?

Well, other than "why not? It's good storytelling," I can think of a few reasons. None of those reasons are about "retconning" Steve's ending, because that's not how I see this at all.

First, this would be way down the line in a few years, to be clear. A lot of people always bring up "Wouldn't this ruin Sam being Cap, especially if Old Man Rogers didn't hand him the shield?" and my answer to that is "No, not at all." By the point this all rolled around as a significant plot point, the way I see it, Sam would be well-established as the new Captain America. And if we eventually got a reveal that Old Man Rogers wasn't our Steve, there's a very easy way to tackle this: Steve's proud of Sam and tells him that he only wishes he could have given him the shield himself because it was always the plan. Boom, done, Steve's blessing given.

(You might ask: well then, why would HYDRA give Sam the shield via Old Man Rogers? How would that help their plans? Quite possibly they banked on Sam not accepting it, which he initially didn't. Or, if he had accepted it and tried to be the new Cap immediately, they banked on being able to convince him that he shouldn't. Remember how TFATWS opens up? They thanked Sam for being a good man who gave up the shield to a museum, and then they immediately turned around and give the mantle to Walker, who was a symbol the government was explicitly manipulating before things went off the rails. Sure, now Sam is Cap, but that seemingly wasn't the government's original plan. How is that actually going to go in Cap 4 now? Is everyone going to be happy about this new Captain America? Etc.)

A tentpole of the reasons for my Steve's Ending Is Fucky theorizing–back when it was a joke, but now it's really not a joke anymore lol–was that they had to pull Steve out of the picture so that Sam and Bucky could develop as characters independent of their existences revolving around Steve. That was part of the function of TFATWS, and presumably will only continue with whatever we get in Cap 4. So by the time Imposter Steve comes to the forefront as a plot, Sam as the new Captain America will be established (and probably hard-won), Bucky will be a fully-formed character in his own right who's rediscovered himself outside of his connections to Steve, and the two of them + many other characters will have had their time to shine. Only then does the past come back to haunt them to clash with the present, in ways that are narratively interesting.

This would also bring Chris Evans back to the MCU as Steve in something beyond a mere cameo, with an interesting twist that would drum up significant hype. Steve Rogers as an antagonist? Are you kidding me? Even people who may or may not have turned from invested fans to more casual fans by that point will come yeeting back in horrified fascination. It would be newly loved figures having to go head-to-head with previously loved figures and story elements.

And lastly... look, eventually they're going to run out of unique stories to tell lmao. That may sound strange considering there's a nigh-on limitless bank to pull from for comics, + the MCU likes to make shit up in addition to that (as it should), but... A lot of the ways the MCU has tended to handle the Captain America storylines (which you can critique) tie into ~real world~ concepts, the insidiousness of corruption in governments, the alphabet agencies going rogue, and old threats coming back in even worse ways. There's only so many ways you can spin that. (Again, keep in mind this would come after Cap 4, in the same way TWS came after Cap 1.) Something like this fits the rough mold, and it's got several twists. If they did it right and treaded carefully to avoid the pitfalls of what made the comics iteration controversial, it has the potential to be as game-changing as TWS was, in the ways that make TWS still unanimously heralded as one of the greatest pieces of the MCU. It's like a TWS variation, but out in the open with the villainized and victimized hero's identity known from the start, which almost makes it worse.

And ALL of that would make a hell of a lot of money, baby!

Also, if I was Kevin Feige... I would simply have a longcon where Bucky is repeatedly queercoded and then Bucky has to rescue Steve, which is a role reversal that puts them on even footing as characters, and then they can kiss and completely change the course of pop culture history, which would ALSO make money! But, I digress! I digress.

A Brief Summary

So, in a nutshell, here's where I'm at:

• Old Man Rogers wasn't Steve. Somewhere between going to put the stones back and Old Man Rogers showing up by that lake, fuckery occurred, and our Steve Rogers is trapped somewhere. Alternatively: Old Man Rogers was Steve who went on a mysterious AU timeline jaunt somehow without the TVA revolting (?), and then he got snatched by HYDRA and was de-aged directly after that.

• The Stevepeggy scene is some kind of fake, false idyllic narrative, perhaps used to trap Steve somewhere. Alternatively: at minimum, it's a scene that doesn't exist without negative consequence that's befallen Steve, based on all the themes of phase 4, but we don't know what that consequence is yet.

• The real Steve was taken and trapped by HYDRA, and it's part of a long-con plan that will see HYDRA insidiously manipulating the Captain America / Steve Rogers symbol in some way to take over America with fascism.

• All of this would strongly align with the themes we've seen in Marvel's phase 4 so far, and–crucially–would act as a completely unique plot branch in its own right, not simply a "retcon" of Steve's ending.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I think this post took me like... 3 hours. Maybe longer. God I have regrets lmao. But at least it's done! Thanks for asking, Anon!

I hope you enjoyed me finally writing out the reasoning for all this that's constantly marinating in my brain and repeatedly being fed every time new MCU content is released <3

WHERE IS STEVE ROGERS, MARVEL STUDIOS, I AM NO LONGER ASKING!!!

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today wasnt as bad as i thought itd b (,;; i could hrdly ge tout of bed becuas iw as super tired becau i was in acall last night n when i woek ip my bed was super cold ))): soo i endnedup getting out of bed aroun 720 but i still made it in time for school !!!!! 😆😋

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it was relly hot outsid too like high of 28 today???? ya i enjoye d it for a little bit but i wish it was jsut a little lesss cos its tooo hot and i dont hav sunglasses so i cant see 😠 cos too sunny. is pretty thoguh ileither way! <3

i wore a black pleated skirt, a white zip up turtleneck shirt, my vivenne dupe necklac (cos is too expensiv. also why buy it branded when i simply love the design and can diy it?!?! i heard it not rel gold )): ) , and later wore my af1 shadow that i accidntallg left at work (woopsi)

maths was rlly borin and four stduentd in my class were rlly annoying me ))): i odnt kno if its misophonia or somethin ? (my sister sai it migb tht) thoguh my classmate behind me woudlnt stop coughing n je did that every fiv second and it wa s hard 2 focus on trig cos of it ))): n t he n three student in corner of class woidlnt stop xackling and my music couldnt block it out . i wish i could hav a wuieter space to work cos that way i could focus easier , my music can only do so much !

speakin of music, im listening 2 undertale soundtrack again and im currently playing snowy from the spotufee . its really calming! ^^ i also like castle town, u can always come home, fallen down n home. ♡♡

 

work kinda bothered me ): im really stressesd n its making ym regresijnf involuntary. my ocd rlly lciked in when i was working w this one girl and i didnt know whehrer i was doinf a good job ); yeah shed say i did amazinf today bu… i wsjt s ur e cos our boss didnt seem so prohd of the boxes we got through,, we got thru 6 and had 7 left,,, almost half! hmph,,, i rllt odnt like my boss sjdhhs and im still sad cos my favourit employee and closest frien there brooklyn quit ): i didnt get her contac info so idk if ill ever see her again,, tho at lest she get make bank ag toher plac ! good on her. hehe 💸

i had pizza for dinnnerrr omg!!’nn nn n i got to choose what toppin this time it was MY PICCCCKKKK i so happy bout dwat. it didnt look as good as i thoguht cos i mae mistake of extra chees ebht it yummy in my tummy so is ok. yum yum chicken onion mushroom bacon cheese pizza aarhrhjfj deliciohsose

went on 2 walk with my sister ! played project sekai w her and watched her do a blender animation for her sims 4 char <3 i liv giving my cat roscoe cuddles hes so cute ! hhmm i cleaned me room again im really proud <3 (good job me, i did it!) drank some more water,, i SHWOERED OMG i m so proud,,, did some PAINTING HOMEWORK TOO AHHHHHHHHHH WHAT?????? CRAZY OMG,, DIDNT NAP TOO !! GLUED MY MOSIAC !! even tho nap is ok when i nap it too long ): SPENT TIME W MY CAT !! BUT OMG I ALSO WATCHED SONIC X FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IT TOTALLY EVOKED SO MUCH NOSTLAGIA BC WHEN I LITTLE LITTLE I LOVE DRAWIN AMY ROSE N SONIC ON MSPAINT AND IT WAS SO COOL AND CHEESY AND I LOV IT URGRHRH I HAVENT TOUCB NETFLIX IN SO LONG AAHH n i also WORK ON THIS BLOG !!!! all at break i was teyna see othe rpol blog and how it work n now i think its ,, making me feel heard and less stressed even tho i am only half regressing or agw dreaming . i also meditated while looking for some pfps and so infeel so transformed ! i also browsed aliexpress a lot today KDDJJSJFSHBD

i hav a math test tomorrow , work , n prob more hoemwoek so im stress BUT TOMOROW NEW DAY AND I DID LOTS TODAY AND AM PROUD. but i also should sleep earlier,,, is 138

bye bye diary for now. i luv u . bear say bye too 👋 🧸

╭┈─────── urs truly, ࿐ ˊˎ-

╰┈➤ sweetheart xx

[ai-dump]

the spiral staircase on an otherwise dark building, in the style of stefan gesell, elba damast, dreamy and romantic compositions, detailed perfection, burned/charred, golden light, edmondo senatore --ar 2:3 --v 5 --iw 1 --ar 4:5 --s 500 --c 20

[aelaer]

Thanks for answering that last ask, lol. I half-expected you were going to ignore it tbh. I was hesitating when I wanted to send the ask, bcs, well, duh. It's controversial af lol. Just wanted to let ya know that you're not the only one with that view. (Great minds alike, am I right?) So please don't stop. Really.

This is gonna be a bit of a rant, and if you feel the need not to answer this ask, due to the fear of causing controversy in your blog, I 100% understand. Dunno if tumblr will cut off my ask so i'm hoping this is sent in its full-form.

I honestly agree that Tony gets maybe a *bit* too much spotlight (especially after the CACW shit and fans picking team tony/steve), and I hate that Stephen is just used as a plot device. I don't get why exaggerating a char's innocence is a good thing. Especially if they put other characters *too* antagonised and spiteful. It's petty. And putting another character in it (refer this as Stephen) as a plot device to make the main char more angelic is just.... idk. I'm only using rather insensitive words bcs I'm on anon ngl hahahahah.

Which is why, when I found your ao3 profile, I felt like you saved my life. Cus like. Idk. It's rare to find fics alike. Not really good with words so yeah.

Also thanks sm for tagging your fics properly, lest I wouldn't have found your works.

Ik some authors who share the same idea with the matter, but either they wanted to reach a wider fanbase by venturing into ships and fulfilling people's cravings (that require an ooc stephen, wince), or they simply don't have the writing capabilities to match their intentions -- like you do -- yet, I'm not so sure.

So basically yeah. Binge read your works this week. You're doing super great. Please keep going or else I would've probably never been here in the first place.

Fucking love your works. Don't hate on me for this if you happen to find it irrational ;-; Though if you do, I'm honestly interested with what you think. Sorry for sending a long ass ask.

Hey it's all chill, my anon friend. I really try not to hate on folks, even when I don't agree with everything they say or do. The world needs more empathy after all. And you've done nothing wrong in this ask here.

I personally don't ignore asks. It may take a month or two to get to some as it has in the past during busy or bad seasons, but I get to them. (I also don't get a ton so they're easy to answer haha.) The only ones not answered are short fic prompts that have taken me over 2 years to get to, which I'd like to finish eventually... some day.

I expanded on the topic about other characters in the last ask so I won't get into it again here, but I will say that unfortunately Stephen is not a terribly popular character compared to many other MCU characters like Tony, Bucky, and Loki. It makes finding fic starring him very challenging. He's also a difficult character to write well, though I applaud folks for trying, truly. It's great when people challenge themselves and don't let the fear of failure or judgement keep them from trying.

Anyone who hasn't written Stephen because they're not sure how to write him, or have written him but aren't confident with their writing of him, I recommend rewatching his origin film in particular as that's often forgotten for what we saw in IW and Endgame. There's also some good video essays about the character on YouTube. Some fanfic of him is good, while others are very bad, so it's a hit or miss there. One shot character pieces that are not concentrating on a ship tend to be more reliable, in my experience, for a better character analysis because the goal of the piece as a one shot is more a character study, and without the romance you aren't looking at the character as part of a unit. You need to know the character before you study how he works as a romantic partner, IMO.

I'm hoping his film helps his popularity, but I do have some fears that it will be drowned out a bit by Wanda. We'll have to see what happens on AO3 in particular, which is where my primary fandom interest lies in this case. I really, really want to see fic that isn't just reader inserts. Totally legit fanfic, but romance is already not my cup of tea and, if they aren't just smut pieces, those tend to be caretaker-Stephen fics which are a dime a dozen with his fics with Tony and Peter. So yeah, hopefully there will be more variety in the coming weeks. Of the action/adventure/drama type. A girl can dream.

I'm thrilled you like my writing. And also my tagging, some of the tagging is very hard to complete with some of the one shots xD but seriously, you're sweet. And you're good. Don't sweat it ❤️

[vampirkiller]

"You do our Lord's work Trevor. The Church might disagree, but I feel this deep within me. I will stand by you until the very end, once we vanish this darkness from your lands. You will never be alone."

la pucelle d'Orléans stood at his side, declared an innocent, a martyr the very year the belmont was born. 1456. her terrible fate clawed at his heart, for the belmonts held french ancestry, and to he, she was a sister, a dear friend who had deserved so much better than she had gotten. why do the good, why do the pure suffer so in this world, while evil and corruption run rampant? her spirit, summoned by the holy grail in dracula’s possession, gave him the hope to want to continue onward when all else was lost.

to a man who knew of loss so intimately, the warmth and grace of the young saint could only bring a smile to the hunter’s battle-roughened features, and the beginnings of tears to hardened eyes. he had her allegiance, her strength alongside his own, and together they would see his fate through to the very end. the thought of losing to the dark lord of castlevania no longer crossed his mind, for he would give this battle his all with the silent hopes of an entire nation upon his being. with her hopes as well.

trevor had been blessed by st. jeanne to succeed, and he would not fail her. he would not fail his people, despite their misplaced hatred. he did not seek the glory, the exaltation a hero would receive; what he was seeking was something beyond that. release from earthly confinements and sins, to reach God and be at eternal peace. something they both deserved.

❝ the men of the cloth are human…and to be human is to err. they realize their mistakes far too late, but as long as they do, there is hope for the future. i will see this through to the end for the sake of those who cannot protect themselves, and even if it is with my last, dying breath, dracula will be vanquished. i will not fail you, or anyone. ❞