#marvelposting

[apopcornkernel]

[colombinna]

Magneto was only ever wrong in the way he would hurt allies and comrades in the path of pursuing justice, he was absolutely right about killing people tho

[autismmydearwatson]

Dunno how to explain it but Lokis a woman in this scene

[battlevann]

the bloodcoven are all fucking beautiful i love these designs SO much

[x-manson-annotated]

look at this fucking nerd.

[transexualpirate]

watching a video about mr birchum the cartoon and suddenly the narrator says sometimes a writer tries to reinforce a character's heteronormative masculinity so much it circles back to no other explanation outside of the character being queer and the video suddenly showed the stony divorce in the mcu civil war movie

[evilwinterfruit]

Various Bucky Barnes Textposts using daily quests

[melancholiast-clair]

so. so. so. so. just finished agatha all along! hahaha. aha. im going to KILL MYSELF ABOUT IT.

anyways expect lilia character study and agatha/rio fixits.

[snowlikeash]

me, a contrarian to poolverine: *shoves all the logurt i can eat in my mouth and chews loudly*

[marvisions]

Headcanoning a male character as gay so he doesn't touch my favorite female characters

[apopcornkernel]

HE'S WEARING THE DOOM WEDDING RING

[colombinna]

If samberto was yuri they'd have a maid x villainess dynamic

[autismmydearwatson]

Watching Thor (2011) because I'm extremely upset over what Marvel's become and this movie is an underrated gem

[battlevann]

MIDNIGHT SONS BLOOD HUNT SPOILERS BELOW

FUCKING LILITH??? OH MY GOD LETS GO

[necromanceyourgays]

Tags Guide!!! (fucking finally)

adding a cut because theres a lotDIUCBNDI

Fandom tags:

pelantposting - all posts about pelant!

bonesposting - bones posts i dont want in the main tag

nimonaposting - all posts about the comic and movie Nimona

btsposting - posts about BTS (not adding individual member tags here)

reneposting - all posts about the Renegades trilogy by Marissa Meyer

spnposting - all posts about CW's Supernatural

technoposting - all posts about the YouTuber Technoblade (subscribe to Technoblade)

dsmpposting - posts about Dream SMP and it’s members

tntposting - posts about YouTubers and former DreamSMP members Quackity and Wilbur Soot (post c! and cc! posts)

wilbyposting - posts about Wilbur Soot

spiderposting - all posts about anything Spiderman related (Spiderverse and original Spiderman movies all included)

tuaposting - all posts about Gerard Way's The Umbrella Academy

mcrposting - all posts about My Chemical Romance

marvelposting - all posts about Marvel movies, comics, shows, etc

hpposting - all posts about harry potter (books and movies included)

panemposting - all posts about hunger games (books and movies included)

Post Genre Tags:

asksposting - asks posts

shitposting - just random shit i think

more to be added in the future! some of these I dont even use yet, but im covering all bases.

[tealisa]

highkey marvel is missing an opportunity by not having Steve be Irish & Native America (on dad and mom's side) and Bucky be Afro Boricuan/Latino whose family immigrated to the US

not b/c they'd be better like that (but it would be better ijs) but b/c it would add so much to the themes and politics of the story

or rather, the themes that story could explore of marvel wasn't so filled with white USian writers who back away from any interesting and potentially cool storyline & character development in favor of just using the Cap stories to tell really distorted references to IRL american history and tiringly centrist-at-best stories that always wrap around to patriotism and IRL status quo

it's frustrating b/c the first big story arc and potential character development of modern Cap is the whole Winter Soldier thing, and that comes the closest to what I'm talking abt: it has the whole Project Paperclip analogy and themes abt how the Western European and co. enders up "rehabilitating" and hiring the Nazis to work in their alliances and domestic industries. And the analogy is good! They have 2 WWII soldiers who fought Nazis and got pushed into modern-day USA to see the same Nazis still around, and they even have be personal w/ the characters themselves being subject to state violence and create emotional investment

but marvel still kinda does a copout and never have the characters personally question why the USA hired the Nazis and led to Hydra doing things w/ government funding, and instead marvel pushes it off as a "bad apples" thing to avoid questioning the American project itself.

And as the years go by they change the Hydra=Nazi Germany thing and add more Soviet/Communist stuff to it b/c Americans love their Double Genocide Theory (which Holocaust historians rightfully call it Holocaust Denial) b/c otherwise Americans would have to contend w/ the fact that Nazi Germany was inspired by US Segregation + Native Americans being corraled into reservations & West Europe's plundering of Africa

Its even worse w/ the current "Cold War" BS going on rn, they literally retcon Hydra & the Nazis as just a "smaller" villains controlled by a bigger "revolution" and toss the word socialism around like a conservative politician. And the fact that it's called "Cold War" creeps me out b/c Marvel recently got pissed at (and later fired) Victoria Alonso for promoting a movie abt a US-supported dictatorship in LatAm (spec. Argentina, her home nation) and how Pesto Pascal was in an interview and got nervous abt mentioning that the US funded the coup in Childe and assassinated Allende & installed Pinochet. This was all part of the IRL Cold War, installing dictatorships to crush revolution in the Global South, and the way Hollywood (and even marvel comics) line up to distort the US' bloody history and try to wash it away with weak centrist "criticism" that still supports US patriotism

that's why I feel like changing Bucky & Steve's ancestry (doesn't even need to be a retcon, it can be filling in the gaps and we can just say they're lightskin jjjjjj) would help the story. Tbh, even Steve's Irish ancestry should have affected his story, but marvel doesn't even care enough to give his mother a last name or any living relatives back in Ireland, much less use Steve's ancestry to help question his loyalty to a country that doesn't stand for his stated ideals at all.

it's v ridiculous b/c almost every story arc includes Bucky or Steve being subject to state violence and used more as a human weapon than anything, and yet there's no infernal questioning or progression or character development. The stories always manage to swing around and shift the blame onto a propaganda caricaturish villain to be like "USAmerica's heart is being corrupted by evil we must restore its purity" or if not, then they act like it never happened so they can go back to being loyal American supercops b/c actually admitting that America's heart has always been genocidal is too much for American liberal writers

tldr: Bucky should have Afro Caribbean family and Steve should be Irish and Native to better fit the story, and the writers should actually let them remember the time the US hired the Nazis they didn't kill in WW2 and how those Nazis ended up torturing and experimenting on (marginalized!) ppl and also them too, so they should be mad at being used as human weapons. B/c after the 2nd or 3rd rehashed "our country is being taken over by evil" Cold War-era propaganda story they should just get together and destroy the Captain America shield b/c at what point to they realize the problem is not some "outside force" the problem is America.

Ok anon idk what sparked this very long text in my art blog, but real actually. You speak about retconning their racial identities and while I agree with that, I also have to acknowledge that Marvel is already sleeping on what is a core part of Steve and Bucky's publication history and that should've been incorporated into their characters by long now: Their Jewishness. They were created by Jewish immigrants, precisely to rally support against the nazis in the U.S. The only reason they (and other marvel heroes like Jim Hammond) weren't openly Jewish was because of the times! It makes no sense that marvel today refuses to do acknowledge that and make them canonically Jewish. Steve has his Irish heritage and sure, I guess back in the 40s he got looked at with side eyes, but that part of his lore only feels like a replacement for what REALLY should've been there, which is his Jewish identity.

Steve's entire character is believing and fighting for a dream that he quickly learns couldn't be farther from the truth, and he works in order to assure that utopic dream -- the one sold to immigrants, of a land of freedom and opportunity without prejudice -- actually takes place. This dichotomy between dream and reality and how despite that he still fights relentlessly for the rights of the oppressed (that is his biggest thing, that he's the world's #1 ally) would be SO much more meaningful if he had a Jewish heritage, like his creators.

And yes, Marvel has much degenerated from the incredibly political, punk movement that it was when it arose in the 1940s. Even with all its bullshit, up until the 80s you could see the writers weren't afraid to criticize precisely the problems of the U.S., but after that 90s buy-out, all that was gone. And then 2001 happened and Marvel became the most neoliberal shit you could imagine, and along with that came many many cases of bigotry within those comics, including MANY instances of antisemitism, and the MCU's (and the Foxverse) whole existence is just more proof of that. From completely erasing characters' Jewish identities, to making nazi characters into 'lovable bad guys' like they did with zemo, to the sheer aberration that was making Magneto's children into volunteers for the nazis, Marvel has a gigantic problem with antisemitism and it goes hand in hand with the other bigotries present at marvel (their gigantic antiblackness and misogynoir, their antiromanism and demonization of roma women, all of its racism and fetishization of woc and dehumanization of all poc in general, really; and its massive ableism) and that is also intrinsically connected to all of this stupid ass Cold War Red Scare shit. It is VERY MUCH an intentional choice to make The Commies into their new Big Bads. And now that you mention Victoria Alonso (which is their new escapegoat) - i didnt know she was involved in Argentina 1985 -, all of it starts to make perfect sense, because I think back to Avengers EMH, where they made it very clear that S.H.I.E.L.D., basically Fantasy CIA/FBI were the bad guys, and where the heroes were making points of anti-punitivism and prison abolishment, it makes total sense that Marvel, after getting bought by Disney, would shut that down and release propaganda shit instead.

Anyways, long story short, Marvel as it is now fucking sucks, the creators should all get rightfully compensated and all of its IPs should go into the Public Domain.