#tfatws ep 6

[marvelsgirl616]

Elijah: "What you want, Black Falcon?" Sam: "Hey, you need to learn some manners."

-- i need sam and elijah to interact more in the future…💀♥️

[amarriageoftrueminds]

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Since it came up recently, link to that therapist on twitter 👆 who was discussing Bucky's terribile therapist in TFATWS and how they should’ve been. 

Transcript:

"As a therapist myself I've had a lot of feelings about Bucky's therapist on TFatWS, and have decided I need to rant a little to let it all out. I've worked w/active duty, trauma survivors, and court ordered clients, so here's some therapeutic conjecture on Bucky's therapy:

Aesthetically her office and presentation don't fit for someone who has been through the trauma that he’s been through. A client like this would need something non-threatening and safe- the whole vibe is overly formal and official in an office building, not at all therapeutic.

6 months working together she calls him Mr. Barnes and then James-he has identity issues and is struggling with who he is, so I think that one of the 1st things they would have done is figure out what he is comfortable being called, by whom and what that means for him.

He is still full out lying to her about pretty much everything including PTSD sx—I’m not saying clients never lie if they have good therapists, but if after 6 months he still doesn’t feel like he can be truthful at all then they haven’t built any trust/ solid therapeutic rapport

The pen and notebook thing-that’s clearly a trigger for him, there’s no reason to antagonize him and take notes in session like a punishment, it’s a power play on her part and it only emphasizes his lack of control in being forced into therapy (she should know his hx w/notebooks)

The whole little arm motion she made when she said “they need to make sure you don’t…” – that made so much light of what has happened to him, he probably feels like his arm is only good as a weapon and things like that will not help him accept it as part of his body

The rules, UGH the rules—from how they were talking about them clearly not something he actively created for himself, more like directives that he’s been ordered to adhere to—something fed to him and reinforced, feels like a way to sign off on liability only

THE AMENDS—this is probably my biggest issue. Amends are for people who need to take accountability for their actions and the repercussions of those choices. He had NO choice. He was a victim of horrific crimes against him, and framing it in a way that he needs to make up for

the crimes that others used him for is abhorrent. The lack of trauma informed care as astounding in the way it is being framed that he has to atone for sins that weren’t his. Its clearly reinforcing the idea in his head in ep 2 when he says “HYDRA were my people".

NO, HYDRA were your captors. They were not your people. That type of thinking needs to get deconstructed and challenged. He can dedicate himself to bringing good into the world and righting wrongs that happened WITHOUT taking on the responsibility of those actions.

Her whole attitude and demeanor were condescending and demeaning. I know some people have said “I love how she calls him out on his bullshit!” That’s not what I see happening. I call my clients out on their shit all the time—this was not that.

And I can only do that with clients ONCE we’ve built the type of relationship where it’s going to be therapeutic for them to hear it, and it’s done intentionally and with purpose. She just came off shaming and mean because they don’t seem to have any form of therapeutic rapport.

She said “you have no history, no family”- there is no therapeutic reason for that, and she’s wrong. He most likely has family alive (he used current tense when talking about his sister) and he was close to Shuri and TChalla, his history is vital to understanding him

When she said “Look, I know that you have been through a lot, but you’ve got your mind back. You are being pardoned. These are good things. You’re free.”—Yeah this feels really dismissive and like toxic positivity. “I know you’ve been through a lot BUT BE HAPPY!!??”

He certainly doesn’t seem to feel like he’s free (especially having therapy mandated), and you can’t just tell someone they’re free. I felt like she was pretty much just like, “shake it off, look to the future!” which feels really shitty when you’ve experienced excessive trauma.

HELLO breach of confidentiality, just introducing herself to Sam as his therapist and confirming it to Walker and the whole police station, it doesn’t matter if they know he’s in therapy you do not break someone’s privacy like that, he still deserves some control over his tx.

Ordering Sam into a session, NO, he’s not your client and you don’t know him well enough to know if that’s appropriate or if it would be harmful to either, and you haven’t asked your client for his consent to have another person in his session

Forcing a trauma victim who was stripped of his bodily autonomy for 70 years into a physically intimate exercise with a coworker that he’s barely interacted with in the last several months? NOPE, just reinforcing to Bucky she has control over him the way his handlers used to

To me, I think she is more focused on signing off on his psychological eval that he isn't a liability rather than any actual healing or attention to his trauma. This unfortunately isn’t unusual in the military where “mental health treatment” is focused on being mission ready.

They are making sure he’s ready to be an “asset” w/ mandated therapy, which he shouldn’t even be forced to do as part of his pardon because he shouldn’t have needed a pardon at all because he was a victim of horrific war crimes, brainwashing, and dehumanization for 70 years.

I’m just saying, if that was me he would be on my big squishy couch, bright open windows, bowl of Hershey kisses, random fidget toys, and two therapy dogs laying all over him while we work through that trauma and he builds back his identity and finds the calm he wants so badly.

And yes he would probably need someone who would see through his BS, call him out when he needs it, not be overly "touchy feely", but only if he feels safe and there is trust, where he gets to work on what HE wants, not what others think he needs.

Anyway thanks for coming to my TEDTalk, I❤️my work and I think being a therapist on retainer for the Avengers would've been a fucking trip, they all needed a team of mental health professionals at their disposal 24/7 and things would've been so much better🤣

ps. They can be a good therapist and just not be a fit for the client, that happens regularly. We know when to make it part of the conversation and when to refer out. Nothing good is going to come out of a contemptuous therapeutic relationship, mandated or not.

pps. That whole situation and the scene with Zemo was so rough. I can't imagine how much it brought back the violation, humiliation, anger, and helplessness of when he was the WS. I'm just imagining him having a therapist he trusts and being able to process that afterwards 😭😭😭"

[chaossmagic]

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Fave tfatws scenes??

i never pass up an opportunity to talk about tfatws!! easily in the top 5 marvel disney+ shows and unfairly hated/criticised imo

ANYWAY

some of my fave scenes in no particular order:

the couples' therapy scene from ep 2

the flashback to bucky being freed of the trigger words in wakanda (which still makes me sob and is one of the best payoffs in the whole of the mcu, along with steve lifting mjolnir in the battle for earth in endgame)

the fixing up the boat montage in ep 5 just because it's so sweet and wholesome

bucky's entire vibe in ep 3 tbh

sam's training montage with the shield in ep 6

john walker getting the shit kicked out of him by the dora milaje and having a breakdown about it afterwards like a big fucking baby (bonus points for bucky just standing there completely unbothered, happily watching him get beaten up. iconic really. what a legend. he did NOT care at all and honestly i don't blame him)

the whole scene where bucky is explaining his 'hypothetical' plan to get zemo out of jail only he actually did all of that and is pretending he didn't along with the 'who, me?' innocent face of it all

the barbecue at the wilson's!! (including the extended deleted scene which is canon to me IN MY HEART)

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (3-9 Nov 2024)

welp. that sure was a week that happened.

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 reasons why you don't want to talk (about reasons why you don't want to talk) (napricot) - 61K, post EG/TFATWS fix-it that was amazing and so satisfying. [tbh i usually prefer to ignore EG/TFATWS entirely but this author is so damn good; I trust them implicitly]

😊 ripples all the way down (iriswests) - 57K, slow burn buddie

🥰 No Needles series (sal_si_puedes) - 68K, suits D/s fic, reread, forever fave

💖💖 +85K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

center of gravity (spqr) - Suits: Mike/Harvey, 16K - absolutely amazing fic, delightful read, extremely unusual AU

Rank Hath Its Privileges (One-EyedBossman (desert000rose), SecretFandomStories) - MCU: Steve & Natasha, 18K - DOLI #15; Steve & Natasha have a besties night in and catch up

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Would I Lie To You? - s16, e9

Jet Lag: The Game - Hide + Seek (ep 1)

Rescue & Restore - 1871 Candy Drop Roller Restoration

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #12

Handsome - Molly Shannon asks about Irish Goodbyes

Dirty Laundry - s4, e7

Jet Lag: The Game - Tag Eur It 3 (ep 1-6)

Decoding the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Tombstones With Dr. Nicky Nielsen - Session 3: Reading Divine Epithets & Offerings

Seas The Day: Life Lessons From Cephalopods With Dr. Sarah McAnulty - Session 4: Respecting Our Elders: Ancient cephalopods to today

What We Do In The Shadows - s6, e5

Gastronauts - s1, e3

Brilliant Minds - s1, e1-6

D20: Adventuring Party - "Pigeon Lord Ishii" (s18, e7)

D20: Misfits & Magic 2 - "The Heart of Weugan" (s23, e7)

Doctor Odyssey - s1, e6

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Lost Notes: Groupies - Lori Lightning and the Baby Groupies

⭐ Lost Notes: Groupies - The Fairytale of Miss Pamela

⭐ Lost Notes: Groupies - Girls Together Outrageously

⭐ Lost Notes: Groupies - Hollywood Encounters

The Curious History of Your Home - Bins

The Curious History of Your Home - Dish Washing

Re: Dracula - November 4: My Jonathan

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Penguin

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Weed Week: Get Inside the CannaVan

If Books Could Kill - Sam Harris's "The End of Faith"

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Outtakes: An airline is being sued for carelessly handing out what?

Talk From Superheroes - Agatha All Along

It's Been a Minute - The hot mom rom-com phenomenon

Pop Culture Happy Hour - YouTube Rabbit Holes That Are Great Distractions

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Weed Week: Dope Lake

Switched on Pop - Did Kendrick Lamar kill hip-hop?

Re: Dracula - November 5: Three Graves to Find

⭐ 99% Invisible - Meet Me at Riis

The Allusionist - 165. Fiona part 1

⭐ Vibe Check - One Hell of a Contradiction

Off Menu - Ep 270: Sebastian Stan

Decoder Ring - A Feel-Good Story About the End of the World

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Weed Week: Jirzankal Cemetery

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Weed Week: San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club

⭐ Lost Notes: Groupies - The Oral History of Star Magazine

Dinner’s on Me - ZACHARY QUINTO

The Curious History of Your Home - Forks

Imaginary Worlds - Why The Future is (Doctor) Doom

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Heretic And What's Making Us Happy

Dear Prudence - I’m Sick of Hearing My Friend Cry About Her Job. Help!

Dear Prudence - Prudie Plus: It Really Should Be All About Me

Endless Thread - Awoken by a Lamp

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Weed Week: The International Church of Cannabis

The Sam Sanders Show - Inside 2024’s Tech Revolution with Journalists Taylor Lorenz & Elise Hu

The Curious History of Your Home - Coffee

Lost Notes - S1 Ep. 2: Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD

ICYMI - The Fashion Expert Twitter Loves to Hate

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting Barry Manilow

Stray Cats

Presenting Bay City Rollers

The Struts

AC/DC

Multi Cello Retro TV/Video Game

Lacrimosa [a playlist described as "moody classical music with dark academia aesthetics" and it was great!]

Judas Priest

HorrorPops

HorrorPops Radio

[tllgrrl]

Petite-Madame is still bringing 🔥🔥🔥to these fan art streets.

If I made this my Lockscreen, I’d probably never open my phone. Just sayin’.

An on-set photo from Anthony Mackie (with Harrison Ford!!) and some blurry from a distance unofficial vid posted online shows Sam Wilson in a blue ‘fit, and though there’s no context, I’m not mad at it.

BTW, I’m also not mad at the official title of the movie: Captain America: Brave New World.

Sam’s first suit as Cap (TFATWS, Ep 6) was comic accurate and a great Introduction of The Hero, but for stealth, going forward the darker colors are more practical. You can be cool, but you can’t be stealthy wearing a lot of white. (The white uniform can be for Sundays.)

But whatever the colors, because it’s Wakanda Tech, that suit better be nanotech and protective like T’Challa’s suit was.

(I already wrote tiny ficlet about how I pictured Sam in his room, opening the fancy case, HERE.)

Anyway, suit and whatnot aside, this artwork beautiful!!

Bravo, Petite Madame! 👏🏾You👏🏾did👏🏾that!!

New World Order - (2023)

This is, according to set pictures, what Sam Wilson’s new suit in Captain America : New World Order *should* look like. The photos were pretty blurry but I think it’s close. 😅

[duquesah]

I was watching episode 5 of tfatws and my mom was bored so she decided to watch it with me

She didn't understand much, but she does want to watch ep 6 to see how it ends, bless her

[thinking-about-fiction]

Bucky really went from a cranky scowling old man who never smiles to that Cool (gay) uncle who pulls up 2 hours late to the family cookout with sunglasses, cake and level 100 swagger

Now that's character development

[impala67-aka-baby]

The ending was canon sambucky in my opinion because bucky was being the cool uncle and then he touched Sam's shoulder to which sam smiled gently and then they walk away together with Sam's hand wrapped around Bucky while a love song plays in background. Also, Bucky was wearing Sam's shirt from previous episode. If you don't say this isn't canon then I don't know what to tell you.

[yelllingashardasican]

IM CRYING CAUSE EVERYONE WAS LIKE “Oh the final shot will be Sam and Bucky walking away from each other” AND THEN IT WAS THEM WALKING AWAY TOGETHER

[irontinystar]

no one:

me: AND THEN HE SHOWED UP WITH SUNGLASSES ON AND HE BROUGHT A CAKE AND HE DIDNT EVEN COVER HIS ARM BECAUSE HE FEELS COMFORTABLE AROUND THESE PEOPLE AND HE PLAYED WITH SAMS NEPHEWS AND-

[sunny-rants]

“separate long vacations and never see each other again” my ass

[moralsareathingofthepast]

BUCKY CALLING SAM 'CAP'

BUCKY CALLING SAM 'CAP'

BUCKY CALLING SAM 'CAP'

BUCKY CALLING SAM 'CAP'

BUCKY CALLING SAM 'CAP'

BUCKY CALLING SAM 'CAP'

[amerlcachavez]

Sam and Bucky like

[piccolocervo]

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier 1x06 "One World, One People"

Captain America and the Winter Soldier

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (6-12 Oct 2024)

clyde you were the mvp of this entire series

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Every Door Opens (notoska) - Part 1 of We Made Ourselves - 74K, post WS angsty slow burn getting together fic - very delicious

🥰 Melt Into, Melt Until (notoska) - Part 2 of We Made Ourselves - 79K, stucky, post-getting together, lots & lots of slooooooow sex (positive) (very positive)

🥰 The Blood Contract (ikft) - 75K, Suits vampire AU - author's description: "What if we did Suits but half the characters were vampires for no discernible reason? What if that ended up changing very little … Because nothing screams satire like a bunch of lawyers who are also vampires." - great worldbuilding. first in a series but does stand alone

😍 A Man Takes His Sadness Down to the River (The Consolation of Philosophy) series - parts 1-3 (dorian_burberrycanary) - first 3 fics in a series of 4 works (40K out of 151K total) - a marvelous stucky post-EG/TFATWS fix it (knowledge of TFATWS canon not required)

💖💖 +136K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Unorthodox (LearnedFoot) - Suits: Mike/Harvey, 6K - enjoyable alt-meeting AU

Something Else When I See You (emchant3d) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 5K - 🔥🔥🔥

Normal (LearnedFoot) - Suits: Mike/Harvey, 9K - amnesia fic just never gets old!

Bon Voyage (spqr) - Doctor Odyssey: Max/Avery/Tristan, 11K - been fervently hoping someone would write this OT3 since ep 1 aired. Truly blessed this writer (one of my faves) took it on.

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

In Deep: Life at the Bottom of the Ocean With Dr. Sarah McAnulty - Session 4

Dr. Odyssey - s1, e3

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - s1, e1-2

The Sam Sanders Show - Sasheer Zamata on Queerness, Witches, and Disney

Handsome - Drew Barrymore asks about bats in caves

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #8

The Sam Sanders Show - Monét X Change: Drag, Politics, and Opera

Dirty Laundry - s4, e5

Gastronauts - s1, e1

Elementary - s2, e9-19

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Pop Culture Happy Hour - A Different Man

Code Switch - Ask Code Switch: Is it a preference or fetish?

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Dear Wait Wait: How do I keep my kid from biting people?

Vibe Check - The Vibe Coven

The Sporkful - How Cascatelli Ended Up In A German Museum

Pop Culture Happy Hour - SNL, Late Night, And The Election

⭐ Pop Culture Happy Hour - Pop Culture Pumpkin Spice Lattes: Basic But We Love It

Death, Sex & Money - Bonus: Two Sex Columnists on Tapping into Turn-Ons

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Saturday Night And What's Making Us Happy

Dear Prudence - I Spread A Rumor That Alienated My Friends and Mentor. Help!

Dear Prudence - Prudie Plus: My Partner is Kind, Generous…and a Trump Voter. Help!

It's Been a Minute - Is the free speech debate dead? Plus, the devil! Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 636. Swordcrossed Cozy Romantasy with Freya Marske

⭐ Today, Explained - Pennies don’t make cents

99% Invisible - Christiania

Ologies - Momiology (MUMMIFICATION) with Kara Cooney & Salima Ikram

Re: Dracula - October 11: Freedom of Soul

Sibling Rivalry - The One About Diddy

It's Been a Minute - The SMACKDOWN: Techno vs. Aaliyah vs. Motown

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Juliana Hatfield covers

[currentlyonstandbi]

thinkin about the fact Bucky’s gonna have to tell Yori the truth about his son next episode