#what we not going to do is disrespect my stackie ship

[dynamicduoofstackie]

How do more people not ship Stackie? I don't understand. I tried looking for fanfiction for them and there is //not enough//. They are PERFECT together! As just friends in interviews or something more. They are the best

Honestly, I think either the MCU fandom are so heterosexual and/or so used to the hegemonic heterosexual pairings in mainstream media like movies and tv shows, that by default they see any over-the-top chemistry by two males as a bromance. Iwas guilty of that myself way before I decided to look pass the gender of others to really look at who looks like they make each other happy. Or... they are just racist, whether they acknowledge it in themselves or not, and refuse to see what a bi-racial power couple Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie can be; if Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan choose to be.

Yes, I believe two straight guys can be platonic soulmates and have a bromance. Chris Evans and RDJ and Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth show clear examples of that. I think it’s adorable how Hemsworth wants to adopt all his male friends into the Hemsworth clan. Or how RDJ embraces the Stony community while being happily married with kids.

I find myself scratching my head at the MCU Fandom community as a whole simply because they don’t acknowledge the power of stackie romantically, but they also don’t even acknowledge their friendship either. You have rabid Sebastian Stan fans cooing over Sebastian and not acknowledging the fact that Sebastian smiles, talks, dances, feuds, laughs and is silly more around Anthony Mackie or thoughts of Anthony Mackie then any of his costars. You can’t embrace someone’s everything without also embracing what puts a spring in their step, and Anthony Mackie is it for Sebastian Stan.

Then you got those MCU fandom people who are so obsessed with the idea of EvanStan because the two handsome, white actors portrayals of their favorite ship Stucky, that they can’t see pass their noses that Stackie is just as, if not more so a possible thing. So these people are down for the cause as far as homosexual pairings go; but have their blinders on when it comes to any pairings that interfere with their OTP. Chris Evans has amazing chemistry with all his costars like RDJ, Chris Hemsworth, ScarJo, Anthony Mackie, etc. But Sebastian Stan literally lights up inside and becomes less introverted when he’s around a extrovert like Anthony Mackie.

Anthony Mackie is so sweet and kind to people who interview him and to his costars. He’s always saying positive things and ready to hype them up in whatever projects they are doing whether they are sharing a project or not. He has always taken acting roles that empower the black community. This man deserves better treatment in the MCU community as a whole. He shouldn’t have to insert himself into interview questions meant for other costars at a convention or interview, because fans and interviews refuse to acknowledge the awesomeness that is Mackie. Some might think it is rude, but I see it, as this man took time out of his busy day to be here and he is going to be known because he is somebody. He put in his time, just like the others. He petition to be a part of the Marvel Universe in any way possible and was rewarded for his efforts for being allowed to play the amazing Sam Wilson.

I love me some Anthony Mackie and I love me some Sebastian Stan; and I especially love them when they are together. I swear if any of these handsome men were the same race as the other; or a different gender then the other than more people would be shipping them. But because God made them who they are, and they love who they are, we are always going to have haters; haters who might not hate the friendship, but hate the idea that they could be something more.

I’m sorry, but there have been Romantic Comedies built on best friends who everybody, but the best friends saw they should be together, until they finally realize it themselves. I’m not going to apologizing for shipping the friendship and romantic side of Stackie because you see gossip rags and people doing that shit all the time when it comes to heterosexuals people. So how is it okay to ship real people in real life, but you can’t stomach it when it’s two hot guys who are black and white? Make that shit make sense.

I’m not going to outright and say to Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie, if I ever see them, do ya’ll think you’ll ever get together? I wouldn’t do that if I see two coworkers at work that I thought should be together. That is rude as shit.

But if they somehow find my tumblr blog and think to themselves... hmm... maybe their might be something there that I didn’t realize because I can’t see the forest for the trees. Then I’ll feel like I did something good. Let these men find their happiness wherever they can get it. I’m happy if their happy and if they are happy together, then all the better.

Sambucky would not have a strong foundation without the magic of Stackie.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for the crazy chemistry of Stackie.

You can’t fucking have one without the other. It’s like the chicken and the egg. One can’t exist without the other.

If you have any issues with any haters, point them out to me and we’ll gang up on them together with amazing examples of how Stackie is real, because we are small but mighty.

If I’m being too real for you, get the fuck off my post. This wasn’t meant for you.

[margarethx]

You ship Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan?

This ask is a little old, but still relevant, so I may as well answer it now, after they had another interview together.

The short answer would be: no, I do not.

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Here's the long answer.

First and foremost, I genuinely think that other people's lives and relationships are not my business, even when they are celebrities who often share their stories with millions of people. It doesn't really matter to me if they are just friends, or if they date, or if they even want to be together. Whatever the case: it's not my place to look for the answer unless both of them would want to willingly share something about it with the audience.

And what they shared so far is that they are very close friends who like each other a lot since around 2016. That's what I believe and I'm okay with knowing only this much. It would feel wrong to dig and try to learn more if they don't want me and other viewers to do that. (And I'm pretty sure they don't, because from what I've seen both Anthony and Sebastian are very private people who won't reveal much about their lives if it's not related to work.)

I'm fully aware that none of these men (despite the jokes) spends their evenings looking through tumblr and reading old posts in the Stackie tag. They're probably unaware of the majority of this fandom and what's going on inside of it. So it's not like I'll personally offend them with making an invasive post about their relationship and get 43 notes. But I still feel like making big assumptions about what they feel to each other and overanalysing every move they make to prove my fan theories would be generally disrespectful - no matter how close I'd be to the truth in the end.

That being said: of course I very much enjoy watching the parts of their friendship that they make public. It's obviously mostly interviews they've done together, becaue they had to, but it's still nice to see. Partially, because they're funny and chaotic, but also because I feel like the relationship they have is something pretty rare... I wanted to say "in showbusiness", but honestly "in general". They just fit nicely together and it simply works for some weird reason. And watching other people being happy in each others' presence is usually great. So that's what I do.

Sidenote: despite being very talkative I'm generally very shy and emotionally reserved even with my friends or family, so it's fascinating for me to see two people who just casually show each other so much appreciation and affection. It took me nearly four years to finally call my closest friend "a friend" and these two just throw compliments and "I love you's" around like it's nothing. If one day we learn that they've been married since 2018 I would be like "of course they are... that makes sense". (And then I'd move on wishing them well, because it's still their life to live, not mine, so I don't have to know everything.)

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Finally... I'm not going to call out anyone who actually ships the actors. I kind of want to, but I won't. (At least not personally. If someone still seriously ships real people in 2021 after all the discussions about "why it's very wrong" I don't think there's much hope for that person...) Sometimes I see posts about it and I just pretend I didn't, because they're usually pretty rude. If I were a famous person I would feel very uncomfortable knowing that people on the internet speculate about my relationships or imagine weird sexual scenarios about me. Not only because I'm aromantic and asexual, but also because we don't even know each other, so it'd be really objectifying and dehumanizing. (And it works the same way for the actors in question. These are still real people we're talking about.)

Also... At the end of the day, if I want to see a romantic relationship between people who look like them I can just read about Sambucky. It's not why I like the ship, obviously, but it's there for me and anyone else to enjoy. And if someone really needs to have two men with the faces of Anthony and Sebastian being romantically in love they can just watch tfatws and go to Ao3 for content. No need to drag the actors into this one.

I can be happy about the romance between the fictional characters and a friendship between the real people who play them at the same time. I don't need to mix the two.