Cat Nerd, Godzilla fan, and Marvel lover

[sakurasaku-xyli]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

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[wolfythewitch]

furthest we've ever been

[mal101]

So I made that post about needing art of Hal holding Bolaire in an Alas, Poor Yorick pose (major kudos to anyone who took up the challenge), but then I remembered "wait didn't Liam do that for a video...and then make out with the skull in the bloopers?"

so anyway

[doctormur]

Okaaaaay…

I am NOT the one to resist 😈

[centaurianthropology]

Legitimately one of the funniest things in hindsight about episode 1 is that Bolaire, ancient sentient god-killing weapon, talented actor and curator, Hal’s best friend of at least several years who adores him and his family, has absolutely no idea how old Shadia and Hero are.

Shadia is twenty-five. Hero is old enough to discuss business with Hal in her summation of how she’s doing. They are both fully-grown adults! But Bolaire shields them when the party gets intense. He tries to defuse the tension by teaching them a valuable lesson about social gatherings, the way you would for very small children.

So either Bolaire met them when they were much smaller and has forgotten that they age, or simply cannot read ages particularly well and, when introduced to them, went “Ah yes, my dear friend Hal’s children. I know children. Children are tiny. Hello, Tiny Children.”

And both Shadia and Hero have simply been too polite to ever correct him. Perfection.

[quillflower-art]

Bolaire ✨🎭 He's so special to me I love his whole deal

ALSO I don't think people talk about the casual face caressing in ep. 4 enough like what's going on there

[shalizeh7]

[kitattack]

🩸my life is in your hands🩸

[artmadval]

importance of mutual trust ☺️

[realchemistry]

Anthony Russo on the Smithsonian footage from Captain America: The Winter Soldier So, we actually never had a scripted beat in terms of what was happening there on a storytelling level. It was just a moment to show the two characters were close and had a great relationship.

[emmpire]

Originally posted by ariesw1493

[softboynick]

After three (3) years since the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) dir. Anthony and Joe Russo, I still don’t understand why the Captain America exhibit was held in the Air and Space Museum. Steve Rogers is not even a pilot. The only time he ever manned a plane, and he nosedived it straight into the Arctic. 

[mindthetarget]

I have definitive, rational answers from both filmmaking and museum-curating perspectives. Y’all ready? Buckle up; try not to crash the plane into the water before we reach our destination.

Here’s the short version if you don’t want to read below the cut:

1) Filmmaking reason: using visual metaphor to remind the audience of the previous Captain America film’s events and Steve’s identity through the lens of history, science, and the military.

2) Filmmaking reason: using visual allegory to echo The First Avenger and foreshadow events of The Winter Soldier, specifically the theme of “Steve Rogers Versus Planes of Doom: Bad Things Happen (The Sequel).”

3) Museums curation reason: museums move exhibits as needed according to renovation schedules and capitalizing on popularity for visitation numbers.

4) Museums curation reason: museums try to stick to their themes, but they don’t have to adhere to them entirely. They can have the occasional exhibit “for fun.”

5) Steve Rogers did have relevancy to Air & Space because he prevented it from going down the Darkest Timeline path when he took out one of those Planes of Doom.

6) Filmmaking reason: Aesthetic and emotional buildup.

7) Parallels reason: Captain America fits into the Air & Space museum’s themes of “ingenuity and courage, war and peace, politics and power, as well as society and culture.”

Now, if you want to go into more detail…

Keep reading

[bloodyneptune-deactivated201808]

so ive done this before, im sure, but i wanna talk about Buckys scars. because i always see art with scarring all around the arm/metal line, and swear thats not what they are

five lines. yall do me a favor, and mimic clawing at your skin in that spot.

-the thumb would make the shortest line, and curve inward. -the pointer finger would have the most pressure on it from that angle, and the deeper the cut, the more likley it would get caught a bit and skip. see the break in that line? -middle finger would have the longest contact time -ringer finger a shot straight line, and the pinkey just a small gouge.

if he looked down and saw the arm, panicked, and tried to claw at it, thats exactly where he’d be looking and where he’d claw at it.

now (and if you could ignore the part where im severely obsessive and should probably get some kinda hobby), i painted my shoulder. just slapped some tempera paint on and tried to mimic what i think he did, and the results were actually pretty close.

(id have gotten a picture, but my roommate came home with guests and it was either walking back to my room to get my phone, or keep continuing my charade of making her think im mentally stable)

if anyone goes to a convention panel with him (or the Russos) i will pay you to ask about this

[bucky-is-my-precious]

Like I needed my heart ripped out again

[forassgard]

[000012452-deactivated20200912]

#he’s too pretty and too smart in this scene#its overwhelming

[the-linaerys]

REBLOGGING FOR TAGS: #and Steve is never really surprised by how shitty people can be#just disappointed#very disappointed#Captain America is very disappointed

[bibliothekara]

*THOSE TAGS*

*now has many thinky thoughts about Steve Rogers and Night Watch and Young Sam Vimes*

[star-anise]

The third gif is what keeps getting me.

He sees all these people getting on preparing to attack him, and they are all the faces of men he has worked with over the last few weeks and months, maybe years.  Men he’s trusted.  Lives he’s saved.  Comrades in arms.  His team, as much as he’s had one.

That is the look of bleakness, as someone else gets on and Steve thinks, “You?  I liked you.  I thought you were better than this.  Oh god, don’t make me do this.”

(Sometimes the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger)

But these aren’t people he’ll lie down for.  This is a fight he’ll pick his shield up after.  There’s nobody in this elevator he loves enough.

[boogiewoogiebuglegal]

This whole scene is a masterpiece of subtle acting and one I don’t think Chris Evans gets nearly enough credit for. I mean, you can see the moment the penny drops and it’s minutes before everyone in that elevator thought it would. (I get the feeling he gets underestimated a lot at SHIELD—he’s big, he’s blond, he’s the man out of time, what can he know?) But that mind never stops working and the minute the penny drops, he knows what he’ll have to do to survive. 

[sabacc]

Alexander Pierce + healthy villainous emotions

[wiselizard]

 #I KNOW IF TUMBLR COULD IT WOULD GIVE ME NEGATIVE NOTES FOR THIS POST BECAUSE EVERYONE HATES THIS GUY SO MUCH #BUT IDK HE’S MARVELLOUS DEFINITELY THE BEST MARVEL VILLAIN YET #REALLY SHITSCARY #NO PATHOS OR BROKEN PSYCHE LIKE RONAN OR MALEKITH #NO DADDY ISSUES OR JEALOUSY OR A FACE THAT COMES OFF??? #A COLD MIND COMPLETELY IN THE GAME #LIKE IN THE THIRD GIF #THAT’S HOW YOU REACT TO AN UNEXPECTED MOVE ON THE CHESSBOARD #BUT IT’S OKAY #HE’S A MANAGER HE’S GONNA MANAGE IT HE’S GOT HIS MBA #HE KNOWS HOW THIS WORLD WORKS BECAUSE HE SHAPED IT AND YOU CAN’T OUTPLAY HIM #UNLESS YOU GIVE HIM LEAD POISONING #FROM YOUR GUN TO HIS CHEST #THAT WASN’T IT HIS MBA PROGRAM #HAHAH

[mirageofelephants-deactivated20]

And here I thought we could go without romanticizing one more white male villain smh

[bonesbuckleup]

I would argue there is a difference between acknowledging that a character is a fantastic, multifaceted villain and romanticizing them.

Pierce is cold. He is calculating. He knows how to manipulate people into doing what he wants. He’s not afraid to use pawns and sacrifice them accordingly. God, he is an awful person. A terrible one. He’s an abuser and unapologetic and willing to take out millions of people for his vision, however fucked up that vision is, of the greater good.

Recognizing that he is one of the most terrifying villains that marvel has rolled out with does not equal romanticizing him. He’s the kind of evil that creeps up without you noticing and by the time you do it’s too late. He’s smiling as he stabs you in the back. Pierce is important because he’s the bad guy who can actually exist in the world today. There aren’t people building giant robots, there aren’t Norse gods or nazis peeling their faces off. What there are in this world are politicians in positions of power who abuse that power and nothing is more dangerous than that.

Those tags are great because if you go against Pierce in a battle of wits you WILL NOT WIN. Plain and simple. Literally the only way to stop him was pure force.

TLDR - pierce is a despicable human being but recognizing why and how he is an excellent villain for this day and age does not equal romanticizing him.

[mirageofelephants-deactivated20]

I actually just used the wrong word, I meant glorifying not romanticizing

[bonesbuckleup]

I’d still argue though that he’s not being glorified? Everything within the post is canon.

I think everything you need to know about Pierce is in the line “the man turned down a Nobel Peace Prize.” He had literally everyone so fooled that not even NICK FURY suspected him until far too late. I’m not trying to put Pierce on a pedestal or anything like that, but he was winning at a game that no one else even knew they were playing.

Like I hate Pierce. I HATE him. Like I said, he is an abuser and a terrorist and a terrible person. But Talking about his effectiveness as a villain in context of a movie still doesn’t equal glorifying him.

[ink-phoenix]

For a villain to be effective, they must be the hero of their own story. 

THAT’s what makes a good villain. THAT’s what makes a villain terrifying. THAT’s what makes Pierce terrifying. Because Pierce is the best villain Marvel has given us because he is real. He’s in congress; he’s leading our troops; he’s in the Senate; he’s sitting in the UN; he’s at the head of a multi-billion dollar corporation and he’s drafting laws and hey, did we forget that we already have a project insight? Because what’s the difference between the helicarriers and drones?

What makes CA: TWS such an amazing piece of storytelling is that it is absolutely a sociopolitical thriller disguised as a superhero movie. And if Pierce wasn’t the cold, smart, dispassionate, well-spoken, insidious bastard that he is, he wouldn’t be nowhere as effective. Even after Steve gives his passionate speech at the Triskelion, even when the World Security Council turns against him, Pierce still thinks he can win by spinning things his way. He absolutely believes he’s doing this for the greater good. No villain worth his screen time ever looks at the things they do and thinks ‘ah yes I am such a terrible person, doing these evil, awful and morally wrong things.’ Every single villain must absolutely think they are absolutely in the right, and the hero is their villain. Or they become stereotypes and caricatures. 

Discussing the type of villain Pierce is has nothing to do with glorifying him or romanticizing him. It has everything to do with recognizing the Russos’ clever, brilliant writing, which shows us that real, true evil doesn’t need to have a red skull or an army of chitauri. Real evil exists, we are steeped in it, and we don’t even fucking know it until it’s too late.

[elljayvee]

also, don’t think for ONE INSTANT that casting Robert motherfucking Redford — All-American roguish Good (white, blond, CLONE OF CAPTAIN AMERICA) Guy Robert Redford — wasn’t possibly the most deliberate casting choice made in this movie.  Robert Redford is a Good Guy, and you know it.  How do you know?  Why, just look at him!  Look at his blond good looks!  Look at his nice suit!  Look how perfectly uber-American and…and…and he just LOOKS like he should be in charge, um, because he’s so.  White.  And Perfect.  And.  Rich.  And uber-American and…we let those kinds of people get anything they want…oh.

whoops.

[minim-calibre]

Reblogging for commentary. 

Alexander Pierce really is the absolute best villain Marvel’s done to date, and could well be the best they’ll every do, because of this. He’s utterly terrifying, and hits far too close to home.

[monanotlisa]

All of this — I love Alexander Pierce, in the sense that I fear and loathe him: He is the real deal; he is the kind of person you do find in glass-and-steel high-rises, in backrooms of clubs with panels of dark wood, in all the exclusive places where powerful people gather. Because these people, these people are still mostly older white men with the “right” kind of origin story and, yes, looks. Not to mention the whole meta commentary of casting Robert freakin’ Redford: this idea of, beyond the sheer acting, of what he can evoke in others. Someone else commented that had Captain America been made almost fifty years ago, this would have been Steve Rogers. 

[notanearlyadopter]

The thing that works about him, really, is that he’s like the villains we have in real life America. Slick and wealthy and powerful and white.

[optimysticals]

Making Robert Redford the villain was possibly the most terrifying casting choice because he is usually Mister Hero, or at least not a bad guy. And You can’t really go into this movie without knowing at least a little who he is (or like me both on & off screen) and that plays into your expectations of his character. And then his villainous aspects just hit that much harder, and you realize that (to quote above) it is absolutely a sociopolitical thriller disguised as a superhero movie. 

I think Pierce is terrible, he is clearly irredeemable, and I think his ending was the only way to take him out of play. I love how he was portrayed, but not him.

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[scarlct-vvitch]

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed

[squeakitties]

following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

[squeakitties]

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

once you get over your ass and realise you will never get some people and that’s ok you are basically immune to right wing fearmongering. otherkin? none of my fucking business

[stevishabitat]

[mandate-transgenderism]

I must not fall victim to disgust. Disgust is the heart-killer. Disgust is the little-death that brings total apathy. I will face my disgust. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the disgust has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

[turbozarky]

hell you may even like it