The Good Place

24 | queer/demi | leftist still on about stucky failing at art but with style

[sunbleachedbitch]

And for the blonde man, perhaps some torture?

[jellyfishnemesis]

Me talking to Steve

[elbiotipo]

Also I've said this before but advertising is an industry that should be considered as pointless and harmful as fossil fuels.

[elbiotipo]

"as harmful as fossil fuels? don't you think you're exaggerating a bit?" the world's largest and most sophisticated surveillance networks that gather incomprehensible amounts of personal data to make profits technological companies who are the largest corporations on the world and shapers of public opinion often for the worse, all do it for advertising.

Cut the head, just ban advertising.

[elbiotipo]

Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?

From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.

[bumbumblebeetuna]

I’m sick of this house

am I the ONLY person who’s upset that Steve is coming back?? Like I’m a Steve fan of course I am and I always will be I love him so so much to the point where I cannot bear the thought of him getting mischaracterized by the franchise AGAIN…. Which is exactly what’s gonna fucking happen!!

yall open your eyes please im gonna sound like a broken record but that is NOT Steve rogers and if you have any hopes that it would be the Steve rogers you know and love you better let them go now. No they’re not gonna fix Steve’s “ending” and furthermore other characters are more than likely going to be upset about it or bring it up at the very least… literally look at Sam and Bucky’s reactions when they see him bro 😭😭😭😭 no one is happy and I GET IT because why the fuck would I be happy if my closest friend straight up LEFT everyone and had the audacity to show his face again ???

and NO I am not saying that endgame Steve was the real Steve either no he definitely would not have left. Period. But oh my god doomsday is going to make SURE we all know that steggy is supposed to be the only Steve rogers ship and that he DID in fact leave everyone (especially Bucky) for some woman who told him to move on 🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩

ALSO Steve Rogers in doomsday doesn’t even LOOK like Steve rogers.. that’s just Chris Evans in a wig bro like compare him to nomad Steve and you’ll definitely see a difference. HE’S NOT EVEN BLOND 😭😭😭😭😭😭 they didn’t even TRY oh my god.

Steve Rogers coming back is pure nostalgia bait and I’m sick and tired of people treating doomsday Steve like he’s the real Steve NO HE’S NOT and he never will be!! “Hey at least it’s Steve content” NO ITS NOT STEVE CONTENT I don’t know who that man is and I’m GOING to crash out

sorry that I’m being so aggressive about this content but I’m genuinely very disappointed because this is a character that I love so very much and I’m sick of marvel trying to kill his ass for the SECOND time. If Bucky doesn’t slime out this imposter I’m killing myself.

[cabbagerollsart]

i don't have a lot to say about this one

[sparksfly221]

that’s all i know • steve & bucky [made by me / sparksfly221]

[jellyfishnemesis]

Have I mentioned that I hate gay people

[potofsoup]

It's year 13?! Here’s the AO3 link if you want to see all 13: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1968099 (including me talking about playing the long game, of creating new systems, giving yourself time to rest, and the importance of meetings)

Here’s the tumblr tag if you prefer to stay on this site: https://potofsoup.tumblr.com/tagged/happy%20birthday%20steve/chrono

Anyways, thank you everyone who encouraged me to do this even though I'm not really in the MCU fandom anymore. (I hear Sam and Bucky are currently on the outs? Well I made them talk to each other again here. :P) This is done especially in memory of @rubynye, who passed away this year, and who I miss deeply. She was an eternal friend and perennial encourager of my July 4th comics, from the very first one. <3 Love you and miss you.

Sorry Steve ended up doing most of the talking, but it felt like a Steve year, because it's time to fight back.

Also, at one point I was going to set this by the Reflecting Pool, and had planned an extended analogy about how the Reflecting Pool has always needed maintenance against the sinking ground and the hot sun, but Trump is the first to (a) make it worse, and (b) refuse to own up to the mistakes, and (c) post National Guard to arrest anyone who tries to touch it. [quick reflecting pool history timeline] But then there's the heat wave and I'm like "the boys are staying inside this year." :P

Sorry this year's is more hastily done than usual -- I just finished my Asian American Citizenship comic a few days ago, and haven't really been thinking Captain America thoughts.

We'll see what next year brings!

(and remember to Vote AND! Sometimes I feel bad that I'm not doing enough, but then I remind myself that doing something half-assed is better than doing nothing. Sure, phone calls count for more than emails to my senator, but an email is better than nothing, so I need to get out of my own damn way and send that email instead of feeling bad that I'm not calling. Voting is going to be extra hard this year so good luck!!!)

[hhfdyjn]

28/100

[assiraphales]

kinda funny that steve rogers, a chronically ill son of first gen immigrants, was raised by a single mom in brooklyn into an anti fascist progressive man who stood up everyday against oppressors. and that cap 2 was about an AI surveillance state & how easily the government could be corrupted/compromised. and that cap 3 was about accords that would strip enhanced individuals of their autonomy and turn them into pawns/breathing weapons & a tortured POW who was villainized. and how in infinity war steve rogers had become a world wide fugitive doing what he thought was right even if it wasn’t legal.

and then endgame said well on that note, we’re sending him back in time to 1950s (the decade epitomes w trad values and when there was still segregation) and he wouldn’t do anything about social issues or hydra or his best friend being brainwashed bc he deserved to rest <3

[cocoagott]

EUINI in Witch Hat Atelier | 1.12: The Shadow of Romonon

[jellyfishnemesis]

Guys I'm serious who doomed my son? Who gave him the saddest, most pathetic little backstory and a stupid bowl cut and locked him in a room with a ticking bomb? Run Euini! The narrative is coming for you!!

[tlirsgender]

Am I not immune to getting so into a character that it's slowly sliding away from the source material and becoming Something Else. Perhaps... but surely I'm doing it in an avant garde way that's chic and thought provoking

[tlirsgender]

I'm doing things to bucky barnes that people who still engage with marvel media couldn't imagine. Not in a fanon way I'm a free thinker. After a certain level of rotating him in my mind a process occurred, like a centrifuge

[tlirsgender]

You cannot talk me into watching thunderbolts I don't care. I have my Mind Bucky. It's like a mind cigarette situation. I quit marvel movies by watching my "mind movies"

[amalgamasreal]

The Guel Cycle

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

[yakichoufd]

[captaintoomanybattles]

Steve Rogers is Not a Himbo

I always find it odd when people refer to Steve as a “himbo” or make jokes about him being a “dumb jock” or whatever. I just… don’t know where that comes from?

 In canon, Steve is really smart. It’s not just that he’s a “tactical genius”, we see over and over that he has great deductive skills, he’s observant, thoughtful, and knowledgeable, and he’s excellent at quickly assessing situations/people and figuring out a course of action based on that. Just a few examples off the top of my head:

CATFA:

manages to infiltrate a HYDRA stronghold, take it down, and save several hundred prisoners, BY HIMSELF

leads an elite team of five people to successfully take out more HYDRA bases

after the ice, he wakes up in a strange place and immediately figures out that it’s not New York and that the woman there is lying to him

The Avengers:

figures out Loki’s plan to use Stark Tower at the same time as Tony

finds SHIELD’s stash of HYDRA weapons (before Tony is able to find out what SHIELD is hiding)

makes pretty much all the leadership decisions during the Battle of New York, including the timing of when to close the portal 

CATWS:

realizes that something hinky is going on with SHIELD, and connects it to the helicarrier project (which Fury hadn’t done)

is able to successfully figure out who can be trusted and who can’t (when even Fury put his trust in the wrong people)

realizes that the ambush in the elevator is going to happen before it does

figures out where the secret HYDRA bunker is at Camp Lehigh

comes up with the (ultimately successful) plan to take down the helicarriers

CACW

is the only person we see actually READ THE ACCORDS and make his decision based on that

figures out how to dismantle the Iron Man suit enough that Tony won’t be able to keep fighting

rescues his friends from the Raft, one of the most secure prisons in the world

I think maybe people confuse Steve’s rashness with stupidity, but… Tony Stark is arguably more rash than Steve, and no one argues that he’s not a genius. Steve doesn’t have a strong sense of self-preservation, and he tends to take risks– but his risks generally pay off, and when he does make a mistake, it’s usually because he’s in the grip of strong emotion (like when Rumlow mentions Bucky in CACW,). I think perhaps it’s easy to overlook Steve’s intelligence because it’s less flashy than some of the other characters’, and perhaps because he’s not an inventor or a scientist. But he is, in fact, extremely intelligent, and I think that deserves to be acknowledged a bit more often.

[pierogiy]

Caught Up On My Stories BTW. Handling It

[kiu-k]

How to get a visa-free permit to Wakanda

[pinytree]