AceCase

Writer| Asexual | Non-binary | They/Them My funky little shrine of obsessions! Is this my year of gay sports series? Apparently

[etheltempest]

they are trying to cancel hank green for saying what ALL hockey fans have been thinking

[kolurize]

[rythyme]

obviously this is all in good fun and there are tons of differences between these sports aside from the size of the playing area, goal, and ball/puck — however.

in football / soccer, the area between the goal posts and crossbar is 0.25% the area of the soccer pitch.

in ice hockey, the area between the posts and crossbar is only 0.14% the area of the ice rink.

so, for ice hockey, the goal is actually smaller relative to the size of the play area

"but wait! hockey pucks and footballs aren't the same size!"

if you took a slice of a FIFA regulation football, the area is 0.22% of the goal area

if you did the same to an NHL puck, the area is between 0.09% and 0.20% of the goal area, depending on the angle of the puck

so assuming that it's easier to get a smaller object in the goal than a bigger object, hockey is the "easier" sport to score in this time.

"but what about the goalie??? they're the same size!"

true! in football, a MUCH larger portion of the net is left uncovered than in ice hockey. so that does seem a bit easier.

anyway, I'd love to see a hockey game played on a rink the size of a football pitch, or a football match played on an ice rink with puck-sized balls. i'm sure we could invent some really fun and fucked up sports if we tried hard enough.

[linskiiii]

Columbia bedroom 💕

[rillils]

but you know what really gets to me? how deeply and instinctively steve associates bucky with solace. with love. with mutual devotion.

he sees bucky again for the first time since 1945, standing on the business end of a gun, and through the pain and shock of this earth-shattering revelation, what does he say? what is the only thought he keeps coming back to? "even when i had nothing, i had bucky." which is such a powerful and, and intimate line, it knocks the breath out of you.

he has a moment to himself to gather his thoughts, and where does his mind travel to? to the lowest point of his life. the day he had to bury the only parent he had ever known, and found himself entirely alone in the world. yet the focus of that memory isn't so much on steve's grief, as you would expect; it's rather on bucky's comforting presence, his support, his unconditional affection. it's bucky offering to be steve's home, both literally and figuratively, and reminding steve that this, this thing between them, it's forever, no matter what.

there's just, this unspoken but very palpable tenderness between them, that steve keeps calling back to throughout the movie.

even when bucky's actively shooting at him, stabbing him, punching him with all the superhuman strength in his arm, steve doesn't see a heartless killing machine that must be stopped. even beaten to a pulp and on his way to bleeding to death, when steve looks up at bucky, he only ever sees the boy who loved him. the boy he has loved his whole life.

and now, now bucky's the one who has nothing. bucky's been stripped of everything: his name, his humanity, his sense of self, his freedom, his past. his entire life. for the past 70 years, he has been nothing but a weapon passed from hand to hand, used and brutalized without remorse.

and steve walks into that helicarrier determined to show him that what bucky told him that day, all those years ago? it goes both ways. that even now that bucky's got nothing, he still has steve, even if bucky doesn't remember that yet.

steve takes his helmet off, and lets go of his shield, and lays himself bare to bucky's rage - makes himself vulnerable in every way he possibly can - to show bucky that no matter what, there is one person in this world who loves him, and always will. that he's not alone, not anymore. steve will never let that happen again, even if it costs him his own life.

like god, if that isn't tenderness, i don't know what is.

[linskiiii]

Staring 💖

[nawiedzona]

Matt and Dan loves Neil!

[v11chel]

Kevin, my guy, his ass is NOT listening

[foxflees]

professional shit starter not finisher

[linskiiii]

"I'd drag you with me. It's a long way down."

[headspace-hotel]

Okay FIIIIIIIIIIIINE Stucky is the ship of all time. I'm convinced now.

what if there were two boys and their world was at war, and they were doomed from the very beginning. what if their story starts with them saying goodbye to each other as one of them is sent to be consumed by the war that is devouring the face of the planet.

what if the other chooses to be transformed into a weapon to find his way back to his friend, but he still can't save him and has to watch him die anyway. What if he tries to follow his friend into death but he can't die anymore.

What if he is forced to live in a future more remote than he could have imagined, wielded as a weapon and a symbol of tyranny.

Okay, now what if his friend couldn't die either. What if he was sent instead to a fate worse than death, the body he once embraced disassembled and rebuilt with unfeeling metal, the soul he once loved relentlessly scraped out and burned away until he was a hollow void, a suffering undead creature who didn't know his own name. What if his friend's tortured undead body came back to him. What if he got a second chance to tell his friend he loved him in the worst way possible.

What if there were two boys who became war machines. What if they were doomed from the very beginning and they were supposed to die, but instead they came back wrong. What if they found each other again transformed beyond all recovery and there was nothing left of their original selves. What if they were trapped in a remote and alien future with nothing to cling onto except each other.

Okay, now what if in this future, they'd gotten rid of sodomy laws and being openly homosexual was broadly socially acceptable, and they're both in super-strong new bodies that still remember the fear and repression in the marrow of their bones but also have ultra superpowered libidos that don't fucking quit. And there are words and terminology for these things and for desires and feelings but neither of them fucking know any of it.

What if that. Do you see why I'm insane.

[natshrmnffs-blog]

There is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying.  (c)

[sulkybbarnes]

I really wasn’t supposed to get this emotionally attached to a 95 year old patriotic fuck and his brainwashed greasy haired boyfriend but here we are anyway and I can’t help but question my life choices at every turn

[havoke]

do you ever think about how perfectly steve, bucky, and sam typify the 3 big wars america’s fought in over the past century?

steve is the soldier who fought in world war 2. he’s the tail end of the glory and honor of war. his reasons for fighting are clear cut, moral, as far as he can tell. but the weapons used are too deadly, too fatal for glory and honor, really. there’s the attempt to treat enemy combatants with respect, with honor, all while killing them quick than has ever been possible before. there’s the unease of the shift from the old style of fighting to the new. there’s the tiredness that only comes from a second global war in only two decades. there’s the closure that comes from unprecedented total destruction. the thought of “maybe now we can go home. maybe now we can build lives like our parents, those of us that are left.”

bucky is the soldier who fought in vietnam. he’s the one that couldn’t dodge the draft, that couldn’t evade the fight no matter how hard he tried. he’s the one who followed the orders he had to, and rebelled against all the others. his uniform was askew, more civvies than not. he didn’t look a soldier, and he didn’t fight like one either. he didn’t know why he was fighting, who he was fighting. he saw too many innocents die by the hands of his comrades, of himself. he felt agent orange burn his lungs, saw orphans crying in the streets. he came home, the rat-a-tat of machine guns echoing in his ears, always. he disembarked a plane, and was spat on by anti-war protesters. he couldn’t even be angry– he agreed with them. he participated in the winter soldier investigations, confessed what he’d been forced to do, and that almost abated the weight on his shoulders. almost.

sam is the soldier who fought in afghanistan. the modern soldier, with just as much shit as the rest of them. the difference is, where steve was greeted with celebrations and bucky was greeted with vitriol, sam is overlooked, forgotten. he suffers in silence, expected to endure without protest. sam copes, but not all vets are able to do the same. afghan war vets are the ones who take their own lives in droves, the unacknowledged, unknown aftershocks from an invasion founded on half-formed ambitions from men in suits who’d never have to bear the real burden. sam is the modern day vet, unknown, unseen, unthanked.

[kaasknot]

No wonder they’re all Captain America

[aleatoryw]

So is Nat the Cold War? People don’t see a soldier when they look at her, because she really isn’t, just like the cold war was never really a “war”. Nat is the spy on the run, the power never fully unleashed, the constant sense of fear that there is no backing down, no running– there are no vets of the cold war, but there are always the living casualties.

[manwithoutborders]

nailed it

[kadeart]

50 First Dates …

[lemonyandbeatrice]

#every day he wakes up and tries to kill Steve

[thefightingavenger-blog]

[bandaidsandbattlestaves-arc-blog]

AYE AYE CAPTAIN!

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[rampicn]

AYE AYE CAPTAIN!

[thefightingavenger-blog]

[captainamericasbiggestfanarchive]

CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!

[thefightingavenger-blog]

[captainamericasbiggestfanarchive]

CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!

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[captainamericasbiggestfanarchive]

CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!

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[tonys-snark-blog]

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[imabookworm31-deactivated202008]

Is this gonna be a thing every 4th of July ?

[wxrmxchinerox-deactivated201611]

YES.

[theophagism]

[spitandvinegar]

Ok so we all know that the answer to “Where did Captain America learn to steal a car?” is “Nazi Germany” but I think the more pressing question here is when the fuck did this complete maniac get a driver’s license Because ok, Mighty Mouse 1.0 is too poor to own a car, too short to reach the pedals, has vision problems, and is a goddamn New Yorker in the motherfucking 1930s, why on earth would he ever have learned to drive? So this little bastard can’t even tell the gas from the brakes, he gets all beefified, he goes on tour with the USO. Unless one of the showgirls coached him through stalling out a car all over some Hollywood back lot, he still can’t drive. He goes to Europe. At some point, some genius looks at him and thinks “this strapping specimen of American hunkhood obviously knows his way around a vehicle, let’s give him a motorcycle,” and Steve “no parachute” Rogers is like “how hard could this be?” and promptly wraps himself around approximately eight trees at the same time. So then he’s kickin’ ass, fightin’ Hydra, and it’s just months of Bucky being like “give me the goddamn keys, Steven,” and Dum Dum and Morita endlessly encouraging his fucking insane Fury Road bullshit, like the Howling Commandos just use “grenade” as code for “Rogers” when they’re reporting why yet another truck has been destroyed beyond recognition. Yes, sir, another grenade, I agree, sir, it’s very odd that we keep losing vehicles in the same way, that’s the third this month alone So then he’s in the future and SHIELD is sorting his shit out, and they’re not going to force Captain goddamn America to wait in line at the DMV, they’re all in complete awe in him and they’ve seen the old reels of him on his bike, so when they issue him his driver’s license without any type of road test they go ahead and give him a motorcycle license too

and steve is like …neat.

Ok so then Bucky is back, shit is settled down, everyone’s heading somewhere and Steve gets in the driver’s seat and Buck’s like WHOA WHOA WHOA are you people out of your goddamn minds?! Why is Steve driving, is this some kind of mission, are we heading into a combat zone, is the plan for the vehicle to get blown up?? GIVE ME THE GODDAMN KEYS STEVEN And Sam is all “what are you talking about, Steve’s a great driver, I saw him jump his bike over a car once” And Buck is all “yes but have you seen him use a turn signal?” And Steve’s like, “Listen, we never needed to ‘signal’ our ‘turns’ in Nazi Germany.” And after that Bucky always drives. Fin.

[mechinaries]

“aw, don’t be mad, it was just a ’armless joke.”

“i gotta say, steve, your sense of humor is disarming.”