All my cries are for Bucky Barnes

[doveywovy]

thinking about the juxtaposition of preserum steve automatically getting flagged as gay vs 100 years in the future and post-serum literally nobody realizing he's gay. and steve having to figure out how to navigate that, if he even wants to correct the assumption.

[doveywovy]

its an appearance thing but also a cultural thing, except now hes found out gay culture obviously moved on without him. every way he knew how to signal he was gay is so outdated as to be nonsense to modern queer men, and you know hes mourning bucky so maybe hes not ready to be out anyways. maybe this is one more thing he can hide (keep safe) about steve rogers- captain america is heterosexual. steve isn't. another layer to it.

and maybe hes a little darkly satisfied every time tony makes a crack about it or nat tries to set him up with a woman; its his way of reminding himself They Don't Know Him. his workplace boundaries are secure. he can't lose them like he lost the howlies if he doesn't let them in. if they only know captain america then steve rogers can't lose them.

[assiraphales]

steve rogers was told by his old love interest that she lived her life, now it’s time for him to live his and when natasha asked him what he’s looking for in a partner, he says someone with shared life experience. we then promptly meet the winter soldier/bucky barnes who breaks thru of 70 years of memory loss and programming bc of his love for steve (the one face hydra could never take from him). we also find out that their catchphrase is ‘til the end of the line aka til death do we part.

but no no you’re right we all definitely read way to far into it

[marz-genesis]

deliverance

[the-evil-skull]

The characters of Thor and Loki only work in the MCU because they fundamentally belong to a different genre than everyone else. The plot of the Avengers happens because Loki, part of Thors world, bleeds into the "real" world and completely overwhelms everyone. In the Avengers scene where Thor and Loki are alone together and they start conversing in Shakespearean, for six minutes the movies genre changes and we're stuck in the opera. That's the ONLY way those two should be written as far as I'm concerned and any attempts to characterize them by fitting them into the rest of the MCU "genre" fundamentally misunderstands not only their characters but the functions they serve.

Call the Branagh movies "boring" all you want, but there's a reason the first two Thor movies were directed by a man whose main strengths were pretentious, melodramatic Shakespeare film adaptations

[koko2unite]

please break the industry and make every game have mandatory bulge

[cartoonsbyandie]

Little dudes

[pain-art]

“It’s tempting to want to live in the past. It’s familiar. It’s comfortable. But it’s where fossils come from.“   Man Out Of Time

[venndaai]

Happy pride to the most iconic page in comics history

[rillils]

I think what really breaks me about catws Steve is, he's just... just trying so hard. So hard. In every respect. He's doing all he can to adapt and catch up, and he's so painfully aware of how Not Okay he is, and he's so fucking lonely and so desperate for the glimmer of a connection with another human being, and he just-- he wants to get better, see, he really honestly does, he just doesn't know how.

He's so haunted by his past, he sees his own ghost amongst the barracks of his old camp. You watch him ask a kind stranger, another survivor just like him, riddled with guilt just like him, how to move on, if it is in fact possible to move on at all, please god say that people can move on, say that it gets better than this, and it fucking hurts your soul.

Because there's this one thing from his past that Steve isn't prepared to let go of. The one miracle he cannot hope for, not even in this strange new world of aliens and magic and ancient gods turned flesh and bone. He aches with it all the time, and what he does to soothe that hurt is torture himself go sit in a museum where they keep the only tangible proof that the man Steve loved, the man he still loves, ever existed at all; and with it, too, the proof that Steve couldn't save him. That Steve failed him. That Steve will never get him back. And god is it any wonder that out of all the love songs he could have picked to bring home with him, he chose the one crooning about a tearful reunion with the love of your life as he finally, finally comes home to you? The one thing Steve can never have?

He fucking destroys me, man.

And then out of nowhere, life pipes up like Woops, my bad, babe! You don't gotta cling to the past anymore, I'm gonna bring the past all the way home to you! Literally! Like all the way to your apartment building!!, and it hands Steve the very thing he's been longing for since one snowy winter day in 1945, and Steve won't even realize what happened until LATER THAT SAME WEEK.

It's fucking nuts. It's appalling. And I love it, I love all of it. How marvel created THE love story and wrapped a romcom inside a tragedy inside a political thriller spy movie is beyond me, but they did it. Fuck.

[rillils]

my brain: the helicarrier scene from catws is a cinematic masterpiece, it's serious and tragic and emotionally charged, heavy with meaning and symbolism, and it constitutes a truly pivotal moment in both characters' arcs. don't ruin it.

also my brain:

[rillils]

no because how did Bucky even end up at the Smithsonian. how did he find out about the Captain America Retrospective while he was wandering around DC, slinking in the shadows in stolen clothes with a dislocated shoulder and a pulsing mess of memories trying to untangle itself in his mind.

did he see the exhibit advertised on a poster, a billboard, did somebody slip a flyer in his gloved hand? did his breath hitch when he saw Steve's face, suit and helmet on - painted pretty and heroic and whole, not broken and pale and barely breathing like Bucky had left him on the riverside? did he go because he knew this was the only way he could see Steve's face again, and he had to, he needed to see it again, needed to understand the confusing, overwhelming emotions it sparked inside his chest?

and he did go. he deliberately took himself to this very very public place, walked amongst the crowd with his face exposed, and risked being recognized or captured or worse, just to stand there in the only place where he'd be surrounded by Steve. by his past. by the proof that all the things Steve told him on the helicarrier were true.

did he even realize that he himself would be part of the exhibit? did he even remember, at this point in time, that he - that Bucky Barnes, whoever that was - was such an intrinsic and fundamental part of Steve's life, that they couldn't possibly tell Steve's story without mentioning him, too? that they couldn't even begin to describe Steve without pointing out how inseparable they were? that there would have been no Captain America without Bucky, not because Bucky was his irreplaceable sidekick, but because the only reason Steve became Cap in the first place was Bucky himself? that the only reason 399 men survived the war was because Bucky happened to be held prisoner in the same facility as them? that god only knows how many people, children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, owe their lives to the fact that one Steve Rogers loved Bucky Barnes so much, he risked it all for him, and only for him? do you think there's any chance that I'll ever get over any of this????

[imposterogers]

love love the idea of the winter soldier learning steve’s life history (especially after the war) and just kind of shrugging it off bc yah. checks out. but then as bigger parts of his memory come back as well as all those messy complicated feelings towards steve besides “I know him” suddenly he’s spending days at a time FUMING over all that shit that little punk has pulled. delayed reactions of all time

[imposterogers]

the winter soldier: your body was pulled from the arctic in a block of ice

steve, hesitant: …..yah. i flew it into the ocean to prevent a nuclear disaster

the winter soldier: practical

steve, thinking he’s gotten away with it: that’s what I’ve been saying 😇

bucky barnes, five months and three days later: STEVE WHAT THE FUCK

[rogers-carter]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR DRAMATIC KING, STEVEN GRANT ROGERS (July 4th, 1918)

[dailyavengers]

[amuseoffyre]

What I really love about Chris Evans’ portrayal of Steve Rogers is such simple body language choices like the one above. In the top shot, he’s relaxed, at ease, talking business, which is fine.

But when Steve is confronted by an attractive woman making a direct move on him, he actually almost wheezes, like he would have done back in the day, trying to catch his breath.

He hunches up, folds down, retreating back into the shape of the “little guy”, because he isn’t used to being approached like this, and it kind of intimidates him a lot.

And that rubbing his forehead thing? That’s Steve’s anxiety tell. He does it a lot. Especially when he’s pushed into a situation where he’s incredibly uncomfortable and nervous and out and out panicking. He did it before Bucky threw him at his double-date.

Such little motions make the performance perfect.

[my-ny]

[my-ny]

Steve + text posts pt. 3/?