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[mintytrifecta]

I wonder how often what Rick says or thinks or does comes from diane. How much of what he does is because of her or for her, how much of what he says is an unconscious attempt to talk to her, or as her, because he can't bear an existence completely devoid of her. Does he ever see the world and try to look at it through her eyes?? Has his gradual shift in personality ever been an attempt to replicate her in some capacity because existing on an infinite scale means the only way to cope is to become the only thing that's finite? How much has he devoted in not only his life, but in his personhood, to the only being on the multiversal scale he can never replicate? How often does he see the world through lenses tinted with the color of her blood? The diane we saw in the hole was said for a fact to be how she would act outside of it, and she was so, so similar to Rick only after his downward spiral. Does he find any comfort in that? In knowing that his movement is being pulled by the very strings of her ghost? Does infinity ever dream of singularity and grieve for the fact it can't exist in the same place?

[synthesiz3]

it means so much to me that Rick used to be a lightweight and that Diane was the one able to hold her liquor and drink ALIENS under the table “kept looking for my wife at the bottom of a bottle” literally confirms he finds comfort in picking up her habits in a form of desperate grief AND HE STILL INVENTS THINGS WITH HER IN MIND all the animal communication things from her thesis, robots, and of course his AI with Diane’s voice and sassy personality, she is truly such a part of him that he misses so. much.

[ricknmortysideblog]

new headcanon: beth gets her childhood murderous tendencies from diane. diane says that's "just how girls are". rick doesn't remember any murderous children from when he was a kid, but he doesn't have enough of a frame of reference to argue

[d33pwithinmys0ul]

rick sanchez always being so soft with every fake version of his goddamn dead wife

[synthesiz3]

Everything Everywhere All At Once AU but with Rick Sanchez specifically because it hits all the same topics of existential mindfuck and infinite multiverse versions of yourself. Except where rickandmorty is so bleak and nothing matters EEAAO is so much more hopecore. Idk choosing to live in your reality despite having to face infinity all the time is a happy ending I want for him and his family 😭

[smartestmammalintheuniverse]

Just remembering Prime telling the Morties that Rick’s car(and garage) sound like Diane, their deceased grandmother whom they never got to meet

“I can see why you hate him.”

“Everyone else tee up to arrive later, like your car. And she sounds like our wife. Like in a f*cked up robot way but that’s definitely her voice… You sentimental fella..”

Because he is sentimental. He holds onto everything as tight as he can until his fingernails are ripping because he’s so self-destructive. Evil Morty acknowledges it as well. He saw it quite clearly when he heard that Morty was Rick’s greatest enemy original grandson.

“You are a little different, Rick. Maybe, I can use that someday.”

This is just random bits about the Diane AI system that he has running everything in the garage and the car.

Rick putting her voice into the technology that he is around the most and giving her the ability to speak whenever. Her voice, a simple change, because he can’t remember what she sounded like. The operating system that has cameras installed everywhere and the ability to hack into others to watch him. ‘She’ is also the only AI tool that he has ever made that didn’t betray him. She talks back. They bicker, but he never changes her into something more ‘palatable.’

[smartestmammalintheuniverse]

Rick loves Diane to the point of invention even still. He couldn’t stop thinking about her, ever. He could not live without her. He put her into every single thing he made. His AI has her voice. His AI that he built into everything that comes with him and that he trusts to manage all of his projects has her voice. He has Summer doing chores and managing other things for him, because he trusted Diane more than anyone else. Even Prime decided that the best way to get back at Rick was to build Diane’s as weapons. Rick loved Diane more than anyone else and he still does. It’s also why he didn’t try and make a clone or a robot of her. It wouldn’t be her and he would always know that. It’s the same reason he cares that he has his Morty. The Morty that always makes sure that Rick knows that he, Rick C-137, is his grandpa. Not anyone else

[strawberry-spectre]

2025 Spelltine pride comic

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[cardiamachina]

“I think we deserve a soft epilogue, my love. We are good people and we’ve suffered enough.”

— Seventy Years of Sleep # 4. nikka ursula (n.t)

[explodingcrenelation]

Have we talked about this scene yet? Because I want to talk about this scene and why it’s important that this is the memory Steve is thinking about right before he has to face the Winter Soldier again.

We all know how out of place and unhappy Steve feels in modern society. The movie doesn’t make any bones about it. Even though good ol’ Cap exudes positivity, we see how he uses his time. When he’s not at work for SHIELD, he’s grasping at straws, trying to catch up, trying to make sense of how he fits in a world that’s moved on without him. When Steve starts to feel out of place even when he’s playing soldier for SHIELD, Sam tells him that he could do something different, anything at all; but Steve looks blank. Sam asks him what makes him happy, and Steve doesn’t know. 

The only thing that keeps him going is knowing that his sacrifice helped save the world. As he says to Peggy, he always wanted to do “what was right,” and at least he can take some comfort from the fact that he helped save countless lives from Hydra by losing everything that meant a damn to him.

That is, until he and Natasha find Zola in the underground bunker and they find out that Hydra is still alive and well – thriving, even – within the ranks of SHIELD. 

This is the moment Steve learns he gave up his life for nothing.  

So. The flashback scene.

I’ve heard some people say that they think the scene is extraneous. That it’s enough to know that Bucky and Steve were friends way back when, only Bucky doesn’t remember (and if you want more skinny!Steve and scenes of Bucky and Steve being chummy, go back and watch The First Avenger). On the surface, it may seem like this scene is rehashing old territory, but it’s actually telling us quite a bit more than that. 

Bucky is walking Steve home after his mother’s funeral, and Steve is obviously vulnerable and shaken. His parents were the foundational figures of his life, and they’re both gone now. Before Bucky can even get the question out, Steve rejects the idea of moving in with Bucky. He insists he can get by on his own. Then he fumbles clumsily in his jacket looking for his key, but he can’t find it. Bucky casually picks up the spare and hands it to him. 

This moment.

It’s such a simple gesture, but the camera focuses in on that key like it’s the freaking Tesseract. Why? Why is this moment with Bucky so prominent in Steve’s thoughts? Why not something out of their days together with the Howling Commandos? Or why not something from when they were kids running around on the playground? 

This moment is an echo of exactly what Steve’s feeling in the future: lost and alone. Everything that means home is shut behind the locked door of time (or a coffin lid).

But against all possibility, Bucky is alive. And, to Steve, Bucky doesn’t just have the key back home, he is the key back home.  

“I can get by on my own.”

“But the thing is, you don’t have to.”

Suddenly that promise is everything. If Bucky is still alive, then Steve isn’t alone. He didn’t make a mistake putting the plane in the water. There’s a meaning for him to be in this time and place, and Bucky is that meaning. That’s why Steve has to believe Bucky will remember, why he desperately doesn’t want to fight him. Steve wants them both to be able to go home again.

[synthesiz3]

[sillybillytime]

Bucky is a huge massive fucking nerd and Steve is the punk rock radical, not the other way around.

Steve’s identity revolves entirely around fighting. Fighting for the oppressed, fighting against oppressors, fighting just because. He actively wants to die fighting, that’s why he does what he does. He’s polite, sure, but never confuse that for being nice or civil. There’s a big difference. Steve was probably applying for the draft BEFORE Pearl Harbor, he’s very politically engaged, even before he became Captain America. He might wear old clothes, but rest assured he would be an actual punk if he was born today.

Bucky, on the other hand, somehow got a hold of a copy of The Hobbit when it first came out in ENGLAND. That’s an insane feat. You couldn’t even really special order it that fast. He would have had to be aware of JRR Tolkien (likely finding him through CS Lewis and short stories in nerdy fandom spaces) to have heard about it in the first place, then got a copy sent to him by mail from someone he knew in England. That’s levels of dorkery that we don’t even have the technology for anymore. Closest thing would be traveling to a different country to collect a specific unknown book. Then, he chose to go to the World’s Fair on his last night in Brooklyn. Sure, post Winter Soldier, he likes to wear black, but he listens to like. Swing music from the 40s. He’s not cool. He just doesn’t talk enough for everyone (but Steve and Sam) to discover what a huge dork he is. If he was born today, he’d be into comics and d&d

[nbdblogger]

omgg???

[kiu-k]

15 Colours Challenge: 10 解き放たれた鶯 Unleashed Olive Green (It’s not actually Olive Green but it’s the closest description)

“Rain season in Wakanda”

Btw the next piece is an interesting one for me so I'm gonna spend more time on it. Hopefully I can finish it by Sunday 😬

[yikesdrama]

Bucky getting his arm ripped off again and being thrown across the room, only for Ava to quickly snatch up the arm, as Walker is already pulling Bucky upright, so that Alexei can toss him over his shoulders like a rag-doll, while Yelena runs for the elevator.

— Thunderbolts*

i love how they all came together for Bucky 😭

[synthesiz3]

oh thats mama, they got together to rescue mama😭

“MOM! QUICK GET MOM, WE GOTTA GO”

[rillils]

Today on: Steve and Bucky are Every Love Story Ever, exhibit C

Speaking of Achilles and Patroclus;

isn't it kinda crazy how if you bring two boys together, one fair-haired and fierce and noble, the other slightly older, dark and caring and loyal to a fault, they will grow up together as inseparable companions,

end up fighting in the greatest war of their time, for wherever one leads, the other will naturally follow,

then one day, one of them will pick up the other's armor and die fighting in his name,

and the remaining boy, inconsolable in his grief, will be driven to despair and rage and dive back into battle more ruthlessly than ever before to avenge his best friend and lover,

and ultimately follow him in death?

Man, they just don't write stories like this anymore.

[kaipassedgo]

every day i wake up and am mad at the end of steves storyline and the full and complete lack of people who GET IT

[kiu-k]

“Ah, I think I fell for him again. ”

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