#mcuposting

[jessmalia]

people act like hating sam is imperative to being a bucky fan as if bucky wouldn’t fucking kill you for saying that

[blissfali]

WHEN WAS ANYONE GONNA TELL ME THAT MSM2 HAS TEACHER PETER. LETS GOOOOOO MY BOY

[tygerbug]

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, tfatws Marvel memes

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if lokis next mcu appearance does not involve getting their gender transed it is a hate crime

[jessmalia]

This has been said before by people better at articulating their opinions than me, but the bad reception Black Widow got from male MCU fans is about so much more than just the simple concept that it's a superhero movie starring a woman, but the fact that it's so clearly a film by women for women. It's in all the little things, like all the amazing braids sported by the female characters instead of having them constantly fight with their hair down, Yelena and Natasha being excited about the vest and all its pockets, zero sexualisation of any of the Widows, the forced hysterectomy being discussed matter-of-factly, and the women getting to wear minimal to no make-up in settings where that makes sense. But it's also in the big things, like the story centred around the epidemic of girls being subjected to human trafficking with a theme of reclaiming your anatomy and freeing other female victims, both others’ and your own.

Obviously this doesn't mean that every single woman on earth is automatically gonna identify with and like the movie, that's an impossible achievement. But it is a movie that's so much more than pandering, and these geeks are just completely incapable of inserting themselves into a point of view different from their own.

[jessmalia]

Thinking about Natasha Romanoff, the life-long spy with more aliases to her name than years of her life, the woman who is always acting, always playing a game of fear she'll fall behind and get hurt, asking Steve Rogers point blank, "Who do you want me to be?" and Steve replying "How about a friend?" He tells her he doesn't want her to play a role for him and instead asks her to just be herself. He asks her to be someone he can rely on, not because they're coworkers assigned to the same mission, but because they know and trust each other.

[jessmalia]

i love that i started off my mcu relapse like "i don't necessarily ship steve and nat romantically, i like both the platonic and romantic interpretations of their relationship" and now i'm like "no they make out sloppy style all the time i know cause they told me"

[jessmalia]

We need to talk more about how Steve canonically told Bucky he was gonna give the shield to Sam and that Bucky thought it was a great idea. And when it happened he looked at Sam LIKE THIS:

And his whole "Steve gave you that shield because you're you" speech in Brave New World. Was that him projecting his own thoughts or was it something Steve actually said? Did he and Steve sit gushing about what a great Captain America Sam would make together???