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[rayrayhaywire]

I need Captain America: not as a person, but as a concept

I want Steve as Captain America. I want Sam as Captain America. I want Bucky as Captain America. I was Nat as Captain America. I want a righteous governor as Captain America. I want a manager of a community center as Captain America. I want a protestor sticking it to the government as Captain America. I want a little girl who is working to improve her class' learning conditions for everyone as Captain America. I want a random guy who's raising awareness about a life-changing prospect as Captain America. I want a person who's working to spread accessibility for all kinds of disabled people and people will special needs as Captain America

I don't want Captain America: the savior, the leader, the wisdom, the man

I want Captain America: the hope of people, people you can trust, people who will count everyone in, people that are willing to learn and try, people that will make it better without destroying themselves in the process

Steve shouldn't be "the legend of the man who gave it all." Sam shouldn't be "the one trying to live up to the legacy."

And I mostly want it because whether it's Steve or Sam, the burden of the shield is immeasurable. You're not allowed to make mistakes, you're not allowed to stray away without "tarnishing" the mantle or America herself. You can't be your own person, you live as Captain America; you die as Captain America. You sell your soul to the shield, and I hate that

Captain America shouldn't be one man dedicating their entire life to a "purpose" until they die. Captain America should be an institution of trust, loyalty, and justice. "Captain America will take care of it" shouldn't be putting your blind trust and burden into one person who will ruin themselves for the Cause. "Captain America will take care of it" should be people actually putting their trust into the justice, in people who they know will fight for the good, in not just "let's punch the bad guy" way, but all kinds of ways that is necessary

Captain America shouldn't be the warrior, it should be the fighters who believe in people. Who believe in the good. Who will step up in places others won't even dare whisper. People who don't believe in "necessary evil" because it's bullshit. People who will save even the last person because 1 is still the biggest number if you're doing the saving

Steve Rogers' legacy shouldn't be a shield and a myth no one can actually live up to because it was never real in the first place

Steve Rogers' legacy should be the foundation of peace he wasn't scared to build the base of that ended up with people coming together to do the right thing TOGETHER

People who will fight the bad guys, people who will fight the bad government, people who will fight for the ones that can't protect themselves, people who will protect the ones that aren't even acknowledged, people who will do the paperwork, people who will do the community building, people who will do the distribution, people who will do the planning, people who will pinpoint the problem, people who will assign the necessary solution and the people who can do it, people who bring in other people, people who will fund and the ones that will use it for good, people who will be transparent with the work they do, people who will do the defending, the talking, the spreading, the driving, the loving, the including, the helping, the hyping, the smiling, the encouraging, the acknowledging

When people say "Captain America" and think of Steve Rogers: I don't want them just thinking about red white and blue, golden hair, blue eyes and a shield; star spangled man with a plan. When people say "Captain America" and think of Steve Rogers: I want them to think of the hero who gave it all to make everyone else a hero

Captain America shouldn't be a curse disguised as a gift that will drain you until your last breath. Captain America should be the belief of a better tomorrow, because people are actually working to make it that way

[noahkahanblog]

Somebody call the fellas at the morgue real quick I got something I need to tell em

[javert]

i could not eat a dozen fried eggs and would never want to do so. but i almost certainly could accidentally eat a dozen deviled eggs if i was at a party or perhaps a picnic and they were there. they are a highly dangerous food item in this way

[catchymemes]

[weightedlive]

every depressed person you know is posting noah kahan’s album announcement like their husband just returned from war

[thebutterballhotline]

noah kahan releasing “the great divide” 2 weeks before college graduation is diabolical by the way

[cookiecrumbconundrum]

the new noah kahan album is great for people who love to beat that dead horse

[thealienarchivist]

happy Great Divide day to all who celebrate!

[lassie-farce]

i bring an “every the pitt character is an empathetic human being deserving of empathy” vibe the party not ready to understand

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

*holding you gently by the face* I need you to promise me that - if for any reason - personal or professional - that if you need someone to make you a map? Promise me that you will put at least a little thought ahead of time about what you want from that map. Look me in the eyes and tell me that you've considered the intended audience and purpose for the map, and that the information on the map needs to be sourced from somewhere. Please. I'm begging on my knees. Promise me you'll remember that maps don't just pop into existence exactly as you imagined them. Please. For me.

[thebutterballhotline]

everyone say thank you to chekhov’s baby

[raven--stag]

before the final episode of this season comes out i just want to say: dr robby i love you so so much they could never make me hate you get well soon king <3

[confessionsdiaz]

*through gritted teeth* the world is GOOD. people are kind. Humans are NOT inherently selfish. you will make it through this year. recovery is possible. people you don't know yet will love you. You are going to do things you can't even imagine right now. You are going to read a rlly good book. You are going to eat some rlly good food. You are going to experience joy again. Things can get better. Situations can change. You can choose to be kinder. The world can change for the better.

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

me whenever i eat a crisp granny smith apple: we are cursed men miss turner

[alhashimis]

and you know what, they let jed bartlet be president with ms, we can let baran al-hashimi be attending with a seizure disorder

[ravioliet]

imagine being a dog and you think your chances are pretty good. and then you look over and there's Mitski getting her wallet out

[userautumn]

I know I said I was going to go back to work but truly nothing PMO more than Tumblr users pretending to care about brown women when it suits them.

[userautumn]

one last thing because i think i finally narrowed down what i want to say about [gestures] all this.

i won't say that supriya's firing isn't indicative of a larger race issue. this is america under blatant authoritarianism, it very well may be. nothing and no one is exempt from being tainted by the racism that's woven into the fabrics of this country, bigotry that has been amplified tenfold under our current administration. and if you want to entertain the idea that this decision was driven by racism, i do think that is a valid exploration.

however.

the thing that frustrates me, and makes this website virtually unusable at times, is tumblr's need to create narratives about everything just to be able to respond to them. it can't just be "supriya is fired and that's sad and may be indicative of behind the scenes racism, which is something to watch for in the future," it has to be "supriya and tracy were fired because noah wyle specifically hates brown women" and i'm just like. i don't think we need to make a story out of everything. i don't think real life needs a villain. and this isn't about noah wyle, i don't care about that man. but this is about the fact that many people on this website are incapable of not storybooking real life because that's the only way you're able to offer critique or criticism in a way you think matters.

what frustrates me is that you have to wait to be spoonfed what you believe to be an instance of racism in the most glaring way possible, when really? truly? most hollywood racism doesn't even make it to the press. most of it is found in microaggressions, in colorism, in hair & makeup depts that are ill-equipped to handle black hair. the list goes on. firing someone is the most overt way to display racism, and is therefore the easiest to wag your finger about in front of your online audience when you need to act like you care about such things. when truly caring about racism in hollywood means speaking up about the silent things too. but if you do that, then you're "making fandom less fun," and "focusing on the negative."

so i guess what i mean to say is i don't think you guys really care about supriya or tracy outside of samira and heather being characters on a show, and even then, i don't think most of you care about them outside of your ships. and until i see people actually giving a fuck about black and brown women as separate groups, with separate stories, each adding separate value to the show (because i swear for all that people talk about the show treating black/brown women as interchangable, the way y'all talk about them indicates that you do too), i do not think anything is going to change my opinion.