enthusiasm enthusiast

reading, watching, listening, ect. she/her, 27. president of the bucky barnes defense committee

[urfavgirllll]

Saw this in a tik tok comment section beefy bucky we will always love you ❤️

[urfavgirllll]

My headcannon (just because it's too perfect) is that Bucky's family is the Barnes of Barnes and Noble bookstores. Their first bookstore was opened in Manhattan in, wait for it, 1917. 🤗

[folkdances]

people on here make ocs and they're mostly men and they ship characters and they're always men and they have favourite characters and they're always men but sometimes they say the men are like women not trans ones though because that would be guh-ross and harsh the vibe of the #fandomspace and they write fanfiction about men and talk about how complicated and #deeplywritten their male favs are and they'll watch movies and tv shows with mostly male casts in every way that matters and not question it because well what do you want them to do about it and they don't even care that that's what they're doing to them it's pure coincidence they always like the male characters better it's pure chance that women are only interesting as yaoi cheerleaders and actually when they write female characters as yaoi cheerleaders they're doing them a favour because they were just so poorly written in the source material it's the charitable thing to do men men men men men men men and if you say anything about it well you're being a killjoy you're being no fun you're being homophobic you're being a misandrist god what is it about women right what is it about women always trying to ruin our fun? why do they care so much? they're just women. who wants to think about women at all.

[my-ny]

Steve (and friends) + text posts pt. 17/?

[hunybody]

"wow i never knew punk was old time slang for f*g" speak for yourself. some of us were Actually no i can't finish this post. does anyone else remember 2014 pop culture film hit captain america and the winter soldier. from marvel studios.

[kemonomimichiru]

How it feels to find a fanfic where your favorite character is going through literally the worst horrors you can imagine

[honeyxmonkey]

Avatar Aang, age 17, once got clocked in the face by Firelord Zuko, age 20, because he forgot Zuko is deaf in his left ear and has no peripheral vision on that side either. And made the mistake of not announcing he was right next to Zuko, resulting in jumpscaring the Firelord and being on the receiving end of Zuko's fight or flight response. Unfortunately for Aang, Zuko always chooses "fight".

[muffinlance]

Aang goes down and somewhere in Zuko's hindbrain, a millisecond before he properly processes the situation, his inner ponytail!prince starts shouting FINALLY FUCKING CAUGHT THE AVATAR

Fortunately what comes out is just fuck fuck fuck

[ratdesire]

Saw someone say they think the person in the foreground of this shot is Steve and if it is it makes the poses and expressions on Sam + Bucky's faces so much funnier.

[veralapulgaviajera]

My honest reaction to the trailer:

(That i meant to post yesterday, but forgot, so let’s pretend it’s yesterday and it just dropped)

Lives were changed what else can i say… i miss keeping up so so so so much, but i sold my soul to a 9 to 5🫩

In case you also missed it, let’s feast on these crumbs.

[mirrorballbarnes]

RAHHHHHHHHHHHH

[arcade-confetti]

JASON BEING 15 AT THE AGE OF DEATH IS RETCON FROM LONG AFTER HE ALREADY DIED IN COMICS

Jason was NEVER in his original run claimed to 15. At the CLOSEST there the panel from one of his teen titans teamups where he says something along the lines of "I can't wait until I'm 16", but I stand firm that that's just a sorta milestone age to him, not the upcoming.

So how old IS he? Really? What was his age at the time of death? Well,

He was 12 to 13 years old.

It was established several issues prior to aditf, in Annual 12, That Jason was in the 7th grade. And this comic is close enough to aditf that it's very safe to assume he's still in it, especially with how long some comic years can take.

Jason would've been 12 in seventh grade, unless you opt into the idea the he was held back a year due to dropping out of 5th and needing to catch up, then he would've been 13.

As far as canon material at the time goes, the only time his age at death is outright stated is in the DC Heroes RPG, now, this is an official product, but it's not necessarily canon. However, it's honestly about as canon as the famous death certificate is. And is closer to the time.

It says Jason is deceased, and that he was 13.

Now. I DO hear questions. First and foremost, wasn't Jason 12 when he BECAME Robin? Wouldn't saying he died at 12 give him absolutely no time at all for his run? Wasn't it sorta implied by Dick soon after Jason's death that Jason had at least been Robin for 2 years?

And you're right! So what's the deal?

Well, pre-crisis Jason was 12 when he was adopted. And that usually gets adapted for post, but we never actually get a direct in comic confirmation that he's 12 at the time of his new origin. What we do have is that he dropped out of 5th Grade to take care of his mom.

Taking a look at Batman #408+409. Catherine died in February of the year Batman found Jason. School generally starts in.. let's say August (though can vary depending on your school district and area). I think it makes alot of sense for Jason, age 10, to drop out of 5th grade to help Catherine due to her worsening health, and for her to die that February. I can also imagine her dying when Jason should've been in 6th grade instead as well, making him 11 and having spent more time caring for her. Ultimately that more goes down to how long you want his run to be or if you have extra information from tracking the timeline thoroughly.

You actually go younger if you take info from outside of the comic stories themselves. Like the little qna section at the end of comics. They imply Jason could've been 9 at time of adoption there. Wild stuff

But ultimately, his age around is death is what we have the clearest information on, due to Annual 12 stating the 7th grade. And the game starting 13. He really does rather crisply leave him at, canonically, something close to 12 or 13 at the time of death. Nowhere near 15, and certainly not 16, no matter how much DC tries to age him up or retcon it to be something different, I think it's very important we let him keep that original age he had.

[ladzarus]

people are like why do you talk about classism so much in jason’s writing in comics and in fandom but they don’t realise the lit nerd jason fanon (though partially rooted in canon) is in part actually push back about how the fandom thought jason was dumb because he dropped out, that he wasn’t interested in higher education, that the potential jobs fandom gave him was always blue collared ones “just because”. things used to be much worse and i think there’s a pretty drastic shift in how jason is perceived and characterised in the past 10 years or so, and possibly why i don’t care if fans lean too much into him being a lit enthusiast. because well, i’ve seen the alternative and i don’t want to go back there

[cats-chaotic-mind]

I saw this post on insta and I about crashed out.

This is the most braindead take I’ve ever seen. And so many comments were AGREEING WITH OP!!

What Bucky did while operating as the Winter Soldier is not Bucky’s fault. He was TORTURED. BRAINWASHED. MANIPULATED. MIND CONTROLLED. He had NO CONTROL over his own actions for 70 years.

If ANYONE owes Tony’s family anything - it’s Hydra.

And to be quite honest, I don’t feel sorry for Howard Stark in the slightest. First of all he was primarily responsible for operation paperclip, which recruited Dr. Arnim Zola (you know… one of the first ones to experiment on Bucky?!?) to SHIELD. He was the one who decided to trust the wrong people, he was the one who brought Maria.

So no. Bucky doesn’t owe anyone SHIT. He already spent enough time “making amends” for shit that wasn’t even his fault.

Bucky deserves to live in peace. He deserves to retire. He deserves love.

[ariiadnes]

i love you shy reader-inserts i love you naive reader-inserts i love you soft-spoken reader-inserts i love any and all reader-inserts and you should not complain about them in the x reader tag. by doing so you are putting down someone's creative work and efforts when you could have simply moved on, or even better, written your own story

[orangei-sindy]

tw: sexual assault

Valerie D'Orazio, a comic writer and editor, posted on twitter in 2023 about how she was sexually harassed/assaulted by Stephen Wacker, Marvel's newly chosen Editor in Chief. More detail under the cut.

[orangei-sindy]

UPDATE: Valerie D'Orazio has made a followup post on twitter.

please reblog this version

[dickgraysonsptsd]

comics industry so miserable for women that a man putting his hand under a woman's shirt in the workplace with "flirty" intent does not even rank in the top 10 worst things men have done to her. not unexpected but still fucking awful. and her #1 is still a guy in the industry. ok. we have to start running these men over in cars

[femmehaljordan]

Good morning to the 10 other jayrena shippers

[ladzarus]

my issue with the “would jason become a criminal without bruce” is that it ignores the reason jason already was a criminal

(this is his literal first appearance in his new origin story batman #408 and they point blank call him a criminal btw)

anyway back to my point. jason already was a criminal because of poverty and it wasn’t necessarily that bruce taught him morals but that bruce gave him an environment where he didn’t have to resort to become a criminal

the issue with the debate is that it boils down to the whole “is jason an ontologically evil child” because that’s how people keep pushing it when they say yeah jason needed bruce to save him from being a criminal (but what they really mean is being a ~career criminal~ (for lack of better word)) without understanding the difference in their power dynamics. it glosses over why jason was a criminal.

panels from batman #409, including the last bit because i always found it funny jason pulled the disappearing act on batman HA

it’s interesting because in these 2 chapters jason already shows strong disdain for the cops, rejects being a ‘stoolie’ multiple times and reaffirms his rejection of social workers. but in this panel, jason emphasises that he’s a kid. and that adults aren’t all to be trusted. which given his parental figures, ma gunn as well as batman fucking up and putting him in a ‘kindergarten for crime’… well. you really can’t blame him.

#409 repeatedly point blank shows that jason isn’t a criminal because he wants to be. he leaves ma gunn’s school at the first chance he got. he told batman about the planned heist. he also appeared at the scene because ‘somebody had to stop it’ (and also because he didn’t believe batman trusted him). this isn’t a child who turned to crime for a quick buck. but it was the only avenue he believed was available to him.

so yes, i have an issue because the debate ignores how he outright says he only does it for survival. it is classist because it outright ignores the structural realities that drive people towards being criminal and making it into a moral failing when the absence of these barriers results in very drastic differences in one’s decisions. it ignores the fact that there’s are different types and tiers of crimes (petty theft vs armed robbery, misdemeanours vs felonies) and the harms it poses. it refuses to acknowledge the power differentials and dynamics at play. it quite literally ignores canon (really, two issues is all you need to read! TWO!) in favour of pushing a very classist talking point where the rich needs to enlighten the poor and guide them to the path of goodness. so yes i have an issue with the debate because it frankly is rather disingenuous and generally is because they’re trying to prop a character up in expense of another.

so yeah. i have an issue or two. maybe three.