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I really like winnie the pooh, Can you draw winnie the pooh pleaseeeeee

Happy 10 year anniversary to this absolutely foundational post

#really cannot emphasize enough how much iguanamouth changed the site’s sense of humor and therefore the timeline of the western world

rylandsgrace

SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Ant-Man (2015)

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Black Panther (2018)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (2021)

Thunderbolts* (2025)

5ummit

For me love’s like the wind, unseen, unknown I see the trees are bending where it’s been I know that it leaves wreckage where it’s blown I really don’t know what “I love you” means I think it means “don’t leave me here alone”

Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

stevensbarnes

drawsaurus

My favourite story of all time is that I had ZERO INTEREST in seeing cap 2, hadn’t even ever seen cap 1, didn’t have a single care about Steve Rogers, and then Lizzen said to me, look, there is a scene where Robert Redford backhands Sebastian Stan like he’s hitting a fax machine that won’t work properly

And I went to see it that very evening

And look where we are today.

This story says more about me than anything else that has ever happened in my life tbh.

liminal-zone

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO MY FAVORITE FAX MACHINE

nicoise-salad

Hill: STEVE THE CHIP!!!!!!

Steve: oh right right sry

heroesofbr00klyn

@redwingandaprayer

@snapitscap

snapitscap

I love many ships but all three of them together, ooo so good.

// only one man could fulfil our wet dream of a deadly coup against Vladimir Putin

steverogersnotebook

Bucky in Romania

(side by side in Romanian and English)

berunov

SLAV SQUAT!Winter Soldier

this-heavy-heart-this-old-mind

Lads. Here Bucky happens to be saying what the Ukrainian coastal guard said to the Russian warship the other day.

This blessed version of "go fuck yourself" is in the minds and on the lips of all Slavs these days.

memewhore

"This is it." 😔💔

#folks #it's bad

berunov

SLAV SQUAT!Winter Soldier

#АААААААААА #it's perfect

jackiietaylor

i know buckys gay because a straight male character would never be treated this badly

fahbee

lately i’ve been wondering how things would have gone for bucky’s character arc if ca:tws hadn’t done such a thorough job of establishing steve and bucky as the most compelling and emotional love story in the MCU.

what if instead of ‘to the end of the line’ and ‘even when i had nothing, i had bucky’ we’d gotten something like ‘i’ve got your back’ or ‘he was my first real friend’? what if steve hadn’t dropped his shield and allowed bucky to almost beat him to death rather than fight him, but instead steve had fought bucky into submission? what if it wasn’t steve declaring his undying devotion that finished breaking hydra’s control over bucky, but rather steve reciting facts about bucky’s life such as the names of his family, or the other howlies? what if the feeling created by the script and the acting hadn’t been “soulmates tragically torn apart and saved by their never-ending love for one another” but rather “man rescuing oldest friend from captivity and abuse”?

i think every steve and bucky interaction (or lack thereof) following tws was marvel attempting to put the genie back in the bottle. tws relied on making the audience believe that steve and bucky were ride or die so they liberally used homoerotic subtext (and text, tbh) in order to achieve that result, and it just… worked too well. they got scared when too many people picked up on it. not just queer communities, either. “serious” publications wrote about it. it became the mcu’s most popular ship. fans loved it, they shamelessly asked for more of it at comic cons. it took on a life of its own.

so of course they had to kill it. in civil war alone we got - sharon carter and the awkward kiss that literally nobody liked, forcing bucky to witness said kiss and nod in approval, barely allowing steve and bucky to touch let alone hug, randomly having them talk about some throwaway female character from 70 years ago whose name bucky couldn’t even remember, and steve watching bucky go into cryo with nothing more than a shoulder pat. and then infinity war gave us a measly blink-and-miss-it “reunion” consisting of a brief hug and a couple of lines, and then bucky being snapped away. and then the final endgame nail in the coffin - steve never referring to bucky (not even in therapy for people who lost loved ones in the snap, no let’s have steve talk about peggy here!!), a lack of battlefield reunion, a brief hug, a couple of lines, and oh yeah - steve rejecting a future with bucky for a past with peggy.

if we’d been given a more hetero representation of brotherly love in tws, i think we would have seen bucky flourish as an mcu character. bucky has an amazing backstory, incredible personality/characterization potential, and sebastian stan has an extremely marketable face and is a genuinely likable person - all the ingredients were there for him to be a breakout star of the mcu, much like starlord or spiderman. yet, ever since tws he has been criminally underused in the mcu. but now that steve has been thoroughly ‘no homo’ed in the canon and changed from young and sexy into geriatric and spent - now that any possible grey area or room for romantic interpretation in the canon has been ruined?? NOW they can safely give sebastian stan an mcu vehicle where he can shine. Without steve, naturally.

#(LOUD COUGHING)