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Unfortunately for y'all I haven't forgotten about the DnD!AU
We've come so far 🥺❤️
you can’t wake up, this is not a dream. you’re part of a machine, you are not a human being.
I was reading an anti-Agent Brexit post (as one does) and there is something I still don't understand. Why do people differentiate between the kiss Lorraine gives Steve and what PC does later in the movie? None of those kisses is initiated by Steve and he's caught off guard in both. The only difference there is Lorraine steps back and she doesn't try anything else but PC feels entitled to him.
The first time we see him initiate a kiss is with Sharon in CW. I don't remember if he does in EG, but at least in TFA I see no difference between Lorraine and PC.
Now, I understand what the movie tries to tell us and how we're supposed to believe Steve and PC are meant for each other but they do a terrible job of showing that. I never saw any love there, maybe a bit of an infatuation on Steve's part but on PC's? All I see is entitlement. So how is it any different from what Lorraine does?
I myself have wondered the same thing, and after some reflection I have concluded that the distinction, like a lot of other things, has to do with the framing. After all, literally the only difference between the scene where Peggy kissed Steve and the one that caused Peggy to shoot at him is the way the movie frames it. When Lorraine kissed Steve, ominous music started playing when her intentions became obvious, and it built up and didn't stop until the kiss was broken. And Steve was also given ample opportunity before the kiss commenced to express his discomfort. Meanwhile, when Peggy just forces a kiss on him out of nowhere, thus denying him a chance to object, heroic music is playing in the background: and while Steve does have a clearly uncomfortable expression on his face after the fact, his face is not focused on for very long, and the kiss is immediately followed by a lighthearted comment from Colonel Phillips. So the movie is very clearly trying to insist that Peggy's kiss was good while Lorraine's kiss was bad, even though there is not much difference between them. This drastic difference in framing has unfortunately fooled a lot of people, evidently.
( @wewringmagicfromtheordinary THIS!!!!)
Honestly Sam and Bucky’s journey in TFATWS goes from disdain to love because they spent the first part of it trying to see Steve in each other, and in turn resented each other when they didn’t succeed.
Bucky wanted to find Steve in the new Captain America. Sam wanted to find Steve in the 1940s super soldier. Neither of them succeeded and that bothered them. They wanted to replace what they lost.
‘Steve had a plan’
‘Steve adored Marvin Gaye’
Then as the episodes progress, they’re able to see each other as individual people (shock) for the first time properly and are able to realise like ‘hey, this guy isn’t Steve, but maybe he’s something else that’s amazing’.
Bucky realised that as a black man, Sam’s experience on this planet shaped him differently to how they shaped a blonde haired, blue eyed Steve and he has to be so much more careful in becoming Captain America. Sam realised that Bucky never wanted the life he had like Steve did, and power and the life of a hero was forced upon him without his consent so he would never be the bright eyed, happy to learn/embrace anything man that Steve was and that’s okay. They both finally saw each other in that show.
ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock
later you find out that applecock is like a) the nicest lady in the world, b) in her late fifties and c) is a well respected senior member of a career you didn't know existed like head mop taxonomist or chief piano refurbishment factor or secretary of racehorses and suddenly a few of the comments in the longest orgy scene are even funnier.
oh, hello
Yeah, after Endgame it really is time to dive head first into aaall the AUs. And I love the gladiator AU! Just not Steve’s haircut, so I…didn’t draw it, sorry. <3
And thank you for your lovely comment! I’m most unsure about my use of colour everytime, but I am glad to hear that you like it. :’3
Oh yeah, and the uncensored version will be on my twitter.
No we didn’t
““Did it hurt?” “Did what hurt?” “When you fell from—…oh geez.” “…” “…” “Real smooth, Rogers.” “Sorry.””
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steve rogers trying to flirt with bucky barnes after tws, probably (via nataliarommanova)
(via plantbucky)
“𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘉𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘺?”
(he’s my poor little meow meow)
subscribing to a fic isn’t enough I need the author to blast a bat signal into the night sky whenever they update
By SquadOfCats
Relationships: Steve Rogers & Becca Barnes, background Steve/Bucky
Tags: 1940's, Lavender Marriage (or the proposition of it, anyway), Established Relationship Steve/Bucky, Asexual Character, Best Friend's Little Sister Trope (but in a queerplatonic way), Period Typical Sexism & Homophobia, Bittersweet
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 11,000
Summary: “When we take Bucky along with us on our honeymoon, though, that is going to raise some eyebrows.”
The night before he leaves on the Captain America USO tour, Steve stops in to say farewell to the Barnes family. Becca shares her brilliant plan for their future.
Steve Rogers Bingo Fill @steverogersbingo : Gender Inequality
Please enjoy this one-shot I wrote instead of the other two fics I am supposed to be writing. This is a post-serum 1940's conversation between Steve and Becca Barnes, and although they are talking about Bucky, he is not actually in it. This scene has been stuck in my head for ages. I've thought about turning it into a full fic with this premise, but I've never been able to come up with a plot that I like. Maybe some day! For now, I just needed to get it unstuck.
