‘Intimacy’ painted for 1A by @tinzelda for the Stucky Big Bang 2016
Steve and Bucky are together before the war. Kind of. Bucky sure wants to be—he knows how he feels about Steve. Steve, however, hates that Bucky has to take care of him, so he can’t give himself over to the relationship. Steve desperately wants to enlist, but when he finally gets that 1A stamp, it isn’t the validation he thought it would be. When Bucky sees Steve transformed, he thinks he’s lost him for good, but Steve needs Bucky to look after him more than ever. He drives himself hard to feel worthy of being Captain America and keeps just enough distance between them to drive Bucky crazy. In other words, Steve still has something to prove, and Bucky has the patience of a saint.
Please go read the beautiful story and get really frustrated by these two idiots just being perfect for each other, Steeb’s stupidly righteous heart and Bucky’s awfully complex love for him.
hey! thanks for checking in! yeah, I know it's been ten years since captain america: the winter soldier came out but, yeah, I'm still thinking about it. I mean, at least now it only occupies, like, 40% of my thoughts daily but...what did you say? is it permanent? yeah, so far
I have so many feelings about all of the shit going on in the world right now, but it all boils down to one thing: we are all people, all God's children, and therefore all deserving of love, respect, freedom, and equal rights. The other differences don't fucking matter! The biggest thing we have in common is that we are all people, so let's act like it.
Thanks to this post from @gay-jewish-bucky, I couldn't stop thinking about making a dumb fanvid. So have this (poorly put-together) homage to Stucky and Sk8er Boi.
liking the captain america trilogy is a red flag. it's also an orange flag. and a yellow flag. and a green flag. and a blue flag. and a purple flag. liking the captain america trilogy is gay. YOU are GAY.
please tell me other people have noticed that steve's leather jacket has significantly more rips than it did after talking to the red skull
the timeline of steve's jacket:
^ right before the rescue, slightly worn but fully intact jacket. he probably bought it while on the uso tour.
^ mid mission, the damage is beginning. his right shoulder is ripping through the seam. probably just from exertion and a slightly too small jacket or cutting the corners too close. keep in mind this is after he jumped out the plane and ran through the woods, right before he fought to get into the hydra base.
^ talking to the red skull. same status, same rip that could be widening
^ like 4 seconds before jumping to meet bucky. same status
--- time cut ---
^ the march into base camp. he has a slash across his chest where a leather strap was, even through the fucking metal zipper. his right shoulder is battered and the left is pretty exposed too. you can see through to his costume.
i wonder if his jacket got caught on the medal railing on the jump between the balconies of the exploding hydra building. i imagine that he probably was hanging from the jacket, stuck on the metal railing while trying to climb up and over.
seriously tho I wonder what happened, because bucky's shirt isn't any more torn after his jump. i guess we can blame it on steve being steve. anyways, i hope other people noticed this.
"[The Iliad] avoids all the obvious highlights of the traditional story, including the Wooden Horse. It does not start at the beginning — with the Judgment of Paris, the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the abduction of Helen, or the muster of ships at Aulis — or end with the fall of the city. Instead, the action takes place over a few days in the last year of the war — neither the beginning nor the end. A brief and ostensibly trivial episode — a squabble between two Greek commanders — becomes the subject of a monumental twenty-four-book epic.
Moreover, The Iliad eschews the obvious way for Greeks to tell the Trojan War story: as a conflict between 'us' and 'them.' The Trojans are not dishonest foreigners, despite the fact that Paris abducted his host’s wife. Implausibly, they speak the same language and worship the same gods as the Greeks.
The poem is ancient from our perspective. But it came at the end, not the beginning, of a long poetic tradition. Whoever created The Iliad used the myths, tropes, and techniques developed by many generations of oral poets, and reinvented them to create an extraordinarily original and surprising written epic."
- Emily Wilson, from the introduction to her translation of The Iliad, 2023.