Mikky Dyer? Mikky Dy-ing.

For so long, all I wanted was for you to love me, to accept me. I thought it was my honor that I wanted. But really, I was just trying to please you.

First row – Guard Staff Sergeant, VN Stepanova: 20 kills, Guard Sgt JP Belousova: 80 kills, Guard Sgt AE Vinogradova: 83 kills.

Second row – Guard Lieutenant EK Zhibovskaya: 24 kills, Guard Sgt KF Marinkin: 79 kills, Guard Sgt OS Marenkina: 70 kills.

Third row – Guard Lieutenant NP Belobrova: 70 kills, Lieutenant N. Lobkovsky: 89 kills, Guard Lieutenant VI Artamonova: 89 kills, Guard Staff Sergeant MG Zubchenko: 83 kills.

Forth row – Guard Sergeant, NP Obukhova: 64 kills, Guard Sergeant, AR Belyakova 24 kills.

She was one of the deadliest snipers of World War II, and is regarded as one of the deadliest snipers of all time. Over the course of one year (June 1941-June 1942) she racked up a count of 309 kills, 36 of which were enemy snipers. Her prescence in the picture alone would have brought the total number of kills from 755 to 1064.

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SO there’s the moment in Inifinity war that was gifed by @lupitanyongio, and I thought, Okoye’s reaction is very mother-like.

But then I thought about it a bit. It’s not a heart-broken mother reaction, it’s a soldier’s heart-broken moment.

I refuse to believe that the people in Wakanda didn’t know about HYDRA, at least as a concept. Within the MCU, HYDRA wasn’t really a secret, and the parts they played in WWII, was so integral to the course of history, there’s no way it was left out of any sort of history book. And it’s not like Wakanda is ignorant of what’s going on - they have War Dogs, spies posted internationally, they had to have had some inkling as to the stories of the Winter Soldier.

So enter Bucky Barnes with a programming inside his head, and he doesn’t feel safe - he’s not himself. He hides away in his little hut with his goats, because this is all he ever wanted in life, peace and quiet. 

One day, Okoye’s curiosity gets the better of her, and she visits Bucky.

At first, he doesn’t really want to speak to her, but his mama raised a gentlemen, so he’s not going to tell her to get lost. But the moment she see’s him, she knows. 

Okoye isn’t some wide-eyed warrior who’s just joined the Dora Milaje, she’s their General. She’s seen battle. She’s seen death. She’s seen more than enough of it in her 20, 30 years of serving the Dora. To stand before a man who has seen so much in his 100 years, battle, war, death, unspeakable crimes. To have had his will to act, his will to live stripped away. 

She sees all this, and her heart breaks, because she knows. 

So that look that she makes when Bucky asks “where’s the fight?” That’s of a soldier who knows her comrade has seen too much, and yet, is going back to do the right thing.

1. the bit where thor unlocks his powers near the end of thor ragnarok and the immigrant song starts playing in the background

2. the bit in winter soldier where bucky moves out of the way of that car