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So I’ve been binging a bunch of DPxDC crossover fics cause they’re hella fun. And I wanted to make some fanart for a handful of the fics I’ve been reading just to show how vastly different Danny gets portrayed. It’s really fun!! I love when ppl make Danny get Jack’s tall ass gene’s, but it’s also funny to see him as a scrawny lil guy. He’s a pretty moldable character

Anywho, it’s just been fun, so here’s some fanart. Thanks to the authors for writing them 🙏

Fics in order of art:

Like Beta Fish Do by @clockwayswrites

Ghost in the Morgue by @the-witchhunter

Secretary Danny by @deathlysilent13

If You Give a Bat a Burger by @noir-renard

“He told Sakura-chan she fought like a girl,” Naruto volunteered. Sasuke wondered why everyone in his life (except for Juugo) was a traitor.

Steve Rogers opposes The Sokovia Accords as written and that they are presented to the group of people they will affect 3 days before they will be ratified. 

Steve Rogers has concerns over the agendas of the people who would be on the oversight committee.

Steve Rogers does not agree with imprisonment without trial for “Enhanced Individuals”.

But the accords were not written three days after Lagos happened; we’re shown that people are anxious about the Avenger’s lack of accountability as far back as the first film! In Sokovia, we’re shown graffiti of Cap with the word ‘facist’ over his head. I think what people have to understand is that, fine, absolutely, Steve does not trust large governmental bodies, and he has every reason not to, BUT, it’s not really about him.

Seriously. There were 117 countries that signed the accords. ‘The agendas of the people on the oversight committee’… the UN. Steve Rogers is afraid of being curtailed by the UN, and the what, corruption of those 117 countries? I just. That’s not a decision he gets to make? Fine, valid criticism, EVERYONE is a little skeptical of bodies like the EU, UN, Nato, whatever. But when you are being told – not just by politicians – but by ordinary civilians who view you as a facist, and small countries that see you as imperialistic, you don’t get to be the person that plants themselves like a tree and tells everyone else to move. It’s a really bizarre characterisation move to make Steve the person who refuses to listen to the public; the person who ignores the voices of the majority, and fights against other people’s freedoms. And I do say that, because for many of the civilians of the MCU, it is about freedom from fear. 

I don’t know, maybe it’s an American thing, but imagine you’re a small country in Europe, under-represented on the world stage and constantly beholden to other countries power struggles, and something like the Avengers comes into your country, rips your city up from the ground, and smashes it back down again. ??? that happened? This isn’t hypothetical? Lagos happened because Wanda was not ready to be on active duty and there was no board of any authority to dictate whether that was true or not. Or to make sure she was up to scratch. Or that, as a young, untrained civilian, it is even ethical to have her in that position in the first place??? 

And look, ultimately it comes down to this: does Steve have reason to be concerned over the agendas of the oversight committee (otherwise known as the frickin UN)? Yeah, probably. Does that mean he was right? No. He needed to compromise. Not because Tony wanted him to, or the team would fall apart or whatever, but genuinely because 117 countries were living in fear. 117 countries who were not the USA were wondering if they would be next, if the next time the Avengers decide to visit to take care of a threat their civilians would be the ones killed. Unfortunately, what CW gave us wasn’t a Steve who believed in ‘individual autonomy and choice’ for all, it gave us a Steve who was more interested in the individual autonomy of his team. As Captain America, a man who supposedly represents a country which fought to free itself from imperialist tyranny, it’s hard to square up why Steve feels his opinion on the safety of his friend(s) is somehow, without fail, the right one?

remove “captain” from the equation and what the avengers does and what steve is defending is eerily similar to the domestic justification of american interventionism and international outcry. like american foreign policy over the past decades, the avengers operates without regard for international law, often causing - directly or inadvertently- tens, hundreds, thousands of civillian casualties. like american foreign policy, this is justified by a paternal ideology- we’re helping them. it’s an ideology that has been used to justify many invasions and interventions on part of the us- it’s founded in a sense of american exceptionalism, that america is different than other countries and exists as a beacon of hope that they see as their duty to spread to other countries. steve says that when he sees a situation go south, he can’t just ignore it- which is almost identical to justifications for what was nearly another american war in syria. while massive numbers of troops didn’t make it to syria, american influence was there in weapons, in training kurdish fighters, in helping the anti-government rebels. and it is this EXACT influence that gave rise to isis- a group of trained and armed rebels that peeled off and started their own camp and became a formidable threat in less than a year. as the us gov’t would put it- “sometimes you can’t save everyone, but it doesn’t mean you give up”. meaning the casualties caused by american drones and american problems are necessary in “stabilizing” the region and “saving” the people. and like us interventionism, the global community and the countries involved reject this narrative and have been calling for accountability for years. while the global community is split on such matters because of politics, with britain, france, and others ready to support america’s stance on intervention, the global community in the mcu is a clear, unified voice. 117 countries- including their own- want the avengers to be under some kind of oversight. 

the people on the oversight community are people of the world. this isn’t a shadowy hologram sending a nuke to nyc, this is the united fucking nations. which, by the way, doesn’t draft up accords in three days. the sokovia accords, as confirmed by someone more knowledgeable than me about the nature of day to day un operations, have been undoubtedly in the works for at least two years- since sokovia- if not 4 years, since the battle of new york. 

steve’s concerns come with no alternative, just a whiny no. it’s negotiable, as confirmed by tony, it’s clear with natasha’s presence in the assembly that the avengers would not only have a say but an actual voice. how would this work? it is literally just a matter of winning the world’s trust back by playing by their rules- rules established because of LEGITIMATE CAUSE FOR CONCERN. with trust and cooperation, the avengers and the world would adjust and within a short period of time the system would no longer be a hindrance but a help. with the trust of the global community, countries would hesitate to bar the avengers from entering their country, both because of trust and because of political reasons. 

and that’s the accords as they stood before steve fucked off. with cooperation and negotiation tony, natasha, and rhodey would undoubtedly have been able to make the accords even more reasonable for the avengers.