#it will do

Spending hours finding/making the perfect pictures/gifs for a post:

Exhausting oneself and running out of spoons/motivation to write the wordy bits:

Dandelion- Dandy + Lion

Dandy= "a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies" (definition stolen from Wikipedia for brevity), some dandies are associated with being promiscuous, and two of the most successful men considered dandies, Lord Byron & Oscar Wilde, were queer

Lion= in the context of the show, associated with Calanthe (Lioness of Cintra) & Ciri (Lion Cub of Cintra)

Ciri is (essentially) the adoptive daughter of Geralt, aka the White Wolf (another pack predator)

the  thing  with  peggy  is  that  she  was  undeniably  a  very  important  person  to  steve.  he  loved  her,  and  she  loved  him,  and  for  an  isolated  moment  in  time  their  relationship  was  full  of  potential,  but  it’s  a  moment  that  came  to  an  end  borderline  before  it  could  even  really  begin.  they  cared  for  each  other  and  loved  each  other,  but  honestly,  they  didn’t  really  know  each  other.  they  didn’t  have  the  time  to  build  a  base  of  understanding  because  of  the  circumstances  of  their  lives.

when  he  is  unfrozen  there’s  also  a  big  aspect  of  feeling  like  peggy  is  very  tied  to  a  simpler  time  for  him.  it’s  not  a  better  time,  but  especially  when  he’s  still  in  the  earlier  stages  of  adjusting  it’s  at  least  something  he  feels  like  he  knew.  he  mourned  the  maybe,  and  the  what  if  of  it  all,  but  i  think  the  narrative  of  peggy  being  ‘the  love  of  steve’s  life’  often  stems  from  attaching  steve  to  the  past  in  a  way  he  doesn’t  even  want.  when  he  says  he  wants  to  honor  his  past  but  not  live  there,  in  a  way  that  also  encapsulates  peggy.  

the  whole  point  of  which  being  that  while  there  was  a  very  genuine  love  there,  they  just  did  not  have  the  time  to  really  know  each  other.  steve  has  mourned  the  possibility  of  them,  and  mourned  her,  but  they  very  much  exist  in  a  bubble  that  he  wouldn’t  choose  to  go  back  to    !    additionally  i  think  in  part  my  issue  with  steve  and  peggy  is  that  they’re  so  often  used  to  paint  steve  as  someone  who  is  very  stuck  in  the  past,  while  so  much  of  steve’s  journey  is  learning  to  live  in  the  modern  world  and  build  a  life  for  himself  in  it    !