#optomism

Like Sunny Side Up Summer is just SO optimistic but there’s the constant threat underneath. It’s “Smile” by Charlie Chaplin. Just trying to make it through when it feel like absolutely no one is on your side.

And how does it end? It cuts off abruptly with the bank representative just flatly saying No. he won’t even TRY the burger and fries Bob made JUST for him. These are people who did ALL the right things. They followed their passion and bootstrapped their little hearts out, skrimped and saved and did EVERYTHING they could, and the system NEVER rewarded all that self-determination and hard work.

For the next two hours we watch each of these characters pour themselves into pursuing their goals. If no one’s going to help them, if no one’s going to be on their side, then they’ll each have to fight tooth and nail for what they want. And as Tina shows, what if they do ALL of that, and it STILL isn’t worth it.

And you know what? They do everything they can and some things DON’T work out. But what they can do at the end of the day is lean on each other.

✨Daily Tarot Affirmation✨

Wheel Of Fortune

Welp...The present sucks but the future is bright! (Though it May be a long LONG tunnel to get there).

Avengers Tower is the most secure public building currently in commercial use. There are a dozen guards who’s only duty is to monitor those who enter and exit on the ground floor. And when they run back the tapes, they can’t find where and how the Soldier entered the building - one moment he was not there, and the next he was kneeling in a circle of guards, hand resting on the back of his head and staring directly into the camera on the ceiling.

“I am here to surrender.” he says quietly, and Tony, already three floors away and watching the feed on his phone, various people chattering in his ear as Jarvis tries to sort all of it out, wonders what the hell he’s meant to do now.

He notices that The Winter Soldier, ghost of the intelligence community with over fifty confirmed kills, as Jarvis helpfully whispers in his comm, looks gaunt. And that he’s young. Impossibly young, eyes empty and hard and hands trembling even as his back is straight. He doesn't know what he’s doing, Tony realizes, he doesn’t know if they’ll help him or hurt him or worse, but he still came here. And there is something inside of him that’s screaming, because the fear in the soldiers eyes is as familiar as his own face. He sees them both in the mirror, after all.

And then he stops noticing all that, because Natasha is in his ear telling Barnes to ‘stand the fuck down and let Tony deal with this, you will only hurt him’. And there’s a whimper, a swallowed sob, over the comms, as James Barnes realizes there is nothing more he can do but wait.

So Tony steps forward for him, because he has to, because someone has to, and lets the suit unfold around him. 

Soldier stares at him, kneeling and compliant and something in his eyes still screaming defiance. Nothing about this is going to be easy. But it was never going to be easy, and Tony had stopped expecting it to be a long time ago.

Tony divides most of his life into befores and after. Eras, ending and beginning. Before Pepper, after Pepper, before Afghanistan, after Afghanistan. Before the Chitauri, after.