The Tiny Kingdom

Who’s pressed? I’m watching a huge storm roll in, eating some left over birthday cake, and listening to a slutty little audiobook. Life is good! 🦎

Thank anon and the reason it appears slightly out of sync is because it’s on a projector screen not him live on stage it you know what I mean.

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Of course they have so many anons

Unfortunately there are so many people who troll and lie in the fandom now but what’s the point of making a fake video and doing it so fast after the event. I just wish we saw the whole bit of what he said about returning to stage. Every video I saw just seen focused on his Marvel return. I hope FanExpo upload the whole panel on their YouTube channel.

Wanted to tune in, because I appreciate your perspective. Maybe. None of us will know. I remember Chris said he was apprehensive about taking the role of Cap because of how much his life would change. I personally don’t believe he’s doing the convention for the fans, but rather for the money. He also made a comment saying he wishes he had RDJ’s money. I’m sure it’s an easy paycheck for him.

I appreciate your empathetic response. But with how hard things are for us normies, it’s just challenging (for me personally) to sympathize with someone in Chris’s shoes. I do understand it’s got to be difficult dealing with bats*it crazies. And maybe I don’t know how bad it is because 1) I’m not him and 2) I don’t pay close enough attention.

But I have to show up to my job that doesn’t pay the bills where I absolutely hate everyday. I don’t fit in there I got transferred when due to a disability… so they just decided it’d be fun to bully me. It’s a service job. So, I have to go above and beyond to with a great big smile on my face, while being mistreated behind the scenes. Plus, I have to deal with disgruntled people everyday and just take it. The job doesn’t support me, but can’t find anything else in this job market after looking for 9 months. Maybe it’s not the best comparison, but I’d much rather be in his shoes. I hope that makes sense.

She also bought his autograph, but ended up not being able to get it due to an organizational problem at the event.

She said that when she went to meet him for the photo, she congratulated him on his daughter, and he was extremely kind and thanked her.

Her only complaint was regarding the organization of the place.

Is it just me or does Chris kinda look sad or I don’t know like he doesn’t want to be there?

Not one smile looks genuine and where he shows some teeth 😔

I’m going to say both yes and no because I don’t want to invalidate the way anyone feels.

I will say that I personally think Chris looked consistently content in all photos. They’re nice photos. Big huge smiles with teeth? No. But I don’t think he looks like he’s phoning it in either. His expression has been consistent all weekend which is key. He isn’t big smiles for some and not for others. In fandom spaces like tumblr, we do sometimes live in a vacuum. We’ve curated our follows. We see a lot of content from people who agree with our own opinion on things because it’s so easy to hit the block button, you know? We see people complaining he doesn’t have the biggest smile. But when I head over to platforms like Instagram or TikTok, there are plenty of people talking about how wonderful their experience was meeting Chris and how nice he was. Sometimes we have to step out of our own fandom vacuums to get the bigger picture. If the people who spent their money to meet him are happy, what does it matter how we, the people sitting at home, feel? Those who attended seem happy and I think that’s what really matters here. Their paid experience certainly trumps our feelings from home.

I do personally have to question how truly comfortable Chris was this weekend, though. And not because of his facial expressions. There are plenty of “fans” who get on this app (and others!) and trash him relentlessly. They trash his friends, family, and now wife and baby. They send non stop hate to these people through social media (and I don’t buy that it doesn’t have a negative effect on their personal lives). We know it does. Scott has said as much in interviews and podcasts before. And you know what some of those people did? The ones that attack him and his loved ones online? The ones we call delulu because of the way they behave online? They paid money to show up to the con to take photos with him. They spent money on flights, hotels, food, photo ops, and autographs to act like a friendly fan to his face while their online anonymous life is nothing but harassing him and the people around him. I don’t want to be rude when I say this, but that’s absolutely psychotic behavior. Now imagine you’re Chris taking photos with the people who’ve paid to show up this weekend and you don’t know if the person walking up to you is a genuine fan or one of the chronically online lowlifes that spends all of their free time trying to make your personal life absolute hell all because you had the audacity to get married and have a baby. You know these people are in the crowd. But you don’t know which ones they are. You don’t know if the person coming up to you is going to be pleasant or say or do something completely off the wall. Would that leave you feeling unsettled? Because it would absolutely unsettle me and I’m not above saying so.