Megapegs Land

What, because he wants to build a family and has an idea of what that would look like? Last I checked this was a thing people do all the time, gay, straight, bi or whatever. Humans are social creatures. We are literally built for groups and without them we go insane. Steve was a lonely sad boy whose formative years were rattling around an empty house by himself. Now he is a lonely man yearning for what he never had.

Seriously what about Steve sharing this about himself with his friend/love interest in the middle of a life and death crisis is incel behavior?

There is a difference between sharing your truth with someone and pressuring them to fulfill your fantasies that I think a lot of folks are failing to recognize. I can't think of a more appropriate time to share with someone how you truly feel other than moments before you or they might die. You know? The important thing is that in choosing to be honest about his feelings, Steve didn't do anything more than be honest. He didn't try and convince her that she owed him something, or that he could love her so much better than Jonathan or anyone else could.

Steve told Nancy HIS truth about his dreams and his feelings, and then he let her do whatever she wanted to do with that knowledge. He's put no pressure on her to do anything. Taking it back to the real world for a moment, isn't that all we can expect from another human being? If I was risking my life with my friend/ex and they had feelings they felt they needed to share, I wouldn't resent them for speaking up. And god forbid if they died after that (as I was so sure Steve was going to LOL) it would be a small kind of comfort to know that they didn't die with that weight on them.

No you did not just spend five years telling us that trusting the PROCESS of government was not an option for Steve Rogers when he decided to give the UN and the World Security Council the middle finger, because the nations of the world...

*checks notes*

Wanted to police how civilians performed acts of rescue and active combat within their borders. The audacity?

Just to turn around and have the same black sidekick you were happy to write yoloing off with his white buddy singing fuck the police, finally get to be a real boy long enough to tell the oppressed minorities at home to put down their rage and trust the process!

If you don't know already, the plot of civil war was fucking stupid and Steve had no ground to stand on whatsoever - but the five years of moralizing and rationalizing we have all been subjected to in order to prop up a nonsensical plot point that should have been cleaned up before production even began, is one thing. The eagerness of white fans to soak that shit up and fart out Capaganda is entirely another.

Going vigilante because someone told you that you can't be a combatant in their country without first agreeing to follow their rules and policies was framed as heroism, but saying fuck you to tyrannical governments who crush people for gain was framed as terrorism?

Maybe Marvel doesn't know it, but no matter how many times you have the Black guy say "they're just misguided kids," if you frame them as villains and then have your hero stop them in a deadly combat, you send a clear message. Cool motive. Still murder.

Sam Wilson was contracted by the government to stop terrorists. He stood in their way, implied they were just as bad as their oppressors, and urged them to fight their battle through diplomacy (aka don't be a terrorist). When they refused he stood against them and then gave a speech to diplomats about doing better for their people lest those people feel they have to become terrorists in order to end their suffering.

Congrats Marvel. You have officially created "The Whitest Timeline".

Peddling this respectability bullshit, in the same universe where you said a white guy had moral grounds to engage in a half a decade long hissy fit over his "right" to fight whoever he feels is bad whenever and wherever - screw national borders, governments, laws, collateral damage - is just the absolute WHITEST storytelling imaginable. And not in a cute way.

Bra, it's a fight. A fight is two or more people violating each others bodies to inflict pain, either as retribution, intimidation, or as a means to incapacitate or disarm. His arm was literally the weapon he was using to try and incapacitate her with. She literally disarmed him without any harm to him, beyond dealing with the knowledge that he could be easily disarmed by the people who built it.

Which honestly shouldn't be a huge surprise. I repeat they built the damn thing. And they could have just as easily chopped it off had they wanted to. Because he betrayed them and it's a fight, and there's no "respect my body please" in the kind of fights Bucky puts himself in. You dig? Using real disabled persons struggles as a means of keeping your fave relevant is gross. Especially when you have to erase Ayo and Wakanda's agency in order to make them the villains in your crusade.

Wakanda made the man a weaponized arm because they expected him to use it as a weapon. It has a failsafe because it is a weapon, and they are not naive enough to think said weapon could never be turned on them. Wakanda helped him and they trusted him, and Bucky's choices now have hurt them. Why can't they protect themselves and the interests of their people again, when Bucky undoes the justice that T'Challa decided was enough after his father's death, and when he uses the weapon/limb they gifted him to physically enforce his own agenda? Here in this action series where people risk life and limb for the things they believe in.

In the end what you are saying is 'Bucky is special and should be given special consideration at the expense of literally every person he is hurting right now'. And most of those people are black. 😆

It's the way they have the characters preach about how the world needs heroes who look like the oppressed and understand their struggles, while setting their story in Europe amid a pallet of beige resistance fighters.

It's the way they have Sam Wilson, a black man cosigning respectability rhetoric - I agree with your fight, just not how you fight - while actively standing in the way of the folks who are fighting for their lives in the only language an oppressor understands.

It's the way we whizzed passed the horrific revelation of Isaiah Bradley's life and sacrifice, to make it about the white fan favorites personal angst, giving Sam and the audiance no time to sit and come to terms with any of it. What happened to Isiah, and hundreds like him, what continues to happen to people of color in new forms decade after decade MATTERS. It certainly plays a part in the way a black superhero might feel about the shield but, Bucky is gonna yell at him because he is sad and then it's off to the crime syndicate of Southeast Asia.

It's the way Madripoor is run by and largely populated by white crime lords.

It's the way Sam Wilson spent 10 years before the blip fighting battles for the government, first as a soldier and then as an avenger, making zero dent in the system, meanwhile his family's legacy was being drained out from underneath him by racist policy. And yet... We're supposed to root for him to get a Shield, and keep on peddling the American dream because it's the only "right" way to stand against oppression.

It's the way Bucky just casually and continuously walks over Sam's personhood, especially where that ties into his unique identity as a black man. Which would be one thing if the narrative weren't coddling him and leaving Sam in a position of either blowing up at the traumatized white fan favorite or being the pillar of patience and grace that he shouldn't fucking have to be. The condescending way Bucky mocked him for calling his aunt "TeeTee" had me pausing my screen just to screech. Notice how Sam "corrects" himself so Bucky will understand. It's not an explanation as in, "oh TeeTee is a word for aunt." He says, "okay then" and then repeats his sentence this time with the "proper" word for aunt. As a black woman it's fucking painful watching your heroes do the same shit you do every day to bend to white culture and make white people feel comfortable. And you know this is intentional, because then they have Zemo, the fucking villain playing around with everyone's minds, pointedly validate Sam by using TeeTee rather than aunt.

It's the way every black character including Sam has for a decade been used as a prop in white stories with next to no regard for individual character.

Chapter 18

Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Fandom: Avengers (616/MCU)

Warnings: Graphic Violence

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Steve Rogers/ Peggy Carter, Sharon Carter/Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes/Natasha Romanov

Hello. I finally put together all of my notes for those who have messaged me over the last few years about this story. I appreciate you so much, and I only regret I wasn’t able to finish it for you. Life just got ahead of me, and turned in other directions and realistically I just don’t know if I’ll ever get back to it. Rather than keep you hanging indefinitely I hope this gives you some closure.