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Hey. Not a question, but a fanfic recommendation because I saw a reblog of your post where you asked about fanfics concerning Buckyās drug withdrawal. Just thought you might like to read the story (maybe you already know about it).
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31301168/chapters/77387183
Thank you very much for this recommendation! I look forward to reading. š
every day i wake up and am mad at the end of steves storyline and the full and complete lack of people who GET IT
ā no, not again ā
goat fight. non-negotiable.
#LISTEn listen most marvel fights feel so contrived and fake and like la-dee-da-superhero#but this one was REAL and had me on the edge of my seat and still does#partially bc of the street clothes not costumes#partially because steve is fighting 1 on 1 and gets stripped of his shield quick#and he has to show like his physical combat skills#and the ACTING on both their parts.. fucking ace#esp chris evans tho like his face looks PANICKED how often do u see captain fucking america panicked??#anyway in this essay i willĀ (tags via @asterlark)
I think itās also very important that this is a fight in which the characters *actually interact with their environment* in a way that feels real. Like, yes, have superpowers but thereās no cartoon physics involved, no obvious sense that this was filmed on an empty set with a greenscreen and the background was added later, or that theyāre filming without even the people theyāre fighting being present, just ālook over here and make a hand gestureā. The shield gets stuck in a car, thereās that awful moment of the knife sliding along the side of the van that cues up with the mounting tension in the soundtrack. Buckyās arm impacts the pavement and actually dents it, etc. Theyāre jumping over/behind the cars and getting thrown into them/into the pavement in a way that feels more visceral than just āwhoosh there was a wire & we CGIād in the restā. t has a sense of real world space to it, and that adds to the feeling of real world stakes.
This is one of the few fight scenes I can recall seeing that makes a little knife look like a real threat. Like I am legit scared for Steve when that thing darts in, because heās not wearing armor and it really feels like the WS could open him up like a can. I feel like movie fight scenes donāt usually hit that note with knives.
Itās worth pointing out that this scene WAS filmed on a actual set with actual asphalt and cars (with fall pads and stuff, but still). They really were interacting with their environment.
But as a fight nerd, thereās one other thing I want to point out about this fight, and it goes back to @mikkenekoās point about the knife:
This isnāt a magic fight.
Yes, theyāre both super soldiers. Yes, WS has a vibranium arm. Yes, Steve has a vibranium shield. But there are no magic blasts going on here. Thereās no wuxia and minimal wire-work (mostly protective for the actors).
WS shoots at Steve until he runs out of bullets because thatās the most efficient way to murder him. Steve either dodges or hides his whole body behind his shield because thatās the most efficient way to not get murdered. The shield gets thrown, caught, thrown back, wedged in a car. Then itās a knife fight. Throughout, itās really obvious that neither of them are fucking around. WS is trying to just straight-up kill Steve, Steve is trying to not die. No banter. No dick-measuring. No quips.
This fight is brutal, efficient, and not flashy. Steveās knife defense is textbook, and aside from that cool little flip that was almost too fast to clock, WSās attacks are textbook. Heās doing his best to control Steveās defense and open a hole to wedge that knife in. Steveās doing his best to control that knife hand and keep just enough space between them that he can close those holes before WS can get to them. Itās telling that heās paying so much attention to the knife that when WS finally gets through his guard, itās with his empty, vibranium hand. (Still no idea why he tosses him instead of crushing his windpipe though, that was 100% movie logic.)
When Steve does that flying knee at WS, thatās not about flashy martial arts moves, thatās about brutal efficiency. Your knees and elbows are the hardest points on your body. Steve can engage in fisticuffs with normal people; he can knock out hitler over 200 times. He could also break his knuckles on WSās face before doing any appreciable damage, and we watch him figure that out. So itās not kung fu, itās muay thai. Itās krav maga. Those flips arenāt for show - thatās pure Jiujitsu, the ruthless throws that are supposed to segue into joint locks and dislocations. That is the way to take your opponent apart, literally. He was trying to rip WSās non-vibranium arm out of its socket.
That pile-driver? That was meant to break WSās neck. A normal person would die instantly if Captain America pulled that WWE shit on them. We are into the gritty shit now. We have two extremely strong, extremely skilled men who are just trying to kill each other because the only way to win this fight is to die last, and it shows.
They scramble for position through the fight. When one move fails, they donāt bother breaking apart before finding the next-most-efficient killing move and trying that. This is what two people who are actually trying to murder each other look like - most street scuffles stay on the ground once they get there and donāt involve this much skill, but we can excuse that because itās Captain America and the Winter Fucking Soldier. I still recognize the blocking of this fight as a real fight, not a spar. The urgency, breathlessness, the pragmatism, the messy transitions between moves as you just keep trying to improvise faster than the other guy⦠thatās all correct.
Thereās no magic. There are fists, feet, elbows. Thereās a shield and thereās a knife - the first and oldest human-made tools of war. There are chokes. There are joint locks. Not a word spoken. And it helps that they are really there - landing on cars, landing on asphalt.
No other MCU fight even comes close unless youāre including the tv shows, because that Daredevil long-shot hallway fight was pretty fucking badass too.

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The difference between Steve and Tony in CA:CW will always boil down to this:
Tony stands up to authority because he was born into immense wealth and privilege and has never had to answer to anyone. He defies authority because he knows he'll never have to face actual consequences for doing so.
Steve stands up to authority because he was born into poverty and grew up a poor, disabled Irish-American during the Great Depression. He defies authority because he knows what it's like to be dismissed, undervalued, and disenfranchised and never wants anyone to face that.
Tony pushed for the accords because he knew he could just break them and nothing would happen to him (which is exactly how it went down).
Steve refused to sign the accords because he would never sign away his human rights and the rights of other people to an authority he knew would abuse them (which, again, is exactly what happened).
So in a way, they were both right about the accords. Tony was just also infinitely more wrong.
I love this shot. CONSPICUOUS WATERGATE HOTEL IS CONSPICUOUS right as Captain America is about to get jumped by members of a sinister government conspiracy, after Evil Robert Redford got done telling him his apartment was bugged by the head of the very agency he works for. Itās not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
as we approach the decade-versary of Cap 2 letās just take a moment to remember some of the best and most overloaded-with-implications fictional building placement of all time. the old-boys-club political wheelings and dealings of Georgetown on one side, the defense-contracting-$$$ skyscraper hell of Rosslyn on the other, conspicuous views of the Watergate Hotel, down on the river in a way that pointedly evokes CIA headquarters at Langley, and they wouldāve had to raze a national park to build the damn thing on Roosevelt Island in the first place. 1000/10 no notes.
Rumlow & Bucky threatening people with a custom SIG Sauer P226 SCT
At first glance Buckyās gun in TFATWS may not look particularly special or appear to have any narrative significance, but Iām here to tell you thatās almost certainly not the case, whether intentional or not.
I already thought the parallel was fascinating when I first noticed these guns looked similar, but the deeper I dug the more compelling the story got. They arenāt just similar, theyāre the exact same gun. Which ordinarily wouldnāt be that all that special either, since many people use the same type of gun, but this isnāt some generic off-the-shelf model. In fact, I now think this custom P226 SCT is so unique as to be intrinsically linked to Rumlow, and Iām going to make the case that its reappearance in TFATWS is so remarkable that the gun (and therefore likely Rumlow himself) must hold some sort of significance for Bucky.
Buckle up, Iām about to overanalyze the shit out of this gun.
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NYC Geography - MCU Edition
here is a semi-detailed walkthrough of new york city in terms of the MCU and all itās characters residing there!
letās start with the 5 boroughs: mahattan, queens, brooklyn, the bronx, and staten island. hereās a map!

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Rewatching the winter soldier for the bazillionth time and truly, what I love about it, are the āeverydayā heroes who tried to do the right thing:
Sam Wilson
Sharon Carter
The guy running and screaming āclose the bay doors!ā
The air control techs who let Steve, Maria, and Sam in with a simple, yes, sure, please do come in, sir
The guy who wouldnāt launch the helicarriers
The members of the world security council who stood up to Pierce (not if it was your switch)
All the people who were trying to be āthe only air support captain Rogers hasā
This movie was about every person having the same energy as Steve Rogers; every person can be a hero if they choose to.
This movie is somehow more relevant in 2019 than it was in 2014.
A seven nation army couldnāt hold me back.
Yup, sometimes iām still alive on tumblr.Ā
are there any ww2-era cap fics, or even modern fics, that discuss/deal with the the widespread, military-supported use of amphetamines in their forces? the germans had pervitinābut the allies had benzedrine sulphate; benzedrine, i think, is still actually used to this day.
thereās a section in this old paper that goesĀ āAs the drug raises the level of physical performance in the course of prolonged effort by lessening the appreciation of fatigue, it was considered wiser, when the emergency was acute, to resort to the use of a drug which makes men temporarily immune to fatigue than to abandon the exhausted (Fetterman).On many a dangerous mission benzedrine helped tired men to win the battle against sleep, when they could not be replaced by rested reserves.āĀ
if regular infantry kept popping energy pills to keep going, what about the theoretical drug usage of the howling commandos? From that same paper:Ā āThe responsibility for the tactical use of benzedrine rests with the commanding officer, who must decide when the situation demands it. Distribution and administration, however, is the responsibility of the medical officer. When it should be used, how much is needed, and what the effects will be are matters of interest to every member of a tactical organisation.āĀ did all of them, including bucky, have to take above-average doses to keep pace with actual-superhuman captain america? did steve himself take benzedrine to stave off sleep when the mission stakes were too high to take an hour off to rest? would it be ineffective for him because of his metabolism?Ā
what about the postwar consequences of prolonged drug use in returning servicemen? how did that affect the howlies when they went home, since they might have taken way, way more than was standard issue? was howard also on benzedrine to keep up his rapid R&D during the war? did that contribute to his postwar instability? did bucky go through a serious crash withdrawal with the russians during the early days of his confinement after his recovery, because they didnāt have supplies of benzedrine? what kind of supplementary dosing did HYDRA give him during the torture and reeducation? is modern-day bucky at a high risk for relapsing to amphetamines or other substances due to decades of drug dependency and experimentation? is he currently a drug addict? if heās been ācleanā for at least a year, is he still suffering from various addiction-related psychological and health issues on top of his traumas and preexisting conditions?Ā
what about steve? whatās his standpoint on performance-boosting drugs and drug dependency, given that his life was so fundamentally altered by the military-supervised application of an extreme and permanent performance-boosting chemical concoction into his body? his frequent dependence on medicine and health aids before the Rebirth procedure? smoking as a cultural norm during his original time period? would the serum have killed his nicotine addiction too, or would steve have kept smoking during the war as a social activity in the same way he kept drinking alcohol that wouldnāt get him tipsy? does he ever sneak away to smoke now when the nostalgia hits him, or is it the nostalgia that prevents him from finding comfort in the habit? (probably the latter. smokes arenāt the same nowadays anyway, just like bananas.)
āUntil the end of the lineā
To see how far the line goes, we have to start at the beginning.
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DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
a classic theme in world literature, art, film and video games; most notably in those that have a lot of action. This trope usually involves beautiful, innocent, or helpless young female leads, placed in a dire predicament by a villain, monster, or alien, and who requires a male hero to achieve their rescue.Ā After rescuing them, the hero often obtains their hand in marriage.
#iām just saying#thereās a reason so many women fiercely latched on to buckyās character#not only is bucky gorgeous but heās also a constant plot point to give the hero manpain#in the first avenger he needs to be rescued and his death is the heroās ultimate motivator#in the winter soldier the hero still mourns this momentous loss until bucky springs back like the beautiful femme fatale that he is#with no agency or autonomy i should add#and in civil war heās again just a plot device this time to cause a rift between two Men#and the russos stated they chose bucky as the first to be dusted in IW so we could view this horror from steveās eyes#anyway i have Thoughts#bucky barnes#steve rogers#cap: tfa#cap: tws#cap: cwĀ (via mackievanstan)
Letās also remember that Bucky is given feminine actions to perform outside of Being Rescued by Steve. Bucky performs a lot, like a whole hell of a lot, of emotional labor on Steveās behalf. Oceans of digital ink have been spilled regarding Buckyās role as pre-serum Steveās physical and emotional caretaker. On-screen, we watch him arrange Steveās domestic (āI am literally begging you to live with me now that your mother has passed awayā) and social (āI found you a date!ā) life for himā¦
(Interesting to note that when he takes on the role as Steveās protector, the actual aggression involved is minimal: one punch and one kick in the alleway; one clean shot to the head during the CATFA montage.)
ā¦and he puts up with Steveās cock-eyed enthusiasm against his better judgment and against his own best interests. From letting Steve ditch him at the Expo on a night that shouldāve been about Bucky making good memories to take overseas, to agreeing when Steve asks him to join a crack squad going after the same people responsible for a pretty damn significant trauma to himāand hell, skipping ahead to CW when he instantly joins up with Steve to go to Siberia despite the events of the first half of the filmāBucky constantly sublimates himself to serve the causes of other people.
And itās not just Steve! Pierce orders and abuses and guilts Bucky into compliance even when he has misgivings. Bucky is undeniably reluctant to be dragged into the Infinity War, but he follows when TāChalla beckons, and he even plasters a big smile onto his face for when Steve shows up (to say nothing of the appearance change/personal grooming he put on in the meantime, which a - was so goddamn gay, and b - is a ploy to make him look more ready to be here, since Buckyās appearance/state of dress is linked to his mental state, as evidenced by every single scene Bucky is ever in, ever).
Also, I think Bucky is the only MCU man we ever see shopping? (Iām not counting Peter Parker because he is a minor.) Actually shopping, not just walking through a marketplace or townsquare (or covertly using a computer). Chatting with the vendor and smiling and generally putting on social niceties that are often assigned to women irl and on-screen (without the manly posturing that even Peter engages in).
There was an article awhile back hypothesizing that Nonbinary Bucky took off as a popular fandom interpretation precisely because heās been assigned the Womanās Role so thoroughly. I can totally see why.
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Steve Rogers leaves dishes in the sink.
In 1938, Bucky Barnes comes home from a long day at the docks and looks down at a full sink. He directs a halfhearted glare in the direction of the small lump doodling something at the kitchen table. āGoddamnit, Steve. Dishes.ā
In 2016, Steve Rogers rubs his face and drags himself into the kitchen before heading out to search the city ā the cooling trail ā again. He drops his plate into the sink. Thereās already some other things in there. Heāll get to them later, probably. When he has time. It doesnāt really matter.
He turns to go.
The shadow behind the refrigerator shifts slightly, and the Winter Soldier hoarsely whispers, āI swear to God, Steve, thereās a fucking machine for it right there.āĀ
*SHRIEKING*