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Ok I … I just really need to talk about this. I’ve tried to set this shit aside, but I just can’t, we need to address this before the Black Widow movie comes out. 

For the last few years, we Nat stans have faced some tough shit from fandom as a whole. Endless posts about Nat being boring and stupid compared to other female characters in the mcu. Calls to boycott her movie, how nobody needs her as a character, how she can’t get on the level of the other mcu ladies, how she’s useless. We’ve been dealing with this for years. It hurts. It’s not fun. It sucks.

And now these people, professed Nat stans, who know what this is like, have the fucking audacity, the sheer stupidity, to turn around and say the exact same shit about Yelena, an important and interesting character who’s deeply connected to Natasha’s mythos, all because they feel threatened that she might be in the BW movie, and possibly carry the Black Widow mantle going forward.

The complete lack of self-awareness is astonishing, but what do I expect from fandom, even the Nat fandom?? Sure, I’m pissed Nat’s dead, and yeah I’d rather have a whole movie dedicated to Nat and a BW sequel focusing on introducing Yelena, but that’s not what we’re getting. I’m not sure 100% how I feel about Yelena possibly being the new mcu Black Widow in the present day, but I like the character and I would be glad if the Black Widow legacy doesn’t die with Nat (as long as the mcu doesn’t totally screw up Yelena’s character.) But none of this is an excuse to literally throw the exact same bile and gross accusations against Yelena that we’ve been hearing about Natasha for years. It’s tone-deaf, it’s ugly, and it’s beyond idiotic. You should know better.

And you know what? This makes me concerned for Florence Pugh, an up-and-coming actress, by all accounts a lovely person, receiving hate and fandom grossness for daring to play Yelena. If you don’t think that’s possible, look at Emily VanCamp, who was literally bullied out of the mcu for daring to “replace” Peggy with Sharon, receiving death threats in her twitter and Instagram accounts. And istg if the same things happens with Pugh, this whole fandom is getting burnt down.     

steve: post a lett-

peggy: yeah and have you looked at hotels for our vacation?

steve, shaken: oh no lemme just googl-

steve:

The last pages of that story have Steve writing in his journal about how living in the past is tempting but that it’s where fossils come from and that “there’ll always be something to fight for” so he decides to look ahead instead of back.

#recall that this is also the dude who took a knife to a gunfight and came away with a big goddamn gun