IMAGINE THE AVENGERS SHOWING PIETRO THE ROADRUNNER CARTOONS AND FOR THE NEXT MONTH WHENEVER PIETRO RACES AROUND THE AVENGERS HQ HE PAUSES NEXT TO WANDA JUST LONG ENOUGH TO WHISPER “beep beep” AND GIGGLE AND DASH AWAY
AND EVEN AFTER HE STOPS DOING THAT IT BECOMES A RECURRING JOKE FOR THE AVENGERS AND DURING MISSIONS WHEN HE SPEEDS BY THE OTHERS TO KNOCK OUT ENEMIES AND THERE’S A MOMENT OF STILLNESS AND THEY ALL WHISPER “beep beep”
There is no word to describe my love for this post.
it’s because they subvert almost every trope known to the media, especially in terms of romance and gender. steve’s cute neighbor who supposedly has a thing for muscular bodies and washing machines? think again
she’s not here to flirt, she’s here to fucking save the world.
was there a big kiss and a promise exchanged at the end of the film when all the dust settles and romance – if need be – is finally ready to occur? no. a date is vaguely suggested but immediately dismissed bc you know what is more important to the captain than kissing a pretty girl?
saving his fucking friend
and who has the captain’s back even though he has his own life to return to and his own pretty girl to woo? sam fucking wilson: best bro of all the bros
that is how fucking great captain america is
women are powerful and have identity beyond the “love interest”. they’re not standing idly by until the end of the movie, waiting to make love eyes at the male protagonist. they’re not being saved, they’re doing the saving. most of them aren’t even implied as romantic candidates, they’re too busy being kickass world saving agents.
men are shown to be emotionally attached to other men and friendship/loyalty/heroism takes precedence over romance, to the point where romance isn’t played into the writing at all. really impressive stuff, marvel. i approve.
Normally war movies that focus on male friendship either make women entirely irrelevant, or use women as ciphers to stand in for men’s emotional processes. That’s what makes TWS so extraordinary: Men do emotional labour, while the women get to be actual people.
“Shopping,” is the first word Bucky says that morning. Steve gives him a bewildered look.
“Natasha says she wants to take me shopping,” he clarifies. He still doesn’t talk much these days, but today seems like a good day. “Don’t make me go alone,” Bucky says, eyes big.
And, well, Steve can’t resist Bucky’s big blue eyes which is why he finds himself with Natasha and Sam, holding all of Natasha’s bags. He doesn’t actually know where Natasha and Sam are, but he can see Bucky staring at a pair of stretchy rhinestone shorts on a mannequin.
Natasha appears out of nowhere at his side. “Has he found anything he likes yet? I wanna get him something that he picks for himself.”
Bucky wanders over to the polos and then to the leather jackets, running his fingers along the supple fabric. He lingers in front of them before he goes to see something else.
“I think he likes those jackets. He keeps going back to them,” Sam says from Steve’s other side. Natasha’s eyes light up.
“Oh no,” Steve says warily. She tugs Sam and Steve both over to Bucky.
“You want one of these?” Natasha asks Bucky. Bucky shrinks a little, still having difficulty wanting things.
“I think we should all get them,” she says brightly. “Wanna all be matching?”
Which is how it starts.
It ends with a picture on the official Avenger instagram of all four of them casually standing together. “Team America,” says the caption.
I always find it a little hard to believe in uniform kink in the fandoms best suited to it, so to speak, because while I can believe that the fandom is into the characters’ uniforms, I have troubles believing that the characters are, on the principle that nothing is less sexy than your nine-to-five.
But I don’t know if this is actually true. Is military kink less common in actual members of the military? Does anyone know or have anecdata?
THERE IS NOTHING LESS SEXY THAN MILITARY KINK for all the soldiers I’ve ever met, including myself. I’ve been out for nearly a decade & I sometime still have to back button out of stuff that fetishizes aspects of the military. (I mean, people are welcome to their kinks! But for me it’s an active turn off.)
Thank you for your perspective!
I’ve always been unpersuaded by bdsm-y stuff, where Bucky calls Steve “Sir”, because, Winter Soldier stuff aside, I am persuaded Bucky associates ‘Sir’ with doing dumb pointless boring necessary shit for dumb people he doesn’t particularly respect.
(Steve, on the other hand, I can believe fetishizes lots of aspects of military culture, for one thing, because he was barely in boot camp and got to opt out of a lot the military administrivia. And also because I believe the first time he saw Bucky in uniform he popped a boner that didn’t go down for a week.)
Note also that “uniform” potentially covers MULTIPLE outfits, particularly for law enforcement and military personnel: there’s a difference between the uniform Bucky’s wearing at the beginning of TFA, what he’d actually live in day to day, or for that matter things like dress mess.
And despite what TV may have told you, RCMP officers do not live in their red serge. 😛
(There’s also an aspect of “uniform kink” vs “kink for YOU in THAT uniform”, and not having the kink oneself vs responding enthusiastically to the way one’s partner does.)
I also totally agree re: Bucky and “sir” – “sir” = “oh God shut up already”.
One day Bucky is in a retail store and overhears an employee giving exactly that “sir” to an irritating customer.
His grin scares the shit out of both of them.
😀
Actual remark of Col Phillips re Barnes somewhere only semi-official: “possesses the most amazing ability to radiate disrespect and insubordination while at the same time not ever doing a single damn thing you can actually discipline him for, including the tone of his voice.”
Realize that this could easily be canon in the MCU.
As in, it could be the actual Saturday Morning TV show that people in MCU watch.
Can you imagine? A whole show written off broad characterizations based on what most of the “normal” people who live and work in the MCU would know about the Avengers.
Its the closet thing to an Avengers sitcom we’ll ever get.
BONUS: Body and mind swapping plots. Evil-Twin AUs. De-aging plots. Sam’s mother doesn’t know he’s an AVENGER plots. I swear they use cheesy fanfiction for idea generators and its GLORIOUS.
Steve Rogers did, in fact, realize that something was off when he saw the outline of the woman’s odd bra (a push-up bra, he would later learn), but being an officer and a gentleman, he said that it was the game that gave the future away.
No, see, this scene is just amazing. The costume department deserves so many kudos for this, it’s unreal, especially given the fact that they pulled off Peggy pretty much flawlessly.
1) Her hair is completely wrong for the 40’s. No professional/working woman would have her hair loose like that. Since they’re trying to pass this off as a military hospital, Steve would know that she would at least have her hair carefully pulled back, if maybe not in the elaborate coiffures that would have been popular.
2) Her tie? Too wide, too long. That’s a man’s tie, not a woman’s. They did, however, get the knot correct as far as I can see – that looks like a Windsor.
3) That. Bra. There is so much clashing between that bra and what Steve would expect (remember, he worked with a bunch of women for a long time) that it has to be intentional. She’s wearing a foam cup, which would have been unheard of back then. It’s also an exceptionally old or ill-fitting bra – why else can you see the tops of the cups? No woman would have been caught dead with misbehaving lingerie like that back then, and the soft satin cups of 40’s lingerie made it nearly impossible anyway. Her breasts are also sitting at a much lower angle than would be acceptable in the 40’s.
Look at his eyes. He knows by the time he gets to her hair that something is very, very wrong.
so what you are saying is S.H.E.I.L.D. has a super shitty costume division….
Nope, Nick Fury totally did this on purpose.
There’s no knowing what kind of condition Steve’s in, or what kind of person he really is, after decades of nostalgia blur the reality and the long years in the ice (after a plane crash and a shitload of radiation) do their work. (Pre-crash Steve is in lots of files, I’m sure. Nick Fury does not trust files.) So Fury instructs his people to build a stage, and makes sure that the right people put up some of the wrong cues.
Maybe the real Steve’s a dick, or just an above-average jock; maybe he had a knack for hanging out with real talent. Maybe he hit his head too hard on the landing and he’s not gonna be Captain anymore. On the flipside, if he really is smart, then putting him in a standard, modern hospital room and telling him the truth is going to have him clamming up and refusing to believe a goddamn thing he hears for a really long time.
The real question here is, how long it does it take for the man, the myth, the legend to notice? What does he do about it? How long does he wait to get his bearings, confirm his suspicions, and gather information before attempting busting out?
Turns out the answer’s about forty-five seconds.
#STEVE YOU RECKLESS FUCK#’we need a plan’ my ass#how about ‘break everything until I’m outside and then figure shit out from there’#A+ steve you win (tags via bluandorange)
iron man: blow shit up
captain america: gymnastics + ultimate frisbee
hulk: break everything and yell a lot
thor: hammer ballet
black widow: death by thighs
hawkeye: increasingly cool arrow-shooting
scarlet witch: interpretive dance
quicksilver: just run them over
falcon: caw caw motherfuckers
winter soldier: never-ending weapons hoard + scowly duckface
war machine: machine gun shoulder + sheer level of cool
Kimchi and Justice 