surely you were around me before and this is why i feel whole when i am with you. surely this is why i didn’t know how much i missed you until i met you. i don’t think there is another reason i could understand
my mom says she’s not a hugger. but when i put my arms around her on a gloomy day or after bad news she’s the last to let go.
my dad says he doesn’t want gifts on his birthday, but i see the way his face light up when i get him a card with a nice message and a box full of chocolate anyway. he’s just a kid inside, still. it makes him giddy.
my brother never says i love you. but when i tell him “i just need to finish the dishes before i vacuum!” he wordlessly goes to vacuum the entire house before i can, and if he sees me struggle with a wrapper or a jar or a bottle he mutters ‘c’mere’ and opens it for me without even sparing me a glance.
the thing is, people love you quietly, and you love them quietly, and the air is buzzing with tiny but grand gestures & once you look for them, you find them everywhere. i think that’s really beautiful.
I feel like the Stucky fandom has a lot to learn from the HP fandom when it comes to the beautiful concept of “Epilogue? What Epilogue?”
Like, Drarry fans have been cheerfully disregarding Rowling’s epilogue for well over a decade now, and it’s seriously just as easy to do the same for the MCU! All you have to do is just have to ignore Old Man Steve’s five minutes at the end of Endgame, tag your fic “EWE,” and that’s it. You’re now free to write whatever tender friends-to-lovers romance or freaky super soldier metal arm porn you’re into!
Do not let Old Man Steve win, that guy is the worst. Use the EWE tag and give thanks to the Drarry fans who walked so we could run.
In my next essay I will discuss how we need a tag for Natasha Lives, Hawkeye Dies.
Scorpion Hill (PUP) // Sommerdrama, 2008. Oil on Canvas (Markus Matthias Krüger) // Landscape With Fruit Rot And Millipede (Richard Siken) // Mitski, on the In Sight Out podcast // On Fire, 2014. Oil on Canvas (Lauren Cohen) // JUNE IS ON FIRE (angelea l.) // Landscape With Several Small Fires (Richard Siken) // Album cover for PUP’s The Dream Is Over. 2016 (Christopher McKenney) // Brightside (Nate Ruess)
2. Backed by the Captain America: Civil War Writer
3. Dozens of Articles About the Ship
4. #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend
A hashtag that became a trending topic shortly after Civil War came out
5. The Actors, Directors, and Writers Have Acknowledged It
Joe Russo: “What’s fascinating about the Cap-Bucky story as well is it’s a love story. These are two guys who grew up together, and so they have that same emotional connection to each other as brothers would, and even more so because Bucky was all Steve [Rogers] had growing up.“
Chris Evans: “It’s a love story. You can take it however you wanna take it, but the fact is, it’s a love story.”
Markus and McFeely (in the prologue for Captain America: White): “No adventure is complete without a love story. And, yes, these books have one - the longest, most tortured one in Marvel history, in fact. We’re talking about Steve and Bucky, without smirking or innuendo or raised eyebrows.-Steve and Bucky are each other’s soulmate, if you will, because no one on Earth understands what either of them has been through as well as the other does.”
Chris Evans: “I think that’s one of the more precious relationships for Steve Rogers. It’s one of the few relationships that’s been able to transfer into the modern day. It’s one of the few relationships that he can identify as anything we would call home.”
Mark Waid (about Natasha and Bucky): “[Both] have had a crush on Steve Rogers at some point in the past.”