you're not ascending to godhood you're just dehydrated
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But the real reason I had to chime in was that Steve Rogers is my favorite superhero. Why? Because unlike other patriotism-themed characters, Steve Rogers doesn’t represent a genericized America but rather a very specific time and place – 1930’s New York City. We know he was born July 4, 1920 (not kidding about the 4th of July) to a working-class family of Irish Catholic immigrants who lived in New York’s Lower East Side.[1] This biographical detail has political meaning: given the era he was born in and his class and religious/ethnic background, there is no way in hell Steve Rogers didn’t grow up as a Democrat, and a New Deal Democrat at that, complete with a picture of FDR on the wall.
Steve Rogers grew up poor in the Great Depression, the son of a single mother who insisted he stayed in school despite the trend of the time (his father died when he was a child; in some versions, his father is a brave WWI veteran, in others an alcoholic, either or both of which would be appropriate given what happened to WWI veterans in the Great Depression) and then orphaned in his late teens when his mother died of TB.[2] And he came of age in New York City at a time when the New Deal was in full swing, Fiorello LaGuardia was mayor, the American Labor Party was a major force in city politics, labor unions were on the move, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was organizing to fight fascism in Spain in the name of the Popular Front, and a militant anti-racist movement was growing that equated segregation at home with Nazism abroad that will eventually feed into the “Double V” campaign.
Then he became a fine arts student. To be an artist in New York City in the 1930s was to be surrounded by the “Cultural Front.” We’re talking the WPA Arts and Theater Projects, Diego Rivera painting socialist murals in Rockefeller Center, Orson Welles turning Julius Caesar into an anti-fascist play and running an all-black Macbeth and “The Cradle Will Rock,” Paul Robeson was a major star, and so on. You couldn’t really be an artist and have escaped left-wing politics. And if a poor kid like Steve Rogers was going to college as a fine arts student, odds are very good that he was going to the City College of New York at a time when an 80% Jewish student body is organizing student trade unions, anti-fascist rallies, and the “New York Intellectuals” were busily debating Trotskyism vs. Stalinism vs. Norman Thomas Socialism vs. the New Deal in the dining halls and study carrels.
Steven Attewell: Steve Rogers Isn’t Just Any Hero - Lawyers, Guns & Money
gotta love a well-researched takedown of such lazy, hoary tropes as “Captain America is a monolithic aryan crypto-fascist”
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#Remember Bisexuals! If All Else Fails, Hide Behind A Curtain To Avoid Facing Your Feelings!!!
KIETA HATSUKOI (2021) - Episode 3.
MY PERSONAL WEATHERMAN (2023) - Episode 6.
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Let’s leave together, I’m ready now.
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some old idaokis.. holding hands scene<3
06.11.2021
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“I’m glad you’re okay” but said by someone who has just had the shit beaten out of them, to someone who is not hurt at all, is a brilliant trope and I lose my mind every time.
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Let fimd out what a penis is
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Together
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Found this and I swear there's no image better fitted to describe my drinking experience
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sometimes u just need to listen to the steven universe soundtrack and remember what it felt like to wait a week/month/year for the next episode and have the utmost faith that this show would fix everything in my life and never do anything wrong
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the grind NEVER starts. i am sleeping
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We lose everytime a girl in fiction who is on the masc side and happy with it becomes very feminine as a supposed sign of maturity
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Events (This year)
MCGA Week @mcgaweek
Prompts: out now
20/5/24-26/5/24
full timetable
Sapphic Summer Riordanverse @sapphic-summer-riordanverse
Prompts: submissions start 1/5/24 (ends 10/5/24)
3/6/24-9/6/24
full timetable
Riordanverse Gen Week @riordanverse-gen-week
Prompts: submissions start 13/5/24 (until 19/5/24)
1/7/24-7/7/24
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these are all seven day events with prompts mostly intended for fic and art. more info on the blogs tagged
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