#but Steve & Bucky merely sit on adjacent pub stools and suddenly it's *GayPanicStations* 🙄💅

[amarriageoftrueminds]

thinking about how they had to age up comics Bucky to avoid the gay connotations

and despite villainizing him still had to pair him & Steve off with women while they’re sneaking off to meet each other

and had to give Steve a girlfriend to de-gay his reunion with openly-gay Arnie Roth...

And then MCU Steve is SO obsessed with Bucky that they had to give them beards every time they're alone together in public, and then had to cut down on their screen time together, keep them physically separated in frame, forbid one character from even mentioning the other, separate them in time, and kill one of them off.

And I'm just like

Guys.

You do realise that actually straight characters wouldn't need all this 'fixing', right??

#stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #MCU #chris evans #sebastian stan #mcu meta #meta #steve meta #bucky meta #stucky meta #no one's feverishly cutting scenes and saying 'we need to cast a random nameless female to hang on starlord's arm #cuz otherwise his entire arc is just a gay love story and it'll be trending all over twitter' #mindblowing how Tony is IN THE MOVIE joking about holding Rhodey's dick #and yet ZERO steps had to be taken to prevent THEM from being read as an Epic Gay Romance for the Ages or w/e #but Steve & Bucky merely sit on adjacent pub stools and suddenly it's *GayPanicStations* 🙄💅 #STRAIGHT CHARACTERS DON'T NEED TO BE *ACTIVELY PREVENTED* FROM COMING ACROSS AS QUEER #CUZ IT WOULD SIMPLY NEVER BE AN ISSUE IN THE FIRST PLACE??? #kevin feige bursting into the writers room to derail their script #because steve briefly touched bucky's shoulder while they were alone together... #...and now 3 entire movies worth of fragile atwell-ass-kissing compet has crumbled like a shitty dry cookie #if that's all it took it's because they're fucking gay kevin