#toAyourQ

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Saw your tags saying Hannibal fanfiction is the best, I'm new to the fandom, do you have any recs? Love your blog btw!

Thank you Nonny and OOP you're in luck!

I just came across a cracking thread on Twitter t'other day where a bunch of us fannibals were recommending the fandom 'must reads!'

So here the list is so far:

Consenting to Dream (emungere) THE fic.

A Remedy for Love (emungere)

Blackbird (emungere)

Separately to a Wood (emungere)

Taken For Rubies (emungere)

Two Solitudes (emungere) S4

Faded Fantasy (phenobarbital)

Hyacinth House (bluesyturtle)

He Who Pours Out Vengeance (underground) S2 before S2

A Great and Gruesome Height (mokuyoubi) S4

The First Condition of Immortality is Death (onehandedbooks) S4

As Soft, as Wide as Air (blackknightsatellite) S4

The Shape of Me Will Always Be You (missdisoriental)

Shark Tank (xzombiexkittenx)

Bloodline (xzombiexkittenx)

Pi's Lullaby (t_pock)

Wolf And I (t_pock)

We Killed a Dragon Last Night (inameitlater) S4

A Cliff and the Wine Dark Sea (saintsavage) S4

One Way Out Of Many (hellotailor, nakamasmile)

Bright Hair About The Bone (missdisoriental)

Chimera of the Chapel (bleakmidwinter) S4

Eve of Dreams (Le Réveillon des Rêves) (inter_spem_et_metum) S4

Heart and Mouth (disenchanted)

Symbasis (tei)

Lagbrotna (cognomen)

Vorspiel (kareliasweet) S4

Omega Point (cognomen & whiskeyandspite)

Haarlem (spqr)

Heal Your Wolf(hound) Well (devotitonal_doldrums)

Falls the Shadow (littlesystem) my personal most-read fic!

The Fault in My Code (liaS0)

The Unquiet Grave (liaS0)

Flesh and Bone (pragmatichominid)

The Fisherman and the Beast From the Sea (pragmatichominid)

Attachment (pragmatichominid)

The Hole Is Still There (croik)

The Long Weekend (devereauxs_disease)

Each According to Its Kind (chaparral_crown)

Their Beaks Not Yet Turned Red (chaparral_crown)

The Lamb and His Monster (pterodactyl352)

Oddbodies (toffeecape)

This Dangerous Game (missdisoriental)

Page Six (thisbeautifuldrowning)

Bram Stoker's HANNIBAL (dbmars)

Falling Away with You (shotgun_sinner)

Two Slow Dancers, Last One’s Out (antiheroblake) MCD

Nowhere to Ascend but Down (yourminecraftboyfriend)

Overcoming (purefoysgirl)

Paragon (bloodywa2411)

Silence in Heaven (theglintoftherail)

The Mark of His Name (theglintoftherail)

The Mongoose and the Mouse (hiding now)

Between Here and There (deadratz)

Omiai (iesika)

Remember (that you are) to die (13empress) unfinished sadly

What the Water Gave Me (iesika) discontinued but so vivid it's worth reading anyway

And I would recommend looking at this twitter feed, which does nothing but recommend hannigram fics.

Bon appetit. 😈

#remember folks: REBLOG 🔁 / DON'T JUST LIKE 🤍 #hannigram #murder husbands #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #fic rec #hannigram fic rec #hannibal nbc #I was right btw they are the best #the best hannibal fics will give you unfortunately high standards for your other fandoms 😕

[shefloolikeamadman]

your map and everything about hogwarts on ao3 is splendid! did you come up with all of that or have you been collecting everything from the books? it was so nicely written as well, a blast to just read it and visualise going around the castle!

Oh, that old thing? Anon you’ve just made my night! ^_^

For the Beginner’s Guide To Hogwarts I did collect everything from the books - I’m a strictly canon gal - even with the most recent edit, the Hogsmeade map, which is as close as I could get it from canon. (All that cross-referencing and deducing, and then they went and brought out a new edition of the books with a map on the inside leaf! Grr.) 

I felt not only would it stick more easily, if it came in story form, but that it was just… more in-keeping with the tone of the books to write it in a jokey character’s voice. I surprised myself a bit with how many gags I was able to squeeze out of, eg. ‘things to do in Hogsmeade when you’re supposed to be in bed.’ ^_^’

Anyway, thank you for reading it, and I’m glad you enjoyed!

#unknown asker #toAyourQ #hogwarts #meta #hp

[amarriageoftrueminds]

something i love is how Steve Rogers canonically takes after his mother. both appearance wise and in terms of his ideals

too bad the mcu's powers that be didn't care to explore steve or bucky's backstories beyond catws, or else we could've gotten an actual appearance from Sarah, but that's ok future projects can fix this /copium

but anyways Steve is canonical Momma's Boy, I wish marvel would remember lol

now if only marvel could also remember that Bucky Barnes is a protector and steve's guardian angel with a shotgun (or i guess sniper rifle, during the war)

cuz if marvel did then they could be genius and retroactively give us flashbacks/scenes in the past that put Bucky back there with little Steve and show interactions between Bucky and Sarah and have Steve's mom thank him for looking out for her fighter of a son, and also retroactively include scenes of Bucky's family reacting to their kid choosing to pick up the disabled little bullied Irish kid and decide he must protect hehe

there's too much good shit there that sets up the true nature of Bucky and Steve's friendship, which i feel like marvel writers kinda forgot over the years and replaced it with caricature-ish flat understanding of both Bucky and Steve, so such scenes would be good to remind writers and the audience of why they've been caring about each other and give insight into their parents

Am I the only one who gets the vibe that, quite apart from wanting to unravel any plot-threads which undermine the specialness to Steve of the Token Female they bothered to put in the Cap movies... they don't want Steve to be a Mammy's Boy, cuz they see that as less acceptably manly and cool?

Like: Tony is allowed to obsess over what his dad thought of him, across multiple movies (and ditto what the Odinson boys thought of Odin's opinion of them) but mothers only matter if, and only while, they're being fridged?

Ditto with Bucky's mother too, now I think about it (at least his dad also gets zero mention or exposure). And it would be so sweet and easy to have flashbacks of kid Steve and Bucky -- it would even save them the hassle of having to pay for the adult stars, to film!

Also can you imagine kid-Bucky, already a worrier, asking Sarah what Steve's dad died of and finding out he died from having bad lungs and this just unlocking a whole new level of nightmares for him about Steve and his 'fuck you imma fight everyone in this dirty dank alleyway with bad air' attitude. 😩

I absolutely 100% headcanon Bucky and Sarah as having a whole unspoken language between them, as the only two people on earth who get Steve. I always imagined there would be a whole series of private memories -- moments of non-verbal communication between him and her -- which even Steve himself wasn't privy to.

#historically accurate stucky tag #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #stucky meta #kid steve and bucky #WE SHOULD'VE SEEN THEM #sarah especially we should've seen it's actually criminal we had screentime wasted on others over her #they really just blatantly did not give a shit about doing comics-Steve justice #he's not the guy they want they want Soldier Boy #remember folks: REBLOG 🔁 / DON'T JUST LIKE 🤍

[amarriageoftrueminds]

maybe it's bc I grew up seeing (and can still see from the outside) how cis men play/joke/fake gayness as a display of domination but yet all somehow knew to avoid actual gayness like the plague (bc the it's so real how cishets manage to know what we are b4 we ourselves do) but I see that exact same "locker room" idea of playing gayness for laughs (usually by violating of sexual boundaries) + treating actual gay love like an unmentionable replicated by the cishets making media

like, look at marvel's iron man thor and gotg movies littered with writing that might nominally be considered "gay" jokes abt men being placed in sexual situations each other (again, often by laughing at the idea of sexual assault/nonconsensual sexualization) but cishet norms don't consider this gay in any real sense. it's the "accepted" way of portraying "gayness" in a way that signals to the audience that it's there to poke fun at the characters and knock 'em down a peg for comedy

This is part of why I rolled my eyes at ppl claiming queerbait at tfatws (completely not knowing what the bait part of the word means). Those "gay" moments in that show were the most classical homophobic dudebro locker room comedy that I've grown to recognize as an extension of the homophobic rough housing culture growing up among cishet boys. Every "moment" was just a Gunn-esque laugh at the male characters being degraded by being put in a position that seems gay against their consent, either by literally falling/rolling into it, by purposeful taunting by a malicious (and shoehorned) character, or literally by the force of the state(state as in governing body). it's meant to be funny in that the cishet culture the comedy comes from dictates that violating men's boundaries with a superficially "homo" act is a way to enforce hierarchy within the group. the jokes come from homophobia (which is why the creators were baffled at the idea of shipping in that show, they recognize the difference between real gayness and their homophobic lockerroom-culture jokes)

This is also why we never see anything even remotely like that between Bucky and Steve, they have genuine love for one another, the same cishet "gay" rough housing culture recognizes that between them it wouldn't be a joke, it'd be actually gay, so they avoided it like the plague. That's why we hardly ever see Bucky and Steve's canon platonic friendship portrayed, it holds actual love for one another that can't be played off by stoicism or homophobic lockerroom-style comedy. They can't do Gunnisms to make it a haha hehe, so the marvel franchise opts to not show the best friends inseparable from playground to battlefield as actual friends. Actual factual, sincere, earnest friendship between men is considered to approximate to gayness by comic book dudebro culture, so they don't show it and then blame gay ppl for "ruining" the platonic make friendships that they were too scared to show because anything more than hooking up with a bunch of interchanging women and meeting up one a year at a bar to talk about the women they've hooked up with is considered to gay by cishet men who still haven't grown out of that homophobic (& misogynistic) locker room culture.

Anon you're so right, and this is also how Tony can be cracking jokes about holding Rhodey's dick in the Avengers movie and no one in the execs room has a gay panic about needing to separate them!

Given that it also had Sharon mocking Bucky for being 'Mr America' tfatws especially seemed to revel in these nasty little homophobic digs. 😥

#long post #tfawts critical #stucky meta #mcu critical #mcu meta #steve meta #bucky meta #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #stucky #bucky barnes #written like a supernatural episode #it's like they tried to head off shipping sam/bucky at the pass... #...by making them do the thinly-veiled homophobia dudebro cliches #especially in contrast to the classic 'predatory-camp-gay-disney-villain' style zemo #who's all about the deep emotional talks and this is framed as intrusive and creepy and hannibal lectery #also there was that weird mackie quote... #where it seemed like he was being jockeyed into saying sth critical of gay shipping and then had to back-pedal.. #and sth similar from sebstan more recently?? 🤔 #ftatws onward really seems like a cack-handed attempt to de-gay bucky in particular... #just in time to shove him up against a bunch of women in thunderbolts presumably?? 😞 #meta #steve rogers #tl;dr: they're so concerned with avoiding seeming gay they accidentally make everything seem hella gay #like it comes full circle back around to gay... #where steve and bucky's very avoidance of everything connoting typical male friendship shown everywhere else... #ends up just emphasising how very much NOT JUST FRIENDS they are #is it just me?? #anon is SO SO fucking right

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Lmao. Why would I EVER dream of being Captain Carter?? Natasha was the one I wanted to be like when it comes to facing the harshness of reality. She is #queen. Captain Carter on the other hand? Cringe. She is, after all, from a country that colonized so many other countries, and the effects are still there as of today. No way I'd admired Captain Colonizer 🙄

But that's how these kinds of characters work, 'Nonny...

It's inconceivable that someone could love them less than they love themselves!

#anti what if #release the cracken #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #antipeggy #antisteggy #cynthia glass #p*ggy meta #mcu critical #steggy is hydra trash party #meta #mcu meta #captain coloniser #remember folks: REBLOG 🔁 / DON'T JUST LIKE 🤍

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Yeah, now I realize that Peggy embodies "white feminism". Which I never liked any way because I'm an Eastern woman, and I've watched a lot of Eastern media that has strong ladies that are VERY well written compared to how white Western women are written. I wish Hollywood could stop this "white feminism" bs and watch a bit of Eastern media to see how feminism actually works, but it's obvious that they won't do that...

(Link to other Anon ask about this very subject 👆)

It's even worse than white feminism with Peggy because white feminism implies she at least sticks up for other white women, but instead Peggy really only cares about herself?

You've got her, for example, telling a male colleague not to speak up for women (plural) getting recognition in the workplace because she (upper class white woman, singular) knows her value, and hers is the only opinion that matters.

You've got men (Steve and Edwin Jarvis) realising that, because of her ego, the only way to make her go along with a plan is to kiss her ass / make her think it was her own idea.

In her show, you've got her not befriending a whole floor full of female (white) blue-collar agents in favour of putting civilian (white, blue-collar) women's lives in danger, unncessarily and repeatedly, because she wants someone to serve her. (Her only female friends are servants or villains. And they never address it in-show, but the real reason non-white women don't appear in AC is because their mere existence would reveal Peggy's whining about being discriminated against as deluded.)

In What If... they've got her stealing the plots and agency of other (white) female characters, (whose only job is now to kiss her ass and be sidekicks in what was previously their own story), as well as her relegating WOC to the role of her sidekick, etc. in stories there was no reason for her, specifically to be in.

(Plus there's the tradwife-ism of her entire existence centering on a man and that man's interest in her and her getting that man at the expense of all his other relationships. Take Captain America away and she has no significance at all.)

After What If...?, she now fully embodies the Mary Sue self-insert of a white woman who believes the universe should revolve around her.

#anti what if #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #antipeggy #antisteggy #cynthia glass #p*ggy meta #mcu critical #steggy is hydra trash party #meta #mcu meta #remember when t'challa was starlord #and they had people fangirling when they met him... as a JOKE? it was supposed to be FUNNY? #like they knew it was preposterous for a character to be treated this way?? #not with saint margaret. with saint margaret they treat that same idiotic thing as if it's completely rational. #they think they can make a character competent and impressive just by having (actually competent and impressive) characters kiss their ass #but that's not how that works

[amarriageoftrueminds]

steve probably spent a lot of time bedridden or in hospital, and playing cards have always been cheap. i bet he knows how to count cards, got invited to play cards with the other candidates at camp lehigh on their first night, sharked the game, and never got asked to play again.

Also offers up the possibility of Steve and Bucky playing as a team, during the war, with Bucky card-counting and secretly signalling, while Steve (the guy with the USO money) pulls the big dumb blonde act, ('oh look fellas, my bet came through! what're the odds!') with his big blue eyes all innocent, every time he strikes it rich.

Takes the Howlies ages to catch on (and they can still never work out how exactly Sarge is signalling!)

Steve's photographic memory would probably come in super useful for this too...

Also: imagine Bucky trying to keep bedridden Steve entertained by learning...😬...magic card tricks. Only half works because he's so appallingly bad at it that Steve ends up laughing himself into a coughing fit.

#toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #pre-serum steve ask #mcu meta #meta #stucky #steve meta #bucky meta #stucky meta #steve rogers #bucky barnes #historically accurate stucky tag #omg magician bucky the theater-nerd!sebstan vibes he's such a nerd he totally would #other possibility: steve knowing how to card-count but being bad at it.... before serum #him and bucky only finding out by accident when steve cleans up in a card game during the war... #and that's when they start up their card sharking team #and another reason it takes everybody so long to notice... #(other than how subtlely steve and buck can communicate with each o ther) #is because no one pays attention to bucky when THE captain america is around #yet each man queues the thing he loves

[amarriageoftrueminds]

the howlies trying to reconcile Steve "Captain America" Rogers with the Stevie that the Sergeants been telling them about since they got to the continent is so funny to me. Like. This is the scrappy guy who tried to illegally enlist?????

Them asking Bucky how come he's so good at boxing, Bucky explaining that he had to learn...

Them thinking he means he has a tough upbringing...

No, it's just his best friend is a big-mouth who can't go a day without getting himself attacked, and Bucky had to learn how to fight so he could teach him.

How this absolute nutcase is so ill (but so idiotically honest) that he tried to enlist five times and kept getting given a 4F, because it would never occur to him that he could just lie his way in.

It was the principle of the thing, he wanted to be accepted as a disabled man, just the kind the Nazis think should be euthanized, and be allowed to fight at Bucky's side.

Them looking at squeaky-clean Steve in his immaculately-pressed uniform, and being like 'wait, this is the guy Sarge said threw a pail of piss into the face of a Nazi who was trying to organise a rally on the corner of their block?? this guy?? this is the guy Sarge had to convince the Mafia not to kill after he painted pro-Labour Union anti-ILA graffiti round the Navy Yard?? THIS guy?!?'

And the same Sarge they've seen mother-henning all the dumb kids in the regiment is now faffing round a giant blond musk ox, telling him off for walking holes in his socks (and who's gunna end up having to darn them?? yeah guess who!), immediately vetoing all his initial battle plans and complaining about what a fuckin meatball he is even though he's his superior officer.

And them being like 'holy shit, this nonsense is the only reason we're still alive.'

(And the flipside; judging by how well Bucky has kicked ass in the war so far, them avidly asking Steve what Bucky was like back home -- surely he must be some kind of gangster thug, forever in and out of jail, to be so cool-headed? perhaps some kind of fixer for the mob? a hustler?? and to their bewilderment and horror Steve is just like 'wh- what?? no! he likes swing dancing, dressing dapper and reading science fiction books! he's a nice jewish boy and a model son!' )

#historically accurate stucky tag #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #release the cracken #mcu meta #meta #stucky #steve meta #bucky meta #stucky meta #steve rogers #bucky barnes #yet each man queues the thing he loves #the howling commandos

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Hi! Do you have any headcanons about the Howling Commandos?

Okay well sorry in advance 'nonny but it's been that kinda day so this answer might be a bit depressing

(to offset that here's an old ask with Howlie headcanons)

14 Headcanons about the Howling Commandos:

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1 - all of the guys in the 107 who were captured by Hydra and put to work in the Krausberg POW-camp/factory later died of radiation-related cancers because of being exposed to Tesseract energy. (This was reported upon in the scientific press, post-war, and is part of the reason why people like Bruce Banner were duped into believing that the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project would be interested in a gamma-radiation sickness treatment.)

2 - Because Steve made the 107 famous, post-war there was a controversy of unscrupulous members of the 107 who hadn't been captured (ie. the guys who threw rotten food and homophobic jeers at Steve) claiming to have been in Krausberg. But the fact that those guys didn't develop the same health problems as real 107 rescue-ees unmasked them as valour thieves. (Especially galling for the Howlies, since Dum-Dum had had to fight for the government to officially recognise Gabe and Morita's valour in medals, as they deserved.)

3 - one of the Howlies' acquaintance Steve never got to meet was Izzy Cohen, a kid Bucky took under his wing from basic training onwards, who had lied about being underage in order to get into the Army. The same guns which Bucky and the guys were later forced to make for the Nazis turned him into a blue mist at Azzano.

4 - Gabe and Morita came from all-POC squads who were killed off completely because the Nazi guards at Krausberg were hardest on them and because they were the first Zola picked off to experiment on. (This presaged later torture by Zola of Isaiah's men, and of Asian civilians by Werner Reinhardt; both men hired by Peggy's SHIELDra).

5 - During the war Gabe once sat next to Bucky at a campfire, watching Steve perform some feat of extraordinary strength across the way, and -- thinking of his friends he had lost -- asked Bucky what Zola did to them all in the lab. Bucky couldn't talk about it...

6 - over Christmas 1943, before being deployed back to the continent, the Howlies were sent on intense specialised training in the coastal village of Aberdyfi in North Wales, under the auspices of a secretly all Jewish troop of Continental-European Commandos, called X Troop.

7 - because Monty was in with all the right chaps in the Old Boys network, he was able to give Steve et al insight into a lot of the political goings on behind the scenes in the British forces, give him a hint on which of the English intelligence-officers to dismiss due to incompetence, nepotism hiring, etc. Monty once took Steve and Bucky to the London Ritz, where the basement bar was a gay club. 👀

8 - during missions in France the Howlies met Virginia Hall, Noor Inayat Khan (Morita proposed to her while drunk), Logan Howlett (an old war buddy of Dum-Dum's), and Ernest Hemingway (whom they did not think much of: despite being just a journalist, he was waving a handgun around trying to 'liberate' the Paris Ritz... which had been long abandoned by the Nazis by the time he got there.)

9 - while filming movies as part of his USO tour, Steve was biletted at a place called Fort Roach, California, where the US Army Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit was making animated war-propaganda short movies for cinemas. While there, he got Bucky a signed animation-cell of 'Trigger Joe' and met (and punched) some actor guy called Donald Reagan??

10 - During the Allied Invasion of Sicily, the Howlies met three Brits who were introduced to Steve later on, in London. In the modern-day, Steve was delighted to discover that two of them had gone on to become famous actors after the war: one of them starred in Star Wars and another -- still alive -- in Lord of the Rings. He and Christopher Lee kept in touch (Bucky and CL agree that it's great they got the stabbing-noises right in the movies). It blew Tony's mind when he found Steve listening to an advance copy of a heavy metal album, that his 'buddy Chris' had sent him from England. Bucky kind of had a crush on him back in the day... (The third Brit the Howlies met in Sicily was 'Mad Jack' Churchill, of broadsword, longbow and bagpipe fame; Bucky wrote his Scottish dad a delighted letter about it).

11 - Steve and the guys once had to physically restrain Bucky from punching General Patton, during one of their morale-boosting visits to a Field Hospital. (One of the guys at this particular hospital had just had his leg blown off. And Bucky made sure Steve visited in his dirtied combat gear, and not looking immaculate, because he remembered how demoralising it was for bedridden pre-serum Steve if Bucky waltzed in looking all dapper, while Steve was feeling his worst.) The punishment for this incident was the Howlies having to let news crews follow them around for a week, filming propaganda newsreels.

12 - they also repeatedly got in trouble for damaging historic churches in Germany ('accidentally' blowing off the antisemitic Judensau carvings) and loitering in Nazi-occupied areas to put up anti-Nazi graffiti on public buildings (Steve loved exercising the old artistic muscles again.)

13 - after the war, Gabe became a leading light of the Civil Rights Movement in the South. He was once present for one of the Winter Soldier's assassinations in Manhattan, but didn't see who was responsible. (In another universe, where Isaiah Bradley escaped a lot sooner and managed to get to Macon, GA, he and Gabe teamed up to become a sort of Holmes-and-Watson vigilante duo.)

14 - Steve's tactical innovation for the D-Day Landings was to imitate the testudo or shield-wall formation of Roman legions. By standing at the front of one of the LCVPs as it hit the beach, holding a massive piece of steel as a shield, he was able to lead Bucky and the boys (plus 30 others, carrying a second giant shield) safely up the beach, plant the steel-shield, and then retreat to repeat this with each incoming landing craft. This was bastardised in a famous war movie, where Steve McQueen's Captain America simply did an Evel Knievel motorcycle jump over the fortifications to land on the German guns. Everyone is disappointed when Steve has to tell them he never did this. (Bucky keeps telling everyone he did... 🤦‍♀️🙄)

#long post #historically accurate stucky tag #thc #the howling commandos #stuckbunny #steve meta #bucky meta #toAyourQ #catfa meta #dat's me #hey nonny #release the cracken #catfa #headcanons #ficbunny #au idea #my meta

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Steve had a much more interesting relationship with Bucky AND the Howling Commandos, too. I would rather watch a whole movie about them than a whole movie about a forced hetero relationship with a white woman who is written poorly.

It's just wild to think of the CATFA movie that could've been, like a Band of Brothers Inglourious Basterds mash up with the ensemble vibe of Atlantis: The Lost Empire and a gay romance subplot. 🥰

If nothing else, Bucky should've been given more screen time (instead of wasting it on an irrelevant sexy lamp) so they can develop the emotional impact of the one relationship that's going to have importance across all the Cap movies, and even in other universes. The big heart-rending moment of CATFA should be Steve losing Bucky, not Steve missing out on a date he didn't even want with some bint.

It is also mind-boggling to consider that somebody looked at the David versus Goliath story (where Goliath is Hitler) of Captain America, and thought: 'okay, but obviously the only way to make this interesting and relatable is to make it about David feeling inferior because he's single.' 🤦‍♀️ It's hard to imagine that kind of brain exists.

#toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #steve rogers #steve meta #mcu meta #meta #antipeggy #antisteggy #cynthia glass #p*ggy meta #mcu critical #steggy is hydra trash party

[amarriageoftrueminds]

he's so real for this

LOL yeah typical delulu entitlement. She was never even part of the team that was close enough to him to call him Cap!

#toAyourQ #olla-kalla

[amarriageoftrueminds]

what do you think of Peggy pouring Steve's blood into the sea?

👉(In ref to) 👈

I think it's funny she thinks she did something momentous when it wasn't even her that got the blood -- it was Edwin Jarvis, actual person of integrity -- when she had left it in unscrupulous Stark's hands.

It's also, infuriatingly and typically, entitled and creepy of her to act as if she has any rights or say over what happens to Steve's remains! (There's a space for 'next of kin' on Steve's dog tags. Her name isn't on it.)

It's also very characteristic of her, the way she (as I've commented before) paints herself as the mouthpiece of a powerful dead man, in order to exaggerate her own importance by proxy, and presumes to speak for him (when he conveniently cannot speak for himself). And presumes she knows what Steve would want, when they never agreed on anything and he never did anything she said.

(What he wanted was all Nazis dead or captured. She did the opposite of that.)

It's a damning admission of culpability, too.

Because Steve voluntarily gave his blood to the organisation that was fighting Nazis.

Whereas Peggy, working for that same organisation, now thinks Steve wouldn't approve of them having his blood.

And yet she:

didn't let that move her to actually do anything (LOL when does she ever) or to stop Stark taking Steve's blood away, and:

she nevertheless continues to work for the org that she's admitting Steve would not sanction, and does so for the rest of her life.

And in the future, when Steve expresses his doubts about that same organisation... she laughs at him, distracts him from that train of thought by telling him he's being melodramatic, that he should move on (don't look too closely into the past "we" mucked up Steve LOL ur so dramatic) and doesn't warn him about the dangerous, evil people she hired, who are still at liberty to try and kill him.

And it boils my blood that she calls him her darling when this woman abused Steve so badly, abused his person, abused his good name to prop up her own hollow non-career, and betrayed everything he believed in, betrayed his sacrifice.

And quite apart from all that, they weren't even dating, so he wasn't "her" anything, anyway!

Except for maybe her victim. 🤔

#antipeggy #antisteggy #cynthia glass #p*ggy meta #mcu critical #steggy is hydra trash party #meta #mcu meta #SHIELDra founders #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #yet each man queues the thing he loves #my meta

[amarriageoftrueminds]

thinking about how before catfa was released there was some scepticism about if Captain America would work for modern audiences.

a lot of people not really familiar with the comics thought his character was too old-fashioned and outdated and would not be relatable in the 21st century.

fast forward and after making several movies showing Steve does in fact belong in modern times they end his arc by sending him back to the 40s, proving those ppl right who thought he was too outdated for our times.

what was even the point of all his movies?? i know the answer it to make money.

but even from a business point of view it's mind boggling that Disney was so careless and put so little thought into how they ended the story of one of their most popular characters of the first 3 phases that now a good chunk of the audience believes Steve is some racist and sexist guy.

i'm sure they'll bring him back one day, either for some avengers multiverse nostalgia fest or when they reboot the MCU, and it won't have the same effect because Steve just isn't as beloved as he used to be. not that i care about the success of this soulless megacorp but i'm still baffled after all these years about how stupid his ending was.

The entire point of Steve is that he was a main out of time in his own time. He was ahead of his time. Which is why he does work, (and why he is needed!) in the future. Whenever that future may be.

I'll tell you what it is... the people in charge of Steve in the MCU are exactly as ignorant of the character as people who don't know anything about who Steve is in the comics. (I.E. the 'well he's wearing the stars and stripes so I assume he's some kind of jingoistic pro-imperialism figure and therefore I don't like him on sight' crowd, closely related to the 'well he's polite and neatly-dressed and not a dick for attention, so he must be a boring goody-two shoes boy scout type' crowd.) Wrong on every count!

Markus & McFeely think the way to 'do' Steve is to make sure we know he's straight, while love of Bucky, relationship with his other men, and his passion for fighting fascism, are all reduced to the status of footnotes in a story whose only question is 🙄 '...yeah yeah, fighting Nazis is fine or w/e but when is he gunna get a girlfriend??'

So they don't see anything amiss in an ending where Steve goes (back in time) to get a girlfriend. Because they think that was the only relatable or important thing about him. Making sure the handsome hero is just like them!

And why they also don't see anything amiss in him being a walk-on part in a Mary Sue/Captain Brexit story. Because it's just more of the 'Steve's only important trait is heterosexuality' narrative. 🤷‍♀️

(As far as they're concerned, stucky was an embarrassing and completely unintended side effect, something they want stifled by any means necessary, and when it comes to Steve being as full blown antifa as he is in the comics- oh, well, we musn't alienate the Republican shareholders/CEOs/customers. Walt Disney himself would be completely on board.)

#mcu critical #...and if that doesn't ring alarm bells I don't know what will! #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #steve rogers #steve meta #mcu meta #meta #remember that one interview where they were talking about steve as a small town boy #A SMALL TOWN BOY #WHEN HE'S FROM INNER-CITY DEPRESSION-ERA BROOKLYN?? #said it before but if these idiots had written the movie terminator 2 #they'd have made it a story where sarah connors #(now played by someone who looks like one of their wives; full hair and make up at all times) #spends all her screentime trying to get The Terminator to date her #because that's the most important thing!! #not this 'protecting john connors' or 'saving the world' bullshit #but making sure we know that muscley robot man is a STRAIGHT muscley robot man!!

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I mean... Peggy in the COMICS was already written as a strong woman WITHOUT making her a Hollywood strong woman type. She was a part of a rebel group in the comics ffs!! Why did they have to go and change that in the movies AND make her a "Hollywood strong woman" type?? I'm seriously tired of that trope. It just never sits well with me since I'm not Western.

I mean comics Peggy was... (inasmuch as that was possible, given the times she was written)

...but MCU Peggy isn't really based on her beyond sharing her name. She's Cynthia Glass.

(British, brunette, ATS, embedded in Project Rebirth, not undercover in France... none of that is Peggy. That's all Cynthia. A successful spy, which is more than you can say of MCU Peggy!)

It really highlights the weakness in the male writers' thinking. That they think making her a Hollywood 'Strong Female Character' is an improvement and acceptably modern and feminist (eg. female emancipation = acting like the worst kind of man... but with lipstick!!)

But they couldn't figure out that she just... didn't need to be a love interest in the first place??

She and Steve argue on every point, never agree on anything, he never listens to anything she says, she betrayed his legacy as soon as he was dead, and she (frankly) doesn't seem to think much of men in general and has much more convincing chemistry when paired off with other women.

So why not just... let her not be a love interest??

#antipeggy #antisteggy #cynthia glass #p*ggy meta #mcu critical #steggy is hydra trash party #meta #mcu meta #let her be there because she's doing her job not because Hero is single and therefore must be in want of a love interest #antiendgame #endgame steve is a skrull #mcu #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny

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Steve bucky fic recs please 🙏🏻

You can find any fics I've recced in the past under #stucky fic rec tag.

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Some fics I've enjoyed recently:

Graphology (Shrinkyclinks artist!Steve/Agent!Bucky Soulmark AU) 55K

🔒 A Tapestry of Two (Soft American Gods-y post-WS Rehabilitation Via Knitting AU) 160K

WiP An Appropriate Omega (Regency A/B/O AU) 270K+

Keep A Candle Burning (Modern No-Powers Amicable Exes / Childhood Sweethearts w/ UST AU) 20K

🔒 There's a Bear in the Woods (Post-CATWS ID Issues semi-fluffy) 65K

Say It Soft and It's Almost Like Praying (Post-CATWS 'Steve is a mess and Bucky is Afoot in Brooklyn' AU) 41K

#stucky #fic rec #stucky fic rec #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny

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Really, how hard was it for the directors to hire an American blonde actress to play the comics version of Peggy Carter??? Why hire a British actress who acts ao snobby irl??? Why couldn't they keep Peggy's comic version appearance and make her the awesome American rebel that she is? Why make Peggy a snobby British woman who acts like she's better than everyone else, and she's possibly a Hydra spy? I. Just. Don't. Get. It. 😕

There are several possible reasons...

Could be Christopher Markus having an English wife who looks exactly like Hayley Atwell, and wanting to do a creepy Matthew-Vaughn style 'putting his wife in a movie she doesn't belong in' roleplay. Could be Joss Whedon's sad Colonial/Upper Class English fetish. Could be that the director was involved with Indiana Jones movies where the trope of the sexy Nazi babe is a standard, and he isn't as creatively original as Steven Spielberg. Could be someone higher up the chain has a Mary Poppins kink and insisted on swapping in the bossy nannyish English love interest over all the other American love interests Steve has had in the comics (including brunettes!)

None of which justify forcing the (in my opinion) quite sexless Captain America story into a compulsorily-heterosexual shaped hole. That story was built to be a Band of Brothers tale, not Casablanca. It needed to be that.

Which is why CATWS works better, emotionally speaking, than CATFA. Because CATFA expects you to expend emotional energy on the potential-straight-romance-lost plot... when a lifelong best friend whom Steve went to war for just died for him. A film can only carry so much emotion before it collapses under its own weight.

CATWS didn't have that problem. In fact, it would've been even more moving if they'd cut the pointless Peggy schmaltz scene for another Bucky or Steve-and-Bucky-in-flashback scene, as the original script intended. Or better yet, had another 'Steve actually calls out the other white woman for her actions' scene!

#toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #antipeggy #antisteggy #cynthia glass #p*ggy meta #mcu critical #steggy is hydra trash party #meta #mcu meta #other notes: I've never been able to substantiate it but I've always suspected that comics peggy... #was inspired by real-life american spy heroine virginia hall who (like her) was undercover in nazi-occupied france #virginia had a peg leg = peggy from virginia #I've never been able to prove it but it seemed like too much of a coincidence! #and the entire reason WHY peggy's surname is carter is because the carter family are important in virginia's history #calling an english character (of the wrong class) carter is an ignorant nonsensical choice #it's also dumb that they label 'appreciating steve BEFORE serum' as the ultimate sign of a special relationship... #but then pair steve off with a character who barely knew him at all before serum in the comics... #when OTHER comics had pre-serum steve given a whole ass fiancee?? #they REALLY wanted cynthia glass in it 🙄 #yet each man queues the thing he loves