I’m super gay for Carol Danvers and I love fluff and happy endings always ready to RP
Anything that isn’t marvel is tagged “not marvel” for your blacklisting convenience. One piece is the new love of my life and my sideblog is Monkeydluffykingofthepirates
one thing i don’t think sam wilson is given enough credit for is his first interaction with steve. sam was employed by the department of veteran affairs, specifically to help people with ptsd and to run support groups. he recognizes someone suffering from the condition when he sees them, even if that someone is captain america.
he eases his way into conversation with steve, keeping it light, and then says “must have freaked you out coming home from the whole desfrosting thing”
& then steve sighs, looks away, makes the below face, and says “takes some getting used to” & immediately tries to extract himself from the conversation. this isn’t something that steve talks about. he says it was nice to meet sam, and begins to walk away.
the thing is, no one has pushed on steve. they ask him how he’s doing, he gives them some vague, bullshit response, and they let it go. but not sam. he knows that if he lets steve walk away, if he doesn’t extend a branch right now, he’ll never see him again & there may never be another person who will be capable or willing to provide him the help//support he so desperately needs.
so sam says, “its your bed, right? your bed. it’s too soft.” its a small, personal, but largely universal detail that stops steve in his tracks. he’s caught off guard and vulnerable.
& when sam asks steve if he misses the “good old days”, he’s actively studying steve, taking in his body language and what he says
when steve is about to leave, sam extends one more branch, and he says “anytime you want to stop by the va, and make me look awesome in front of the girl at the front desk, just let me know” , which is an important distinction from “come down to the va for a support group meeting”
Okay @ marvel let Steve Rogers jump into Bucky Barnes’ arms and cry about how much he missed him and loves him while Bucky rubs his back and hugs him tight
Does it ever hit anyone that Steve and Bucky canonically would look like they’re in their late 20/early 30s for forever? Or that they’d be stuck aging extremely slowly? The serum Steve was given supposedly heals his cells faster than they can decay and it’s not a stretch to say the serum forced on Bucky gave him the same treatment. Sure, this means they don’t get sick and heal super quick and have a much faster metabolism, but it also means they don’t age. Can you imagine??
Steve simply wanted to do the right thing and stop the Nazis and yet he was basically given immortality for his troubles. The man who was probably convinced he wouldn’t live past 30 not only gets thrusted forward in time—where everyone he knew and loved is dead—, but he also has to come to terms with the fact that he is forever cursed to experience that same pain over and over again, only now he will have to experience it all firsthand. And Bucky… Hydra must’ve told Bucky over and over that death is not an escape, that he simply cannot die. They must’ve told him that he’ll belong to them for forever, so resistance was pointless
It’s almost a blessing then that Steve and Bucky have each other, but man… I just find myself sometimes looking at pictures/gifs of em in CA:TFA and realize that, canonically, they’d be forever stuck looking like this:
