now @buckysjbarnes > @tyler-strand

#the gag reel scene we were robbed of

what she says: i’m fine

what she means: captain america has been a huge part of my life and chris evans’s portrayal of one of my favourite characters got me through dark times and introduced me to a same but different incarnation of this character that i love. chris evans has played this character with such dignity and grace and has shown time and again that he understands the core of who steve rogers is; and despite his anxieties about taking it on, he’s grown so much in his time with steve rogers and has come to do his best to exemplify steve’s values on and off-screen. marvel is huge on legacy characters and of course the next captain america will be his own actor & character & person, but chris evans is steve rogers, and the last few years have been such a great & wonderful journey with him.

there’s something that’s been on my mind with this whole staying in the past storyline, and i don’t know if i’ll be able to articulate it properly, but i’ll try.

the way we’re supposed to understand time travel rules in the mcu, when you go back, you don’t change the present, you create a new timeline, an alternate reality. meaning steve decides to go back to, let’s say, 1945? but everything about his past remains the same. we can assume he’s not a selfish prick, and would decide to go rescue that bucky from hydra. but. that’s not his bucky. it’s a bucky, but that’s not the man he just spent years fighting to get back. and that’s not his peggy. his peggy had an arc of her own, discovered her value, moved on and built a great life for herself. most importantly, that’s not his life. it’s the life of the steve from that timeline, that’s currently stuck in the ice. it’s his past.

and as attached to his past as he’s proven to be, he just spent over ten years in the present. wouldn’t he just be a man out of time once again? the past hasn’t changed, but he has. or at least i’d like to think he has, otherwise we could’ve just skipped to this part at the end of catfa. if the journey made no difference to him, then he just wasted a whole lot of our time. would he really be comfortable talking to 40s bucky, knowing that his bucky is out there somewhere in the present? that he would most likely never find out what kind of life he led? did his relationships with sam and natasha really mean so little to him, that he didn’t think twice about never seeing sam again? did returning to marry peggy really overweigh everything else?

i even find the thought of it completely unsettling, like playing pretend. that’s not his life anymore, that’s the life of the other steve, the one who’s still frozen. that’s why when thor went back in time to his alternate reality, he had that talk with frigga, and she immediately knew that wasn’t her thor, and so they talked and he got some much needed resolve that would help him move on with his own life. in the present. same thing with tony and howard. he just needed that one moment. i believe steve needed that exact thing, going back, having that dance with peggy, getting closure, and then coming back and finally living his life. not the one he left behind. wouldn’t he just feel out of place once again? did all these years really mean nothing to him? is he really still the same men that came out of ice?

Ant-Man ended up not going inside Thanos’s ass, but he sure did make it clear he really really wanted to go inside Steve’s

Brie Larson & Chris Evans at the ‘Avengers: Endgame’ World Premiere

Chris Evans for Men’s Journal 2019

And that’s fine by me.

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#talent recognizing talent 😤

Chris Evans and Brie Larson at the Avengers: Endgame Global Press Conference

i refused to look at him bc he’s too stupidly attractive. it’s just ridiculous at this point. “hey look at me i’m chris evans i look like a rugged disney prince w endless stamina but also i’m a big nerd, i love dogs and i’m genuinely interested in the book you’re reading.” fuck you

Put this relationship anywhere, anytime, anyplace and it’s gonna kinda have the same result and that’s special.

On the set of Knives Out via Ana’s Instagram story.