Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) // The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)

someone asked for Maria and Bucky bonding over their SOs being dumbasses

Best friends since childhood, Bucky Barnes and Steven Rogers were inseparable on both schoolyard and battlefield.

The ending we all deserved.

It’s amazing how much better this would have been with a simple reversal of the order of two scenes. 

I don’t even know who I am!

“We’d be canon queer  if Marvel weren’t cowards” solidarity post

Insert graphic of Captain Marvel and Captain America shaking hands here

In the MCU, “Captain” is a title that means “queer coded”

<3 That’s why there is always a Captain America cosplayer at Pride in the Marvel universe <3

100% platonic best friend duos Bucky & Steve + Carol & Maria

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) dir. Joe Johnston

when the mcu tries to gently Just Good Pals steve and bucky i want to laugh at them because, like. they were the ones who structured their arc, from the very beginning, as a story about leaving a plucky sweetheart behind in the states when you ship out. it could have been lifted wholesale from practically any wartime romance filmed between 1940 and 1950. “i just wish they’d take me into the army too– i’d go with you, show that fuhrer a thing or two– just promise me you’ll take care!”  “darling, don’t worry, you can do your part right here at home– it’s ever so important to the war effort!” it’s the theme of fucking “tender comrade” and “since you went away” and “mrs. miniver” and i could go on and on

the part where steve gets turned into a tall dangerous hillshire farms beef log is the surprising science fiction twist; but the part where he grumps about being Left Behind by a uniformed hottie is 1000% period-accurate romantic dramedy that could have been screenwritten by david o. selznick. i’m sorry mcu i don’t make the fucking rules. this is just how it is. give them their v-e day kiss already and let me rest

also THEY are the ones who put a searching-for-romance subplot in Winter Soldier where Steve says he just can’t find anyone with “shared life experience” 30 minutes before his lifelong best friend who is also a super soldier and was also frozen and also missed the last 70 years comes back from the dead

like what the fuck did they think they were trying to convey there

T’Challa: I have decided to give Steve Rogers the coordinates to enter Wakanda, so that he may visit the White Wolf whenever he wishes.

 Shuri, a millennial who knows exactly what shipping is: :] 

Steve? | Sketches

old souls