A Star-Forged Ruby

some of you have never had an unpopular female character as a hyperfixation and been forced to scroll through pages upon pages of bad hot takes about how terrible her character is while trying to peruse her tag for actual fanworks and it shows

love language: nicknames 💞

SHARON CARTER in THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (2021)

Also its funny how (mostly) women in the mcu fandom are like "we need more women characters!!" And sharon carter comes along and y'all were okay with her until cacw when she kissed steve (which makes sense bc its canon and the comics which is where this whole franchise is based off of) because y'all were stucky or steggy shippers or whatever. And now that steggy is canon and steve is gone y'all are still hating on her because of one unconfirmed rumor about her and bucky getting together in tfatws because "she needs to stay away from bucky". And then y'all are like "well she shouldn't just be a love interest in the show" when she was never just a love interest to begin with. And then there's the whole bullying her actress (emily vancamp) because of a role she plays. I just wanna know... When are y'all gonna be ready to confront that internalized misogyny and stop treating women characters like shit bc they're dating your white fav man??? Because i thought y'all were all about "women rights!" and feminism but from all of the stuff that's happened it seems like y'all only support certain woman characters. And its even worse when sharon ain't did a damn thing that was "problematic" or whatever. She was just chillin tryna help out her friends. And yeah kevin fiege and some other marvel higher ups messed up her character but that doesn't mean that y'all should to.

Someone pointed out that Peggy only had one brother, but he died during the war, and didn’t have any children:

So that really got me thinking, and I decided to do a Carter family tree, with what I could find online

Oh my god, I was thinking about this recently I literally hate this family tree so much. It makes no sense, I swear. Because I think the tree actually makes Sharon Peggy’s great-granddaughter?

So the only way she’s Peggy’s great-niece, and keeps the last name Carter is to be Michael’s great-granddaughter, except the wiki has him as her great-uncle?

And Peggy and Michael don’t have another sibling? Even though that’s the only way this should work?

(Although…for Harrison and Amanda to be great-great uncle and aunt…I’m pretty sure that might actually just be impossible? I’m not sure though)

And if we ignore the weird great-uncle thing, then Peggy is only Sharon’s great-aunt if she’s descended from a sibling of Peggy’s husband. Steve doesn’t have siblings (much as I dislike the time travel thing, this is still true) and we don’t know about Daniel, but regardless, then Sharon’s last name wouldn’t be Carter? Unless there was some strange coincidence where the family’s name changed to Carter via marriage? Or if Peggy married someone who actually had the same last name as her?

This whole family tree is the worst to figure out send help

My headcanon is there’s another brother who wasn’t mentioned. Maybe he was way younger and away at school.

Uh, yeah, this family tree doesn’t make sense on any level, because a) that makes Sharon her grandchild, not niece, and b) Sharon’s last name in that scenario wouldn’t be Carter.

After TWS, which never actually gave a last name for Sharon, I just assumed that Sharon was an honorary niece, the child of some friend or co-worker of Peggy’s. Lots of families include kids calling unrelated people “aunt so&so” or “uncle so&so”; we had a couple of those when I was a kid. It’s not that uncommon.

But now we know that her last name is Carter – which means she has to be descended through the male line of the family, at least without some complicated surname shenaniganry going on – and Peggy does have a brother. At this point I’m going with, either Michael already had a child by the time he died (which really isn’t out of the question; we didn’t even hear about Michael ‘til S2, so there could be a widow and kid back in England that Peggy was never close to) or Michael isn’t dead, which the never-produced S3 seemed to be leading up to, and had children later in life.

Although, honestly, @peonymoss‘s idea of Peggy having another brother, a much-younger sibling she’s not close to who was presumably too young for the war, is completely plausible as well. For some characters this wouldn’t really work; we would have to have heard about it. But Peggy just isn’t family-oriented in that way. I can fully believe that Peggy has any number of siblings or cousins squirreled away in England that she simply doesn’t talk to enough for it to have come up in the show, any of whom could be Sharon’s grandfather or great-grandfather.

I love all this commentary! But also... maybe it's a coincidence that Sharon and Peggy have the last name Carter? Peggy befriended another agent named Carter, or Angie married someone whose last name is Carter, and Peggy and this person teasingly called each other siblings? I have a relatively common last name and I call my friends who coincidentally have that last name my cousins, just because it's fun. And then this person's grandchild is Sharon Carter, who grew up calling Peggy Aunt Peggy in the way some cultures have children call their parents' friends Aunt and Uncle.

Anthony Mackie really said “fuck those sexist haters.”

I can't believe how politely Emily van Camp told Kevin Feige to go fuck himself on stage.

KEVIN: "where has Sharon Carter been in the mcu?"

EMILY: "you tell me, Kevin."

Fun fact: Making beard jokes about Sharon Carter is now illegal, and if you do it, Captain America comes to your house and beats you up

[image: From left: Steve Rogers, Sharon Carter, and Sam Wilson group hug.  Sam throws his head back and laughs gleefully as he’s held from behind by Sharon, who looks smilingly back at Steve hugging her and resting his head on her shoulder.  Sam is wearing a light purple v-neck, Sharon wears a turquoise shirt, and Steve is in a grey leather jacket.  Red cartoon hearts float above their heads.] A late Samtember token for birbwilson !  Still working on the accompanying ficlet <3  

She could have been an interesting character…

I mean…she already is an interesting character?? 

And she did all of that, with maybe 15 minutes of screen time spread across two movies. Now, would I have loved to have more Sharon Carter in the MCU to watch her develop even further? Hell yeah! But I don’t know how you can call her uninteresting when her appearances were packed with character development and moments that showed her to be a strong, independent woman with a strong moral compass, who kicks ass and takes names. Steve Rogers liking her is just a bonus to how awesome she already is by herself. 

sharon carter + text posts

Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter can be bisexual

natsharon rights!

some 1890s Natsharon for caprbb 2018!

I ended up with the wonderful @velvetjinx pinch hitting for me ans the resulting story is beautiful!

get to know me meme: favorite female characters [2/5]

↳ Sharon Carter