only time will tell if we stand the test of time
So Scarlett Johansson is rumored to be 5 months pregnant. My first response was, that's lovely for her, but unless Chris Evans were the father, I am not interested. Why yes, I do ship them. *facepalm* But since this is reality and not the RPF wonderland in my head, I wish her well and don't have much interest otherwise.
But then I thought, Chris Hemsworth's wife is having twins (Thor is a fertility god, after all), and their first kid is still toddler-sized, and tumblr reminded me that RDJ has a toddler-sized kid, and Ruffalo's kids are probably old enough to babysit, which led almost directly to ON-SET SUPERHERO BABY DAYCARE. BUCKY BEARS FOR EVERYBODY. (for real, I don't understand why Marvel hasn't marketed a Bucky Bear. I'm not one to buy merchandise, but I would totally buy that. Even more so if it came with A DETACHABLE METAL ARM. IJS)
I think other people's anticipation for Captain America/Winter Soldier is starting to ramp up (mine has been off the charts for a while *cough*) because my kudos emails are now full of kudos for my Steve/Bucky and Steve/Bucky/Natasha stories, which have not generally been among the most popular things I've written. I have so much hope for a veritable DELUGE of Steve/Bucky and Steve/Bucky/Natasha fic once this movie hits, because this movie is basically ALL STEVE'S BUCKY FEELS IN VISUAL FORM AS EMBODIED BY CHRIS EVANS AND SEBASTIAN STAN. HOW COULD ANYONE RESIST THAT? ESPECIALLY IF SEBSTAN CRIES. HE'S SO PRETTY WHEN HE CRIES. I WANT SO MUCH FIC ABOUT STEVE SAVING BUCKY WITH LOVE AND ALL THE POST-MOVIE CUDDLING THAT ENSUES. In fact, I want an end title card that says, "AND THERAPEUTIC CUDDLING ENSUED." I also want ALL the Red Room-era Bucky/Natasha backstory, and how it made them feel human when everyone else was dehumanizing them. And I want Steve and Natasha's partnership-with-benefits to develop real depth of feeling neither of them expected, especially when Bucky is there to seemingly confuse things, but really, his presence makes everything clear. ♥OT3 5EVA♥
I want a post-credits scene where Bucky gets the red star on his shoulder repainted into a facsimile of Steve's shield+. I JUST WANT THEM TO HUG IT OUT SO I CAN SOB LIKE A HANGRY BABY.
+ Bucky having Steve's shield painted on his shoulder once he's himself again = CANON. Sometimes, comics, I do love you a lot.
The thing about Steve/Bucky, in particular (specifically in the MCU), is that it seems crafted to take all the things that make me ship a pairing, and turned them up to eleven. BFF who grow up together and have no one else in the world to rely on but each other? Check. Insults as endearments? Check. They rescue each other in turn? Check. And do exceptionally reckless things in order to effect those rescues? Check. Bucky sees Steve's greatness even when the world doesn't? Check. The public perception differential in their relationship is explicitly reversed? Check. They have a long separation caused by tragic circumstances? Check. They reunite under stressful circumstances and are able to work back to back even after the long separation? Check. (Okay, I doubt this will happen in the movie? And even in the comics, the reunion is separated from the working-together-like-clockwork bit, so it's not "Together?" "Yes, I think so." *sobs* BUT IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH. And it does kind of happen that way in Avengers: EMH.)
Like, even the scene where Bucky picks up Steve's shield and it's what basically kills him is not just a nod to Bucky Cap (which I doubt will ever happen in the movies), but it's essentially PATROCLUS PUTTING ON ACHILLES' ARMOR AND GETTING KILLED. And then Steve, who becomes a soldier because he feels like he needs to 1. prove himself, 2. make a contribution/serve society, and 3. because he views the Nazis as bullies the world needs protecting from, vows to WIPE HYDRA OFF THE MAP. Like, Steve is not a perfect analogue for Achilles, because he's not a sulky, spoiled boy who's motivated by glory, but he's certainly the best of the Americans, and gifted like Achilles with strength and speed and might of arms, and I've talked before about Steve's anger and how it fuels him. (I already wonder if the storyline of Cap 2 is going to in some ways vaguely resemble Achilles' anger at the way Agamemnon broke faith with the men serving under him++.) Like, I don't want to overemphasize these parallels, which are there but not nearly exact and probably not intentional except on an unconscious level, but they're totally there.
++ I also don't want to get involved with how much of Achilles' anger was selfish/personal vs. the larger issue of Agamemnon behaving badly as a leader by taking away something (and unfortunately, in this case, by 'something' I actually mean a person, Briseis) Achilles understood to be his by right, as the spoils of war. But the analogy of a leader who promises one thing and delivers another is sort of set up in Steve's relationship to SHIELD and the modern day issues of privacy/civil liberties v. national security etc.
I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT STEVE AND BUCKY AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE. IS IT APRIL YET?
NOW?
HOW ABOUT NOW?
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But then I thought, Chris Hemsworth's wife is having twins (Thor is a fertility god, after all), and their first kid is still toddler-sized, and tumblr reminded me that RDJ has a toddler-sized kid, and Ruffalo's kids are probably old enough to babysit, which led almost directly to ON-SET SUPERHERO BABY DAYCARE. BUCKY BEARS FOR EVERYBODY. (for real, I don't understand why Marvel hasn't marketed a Bucky Bear. I'm not one to buy merchandise, but I would totally buy that. Even more so if it came with A DETACHABLE METAL ARM. IJS)
I think other people's anticipation for Captain America/Winter Soldier is starting to ramp up (mine has been off the charts for a while *cough*) because my kudos emails are now full of kudos for my Steve/Bucky and Steve/Bucky/Natasha stories, which have not generally been among the most popular things I've written. I have so much hope for a veritable DELUGE of Steve/Bucky and Steve/Bucky/Natasha fic once this movie hits, because this movie is basically ALL STEVE'S BUCKY FEELS IN VISUAL FORM AS EMBODIED BY CHRIS EVANS AND SEBASTIAN STAN. HOW COULD ANYONE RESIST THAT? ESPECIALLY IF SEBSTAN CRIES. HE'S SO PRETTY WHEN HE CRIES. I WANT SO MUCH FIC ABOUT STEVE SAVING BUCKY WITH LOVE AND ALL THE POST-MOVIE CUDDLING THAT ENSUES. In fact, I want an end title card that says, "AND THERAPEUTIC CUDDLING ENSUED." I also want ALL the Red Room-era Bucky/Natasha backstory, and how it made them feel human when everyone else was dehumanizing them. And I want Steve and Natasha's partnership-with-benefits to develop real depth of feeling neither of them expected, especially when Bucky is there to seemingly confuse things, but really, his presence makes everything clear. ♥OT3 5EVA♥
I want a post-credits scene where Bucky gets the red star on his shoulder repainted into a facsimile of Steve's shield+. I JUST WANT THEM TO HUG IT OUT SO I CAN SOB LIKE A HANGRY BABY.
+ Bucky having Steve's shield painted on his shoulder once he's himself again = CANON. Sometimes, comics, I do love you a lot.
The thing about Steve/Bucky, in particular (specifically in the MCU), is that it seems crafted to take all the things that make me ship a pairing, and turned them up to eleven. BFF who grow up together and have no one else in the world to rely on but each other? Check. Insults as endearments? Check. They rescue each other in turn? Check. And do exceptionally reckless things in order to effect those rescues? Check. Bucky sees Steve's greatness even when the world doesn't? Check. The public perception differential in their relationship is explicitly reversed? Check. They have a long separation caused by tragic circumstances? Check. They reunite under stressful circumstances and are able to work back to back even after the long separation? Check. (Okay, I doubt this will happen in the movie? And even in the comics, the reunion is separated from the working-together-like-clockwork bit, so it's not "Together?" "Yes, I think so." *sobs* BUT IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH. And it does kind of happen that way in Avengers: EMH.)
Like, even the scene where Bucky picks up Steve's shield and it's what basically kills him is not just a nod to Bucky Cap (which I doubt will ever happen in the movies), but it's essentially PATROCLUS PUTTING ON ACHILLES' ARMOR AND GETTING KILLED. And then Steve, who becomes a soldier because he feels like he needs to 1. prove himself, 2. make a contribution/serve society, and 3. because he views the Nazis as bullies the world needs protecting from, vows to WIPE HYDRA OFF THE MAP. Like, Steve is not a perfect analogue for Achilles, because he's not a sulky, spoiled boy who's motivated by glory, but he's certainly the best of the Americans, and gifted like Achilles with strength and speed and might of arms, and I've talked before about Steve's anger and how it fuels him. (I already wonder if the storyline of Cap 2 is going to in some ways vaguely resemble Achilles' anger at the way Agamemnon broke faith with the men serving under him++.) Like, I don't want to overemphasize these parallels, which are there but not nearly exact and probably not intentional except on an unconscious level, but they're totally there.
++ I also don't want to get involved with how much of Achilles' anger was selfish/personal vs. the larger issue of Agamemnon behaving badly as a leader by taking away something (and unfortunately, in this case, by 'something' I actually mean a person, Briseis) Achilles understood to be his by right, as the spoils of war. But the analogy of a leader who promises one thing and delivers another is sort of set up in Steve's relationship to SHIELD and the modern day issues of privacy/civil liberties v. national security etc.
I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT STEVE AND BUCKY AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE. IS IT APRIL YET?
NOW?
HOW ABOUT NOW?
***
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/643695.html.
people have commented there.