do people that say shit like “ooh nobody reads anymore, they only use their phones and computers” think that computers and phones can only display pictures and make sounds
like do they think words can’t be displayed by computers
serendipity x agust d
To commemorate Endgame’s two-year anniversary, have another rant (you’re welcome). Even after two years, something that troubles me no end is that, according to Endgame, Bucky and Sam et al. are just supposed to… get over losing Steve. That they were expected to just move on from the loss of their friend (in Bucky’s case, his lifelong best friend and alleged soulmate) and just be fine after a little while. Yet at the same time, Endgame Steve, who, roughly eight decades on, is apparently still unable to get over Peggy - the woman he kissed one (1) time and only when he was maybe about to die, the woman he knows lived a long, happy life without him, who actually told him to move on, and who he literally buried - is expected to do no such thing.
Because, of course, heterosexual romance, even of the blandest kind, is far more valid and important than every other kind of romance, friendship, and (found) family combined.
Steve and Peggy never even went on a single date. Never canonically said ‘I love you’ or anything of the sort (certainly nothing like 'I’m with you till the end of the line’). Fuck, Steve was even shown kissing Peggy’s niece not long after he buried Peggy. And yet we’re supposed to buy that in Endgame, Peggy is suddenly ‘the love of Steve’s life’, and losing her to old age devastated him more than the unexpected losses of so many of his friends - including Bucky, who he’d only just gotten back after years of looking for him, fighting for him, getting him back and losing him again - combined?
We’re supposed to blindly accept that it makes total sense for Steve to then, at the end of Endgame, leave everything and everyone he loves to go back to the past, to a time that would’ve been horrible for him for so many reasons, solely to play happy families with Peggy? Even though Steve canonically told Tony in AOU that the guy who wanted stability and a family went into the ice 75 years ago and someone else 'came out’? Even though Steve fought the whole world to get Bucky back and keep him safe, gave up his shield for him twice, and would’ve given up his life for him without hesitation if the alternative meant having to live without him again (even at a time when Peggy was still alive, mind you)?
The fact is, in the Cap movies we were shown that when it came down to it, nothing was more important to Steve than Bucky - certainly not Peggy. If anything came close, it was Steve’s relationships with the people he met in the new century, who he spent years living and fighting side by side with, and who, in Sam’s case, he canonically loved and admired enough to entrust him with his shield and legacy. What was between Steve and Peggy was canonically little more than a crush or mutual admiration/infatuation. If we’re supposed to take Endgame’s ending at face value, what Steve did was extremely out of character, deeply unhealthy and unfair, and most likely indicative of severe mental instability as a result of repeated and untreated trauma - not some romantic grand gesture to swoon over, and not a well-deserved happy ending. Apart from that, nothing we were shown in canon warranted Steve’s decision to leave everything and go back in time to be with Peggy in Endgame. And yet, that’s what the creators chose to go with, simply because it was the most widely palatable and therefore the most marketable option.
So yeah, Endgame’s ending is a farce and an insult to our intelligence at best, and a patronizing, cowardly, misogynistic, homophobic, capitalistic and plain awful mess at worst. And it is also one of the reasons why I simply do not vibe with canon any longer and I’m sticking to fanon forever more, thank you very much.
#yoonmin #suga #jimin #bts
Haven’t looked at it yet, but I will later 👍🏼
@asiapredium asked: Hey could u make a ff list of some good and long(long is OK) stories that start on canon then go au stories were they go to Nola or time travel is involved would be great. Extra good if Katherine and kol are alive and important thanks.
Okay I’m going to go with a ballpark of 20+ chapter/100,000 word count in classifying what’s a long fic.
Canon/Au
The Thing Between Love And Hate by She-Loved-Too-Easily
Our Dark Soul by linzackles
CBK1000′s Originals AU Series (link to the first part, other parts can be found in the library)
The Devil’s Backbone by willowaus
Sinners Like Us by ravenclawslibrary
Chosen & Strange & Beautiful by sheraasp
Down In New Orleans by Sabby1
My Love Is Vengeance by ALostHeart
Red Queen by Beth Nottingham
Ubiquitous by G.M. Portraepic
With Or Without You by Gottabeelove
A Tree Called Life by Quills And Inkwells
Friends, Then? by AddriannaDestiny
Loopholes by mscyanide
New Paths & New Lives by these dreams go on
NOLA
Words Are Weapons & Taking Care Of The Other One by ssklarolinewrites
The Heiress by Sweet Little Darling
An Ending Like No Other by easytoimagine
Her Love Is is Salvation by 2112brittbritt
Time Travel
A Journey To Love by mysticgirl125
Fixing Mistakes by clairegleek
Timeless by MarvelousKatie
Return And Remember by Sci-fi Christian
Destiny & Banished by klauslove
Louder Than Thunder by khaleesiofthewolves
Right Place, Wrong Time by PsychVamp
Times Journey by MarsterRoo
Truth Beyond Legend AidansQueen
Mine Again by BetterNameToCome
Gone With The Time by Clockshapedwalls
And if you like fics with Kol and Katherine I’d suggest Linked & Under My Roof by Angelikah and Holding On by easytoimagine.
Hopefully there’s something there to enjoy and I didn’t get too confused :)
My ship: *in the middle of a heated argument*
Me:
My ship: *Share a single heartwarming scene*
Me:
My ship: *Don’t interact for a whole season/film*
Me:
The producers: *Trying to stop the fans from shipping it*
Me, with the rest of the fandom:
The actors: *Supporting the ship even though the producers aren’t*
Me: