THE PERSON I HOOK UP WITH RECOGNIZED MY FIC AS MINE AS THEY READ IT BECAUSE THE SEX IN IT REMINDED THEM TOO MUCH OF THE SEX WE’VE HAD………. I WANT TO DIE……………….
Can we just talk about the little jaw tick here for a moment. Because here’s the thing, this is the moment right before Steve opens that folder and finally sees proof of all that has happened to Bucky. I mean he knows what happened in an abstract sense. He knows that Bucky has been tortured and manipulated and brainwashed and turned into something else, but this folder is concrete proof. This folder is specifics. This folder has kill-lists and specific methods used to force the asset to comply. This is the diary that Bucky couldn’t write, the years that Steve has missed out on.
And so having this in his hands, he knows that reading this is going to hurt. He knows that the few sheets of paper in his hands are going to cut right through him, and this moment, this spare second before he has to dive in to all this, Steve is calling up heroic, square-jawed figure he’s supposed to be, that he needs to be .A deep breath and a slight shift of his jaw to steel his nerves is all he allows himself before plunging forward. Because there’s no other choice is there? He has to know. Because he can’t let Bucky down this time.
if infinity war was like… written according to common sense and not for cheap drama… it would have taken exactly two (2) avengers to end Thanos’ purple ass and that’s Mantis and Wanda working together. maybe Valkyrie as their third party member if they needed some raw bisexual muscle. you noticed how the guardians never even made it to earth and Valkyrie was just entirely unaccounted for? if the three of them ever met it would be an instant story breaker. they’d be unstoppable.
Mantis: puts Thanos tf to sleep
Wanda: holds Thanos while Mantis is doing her thing, destroys the stones
Valkyrie: kicks Thanos in the nuts while he’s out
and none of THAT would have even been necessary if Shuri had only had like an extra week of prep time. the very first time she encounters Vision/an infinity stone she’s coming up with things that never even occurred to Bruce and Tony; you think she can’t come up with a way to neutralize all the stones and Thanos too?
in december 1889, alexander parvus, a russian jew who had become a german revolutionary (& later financier, it’s a long story), announced the birth of a son in the sächsische arbeiterzeitung, publishing, “we announce the birth of a healthy, cheerful enemy of the state”