hello this is a text post in support of bucky barnes: accidental hipster, who wears steve’s huge plaid button-downs over natasha’s too-tight jeans and a pair of old doc martens sam was going to donate to goodwill, because those are the clothes that are around and who gives a shit? bucky barnes: accidental hipster, who goes out in steve’s plastic framed on-the-run glasses because he misses the eye protection his googles used to provide. bucky barnes: accidental hipster, who buys vinyl because he was born in 1917 and drinks his coffee black for the same reason. BUCKY BARNES: ACCIDENTAL HIPSTER. that’s all thank you goodbye
so last time I was drawing Bucky I had some thoughts and they turned into research and this info sheet - somehow… y’all better find this useful or uhm… interesting…? please?
“I’m ok with X topic being written abt as long as the narrative doesn’t condone it” u need 2 b spoonfed the conclusion that bad stuff is bad? u can’t come 2 it on ur own? are u serious.
It's come to my attention that some folks don't know about Willow and Tara. If you care about Buck and Eddie, it's worth your time to learn about them, especially if you're queer.
Let me tell you a story about a time when queer people, queer women in particular, were essentially non-existent in the media — tv, movies, hardly anywhere. And along came Buffy, which gave us a nuanced, lovely, richly developed love story between two young women. Willow and Tara were main characters, and one of the core couples on the show, for many years. They shared one of the very first lesbian kisses on network television. Believe me when I tell you there was nothing — nothing even remotely close — when it came to queer representation on television at the time. Willow and Tara meant a great deal, to a great number of queer people. Still do.
And then they killed Tara. Like this.
When I tell you the rage and fury that welled up in the wake of Tara's murder. Because this time the queers fought back, demanded more and better stories as atonement. The-powers-that-be had, for the first time, given us something that was ours, making a real effort to tell our stories. So many queer folks felt seen and validated in ways we never had before. And then they killed her. The hurt and grief were real and sting to this day (I fully teared up making this post). But there is no doubt in my mind that the backlash absolutely led to the exponential growth in queer representation that happened after.
Willow and Tara's importance to queer culture — their love story and Tara's death — cannot be overstated. They have a place in the Legendary Queer Canon reserved for very few.
When I tell you that the second Eddie's blood hit Buck's face, I felt whichever queer(s) at 911 were responsible for making this happen — I felt them reaching through the screen to say: let's work through our Willow and Tara trauma together.
These gays are going to live.
I know I am always on my bullshit about how everything 911 does is on purpose. But this? Was intentional. Like nothing I have ever seen. The way they (so lovingly, romantically) filmed Eddie being shot in front of Buck wasn't just an allusion to some other tv show. They paid homage to legendary queer canon.
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