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Y'all, look at this incredible art @srapsodia made for me! I commissioned them to draw my bard Linnea, from the Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign I've been part of for like 15 months, and they captured my sweet girl perfectly.

You should absolutely commission them if you have a chance.

OC commission for @chaneen

#art #d&d #commission #I love this so much and am so happy with it #commission raps y'all #just do it #popping in here literally six years since my last post because come on #how could I not share this with everyone #tagging shit on mobile is just as annoying as I remember it being

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Markus&Mcfeely clarify their comments on Bucky’s ending

Interviewer: People were curious why Bucky had to be punished. 

Stephen McFeely: I’ll address this. In our very first interview for Civil War, we sort of flippantly…. question came up in some way… We…

Christopher Markus: You, really…

Stephen McFeely:  So…  I… We don’t mean to say that Bucky deserves to be punished… But I’ll say this. At the end of the movie, think about where we are. Tony Stark has just learned that his parents have been murdered. The guy who did it is standing right there and one of his dear friends didn’t tell him. It’s a dark ending it’s a melancholy ending, and it’s a bit ambiguous. There’s no version of the next scene being Bucky happy, there’s no tag (?) where Bucky gets to live a happy life, when that is how the movie ended. So, that would be a little tone deaf. 

That said, Bucky is absolutely a victim and Bucky, if he went to the court of law, he would be innocent of all charges…

Christopher Markus: At the very least he’s probably guilty of manslaughter, in some way… 

Stephen McFeely: But I think, I did a little homework on this, I think it would be debatable. It’s debatable. But the point is, that we the audience forgive Bucky because we know what exactly happened. I’m not positive it’s that easy for Bucky to forgive himself. Bucky, you know, he said on the quinjet, Steve tried to forgive him, but he said: “Yeah, but I did it”. And he remembers all of them. So I’ve always thought that the story of Bucky coming to have a happier life or better perspective on his terrible century, is going to take a while. And my hope is that he can forgive himself and that he can come to a good place, but I bet you that’s money on - not that easy. X

#well I feel a lot better about this now #I was seriously disappointed that they might have missed the mark so completely #because I know these writers understand bucky #and understand it's not about guilt vs innocence #or bucky needing to be punished by others #but him punishing himself #and the tone of the film as a whole #glad they just misspoke #captain america: civil war #cap 3 spoilers #bucky barnes #markus and mcfeely

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#literally screamed out loud when I got to the fourth gif #how dare you #the six saddest words in the mcu #steve rogers #captain america #parallels fuck yeah #captain america: the first avenger #captain america: the winter soldier #captain america: civil war #mcu

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We need to talk about Sharon.

Hello tumblr, I strongly pondered about posting this but I’m so goddamn tired of the bullshit so here goes.

We need to talk about the one sided, unilateral, fandom shitting on Sharon Carter situation I’m seeing in a lot of places either from fans or from articles trying to ride the SteveBucky wave (a pairing I also ship and enjoy) by shitting on one of the few ladies in this movie and she truly fucking doesn’t deserve it.

A quick summary of Sharon Carter in the MCU: Was a SHIELD agent. Competent and badass enough to be assigned as Steve’s back up by Nick Fury if he needs one. Transfers to the CIA after the fall of SHIELD and is assigned as a leader of her own anti terrorist task force in Berlin, as explained in CACW. Great niece of Peggy Carter, she doesn’t explicitely tell people about it to avoid being judged on the family connection. Apparently had a good connection with her, talks fondly of her great aunt. Comes out with her secret at Peggy’s funeral, makes a great speech that already highlights how she’s not keen on the accords and hints at it while looking at Steve saying said speech (a dialogue that comes straight from the comics as well). Not afraid to kick ass, stood up to Rumlow in CATWS, and confidently had a go at brainwashed Bucky, tag-teaming with Nat. Top marks at the shooting range at the end of CATWS, it looks easy for her. Secretly provides Steve with informations about Bucky so he can find him before the task force, sneakily allow Steve and Sam to listen to the interrogation, then risk her job getting their gear back (Shield, falcon suit, etc) so they can go to Siberia. Obviously kept her distance with Steve when she was undercover as Kate but also obviously charmed by him AND SO WAS HE, as he initiated the flirting in CATWS. They are casually interested in each other, the movies never tried the “soul mate dot com angle” more like, “they’re cute, whoop”. Looks nothing like Peggy physically, but shares her loyalty and fierceness.

Now a quick bunch of points about Steve as well He has been out of the ice for 2 years in CATWS, 4 years in CACW He’s struggling to move on with loads of things but still adapting anyway. Mentions to Natasha that he has kissed people after coming out of the ice. He liked KATE. Awkward Steve was flirting and trying in CATWS. He finds out about Kate being Sharon and kinda looks like “oh, well, I see the same spirit in there, I suppose”. It was never hinted at that Steve liked Sharon because she was Peggy’s relative. It just basically added a layer of implied trust from him because she’s a Carter and there is loyalty in that. More random points: CACW hints at the fact that Sam knows Sharon, so maybe they’ve hanged out in between two Cap movies? I was intrigued at that. Some scenes are missing as I remember seeing behind the scenes of Sharon and Steve talking at a coffee shop after the funeral. Final point: STEVE. KISSES. HER. STEVE. It’s awkward as fuck and ill timed in a typical Steve fashion. Initiated by Steve. Steve. STEVE.

Here is the goddamn thing: I understand disliking Steve and Sharon together, I understand disliking the kiss or the pairing, I understand maybe not caring about Sharon, we all have different tastes and things we like in these movies. It’s cool, ship and let ship. As T’challa would say “I don’t care”. You do you etc. But.

The criticism I’ve seen about her completely ERASES her plot points and job and character always circling back to the kiss and the romance angle and how she’s a vile witch of sort. So many people in fandom are always writing posts about the lack of ladies in the MCU and when you get one with so much potential you throw her in the bin under false pretenses like she’s worthless and you MAKE her a love interest and everything about the kiss which is exactly what loads of peeps complained about all the time. On top of that, when the anger should be more about how we didn’t get enough of her in the first place we get cackling and gross comments about how she’s a useless piece of trash, some articles erasing her, she’s a “beige curtain” ( a dude wrote that in an article, I mean wow, amazing), or “she’s peggy lite”, like holy shit do people actually realise what the fuck they’re saying??? Watch the press tour (a press tour with like a million dudes and two women) and watch Emily VanCamp slaying with poise and grace when journalists think they’re being funny and clever attacking her character making inappropriate comments and always having a go at HER, making gross af assumptions that Steve’s only love is Peggy because of course Peggy hasn’t moved on and had kids and a life already, ammi right. Watch her passionately defend her character 150% time better than other peeps on their characters in this movie. Please tell me again how the vitriol aimed at her is perfectly normal, especially in a MCU fandom that wrote THOUSAND of fics about a white dude agent in a suit supporting character and even brought him back from the dead. But Sharon with her similar screen time and badass skills doesn’t even deserve to be treated ok apparently?? Where is my meta on Sharon? Where is my long ass dissertation on how natural she is at fighting side by side with Nat? Where is my post about her loyalty to Steve and the consequences of that? Where is my amazing back story about smol Sharon hanging out with old Peggy? And this is not about the no homo of Steve, I’m team Steve is bisexual and always have been, I LOVE Steve and Bucky too and in an interesting world the seed of this as a canon pairing in the MCU would have existed AS WELL. But I also believe this MCU batch of characters was settled in stone 10 years ago and Marvel will only kick itself in the butt with the next batch on LGBT rep, that’s another discussion. And anyway, I like both? Sharon is not a sad excuse for the gay ship not happening. Let’s stop this narrative right there. Let’s also stop the whole “it’s gross because she’s related to Peggy” like, my god, Steve kissed Peggy ONCE, and she was ONE of the loves in Steve’s life, Steve is a human being who can also move on and be attracted to cute people like everyone else. I fucking love Peggy Carter but fandom really likes to bring her back when it’s convenient, this is disrespectful to the parallel storylines as Peggy ALSO moved on. And loved again. So what if Steve likes Sharon and she likes him back, they have zero receipts to provide in the current context of the MCU except that Sharon is vaguely related to someone Steve kissed once. Sharon was canonically Steve’s partner in the comics (which deal with Sharon in good and bad ways, I’m aware) and it made sense for them to plan it, she’s already been given great stuff to build on in MCU but I worry the unilateral hatred will keep her in the sideline as well. I’m interested in Sharon on her own, she’s fucking great and funny and sassy and competent as fuck. She also takes no shit from Steve in CACW and I would love to see more of their relationship, they’re cute and she deserves to be happy and Steve deserves to be happy too. Stop shitting on Sharon Carter 2k16.

#yes to allllll of this #sharon carter #captain america: civil war #cacw spoilers #all of these feelings are my feelings #sharon is super great #and bashing her because she gets in the way of your ship #is fucked up #I love steve/bucky too #but I also recognize that it's not going to be canon #and I'm cool with that #steve should be happy in canon too #steve/sharon doesn't negate being fannish about another pairing #and steve/sharon doesn't endanger your ability to ship and read and write what you want #stop bashing female characters 2k16 #mcu

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Sharon Carter is NOT a Love Interest

Okay tumblr, it's time to talk about Sharon Carter.

I wish this post could be all about how Sharon is badass and competent and how fantastic she is in Cap 3, but it's not.

I wish I could talk about how she risked her job to get information on Bucky's whereabouts for Team Cap, how she brought Steve and Sam to Bucky's location in the Berlin facility, again risking her job to do the right thing, how she actually held her own against the Winter Soldier for a minute despite having zero super powers, how she was sweet and adorable and did her job well and kept a brave face despite having just lost her Aunt Peggy.

Sharon is an amazing woman and I'm sad we didn't get more of her in this movie.  But this isn't a post about that.

This is about the idea that because Sharon and Steve flirted, and because they kissed, this automatically negates everything else she did in the entire film and pigeonholes her as the Love Interest.  Fuck that.

Sharon Carter is not a love interest.

Sharon Carter is a competent woman, a former Agent of SHIELD, a good fighter, someone who risks her life and her career for what she believes is the right thing to do, someone who loved her Aunt Peggy and tried every day to live up to what Peggy would've wanted for her.

If Sharon hadn't been in this movie, Steve and Sam and Bucky would've been going into the fight against Team Iron Man with no gear.

If Sharon hadn't been in this movie, Steve and Sam would've been stuck in that conference room, unable to hear what was happening to Bucky when he was being triggered by Zemo, unable to get to him to take him down and keep people safe.

Hell, if Sharon hadn't been in this movie, Steve and Sam wouldn't have been able to find Bucky in Bucharest in the first place.

The kiss between Steve and Sharon was kind of awkwardly timed, absolutely.  But listen.  Steve's been interested in her since they were neighbors two years ago, this is nothing new .  Yeah, he was mad that she lied to him about being with SHIELD, but then (and this is key) he forgave her for it.  When he sees her again at the funeral, it's pretty clear he's over the lies and is interested in the possibility of more.  But because Steve is terrible with ladies (so so terrible), he made a move at probably the wrong time (really Steve? mere days after Peggy's funeral? I'm side-eyeing you hard, buddy).  He didn't know if he'd ever see her again, and he didn't want to let her slip away this time.

Personally, I would've liked to see some more interaction between the two of them, and I'm very disappointed that Sharon just dropped out of the film after that kiss, but these issues don't mean that the very existence of the Steve/Sharon relationship negates the rest of her character.

The problem here is that the filmmakers are capitalizing on the fact that Steve/Sharon is well established in the comics and kind of shorthanding it for the MCU, rather than putting in the work they should be putting in.  From a writing perspective, they also seem to think that every Captain America movie needs to have a kiss in it, which is honestly just silly.  But just because some of the development of their relationship was done clumsily doesn't reduce Sharon to that girl Steve wants to kiss.

Sharon is still the woman that helped Steve when he was a criminal and there was no way for her to justify her actions.  She did it because she believes in him and it was the right thing to do.

She's still the woman who charged into the fight against the Winter Soldier even though he's a super soldier and she's a normal human without supercharged weapons.

She's still the woman who told Brock Rumlow to fuck off when he tried to threaten a SHIELD tech into launching the Hellicarriers in Cap 2, because she believed in Steve and believed in his cause.

She's still the woman who was assigned to watch over Captain America for SHIELD because Nick Fury trusted her.

Just because she likes Steve, just because he kissed her and she kissed back, doesn't mean that all of these things just go away.

Sharon Carter is not a love interest.  Sharon Carter is a hero, and we're lucky to have her.

#sharon carter #stevesharon #steve rogers #captain america: civil war #cacw #cap 3 spoilers #cacw spoilers #meta #mcu

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Steve and the Sokovia Accords

I keep seeing a lot of posts about how Steve was in the wrong in CACW because while Tony had a plan, Steve didn’t offer any alternative to it, he was just like NOPE. The thing is though, something that immediately struck me when I watched the movie was the timing of everything. Ross and Tony bring Steve and the others the Accords THREE DAYS before they are to be signed. Those Accords were not drafted, approved and supported by 117 countries in a week. This was 100% intentional. This is also very, very common in American politics. When politicians want to pass a bill they don’t want people to look at closely, they schedule votes at weird times or when a large # of people are away from the Hill (Capital Hill). So you get these 11th hour bills that are hundreds of pages long that no one has had a chance to read, ask questions about, or negotiate on about changes. These bills are stuffed with completely unrelated stuff that gets passed as well because the whole thing has to be signed off on/approved. It’s called “pork barreling.” Those are the questions Steve tries to bring up to the group. When he’s like ‘what happens when…?’ And Tony brushes aside his concerns like ‘oh, I’m sure we’ll get to make changes later when everything dies down.’ But Steve is like what are we agreeing to NOW though? And practically as soon as they are given the “generous” 3 day warning, Peggy dies. Steve flies off to London and everything goes to hell. What time is there to propose or discuss an alternative plan?? The timing was 100% intentional to make sure the Avengers would be subject to the Accords as written–no matter what was lurking on the bottom of page 440 in fine print. Steve is 100% right to be suspicious. This is one of the dirty tricks of American politics that Steve would be totally aware of. And sure, maybe there’s a chance that everything was above board, reasonable, and so on, but you would NEVER sign a thing like that w/o actually checking/reading it. that would be foolish. I mean, did we forget that Project Insight was authorized and approved by The World Council? I guarantee you that Steve hasn’t. I absolutely believe that Steve would have been willing to talk everything out, negotiate, listen to everyone’s pov, and really consider everything carefully…but there’s no time given to do that. It’s all last minute, non-negotiable, and shady. Steve is a master tactician, natural leader, and a reasonable, thoughtful person who is a Big Picture thinker. It’s weird that people just assume he rejects the Accords because he’s being childish or something. That’s not Steve Rogers at all. 

#yes this #a thousand times yes this #why I'm team cap #steve rogers #sokovia accords #captain america: civil war #cacw spoilers #meta

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

#omg these nerds #why aren't we friends? #I just love them and their ridiculousness so much #chris evans #sebastian stan #anthony mackie #team cap #civil war press #video

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“Why I Wasn’t Contracted to Write Beauty and the Beast” by I have no idea who, and desperately want to know.  If anyone does, please tell me! Edit:  Through knmajorblogs I have discovered the genius behind this piece of art.  The genius in question is LordJazor !  Thank you!

#brb loling forever #crying with laughter #this is so amazing #I need this guy to narrate all fairy tales #beauty and the beast #video

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Kesha making her live comeback at Coachella with Zedd, performing True Colors. She changed the lyric from “we’ve escaped our capture, but we have our masters,” to “we’ve escaped our capture, and I have no master”

#kesha #ugh I'm so happy #how great is she? #so great #music #video

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why i’m on team cap (without hating on tony stark)

A Disclaimer:

In a movie titled Captain America: Civil War and NOT Avengers: Civil War, you’re going to have to still write the story, in such a way that it’s sympathetic to your main character.  You can’t have this movie and make Cap look like an ass, is what I’m saying. 

On the other hand, Iron Man is still a hero of the MCU universe.  You have to be able to see his point of view, even if you think he’s wrong and even if you have to disagree with him.  You can’t turn Tony Stark into a villain for the audience.  He might be a “villain” in Steve Rogers’ eyes but we, the audience members, should be able to see where he’s coming from.  We still need Tony Stark to walk away from this as a heroic figure, an Iron Man we can still root for in future adventures.  So for the purposes of the story, Iron Man’s is the antagonist and the real villains are the guys we haven’t seen in the trailers - Baron Zemo, probably, who may be pulling all these strings to destroy the Avengers from within. 

Think about it.  The old Winter Soldier trailers kept showing us Bucky in full-on WS mode.  Who was the real villain? Alexander Pierce, the US Secretary of Defense and HYDRA Squid Nazi. 

So why am I #TeamCap? 

Keep reading

#meta #yes this #this says everything I would've said about civil war with what we know now #I love it when other people are smart so I don't have to be #team stop fighting #captain america: civil war #this movie is going to break me #but I can't wait to see it #is it may yet?

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Had a dream just now that Macklemore was named TIME magazine’s Most Muggable Musician and he showed up at an interview to accept the award and they mugged him

#brb loling forever

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#no #I refuse #sorcery #video

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I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

#brb loling forever #I cannot resist a good pun #science

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#seems legit #fox mulder #xfiles

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Because we just need another layer of fucked up in this Marvel hellhole

Okay, but Bucky is wearing the same thing here

as he was here

and we’ve already had a few people say that Tony wasn’t the one Bucky was aiming at. That Tony grabbed the gun and forced it away from the intended target…. Steve.

And it puts a whole different spin on this scene (again, same clothes)

I want to punch you because I just had to deflect a bullet nearly into my face to save you from your brainwashed best friend.

#oh shiiiit #I bet this is totally spot on #great #just great #I didn't need my heart anyway #captain america: civil war #cap 3 spoilers

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avengers + onion headlines/text posts

#brb loling forever #perfection #mcu #text post meme

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the worst vine, part 2

#sorry I believe you mean the best vine #brb loling forever #crying with laughter #star wars #vines #video