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ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing

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I am not unaware of the negatives of Biden's presidency, and I am not trying to elide or forgive them. I'm reblogging posts about the Biden administration because I think it's really important that potential voters in the US realize that there is, in fact, a very big difference between the two parties, and voting for Biden is not just damage control--it actually does good. It's okay, you can actually feel a little excited about making meaningful progress, and not just hold your nose.

He's been very unflashy. He's not a great leader, he's not charismatic and he knows it, but he's an adroit politician and administrator, and he's been getting things done. Letting Trump win at this point would be tantamount to throwing the entire country on the bonfire. It's not a choice between bad and bad, it's a choice between meaningful, if imperfect, progress and fucking doom.

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Some old-fashioned stucky to celebrate Bucky's birthday!

If you want follow me, you can find me on patreon 🖤

#bucky barnes #steve rogers #stucky fanart #soldier boys is my otp

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Batman: Urban Legends #15 - “Bound to Our Will V” (2022)

written by Vita Ayala art by Nikola Cizmesija & Nick Filardi

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Newly released alternative take of the Han/Leia kiss scene STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

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“Sorry if I woke you.”

For Find A Way Home

#stucky #there is only one answer and the answer is stucky #stucky fanart

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We have stamina.

Always funny when Stucky is in a ship tournament and everyone in the tags is telling people to vote for the other thing because we all hate the MCU now. I can assure you that Stucky shippers also hate the fucking MCU more than you can imagine

#anti endgame

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Did you know that between 1939 and 1941 the NYC Tax Administration and the Works Progress Administration collaborated to take photographs of nearly every building in all 5 boroughs of New York City? And that you can see these photos today thanks to NYC Municipal archiving? This is, obviously, amazing for hundreds of reasons. For the purposes of this post, it's fantastic because this is a very real address:

And when I put that address into the photo locator map, I get this:

Going from there, we can walk around the surrounding blocks via photographs. And if we assume that Steve and Bucky's pre-war apartment was fairly close to the Barnes', then these photos from 1939 to 1941 are a historically accurate trip to their neighborhood.

So, let's explore some pre-war Brooklyn. For your fic inspiration needs, your feelings, the general Stucky vibes, or just because:

160 State Street, bigger and without the map.

(If you ever feel like making the details of a fic incredibly historically accurate, there are so many real businesses to choose from in these photos.)

Like I said, there are pictures of nearly every building. This is just a small collection of the images I grabbed from the immediate blocks around 160 State. You can walk around the neighborhood in more detail, or anywhere else in 1939-1941 New York you want on the map I used.  

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THEY’RE MARRIED, YOUR HONOR.

"For us, every day is Valentine's Day!" - (2024)

💗 Happy Valentine's Day everyone 💗

#stucky fanart #they’re married #super married

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Continuing my Whip & Fiddle series in patreon. I love drawing this era sfm you guys 🫡

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No, yeah, I’m fine. Totally.

#alexander and hephaestion #stucky #Marvel you cowards #stucky was in the narrative #soldier boys is my otp #I HAVE A TYPE OKAY #alexander the making of a god #thank you Netflix for not punking out #those were marriage vows and you know it

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Oh, my heart.

I grew up in Italy so most of the slash I was reading was from series that I’d never actually be able to watch.

The Sentinel, Due South, Stargate: it was fandom that made me love them.

Cory (@mostlysignssomeportents) in his latest (fascinating) linkdump posted a link to the above--which is Old'aVista, a search engine of what's left of the old internet, and my heart just sort of stopped with nostalgia. It didn't take me long to find the below, which guys--you and you and you were there. Between KS Nic's pages--

--and like, the Sentinel Slash links page below--that was most of the whole fannish world, and I saw so many names I saw of people I still know and who are STILL MUTUALS, I throw my arms around you!

#it’s fandom all the way down

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Episode 1 was so, so good.

True Detective Night Country opening credits

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Me, for the last 20 years.

what a beautiful day to not be in high school

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me when my ears dont work n im also a white man

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One overlooked thing that really sets the Lord of the Rings films apart from other franchises is how earnest they are-

Most movies are so afraid of being “cheesy” that whenever they say something like “friendship is the most powerful force in the world” they quickly undercut it with a joke to show We Don’t Really Believe That! ;)  Even Disney films nowadays have the characters mock their own movie’s tropes (”if you start singing, I’m gonna throw up!”) It’s like winking at the camera: “See, audience? We know this is ridiculous! We’re in on the joke!”

But Lord of the Rings is just 12.5 hours of friendship and love being the most powerful forces in the world, played straight. Characters have conversations about how much their home and family and friends mean to them, how hope is eternal, how there is so much in the world that’s worth living for…. and the film doesn’t apologize for that. There’s no winking at the audience about How Cheesy and Silly All This Is; it’s just. Completely in earnest.

And when Lord of the Rings does “lean on the fourth wall” to talk about storytelling within the film, it’s never to make jokes about How Ridiculous These Storytelling Tropes are (the way most films do)…. but instead to talk about how valuable these stories can be. Like Sam’s Speech at the end of the Two Towers: the greatest stories are ones that give you something to believe in, give you hope, that help you see there are things in a bleak violent world that are worth living for

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in lieu with the recent what if episodes