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mysterylover123 · 8 days
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Don't you think it's funny cause actual canon gay characters in BL manga will say "I love you" but only the shounen bromance can spew out some of the most romantic shit akin to a 19th century poet writing a letter expressing his surpressed love for his lover 😭.....
The eternal frustration!
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mysterylover123 · 8 days
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And then Steve's ending sucks and is bad.
Steve's ending infuriated a lot of Stucky shippers for obvious reasons. But. Like. Here's the thing: From a filmmaking standpoint, the Stuckies are right. Sending Steve back in time just doesn't work for multiple reasons, both in and out of universe.
This is going to be a longie.
#1 - Time Travel Doesn't Work That Way
The first problem is the in-universe one. This ending is so busted that the directors and writers actually have separate interpretations of what happened, and they're both wrong.
According to the directors, Steve created a parallel timeline where he's lived with his Peggy. He used the time machine to return to this timeline and go to that bench, but only once he was super old for, uh, some reason?
Problem is, according to this movie, you can't do that. You can't make a new timeline without removing an Infinity Gem from it, and also making new timelines is bad, remember? Further, the film gives no indication that Steve time traveled here. He doesn't appear on the Quantum platform. He's not wearing his time suit. He's just chilling on a bench, staring at the horizon.
The reason the film gives no indication for how Steve arrived here is because of the writers' interpretation: Steve arrived in the past of this, the main timeline. Steve himself was Peggy's mystery husband back in Winter Soldier. Old Steve has always been here, waiting for this moment.
That's actually worse than the directors' explanation. The movie has been very clear on the point that you can't directly change the past. Even after they prune the timelines, Loki didn't actually escape in 2012. That never happened. The events of the Time Heist never happened, from a historical perspective.
The internal logic of Steve's jaunt doesn't work out, no matter which way you slice it.
#2 - The Future is Scary and You Should Run Away
The second problem is what it does to Steve as a Man Out of Time. The white-hot core of this character direction is that he is an old man living in a world he doesn't recognize, and having to adapt to changing times. That's something we all have to deal with eventually.
So what is Endgame's final statement on Steve's efforts to fit into society? It's that he can't. Trying to live in this world he doesn't know is a futile gesture. In the end, Steve gives up, sinks his head in the sand, and rejects modernity. He embraces the shallow image of a woman he once loved was attracted to and lives out the rest of his days in a reactionary fantasy world.
I guess there is no value in changing and growing to adapt to the new world around you. What a shitty ending.
#3 - To the End of the Line
And finally... yeah. I'm sorry to tell you this, but the Stucky shippers were right. Not necessarily about Steve and Bucky's relationship being canonically romantic. But about Steve and Bucky's relationship being the driving emotional throughline of the entire Captain America trilogy.
In the end, this ending is the epitome of the problem with the way writers write platonic relationships versus romantic ones. Throughout the trilogy, Bucky is the most valuable and important person in Steve's life.
Steve defied orders and officially joined World War II, venturing deep into enemy territory alone, for Bucky. He was ready to die for this man. He laid down his shield and accepted the Winter Soldier's violence out of love for the man behind his eyes, and that sheer unrelenting loyalty brought him back from the monster he was programmed to be. Steve went to war with the Avengers out of love for Bucky.
And whether you take that love to be romantic or platonic, it doesn't change the fact that this is what drives the films. Not Peggy. Never Peggy. The films occasionally pay some attention to Peggy and Sharon, but they aren't actually interested in using these characters as characters.
(In fact, they're so disinterested in Sharon that she drops off the face of the universe in Infinity War and Endgame. Not even a namedrop. The moment the filmmakers decided to send Steve back to Peggy, Sharon ceased to have any value as a character and was consequently erased. They do not care about these women and their stories. The Carters are just the obligatory love interests.)
Instead, Peggy is merely the symbol of what could have been. She represents the life Steve lost, but is barely treated as a person in her own right. She's just a picture in his wallet that he can pine after. She doesn't move the story along, and his feelings for her rarely amount to more than Steve being sad for a little bit and then continuing along with what he was doing.
And this is how it always is. The best friend is the diehard series-defining relationship that moves mountains and saves the universe. And the girlfriend is just there, getting little focus or development. Steve and Bucky prove their importance to each other again and again, but no attention is paid to why Peggy is important. "She's a woman. He's a man. What more do you need?"
I'm not, personally, a Stucky shipper. But "I'm with you to the end of the line," still meant so much to me. This was the emotional core of the Captain America trilogy, right up there with "I can do this all day." Steve suddenly quitting on the future, quitting on Bucky, and running off to bury his face in Peggy's bosom felt like a betrayal of everything the films have ever told us about these characters. Peggy just wins. Because we need to marry him off somehow if we're going to tie up his journey!
It is neither a joke nor an exaggeration to say that the trajectory of Captain America throughout the MCU was ruined at the very last possible second by the straight agenda.
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mysterylover123 · 2 months
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Uraraka describing her "canon love interest"
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Uraraka describing her "rival"
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I wonder who she finds more attractive?
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mysterylover123 · 8 months
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Did togachako become canon? (If so does that mean bakudeku might become canon lol)
One can only hope!
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mysterylover123 · 9 months
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If any of my followers get the chance, enjoy my series of My Hero Academia fanfics on FF.net, retelling the story from different character POVS! Made it through Season 4 already :)
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mysterylover123 · 9 months
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If any of my followers get the chance, enjoy my series of My Hero Academia fanfics on FF.net, retelling the story from different character POVS! Made it through Season 4 already :)
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mysterylover123 · 9 months
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If any of my followers get the chance, enjoy my series of My Hero Academia fanfics on FF.net, retelling the story from different character POVS! Made it through Season 4 already :)
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mysterylover123 · 9 months
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If any of my followers get the chance, enjoy my series of My Hero Academia fanfics on FF.net, retelling the story from different character POVS! Made it through Season 4 already :)
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mysterylover123 · 9 months
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If any of my followers get the chance, enjoy my series of My Hero Academia fanfics on FF.net, retelling the story from different character POVS! Made it through Season 4 already :)
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mysterylover123 · 10 months
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Cinematic Parallels
The Great Hero vs an Unstoppable Villain
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Violently hurt in the fight
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Their protege’s horrified reaction
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The world begins to panic and we focus on the protege and their narrative foil’s reactions
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Thinking of said protege the hero gets a second wind
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Shoto cheering, Izuku’s tactics to fight All for One...
The Animation goes crazy as the win occurs
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Fist in the air
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(Izuku’s not there yet)
Now it’s your turn
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mysterylover123 · 10 months
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TodoBaku Headcanon
Kacchan still calls Shoto IcyHot instead of Todoroki (and Todoroki lets him) because Todoroki dislikes his surname and Kacchan knows it. Cause he picked his first name for his hero name and is rejecting his dad.
But accepts his quirk. Cause “it’s his power, isn’t it?” like Deku said. Which is why Todoroki is ok with Kacchan nicknaming him “IcyHot”. Because it’s his quirk name, not his dad’s last name. Defining him by his quirk and not his dad.
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mysterylover123 · 1 year
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Thor in Ragnarok Learned from Natasha
Faking out a villain monologue by pretending to be in danger
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The Hulk Lullaby
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Electric wrists
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Tricking Val (And Loki) to get free
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Tricking Hela with a distraction to cause Ragnarok
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In Short: He learned stealth from the best :)
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mysterylover123 · 1 year
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Love Language of Worry
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Part 2 of the Admiration piece
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mysterylover123 · 1 year
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So Admiration is Love?
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Two sides of the same coin
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mysterylover123 · 2 years
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Thoughts on MHA Post 360s
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mysterylover123 · 2 years
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357 Origin trio
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Katsuki and Izuku are the only ones who look back at Shoto...
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