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“Never make fun of someone’s passion because that’s the thing that saves them from the world.”

— Unknown

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Just bluebells in the wind. Blowing about but standing firm. #bluebells

#nature #flowers #outdoors #peace #explore #inner peace

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Who’s afraid of little old me? YOU SHOULD BE.

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Steggy the movie.

(That’s kinda what the first avenger is, with the Endgame ending, but hear me out).

Peggy’s living out her life. We see what she’s been up to since Agent Carter. Steve shows up. Chaos ensues, and we get to see how Peggy and Steve get into their same-timeline adventures amidst his retirement and Peggy’s founding of SHIELD. Steve tells Peggy almost everything, but nothing about her future. She knows something is going to go down at SHIELD, and without knowing all of the tactics Hydra used, they do what they can to keep security tight without things completely falling to pieces (because it’s the same timeline-no one can change the future, but that doesn’t mean they won’t do what they can). And that is why Hydra waited so long.

Steve is devastated about Bucky, but understands he made his peace with life. He tries to find him, he really does, but Hydra seems to always skirt their efforts. Even with the information he knows, it’s not enough. But Bucky’s finding peace in the future, and has acknowledged that no one knows where this will go, or if they even can make a new timeline without the time stone involved.

With that knowledge, and knowing he has done all he can (and that everything will work out) he retires. He rests. He dreads Natasha’s upbringing and the Starks’s deaths, but knows it’s coming, and has faith in the future that he helped create. That doesn’t stop him from trying, though, but he’s only one man-and there are oh, so many things he wishes he could change. Nonetheless, he and Peggy settle down, start a family, and become a somewhat domesticated couple. (But only somewhat😉)

Peggy loves Steve. Steve loves Peggy. The future is secure, and while they have neither the information nor resources to fix everything, (not to mention the Steve time loop-so everything always happens) they also practice scarcity in the efforts they do make, for fear that they will change the future to make things worse (or mess up that 1 in a million chance that they beat Thanos).

All is well.

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happy steggytimes day (part 2 of 2)

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Because, Peggy literally is the Queen. All bow before he greatness 😍

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CATWS 10th Anniversary | Day 5 » The Soviet assassin school of kicking for @catws-anniversary

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Steggy Secret Santa gift for @littlereyofsunlight 2/2

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Never ever be normal about fictional characters but please GOD be normal about the people who play them, I am begging you

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There are certain fics which (ironically considering the angst) are my comfort blankets and I return to them again and again and again.

people telling you they reread your fic is the biggest compliment you could ever receive. there are thousands of stories out there begging to be found, to be explored, but your story meant so much to someone that they came back to it eagerly, they went over every word again. to love is to return and loving a fic is rereading it. thank you to all readers and rereaders <3333

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The thing about war, boy, is while it happens, you’ve no idea what's going on–and when it’s over, everyone spends the rest of your life telling you what you did. - Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

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Captain Extra™

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okay but can we please talk about how agent carter is approaching steve’s death, with regards to peggy’s arc?

because peggy is actually being allowed to grieve and show emotion, and reveal to us as an audience how losing steve has affected her emotionally and mentally. 

usually, if writers are trying to convince us that a female lead is a “strong female character”, she isn’t allowed to do that. she isn’t allowed emotions or to show herself breaking down because then (brace yourselves for heavy sarcasm) ~she isn’t strong anymore~. female characters usually aren’t allowed such a full range of emotion. 

but peggy in agent carter is still obviously a tough, capable, complex person. she’s also a person experiencing bereavement. and as such she falters sometimes. she cries sometimes. the agent carter team is showing that they understand that the “strong” in ~strong (female) character~ doesn’t mean “emotionless robot”, it means “solid, complex, well-rounded” character (regardless of gender). 

and then on the flip side, steve’s death isn’t becoming peggy’s central plot arc either. because the other risk for fictional female leads is that the loss they suffer often becomes their defining feature. almost as though, with the death of a loved one, they suddenly cease to be a real person anymore.

whereas for peggy, steve’s death is one of many hurdles she must overcome. across the season she’s also struggled with misogyny, a mysterious and dangerous secret organisation, being a double agent of sorts, an overbearing (and sexist) landlady, and scooping up howard’s slack with a shovel. (and that’s just a cross-section of examples)

i’m honestly just so impressed with how well agent carter has balanced steve’s death as a part of peggy’s development, without making her totally emotionless or having her fall apart completely and lose every other part of herself. it’s felt so organic and real, and the end result really testifies to that.