I am absolutely LIVING for the content from the premier and I am LOVING each and every picture they have posted on their accounts. But this video sealed the deal for me.
Also the fact that MTV posted this with the particular audio. Why hurt us like this đ«
Thor: what are you watching, brother?
Loki: Iâm watching it.
Thor: yeah I know. But whatâs it.
Loki: it
Thor: what?
Loki: it the movie.
Thor: I know itâs a movie. But what iS IT?
Loki: and Iâm telling you IT THE MOVIE.
Thor: JUST BECAUSE I HAVE ONE EYE DOESNâT MEAN I CANT FUCKING SEE ITâS A MOVIE. IM ASKING WHATâS THE MOVIE CALLED!
Loki: Itâs IT the movie you dumb fuck
Thor: WHAT THE FUCK IS IT YOU LITTLE BITCH
Loki *pulls off a knife*: itâs IT!!!!!!!!!
Thor: *throws lightning bolt at Loki*: I was JUST TRYING TO BE NICE WHY YOUâD HAVE TO BE SUCH A BITCH
Loads of people are saying that the people that werenât happy about Steveâs ending are selfish because heâs happy with Peggy and that weâre just not happy because our ships arenât canon.
Thatâs not it. I am not happy because throughout every Captain America movie Steve has fought for one thing mostly. And thatâs Bucky. In the First Avenger, he goes on his first real mission for Bucky. To save Bucky. Then Bucky âdiesâ. He becomes more reckless after that, even driving himself into the arctic, despite the fact he could have had a life with Peggy still. Weâve seen him jump out of a plane without a parachute, so he couldâve still crashed the plane without sacrificing himself. Basically, he couldnât imagine a life without Bucky.
In the Winter Solider. Cap is 100% ready to fight the WS until he realises itâs his best buddy, old pal, Bucky fucking Barnes who he immediately almost dies to protect, even when the same guyâs trying to literally kill him.
And in Civil War he literally starts a war with his own team to save Bucky. He drops his shield when Tony says itâs no longer his and walks off with Bucky without even looking back. He just let go of his legacy for his best friend. He was with him when he went into Cryo and fell to his knees when he dusted. Bucky has been there with him through everything for basically 100 years by Endgame. 2012 Steve even stopped fighting Endgame Steve when he told him Bucky was alive. Nothing about Peggy. It was Bucky.
And youâre telling me that Iâm wrong for wanting him to at least ask if Bucky, the person heâd fought wars with and went to war for, wanted to come with him when he left? Are you shitting me? I am unhappy because they used to say âTill the end of the lineâ and suddenly Endgame acted like none of that ever happened. Iâm unhappy because it was so outside of Steve Rogerâs character that it felt like Loki did a better job impersonating 2012 him at that point. Loads of the characterâs were off. Iâm not saying this as a shipper. I am saying this as someone whose favourite characters were Steve and Bucky, and at the end of their apparent line, didnât even get a reunion in Endgame after Bucky came back. They shared two lines. Thatâs it. All that. For two lines. Steve got his apparent happy ending without a big factor of happiness that has been with him throughout his life. How can he be happy without Bucky when all the Cap MCU movies have told us he isnât? Weâre not even told if he rescued Bucky from Hydra in the alternate timeline he created, so we donât know if he is in his life. Iâm sorry it makes me âselfishâ to be so unsatisfied that one of the best friendships in the entire MCU ended like this. With. Two. Lines.
You want to know what I do say as both a shipper and as a queer person?
I say I am heartbroken. Marvel had the best chance theyâd ever have at creating the first queer couple in the MCU multiple times and ignored it. (No offence to Stony shippers.) Over Twenty films, and eleven years and the only queer rep we have is a single seen in Endgame. That barely last two minutes. And itâs not even an on-screen queer couple. Even after they Tweeted saying it had a gay character. I knew not to get my hopes up, but I still thought itâd be more than a background character for two minutes. Iâd hoped itâd at least be Carol and Valkyrie maybe, since Brie Larson and Tessa Thompson both loved the idea, maybe theyâd sneak a tiny little line between the characterâs at least. But nothing. They had so many chances with Stucky, due to Peggy being gone and the general relationship chemistry Steve and Bucky had that could have easily developed into something more than platonic, Iâd say Stony but Pepper was always there (Not that I mind, I love her so much) and theyâd been together since before Cap was even a thing in the MCU, they already had the backing for this from the public with the GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend trend. Chris Evanâs Brother is gay so I thought Chris himself wouldnât even mind this. They had Valkyrie, who is bi, but the one scene where she was announced as Bisexual was cut, I wonder why. They had the chance to make Maria and Carol more than friends, I mean really, there was so much subtext it wouldâve been so easy. Nothing. You know what this teaches queer kids and the bullies that pick on them? That queer kids donât get to be heroes. They only deserve to be background characters, whose spouseâs die anyway.
âBut there are LGBT+ characters in the Marvel comics!â Many people who love the MCU donât read the comics. Many children who watch the MCU movies donât read the comics. Not only are comics themselves expensive, and itâs financially hard to by every issue, but itâs hard to get into comics. Marvel has been here for a long time, thereâs literally decades worth of confusing overlaps and loop holes that donât make sense. The MCU was an easy and quick way to introduce yourself into the fandom and for many people it worked. They aimed to make heroes a type of mainstream media and it worked. Almost everyone has seen an MCU movie. The majority of teens and kids now have been/are being raised watching the MCU movies. It is just as important to see representation in the movies and on the TV shows as it is in the comics. Queer kids would finally get to see themselves as heroes and see themselves in their favourite characters. Children and teens seeing Endgame (If it had had real queer representation) would have seen a hero as queer and know it was okay. Thus know that itâs okay themselves to be queer, or that queer people around them were normal and part of everyday life, which couldâve led to kids who have seen it less likely to become bullies towards queer kids in future, or even stop them if they had already been bullying them.
âThey arenât canon in the comics!â Did Bruce and Nat ever get together in the comics? They did on screen, despite the majority of people disagreeing with that ship. Yet a lot of people also did like Stucky, though. Still didnât happen. MCU Marvel seemed to have a whole thing with starting relationships that either madeÂ
A) No sense (E.g. Nat and Bruce)
B) Came out of nowhere (Clint and Laura. He never had a family before Age of Ultron. I only forgive this because dammit I love Clint and his fam.)
C) Ended up just disappearing/dying/breaking up, ect. (E.g. Jane and Thor, Wanda and Vision, Gamora and Peter Q, with the newest addition as Pepper and Tony, despite these ones being the ones people actually liked as far as I know. Itâs almost like Marvel doesnât want us to ship anymore)
Youâre telling me out of all these ships, itâs Steggy that survived everything. (No offence to Steggy shippers. I used to ship it too.) Itâs just been so long since Steve and Peggy were together (Which is why I stopped shipping it, and eventually started to like Stucky.) and yet itâs the only relationship that survives other than Hope and Scott. (From the top of my head)
Besides, the MCU isnât the best with always adapting things from the comics, are they? In other words, Clint should be deaf. Deaf kids should get to see themselves as their favourite heroes just as much as queer kids.
(Gonna get personal now so trigger warning) I genuinely keep getting brought to tears over this because I was bullied for being queer and if it wasnât for the bullying, I probably wouldnât have ever self harmed so seriously, developed severe depression or tried to take my own life. I know I talk so much about representation but this is why. If I would have had that when I was growing, I may not have been bullied, I may not have been so upset with everything and myself. I finally thought, with every ounce of hope, maybe that Tweet had meant something more than just a cameo from a director and they had a surprise. But it was just bait. I donât need that representation for myself as much anymore, but kids today still need it. The ones still growing and figuring themselves out so they donât turn out like me and like so many other damaged queer people. It would have been huge to have it in the MCU, really have it. But apparently they donât want to get sued by any homophobic parents for âadult contentâ. Queer lives are not adult content. Your kid who youâre so desperately trying to protect from seeing an LGBT character on screen could be queer themselves and not only does not having rep to grow up with damaging, you stopping them from seeing rep almost like itâs poison to âmake them gayâ is even more damaging.
âThey could still have queer content in future MCU movies! Youâre over reacting!â Am I? Think of how much time has gone into creating this universe of screen. Now letâs focus on how, despite how much screen time there has been for a potential queer couple, there has never been one. Look me in the eye and tell me the MCU is ever going to be the same? The golden era isnât over? It didnât die with Tony Stark, the one who built it from the ground up in that cave. Tell me itâll be the same as seeing a queer couple in the MCU ATS (After Tony Stark) as it was BTS (Before Tony Stark, well, his death).
âWhat about Deadpool?!â
The movies are 18s. No kid is going to be able to find representation there. Yes Deadpool openly flirts with everyone, regardless of gender, and is obviously Pan, yes there is an on-screen queer couple, but it is not for kids. Kids who need that rep the most. Moreover, the Sony/Disney merge only just happened. I am not counting that franchise as part of the rest of the MCU I am talking about in this post. Until there is a Deadpool movie in the MCU I am talking about here, thatâs kid-friendly, donât tell me it counts. The same goes for the other Sony Marvel movies, like Venom.
Anyway, back to my original point-
Steve fell in love with Peggy, when I was younger and when I first saw the First Avenger I thought they were amazing together and cried when he was in the plane, and was all âSave me a danceâ. But that was eight years ago. Yes, weâve seen scenes throughout the MCU where Steve still grieved Peggy, especially after her death. But he knew her for a few months, and I donât think he actually loved her as much compared to Bucky. He was ready to throw away a life with her because Bucky wasnât going to be in it, and youâre telling me heâs ready to switch that around now? Choose a life with Peggy instead when Buckyâs alive? The complete opposite of what he did the first time round? Not to mention, he literally dated her niece, meaning that he, in his new found alternate timeline, is her uncle. Think about how weird that is for just a second.
Anyway, heâs spent his whole life with Bucky, he spent a few months with Peggy when he was training, fighting, ect. And youâre telling me, though all the times itâs been shown he canât live a life without Bucky, heâs leaving him? Idc if he goes back in time and stops alternate timeline Bucky being the WS, Idc because thatâs not his Bucky, the one he left behind who he fought for on countless ocassions. Itâs not the same broken Bucky and the same damaged Steve who have learned to love each other still, despite all of their mistakes and flaws. And in the end itâs still implied he married Peggy. So, no, I am not happy. Again, Iâm sorry I am so very âselfishâ.Â
Call Me by Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino
In celebration of Snoopy and F1 colaboration I made this:
And some as teams:
All the pictures were from Pinterest, I added racing suits (not sure why Lewis's disappeared) and some details (like caps and logos).
What if I was a lonely brooding man but my features softened as I stared at you adoringly?
The only miserable one in this whole story⊠is you. With your speech about love, and âBoom, boom, ciao.â Wow. Thatâs because⊠youâre too much of a coward to admit the truth. You donât love anyone? Of course you donât, darling. You donât have the balls for it. To love you need courage. See? This is bravery. I feel it and I say it. And that⊠you donât know how to do. How long has it been? Ten years? You were in love with Berlin for ten years? And you never dared to tell him. Of course. You worshipped him and followed him like a dog. And thatâs it. Now what? Nothing is possible now. Heâs dead. And youâre empty. The only thing you can do is hide behind that damn speech. Boom, boom, ciao. Because you know. Youâve been left in the lurch forever, friend.
(x)
This is a perfect tweet summing up Nico's reaction.
"I always hoped this day would never come" - Roger Federer
Thank you Rafa âšïžđ«¶
Song: Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish