onethingconstant:

thebobblehat:

an-assassin-in-a-pear-tree:

captainsassymills:

If this scene didn’t break your heart you are dead inside or HYDRA

I JUST REALIZED

IN THE FOURTH GIF YOU CAN SEE STEVE LITERALLY CHOKING BACK TEARS AND HIDE ALL HIS SADNESS UNDER THAT SMILE

OH GOD, NO. I DIDN’T NOTICE THAT LAST GIF. WHERE HIS SMILE STARTS TO DIE. OH GOD. KILL ME WITH A SPOON. JESUS.

Every time I watch that scene, I wonder how many times they’ve had that conversation. That’s got to be a level in Steve’s personal hell, and it says a lot about his love for Peggy that he comes back, over and over. I’ve watched two relatives slip away into dementia, and it’s like being gutted with a grapefruit spoon. And Steve keeps coming to visit. As many times as he can, as many times as Peggy needs to see that he came back. That he couldn’t leave his best girl.

And Peggy—even when she’s forgotten that Steve is there, she knows how long it’s been. She’s had a whole life that he wasn’t there for and all those emotions are STILL right there on the surface when she looks at him.

Look at those two. He’s a walking time capsule; 1945 was last year to him and Peggy was his universe in 1945. She’s at the end of a very long life that has been 95% Steve-free. And they look at each other and they are on exactly the same page. They pick up where they left off, every time. The intervening seventy years don’t matter, whether they remember them or not, whether they were awake for them or not. Nothing of substance has changed.

I’m sure Marvel will ship Steve with somebody else, and we know Peggy had kids with someone who wasn’t Steve Rogers. But don’t ever try to tell me Steve and Peggy weren’t the love of each other’s life. Because if you think that, you weren’t paying attention.