There Was An Idea… Depression and Duty in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

shinelikethunder:

Hey, you. You there. Did Winter Soldier fuck you up when it came out?

I know, I know. It’s been four years. You’ve seen the entire movie scroll past on your dash in gifset form more times than you’ve seen it the whole way through with sound on. Every dead horse that can be beaten in dubious Tumblr meta has long since been flogged into meaningless shreds. You’ve moved onwards and upwards, other fandoms, other stories that fucked you up.

I don’t give a shit. Read this meta. It will make you remember exactly why and how Winter Soldier fucked you up, at a time when a lot of us need to hear it.

dailymarvelheroes:

Steve giving up his shield for Bucky

bluandorange:

#I find it heartbreaking that this gifset seems to accurately show the recognition and horror in his expression when Steve’s words sink in #like he goes from blind rage to curiosity to recognition and horror when he realizes that it’s recognition #when he realizes that his mind is piecing things back together #but it might already be too late (via skinnvsteve)

boogiewoogiebuglegal:

star-anise:

bibliothekara:

the-linaerys:

sonhoedesrazao:

#he’s too pretty and too smart in this scene #its overwhelming

REBLOGGING FOR TAGS: #and Steve is never really surprised by how shitty people can be#just disappointed#very disappointed#Captain America is very disappointed

*THOSE TAGS*

*now has many thinky thoughts about Steve Rogers and Night Watch and Young Sam Vimes*

The third gif is what keeps getting me.

He sees all these people getting on preparing to attack him, and they are all the faces of men he has worked with over the last few weeks and months, maybe years. Men he’s trusted. Lives he’s saved. Comrades in arms. His team, as much as he’s had one.

That is the look of bleakness, as someone else gets on and Steve thinks, “You? I liked you. I thought you were better than this. Oh god, don’t make me do this.”

(Sometimes the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger)

But these aren’t people he’ll lie down for. This is a fight he’ll pick his shield up after. There’s nobody in this elevator he loves enough.

This whole scene is a masterpiece of subtle acting and one I don’t think Chris Evans gets nearly enough credit for. I mean, you can see the moment the penny drops and it’s minutes before everyone in that elevator thought it would. (I get the feeling he gets underestimated a lot at SHIELD—he’s big, he’s blond, he’s the man out of time, what can he know?) But that mind never stops working and the minute the penny drops, he knows what he’ll have to do to survive.

scififreak35:

themaraudermoony:

shinelikethunder:

waywardzombies:

an important gifset

#literally no one involved in this movie missed how fucking gay it is

if samuel l jackson said it i’m accepting it as canon

How in the hell have I never seen this before??

Yes, fandom decided from the first minute on bisexual!Steve Rogers and the canon ship of Stucky.

daenerya:

“But I knew him.”

marveladdicts:

jessika-pava:

A Look™: Steve’s white tank

capntony:

Peggy Carter is one of the few people that Steve Rogers completely feels at home with after the ice. Even though she hasn’t seen him in over seventy years, it’s like he’s never left. They still have the same relationship/chemistry they did in the 40′s, it’s like nothing’s changed. Peggy Carter will forever be the most ideal and worthy human for Steve Rogers. No one will ever compare.

BONUS:

You know what, the ‘suddenly, there’s 5 more Winter Soldiers’ subplot

fearlessinger:

has gotten a lot of flack, and I don’t disagree that it could and should have been handled a lot better, but even as it is, I really really like what it says, or rather, confirms about
Bucky.

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