Tag: steve rogers

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leupagus:

killerville:

#i never noticed mackie’s little head gesture in the first one #CHOOSING TO INTERPRET IT AS SAM BRACING FOR A ‘YES’ #BRACING FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING TOTALLY DISAPPOINTED BY CAPTAIN AMERICA #and then being pleasantly surprised charmed seduced etc

WOOED THE WORD YOU’RE LOOKING FOR IS WOOED

GUESS WHOSE TAGS ARE TOTALLY GETTING REBLOGGED

#but yeah can you imagine being a black soldier in a world where Captain America and the Howling Commandos existed #b/c I can guarantee that the myth that grew up around that team was used by the right wing #to stifle things like the Civil Rights movement and race discussions in general #holding them up as a La La La Everything’s Always Been Fine Why Are You Making Race An Issue #while at the same fucking time holding Rogers up as this white man ideal #and burying his identity as a rebellious punk who basically lived with the phrase ‘fuck the system’ carved on his heart #I bet that Smithsonian exhibit had to go through a hell of a revision once Steve actually saw it and was like EXCUSE ME WHAT #I bet it didn’t have a fucking thing about Gabriel Jones or Jim Morita #so here Sam is confronted by this man who is everything white America thinks men should be #and everything he has been explicitly and implicitly told his entire life that he *couldn’t* be #and can you imagine hearing from this guy that he has just as much contempt for the good old days as you do #even if Steve’s reply doesn’t address the things you want him to #the relief of that must be like pulling a bad tooth #to know that Fox News was wrong about Steve Rogers #(and on another note to know that Steve Rogers thinks you’re cute) #Sam’s morning is going pretty good (via leupagus)

Star-struck Interviewer: “You must miss the good old days.”

Steve Rogers: “I grew up in a tenement slum. Rats, lice, bedbugs, one shared bathroom per floor with a bucket of water to flush, cast iron coal-burning stove for cooking and heat. Oh, and coal deliveries – and milk deliveries, if you could get it – were by horse-drawn cart. One summer I saw a workhorse collapse in the heat, and the driver started beating it with a stick to make it get up. We threw bricks at the guy until he ran away. Me and Bucky and our friends used to steal potatoes or apples from the shops. We’d stick them in tin cans with some hot ashes, tie the cans to some twine, and then swing ‘em around as long as we could to get the ashes really hot. Then we’d eat the potato. And there were the block fights. You don’t know what a block fight was? That’s when the Irish or German kids who lived on one block and the Jewish or Russian kids who lived on the next block would all get together into one big mob of ethnic violence and beat the crap out of each other. One time I tore a post out of a fence and used it on a Dutch kid who’d called Bucky a Mick. Smacked him in the head with the nails.”

Interviewer: “LET’S TALK ABOUT THE INTERNET.”

Steve Rogers: “I love cat pictures.”

(Many biographical details are taken from Streetwise, either from Jack Kirby’s autobiographical story or Nick Cardy’s contribution: http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=52&products_id=513 )

it got better

i really want a story where steve rogers gets a time machine and everyone expects him to go back to ‘his own time’ but actually all he does is tear senator mccarthy’s ass clear out of his throat and then come back. 

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Steve and Swearing

acebadger:

shaelit:

Okay, but here’s the thing. Every fan knows that Steve Rogers swears. He’s done it on camera. He did it in Age of Ultron multiple times, hence the running joke. 

And yet Steve DID scold Tony for swearing. He scolded him and then flinched and admitted, “It just slipped out.” That implies that Steve is in the habit of scolding someone for language despite using language himself. Why? How? When? WHO? These are the questions that need to be answered.

I wonder if that’s got anything to do with the dissonance between Steve Rogers the Brooklyn kid and Captain America the national hero. Like, he’s just a man, you know? He’s not the perfect little white straight boy scout people think he is – but he needs to be that person sometimes (or he feels he needs to be that person). He’s the hero that people love, he’s probably the one hugging kids and letting them play with his shield and giving autographs and all of that, because let’s face it – who else would do this? Tony? No, Tony’s loved by the media but not by the people, not in the poster boy way Steve is. Bruce? Yeah, I can totally see the Hulk being a nation’s favourite. Not to mention Bruce is probably terrified in huge crowds and he’s shy and a nerd. Clint – definitely not. Thor? He’s not homely enough, he’s alien, everything about him screams not of this world. Natasha? Yeah, let me know how this goes.

So Captain America is the hero of the nation, he’s their perfect protector, honest, fair, courageous, always right. And that can be so very different from who Steve Rogers is. Steve, who grew up in Brooklyn and used to get beat up in alleyways, who used to be the scrawny kid always getting in trouble, who’s everything but white-bread no-personality ideal American citizen. Steve, who swears and cusses like the New Yorker and soldier he is, but who feels the need to live up to the legend, who doesn’t want to let people down.

“Language!”, he shouts at Tony and immediately realises how much of a hypocrite he sounds.