stoatsandwich:

shinelikethunder:

A huge amount of MCU fic features Steve Rogers the wonderful, caring, sensitive, supportive boyfriend, and I uh. Kind of want the opposite.

Don’t get me wrong, any “Steve is a godawful boyfriend” headcanon should still start from the baseline of Steve being a good person who cares about Doing The Right Thing and treating people decently. But Steve is also:

- married to his job
- kind of emotionally constipated
- quick to anger
- prickly about receiving comfort, and awkward about giving it
- blunt and plain-spoken
- prone to expecting a lot of the people around him, and to being openly disappointed/unimpressed when they don’t come through
- going to put duty ahead of personal attachments most of the time
- withdrawn and socially isolated
- reckless, stubborn, and the kind of prideful that answers anything that can be taken as a challenge with “wanna bet?”
- a lifelong dweeb who has never been in a romantic relationship and has no experience in how they work

Which is a set of issues that could range anywhere from “highly manageable, if you aren’t afraid to go toe-to-toe with him and don’t expect him to be available 24/7″ to “un-dateable human disaster.” Going by my fairly limited experience with comics, there is precedent for the “un-dateable human disaster” option; MCU doesn’t have to follow it, but it wouldn’t be out of the blue. And let’s face it, MCU Steve could use some better-developed flaws. 

And oh my lord, Godawful Boyfriend Steve Rogers. Swears he’s not trying to set a record for number of consecutive dinner dates he’s bailed out of halfway through to go Avenging. Fails epically at normal emotional boundaries–is cagey and withdrawn about the weirdest shit, but overshares about his Dead Best Friend Feelings on the first date. Goes abruptly from zero to full commitment once he decides he’s found the Right Partner. Guilt-trips like a pro, and sometimes forgets how fucking intimidating he is when he’s pissed off.  Takes an “if you get killed, walk it off” approach to almost all life difficulties.   Will always come through with material and moral support in an emergency, but clams up and flees rather than be a shoulder to cry on. Wouldn’t know work/life separation if it clocked him over the head.

Don’t get me wrong, Steve’s a nice dude, and unlike most angry repressed masculinity-stereotype characters, he’s capable of being forthright about his feelings when it counts. But there’s plenty of potential there for him to be flat-out fucking terrible at romantic relationships. And even at his best… well, “sensitive” isn’t exactly the word I would use. Considerate, sure. Solicitous of whether he’s saying/doing the exact best possible thing for someone else’s emotional wellbeing, not so much.

*files away with Wartime Romance plot bunnies* (although Peggy is almost as bad)

• Person: Theatre is stupid
• Person: Musicals are gay
• Me: 
• Person: 
• Me: 
• Police: So can you tell me what happened?
• Me: He ran into my knife.
• Me: He ran into my knife ten times.
• Ensemble behind you: HE HAD IT COMIN'!

calipines:

earrelatedhumour:

• fandom please I implore you all to talk about Dean Thomas more
• literally yelling for a red card during a Quidditch match
• painting a potter for president banner for his friend HOW CUTE
• offering to forge a signature so that same friend could go to the village with the rest of them
• actually he paints banners supporting Harry on two separate occasions four years apart 
• is it weirder that he keeps doing that or that Harry keeps getting himself into situations where he requires banners
• good with a quill be still my beating heart the boy is an artist
• literally not giving a single fuck that their teacher was a “dangerous half-breed” because he respected the hell out of him as a person and educator
• IF YOU MEAN PROFESSOR LUPIN, HE WAS THE BEST WE EVER - 
• and he grew up as a muggle so he had already been exposed to werewolf folklore and he had every excuse to be afraid or prejudiced and instead decided to judge him on a human level, even without the familiarity the trio etc. had to him
• standing up for that same teacher time and time again
• including to a ministry official who he just generally gave the sass to anyway
• never losing his faith in Harry even when his very best friend in the whole world and approximately 89% of the wizarding community basically thought the bloke was a nutjob
• convincing his best mate to join DA 
• there was a fair bit of an anti-dean sentiment in HBP best to ignore that then
• never having any animosity towards his friend for getting together with his ex-girlfriend so soon
• completely supporting and defending Harry while on the run because OBVIOUSLY why stop now after seven years of doing literally that at every single opportunity
• being completely bemused by but always kind towards Luna
• helping to dig the grave on the beach
• running out into the final battle without a fucking wand 
• evidently winning one at some point
• everything to do with him and Seamus however you want to view their relationship but frankly I could do a whole other post on that
• also I met Alfie once and he was so pretty
• dEAN THOMAS

#I bet Dean went and like fucking punched Death Eaters#and they’re so used to expecting wands that they were stunned to be punched#BECAUSE WHO IN THE WIZARDLY WORLD DOES ANYTHING BY HAND ANYMORE#So this kid just comes running at them and POW and they’re just like ‘HOW DO I DEAL WITH THIS????’#dean thomas is a gift x

All the PA Sebby | 6 / IDK

wedewilson:

When everyone thinks you’re worthless, you believe it. As bad as i was treated by strangers, I dealt myself even worse

"Feige also explained that Captain America will attempt to save his friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) from turning into dangerous Winter Soldier. There will be reportedly some people in the film who will tell Evans’ character that he has to let go of Barnes since when the latter turns into Winter Soldier, he becomes the deadliest assassin." — So basically Bucky is still a threat?… (via onyourleftbooob)

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prismatic-bell:

valentina-slaynetta:

kidgnosis:

#he praises women to the high heavens in his music and y’all still don’t believe that he loved us#imma start a campaign called bi not gay#and another called pale not white#just for him (tags by @stankface, not me)

#white ppl just can’t accept that their precious white gay fav is actually an indian bi man and would slap you in the face if you thought oth#*otherwise#ppl praise british music for being the best but ignore that freddie brought his indian roots into it

Also ignored: Freddie was adopted.

Every goddamn time I see someone who feels shitty about having been adopted, I point out that they share a very important trait with one of the greatest rockers of all time. It never fails to cause a smile.

Adopted Indian bisexual man who lived successfully for years with HIV = in your face.

incredibru:

draw the squad like this: earth’s mightiest boyband