here’s a little preview of a project i’ve started: drawing a lyric comic about catws and cacw events
the song is ‘outside’ by hollywood undead, and i’ve drawn the first verse
the next time i post this thing it’s going to be complete
wish me luck~
okay kids listen up – your German aunt Natalie (dat me) is gonna tell you about that beetle
* yes I mean that blue fucking beetle in the masterpiece “Captain America – The First Avenger That Had To Go And Kiss Sharon What The Heck Steve”
* I’m telling you this cause I drive that lil piece of shit car through good old Germany every day and it’s not fun okay
* first of all it’s a “Käfer” not a beetle if I gotta hear one more German say biiitel in that “what is English” voice I’m gonna
* so yeah that car? No. Why. Steve wHY
* it’s Steve Sam and Bucky Baby right? Right. Let me tell you these three men are SUFFERING
* Bucky? Just forget about him. Lost the feeling in his legs two hours ago, hits his head on the roof every time (every. time.) there’s a bump in the road THIS MAN HAS HURT ENOUGH GODDAMNIT
* no for real the backseats weren’t built for humans let alone the motherfucking winter soldier
* Stevie and Sam darling can’t be more comfy either like shit this car is TINY
* that stuff Sharon “let’s touch lips” Carter got you there? Good luck getting that in the trunk. TheTrunk™ that’s apparently built for one single egg-shaped thing. No one knows what that thing is. Everything that is NOT that thing won’t fit
* It just. Doesn’t fit. 🙂
* THE GEARSHIFT OKAY like “let’s escape?” – NO how bout no cause the gearshift is stuck sorry Steve you wanted to what? Drive?? Backwards???? Nah man. This thing is stuck into the next century and you better not use your super soldier mojo like the only thing you’ll manage is to break the handle clean off
* THERE ARE THREE MORE THAN GROWN MEN IN THIS CAR AND IT’S SUNNY OUTSIDE YOU DON’T GET IT THEY ARE COOKING IN THIS TIN CAN LIKE THE FUCKING INSTANT RAVIOLI THEY ARE
* trust me. Boiling heat. They started building real air condition after that car thanks VW
* did I mention that? It’s not fast?? Like? At all?? Like? You wanna drive on a fucking highway for more than 5 minutes with some kinda decent speed and this thing will need a day nap after. Let’s remember they’re literally escaping from iron man lol
* YOU DONT GET IT. THIS IS LITERALLY. THE MOST. IMPRACTICAL CAR. IN THE WORLD. UGH
* at least it has a fuckin flower vase next to the fucking steering wheel cheers Steve Rogers good luck with that you iDIO T
CA:CW Analysis
It’s definitely a hard ethical debate and personally, the people coming down hard on either side of this issue and trying to declare one side morally superior to the other, those people trying to make this black and white…
THOSE people are “wrong”. I’m not saying your opinion about a fictional film is wrong, it’s an opinion, have fun! I’m just saying that trying to force ethics into absolutes is wrong. There are people defending Steve, there are (fewer) people defending Tony and both sides seem to think that it’s impossible for both sides to be right and wrong at the same time.
My personal views:
- The Accords: honestly, they had nothing to do with Bucky; they must’ve been in the works for months. Rumlow blowing himself up was not the catalyst. I believe the Accords probably would’ve been presented to the Avengers within the week anyway. So if you take Bucky out of this whole situation, Steve probably would’ve signed, and then the team would have been able to amend the Accords so they can still function as a superhero team. Steve almost signed anyway. Are they perfect solution? No, but they’re a start. Tony was right that they could sign the Accords and then amend them. And honestly, the USA acts outside of UN approval all the damn time, it’s not hard to do. Signing the Accords is political posturing, that’s all it is.
- Wanda: Steve was seconds away from signing the Accords when he learned that Wanda was on house arrest. Um… duh, of course she is? While it wasn’t her fault Rumlow blew himself up, and she did her best to deflect the blast, people still died – granted, WAY fewer than would have died if the bomb had exploded on the ground. However, the rest of the world hasn’t wrapped their head around that yet, so for appearances and her own safety, it makes complete sense she’s stuck at home. She probably should’ve been TOLD that though; I don’t get why it was this huge secret they kept from her.
- Bucky: Steve was right to go after Bucky and get him out of there. Why? Because the police/military had been ordered to “shoot on sight”. Steve knew this; he knew the government had ordered Bucky to be murdered without a trial, without questioning, without due process. So ethically, Steve was 100% right to go out and protect Bucky from you know,death. Was imprisoning Bucky good? Well, when Steve and Sam finally catch Bucky, they restrain him. Steve was right to pursue things without “government approval” in this case because that simply would’ve killed Bucky.
- Tony: His entire story arc from IM I has been about accountability, about trying to make the right choices, about trying to keep the world safe as awhole. Initially he thought maybe that meant doing things on his own. Then he learned there were bigger problems, and he became part of the Avengers, but that still didn’t solve everything. I think he thought that maybe the judgement of humans just isn’t good enough, based on how the council tried to bomb New York during Avengers 1, and how it turns out all of SHIELD is infested with HYDRA during CA:WS. So he tries to build Ultron, and that backfires… So now he’s going the next step up the human ladder: from tiny councils and individuals trying to decide things, from state-run organizations infested with corruption, up to the international level. Surely, here, there will be good people.
There are no easy answers. No party was 100% right or wrong.
So I’ve been seeing multiple people literally calling MCU!Zemo a Nazi and just, no.
Whatever you may speculate about Zemo’s history in Sokovia, there is one thing that is abundantly clear about his role in the MCU: He represents the oppressed, not the oppressors.
He comes from a tiny country that was all but destroyed by the unilateral actions of US-based military superpowers acting outside of international law. He represents the dark end of the spectrum of reactions to that kind of violent imperialism, for sure. But he is a character whose homeland, people, and family were decimated by foreign military forces. Forces who see that devastation as nothing more than collateral damage, and whom he has no possible way of holding accountable. So he decides to seek justice the only way he believes he can.
Don’t get me wrong: Zemo does some terrible things in this film. But ultimately, what he represents is a violent, vengeful reaction to oppression.
To cast him as a Nazi not only completely disregards his on-screen actions (where he murders HYDRA agents and declares that HYDRA deserves to burn), but is a truly gross misrepresentation of his backstory, motivations, and role in the narrative.
Hey, guys, let’s all say this together: Nazi is not a synonym for ‘bad person’. It’s not even a synonym for ‘bad person who commits mass murder’. Nazism is a specific ideology defined by antisemitism, biological racism and fascist political beliefs. I know people are a bit trigger-happy with the Nazi accusations right now given what’s been happening in the comics, and given the ongoing misunderstandings about MCU!Hydra as a former Nazi organisation, but…like, holy shit. Zemo doesn’t even check one of those three boxes.
You can’t call people Nazis just because you don’t like them.
Zemo is not a two-dimensional villain. He’s a tragic figure with a very legitimate grievance against the heroes, and he acts out on that grievance in one of the most ruthless, destructive, irresponsibly single-minded ways possible. In the end he’s not so different from Tony Stark: both of them suffer unbearable grief and loss, and respond to it by going on a murderous rampage. The difference between them is that Steve wasn’t there to stop Zemo before he crossed an unforgivable line in his quest for revenge.
Judge him as harshly as you like for what he did, but don’t try to make him something he’s not.
who else got really sad when they saw Bucky’s little apartment?
He sleeps on a mattress in a sleeping bag
He eats chocolate bars and chips.
He goes to markets, smiles at the vendors, buys plums.
He has a bug out bag under the floor boards
He has a juice jug he uses to hold his spatulas and soup ladles
he has more than one plate and cup and bowl.
He has a couch and a table
In that apartment, you can see he’s trying to build a life from the broken rubble that used to be Bucky Barnes. The fact that he has to do it all alone, but is trying to make himself a home as well, is very compelling and sad.
It also shows how truly resilient Bucky is as he pulls his life back together and he could have just left when he read the newspaper, but he did not want to leave his most important memories behind which is why he came back to the apartment. They were important enough to risk his freedom and life for.