O Captain My Captain

yeah i'll post it, why not. bucky is a former human weapon literally programmed to obey, john is a former human weapon covertly brainwashed throughout his entire life to obey. it makes for good, tragic cinema to watch a good man be tortured into becoming someone else entirely, but there's something a lot more strikingly, quietly visceral about a little boy being raised on carefully crafted propaganda until he's willing to lay his life down for a death machine that he idolizes as the greatest nation on earth.

and then to have bucky assume a position of authority over john....that's just such a delicious concept to me. because at this point, bucky has regained autonomy over his life, but john has not, because his brainwashing runs deeper. because he was born into it. i just want bucky to see that, and both acknowledge it for the tragedy it is, while also taking advantage of that forced submission instinct to follow orders from the sergeant. i just want bucky to see that there's nothing he can do for john, other than reinforce that false idol, pet his head and say good soldier, good soldier, all the while disgusted with himself for feeding that cult programming.

There are so many Peter Parker headcanons that I think is so adorable that the entire fandom (mostly mcu but also comics) just came together to unanimously agree on

For example Peter being a stress Baker??? Where did that come from? Not that I'm complaining because I can totally see him making cupcakes while crying at like midnight but what in the movies gave us this idea???

Or the fact that people took the traits of actual spiders and just slapped them on him

Like YES he does get cold easily and he can't regulate his body temperature normally, yes he does have venom glands, yes he does make web nests, yes he does have blue blood like a little freakish creature.

I LOVE SPIDER-Y PETER PARKER‼️

And god DAMN do I live for lab days, yes he DOES bond with Tony in the lab after school, and yes Tony DOES call him "his kid"

And you better BELIEVE he goes on field trips to Stark tower only to get embarrassed by all the Avengers talking about how "sweet and funny" he is

All of these headcanons are canon to me and my fellow fandom losers🩷

they’re enjoying themselves :)

"Happy birthday, Tony. I know you hate this day, but fresh coffee certainly won't make it any worse"

What hits hard about John is that as an army veteran with severe PTSD, he has developed paranoia which also made him impatient and impulsive. He was not rewarded those three badges of excellence solely for being "a perfect soldier", but for rushing to complete the mission, putting his life on the line to save his comrades. Everyone will nag at him for being judgemental of them, but when it comes to predictions, he is often right. People also call him selfish prick, but he still does not hesitate to take a bullet for those whom he barely knows, you can claim that is a code of comradery but who will save someone that constantly speaks ill of you? John proves he is selfless time and time again, and perhaps the easiest to switch from being bitter to friendly in a short period of time. He spends a while with people, and when he ensures they are trustworthy, he will open up to them and embraces them.

If anything, his way of reacting to events is not exaggerated or fake. It is justified if one is willing to understand how rough his journey has been.

I could have been angry at Yelena the last time she bashes John, but it came off as a natural emotional response as she was frustrated at everyone and everything. The rest of the movie is filled with moments where people view him as someone lesser, a ridiculous loser. How ludicrous is that when people speak lightly of his accomplishments and scold him for killing "an innocent", coming from two former assassins who actually killed innocents for money? Or the time Bucky mentions how Olivia left John with their child, loudly for everyone to hear that? It is as if only John needs to remember his worst failures and be publicly shamed. John, the lord knows why, never really beefs with Bucky. In fact, John feels a mysterious intimacy with Bucky that feels weird yet speaks volumes on depth of John's character. He may be skeptical but not petty.

These issues in movie make every single heroic scene of John more impactful. Because it shows you no matter what everyone throws at him, or how awful his day is, he still continues to live to standards he set for himself the day he came to know Steve Rogers, and convinces himself it does worth it at last. Even if the whole world is against him, he does only try his best to save it, he may be irritated at people, but he knows the values a true hero would always and forever respect.

Sorry, but i cannot stop talking about John Walker. He really is the greatest MCU character at the moment, in my honest opinion.

psa just because i am in love with john walker does not and never will mean that i think he's a better captain america than my beloved sam wilson

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bucky sketches,, tfatws for the first and thunderbolts for the second!!

idk why but i just enjoy bucky with a lil chest hair

A little bit of sambucky doodles I drew probably a month ago but didn't post for some reason