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Posted on May 20, 2012 via Until Lambs Become Lions with 793 notes
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byzantienne.: urbananchorite: paratactician: cephiedvariable: Taz: I enjoyed...
Taz: I enjoyed Diablo
Taz: it’s old school
Taz: It’s like
Taz: death metal
Taz: THE DEMON BZAZRRBABS HAS SHIT BLOOD IN THE FOUNTAIN!
Taz: THE TOWN OF TRISTRAM IS DOOMED!
Taz: HERO PLEASE SAVE OUR FUONTAIN. SIX BABIES…
Posted on May 17, 2012 via if you can't fight, wear a big hat with 101 notes
Source: cephiedvariable
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#tom how are you able to have so much emotion in that one expression #there is hurt and anger and sorrow and defiance all rolled up in there at once #and then what does odin fucking do #he goes the fuck to sleep #while you’re having an existential crisis #I’d fucking want to kill everyone too if i were loki
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Posted on May 17, 2012 via inhale, exhale. with 17,235 notes
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I feel a little asinine making a statement as broad and obvious as this, but the War changed the US and American culture substantially. Like, the US in 1939 was a very different place from the US in 1946. There was a shift in cultural values and political doctrine after WWII spurred on by the Cold War, justified by the oodles of money the country made off of weapons production and bolstered by the emerging popularity of television, which was used quite effectively as a tool of propaganda. I mean, a belief in American Imperialism had always been around in the US - as had theocratic Puritanical social mores - but their prominence in the late 40’s through to the early 60’s was not a progression of pre-War culture, but a reaction to America’s sudden position as THE Global Military and Economic Superpower.
The problem Avengers movie fandom seems to run into is that they place the cultural experience of Steve Rogers on the wrong side of the war. I’m guessing this is because people are generally more familiar with the atmosphere of post-War/50’s America due to a number of factors, from something as simple as the continued cultural relevance of 50’s pop media to the fact that the common historical narrative of the 20th century tends to place the 1960’s as the “radical turning point” in American culture, which often manages to undermine the radical movements of the five decades preceding it.
Long story short: I have found that Avengers fandom tends to portray Captain America’s “culture shock” in really weird ways, with him acting more like a sheltered kid from our modern conception of the 1950’s rather than someone who lived through the Great Depression, the New Deal, the rise of fascism in Europe, the various civil protest movements revolving around just about everything in American culture, the vicious public backlash against President Hoover… I mean, additionally there is the possibility that movie!Steve shares his 616 counterpart’s backstory as an art student, or at the very least was interested in art professionally (which the Cap movie did sort of cutely underline) and I just… cannot buy that an orphaned fine arts student living in New York of all places in the late 30’s/early 40’s would be at all ~shocked and appalled~ by the vast majority of modern social mores and allowances?? Like “oh no people have sex all the time in 2012??” “wow it’s so strange that people just get angry at the president all the time??” Those things were not uncommon in the 1940s.
Which covers “socially and politically”. As for technologically… well, yeah, things HAVE changed a lot, but that rapid change began during the time period he lived in. I mean, computers are crazy sure, but it’s kind of silly to think that 2012’s technology would be completely brain breaking to someone from the recent past. A significant period of adjustment might be required, but he’d probably catch on to things like Microwaves and word processing programs p. quickly. Especially since we aren’t even talking about the real past, here. We are talking about COMIC BOOK HISTORY in which Captain America fought Nazis who had CRAZY ALIEN TECHNOLOGY that surpasses shit we have today.
There are a lot of interesting and creative ways to portray Steve as a “man out of time”. I actually think the “I got that reference” quip in the movie was a perfect example of this?
Like, by all means have him be surprised about where how society has gone. I just want peopled to…. do….. actual research on what the situation in the US actually was in the time he’s from….
Posted on May 17, 2012 via if you can't fight, wear a big hat with 290 notes
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Actually I suspect you can skip the first 8 if you just do the last one.
Posted on May 14, 2012 via Neil Gaiman with 5,862 notes
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Posted on May 14, 2012 via with 15,713 notes
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in which loki fails to think his cunning plan through


Many thanks to Old-chatterhand for help translating the German, and to my Tumblrless BFF to inspiring this. :D
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Posted on May 13, 2012 via sairobee.tumblr.com with 5,484 notes
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Your mother is dead. Before long I’ll be dead, and you and your brother and your sister and all of her children, all of us dead, all of us rotting underground. It’s the family name that lives on. It’s all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor… but family. You understand?
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Posted on May 12, 2012 via Lavondysss with 1,076 notes
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OH HEY DELETED SCENE
wow this script reads better than most fanfiction for this fandom
waaaaaat
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Posted on May 11, 2012 via blogging from hell with 8,113 notes
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