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Meanderings of a Fandom Magpie

@boogiewoogiebuglegal / boogiewoogiebuglegal.tumblr.com

Captain America, The Avengers, whatever else catches my fancy.... She/her. Mid-40s, occasionally salty. Probably now officially a Fandom Old (TM). Pallas' Cats make me smile.
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Viking traveler’s amulet, based on the Lillbjärs picture stone. The back reads: “Unharmed Go Forth, Unharmed Return, Unharmed Back Home”, Frigga’s blessing to Odin, possibly from Vafþrúðnismál.

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How does this have almost 10,000 notes ?

Because the world is full of trouble and every little bit of help counts.

Yep

this doesn’t just block nonbinary people it blocks anyone who doesn’t provide that personal information to google. it’s a direct punishment for trying to remain at all anonymous or private. one might ask why companies are so desperate to seek out and FILTER based on gender in the first place.

Happy Birthday Steeb ❤️💙🤍

(I just now realised that i put the signature of my other account)

Also, reminding you that my commissions are open, and you can support me on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/derwassermann

the twitter migrants complaining about the way tumblr functions are so funny because they will say things like "you mean i have to FOLLOW people? i dont get posts spoon fed to me by an algorithm???" like yeah these are positives on an unrelated note is your attention span doing alright

Time to use this account again. I probably need to start over from scratch but there’s freedom in that. So for now, I'm bringing you a Stucky WIP I’m hoping to have done for #sdcc this year. They’re on a date, in Brooklyn, after all is said and done. Endgame stopped right before Tony died. Life is good. 

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Captain America

Based on a scene that was deleted from the Avengers film.

The Ironman bag is included because I don’t think Tony Stark would miss out on an opportunity to make a few extra dollars with some merchandise.

Happy Birthday Stevie.

Really quick rough doodle, but at long last, I managed to post something just on Steve’s birthday!! It’s only been, what, nearly 10 years of stanning and shipping these two XD I’m also still figuring out my drawing style for them. We’re getting there.

Yes, I was listening to Katy Perry’s Firework while doodling this, don’t judge me, I’m very basic that way and I make no apologies.

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Happy 10th year of me doing this dorky comic! Hope people don't mind the fact that I haven't really dabbled in Cap stuff for a few years, except for my weird yearly July 4th ritual. On AO3 here, and tumblr tag here. (2022 was about Dobbs, 2020 was about seeing the stars, 2019 was about building new systems, 2018 was about voting, 2017 was about immigration.)

Lots of posts out there on the 2023 Minnesota legislative session, but here's the OG tumblr roundup post.

California is trying to divest its two largest pension funds from fossil fuels, but apparently today they decided to table it until next year. :/ I guess more meetings are needed! (productive ones, not ones that could have been an email.)

I look forward to this comic every year. Glad to see the tradition continues ❤️❤️

i have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

1776 (1972) // dir. peter hunt

…and 6 become a Christian Nationalist SCOTUS majority.

Miles Morales, Kingpin, and Miguel O’Hara are all such interesting foils of each other. All three experience loss and grieve with alternative methods.

Kingpin refuses to accept the reality of his loss while still being aware that he caused his family’s death. In his refusal, he attempts to rip space and time apart, not caring about the consequences of ripping them from another world. He wants a redo, however, Fisk does not ultimately learn from their deaths, he continues on his path of crime using their demise as justification rather than a cause for change. Fisk is blinded by a simple goal of having his wife and child back, yet does not consider whether they would want to be with him knowing the crimes he has committed.

Miguel does the inverse, he places himself into a new world to live out a happier version of his life - one that does not ultimately belong in. He ends up causing the destruction of that world, paying the ultimate price for his selfishness. He takes this lesson to heart with the additive that all Spider-man must suffer. Miguel never conceived the idea that he could create his own happiness in his universe. He learns from his trauma but does not see a way to work past it.

Miles has the chances to alter what might happen, the death of his father, and wants to jump at the opportunity. He is not asking for a redo (like Kingpin) or a restart (Miguel), instead he simply wants to give everything he has in attempts to free his father. Why just let something horrible happen if it is not clear it has to? As Gwen discovers, the death of a captain can be interpreted many ways in the canon (her dad quits, aka his career as captain is dead). Why not try to save him, where is the harm in that? Miles might not have meant to be Spiderman in his universe, but that doesn’t mean he should disengage from the role entirely.

Stucky, Fandom Longevity, and "Primacy Bias"

There’s this post that's been floating around the past few days about how the Stucky fandom in its heyday produced fic and art masterpieces like they were all collectively possessed by an unprecedented spirit of creative insanity. It’s a good, fun post and I agree with the person who wrote it. (not rb'ing because I didn't want to hijack their post with something that's only tangentially related).

It was indeed a magical time and the creative output in both quantity and quality in the two-year period following the release of CA:TWS is—with perhaps a few exceptions—unmatched by anything that I’ve seen before and since. However, going through the notes on that post, I noticed something that left me a little irritated and quite frankly sad since it is in congruence with, and to a certain extent the confirmation of something that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.

All of this!

I was there in those pre-2019 days, and continue to write fic now, and I’m very far from the only one. So why not celebrate what we have and work towards creating more?