a pretty amazing discovery

Just found out that during WW1 doctors saw great potential of books in recovery of traumatized soldiers! To their surprise, soldiers didn’t want westerns(read: more violence and shootings they’ve already had enough), but chose love stories instead. It’s pretty wild how reading… um, love stories by men was perceived, lol.

Librarians prescribed the books their training led them to believe men liked, such as histories and westerns, but many men puzzlingly requested and savored love stories. To become experts of the field they hoped to create, librarians and physicians sought to explain how a genre that ostensibly appealed to women could help sick or injured servicemen. For librarian Miriam Carey, illness and injury were understood as emasculating conditions, which ostensibly explained a penchant for feminized fare such as love stories. A return to histories, westerns, and biographies became not only a sign of a return to masculinity but also a return of the good health such taste represented.  Full article is here. 

So, why I was writing all of it was for one sole purpose I assume that WW2 wasn’t different in these terms Can I please have Bucky reading some crappy love stories in the field/in the hospital or him as the Winter Soldier, staying in the safe house before/after the mission, discovering the contents of some dusty book shelf and, to everyone’s wild amusement, picking a love novel and just casually reading it

I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE EXCITED TO TAKE A QUIZ IN MY LIFE

I WONDER WHAT I'LL GET

"you would probably rather eat glass than fight with someone on the internet over some bullshit that doesn't matter. you give off incredibly strong "pulls into the mcdonald's drive through with a car full of screaming children, orders one black coffee, and leaves" energy and that's because you are just so fucking tired"

yup that's me

I’ve read and watched a lot of horror/thriller/scary media and I still say, with no irony at all, that the “children’s stories made horrifying” about curious george by daniel mallory ortberg was the scariest fucking thing I’ve ever read

“If enough things happen to you, you can learn to love something just for being familiar.”

@lauralot89

tbh hail hydra

There is literally zero reason to destroy Steve’s character arc like that except to give him an absolutely no homo ending. Like. It wasn’t enough that he just died in battle, they had to regress his hair and wardrobe and character to 2012 and pretend he didn’t go through any kind of growth at all just so he could be seen doing something that was aggressively and explicitly straight. Why the fuck else would they do this. There’s nothing wrong with him just dying in battle or getting shunted into another block of ice or getting STUCK in the PAST INVOLUNTARILY and aging that way. It had to be voluntary and he had to give it all up for Peggy despite destroying both their growth and despite ignoring over half a decade of his character arc and having to completely change his costume design and creating more plot holes with the final sequence than were created by the rest of the whole time heist thing put together. I thought about it for long and hard and the only reason he couldn’t have just died in peace without this slander was that Bucky and Sam would have to react to it and that would be too homoerotic. He had to demonstrate his heterosexuality explicitly.

Honestly wish he’d just died in battle instead. That would have been so much better narratively speaking.

"the only reason he couldn’t have just died in peace without this slander was that Bucky and Sam would have to react to it and that would be too homoerotic." this

"honestly wish he'd just died in battle instead"

I thought it was just me being weird and preferring his death over his new utopian life, but thank god no. Before I watched Endgame, a friend of mine said that she heard Steve would die, and it was kinda hard to accept, but with the ending we got - screw it, he better be very, very dead.

yes yes yes yes please yes

ok now just stop the story here, we’re good.

“Where would I be without my best pal”

I’m crying

i don’t know shit about comics but this is singlehandedly the most relatable thing any comic book character has ever said

“someone else could do it better than me” not relevant babe, no one else is gonna do it. You can’t do a mediocre job if you’re the only one doing it

The tags are impeccable.

Except their airplane didn’t meet all the criteria to be considered a truly plane that carries it’s own power source and takes off from a flat surface, but sure, everything great we have nowadays was once a shitty prototype

(if anyone wants to read a bit about it i believe you should look for different sources, but here’s one short text to get you started: https://www.cnet.com/news/were-the-wright-brothers-really-first-not-in-brazil/)

the wright brothers didn’t even manage to make a real plane