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Photo reblogged from The Absolute Funniest Posts!
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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….
Yeah, I think the only thing he’d briefly falter over would be the social changes. He comes from an age where women did not serve in the military, blacks had to drink from a different fountain, and being gay was against the law. He seems the type that would accept our world’s changes, but what a shock to awaken to a world where a black man is president, women are war heroes, and in some states gays can even get married. He’d be okay with it, but will his eyes will initially bulge in surprise.
“…and the annoying blonde was his husband.”
“…husband? Homosexuals can marry each other?”
“Well, they can in New York.”
“Just New York?”
“There are a few other states, I forgot which ones. Oh, Iowa. Still drawing a blank on the rest.”
“Incredible.”
“‘Incredible’? Why, Steve, does this mean you’re going to finally propose to me?”
“What? God, no! …you’d be a terrible spouse.”
“Aw. Too bad, you’d be a great wife.”
“Tony, what makes you think Steve would be the ‘wife’ in such a circumstance? Steve is the taller one.”
“Height has nothing to do with it, Bruce. Besides, we’d take turns.”
“…I have completely lost the line of this conversation.”
“Don’t worry your pretty little head about it, Cap. Why don’t you run off and make me a sandwich?”
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awkwardly realizing how exactly I ship Tony, Steve, and Bruce in an ideal moviesverse world
it’s basically this whole thing where Tony and Bruce are in this sexless romantic relationship and are actually in love and completely ridiculous about it when they let themselves and they’re not but…
Polyamory is always the right answer, my friend. Fuck shipping wars.
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Photoset reblogged from Let's do loneliness in style.
#the avengers: the movie in which tony acts like an ass to everyone but his new science bro
Hey I just met you
And this is crazy
But come to Stark Tower
And science with me maybe
(Source: hemsworthss)
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OH MY GOD THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.
<3
you gonna learn today!
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Say what you will about Bristol Palin, she’s a quick study. It didn’t take her long to master the ways of her elders on the censorious right and decide that personal circumstance and past error needn’t prevent someone from claiming righteous leadership. Uncle Rush must be proud.
Soon after President Obama stated support for same-sex marriage, Bristol publicly weighed in. Because, you know, the world was on tenterhooks.
In a blog post she focused on the reference that Obama made to his daughters — and to the same-sex parents of some of the girls’ friends.
“It would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends (sic) parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage,” wrote Bristol, making her heady debut as the new Dr. Spock for a nascent millennium. She added that “in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.”
Fathers like … Levi Johnston? It’s with him that she conceived her child — out of wedlock, at the age of 17 — and by most accounts, his relationship with her and the Palin family isn’t any warmer than Juneau in January. A mother/father home is not what he and Bristol have succeeded in creating.
What’s more, she has made sure that their son, Tripp, will at some point be treated to a worldview-shaping image of Dad as something akin to a date rapist. That’s the description of him immortalized in her memoir, one of her many efforts to monetize her surname. It recounts the loss of her virginity as a result of getting drunk and blacking out in the company of Levi, who pounced. What a gift that narrative is to Tripp, now being hauled into a TV reality show, “Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp,” already in production. Little children are known to thrive in such environments.
I hesitated before picking on Bristol because she’s an easy target. It’s like shooting moose from a helicopter flying low over the tundra.
But she so perfectly distills the double standards and audacity of so many of our country’s self-appointed moralists and supposed traditionalists: hypocrites whose own histories, along with any sense of shame, tumble out the window as soon as there’s a microphone to be seized or check to be cashed.
FRANK BRUNI, writing in the New York Times, “The Right’s Righteous Frauds.”
Read the whole thing.
(via inothernews)
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Photoset reblogged from Let's do loneliness in style.
Otters Chasing A Butterfly
OH MY FUCKING GOD
CHRIS
HEY CHRIS
That’s quite a cumberbunch.
“Sherlock, what are you doing?!”
“It’s a butterfly, John! They’re like gay bees!”
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Photo reblogged from Random_Nexus
Because some Army Doctors marry Consulting Detectives.Because some Warblers marry Prom Queens <3
Because some hunters marry angels.
Because some Divas marry Squids.
Because some Kings marry Warlocks.
Because some aliens marry blue boxes.
Because some senior partners marry fake lawyers.
Because some telepaths marry metalbenders.
Because some moose marry
tricksters, godsarchangelsBecause some Doctors marry their Masters
Because some Detective Inspectors marry the British Government.
Because some exorcists marry other exorcists.
Because some Kazekage marry future Hokage.
Because some superheroes marry their sidekicks.
Because some hunters marry their tricksters
Because some army doctors marry snipers
Because some meerkats marry hobbits.
Because some Captains marry their First Officers
So that’s a yes, then?
Because some immortal ex-time agents marry Torchwood operatives.
Because some timey-wimey knights marry windy heirs.
Because some Snipers marry Consulting Criminals.
Because some Water Tribe warriors marry banished Fire Nation princes.
Because some Holy Tax Accountants marry Bow-legged Con Artists.
“Because some Army Doctors marry Consulting Detectives.”
Because some Genius Billionaire Playboy Philanthropists marry Supersoldiers.
Because some SHIELD super-agents marry archers.
