It’s also Bucky being more than a little upset that they turned his gentle, harmless friend—who Bucky wanted to PROTECT from the horrors of war—into a fighting machine.
was that really necessary
it’s also Bucky realizing that he can no longer protect his best friend no matter how hard he tries. he’s utterly helpless now, even after the war is over. they’ll always be wanting steve to fight this or that, and bucky won’t be able to do a darn thing to protect him.
It’s also Bucky taking the 5 seconds he has of Steve not paying attention to him so he can allow himself to process all these emotions without worrying Steve. If you watch Bucky through the movies, you’ll notice he always makes sure to look like he’s 100% fine if other people are looking at him. Fighting with Steve, but smiling at their dates. Recently tortured, but walking confidently by Steve’s side. Basically a mess, but all “Let’s hear it for Captain America!” It’s a pattern, really. Even in the flashback in CATWS, you can see he looks a lot less confident when Steve isn’t looking at him than when Steve is.
Also, Seb has mentioned that researching WW2, what left the deepest impression was how quickly everybody dies. You get attached to someone only to watch their heads being blown up in front of you the next day. I’m sure this influenced how he chose to act this scene. Because you can bet by the time this scene takes place, Bucky has seen many people – hell, maybe even friends – die, and recently, he’s had to see his whole unit be killed or captured by HYDRA. This certainly plays a role here. It’s not just a general sense of “I can’t protect Steve anymore,” it’s more like “I don’t know if Steve will live till next week.” It’s very real, very immediate. It’s a concrete prediction more than a vague fear. And if Steve’s survives, there’s still the fact Bucky knows what’s like to be changed by war, and Steve will be changed by it, which Bucky certainly hates. Either way, he loses the Steve he knew, even more than he’s already lost, with the whole “Steve Rogers is suddenly a super soldier” deal.
I’d say this scene is wartime Bucky in a nutshell. He handles the entire crowd and this whole Captain America propaganda thing without hesitation, he smiles at Steve and makes sure Steve enjoys the moment instead of pulling some “I did my duty” bullshit, and only then he allows himself to be overwhelmed by the fear that comes with being able to think 48923740 worst case scenarios in two seconds. If we can trust interviews with cast and crew, this eventually becomes his role in the war, basically – he thinks fast and does his job protecting Captain America and the missions, he takes care of Steve on a personal level by shielding him from the worst of the war as much as he can, and only then, if there’s time and Steve isn’t looking, he thinks about how the war is affecting him.
But anyway, overall, this scene is about overwhelming loss of everything Bucky knows, as well as an attempt to hide this as well as he can. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that in the 4th and 5th gifs, Seb looks a lot like comics!Bucky does when he says goodbye to his younger sister, thinking he’ll never see her again and almost breaking down in tears, but unwilling to show her he’s scared. For your reference:
these are… “I’m in a fraternity at an Ivy League and think it gives me the right to talk to people however I want” shorts
these are “I rate women on a scale of 1 to 10” shorts
these shorts say “I want to be unexpected and daring, but not unexpected and daring enough to wear something that’s actually shaped substantively differently than the 37 pairs of khaki shorts & Ralph Lauren polo shirts that I chill at my country club in, along with my boating shoes and the Rolex that my dad gave me upon graduation from high school that, as I will tell anyone who will listen, is real”
these shorts say “in elementary school I was in the habit of meeting taunts of ‘my daddy could beat your daddy up’ with the response ‘my daddy could buy your daddy’ and I still get the occasional impulse to say that but it’s not really socially acceptable at this age so I expect these shorts to get that message across for me”
these shorts say “I’m straight and I expect it to be obvious enough that I’m straight that I can get away with wearing these, please sleep with me”
just wear some booty shorts like everyone else you miserable cowards
none of that accurate this is a look
literally do any of these men look straight to you
Also you can buy those shorts at their website, hologram city
I legit served a man at my last job who was fully covered in nazi symbols and shit. He was a proud actual real life nazi getting icecream in a family theme park and when he left I voiced my disgust to my coworkers on how security even let him in the gate wearing all of that. And you know what that bitch said? “Well some people are offended by your rainbow flag and you are allowed to wear it so he can too”. It’s not the fucking same. Don’t fucking compare the two
Nazis’ entire mission is to exterminate anyone who’s not exactly like them. It’s in no way comparable to “some people are offended”.
me: “I’d like to visibly exist without fear”
them: “I want to literally kill these people so that they stop existing”
centrists: “I don’t see the difference”
Oh wow I guess my addition to this post got spread a lot. I just wanted to add in another piece of important information. I live in Orlando. The location of the Pulse night club shooting. I was wearing a rainbow pin on my uniform because 49 people in my community died in a hate crime. I will never forgive anyone who tells me that my rainbow pins are the same as a swastika
Also, we still need to include Jewish folks in “people nazis want dead”
That shit didn’t end with the war. We need to keep that in mind too. They’re still at risk and that’s not okay.
Look, I dont know a lot about saints and Catholicism, but I know St. Agatha is always depicted with her breasts on a plate, and that’s sure something
Just a few more. This is a big trend.
Things I learned from the comments
She’s a patron saint of rape and abuse victims
She took a vow a chastity
A low born guy demanded her to be with him and she turned him down
For this she was imprisoned and tortured. This is how she lost her breasts (details not required)
She was repeatedly raped.
The Catholic Church regards her as a virgin for her peity despite the rape. (No matter your views on virginity this is a pretty interesting statement)
She was sentenced to death to burn at the stake but was saved by an earthquake
In her holiday people make titty cupcakes
I didn’t know she existed and now I think she’s a pretty rad woman. I would hesitate calling her a protofeminist as some often do with amazing women in history but she is pretty cool. Also she’s still very relevant today as women are still treated the way she was.
other things i learned: damn historic artists drew a woman with her own tits on a plate with Cleavage and prominent nip nops???
Me consuming media dealing with werewolves: “okay but if you’re gonna lock yourself in that basement during your transformation have you thought of including some enrichment?? How about a treat ball or a frozen Kong?? What are your thoughts on sniffing out treats”
Good god the rampant destruction makes so much more sense now! The wolf has no mental stimulation so its starts destroying things because its BORED.
This is such a good idea!
Also, remember to protein load to avoid ravening. Beef, chicken, fish- whatever, just LOTS OF IT. The change takes a lot out of you, and the wolf will go out hunting for it if you don’t provide. Don’t bother with tofu. It’s no good trying to be a vegetarian by day if you’re a humanitarian by night.
Hi! A Zine I edited/illustrated/contributed to just came out. It’s a spin off frm an online magazine of the same name my friend runs, featuring essays by women about film and visual culture, including topics like Gendering Cyborgs, reclaiming Millennial Pink, ordeal cinema and mental health in horror
Digital copies start at £1 (GBP) with options to donate more, if you’d like! 50% of profits will go to local housing charity Changing Lives, who work w homeless youth, DV survivors and they’ve have been heavily involved in working w survivors of sex trafficking rings – so it goes to a rlly good cause! And a good zine!
I did the first lot of donations from this the other week! Thanks to everyone who bought the zine, we were able to donate about £20!
£11 pays for a week’s worth of meals for service users, so that’s rlly great!!
the other 50% of the profits are basically My Pay for making this, so you also paid for like a week’s worth of meals for me. So thanks for helping to keep the lights on over here 🤗
radiant – has an aesthetic bedroom, their presence is golden and emits warmth, secretly very insecure, has their own distinct style, has a lot of plans, a daydreamer and escapes through books or movies
gorgeous – drinks coffee, probably feels like they were born in another generation, feels nostalgic late at night, loves wearing black clothes, natural artist and enjoys creating things that reflect their emotions
beautiful – the most comfy person ever, can relax with them with messy hair pajamas and they won’t judge you, always there for you when you need to talk, reminds you of sunsets and summer days
angelic – soulful eyes that remind you of people in beautiful paintings, silky hair, pretty literature, rose perfume, lover of kindness and animals, their presence feels sprinkled all over with glitter and dust
sweet – bright eyes and blushed cheeks on chilly mornings, soft eyes that remind you of the moon, falls in love very easily, dog walking in a field of daisies, a little clumsy at times, lover of sweet things and always trying to make people smile
breathtaking – their vibe makes you want to travel the world with them and go somewhere without any plans, they have the brightest smile that can leave you speechless, easily bored and always looking for something new, very kind but a little stubborn
lovable – going through so much but still trying, gives the best hugs, the best listener, loves oversized jumpers, lonely a lot of the time, finds peace in midnights and music, always a little weighed down
the historical relationship between race / white supremacy and capitalism, & the attendant relationship between race and class, are multifaceted and complex. anyone who tries to tell you that these relationships are settled and simple, that either race or class has absolute primacy over the other, that white supremacy and capitalism aren’t in many ways dependent upon & respondent to each other in how they were formed and in how they continue to shape the world in which we all live, is oversimplifying a question that’s been at the core of a lot of anti-capitalist, anti-racist, & anti-colonialist thought for decades at least. the issue should not be one of conflict–asking “which of these systems overrides or matters more than the other”–but one of synthesis–working to understand how these systems function with and in relation to each other, albeit sometimes in troubled or complicated ways. to have any hope of inquiring into these issues we cannot be afraid of complexity.
the makings of race & the makings of modern capitalism are historically inextricable from each other. if race as we know it today (and specifically the categories of white, Black, & Indigenous american) can be understood as having arisen from european colonialist expansion and the attending enslavement & genocide (/ “removal”) of Indigenous populations, and, slightly later, the more systematic enslavement of and trade in African people–things that, in the late 1600s, began to demand a post hoc explanation as to why some people were subject to enslavement and not others–then, equally, that very imperialist expansion that gave rise to race can be understood as a driving force in the birth of modern capitalism (see especially Fields). and european imperialism and colonialism elsewhere in the world, along with, most recently, neoliberalism, have continued to develop and reinforce the relationship between white supremacy and capitalism (see especially Harris). historical evidence suggests that racism and racial ideology had to be invented and then, in many contexts, had to be taught–and taught diligently–to European peasants, especially indentured servants, in order to suppress their tendency to organise against their masters alongside African slaves (see Federici, 106-107). it took another couple hundred years even after all of this for race to be considered in quite the manner it’s considered in today–as a matter of “biology,” rather than of climate or environment (see especially Harvey). “race” is a set of fictions subject to constant shifting and re-negotiation, & seeing its construction and foundations will require recourse to capital (among other things) at every level.
to claim that race is trans-historical, or that it predates and supercedes capitalism, is to remove race from the circumstances that led to its creation, and therefore to naturalise & to essentialise it. but there is nothing natural or naturally arising about racial ideology or racism.
to claim that racism is an ingrained sense of hatred for non-”white” people that exists in “white” people for reasons entirely unrelated to the material realities of enslavement and colonialist and imperialist expansion, and to the “transition” from feudalism to capitalism as it occurred in Europe and elsewhere, is to claim both that there is some sort of biological or metaphysical truth to the (often troubled) category of “white,” and that there is somehow something naturally detestable about the people who fall outside of that category. on both counts this viewpoint does white supremacy’s work for it. it is also, in its essentials, the accepted liberal view of race, no matter what language you dress it up in.
certainly europeans prior to their colonisation of the americas had cultural and aesthetic ideas and ideals that, viewed through the distorting lens of hindsight, seem to be referencing race, and they’re commonly brought up as early examples of racism & anti-Blackness. indeed, europeans recalled and repurposed these ideas & aesthetics concurrently with the invention of race, subsuming them into the developing system & discourse of white supremacy (and also things like anti-Blackness and colourism). but it’s ahistorical and disingenuous to call this “race” in the context of a conversation in which the term is being used to denote a more specific set of historically contingent (since ~ the very late 1600s) and biologised (since no sooner than the 1850s) ideas & categories.
to claim that race supercedes capitalism, or that struggle against white supremacy is in any way divorcable from, or is even counter to, struggle against capitalism, is also to erase or otherwise misrepresent the legacy of countless racialised peoples & colonial subjects who understood & understand their struggles against these two systems to be inextricably linked. anti-colonial & anti-racist organising have been socialist for decades and it’s downright silly to pretend otherwise. acting like communist or socialist activism & organisation is somehow inherently a white thing is to deny agency & complexity to the many Black revolutionaries, peoples in the Global South, & other nonwhite people and people of colour whose resistance to white supremacy and capitalism provide frameworks for communist organising to this day. socialism is not “white” and never has been (see especially “Who is Oakland”).
of course the other, equally misguided, side of all of this is the tack taken by a lot of white leftists who ignore the roles of imperialism & colonialism in the formation of modern capitalism, ignore the roles that race & colonialism play in creating superexploited subjects in the periphery of empire whose labour can be extorted for the benefit of the ruling class, and ignore the ways in which white supremacy works as an institutional barrier to accumulating wealth for Black people and other people of colour in the West. to claim that capitalism is material while race is merely social, that the relationship between capitalism and race is one of base vs. superstructure (yes, I have really had this argument), or to claim that there is any way to dismantle capitalism without confronting white supremacy, is equally to disregard and disrespect the work & lived experiences of racialised & colonised socialists and revolutionaries.
to disregard any attempt to account for the material realities of race as mere “identity politics” that subvert nonwhite people’s loyalties away from “purer” class struggle–implied or stated to be the only legitimate arena for resistance of any kind–is to ignore how race materially (including, yes, economically) impacts the lives of racialised people. it is also to ignore the role that race has played in subverting the loyalties of white wage labourers against people of colour by giving them small concessions (slightly better jobs & working conditions, plus the mere psychological satisfaction that hey, at least they were white) as incentives against organising alongside working class people of colour. this racial divide between members of the working class needs to be addressed–not merely swept under the rug as an example of white workers working against their own self-interest (as if–while, yes, still worse off than they would be if capitalism were not in place–they did not materially benefit at the expense of other workers). white supremacy and racism need to be confronted in any struggle against capitalism. ignoring all of this is flagrantly to disregard things that Black revolutionaries in the U.S. have known, again, for decades, as well as to express a profound lack of care for nonwhite peoples across the board. and that’s why white leftists get on my damn nerves, lmao.
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