Sebastian Stan and Joe Russo on Bucky and Steve’s reunion in Avengers: Infinity War
Ok so I thought Seb was kinda tired of Stucky questions cos he was DODGING them a lot, especially with other fellow actors like Duke and Mackie. But in this interview you can CLEARLY see he likes those questions, he even interrupts Joe Russo to talk about Stucky reunion and smiles a lot through that whole conversation.
So my point is – maybe he just needs a right person beside him, someone he trusts to be really true and open about his love for Stucky?
Like Russo brothers, who are the real STUCKY WARRIORS.
I hope he’ll do more promo with that kind of mood.
Oh yeah…and make Stucky canon already! We know you want to.
You can do it, guys!
What a fucking shitshow.
So I got to have my first panic attack in two years today over everything.
I woke up to some really horrible stuff. And it just kept pouring in all day.
I’m okay. I had some love and support from friends. But a few key people haven’t reached out which is heart wrenching. But I press on.
But seriously. I have dealt with SO MUCH BULLSHIT from people in the last day. It’s been horrific. And tbh, I’ve had more support than bullshit, but it’s hard to see past it.
I feel entirely invalidated… Even though everyone is doing their best. Just. FFS.
I’m exhausted. So exhausted.
So I’m ordering Nando’s and curling up to watch Political Animals because I need to research ❤
there is a note, buried deep in the winter soldier’s files, that warns his handlers against leaving slack in his leash on the fourth of july. if the asset must be taken out of cryofreeze on that date, it says, it should be done away from the states and any calendars should be kept out of sight
years after this note is written, anyone who comes upon it assumes something about the holiday wakes up some latent patriotism or perhaps that the fireworks cause an adverse reaction, but really the asset goes on the fritz a bit because he knows he’s missing something important, even if he doesn’t realize that something is steve’s birthday
hey betty! one thing i hear a lot in Writing Advice is ‘have faith in your story’ and ‘your voice matters!!’ and while i do wholeheartedly agree, i just. idk, do you have any Words of Wisdom on /why/ your specific, individual voice matters? (especially when you’re a teenage girl writing fanfic, and everything seems kind of- frivolous? Not Good Enough? idk man. i know most of that rhetoric is misogynistic bs, but some days it just feels pointless.) hope you’re having a good day!
this took me forever to respond to in part because i’ve been thinking a lot about how best to answer. this is definitely one of the most challenging writing asks i’ve ever gotten.
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
your voice matters because silence is not the default state of being. you have to speak, and more importantly, you have to be heard. it is a fundamental tenet of existence.
we are sad lonely humans trapped in cages of our singular sentience, and the only means of connecting our brains is to share our experience through language. so saying your voice feels frivolous and not good enough is the machine grinding you into dust. if you find meaning in something, YA or fanfic or sitcoms, other people will too. and if someone else doesn’t like it, or looks down on it, well, it wasn’t written for them. it was written for people who are invested in your perspective. who share and find truth, meaning, relief, and joy in your voice. and would you really want to deprive them of that?
some days, the bad ones, i let the machine grind me into dust. i make myself smaller and smaller until i don’t take up any space at all. i think, though, there is some freedom in non-space. if i am so small that no one can hear me, i’m free to scream without recourse. it is when i am small that i write my biggest risks, my largest truths, because i believe no one could, should, or will ever read it, and then later, when i start to take up space again, i have a piece of writing that is daring and weird and that no one else could have made. and to me, that’s when it feels like my voice matters most.
on all the other days, though, i practice self-aggrandizement. generally we assume our own averageness; we take our success in school and jobs and relationships, lift it up to compare with others, and go, “i guess i’m just like everybody else. if i were exceptional, i’d know by now.”
but what if that’s not true?
what if you’re truly exceptional, one of the best writers in the entire world – in all history, even – but you’re just not there yet? what if you only need to get down a million more words of practice to write the book that inspires an entire generation of writers that come after you?
“that doesn’t seem likely,” you might say.
no, it’s not likely. but we’re not talking about averages and probability and likelihood. we’re thinking in terms of exceptions. and you can only write exceptional work if you believe you have exceptional things to say. if you believe you have a perspective to offer that no one else could write the way that you would write it. you have a truth to show the world that no one else knows.
this is a good practice to get into. you don’t need to believe the words in order to write them, but you do need to write them, if for no other reason than to see what you want staring back at you, to make your potential real.
you cannot sabotage that potential because you believe you’re the rule rather than the exception. your future self deserves better than your present doubt. you might think you need to be humble about your skill and realistic about your chances. this is not true. practice telling yourself, “i am the exception.”
another voice might come back with, “what if i’m not?”
and you should answer, “i should give myself the opportunity to find out.”
A lot of people are hard outer shells, and soft inner bellies.
I am the opposite. I’m a giant marshmallow on the outside. And I have like a fucking rock inside me. And I will break your teeth once I’m done with crying.
…. *cracks neck and goes to write a post starting with “dear fuckfaces”*
“A character in a novel of mine—that most dangerous of creations: a novelist writing a novel—observed that there were three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. If the writer can show a character involved in a number of all three types of actions, the character will probably seem more real. This occurred to me when I was trying to analyze why some writers who can present perfectly well-drawn males cannot present a convincing female to save themselves—heroines or villainesses. I noticed with these writers that while their heroes (and villains) happily indulge in all types of actions, if there is a villainess, she is generally all purpose; if there is a heroine, she often does nothing but habitual actions, or nothing but gratuitous ones.”
— Samuel R. Delany, “Characters” in “On Writing”. (via oddhour)
Where was Bucky Barnes during the whole Eric taking over Wakanda? Like was he just guarding the goats?
He was on ice….? The final post-credit end scene of black panther shows him waking up and Shuri talking to him, you can watch it on youtube if you missed it
Ive seen that, but you’d think Eric would have try to get the winter soldier on his side. If i was taking over a country, i want the winter soldier with me.
I think that only works if you’ve got that red book with the star on the cover…
And I believe the proper nomenclature for what Bucky was up to is:
CHILLIN’
According to the prelude, Steve and Bucky didn’t return to Wakanda until *weeks later* following the bunker fight, and Erik showed up within the week (?) of T’Chaka’s death. So they were out having renegade margaritas or something.
Ok but then why did Shuri say “another broken white boy for me to fix” when T’Challa turned up with Everett Ross??
Because she knew he was coming. T’Challa invited them to come back , and Steve said they would but had something to take care of first (ETA I just reblogged the prelude and this isn’t entirely accurate)
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