I'd Love To Say That This Is The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Made, But We Both Know That's A Lie

In rewatching Captain America: Civil War, it is important to remember that Steve is assembling a team to take on several supersoldier assassins and the mastermind who wants to take over the world while Tony is assembling a team to arrest Steve's team.

The distinction is important.

What if…?

Agatha mentoring Billy is going to be like "Yeah I'm a super VILLAIN and you want to be a super HERO so I'm just going to teach you what I know and hopefully it translates over somehow. Anyway, lesson one: Always have a cloak or dress or something to flow behind you dramatically."

This guy again

just hawkeye things✨

[ID: a digital drawing of Clint barton from the waist up. He’s singing the circle of life from the lion king and holding his dog (lucky) above his head. lucky looks like a golden retriever/labrador dog and he’s wearing a light purple bandanna.

Clint is wearing gray sweatpants, a red hoodie with a silver star in middle, and he has a bandage wrapped around his left hand and across his nose. his bright purple hearings aids are wrapped around his ears and he has a huge grin on his face]

THE FEAR IS SO REAL

he’s so skittish, oh my god, she’s literally unconscious and he’s pointing a gun from a distance like any second she’s going to spring up and wipe the floor with his ass again. i’ve been internally screaming about this for the past 14 hours, i’m so delighted at this.

whatever you may say about thompson (and you should keep saying those things because he’s a jackass and no one should forget that) he’s a goddamn quick study. before the russia mission he was all like ‘we can’t waste time babysitting her’ and post russia he’s telling agents from washington dc that they won’t be able to handle agent peggy carter, so he sets himself up behind the automat with a gun, prepared. except he’s still underestimating her, he thinks he’s got her cornered when it’s really the other way around, and he even STEPS TOWARD HER and tries to puppydog eyes her into coming in. and, of course, she knocks him out in three seconds. 

he doesn’t waste time making excuses or licking his male ego wounds. she’s gotten the drop on his understanding of just how capable she is twice now, and he is not about to underestimate her again. he’s the first to step into the hall but he lingers behind sousa until sousa confirms she’s knocked out/she doesn’t jump up and punch him out. 

to be honest, i think he’s still underestimating her. peggy WANTS to come clean and explain at the end of the episode, and says that the handcuffs are unnecessary because she’s going to tell them everything. in my opinion, peggy could still escape with those handcuffs at any part of this situation, especially in the interrogation room, where only ONE hand is cuffed (what is this, amateur hour?) 

tl;dr i love thompson’s learning curve. i love that this guy was giving her papers to file in episode 1 and by episode 6 he’s terrified of her. this is beautiful and i appreciate this.

things i never expected to learn through a tedtalk but now am glad to know:

the founder of Sirius XM radio is a sapphic trans woman and is currently trying to preserve her wife’s consciousness in a digital file so her wife can be immortal in the body of a robot.

Steve has lived through a world-ender before. At least, it was the end of the world for him. Everyone he knows and loves, gone in an instant. The ones who aren’t dead, warped by time and age.

It was not so simple as an instant this time.

It's been 10 years since this movie came out, and it's been almost three years since this piece was drawn by me. Enjoy <3