Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

Your fave is problematic: T'Challa

queerfinnrey:

couldyoujustimagine:

• Just kidding
  
• oh my god
  
• could you imagine
  

I was about to go off

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Notes on Boycotting Marvel/Disney

returnofthejudai:

OK. Some people want to make the boycott larger. That’s not going to work. Here is why.

When a large company like Marvel or Disney sees a drop in revenue they’re going to want to know where and why. If you are indiscriminate in where you boycott they’ll see a drop of revenue across the board and not know what it is you are boycotting or why. If they specifically see a drop in revenue based on something very specific they’ll get the message. 

My opinion here is to just boycott the Captain America book or anything Nick Spencer writes. Make the missing revenue obvious. If you subscribe to a digital service that sends you the comic cancel that service. They’ll ask you why you are cancelling. Tell them that you are cancelling because of what Nick Spencer and Tom Brevoort did to Captain America and his legacy. 

My point here is that you can’t send a message if you are non-specific. 

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spacepunkstevie:

The only way I’ll accept the hydracap story line to play out is:

• Steve’s busy being a nazi when Bucky goes to check on him and bucky’s like “wtf the fuck”
  
• So he’s like “steve no” and steve’s like “steve yes” and Bucky’s like “that’s only funny when you’re a good guy doing reckless things and not a NAZI doing NAZI THINGS” and steve’s like “(ง'̀-‘́)ง” because he’s a dick now
• but Bucky can win this
• because Bucky’s got a secret weapon
• an assassin you know and love who’s unafraid to step in
• he’s constantly confusing, confounding the marvel henchmen
• EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR AMERICA’S FAVOURITE FIGHTING TRASH CAN
• Deadpool
• so he goes to deadpool like “you know that thing you do where you break the fourth wall or w/e” and deadpool’s like “yeah?”
• “can i use it for a bit?”
  
• so they go off and fight the marvel writers (with swords) and then destroy the new issues (with fire) and then they go to see steve and steve hugs them all and he’s crying and thanking them for saving his characterisation
• and then they go out for ice cream or something

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pinkmistletoe:

if ur a boy n u tell ur tall gf not to wear heels around u congrats she’s my girl now don’t ever speak to me or my amazon gf ever again

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The best notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks

saltroundsandpeppersquares:

beggars-opera:

Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages

• Oh, my hand
  
• The parchment is very hairy
• Thank God it will soon be dark
• St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing
• Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink
  
• Oh d fuckin abbot
• Massive hangover
• Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job
  
• Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night
  
• If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral
  
• I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today
• Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark
  
• 11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again
  
• Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God
• If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen
  

tag yourself. im the monk who wants you to hit him up in Paris

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samsteve4eva:

Follow Up to “Don’t Buy Steve Rogers #1″ post, but I want to stress:

1. This can not be a kneejerk reaction.  Marvel seems like they have no interest in backing down.  They are committing to this vulgar storyline.  That means we need to commit to a long campaign.  We need to have plans for the whole summer, including San Diego Comic Con.
   
2. Pre-Sales Matter to the Companies the most.  Also, if a store over buys a comic, they are stuck with that non-refundable inventory.  It’s bad for the stores.  CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW.  Cancel before the stores can order issues #2 and #3.
   
3. We have to go after Disney.  If this affects Disney’s box office or merchandise sales they will step in.  Don’t buy merch.  Don’t buy the Captain America: Civil War Blue-Ray/Digital.  Support the Dr. Strange Boycott.  Get Disney’s attention.
4. Please do not threaten the live’s authors/publishers.  Yes, they are giant assholes for greenlighting this disgusting shock value scam. Unfortunately, the easiest way for Disney/Marvel to dismiss you is for them to think you’re “one of those crazy people from the Internet.”  

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On Nazi Captain America

fireboltinsky4:

Okay everyone. So while we’ve all been indignant and disgusted by Nazi Cap, the fact that his creators are Jewish, and that it goes against everything Steve Rogers was meant to stand for, there’s a few things the writers completely and utterly missed.

Now, I want to come out and say that I am not Jewish and that I am not trying to make this trivial to them. I think that it is abhorrent and I am completely, utterly shocked they would violate a character like this. I am not happy.

I also have yet to read the comic and, frankly, I’m not going to buy it. I won’t give Marvel money for this shit. What I have is what I’ve taken from tumblr and my own research, so take this with a grain of salt.

So while the fact he is now a Nazi and has never been, apparently, a good person, there is something important that I wanted to focus on.

Like the fact that Steve Rogers would have NEVER been chosen by HYDRA in the first place.

Let me tell you guys about something–Eugenics.

This was a big deal in the 20s and 30s. Google it. The short answer is this: the perfect race. The desired traits. The perfect human being. Sounds familiar, right? Hitler used it for his Aryan race. Blonde, blue-eyed, tall (i.e. what he wasn’t). We ought to know about that.

Well, here’s the thing–it started in the USA. Well, not completely. The idea of Eugenics has been around since Plato. But the idea that people who weren’t “perfect” should be removed from society became pretty big in the USA in the 20s. Hitler borrowed the principals of it from the US. You’ve heard of the Kennedys. The oldest daughter was sterilized against her will, lobotomized, and locked up. Don’t believe me? Look it up. This was common. It was common through the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. It was repealed in 1972. People who were mentally ill were locked away and sterilized. When it became too expensive to house those people, they government shut the program down and those people who had been locked away were suddenly homeless because no one wanted them. Hitler got his Nazi Youth from the USA, people.

Back to the topic at hand.

Steve Rogers was Irish and most likely Catholic. Click here and look under “early life”.

Remember little orphan Annie? With her cute little red hair? Yeah. That means she’s Irish. Not a big deal right? Everyone today loves the Irish. Being Irish or part Irish nowadays is, well, cool.

Yeah, no, not back then. The Irish were hated. You did not advertise the fact that you were Irish back then because you would be beat up. Annie was made an Irish girl because she wasn’t wanted. That reboot in 2014? Annie is now African American because they are among the children who are adopted the least, nowadays. HYDRA would not take Steve Rogers in simply because he was Irish. But hey! It gets better.

Steve Rogers wasn’t healthy.

See, Eugenics only works if the desired people are healthy. You don’t want unhealthy people. So Steve, with his asthma and his heart conditions and his color blindness and his partially deafness … well. Yeah. HYDRA would have left him and his mother to die. His father is now a drunk in the comics, right? Drunk Irish. They would have been tossed for that. His mother was single. She worked instead of remarrying. Tossed for that.

So this woman who took Sarah and Steve in an indoctrinated him into HYDRA? Nope. Wouldn’t have happened–not even out of the “goodness of her heart.”

Also, literally the only people stopping Steve Rogers from being institutionalized and sterilized were Sarah and Bucky. When Sarah died, Bucky would have kept Steve out (MCU, for those fans.)

Steve is a good person. He would have been more loyal to Bucky than anyone else. That’s the MCU. In the comics, well … I guess Steve would have found a way to stay out.

So HYDRA would never have looked twice at poor little Steven G. Rogers. They simply wouldn’t have. He wasn’t “perfect.”

Personally, I think some of the reason why Steve was chosen for the serum was not only because he is a good person, but also because he was the exact opposite of what the Nazis and the Eugenicist considered desirable. It was sort of a “Fuck You” to the Nazis.

So while it’s horrifically offensive that Cap has been turned into a Nazi and that, suddenly, half his character no longer makes sense (Thor’s hammer? The fact he provably has no prejudices? The fact that he would have turned out like the Red Skull if he had been a bad person when injected with the serum?), it’s historically inaccurate. There is no way some Eugenicists would have looked at Steve and told him he was destined for greatness. There is no way a Eugenicists would have taken pity on poor, unhealthy Irish folk. There is no way a single mother and her sickly kid would have been accepted into the Nazi fold. There is no way Steve Rogers would have been indoctrinated into the Nazi ideals. He would have never been chosen in the first place.

The writers are completely ignoring history and completely ignoring the time period. The events and the people’s ideals played an ENORMOUS role in Steve’s life. The writers literally do not understand just what that time period was like. They threw everything out and ignored it. Not only have they done a disservice to the Jewish, Catholic, Romani, and Homosexual (and every other group that suffered under the Nazi reign–while 6 million Jews died, the total death toll was 12 million) communities they are doing a disservice to the USA’s history, both good and bad.

This is a problem. Sure, Steve Rogers as bisexual would be great. But this? I don’t care what anyone says. If someone tells you this is no big deal, tell them they don’t understand the cultural and historical impact this has. This comic may be lost in the recesses of time, but it still exists, now.

Some people may still remember the 20s and 30s, but there’s a century between the rest of us and that time period. Most of us can only know that era through history–and this is why the writers should have done that time justice. People often learn more fact through fiction than they do in school. This was an injustice.

And writers?

Only a handful of people ever saw Steve’s worth, andHYDRA was never one of them.

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tzikeh:

millfields:

hey uh. i dont usually do things like this but, here we go.

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as some of you know, i was in the hospital for a few days in january. i havent talked about it too much since, heres what happened.

so, i have this super, super rare blood disorder called paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and it effects my life constantly. i cant walk more than a few blocks without feeling weak, winded, sick. i get headaches, im prone to things like blood clotting and leukemia, i have severe anemia, etc. im at the hospital every week receiving the most expensive drug in the world, the only way to put it off and treat it. on top of that, ive gotten ~10 blood transfusions this year and i see more in the future.

my family has put their lives basically entirely on hold to be around for me. as you can imagine, this isnt the ideal situation for us.

now, as i said, im not going to ask for your money or anything. i would feel bad, that’s not what i need at all. there will be an option for that, though, if you cant help/would rather help that way.

here is the important part: the only known cure for PNH is a 10/10 bone marrow match

im white and usually this wouldnt be such a big issue, but i have ashkenazi jew ancestry, and its been a big obstacle in finding a bone marrow match for me. so here is what i ask of you

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