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“Books are always better than the movie/TV show!”

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So I usually encourage people buying comics and so on, but guys, do NOT buy Captain America: Steve Rogers #1

As someone who loves and adores Steve Rogers, I feel broken, betrayed and disgusted at what I’ve read. 

So they’ve actually said that they’re retconning a LOT of Steve’s past, specifically in THIS interview so you can see how ‘old school cap’ ties in with Steve being in Hydra all along. -  “ It means on the most fundamental level that the most trusted hero in the Marvel universe is now secretly a deep-cover Hydra operative”

Okay, so let me get this straight. You’ve taken a man who was a great symbol, a symbol not only of a nation – but a beacon of HOPE for people (myself included) and you’ve done this to him. You’ve taken a hero who as gotten me and many others through tough times, with a strong message of ‘things will get better’ and with a RESOUNDING message to stand up for yourself – life long messages that some of us hold close to our HEARTS and you destroy him in a blink of an eye. 

Steve Rogers for me, is someone who I aspired to be, someone who has great messages that I carry with me every day of my life and quote almost on a daily basis. He’s someone I’ve loved and that has brought hope from the darkest places, a literal star in the night sky. I’ve loved watching Steve develop and grow, change and twist, fight mental battles as well as physical. He’s been the subject of my studies, the topic of a dozen essays I’ve written in regards to political symbols and propaganda. 

Steve Rogers was the product of two Jewish creators ( Joe Simon and Jack Kirby )  to combat Nazism, he was created initially as propaganda and used and shown to be fighting for hope and freedom. Steve meant so much more to these men than I can word, I’m sure. But he’s not just a hero, he was a SYMBOL. An iconic character that has carried and allowed others to blossom. You take that and you make him part of HYDRA, you make him a NAZI. And not only that, you go on saying when asked If readers go back and look at older comics, will this hold up? It will. Issue 2 kind of winds the clock back a little bit and lays out exactly how and why things are the way they are. - So you’re going to take years worth of work and tarnish it so your terrible storyline can have some sort of justification. (and here I thought the whole Tony being adopted storyline was the worst one we were going to revisit this year)

Steve was so much to so many people. And now he’s being used as a plot device – When Remender decided to de-serum him, sure that was a bit of a knock-back. He was de-serumed for 666 days and then restored very recently. But now, I’m wishing that he’d stayed old if I had known this was going to happen to his comic. 

As a Steve fan I’m hurt at how distasteful this is, how you would rather make him part of HYDRA rather than work in a team. This is probably the WORST plot I’ve ever read for Captain America. I could prattle on about how many issues I’ve got with it but I think I’ve gone on enough. I love Cap, I love Steve and I’m PAINED by this. It’s offensive to loyal fans, its offensive to a whole BUNCH of people for a tonne of different reasons but hey, if it makes money then who cares, right? Isn’t that Marvel logic nowadays? Who cares if its destroying the symbol that has taken years to develop, grow and flourish and inspire people. 75 years worth of characters, one single issue to deface 75 years worth of work. 

Here’s how its gone down, I’ll write the whole thing up for you because – honestly, it’s not worth reading the comic itself. 

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did you forget the word never or is this a hate message 

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A lot of sports movies—in my personal opinion—make the mistake of focusing too much on the actual game or the stuff on the field. If you want to watch a game, you watch a game. That’s where the drama really is, but when the game is playing out on-screen, you know it’s scripted and the outcome is determined. The drama of that moment is not quite the experience you get when you watch a real game. 

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first person to discover seeds

person: this fruit is good but it has weird tiny hard stuff in it. im gonna throw it on the ground seeds: jokes on you thats actually what i want!!!!! person: Oh shit!!!!

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i havent shaved my legs in a really long time and while i was babysitting my skirt edged up a bit and the seven year old i was watching said “ew you should shave that hairs not supposed to be there” and i said “well if its not supposed to be there then why does it grow there?” and he was really silent for a long time and then finally said “lets watch sonic the hedgehog”

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“when you see your best friend”

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when people defend the “Cis white guy is default” thing like “He’s meant to be an everyman we can all relate to and project on!” kindly remind them the largest ethnic group in the WORLD is Han Chinese and the highest gender percentage fluctuates so if you want an ACTUAL  “default” you want a 40 year old chinese person whose gender changes from year to year.  

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white person: *eats chicken tikka masala once* i just…. i feel so connected… to indian culture …. I’m learning to speak islam…. check out my third eye….. chakra

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U.nhnnnnnnnnnnhhhhhg ghhhhh lizard baaallll

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today i finally put together a “book” that one of my classes wrote together last year and felt it was necessary to bring back this classic not-at-all-prompted contribution from a then 7 year old: “I got stuck in a castle. I was in its jail. They did not feeded me all I had was a porta potty. I was in jail because I didn’t even know there were taxes there. Except I lied. I read a lot about England and I decided I did not want to pay taxes.” 

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Scientist: *sees a spider with long legs* Scientist: I think I’ll call it daddy…… Daddy long legs

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But now I’m wondering how all these facial recognition algorithms we’re coming up with now are going to take to the Bright New Transhumanist Future

Like, okay, we know Google can recognise dogs. But what about stranger things? Is anyone training these things on lizards?

Imagine basilisks specifically designed to crash these algorithms: abstract-blocks-of-black-and-white-for-heads that, like the QR codes of old, carry a hidden message in their patterning, only it’s a payload, a virus that shreds the system of anyone who tries to capture it on camera, the natural evolution of anti-face-detection camouflage. Imagine things that don’t even have faces, that don’t have an equivalent and easily-cataloguable part; people who deliberately wear mass-produced, identical android bodies, the Guy Fawkes masks of the future.

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I am fucking dying

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everybody should reblog this with the only personality assessment that matters: your favorite disney princess, fav color, fav super hero, fav season