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they dont tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan

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also i understand the golden age of piracy was very brief but it's fun to me that flint didn't make profits for just 3 months and the whole island was like 'washed up! retire, grandpa!'

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"It’s so refreshing to not have Jedi included in Skeleton Crew and Andor!!!"

When are certain SW fans going to realize that the Jedi are the heart of Star Wars? The Jedi are what made Star Wars unique compared to other space opera franchises. And why is that ya'll don't have this same energy when Disney constantly shoves more Sith / Empire and Mandalorian stuff at us? Why is it always "there's too much SW media with the Jedi in it"????

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I'm not @amarriageoftrueminds or @cosmicmechanism but I'll try to explain where this argument is coming from, because I think it (Bucky's story beats and characteristics being to Peggy) is valid and a legitimate criticism of the writing of Peggy.

As you've already pointed out it's mostly seen in Agent Carter (where Bucky isn't mentioned AT ALL), by the writing giving the impression that Peggy was on the ground fighting alongside the Howlies.

She bonds with Dum Dum over Bourbon and even (IIRC) bribes him with a bottle from her personal connection. Dum Dum goes to say she fought alongside Captain America longer than of the Howlies did.

And sure it works. If you turn your head and *squint* seeing how they were both seemingly involved in taking out Richard Armitage's HYDRA Agent, and then she was tangentially involved with the rescue of the 107th....but Bucky is right *there*.

(Dum Dum even goes to suggest, that Peggy gets a code name here "Miss U" and later on in the same episode when he and Peggy are having a ....heated discussion when the mission goes south Peggy asks him what Steve would tell him to do. And Dum Dum answers with "do as Peggy says").

All of this would be fine (except for the Bucky erasure) if it wasn't for the fact that as you say- that doesn't match up with what we saw in TFA.

In the film she appears to be a Office worker, mostly wearing a skirt suit while out in the field, (except for the raid on the Hydra base at the end)

Most of her scenes are not being an action girl, she's again filing, and analysing maps and placing targets on said maps. An important role for sure, but one that wouldn't allow for the level of closeness that Agent Carter implies she had with the Howlies.

And the scene that most heavily implies that she wasn't in the field with the Howlies, if at all is the one where she comes to comfort Steve after Bucky's fall from the train.

On the surface this seems.....fine right? But on rewatch there's something about the language used in the scene, that hints heavily that Peggy wasn't a field operative the way Agent Carter would have us believe.

Specifically the lines "Did you respect him.....your friend,?" like surely if she was bonding with Dum Dum over Bourbon she'd have seen the bond between Steve and Bucky. And "Give Barnes the dignity of his choice, he must have damn well though you were worth it," wouldn't she know that Bucky thought that Steve was worth it if she had been part of the team.

Also, the fact that she "read the report" instead of being part of the team on that fateful mission. Yes, it's possible she wasn't there (again, im just going off the idea that Agent Carter posits) for that mission, but it just doesn't add up....

And (I'm nearly done I promise) in the Agent Carter series, there is an in universe radio play telling stories about Captain America in a serial format.

One of the characters is named "Betty Carver" clearly an expy for Peggy herself. In the one play that we hear, the general plot line is that "Betty" has been taken hostage by "Hitler's elite guard" (I wonder who that could be referencing) and it's up to Captain America and the 107th to rescue her. If we posits that the plays are inspired by Steve's real life exploits, and IMO it's *incredibly* obvious what really world events this particular play storyline was inspired by.....and who "Betty" is replacing in the narrative.

Finally (told you I was nearly done), I know you referenced the deleted scene....where Bucky is very clearly implied to be *Dum Dum and Gabe's* superior.

Now yes the Howlies were a crack team so maybe military hierarchy goes out of the window but Steve clearly respected, so why the hell would he tell his team to listen to a woman with no rank. It's almost as if they removed Bucky from the narrative in her show, to slot Peggy into his place.

But that could be my tinfoil hat talking.

Thank you for coming to my overly long Tedtalk

If I'm not mistaken, and I apologize if I am, I remember seeing, in two different discussions on this blog, someone claim that, in the Agent Carter series, there is an attempt to incorporate Bucky's characteristics into Peggy's character. One example they gave was her dynamic with the Howlies. Does this really happen?

I haven’t watched Agent Carter so I’m not really equipped to answer this. I’ll tag @cosmicmechanism and @amarriageoftrueminds who have written excellent meta about this before, if they have time to give their thoughts. I tried to have a look on their blogs but as you know it’s impossible to find anything on tumblr.

The talks about Peggy taking Bucky’s attributes mostly happened in Agent Carter (and maybe What If, I stopped watching that show when it became clear it wasn’t “What If” but “What If Peggy Carter”). Granted, we don’t see a lot of Bucky interacting on his own with the Howlies. The one instance where he’s with them without Steve was a deleted scene. But we know Bucky knew them quite well (“Told you, they’re all idiots”) and likely suggested them to Steve. Movies Peggy on the other hand was never seen in the company of the Howlies. As multiple other metas also pointed out, she couldn’t have been on the frontlines with them so the idea that she “fought alongside” them is a retcon (although I'm not sure about the specifics of it).

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Please little bird, I know I may not deserve it but I need all the good luck I can get at this moment

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listen I know it's heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it's understandable to wish she didn't, but let's please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.

Claudia's death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne's daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.

writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia's death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele's was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.

so when you're accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.

she's the reason Claudia exists.

she's also the reason Claudia cannot be saved.

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Claudia can’t not die because it’s the whole point of the story. She has to die because she was already dead. Because this is the way it goes. She was a little girl who never got to grow old and it brought her mother to edge of annihilation and instead of succumbing she wrote a story that would have everyone begging for her to live the same way she did in that hospital room all those years ago. It’s always been a story about the unthinkable grief of losing a child and how it destroys everything. And yet, the strength of a well-told tragedy is how you spend even the last moments leading up to it bargaining with the text. Maybe it’ll be different this time. Maybe she’ll escape.

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He's helping :)

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Santa is on strike due to global warming.  All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger.  Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.

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"You gotta take a deep breath, and you gotta do it again".....is so very important to me right now. Especially as I keep fucking up in my assessments for a course. Okay then. We go again in Jan.

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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no idea if it's my hormones, what I've seen in the news lately, the weight of living the past few years, or just because it's Judi Dench...but this impromptu performance really made me cry for a good ten minutes, no kidding.

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this story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way