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Someone made an edit of that and tweeted it at Hayley and CMM back in the day!

In my head Cartson are like Mr. and Mrs Smith

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Agent Carter text posts pt. 40/?

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Thompson? Our Jack Thompson?

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You’ve got that James Dean, Daydream, look in your eye                 And I’ve got that red lip, classic, thing that you like

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The truck scene in 208 hurts so much more when you remember that in the last handful of days Daniel thought at least thrice that he was losing Peggy

Like at that point can you even blame him for being sentimental with his decisions

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I conducted my own investigation because no one listens to me. I got away with it because no one looks at me. Because unless I have your reports, your coffee, or your lunch, I’m invisible.

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TOP 10 MALE CHARACTERS AS VOTED BY MY FOLLOWERS                                 ↳#5: DANIEL SOUSA

You talk a pretty big game when it’s your life on the line, Carter, but when it’s somebody else’s? Pretty big hypocrite. What, nothing to say? No quick comeback?

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Re "he can't be her husband bc he served in Japan": all we know is that Jack was in battle at Okinawa, which was in *May 1945.* USA was attacked in 1941., joined the Pacific Theater that same year, and sent its first troops to Europe in early 1942. According to MCU timeline Cap was saving USA men around Europe in 1943. That's pretty much enough time for a soldier to be transferred from one battle front to another. So "he served in Japan" proves nothing.

That’s what I was thinking. I have family that served in the War and most of them moved around the world throughout the war; especially when they were captured/prisoners of war.

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AGENT CARTER 1.08 “Valediction”

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(insp)

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Bros before russian man hoes

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Thoughts on Sousa and Thompson

You know, the thing that really gets me about the whole Peggysous thing is that at best, it’s poorly-developed, but at worst, it romanticises the worst kind of ‘love’—Sousa idealised Peggy, put her on a pedestal, and saw her as someone to be protected, and the minute she showed him that she was different from his mental idea of her, he took it as a personal betrayal. During the interrogation scene, he tells her that he stood up for her, only to have her stick a knife in his back—that’s not about the treason, or helping Howard, that’s about the fact that she turned out to be not who he thought her to be, and he’s enraged and sickened by it. 

Firstly, this is such a classic trope - man idealises woman, then villanises her when she turns out to be flawed. And more importantly, Peggy calls him out on it, the show calls our attention to this giant flaw in the Peggy-Sousa relationship—and then proceeds to resolve it in absolutely no way at all. 

Contrast that with Thompson’s treatment of her: He compartmentalised her as a woman, good for filing and making coffee, but when she shows that she’s not just that, he takes it completely in his stride, and readjusts his definition of her to factor this new information in. And okay, yes, he has the advantage of discovering her ‘hidden’ side in a much more positive context, so it’s unfair to compare his attitude change to her post-Russia to Sousa’s change after discovering that she was a ‘spy’. But the fact remains that Sousa thought of Peggy as a friend for months, but had no problem with immediately accepting the possibility that she was a spy, whereas Thompson thinks that there’s got to be something else at play, because things just don’t add up. Yes, granted, it’s probably that Sousa’s taking bad cop for once (which Peggy tells is a rare chance for him, which is why he’s milking it for all it’s worth), leaving Thompson to play good cop, but honestly, I think Sousa’s definitely emotionally there as well. I really do think that he believes that Peggy’s betrayed him, and he jumped there without a second of ‘maybe there’s something else going on here’. 

So not only is his interest in her largely based on an idealised fantasy with no basis in reality, he also believes that she owes it to him to be who he wants her to be. What about Peggy was Sousa even attracted to, when he knows nothing about who she truly is, and has no interest in finding out? When she tells them about Ivchenko, Sousa rolls his eyes, and basically says ‘you’re lying, we know because we know you’, which is such a momeny of stunning irony. And what did Thompson do? He checked out the building across the road at where Peggy said Ivchenko’s partner was. 

And what precipitates Sousa’s change of heart and willingness to believe Peggy? Her giving up Steve’s blood. And why? Because in that moment she goes back to being who he thought she was, the woman still in love with Captain America, the perfect woman, perfectly unattainable because she’s still faithfully in love with the perfect man, even though he’s dead.

Yes, there are flaws in the Cartson story as well, but they’re not a) fundamental impediments to an equal and respecful relationship, and b) they actually get resolved at various points in the show! Whereas Sousa’s issues are just brought up, highlighted, and then absolutely NOT dealt with, and next thing we get is him asking her out. So, no. I absolutely cannot buy into a possible Peggysous relationship, not with the current trajectory and setup. 

And honestly, I find it unbelievable that writers who have created a show that has done everything it has in season 1 could seriously have set up a Peggy-Sousa relationship in this manner, especially contrasted to the effort put into developing Peggy-Jack. 

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Is that pistol an automatic?

                                                                         I want that.

{ Filling prompt #57 @fanmixes Mixfest 2016 } ✖ Listen | Keep 

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credit to @cloudofbutterflies for this incredible alignment chart

anyone else i should add, or anyone you would like to argue the placement of?

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“If it doesn’t get written in, we’ll do something for the fans, because Lyndsy and I are very supportive of that.”

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PEGGY WEEK 2025 day five — favorite outfit/hairstyle or missing scene ⁉️⁉️⁉️

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So I want to unpack and address this observation the other day:

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This began as sort of an immediate reaction post to the interrogation in 1x07, because…I’m very used to Daniel being portrayed as the softer one, the more level-headed one, that to have him basically explode onto the scene as 1x07 opens was a bit of a shocker. But after some thoughts and rereading some metas, I think his reaction makes sense. I kind of want to map out how I understand his reaction here, as well as attempt a little analysis of character growth when comparing him in 1x07 to him in AOS S7.

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