#i’m so glad i saw this now and not when i was deranged at 2AM last night (i say as if i am not currently deranged)

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the deweys photos are from this video: https://youtu.be/5xTwJho44ao?si=bPw8MZZ327lCogVZ aren’t they just everything

kissing you and the minnesota wild official media team (with consent) full on the mouth, THANK YOU THIS VIDEO IS EVERYTHING 🥰🥰 i have seen pieces of it before i think (connor petting a shark 🥹) but the entire video start to finish is such a delight, 10/10 would recommend

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uwu meter exploded and i ate dinner at 2am after watching this aka the sam and bucky show episode 5

The new episode was sO goOd omg tbh i didnt think i was gonna be able to watch it last night and i legit cried. But i did and i am very very thankful. Because it was a very very good episode. But before we start stOP reAdING cuz theres gonna be MASSIVE SPOILERS IN THIS POST.

Alrighty without further delay, the Sam and Bucky show episode 5 and all its best things (there are a lot, to no one’s surprise). Im gonna go in chronological order to avoid losing my mind.

1. The fight in the beginning. Omg. Walker looked like he was gonna do both Sam and Bucky in with the shield like 6 times and it was lowkey scary. And when Walker knocked bucky into the electric tower or whatever it was— skdjfjs i saw some people post abt Sam’s glare mid battle like “if this is sam looking at walker after he hurt bucky” anD IT ACTUALLY WAS marvel why.

2. Walker ripped Sam’s wings off omg. That was so brutal i audibly gasped. I think we’ve seen the wings being shot at or broken but never ripped clean off. 0 _ 0

3. I like how the fight ended with all three of them on the ground and the shield just lying there. And then Bucky picked it up, left it for Sam and left. Walker was defeated but it kinda shows how Sam still wasn’t sure about the shield, he just knew in that moment that Walker absolutely couldn’t be the one to have it. I feel like that fight scene really conveyed how all of them felt about the shield and it was done really well. (Ok but on a side note, remember in episode 2 when Sam was like “bruh we cant just run up on the man, beat him up and take it?” I guess they went with that plan after all)

4. TORRES MY BELOVED. He’s back and I’m so happy 🥺🥺🥺🥺 also i love how he’s not afraid to give Bucky sass lmao.

5. WHEN SAM TOLD TORRES TO KEEP THE WINGS. listen i havent read the comics but i know what happens in them and Torres is such a Falcon fanboy omg if he’s gonna be the new falcon im gonna be so happy for him ahhHhHh

6. Sam’s conversation with Isaiah Bradley. Man. I’m really really happy that we have that scene. The scene with Isaiah in episode 2 left me reallly uneasy because it ended on a really bad note with unfinished and unsaid things between Sam, Bucky and Isaiah. Also Sam didn’t really get to talk at all in that scene and I felt like he def had things he wanted to say. I appreciated how Sam said that he really didn’t get some stuff and he had Isaiah explain more of his backstory. I think Sam believes that things can change, for good reason, and at the same time Isaiah believes that nothing will change, also for a completely fair reason. But having the time to let the two of them talk, esp with the shield in the room and without Bucky’s complicated history was a really well written piece of dialogue. Thank you screenwriters.

7. SARAH WILSON SUPREMACY. I’m glad we got more of Sarah in this episode ahhh. She’s such a caring sister and I’m here for it. Sam and Sarah sibling dynamics also >>>>>

8. Sam calling in the favors to help fix the boat was so heartwarming omg. And Bucky just showing up lmaooo

9. Bucky flirting with Sarah to get on Sam’s nerves LMAOO

10. Sam and Bucky fixing the boat together was something I needed to see. That entire montage, the teamwork and warm lighting and akskdjajd my heart 🥺🥺💕💕💕

11. Bucky waking up to Sam’s nephews playing with the shield reminded me of the Black Panther end credits scene but also of that one scene in Wandavision with Pietro and wanda’s kids lollll

12. Sarah asking Sam if he’s gonna let Isaiah tell him what to do and then Sam asking/telling Bucky to stop letting others, even Steve, tell him who to be was just. Skdkfjaod. The character conversations in this episode ahHhh

13. On that note, Sam and Sarah having a chance to talk about themselves, their boat and their family was just amazing. They’re fighting to keep their history and also understanding each other at the same time.

14. Sarah telling sam that there’s the fight out there and then theres the fight in here is so special. It in a sense reflects/applies to not only Sam and Sarah’s relationship and struggles, but it also applies to Sam and Bucky’s relationship and struggles esp with Steve and the shield’s legacy, Bucky’s history as the Winter Soldier and all the weight he carries with it. They gotta sort out the inside stuff before getting into the thick of what I’m sure will be the final battle next week as superheroes in the face of the world.

15. On that note. Sam and Bucky finally having the chance to talk was so relieving and eye opening for both characters. Bucky finally understanding Sam’s perception of the shield and its weight on his conscience because he is an African American representing his people and Sam finally understanding a more personal side of Bucky’s relationship with/perception of the shield feels like a knot in their friendship that has been resolved. The development in this show is just through the roof omg.

16. Okay but Bucky talking about how Steve told him about the plan to give Sam the shield... wkerjkakdja I feel like that makes Endgame’s ending a little better 😭😭😭

17. Shield training shield training shield training ahhhHhHhHhh i swear whenever either sam or bucky touched the shield in this episode i started physically vibrating LOL. Its so cool to see the shield in the hands it’s supposed to be in again ☺️☺️ Sam’s training montage with the shield was also AMAZING omg it was so so cool to watch him grow with the skills

18. Not Sam asking Bucky if he has nightmares and talking to him about amends and stuff skdjfjskd lowkey Sam is the superior therapist in this show and he doesn’t get nearly enough credit for it aksjdjskdjajd. Also the implication that Bucky will go back to Nakajima and give him closure for his son I— 😭😭

19. Also im so glad the scene where they’re walking away from each other ISNT the last episode. Its sort of like a “we’ll see each other soon” walk : DD

20. Okay but Bucky helping the Wakandans capture zemo at the memorial (which i think is for his family? 😭😭😭) and then the favor that Bucky called in for sam. WHATS IN THE GOSH DARN BOX OMG. i think it’s either new Falcon wings, a vibranium Redwing (please let it be this) or a suit of some kind

21. And lastly what the heck does Sharon wanna kill Sam for?? She workin for the flag smashers now or sumn? Also Batroc coming back when the last time i think we saw him was in CA: Winter Soldier 0 _ 0

Did it take me an hour to write this post? Yes. Did I get everything? No. I dont think I discussed Walker in this post but he was super scary and deranged and Wyatt Russell blew it out of the ballpark in this episode. Also whats the special character that everyone was hyped about? Anyways. Until next week 0 _ 0 season finale and im not ready for it to be over

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thanks @huigusu for tagging me and explaining your incredible magical gifmaking skills ✨ since i was tagged for the hands through the years piece..uhhh..buckle in cause this is going to be long

Planning

I have to say, i’m very glad i got tagged for this one since now i get to show you my absolutely deranged writing process, so! i started thinking about this as a companion to the first piece, exploring the same concept but through lwj’s perspective. i wrote that one in like two minutes and it was basically fine straight away, but i cannot express how hard it was for me to write this one; at one point i was literally saying sentences out loud trying to hear if they sounded right (which was also probably due to the fact that i was writing my dissertation in an entirely different language at the same time and was v sleep deprived and words just lost all meaning). so what i did was write delirious explorations on my phone notes app and i’m going to subject you to the screenshots right now:

on the left, you can see an early draft of the text, with the art described under every line; I decided to split the piece in three parts, with each one having four beats/illustrations; the first part is wwx’s first life, the middle one their parting and reunion, and the last one their second life together. on the right, you can see me hallucinating characterizations and plot points to try and figure out what lwj was thinking and feeling (for a character I relate to I have a damn hard time trying to write in his voice). I’m not sure anything in there makes sense, but it’s part of the work so it’s going in here.

Sketching

I’m not posting the process for every page or this is going to get even longer, so here’s the very first sketch and very first version of the text for the first page, in my chicken scratch handwriting:

what’s written on this? hell if i know.

Drawing

and these are the (mostly) final versions of the sketches with the text already in its final form (I edited a lot of it while writing it down in the document, yes my process for this piece was absolutely chaotic). I took a lot of references from the show for the moments lwj thinks about in wwx’s first life, because well, the show is beautiful and I like mixing canons together until I’m desperately confused 💫 I also feel like the show has a lot more material in regard to the flashback portion of the story and the growth of their relationship, while the novel is a bit more one sided since the pov is very limited and wwx doesn’t really think about lwj that way until he comes back - which I like a lot but I felt like the show canon fit my purpose better).

And here is the finished lineart!!! In the version i posted i added a paper like texture because idk apparently I was very into textured paper at that point in time? but I like this version much better now, I feel like it looks more delicate. This one also doesn’t have the red robes at the end, which I debated keeping or not - I feel like you can understand it’s their wedding even without the red; but I’m glad I kept them in the final version since I saw people in the tags seemed to like them ❤️ plus I’m obviously a sucker for a black/white/red color scheme.

Posting

I sat on this thing for like a week oh my god, I didn’t like it as much as the first one and kept trying to find what was wrong with it, but in the end I realized I was going to go mad if I didn’t post it. I posted it at like 2am in a daze and went to bed and i vividly remember waking up the morning after, seeing 1000+ notes on my tumblr app and thinking oh my god what did I do

so yeah this piece has had probably the most chaotic process of any of my art to date

Tagging

I’ll tag people here as soon as I can get on the desktop app!! I’ve been very sick and unproductive today so I wanted to get this posted at least~