I often think about how John Walker, still trapped in that dark abyss of emotional despair and pain and loss, still dissociating, with no one who can understand how he feels willing to actually help him process those emotions, with no way to access medical help and therapy, and left adrift to drown on his own with all the cards stacked against him, STILL managed to pull himself out of the darkness and do the right thing because he genuinely wanted to do good things all along
He could have kept falling deeper into the darkness. He could have let that anger and desire for revenge consume him. It would have been all too easy. The whole world was against him and he could have said fuck them all. But he didn’t. Because for all the “bad” the serum may have amplified in him, it also amplified everything about him that was good too. It amplified the man who wanted to do the right things and help save lives. Because that’s why he became Captain America in the first place. His genuine good intentions was never an act. It wasn’t for the cameras or fame or attention or to trick Sam and Bucky. He wanted to help. He always did, even when no one believed in him or wanted to give him a fair chance.
#Poor Garou
mentally I’m here
"Steve would never use a gun" *Storms Hydra base literally guns blazing* "But they were Nazis" >And the Flagsmashers are terrorists, next. "Steve would never kill" *Tosses henchmen off Helicarrier* *Kicks dudes out of windows* *Throws grenades at henchmen* >You'd have to be willfully dumb to think a Supersoldier throwing a Vibranium shield at people's heads is not fatal >Kills way more guys in the first Avengers, but blood only now gets on the shield somehow >Hey, maybe Cap should have, as Sam put it, "tried listening to them..." "But he surrendered" *Throws water fountain at John* >Therefore, still an active combatant. *Didn't actually surrender, but instead diverted blame* >Which makes it a heat of the moment situation, rather than a cold blooded murder situation like antis are making it out to be. >All the bad guys Sam and Bucky killed, you've never ONCE seen them fear for their lives until it was John's turn to fight back. More manipulative bullshit. >Of course, it wasn't the right decision to do it in public, but to act as if it's completely irrational makes no sense. He's a soldier, wtf do you think John and Lemar were doing in Afghanistan? Or Steve Rogers in Germany? >It isn't bad that Steve killed bad guys, but with John, it's a problem because the ominous music, the leering, villainous camera angles, blood on the coveted shield, the shocked civilians (and Karli), made it so. "He was unarmed" >He was a Supersoldier- he IS a weapon >Also, how do you go from being a Supersoldier to being helpless? They're just like John, it's not like he unlocked some new level of power after Lemar died, they didn't even really have a reason to stop fighting, other than the show setting John up. Even MORE manipulative bullshit. >Zemo kills an unarmed guy, Sam and Bucky are like, "Don't do it again, bestie", but John, they're like "This isn't you, give up the shield. No one else has to die." "I'm a Black man carrying the stars and stripes. What don't I understand? Every time I pick this thing up, I know there are millions of people out there who are gonna hate me for it." *Iron Patriot: Ceases to exist apparently* Also, missed opportunity to make Bucky the voice of reason for John after losing his best friend and partner, seeing as Bucky and Steve could have been the perfect parallel for John and Lemar. But no, tag team the shit out of an emotionally compromised man while the show acts like it was the right thing to do. In Civil War, Zemo cautioned against putting Steve Rogers on a pedestal, he can kill or have his actions result in the deaths of any number of people but as long as his intent was good, he can do no wrong, because he's a hero. Sound familiar, antis? Not saying that killing bad guys is wrong, Steve and John are soldiers, a soldier kills, but what's important is that they kill the right people. Antis conveniently omit that understanding when it comes to John though... Think for yourselves, you're ignoring reasonable sequencing of events because you're too sprung on the Steve, Sam and Bucky crew to see the show is using cheap tactics to cover up sub par writing and avoidable contradictions. You'd have to be willfully obtuse to ignore that there are more good things to say about Walker than Sam or Bucky. Antis, tell me you can't comprehend characters with depth without telling me you can't comprehend characters with depth.
credit to https://zemoscurl.tumblr.com/ for the amazing tik tok
everyone knows about this meme, right?
but does anyone else know the woman who made the food? no? time to educate!
She made all the cakes for the restaurant while it was open. Chef Gordon Ramsay tried her red velvet cake, and spoke this meme-able line:
He then called Mary over, complimented her food, and gave her a peck on the cheek.
Look how happy she was to hear that!!!
anyways, I hope she has been able to continue her love for baking since the restaurant closed down.
Getting tired of seeing big posts that are basically like "look there are gay Palestinians too that's why you should support them!" like how about we support them because they're facing a genocide how about that?
the story of John Walker is not that he is an irredeemable villain who can’t be saved
(quote inspired by Avatar the Last Airbender)
Goals: Find a girlfriend
Obstacles: Human Megatron being that Hot
A Young!Miner Megs as a treat! Because YouTube jumped to the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack while I was working on a larger piece and was like LOOK THERE HE GOES THAT LAD IS SO PECULIAR, I WONDER IF HE’S EVEN WELL??? WITH A DREAMY FAR-OFF LOOK, AND HIS NOSE STUCK IN A BOOK—
Many of us want to help Ukrainian people during such terrible times but not everybody can do that directly or has enough money to donate. There are ways to still help tho - for example watching videos made by people promising that they will donate whole ad revenue to the charity, yet it is not unreasonable to suspect some of the creators to be scammers, not all of them will publish proof of donation, right?
1) Fortunately, channels like Watch to donate ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCJH1K31TTLYhux3v1Yb3NQ ) exist. They have their own website where they publish proof of donation to the charity for all their videos, each dedicated to another important issue. https://www.watchtodonate.org
Link to video made to help Razom (https://razomforukraine.org) fundraiser for helping Ukrainians - https://youtu.be/Ath4IxAYOB8
Watch to donate already engaged in raising money to fight climate change, aid indigenous people, support girls and women in Afghanistan, prevent LBBQT people suicide, and so much more! Videos created to support this important issues are still on their channel.
2) Moreover, they have collaborated with artists, for example Michelle Teh - all money made of streaming her song Life Update on Apple music and Spotify will go to Project Hope, they also help in Ukraine (and in other places in the world as well). Their website states that
,, Founded in 1958, Project HOPE is a renowned global health and humanitarian relief organization. Our lifesaving work addresses the world’s greatest public health challenges, transforming lives and uplifting communities. “
Link to Life Update on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/24V6frSTVC8PD5XwBB5E1y?si=143fcd711be64760
3) Watch to donate have their own game (available for free in google play app), according to them it makes 20 x more money than youtube ad revenue, it includes three games, each for different issue. It’s called Play to donate. Profits from ads on main page go to Project Hope
4) Rebuild Ukraine Game
LINK
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pubrevplus.rebuildukraine
- It’s a game created by Ukrainian maker in the bunker, he wanted to help his country so he created the game and all ad revenue will be donated to charities helping Ukrainians now. The interview with the game creator can be read here https://flipboard.com/topic/gamedevelopment/making-the-rebuild-ukraine-mobile-game-in-the-middle-of-a-war-zone/a-cw0GYTgzSX6bpr2sDt4A6g%3Aa%3A58779069-41db98e4b7%2Fventurebeat.com
5) Since the begining of Ukraine crisis (genocide of Ukraine people by Putin and his dogs) World Food Programme does what is the most needed to help suffering people, proof of their work is published here https://www.wfp.org/publications/situation-report-ukraine with newest reports stating that ,, Since the beginning of the conflict, WFP has reached over 3.8 million people with in-kind and cash assistance and will continue scaling-up its response to assist up to 4.5 million people. WFP continues to monitor the food security situation in Ukraine and refugees movement into neighbouring countries, to adjust its assistance and accommodate surging needs,, . BY PLAYING IT YOU NOT ONLY SUPPORT UKRAINE BUT ALSO SLOW DOWN FOOD CRISIS
You can donate to World Food Programme for free by playing it’s official trivia game on freerice.com , sponsors pay worth of 10 grains of rice for every good answer, many categories are available.
6) PINK FLOYD RELEASED A NEW SONG, ALL PROCEEDS GO TO UKRAINIAN HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
Link to spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/05d0sXGApO7BPFY9tMwCXm?si=1366693c3085423f
Thank you for the lore for your AU and for clearing a few things up.
How serious are the laws against those Constructed Cold? I read from an earlier post that Megatron got beaten like in canon over having a book since miners "aren't allowed" to have that kind of literature. Did Whirl go overboard or was that a relatively normal response to finding contraband? Also did Morgan ever tried to get medical books to better help his miner friends?
It wasn’t so much having a book as it is what type of book that tends to get the lower classes into trouble! Also it’s actually a class issue, not a Cold Construct issue ouob.
Megatron is manual class, and manual class has a list of books they’re allowed to read—-usually fiction, self-help and historical books based on their line of work, or Quintesson war and world rebuilding stories that promote the current system——anyone found with one not on the list will be questioned to find out who sold it to them, or will be assumed to have stolen it.
Book stores in different parts of town will offer different books depending on what a person’s designated working class is/what the major working demographic is (a young Megatron approached young!OP because he had read every single book in the one downtown bookstore he’s allowed to go to, and he saw OP reading something he’d never seen before) ——by the time children reach middle school and are segregated based on working class, they’re encouraged to get an education firmly based on what their future line of work is and be heavily dissuaded from everything else. (Libraries are only found in affluent/higher class neighborhoods. OP establishing a community library in The Dead End was unheard of until then)
Whirl beating up Megatron had nothing to do with the contraband and everything to do with people in power, who have a hold over Whirl, using him to teach Megatron a lesson/silence the miner.
OP did actually give Megatron a comprehensive first aid book before he left for the police academy——the cover and first chapter were made to look like a guide to the history of coal mining in England—-because Megs told him that he wished he could learn medicine that he could help his community whenever one was too far away to do calls there (there were not many medics who treated manual classes and those who did usually wanted to ‘rise up’ ASAP. Free clinics were rare and often closer to towns which took time to travel to from the mines).
When Terminus got caught in a cave-in on Messatine and lost his legs, what Megatron learned from this book is what helped save Terminus’ life and helped Terminus recover under less than ideal conditions.
I've been seeing a lot of posts insulting the people who are critical of of how TFATWS dealt with Bucky's trauma, claiming that we "want him to suffer". In reality the only reason the MCU wants us to believe he's healed (despite not doing the work) is that they can't be bothered to properly deal with it and just want to 'move on'.
I’m currently running a group project via Discord known as “Grand Crossover Worldbuilding”. In this project, we take various series and attempt to combine them together into a cohesive whole.
The project is democratically run. The series included are determined via vote. Using the series that have been voted in as building blocks, participants write up pitches which describe the world and how it is set up. These pitches are then put up for a vote, and if they pass they are added to our canon document. I will be posting the contents of that document on the blog gradually.
The project is open to new members at any date via the link below:
https://discord.gg/a8dS2ratmU