(she/her). I like leisure, reading, music, movies, history, Captain America, & a bunch more.
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Chris Evans as Steve Rogers The Avengers | Deleted Scene
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Joan Baez photographed by Alain Gaveau, 1960s
On March 22, 1895, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, screened their first film, "La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory)," to an invited audience in Paris. #OnThisDay
Babygirl and baby kitty 💕💕💕💕
Come hang with me on bluesky 🦋 if ya wanna:
women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life
tomorrow never knows - CH9
AO3
PAIRING: Steve /Bucky
SUMMARY:
In East Berlin around the late 60s /early 70s, KGB Asset 3B-1 is tasked with eliminating a subject, but his personal equipment malfunctions and the whole thing gets switched to recon and this is how Asset 3B-1 finds himself watching a hapless artist sleep, mostly. But this is the heyday of spies and corruption and nothing ever being what it seems, and so Things Happen. Plot and action and secrets and lies Happen. Until of course the truth comes out, the way it always does. Because at the core of this are Bucky and Steve, as always—idiots who are being the most idiotic idiots about everything, especially each other.
A/N: OMG PEOPLE. IT IS DONE. WE MADE IT.
i nearly drove myself nuts trying to wrap up every last wayward plot strand, but really -- i only have myself to blame for stranding so many plots to begin with.
You absolutely have my permission to yell at me in the comments if i've missed tying up any loose ends. Or anything else. 🤣
i also need you all to take a moment and thank @booksandabeer because she made this story into what it is and saved me from myself countless times. It would not have been worth reading without her amazing beta skills and patient understanding. And she's as much of an accuracy /research freak as i am, which, let's face it, is saying something.
And then i need you to help me throw all the love at @bittersweet-in-boston who is the reason i wrote this, and is the loveliest and staunchest supportive cheerleader anyone could ever hope for.
Finally to @hanitrash and @sparkagrace, and the amazing @smlmsworld, who yell shouty love at me and then blame me for making them yell. i am not sorry.
THANK YOU ALL FOR READING. i LOVE YOU.
💕💕💕💕
YOU GUYS. When you ask @capibuck to do fanart for your fic they DELIVER. IN. SPADES.
I am currently busy having a total meltdown over how fucking cute this is and may actually perished from it.
“Much has been made of the fact that Bucky Barnes is one of the few people to recognize the greatness in Steve Rogers before his transformation into Captain America. Much has also been made of the fact that, in The First Avenger, Bucky demonstrably feels conflicted about that transformation. Less noted, however, is how Bucky’s sense of conflict and resentment—and the way he dealt with those feelings—reveals the kind of person he truly is. The narrative motif of the man who can recognize greatness in another but not attain it himself, and who is therefore corrupted by his resentment, is a classic trope. It appears in such literary masterpieces as Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, Melville’s Billy Budd, and Schaefer’s Amadeus. However, the story of Bucky Barnes is one of a man who recognizes a greatness he cannot himself achieve and is not corrupted by that recognition. Unlike the villains of the above-mentioned tales, Bucky Barnes comes to terms with the situation, choosing friendship over envy—and heroism over villainy—something that suggests a greatness within Bucky Barnes that Bucky himself is not aware of. But Steve Rogers, of course, is. Just as Bucky is one of the few people to recognize Steve’s greatness; Steve is one of the few people to recognize Bucky’s. Both of them know each other better than they know themselves, and it is that parallel knowledge that ultimately saves them both.”
— Sara Reads: Pain, Personhood, and Parity: The Depiction of Bucky Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (via sergeantjerkbarnes)
Get to know your mutuals: tag game
Thank you so much again for tagging & including me @musette22 💙
What's the origin of your blog title: It’s French for ‘fluid views’ (plus it sounds really nice) because I was thinking about the blog being a place where you leave footprints of yourself constantly changing, evolving and ‘shifting’ views all the time, and ‘fluid’ covers that pretty well, so that’s why I picked it :)
OTPs + Shipname: Stucky
Favorite Color: blue, always💙
Favorite game: Any kind of games? I like playing catch? Does that count? Oh and Ludo!
Song stuck in your head: Let me copy & paste 😂: It’s Beethoven’s “Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight Sonata”: I. Adagio sostenuto.” (lol)
Weirdest habit/ trait: I keep my fan on even in winter, because 1. I’m extra intolerant of warm weather or still air (I feel breathless when the air is still) and 2. I’m used to the sound of it, and when I turn it off all the unblocked noise drives me nuts.
Hobbies: movies, reading, writing, reading fanfiction, history, learning (about anything), exploring/listening to music. And doing random creative stuff if the idea is there.
Something you're good at: maths & physics, I don’t necessarily love these, but I am rather quick with them when I have to. It’s been the same in school, these were my best subjects.
Something you're bad at: directions, understanding architecture (like anything beyond just looking at them with no further curiosity)
Something you love: I love staying indoors, and having extra uninterrupted privacy and solitude (which is a privilege most people can’t have). But also nature and forests.
Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: Stucky, Steve and Bucky (and other MCU characters), history of WWII, human nature and civilization, and just philosophy.
Something you hate: I hate being rushed into things. I also often find having to eat so frequently exhausting. (Like right now I have to get up and eat ugh)
Something you collect: older books and mugs. But I also read / use them.
Something you forget: I’m very likely to forget including the cost of drinks when I eat at cafés. Embarrassing.
Favourite movie / show: my favorite shows are 11.22.63 (2016) and WandaVision
Favorite food: if pancakes & chocolate chip cookies (my own recipes only) don’t count, I’ll go with roasted potatoes.
Favorite animal: cats.. and deer? Deer are so pretty! And dogs of course.
What were you like as a child: until I was 7, I think really active and playful, but after that, I became a loud, obnoxious, talkative monster until 10-11 or so.
If you could change any detail about your life right now, what would it be: move far away.
If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet? This is hard, either my dad before I was born, or if I could, maybe JFK? I am fascinated by that particular short period.
I can only think of a few to tag, but since we haven’t interacted that much please feel free to ignore this if you don’t want to play!
@guiltypleasureisfun @soliddarrity
I hope there are more people I can tag in the future!
Nonduality is so simple, but it can never be understood by an individual, which is only a sense of being someone and therefore doesn’t understand anything at all. A sense of self can’t do anything because it’s not actually a thing with its own existence. Instead, understanding belongs to awareness, consciousness, being, or whatever you’d like to name it—literally, whatever seems to stand under all appearance of phenomena. And this “pure consciousness” is the best candidate for being our Self—not the bundle of thoughts and sensations we normally take ourselves to be.
Direct pointing can sound obtuse, like you’re holding back the punchline, asserting claims without proof, or making word salad. But direct pointing is pointing to what is always immediate, always here, always available—the you in which “you” appear and which precedes all concepts.
Conceptual thought can only produce a conceptual facsimile of understanding. Look directly. You are not and never were the self you have always believed yourself to be (or have at least believed since around the time you were two years old).
Awareness can see that it’s not the mind, not the body, and not the person. And yet the sense of being a person seems to stick around and still seems to be real even after the initial recognition of its unreality. That’s just how it seems to work.
(Sorry to use “seems” so much, but much is only seemingly so.)
But if a person persists in being exposed to concepts that point beyond the conceptual, then it seems like there’s the potential for the “body-mind system” to do something different. I.e., when the conditions are right, the mind gradually stops layering the sense of doership/ownership on everything that seems to happen.
Eventually the recognition of non-doership/non-ownership can “stabilize” and become the default mode of living for what seems to be an individual. And eventually for everyone, the person dies for good—either when the body dies or allegedly, in the case of enlightenment, before the body dies.
Nonduality is the most liberating shit on offer. Continue to go back to it and when you’re ripe for awakening, the person will be exposed as being empty and the emptiness will be exposed as being you. And that will change everything without changing a thing.
Or don’t think about nonduality at all. That’s fine too. Whatever happens, this is just this, exactly as it is.
Noelia Towers (Spanish, b. Barcelona, Spain, based Chicago, IL, USA)Female Artists - Skinned Knee, 2025, Paintings: Oil on Linen De Boer Gallery
Okay TW for SA but truly. No one will ever be able to convince me that Bucky wasn't sexually assaulted in his time as the Winter Soldier. He was stripped of autonomy to the point that he didn't even understand it as an abstract concept. He was so dehumanized that he wasn't even an ANIMAL, he was an OBJECT. A weapon, like a gun. And you're telling me that a man like that, who does not even know that "no" is a response he can give, who does not even possess the mental faculties to understand consent, was never taken advantage of? By the... *checks notes* dozens and dozens of very evil men who kept him captive for the better part of a century? These are already men predisposed to violence by virtue of the fact that they are in HYDRA. These violent men are then given weapons and power and the ability to operate with complete secrecy, with no power structure to hold them accountable...
I simply don't understand people who will die on the hill that it couldn't have happened. Aside from the very rudimentary logic which (if you ask me) makes a pretty plausible case for SA, we see him stripped down, smacked around, his own lack of autonomy used to entice people to him. He is constantly touched and moved and undressed. Idk maybe it's me projecting, but so much of Bucky's story is at the very least an allegory for SA. I find it to be a compelling theory even without concrete proof.
Hi! I’ve made these cover pictures for the Not Easily Conquered series by dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears, as you can see, and I really liked making them! I thought I could share them online in case anyone’s interested. But if you are interested, please don’t download them from here, the quality isn’t great, instead you can download them in full resolution on AO3, where I’ve uploaded them all.
