guess who still hasn’t cleaned up the earthquake disaster in her room!!!
YES IT IS ME, THE RESPONSIBLE ADULT
in my defense my mom hasn’t done much cleaning either but a) her mess is worse, b) she had to work yesterday, and c) she got home way later on Friday than I did, so I don’t have a great excuse here. although I did spend some time yesterday working on an Etsy order so at least there’s that
anyway I’m freezing right now and cleaning will definitely warm me up aside from being generally necessary so I really need to just…go do that
for real though the whole Silent Hill 2 level (levels?) between the Historical Society and the docks are just. fucking nuts. you start in a slightly weird if relatively normal building on ground level and then
walk down a looooooooooooong stone stairway. no. longer than that
go through a couple doors
find a deep dark pit and jump down it
wake up in the bottom of a well, find a door, go through some more doors and hallways, find a key
which unlocks another door. that is in the floor. covering another deep dark pit
shrug, jump down it again
wander around a prison. why is there a prison so far underground? it’s Silent Hill. it be like that sometimes
find a trap door covering another deep dark pit
“Do you jump? Yes/No” I mean I guess I could finally chicken out at this one and just sit here
more doors. another deep dark pit to jump down
MORE DOORS. ANOTHER DEEP DARK PIT TO JUMP DOWN
A N O T H E R D E E P no wait this time it’s…an actual elevator
that just. keeps going. and going. and g o i n g
hell is a labyrinth and you’re here forever now
oh you made it. guess what’s at the end. GUESS
ANOTHER DEEP DARK PIT TO JUMP DOWN
BUT THIS TIME
IT’S YOUR OWN GRAVE
doors. boss fight. doors
surprise!! you’re back outside at ground level. isn’t the lake just lovely tonight
Because I’m sick to death of anyone making Team Cap’s intention during the airport battle about anything other than Cap and company trying to get to Siberia to stop five other Winter Soldiers, here’s some dialogue from the movie for ya…
STEVE: Hear me out, Tony. That doctor, the psychiatrist, he’s behind all this.
TONY: Anyway. Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago. Can you help a brother out?
STEVE: You’re after the wrong guy!
TONY: Your judgment is askew. Your old war buddy killed innocent people yesterday.
STEVE: And there are five more super soldiers just like him. I can’t let the doctor find them first, Tony. I can’t.
Then, later…
BUCKY: We gotta go. That guy is probably in Siberia by now.
STEVE: We gotta draw out the flyers. I’ll take Vision, you get to the jet.
SAM: No, *you* get to the jet! Both of you! The rest of us aren’t getting out of here.
CLINT: As much as I hate to admit it… if we’re going to win this one some of us might have to lose it.
SAM: This isn’t the real fight, Steve.
So anyone saying that Team Cap had any drive other than stopping five enhanced Hydra agents from being awakened by Zemo and wreaking havoc, or so they were led to believe, should probably get their ears checked.
Say it with me, folks. The airport battle was not about the Accords. At least not from Team Cap’s perspective.
This
^^^^ All of this.
Theres this common tumblr joke that Steve was allll about irrationally believing Bucky to be an angel, or inappropriately shielding him from the consequences of his actions.
When… that doesn’t happen. At all.
Steve was ready to believe Bucky could have set off that bomb, and went after him before the SWAT team got there in order to take Bucky alive and try to save SWAT lives doing it. Not because he was certain he was innocent. (He said to Nat, “If he’s this far gone, Nat, I should be the one to bring him in…”)
Steve, as you say, is motivated through the entire airport sequence to *stop the other soldiers,* the unleashing of which he fully believes is Zemo’s plan.
Steve does literally everything he can to simply stop Tony’s murderous rage, and only begins to lose his temper toward the end of the fight… a temper he relocates himself, before he goes too far.
Steve is consistently one of THE most level headed people anywhere in the film. Its the rest of the situation around him thats pitting his and Bucky’s needs against that of some of his friends. Steve’s morals around consent and authority and his position on the Accords may not line up with yours. But that doesnt mean he isnt sensibly following his own compass (and besides that, the Accords actually aren’t playing into his motivations for a surprisingly large chunk of the film. He’s got other fish to fry.) He may also have a reputation for sass and splashy actions. But that doesn’t make his motivations in CW that of a hothead.
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