Voting registration deadlines are coming up really soon (tomorrow, in several states). Go use a site like iwillvote.com or turbovote.org to register or check your registration, and then commit to vote. Otherwise you make Captain America sad and frustrated, and nobody wants that.
“Captain.”
“Hi. Mind if I sit?”
“Feel free. Are you, ah, really intending to consume…all of that?”
“If I’m really lucky, a whole bottle of wine and a case of whatever this is might be enough to give me a buzz, and if that doesn’t work I can at least get a quick sugar high from all this ice cream. So yeah.”
“…bad day?”
“Frustrating. I’m doing some ad spots for a campaign to get out the vote—”
“Of course you are.”
“—and, shut up, they’re not as awful as the ones I did a few years ago, and it’s really important so I’m glad to help, but I see all this garbage online and my god I’m pretty sure I deserve a medal for sticking to the script and not saying something like, I don’t know, how dare you skip voting just because you’ve decided it doesn’t matter, good people died to give you that right, do you have any idea how recently huge numbers of Americans weren’t allowed to vote, and in fact there are lots of people in this country right now who want to exercise that basic right but can’t for one reason or another, and you want to sit here and tell me you’re perfectly capable of getting to the polls but you’re just not going to bother because you’re convinced it doesn’t make a difference and all the candidates are equally bad? Get off your ass and get to the voting booth, I don’t care if the candidates don’t thrill you and you think it won’t matter. This country’s a mess and voting is the very least you can do to start cleaning it up.”
“I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised to find you’re so passionate about this.”
“You’re damn right I am. Pretty sure I’ve earned that. No cracks about how we should’ve let you rule us?”
“And interrupt a rare Captain America rant? Never.”
CHECK IT OUT, there was a booth at Senshi Con selling crocheted octopuses and I noticed they had a Captain America one, so I asked about Loki. No, they told me, they didn’t have one on hand, but I could commission one, so obviously I did that. LOOK HOW CUTE HE IS. Also now he’s available in general, so if anyone else wants to buy one…you can probably do that.
“As summer camps go, I imagine most Midgardian children wouldn’t like to attend this one, but I can’t say I would mind. It seems…dangerous but potentially fascinating.”
“Really, you wouldn’t mind if Father sent you—”
“Fine, yes, I wouldn’t want to be sent to a summer camp full of the undead, but visiting under my own initiative would be a wonderful opportunity for study.”
“…you’re interested because you want to…study them?”
“Well, if I only wanted to fight them, that wouldn’t be a very good use of a learning opportunity, would it?”
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