I’m 95, not dead.

shardsofblu:

This is mostly just for my reference, and also because I’ve seen some reblog tags from this post which are curious on exactly how old the Avengers are. For clarity’s sake, the ages mentioned here are calculated as of the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (May 2014) and are strictly MCU canon.

Sources: 
SHIELD personnel files [x] [x] [x] [x]
A Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline

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1) Nick Fury b. December 21, 1951 (62)

2) Maria Hill b. April 3, 1980 (34)

3) Phil Coulson b. April 2, 1965 (49)

4) Clint Barton b. January 7, 1971 (43)

5) Natasha Romanoff b. November 22, 1984 (29)

6) Tony Stark b. May 29, 1970 (44)

7) Bruce Banner b. December 18, 1969 (44)

8) Steve Rogers b. July 4, 1918 (95, adjusted to 29) [1]

9) Sam Wilson N/A 

10) Bucky Barnes b. ?? 10, 1922 / 1917 (92 / 97, adjusted to ??) [2]

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[1] Steve crashed the plane and was frozen on May 6, 1945 (26). He regains consciousness on April 24, 2011 which amounted to 66 years. Therefore, his adjusted birth date is July 4, 1984 (1918+66). The Battle of New York is on May 4, 2011, just 10 days after he woke up.

[2] The SHIELD file states Bucky’s birth year as 1922, while the Smithsonian exhibit transcript states it as 1917. The exact birthday month is obstructed / not provided, so I’m defaulting it to January. Also, I haven’t the faintest idea how to adjust his age since he fell on May 5, 1945 (23 / 28), because he would be going in and out of cryo whenever they need the Winter Soldier for the last few decades. 

More good timeline meta. I do find it interesting that they are making Steve and Natasha (and maybe Bucky) age contemporaries.

n-a-blue-box:

Dear Winter Widow shippers.

I am new here, but I am here, and i’m ready to participate. 

I’ve been messing around with a lot of Phil Noto’s palettes. He draws my favorite version of Black Widow.

and of course, my favorite buck is long haired buck.

All this is very loose work and freehand sketches with no reference. I’m enjoying working with color (even though i do prefer black and white :P)

please don’t remove my caption, watermark, or steal and repost. 

thanks and hope you like it!

-nabb

vylla-art:

He was the one who would always have her back, not because he thought she needed any help, but simply because it made her happy.

She was the one who always found him in his darkest moments and understood. She didn’t try to rationalize it, didn’t try to belittle it, she just accepted all the worst… and stood next to him anyway.

In the end, they’d always find their way back.

tygermama:

last-snowfall:

tygermama:

nonasuch:

star-anise:

tygermama:

I just want all the descendants of the Howling Commandos to be this big, extended, up-in-each-others-business family

and they aren’t all in SHIELD but they all have a rough idea of what’s going on and if one of them shows up in the middle of the night, they’re guaranteed a safe place to sleep, a meal and a scolding

‘You better live through this. If you die, your mom’ll call my mom and there’ll be hell to pay’

I want them to have big “family reunions” every five years where everybody—fuckin’ EVERYBODY—makes it out to some campground or something where they all hang out and have a softball tournament and cut up a sheet cake so big it feeds two hundred people.  That’s when you meet peoples’ new SOs and pass around babies and congratulate kids on their new jobs.

oh god, and if they had the first one five years after the war ended, they’re due for one in 2015, and it’s the first one Steve gets to attend, and he gets there and it’s basically the best/worst experience of his entire life to date, because there are all these people who walk like Jim and grin like Dugan and say their vowels like Falsworth, and they all want to tell him stories about Dad, about Granddad, about Great-Granddad, they want to hear his stories from the war, they want to invite him to college graduations and weddings and christenings, and when he starts to get a little overwhelmed by all of it one of Gabe’s daughters pulls him aside on some pretense and gives him ten minutes to pull himself back together before she gets his email for the howlingfamilies listserv, which she runs.

(oh god, and two hours into it he catches a pack of Dernier kids arguing in rapid French over whether they should tell their parents about the man up a tree at the far edge of the campground that they saw while they were playing hide-and-seek, and Steve walks into the woods with his heart in his throat, and the tree’s empty now but he hears a twig crack behind him, deliberate, because Bucky knows how to walk quieter than that, and when he turns around Bucky looks— well, a hell of a lot better than he did a year ago, a hell of a lot more like himself, even with the shadows still around his eyes and the smile almost wavering at the edges of his mouth.)

 HOWLING COMMANDOSomg the idea of them being like a network or a reseau like thatis just perfect,they’re not all in shield but they have lots of ressources,they might not be agentsbut they’re not exactly civilians eithersome of them are perfectly ordinary office workers who know exactly what kind of spy business shit is going on behind the latest alien attackperfectly ordinary desk workers who know how to shoot like peggyand they’re a group of determined and kickass peopleall super protective of one anotherand they know what a legacy meansand they’re basically a big familyjim’s granddaughter is arguing with dum dum’s daughter’s cousin’s son like they’re siblingspeople are speaking and yelling at each other in at least three different languages at any given timemcui want this so badi want cap to discover them and then they all take care of him and make him feel like he’s family and they all look out for him in their own little waysand ahhh.

and the people who get bussed out to cities they’ve never been to before because they can’t afford medical or dental care but the network has doctors and will get you there

and how it’s slightly cheaper for them to go to college pretty much anywhere because there’s family in the area they can live with

and how if you go off the rails and start getting in to deep there are people who will come find you and drag you home

Every once in a while some kid is like OMG I LOVE YOU ALL BUT I AM RUNNING AWAY TO AFRICA BECAUSE GAH. (Or possibly even I HATE YOU ALL AND I’M RUNNING AWAY TO ICELAND.) (Once in a while I AM RUNNING AWAY TO KOREA AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU AT ALL.) And this is okay. I mean, it’s very sad. But it’s okay. … but they still get care-packages, and someone who works in international diplomacy is tasked to just keep a GENERAL eye on them and make sure they’ve got, you know, money and food. (A roof over their head is variable. I mean, maybe they like bush-living. That’s fine. But money and food, that’s necessary.)

and Natasha’s first mission as a SHIELD agent is to fish this kid out of a serious situation in South America and she has no idea why cause this kid is a no-body and the trouble he’s in is in no way something SHIELD should give a shit about but Fury muttered something about ‘family is family’ and ‘never gonna get any dumplings again’

so Natasha does the job and now there’s a restaurant in the Bronx that always gives her free food and she’s not entirely sure why

but it is great food

Bottle Opener

copperbadge:

Natasha found Clint in his apartment, which made life easier. He was sitting on the couch, a beer in one hand, a knife dangling casually from the other. 

The floor was strewn with clothes — not unusual for Clint, but generally there weren’t this many on the floor. It looked as though he’d emptied his entire closet and dresser. Underwear, sweatpants, t-shirts, uniform gear. Two pairs of boots and one pair of running shoes. Two ties. Several pairs of socks. And a six pack’s worth of beer bottles. 

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