But Bucky undergoes transformation in each of his two appearances; The First Avenger is worth re-watching just to observe how well Stan fleshes out Bucky with relatively little material to work with. He starts the movie as a grinning ladies’ man and ends it as a sniper who can barely smile, and by The Winter Soldier his ability to smile is long gone. That the filmmakers chose to end the movie on Bucky’s visage is all you need to know that it’s his story we’re really concerned with. Cap is Cap is Cap. But Bucky is fluid, an evolving character whose struggle is not with the world in which he lives but with the man that world has forced him to become. Bucky Barnes is the one undergoing the Hero’s Journey, not Captain America.

princessbenjamin:

I have this old school belief that  fans shouldn’t share any fandom stuff with non fannish people that they don’t need to know. To others, it may come off as creepy or strange and pathetic. A lot of the time, they’re not laughing with you, they’re laughing at you.  

You get so wrapped up in your own little fannish world that you start to think everything you’re doing is so logical and obvious that everyone gets what you’re thinking and what you’re trying to do. 

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