va-bites:

“Cheer up, Punk.”

My first collaboration of this kind!! I was beyond excited the whole time and I’m calm enough to post now. xD

It’s not every day your favourite art blogger offers to team up with you – this was a true honour for me, and SO much fun to work on! Here’s Bucky and Steve back in the old days. There’s a little story in this picture, but I’ll leave it up to you to interpret. 😀

Bucky was drawn by me, and this incomprehensibly cute pre-serum Steve was drawn by Emily of meringutan.tumblr.com. She also runs this really awesome Steve & Bucky ask blog that I fell in love with at first glance: asksteveandbucky.tumblr.com!

I love this fandom to bits, and I hope you guys enjoy our joint contribution to it. ❤

natashabucks:

Joe Russo: We always said that the whole movie lives or dies on that last scene between him and Bucky. You know, this third act is a fait accompli in a way. It’s a superhero movie.

Steve McFeely: I suspect he will win.

Joe Russo: The expectation is that he will win. But the real story is will he win Bucky, will he save his friend, will his friend kill him, will he have to kill his friend? The tragedy of that moment was the most important thing to us as directors in the third act. That’s the real climax of the act. 

Steve McFeely: Yeah, from jump street we always worked towards getting to: “I will sacrifice myself in order to reach my friend.” And so “end of the line” has been the line since the very beginning. And Sebastian nails it, it cracks him. 

Chris Markus: Again, it’s about Steve trying to save his past.

Joe Russo: It’s the last thing he has left.

– Captain America: The Winter Soldier Blu-ray Audio Commentary

How are you gonna get Cap interested in fighting Ultron when he should be consumed with finding Bucky?
The fact is Ultron is a clear present danger, and Bucky is in the wind. And we do mention the fact that that’s his sort of primary thing but he’s also working with The Avengers too. We’re not ignoring it but he definitely has to deal with a mad 8-foot robot… ‘cause that’s one of those things, you know, you put if off, and it just gets worse.