dad and i watch captain america: the winter soldier

dad: oh god it’s starting shut up i’ve been waiting for this for months
(movie starts)
dad: THESE ARE THE BICEPS OF FREEDOM
dad: i don’t know what’s happening but the french guy fighting cap looks like french macklemore
me: how do you even know who macklemore is?
dad: i’m hip. i’m cool
me: don’t you do it
dad: i’m gonna pop some tags, only got 20 baguettes in my pocket
(five minutes later)
dad: is that the Falcon? that’s totally the Falcon
me: how do you know?
dad: i used to read the comic books trust me on this i’m an expert. his superpower was that he could talk to birds
me: birds?
dad: i mean in hindsight it probably wasn’t the most useful thing ever

dad: if this winter soldier is supposedly a ghost in the machine that nobody’s ever seen, and nobody will ever catch, you would think showing up in broad daylight and blowing up cars would not be his modus operandi

dad: how the heck did he laser through concrete??
me: idk dad it’s nick fury he can probably do whatever he wants

dad: i’m sorry attractive nurse who just so happens to live next door, my heart belongs to a seventy year russian dude with a bionic arm
me: what
dad:

dad: nick fury isn’t dead. justice never dies. he probably has a billion clones in some top secret storage facility, just waiting for their organ harvest.
me: ew dad gross no

dad: i really relate to that apple store employee
me: we all do dad

dad: oh that’s that guy from the first movie! i remember him! he was my favorite, his eyes were so blue, and he loved steve so much. i wanted them to get together
me: dad good god
dad: he was a little less marilyn manson at that point though
dad: not that guyliner isn’t a good look for this guy
dad: when a deadly russian assassin wears eyeliner, it’s ‘he’s so dreamy’ and ‘wow what a badass’
dad: but when i do it it’s ‘you’re too old’ and ‘bald guys can’t pull off make-up’
me: dad it was halloween and it was one time you need to let this go

dad: so bucky barnes, aka cute cocky guy who died in the first movie, aka steve roger’s best friend/boyfriend, is a top secret super scary brainwashed hydra agent?
me: mmm-hm
dad: called it

dad: do you think single handedly destroying jets is just a common, everyday thing for cap? punch a few tanks, feed a few pigeons, take out a plane, help old ladies cross the street…

dad: captain america is like your grandad minus the booze and the cussing

dad: in all honesty that was a little anti-climactic
dad: i was 100% sure nick fury was gonna descend majestically from the heavens, ‘All I do is Win’ blaring in the background, and single-handedly save everyone’s ass

dad: scarjo and chris evans are two of the most beautiful people in the world and they are both in this movie and i don’t know how to feel about it i have butterflies in my stomach i’m a schoolboy again
me: you know on second thought we should have brought mom

dad: where’s hawkeye? where’s bruce? where’s tony? where’s thor? WHERE ARE ALL THE OTHER AVENGERS AS THE ENTIRETY OF SHIELD IS COMPROMISED AND NICK FURY DIES
me: maybe they figured steve could handle it
dad: maybe they’re all lazy assholes

kath-ballantyne:

blue- 50% Merino/25% Shetland/12.5% Bamboo/12.5% Firestar Colourway Catherine Howard from Hilltop Cloud 4ply
98g $35 (333m)

My cat needs a lump removed so I’m selling some handspun.

This is a Wool/Bamboo/Firestar blend from Hilltop Cloud. It’s a range of soft blues and pinks with the shimmer of glitter in there too.

50% Merino/25% Shetland/12.5% Bamboo/12.5% Firestar

Colourway Catherine Howard from Hilltop Cloud

This averages out to an 4ply (sock/fingering weight) and is made up of two singles. It’s quite well balanced and knits up in to a great fabric. It’s definitely soft enough to have against your skin. I have really sensitive skin and have no problems with this. I don’t think it’s spun tight enough for hard wearing socks but I haven’t had much experience with sock yarn. Would be great for mitts, hats, scarves, shawls etc. (You can knit a decent shawl size with this yardage Ravelry Patterns)

It’s 98g/3.4oz and 333m/364yards

$35 plus postage. Message me if you’re interested

Please share.

I’ll edit this to add links to the other yarns for sale once I’ve posted them

I haven’t had the energy to take professional looking photos but if you want more detailed ones I can try.

O’Reilly goes in for his lumpectomy tomorrow. The vet who saw us on Monday thinks it might be a calcified cyst (she tried to put two different needles in it for a sample and there was no give whatsoever, she gave up). It’s day surgery, so it’s not as expensive as it could be, but we are still living on a fixed pension, and we did just drop nearly a grand on our car at the beginning of the month. Any sale will help us meet out bills in time and pay for groceries.

Discovered on the rewatch

I think every MCU fan needs to know that while the Avengers are squabbling with Fury under the influence of the Scepter, this exchange happens. Only fragments of it are audible, but is preserved on the subtitle track:

Thor: You treat your champions with such mistrust.
Natasha: Are you boys really that naive? SHIELD monitors potential threats.
Bruce: Captain America’s on threat watch?
Natasha: We all are.
Tony: Wait, you’re on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?
Steve: Stark, so help me God, if you make one more wisecrack…
Tony: Threat! Verbal threat! I feel threatened!
Steve: Show some respect.
Tony: Respect what?

Are you above or below angry bees?

Are you above or below angry bees?

copperbadge:

iamshadow21 reblogged a gifset this morning which was having some trouble loading on my computer, and it froze on what is possibly the best frame of Captain America 2:

I can’t even work out why this is so funny, I just

I can’t

 Bucky

It’s because people getting grabbed by their faces and thrown is innately funny, and why I’m finding Avengers Assemble less satisfying than Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Because, sometimes, you just want the Hulk to grab Clint by his whole head.

actuallyclintbarton:

twistedingenue:

yosuke-a-shit:

HAWKEYE VS DEADPOOL #0 (Of 5)
GERRY DUGGAN (W) • MATTEO LOLLI (A)
COVER BY JAMES HARREN
HAWKEYE VS DEADPOOL VS CRIME
• Once upon a time, champions emerged to fight evil plaguing humanity. They fought for salvation, for all that is good in the world — and they won. They were kind, generous and self-sacrificing. They were heroes.
• These are not those heroes.
• Meet Hawkeye: Ladies man (“ladies man” because the ladies love to hate this man), crossbow crusader and, most importantly, Avenger. He’s the only guy on the team without any powers, though, so cut him a little slack.
• Then there’s Deadpool (MR. Deadpool to you, skippy) — the regeneratin’ degenerate. You can shoot him, stab him, and make with the punchy-punchy right in his face, but nothing can keep the Merc with a Mouth down.
• What do they have in common? Halloween and a S.H.I.E.L.D. espionage mystery that has the both heroes racing against the clock while outshining one another. It’s a Hawkeye & Deadpool comic 75 years in the making, give or take 75 years.
40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99

littleblueartist, I swear it’s like they made a book just for your marriage.

Birdie literally just asked if I was okay because I am so incoherently deliriously happy. FUCK. YES.