Autistic Natasha headcanon: Natasha learned lots of languages as a girl in the red room one of her favorites was ASL. It felt very natural to her to speak with her hands in fact when she’s alone and feels safe she talks to herself with her hands, it’s comforting and she imagines a stim. She’s excited when she learns her partner Clint knows ASL too and soon when they’re alone they speak often in just ASL it’s relaxing for both of them.
Image: Illustration of Natasha doing the ASL sign for ‘debt’
Tag: head canon accepted
Date Night. Modern AU Steve and Bucky.
“Hey Steve, I found dates! She’s got a friend”
They haven’t admitted their epic love yet. They go out with girls because that’s what you do. Bucky keeps trying to set Steve up with the friends of who ever he manages to find this week, always someone different. It never works. Steve spends the whole night watching Bucky from under his lashes. Bucky dances and flirts but secretly he loves Steve’s eyes on him.
clint and tony having fun makeout sessions and sexytimes and maybe even after one (or both of them) get together with someone else
cough stevetony clintashatheir SOs arent always around and they just really crave physical affection so the other avengers will find them curled up together on the living room couch asleep (steve walking in on this and he just smiles and throws a blanket over them and sits down and draws them while natasha somehow always finds a way to snuggle in between them and tony waking up hours later to shriek like a little girl at the super assassin staring at him an inch from his face)(and clint and tony never bother to put a label on this and no one really questions it everyone just kinda accepts it yep yep)
‘black widow!! is it true that you’re sleeping with captain america?’
the three-second clip of nat smirking and responding, coyly, ‘sure, which one?’ plays on the news for what steve’s sure is a perfect 24-hour loop
‘this is a nightmare’ steve says
‘whatever’ nat says. ‘it was quicker than saying ‘actually i’m currently in a complicated but loving relationship with all three captain americas and we fucked each other tenderly just this morning”
‘oh my god’ steve says
bucky shrugs. ‘well she’s not wrong’
sam sighs dreamily while watching the clip repeat on tv again. ‘i love my new promotion’
it’s literally canon that steve was jogging around the national mall for a few weeks and kept seeing this super cute runner all the time and then cap 2 opens on the day he finally got up his courage and picked out his tightest under armor shirt and just went for it
I am all about Bucky thinking that Captain America is a goddamn joke
and that it’s an even funnier joke when he finds out Cap is Steve
Because he knows Steve SO WELL he knows ALL THE WAYS he at once fits the persona perfectly and all the ways he doesn’t fit it at all. Steve…
#somebody calls steve ‘mature and responsible’ #steve looks all modest and goes ‘well thank y—’ #‘you’re KIDDING right’ bucky interrupts #‘he used to pick fights with guys three—no FOUR times his size #kept trying to join the army so he could what? shoot a few bullets before a fly landed on him and took him out for good? #then some guy whispered ‘psst you want us to make you bigger? we think it might work this time’ to him from a dark alley #and steve said ‘yeah okay’ and by some miracle it didn’t kill or deform him #so then he spent some time skipping around bopping nazis on the head #which yeah sure okay #but then I was gone maybe SIX MINUTES before he decided it would be fun to grab a plane and play chicken with an ocean #so that knocks him out for a while but when he wakes up does he decide to take it easy for a while?#maybe stop trying to give the people around him as many HAPS—that’s heart attacks per second—as possible?’ #‘bucky—’#‘shut up steve #the answer is no #no he does not #he starts fighting aliens #ALIENS I tell you #and after he gets knocked around by THEM things taper off for a while #only eight maybe nine unnecessary life-threatening stunts a week #until he decides it’s time to shake things up and takes on a vast government agency full of traitorous trained killers because why not? #oh but he gets help #two people #you know to even up the odds #and—’ #‘BUCKY’ #‘shut up steve I’m telling her how mature and responsible you are’ #‘I’m sorry I forgot my parachute yesterday could you please just let it go’ #‘WE WERE FLYING OVER A DESERT DID YOU THINK YOU COULD DIVE INTO SAND JUST AS EASY AS WATER’#‘I’m not used to putting chutes on! it was an honest mistake! I’m sorry ma’am here’s your autograph we’ll just go now c’mon buck’
(via sunshineandsuperheroes)
*SKIPPING AROUND BOPPING NAZIS ON THE HEAD*
dying. just dying.
#‘WE WERE FLYING OVER A DESERT DID YOU THINK YOU COULD DIVE INTO SAND JUST AS EASY AS WATER’
Please just leave me here to fucking die, I’m laughing so hard I can’t walk and it’s moved on to full on tears. I’ll just drown right here and now.
Out of Phil Coulson and Clint Barton, which one seems more like a witch to you? Because on the one hand I can see Phil taking magic very seriously and having spell books and all that stuff and working hard and getting recognised and climbing the ranks. But also I can see Clint being a hot mess of a witch who kind of wings it? Like works hard and knows his stuff, but also kinda flings magic around and maybe makes bad decisions and makes them worse with magic.
Clint Barton grew up in the circus if anyone is a witch it is definitely him
Sounds completely legit.
(Also might explain some things in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which is basically just Nat & Clint in previous lives.)
Hee. I bet Clint’s room for his magic/witch stuff is just as much a mess as … um, basically everything about him.. *pets* I mean witches and wizards tend to accumulate a lot of STUFF anyway. You never know what you might need.
“Aw, grimoire, no!” he says as he drops this centuries-old manuscript into a bubbling cauldron.
the fact that i have seen steve and bucky living in clint’s brooklyn building exactly one time in a very small part of an alright at best fic is tragic
i mean just imagine it:
- bucky and steve over the moon to be living in a building that reminds them of where they lived before the war even though it’s kind of crappy it’s PERFECT for them
- clint and kate and bucky and steve teaming up to fight crime together like o m g
- cap getting rid of the bros in like 30 seconds every time they show up if clint needs to get this shit done quick so they can fight bigger and better crime clint what did you even do to start this
- BUCKY BABYSITTING
- EVERYONE BEING BFFS WITH GRILLS
- bucky and kate having sass fests and fistbumping when they say something hilarious about their respective bff
- madame masque kidnapping steve and bucky to get back at kate or something really dumb like that and steve and bucky being like are you even serious rn like OKAY THEN
- ‘hawkeye’ ‘hawkeye’ ‘captain america’ ‘captain america’ IF YOU WANTED TO GO THAT FAR JUST SAYING
- STEVE AND BUCKY FEEDING PIZZA TO PIZZA DOG
- clint secretly fanboying every single day about cap living like two floors down to kate and kate just rolling her eyes like CLINT I KNOW I SAW STEVE DOING HIS LAUNDRY IN THE BASEMENT THIS MORNING AND EVERYTHING and clint being like oh yeah right…so does he actually only wear red white and blue underwear i have a bet going and kate just puts her head on the table and thinks how did i even
WHY IS THIS NOT A COMMON THING???
- bucky and steve start saying ‘this looks bad’ before beating people up. the other avengers give them weird looks. clint smirks.
- bucky getting pissed when kate eventually kicks his ass at archery (but just archery. he’s still better at shooting a gun. goddammit.)
- literally kate bishop and mcu!bucky barnes please just think about it for a moment
- MOVIE NIGHTS
- LITERALLY THEM JUST HANGING OUT AND BECOMING BEST BROS AND SOMETIMES LETTING SAM AND NATASHA
- AND BEING 100% DOMESTIC
- IN BUT THEN TONY DROPS BY UNANNOUNCED ONE DAY AND SEES THE FOUR OF THEM SQUISHED TOGETHER ON THE COUCH PLAYING PORTAL OR WATCHING BLADE RUNNER (‘STEVE IT IS MY FAVORITE HOW HAVE YOU NOT SEEN IT YET IT IS PERFECT’) OR WHATEVER
- AND TONY IS JUST LIKE ‘WH. WHAT. NO. NO YOU CANNOT LEAVE ME OUT OF THIS. YOU ARE NOT GETTING AWAY WITH THIS.’ SO HE PULLS OUT HIS PHONE TO GET EVIDENCE IF HE NEEDS TO BLACKMAIL ANY OF THEM MATER
- AND THEN HE JUST SORT OF LAYS ON TOP OF THEM WITHOUT ANOTHER WORD
- AND THE FOUR OF THEM JUST LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND SHRUG AND KEEP DOING WHATEVER IT IS THEY’RE DOING AND WAIT FOR PEPPER TO COME COLLECT HIM
HAWKEYE HAWKEYE CAPTAIN AMERICA CAPTAIN AMERICA!
– “crappy but perfect for them” YES EXACTLY. I mean I love “Everyone lives in Avengers Tower and it’s domestic and adorable” but Steve and Bucky need the correct mix of “kinda crappy, but good” and a neighborhood with an actual community.
– Bucky is not only *A* babysitter, he is SImone’s kids’ FAVORITE babysitter and actually volunteers to watch the kids so Simone can take some time for herself. (I mean MCU Bucky is just a natural caretaker type – look at pre-serum Steve. I think either Bucky would be really good with kids.)
– I think in a very real way – kids of the Depression and all that – Steve and Bucky would GET Clint in a lot of ways. Like the bit about “you have to take care of your stuff”. (Crap, where’s my copy. Christmas issue. You know the part I mean, right?) Which is why they watched Blade Runner on laser disc despite Kate’s protests that you know what are things now? DVD and Blu-Ray and just DOWNLOADING THE DAMNED THING. But it’s YOUR STUFF and you’ve gotta take care of your stuff. (Side note: I think this is also kind of why I really get Clint Barton in some ways. My city falls under … “kinda crappy but perfect for me”)
I need this like I’ve never needed anything in my life, including air.
I think my favorite thing about the fandom culture on tumblr are the headcanon posts. They’re all revolutionary, because they almost invariably come from marginalized voices. We who have been unloved by the world imagine our favorite characters loving us, fighting for us. Where their creators expect us to exalt them through uncritical worship, we do it by humbling them instead. We make them better by making them one of us.
We racebend, or we explore and celebrate the cultural backgrounds of non-white characters whose ethnicities have been canonically overlooked. We reclaim them as queer or non-binary or neurotypical or disabled, and then we imagine them loving themselves and being loved by their communities. We take characters who have been broken in their battles and envision for them days of quiet happiness, of rest and healing and small comforts, because we’ve been there and we know exactly what you need. We turn them into the role models we should have, that we desperately need, and I think it helps us love ourselves more too.
So don’t ever stop writing posts about Scott McCall hearing his mother sing lullabies in Spanish or Bucky Barnes helping kids get prosthetics or charity-starting bisexual Steve Rogers who stands up for women’s rights or Hogwarts houses validating their trans students. Give me all your fan art of fat Feferi and hijabi Rose Lalonde and the Avengers in a big cuddle pile of mutual self care. This is so important, don’t let anybody tell you differently. I appreciate it all so much.
Slytherin wasn’t the only founder to leave a concealed chamber at Hogwarts— before her death, Helga Huffelpuff created a secret room which would help all students, regardless of house affiliation or purity of blood. It’s been called many things throughout the centuries; today it’s known as the Room of Requirement.
knitting in the dark 