i mean, the thing about captain marvel is i don't think the queer reading is even subtext, it's literally the most straightforward interpretation of "hi we're just two gals living together raising a daughter together and also we love each other," it's just nobody says it out loud
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which i guess is extremely period-appropriate for a movie set in the 90s
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
*side eyes Winter Solider* I mean, when has “the narrative framework is literally that their best friend is their new love interest” actually stopped Disney
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TWS literally started with Cap’s canonical love interest forgetting him and ended with Bucky fighting to remember him as human bookends to the “the past is gone but the future worth fighting for” theme, yet the same writers still had him go back to the past
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Replying to @kdotfuey @BootlegGirl
yeah, exactly. his arc with peggy is melancholy and bittersweet and *resolved.* then the russos (or maybe the mouse, who knows) decided to reopen it out of nowhere because "cap can't be gay!" i guess
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Fwiw the writers of TWS and Endgame (Markus and McFeely) are the ones who say their intention was always that Peggy's unseen husband was Steve time traveling from the future, though they may be lying about this
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I’ve heard the same thing (at a Q&A with them), and they seemed very sincere, but it also doesn’t explain Agent Carter or how they knew Endgame would be a time travel movie when they first introduced Peggy’s unseen husband when writing TWS pre-2014?
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They wouldn't have had any control over other people giving Peggy love interests in Agent Carter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kdotfuey and
Hell, the headcanon they apparently have for Endgame was directly contradicted by the Russos, who said this isn't a time loop but two alternate timelines (so Peggy's husband was someone else)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kdotfuey and
The Russos are like objectively right though. Like the movie itself specifically says that it uses a split timeline system for time travel. That’s why they can’t just kill baby Thanos to win.
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I could roughly handwave that if you work really hard not to contradict anything you already know happened then the timeline doesn't split (you can have a time loop, you just can't change "your own" history) This is a plot device used in a lot of nerdy science fiction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Superninfreak and
Sadly no one actually says this or even alludes to it in the actual movie, which strongly suggests to me this is an idea M&M had in earlier drafts that the Russos deliberately cut because it was confusing and annoying Which is as clear a signpost as any that "this isn't canon"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kdotfuey and
Some deleted scenes have the time travel rules explained differently, so it’s likely they didn’t actually pick a firm set of rules until the last minute.
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