aries: Meet as little kids and grow up together.
taurus: Slow-burn historic romance.
gemini: Start out as enemies and fall in love.
cancer: Best friends who reconnect ten years later.
leo: Tons of angst with a happy ending.
virgo: Soulmate AU
libra: Have sex then fall in love.
scorpio: Single parents who meet at Parent-Teacher night.
sagittarius: Coffee shop AU
capricorn: Holiday fic with lots of fluff.
aquarius: One is a human, the other is a creature.
pisces: Shameless porn without plot.
It took me many, many years of having my life ruined by Shonda Rhimes to realize that the world won’t end if I stop watching a television show. Just because it once gave me sky high feelings doesn’t mean I have to pull out all the stops to try and prolong the emotional roller coaster ride. When you’ve fangirled for a few decades, you learn to cope with the reality that one day you will wake up, look at a photo of your favorite actress, and discover that the feeling is just…GONE. Or you’ll watch your ship sink and shrug your shoulders, knowing that two more random idiots will soon enter your life and reign supreme. For every ship there is a season. A time to weep, and a time to read every smut fan fic you can possibly find, and a time to move on. The 30-year-old fangirl gets this.
There wasn’t a word of this that I didn’t nod my head at. Leaving a show behind, quitting a ship, staying out of petty fights, shrugging off haters, picking the friends that matter… fandom is much sweeter the more perspective on life you possess. You realize that the fandom itself doesn’t really matter, but how it enhances your life does. So make your fandom life a happy place. Lord knows no one else will do it for you.
i know i’ve called ross and the accords team obstructionist assholes, but consider: they may also be a bunch of fucking ding-dongs
think about zemo’s disguise, which was basically a richard kimble special: a wig and a brisk confident walk. the simplicity of it means that at no point during his entry into the un accords building, did he ever face a single biometric scanner. no fingerprint, no voiceprint, no retinal scan. nada. we can assume they let him in because he had a badge.
and who briefed him? presumably there is a step between “getting out of a taxi” and “going to stand in front of the winter soldier.” a step where somebody, at minimum, updates you and hands you a file folder. and consider that the winter soldier is probably one of the highest-level detainees they have ever brought in. he was getting personally deployed by the head of the world security council for literally years!!! who the fuck even knows what he knows!! the person doing his assessment ought to be someone with the highest possible security clearance– and someone that the top brass trusts implicitly, considering how deep the hydra infiltration was at shield. but nobody in the entire building notices that zemo is not doctor whatshisface. does this mean that this is the first time they have ever called on him? would they really put a reputable but unfamiliar person into a room with a fucking Still In Box winter soldier action figure, considering what unbelievably damaging information might come out of his mouth???
everyone in the accords building with a security clearance higher than “crackerjack box ring” should have been summarily fired forty minutes into the movie
The most unrealistic thing about CA:CW is that Zemo, who takes a commercial flight to Moscow and, I assume, travels by public transport from there too, reaches HYDRA’s Siberian facility before Steve and Bucky, who have the Quinjet.
The logo on the ATV that Zemo takes (OYMYAKON Snowmobile Rental) suggests that the Winter Soldier lab is located somewhere near Oymayakon, a village (or district of the same name, whichever they meant) in the Sakha Republic whose biggest achievement is that it is one of the coldest permanent settlements on Earth.
In order to reach Oymyakon, a traveler leaving from Berlin would have to take a flight to Moscow, then switching to a plane bound for Yakutsk – the shortest connecting flight is just 12 hours long, with a 2 hour stop in Moscow.
Next, Zemo would need to get to Oymyakon itself, covering 940 km by car, which adds 16 hours at least (locals say it’s a full day’s trip).
Plus whatever time it takes to get from Oymyakon to the destination on that same ATV.
Now, the question is – if Steve and Bucky arrived to the HYDRA facility a couple of hours after Zemo, did they actually make a stop to get those fruit salads on some island?
I’d also like to mention that Tony apparently had time to drop Rhodey off at the hospital, have a bitter heart to heart with Natasha and visit a super-secret, super-remote super-prison somewhere in the middle of the ocean. And then he literally only arrived minutes after Steve and Bucky.
Our boys totally checked into a cheap motel somewhere in Poland and spent the day shagging.
kototyph 