I am THRILLED to present this AMAZING commission I Just received by the astounding @kevinwada !!
He took the prompt of Steve painting a pinup of Bucky, post Winter Soldier and did AMAZING with it – incorporating some super fun, flirty WW2 pinup vibes and I absolutely ADORE it.
Thank you so much, Kevin, for the commission, for the awesome interpretation, and being so wonderful to work with!
Disney is in the formative stages of setting up their streaming service, start date to be determined. They’re waiting for their contract with Netflix to end on both the TV and movie sides, but they are already announcing new shows for their streaming service. Which is hilarious because (a) the current TV and film sides notoriously don’t communicate and live largely irreconcilable lives and (b) they are pitching three shows featuring four currently dead characters: Loki, Scarlet Witch, and a Winter Soldier-and-Falcon show.
It’s completely possible that the TV side could remain ignorant and separate from the film side and these characters could be on their own adventures without matching up with the film MCU; it happens all of the time in the comics with characters who appear in more than one book. DC does this with their Arrowverse and the DCEU, but….. but.
The Arrowverse and the DCEU operate on an Earth I and Earth II kind of principle with different actors in the same roles, so the guy playing the Flash on TV isn’t the guy in the movie and they are separate and distinct Barry Allens.
Marvel has never operated that way. The Phil Coulson on Agents of SHIELD is the same one who carked it in The Avengers, the mentioned-only-once incident that took out Hell’s Kitchen in Daredevil is the Battle of New York.
And toward that end, the generally accepted assumption is that the MCU actors will be the stars of the new series – Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen are allegedly reprising their roles and now Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan are assumed to also be doing the same.
Which leads, finally, to a question: if there is going to be a Winter Soldier-and-Falcon show, which btw would be awesomesauce, does that mean neither of them pick up the shield from Steve’s presumably dead hands? Do we go into Phase 4 without any Captain America? Or just not a BuckyCap or a FalconCap? And if the answer is ‘just not them,’ then who?
Hardison has a rule that he will never, ever hack into any Stark Industries servers. He’s heard enough horror stories, thank you kindly. The only person who he knows of who ever got anywhere is this person with the handle J.A.R.V.I.S., but he doesn’t know if that’s a rumour or not.
Nate knows every piece of art in the Stark-Potts collection and what it’s worth. He has retrieved at least four pieces. Pepper knows him by name. When he loses his job and Sterling takes over, Tony is like: why can’t we have the other one back? He’s an alcoholic? SO? I HAVE A BAR. HE CAN DRINK HERE. I DON’T LIKE THIS NEW ONE PEP.
Special agents Thomas and Hagen get assigned to SHIELD as FBI liaisons. SHIELD totally knows Parker and Hardison aren’t really FBI, but they know about Leverage and are like: eh, it’s fine, just keep them away from any alien stuff and don’t let them steal anything.
(Also, I’m not saying Melinda May and Eliot may have had a fling in the past but Melinda May and Eliot may have had a fling in the past.)
Sophie once dated Tony Stark for a weekend. She wasn’t even trying to con him, she just saw an opportunity while conning someone else and was like: you only live once. She won’t tell anyone if she slept with him or not, just smiles mysteriously and says ‘he was a perfect gentleman… until I asked him not to be’. It drives Nate insane. (What she means is they went to get greasy burgers at an all-night diner after a gala, in their fancy clothes.)
Parker likes watching videos of Black Widow and seeing if she can replicate her moves. Eliot may have been a Very Willing Test Subject for the Death By Thighs move.
There is also a week where she decides she wants to be like Hawkeye. Nate has to ban sucker darts and toy bows before Eliot murders her. Or Sophie. Or Nate himself. Hardison is immune and probably builds her a sucker dart compound bow with laser guide.
Nate has Complicated Feelings about Captain America being back because Sam used to love the comics and he’s not sure if this guy is the real deal and will live up to the hero his son worshipped.
Nate gets over himself pretty quickly when he sees Steve Rogers cuss out a Fox reporter who tried to stop him on the street to get him to condemn vaccines and universal health care. They watch the 25 minute lecture-rant at least three times as a team. Nate thinks he’d like to buy Captain America a drink.
Nobody mention the similarities between Eliot Spencer and Bucky Barnes, it will not end well.
Especially when one time, Captain America and his buddy The Falcon showed up because they got a tip Bucky was ‘working at a brewpub in Portland’ and Eliot had to let him down that sorry, he was the only long-haired murderfaced assassin at this pub. He offered them dinner on the house and very manfully made it all the way to the back of the kitchen before doing a little freak out fanboy dance because he shook Captain America’s hand, Hardison, oh my god I’m going to feed him so much chili.
They have to distract Parker from trying to steal Sam’s wings. And make her give back Steve’s wallet. Twice.
The week Wakanda made itself known to the world is the week Hardison lost the ability to speak in anything other than high pitched squeaks of delight and awe. (Hardison literally faints when his online gaming buddy shows up at the brewpub like: what up, Hardison, guess who’s actually the princess of Wakanda and has a badass invisible ship.)
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