Cunard's Saxonia Embroidered In Silk On A Postcard Ca. 1910s

Animal friends. Curriculum Foundation Series: Combined Guidebook for the Pre-Reading and Pre-Primer Programs. 1940.

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“Much has been made of the fact that Bucky Barnes is one of the few people to recognize the greatness in Steve Rogers before his transformation into Captain America. Much has also been made of the fact that, in The First Avenger, Bucky demonstrably feels conflicted about that transformation. Less noted, however, is how Bucky’s sense of conflict and resentment—and the way he dealt with those feelings—reveals the kind of person he truly is. The narrative motif of the man who can recognize greatness in another but not attain it himself, and who is therefore corrupted by his resentment, is a classic trope. It appears in such literary masterpieces as Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, Melville’s Billy Budd, and Schaefer’s Amadeus. However, the story of Bucky Barnes is one of a man who recognizes a greatness he cannot himself achieve and is not corrupted by that recognition. Unlike the villains of the above-mentioned tales, Bucky Barnes comes to terms with the situation, choosing friendship over envy—and heroism over villainy—something that suggests a greatness within Bucky Barnes that Bucky himself is not aware of. But Steve Rogers, of course, is. Just as Bucky is one of the few people to recognize Steve’s greatness; Steve is one of the few people to recognize Bucky’s. Both of them know each other better than they know themselves, and it is that parallel knowledge that ultimately saves them both.”

— Sara Reads: Pain, Personhood, and Parity: The Depiction of Bucky Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe  (via sergeantjerkbarnes)

SEBASTIAN STAN for 2025’s May issue of Vanity Fair.

M*A*S*H "Dreams" dir. alan alda + "greece on the ruins of missolonghi" - eugène delacroix (1826) / "painting (head of a smoker)" - joan miró (1925) / "herding horses" - han gan (8th c.) / "artist's studio - the dance" - roy lichtenstein (1974) / untitled - helen frankenthaler (?) [rotated] / "study of a head" - francis bacon (1952) / "nitro-67" - oleksandr aksinin (1967) [rotated]

Deana Lawson, Girls with Oiled Faces

“Is there anybody else? I'm looking for a Sergeant James Barnes.”

Anyway I had a lot of fun with the last one so I decided to do another photo study and I fucking regret it so much. Shiny objects my detested.

bucky finds a damp cardboard box of kittens abandoned in the alley near their home. he brings them inside, wraps and dries them with care and uses the heat pad that soothes his shoulder to keep them warm. they take the kittens to the vet because you can tell theyre all sickly, and steve can see how this is going to end (because, after all, what is he but a stray that bucky couldnt help but take in), yet bucky insists. lovingly, he cleans them with damp cloths as if it were their mother’s tongue, and gets up every hour on the hour in the night to feed them. still, every few days like clockwork one of them dies. steve slips from their bed to find bucky in the harsh kitchen light, mourning, milk bottle forgotten and growing cold on the table. he is devastated for each one as he cries whilst cradling their little bodies, and steve cradles him. you did your best, steve tells him. in the end only one lives; her fur had been the most stubborn to clean, but now its a soft, brilliant white. when she opens her eyes they’re blue. theyre going to keep her. she likes to curl in the palm of buckys hand, purring, her body warming the metal plates. steve and his dark humour says they should call her alley, and though bucky finds it funny they compromise and call her alpine - ally for short.

Just adding a couple of fun facts about the ship in this postcard that I just read about :)

RMS Saxonia (1899-1925) was the first of two Cunard Line ships with the same name. The second, RMS Saxonia (1954), was later renamed RMS Carmania in 1962.

The RMS Saxonia (1899-1925) featured in this postcard:

Was built by the John Brown & Company shipyard in Scotland and was one of the first ships to have a wireless telegraph installed.

Served as a troop transport ship and an armed merchant cruiser during World War I.

Was refitted and converted to a three-class cruise ship in 1922, with a passenger capacity of 600 in first class, 400 in second class, and 1,000 in third class.

cunard's saxonia embroidered in silk on a postcard ca. 1910s