phdna:

It’s been five years and I still don’t know why people don’t think Bucky was such a vintage!geek in the 1940s

• Knows by heart how many women there are in New York and casually throws that in a conversation he has when he’s on his way to a science fair
• “LOOK AT THAT FUCKING FLYING CAR" “Holy cow” feels
• Best friend is a kid who is into arts and takes books with him to the army
• “STEVE YOU’RE KEEPING YOUR SUPER HERO OUTFIT RIGHT??”
• Smithsonian tells me Bucky was “an excellent athlete who also excelled in the classroom” – like, his grades were good enough Smithsonian thought “hey we should mention that”
• If my math teacher wasn’t lying to me, you needed some pretty great math skills to be a good sniper in WW2, so there’s also that

People say “Oh Bucky was into science” but no, god, he was a full-blown nerd