Real Meaning Behind Rogers Not Returning In The Time Machine

OK, if I understand The Ancient One as she was doing her plot exposition moment with Banner on the roof top, if the stone in question is returned to the exact place of its removal in its timeline, the split/side-branching does not happen. And, since Rogers has the time suit and the Pym particles, he would be able to dance with Peggy without use of the time stone.

And I'm thinking he looked pretty good for 115 years when he gave the shield to Wilson.

Pretty sure it did.

There is also a fanfic that dealt with the whole "why did Steve turn up as Old Steve at the funeral instead of coming back via the time machine". The author ships Stucky (that is Steve/Bucky), but it is a very plausible plot. And, the only really sticky Stucky is about the last third of the final chapter. And even that was almost on level with a Barbara Cartland ending

I've seen a few video interviews with her over the years while she was still alive. I think she was Dame Edna's inspiration for the drag character.

Momma seemed to have adored Cartland's work. She would have boxes of used romance novel paperbacks and would probably fall asleep on the couch at her house reading them and listening to the TV at night. And, while I've never liked romance novels (the whole rape fantasy/female protagonist trope line they used made me wanna puke) Cartland was the only actual romance writer (that is who wrote it with the "blessing" membership of the Romance Writers Association or whatever its called) I could actually read without wanting to hurl.

IIRC, she was also Princess Diana's... aunt? godmother?

I'm not too into romances. I've read a few. I think the most I ever got out of one was from Victoria Holt's Menfreya in the Morning - one of the characters wore a topaz-colored velvet dress with a simple neckline trimmed in jewels. I need that dress.

OMG, yes, when you find the perfect dress it just breaks your heart when it's ruined! I had a gorgeous purple dress with a white, purple dotted swiss, pinafore, you know those multi-elastic waist styles back in the 1970s, and it fit like a dream. It was cheap, though, and the elastic started coming out and I'm no hand at sewing, so I gave it to a friend of comparable size who was a whiz with a machine. Another thing I had, and I've never seen anything like it since, was a green velvet choker that had a 3/4-face cameo carved in something like moonstone (I'm betting it was a synthetic but it was gorgeous!) on a green stone. The cameo came off the velvet (glued), then the face came off the stone (also glued) and the stone and cameo disappeared (I suspect child activity). Another thing that went missing was a white gold, fine-chain, necklace and star sapphire pendant my late father bought for me back in the day. I even tore up carpet to try and find it, but it was gone. Another suspected child activity event. *sigh

Yeah, or whatever it is (the smaller the better) ends up in the tiny garden space under a dirt clod or in the neighbor's yard, either place = 'never to be found again'.