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I always have your back

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Same hun

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Bucky knowing at least 31 languages according to CACW, super serum brain enhancements and the fact he learned Xhosa in Wakanda, leads me to believe he must have the fucking gnarliest of language blurring. You know when you can't seem to figure out how to word something in one language so you skip over to a different one but wait no one knows that...

I also don't think English would be Bucky's default language anymore. It's his birth language, sure, but Russian is probably the language he defaults to now after 80 years right?

So if Bucky's ever delirious for whatever reason, extreme tiredness, magic, super drugs or whatever who knows, do we think he talks in the most insane blend of languages, does he say a sentence in Japanese then switch to Korean and then to Polish, do we think he'd point blank say "I'm sorry I don't speak English" in English to his English speaking friends or teammates because he thinks in Russian and about fifteen other languages before he gets to English, and then goes "oh wait I do" or...?

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I KNEW these bruises on Bucky’s temple and cheekbone looked like a familiar pattern…

(and we know that ear bleeding can be caused by broken facial bones and/or ruptured ear drums)

(and we know that whatever Zola did to Bucky in Austria he was in a big enough hurry to finish)

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I had CA: TWS playing in the background at work today, and something caught my attention that I have idly wondered about before, but this time, it was like a great big flashing sign. So much so that I had to go back and replay the scene.

Pierce: The timetable has moved. Our window is limited. Two targets, level six. He already cost me Zola. I want confirmed death in ten hours.

I saw that then I watched the scene on the bridge. Watch the Winter Soldier. He comes in for the attack, and the first person he takes out of the equation is Jasper Sitwell. AKA the man who let the Lumerian Star get captured by pirates. AKA the reason Fury got the intel and had his suspicions raised. AKA the reason that the timetable was moved. AKA the reason they lost Zola.

I always assumed it was Steve and Natasha he was coming after, but no. Steve is Level 8.

Just watch the way TWS attacks. He doesn’t go for Steve or Sam directly. He takes out Sitwell, the easy target, first then aims through the roof of the car at Natasha first. And when the car crashes, he doesn’t go after Steve.

Instead, he fires towards Natasha, and only misses because Steve pushes her out of the line of fire. The blast sends Steve hurtling over the ledge. You would think he would be a priority target after that, but TWS ignores him. Instead, he calmly stalks after Natasha like a predator.

The other HYDRA operatives are firing like mad, shooting at everything, but he just watches for Natasha. He doesn’t fire until he has her in his sites. He only fires three times when she’s still on the bridge, and each shot only just misses her. (Speaking of, I love that the only thing that makes him lose his cool and fire as wildly as the other HYDRA agents, is when she manages to land a hit on him. That’s the one time he doesn’t aim)

When he gets given the machinegun, he also doesn’t waste his ammunition once she’s out of range. He hops over the edge of the bridge and goes after her on foot. The only time he actually bothers himself with fighting Steve is when Steve attacks him.

Also, I think this whole scene really demonstrates the difference between the design of the Winter Soldier as a weapon and the way HYDRA have used him. HYDRA tends to be very much smash in and “KILL THEM ALL WITH FIRE!” style, whereas the Winter Soldier is very much carefully aimed and positioned. Just watch the way he moves when he’s hunting. Or even when he’s firing. He is absolute stillness and quiet, compared to the chaos and destruction of the HYDRA boys. He just walks into a scene, lifts his gun, fires, and just like that, is gone.

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That was SEXY as Hell!!!!🥵😍🤯

THIS SCENE DID THINGS TO ME .

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That would be even more terrifying knowing that is very likely all the generations of the Barnes family would be extremely proud of him as a WWII heroe and the only Howling Commando do die in action. More likely they would argue that whoever bombed the UN was a look alike or a clone.

Did Rebecca learn Bucky was alive???

Like, in tfatws, Bucky said "I have a sister", have, not had, so we can assume Rebecca Barnes (Proctor) is still alive.

I would think that she would know that Bucky's alive, he made international news at least once, but when did she learn???

Like, did she turn on the news one random day in 2016 to see her brother, whom she thought had unalived over 70 years ago just 💥💣ed the United Nations???

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Okay, but watching the GIF here of Bucky answering ‘do you know me’, is it just me, or does he look like he’s spouting off something rehearsed? 

Like, ‘I knew this day would come, and I’ve spent hours practicing all the different scenerios and all the things you might say and all the ways I would need to respond, and yep, this is version 621, so let me just yank this answer out of my pocket for you.’

Which just makes this all the more heartbreaking, because pretty sure every scenerio ended exactly the same way.

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Why do I hate crossbows?

That's the neat part!

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If anyone was wondering, yes, that is The Gun. Here's a closeup if you want a good reference (those distinctive silver cocking serrations in particular are usually hard to see).

Fun fact about the gun in Rumlow's left hand: he's never seen with it in CATWS. It appears to be a Smith & Wesson M&P, which kinda makes sense because SHIELD agents in the Agents of SHIELD show were equipped with the M&P as their standard sidearm according to IMFDB. For some reason this did not carry over to CATWS, where the Glock 17 and 19, which we do see Rumlow with at one point, are standard for agents instead. Yet curiously he has the M&P in this photoshoot.

Also I'm almost certain his thigh holster is a Blackhawk SERPA Level 2.

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4K CELEBRATION

@nidavellirs asked: Hair + Bucky Barnes

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wardrobe appreciation:

marvel → bucky barnes

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Bucky Barnes + rifles

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Old newspapers are a great source for details like costs and very localized stories and controversies. And, because I am always thinking about them, I thought it would be fun to browse some old papers for a little historically accurate, pre-war, Stucky research. I feel like this sort of information is great for fic writing. I also just feel like it's super interesting.

I used the Brooklyn Eagle:

All ads/articles were pulled from March 10th, July 5th, (I wanted the 4th but that wasn't available) and today, October 16th of 1939.

Please enjoy: prices for clothes, appliances, apartments, movies, dancing, dinner, travel, and more. Also, a World's Fair Schedule, a suspect old recipe, a report on the controversy over the naming of Bed-Stuy, the knowledge that Coney Island had a record number of visitors on July 4th, 1939, and more amazing 1939 Brooklyn content.

Store prices:

Night out prices:

(Dancing on Coney Island for $1.25! )

(Actual Katherine Hepburn in the stage play of The Philadelphia Story! Whispering Enemies: a smash action show!)

Travel costs:

Costs for other activities:

Apartment listings:

For reference, $45 in 1939 is about $1,020 in 2024.

At the World's Fair:

(The cost of Fair tickets seems to have been a running controversy. The Letter to the Editor is from March 10th. The Schedule is from July 5th. Do you ever think about Steve and Bucky going to the World's Fair? Because I think about it all the time.)

Around Brooklyn:

(I honestly do not even fully know what is happening in this Ebbets Field one, but I think it's sort of incredible.)

(Listen. Please never feel like any fic premise you have ever, or will ever, come up with, is contrived or unrealistic. Because, today I learned that once, in 1939, this "popularity contest" happened. So, truly. Go wild.)

(What amazing headline work, the Brooklyn Eagle. Absolutely no notes. Just stellar. 10/10. I realize this one didn't actually happen in Brooklyn, but I had to include it.)

Just a bit more very 1939 content:

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Very likely the shield would be able to decapitate and slice in half a human being, particularly when thrown by a super soldier.

Does Marvel wants gore and splatter movies? Don't think so...

So we are lead to believe that the shield only knocks down people, without thinking too hard about internal bleeding, broken bones and severe concussions.

Compared with a gun, the shield is a noble righteous weapon that serves well the "clean good noble guy" image of Steve Rogers, although it has the potential of being more deadly than any handheld gun.

there's something endlessly fascinating and kind of horrifying to me about a steve that "doesn't use guns" (which in the comics is made out to be this big thing of principle or whatever) but is such a brutal fucking hurricane in and of himself that he pretty much doesn't need them to be highly fatal anyway

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Hi! I just saw your post about how Bucky’s rule number two should have included him, and I totally agree with everything you said about that. But something that stuck out to me as odd about the whole rules system thing is, it seems more like something a psychiatrist would use to treat someone who didn’t have a good moral compass or some other issue like that? I could be wrong but “don’t do anything illegal” and “don’t hurt anyone” kind of sound more like things they’d say to someone with anger issues/sociopathic tendencies/other conditions with which harm to others and/or deviant behavior is a possibility. The show seems to imply that he was suffering from PTSD though, which doesn’t match up with that? I don’t know, I thought it was weird.

Thanks for the ask nonnie!

I won't pretend to be an expert on therapy methods but your point is solid and I've seen it mentioned a couple of times by people who do have a background in psychology. (As an aside, difficult anger control can be a part of PTSD - unfortunately it's the way a lot of men have been socialised to deal with fear and anxiety - but that's really not the way Bucky's been portrayed.)

Contract setting within psychotherapy is usually a good thing, because it sets clear professional boundaries and also means both the therapist and client have a common list of goals to work towards.

There was this chain of posts before (in case the gif doesn't work) but I agree. Look at the gesture she makes as she says "With your history, the government needs to know that you're not gonna..."

This is such a fundamental misunderstanding (or misconstruction) of his role in Hydra and of the actual nature of his mental health problem. Bucky's history is one of being tortured, mind-wiped and made to obey orders. Neither the Winter Soldier nor Bucky was ever aggressive until he received the commands to be.

This iconic scene of The Soldier sitting placidly in Pierce's kitchen when someone entered the scene unexpectedly, and Pierce had to execute the maid himself. The Soldier did not inflict violence until ordered to. The only time he was aggressive against command was when he had flashbacks to his capture. And in Civil War, Bucky was only ever shown to be "aggressive" when forced to defend his own life (Don't tell me self-defence is now a mental health diagnosis).

From a therapy perspective, you're right - those rules are about curtailing someone's actions, whereas Bucky's problem was more about learning the confidence to make choices. This isn't someone who's going to act out, he's had 70 years of being tortured and conditioned into obeying orders. This is someone who's going to hesitate about committing to a choice, he's going to defer to others as much as he can, and maybe as he grows more confident, he starts making some questionable choices that tends to position his own well-being last because he's been trained to think he's the least important in the equation (and with a unhealthy dose of guilt).

From a narrative perspective, this was intended to reinvent Bucky as a "bad" super soldier, cos "there's never been another Steve Rogers", and paint Bucky as someone who would regularly do illegal and violent things, and is so sarcastic about the rules (because -- that's the least of his problems!)