#I've also curated a lovely little corner of mutuals and following

[thresholdbb]

I've unironically been calling Tumblr the final frontier of the internet cause where else do they do this kind of fun nonsense

[musette22]

hi, sorry to bother you but i'm new to the stucky fandom and you seem nice. i feel a little sad right now because a lot of ppl don't seem to care about steve and they also hate on him for his bad ending instead of blaming the megacorporation who send him back in time. i know it's silly to feel this way but it makes me want to leave the fandom and not post the 3 stucky edits i've made bc i'm afraid they will be full of steve slander in the notes. sorry for my bad english.

Hello lovely! Thanks for your message and welcome to the fandom <3 First of all, I'm sorry that this upsets you so much, and that's not silly at all! Seeing Steve hate would seriously upset me too, so I'm very happy I never see any.

I think your problem all depends on which fandom circles you move in, and how well you've curated your own fandom experience (I'm sorry for always using that expression, but it pretty accurately captures what I mean). As you probably know, I'm pretty deep in the Stucky fandom, and I literally never see any Steve hate. I know it's out there, but I just never come across it, thank god. On the few occasions in the past that I've seen any, I've immediately blocked the offending blogs, which means they now can no longer bother me (but honestly, there haven't been all that many).

I also only use tumblr (twitter seems overall more toxic and harder to curate) and only follow people who love Steve as much as I do, so my dash is all Steve-loving and devoid of hate! I also never go into the Steve Rogers tag other than to just quickly scroll through for new content from time to time (and that goes for the Bucky, Sebastian and Chris tags too). I know more often than not, the tags are just a cesspit filled with people with opinions I don't agree with, so rather than subject myself to those, I choose to just stick to my dash, because I trust that the people I've chosen to follow will only show me content that I like.

And outright Steve hate aside, I really don't get the impression that no one cares about Steve in this fandom either. Most of my mutuals clearly consider themselves Steve stans, and there are a few blogs almost exclusively devoted to loving on Steve, too. Moreover, the @steverogersweek is putting on a Steve Rogers centered event soon! The Steve love is still alive and well in this fandom, even if admittedly lot of people let Endgame affect their love and judgement of him (which I personally think is pretty weak and also a sign they probably never understood Steve in the first place).

So what I'm trying to say is: there are LOTS of people in the Captain America fandom who still love Steve, and basically everyone in this corner of the Stucky fandom does, seeing as Stucky is Steve Rogers + Bucky Barnes. I really don't think you need to leave the fandom over this; you just have to learn which spaces and people to avoid, and which ones to surround yourself with, and you'll be totally fine, I promise! Hope that helps, but let me know if you'd like me to elaborate on anything further 💙