#curtbuckybuck

[meyerlansky]

so I had a thought rolling around in my brain because I think you’re the first person I’ve seen to write CurtxBucky.

and we know in their relationship that Bucky is the sub (which I 100% approve of, that big man needs to be told what to do sometimes with a firm but loving hand). and having Curt do that for him makes it even better, the height difference between them is there but Curt doesn’t need it to get Bucky to submit to him.

I’m not sure if in your universe for them, it does end up that Curt dies (excuse me while I cry), but how does Bucky cope with that? obviously he’s going to be devastated and wrecked by it.

but is Buck going to step in and be that Dom for him without even realizing it? especially when they’re in the stallag, does he have to reign Bucky in because that’s why he’s wilding out? that’s why he’s spiraling, he lost his Dom, his lover, the man he trusted. he thought he lost Buck, his best friend, another man that he may or may not love.

I just picture Buck not knowing entirely what to do, but knowing that Bucky needs something to screw his head back on straight. because he refuses to see Bucky get shot, he refuses to have to watch his best friend die.

I’m so sorry for the rambling, I was just thinking about it since I binged your CurtxBucky pieces

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xx

ahhh hello! welcome to curtbucky hell, population: 12. maximum. credit where it’s due, i’m definitely not the first or only curtbucky writer! i’m just very loud 😅 but i love hearing thoughts about them so i am Seated! ngl shorter dom/taller sub is basically My Brand at this point, trust me when i say height is NOT everything. i think curt especially likes it, honestly, because people see him and think certain things, and he's sharp enough to know what those things are and when subverting those expectations will benefit him. he does it in the RAF fight to great effect!

i definitely prefer universes where curt lives because he’s my favorite and curtbucky is my main ship—gale can join in or not, but i’m less Moved by clegan on its own than i am by any combo involving curt. that said, in a more canon-adherent universe where curt DOES die [or everyone THINKS he does, which is more doable than it sounds at first blush, but that’s a different post] i do think gale eventually steps into the role of grounding bucky, especially in the stalag where it’s a lot more dangerous for everyone around them for bucky to be spiralling.

but! i don’t think he’s good at it! not at first. his first attempt at grounding bucky after curt’s gone is, textually and canonically, Bad: bucky tries to talk to him about no one remembering them if they go down either [pretty clearly referencing curt, who’s the only character both bucky AND the audience are attached to that dies in ep 3 and who never gets mentioned again] and gale—intentionally or not—brushes him off and sends him to london alone, instead of sitting with him through the pain the way curt does in the wing scene. so imo gale’s bucky-in-crisis instincts aren’t… very good, not when bucky is dealing with something bigger than, like. a hangover. but in the stalag someone has to do SOMETHING, because bucky IS putting himself in danger acting out, and gale does love him. so i think he tries!

the issue is that i think gale… tends towards disapproval, in a way that i think is reeeally bad for bucky, especially in combination with the way bucky has him on a pedestal. It’s not something i think is insurmountable for either of them, but there is absolutely NO WAY they are sorting through the highly combustible combo of:

gale’s DEEP fear of the intimacy and vulnerability that comes not only with admitting he wants bucky but with being a good dom and responding to what your sub wants AND needs, and his tendency towards Mean Dom behavior with ZERO concept of aftercare, vs

bucky’s inferiority complex, HUGELY exacerbated instinct towards self-punishment, his tendency to push people past their limits to GET that punishment, and the way he lets gale get away with treating him less than kindly because it means he’s getting attention from gale at all, AND

both of their complete inabilities to articulate any of this in a way the other is going to hear

in the middle of the shit going on in the stalag. it’s just not going to happen. so to me, any dynamics they fall into in the stalag are very much bandaids on bullet holes; it might work to keep bucky grounded while they’re there, it might yank him back from the edge, but it’s going to need to be sorted out after the fact in a big way. if gale has some of curt’s behavior to model his on, whether from bucky opening up about what he and curt had/have OR because he’s in the room watching it happen in an ot3 kinda scenario, i think they’d be better off and have less collateral damage to handle afterwards.

[in the couple of AUs i have spinning in my head where curt goes down and either gets stalag’d himself OR makes it through the evasion lines back to england after the buckies go down, curt and gale absolutely butt heads over the damage gale’s handling of bucky causes. if he’s DEAD dead, though, the buckies have to reckon with it themselves, and i don’t think it’s pretty when they do.]

UH ANYWAY never apologize for rambling, i will 100% match it p much anytime 🖤🖤🖤

[triggerlil]

What if ❄️: ... Curt lived and ended up in the stalag with Buck and Bucky? 😊

Motaversary what if game

Bucky would spend less time playing fantasy baseball and more time getting fucked by Curt nasty style while Buck watches

[goldthorn-archive]

someone commented for recs so off the top of my head:

this one by @avonne-writes is v lovely: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56528812

ofc there’s this one by @anachilles, really like this one: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56195833

this one is so good and @soliloquy-dawn constantly breaks my brain (affectionate): https://archiveofourown.org/works/56571391/chapters/143780557

this is a buckybuckcurt one by my fav @johnslittlespoon: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55929076

There’s not enough clegan somnophilia out there and I think it should be illegal

[eoin-mcgonigal]

mota rewatch with subtitles in my native language (swedish), something i have never done before . spoilers™ below

sometimes the translation of the lines are soooo incredibly good like wahhhh

sometimes i cringe because ???! not that swedish is embarrassing, but it's vulnerable to me. i struggle with expressing myself in general, and especially in swedish because how personal it is to use that language.

so this rewatch made me feel soooo many more things than this show usually does. because swedish. i love these boys sm and they came so much closer than they usually do because of subtitles in my mother tongue

every of bucky's gay lines to buck? in swedish? screams into a pillow i love them so much

also fun to think of the swedish equivalent to all the references to places in the us the characters refer to

but ok lets leave the language part behind

bucky's way to change between his personal self (that is partially a performance though) and his leader role. when he starts barking orders 👉👈🥺🫣 im on my knees and so is buck . he can be a good dom and he'll ask buck if he can knock him up because with buck by his side he wouldnt mind having kids. anyway

goes insane about curtbuckybuck btw. it's like buck knows bucky loves him and wants him, he's too repressed to accept his queerness, so bucky finds curt. the two of them love each other, but curt isn't buck, though he's the best bucky can find. and buck and curt respect and care for each other, despite both of them know that bucky is with curt because he can't have buck (though, if he could he would have them both). and buck knows he can't give bucky what he wants, so he has to keep curt alive for bucky's sake, even though it means he partially loses bucky to someone else. but that's how it has to be, he can't. be queer.

and that's another reason why episode two where the buckies work together to make sure curt doesn't get shot down is so good

ALSO the relationship between pilot and co-pilot. pilot and bombardier. trusting another man with your ship. homoeroticism much!!!!

the superstition is. insane actually, i'm obsessed with it.

100% that buck and bucky are raised religious but lose their faith individually from each other and when they arrive in the uk during the war, superstition is all they have left.

everyone says it but bucky's waist.... he's. a unit!!!!! while buck is just an itty bitty ken doll

done with my buckies thoughts, over to ROSIE

my beloved!!!! i wanma write about his grief losing nash so bad. too bad i can't write i hate it here

him humming the chant when theyre the only ones left. darling boyyy!!!!

im also Obsessed with the entire arc he has in episode 6 at the flak house. rejecting he's not ok, trying to find meaning in their stay at the house, solidifying his role as a pilot and a leader after the talk with the doctor. being responsible for the rhythm of the whole band.....

then when he's going to get back into the plane, he's scared!!! he actually is!! he's feeling something, he's not fine! and that's such a huge step for him!!! and then he finds the beat, he gets back into the drum solo a week after he had to stop and he just goes!!!!

rosie's arc in ep 4-6 is Insanely good. that's my fav character right there!!!!!!

the chant starts playing and the cut over to bucky in the stalag... come On one of the best scene transitions. obsessed

bucky seeing his boys, his and buck's kids!!!! crank!!! murph!!!!

only to be reunited with his husband, the mother to his kids!!!!! HE SMILES SO WIDELY HES SO RELIEVED HIS OTHER HALF MADE IT . THAT BUCK'S ALIVE WAHHHH

sorry guys but. this show. i hold it in my hands

[meyerlansky]

i have two chaptered WIPs that feel like they'd be nice to post some of during the Winter Months, i.e. they're both kind of low stakes and not super angsty, but idk which to focus on.

on the one hand i have multiple chapters of the post-war dctctc fic done or very close to done. i haven't written the in-between parts, but like. fuck it. i can go back and write the other stuff, or not! for now, like i said, summertime is post-war curtbuckybuck vignettes, so atm it's mostly domestic/curtainfic and/or smutfic.

on the other hand, i have a lot of cruiseverse done too. that one's curtbucky Only, precanon, bucky runs away from home to nyc and curt runs into him and things go from there. on top of being low-stakes compared to canon, it's a bit of a love letter to pre-war nyc already, especially the city's queer history, which may or may not be a draw for other people but i'm having fun fleshing all of that out :P

SO! different kind of wip wednesday post: