#genre:prewintersoldier

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I don’t know if anyone has recced this yet but 2005, 2012, And A Whole lot of the 1900s by Bashfulpenguin is a cute one-shot

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2005, 2012, And a Whole Lot of the 1900s In Between by bashfulpenguin (oneshot |10,360 | T)

AU where Peggy Carter dies before Steve Rogers wakes up from the ice and her daughter, tells stories about how her mother was gay. Obviously, people ask if Steve knew and she explains that of course, he did. Now Steve wakes up in 2012 and has to deal with the world knowing he was gay and the threat of Hydra.

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The Fray Will Well Become Me

Hello, how is everyone? I just wanted to recommend this original, well-written, and just absolutely wonderful transformative work. It is based on the concept of Loki being Steve’s father. This results in Steve being quite self-aware and cunning and generally has more personality. His characterization is definitely not depicted as goody two-shoes Cap. The author, mugwort_and_myrrh, has a gift with words and her descriptions are mind-blowing and stunningly unique. The setting is very realistic and stays true to the realities of Brooklyn in the 1930’s as well as the war. It has four works in the series. The first work is Steve’s childhood up to the Valkyrie. The second story is on the idea that Steve is awake on the ice. That one in particular is heart-wrenching and beautiful. The third instalment in the series is the events of The Avengers, and it is very interesting to read with Steve’s confusion and Loki’s role and often unpredictable twists to canon. The fourth fic is updated weekly and is the events the Winter Soldier. The best way to describe this fic in the series is in one quote from the story..“ It’s 11pm on January 16th, T minus four days until Justin fuckin’ Hammer is gonna be sworn in as President of the United fuckin’ States, and Steve is crouched on a fire escape overlooking an alley, dumpsters below wafting up the stink of wet cardboard and mouldy cinnamon rolls, watching a couple idiots in ski masks trying to break into an electronics store.” I must insist everyone give this series a try even if it doesn’t sound like your cup of tea. I promise you will not regret it.

The Fray Will Well Become Me  by mugwort_and_myrrh (cw:graphic violence)

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Hi! I wanted to recomend A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall by DisraeliGears in AO3

I’m only on the second chapter and it’s so well written but it has ONLY 180 KUDOS!!

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hey! if you're reading this, steve rogers by fallendarlings should be in the depressed steve tag! it's really good so far :)

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If You’re Reading This, Steve Rogers* by fallendarlings (WIP |21,005 | M) *graphic violence, suicidal ideation

Nobody tells Steve it’s okay to cry.

It’s 2012 and the world needs him to be Captain America and nobody remembers Steve Rogers is a person under the mantle. It’s okay. He hasn’t felt like a person since he watched Bucky fall.

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If you or someone you know was affected by Avengers: Endgame and need a story that's an emotional journey but does much greater justice to Bucky and Steve (and is weirdly prescient in places considering it was written way back in 2016) I suggest Notes From A Dirty Attic by whatthefoucault

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Notes From A Dirty Attic by whatthefoucault (complete |10,063 | M)

I don't know what I'm doing.

My name is Bucky. I come from Brooklyn. I died in the war.

(Extracts from the notebooks of Bucky Barnes.)

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Oldie but SO GOOD. I CRIED.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1867410/chapters/4020291

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Any fics that focus on Steve after coming out of the ice and working for shield?

Have a look through this Ao3 search and our Pre-Winter Soldier tag (Here on the Archive)!

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Post TFA canon divergence story with mythical beings taking place in the ocean.

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The Best Way to Wake by LeeHan

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could you recommend some fics that cover the time between when bucky fell and when he meets steve again? i don't mind dark themes/ horror for the sake of stroytelling/creating emotional impact but please no HTP stories that are violent for fetishistic purposes. (not trying to shame anyone. just not what im looking for). thank you!

Try these. In all of these by the end Bucky has become free/reunited with Steve. Do be cognizant of the specific tags on these fics tho, as these works are fairly dark. 

tabula rasa by dance_at_bougival (complete | 10,390 | unrated )

Bucky Barnes screamed himself hoarse on that table and screamed falling off that train. He screamed when they programmed him and screamed and screamed until he isn’t Bucky Barnes anymore, not really. He is still screaming, a trapped rat running around a labyrinthine machine, clawing at the doors and running into dead ends. He has been screaming for seventy years.

Wasp Harvest by Overlithe (complete | 92,528 | M )

‘We are going to do great things together.’1947: Bucky Barnes wakes up to a metal arm and Arnim Zola’s voice.1979: Alexander Pierce, newly-minted member of Hydra, takes over a now-useless asset tucked away in a vault.2014: The master has a mission for the soldier.This is everything that happens in between.

Or: Bucky Barnes, disassembled. The Winter Soldier, assembled. Horror/thriller. MCU with a few shout-outs to the comics. Gen, but you can read some Bucky/Steve and a tiny little bit of Bucky/Nat into it if you’d like.

How They Make You a Weapon by monicawoe (complete | 34,366 | M )

written for the prompt“ detailed dark!fic about the process by which Hydra turned Bucky into the Winter Soldier.”

there must have been a moment where we could have said no by magdaliny (complete | 154,616 | M )

The Soldier remembers this: he wakes up in the snow.

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Hi! I was listening to Kenny Chesney - Who You'd Be Today and thought about Stucky. I'd love to read a fic that covers a period between Avengers and WS movies. I want to read about Steve missing Bucky. Maybe he visits his grave or mentions him to other Avengers. Something that would show others how much Bucky meant to Steve. If you know such fics I’d be very grateful.

All the Time in the World by ThePeak (complete | 3,984 | unrated ) 

“I think it’s easy for all of you to forget that for me, the war wasn’t 70 years ago. It was last month.”

Pictures at an Exhibition by radialarch (complete | 1,268 | G ) 

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Captain America: The Living Legend and Symbol of CourageApril 17, 2014 — IndefinitelyAir and Space Museum

And here are two that also include post WS.

Bucky Barnes Defense Squad by biblionerd07 (complete | 2,949 | G )

Steve is astounded to find Bucky’s gone down in history as a bad boy. He makes it his mission to fix it.

I love you like rlb by tolieawake

I love you like rlb has become a well-known, accepted and valuable component of American vernacular. The meaning of the letters ‘rlb’ is unknown, but is uniformly considered to be a statement of a great romantic love, commitment and sacrifice.

It was Dernier as first said it. Steve never imagined that something like that could have survived the war and all the years in between.

In which Tony goes insane trying to figure out why that phrase affects the Cap so much, Bucky teases the press, and Steve and Bucky love each other like rlb.

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Can I rec In Hell, We Stand By You by Annaelle? It's pretty promising and about Steve dealing with losing Bucky and adjusting to the 21st century. Says it's gonna have Stucky endgame.

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In Hell, We Stand By You by Annaelle (WIP | 5,258 | T)

Steve wakes up alone, without Bucky, to a future he could never have imagined. He fights aliens, picks up boxing again, writes little notes that Bucky will never be able to read and struggles to find his place in this Brave, New World. He does not, thankfully, have to do it on his own.

Steve Rogers-centric. Canon Divergent. Stucky Endgame.

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i never do this but todays my birthday & the best gift ever would be to be able to share my writing with a big, lovely group of people like u guys so i guess I'm gonna rec my own fic? it's a sad lil thing with steve talking abt crashing the valkyrie. it's Let These Memories Take Me Home on ao3. thank you so so much ily all :))

Happy birthday! :D

Let These Memories Take Me Home by mmwhatchasayy

“Tell us, Cap. What was it like to freeze?”

// Or the one in which Steve tells the Avengers what it’s like to die.

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Hi. I'm looking for really good fics. Preferably canon verse though they don't have to be. I want excellent writing and really deep and interesting characterization. Can be any genre or rating. I'm not new to the fandom so I'm probably looking for things that are less known, that I might've missed.

you should browse our canon tags! there are lots of goodies recced there :D* [Pre-First Avenger](http://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/tagged/genre:prewar)* [World War II](http://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/tagged/genre:worldwarII)* [Pre Winter Soldier](http://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/tagged/genre:prewintersoldier)* [Post Winter Soldier](http://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/tagged/genre:postwintersoldier)* [Post Civil War](http://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/tagged/genre:postcivilwar)EDIT: Someone wrote in [here](https://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/post/163051313922/for-the-ask-i-want-excellent-writing-and-really) with some recommendations.

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Hey babes Do you know any smol Bucky fic I searched the tags and I can't find em anywhere I really need some smol Bucky

I'm not sure what you mean by 'smol Bucky', actually, so I'm sorry if these miss the mark.Anything not featuring WS!Bucky or Beefy!Bucky would apply, so I'll link you to some tags that seem especially relevant, though I would recommend you try our [character variations page](https://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/libraryA), as well.[Pre-CA:TFA](https://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/tagged/genre:prewar) [World War II](https://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/tagged/genre:worldwarII) [Pre-CA:TWS](https://thestuckylibrary.tumblr.com/tagged/genre:prewintersoldier)

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Hey, just read a new WIP I like and find to be a different take on Steve adapting to the world after being thawed. I'd like to reccomend it. /works/5824633 thanks!

Thanks for the rec!

in black and white (is all that i hold dear) by airplanetrails

“If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.”

Steve finds meaning in photography after losing everything but his life in the twenty-first century. But cameras cannot capture what has been lost, at least not until what has been lost returns with a metal arm and broken memories.