#historically accurate stucky tag

[hail-americas-ass]

And on my breast you may carve a turtle dove, To signify I died of love.

This was written as a beyond belated New Year's gift for @kestrafagnor, @amarriageoftrueminds, @16woodsequ, and @dontcallmebree. Without their hilarious input in this post, this fic would never have left my Google Docs.

Link here.

In which, comedy and tragedy are rolled into a one-shot featuring: the bitterly cold Hanukkah of 1944, the Howling Commandos & the Gayest Coverup in Modern History™, a Californian pickpocket, and Steve's dread which only grows as the war progresses and the passage of time steadily brings him closer to losing the man he loves.

[maplefiasco]

People I Want To Know Better tag game

Thanks to the lovely @booksandabeer for tagging me! Even though it took me literalllll weeks to sit down and do this one!

Book you’re currently reading:

I've vaguely started Senlin Ascends, but it's been languishing on my Kindle for, eesh, awhile. But it was recommended by the same friend who demanded I watch The Magicians, so I have no doubt I'll get into it once I get more than a few chapters in.

Last song you listened to:

Gold, Kiiara

Currently watching:

Husband and I are finally catching up on the new season of Our Flag Means Death, only a couple months behind everyone else on the internet. Otherwise, I just finished The Tudors as a something-on-in-background-while-I-cross-stitch show. Back when it was airing I didn't get past season two, so I was pleasantly surprised that it got a bit better in later seasons. Not more historically accurate, but... better.

Fic you’re currently reading:

I'm slooowly savoring @sparkagrace's Treading Water, trying to not catch up too fast before it's complete. But aaah, I'm so happy it exists. Lane Lines was such an immersive, rich AU; getting a meaty sequel to it is an absolute treat.

Next on your to watch list:

I still haven't worked up the energy to watch season two of The Bear, even though it's so good and I know I'll like it. I'm on month five of work being a neverending stress cyclone, and I just can't get myself to watch the show where work is an endless stress cyclone for every character, but with knives and open flames.

Current obsession:

Still forever on my Stucky bullshit. I'm also still in the depths of whatever this new Henry Cavill hyperfixation is. This was probably evident by the fact that I just admitted to watching all four seasons of The Tudors in the year 2023.

Absolutely-no-pressure tagging: @hetrez, @msmandapants, @elliquinn and anyone who wants to share!

[stuckyhistoricalfiction]

Stucky Historical Fiction Event

Rules

The purpose of this event is to place Steve and Bucky in creative timelines through writing and art. 

This event begins on June 6th. 

Your story or artwork can be based on historical events such as Jack the Ripper, the Titanic, or the First World War. Your story can be based on myths such as Hades and Persephone, Achilles, or Merlin. 

Your story or artwork can include supernatural elements and mythology as long as the setting is historical. 

Your story or artwork can’t be set in a made-up kingdom. 

Your story or artwork doesn’t have to be historically accurate. 

Your story or artwork can’t include time travel. 

Add your work to the ao3 collection Stucky Historical Fiction (shf). 

Tag @stuckyhistoricalfiction and hashtag #stuckyhistoricalfiction.

Time Periods You Can Write/Draw About

Cavemen

Ancient Greece

Ancient Egypt 

Ancient Rome

Vikings 

Medieval Ages

Regency Era

Victorian England

Revolutionary War

Civil War

The Wild West

The Roaring Twenties

World War I

The Cold War

70s

80s

90s

Time Periods You Can’t Write/Draw About

Modern Day

World War II

Great Depression

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[stuckylibrary]

Hello,

Would you be able to recommend some stucky fics that are heavy on ww2 historic research and detail? Like the more atmosphere the better. I really love history and I would love to read fics that combine my love of that with my love for stucky ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you!

We have a Historically/Period Accurate WWII tag!

[wolfymcwolf1]

I'd like to add, less P*ggy and more Stucky into the mix, thank you

I ended up doing a long old rant on this other post, about the problems with the Steve/Bucky characterisation in CATFA, how it fails to make them mutual in their support / fails to properly show Steve's struggles and independence, before serum.

And I was thinking...

what would you have to do, if you wanted to write a CATFA or pre-war Stucky fic and wanted to fix all those problems?

So I figured I'd make a list!

Pardon me while I rip CATFA a new one...

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Problem 1) Pre-serum Steve acts as if he's independent and self-reliant without Bucky... when the opposite is shown.

A) He doesn't have a job.

(He isn't shown working, doesn't mention working, or taking time off to do the things we see him doing etc. Bucky is framed as paying for things.)

If the fic is set during CATFA you could fix that by mentioning Steve does have a job but has been given time off to go enlist. Or has just been fired from his job. Basically anything to show that Steve has had a job, has been working. Perhaps even had multiple simultaneous jobs!

Probably cut out the part where Steve scoffs at working in a factory or collecting scrap metal (more likely he'd admire and/or understand why both of those are viable options; maybe they're jobs he has done in the past and is biased against now, for some experiential-related reason.)

Or, if he still does not want to work in a factory... well, at the time, with most men being overseas, factory work would've been women's work. So perhaps Steve was reluctant because it feels emasculating. Or maybe even dysphoric, to be relegated to otherwise female-only spaces, instead of welcomed into (then) male-only spaces like the Army? 🤔

(This would especially ring true if you were doing a trans!Steve story, or emphasising the disability aspect of his life. And it would cycle back when he gets stuck in the USO, doing women's work again.)

B) It would also be better characterisation if pre-serum Steve was actually already good at fighting, but just happened to be outclassed by heavier weight opponents, and/or handicapped by sudden disability flare ups mid-fight.

(In the tie-in comic, Bucky taught him how to box. Why not keep this? It really makes sense!)

The ability to fight and win should be a matter of Steve's spirit, not his physical body or his training. It shouldn't arrive with serum.

(To put it in His Dark Materials terms; Will Parry has a warrior's daemon, even when he's a 12 year old boy; he can win a contest against a grown man or even an armoured polar bear! Likewise, Steve Rogers is supposed to be the David who can win against a Goliath - yes, even when he's the little guy.)

I know it's easy to have Bucky swoop in to save Steve from a fight he's losing disastrously. But it would be more gripping (and make Bucky's value shine more), if Steve was actually winning the fight, despite being the underdog, and then something completely out of his control happened that tipped the tide against him, and then Bucky arrived to save him!

And also it would make more sense if Steve's health at the time of CATFA was in a lifetime high point, (possibly because of Bucky's long term support).

Then it would be less nonsensical to be trying to lie his way into the Army. There has to be some actual common sense logic behind his choice, so that he's not essentially snapping 'Bucky why won't you support me committing suicide, gdi??'

Steve shouldn't be getting his first real win by knocking down a flagpole; he should've been showing this capability in his pre-war / pre-Army time, too.

Possible Example:

You could emphasise the idea of Steve entering a fight he knows he's going to lose, in order to accomplish a secondary goal that the enemy doesn't recognise.

IE. Steve fighting the bully in the alleyway -- he loses the fight, but succeeds in stopping the bully from making a scene in the cinema, which was his original goal. So mention it!

(Steve could be like 'winning this fight wasn't the point.' And Bucky could be like 'ah, so what were you distracting him from?')

Perhaps Steve's secret goal in joining the war isn't to win the fight against Nazis, but to distract Nazis from Bucky?

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Problem 2) The support is imbalanced; Bucky's doing all the emotional, financial, and physical labour in the relationship.

You could fix that by showing how pre-serum Steve was not only mutually financially supportive of Bucky (in the sense of having a job), but was also supporting Bucky emotionally and physically, just as much as Bucky supported him. He could be doing at least 2 of the 3!

Possible Examples:

Bucky going through an emotionally hard time that pre-serum Steve pulls him through (just as Bucky did with Steve's Ma).

Steve treating Bucky's wounds after a fight, just as Bucky treats his. (If Bucky's a boxer, like the tie-in comic, then Steve could be his cut man when he's in the ring!)

Steve paying for some of their expenses, or finding places to take Bucky that are free when it's his turn to plan a day out, etc.

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Problem 3: Sarah & problem 2.

If this is CATFA / post-death setting, show flashbacks or make references to Steve visiting her in hospital, or doing the work of nursing her himself / sitting by her bedside if she died at home, paying for her medicine, etc.

So that it's not just another example of Bucky wholly carrying Steve; show the balance. Maybe Bucky was temporarily footing the bill so that Steve could afford to quit his job and do the nursing at home. Both putting the work in, in different ways.

(This would be a perfect example of one way Bucky's experience of looking after sick Steve would pay off, and make him able to teach Steve how to do it when the roles are reversed.)

Better yet, a show-don't-tell of Sarah instilling Steve's moral compass and tenacity; maybe even some Bucky POV to show her impact isn't just relegated to Steve.

Her absence could also be shown in present day with Steve, eg. packing up his things to go to basic and having to leave behind some keepsake of hers. In the comics Steve carried her photo. Perfect candidate to put in his compass!

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Problem 4: The relationship is framed as transactional.

Less of 'I'll do X for Bucky now because he did Y for me back then'

and more of 'helping Bucky is the right thing to do because he's innocent, so I'm going to do it regardless of outside whining, and he would still do the same thing for me, or anyone else, because he's a good person too.'

There has to be more to it than just convenience, needing each other around to help; there has to be an actual desire to be together for pure enjoyment, too.

IMO you'd need at least one scene where Steve and Bucky aren't benefiting in some way from spending energy on eachother. They're just... happy being together.

And perhaps Bucky isn't the only friend pre-serum Steve could have had, just the one Steve most wanted to stick with. (His options should amount to more than 'Bucky or no one.')

Perhaps Steve's health absences and strong principles drove other friendship prospects away? Perhaps Steve even lost other disabled friends to their poor health, poverty, etc?

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Problem 5: A's problems are framed as B's.

No more 'Steve getting attacked' being framed as a problem for Bucky.

No more 'Bucky being drafted to die' framed as a problem for Steve.

Better characterisation would show these bad things affect the victim first and foremost, and only/also the other one, secondarily.

Steve shouldn't be seeing Bucky's shipping-out uniform (skipping right over thank yous and congratulations) and talking about how that's sad for... himself.

Steve shouldn't be sabotaging Bucky's last night of freedom in NYC to spend it on... his own goals.

Sidenote: Bucky wanting to spend his last night of freedom with strangers is such idiotic writing anyway, when he has both Steve and a living family with whom he could be spending those last precious moments! And dragging Steve on a double blind date he clearly doesn't want to go on is counter-productive. It undermines the mutually-supportive / mutually communicative relationship Steve and Bucky should logically have, as lifelong inseparable best friends (viz. a Bucky who's known Steve this long should be able to tell he's not into it.) And it shifts the blame for Steve's singlehood off of him and onto Bucky, and women generally.

Steve shouldn't be detailing why he's so keen to fight, and focusing on random men he doesn't know, not directly/unequivocally mentioning Bucky at all.

(Indirectly, he wants to be like the men laying down their lives -- so... like Bucky? But this is still nonsense. He should want to be there to support Bucky, not to copy!)

It's likewise nonsense for Bucky, who has known Steve since he was a child, to ask Steve why he's keen to fight.

Bucky doesn't need to ask. Bucky already knows!

Lazy clumsy exposition.

And the narrative should be showing us why Steve wants to fight Nazis, rather than having Steve infodump some vague reason without anything to back it up.

Speaking of which...

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Problem 6: Lack of explicit politics.

Like in the comics, Steve's reasons for fighting Nazis should be explicitly left wing and political, as well as passionately personal.

(Wanting to be like able-bodied men who get girlfriends is complete cringe incel bullshit as a motivation and not true to the comics, or CEvans's performance!)

Proper Steve characterisation should have him behaving in a way that shows he's a man ahead of his time in terms of Antifa politics, and that's why he wants to fight.

IE. happily sharing housing and schooling with people of other races, ethnicities, and religions. (Especially so when he has been in the same SEC as them / been in multiple different schools and lived in various neighbourhoods as a poor kid. Would also establish why both Steve and Bucky are fine having Gabe and Jim on their team!)

Not judging and mistreating disabled people the way he is.

Not judging unmarried mothers, belittling working women, expecting his mother to do all the housework, etc.

Not freaking out about the existence of queer people in public (even in an AU where he isn't one) defending gay men from attack as he does in the comics,

protesting and/or sabotaging public Nazi meetings in NYC, fighting with homegrown Nazi bullies especially,

ditto corrupt business owners / mafia union-runners as he does in the comics, etc.

(Sidenote: as a congenitally disabled person, Steve is also a target of Nazi rhetoric himself. So he would be personally concerned with fighting Fascism, and perhaps this was his philosophical springboard to recognising and combating all the other bullshit in its thinking, even when it's entrenched in American society.)

Basically, the Hydra saboteur should not be the first Nazi Steve ever got his hands on!

And Bucky should be an addendum when it comes to his reasoning. The heart of Steve's motive, where politics are the guts.

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Problem 7: No disability rep.

A) Steve should not be saying that he, a disabled man, shouldn't have the 'right' to do less than able-bodied men, even though it is literally physically impossible...

...UNLESS, this internalized ableism is addressed in-story, rather than treated as if it's normal and even noble.

Other characters can be ableist; Steve should not (not only is he disabled himself, but he's supposed to know better!) ....unless it's part of an arc that shows him learning the error of his ways.

And that's a slippery slope when you consider that Project Rebirth, started by Nazis, really is a Eugenics project.

Instead of this suicidal ideation, it could be shown that Steve's health has recently become good enough for him to survive and succeed in the Army. And/or that Steve is passionate about fighting fascism, personally, because he belongs to a class of people whom Nazis believe shouldn't be allowed to exist.

Without Steve arguing that he should throw his disabled life away, just because able-bodied men are taking a significantly lesser risk of dying than him.

B) There should be actual details of Steve's disabilities, what they are and how they affect him. (Him - not Bucky.) In a way that has concrete negative consequences, beyond just not getting into the Army.

Possible Examples:

Kid!Steve being held back a year at school because of missing days due to sickness. (Kids can be cruel and parents can be ignorant; he might've been bullied and ostracised for being sick and believed contagious. And that's before the consider the amount of isolation necessary for recovery periods.)

Kid!Steve having to move around a lot (which would also affect which school he'd have to attend; always the new boy!) because losing money to medicine affects what his mother can afford, affects her work schedule when she has to look after him. Living in a worse place would then exacerbate his pre-existing symptoms, and so on.

Adult!Steve losing a job because of sick days, losing savings to pay for medicine, getting sick again because he chose heating and groceries over medicine, or vice versa, etc.

(This / the moving-around might be mitigated if he and Bucky are living together, meaning Bucky could make up the shortfall.)

Steve could lose friendships, job opportunities, or romantic partners due to sickness repeatedly taking him out of social circulation. He might also have disabled friends who lost the fight / weren't as lucky as him.

You could also play into the Nazi eugenics then endemic to the USA and have medical professionals telling Steve he shouldn't be alive; 'well-meaning' people offering to pray for him, saying they'd have just 'given up' if they were born like him, etc. (Or even saying these things to his mother!)

And Steve should, maybe, mention once or twice that he feels better after serum, and truly couldn't be doing what he's doing in Europe, if superserum hadn't also cured all his ailments?

If he's much more peppy afterwards, it should be because for the first time in his life he can actually breathe and spring out of bed!

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Problem 8) The Incelery.

Pre-serum Steve should not be framed as undateable because he's short and disabled.

If Steve hasn't had a girlfriend, it should be because he didn't want one, not because he's incapable; not because evil women are repulsed by invisible health issues or Bucky is too dreamy for a disabled man to possibly compete with, be so fr. 🙄

You could fix this by making Steve: gay,

ace,

demi,

coincidentally surrounded by lesbians,

by women who have horrible unattractive politics,

too sick or busy with work to date,

getting attention but it's the wrong kind (ie. women who want to fetishize or nanny him),

and/or being very attractive to women even before serum but oblivious and/or simply not interested. 😂

/more than one of the above.

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[thisisjustmefangirling]

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Mes billets vedette en 2022 :

n°5

Yes Killing Eve’s finale was a disaster but since then I got Gentleman Jack season 2 (still ongoing), Our flag means death season 1, and Heartstopper season 1, and it has made my queer little heart very happy <3

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n°4

Somewhere in Brooklyn or Louisiana, Bucky Barnes is learning about that AvengersCon and he is facepalming very hard. And screaming, probably.

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n°3

Time to break your heart : in Captain America - The Winter soldier, “It’s been a long long time” is playing not as a soundtrack to the movie but as a real song being listened to in Steve’s apartment.

Which means that Steve owned the vinyl.

Which means he probably listened to it thinking about Bucky and the fact he’d never see him again.

You’re welcome. Always cry, never keep it in.

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n°2

How can Midge not realise that she put Shy in danger and that SHE is the one to blame for being dropped out of this tour ? Her situation is a result of her own actions. She needs to get her head out of her ass.

She’s not being a badass woman by wanting revenge, she’s just blind to her faults and mistakes.

This first episode made me really upset.

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I want sapphic Bridgerton. I already watch Gentleman Jack, and I love it, but it’s not the same. I want the flirting, the lack of historically accurate homophobia, the ridiculously sparkly dresses, and the string covers of pop songs. But with TWO WOMEN. I want to see two princesses together, okay ? No Prince Charming.

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[hail-americas-ass]

I’m living for the historically accurate meta. No one in the world understands how feral I am for historical context applied to fiction, I LOVE IT

Hey, how are you?

Got any Steve head cannons?

Headcanon masterpost

Hello! I'm doing pretty good. (Besides the headwave assaulting my area 🥵.)

I do in fact have some new headcanons! They came about because recently I was writing a fic with Bucky and Steve from the war, and Bucky went to sleep in his tent, and I was like, hang on, what would those tents actually look like?

And I looked them up and ohh boy, I have so much to work with now.

So, I mostly focused on pup tents, and my first main curiosity was:

Would Bucky and Steve really share a tent during the war?

And the answer is yes! Pup tents were constructed from two 'tent halves', and usually two men would carry one half each and share the tent together. Each half weighed about 5 pounds, and sharing helped keep carrying weight down.

Tent halves held stakes and poles and rope, and were actually buttoned together at the top in what the internet claims is a waterproof seal.

So what were these tents like?

In a word: small.

[ID: old photo of a soldier crouching next to a small triangle shaped tent. It doesn't have a door and is only about as tall as a rifle is long. It is 7 feet long and 5 feet wide. A towel hangs to dry on the guide wire. End ID.]

I don't have exact measurements for how tall these tents were, but you can't stand in them. You probably can't even kneel in them. These tents are meant for sleeping and little else.

Also, they are 7 feet long and five feet wide, and meant for two people. There is practically no breathing space in these things. (So unfortunately for any shippers out there, getting up to no good in these tents would be something of a challenge.)

Also, another fun fact, is these tents didn't have doors until 1943. Only after 1943 did soldiers start getting issued tents that closed in the front.

So depending when you think Bucky went to war, he probably dealt with that. But Steve probably only had to deal with these tents:

[ID: modern day colour photo of a green tent. It is in a rough diamond shape, the front closed off. End ID.]

I think tents were tan coloured until the Korean war, but I could be mistaken on that. Anyway, in that picture, you can see the row of double buttons along the top of the tent that links the two tent halves. (I really want a fic mentioning buttoning your tent together now.)

Here is a 10 min video of someone demonstrating how to put up this type of tent.

Another thing, is I don't believe these tents had floor tarps. Your bed roll would be wrapped in waterproofing, so you could sleep on that. But Steve and the others pretty much slept directly on the ground. Makes sense why beds are too soft.

If, where they set up camp was too dangerous, or they didn't have time, soldiers wouldn't set up the tent. Instead they would lay out the tent halves and sleep on them out in the open. This is also an option for any soldier who is left with only one tent halve.

But wait! The Commandos have 7 people, so what then?

This is pure headcanon on my part, cuz I don't know what soldiers would do with an uneven amount of people and tent halves.

Steve is strong enough he could just bring two whole tent halves and have a tent to himself.

But then of course, he isn't sharing with anyone. So to fix that, the Commandos could have a system where they rotate who gets to sleep with a tent all to themselves and have some extra space.

(If you want you could have them rotate who gets to sleep with Steve and steal his body heat.)

So there! Tents were a lot more interesting than I realised! (And can you imagine Steve seeing modern tent and camping equipment? He would love it.)

[buckybarnesisjewish]

My Fic Recs! (also found on the fic recs page)

Fic Recs

All of the fics with Jewish Bucky that I love! Links open in a new tab. Send a submission or ask if you want to add any or your own. These are all stucky atm, but feel free to submit fic for any ship. For more fics with Jewish Bucky, you can try this ao3 search or searching for it on thestuckylibrary here

CATEGORY 1: Fics that center on Bucky’s Jewish identity as a main focus

Teshuvah by myownremedy

Mod comments- My absolute favorite fic that focuses on Bucky’s faith. Beautiful and eloquent, a must read!

As we come forth, so we shall return. Ecclesiastes 5:14

Teshuva by JHSC

Mod comments- Yes, two fics with this title! This one is a stunning exploration of Bucky regaining his memories and hope.

The first person he remembers is Steve.

The second person he remembers is his mother.

things my heart used to know by biblionerd07

Mod comments- Yay Hanukkah fic!!! Biblio is one of my favorite authors. Everything they write is fantastic, and this is no exception.

T'Challa and his team have removed Bucky’s triggers and are ready to wake him up just in time for Hanukkah, so Steve and Sam set out to make sure he has everything he needs to celebrate. Bucky, however, is struggling a bit.

three white horses by magdaliny

Mod comments- Incredibly sad, but so well written!

Steve, it’s not your fault, Sam had tried to say, before Steve cut him off, and Steve doesn’t think that’s untrue so much as it’s irrelevant; fault’s got nothing to do with it. It’s just—wrong. It’s wrong. Steve couldn’t wrap his head around it the first time, how wrong it was. Steve should have gone first. Was supposed to. Bucky could have carried on without Steve, he knows, but Steve without Bucky is a zero sum. There should never be a world that Steve is in and Bucky isn’t.

swallows still sing by icoulddothisallday

Mod comments- Wordlessly sad and fairly graphic, so heed the tags. It’s extremely historically accurate and so well written, and despite how dark it is, it leaves the reader with hope.

They move through the doorway and the sun hits Bucky’s face. His eyes flinch closed involuntarily, but the warmth on his face is more than enough. There’s a breeze too, the freshest air Bucky has breathed in months. It’s chaos outside, a clamor of voices in languages both familiar and foreign. Bucky is glad to ignore it, glad to trust that the Captain will take him to safety.

On April 29th, 1945, US forces liberate the concentration camp Dachau. But Captain Steve Rogers and his Howling Commandos have a more specific mission - the rescue and rehabilitation of prisoners experimented on by Arnim Zola, among them, a man named Bucky.

The Night War by praximeter

Mod comments- Holy fuck I love epistolary works, and this one is a goddamn masterpiece. Prax’s imitation of Bucky’s writing voice is beyond perfect, and the fic really reads like a real wartime memoir and literary classic. Sad and upsetting, so read the tags. It captures the horrors of war in a very visceral and touching way.

In 1947, Master Sergeant James B. Barnes’s surviving field journals were posthumously published as the classic war memoir The Night War. Now a high school history classroom mainstay and required reading at West Point, this highly anticipated 60th Anniversary Edition presents the original, unedited text alongside detailed historical notes that provide important context to the extraordinary wartime heroics of Captain America and the Howling Commandos.

Barnes, James B. The Night War: The Wartime Memoirs of a Howling Commando. Ed. Harold Miller. 60th Anniversary ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Print.

In The World to Come by newredshoes

Mod comments- A really excellent short fic about Bucky’s identity and faith, and dealing with antisemitism in the 30s and 40s. Will break your heart.

Barnes was never a Jewish name before.

CATEGORY 2: Fics where the main focus is not Bucky’s Jewish identity, but it is included.

Ain’t No Grave by spitandvinegar

Mod comments- Literally probably my favorite fic, ever. I’ve probably reread it at least 10 times. An unforgettable and unique take on them post TWS, and the definitive text of awkward old super soldiers, a multifaceted and perfectly characterized Bucky, Steve being Sad, Sam being done with their shit, Romeo and Juliet Type Feelings, a Mexican Suicide Pact, and a coupla of Goddamn Kids.

It’s six in the morning, and Steve is heading out on a run when he nearly trips over a bouquet of sunflowers on the front steps of his brownstone.

For a second paranoia takes over, and he kicks the flowers a little, waiting for them to explode. They don’t. They also came with a card, which he picks up. The front of the card has a tasteful picture of the Brooklyn bridge at sunset. It’s very nice and sedate, like the kind of card you would buy to give to your boss. On the inside someone has written a short message in big, shaky block letters.

I AM SORRY FOR SHOOTING YOU.

Steve sits down hard on the steps.

The Hundred Year Playlist by girlbookwrm

Mod comments- Another one of my favorite fics of all time!!! It covers every era of canon and I swear, I could read it over and over.

Steve and Bucky, start to finish.

“Come on, pal, it’s me. Take another hundred years if you want, I’ll still be here.”

DREAMERS WITH EMPTY HANDS: Steve POV. Pre CATFA. Steve Rogers/Chronic Pain, with bonus Steve/Pining. 1924-1943

GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE, WHAT’S NEW?: Steve POV. CATFA. Steve/Emotional Pain, War Years Edition. 1943-1945/2011

THE TERROR OF KNOWING: Bucky POV. Winter Soldier Years. Soldat/Fear, with bonus Baby Widows! 1945-2014.

FOOL FOR SACRIFICE: Steve POV. Avengers 1 - AoU. Steve/Losing Everything.

NO HOPE FOR THE WEARY (WIP): Bucky POV. TWS-CACW. Bucky/Let Him Rest 2kForever. The Big Recovery Fic, 2014-2016.

LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPON (drafting): AKA PRE INFINITY WAR FLUFF (and angst).

(All these stories stand alone and are roughly canon compliant)

i need a forest fire by tomorrowsrain

Mod comments- Do you like road trips? A Tony and Bucky friendship focused fic? Being sad about Bucky? Epic romance? Fixing the utter mess that was Civil War? Then you have to read this fic!

“The past beats inside me like a second heart. These fragments I have shored against my ruins.”

In which Tony Stark makes a reckless decision, becomes a wanted fugitive, goes on the run with the former Winter Soldier, and learns how to forgive. For his part, Bucky Barnes is just trying to hold himself together. AU, post-Civil War

The Way To A Man’s Heart by Niitza

Mod comments- Such a great read! Mostly focuses on Steve and the team, but has some great Bucky moments. Bonus for Bucky keeping kosher!

It started with shawarma.

A story about food, memory, and how Steve Rogers carved out a place for himself in the 21st century.

[ao3feed-stucky]

by daphneblithe

"I want to you to sleep, James,” comes the man’s unexpected reply. “I want you to drift. I want —’ he pauses, and Bucky feels the prick of a hypodermic in his arm. “I want to make your mind beautiful, in the way it used to be.”

Steve knows about the Chair. He doesn’t know about the Needle.

 (Sleeping Beauty Stucky fusion, with historically-accurate psychiatry. Eerie sleep and ruin, pain and love.)

Words: 411, Chapters: 1/17, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Rape/Non-Con

Categories: M/M

Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Nakia (Black Panther), T'Challa (Marvel), Riley (Captain America movies), Sarah Rogers, Shuri (Marvel), Wanda Maximoff

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Riley/Sam Wilson

Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Sleeping Beauty Fusion, Canon Divergence - Post-Captain America: Civil War (Movie), historically accurate psychiatry, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Protective Steve Rogers, Hurt Bucky Barnes, Awkward First Times, Emotional Sex, Bottom Bucky Barnes, Top Steve Rogers, Winter Soldier Trauma Umbrella, Hallucinations, Grief/Mourning, predatorial psychiatrist, pseudo-somnophilia, Bondage, Prostate Milking, sexual non-con is chapter 11 & 12 if you want to avoid it, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, art included, Playlist, Whump, Picasso's Guernica, Anna Akhmatova's poetry, glamorous Southern lesbians, love so sharp it hurts

[thestuckylibrary]

Can you direct me to the 40s!stucky tag? I’m always down for pre-serum steve and bucky relationship

We’ve got a couple you may be interested in:

Historical

Pre-War Pining

Pre-Serum Steve

Pre-First Avenger

Historically/Period Accurate WWII

World War II

[16woodsequ]

We got more of Tony's parents in Civil War than Steve's parents in all of the MCU

Never Forget what Steve Rogers was up against in his youth

I was just doing some nosing around on Wikipedia and found out that there was actually an International Eugenics Conference in NYC when Steve Rogers was 14 (MCU timeline) years old.  He would have already heard a lot about how he was considered unfit and unworthy of life by the Eugenics movement popular at that time.  But how much worse would that have been? 

If you think he wasn’t fully aware of the bullshit they were spouting daily, you’re dead wrong. He’d hear more than ever about how people like him should be forcibly sterilized and were nothing more than a burden on society. 14 is such an impressionable age.  I don’t know how he wasn’t ground down by that.  It shows what inner strength and determination that sickly young man had.

So goddamn right Steve Rogers knows what it’s like to be bullied by an entire social movement and how wrong the “Prevailing Wisdom” can be and how you better stand up for what you believe or the next thing you know there are concentration camps and madman running entire countries.

No wonder he hates bullies…

[lookuptheskyisfalling-blog]

rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 accounts you want to know better

All right let’s do this!

Nickname(s): Mags, Magster, Magnet, ... I think that’s it

Gender: Female 

Sign: Capricorn

Height: 5’6” / 66 inches / 167.7 cm 

Time: 9:37 pm

Favorite Bands: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, 3OH!3, Panic! at the Disco, Bleachers, The Killers, Hey Violet... I’m sure there are some I forgot 

Favorite Solo Artists:  Andy Black, NeverShoutNever, Hayley Kiyoko, Charlie Puth...

Song Stuck in my Head: Ugly Boy by Die Antwoord 

Last Movie I Saw: Thor Ragnarok because I enjoyed it so much that I actually bought a copy ( ok so I copied this from @fullofbees planning to fill in my own answer but this is what they wrote and I’m in the same boat bc I also love Thor Ragnarok so much that I bought it and it’s the last movie I watched 

Last Show I Watched: New Girl

When Did I Create My Blog: Unsure because I randomly did one drunken night in college but I only started using/ became active it like 5 months ago 

What Do I Post: SMUT! Yeah lots of smut and more smut. But really lots of marvel reader inserts and supernatural and also star wars. Also sometimes just some random dank memes and drunken rants. Also way into stranger things.

Last Thing I Googled: Can a bee sting another bee?

Do I Have Any Other Blogs:  Nope

Do I Get Asks: I’ve only ever gotten one and I was drunk but it made my night!

My URL: 

Following: 319

Followers: 54

Avg. Hours Of Sleep: On average 8 but it can fluctuate wildly - also sometimes insomnia happens and I dont sleep/ 

Lucky Number: 8

Instruments: Bass!

What Am I Wearing: Bucky infinity war tee and pajama shorts 

Dream Job:  Wow this is hard for me to answer. I’m in major transition right now having just dropped out of grad school and being really depressed but I think my dream job would be to make historically accurate costumes for movies and stuff (also I can’t sew)

Dream Trip: I really want to go to Barcelona, Spain but also I want to go to Jordan. Also Tokyo, Japan is on my bucket list. 

Favorite Food: Cake! Also sushi and handmade pasta is pretty great

Nationality: America, specifically from Maryland! 

Favorite Song:  Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day was  the first song I ever really fell in love with and it spoke to me

Last Book I Read: Cinder by Marissa Meyer 

Top 3 Fictional Universes I’d Join: Marvel Cinematic Universe so I could fulfill my dream of being in a Stucky sandwich, Supernatural because the Winchesters duh, and star wars because i think it would be cool. 

So I’m not gonna tag twenty but here goes nothing: @celestialsoundgarden @i-write-and-stuff @fadingcoast @221bshrlocked

[stuckydrewx]

YESSSSS I’ve been waiting for this 😩🙏

Timeline of CATFA in images Condensed.

Original timeline here.

Sources:

CATFA

CATFA Deleted Scene

CATWS

CATWS Deleted Scene

Avengers Deleted Scene

Marvel Instagram

Marvel Studios’ The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline

[scientia-rex]

OKAY. So. @saathi1013 tagged me to list my 5 favorites of my own fics. I HAD written a BUNCH about it, but then Tumblr ATE IT LIKE THE DEMON WEBSITE IT IS, so here’s a redo:

Follow - 140K of shockingly historically accurate stucky. I was frustrated by how few fics took us through their whole relationship--childhood to teens to adults, peace to war, through the separation and reunion again--so I spent months researching and writing this. I can see a lot of its flaws from here, but I still love this more than anything else I’ve ever written.

Tendu - 50K of lesbian ballerina MCU AU, Natasha Romanoff meets Pepper Potts and fights her internalized homophobia as well as her fear of losing the career that means everything to her. TOTAL labor of love, took me over a year to write, and God I love it so much. I put so much time and attention and thought into the details. Every character is a little jewel plucked from the Marvel universe’s crown.

Et in Arcadia - 4K of ACD Sherlock/Watson. I have loved Sherlock Holmes since fourth grade, I’ve read the books so many times I have sections memorized, and when I realized at some point that you could read it as QUEER without really having to adjust canon at ALL, I was like HOT DIGGITY and I never looked back. This is my most recent completed fic, which is probably why I love it so much right now, but I also think it’s a pretty good one.

This Quiet Darkness - Longmire, so guaranteed to appeal to a very small group of people! saathi dragged me into this itty bitty fandom. But the thing is, PRUDHOE BAY. Prudhoe Bay. Guys. My dad is an Alaskan from the backass of nowhere. He worked the North Slope for a year or so before deciding he needed to see the sun and making his way to the lower 48. I’ve been hearing North Slope stories since I was a baby. So when they mentioned it on the show, I was like AW HELL YEAH, cram the things I know about Prudhoe Bay into a story with a healthy poly relationship? yeah!!!

Love Stories for Tedious People - Far and away my most popular story, 40K stucky AU in which Steve is an emergency room doctor. It’s been translated into Russian, by a Russian ED doc who said it reflected their life altogether too well for comfort. It’s about coming to terms with how burn-out affects your life. I banged this out in less than six weeks while starting to write Follow because I wanted to write something self-indulgently medical, and boy howdy was I wrong about which one people would like and relate to more! But I’m glad it gets a lot of love, because I love it, too, with all its flaws and imperfections.

Tagging other authors: @cesperanza @knitmeapony @emilianadarling @lemonysnickit @wintergaydar and if I forgot someone look I had a shower bourbon so consider yourself duly tagged

[ao3feed-stevebucky]

love among the ruins

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2L6Npbz

by daphneblithe

‘I want to you to sleep, James,” comes the man’s unexpected reply. “I want you to drift. I want —’ he pauses, and Bucky feels the prick of a hypodermic in his arm. “I want to make your mind beautiful, in the way it used to be.”

  Steve knows about the Chair. He doesn’t know about the Needle.

 (Sleeping Beauty Stucky fusion, with historically-accurate psychiatry. Eerie sleep and ruin. Pain and love.)

Words: 411, Chapters: 1/17, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Rape/Non-Con

Categories: M/M

Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Nakia (Black Panther), T'Challa (Marvel), Riley (Captain America movies), Sarah Rogers, Shuri (Marvel), Wanda Maximoff

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Riley/Sam Wilson

Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Sleeping Beauty Fusion, Canon Divergence - Post-Captain America: Civil War (Movie), historically accurate psychiatry, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Protective Steve Rogers, Hurt Bucky Barnes, Awkward First Times, Emotional Sex, Bottom Bucky Barnes, Top Steve Rogers, Winter Soldier Trauma Umbrella, Hallucinations, Grief/Mourning, predatorial psychiatrist, pseudo-somnophilia, Bondage, Prostate Milking, sexual non-con is chapter 11 & 12 if you want to avoid it, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Post-Serum Steve Rogers, art included, Playlist, Whump, Picasso's Guernica, Anna Akhmatova's poetry, glamorous Southern lesbians, love so sharp it hurts

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2L6Npbz

[thestuckylibrary]

are there fics where peggy knows about stucky and is ok with it (but NOT polyamory or ot3)

try Pianissimo by Odsbodkins, this post & Subjective Histories by Odsbodkins,  this post,  this post,  this post and this post and also the Historically/Period Accurate WWII tag