#retired! Steve

[pencilscratchins]

i have reached the part of the steddie hyperfixation where i make them domesticated men in their 50s. having a blast! (twitter) [ID in ALT text]

[stevieschrodinger]

Mostly retired Steve and Eddie. Part time Honey farmer Steve Harrington who let his husband Eddie spend months painstakingly designing and painting beautiful signage for his business. Eddie who poured his soul into the label art for 'Harrington Honey'.

Only to have to stand and quietly seethe every time Steve answers the phone, 'Steve's Bees, what can I getcha?'

[strangerathecinema]

what gets me the most about the ungodly levels of five’s character assassination in s4 is how it affected his ending. he died feeling alone, useless, unloved, and believing that he failed his family. the family that he spent 45 years trying to get back to. the family that he spent 3 weeks straight fighting for. he took a bullet for them, killed for them, did everything in his power for THEM. he cared about them more than anything. his siblings have ALWAYS been his motivation. but apparently the writers just forgot all of that and decided to give him a creepyass out-of-character homewrecker romance that absolutely nobody wanted and then left him in a place that basically said everything he did was for nothing.

[stucky-headcanon-bot]

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[erroryeswifi]

Woe old man yaoi be upon ye

They go on daily walks together :)

[penny00dreadful]

The mid-fifties retired rockstar Eddie that lives in my heart brings intense Jack Black energy and no one can convince me otherwise.

[imavikingo]

I said this in tags on another post, but it’s relevant and deserves its own post (I should be reading my usual pre- sleeping fic selection, BUT! I had this revelation -being sleepy is useful once again! -)

They NEEDED Steve to disappear, to be gone. To never care about Bucky anymore. That way they could treat Bucky as they see fit, and that means treating him like shit.

Steve would NEVER accept or allow Bucky to make amends, he would NEVER let the government take care of Bucky or be part of his “rehabilitation” in any way shape or form. That’s why he became Nomad, that’s why Bucky stayed in Wakanda. He would had fight with teeth and nails for Bucky.

“He died already more than once! He was a victim! A prisoner of war. He saved the fucking universe. What the fuck do you mean with amends!”

He became a wanted criminal for that same reason, to not let them have Bucky (nor other people in a fucking watchlist)

They needed Steves relationship with Bucky to become bitter, to be nothing more than a memory.

Steve being in retirement wouldn’t have cut it and…

Bucky was always going to follow Steve, no matter what.

So they needed him to stay alone (or with a companion that didn’t really care as much as Steve, enter Sam)

This way they killed two birds with one stone in Endgame: Reinforcing Steves “love” for Peggy, because “he’s NOT gay, you guys!”, and the partial isolation of Bucky.

[xelisabetty]

'I just love talking to that man.'

[sad-trash-hobo]

I love Steve Rogers as Captain America. I love Sam Wilson as Captain America. I dont want Steve Rogers to still be Captain America because I want Sam Wilson to be Cap. I just want Steve to still be there as Sam is Captain America. Them exiting Steve when Sam got cap, and leaving Bucky was just so out of character, and I can understand him getting out of the job. Retiring. But the way they did it, that Steve went back in time, and got old, and changed Peggy's timeline. I know we've all said it, but it's still so wrong and it just makes me sad. I remember a post saying that for the falcon and winter soldier show they should have Sam or Bucky calling Steve and it just showing Steve with his phone on silent at the movies, or taking water color classes, and what was so wrong with that? Why does a character ending have to be so permanent. Why does a character leaving mean they have to die or be so old that conspiracies get written that he's on the moon. I dont miss Steve as Cap, I just miss Steve.

[ivysos2001]

You still can’t convince me that the whole ‘Steve abandons everyone in the present to go back to Peggy’ thing was a well thought out/well developed ending for his character that made any sense for his post-catfa character arc (let alone all the time travel stuff) bc wdym none of the people who made the movie can figure out the logistics of it??

[darthbloodorange]

Steve retires from being an Avengers and becomes a farmer. He buys a farm for suspiciously cheap. An issue with the neighbors supposedly? Steve not going to be intimidated. Steve gets some chickens and is very protective of his flock.

One day, one of his neighbor's goats breaks in and tries to harass his chickens… Only to find Steve's chickens fight back. The goat runs… right into Steve's grip. He goes to return it to the neighbor… and recognizes the man from SHIELD's wanted list.

But the man is kind of attractive… and Steve was retired and…

For the: ✦ @stuckybingo Round 6 - Free Space [N3] (Card: SB6035)

Word Count: N/a - Moodboard Title: Goats and Chickens Rating: Gen Universe: Marvel Cinematic Universe Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes Warnings: Guns Major Tags: Farm AU, Canon Divergence AU, Hurt/Comfort, Pining, Getting Together, Enemies to Lovers, First Meetings, Developing Relationship, Goats, Chickens, Retired Steve Rogers, Tired Steve Rogers, Hurt Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers Needs a Hug, Farmer Steve Rogers, Protective Steve Rogers, Modern Bucky Barnes, Retired Bucky Barnes, Assassin Bucky Barnes, Farmer Bucky Barnes, Grumpy Bucky Barnes, Shrunkyclunks, Short-Haired Bucky Barnes ~ Summery: Steve retires from being an Avengers and becomes a farmer. He buys a farm for suspiciously cheap. An issue with the neighbors supposedly? Steve not going to be intimidated. Steve gets some chickens and is very protective of his flock.

One day, one of his neighbor's goats breaks in and tries to harass his chickens… Only to find Steve's chickens fight back. The goat runs… right into Steve's grip. He goes to return it to the neighbor… and recognizes the man from SHIELD's wanted list.

But the man is kind of attractive… and Steve was retired and…

[livwritesstuff]

Ok another question for you my friend, vaguely inspired by something my dad said.

We were talking, essentially, about mortality. My dad said men, generally, have a very good sense of time marching on, while women tend to see “milestones”; baby’s first steps, first childhood crush, graduating high school, etc. and it’ll just hit them sometimes.

So, two-part question: do you think both Steve and Eddie are as my dad described? Steve—aka Mr. psych major—would, I think; but I’m not sure about Eddie.

And part 2: how do they react to their daughters’ prom/homecoming dresses?

ooh okay

I think Eddie would be the one getting caught up in the minutia of it all. He’s the one being like “holy shit, I can’t believe she’s turning [insert age here]” and getting upset every time they lose interest in some little-kid thing, and he notices when a t-shirt that used to be Moe’s when she was little ends up in a donation bag because Hazel finally outgrew it. I think a plus side of this is that he gets to process the whole passage of time thing as it’s happening.

Psych-guy Steve, on the other hand, I feel like would almost be a little detached from it, and not in a bad way necessarily, but I think his perception would be very clinical – like, kids get older, kids grow up, it’s normal and natural and good and all that jazz. I think he’d have an awareness from the beginning that he and Eddie aren’t raising babies, they’re raising people who are babies for a little bit but are ultimately going to be a whole lot more than that.

He gets excited about all the milestones, especially when the girls are babies, but he’s not really thinking too much about it until suddenly he’s teaching Moe how to drive and he has this moment of, “Uh, hang on…when the hell did this happen?”, and I feel like with each kid, it might get just a bit more distressing.

As for prom, I have a longer post planned for when it gets a little closer to prom season (for the U.S., anyways) but my initial thoughts are that Hazel’s prom might be that moment for Steve, even if it’s just her junior prom and he’s still got another year with her before she’s flying the coop too. He wasn’t expecting to get emotional about it either, because between his three daughters there’s been a bazillion homecomings and proms that he hasn’t batted an eye over, but something about seeing his youngest daughter in a long dress with her hair (which is usually a total disaster) done all nice has him going, “Wait-wait-wait-wait she’s supposed to be a baby.”

[sarahowritesostucky]

Modern Stucky and Howlies AU

The Fic:

What if when Steve came out of the ice, all the Howlies were still alive and living together in one retirement old folk's home? And Steve, having no connections with anybody in the modern world, spent tons of his free time visiting them and playing poker, sneaking them liquor, and just generally creating a headache for the semi-amused retirement home staff?

And Bucky is the care worker who grows to have a crush on Steve.

(**Bonus points if you name the Nursing Home "Shady Acres Care Home" , like where Loki stuck his father in Thor: Ragnarok)

[ad-astra-per-aspera-1389]

how did Steve's phone call to Clint even go? "Hey, I know you're retired, but Tony locked Wanda in her room" "he WHAT?" "Yeah he locked her in her room" "I'm on my way" "hey we could use another team member too, while you're at it" "sure, I got you"

Clint really showed up and said "you locked my newest daughter in her room, man, that's kinda fucked" and proceeded to kick ass

[kayvsworld]

feeling more & more like steve rogers every day in that i too cannot stop thinking abt bucky barnes