#stevebucky aus incorporated

[lesbiradshaw]

“You ready to follow Captain America into the jaws of death?”

Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes in THE FIRST AVENGER (1945) dir. by steveshine

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400 follower fic rec: Epic SF Stucky

I reread this fic last night and I CRIED. I love it so much. It has all of my favorite Stucky themes - love through time, loss, forgetting, remembering, great of immortality.

The science fiction story provides a perfect frame here. The time and space distortions of interstellar travel are a perfect device to explore stevebucky love.

It's an Interstellar AU and I actually read it before I saw the film, but either way is fine. I think it's better than the film because the Steve/Bucky relationship is a deeper emotional core to the film than the father-daughter relationship in Interstellar.

Bruce is a really great character in this, and I think this story explores him and his relationship to Steve (with whom obviously he shares the serum and associated longevity and what that means in terms of loss) so well. Once again, fandom giving the characters so much more than canon.

If you want a sense of some of the feels in this story check these quotes out:

"Steve was a stranger on this dying earth. The name of Captain America didn't mean anything to anyone anymore."

"He was watching Steve eat like he would've watched a sunrise."

Oof. My heart.

Also, I think Dylan Thomas was a bit of a jerk but this poem is SO GOOD and such a great Stucky poem.

You should also check out the fanvid by the jericho. It's really good.

Into That Good Night by Nonymos

SPOILERS AHEAD BELOW THE BREAK. I just need to get a few things off my chest. Come cry with me if you want.

I love the device of Steve forgetting Bucky. It is so heartbreaking how it is gradually drawn out through the story. The post Winter Soldier meeting, Steve not being able to remember. Killing me.

The Loki and Thor thread to the story is so surprising and so beautiful. I love the character of Loki and it's so great how he's incorporated into this fic. The moral ambiguity of his actions, his final goal being saving Thor.

I love that Steve loves Bucky so much he can visit Bucky's timeline when he's in the singularity. Oh, and those glimpses of the life Bucky lead without Steve are like a dagger through my heart.

I love that the ending is unapologetic about their codependency. They are so beautiful together.

I accidentally used almost the exact scene with finding a grey hair to end one of my fics and only realised on my reread. I'm going to need to put a credit in!

[lesbiradshaw]

now give us the gay rom-com.

[lesbiradshaw]

steve loves a man in uniform (even when he’s in uniform too).

[lesbiradshaw]

“oh, well... i’ll keep my distance.”

(no steve he wants you to come closer.)

[lesbiradshaw]

i like to think they share a jacket collection.

[lesbiradshaw]

they have stars in their eyes even when they’re in black and white.

[lesbiradshaw]

sunny mornings and soft smiles ☀️ 💤

[lesbiradshaw]

they’re neighbors. steve works the morning shifts, bucky works nights, hence the latter’s grumpiness.

[lesbiradshaw]

“so you’re the famous captain america, huh?”

“i’m not sure i’d call myself famous, but... well, you know...”

“you’re famous enough out here. i’m with the 107th. it’s a hell of a thing you did the other day for us all. how about i buy you a drink as a thank you, super solider?”

(in which steve and bucky meet in the middle of the war rather than before, but steve still falls in love with him in this universe too)

[lesbiradshaw]

side eyeing each other even when they know what the main event of the evening will be later…

[lesbiradshaw]

steve go sit on his lap.

[lesbiradshaw]

they have crushes. on each other.

[lesbiradshaw]

study buddies on a study date

[lesbiradshaw]

at last i see the light

by steviepie

This is the story of how James Barnes dies.

Don’t worry- that might sound grim, but this is actually a very wonderful story, a tale of magic and adventure all wrapped up in a romance so grand it could span the stars with a deserved dose of happiness at the end. But the truth is, it isn’t even strictly his. This is a story mostly about a boy named Steve, and it starts, like all beautiful things begin, with the sun.

(alternatively: the tangled au starring rapunzel steve and flynn rider bucky that i have been dreaming about all my life)

[lesbiradshaw]

battlefield boyfriends!