#stucky is the way to go

[rillils]

not me casually leafing through some screencaps and randomly realizing that the bartender in catfa also happens to be pre-serum steve's body double, thus making this shot:

the perfect rendition of what steve's before/after pics would have looked like side by side (and steve's leaning over a little, so he's actually slightly taller than that)

and it truly sinking in how fucking nuts it must have been for bucky to see THAT when steve found him lying on that table

[lucidasidera]

🤡 Markus and McFeely 🤡: “Yeah, Bucky’s just a POW who had his entire agency explicitly removed in not one but TWO ways but he’s for sure guilty because we don’t want him to have fruit salads with Steve”

[imavikingo]

[rel312]

Saw a post that started off with something like “what if Eddie and Tommy were friends first” and I was like okay this is about 911 and then all of a sudden it started talking about Steve and I was like……… it’s a steddie post, like all the Steves/Stedes and Eddies and Bucks have been confusing enough but now Tommy is in the mix???? I’m out I can’t do this anymore

[cable-knit-sweater]

Someone write me an AU pls thank you

[nascenticity]

i have seen a lot of headcanons (& fics!) about bucky doing crochet or knitting that i LOVE but i also need everyone to consider --

steve watching his mother doing irish crochet; maybe she even teaches him some simple things when he's sick and needs something to occupy him so he'll sit still and rest; its a creative outlet for sarah and that artistic streak is something she and steve share almost a century later, crochet comes back into fashion with millennials and gen-z, and steve looks up a youtube tutorial. he doesn't have many physical things left from his mom; but he can make some stuff that she would have loved and it helps him feel close to her.

[godmerlin]

Let's just say it's magic

Magic by Mark Owen

[irl-dogboy]

clearly i missed something, but checking back in on the stucky fandom is 'wtf even happened here?' cuz not only is that fandom barren nowadays but you can't find any content about bucky n steve there. instead it's 95% borderline(if not actual)fetish content of GrapeyGIJoe'MericaMan/RenamedPeggyIfPeggyWasATradwifeInsteadOfPeggy and what's even wilder is that the few who are still there complain abt how small the fandom became....... like why would anyone stay if the actual characters are not present...... almost every fanwork isn't just "misinterpreting" characters, they go out of their way to make "Cap X Modern Bucky AU" where Bucky's explicitly written out of the story and replace with uncool tradwife(renamed)Peggy and consequently Steve has no personality cuz his relationship with Bucky was narratively the basis of his canon character. like maybe it's just me, but it feels like..... something happened after Peggy got the time travel white picket fence canon ending... feels like some decided that was the epitome of ships and remolded the whole stucky fandom to be that... and ended making a fandom appealing to nobody, def not fans of the 2 character nominally (only nominally) in the ship, and not even appealing to ppl who like Peggy cuz Peggy fans actually got actual new Peggy content where she's actually in character and actually cool instead of the weird time travel white picket fence stuff.

idk if i was the person this was meant to go to. the only stucky i read is the stuff that appeals to my niche fetishes. but congrats or i'm sorry that happened

[damnyoucully]

BUCKY’S SONG by Morgan Clae

Help I can’t stop listening to this, I am in SHAMBLESSSSSSKAKDKFKDKSMJFJD

[rillils]

imagine post endgame bucky having to go alone, without someone to support him, to say sorry to all the people whos family he killed and he keeps saying that he didnt have a choice as his excuse

and he keeps thinking that its not a good enough excuse, that hes not good enough

no, you see, you see!! one of the things that made me uncomfortable about their treatment of Bucky, back when I was watching tf*ws, is precisely this

gonna slap this under a cut because BOY I have things to say

I WWILL NEVER STOP BEING MAD ABOUT THIS. I MEAN.

deciding that he has to apologize for all those deaths implies that he murdered those people willingly, while he was perfectly aware of his actions, of their consequences, and just did it anyways. so now, you know, he has to "atone for his sins", or make amends or whatever. so we're just going to send him off to those dead people's relatives to immolate himself because of course that's the only right thing to do. BUT idk, say what you will, this entire concept just sits wrong with me, I can't help it.

like first of all, we're acting as though killing all those people was a conscious choice on his part, as though he were completely 100% in control of himself and actively chose to murder a bunch of people, just because it suited him or something, when we know, WE FUCKING KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN LITERALLY SHOWN THIS, IT'S A RECURRING THEME IN AT LEAST 2 OF THE CAP MOVIES, that THIS. was NOT. the CASE. and fuck anyone who says any different tbh, mcu included

second, they might argue that by walking up to the victims' relatives and apologizing, Bucky's giving them closure or something, but. just. look at this from their point of view, right. as far as they're concerned, this is the guy who murdered their loved ones in cold blood, and he's just! walking free! getting away with murder(s), apparently without suffering any consequences whatsoever for all his crimes and all the grief he has caused. is that REALLY gonna give anyone closure? or is it just going to hurt them more/make them even angrier/unnecessarily reopen old wounds when there's nothing, really, that can heal or soothe them at this point, but rather just make them more painful than they already were????

so, it doesn't give them closure. and it sure as fuck doesn't give him closure, either.

they send him on this horrible, tragic, terrifying, sad errand, and all he gets out of it is torturing himself some more. seeing the pain and the hatred for him on all of these people's faces, the moment he says "yes, it was me, I pulled the trigger, I killed this person you loved". like, torture, yes, torture!! that's all this is!!! that's all it earns him!!! no peace of mind, no sense of closure, no hint of forgiveness! just more pain!!!!!!

just. I just hate this, you know, I just. I really, really hate this. I especially hate how, as you said, the way they insist on him having to personally apologize is just going to make him feel like his own hardships (aka being physically and emotionally tortured until he broke down and had his identity, agency and free will stripped away from him) were just "an excuse". as though a victim (because THAT'S what he is, THAT'S what he always was, a victim himself) needed an excuse for all his suffering. as if he brought it upon himself. as if he was "asking for it".

nah, all of this, it's just going to make his sense of guilt grow stronger and deeper over time, making him feel even more Unworthy (unworthy of love, unworthy of acceptance, unworthy of living a normal life after everything he's been put through, unworthy of friendship, unworthy of being seen as a whole person, as a human rather than a murderer) than he already felt before, making his own pain so overwhelmingly powerful that he might end up feeling like his entire existence is a mistake, and everybody would be better off if he just wasn't around anymore. and that's just so horrifying that I refuse to contemplate it.

[martianbugsbunny]

It's not as fun for me to watch the Captain America movies anymore because even though it's on me for actually thinking Marvel might have Steve and Bucky end up together, it was one hundred per-cent a reasonable assumption to make. The chemistry was there. The history. The narratives revolving around each other's lives. Steve saying it's hard to find someone he has shared experiences with when there's a man who matches that description heart achingly well. Bucky knowing Steve so deep within his core that not even brainwashing and mental torture can keep him from remembering. I'm with you to the end of the line being almost like a marriage vow. The way Bucky can't remember the name of the girl he dated once (but Steve can) but he remembers the part of that experience that involved Steve. The way he's believed in Steve since before he was Captain America. The way Steve would literally rather die than hurt Bucky anymore once he knows the world is safe, even if he doesn't know whether or not Bucky will have mercy on him (and it's not even important if he believes Bucky will, because that wouldn't have any impact on Steve's decision to stop fighting). The way they just keep haunting each other. The way it should be impossible for them to still exist together but the universe conspired to save them both for the twenty-first century. The way Bucky is the only person alive who knows that Steve used to put newspapers in his shoes. The way that's all Steve needs to hear from him to know this is Bucky and not the Winter Soldier.

No, I don't expect that every ship will become canon. But can you blame me for hurting when something that felt so much like eternal love, that felt so close to seeing people like me up there on the movie screen, didn't get to happen when it so easily could've?

Would you blame Icarus for plunging too hard into a taste of freedom, after being locked away for years, when it was really the weakness of the wax and the fury of the sun that killed him?

[gleeksfreaksandwannabes]

It’s new chapter time!

We’re about 2 chapters away from ending this story guys, but for now here’s a lovely little sappy part for you all!

[smollandkindaannoyed]

It is a "Head empty, one thought" kinda day. And that one thought that has me thinking all day is Bucky calling himself "The Asset" in Sidereal from girlbookwrm and verbalatte.

Like I just finished the fic, loved it, but I cant stop thinking about how Bucky kept calling himself The Asset in the beginning. The way chapter two starts with: 'The Asset has no soulmark, as far as it is aware. Soulmarks are for the living, after all.' And that is some of the most heartbreaking shit ever. Like all I can think about is how Bucky really just became a weapon, an object, to be used for all those years till the point he himself doesn't even believe he is a living being anymore. How he talks about himself like HYDRA talks about him, how he starts to use their words and with talking in a thirth-person way also making his actions not his, because in the end all those missions were done by The Asset not by Bucky. Ye no this thought will be haunting my brain for next few days.

[slashtakemylife]

After battle surprise

(a/o/b stucky scene)

This is a short scene I would've loved to use in one of my fics but sadly I won't go that way but I really loved the idea so I'm gonna dump it either way, for context, Stucky has been mated and married pre-war and both got frozen and defrozen together

The newly made Avengers team made their way to the shawarma place, they were beaten and tired but still went in good spirits.

Captain America, known as Steve Rogers, kept an arm around his omega mate, James “Bucky” Rogers, both having being defrozen nearly a year ago.

Bucky, despite the battle, kept a good humor and joked around his new team while his alpha just looked at him and smiled, finally they arrived at a shawarma place that was miraculously open, they just had half the place destroyed but the kitchen was functional.

The team slowly went in with Steve and Bucky at the end however the moment the smell hit Bucky, a wave of nausea overcame him and he moved as fast as he could before he threw up behind a giant piece of debris.

The Avengers only looked back confused.

“You alright?” Natasha asked.

“Yeah, yeah, is just that the smell made me really nauseous, I don’t know why” Bucky said and reached out to grab the napkin Steve had brought him and cleaned himself.

“Come on Mr. America, don’t tell me you got a mini Cap baking,” Tony offhandedly said and went to sit down.

Meanwhile Steve and Bucky flinched before looking at each other in disbelief.

“N-no, it can’t be,” Bucky stuttered to Steve.

“Maybe it’s just a stomach bug,” Steve offered.

“Yeah, it must be that,” Bucky went closer before the smell made him nauseous again and he turned around to hide his face on Steve’s chest, his scent waving off the food scent.

The owner of the place, an older woman, made her way to them before she handed Steve a cut lemon.

“Here,” she said with a heavy accent. “Smell it, it’s good for the nausea, worked wonders for my pregnancy,”

Steve passed it to Bucky before flinching at the mention of pregnancy and Bucky did too.

“I’m not-,” Bucky said but she was already back to sweeping her floor so he sighed and sniffed the lemon, it did work wonders but for his nausea! It wasn’t any kind of morning sickness because he was NOT pregnant.

-

“Congratulations Mr. Rogers! You are pregnant,”

“WHAT?!”

[ritualslaughter]

there are certain songs that (bc I listened to them while reading a fic/just generally binged them during that part of my life) have become completely divorced from this reality and only exist in the fictional reality of the character I associate them with