#we have two separate sides of fhe same coin

[fandomfluffandfuck]

you don't have to treat this like a request, i know you're busy !! i just need to put my thoughts somewhere and, as usual, you're my go-to Thot Deposit ™

i was sitting here thinking about forties stucky, and how bucky didn't really physically change after he was hit with the serum like steve did. he didn't have this massive muscle or bone growth, he didn't suddenly have massive tits [affectionate] or muscles like out of a bodybuilder's wet dream. nah, he just... looked like bucky still, but Better™

but we know the serum fucks with your metabolism. we know that caloric intake has to at LEAST triple to sustain super soldiers' body mass.

i like to think that bucky like, , didn't know what was wrong with him? that he didn't KNOW what was wrong with his body.

everyone knew that steve could devour a whole fucking warehouse full of food without batting an eye so they had extra rations for him. i like to think that he shared with bucky, bc he could tell that the kid was starving and that something was just a bit off.

every time they went out with the howlies, he'd eat way more than when they were kids. when they were full grown adults even

stucky sharing food in the trenches, in the forest and trees when on stealthier missions. steve splitting all of his food in half and sharing with bucky.

maybe there was a bit of hand feeding involved too, if stucky were already established.

idk i just love the idea of steve and bucky sharing food. communion became one of my favorite tropes after i read a book abt literary analysis and what sharing food means metaphorically. i thought u might agree !

hope you're doin well and that the smoke isn't too bad where you're at!!

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I am very happy to be a Thot Deposit sight lol and yeah, I'm gonna close my requests soon but not officially closed! I'll put up a post then. I'm thinking roughly early September, y’know?

Okay yes yes I am here for forties stucky So Hard but the sentence "he didn't have this massive muscle or bone growth, he didn't suddenly have massive tits [affectionate]" is the funniest shit I've read all day without further context lmao

But, context, yes. Let's think on that.

*Warning below for abuse from HYDRA*

Okay so as much as I LOVE LOVE LOVE hand feeding for Bucky I always, personally, headcanon that HYDRA designed their serum to do the opposite of a lot of the "downsides" that Steve's serum had. To make the winter soldier the ghost story, unstoppable machine that it was.

I always thought about the classic serum things that Steve got and I think of the bastardization of them. For example: Steve burns through food like fucking Crazy but Bucky doesn't. He can sustain himself on little, hardly anything at all, because his body becomes able to absorb every little bit of nutrients from what he does eat as well as slowing his metabolism. An added benefit is that it is very hard for the asset to become hungry, helpful because only humans can be hungry, machines not so much. Steve burns like a furnace; Bucky runs cold, metal and flesh. Steve's heart rate is that of a hummingbird but Bucky's is slow enough to be difficult to detect. His low body temperature has that effect too. It makes TWS extremely hard to detect with heat sensing techniques, with heart rate monitors... no one will see the soldier coming. A ghost.. It makes the asset easy to send away on missions and all but forget about it. It won't starve and if it will... well, it'll take it a long time to get there and a shorter time to return. The asset is not stupid, it knows where it's food comes from and it knows that it cannot escape punishment in death.

HYDRA's serum did not aim to make a spectacle. They did not want a propaganda pawn, they wanted a defense. A weapon not made of brawny, brute strength meant to smash and run through things but a weapon meant to slip through fog, meant to slide through ribs to reach the heart, a specialized tool, silent and yet fearsome.

But, who knows, perhaps Bucky's serum was not as refined right off the bat y’know? Maybe it was closer to Steve's when he first got it but it had a much lower effect, so much so that, yeah, Bucky didn't change all that much. And then, later, they gave Bucky "booster shots". Things that burned in his IV and through his body as they slowly spread. Taking his body heat and his hunger and what he had left that was like Steve.

And if that was the case, later experimentation changing Bucky's serum and super abilities to be "better" then YUP I have no doubt that what you said above, 🎁 anon, would be the case. For sure. Steve sharing and pushing bits (at first) to direct halves (later) of his rations until it all but escalated into Steve squirrling away rations to hand feed Bucky in their private tent after a long, long day of hearing his best guys stomach growling. Feeling a pang through his heart each and every time but (guiltily) loving that they get to share this anyway.

I don't know how you pulled all that angst out of me lol, but I appreciate your thoughts!!

[thisisalovestoree]

Jughead's narration - Season 1 (part 1)

Episode 1

Our story is about a town, and the people who live in the town. From a distance it presents itself as so many other small towns all over the world- safe, decent, innocent. Get closer though and you start seeing the shadows underneath. The name of our town is Riverdale.

On the fourth of July, just after dawn, Jason and Cheryl Blossom drove out to the Sweetwater River for an early morning boat ride. The next we know that happened for sure is that Dilton Doiley was leading Riverdale's boy scout troop on a bird watching expedition and came upon Cheryl by the river's edge.

Riverdale police dragged Sweetwater River for Jason's body but never found it. So a week later, the Blossom family burried an empty casket and Jason's death was ruled an accident as the story thay Cheryl told made the rounds that Cheryl dropped a glove in the water and Jason reached down to get it and accidentally tipped the boat, and panicked and drowned.

As for us, we were still talking about the fourth tragedy when the last day of summer vacation, a new mystery rolled into town.

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It was midnight when my old friend, Archie Andrews arrived at the one place in town that was still open. He was looking for the girl next door, instead he found me.

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And so, it wasn't one heart that broke that night. It was two. And the night was far from over.

By morning, everyone would be talking, texting, and posting about it. We'd all be feeling it. That the world around us had changed, maybe forever. That Riverdale wasn't the same town as before. That it was town of shadows and secrets now.

On Monday, the autopsy of Jason's body would take place and on Tuesday, halfway through the fifith period, the first arrest would be made.

Episode 2

I think many of us, maybe the entire town had been hoping against hope that somehow Jason hadn't drowned of July fourth. That we'd come to school on Monday morning and there Jason would be or that we'd see himand Cheryl in a booth at Pop's. But that was before the undeniable, irrevocable fact of his bloated water logged body. A corpse witha bullet hole in his forehead. And terrible secrets that could only be revealed by the cold, steel blade of Corner's autopsy scalpel. Or the teel tale heart of a gulity heart.

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To someoneon the outside peering in, it would have looked like there were four people in that booth but I can tell you really there were only three - a blonde girl, a raven haired girl, and the luckiest red-headed boy in the universe.

For one shining moment, we were just kids. Those bright neon lights of Pop's keeping the darkness at bay, giving way, as all nights must, to a morning of reckoning.

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As shocking as those three words were, they were nothing compared to fhe secrets that Jason's body had given out during the autopsy. That Jason didn't die on July fourth as we believed but over a week later.

Episode 3

Guilt - innocence, good - evil, life - death. As the shadows around Riverdale depened, the lines that separated these polar opposites, blurred and distorted. "I'm guilty" Cheryl said in Biology class. But of what?

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Good and evil, light and dark, Betty and Veronica. Two sides of the same coin.

Given Betty's article, Wheatherbee needed a sacrificial lamb, needed to make an example of someone. So after Hermione Lodge negotiated a lesser sentence for our two avenging angels, Coach Clayton - to save his job, to save the school's reputation - was forced to cut his own son and his goon squad from the team. An action that, though none of us knew it at the time, would have terrible consequences in the weeks to come.

But one thing was certain. Betty and Veronica, now B and V and maybe forever, had been forged. They walked through the fire and survived.

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We crave absolutes, they comfort us. But life is infinitely more complex than that.

Despite all our recent troubles, I would have done anything to protect Archie but Dilton Doiley had just opened Pandora's Box and now there was nothing I or anyone could do to save him.

Episode 4

It's been a week since the discovery of Jason Blossom's body. But this death is not the first nor would it be the last casualty the town of Riverdale would suffer.

The Twilight Drive-In, where I work, my home away from home, a piece of town historyis closing for good just when we all needed a place to escape the most. With Sheriff Keller knocking on every door and neighbour suspecting neighbour, Riverdale, with everyday that passes is becoming into Salem during the witch trials.

And meanwhile, the girl next door, our friendly neighborhood Hitchcock blonde, Betty Cooper is wrestling with the knowledge that her best friend, Archie Andrews was caught up in a forbidden romance.

Episode 5

Every town has one. The spooky house that all the kids avoid. Ours was Thornhill, the Blossom Family's mansion, with its very own graveyard. And trapped within its walls like some gothic heroine was Cheryl Blossom. Still grieving for her beloved brother, Jason. Linked in death even as they were in life.

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Every town has one. The house on the haunted hill all the kids avoid. Now that Jason was buried in the earth, it would only be a matter of time until something poisonous bloomed in that long cold shadow cast by his death.

Whatever grew in the rich black soil of the Blossom's garden always found its way to the town. Whether it was murder, or love, or secrets, or lies.

Episode 6

Fear. It's the most basic and most human emotion. As kids, we're afraid of everything. The dark, the boogie man under the bed. And we pray for morning, for those monsters to go away.

No, they never do. Not really. Just ask Jason Blossom.

Another fun fact about fear. Sometimes it grows up with you. Or it curls up inside of you. Thightens around your guts.

Each year, Riverdale High hosts a Variety Show but this event is no mere student frolic.

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Here's the thing about fear. It's always there. Fear of the unknown, fear of faving it alone, fear that those closest to you are the monsters, fear that as soon as you slay one, there's another monster waiting to take its place. Fear that there is one boogie man waiting at the end of the dark hall.

She was out there. Alone, areft, unmoored. Where was she going? And what was she doing next?