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Bucky is a cat. Steve is a cow.
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dream of the fisherman's wife by Anonymous for sallysparrow017
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
13 Nov 2019
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The team, accompanied by a recently recalibrated Bucky Barnes, go investigate an abandoned Hydra base. Steve gets separated from the rest of the group, and discovers something horrifying lurking in the underground base. Or, rather, it discovers him.
(Or: the Lovecraftian tentacle fic that no one asked for.)
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Steve Rogers: khaki pants and ugly tweed wearing art history professor specializing in historical queer art (by day). Is actually Captain America, vigilante and the bane of Detective Barnes’s existence (by night).
Detective Bucky Barnes: A very clever cop who suspects something is up with Steve. Is frustrated that Captain America exists and is dedicated to finding him because he loves a good puzzle.
So, how does Steve convince Bucky that he's too boring to be Captain America? Go on a date with him.
(Steve is kind of really, really bad at this secret identity thing)
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Special Agent Bucky Barnes doesn't think of himself as a hero. He's dedicated to his career, and if that keeps him far away from home, all the better. His parents think that he should get a less dangerous job and meet a nice Brooklyn girl (or boy) to settle down with. In Brooklyn.
That sounds like Bucky's definition of a living hell. He's been running from it for years.
Enter Steve Rogers. Brooklyn boy. Not always nice. Hot as hell.
And a temptation Bucky can't resist, even after their initial failure of a meeting.
This is an AU of the Steve Rogers problem but stands alone - you don't have to read that part to understand this.
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- Part 4 of THE Steve Rogers PROBLEM
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25 Jul 2020
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fbi agent bucky barnes, workaholic, emotionally stunted fuckboy, terrified of commitment. actor steve rogers, overshadowed by his goodie-two-shoes captain america role, sharp and sarcastic, has a crush on his childhood classmate who barely remembers him. both trying and failing to not catch feelings for one another while being fuckbuddies.
one of those fics in which bucky's family is so realistically pushy and obnoxious that it's painful to read sometimes. becca and their mom are just...argh! i want to shake them and yell at them to give bucky some space. which speaks volumes for their identities as independent minor characters that i reacted so much to them.
fics that made me cry. worth rereading. bucky's and steve's emotional development in and between the lines is handeled so well.
rare modern bucky fic that isn't "winter soldier aesthetic minus the disability". bucky here takes more after his ww2 pre-hydra character.
recommend reading independently of the earlier parts in the series.
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Bucky doesn't consider his Steve Rogers problem as a problem so much as the solution he hadn't realized he was hoping for to help him through the transition from the Bucky Barnes he'd been before his accident to the new, shiny version of himself.
No, the problem isn't with Captain America and The Howling Commandos fandom.
The problem is the amount of porn Bucky managed to write and draw about Captain America before finding out that he's less than one degree of separation away from Steve Rogers. 'Less than' as in he's sitting across the table from him.
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- Part 1 of THE Steve Rogers PROBLEM
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20 Jul 2020
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tl;dr this fic exists to absolve fandom of any guilt they may feel about their role in the sexual harassment of celebrities
i want to like this fic. it's a solidly written rom com fantasy at its foundation, but i'm having a very hard time getting into the romance when the moral of this story is, "actually, celebrities who have sexually explicit and violent porn made in their likeness without their consent aren't victims; the real victims are the fandom members who sometimes get pushback from meanie critics".
this is the first fanfic-about-fandom i've read that gets close to acknowledging the messy issue issue of celebrities and fanmade porn. but instead of addressing the at-best weirdness (and, at baseline, sexual harassment) of being forced to deal with strangers telling you they masturbate to unauthorized porn of your and your coworkers doin' it, the author goes all-in on fandom being innocent of misconduct...because "art"...or rather, "art i can get off to".
1.) when bucky realizes he personally knows the actor he's been making porn of and masturbating to, he has a crisis in conscious, but then the fic redirects to the conclusion that bucky is unjustly giving himself too hard a time. steve's feelings are irrelevant; it's all about bucky's termporary, internal mortification.
2.) steve (who functions as a chris evans surrogate, whose words the author has complete control over) fully endorses sexualizing fanworks and fandom's behavior with them. he apologizes to bucky for not immediately coming to the defense of porographic fan art when tentacle porn of him was brought up at a family gathering. he directly addresses the issue of fans at conventions cornering celebrities into signing porn of their likeness, and steve assures the audience that the practice is okay actually. by all accounts, steve should be the victim here, but the author uses him as their puppet to absolve fandom. the author's version of chris-evans-by-another-name isn't given room to express discomfort about how fandom treats the real person behind the role, and this fictional version of evans fully supports fandom's behavior regardless of the real-life consequence of fans sexually harassing celebrities.
3.) the story's first villain is a family member of the chris evans surrogate, who committed the unforgivable sin of...saying something mean about the subgenre of tentacle porn when she was blindsided by a drawing of her cousin being raped by an animal.
i want to like this fic. outside of the issue of celebrities being forced to interact with fanmade porn, it fundamentally has all the elements of a cute, hilarious, sexy, well-written meet-ugly of smart characters who float somewhere between "idyllic" and "believable". but i'm having a very hard time enjoying it when it's so far up fandom's own ass that it can't even acknowledge that celebrities are real people who are affected by this shit.
all of this is particularly frustrating because the author is clearly aware of other issues in fandom (intra-fandom harassment, fans who are so married to fanon that they're shattered when it's debunked by new canon, cis women in fandom assuming it's populated by only cis women, fans who demand that suspected queer celebrities come out, fans who harass celebrities' new SOs). the author knows things aren't all roses in fandom, but when it comes to the issue of sexual harassment, the conclusion is "fandom did nothing wrong".
there's a sole critical comment on chapter 3 that went the other way as my criticisms, which i found very interesting. they remarked on the issue of steve, the celebrity, having all the power in the relationship in which he knows about bucky's fanworks, and how steve manipulates bucky like a rockstar would a groupie. which is an interesting take within the context of the fic. but i was more concerned about what the fic is saying about fandom's responsibility outside the context fic.
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Into That Good Night by Nonymos
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Interstellar (2014)
02 Mar 2015
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Steve Rogers has lived for entirely too long—long enough to see the world's end. The heroes are gone, and the Earth is pushing what's left of mankind towards the exit.
But when a makeshift team rises from the ashes, when a mysterious presence all but drags Steve there, he begins to think there may be hope yet. As they shoot for the stars one last time, Steve will get proof yet again that the future is nothing if not an echo of the past.
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18 Jul 2020
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emotional, masterful, detailed storytelling along the same vein as "from tralfamadore, with love" (by newsbypostcard) and "the blind leading" (by skyisgray). steve and bucky will always find each other and fall in love, no matter what cosmic forces try to get between them.
haven't seen interstellar, so i'm not sure which details and plot points are straight-up lifted from the movie, but there's clearly many marvelverse elements that were adapted to the crossover that really made this story unique (in addition to all the painful stucky h/c goodness)
one of the few fics in which, while everything seems unrepairably hopeless, i desperately kept hoping things would turn out okay, even though i was unable to imagine how it could possibly get better. i usually hate fics that shoehorn an impossible happy ending; but here i was desperate for the characters to escape the grief. it hurt so good.
fics that made me cry. need to reread.
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A series of sexy, terrible, PWP vignettes in the Pet Boys 'verse exploring different kinks and situations. Each chapter will be a complete one-shot featuring some combination of Rogers/Rumlow/Rollins (and maybe Barnes!).
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- Part 2 of Pet Shop Boys
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Do You Allow Your Pets to Sleep on the Bed? by daphnomancy for mathildia
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
02 Nov 2015
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When Brock had suggested bringing Steve Rogers into their bed, Jack had been understandably skeptical.
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- Part 1 of Pet Shop Boys
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It was 2014 and men called their boyfriends, ‘babe.’ Steve never would have imagined he would love the way it made him feel.
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- Part 1 of Comminution
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10 Jul 2020
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in which recently awoken steve rogers is a sad sack of shit and brock rumlow takes full advantage of that.
fic starts out rough; i thought it was just meaningless grimdark for shock value at first. but once it warms up, its psychological horror and trauma elements are spot fucking on and doesn't pull any punches. author's depiction of brock's rationalized and self-assured abuse feels too real. steve's psyche, mental illness, and trauma, both before and during the events of the plot, feel too real. a close look at extreme trauma and its aftermath without copping out with "and they lived happily ever after, then end". really fantastic character study of rumlow and rogers on top of it all.
remember that line "order through pain" from TWS that made no fucking sense? this fic single-handedly walks you through the logic of that phrase. bravo to the author for finally laying out the reasoning to a line from the movie that i always laughed at for being a goofy non-sequitor.
everything hurts. fics that made me cry. among the best psychological horror steve rogers fics i've read.
one of the few established relationship boyfriend!brock fics that doesn't water down brock rumlow being a goddamn nazi. (bless hydra trash, for it never forgets who the villains are)
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13 Jun 2020
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13 Jun 2020
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schmoopy hot, messy marathon sex. everything is horny and nothing hurts.
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Front row seat (tickets are free for hotties) by FlamingoQueen
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
20 Dec 2019
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After another few minutes, Steve stops humming, sits up and frowns. “What is that?” he asks. “The one you got stuck in my head. I know it but I can’t place it.”
“Monty Python,” Bucky grunts. Thwack goes the rock, not missing a beat. “Lumberjack song.” Thwack. “Seemed appropriate.”
“Yeah?”
Bucky stands upright with a wince and a groan, leaving the wedge where it is, but letting the rock drop to the ferns at his feet. “Well, I’m a fucking prehistoric lumberjack, Steve, and I am okay.” He runs a forearm across his brow and turns to face him, careful not to get his feet tangled up in the smaller branches and spent wedges littering his work area.
“I’m more than okay,” he adds, no evidence in his voice of anything beyond playful boasting and a hint of breathlessness from exertion, though Steve knows he’s got to be hurting. “I am the shit.”
(Or: Steve and Bucky do some prehistoric carpentry.)
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- Part 6 of Fossilized
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07 May 2020
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Bucky might put on a grumpy face about all this, but this sort of thing is right up his alley. In a lot of ways, this is the stuff of Bucky’s childhood dreams, even if he doesn’t remember those dreams. He’d always been reading stories about people stranded on islands, stranded on Mars, stranded in cave systems. Space travelers, sailors, explorers… It’s not really a surprise that Bucky wants to make a boat and go see what’s further down the prehistoric coastline.
What is a surprise is Bucky’s idea that they ought to do this without using the knives.
(Or: Steve and Bucky have "The Talk" about prehistoric knife rationing.)
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- Part 5 of Fossilized
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07 May 2020
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Dancing with the sandman by FlamingoQueen for glittercake
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
23 Oct 2019
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“You’re dreaming again. And I need you to wake up, Steve.”
Steve closes his eyes in a long blink, and sighs. “I’m awake now, Buck.”
“About damn time,” he mutters.
Bucky pulls him close and wraps his arms around Steve’s shoulders, and Steve can feel the tension and the relief warring with each other in how tightly Bucky clings. He slides his arms around Bucky to hold him just as tightly.
“I’m sorry,” Steve whispers. “I’m sorry to make you worry, Buck.”
“I’m not worried,” Bucky says, his voice harsh. “I’m fucking terrified. You’re going to walk off a cliff or wander out into the open to get squished like a bug.”
(Or: Steve and Bucky wrestle with the prehistoric sandman.)
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- Part 3 of Fossilized
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“Steve, what dinosaur is out here making rope in the prehistoric woods? What dinosaur wears fucking hiking boots and walks completely upright?”
Yes, okay, point to Bucky. But they can’t exactly help walking, and without boots they’d still be leaving footprints. And it really is a smallish bit of forest on a huge planet…
Bucky bundles the rest of the pterodactyl in some ferns to dump a mile or so out from their camp later. “We’re going to be on Ancient Aliens, Steve. We’re going to be the ancient aliens.”
(Or: Not all of Bucky’s concerns are logical. Some of them are just plain ridiculous. But Steve is willing to help him hide from the History Channel.)
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- Part 2 of Fossilized
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07 May 2020
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The dinosaur pauses mid-step, turns its head to look straight at them, and makes a breathy huffing noise. After a tense moment, it looks in another direction and huffs again. Then another direction. And then, contrary to all of Steve’s current hopes and dreams, it looks back at them.
Steve swallows and makes a fist. He’s going to have to punch a dinosaur, he just knows it. However well it may have started, this is shaping up to become the least relaxing vacation he’s ever heard of.
(Or: Steve and Bucky’s S.H.I.E.L.D.-mandated vacation takes a sharp turn toward dinosaurs.)
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- Part 1 of Fossilized
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- English
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- 9,251
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- 1/1
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07 May 2020
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30 Apr 2020
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beefy bucky in stockings and lingerie feat. hairy bear steve rogers
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12 Apr 2020
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rare smut of post-serum steve rogers with a small cock and body insecurity/dysmorphia
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There are things he can't remember. Thought processes that can't quite pan out. And he's not sure, but he thinks he might be waking up with bruises he didn't have the night before.
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When Dean goes missing on a hunt in New Orleans, John picks Sam up from Stanford to help look for him. (Pilot AU)
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- Part 1 of Brother's Blood
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- 36/36
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Bookmarked by bittersweet_ache
10 Feb 2020