The boys would like to maintain that “actions speak louder than words” and they can’t really remember who said what.
Because Steve knew how much Bucky loved him when he said, “I’m with you ‘till the end of the line” at that absolute worst moment in his life with his Ma dead and gone and Steve knowing he had absolutely nothing left…. except for Bucky.
Because Bucky knows how much Steve loves him when he nags at him to “eat up, you jerk – I didn’t spend all day slaving away at this kitchen trying to get my Ma’s recipe right just for you to turn your nose up.”
See: “You’re a punk.” / “You’re a jerk.”
Also the fact that chicken soup with matzoh balls is Jewish penicillin and Bucky mastered his Ma’s recipe for it so that he could pull Steve back from one more debilitating illness, one more time.
And that on one truly cold winter dawn, Bucky pressed his lips against a feverish Steve’s forehead and whispered, I love you, Steven Grant Rogers. Don’t you leave me. Don’t you go anywhere, do you hear me?
And Steve remembers opening his eyes and whispering back, No. Not without you.
Who would have the other’s picture as their phone background
“Buck is that a picture of…. my ass?!”
“Well, your ass looked delicious in those jeans. I needed to have something pretty to look at.”
“…”
“Don’t worry, baby doll. The nekkid version is my wallpaper.”
“JAMES BUCHANAN BARNES!”
(Steve tends to change his phone screensaver and background fairly frequently and of course, they’re all pictures of Bucky.)
Who leaves notes written in fog on the bathroom mirror
Look, y’all would think Steven Grant Rogers would be the kind of little shit who’d leave intricate artwork in fog on the bathroom mirror and he could totally do that.
Totally.
Except he basically just leaves little love notes so that Bucky will see them first thing in the morning and most of the time, these are all the endearments Steve would normally not speak out loud.
Bucky blushes every time he sees them.
Who buys the other cheesy gifts
Look, Steve totally doesn’t still have that Cracker Jack ring toy that a six year old Bucky used to propose to him, even though they didn’t know that boys couldn’t marry each other at that point in time.
He doesn’t.
He totally doesn’t have it threaded through his dog tags, along with Bucky’s Ma’s wedding ring and it wasn’t with him when he froze in the Arctic and it’s still not around his neck to this very day.
Also, Steve has never forgotten the beatdown he delivered to Big Mike, who tore up the baseball card Bucky gave him on his birthday, when they were about nine years old. It didn’t matter that Big Mike had a foot over Steve – Steve whaled on him with a garbage can lid and kicked him in the ass for good measure. Bucky had to pull him off.
Who initiated the first kiss
Once upon a time, a little shit named Steve Rogers had an objection to make when Bucky Barnes nervously gave him a peck on the cheek after confessing that he’d loved him this entire time – prior to Bucky running off for Basic training.
“On the cheek? All this and I get a kiss on the cheek? What’s the matter with your aim, James Buchanan? My lips are right here!”
Bucky’s not an expert marksman for nothing. He got it right on the second try.
Also – Steve may have glommed on him like an octopus, in the privacy of their apartment, once Bucky presented himself in his brand new uniform. Kisses were definitely exchanged then.
Who kisses the other awake in the morning
Somebody in this relationship is a grumpy jerk in the mornings, who will burrow himself in his blankets and will not stir, not unless he gets a snuggle and a kiss. Actually, several kisses.
The person delivering kisses would be Steve.
Who starts tickle fights
Bucky knows all of Steve’s weak spots and has been known to pounce on him – bitty or big – especially if Steve’s about to come up with one of his “cockamamie plans – I swear to God, Rogers – I will make sure you hit your hundredth birthday even if it kills me.”
(Bucky no longer really makes that joke considering Certain Events, but the sentiment is still there. Also, he loves the noises he gets out of Steve when tickling is commenced.)
Who asks who if they can join the other in the shower
“Five minutes, Buck – can you keep your hands off my ass for five fucking minutes? I’m in the shower!”
“We have been separated for seventy years – let me savor the moment, punk.”
“Mmmm…. didn’t you already do a lot of savoring this morning – mmmph!”
Who surprises the other in the middle of the day at work with lunch
“STEVEN GRANT ROGERS, YOU WILL PUT THOSE REPORTS AWAY, SIT DOWN AND YOU WILL EAT MY MA’S POTATO KUGEL OR SO HELP ME –”
Who was nervous and shy on the first date
Little Sophie B, Knight is the sole witness to her great-uncle being a nervous wreck on the day of his first date with Steve. Between her and favorite “cousin” Peggy Jones, they managed to wrangle “Uncle Bucky” into an outfit that would pass “Aunty Nat’s” exacting standards and make him look smart and handsome and not “just having crawled out of a dumpster.”
It was Sophie who suggested that “Uncle Bucky” take “Uncle Punk” to Coney Island on their first official 21st Century Date.
Who kills/takes out the spiders
Steve totally wasn’t the one who screamed when surprised by a “giant fucking hairy spider – don’t you laugh, Buck, what is that, some kind of escaped science experiment? GET IT OUT!”
(Bucky maintains it was just a teeny tiny little guy, minding his own business and actually trying to eat mosquitoes. “For fuck’s sake, Steve.”)
Who loudly proclaims their love when they’re drunk
“Stevie! She’sh mah best girl. Sunshine hair and eyes like the blue blue sky. Coulda get lost in those eyes. Jus’ like an ocean. Ass you can sink your teeth in. My baby gives me the sweetest shugar in alla Brooklyn. My Stevie! That’s my baby-doll!”
“Man, Sarge has it bad for that girl of his. Wish I could have me a dame like his Stevie….”
Rules: name 5 OTPs from 5 different fandoms and tag 10 people to pass it on!
I got tagged by @poplitealqueen who is the Very Very Best Ever. *hugs*
1. Gimli/Legolas. DUH. The OTP to Rule Them All, the ship that sails itself to Valinor, you comfort me, for any love, etc etc etc skjdhfgljsdhfa NOTHING HAS EVER COME CLOSE to this, the flagship of the Armada. I will never stop writing them, I will always love them and their relationship.
2. Bruce Banner/Tony Stark. Shaddup, they’re beautiful. I love them, I won’t ever stop loving them. Oh, these brilliant, beautiful, hurting men. (BRUCE BBY, TONY BBY, WHY CAN’T THEY EVER BE HAPPY)
3. Finn/Rey/Poe Dameron. (this is for poly ships too yeah? okay it is now) MY NEWEST LOVE. lsdghflhjsgflajhgfjlsahfga Yes. Yes please, more please – if I were confident enough in the SW universe I’d write some myself, but as it stands I am gobbling up every single fic about these three, and then some.
4. Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers. See 2. Also OUCH. These two give me terrible, wonderful heartache.
5. Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield. AUGH. AUGH. ALSO YESSSS BUT ALSO AUGH. Ohhhhh it hurts, but hurts so good I can write over 400K about their way back to each other and still have words to spare
Technically speaking, one cannot be “accidentally” elected President of the United States.
Here are Ten Things You Need to Remember:
1. Upon hearing that a certain Rich Nuisance was actually serious about running for the highest office in the land, Hamilton said, “If any jackass can run for President, I’m throwing my hat into the ring. Rogers, you’re my running mate.”
2. Steve “eeped” but to be honest, his judgment was slightly impaired by Thor’s Asgardian mead. Also, it’s really hard to say no to an actual Founding Father.
3. It totally didn’t help that Bucky egged him on about it. “I’d always wanted to be the Second Lady. Or Gentleman.”
“Do not throw away your shot, Rogers,” Hamilton smirked.
Some epic facepalming ensued.
4. It also didn’t help that Tony Stark – who is decidedly Hamilton’s Favorite Non-Nuisance Rich Person – kicked off the HamiltonRogers2k16 campaign by making the generous donation of USD$5,000. He was perfectly happy to give more.
5. There may have been a Ghostly Peanut Gallery composed of Dead Founding Fathers, Family Members, Dwarves, Two Hobbits and Peggy (NOT Schulyer) cheering the two idiots on.
6. Except for Thomas Jefferson, who pouted in a corner, chanting, “Never gon’ be President, my gawd, what is this country coming to?”
7. Attys. Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson actually filed the necessary documents.
8. Officially, they were running under the revived Federalist Party. Okay, they weren’t really running for President – Hamilton was just trying to prove a point. But he was amazingly eloquent about their proposed platform and Steve, of course, could be depended upon to back him up.
Also, the putdowns of certain candidates were incredibly entertaining.
9. And then, Hamilton and Rogers basically summed up their talking points in an amazing rap that was helpfully contributed by A Dot Ham’s favorite adopted Puerto Rican son.
“Why the hell did you give me the fastest bits of the rap? Do I look like Lafayette to you?”
“Try to tell me you’re not able to rap like you’re running out of time,” was the cool response.
Steve was too busy snickering in the background.
10. Alexander Hamilton and Steve Rogers won by a landslide. Ooops?
#HamiltonRogers2k16, Blanket Fort Crack because I crack what I want, fandom!
(Yep, I made a Sansukh reference. Hi, @determamfidd – the crack for your last update was WAY overdue!)
You have no idea, my sweet summer child. None at all.
Okay. If I tried to list everything, I will never be able to finish this post. So – here are my three current fandoms (I have others, but yeah… long post will be long) and here are like a few fics off the top of my head.
This is one of the best Alternate Universes that it has ever been my privilege to read. It’s still Sherlock Holmes and it’s still John Watson, even though they’re actors in this universe and not crimefighting super sleuths.
It’s gorgeously written, it’s expanded into a universe in itself and it’s one of those fics that you can just sink yourself into and never want to leave.
My absolute favorite thing in the MCU fandom is any fic that deals with the heroes in social media and in a meta-ish way. This is THE ultimate outsider POV Stucky story – and even now, I’m in awe at how the author manages to capture every individual fan you know on the internet.
You KNOW these people.
They ARE your people.
They ARE you.
It’s brilliant. It’s Steve/Bucky and their presence is very tangible in this story, even though they themselves aren’t directly appearing to the reader. Again, it’s not just a fic, it’s become a universe I can escape to.
basically, one of the best canon divergences i’ve ever read. i mean, canon-wise, Bucky either gets killed or gets put through a lot of pain and this fic is like everything i want after watching CATWS and going, “please, somebody save bucky barnes and steve rogers!”
Epic. This is a WIP but it’s worth keeping an eye on.
This is how you do fan fic on an epic scale. It is world building, it is expanding on the existing canon, it makes you think and imagine and cry and laugh and…. yeah, okay, this is why fan fiction is such a good thing.
Did you ever sit yourself down and wonder things about the fictional universe you just discovered in a book? All those little details and nitty gritty things and stuff that the canon only hints at or doesn’t really get to tell because we have to keep the story going and there’s no time to get into it?
Sansukh does that and it retells the Lord of the Rings and the in-between years of the Hobbit not just from a dead Thorin Oakenshield’s point of view, but it basically attempts to tell us the stories that were not told because we were following Frodo and Aragorn on their own respective journeys. It tells us about Dain and Erebor’s heroic stand and the kingdom Bard got to re-establish. It tells us their stories and it makes the existing canon all the richer.
This is short and sweet and funny as hell and adorable as anything. Also hot but look, aside from going all nnnnnngh at the Good Bits, you’re still giving yourself gigglefits at all the lovey-doveying going on.
Ta-da. Enjoy!
Oh Stitch…!
Thank you soOO much, you wondrous and sweet and kind person! Wow, that is some illustrious company whoa
I am absolutely blown over by your absolutely beautiful words, I am just so grateful for them and just so happy that it has touched you so, I lasdhfgjalshfdgas *brain borks completely* THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I was tagged by poplitealqueen – who knows what she did. (choosing only 5?? ONLY 5?? THIS. WAS. SO. HARD.)
Pick 5 OTPS, before you read the questions, then answer them, tag people when you’re done.
– Legolas/Gimli (hands up anyone who is surprised, oh look, nobody).
– Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield
– Bruce Banner/Happiness
– Sam Vimes/Sybil Ramkin
– Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers
1. Do you remember the episode/movie you started shipping 5? It’s only a small film, a sequel of sorts, you may not have heard of it…
2. Have you read fan fiction about 2?HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
[Where is question 3???] It was within us all alooooong!
4. If 3 was to suddenly break up what would be your reaction?*weeping tears of purest fire* you mean it was canon? Has it EVER been canon? PROTECT BRUCE BANNER 2K15
5. Why is one so important? Because they finally heal the breach between their two peoples. Because Gimli promises during the war that ‘where Legolas goes, I go’ – and he keeps that promise to the end of his life. Because Gimli is the first Dwarf to sail into the west. Because Legolas stayed until Gimli was the last of the Fellowship, but could not bear to sail and leave him behind.
Because they are also scorchingly hot. Poetry and culture and magic, strength and grace and height and secrets and hair (goddamn, SO MUCH HAIR). Piercings. Tattoos. Flexibility. Muscles.
This is all very important to consider; i hope you are all paying attention.
6. Is 4 a serious ship or a funny ship Both. They are both funny people – or can be. But together Sam and Sybil are pretty much the perfect companions and supports for each other. I adore their relationship SO MUCH.
7. Out of all the ships which has the most chemistry? Gigolas (in the books, easily!). In the films? Bagginshield.
Bruce/Happiness is but a pipe-dream, sadly
8. Out of all the ships which has the strongest bond? G I G O L A S
9. How many times have you read/watched 2’s fandom? Sigh. Enough to be pissed off about certain tropes (oh hi Dain, yeah, talkin bout you again Dain, why are you always being written as an asshole when you are a stand-up guy, jeez)
10. Which ship has lasted longer? canonically? *screams into the night* GIIGOLAS Sam/Sybil, I suppose, as the rest aren’t strictly speaking canon.
11. How many times, if ever have 5 broken up? Oh, they’re on a break right now. It was a really dramatic sort of scene, out in public and everything. Tcch. 😉
12. If the world was suddenly thrust into a zombie apocalypse which ship would make it out alive? Oooooh. To be honest, I think they all would! Thorin and Bilbo begin a resistance (plus elven swords prove very effective tyvm). Gimli and Legolas have a competition with Steve and Bucky as to how many zombies they can eliminate. Bruce is fine, naturally. He’s smashing merrily away. Sybil is terrifying with a sword in her hands, and Sam is the dirtiest, canniest fighter in Ankh-Morpork for a reason.
13. Did 4 have to hide their relationship for any reason? Nope.
14. Is 5 still together? *muffled sob*
15. Is 1 canon? Any way you look at it, they belong together.
16. If all five ships were put into a couples hunger games which couple do you think will win? OH NO YOU DON’T.
Oh goddamn. Bruce. Bruce would be the only one left alive.
But he wouldn’t be happy.
17. Has anyone tried to sabotage 5’s relationship? HAIL HYDRA.
18. Which ship do you defend to death and beyond? GIGOLAS
19. Have you ever spent hours a day going through 3’s tumblr page? Nope, though I do check Bruce’s tag every now and then.
20. If an evil witch descended from the sky and told you had to pick one of the ships to break up for good which would sink? Oh damn, there’s no Question 20, what a shame.
If you feel like procrastinating, here’s a meme thingy! Anybody, feel free to do it and say I tagged you! 🙂
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