febricant:

#every time i see this i wonder if bucky is still owed medals from the war that he never got#and so once he’s at a point where he can handle being in public and saying more than ten words a day#steve or somebody arranges a presentation thing for him#and everybody dresses up nice and they go out drinking after#but the most important thing is steve’s look when bucky accepts his medal(s)#the pride and the affirmation on his face and his hand on bucky’s shoulder#and they’re in the car and bucky’s got the box in his lap and he’s breathing deliberately with his eyes shut#and once he gets himself under some kind of control he hands the box to steve#and says ‘you gonna put em on me or what?’#and they pretend neither of them cried even once (via queerly-it-is)

#steve rogers
#bucky barnes
#SOLD
#posthumous medals usually go to the closest living next of kin
#i don’t know what would happen if there wasn’t any next of kin found
#so let’s just say the DOD held on to them
#in a nice display case somewhere
#the congressional medal of honor with its blue ribbon fading from the light
#the POW medal (awarded in the 80s after it was created because bucky barnes is one of war’s most famous POWs of course they would award it t
#the distinguished service cross
#the purple heart
#one for being wounded and one for dying
#the president jokes that they shold take that second one back
#and everyone’s surprised when bucky laughs
#there are others too; some major some minor
#they’re all there
#he’s never going to put on that uniform again so they’ll never hang from his jacket
#shining and heavy
#other than this once
#but the way steve’s hands shake as he fastens each pin
#and the way steve kisses him when they’re all lined up neat over his heart
#he’ll carry that weight

denisvileneuve:

There is a reason this is the last scene in which Okoye appears before the credits roll. It speaks volumes about the power black women possess. Seeing anyone, let alone a black man, submit to a black woman on screen in this way is a rarity.

Gurira thinks the message in that scene is vital for everyone, especially women and girls.

“You expect to use your love for me and our love for each other to actually get me to betray my nation, and I would kill you first. I love that,” she said. “I think women don’t often get to portray that sort of nobility and that sort of integrity, especially [choosing that] over their love.” – Danai Gurira on The Scene™

we are the things that we do for fun – Nonymos – Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

THIS FIC IS SO DAMN GOOD THAT I CANNOT WITH IT

I JUST NEED ALL OF IT FOREVER WITH LIKE 100 SIDE STORIES. MORE MORE MORE.

Also, I found it a startlingly accurate portrayal of BDSM. I loved the tatami mats, the freak outs, the doing it for the pain… Just. My ONLY complaint about this entire thing was that there wasn’t another 150 000 words of it.

Actually, there was one tiny complaint, but then it was answered later in the story. SO NO COMPLAINTS.

12 outta 5 stars

we are the things that we do for fun – Nonymos – Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

henrycaevill:

So, what I want to talk
about in regard to the moment above is why can’t Steve lift it? Why
can he only move it slightly? This is my theory;

We all know Steve Rogers
is the epitome of a good human, the best. No flaws. All strengths.
But if you like I love to look between the lines, behind the smiles
and masks, you’ll also know him as an incredible sad, broken human
being who has lost everything and still is expected to soldier on.

Now, a few days ago I read
an amazing meta on Steve Rogers and his suicidal tendencies; crashing
the plane, jumping about twenty stores out of building and down in
another with a shield as his only protection, jumping out of a plane
without parachute (a thing that is insinuated to be reoccurring ‘Did he just jump without a parachute?’ ‘Hehe, yeah’),
dropping his shield and not fighting back when he fought with Bucky,
there is nothing that makes him happy (’What makes you happy?’ ’I
don’t know’). There are countless of other incidents but right now I
can’t remember them. The important thing to take from this is that
Steve Rogers, the grand Captain America, is depressed, suicidal and
so guilt ridden over what happened to Bucky (and knowing Steve, he
probably blames him self for hurting Peggy over and over, when she
rediscovers he’s alive ’It’s been so long, so long’ too).

But he is still Steve
Rogers, he is still an amazing person with principles, he never
bends. His morale isn’t compromised like Natasha’s is. He doesn’t
fight for his country, he fights for its people and for freedom. For
what’s right. If anyone is worthy of wielding Thor’s mighty hammer,
it is Steve; the sickly, little kid from Brooklyn who were to dumb
not to run away from a fight.

So why can’t he lift, why
can he only move it slightly? Because Steve Rogers is depressed,
because he blames him self for every bad thing in this world, that he
maybe could have prevented if he had powers like Superman, because
Steve Rogers doesn’t believe he is worthy and certainly not of
lifting the hammer of a god. And I believe that not only do you have
to be worthy, you have to deem your self worthy of lifting Mjolnir.
And Steve doesn’t see what we see, he doesn’t see his amazing gifts;
he sees all his mistakes, he sees Bucky falling and the destruction
of both New York and DC hears Peggy crying and there’s no way those
actions and fall outs can make a man worthy of lifting Mjolnir.

Okay but

I need someone to read the first four chapters of my tj x stucky fic because I am stuck on a plot point and I need someone to ramble at. And also to reassure me that it’s Not Shit and if it is, to tell me where so I can fix it.

verysharpteeth:

But can we agree that Bucky Barnes pretty much took his super villain origin story in First Avenger and said “nope”? He watched the kid he constantly looked out for and defended and tried to cheer up suddenly become not just a hero, but THE hero. He watched himself suddenly become unnecessary for his friend to get by. There was clearly some resentment going on exacerbated by the heavy amount of torture he underwent. It was a similar situation to Loki, only Bucky had always been in the favored role and suddenly loses it. This would be the point that most characters would be seen simmering and brooding and either betray the hero and only redeem themselves by death or let their envy get the better of them and decide to take on the hero. And Bucky just…doesn’t. He has his moment of private hurt and pain and he regroups. His friendship is more important than his pride and he seamlessly steps aside to take a supporting role. He never flinches. There’s never any moment where you even see him THINK about betraying Steve. There’s no scene where he pauses before he helps him. Nothing.

Which is why HYDRA turning him into a monster is even more horrific. Because Bucky had already rejected going that route on his own. They had to MAKE him one. They had to force him. It would have been so easy for Bucky to have become the villain…and he doesn’t even consider it. Bucky is a victim in so many ways. 

ei-dolon:

*sciency ramblings about bucky’s arm with a bit of angst*

I made a gifset yesterday that highlighted Bucky’s nervous habit of clenching and unclenching his metal fist, right after Steve says “I need you to do better than ‘I don’t know’”. Later on in that scene, there’s a brief shot of him sitting, hunched over, and wringing both of his hands together.

Both of these instances say a lot about how much sensitivity the limb has, specifically in the fingertips; the technology is so advanced that it’s a part of him in the most literal sense, and he unconsciously treats it as such. 

The arm also has a clear sense of pressure and touch, as demonstrated in CA:TWS (that one scene with the tiny, round explosive device that everyone is fond of making gifsets of for really weird reasons) and CA:CW (he tests plums for ripeness by gently squeezing them). 

I’m guessing there are a ton of electrodes embedded in the internal mechanism, all of which allow him to control and manipulate the arm, recieve sensations of pressure, heat, cold, texture, etc. Whether he can feel ‘pain’ is debatable, considering he was able to use his metal arm as a brake along several feet of roadway, but there’s definitely got to be some sort of equivalent in order to warn him if he’s going to damage it–and it would take significant trauma in order for that to happen. In general though, his brain treats the prothesis like a real arm.

All this to say: getting the whole shebang ripped off at the shoulder joint by an arc reactor beam probably felt like he was losing his flesh arm all over again. Because it’s the same concept–all the signals that his brain was recieving from the prothesis are suddenly gone. Right after losing his arm, he passed out for several several minutes, and when he came to, he could hardly move, and if that doesn’t indicate severe pain, I don’t know what does.

I mean, think about it.  Bucky is one of those people who doesn’t go down easily. He spent 90% of his screentime in CA:TWS getting the crap kicked out of him, and hardly made a sound. As the Winter Soldier, he was taught to disregard physical damage to his body in order to complete the mission. That suicidal endurance isn’t going to go away. It’s as much a part of him as his arm was, and will permanently affect his combat behaviors. 

So when Bucky is physically unable to give any contribution to a fight beyond grabbing his opponent’s ankle, it’s a pretty good indicator that he’s Suffering™.