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So Scarlett Johansson is rumored to be 5 months pregnant. My first response was, that's lovely for her, but unless Chris Evans were the father, I am not interested. Why yes, I do ship them. *facepalm* But since this is reality and not the RPF wonderland in my head, I wish her well and don't have much interest otherwise.
But then I thought, Chris Hemsworth's wife is having twins (Thor is a fertility god, after all), and their first kid is still toddler-sized, and tumblr reminded me that RDJ has a toddler-sized kid, and Ruffalo's kids are probably old enough to babysit, which led almost directly to ON-SET SUPERHERO BABY DAYCARE. BUCKY BEARS FOR EVERYBODY. (for real, I don't understand why Marvel hasn't marketed a Bucky Bear. I'm not one to buy merchandise, but I would totally buy that. Even more so if it came with A DETACHABLE METAL ARM. IJS)
I think other people's anticipation for Captain America/Winter Soldier is starting to ramp up (mine has been off the charts for a while *cough*) because my kudos emails are now full of kudos for my Steve/Bucky and Steve/Bucky/Natasha stories, which have not generally been among the most popular things I've written. I have so much hope for a veritable DELUGE of Steve/Bucky and Steve/Bucky/Natasha fic once this movie hits, because this movie is basically ALL STEVE'S BUCKY FEELS IN VISUAL FORM AS EMBODIED BY CHRIS EVANS AND SEBASTIAN STAN. HOW COULD ANYONE RESIST THAT? ESPECIALLY IF SEBSTAN CRIES. HE'S SO PRETTY WHEN HE CRIES. I WANT SO MUCH FIC ABOUT STEVE SAVING BUCKY WITH LOVE AND ALL THE POST-MOVIE CUDDLING THAT ENSUES. In fact, I want an end title card that says, "AND THERAPEUTIC CUDDLING ENSUED." I also want ALL the Red Room-era Bucky/Natasha backstory, and how it made them feel human when everyone else was dehumanizing them. And I want Steve and Natasha's partnership-with-benefits to develop real depth of feeling neither of them expected, especially when Bucky is there to seemingly confuse things, but really, his presence makes everything clear. ♥OT3 5EVA♥
I want a post-credits scene where Bucky gets the red star on his shoulder repainted into a facsimile of Steve's shield+. I JUST WANT THEM TO HUG IT OUT SO I CAN SOB LIKE A HANGRY BABY.
+ Bucky having Steve's shield painted on his shoulder once he's himself again = CANON. Sometimes, comics, I do love you a lot.
The thing about Steve/Bucky, in particular (specifically in the MCU), is that it seems crafted to take all the things that make me ship a pairing, and turned them up to eleven. BFF who grow up together and have no one else in the world to rely on but each other? Check. Insults as endearments? Check. They rescue each other in turn? Check. And do exceptionally reckless things in order to effect those rescues? Check. Bucky sees Steve's greatness even when the world doesn't? Check. The public perception differential in their relationship is explicitly reversed? Check. They have a long separation caused by tragic circumstances? Check. They reunite under stressful circumstances and are able to work back to back even after the long separation? Check. (Okay, I doubt this will happen in the movie? And even in the comics, the reunion is separated from the working-together-like-clockwork bit, so it's not "Together?" "Yes, I think so." *sobs* BUT IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH. And it does kind of happen that way in Avengers: EMH.)
Like, even the scene where Bucky picks up Steve's shield and it's what basically kills him is not just a nod to Bucky Cap (which I doubt will ever happen in the movies), but it's essentially PATROCLUS PUTTING ON ACHILLES' ARMOR AND GETTING KILLED. And then Steve, who becomes a soldier because he feels like he needs to 1. prove himself, 2. make a contribution/serve society, and 3. because he views the Nazis as bullies the world needs protecting from, vows to WIPE HYDRA OFF THE MAP. Like, Steve is not a perfect analogue for Achilles, because he's not a sulky, spoiled boy who's motivated by glory, but he's certainly the best of the Americans, and gifted like Achilles with strength and speed and might of arms, and I've talked before about Steve's anger and how it fuels him. (I already wonder if the storyline of Cap 2 is going to in some ways vaguely resemble Achilles' anger at the way Agamemnon broke faith with the men serving under him++.) Like, I don't want to overemphasize these parallels, which are there but not nearly exact and probably not intentional except on an unconscious level, but they're totally there.
++ I also don't want to get involved with how much of Achilles' anger was selfish/personal vs. the larger issue of Agamemnon behaving badly as a leader by taking away something (and unfortunately, in this case, by 'something' I actually mean a person, Briseis) Achilles understood to be his by right, as the spoils of war. But the analogy of a leader who promises one thing and delivers another is sort of set up in Steve's relationship to SHIELD and the modern day issues of privacy/civil liberties v. national security etc.
I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT STEVE AND BUCKY AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE. IS IT APRIL YET?
NOW?
HOW ABOUT NOW?
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But then I thought, Chris Hemsworth's wife is having twins (Thor is a fertility god, after all), and their first kid is still toddler-sized, and tumblr reminded me that RDJ has a toddler-sized kid, and Ruffalo's kids are probably old enough to babysit, which led almost directly to ON-SET SUPERHERO BABY DAYCARE. BUCKY BEARS FOR EVERYBODY. (for real, I don't understand why Marvel hasn't marketed a Bucky Bear. I'm not one to buy merchandise, but I would totally buy that. Even more so if it came with A DETACHABLE METAL ARM. IJS)
I think other people's anticipation for Captain America/Winter Soldier is starting to ramp up (mine has been off the charts for a while *cough*) because my kudos emails are now full of kudos for my Steve/Bucky and Steve/Bucky/Natasha stories, which have not generally been among the most popular things I've written. I have so much hope for a veritable DELUGE of Steve/Bucky and Steve/Bucky/Natasha fic once this movie hits, because this movie is basically ALL STEVE'S BUCKY FEELS IN VISUAL FORM AS EMBODIED BY CHRIS EVANS AND SEBASTIAN STAN. HOW COULD ANYONE RESIST THAT? ESPECIALLY IF SEBSTAN CRIES. HE'S SO PRETTY WHEN HE CRIES. I WANT SO MUCH FIC ABOUT STEVE SAVING BUCKY WITH LOVE AND ALL THE POST-MOVIE CUDDLING THAT ENSUES. In fact, I want an end title card that says, "AND THERAPEUTIC CUDDLING ENSUED." I also want ALL the Red Room-era Bucky/Natasha backstory, and how it made them feel human when everyone else was dehumanizing them. And I want Steve and Natasha's partnership-with-benefits to develop real depth of feeling neither of them expected, especially when Bucky is there to seemingly confuse things, but really, his presence makes everything clear. ♥OT3 5EVA♥
I want a post-credits scene where Bucky gets the red star on his shoulder repainted into a facsimile of Steve's shield+. I JUST WANT THEM TO HUG IT OUT SO I CAN SOB LIKE A HANGRY BABY.
+ Bucky having Steve's shield painted on his shoulder once he's himself again = CANON. Sometimes, comics, I do love you a lot.
The thing about Steve/Bucky, in particular (specifically in the MCU), is that it seems crafted to take all the things that make me ship a pairing, and turned them up to eleven. BFF who grow up together and have no one else in the world to rely on but each other? Check. Insults as endearments? Check. They rescue each other in turn? Check. And do exceptionally reckless things in order to effect those rescues? Check. Bucky sees Steve's greatness even when the world doesn't? Check. The public perception differential in their relationship is explicitly reversed? Check. They have a long separation caused by tragic circumstances? Check. They reunite under stressful circumstances and are able to work back to back even after the long separation? Check. (Okay, I doubt this will happen in the movie? And even in the comics, the reunion is separated from the working-together-like-clockwork bit, so it's not "Together?" "Yes, I think so." *sobs* BUT IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH. And it does kind of happen that way in Avengers: EMH.)
Like, even the scene where Bucky picks up Steve's shield and it's what basically kills him is not just a nod to Bucky Cap (which I doubt will ever happen in the movies), but it's essentially PATROCLUS PUTTING ON ACHILLES' ARMOR AND GETTING KILLED. And then Steve, who becomes a soldier because he feels like he needs to 1. prove himself, 2. make a contribution/serve society, and 3. because he views the Nazis as bullies the world needs protecting from, vows to WIPE HYDRA OFF THE MAP. Like, Steve is not a perfect analogue for Achilles, because he's not a sulky, spoiled boy who's motivated by glory, but he's certainly the best of the Americans, and gifted like Achilles with strength and speed and might of arms, and I've talked before about Steve's anger and how it fuels him. (I already wonder if the storyline of Cap 2 is going to in some ways vaguely resemble Achilles' anger at the way Agamemnon broke faith with the men serving under him++.) Like, I don't want to overemphasize these parallels, which are there but not nearly exact and probably not intentional except on an unconscious level, but they're totally there.
++ I also don't want to get involved with how much of Achilles' anger was selfish/personal vs. the larger issue of Agamemnon behaving badly as a leader by taking away something (and unfortunately, in this case, by 'something' I actually mean a person, Briseis) Achilles understood to be his by right, as the spoils of war. But the analogy of a leader who promises one thing and delivers another is sort of set up in Steve's relationship to SHIELD and the modern day issues of privacy/civil liberties v. national security etc.
I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT STEVE AND BUCKY AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE. IS IT APRIL YET?
NOW?
HOW ABOUT NOW?
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Various and sundry:
= I took one look out the window yesterday morning and noped my way out of work. I'm annoyed that our new mayor didn't close the schools not just because it cost me a PTO day, but also because did you see it out there yesterday morning? On my block - on which there is a NYC public school - the street was not plowed and the sidewalks were not shoveled until sometime after 12 pm. I can only imagine how much worse it was in the outer boroughs. And then to see his press conference - I don't understand how they could claim to have not known the storm was going to be that bad when ALL INDICATIONS the night before said that it would be. I mean, yes, there was more snow in some places than expected, but they were still predicted 6-10" for the city! They really need a better process for this, if we are going to continue to have these kinds of storms during the morning and/or evening commute. And then last night we had thunder and lighting what the hell!? Getting to work today was not unusually difficult, though I waited on an exceptionally long line for the bus, and also stepped into a much deeper than it looked puddle on the corner of 79th & Broadway, deep enough that water got in over my boots (they are ankle boots! they have done yeoman's work this winter, but they are not tall!) and made my cuffs and socks wet. Bleh. DO NOT WANT.
= Anyway! After I emailed the bosses (both of whom are on vacation in warmer climes), I made myself some homemade hot chocolate and watched the US men's hockey team thrash Slovakia. I admit, other than knowing which Rangers were going to be at the Olympics, I hadn't paid much attention, so I was surprised that Paul Statsny was on the US team. I remember when his dad and uncles played. Oh god, I am old enough that the fully grown sons of players I remember watching are now playing. *weeps* Also, I still can't tell the difference between Marcel and Marion Hossa, even though they're not twins.
ANYWAY. I did enjoy the game, and I will probably be up tomorrow morning at 7:30 to watch the game against the Russians. I believe I've told this story before, but my love of hockey goes back to the 1980 Olympic miracle on ice team (well, technically, I was a playoffs-only Rangers fan in 1979 when they made the Cup finals, and lost, to the Habs, but that was because the playoffs were the only time you ever saw hockey on tv in 1979; once I was following the Rangers regularly, I had to do it via the radio), because several of the players joined the Rangers afterwards, and of course, Herb Brooks was the Rangers' coach. Yeah, so I became a Rangers fan just in time for the upstart Islanders to win four Cups in a row, which is why even now I hate the Islanders, though given how poorly they've been since forever, I don't hate them quite as vehemently as I used to. Also, since I engage with it so thoroughly from a Rangers fan POV, I just can't with the media fandom that's sprung up around hockey in the past few years. ( i can't believe i'm spoiler-cutting for a sports score that is so wrongCollapse )
= I haven't gotten to see any of the women's hockey yet, but I did enjoy this Grantland piece on the rivalry between the US and Canadian women's teams.
= After the hockey game, I watched Tuesday night's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which I hadn't realized was new, since everything else is in reruns because of the Olympics. ( spoilers are going full BoyleCollapse ) I need a B99 icon.
= Then I worked on finishing the Bucky Bear Valentine's story I was writing:
A Beary Happy Valentine's Day (@ AO3)
Avengers; Steve/Bucky/Natasha; pg; 1,455 words
For their first Valentine's day together, Natasha and Steve each give Bucky a Bucky Bear.
Based on this head canon from![[tumblr.com profile]](https://imgprx.livejournal.net/4c7f84d73100bc9a4a3463013468ed75f22e5340a50ba1f9d4ff6b0988dadf85/P2WlxyVijxKghG9t9MZeUUMdsf-ah7h0yFmVCaZGgtLf4VbXmszqDkswCUR4EAN4tU0XgQ:_wg3AjbLzK_Ia1BEusaQhg)
allofthefeelings. It was her idea - I just ran with it. And got a little overwhelmed by Steve's Bucky feels. I don't know how I'm going to survive Cap 2.
I don't understand why Marvel isn't selling actual Bucky Bears. I mean, I'm pretty sure they could make a lot of money on Bucky Bear, but so far they're leaving it to the handcrafting Etsy crowd. I don't get it. I am just saying.
= And this morning, I bought tickets for the Veronica Mars movie, which I will be seeing on opening night with![[personal profile]](https://imgprx.livejournal.net/9e392f8481602113e89446f3d050a1165401b723813e03a5672fdbff074c4329/P2WlxyVijxKghG9t9MZeUUMdsf-ah7h0yFmVCbZBitHe5BHQgcnrB1ghT056GQJiv05e0zTaZg1RFEYV0g0o-lRBm3nIevQ:mLofSYH7rp5-WaL-p_EyYg)
innie_darling. I AM EXCITE!
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= I took one look out the window yesterday morning and noped my way out of work. I'm annoyed that our new mayor didn't close the schools not just because it cost me a PTO day, but also because did you see it out there yesterday morning? On my block - on which there is a NYC public school - the street was not plowed and the sidewalks were not shoveled until sometime after 12 pm. I can only imagine how much worse it was in the outer boroughs. And then to see his press conference - I don't understand how they could claim to have not known the storm was going to be that bad when ALL INDICATIONS the night before said that it would be. I mean, yes, there was more snow in some places than expected, but they were still predicted 6-10" for the city! They really need a better process for this, if we are going to continue to have these kinds of storms during the morning and/or evening commute. And then last night we had thunder and lighting what the hell!? Getting to work today was not unusually difficult, though I waited on an exceptionally long line for the bus, and also stepped into a much deeper than it looked puddle on the corner of 79th & Broadway, deep enough that water got in over my boots (they are ankle boots! they have done yeoman's work this winter, but they are not tall!) and made my cuffs and socks wet. Bleh. DO NOT WANT.
= Anyway! After I emailed the bosses (both of whom are on vacation in warmer climes), I made myself some homemade hot chocolate and watched the US men's hockey team thrash Slovakia. I admit, other than knowing which Rangers were going to be at the Olympics, I hadn't paid much attention, so I was surprised that Paul Statsny was on the US team. I remember when his dad and uncles played. Oh god, I am old enough that the fully grown sons of players I remember watching are now playing. *weeps* Also, I still can't tell the difference between Marcel and Marion Hossa, even though they're not twins.
ANYWAY. I did enjoy the game, and I will probably be up tomorrow morning at 7:30 to watch the game against the Russians. I believe I've told this story before, but my love of hockey goes back to the 1980 Olympic miracle on ice team (well, technically, I was a playoffs-only Rangers fan in 1979 when they made the Cup finals, and lost, to the Habs, but that was because the playoffs were the only time you ever saw hockey on tv in 1979; once I was following the Rangers regularly, I had to do it via the radio), because several of the players joined the Rangers afterwards, and of course, Herb Brooks was the Rangers' coach. Yeah, so I became a Rangers fan just in time for the upstart Islanders to win four Cups in a row, which is why even now I hate the Islanders, though given how poorly they've been since forever, I don't hate them quite as vehemently as I used to. Also, since I engage with it so thoroughly from a Rangers fan POV, I just can't with the media fandom that's sprung up around hockey in the past few years. ( i can't believe i'm spoiler-cutting for a sports score that is so wrongCollapse )
= I haven't gotten to see any of the women's hockey yet, but I did enjoy this Grantland piece on the rivalry between the US and Canadian women's teams.
= After the hockey game, I watched Tuesday night's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which I hadn't realized was new, since everything else is in reruns because of the Olympics. ( spoilers are going full BoyleCollapse ) I need a B99 icon.
= Then I worked on finishing the Bucky Bear Valentine's story I was writing:
A Beary Happy Valentine's Day (@ AO3)
Avengers; Steve/Bucky/Natasha; pg; 1,455 words
For their first Valentine's day together, Natasha and Steve each give Bucky a Bucky Bear.
Based on this head canon from
I don't understand why Marvel isn't selling actual Bucky Bears. I mean, I'm pretty sure they could make a lot of money on Bucky Bear, but so far they're leaving it to the handcrafting Etsy crowd. I don't get it. I am just saying.
= And this morning, I bought tickets for the Veronica Mars movie, which I will be seeing on opening night with
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chipper - music:Should I Stay or Should I Go? - the Clash
A Beary Happy Valentine's Day
Avengers; Steve/Bucky/Natasha; pg; 1,455 words
For their first Valentine's day together, Natasha and Steve each give Bucky a Bucky Bear.
Based on this head canon fromallofthefeelings. Thanks to snacky for looking it over and making it better.
( A Beary Happy Valentine's DayCollapse )
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Avengers; Steve/Bucky/Natasha; pg; 1,455 words
For their first Valentine's day together, Natasha and Steve each give Bucky a Bucky Bear.
Based on this head canon from
( A Beary Happy Valentine's DayCollapse )
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hungry - music:nbc nightly news
So I just wrote 1000 words of Velveteen Bucky on tumblr. I don't even know.
( Kid!Steve/Bucky Bear: Love Me for AnonymousCollapse )
I will probably polish it a little and post it to AO3, because Velveteen Bucky. I don't know how it wasn't a thing already.
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and here's another:
( Bucky/Natasha: Haunt Me for AnonymousCollapse )
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7 more prompts to go!
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( Kid!Steve/Bucky Bear: Love Me for AnonymousCollapse )
I will probably polish it a little and post it to AO3, because Velveteen Bucky. I don't know how it wasn't a thing already.
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and here's another:
( Bucky/Natasha: Haunt Me for AnonymousCollapse )
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7 more prompts to go!
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- music:Falcons v. Seahawks on tv
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