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black people, please take care of yourselves. please take care of your health. please take care of your mind. please take care of your spirit.

i understand if your soul is not at peace. i understand if you are exhausted. just, please take care of yourselves in these dark, hateful times and surround yourself with people who understand why.

butterscotch-veins

any black followers and friends, a thread of mental health resources if you need them can be found here!

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mrs-stans

@chuck.reyes: Sebastian, February 2026

#every time i see him all i can think of is that mitski song #my baby my babyyy

bubbarnes

“... I feel like I never woke up from this dream. You don't think about how the journey will unfold. I feel lucky, I feel content and I try to stay present.”

#his smile is just everything

bubbarnes

Cannes is over.

#BABBBBBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

mrs-stans

@jasonbolden: Deadline Cannes Cover w/ Sebation Stan in Prada x Cartier 💎👌🏾

bubbarnes

“...mmhm fantastic!”

buckydaily-inactive

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS

a classic theme in world literature, art, film and video games; most notably in those that have a lot of action. This trope usually involves beautiful, innocent, or helpless young female leads, placed in a dire predicament by a villain, monster, or alien, and who requires a male hero to achieve their rescue. After rescuing them, the hero often obtains their hand in marriage.

snowflakesandangelslove

#i’m just saying#there’s a reason so many women fiercely latched on to bucky’s character#not only is bucky gorgeous but he’s also a constant plot point to give the hero manpain#in the first avenger he needs to be rescued and his death is the hero’s ultimate motivator#in the winter soldier the hero still mourns this momentous loss until bucky springs back like the beautiful femme fatale that he is#with no agency or autonomy i should add#and in civil war he’s again just a plot device this time to cause a rift between two Men#and the russos stated they chose bucky as the first to be dusted in IW so we could view this horror from steve’s eyes#anyway i have Thoughts#bucky barnes#steve rogers#cap: tfa#cap: tws#cap: cw (via mackievanstan)

lunetta-suzie-jewel

Let’s also remember that Bucky is given feminine actions to perform outside of Being Rescued by Steve. Bucky performs a lot, like a whole hell of a lot, of emotional labor on Steve’s behalf. Oceans of digital ink have been spilled regarding Bucky’s role as pre-serum Steve’s physical and emotional caretaker. On-screen, we watch him arrange Steve’s domestic (“I am literally begging you to live with me now that your mother has passed away”) and social (“I found you a date!”) life for him…

(Interesting to note that when he takes on the role as Steve’s protector, the actual aggression involved is minimal: one punch and one kick in the alleway; one clean shot to the head during the CATFA montage.)

…and he puts up with Steve’s cock-eyed enthusiasm against his better judgment and against his own best interests. From letting Steve ditch him at the Expo on a night that should’ve been about Bucky making good memories to take overseas, to agreeing when Steve asks him to join a crack squad going after the same people responsible for a pretty damn significant trauma to him—and hell, skipping ahead to CW when he instantly joins up with Steve to go to Siberia despite the events of the first half of the film—Bucky constantly sublimates himself to serve the causes of other people.

And it’s not just Steve! Pierce orders and abuses and guilts Bucky into compliance even when he has misgivings. Bucky is undeniably reluctant to be dragged into the Infinity War, but he follows when T’Challa beckons, and he even plasters a big smile onto his face for when Steve shows up (to say nothing of the appearance change/personal grooming he put on in the meantime, which a - was so goddamn gay, and b - is a ploy to make him look more ready to be here, since Bucky’s appearance/state of dress is linked to his mental state, as evidenced by every single scene Bucky is ever in, ever).

Also, I think Bucky is the only MCU man we ever see shopping? (I’m not counting Peter Parker because he is a minor.) Actually shopping, not just walking through a marketplace or townsquare (or covertly using a computer). Chatting with the vendor and smiling and generally putting on social niceties that are often assigned to women irl and on-screen (without the manly posturing that even Peter engages in).

There was an article awhile back hypothesizing that Nonbinary Bucky took off as a popular fandom interpretation precisely because he’s been assigned the Woman’s Role so thoroughly. I can totally see why.

tagging @beautifulwhensarcastic and @koreanrage so they can read my tags

minxymojo-blog

everything e v e r y bit of this, especially:

terriblygrimm

yeah anybody who doesnt see (or rather can’t see) stucky as romantic is frankly …missing the most obvious and relied upon cinematic frameworks known to humankind?? these tropes are literally tried and true. there’s no other way to interpret them. bucky is woman-coded and queer-coded.

i’d also like to add that although bucky is always the damsel, femme fatale and what have you (adorned with long hair, smudged charcoal eyeliner and wearing tight black leather) he’s no wilting flower. bucky is powerful and commanding, strong, charming, silent and mysterious. he keeps steve in line with a glance and could kill someone with a spork. and that’s what makes him so compelling! he’s protective, soft and nurturing, gentle but formidable. he’s a complex character with virtually no screentime. and that’s all due to his interplay with steve and steve’s narratives/arcs.

and all the while steve, who appears as tough and unforgiving as nails to most, is in fact very sensitive, and comes from a place of (both physical and emotional, depending on the time period) extreme vulnerability. we see this established and ongoing in his scenes when he’s alone with bucky. he’s hot-blooded yet compassionate, gallant but unguarded.

bucky proves to be steve’s damsel, but he’s also his strength and motivation. steve is bucky’s safe haven and asylum, but he’s also his focus and source of vigilance. and that’s character interplay! that’s a successful duo dynamic! that’s what beautiful ships are made of! they both harbor traditionally “feminine” and “masculine” characteristics. marvel struck gold with these two. they’re so beautifully individually crafted yet intricately and tightly woven together.

i could go on but everybody attuned knows all of this already so in conclusion: stucky is iconic and untouchable.

andrea1717

All of this ♥️♥️♥️

bubbarnes

sebastian stan on the zoom call - april 21, 2026

#babbbbyyyyyyyyyyyyy

yourbuckies

— Robert Lax, Sagittarius

skotya

verysharpteeth

What kills me about this is Bucky doesn’t WANT to die. That look isn’t rage or defiance or even resignation, that’s legitimate fear. The man who was broken and turned into death itself doesn’t want to die. This isn’t the reaction you expect from someone who has up to this point been a killing machine. He looks trapped and scared and YOUNG. It’s a look you didn’t even seen on Bucky when he WAS young. He thinks Steve is coming over to finish him, I mean it’s what HE would do. But for someone so intimately acquainted with death, he’s scared of it. Because all he’s known of people for the last 70 years is pain and abuse and it’s a look that expects more from Steve because that’s what people DO to him. People hurt him when he doesn’t function right and he KNOWS he’s not functioning right and if Steve doesn’t kill him, HYDRA will because he’s past his expiration date of usefulness and he’s failing…

But Bucky’s a survivor. He’s got more resilience than any other character is asked for. His drive is to live. When the machine is broken enough that a little bit of Bucky can get back through, even in the midst of an existential crisis and confused and frustrated, that bit of Bucky wants to live.

That’s what Sebastian brought to the character. He brought the humanity in the machine. The victim trapped in metal and leather who doesn’t WANT to be there. Who’s NOT a stone cold assassin. Who was kind and gentle and protective, not a death weapon. The part who has no idea why this was done to him and didn’t deserve any of it and is so confused as to why people are HURTING him.

The Winter Soldier is terrifying because Sebastian let you see the humanity in him. The part of him that we know would never be choosing to do what HYDRA made him do. They broke him and twisted him and he had no choice in the matter. Nothing that was done to him was deserved. Bucky’s tragic because he was the innocent victim who wasn’t just abused and had terrible things happen to him, but who was literally turned into his worst nightmare and who couldn’t do anything about it.

Tell me again that Bucky was the villain.

onethingconstant

And this is the moment that changes Steve’s mind, too. I’m convinced that the sound of Bucky’s scream as the beam falls on him is what makes Steve decide not to kill himself. He orders Hill to fire, and he just sits there as the destruction begins—and then Bucky screams, just like he did as he fell (never forget that’s the last sound Steve thought he’d ever hear from Bucky, and it has unquestionably haunted his nightmares ever since). And Steve looks down, and his expression shifts from resignation to his oh-God-Bucky face (he makes it when he finds Bucky on the table too), and he climbs down there to save Bucky. Even though they’re probably going to die anyway, Steve chooses to spend his last few moments of life trying to bring Bucky back, trying to save him. And because of these little flickers of humanity, nobody in the audience doubts that it’s the right and natural thing to do. Because of course there’s a human being in there. Of course he’s worth saving.

And Steve will get off his ass and climb down there, while bleeding to death from gunshot wounds, to save Bucky even when he won’t bother to save himself. Because Bucky is worth it to Steve, and the audience never for an instant thinks otherwise.

A-plus, gentlemen.

brendaonao3

Yes, this. Exactly.

pookieshane

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014) // CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016)

#they make me sick #<- yeah

tomhordy

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hotniatheron

tumblr users aged 25-35 when you bring up bucky barnes:

hunybody

"wow i never knew punk was old time slang for f*g" speak for yourself. some of us were Actually no i can't finish this post. does anyone else remember 2014 pop culture film hit captain america and the winter soldier. from marvel studios.