sorry for the bad formatting, it’s copy paste:
fic rec list!!! stucky edition (disclaimer that i read some of these when they were unfinished so idk if they are ass now)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/5094785?view_full_work=true
⁃ bucky sends a very ugly “i am sorry for shooting you” card to steve, who falls a bit more in love
⁃ bucky finds out that heroin is a great way to cope with literally everything else wrong in his body and decides that being a homeless vigilante foster father is a great career change from international assassin. steve just wants him to come home
⁃ nobody cares about steve rogers. he’s just captain america, the walking american flag. he is also the sad irish catholic refugee boy who is thrown into a new world, and he just wants bucky
⁃ bucky is MESSED UP and yet still an asshole. go figure
⁃ witty humour and heavy angst, bucky takes it all in stride
⁃ the oc kids are actually enjoyable and exit the story when then need to. this story is not about them
https://archiveofourown.org/works/48579853/chapters/122538958
⁃ the winter soldier is an asset, it is not a human, it is not a “he”
⁃ steve has to be bucky’s handler, because otherwise bucky won’t eat or sleep or do anything
⁃ the more steve unravels about what’s been done to bucky, the more he decides that murder is a mercy
⁃ tony throws a tantrum for a couple chapters about the dead parents thing but he gets over it dw
https://archiveofourown.org/works/12823671/chapters/29276760
⁃ the winter soldier is captured by shield and taken in. his muzzle-mask is surgically sewn and wired into his face and can’t be easily removed. the blond man is kind
⁃ steve wonders why the soldier is so familiar
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28661127/chapters/70260372
⁃ bucky’s messed up and tortured brain, bucky’s very concerned family
⁃ steve is married, he’s filthy rich, he’s beautiful, he’s everything bucky can’t give him
⁃ bucky didn’t fall, steve isn’t captain america, but they’re still bucky and steve, and that’s really all it takes
⁃ psychologically unsound POV
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2660255/chapters/5945588
⁃ time travel: seargent barnes and the winter soldier switch places. the winter soldier, hiding his identity, meets one captain steven grant rogers and learns what it means to be human again
⁃ i don’t remember this one very well since i read it a while ago
https://archiveofourown.org/works/6329503/chapters/14502346
⁃ bucky barnes is dead, has been dead for 70 years, and yet his ghost still haunts the barnes-shaped thing that how inhabits his body. well whatever.
⁃ barnes-thing in question is fucking pissed and decides he will celebrate his newly acquired freedom by killing every hydra agent he can get his hands on. somewhere along the line he picks up a ufo, discovers he has terrible taste in music, and steals buchanan barnes’s man
⁃ very witty humour, bordering on crack, when angst hits it HITS, insanely enjoyable read
https://archiveofourown.org/works/10659162/chapters/23589582
⁃ captain america steve and modern bucky
⁃ steve meets bucky, gets a crush, and accidentally gets him dishonourably discharged from the military the same day
⁃ bucky is furious, he is livid, he appalled, he is not in love
⁃ (“Captain Fuck Off!” Barnes shouted over him. “Fight me!” Steve cleared his throat again. “I’ve been looking for you,” he told Barnes. “I hope you brought lube this time!” Barnes shouted.)
⁃ mostly humour. occasional angst
⁃ hangout with the avengers
⁃ the story gets WILD after a while. the author is just writing shit in there but i like it
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2832257/chapters/6353717
https://archiveofourown.org/works/3712729/chapters/8219167
⁃ the soldier doesn’t need bucky barnes’ memories to fall in love with steve rogers again
https://archiveofourown.org/works/6089695/chapters/13958200
⁃ 60k words but it’s part 1 of 2 so technically 110k words
⁃ bucky is taken to a facility, and nothing is normal. steve finds some form of peace, in some way
⁃ i honestly don’t remember this one either but i’ve saved it in bookmarks so it must’ve been good
https://archiveofourown.org/works/32898730/chapters/81643537
⁃ the mask didn’t come off on the bridge
⁃ don’t remember this one very well either
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21371884/chapters/50908726
⁃ the loki-steve told steve that bucky is alive. it’s too good to be true. there’s no way
https://archiveofourown.org/works/48381928/chapters/122029876
⁃ apparently fucking with space and time has consequences and a bunch of multiverse steves start showing up
⁃ bucky thinks that steve is better off without him. he just has to leave quietly so that he won’t break his heart again. but it turns out that steve and bucky are meant to be no matter the dimension, and talking to these new steves offer some perspective
⁃ and it turns out that bucky’s steve is not dealing with bucky’s past deaths as well as he’d thought
⁃ some steves lost their bucky, so angst, but also fluff
https://archiveofourown.org/works/22226011/chapters/53068423
⁃ a walk through of bucky’s time being zola’s test subject, his rescue, and steve and the howlies trying to understand their sarge who is half in his head and half somewhere else
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2741975/chapters/6146123
⁃ during ww2 and during 21st century
⁃ so tragic and well written it makes me throw up in my mouth
⁃ it diverges from canon after the time skip
⁃ a dark and bittersweet ending with a sequel pending
https://archiveofourown.org/works/1614746/chapters/3439820
⁃ the first thing hydra taught bucky is that his body isn’t his own
⁃ the slow and painful path to healing, with the help of steve who is the embodiment of a sad golden retriever
⁃ lots of dissociation. i mean most fics with bucky has it, but this is all his POV so
https://archiveofourown.org/works/9629429/chapters/21755465
⁃ steve finds a very obviously traumatized guy in his barn and against sam’s advice, can’t help but take in strays
⁃ there is a sequel to this
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14772824/chapters/34165730
⁃ steve and bucky didn’t meet before the war and are strangers
⁃ bucky escapes hydra a few years before steve thawed and gets recruited by shield as their weird cryptid with cat-like tendencies
⁃ bucky likes steve. a lot. he leaves steve gifts like acorns. steve is SO confused
https://archiveofourown.org/works/1434274/chapters/3015958
⁃ steve turns up at tony’s door with the most tortured man he’s ever seen. these two old men deserve each other. still, in the ways that matter, they’re still just two traumatized kids and tony will be damned if they don’t get their happy ending
https://archiveofourown.org/series/222392
⁃ 400k words all together
⁃ ever heard of meet-cute? this is meet-ugly
https://archiveofourown.org/series/979128
⁃ bucky isn’t ready to face steve yet, and wanders into a small foggy town with a backpack full of hydra cash and a head full of hydra trauma, trying to piece himself together
https://archiveofourown.org/series/1422985
⁃ no that’s the actual title
⁃ captain america steve and modern bucky
EYEBALL BREAK! SHORTER FICS
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14731892/chapters/34053857
⁃ bucky begrudgingly becomes captain america after steve (who is totally dead and definitely not in hiding and riding out his retirement)
⁃ bucky accidentally becomes an instagram star, deals with the press with the enthusiasm of the old man that he is, and tries to sneak off to see steve
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13928682
⁃ bucky is low on cash and decides he might as well put 70 years of assassin training to use and sets up a “hire an assassin” ad that goes viral. steve is very confused, because there’s NO WAY.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/7275262
⁃ bucky is sick and delirious and very miserable that hot coworker steve is not attracted to his germy energy
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13460625/chapters/30857211
⁃ when steve said that bucky is a selkie, sam did not know how to interpret it
⁃ as it turns out, being an asshole transfers over into blubber form and bucky is so delighted to be fed fish from a big blond hand all day that he decides he want a to stay a seal
https://archiveofourown.org/works/9532013/chapters/21554159
⁃ bucky thinks that steve and the avengers are his new handlers. steve and the avengers don’t realize this
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15588663
⁃ told from the POV of bucky’s landlord in romania
⁃ steve only comes in at the end, this is very much a bucky fic
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13414524
⁃ captain american steve and modern bucky
⁃ a very drunk bucky’s friends dare him to go ask the smoking hot blond beefcake on the other side of the bar to give him a piggyback ride. to their horror, the guy takes it in stride and carries bucky away. and the guy is also captain america.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17099468/chapters/40213736
⁃ (“I think I’m ready to date again,” Steve said. “What,” Natasha said.)
⁃ turns out that steve is genetically programmed to love bucky, even if he doesn’t know it’s him
https://archiveofourown.org/works/3822118/chapters/8521945
⁃ pure, wonderful, kind steve absolutely cannot know about the contents of the folder. it’ll break the illusion that bucky is clean and deserving of love
https://archiveofourown.org/works/4407398/chapters/10009673
⁃ more centered around steve
⁃ in which steve “came back wrong” and it turns out being a traumatized war vet in 21st century new york after being in a coma for 70 years isn’t as easy as it sounds
https://archiveofourown.org/series/1960033
⁃ steve’s helpless not to love his ghosts
⁃ steve is very torn about it and is trying not to rebound with this new bucky because of ethics, and he’s really just coping with his pining for the older bucky who he thinks doesn’t want anything to do with him
⁃ i don’t actually remember this one either lol
