Every time I ask for recs I get like the same 4 fics recced to me and I get it, they're very good, but there's got to be some good stuff that's been lost in the shuffle or passed under the radar. Any vastly underrated works so good they deserve to replace the MCU?
How They Make You a Weapon - the comic by luckyraeve, monicawoe (complete | NA | M )
How They Make You a Weapon - the comic
Who Let You In?* by birdbrains (complete | 19,635 | T )
“Is he here?” Sam asked.“I don’t know,” said Steve. “I’m—hey, Bucky, are you here? Can you hear me?”“Or whatever you prefer to be called,” Sam put in.“Yeah,” Steve said. “It’s me, that dumb guy with all the problems? Remember me?”
The Diaries of Bucky Barnes by afterlifeoftheparty (complete | 15,208 | T )
“This young soldier was writing about war, but not only that. No, the most remarkable extracts from his diaries are the ones about emotions; those passages in which he writes about loss and pain and loyalty and love.”
When Bucky Barnes’ diaries are leaked in the 70s, reactions vary from one thing to another, even decades later.
Bad Becomes Worse by monicawoe (complete | 11,542 | M )
Good becomes great. Bad becomes worse.
Angsty Post-Zola Bucky and Steve. Really I just needed an excuse to write lots of sex in tents. With biting.
The Night War: 60th Anniversary Edition by praximeter (Zimario) (complete | 109,105 | T )
In 1947, Master Sergeant James B. Barnes’s surviving field journals were posthumously published as the classic war memoir The Night War. Now a high school history classroom mainstay and required reading at West Point, this highly anticipated 60th Anniversary Edition presents the original, unedited text alongside detailed historical notes that provide important context to the extraordinary wartime heroics of Captain America and the Howling Commandos.
Barnes, James B. The Night War: The Wartime Memoirs of a Howling Commando. Ed. Harold Miller. 60th Anniversary ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Print.
Heirloom by HunterPeverell (complete | 12,185 | T )
5 times Steve Rogers lost himself to Captain America and 1 time Steve Rogers showed everyone who he truly was.
letters we never sent by newsbypostcard (complete | 5,955 | M )
In 1944, Steve finds a stack of letters Bucky wrote to him during the war and never sent. In 2014, Bucky finds the same from Steve (and then steals them out of the Smithsonian).
In 2016, they run out of time again.
It turns out that neither one of them can quite break the habit.
teach your man to fish* by silentwalrus (complete | 12,835 | T ) *selkie AU
Bucky doesn’t deign to stay in Stark Tower for much longer than it takes to completely clean out the kitchens’ fish supply. After slurping down the last oyster and sneering in disgust at the contents of the walk-in freezer, Bucky turns to Steve, pelt over his shoulder, and says, “Where do you live?”
