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I'm going to Hilton Head with my hubby, kiddos, parents, one sibling and BIL for a MUCH needed vacation (wishing the rest of my siblings could've gone).
I was stopped 4 times at daycare yesterday when I picked up my kiddos to get compliments on my weight loss (I still have more work to do, but I am visibly slimmer). No prying, no questions. Just telling me I looked great.
I haven't had time to write much lately, but I'm hoping to carve out time soon.
dad dex is probably the type to turn the kids into his personal surveillance system for when it comes to you
Nonnie, you know he'd be gentle about giving the kids "tasks" and things to look out for.
"You tell Daddy if Mommy seems sad today, okay?"
And you know he does a daily/nightly debriefs. Sitting at the table for dinner or tucking them in, kissing them on the forehead.
"Did Mommy have a good day? Were you good for her?"
And the kids would be so happy when he says how proud he is that they're keeping an eye on you, especially if they offer information without being asked.
"Daddy, a man talked to Mommy at the grocery store today!"
"...What man?"
And he isn't having them look out for you because he doesn't trust you. He's devoted to you, and the kids are an extension of you. It's the rest of the world he doesn't trust.
Girl did win the poll, nonnie! The world better watch out. And God help the person who falls for his daughter because you know he'd put them through the ringer.
hiiiii i’m back after a long hiatus! I just wanted to say hello and spread some love. have a wonderful day!
-kate (previously sweetiebarnes)
Kate! It's so good to hear from you. Life has been crazy (and will continue to be), but I'm going on a much needed vacation soon. I hope you're doing well!
Hi Navy, do you think you could help a girl out? I was reading a fic and dumblr did dumblr things and I lost it.
Bucky is a Mailman, I feel it’s called Tuesday and Thursdays (could be wrong) but I can’t find it. Reader is married to Rumlow in a not so happy marriage. If you or a follower could point me toward the blog that wrote this I would be forever grateful.
Sending love and many thanks 💕💕
PS: please help 😭
Hey, lovely! That sounds like a good fic, but it isn't ringing a bell.
Welcome back to another fun-filled week at Writer in a Cryofreeze! We have nine nifty drabbles for you today, all written to the following prompt:
This Will Not Happen in Doomsday!
That's right, folks--take all the spoilers you may or may not have read about the upcoming Avengers movie and throw 'em out the window, because this week, it's about what WON'T happen!
Once again we have a split post today: eight amazing drabbles are rated General Audiences and can be found below the cut. One sexy explicit drabble has been posted on its own over here. Be sure to read as many drabbles as you are able and feel comfortable reading before voting.
YOUR JOB is to vote for up to TWO of your favorite drabbles. Voting will be open until about 4pm NY time on Friday afternoon. The two authors of the drabbles with the fewest votes will get their own shiny Cryofreeze, from which they can watch the premier of the movie when it's finally released!
Ready to read? FANTASTIC (four, that is)!!!
Thanks for reading!
Drabble #1 - Hope
Rating: General Audiences
The battle ended without fanfare. No portal in the sky, no impossible odds, no incursions. The multiverse was safe.
Weeks later Bucky was at an animal shelter, standing in front of a white kitten in the cage.
Retirement wasn’t what he’d expected. He imagined boredom, restlessness. His days became wonderfully ordinary: coffee, aimless walks, reading, sitting with Alpine on the balcony, watching the sunset.
He started imagining a different future: go back to school, reelection.
Perhaps, settle down, start a family.
It felt unbelievable. The universe had stopped asking from him or taking from him.
Bucky was allowed to live.
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Drabble #2 - Shots Fired
Rating: General Audiences
"This is stupid!" Sam yelled, waving his gun in the air.
"The games the game." Bucky chuffed with a smirk.
"You're the one who suggested this." Yelena chuckled alongside Bucky.
"Yeah a nice normal game of Lazer tag. Not Lazer tag with the world's best assassin!" Sam continued.
"Look man," Joaquin huffed as he joined Sam's side, "Maybe we just call it quits, we've gone 5 rounds, we keep losing."
"No we go again." Sam replied sternly, pointing at Bucky with narrowed eyes, "You, left hand only."
"Fine by me." Bucky grinned before jogging back into the darkened zone laughing.
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Drabble #3 – Do This All Day?
Rating: General Audiences
Sam laughed once humorless. “Trust? Don’t start with me on trust, Buck. I had to hear about your new team from the evening news.”
“That’s not what happened.” Bucky groaned
“No? ’Cause it sure as hell felt like it.” Sam's tone cold.
Bucky stepped closer, jaw tight. “They have information. Information that can help.”
Sam opened his mouth, anger ready.
Another voice beat him to it.
“You two gonna do this all day?”
Everything in Bucky locked up. He turned too fast, breath catching painfully.
Steve stood there, steady and impossible.
For one stunned second, Bucky only stared. Disbelieving.
“Steve?”
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Drabble #4 - Doomsday, Declined
Rating: General Audiences
Bucky is trying, with effort, to understand a tax-credit rider. It’s not going well, but it is going privately, which seems important.
You’re halfway through explaining depreciation when his phone rings.
YELENA BELOVA
Decline.
Again.
Decline.
YELENA: Stop being dramatic. Is only maybe end of world.
Swipe.
SAM: don’t be like this.
His jaw shifts.
Swipe.
DEADPOOL: Winter grandpa, Kevin says assemble.
Swipe.
You lower the bill.
“James.”
“No.”
“Could be important.”
“It’s always important.” Bucky’s phone flips facedown. “I’ve appeared in every MCU phase. The other guy who managed that turned into a tree. Let me legislate in peace.”
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Drabble #5 - Apocalypse Meow
Rating: General Audiences
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Steve, preparing to face the end of the world was familiar. Everything after that was not.
“That was anticlimactic,” Steve said.
“They can’t all be Thanos,” Bucky agreed.
“Hardly worth coming out of retirement. This happen a lot since I left?”
“Fury’s cat’s saved the day before, but it’s a first for Alpine.” After a beat, Bucky added defensively, “She’s still a kitten.”
Kitten or not, her purrs almost drowned out Doom’s booming admiration while he pet her rather than lay waste to the world.
“Come on, Steve. Fight’s back on if I can’t rescue my cat!”
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Drabble #6 - Them
Rating: General Audiences
The ozone on his tongue was sharp and growing sharper by the second.
Something was wrong.
More than the battle chaos amidst the ruins of the Stark Expo grounds.
Bucky turned slowly, surveying his surroundings.
Then he saw them.
Each wore his face but not his history. One in a crisp, white uniform from some alternate century, a stillness to him like a wolf that knew every trick in the book and didn’t need to snarl. The other a grizzled wreck: gray at the temples, sleep deprivation tattooed under his eyes. Both sported the arm—his arm, that ugly, magnificent thing.
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Drabble #7 – Tumblr to the Rescue
Rating: General Audiences
He was dying. Fine. He'd done it before.
Then the portal opened. Blue. Tumbling. Chaos shaped like small circular portraits of strangers, cats, anime characters, and— unsettlingly— him. Long hair. Short hair. One arm. Two. Smiling, something he didn't remember doing.
One handed him a juice box.
Bucky stared at it. Stared at himself, multiplied, in eras he couldn't fully account for.
"This," announced an icon of a small white blue-eyed cat, "will not happen in Doomsday."
He had no idea what that meant.
Something about the cat felt familiar. He couldn't place it.
He drank the juice box anyway.
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Drabble #8 – Fix It
Rating: General Audiences
Bucky sheathed his knife when you walked in.
“Bucky,” you began softly. “What are you doing?”
“I’m gonna make the writers fix it.”
“Fix what exactly?”
“Everything,” he answered through his teeth. “Like Natasha dying.”
“Bucky…”
“And Steve’s ending.”
“Bucky.”
“And Sam and I being on the outs again.”
“Bucky!”
He paused to look at you.
“You can’t fix it,” you whispered. “You’re not supposed to be aware that you’re in a movie, and I shouldn’t even be here.”
He blinked, confused. “Then… what do I do?”
You smiled. “Leave it to the fanfiction writers. They’ll know what to do.”
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That's all the General Audience drabbles for today!
Be sure to read the Explicit Drabble if you haven't already.
Otherwise, please head over to the voting poll to choose your two favorite drabbles.
Check back on Friday afternoon for the author reveal, and thanks for reading!
Explicit | 18+ only| Bucky Barnes x fem!Avenger!Reader | Enemies-to-Lovers, 2012 Tower Life Vibes
When a whirlwind of events transforms you from an ordinary plant science researcher into a superpowered individual that the public knows as Fern, the Avengers welcome you among their ranks. Or... most of them do. Bucky Barnes doesn't quite get you, and you don't quite get him. It's totally fine, though. It was expected; flowers and winter don't really get along.
...or do they?
A collection of drabbles with a living-in-the-Avengers-Tower-2012 slice of life atmosphere to them, with an overarching plot of Reader joining the team as a new member. Every drabble will be 100 words.
SERIES WARNINGS: Explicit sexual content, Bucky has PTSD, canon-typical violence, Avengers chaos, enemies-to-lovers plot with Bucky being sort of a dick in the beginning for plot-related reasons.
AU - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies | Avengers Team Members Live in Avengers Tower | Team as Family | Avenger Reader | No Use of Y/N | Slice of Life | Teammates to Lovers | Enemies to Lovers | Drabble Collection | Eventual Happy Ending | Botany | Fluff and Humor | Bucky Barnes Gets a Hug | Bucky Barnes Has PTSD | Bucky Barnes is Bad at Feelings | Healthy Relationships
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Reader specifics: She/her. Adult. An Avenger. No use of Y/N. No description of appearance given beyond clothing.
NOTES: This fic is just pure indulgence for me, a lighter project to work on during what has been a difficult time in my life. It's exactly the kind of "Team is family, Avengers are chaotic, Thor eats Pop-Tarts, Reader is friends with everyone" sort of thing that I have been inhaling ever since I stumbled upon Marvel fanfics, and what I love writing. This is dedicated to everyone who has ever read my works and left comments - you have made a world of difference.
If you can spare the time, please let me know your thoughts. Comments mean the world to me and provide the Muse with proverbial caffeine and chocolate. Thank you for reading, and enjoy!
This takes part in @marveldrabblechallenge and some of the drabbles will also take part in @star-and-shield-monthly.
Alternate Universe: The Avengers Initiative (AVIN) continued SHIELD's work after its collapse to corruption. The Avengers are living together in the Tower & Compound - Bucky has healed, and Civil War never happened because Tony and Steve worked through their differences like adults.
