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Thanks for the shadow ban, Tumblr! I'm starting a new blog. If you want to see any of my recent posts, I am now @pfeiffer-cipher-2
Chapter 9 of Butchers has been posted!
-Fic summary-
The Winter Soldier is jarred awake from cryosleep, only to find that the population of the planet has completely vanished. Without a mission to follow, the only thing he can think to do is search endlessly for people. Trapped in a decaying, empty world, he makes a life for himself as well as he can.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
If I have to deal with booths of AI generated art and mass-produced Labubu keychains during the next convention season I think I'm gonna lose my shit
There really is no feeling quite like discovering a new song that fits your blorbo to a T. Best I can do to convey it is something like
Shoutout to the person who reblogged this 185 times in a row. I understand completely.
I was already planning on cosplaying Harvey Dent before the news about Sebastian stan, holy shit 😭
2026 Update
My first year on Tumblr was interesting! I've been a part of fandoms for many years, but never interacted with many people outside Ao3. I spent the first half of this revelling in the excitement of Thunderbolts and the fandom. But the movie underutilized my favorite character, and after experiencing post-movie fandom discourse up close for the first time, I slowly lost interest in both the MCU and Tumblr. By the summer I was barely posting, and I haven't had much motivation to write since.
For 2026, I will be curating my fandom experience - and that means going back to writing! I plan on being more active on Ao3 than Tumblr. My most recent longfic, Butchers, has been on hiatus for 2 months, and I will be putting another chapter out in the next week or two :D (will update here when I do!) I am also planning on beginning the rewrite of Sickness in a Sparkling Eye, which has been on hiatus since 2024 as I needed to do some major reworking before posting again. I have some ideas for one shots and shorter fics too, with the goal of posting at least one per month!
This update is more to hold myself accountable than anything. I love fandom, it's one of the most fun parts of my life, and I refuse to let the joy be sucked out of it. So expect lots of Stucky! I have dearly missed writing for my favorite pairing (I never finished writing any Stucky fics in 2025! 😢) and my frustration with the Doomsday has fueled my writing habit. If you have requests, please send them my way!
people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets
"Oh can I see what stuff you see on Tumblr?"
stucky + textposts, part i really should start counting these (you can find all the previous posts in my #stucky txt tag :D)
What happened in the MCU is that they made Bucky unquestionably a victim and then did not know how to handle it.
In the comics, Bucky’s brainwashing leaves him with enough agency that his past as the Winter Soldier is absolutely comparable to Natasha’s. Both were used and abused and manipulated, but they maintained enough control over their own actions that it is reasonable to question whether it mattered that they didn’t know who they truly were because they were still people. In the MCU, they specifically wrote Bucky Barnes as a character whose agency was not just compromised but actually removed. It’s not just torture and coercion, though there are 70 years’ worth of explicit torture and coercion, it’s that for him to act as the Winter Soldier they have to cauterize out what makes him a person. In the MCU Hydra/the Soviets have not one but two ways to do it: the chair and the activation words. The Winter Soldier does not comply without them. This is not a question of a prisoner breaking after years of enslavement. This is explicitly shown as a mechanical way of erasing Bucky’s consciousness and capacity for consent. And it was a choice by the MCU to characterize his captivity like that, much like it was a (subtle) choice to make Bucky a man who was drafted rather than a man who enlisted. And up to Phase 4 that had played out alright; the characters who see him as culpable are also shown to not be objective (Tony, for example, or Bucky himself). The audience knows better, though, because we are privy to all of the flashbacks and the medical torture and the him being bodily dragged out of cryo to be activated. But then the MCU actually had to confront its choices in TFATWS and they did it in the worse possible manner because they both chose to reinforce the narrative that Bucky was a powerless victim during his enslavement while making his recovery conditional on accepting responsibility for it. They pretend to sell Bucky along with the activation codes. There’s a whole pivotal scene by the firelight where Bucky finally does not respond to the activation codes and Ayo tells him he’s free and that’s because he was not free beforehand. In a storyline which places explicit moral value on refusing the serum, never once was it mentioned that Bucky did not consent to being injected with it in the first place. His situation obviously parallels Isaiah’s, not Steve’s.
But now the audience is being asked to see Bucky as someone who needs to make amends, not just because his therapist says so but because the moral compass of the series, Sam, makes it explicitly clear that what Bucky needs to do is “do the work”. And this is INSANE. It’s insane. To have Bucky weep when the trigger words wash over him and still, still, try to have the audience buy into the narrative of his recovery as one where he needs to admit wrongdoing is absurd. It would be normal and expected of Bucky to feel wretched guilt over his past but the recovery is overcoming that, not reinforcing it. Bucky admits, word for word, that he had no choice and that would be bad enough, but the Winter Soldier was made to not even conceive of the possibility of choice.
There can be no culpability without agency and guilt is not a measure of responsibility.
Bucky Barnes has, for ten years of MCU canon, been written as a man who was powerless to stop the abuse that was inflicted on him and now that they have to cash that check the MCU cannot handle it. I don’t even know if it’s because they, like society in general, cannot abide the concept of men - masculine men, especially masculine leading men - as victims but the end result is that TFATWS is an explicit exercise in victim blaming.
I recently tried to rewatch the series from the beginning, because I thought perhaps I was being biased by the over-analysis that inevitably occurs when waiting week by week for a new episode, but found I couldn’t stomach the hints of victim blaming that was already evident in the therapy session.
Like many things in this series, its stance on trauma was self-contradictory. It had Sebastian beautifully play up the depth of Bucky’s vulnerability and PTSD, only to then crush all the good work by dismissing the very nature of Bucky’s experience - which is that he was a powerless victim whose body and mind were violated to the point where choice and identity did not exist. It places the onus on the victim to accept that “he did that” rather than acknowledge things were done to him. It irks me that the series wants to be woke but can’t even handle the most basic theme of the #MeToo movement.
And yes, Isaiah definitely paralleled Bucky more than Steve, yet he got Sam’s full supportive anger against his perpetrators while Sam - the supposed moral centre of the story - teased Bucky about being a machine and an assassin while being fully aware that Bucky was “still having those nightmares”. Sadly, Isaiah’s ending also only acknowledged his achievements while deftly avoiding any retribution to the people who tortured him.
The appeal of Bucky was this unique story of victimhood and of his incredible resilience in surviving that and still wanting to be a good person. Unlike Nat, his story isn’t the “will he won’t he” double agent story (although that has its own appeal), nor is it Wanda’s “needs constant guidance about morality because she’s only known violence”. The movie canon made clear that Bucky Barnes is a good man who had all his agency ripped away and used to commit atrocities he is consistently horrified by as soon as he regains awareness. For some reason that level of complexity is too much for TFATWS creators to deal with and they decided to force him into the role of a generic masculine hero whose redemption hinges on owning up to his toxic masculinity…when in fact, as people have pointed out, the appeal of his character is actually the female-coded themes that they’ve tried to write out of his history.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
My entire feed is Stucky again, the world is healing 😌
remember when they used “it’s the end of the line” for endgame’s official marketing campaign, and then proceeded to disrespect the relationship the catchphrase originated from, and quite literally contradict what it represented in every conceivable way in said movie? as if it could ever be applied to the franchise and all the other characters in general, without taking into account it’s original context and emotional value.
It's a GOOD DAY to embrace FANFICTION, where you can take the story and DO IT YOURSELF! See the change YOU want to actually SEE! Tell the character arcs that ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE!
this random vent post has been brought to you by the doomsday trailer- Not My Steve™
I'll be posting more of my fics in the near future, I encourage everyone else to as well! Excited to be writing for my favorite pair again :)
The reason that fuckass teaser looks like a Stephen Miller jerk-off fantasy is because it's intentionally invoking The Mythical Past and nostalgia for a totally made up period where America was so, so great. Houses were so quaint and rural. Men were so manly. Families were so nuclear. You know, your typical fascism 101 tactics.
Given the decidedly not great year America has had, falling back on this sort of imagery now should absolutely be read as intentional, especially when applied to a famous symbol of anti-fascism.
I think what I'm getting at is this: good work on all the mpreg Steve Rogers, everyone. Your country needs you now more than ever!
What's your all-time favorite Marvel comic?
This is mine ⬇️ (Earth X by Jim Krueger)
a brief history of bucky’s metal arms
I’m back on my nerd shit, this time I decided to compile Bucky’s many arm designs, cause why not. I think I got them all??
oh, this is for the 616 main continuity only
Winter Soldier and Captain America
KGB Winter Soldier- The first arm we see the Winter Soldier have. Classic red star design, but this iteration also has those gnarly looking connecting tubes. White Star - sometime after regaining his memories, Bucky begins working for Fury and gets a new arm. This one doesn’t have the tubing and sports a white star design. Cap Shield- After Steve’s death (throughout his run as Captain America and beyond) Bucky adds red and blue detail around the white star, paying homage to the shield. Camouflage- Bucky gets yet another upgrade from Fury. This arm has the ability to camouflage as a normal flesh arm. (Nat was complaining about his cold hands)
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