"#it's like they think if they smack tony on the nose with a news paper enough #suddenly he won't be broken anymore" im fucking dying oh my god a) yes thats EXACTLY WHAT THEYRE DOING AND GDI IT NEEDS TO STOP and b) holy shit one of the reasons i SUPER SUPER love your writing and your tumblr and you is how you, like, let our dear broken people be broken but like!! they're not being PUNISHED FOR IT and sometimes people actually HELP them and like. its. a lot. so. thanks
lmao attitudes toward mental health. like look. listen. people don't always function in what's general accepted as the 'standard' way but as long as it's Actually Functioning, just ........... let them live
Anyway!! speaKING OF!!
"You realize it's probably not Stockholm Syndrome," he adds instead of leaving things well enough alone. "I know what that's like, and it isn't this."
"Well, that's great for you," Tony says, "but what about me?"
All ten of Bucky's fingers press into his skin. The arm clicks and grinds as a ripple of tension or readiness goes through the learning murder machine trying to pretend it's a harmless teddy bear.
The lapse of control lasts only long enough to make itself obvious, and then it's all neatly hastily shoved under the nearest bed. "Um," Bucky says about his tattletale arm, as if Tony didn't already know very well just how unstable he is.
It's just that Tony eats unstable for breakfast.
