Hey guys, I wanted to ask you a thing about "I love you like rlb". I'm not a native speaker so I don't know if this statement actually exists outside of fandom and was just cleverly composed into a Stucky fic or if it's something the author came up with? And my second question is if you have some tag that's about comic!steve and bucky and not mcu? Thank you so much and sorry for bothering you!
It was made up for the fic. (Though I’m all for making it a thing irl lol)
We do! Just go to tags list B and search for the word comics and you will find this tag:
I love you like rlb by tolieawake (complete | 3,484 | T )
I love you like rlb has become a well-known, accepted and valuable component of American vernacular. The meaning of the letters 'rlb' is unknown, but is uniformly considered to be a statement of a great romantic love, commitment and sacrifice.
It was Dernier as first said it. Steve never imagined that something like that could have survived the war and all the years in between.
In which Tony goes insane trying to figure out why that phrase affects the Cap so much, Bucky teases the press, and Steve and Bucky love each other like rlb.