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What do I do with this thing....? Oh, I know! Nothing.

[roachpatrol]

ultimately i think kindness is the most radical thing you can do with your pain and your anger. it’s like, you take everything awful that’s ever been done to you, and you throw it back in the world’s teeth, and you say no, fuck you, i’m not going to take this.  you say this is unacceptable. you say that shit stops with me.

humans are fucking terrible and this awful world we live in will fucking kill you but if you are kind, if you are brave and clever and try really hard, you can defy it. you can impose on this bleak and monstrous structure something beautiful. even if it’s temporary. even if it doesn’t heal anything inside you that’s been hurt.  

i’m gonna sleep and i’m gonna wake up and i swear by everything in this deadly horrible universe i’m gonna make someone happy. 

[roachpatrol]

i’ve seen a number of comments and tags where people feel that they must swallow or repress their anger in order to engage in kindness. that is not at all what i am recommending here. radical kindness is an expression of anger. it is not passive. it is not repressive. it does not require you, in any way, to forgive those that have fucked you up. it does not require you to be quiet. 

it just requires that you be kind. viciously. vengefully. you fight back. you plant flowers. give to charity. play games. pet someone’s dog. scream into the dark. paint and write and dance, tell jokes, sing songs, bake cookies. you have been hurt and you don’t have to deny that hurt. you just have to recognize it in other people, and take their hand, and say: no more. enough. fuck this. no more. 

have a cookie.

i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine. 

[kaciart]

You call my name

I come to you in pieces

So you can make me whole

[jiruchan]

[ star dust ]

The Avengers and six of the brightest stars in our night sky.

[x]

[stevcbucky]

i honestly…have no words…for what markus & mcfeely, captain america movies writers, say about bucky & the postcredit in this interview. the part i’m talking about starts at about 5:30.

Q: Why was it necessary to put the winter soldier back on ice? A: Well because, I mean for one thing he is, give or take his intellectual capacity, 100% guilty. And to have Steve just running around getting free salads with him on some island, it’s a little too unpunished, in a way. This is not a guy who should be running around happily. He may not be 100% guilty, but he’s damn sure not 100% innocent. Q: Why does that not apply to Wanda Maximoff? A: Wanda… Q: You think she suffered enough? A: I don’t think she did anything near as bad […] None of those things were terribly interesting to us, the punishing of nice people, who already feel guilt. In the Bucky issue is…it was a bridge too far I think.

[steddiely]

I’m going to throw up. This confirms everything I felt when I watched that fucking scene. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are literally, blatantly, intentionally punishing Bucky by putting him in cryo. These writers consciously chose to freeze his arc, nullify any possible background interaction with Steve or T’Challa or with absolutely anyone else, because he will be frozen out of the action for the foreseeable future until he is useful again to the plot.

Bucky will NOT recover any further, he will not regain his arm, autonomy, freedom of choice, self confidence or anything else, he will not have a life again offscreen or anywhere until they deem it convenient again, and this was done deliberately to punish Bucky for the actions he committed under literal torture and mind-control by someone else’s orders and for someone else’s gain. Meanwhile, literally no other character in the MCU, hardly even the villains, have been thus punished out of the narrative for actions they consciously chose to do which caused massive amounts of damage and death, because apparently only Bucky doesn’t deserve to have a life.

I’ve already read all kind of headcanon-y rationalizations and justifications for that scene: that this was Bucky’s choice and thus acceptable since it’s his first choice. That this was a selfless act that proves Bucky’s worth. That Bucky’s recovery will be better with T’Challa. These are all fan interpretations that sure sound nicer, there to try and fill blanks to make sense of the decision in-universe, but here we have literal fact from these creators themselves:

Bucky will remain frozen out of the action, because the writers have deemed him culpable and in need of paying for his crimes. He’s being “punished” by being denied any character development or actual help in universe. Take yourself out of the Marvel universe for a minute, and see this wasn’t Bucky choosing anything, because these are characters on a page that don’t possess self-determination. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely wrote Bucky as a plot device, backed him into a corner, and left him there. This was a choice that these writers, who have creative license and power, who could have written him a way out of his ‘controlled by codewords’ predicament they put him in, who could have given him (and us, his fans) at the very least the peace of mind that he was protected with Steve and healing somewhere in the background after an entire movie of playing everyone else’s plot device, chose to deny him.

So the truth of the matter is that, not only did Bucky Barnes not get his own arc in Cap 3, didn’t get autonomy or decision making power, didn’t get any real, deep insight into what was going on in his mind or where he was at in his recovery (other than the fact the he does remember and he does feel guilt, both of which were things Bucky himself acknowledged verbally during the film), but Bucky was deliberately denied progressing beyond this stalemate and sidelined from everyone’s lives, his own included, once he was done being useful to others’ narrative and would have needed his own. He was frozen as “punishment”, because he’s seen as guilty, and will be the only character who’ll be in exactly the same place the next time we get to see him.

[hamletmachine]

Hey Hamlet, would you ever make and sell a Stucky smut comic?

Yeah, Onorobo and I are collaborating on one! It’ll have sketches and some comic work in it. We’ll be sure to announce when it’s ready! 

[onorobo-deactivated20250111]

A well timed ask in hamlet’s inbox! Hamlet and I are in the process of whipping up a little stucky zine. <3

[wideeyedwonder13]

Only late by a year, but did anything ever come of this? I don’t recall seeing a final product or where to get it, but it’s very likely I just missed the post. lol

[hibernamilitis-blog-deactivated]

[ Bucky cooking breakfast for his boyfriend ]

Edit - a lot of people have been asking so this from Avengers Standoff: Welcome To Pleasant Hill Alpha #1 on sale Wednesday!

[nicoise-trash]

[einaudis]

Marvel’s ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Visits Marvel HQ (2014).

[jenniferlawrencesnapped]

03/11/14 - Sebastian @ ‘Captain America The Winter Soldier’ Press Conference held at The Four Seasons

[loveholic198]

[ka-kang]

WHAT IF AU - Captain America: The Winter Soldier, role swap (Sharon, Steve, Bucky, Natasha)

[jamesbarnes107th-blog]

12/366 days of sebastian stan

[wideeyedwonder13]

YOOOOOO what the FUCK?! Is this man even real?? I don’t think any human being looks like this.

[mithborien]

[nicoise-trash]

baby bird looks confused

[wideeyedwonder13]

look at this baby bird he looks lost someone help him out pls

[dianaby1d-archive-deactivated20]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Premiere (2014) / The Bronze Premiere (2016)

[wintersthighs]

oh wow, that list of things I shouldn’t be turned on by sure is getting longer…

[wideeyedwonder13]

GRRRRROOWWWLLL LOOK AT THIS MEAN BITCH RIGHT HERE READY TO BITE CHU I literally just drooled on accident I am disgusting I'm sorry but I'm not

[bbuchanann]

Q: How much can we expect to be sobbing because of Civil War?

[ao3feed-theforceawakens]

Summarization of the Captain America Trilogy

The First Avenger:  I will destroy Hydra for you, Bucky!

The Winter Soldier: I will destroy Shield for you, Bucky!

Civil War: I will destroy the Avengers for you, Bucky!

My guess of what Steve will be by Avengers: Infinity War

[immortalpartners]

We know that HYDRA couldn’t completely erase Steve from Bucky’s memory… but maybe they knew that, and manipulated it to their advantage. It’s eerie how much a young Robert Redford resembles Steve Rogers during the 1940s:

Maybe HYDRA chose Pierce to be Bucky’s handler based on his striking resemblance to Captain America. Perhaps he rose through the ranks because of how well he could control Bucky, without using extreme violence. He would have been the perfect brainwashing tool.

So how many times did Pierce take Bucky’s love for Steve and use it against him? Is that partially how HYDRA made Bucky so complaisant, so willing to take orders from Pierce? 

A young Alexander Pierce would just have to smile at Bucky while spewing lines about Saving the World, and The Greater Good, and Bucky would have listened. It would have sounded so familiar to him, manipulating the part of his brain that would follow Steve Rogers anywhere.

The manipulation is especially noticeable in the vault scene. Seeing Steve on the bridge confused Bucky, but Pierce brings him back to focus by lecturing him about doing his part to shape the century. Bucky looks abashed, until Pierce says: “[if we don’t do our parts]…HYDRA can’t give the world the freedom it deserves”. At those words, Bucky really looks at Pierce, actually considers him for the first time:

He has a bite to his voice as he replies “But I knew him” – so different from his submissive behaviour seconds before – because now that he remembers Steve, he doesn’t implicitly trust Pierce. Bucky looks resentful, like he’s seeing the manipulation for what it is, though he doesn’t understand why.

Even as his memories return, Bucky could be wary and nervous of Steve, confused by HYDRA’s manipulations. It could explain why he’s running from Steve in Civil War.

[vikander]

Steve Rogers + really thight shirts