i am the color of BOOM

went viral on main d a m n i t

[aphel1on]

completely personal preference obviously but i hate when there's a time travel fix-it and everything goes smoothly and the protagonist is just cool and confident with all their knowledge of the ruined future. nooo shut up. what is even the point if they're not an emotionally traumatized mess frantically trying to fix things and fucking up as they do so, keeping secrets and alienating their loved ones, causing new and interesting problems and barely scraping through to an eventual better ending

[mikkeneko]

My preferred outcome is for them to avoid the problems in the original timeline only to face a whole host of new, unforeseen consequences because reality is fuckin complicated and you can't control all the factors in the world no matter how hard you try <3

[whetstonefires]

i particularly like when they're managing the whole power fantasy handling everything more or less smoothly due to the power of hindsight and having leveled up for like a third of the story, and then get bodied by the unexpected consequences.

[thatsbucknasty]

No one has ever looked prettier

[seplus]

The position referred to a CM picture.

[dmbakura]

sometimes I think I'm putting too many sex scenes into something . and then I look at what's happening in the world and I'm like oh yeah there's a massive puritan shift and censorship wave happening. why on earth am I feeling guilty for writing self indulgent fanfic lmao. I think I will make the characters do it sloppy AGAIN !!!!!

[wasteful-sam]

Good justification, thank you ❤️

[ninjasmudge]

worlds slowest fanfic author tries really really hard

[ninjasmudge]

everyone in the notes we are all holding hands. everyone who hasnt worked on a wip in weeks or months or years, its okay. we are going slow but we are going

[gjjuddmk2]

[neonbirb]

Eeby sleeby archer-man

[iwasmadetobeasoldier]

Long haired Bucky...

[sharcncarter]

“That line was an interesting moment. At the time, the choice I was making is that [Bucky] had realized there was no way he was getting out of there, and someone was gonna die, whether it was gonna be him, Steve or Tony. When he says that line, to me, it was a turning point — he was, like, ‘Okay, I know what you want me to say, and I’m just gonna say it.’ When someone comes at you over and over again, and they can’t hear you, they can’t see you’re pleading with them, you’re trying to figure out how to get through to them and they just won’t accept it, at some point you just give in, and you go, ‘that’s right, that’s what you want.’ Of course [Bucky] didn’t remember them all.” —  Sebastian Stan

[fearlessinger]

Wow. I had honestly taken this statement at face value but if this is true then Bucky lying about the extent of what he remembers isn’t an isolated incident, it becomes a pattern, a strategy: Bucky intentionally and deliberately using his memories, the only thing he truly owns at this point, as a bargaining chip throughout the course of the movie to steer the events if not in his favor, then at the very least toward what he considers an acceptable outcome, namely sparing everyone else, and especially Steve, the pain of having to deal with his shit. We talk a lot about Bucky’s lack of agency, but this right here? This is him seizing and wielding the only tool at his disposal to exert some influence on the narrative, despite having been left with almost no options.

In Bucharest, he lies to make Steve go away. He wants Steve to distrust him, to give up on him, and the only way he can see of accomplishing that is to pretend that there’s not a “Bucky” anymore. He tries to shut Steve out completely, tries to not even look (and fails, but he’s only human) as Steve is escorted away from the glass cage. When he’s alone with the alleged psychologist though, he has no reason to think Steve’s listening and no reason to lie, so he tells the truth, a truth that is very important to him, especially in the face of being once again trapped and examined by people who look at him and see only a weapon: “my name is Bucky”.

Later, as he wakes up with his arm trapped in the vice, he is hurt and disoriented and so relieved when he sees Steve, that he can’t hide it. But it doesn’t matter, because he quickly realizes that there’s no point in pretending anymore: Steve has just done exactly what Bucky feared from the start: compromised himself for Bucky in a way that he can’t take back. And Sam too. They made their choice, stupidly, impossibly: they’re here for him. They need Bucky’s honesty now, or it will be all for nothing. So Bucky gives it to them. He finally tells Steve that he knows him, that he remembers him (the fact that it makes him so desperately happy to be able to recite every trivial little detail, every hard won scrap of memory that is a testament to how much Steve means to him, is made all the more heartbreaking by the fact that he only does it because it’s become necessary). He tells Steve and Sam about his encounter with Zemo, about the Siberian facility, about the making and training of the other Winter Soldiers. The three of them have a common objective now, a mission, and Bucky needs them, wants them, to trust him.

It’s clear that Bucky put a lot of effort into stitching together all the bits and pieces of memory he could dredge up. Remembering who he is, what has been done to him, what he’s been forced to do, is the only thing that can give him some measure of control. And having, and keeping, control of himself is the best he can do, for everybody. Does he already know that there are still things he’s missing?  Or does he realize that only when he sees the beginning of that video? Does that realization make him feel like he’s failed all over again those people he couldn’t even remember killing?

Whatever the answer, if we believe Sebastian’s words, in that moment up there Bucky is choosing to lie again. Telling Tony what Tony wants to hear. Giving Tony the excuse Tony clearly is looking for to just go ahead and murder him. He has reached the conclusion that someone is going to die in that place, and he says what he hopes will ensure that that someone will be him.

[xxtani05]

It’s a take on this I hadn’t thought about but I kind of like it

[drizzledrawings]

are u gonna maybe draw clint with a boob window maybe please

My comeback to drawing him is giving him a boob window

[kangofu-cb]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Clint Barton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Clint is not an avenger, but Bucky still is, Sex Worker Clint Barton, from a certain point of view, Sex, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, All kinds of sex, it’s mostly just sex, Gift Exchange, Gift Fic Summary:

“What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” Clint says, instead.

Barnes snorts. “Having a drink,” he says, then gives Clint another one of those appraising looks. “You a professional?” he says, after a second, and Clint is momentarily confused.

A professional what?

And then he realizes Barnes must be talking about pool, and Clint huffs a laugh. “Only when there’s money involved,” he says, smirking, and Barnes kind of nods, like that makes any sort of sense.

Then Barnes nods again, a little more firmly, and says “You got a place?”

Which is about the point that Clint realizes that he’s not meeting the Winter Soldier in a bar, he’s being picked up by the Winter Soldier in a bar and-

“Yeah,” he croaks, clears his throat, thinks wildly that he’s really fucking glad Kate has Lucky for a few days, and says “Yeah, I got a place.”

Or, how Bucky got his groove back.

A gift fic for @jedusaur for the @winterhawkwonderland 2022 gift exchange!

[adayforducks]

current mood

[winterheckery]

@kangofu-cb

[bisouette]

Who are you, really?

[kangofu-cb]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/16 Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Clint Barton, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers Characters: Clint Barton, James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sam Wilson (Marvel), Darcy Lewis, Original Child Character(s), May Parker (Spider-Man), an ensemble cast tbh Additional Tags: modern suburban fantasy au, Alternate Universe - Teachers, Kid Fic, Werewolves, disconcertingly friendly locals, puppy invasions, bizarre subtle interrogations, roving packs of scheming children, awkward seduction attempts via edible arrangements, a ruinously hot single dad, Werewolf Courting, Werewolf Mates, Oblivious Clint Barton, Protective Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov Friendship, Alpha Steve Rogers, Peggy was and remains a spy and it shows, Sam Wilson is a Gift, First Dates, Slow Burn, the things werewolves find attractive are more surprising than you think, Sex, Anal Sex, First Time, fluff and joy and jokes mostly Summary:

After winding up in hot water with the Ukrainian mob, Clint finds himself relocating to a small town in northern Indiana to work as an elementary school gym teacher, and finds his new home invaded by a series of suspiciously wolfish puppies determined to be Lucky’s BFFs, and his life invaded by over zealously friendly neighbors determined to feed him. In a startling twist of events, three of his favorite students happen to be his next door neighbors, along with their ruinously hot single dad Bucky, who proves to be just as enamored of Clint as he is of Bucky.

What follows is a classic rendition of thirsting over the hot neighbor, bizarre small-town behavior, and so many puppies.

Chapter 1 of my 2022 WHOB fic is up and includes art from the lovely @claraxbarton!!!

[i-am-a-fish]

CALLOUT POST @ ALL WRITERS

write

[winterheckery]

[winterheckery]

omg omg omg my dash just did something GREAT

[drizzledrawings]

Sir

[ID:

Digital illustration of clint barton on a blank background. He is seen from the waist up, shirtless and holding a coffee pot in his right hand. He is covered in bandages, his purple hearing aids are visible, and he’s wearing purple sweatpants. His facial expression is happy!]