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Bucky Barnes doesn’t need help from anybody. He has things under control. He definitely doesn't need help from the skinny blonde guy in Apartment 5A who keeps looking at Bucky like he thinks Bucky needs help.
Things are fine. Mostly fine. Well. They are probably on the trajectory towards fine.
Warnings: references to domestic violence, though it is in the past and not depicted on screen, it’s referenced. Also, feelings about being in the closet. Some light suicidal ideation, you know, for the sparkle. May contain: first fumblings towards love. They are just babies, really (though to be clear: they are not actually infants).
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12 Oct 2025
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The Not-Christmas Not-Truce of 1944 by dropdeaddream
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Mar 2015
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Bucky stabs a man in the neck.
The cow moos.
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04 Apr 2025
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The First Rule of Book Club Is You Absolutely Talk About Book Club by Deisderium
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
28 Sep 2018
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The first man to participate in Janelle's book club is a very shy long-haired guy who's probably a vet, given the prosthetic arm. She really wants the book club ladies to be his friend, and is delighted when he invites his tall blond--friend? Boyfriend? to come to book club too.
(I have tried to avoid major book spoilers, but the list of books is in the end notes if you want to be very sure.)
Update 8/17/19: Amazing art at the end of the fic is by verbalatte!
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- Part 1 of The First Rule of Book Club
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03 Apr 2025
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mistaken for strangers by napricot
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
10 Dec 2024
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When Steve returns to his Brooklyn apartment as suddenly as he’d disappeared from it, all he can do is stare and blink into the middle distance for a while, his lips still tingling with the warm buzz of kissing Bucky Barnes, heat in his cheeks still blazing.
I was just in another timeline, Steve thinks to himself, as his knees give out and he sits with a plop on his bed. Or another universe? He’s still not entirely sure what the appropriate terminology is. Or maybe he hadn’t actually visited another timeline/universe and he hadn’t seen a bunch of alternate versions of himself, all of them significantly more swole than he is, even the lady version. Maybe it had all just been a really vivid dream. Or maybe he’s had a psychotic break. Maybe there’s a gas leak in the apartment. That happens, right?
Or maybe he really did meet the possible love of his life in another universe. Now it's time for Steve to find him in this one.
[This is a side story to if I'm gonna get back to you someday, following the modern AU, non-serum version of Steve from the clusterfuck of Steves. It might not make much sense without having read that one first.]
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15 Dec 2024
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Unpredictable Synchronicity by ZenaidaMacroura
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
20 Jun 2023
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Bucky is a civil rights attorney and Steve is Captain America and they both are busy with their important careers and they are also both VERY HANDSOME and competent and should definitely kiss. But will they kiss?
May contain: Jokes. Slow burn, like, for real (I need y’all to understand I really mean it this time). Extremely petty sibling fights. Very tired attorneys. Acknowledgement of the existence of scorpions. Extensive discussion of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. The Avengers all live in the tower and the exact timing in the MCU world being *hand waves*
Warnings for: canon typical superhero violence, period typical (the period being present day) transphobia and homophobia. The existence of transphobia and homophobia are central to the plot, but there is no gratuitous detail of people being shitty. Extensive discussion of legislation against gender-affirming care (specifically: the characters are trying to stop such legislation).
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28 Sep 2024
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Only the Good Die Young by ZenaidaMacroura for Gloromeien
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
19 Sep 2024
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Bucky Barnes is a paramedic who is doing pretty good. He’s got a good crew, a good family, and a good job.
And then he meets Captain America.
May contain: Awkward conversations, even more awkward conversations, people hiding to avoid said awkward conversations, descriptions of paramedics doing paramedic things, Steve Rogers running in a very tight shirt.
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24 Sep 2024
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Things the men of the Howling Commandos are no longer allowed to do in the SSR by Odsbodkins
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
02 Feb 2015
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The Captain America: The First America version of Skippy's list - Things the men of the Howling Commandos are no longer allowed to do in the SSR.
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10 Sep 2024
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When Steve moves to the suburbs in 2033, he intends to retire from superhero life.
He does not intend to fall in love with his pain-in-the-ass neighbor.
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- Part 1 of Won't You Be My Neighbor
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02 Sep 2024
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Monachopsis by seapigeon
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
03 Feb 2024
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During the Battle of New York, Steve pulls a man from a crushed car - one bloody face among many.
A year later, as Steve is trying to settle into a world that everyone keeps telling him is better than the one he left behind, he overhears someone defending him.
He has blue eyes and dark hair and one arm. And he's on a date with Steve's ex.
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- 10/10
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02 Sep 2024
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[PODFIC] A Nativity of Oranges by Tanouska for BlueSimplicity
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Dec 2023
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This is the story of five times Bucky Barnes gave Steve Rogers an orange for Christmas in the past.
And the one time he gave him one in the present, and how it’s still the sweetest thing Steve has ever tasted.
It is also a story of a mother’s love for her son, another’s worry for her own, a soldier’s acceptance that certain battles can never be won, and a sister’s regret and hope for her own children. But most importantly of all, it is about a love strong enough that even Death couldn’t stand in its way. But Christmas has always been about miracles, and Steve and Bucky have been each other’s since the day they met, and for them love has always tasted like oranges.
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12 Dec 2023
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if I'm gonna get back to you someday by napricot
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
26 Jul 2023
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“What’s the plural for a group of Steves?” asks Natasha, and it’s weirdly comforting that the question has a hint of whimsical hysteria to it. Good, Bucky’s not the only one who’s not dealing well with all of this.
“A clusterfuck,” he says. “A clusterfuck of Steves.”
Despite how little sense his life has made since he got on a battlefield to fight a bunch of aliens, Bucky's pretty sure he knows exactly what's happened when a much older Steve appears after the mission to return the Infinity Stones: he left Bucky behind to get his much deserved happily ever after in the past. Only then another Steve shows up, and another. And Bucky realizes he still hasn't got any idea what's going on.
What he does have is a whole lot of Steves, a fraught relationship with his own Steve, and tentative plans to leave. But the more Bucky talks to all these different versions of Steve, the more he begins to wonder if leaving really is what's best for him and his Steve, or if there's a way to make something new out of their long friendship.
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10 Sep 2023
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Mission Impossible by AggressiveWhenStartled
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
24 Feb 2023
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The thing of it is, when everything goes to shit Bucky isn’t even trying.
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- 5/5
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29 May 2023
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Of Dancing Shadows and Firelight by Minka
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
29 Oct 2022
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“And?” The old crone looked positively lecherous, her eyes gleaming with the colour of fate weaving and stretching and breaking apart countless futures.
Steve swallowed thickly, his eyes flicking to the relative safety of the fire.
“I yearn,” Steve confessed. “To touch and to feel and to hold. Soft darkness and yet so much strength. I see a man chosen by Fate in my sleep, and it keeps me wakeful and restless and empty.”
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When custom and duty dictate that a young king consult an ancient witch, secrets best left unsaid are pulled from his lips, and a prophecy dark as the night is mapped out before him.
(Includes amazing art by @greyhavensking!)
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30 Oct 2022
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After the Chitauri invasion, Steve parts ways with SHIELD, unsure if he can trust an agency that tried to deceive him and built weapons from the Tesseract.
He finds himself alone in an unfamiliar future, penniless, not even legally alive. Fortunately, he knows how to survive. Steve Rogers is used to getting by on his own.
The thing is, he doesn't have to.
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03 Oct 2022
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I’m not as broken as some made me out to be by emilywithoutY
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 Aug 2022
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He flicks the lights on and looks into the mirror and waits for the Soldier to stare back at him.
When Bucky goes on a mission that leaves him unsettled, he has to face the question of why he does what he does and if there's another way to go forward.
To go home.(Natasha helps. In her way.)
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- Part 2 of Fic-a-versary Prompts
- Part 4 of Litanies
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30 Sep 2022
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How to Mimic Letters, Fliers, and Stationery Without Using Images by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
27 Jul 2017
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.
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- Part 17 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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07 Sep 2022
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When Bucky's attractive neighbour answered his door, Bucky said, "My cat thinks there’s a snake in the attic."
His attractive blond neighbour with the very blue eyes stared down at him, forehead slowly wrinkling into a frown. "Excuse me?"
"It might not be a snake. It could be a rat. Or a raccoon?"
"Your…cat thinks there’s a snake or a rat or a raccoon in the attic." He leaned out of his door, peering over Bucky’s shoulder. "Are you alone? Do you need someone to help you?"
"No, I’m your neighbour."
"I know," he replied, not sounding even slightly reassured by that fact.
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11 May 2022
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When the dust had settled and James was collecting his $10 winnings to the congratulations of the other Bingo patrons, Steve not included, Steve vowed that next week he would not be pulled into the sexy vortex of this Bingo playing bad boy.
If Steve never saw James, darling of the Bingo hall, Russian sex God, and ruthless troll collector again, he would be fine.
Just fine.
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A.K.A Oblivious Steve is very bad at having an arch-enemy. (Particularly because he confuses 'dating' with 'acts of war.')- Language:
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04 Apr 2022
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“He’s had it tough,” Steve forced himself to say. “Stuff like that changes you. I think – I think for him I’m just a bad memory now.” It was gutting to say out loud. It was Wednesday and Steve was miserable.
Natasha studied Steve for a moment, the way she studied a tactical mission. Finally she shook her head. “That sucks.”
It was Wednesday and Steve was blindsided by how much he appreciated Natasha Romanoff’s friendship.
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04 Apr 2022