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The Man with the Silver Arm by ZenaidaMacroura for ThePirateStorm
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types
25 Oct 2025
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Steve is a regular, perfectly reasonable guy. He is not a troublemaker, despite what his friends say. The things that happen to him could happen to literally anyone. I mean, who hasn’t accidentally become a stalker and then caused an international spy agency to implode?
Warnings for: Stalking, but the nice kind. May also contain: pictures of cats.
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- English
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- 10,639
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- 2/6
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Bookmarked by Drawitori
20 Oct 2025
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Smol Steve the shit-stirring ethical spy stalker!
Only a chapter in and it’s my new favourite. (As always)he kind of figured the apocalypse-revolution would have occurred and money would no longer exist by now.
... the year’s not over yet...That’s the problem with getting coffee before you’ve had coffee. It’s a classic causality dilemma. Difficult to gain one without the other already present.
Dropping the big truthbombs here.
“I think you underestimate the amount of time you spend frowning.”
Steve frowns.
“Um, hey, this is embarrassing, and I know it’s not your job to monitor the bathroom just because you have the closest office to it, but do you know whose job it is to monitor the bathroom? Cause it definitely needs, uh, monitoring?”
James B. Barnes is yet another stupidly handsome super spy who forgets how to talk when they aren’t in Charm and Disarm Mission Mode. Steve’s worked at Shield long enough to know that agents are so attractive it’s stressful for normal people to look at them, and that agents are often incredibly bad at small talk with civilians.
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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).
Bookmarked by Drawitori
17 Aug 2025
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Bucky POV.
Smol Steve.
Modern setting.
Bucky 20. Steve around same. Bucky dropped out of uni after 2 years to rescue family. Lost scholarship doing so.
Bucky has 2 sisters - Becca (11) & Hannah (8), & Mum. Just left ex-step-dad Frank from New Jersey.
Sarah is alive. Sarah & Winnie work together as nurses.
Bucky works as a security guard at the same hospital. Steve studies art at community college.The one where Bucky with the sad eyes is trying to survive & hold his family together before he can even think about clawing his life back. And Steve is there, being his usual prickly, stubborn, determined, thoughtful, artistic, occasionally law-breaking but only for a good cause to help the downtrodden & stick it to the arseholes kind of way SJW.
No big superhero-style disasters, or even big regular life disasters (in-story, anyway), just recovering from regular life disasters. So it’s all recovery - that slow recovery that you don’t even realise is happening because you’re too busy just trying to keep surviving and you don’t really believe that recovery is even a thing you could have anymore so you don’t even notice that you have space for that now so it kinda started without your permission and it feels worse instead of better while it’s happening so you think it’s just more of life being genaerally shit. But it’s still happening. (Neither of the boys has to rescue each other.)
The one with Steve's art metaphors about drawing the fire hydrant & about oil painting layers vs ala Prima, and Bucky’s physics & engineering analogies.
And with the section break graphics that slowly evolve/recover over the course of the story.Little guys having big feelings. About life & about each other.
My initial bookmark had lots of quotes of my favourite parts, but I want other people to read this story & don’t want to spoil it for them. (Wouldn’t it be great to be able to have a public & a private bookmark for the same piece?)
But big chunks of the fire hydrant scene were here, and most, if not all, of Steve’s art might-be-metaphors (what can I say, I’m an artist, so they struck bone for me).
And when Bucky left something on the front stoop.
And several pieces about the pain of distance between a mother and a becoming-adult kid, especially when life is shit and they accidentally make it worse for each other without realising because they’re both desperately hanging on by their fingernails. (For no reason at all. Nope, nothing to see here. Ouch! If we had a dishwasher...)What a shame I don’t have those fave bits here anymore for a quick highlights reel speedrun, I guess I’ll just have to read the entire thing again to find them. Oh no! And then a bunch of her other stuff too. Oops!
It’s Zenaida so you know it’s good. & well written. & funny. & heart wrenching. & weirdly educational about Steve &/or Bucky’s job/specialty/interests. & great banter. & kid side-characters that are both obnoxiously real and yet also fun. & the personality of the POV character revealed through the way they think. All that delicious, chewy goodness she delivers every time.
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He lays on his bed and knows without a doubt that his soulmates can read Fucking Genius on their skin, or maybe just Genius, but Fucking gives a ring to it.
Because he is, baby, he is.
Bookmarked by Drawitori
09 Jun 2025
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Unique take on the “soulmate’s name on your arm”, with it being how they self-identify, rather than their actual name (although it can be that too, if that’s how they think of themselves). So the names change as their self-identity changes. And its both less specific about who your soulmate actually is (in legal documentation) and also MORE specific because it tells you about THEM, not just something their parents named them.
And, as repeatedly reminded by Nana, Love is a choice - soulmates doesn’t mean you MUST end up together, just that you COULD, & that if you do then it could be really good. Also nowhere says that it’s a romantic soulmate, can be read as platonic & if you want more then that’s up to the 2 (or 3?) of you. But this one def has hope for eventual OT3 after the story ends.Would be great to see this type of soulmate name-on-arm turn up in other fics & fandoms & become A Thing.
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Stellate by ZenaidaMacroura for thegirlsleuth
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
24 Mar 2025
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Dr. Bucky Barnes is a plastic surgeon, highly regarded in his field. Dr. Steven Rogers, new head of the ER, has very little regard for Dr. Barnes or his field.
May contain: Hospital drama-romance-comedy. (Dromance? Dramamance? Romandromancedy.) Cheeky residents. People who are competent at everything but romance. Stupidly muscular forearms.
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Descriptions of medical procedures and surgery, particularly for burn patients as well as injured children. I tried to make it not totally gross.- Language:
- English
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- 60,800
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- 15/15
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Bookmarked by Drawitori
24 Mar 2025
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Zenaida’s latest & therefore my new fave.
🍎🐶🐙🐇🍎🎈🦁🐘
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🍎🍄🍎🦓🧊👃🦒
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The one with Penny Fleming & the Monogrammed Cuffs
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Getting four hundred men down three days' worth of Nazi-held road would be easier if Steve knew what the hell he was doing. Fortunately he's got Bucky Barnes and a stubborn disposition, not to mention a spare frying pan.
Bookmarked by Drawitori
04 Aug 2022
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Another new headcanon
What happens between escaping the exploding hydra base & arriving at the allied base.
Lovely transition from chorusgirl to commander, which, like most occasions of character growth in the MCU, was just skipped over in the movie. Yet kept his pre-serum attitudes. Nicely done.& here I am just bookmarking all of copperbadge’s stuff. I know I’ve read, & I think bookmarked, something of theirs before as the name seems familiar, but apparently I forgot to trawl their back catalogue until now? Rectifying that oversight.