it always ends in a fight

And that’s just the front. How and wHY. What is you doing Steve. WhAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THESE EXTRA FIDDLY THINGS

Then there’s this angry weirdo:

First I thought maybe this was some heavy duty bra but he doesn’t have boobs so maybe its purpose is to provide some sort of strap onto which things can be attached to? Like backpack straps without … a backpack.  Because YES THAT MAKES TOTALLY SENSE.

Friend: “hoLD UP that could come in very handy indeed.” Me: “How tho” Friend: “Imagine him checking in at the airport lol”

And then she came up with THE BEST ™ explanation:

You know how Steve and Bucky always freaking manage to lose one another? Either one of them falls down somewhere or jumps into different timelines or falls down again somewhere and loses an arm or whatever.

SO

SEE WHERE WE ARE GOING WITH THIS?

This post took me a ridiculously long time of fighting with tumblr so I really hope someone enjoys it.

Alright look. I’ve thought about this for a while scrolling the tumblr and seeing all the TWS and CW gay posting. But then the topic came up on a Stucky server and I decided I needed to put all my thoughts in one place and here we are.

The Winter Soldier is generally seen as THE Stucky movie, closely followed by CW. And I get it. I do. But like. Are we really going to overlook the amount of gay in TFA???? Not to mention TFA is what sets up this century-long relationship??

Let’s get into it.

1. The double date that Bucky drags Steve on. I’m sure we’ve all seen the meme by now, right? How the girls were holding hands and the joke that they were going on double dates, but not in the way Steve thinks? Y’all. Watch it. It holds some water. At the expo when Stark shows off his flying car, the girls are clutching hands and Bucky turns to look at Steve. He’s paying attention to Steve, not either of the girls. Also, you can barely even tell which girl is supposed to be on a date with which guy. Probably the only indicator is awkward Steve shoving popcorn in the girl’s face. And after all that where Steve ditches them to try and enlist again, they are perfectly happy to share Bucky. IDK about you or real-life 40s girls, but if I was expecting to go out with a guy and my friend go out with his friend I wouldn’t be super stoked about sharing him? But they seem perfectly giddy to just accept going dancing with just Bucky. Like maybe neither are actually interested in dating him and are more interesting in just having fun going out in public? Like possibly to an underground queer place where they can all be themselves. Please see this post for evidence.

2. THE GODDAMN BUCKY RESCUE MISSION. Literally, Steve hears “107th” and that there’s no plan to even try to go after them with ZERO INDICATION THAT BUCKY IS EVEN ALIVE and decides that he’s going to take his untested new body for a spin with absolutely no fucking plan besides get there, beat some people up, find Bucky. Star spangled man with a plan MY ASS.

3. When he does get to Bucky the way Bucky says “Steve” when he realizes it’s him and HE SMILES. Poor dude’s been tortured and is strapped to a table and out of it and says Steve’s name like it’s both the prayer and the answer. And when Steve gets him up and goes to touch his face before pulling his hand back. See this post for gifs of that whole scene.

4. I feel like this needs no further explanation than this gifset but please see the highlight below

5. There is nothing about the way that Bucky says "let's hear it for Captain America!" that is either friendly or heterosexual. Look at his face. Look at the way he looks Steve up and down. Look at the conflicted emotions. LISTEN TO THE TONE OF HIS VOICE. Here's the video for the full experience.

6. THE ENTIRE GODDAMN BAR SCENE?! I will break it up into three parts though because it deserves it. Here is the video to follow along though. My first point is, "hell no. That little guy from Brooklyn that was too dumb not to run away from a fight. I'm following him." First of all, LOOK AT THE WAY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER. Second, Bucky is very clear that he's not here for Captain America, but that he's here for Steve. The same Steve he's always supported. Also bonus gif of footage that was from shooting this scene, but was not in the movie and is adorable.

7.... Please explain to me what about this is hetero... I'll wait... Full gifset here.

8. When Peggy walks in. Bucky looks at her, but he doesn't really eye her until he looks at Steve and sees him looking at her. And then he looks like a kicked puppy when he sees Steve only has eyes for Peggy. I 100% believe that his comment about being invisible is not about being invisible to Peggy next to Steve, but about being invisible to Steve next to Peggy.

9. Another post we’ve all seen here by now is the one in which Steve starts the movie saying he doesn’t want to kill anyone, but after Bucky falls from the train it becomes, “I won’t stop until all of Hydra is dead or captured.” Platonic MY LEFT FUCKING ARM. See post here.

10. For my final point, I’ve said this before, but STEVE DIDN’T HAVE TO CRASH THE PLANE. (CW: suicide mention)

The scene is from 1943 in 𝐴 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟, where Bucky gave Steve a bunch of new pencils (I also think that Bucky would sharpen them beforehand). Literally the epitome of "to be loved is to be known" to me.