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A proposal
Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we donāt want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.
It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the āHYDRA Trash Partyā tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground Iām thinking of here, though; I propose āDead Dove: Do Not Eat.ā
For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled āDead Dove: Do Not Eat.ā He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:
[gif of a white man saying āI donāt know what I expectedā in a deadpan manner]
The āDead Dove: Do Not Eatā tag would essentially be a āwhat it says on the tinā metatag, indicating āyou see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.ā
(more at KnowYourMeme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-dont-know-what-i-expected)
Happy 10 years to Dead Dove Do Not Eat
We've come so far š„ŗā¤ļø
My hero.
came across an old post of mine right after endgame came out with thee most righteous tags i've ever written bahahahaha. PEGGY CARTER WOULD NEVER HAVE LET ANY OF THIS HAPPEN.
God, I've never even thought of it that way, despite being a staunch decrier of Steve's Endgame ending.
I guess this is what they mean by the american dream.
Golden Globe winner, BAFTA and Academy Award nominee Sebastian Stan
Iām just so proud of him. I know heās NOT actually OUR FRIEND, not really, and Iām sure heās not my imaginary boyfriend, but I canāt help but be proud of him like he is. Heās grown exponentially as an actor ā I can hardly believe that the WIYOTCH from the Covenant is the same guy who acted his pants off in A Different Man ā and as a person. Heās wonderful and I hope he just keeps on growing.

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Steve & Bucky + Text Posts
The Garage, Coney Island Design and Construction
My fanart homage to @cesperanza's 4 Minute Window Series which she JUST POSTED THE VERY LAST FIC OF!!
In honour of this and Thanksgiving/holidays and fandom as a whole and this series which is my happy place (if you haven't read it, go read it!)
This is fanart of a fanwork! Fanception!
Unlike @albymangroves gorgeous illustrations, I didn't collaborate with the author here, so don't take this look as exactly canon! (Especially the make of Studebaker haha oops)
See how many references to the different fics in the series you can spot
And what Steve and Bucky might be up to... ;)
These are amazing!!! I am so absolutely gobsmacked!!! <3 <3 <3
Look at my talented friendās sweet art and my other talented friendās epic series. š„² All hail 4-Minute Window!
letās talk about the winter soldier.
letās talkĀ about posthumanism and body horror and the kind of thorough desensitisation thatās almost orwellian in its completeness. letās talkĀ about how the winter soldier has no concept of self or identity, how he clearly doesnāt think of himself as aĀ person. letās talkĀ about him being desensitised not only to the violence he perpetuates, but also to the violence done to him.Ā (the way he doesnāt react to pierce backhanding him, and just takes the brainwashing and the excruciating pain that comes with it. letās talkĀ about justĀ howĀ excruciating the pain must have been to make him scream like that.)
letās talkĀ about the winter soldierās zero regard for his own wellbeing, and the way the mechanised methodical ruthlessness was used to underline his role as aĀ tool. like. jesus christ, this isnāt just how pierce and his handlers and other people see him, this is how he seesĀ himself. zero concept of agency or personhood.
letās talkĀ about the sheer brutal physicality of his fights with steve. letās talkĀ about how the force necessary to kick steve back is enough that the winter soldier literally falls down too, and justĀ goes with itĀ and doesnāt stop firing. letās talkĀ about the way he and steve are evenly matched, to the point that their showdown wasĀ this closeĀ to ending in mutually assured destruction.
letās talkĀ about steve rogers being the first and only person in the winter soldierās memory who shows emotion towards him, and how much that fucks the winter soldier up;Ā heĀ doesnāt care about himself or see himself as a human being, and hereās this man heās never seen before in his life treating him like theyāre both people and not a weapon and a target. (MISSION. jesus christ on a pony i canāt even.) letās talkĀ about the winter soldierās childlike confusion when for the first time in his memory he wants to remember or know something/someone except he doesnāt knowĀ how. he literally doesnāt have the tools to build an emotional connection, and he wants to, and fuck him if heās not gonna try.
letās talkĀ about how he bloody wellĀ imprints on steve after a two-minute encounter that is mostly violent knifeporn; how his programming, fresh and new and shiny and terrifying, starts to fall apart again as soon as he confronts steve again.
letās talkĀ about steve rogers perfectly fucking willing to stay on a burning, crashing helicarrier to save the person who is no longer bucky barnes; who, if he canāt save bucky, is perfectly fucking willing to go down with him. because heās with bucky ātill the end of the line, and if he canāt be, then what does anything matter.
It's been 87 years since I've done a get-to-know-me quiz on Tumblr
Tagged by my old friend @stolennumbers <3
Tag 9 people you want to get to know better
Three ships: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes āĀ aka Stucky. I don't REQUIRE them to kiss in fic, but I sure don't mind it. They are my Achilles/Patroclus. I would know them (and love them) in death, at the end of the world.
Bucky Barnes/Natasha Romanoff āĀ aka Buckynat aka Winter Widow. They really were made for each other, in both canon and Fanon.
Lord Asriel/Marisa Coulter āĀ from His Dark Materials. Classy. Refined. Brutal. Enemies to enemies to lovers to coparents and enemies.
First ship: Buffy/Spike? aka Spuffy? I don't know. They might have been my first FANDOM ship, but yeah, let's go with Spuffy. This doesn't have anything to do with my first ship, really, but at least once a month I get another happy anniversary email from LiveJournal congratulating me on 19-20-21 years of various roleplaying journals I made on LJ. I've been writing fanfic before the internet, but my first active fandom was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and how that manifested was by spending many days of my life roleplaying with friends on LiveJournal as Andrew Wells, Tucker Wells, and many (many) more.
Last song: The Witches' Road (Agatha All Along)
Last movie: When Evil Lurks ā it's scary movie season and MY GOD this crossed a lot of lines.
Currently watching: Agatha All Along
Currently reading: The Night War by Praximeter for Fic Club at the House of Squee!
Currently eating: Pumpkin chocolate chip muffin
Currently craving: Tzatziki? Why?!
No pressure tagging: anyone else who wants to do this
7 & 13!
Texas Texas Texas ā¤ļø
7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you've written and explain why you're proud of it.
The Kraut was small. Not as small as his Tommy, but the smallest man in the room. Not much bigger than the cheeky bit of tail with the steno pad who'd gone away and come back twice over. Something about the girl reminded him of Ada and it seemed like she was in on whatever divine joke was playing out. And it was crystal fucking clear that she and Kommissar Kraut were fucking each other. That much was true though it seemed lost on the rest of the jerries whoād come in and out and back again. But this Kraut. After a lifetime with Tommy, Arthur didn't know how or why anyone could ever write off a small man or assume that he wouldn't righteously fuck your shit up. Not the little big man sort of small man, but the kind of calm little bantam who comes into the ring to wear you down when all you've got is a one trick haymaker. Lighter, faster, smarter, neater. It's what was happening now. Little Kraut sitting there with his fresh haircut and wide tie and shoulder holster with the sweet little Walther Arthurād like to take a look at under different circumstances. Calmly leafing through papers, referencing a small English dictionary, occasionally looking at him, looking at John, sizing them up, same as Tommy did when he'd got a cob on about something and called some poor bastard in just to sit and feel bad about himself.
This was one of those little bits of writing that just spewed out. And this is literally why I have an AO3 account. Because I had to put Peaky Blinders and Babylon Berlin in a blender...with Bernie Gunther. This was a wild ride. And it's Arthur POV so I could just be horrible. Writing seldom comes this easy for me, and this whole thing just went hard. I remember feeling like I wrote it all in one sitting, which I couldn't possibly have done. This was written as a gifticle for @parlezkate who I'm tagging like a big old creep even tho she and I have not had tumblr relations when we should have. (Kate, it's Pinkie. I'm still over here like a total weirdo. It's like LJ never died.)
13. What's the best advice you've ever come across?
Read it out loud. From @irregularcollapse. I kind of did this intuitively, but having someone whose writing I love validate a weird idea was really great. And I invite others to use this piece of advice freely. As I've said before, when I read L48, it's in my full-on Texas accent.
This is one of the best fic gifts anyone has ever given me, to be clear. I didnāt even know the source material and I was absolutely riveted.

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god bless the ao3 users with public bookmarks who have the same taste as you and who read/bookmark often. love getting lost in someone's bountiful bookmarks for days, you're rly doing a public service
Absolutely. If you havenāt been using bookmarks for the public good (you can even click a little radio box to make it a ārecā), you have not yet known true joy. Not only does it make it easier for you to find a fic you want to share with a friend, when someone new notices they love what you love, itās like finding a treasure chest. I regularly mine the heck out of other folksā bookmarks. Do it for yourself, for your friends, and for the community.
Kudos, comment, bookmark: strengthen our community.
In Infinity War, it is Bucky that Steve sees disintegrating in front of his eyes, a position that is occupied, contextually and narratively, by the most important person a hero could lose. But for Steve, unlike any of the other heroes who lose their loves, this is not the first time he has watched Bucky slip from between his fingers, it is not even the second, it is not even the third. Time and time, movie after movie, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes battle fiercely for each other, defend each other, protect each other, and always, always, lose each other, and yet it is Peggy that Steve mentions in his therapy group as the loss that haunts him. Peggy who has been dead for almost eight years now. in Steve Rogersās life. Peggy, who has nothing to do with the snap at all. Peggy, when it is Bucky who blew into the wind.
This repeats, egregiously, as the team suits up to fight Thanos for the first time in the movie, with Steve looking at Peggyās picture in his compass before telling Nat that āif this doesnāt work, [he] doesnāt know what heāll do.ā But if it does work, itās Bucky heāll be getting back. Peggy has nothing to do with this narrative moment, and yet she stands in, where, for every other hero, the person they saw vanish, or whose vanishing they feel the most, is featured.
For instance, when Tony finally returns from space and Steve runs to him, Tony tells him, āI lost the kid.ā [Peter]. Rocket yells at Thor to pull it together because he needs to get his family back. [Groot]. Carol and Nat both think about Nick, even though they didnāt see him vanish. Clint talks about nothing except for the loss of his family. But for Steve, Bucky is carefully removed.
This article nails it so perfectly! I watched the movie a third time yesterday and that moment with the compass was so out of the blue. Itās not about shipping a pairing rather than another, itās just that from a narrative point of view there was no reason for Steve to look at that compass in a moment of the movie when time travel wasnāt even an option they had considered. It clearly only served as a way to make Steveās choice at the end look less shoehorned. But I donāt think it worked out too well.
Steve sits in a support group for people who lost someone in the Snap, and listens to a gay man talking about the date he was onā¦. (who could they possibly be setting Steve up to talk about? after a gay man talks about dating another man? Steve whose entire story has pivoted around Bucky?) ā¦and then he brings up-Ā
Peggy, a womanĀ who wasnāt even a loved one, they never even dated, and she died years before the Snap!
Itās like he stared a āSurvivors of Cancerā group and then interrupted a cancer survivor to talk about an acquaintance he knew who died of natural causes.Ā
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They should have kicked him out.
Iāll never get over it, sorry not sorry. Just, like, what a whiff for the characterization.
āLove, Time stops, doesnāt it? Are we not testaments to this? Two old, misplaced souls, Asleep for seventy years? So close your eyes, love. Maybe seconds can be minutes and minutes can be hours and hours can be unending eternities Where I donāt have to open my eyes To a reality without you. So, letās sleep. Let the world go to hell. For we deserve a soft epilogue, my love. We are good people, and weāve suffered enough.ā
ā We Sleep, and Maybe Weāll Wake Up. Listen.Ā Seventy Years of Sleep, nikka ursula, others, support my work by helping me grow my IG following here!
Just preserving this in amber.
SEBASTIAN STAN + being a cutie š„¹
Ā 27th June 2019
This is so good!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO AMERICA'S ASS, STEVEN GRANT ROGERSĀ (July 4th, 1918)
A few days late, butt
I donāt care if this comes off as cruel but you are not entitled to fanfiction. You are not entitled to podfics. You are not entitled to translated works.
Creators are not paid to make fanworks. People spend years of their lives writing fic and getting nothing in return except positive interactions. You can ask to make a translation. You can ask to make a pod fic. But you cannot demand it.
And because the only thing fanfic writers get in return for their work is positive feedback, taking away an authors ability to receive that is disgusting. Authors deserve to have full control and ownership of their works.
Fanfic isnāt a product to consume and then demand more of. Authors and creators deserve better.
This is it. Fanfic and fan works are inherently anti-capitalist because they MUST BE in order to exist. Our goal here isnāt to consume MORE, itās to consume BETTER. More mindfully, more sustainably. Kudos and comment. Engage and interact. Donāt let capitalism control or dictate the things you love most about storytelling.