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Ever wondered what it’d be like if Steve had gotten captured? Wonder no more; below are my Top 5 Favorite Stories: 

Additional Tags: 

Post-Canon, Grief/Mourning, Brother Feels, Family Feels, Paper Man, travel sized wwx, dumb juniors being dumb, Fluff, Pining, Reunions

Word count: 6k

Summary:

Lan Wangji is Chief Cultivator, Wei Wuxian is travelling the world somewhere, and the Jingshi fills up with mysterious flowers.

My artwork for:

Fourth Floor by mithborien, dirtybinary, picoalloe Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Other Avengers, Alexander Pierce, Original Cat Character(s), Hydra Agents Additional Tags: Magical Realism, Tentacle Monsters, shrinkyclinks, Minor Sharon Carter/Natasha Romanov, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting Summary:

Steve has his life in order, okay. He goes to wizard college, even if he can't technically do magic. He has his own apartment, even though it's small and dinky and kind of gross, and forgets to exist sometimes, and might also be alive? Plus, he has a crush on the hot cyborg in unit 404 who cooks fiendishly good breakfast foods, and may or may not have some kind of weird connection to the sentient building they live in. He's not sure.

He's dealing, all right, his life is in tip-top condition, or it was until an eldritch monstrosity called the Hydra started posing as a real estate company to try and buy over his new home.

He's really pissed about that.

Author: @dirtybinary  Link: A03 Rating: Teen and up Relationship: Steve Rogers/James “Bucky” Barnes Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Other Avengers, Alexander Pierce, Original Cat Character(s), Hydra Agents Tags: Magical Realism, Tentacle Monsters, shrinkyclinks, Minor Sharon Carter/Natasha Romanov, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting Summary: Steve has his life in order, okay. He goes to wizard college, even if he can't technically do magic. He has his own apartment, even though it's small and dinky and kind of gross, and forgets to exist sometimes, and might also be alive? Plus, he has a crush on the hot cyborg in unit 404 who cooks fiendishly good breakfast foods, and may or may not have some kind of weird connection to the sentient building they live in. He's not sure.He's dealing, all right, his life is in tip-top condition, or it was until an eldritch monstrosity called the Hydra started posing as a real estate company to try and buy over his new home. He's really pissed about that. (The one where Steve is an angry millennial wizard, Sam is a Disney prince, Natasha is a shapeshifter, and Bucky is a spoiler.)

Review by Mod Tisfan

Wow. I was hooked like by the end of the fifth paragraph… Steve and Sam vs. the IKEA bookshelf.

Sam wasn’t listening. He turned the leaflet upside down. “So these diagrams make no sense whichever way you look at them,” he said, “and paramedic school didn’t cover furniture appeasement, but I’m pretty sure step 6 is a blood sacrifice.”

“I’m anemic,” said Steve.

“It’s a bookshelf,” said Sam. “I don’t think it understands human suffering.”

And it just kept going… this fic was touching, adventurous, great world building, funny as hell. You know that picture of wet-cat as smol!steve? That’s what you get here. Not nice, cozy puppy dog Steve, but bony elbows and shark smiles and ridiculously overblown “I’m angry at the universe” Steve.

There’s a clock-radio shape shifter cat (Radio is awesome, personally one of my favorite OCs ever) and some really interesting Modern Magic theory. There are cameos from a dozen different Marvel characters and it’s fascinating the way they all sort of blend in together.

And oh, my god, the spoiler/twist is just amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that original as a concept before, and I loved it.

On a more technical note, the editing was top notch, the writing was fantastic (and written in past-tense, and I know present tense is the fashionable thing for fic, but I personally hate it and it kept me from reading fic for a LONG long time. I’ve mostly gotten over myself for it, but it really gives every single fic a bonus point to be written in past tense, so thanks for that!) and the art was so cute.

Saturday morning fic rec:

Author’s summary:

There's a new night guard at the Smithsonian. The Winter Soldier is on a reconnaissance mission, and in a way, so is Steve.

Words: 6403, Chapters: 1/1

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Stan "the Janitor" Lee

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, background Steve Rogers/Peggy Carter - Freeform, Bucky Barnes's Notebooks

My notes:

Name/Handle: Vale/@dirtybinary

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What are some of your favorite Stucky-related works that you’ve done?

the long game: [6.8k/M]: What could be more terrifying than the Winter Soldier? Apparently, two Winter Soldiers determined to protect each other and ruin Hydra from the inside while they do it.

murder burgers series [17.6k/T]: The one where Steve doesn't go down with the Valkyrie, and he and Bucky spend the next seventy years thwarting each other over junk food.

poltergeists [17k/T]: Bucky takes Steve with him after the helicarriers go down, and a road trip of revenge ensues, peppered liberally with hugs and explosions.

When was the moment that you shipped it?: Literally from the time the first blurry gifsets from The Winter Soldier hit my dash back in 2014. I hadn't watched TFA yet, so I honest-to-God didn't even know who Bucky was at that point. Blow-by-blow replay of my thought processes:

> who is this stabby leather dude and why does he look so tragic? > is Steve okay??? > how many knives does he--THAT SHOULD NOT BE SO HOT > do I need to watch the thing now > oh my god they're actually weeping > brb watching the thing > sebstanfacedownonfloor.jpg

Anything else? I wrote an original romance/fantasy novel about a snarky theatre boy and his arch-enemy; maybe check that out if you've enjoyed my stucky fic? [excerpt and deets here]