“Consumer Affairs” (T, 1k) by galwednesday

“Tom,” Sara, the Senior Marketing Associate, said levelly, “if you don’t let me promote our bedroom product line using the Winter Soldier’s tweet reviews, I will quit. I will quit today. I will leave you high and dry with a junior marketing associate and an intern, Tom. The intern just started last week. He doesn’t even know how to work the copier yet.”

The VP for Public Affairs rubbed his temples. “Sara.”

She slapped a piece of paper onto his desk. “I already wrote my letter of resignation. You know what it says? It says that I cannot possibly do my job if I’m deprived of the best free publicity opportunity that has ever crossed my desk, and that will ever cross it again, in the form of one James Buchanan Barnes and his Supersoldier Fuckability Index.”

(Bucky reviews IKEA beds. The marketing team responds.)

+ Post WS. Twitter. Bucky tweets his sexcapades with IKEA furniture. Some beds are sturdier than others

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“#TweetMeDaddy” (T, 4k) by StarSpangled

Coulson, for his part, stares up at Bucky with such a betrayed look of frozen horror that Natasha actually goes the extra step and presses another button, capturing the moment and airdropping the photograph to her phone for posterity. When he speaks, his voice comes out as a hoarse whisper. “Why…?” He swallows and starts again, trying for some semblance of normality. “...Why would you tweet something like that?!”

“If you must know, sir,” and somehow he manages to make ‘sir’ come out with the same inflection most people reserve for ‘motherfucking son of a bitch’, “it’s because I have a difficult time doing my job when my job involves monitoring the man with the best fucking ass in the United States of America.” He slowly lowers himself back into his seat until he’s at eye level, making extreme eye contact with Coulson until Coulson turns away to make mortified eye contact in Natasha’s general direction through the one-way glass. Natasha would take another picture, if she weren’t too busy catching Steve’s red-faced sputtering. “Sometimes, I vent to my Twitter followers. Sometimes, it’s about hot men with washboard abs. Can I go now, or do you need a graphic description of how I pleasure myself at night?”

+ Shrunkyclunks. Twitter. Jarvis picks up a death threat online. Bucky’s having a bad day, Coulson’s is worse, and Natasha is enjoying this immensely

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“Nothing’s As Sweet As Supersoldiers In Love” (T, 12k) by heartsdesire456

Informally titled: Bucky Barnes Loves The 21st Century Almost As Much As He Loves Steve Rogers

“Captain America’s mystery lover! That’s what everybody’s talking about.”

Bucky turned around as soon as he heard ‘Captain America’, only to see Tony had on some entertainment news report and his latest photo of sleeping Steve was flashed up on the screen beside the person talking. “Hey, what’s that?” he asked, hopping over the back of the couch to land beside Stark.

“Your Cap lovin’ gone viral, I guess,” Tony said, turning up the volume.

“Rumors spread like wildfire with the first photo of Steve Rogers, Captain America himself, was posted to a comically named Instagram called ‘GodBlessAmerica36’.”

+ Post WS. Instagram. Steve comes out to Anderson Cooper, the commandos make bets, and Bucky gets a husband

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“Full Metal Sasquatch” (M, 20k) by newsbypostcard

Bucky is walking out of Starbucks when he sees a Captain Americasignal hanging in the sky.

"Uh," Bucky says, stopping dead on the sidewalk. "Huh."

For one thing, he doesn't have a Captain America signal.

So… that seems like kind of a bad sign.

*

(Bucky!Cap, doing his best.)

+ Post CW. Instagram. Steve’s in France, so Bucky takes on the shield. He also becomes a local crpytid. Don’t judge him; long distance is difficult

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“Social Media and Other Grievous Errors” (G, 1k) by fmo

Bucky discovers Facebook and Twitter, takes a lot of unnecessary photos with his phone, and briefly breaks Steve's heart by not friending him back.

Or: sometime vaguely a while after the Winter Soldier movie, there's still a bit of distance between Steve and Bucky, but they're working on it.

+ Post WS. Facebook and Twitter. Bucky doesn’t want to be friends with Captain America. (That little guy from Brooklyn, however-) 

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“Scents and Sensibility: The Working Assassin’s Guide to Supersoldier Seduction” (E, 93k) by galwednesday, silentwalrus, and skellerbvvt

Captain America wakes up from the ice in 2013. The Winter Soldier wakes up in 2009, or rather defects from HYDRA, for a value of defect that’s closer to decimate. He ends up working for SHIELD. In April 2014, he’s assigned to Captain America’s mission as a sniper. Steve’s just trying to get some kind of life together. Bucky is too, or at least he was until tall, blond and Captain shows up and starts just - being there, all the time. It’s terrible. It’s the worst. He has to do something about it.

+ Shrunkyclunks. A/B/O-adjacent (the clownfish AU). Steve and Bucky go a little nuts buying hair products

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“tag ur porn” (G, 1k) by lazulisong

The screen blipped and the person reappeared, now clutching a large Ragdoll cat who was purring even as the human muffled another scream in it's fur. "Omigod. Omigod. I'm calm. I'm calm. GUYS. So you remember how I said I hoped you'd send in reaction vids to the hairstyle tutorials? I think Captain America just sent me one, oh my fucking God." They squeezed the cat tightly enough that it let out a mildly protesting squeak. "OH GOD, Roadkill, I'm so sorry, Mommy's so excited right now." They let go of the cat and it sort of flowed into a puddle between them and the camera. "Okay. Okay. Roll video."

Sam paused the video long enough to break out the ginger ale and vodka.

+ Post WS. Steve learns how to braid hair, and posts a response video on youtube ft. Bucky. If you like Sam, this story is Part 1 of 16 Sam-POV fics

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“close your eyes (this shampoo burns like a motherfucker)” (E, 1k) by shmabs

Bucky likes showers, he really does, he just kinda forgets sometimes that he’s supposed to take them so often. As the Winter Soldier, he wasn’t expected (programmed, he reminds himself, he wasn’t in control) to bathe since his handlers did that for him. He’s really just not used to being in charge of his own hygiene, but thankfully Steve is totally willing to step up and help him out.

+ Post WS. Bucky gives a blowjob and gets his hair washed at the same time. 

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“Universal Constants” (T, 3k) by AidaRonan

“They took me back in,” Bucky says. “I got lucky.”

“This is lucky?” Steve stares at an obvious stab wound on his lower torso, letting off a steady stream of nebulous red clouds that wisp and dissipate like smoke.

“There’s words in my head, shit they can say that would take away everything I got back when you-” Bucky finally moves, lazily trailing one hand back and forth through the stained water next to his thigh, closing his eyes as though the sound soothes him. “They didn’t know the words.”

“You and me got our own words though, huh?” Steve asks.

+ Post WS. Steve finds a wounded Bucky in his tub. Bucky remembers and still loves him

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“Effects of Obliteration” (E, 25k) by geneticallydead

“I watched a documentary on the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima a while ago. In the blast radius, sometimes a… a person blocked the bleaching effect of the radiation. So the person was vaporized, but a shadow was left behind, on a bridge or a wall – their shape, their outline, when they were completely gone," Steve said. "It’s called a nuclear shadow.”

“If you’re implying the Soldier is like a nuclear shadow, then that is seriously fucking dark, man,” Sam said dryly.

OR

Before the fall of the Soviet Union, the Winter Soldier was sent to the American arm of Hydra - only there was a malfunction in the cryo-unit that meant it couldn't be opened, and it was left, powered but abandoned, in an underground base.

25 years later, the Avengers find it.

+ Post Avengers. Steve washes Bucky’s hair and they both like it so much it becomes a habit. Bucky also discovers tumblr and wants to see the Stucky porn

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“Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail” (M, 264k) by owlet

Oh sure, reunion results in happiness, kittens, and rainbows, because that's definitely how life goes when you've just spent 70 years as a tool of villainy. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

+ Post WS. Reposted from the Starter Pack list. Part 3 is Bucky and other long-haired Tower residents forming a Hair Club

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“A Myriad of Misdecisions” (M, 21k) by Darksknight

“My parents thought I was working for an insurance company in New York when really I was joining the CIA so I just sort of never mentioned when I met you on an assassination-gone-wrong and now we’ve been married for five years and they still don’t know you exist, this has gotten wildly out of hand and you won’t stop laughing about it”

+ Modern AU. Steve brings Bucky home to meet his mom, and tries to convince her they’re Just Friends

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“Boeuf Mystere” (T, 1k) by galwednesday

“Quick question,” Bucky said.

Steve looked up, but didn’t stop moving passports and stacks of cash into a nondescript blue duffel, his mind busily ticking through logistics. He’d grab the glock taped behind the hidden drawer in the desk on their way out, and they could buy new clothes once they got across the border into neutral territory, so they didn’t need much else, apart from whatever Bucky wanted to bring. One duffle should be enough. “Yeah, honey?”

“What the fuck.”

+ Modern AU. Steve is a secret spy and Bucky is a secret restaurant critic. They both think they have the same job. 

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“No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Pine” (T, 16k) by galwednesday

"Agent Rogers. We have to stop meeting like this." The Winter Soldier crouched in front of where Steve was slumped against the wall, hands and forearms glued to the stone behind him by some kind of sticky polymer. "Comfortable?"

"No," Steve lied. "My blood circulation has been cut off. I've lost all feeling in my hands."

"Oh, so I should probably cut you loose," the Soldier deadpanned.

"It's a medical emergency. You don't want to be responsible for me losing limbs, do you?"

"Tell you what, if you lose your hands, I'll make you some new ones." He held up his metal hand, smallest finger crooked. “Pinkie promise.”

Secret Agent adversaries-to-lovers AU where the Winter Soldier keeps tying Captain America to walls and sticking around to chat. Shut up, Natasha, it’s not flirting, okay? (It’s definitely flirting.)

+ Alt WS. Steve gets a crush on Bucky who already has a crush on Steve

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“From Hydra with Love” (M, 21k) by insomnia1999

Captain Steve Rogers is one of the best spies in the world - a marksman, a martial artist, an expert in strategy and tactics. There's not a lot he can't handle. Heck, he's even saved the world once or twice.

So why does every run in with the mysterious Winter Soldier leave him feeling like the Bond Girl?

+ Modern AU. The one where Steve gets strapped to a laser table and Bucky wears leather pants

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“hold your breath and count to ten” (M, 9k) by rowan

Steve is living a lie and his home life is suffering because of it, but such is the sacrifice of a secret agent employed by S.H.I.E.L.D. and fighting against the rival spy agency, Hydra. His husband, Bucky, just wouldn't understand. Then again, perhaps they're both keeping their fair share of secrets.

+ Mr. and Mrs. Smith AU, rival assassins who love each other

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“Bait and Switch” (T, 2k) by galwednesday

"Post-action tacos?” Tony suggested. “I’m thinking that place by Fordham. BattleBot, you in?”

“Can’t,” the Soldier said, typing something into his phone. “I have a date.”

Tony stopped talking for an entire three seconds. “You. Have a date.”

The Soldier looked up and blinked, clearly nonplussed to find Sam and Tony both staring at him. “Yes.”

“With who?”

“My boyfriend.”

“You have a boyfriend. You have a boyfriend?” Tony looked like he’d just walked into a lamppost, and then the lamppost had handed him a birthday present.

+ The Winter Soldier introduces his boyfriend to the team. This entire series is spectacular

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“In defense of the second chance” (T, 8k) by StuckySituation

“-rnes? Wake up. We’ll be back in HQ in ten minutes.”

Steve is still half-asleep, and not ready to let go of his dream. It was a nice dream.

The details are already slipping away from him, though, no matter how much he tries to resist forgetting the dream. There were other kids? He was in school? Steve groans, and mutters, “Fuck off.”

“I hate to wake you, but dude, you need to shake this off,” the stranger continues, his voice gentle and laced with worry. “You’ll need to go prepare for your trial as soon as we land.”

+ Bodyswap, Steve doesn’t think the Winter Soldier should have to testify... and it looks like he won’t have to

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“Press Play to Start” (M, 31k) by layersofsilence

Steve still doesn’t understand; and then he does, or he thinks he does, in a burst of clarity that he immediately wishes he hadn’t gotten.

The thing is that it’s not possible. James shifts his position ever so slightly; his shoulders shift smoothly under his tac gear, and it’s not possible that Steve could be programming another human.

CA:TWS AU - in which Steve Rogers, SHIELD agent, finds out that HYDRA is not so old and defeated a foe, and that the Winter Soldier is more than a whispered rumour.

+ Steve is assigned to an experimental department where he’s tasked with programming the Soldier Simulation 

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“Lunch” (T, 5k) by cleo4u2 and xantissa

Bucky Barnes, the feared Winter Soldier, is working hard at becoming a person again. He doesn't understand a lot of the modern world, yet, but he Avengers help him with that when they can. They don't always get it right.

+ Bucky gets a text from an unknown number and goes out of his way to help. 

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“Stitch Me Up Right” (G, 5k) by sirsable

The Avengers have a new fashion designer and suddenly Bucky has a lot of problems with his suit.

+ The Winter Soldier gets a crush

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