#magdaliny

Author: magdaliny Rating: gen Status: Complete Length: 6K

Bucky darts forward suddenly, shaking his head. He puts his hand on her shoulder, then lays his palm flat on his chest—and then makes a fist and pounds it hard, twice, right over his heart. The look on his face is stern but fond, an expression Steve hasn't seen since 1943, directed at one or more of his sisters when they thought the world was ending over baseball scores, or their homework, or a boy; Bucky hadn't ever let anyone get away with self-pity. That look would usually be followed up by C'mon, pipsqueak, let's go for a walk, but what Steve guesses Bucky's saying now is more along the lines of: You didn't let me down.

Saturday morning fic rec:

Author’s summary:

Steve's face must be doing something complicated, because Clint says: “Hey, you okay?”

Steve's about to shrug and brush it off when Tony says, “Yeah, spill. Nobody's allowed to be sad on their birthday. It's like some kind of law.”

“Well,” Steve says.

Words: 6747, Chapters: 1/1

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

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Steve RogersJames "Bucky" Barnes, Jarvis (Iron Man movies), various Avengers

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, reader's choice

Additional Tags: Birthdays, Friendship, Bees

My notes:

I HAVE CHILLS. Fabulous.

I *adore* gentlething, oh my goodness. I also really like “personal debris” as a blog descriptor, that is just seriously perfect.

(my email alert for this split it up into “persona l debris” and for a second I thought I’d typoed some wonky latin. this is a genuine relief, and also, yes, better.)

I picked up gentlething from The Roleplay Game when someone realised halfway through a post they didn’t know a third party’s gender. it was meant as a joke, I think, but goodness, yes, keeping it.

you’re like the fourth person I know born on 25 Feb! crazy!! also “don’t even fucking ask me, i’m in university and it stresses me out so much trying to figure it out” I FEEL THIS SO HARD

The lovely @ praximeter tagged me in the…

Yassssss I'm so excited you picked up that gauntlet -- and I really dig your choices. The line from TWH in particular, because while I don't get to exercise the "Bucky & Steve can be mean and pushy with each other" muscle very often (at all) in my WIP thanks to the unreliable narration (up. the. wazoo.), it forms such a big part of my headcanon and it's the kind of thing that I really love to see in fic - it makes the fabric and feel of their relationship really bleed through. With a spare bit of dialogue and about of body language, it’s amazing how two people’s bone-deep knowledge of one another can just leap off the page. Really great. 🙂

Also, I am so curious about the little Natasha blurb. I have so many questions! And I also love what it says about that version of Sam.