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“You make the rockin' world go 'round” (E, 7k) by Neonbat

Steve was determined to hit the gym and try to bulk up when his biweekly trips took an unexpected turn. He was caught between his goal and staring at a man that was sending him into a bisexual spiral.

A man, that turned out, kind of wanted to kick his ass.

+ Modern AU. Trans Steve is really into thicc Bucky. Rimming, strap-ons, and dating 

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“seasons change (but people don't)” (E, 2k) by ftmsteverogers

“If there’s a girl I’m meant to be mourning, I want to know,” Bucky persists, as though Steve hasn’t had a close brush with asphyxiation right before his eyes. His foot twitches against Steve’s under the table.

“There wasn’t a girl,” Steve coughs. “Why…?”

Bucky’s gaze is sharp and discerning as his eyes flick back and forth between Steve’s.

“There was,” he says, right hand gripping the counter behind him in a white-knuckled grasp. “A girl. A small blonde girl.”

+ Pre-War, WW2, and Post WS. Three Non-linear scenes of acceptance

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“What's In A Name” (M, 3k) by cleo4u2

Steve has always know his best friend will be his soulmate. So when he wakes up with the name of a guy on his arm that he's never heard of, he's devastated. Thankfully, Bucky has a surprise in store for him.

+ Modern AU. Soulmate AU! Steve wishes his soulmate mark read Bucky instead of James. 

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“Tomorrow Is Another Day” (T, 75k) by charlesdk

When Bucky got the door shut in his face by a tiny, barely awake blond, he never thought that said tiny blond would become such an important part of his life. Or that he would fall deeply, hopelessly in love with him way too quickly.

 + Modern AU. Bucky meets Steve, befriends, and falls in love with him over seven months. Found family and supporting each other 

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“Undercurrent” (T, 4k) by NachoDiablo

Bucky might be more than a little smitten with a certain cute, blond lifeguard, but there's no way his feelings are reciprocated... right?

+ Modern AU. Mutual crushes, a small misunderstanding, and a date

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“America’s Monster” (E, 8k) by Prim_the_Amazing

Winter takes stock.

Things are bad. Winter has never been inside this newest host’s species type before, but he can immediately tell that this one is broken anyways. Built inefficiently, poorly, badly, wrong. The host’s spine is misaligned, its immune system crippled, its eyesight lacking, hearing lackluster, its feet are somehow not the way they should be, the joints ache, the lungs are floundering. Winter’s host can’t even breathe right.

This is it. This is the trap. Winter’s captors think that they can kill it by trapping it in a weak, dying host.

They think wrong.

+ WW2. Instead of the serum, Steve gets venom!Bucky. Captain America eats Nazis for Breakfast!

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“And No One Can Talk To a Horse” (T, 17k) by leveragehunters

Kelpies were killers. They lived in the water, drowned anyone who came too close. Ate them, most of the time. It was reflex not choice, like the kick that follows a hammer hitting a knee, because kelpies were no more aware than a wave or a wildfire.

Hydra knew about kelpies. It was why they’d come up with their brilliant plan to capture one and turn it into an assassin. But like so many plans that seemed good on paper it came with unintended consequences—in Hydra’s case, the unintended consequences were Bucky and no more Hydra.

Steve didn’t know that. Even as a sometime Shield consultant, he had no way of knowing any of that. Which meant when the sleek black horse surged up out of the water and didn’t kill him, the only answer he could give to, “Why?” was, “I don’t know.”

+ Urban Fantasy. Reposted from the writer spotlight because it’s damn good. Kelpie Bucky doesn’t want to hurt anyone anymore, he just wants to be a roller coaster. 

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“A Love I Never Had” (E, 38k) by relenafanel

Detective Steve Rogers is not a cop if he’s dead.

A Modern Frankenstein AU; or, the Modern Prometheus

+ Modern AU. Frankenstein Bucky, Monster Steve. Mutual crushes, Sam friendships, righting wrongs, and finding your Person. 

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“Where the Wild Monsters Are” (T, 6k) by crinklefries

“You’re not a very scary monster, are you?” Steve asks that night. He dangles over the edge of his bed again.

The monster under his bed stares at him, his golden eyes luminous.

Then, slowly, he bares his teeth again. They aren’t sharp at all.

“I am Bucky,” he says, trying to snarl.

It’s like another four year old snarling. Steve smiles.

“I’m Steve,” Steve says.

*

This is a fairytale. Not the kind you’re used to, with enchanted lights and magical wishes, but the kind that is darker, the grim tale that goes bump in the night.

This is the story of the monster under your bed, and what happens when you fall in love with it.

+ Pre-WW2. Home is where Bucky is, and after years of war, defrosting, and the snap, Steve just wants to see his Bucky again. 

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“The Devil’s Acre” (E, 40k) by littleblackfox

“I’m sorry, you want me to what?” Steve sits back in his chair and tries not to glare at Hill across the conference table. “Track down a cryptid.” Agent Hill repeats, tossing a dossier onto the table. Steve has to stretch out an arm to reach across for it. “A cryptid,” Steve repeats doubtfully.

+ Shrunkyclunks, cryptid Bucky. Something is killing the homeless (not Bucky!) and Steve goes to investigate. They find each other and find their way back into the world.  

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“You hold me, I’ll hold you together” (E, 4k) by Neonbat

It wasn’t right. It was immoral, inhumane, and quite possibly one of the worst sins he could have ever committed, but Steve didn’t care. Couldn’t bring himself to care, not after everything. Not after Hydra had taken everything from him and dangled his freedom in front of him while giving him a too-short chain.

+ Another Frankenstein AU! Hydra forces Steve to create the perfect super soldier. What he gets is a Super Fucker.

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“No Place Like Home” (E, 5k) by asocialconstruct

Bucky's in his undershirt and suspenders with a frayed paperback in his hand, just stood up from the armchair by the bedroom door, the other one in the tub with his hair tied up in a bun like a gal and little pearl earrings besides.

Besides, well.

The metal arm and all.

+ Post WS. Bucky/Steve/Bucky and Bucky/Bucky. Wanda accidentally sends Bucky back to their 1941 apartment. Their younger selves are curious about his pierced dick and the future

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“And then there were two” (E, 3k) by Batfink

“Wait, you didn't know?” The first Bucky asked, staring across at Steve who was gaping at the second Bucky.

“Of course I didn't know there were two of you.” Steve exclaimed. “How the hell could I know there were two of you, how the hell are there even two of you?”

+ Post WS. Bucky/Steve, Bucky/Bucky, and Bucky/Steve/Bucky. Hydra stole another Bucky from a parallel universe, so now Steve gets a Bucky sandwich 

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“Unrepentant Stucky Smut-Fest” (E, 2k) by kireteiru

Chapter 9: Steve Rogers Time-Travel Selfcest feat. Dirty Talking about Bucky's Dick

+ Post WS. Steve/Steve and Steve/Bucky. Steve gets thrown back pre-war and remembers exactly what’s going to happen

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“Don’t say I never got you nothin’” (E, 5k) by Neonbat

Steve went back in time to drop off the Infinity stones with a plan in mind. He refused to leave Bucky, any Bucky, behind when he could do something about it.

He just...didn't expect to get so distracted.

America's ass, right?

+ Alt Endgame. Steve/Steve. Steve passes along information on Hydra and Bucky, and then teaches his younger self how to get fucked

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“America’s Ass” (E, 3k) by Bourneblack

Neither of the Steves have any idea how they're going to explain what took them so long.

OR

What's better than one America's Ass?

+ Endgame Cap fight. Steve/Steve. Steve knows how badly he wants to get fucked, and does himself a favor

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“Asymmetry” (T, 46k) by candlemaker

“Isn’t that weird?” Sam starts, raising an eyebrow at Bucky’s parallel self.

“Sam-“ Bucky tries to interject, looking increasingly distressed – but it’s no use.

“I mean, you third wheeling Steve and his wife out here in the middle of nowhere?” Sam finishes, and Bucky can only cover his face with his metal hand and wish the ground would swallow him whole, knowing what is coming as surely as he has ever known anything.

“Pal,” the Other Bucky replies with a smirk, holding up his flesh hand to show off a thin silver band while the real Bucky stares resolutely at the ground, “I am his wife.”

Or

Of all the parallel universes they could have ended up in, Bucky can't think of a worse one than this - one that serves as a constant reminder of everything he's ever wanted, and everything he can't ever have.

+ Post CW. In every universe, Bucky loves Steve and Steve loves Bucky. It just might take them a little time to get there. Double Bucky competency, domestic life, Tony reconciliation, and happily ever afters

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“Steve Rogers Is Not Your Little Mermaid” (M, 25k) by attackofthezee (noxlunate)

“About that… This whole… gift thing? It’s you, uh, trying to date me? Right? That’s what that is?” Bucky asks and Steve can’t help it, the clench of his chest like maybe this is where Bucky politely declines, explains that he didn’t understand how this all works and he’d really rather not with Steve.

“Courtship,” Steve confirms, nodding stubbornly instead of giving into the clenching in his chest and the swimming in his head.

“Right. Okayyyy. Right,” Bucky says, and then he pauses for a moment, chewing on his lip in a way that’s definitely distracting but not quite distracting enough to erase the sudden feeling like a whole host of guppies has taken residence in Steve’s stomach. “On land we do that by going out on dates, y’know? You can pick me up at seven.”

“Wait- what?”

“I said pick me up at seven. I live above the shop, it shouldn’t exactly be hard to find.”

In which Steve is a mermaid, Bucky's a werewolf, and as always, they fall for each other.

+ Modern AU. Coffeeshop owner Bucky is confused and later reluctantly charmed by Steve 

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“Love Bites” (E, 6k) by Neonbat

Sometimes, friends lie to each other.

Steve has a secret that no one can know or else they'd never look at Captain America the same way again. How can he let anyone know that he let his best friend have his way with him on the full moon?

+ Post WS. Steve tries to hide how much he likes getting full-shift fucked. Bucky figures it out anyway

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“When Devotion has Teeth” (E, 15k) by WhoopsOK

Bucky’s sense of self as a wolf begins and ends with the smell of Steve’s blood. | Steve’s sense of self as a vampire begins and ends with the sound of Bucky’s heartbeat.

(Steve has been turned into a vampire and somehow even that is easier to deal with than being separated from Bucky for 70 years.)

+ WW2 to Post WS. No serum, just vampires. They’re still separated, but find their way back to each other. Love and devotion, blood drinking and rut

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“only one my arms will ever hold” (E, 41k) by wearing_tearing

Like most stories about Bucky Barnes and his questionable and sometimes terrible life choices, this one starts because he decides not to listen to Natasha’s cryptic and mostly annoying advice.

He decides not to listen, and he hunts down and kills a deer during that month’s full moon run with his pack and leaves its dead body on Steve Rogers’s front step.

Steve, the man Bucky kind-of-possibly-maybe-absolutely is in love with.

Bucky would try to smother himself after that one, but he’s learned that werewolves are hard to kill.

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Or: the four stages of courting Steve Rogers.

+ Modern AU. Bucky’s flying blind with all his Steve-related werewolf instincts, but it works out in the end

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“held between heaven and hell” (G, 1k) by saccharines

While there is something wolfish about Barnes, Rogers is incredibly, irrevocably human. He’s sick six days out of seven, twenty hours out of twenty-four, and the fact that he’s still alive and kicking is rooted more in human stubbornness than supernatural biology.

+ Modern AU. Steve is sick; Bucky keeps him warm

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