#winterwidowlove

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do you perhaps have any winterwidow or romy fics recommendations?

I don’t read many romy fics but I shall direct you to @remysrogue for recs

as for winterwidow, oh baby. I have so many, and I went through my bookmarks for this.

literally anything by @missmorwen, @medeafive and pinklights. their fics back in 2016-2019 got me hooked onto buckynat for life

however, some favs by medeafive are Stone Cold Sober, I'm not the one who wants to hurt you, Say it ain't so, write our name in blood and in flowers of flame, We'll figure it out

and by missmorwen - Memory Lane (I cannot tell you how many times I've read this series over the years, it's one of my absolute favs), Burn With Me, And A Bed That’s Too Big (Because You’re Not in It), Rhapsody in Red, Oh Say Can You See, And Always Will Until the End, Morning after, A Tie That We Cannot Break

some favs of mine written by pinklights are - This Isn't A Roadtrip (buckynat + bucky and kate bishop road trip), A Kiss With A Fist Is Better Than None (the americans au), The Best of the Best (And the Worst of the Worst), Homemade Dynamite, Let's Be Bad Together, buckynat cinematic universe, Your Life And Mine Are Parallel Lines, we're made of similar stuff

many many fics that taralkariel wrote - What Did You Think Would Happen?, Head Is Not My Home, Functional, Road to War

If Love Wants You by blessedharlot - post-CW reunion

You Could At Least Remember Me by tuesdaymidnight - post-CW memory crisis

Remembering What It Is To Be Human by tuesdaymidnight - natasha having messed up ideas about manipulation using sex due to the red room, and then goes into a crisis because she truly falls in love with bucky

You Were a Kindness When I Was a Stranger by napricot - murder road trip

someday somebody will come and find you by napricot - post-endgame memory crisis

and in which darkness by anomalocaris - this one is such a classic. one of my favs. cold war buckynat

Who The Hell Is Steve? by Lsusanna - this one is soooo good. an au where steve fell off the train and became the winter soldier and bucky crashed the plane, ending up in the 21st century.

One More Troubled Soul by sara_holmes - another one with the same premise but with stevetony along with buckynat.

this bullet lodged in my chest, covered with your name by Cinaed - natasha goes through a memory crisis

Some Of The Colors Have To Fade by impertinence - another murder road trip

a case of you by irnan - post-TWS fic

Suffocating by sammiewilson (softlyspiraling) - killingeve au!!

everything i've ever been, belonged to you the second you claimed it by indieheadmeltdown - post-CW reunion

the bass and the fading light by stars_inthe_sky - date night by beating up criminals

Paris, 1956 by Wikiaddicted723 - cold war paris fic

remember me to by steshka by andibeth82 - yet another buckynat murder roadtrip

Coffee Grounds by kingaofthewoods - bucky's time as the winter soldier has been permanently wiped, including his time in the red room with natasha

Soviets in Love - another red room/memory loss fic

Those Isles of Yours by snark - buckynat working for the soviet union during the vietnam war

Lady Lazarus by JonBonHovis - a natasha-centric fic of her life from the red room to SHIELD and the avengers

Love-Tricks by snark - flirty nat

You Give Love a Bad Name by NotEvenCloseToStraight - sexual tension obv because it's a mr and mrs smith au

Lived and Loved by bellagerantalii - red room/memory loss

Unbreakable by Serenity_V - mcu/616 fusion red room fic

a disaster in two acts by shewritesall - bucky meets widowfam as natasha's bf

Of Felines, Fiancées and Family Reunions by Green_Angst_And_Ham - black widow movie compliant. another bucky meets widowfam as natasha's bf. alpine and liho are present

you shine around me like a million suns by girl0nfire - buckynat wwII au

I Think We Need Each Other by nataliasromanoff - undercover as married, enemies to lovers

The Buck To The Future Trilogy by Ultra - bucky didn't fall from the train and was on the plane with steve

a falling star can't fall forever by Mizzy - international iron man/mr. and mrs. smith au

And All I See is White and Red by Sarma, TeyrianTimelord - ww1/russian revolution au

Okay, I like how Ballister had an actual reason for distrusting Nimona towards the end. Too many movies would have Nimona do something stupid to make him lose his trust. It’s cheap and I’m glad they didn’t do it. Same thing with Ambrosius. You never feel like either of them are acting bad or villainous, but at the same time, you know what’s happening isn’t fair.

Also, are we going to acknowledge the fact that Nimona has been by herself for 1,000 years? When I realized that my jaw dropped.

So you’re telling me that for centuries Gloreth’s bloodline has been forced into knightly positions? Ambrosius HAS to have some unresolved trauma from that. Did he even want to be a knight? I assumed her stepped down towards the end of the movie since we don’t hear anything about him or Ambrosius being knights.

Speaking of Ambrosius, he was written perfectly. You can tell he genuinely loves Bal, but has been brainwashed by The Institute. The moment he figures out that Bal didn’t do it he immediately said “screw The Institute”. So when he shows Bal the scroll, you can’t even get mad at him. Ballister would do the same thing if the rolls were switched. Also, him saying “You’ve worked harder than all of us,” really showed me he was a good guy from the get go. He acknowledges his own privilege and knows that Bal has had to work twice as hard to be seen as half as good.

The Squire was a surprisingly good character. If he knew who to go to, he probably would have given up the footage himself. But he didn’t, and he had to go against the word of The Institute, who’s basically a step below The Queen. I don’t blame him for not saying anything.

But listen, if people hated me for thousands of years because when I was 8 or so some kid my age decided I was a monster I would be LIVID. It’s a miracle Nimona turned out as nice as she did.

Also, NIMONA COMING BACK AT THE END?! I need to write and read fanfics of the wedding, the adoption, the adoption of more children, Ambrosius and Nimona having a moment. GET ON IN PEOPLE, I’LL DO IT WITH YOU!

Are you a fan of:

She ra

ATLA

The Owl House

Kipo

Wendell and Wild

Amphibia

Mitchells vs. the machines

Gravity Falls

Dead End

Puss in Boots and the last wish

Into the Spiderverse

Then I have a movie for you!!

Nimona is a movie coming out tomorrow, June 30th that’s been 7 years in the making! It’s based off the tumblr webcomic turned best-selling graphic novel of the same title.

It was originally being made by Blue Sky Studios and was going to have a theatrical release aimed around 2021, but after Disney acquired them and shut the studio down the film was scrapped. The movie was only about 10 months away from being finished, and it was shut down after Disney execs had pushed back against the queer themes/characters in the movie. BUT, Annapurna studios picked the film back up and finished it!!

Onto the film itself!

The movie follows Nimona, a spunky shapeshifter who teams up with the knight Ballister Boldheart (previously Ballister Blackheart in the graphic novel) after he was framed for a crime he didn’t commit and sent on the run. His ex-boyfriend, Ambrosius Goldenloin, is tasked with hunting them down, but is conflicted between fulfilling his duty and his feelings.

The animation style is stunning and dynamic, and the visuals are so so good!! I would highly recommend checking out the movie and supporting it when it comes out, this is a big step for stylized animation and also queer rep in animation as well!

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