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starfishOsiris and I saw Endgame last night and I have A LOT of feelings about it, but I've had too much caffeine today and honestly I need to process and maybe see it again after reading allll the commentary
Because look, my initial engagement with anything is going to be really really shallow unless something slaps me in the face but then when I dig deeper I get really MAD about stuff and can't always see the good I saw at first
So instead I will talk a little about my boy Bucky Barnes and how the worst thing that ever happened to him has very little to do with his left arm.
If you know me at all you know I am an absolute SUCKER for the AU in any fandom. (Bonus points if it's pretend-to-date or marriage-of-convenience or epistolary-halfway-in-love-before-they-meet.) And I will read and enjoy your fic even if it's any-two-guys-who-look-like-the-actors, if you give me lots of pining and feels.
But I'm always looking/hoping for the core of the characters to still be present, and I really truly think that being brainwashed and made to kill many many people for literal Nazis is pretty fucking KEY to post-TWS Bucky's mindset. So if you can find a way to give me more of that sort of past betrayal and loss-of-self in your AU-Bucky, rather than fixating on his missing/damaged arm, I will EAT THAT UP WITH A SPOON.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Because look, my initial engagement with anything is going to be really really shallow unless something slaps me in the face but then when I dig deeper I get really MAD about stuff and can't always see the good I saw at first
So instead I will talk a little about my boy Bucky Barnes and how the worst thing that ever happened to him has very little to do with his left arm.
If you know me at all you know I am an absolute SUCKER for the AU in any fandom. (Bonus points if it's pretend-to-date or marriage-of-convenience or epistolary-halfway-in-love-before-they-meet.) And I will read and enjoy your fic even if it's any-two-guys-who-look-like-the-actors, if you give me lots of pining and feels.
But I'm always looking/hoping for the core of the characters to still be present, and I really truly think that being brainwashed and made to kill many many people for literal Nazis is pretty fucking KEY to post-TWS Bucky's mindset. So if you can find a way to give me more of that sort of past betrayal and loss-of-self in your AU-Bucky, rather than fixating on his missing/damaged arm, I will EAT THAT UP WITH A SPOON.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
