'The people who know the Winter Soldier is rogue and hunting won’t exactly be shouting it from the rooftops, because telling people your pet murder machine has gone a little bit rabid on you is just the slightest bit bad for morale.'
I'm cheating, this week.
I have rec'd this fic before - way back, in the ancient internet age of 2018 (and also in a few rec lists since then.)
But this fic means a lot, like... a lot.
Because I read it for self-care, and lord knows I've needed a lot of that lately.
All in all, I must've read it through about four or five times - which given that it's novel length...
...yeah, I read this a lot.
It's one of my comfort reads - and the one I go back to the most often.
This is a Stucky fic, written in the good old days of 2016-2018.
...So it doesn't comply with any canon beyond Captain America: The Winter Soldier (CA: TWS) - including any of Sam's background, which varies from our glimpses in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS), for example.
(Fandom notes:
Stucky = a romantic and/or sexual relationship between Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes, aka the first Captain America, and the Winter Soldier.
Canon is the 'official' stuff in the book/film/whatever.)
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It's hard to describe this fic, other than the follow-up to CA: TWS we should've gotten.
I've got nothing against Civil War, but the fandom needed emotional payoff for Bucky, and Nazi-hunting payoff for the MCU, and this is it.
(We also needed Stucky, because you don't take on the entire international community for your 'buddy' - but here we are.)
We got fun and humour -
And we got light angst.
We got hurt/comfort.
We got romance.
We got Bucky-freaking-Barnes reading romance novels as a form of self-care.
...We got it all.
(Fandom notes:
Hurt/Comfort (aka H/C) is a genre of fanfiction where a character is hurt and other characters comfort them. Because the people know what they want.)
And on a personal note:
If, by chance, the fic author ever finds their way here (because they do, from time to time, and it always surprises me,) - Thank You.
Thank you for this fic - from the bottom of my heart.
It has helped get me through some of the toughest and most awful times of my life, and I doubt I'm the only one.
So, silentwalrus, whoever and wherever you are: thank you. Just - thank you. You'll never know how big an impact you've had.
Some Content Warnings for this one:
Are there any fics that've stayed with you?
Any that've become comfort reads?
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