This is a post to keep track of my favorite jayvik fanficion since my ao3 bookmarks are a mess and hopefully get some quality recs as well!
Contingency Planning by @oodlyenough murdered me and i liked it so much its concerning.
Chrysalis and Window of Opportunity by @oodlyenough
A New Promise by @dis-embarks did the same, thank you 🥲
A lesson in rigor mortis by @orangechickenpillow still missing my heart after this one.
Here At The End Of All Things by queercatfan
I've Been Thinking of All the Little Things That You've Been Missing by @fouroddapples <3
Pygmalion by @twenty-qs 🩵
here is a map (with your name for a capital) by moonliving just 🥲
Run it back by spqr
be, be as you've always been by enbymegumi
Reflection and refraction series by @tryfero
Tastes like resurrection by @sulkybender 😭
disjunction by @nanashi-07
erosion by @nanashi-07
The Dead of Night by @bringthekaos
White lilies by whiskeyuncle ohmygod😭 destroyed in under 1k words
Crowbar by whiskeyuncle
High Hawk Season by JeanLuciferGohard
Bitter practicality by Kaeviat
Cradle to grave by @weatheredlaw
Switchblade by MmPumpkins
Differential Burdens in Displacement by @yallstar
void by @ironcy
Playlist for When Your Boyfriend Stops Breathing
The Taste Of Rot And Honey by @sunsetplums
Steve, about Bucky: Can I tell him he looks nice? Sam: Sure. Steve: Can I tell him I respect him? Natasha: Yes, I think he'd like that. Steve: Should I show him an oil painting I made of us surrounded by our three cats and four dogs? Natasha: … Sam: I’d save that for later.
To be fair, it's not like they are wrong xd
bucky in fic: steve u asshole u could’ve been killed! what were u thinking? let me bandage u up and get u a nice cup of tea, i love u so much
actual bucky:
i wish all my beloved followers and mutuals a very “you find a fic that has the exact premise and characterization you’ve always wanted to see but never had the energy to write yourself and it’s really good and just as long as you want to read”
Let’s remember that Bucky Barnes without Steve Rogers was the kid who befriended a small sickly boy looked down on and picked on by everyone else without caring what anyone thought.
Bucky Barnes without Steve Rogers was a smart, bright, likable young man who enjoyed going to dance halls and science fairs.
Bucky Barnes without Steve Rogers earned the respect, friendship, and loyalty of his soldiers to such an extent that when a stranger in spangly tights saves their lives only to ask them to follow him back into the fray, they agree because this guy’s nuts but he’s got Sarge’s seal of approval.
Bucky Barnes without Steve Rogers withstood years of unimaginable physical and psychological torture until his captors were finally forced to strip him of his memories and all sense of self in order to make him compliant, and even then had to phrase his missions as fights for the good of the world.
And then, Bucky Barnes, with no knowledge of Steve Rogers or himself, with no agency or moral compass, couldn’t be kept out of cryostasis for too long lest he regain the smallest sense of self and turn on his masters. Because even they knew that James Buchanan Barnes was the furthest thing from a bully, and feared the vengeance he would bring down on them if he realized what they were forcing him to do.
And this is just Bucky Barnes in the MCU, who’s had maybe a half hour of screen time and a handful of lines.
Yeah, the seeds of the Winter Soldier are in Bucky, insomuch as he is competent, loyal, fierce, a brilliant tactician, capable of doing the dirty work to save others the burden, and a bit ruthless when it comes to protecting innocents and those he loves. But isn’t it telling that even stripped of everything but these attributes and then turned to destruction and chaos he becomes, not a bully, but an asset of terrifying efficiency? The Winter Soldier is single-minded and brutal in carrying out his missions, but he is an effective soldier, not a bully.
James Buchanan Barnes is a hero, and nothing, not the absence of one man (even a man like Steve Rogers) or anything else, could change that.