Dumpster #3: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Holy shitballs, look at us go. Welcome to Captain America fandom's resident wretched hive of scum and villainy: ROUND THREE. AKA Bad Guys Do Dirtybadwrong Things To Your Faves, AKA the Hydra Trash Party kinkmeme. As usual, BLANKET NON-CON AND NSFW WARNINGS apply: just assume going in that everything in this landfill is unfit for human consumption.

Rules in brief: don't be a jerk except to fictional characters, warnings for particularly fucked-up garbage are nice but not required, thou shalt not judge the trashiness of thy neighbor's kinks unless thy neighbor is trying to pass off their rotting banana peels and half-eaten pizza crusts as a healthy romantic dinner for two, off-topic comments may be chucked out of the dumpster at management's discretion, management's discretion decrees that omegaverse, soulbond AUs, D/s-verse, non-superpowered AUs, and dark!good guys AUs are off-topic.

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Round 3 is closed; comments and fills in existing threads are still welcome, but all new prompts go to Round 4.

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Re: FILL: The True Repairman Will Repair Man (2/?)

[(Anonymous)]

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OH
MY
GOD

I didn't think this would get a fill (I nearly squealed when i saw it did), let alone as AMAZING as this is so far. I'm going to make a list? Because I'm two drinks in and yes.

1. The little snippets of their sex life are so ridiculously hot. I don't know how you like, peered directly into my garbage brain and checked off all my kink boxes, but you did, so congrats! The hair-pulling, the slapping, the choking, biting, the banter. The banter!!! It's steamydirtyhot but also has this undercurrent of how much they love and care about and are comfortable with each other but ALSO this almost menacing undercurrent of hints at Bucky's trash past and I am just. Absolutely verklempt.

ALSO:

“It’s good. It’s good. It’s good,” Bucky’s chants, voice gone breathy.

“It—It is,” Steve says. He moves his hand up higher to force Bucky to show his throat more, and the chanting grows more insistent like Steve’s arguing with him about it instead of agreeing. “It’s good that you registered for those classes, Buck,” Steve says, close to finishing. “My smart fucking slut. Even the money management. You’re gonna do great.” Shuddering, he groans, “Especially with the writing.”

Bucky used to make fun of him for coming faster from talking about ordinary things during sex. He doesn’t this time. He takes Steve’s hand and holds it.

IM GONNA DIE??? I'm gonna die.

2. I'm also loving how much their banter - both in and outside of sex - seems to be kind of teetering on the edge of miscommunication, but only just. They certainlytalk to each other; they negotiate, they discuss - but there are still all these moments where they don't quite fully hear each other, don't ask the right questions, don't mean the same thing even as they use the same words, don't quite put two and two together. It's nuanced and well-crafted and quite wonderful to read.

3. Their (thematically symbolic) ART DATE, omg.

4. Skipping ahead to COME PLAY BOARD GAMES WITH US SIGNED YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE and the wonderful Bucky/Sam relationship - this was not even in the prompt but again, thank you for reading my mind, authoranon; their brief interactions are so spot-on and I am just BASKING in it.

5. And the humor throughout! As well as Bucky's sense of humor - so good! There's a time and a place for thoroughly grimdark catatonic angst fic, of course, but I love how much, idk, humanity? there is in all of this? Steve and Bucky don't just exist to make us sad in the context of this story, they're very much fully fleshed-out characters/people with rich, active lives and I love it. And I expect it will make the inevitable painful fallout all that much worse when it comes.

6. Also, going back to Bucky's classes - I'm a sucker for anything that incorporates Bucky developing hobbies/pastimes and making new friends in his recovery, and you've nailed that here, too. I love Steve's observation about forgetting/remembering that Bucky actually likes being around people, as well as Steve being awkward around Bucky's friends.

Also, I'm yelling over Bucky casually chatting about "ex-boyfriends" with his classmates, as if having been abused by a sadistic military handler is just like, a normal thing - Bucky, no! (yes!!!)

7. Your Steve voice is great, as is your Bucky voice - they feel really balanced and, idk, particularly well-matched in this? I am of course eagerly awaiting the ugly fallout, but I'm also, I dunno, really quite endeared by them here. It's lovely to read.

I've worn myself out trying to coherently get across all the things I adore about this - what I've written here is probably incomplete - but needless to say, I do love this in like, every imaginable way. And I can't wait for the imminent trash drama to come. <3

Please accept a gift of all the beer bottles currently piling up under my sink, as well as the three rotting peaches I tossed into my compost bin this morning!!!

Re: FILL: The True Repairman Will Repair Man (2/?)

[(Anonymous)]

thank you!!! this is such a nice comment & i'm so glad that you like it so far! i LOVE this prompt SO MUCH and was really excited to write something for it, and am really excited to continue providing BUCKY MAKING NEW FRIENDS and INEVITABLE PAINFUL FALLOUT and BANTER WITH MENACING UNDERCURRENT.