Uncomplicated, by mainpudl

“You should try it some time.” Mouse’s voice had gone soft and low, and it felt only right and natural when his hand dropped to Brian’s thigh and rested there, big and warm. “You never know. You might like it.”

Adult. Because I agree with the author – there’s no way Brian and Mouse didn’t hook up at least once…

Uncomplicated, by mainpudl

Gather Ye Rosebuds, by LavenderProse

“Because, Bucky! Because—you really wanna know? It’s because we’re fucking. We’re fucking and I can’t fuck you and live with you and hang out with you all the time because then it’s too much like a relationship and I just—I can’t right now, okay? I need a relationship like a need a hole in the head and we’ll just both be miserable.”

Adult, AU, trans!Steve/Jewish!Bucky. In which Steve & Bucky are childhood best-friends-with-benefits – but Bucky would like it to be so much more… Unfortunately, Steve isn’t cooperating. This is emotionally satisfying and sexy as hell – and I love how it deals with Steve’s trans identity (i.e. carefully, without making it an Issue). My only criticism is that Steve’s a bit of an ass to poor Bucky.

Gather Ye Rosebuds, by LavenderProse

A Good Fight, by togina

“You remember that pub in London?” Steve went on, and Tony thought that someone should have made a note in the SSR records on Captain America. Something like, ‘Subject is a brawler. Do not, under any circumstances, take him to a bar unless you’re carrying brass knuckles and possibly an RPG.’

Teen, humour. Tony takes Steve and Bucky to a biker bar. Things don’t go quite as he expected.

A Good Fight, by togina

Vid: What’s a Soulmate, by of Resave

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After stumbling across it somewhere, I wanted to vid this quote from Dawson’s Creek myself, but this one’s so much better than anything I could do… Goosebumps! Background music by Enchantinqs.

of the start and the end, by waldorph

She remembered dying: being cradled in William’s arms while Eric had tried to find something, anything that would save her. She wondered if together they would manage the thing.

Teen, post-movie. I find the movie only so-so, but I like the way it handles its (apparently obligatory) love triangle, i.e. in a way that makes it easy for me to imagine an OT3. This story is pretty much my headcanon now.

of the start and the end, by waldorph

20th Century Limited, by Speranza

“I was in a hospital,” Bucky said slowly. “I couldn’t move. My arms and legs were—broken.” He looked at Steve with real fear in his eyes. “I’m not really here, am I.“ 

"No, I don’t think so,” Steve agreed, swallowing back his own terror. Bucky wasn’t alive, Bucky couldn’t still be alive; Steve would have known if he was. He remembered clinging to the outside of the train and having the radio in his mind go silent: that sudden, terrible dead air. The loneliness, the internal emptiness, was unbearable. 

“I’m in the hospital or I’m dead, but I’m not here,” Bucky said. “And you’re…" They both looked down at the hole in the ice. 

"I’m down there,” Steve said. “I’m still under the ice.”

Adult, canon-divergent, telepathy. One of the side-effects of the serum is that those injected with it are telepathically connected – which changes Steve and Bucky’s relationship considerably… But this epic story only starts there, what’s most amazing is what happens after they both fall…  I can’t believe I hadn’t read this before, it’s simply breathtaking!

20th Century Limited, by Speranza

Down Into The Golden Lands, by Speranza & alby_mangroves

Thor sighed. “He is building a house in the land of the dead, and once built it will be too late: we will see him no more. I went into my mother’s realm, the place beyond death, to try and persuade him.” He looked sadly at each of them in turn. “I know that you would have done the same, for Steve is our leader and our heart. There is not one of us who would not walk into hell for him. But we must face the fact that—" 

“—it’s not us he wants,” Natasha said, sucking her lip. “It’s Barnes. We’ve got to send Barnes.”

Teen, not-CW compliant. This is so different, and all the more beautiful for it. 

Down Into The Golden Lands, by Speranza & alby_mangroves

Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, by Speranza

He’s never going to stop looking for him, Natasha thought, and averted her eyes; their intimacy had somehow become terrible and painful to watch. “We’ve really got to hope he’s not here for Barnes,” she told Tony, “because if he is: I’m not sure we’re going to be able to stop him.”

Adult, time travel, not-CW compliant. Because when there’s a portal, of course Steve wants to use it to rescue Bucky – only Natasha & Tony absolutely have to stop him. This combines outside POV, first time and post-WS feels in the most beautiful way.

Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, by Speranza

Day 14: Caught Having Sex, by hannahrhen

They decided it was okay–only okay–if Steve sketched Bucky like it was one of the fancy art school classes, Steve perched on the very end of his own bed, body turned back in Bucky’s direction. If Steve was just using this for his drawing, studying the sharp lines of Bucky’s joints and limbs and softer ones of his belly and ass, how he moved when he …

Adult, pre-serum, internalised homophobia, voyeurism. Steve watches Bucky masturbate… This is sexy and bittersweet, it makes me want to hug those boys while also wishing I could see for myself. 🙂

Day 14: Caught Having Sex, by hannahrhen