Um why am I just now finding out Gale/Buck was almost lynched before he reached Stalag 🕴️ need some angst with that cause what do you mean they hung the man???? The trauma???? They even had bruises on his neck in the show but didn’t go anywhere with it
God Gale being terrified of anyone putting their hands around his neck or anything around his neck in general, he can’t stand people touching him there, not even on the back. He flinches at the slightest graze, almost breaks down in tears
That’s not even accounting for if and when he tells Bucky what happened
“Yea they beat me walking through the street, but you look alright buck, hope they weren’t too harsh on you.”
���They rung a noose round my neck and almost lynched me.”
thinking about the anecdote about brady from crosby's memoir where brady can't start the plane and asks over the radio for assistance and crosby was so shocked cos its such a non-suave manly pilot thing to do - to openly say that you need assistance, and its such an interesting insight into brady's character and it would have been interesting to see this in the show, both to add to brady and for crosby's sake because like i think its fair to say that crosby engages with the idea of the cool pilot (the scene in front of the mirror) and seeing him react to someone he respects completely and confidently contradicting that could have been fun
i know i am a very emotionally volatile person because demarco and gale calling each other every year on the breman anniversary has me sitting here about to cry ),:
How have I not found a fic about Bucky's arrival back at Thorpe Abbots? I mean, he wasn't there when Gale left for the aid drop flight, but he was back and already in the tower harassing Gale over the radio when he landed a few hours later? Whom did he have to browbeat and wheedle into letting him up there instead of, oh, I don't know, a medical work-up, 24 hours of sleep and a hot meal? Who gave that man the keys to a jeep??
hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.
"we learned the right steps to different dances" is such a beautiful way to explain that nobody did anything wrong but it does not work out if you have different goals or different ideals of life, maybe sometimes things don't work out and it is nobodys fault
I love how Marge is always so lovely and understanding every time she finds out about Gale and Bucky in fanfics. She’s visibly, deeply hurt, like- Gale is the love of her life, and yet she always says something so supportive; stands by him and against the way the world treats men like him. ‘Cause you can't imagine Marge being immoral and going against principles that are bigger than themselves, only because she’s upset.
I just love Marjorie and It makes me really happy that the fandom didn’t demonize or reduced her to an inconvenience to be between the Bucks. She’s Buck’s friend after all, and she is a person independent from him.
Posted a Marge x Gale x John fic to AO3 cuz I’m a sucker for a good happy ending where everyone is happy! 15k words of angst and comfort, Buck spiralling and John being a sad PTSD wreck who misses his boyfriend now that he’s married to someone else and Marge being a patient angel!