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buckrecs · 1 year

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2022 Bucky Barnes Fic Rec 2

masterlist | req masterlist

All of them are COMPLETE Series.

✨ - fav fics

Status - Complete

1. through his eyes by @sebbytrash

Bucky x Reader

Bucky arrives at the compound to start afresh but you and him have a somewhat colorful past, colorful being that you met him once before as The Winter Soldier and it did not go well. New beginnings, yeah? If you can learn to forgive.

2. pastel colors by @the-canary

Teacher!Bucky x Librarian!Reader

If only the cute teacher would stop pestering you for a pen.

3. appointment by @buckycuddlebuddy

TFATWS!Bucky x Reader

bucky barnes, finally being able to live freely in 21st century, accidentally gets a fuck buddy and starts to rediscover himself. the only weird thing about this situation is that you have to make an appointment to get railed by him.

4. my eyes by @invisibleanonymousmonsters

Bucky x Reader, past Steve x Reader

Steve is a good man, America’s golden boy, a hero. He’s Captain America for christ’s sake! So it’s normal to want what he has… right? Bucky knows he doesn’t deserve her. He doesn’t even deserve the second chance at life he’s been given. But Bucky can never let him know. Steve can never find out that his friend is in love with his best girl.

5. hard feelings by @gayouijaboard

Bucky x Mutant!Reader

You’re a mutant born with the ability to read and feel other people’s emotions. Steve thinks this means you can help Bucky figure out his triggers and learn to communicate what he’s feeling, but no one ever said he was planning on making your job easy.

7. just one kiss by @sarahwroteathing✨

Bucky x Reader 40’s AU

Bucky Barnes has been chasing after you since he was ten years old, but you’re determined not to give in. How long can you hold out when all he’s asking for is just one kiss?

8. FATWS series by @cjsinkythoughts

TFATWS!Bucky x Avengers!Reader

Series based on the show

9. that summer by @tellmealovestory

Bucky x Reader Modern AU

You’ve spent every summer since you were a child in the idyllic beach town that you call home three months out of the year. This summer should be no different except for the addition of Bucky Barnes. Sparks fly upon first meeting, but it’s only a summer fling, right?

10. hey neighbor by @moonbeambucky

Neighbor!Bucky x Reader

You had a plan and then life came along with one of its own. With your future almost derailed you worked hard to get yourself back on track and finally everything seemed to be going right… that is, until your new neighbor moved in.

11. snow by @delaber ✨

Bucky x Reader

Tired of your constant bickering, Sam sends you and Bucky on a mission alone. When the worst possible outcome happens and you’re forced to spend several days together in a small cabin, you finally get to see a different, more pleasurable side to the man whose flesh you’ve always had a thorn in.

12. vacant mirrors by @whirlybirbs ✨

Bucky x Reader

shit’s been rough. shit was rough even before the blip. dr. hart shares an office with dr. raynor, and you share with waiting room with bucky barnes. set before tfatws; a friends-to-lovers, slowburn, eventual smut.

13. the cupcake guy by @nacho-bucky

Baker!Bucky x Reader Modern AU

Baking has become Bucky’s creative outlet, and the root of his recovery. He’d love to launch it into a full-time job, but he needs a good partner -- business, and...you know...kissy-kissy.

14. as it was by @heli0s-writes

Bucky x Reader, past Steve x Reader

Sam warned him when he arrived at the compound, returned to the timeline he ran from: It’s different now, she doesn’t do the superhero thing anymore, she’s got another life now, but he wouldn’t listen. He can’t. He must hope that some things are the same, that your love is the same.

15. choosing us by @itsanerdlife

Single Dad!Bucky x Teacher!Reader

You were content with your life. The way your life was. Till you take on the Barnes Twins. Kindergarten’s worst nightmares.Epic love wasn’t in your cards. Fate didn’t deal you in, this lifetime. Till James, aka Bucky, Barnes sets his sights on you. It’s not right, you can’t. Right?Love doesn’t have a timeline. There is no set amount of time to tell you what you feel. For the way things progress when you fall in love. Can you get everything you ever wanted with Bucky and his boys, or is it just too fast?

16. looking for a heartbeat by @justreadingfics

Bucky x Reader

You and Bucky used to be in a relationship. Feelings were hurt, you left. Now, it’s been two years and you’re back. You both will handle the reunion well, won’t you?

17. burn the witch by @dreamwritesimagines ✨

Bucky x Spy!Reader

There’s a thin line between mission and love, and spies aren’t allowed to cross that line.

18. the lost husband by @whitestarbucky

Bucky x Reader Country AU

Starting again was never easy. Recently widowed, you now have to start this process over in a place you once called home. Staying with an old family friend seemed like the simple solution. Until a blast from the past comes back into your life, stirring up long lost memories. Whether you’re ready for them or not.

19. life as we know it by @whitestarbucky ✨

Bucky x Reader Modern AU

You had never disliked a person more than Bucky Barnes. But as the universe would have it, you were stuck with him. Under the same roof now after the tragic passing of your two best friends, their child was yours to take care of. With a complicated past plus raising a toddler, you both find yourselves needing to confront a few things before it tears the only family Sarah Rogers has left, apart.

20. merry & married by @sunriserose1023

Bucky x Reader Modern AU

It’s been almost a year since the most humiliating moment of your life. You’ve done your best to move on—by literally moving across the country, starting a new job, and you’re finally starting to feel settled. That, of course, is when your bubblehead cousin sends you the invitation to her wedding—which is exactly one year to the day that you were left at the altar. You have to go, but you don’t have to go alone.

21. have I made you uncomfortable? by @marveliskindacool

Bucky x Reader

you and Bucky hate each other. or do you? (enemies to lovers)

22. recruit by @invisibleanonymousmonsters

Bucky x Enhanced!Reader

Fury gives Bucky a simple mission that’s also guaranteed to be impossible. But Bucky refuses to give up.

23. stable by @revengingbarnes

Bucky x Reader Bookstore AU

Bucky Barnes. Owner of one of the only three bookstores in town. Quiet. Shy. Peace-loving and reserved. Bucky’s life has been one big routine. Nothing is out of place. Nothing is out of the ordinary.

24. the lucky one by @avengerofyourheart

Bucky x Single mom!Reader

As a single mom with a jerk of an ex-husband, you’re doing your best to run the family business all on your own when your mother hires a mysterious man with a troubled past to help out. He just might be what you need in your life, but will his secrets bring you together or tear you apart? (Events occur shortly after Captain America: The Winter Soldier)

25. catch me by @buckyywiththegoodhair

Bucky x Reader

In which a bet leads Bucky to have to catch you every day for a week, no matter what.

26. one’s promised by @invisibleanonymousmonsters ✨

Winter Soldier!Bucky x Pierce!Reader

Living a double life was not a choice when one was the daughter of Alexander Pierce. Y/N was the youngest agents of SHIELD and one of the most respected threats within Hydra’s empire. No matter her allegiance, she was feared by both. Y/N Pierce would’ve tried to escape it all… if it hadn’t been for The Winter Soldier.

27. the five times bucky saved you.. by @buckysknifecollection

Bucky x Avengers!Reader

You have a special bond with Bucky. He's more than your best friend, your partner in missions, the person you care most about. He often saved you from uncomfortable situations, always ready to protect you, but sometimes, you are the one who did the saving.

28. howlin’ for you by @invisibleanonymousmonsters

Biker!Bucky x Reader

When Y/N gets an unreal deal on her first home, she wonders why her neighbor scared away all the other buyers. Despite being cautious, she wonders why the town has given Bucky Barnes a bad name.

29. supernova by @whitestarbucky

Bucky x Widow!Reader

A supernova happens where there is a change in the core, or center, of a star. As the star runs out of nuclear fuel, some of its mass flows into its core. Eventually, the core is so heavy that it cannot withstand its own gravitational force. The core collapses, which results in the giant explosion of a supernova. Bucky never thought he could witness this beautiful tragedy in his lifetime. Until he met you.

30. relationship tutor by @samingtonwilson ✨

Bucky x Reader College AU

a relationship novice, asks for your help in dating your friend. Unable to say no to him, you agree despite everyone and everything telling you not to.

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queen-of-the-avengers · 9 months

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Step One: Forgiving Yourself

Pairing: Steve Rogers x Female!Reader

Word Count: ~1k

Warnings: angst, feeling broken down, blaming yourself for the people you killed under hydra's command, no fluff whatsoever

Request by anon: Vixen and bucky vs therapy ft dr reener (frm fatws)

Summary: After the events at Wakanda, you and Bucky are placed in therapy to try and work out your feelings regarding Hydra. However, you're not keen on the idea of facing up to the horrors you've caused.

Squares Filled: villain turned hero (2019) for @avengersbingo

Cat and Mouse Masterlist

Author’s Note: any and all comments are appreciated <3

You have no idea what you’re doing here. Bucky and Steve insisted that you come here and start to heal, but you’ve already done that. Wakanda wiped Hydra from your mind. You’re trying to move past it, not revel in it.

“Is this necessary? I’m healed. I’ve apologized. I’ve done my part.”

“You haven’t dealt with the trauma,” Bucky sighs.

Bucky drags you into Dr. Raynor’s office despite your objections. This is a requirement from Steve and Tony that you must complete in order to go back into society as a normal person. Therapy doesn’t always work for everyone, but if you want to show them you’re fine, you have to go to this.

“Welcome, Y/N and James,” Dr. Raynor says.

“Please, call me Bucky.”

“Okay, Bucky. Do you both know why you’re here?”

“Because of what happened with Hydra,” Bucky answers.

You roll your eyes in annoyance but stay silent. You’re going to sit here and not say a word because this shit is stupid.

“How does that make you feel?”

“Terrible, I guess. It’s not something I like to relive.”

“What about you, Y/N? How does that make you feel?”

Bucky and Dr. Raynor looks at you but you shake your head at her dismissively.

“Pass.”

“Would you like to elaborate?”

“Nope.” You look over at Bucky and sigh at his disapproving look. “This whole thing is stupid.”

“Why?”

“This doesn’t really matter if I’ve already healed.”

“Have you?”

“Yes.”

“I want you to take a look at some photos.”

Dr. Raynor takes out a folder from her desk and shows you pictures from your past. The first one is of Wakanda when you escaped as Vixen. The second one is from the bar you went to where you’ve left bodies on the flood for Zemo. Three through six are other parts of your life as the dangerous Vixen. Tears form in your eyes but you refuse to let them fall. You look away from the pictures once you’ve had enough.

“If you were healed, you wouldn’t have looked away.”

“What’s your point?” you sniffle.

“The point is that you need to look at these pictures and not feel guilty.”

“Are you done?”

Dr. Raynor closes the file and leans back in her chair.

“This isn’t going to work if you won’t let it.”

“Okay, I’m out of here.”

You get up and leave Bucky alone. You walk all the way back to the compound where Steve is waiting for you.

“Hey, how did it go?” Steve asks.

You walk right past him without saying a word to him. You stomp all the way to your sewing room and slam the door shut behind you. Steve is about to go in when you lock the door, preventing anyone from walking in.

“Y/N?” Steve asks and knocks on the door.

When you give him no answer, he decides to give you some space. Bucky comes home two hours later, and Steve approaches him slowly in case he has the same reaction as you.

“How did it go? Are you going to slam a door in my face, too?”

“She won’t face it.” Bucky walks to the kitchen to crack open a beer and Steve follows him. “She knows what she did was wrong, but she wants to bury it instead of deal with it.”

“Maybe I can talk to her.”

“Yeah good luck. I have the same trauma as her, Steve. She’s not budging.”

“We’ll see.”

Steve gives you a few more hours of space before he heads to your sewing room. This time, it’s unlocked but he still knocks on the door and waits for your permission to enter.

“Come in,” you say quietly.

Steve enters the room and sees you’ve made a lot of different clothing from shirts to dresses to additions to others’ suits. You’re at the sewing machine working on some pants with your hair in a messy bun and a thimble on your thumb.

“Can we talk?”

“About what?” you ask distractedly.

“You know what. Therapy is going to help you.”

“If you’re going to talk about that, then you can leave.”

Steve walks over to you, kneels on the ground, and gently takes your hand away from the machine. Steve has always been good at making speeches, and you know he’s going to make a damn good one right now. You refuse to look at him but that’s not good enough for him. He reaches up and gently pulls your chin so you’re facing him.

There are already tears in your eyes.

“It’s going to hurt and you’re not gonna like it, but you are better than what they made you to be.”

“How can I face this? I hurt so many people and I didn’t apologize enough. I’m a killer. People are dead because of me. How can I ever apologize to them? To their families? Tell me, Steve, how can I make it right?”

“The first step to healing is forgiving yourself.”

The first step to healing is forgiving yourself.

“Will you go with me tomorrow?”

“Of course.”

The next day, you and Steve head over to the office. She had an opening in her schedule to fit you in since you’re on a weekly schedule with her. You’re nervous but you know you have to do this.

“Welcome in.” You and Steve get settled in the chairs across her desk. “This is a private meeting.”

“I want him here. Please,” you whisper.

“Alright. I’m glad you’re here. Let’s start easy. How are you feeling?”

“Tired,” you sigh. “Exhausted. Wakanda erased the trigger words from my head, but they didn’t erase what I did. I can never take that back. I’ve hurt a lot of people. Please tell me how I can make this go away.”

“Well, healing is different for everyone. Some things I’ve noticed help people is writing letters to the people they’ve hurt.”

“Some of them are dead,” you whisper painfully.

“Write them anyway. Take those letters and burn them. It’s a way of cleansing yourself of the memories and the pain.”

“What if it doesn’t work?”

“Then we try something else. We will not stop trying until we find something that works for you.”

“Okay, I’ll try.”

This better be the start of truly healing because you don’t know how much longer you can go with feeling like complete shit.

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animebw · 6 months

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So I've been stewing a bit with the whole concept of "MCU Fatigue" after my disappointment with The Marvels, and I think I've come to a realization.

See, most people when they shit on the modern MCU act like they're been putting out tons of terrible stuff. But looking at their track record, that's not actually true. In fact, I'd argue that the majority of their Phase 4 and 5 output has still been above average. The only real misses I'd count are FATWS, Dr. Strange 2, The Marvels, and maybe What If if I was feeling particularly uncharitable (and I guess Secret Invasion, but the bad response kept me away from that one so I've never watched it myself). Other than that, Marvel's still putting out a lot of good stuff.

The problem is they're not putting out a lot of great stuff.

Like, we need to take a step back and realize just how fucking insane the MCU's track record used to be. They didn't just put out good movies on a regular basis that put every other franchise to shame, they regularly released some of the most iconic superhero blockbusters of all time. They cranked out all-time classics on such a consistent basis that at this point, at least half of the top 20 greatest superhero movies of all time list would be taken up by MCU projects, maybe more. That's how they built trust with the general audience; not just consistency, but the promise of greatness. People flocked to the MCU not just because there was a near guarantee of a well-made fun time at the cinema, but because that was a strong probability you were going to see something truly spectacular.

Seriously, just look at the studio's track record through Phase 2 and 3. Iron Man 3, Captain America 2 and 3, the first two Guardians movies, Thor Ragnorak, Black Panther, Infinity War and Endgame... you could argue that over half of their movie output from this period was unqualified home runs. And sure, maybe Thor 2 was a dud and Avengers 2 was disappointing, but it didn't matter because there was always the promise of another masterpiece waiting in the wings. People weathered the occasional misstep because they could trust the MCU to always find its way back to greatness.

But now consider: how many all-time bangers can you name from Phases 4 and 5?

Like, I can name a few. Wandavision, Black Panther 2, Guardians 3, Spider-Man 3, maybe Ms. Marvel if I pretend episode 5 doesn't exist (and I've heard Loki season 2 was also great, but that's another one I haven't seen yet). But the ratio of Big Deal Events to Just Another Marvel Thing has gotten much steeper. Between the movies and the Disney+ series, Marvel's cranking out more stuff than ever, but it hasn't been cranking out landmarks any faster than it used to. It's just shoving a lot more padding between the properties that really set the world on fire. And it's training the audience, unintentionally, to no longer associate the MCU with guaranteed smash successes every other weekend.

And I still like most of the MCU's current output! But I don't love it as much as some of its older stuff. Black Widow and Shang-Chi are good, but not quite great. Eternals I will defend to my dying breath, but it was destined for cult classic status. Love and Thunder I would argue is actually pretty fantastic, fuck you fight me, and Quantummania is fine, you guys, but I wouldn't die defending them the way I would, say, Iron Man 3. And as much as I enjoyed Hawkeye, Moon Knight and She-Hulk, you can only watch so much Pretty Good TV before it starts to feel like a chore.

This deluge of content hasn't resulted in tons of more Great Marvel Stuff. It's just resulted in tons of more Good, Okay, and Not That Great Actually Marvel Stuff. It's resulted in audiences feeling like you can't trust Marvel to regularly crank out classics that change the way you view superhero media. And it turns out, it gets a lot harder to justify spending so much time on such an overstuffed time-sink of a franchise when it can't guarantee you a steady stream of masterpieces on a regular basis.

Especially with so much more of it coming out now in such a painfully short timespan. Even in Marvel's busiest years, they used to max out at three movies per year and a couple spinoffs like the Netflix shows that you didn't need to watch to feel up to date. You went out to the movies a couple times a year and were basically guaranteed a good movie every time, and that was it. Now, though, with the Disney+ content, it feels like a constant battle to not fall behind, to keep up with tons of stuff you're just kind of enjoying to justify getting to the increasingly few nuggets of true gold. This stuff would need a track record just as good as the Phase 2/3 days to justify sitting through so much of it, and it just... doesn't. And the second you drop off from exhaustion, it's already roaring ahead and leaving you with too much to ever reasonably catch up on if you're not prepared for a couple days of heavy bingeing.

The shared universe model is fucking hard. Every studio's failed attempt to copy Marvel's playbook is a testament to that. The fact it even maintained its cultural domination as long as it did is nothing short of a miracle. Because it turns out, even being consistently good isn't enough to maintain the level of trust and engagement necessary for such a long haul. You need to be consistently excellent. You need audiences to come away from every other event singing your praises as the new gold standard of blockbuster cinema. And the second you can't maintain that standard anymore, all that goodwill slowly bleeds out as more and more people decide that the effort it takes to keep up with everything is no longer worth the reward.

Does the MCU recover from this? I don't know. At this point, what it needs to do more than anything is slow the fuck down instead of overloading audiences with too many shows and movies to keep up with. Maybe it's not the dominant cultural force anymore, but with a little patience and willingness to sacrifice quantity for quality, it can at least re-establish itself as a franchise worth sticking around for. Marvel used to be special; with a little luck, maybe it can be again.

#marvel #mcu #marvel cinematic universe #not anime

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dilemmaontwolegs · 2 years

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My June Fics

...prev months fics...

Requests: temporarily closed just while I catch up on these and sequels

My Library || Main Masterlist

My Heart Remembers You || Bucky The Rebound {2} || biker!Bucky Body Heat || best-friend!Bucky Feral and Fertile || Dr Strange The Mark || Steve Rogers Claws Out {2} || Stucky The New Partner || Nick Fowler Burning House || Bucky The Interrogation || Winter Soldier First Lady {2} || biker!Steve Run These Streets {2} || street racer!Bucky Quindrabble #4 || Jake Lockley First Impression || Dr Strange Insecurities || Mafia!Bucky Run These Streets {3} || streetracer!Bucky Big Mistake || Steve Rogers Promises || Bucky Until We Meet Again || Loki Sanguis Sorcerer || Dr Strange Deranged and Deceptive || dark!Sinister Strange Birthday Wishes || Stucky Claws Out {3} || Stucky The Horologist || Dr Strange Slipping Through His Fingers || tasm!Peter Parker Obsidian Nights || mafia!Bucky The Secret Life of Bucky Barnes || fatws!Bucky Red || Natasha Romanoff Milestones || Loki Medusa’s Curse || Bruce Banner (2) + 1 || Stucky

#bucky barnes x reader #dr strange x reader #biker!bucky #best friend!bucky #steve rogers x reader #Stucky x reader #Nick Fowler x reader #winter soldier x reader #street racer! bucky #loki x reader #sinister!strange #peter obi #tasm!peter parker #jake lockely x reader

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redstarsandnightmares · 4 months

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(page under construction, verse details to follow)

Open Verses

40's - Either pre or post Azzano. (Headcanons)

Hydra - Between the fall from the train and TWS. (Headcanons)

On the Run - Between TWS and Civil War. (Headcanons)

Modern (FATWS) - Between the return of those being dusted and the current timeline. (Headcanons)

2012 Tower Fic Style AU (by request)- Everyone lives in the tower AU. Clint in the vents, Thor and his poptarts, Tony, Buck, and Steve don't hate each other. All the fluff. (Headcanons)

Dark AU - Post 'de-programming'. Bucky's mental health is unstable at best, he is hearing and hallucinating the Soldier. (Headcanons)

Private Verses

Etiquette and Other Problems (@zemothethirteenth)

Inseparable On Both Schoolyard And Battlefield (pre-serum @brooklynbred)

All I See Is Red (@redxinmyledger)

Vampires in Brooklyn (Marina @warsinmyhead)

Name TBD (@sheshootsxruns)

Name TBD (@dr-foster)

#〘⋯✪OOC - Who the hell is Bucky?⋯〛

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winterdadandspiderson · 7 months

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Dr Reymer from Fatws As the heros take no shit therapist . Lol

I'm gonna be real here. I haven't actually watched FATWS yet.

#ive been meaning to #but i uh. forgot #asks #not a quote #tfatws

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prince-toffee · 2 years

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I’ve stopped watching the mcu after Endgame, because... well, it was the end. And I didn’t want to contribute anymore to the Disney money pile. But every time I hear something about these movies and shows, it just gets worse and worse:

WandaVision was just hype and weak pay off.

Loki has weird multiverse incest.

FATWS (which is actually the only one that I watched) was fun and hopeful, but feels completely incomplete and more like an interlude than a full story (they all have this problem, each addition is just a stop to the next big thing, which is just a stop to the next big thing, which is-).

She-Hulk and Moon Knight have horrendous cgi.

Moon Knight’s finale happens off screen.

Eternals had a weird sex scene for no reason. (dude I should’ve loved Eternals! I love Jack kirby! It had David Kaye! That movie had Megatron! I should’ve loved it! And it was just meh, too many characters (by the way, brackets inside brackets, Eternals is proof that Infinity War and Endgame are just hype, because the characters were pre-established and marvel cannot juggled dozens of characters in one movie)).

Ms Marvel doesn’t have her powers, because apparently they don’t know how to make stretchy powers look good on their budget (and that is why it should’ve been an animated show).

Hawkeye is, again, just hype around the Kingpin and he does nothing, and the interesting story is all in the deleted scenes.

Did I forget something... oh yeah What If... is nothing. The Dr Strange episode the only one that is actually great and everything else is... bad, like bad bad.

oH, and probably my biggest heartache, Thor... what the fuck did they do. Look I’m not the biggest Thor fan. In fact, funny enough, I have only read three Thor stories, and I loved them all. That being JMS’s Thor, Thor: The God Butcher, and Jane Foster Thor. And this fucking movie is going to butcher all of those.

#anti-mcu #anti mcu #salted toffee

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amarriageoftrueminds · 2 years

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You know all this talk about peggy has made me think about the mcus history and how often they disrespected Jewish people and Jewish characters like why would you knowingly take inspiration from a character who was a nazi and try to make her a good person and then make two Jewish characters work for hydra.

If you look at Disney's particular sordid history of antisemitism and pro-Nazi-ism, it's pretty obvious why they would want to erase Jews and rehabilitate Nazis (if they're nice, then Disney's history is nice!)

It's also not surprising, given the state of Hollywood and the current political climate, that they'd end up hiring the sort of writers (and that the only writers who have careers which put them in a position to be hired by Disney in the first place are also the sort of people...) who see nothing wrong in writing Nazi characters as if they're nice. And re-writing non-WASP characters as WASP, in cases where that is possible.

It's not just erasure though.

If you look at AC, they introduce the only explicitly Jewish character, who wants children... only to have her sterilised.

In CATWS they have a truly nasty antisemitic stereotype of a Jewish-coded senator (as in: played by a Jewish actor and named after a famous Jewish pundit) who's secretly part of a global conspiracy to control the world (this obviously isn't from the Jewish-penned comics; in the comics the character he's based on is called Harrington Byrd, and is a WASP).

This specific antisemitic canard is called the 'New World Order' conspiracy theory. Which is... also what they named the first ep of FATWS, and what they, astonishingly, have named the next Captain America movie too.

And then you have a character like Wanda, supposed to be Romani and Jewish, reconfigured as willingly Hydra, (which... AOS also tried to re-write as not Nazi, as something explicitly pre-dating Nazi... as if that means it, somehow, predates Fascist values, like they just sprang out of thin air in the 1930s!)

And someone pointed out that the latest Dr Strange movie is just one big blood libel narrative with Scarlet Witch as a terrifying child snatcher.

The dog whistles have always been there, and they ain't getting any quieter.

#tw antisemitism #antisemitism #antipeggy #antisteggy #p*ggy meta #mcu meta #mcu critical #blood libel mention #steggy is hydra trash party #meta #mcu #hey nonny #toAyourQ #dat's me #tw disney #cynthia glass

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cassatine · 2 years

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Not to reignite the FATWS controversy, but I think Zemo's "The desire to become a superhuman cannot be separated from supremacist ideals" (with the possible exception of Steve Rogers) is... arguably confirmed by the setting overall? Aside from Steve, how many people who aren't supremacists (by Zemo's definition) purposefully set out to become superhumans? Most good superbeings were born like that, or experimented on upon their will, or had accidents.

I'm late by a year or so but better late than never (it's never too late to dunk on the MCU) so here goes:

Zemo's the only valid person in the MCU and i kinda want to agree with him on that one but it's also not very surprising that a politically conservative, pro-status-quo franchise would frame the desire for any sort of power to resist or enact change as something that cannot be anything but bad, and of course the setting is gonna confirm the thesis.

So yeah, that's one issue I have with Zemo's Axiom: in the MCU all things super-serum & co are a kind of metaphor for power, and i'm personally very much over being told only very special peeps should have any kind of power because it corrupts the masses normies, a narrative that only serves the people who do have power and in whose interest it is to present that narrative as unquestionable truth.

Another issue I have with Zemo's Axiom is that it applies to individuals and handwaves the role of institutions (unless it's convenient not to) - like, Steve Rogers might be framed as super special for not being an supremacist but lbr he didn't just happen in a vaccuum. There are institutions (the MCU version of the US gvt) that wanted a superman, that okayed and paid for developping the serum he took, and since he's supposed to be super duper special it stands to reason everyone else involved in making him happen was not.

And then there's the fact that in the MCU supes are a fact of life, not an hypothetical, and imo it's kind of gross to imply that, idk, some Vietnamese soldier that watched Isaiah Bradley kill a bunch of his people (before anyone puts words in my mouth: it doesn't negate his own suffering, but Isaiah Bradley's suffering coexists with his being an active participant in the MCU's version of the Vietnam War, making him an agent of US imperialism as much as a victim) and wanted really hard to have superpowers, even tried to obtain them to level the playing field has to be a supremacist.

tl;dr Zemo's Axiom is both too vague and absolutist and ultimately no less propagandistic than the rest of the MCU.

#the falcon and the winter soldier #tfatws #mcu #i've spent way too much time thinking about this ask

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