Another Sambucky story I would really want to write when my brain allows me to do it would be the one that really focuses on their loneliness. Because I feel like it’s something very deeply ingrained in both of these characters that’s surprisingly rarely explored in stories - especially when it comes to Sam.

I feel like Sam and Bucky have a natural talent for forming quick bonds with people. Even Bucky, despite... everything... seemed to have an easy time talking to Leah, Ayo, Sam’s family, or Sam himself after knowing them for a relatively short time. Sam, meanwhile, has an important connection with his community, became friends with Steve in an instant, and seemed to be acquainted with most Avengers after knowing them for a rather short time.

It looks like they want to and could potentially have a social life.

But at the same time... they’re so wildly independent and stubborn that they keep putting a barrier between themselves and other people. Bucky, by not responding to messages, going into hiding, or literally putting himself in a freezer. And Sam, by leaving for the military, then living far away from his family in DC, or by going on missions alone, instead of asking for help.

(Not to mention that Sam had dropped his job at the VA and life in DC without a second of regret, so I doubt he had a flourishing social life or a bunch of close friends who’d noticed that he’s gone.)

So, to sum up... Sam and Bucky both want to connect with people, however, these relations seem very surface level and short-lived - even if they’re genuine. Because they often prefer to be alone, but push it a bit too far at times. Or because they’re at a point in their life when they just can’t allow themselves to have friends, let alone a partner - Hydra, military, being a fugitive... or being dead.

And... finally. I’d love to explore how Bucky is the only person who’s truly able to break Sam’s barriers and emotional defenses (and vice versa). How no one else could get so close to them except for the other, because they crave the human contact and closeness, but nobody understood them well enough, until now, to make the relationship actually meaningful.

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Thinking about how this confirmed Dan Heng and Blade put aside their many many many differences that one time so they could beat up a kid nearly to death. Guys...

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“Of course, of course. I'm sure that's very true. You've captured many hearts... where you're from,” the king responds in stark contrast, levelly meeting that heated stare with his own practiced passivity. As the entertainer (That is, after all, precisely where this man's fame comes from, is it not? Just that?) flexes his fingers, stretching out what had moments before been fists, Magnifico maintains his poise—rather, he practically goes out of his way to loosen his posture visibly.

Then, breath falling from his nose with traces of a chuckle not quite formed, he shakes his head. “Let's not get overly dramatic.” He pricks his ears to the noticeable contempt in the other's tone. Oh, we may need to address that if it continues. “I only mean the people of Rosas”—'my people,' he's tempted to say—“have other priorities and idols. Now, that's hardly your fault.”

literally what the fuck is in the air lately ive had three guys being weird at me within the past three weeks. thats one guy a week. Stop fucking being weird

no one complains when we're watching top gun and have to see tom cruise having straight sex, but alex makes out with henry against a wall and suddenly no one wants to watch movies with intimate scenes

this is perfect actually... if his flight trajectory is from shinjuku (approx) -> toyosu (approx) in the morning then it stares directly into the sun... then we can get a ton of really great shadows I think...

men literally make my life so miserable

my pos br*ther woke me up at 6AM bc he’s playing video games so fucking loudly and our walls are made of paper and no matter how much i tell him i need to sleep he doesn’t hear me through his headset 😐😐😐 i am just sitting here fml

i always forget how crazy my abuela is so whenever i remember or see her doing something absolutely insane it just catches me so off guard

the inherent homophobia of cishet ppl who outright reject obikin

and i mean this in the way that: they have every media clear cut and catered to them for eternity, it's a cishet smorgasbord. whereas queer ppl are left to pick through the bones of media for scraps of rich canon dynamics.

and then a dynamic comes along as fascinating and multifaceted and frankly undefinable (in a space wizard diff Universe forcebond manner) as obikin and the first thing straight ppl do is go "ew the idea of them as gay is gross and wrong"

they do this without thinking why queer ppl are thrilled to finally see such a rich & multilayered dynamic (because: we never get anything, especially never something so completely ambiguous and thus undeniably applicable to shipping) that can be see as eternal and beloved in the way obikin can. the context of their adult bond can, through any individual POV of a literal different Universe, be seen as friendship, familial, romantic, etc.

ppl who dont like obikin for just simple reasons like they see the dynamic differently, sure, ship whatever you want, nbd! but other ppl have a distinct ignorance of their cishet media privilege and it shooooows

just because you choose to see obiwan (who is like 14 yrs older than anakin and was a grieving barely-knighted jedi) as anakin's -literal- dad is not my problem lmao

maybe youre the one w daddy issues

Watched Alex Meyers' video on Pinocchio and-

their relationship reminds me of Rick and Morty's :/ or at least for like the first half of the movie it did.

(do acknowledge that I didn't see the movie yet on its own, so take what I say with a grain of salt. Will update and/or add on when I do :).)

ive decided that precanon when Esti told his friends that he and Pavo had gotten together, absolutely everyone was shocked. Purely because they all thought the two of them had been an item since the moment Esti became legal, and a few had bet on them having gotten together up to a full year prior to that. Not a single person thought for a second that in those almost four years between Esti's 18th and that conversation that the two of them weren't fucking every second someone wasn't looking at them.

Which Mortified Esti because he was suddenly Very aware of all the different things he's done or said that could have been taken as an excuse for him to sneak off to bang his mentor, or as a really bad coverup for him banging his mentor.

Pavo was mostly offended, not because people clearly thought his self control was That lacking and his respect for their relationship as mentor and apprentice that non existent, but because it implied he wouldve been in a long-term serious relationship with ESTI but too stupid to propose to him and or not good enough of a partner to be worth proposing too for four years.

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