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sad-trash-hobo · 1 month
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People who still write fanfics of Steve and Bucky with the howling commandos during the war, you are everything to me
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Basically Every Captain America Movie
Steve: Look, I know you think my judgement's clouded because I like Bucky a little bit. Sam or Dum Dum (Ignore the time period), holding Steve's notepad: You doodled your wedding invitation. Steve: No, that's our joint tombstone. Sam or Dum Dum: My mistake.
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imposterogers · 1 year
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the howling commandos honestly deserved more respect in the mcu. they were a diverse group of batshit crazy men who could drink a bar dry that followed captain america and sergeant barnes around europe fighting hydra. then, during VE day when the entire world was celebrating, they drank in a dimly lit bar mourning/toasting steve n bucky. they are integral to the captain america story, and were loyal to a fault. they had all passed by the time steve and bucky reunited, but where’s a scene toasting the howlies?  
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hail-americas-ass · 3 months
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And on my breast you may carve a turtle dove, To signify I died of love.
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This was written as a beyond belated New Year's gift for @kestrafagnor, @amarriageoftrueminds, @16woodsequ, and @dontcallmebree. Without their hilarious input in this post, this fic would never have left my Google Docs.
Link here.
In which, comedy and tragedy are rolled into a one-shot featuring: the bitterly cold Hanukkah of 1944, the Howling Commandos & the Gayest Coverup in Modern History™, a Californian pickpocket, and Steve's dread which only grows as the war progresses and the passage of time steadily brings him closer to losing the man he loves.
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the howlies trying to reconcile Steve "Captain America" Rogers with the Stevie that the Sergeants been telling them about since they got to the continent is so funny to me. Like. This is the scrappy guy who tried to illegally enlist?????
Them asking Bucky how come he's so good at boxing, Bucky explaining that he had to learn...
Them thinking he means he has a tough upbringing...
No, it's just his best friend is a big-mouth who can't go a day without getting himself attacked, and Bucky had to learn how to fight so he could teach him.
How this absolute nutcase is so ill (but so idiotically honest) that he tried to enlist five times and kept getting given a 4F, because it would never occur to him that he could just lie his way in.
It was the principle of the thing, he wanted to be accepted as a disabled man, just the kind the Nazis think should be euthanized, and be allowed to fight at Bucky's side.
Them looking at squeaky-clean Steve in his immaculately-pressed uniform, and being like 'wait, this is the guy Sarge said threw a pail of piss into the face of a Nazi who was trying to organise a rally on the corner of their block?? this guy?? this is the guy Sarge had to convince the Mafia not to kill after he painted pro-Labour Union anti-ILA graffiti round the Navy Yard?? THIS guy?!?'
And the same Sarge they've seen mother-henning all the dumb kids in the regiment is now faffing round a giant blond musk ox, telling him off for walking holes in his socks (and who's gunna end up having to darn them?? yeah guess who!), immediately vetoing all his initial battle plans and complaining about what a fuckin meatball he is even though he's his superior officer.
And them being like 'holy shit, this nonsense is the only reason we're still alive.'
(And the flipside; judging by how well Bucky has kicked ass in the war so far, them avidly asking Steve what Bucky was like back home -- surely he must be some kind of gangster thug, forever in and out of jail, to be so cool-headed? perhaps some kind of fixer for the mob? a hustler?? and to their bewilderment and horror Steve is just like 'wh- what?? no! he likes swing dancing, dressing dapper and reading science fiction books! he's a nice jewish boy and a model son!' )
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gay-jewish-bucky · 1 year
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During the Second World War it was almost impossible for Jewish service members to maintain a kosher diet due to rations and other sources of food heavily relying on non-kosher ingredients (like pork).
Because of this, The Howling Commandoes made it their mission to ensure Bucky never had to break kashrut.
Either through trading rations
or stealing the more appetizing food from officers' tent, food most of the troops would never see
or looting long abandoned houses
or Steve putting his foot down and using the special treatment he was given as Captain America to demand more appropriate rations for their unit to ensure Bucky actually got the sustenance he needed.
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purplepomegranate08 · 4 months
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Rewatched captain America the first avenger and now I just really need to know what the howling commandos did in their spare time
These are soldiers fighting with Bucky and Steve of all people you can’t tell me Steve didn’t walk into camp once to the question “did you really try to fist fight a guy three times your size behind the diner at the end of the street”
Turns out Bucky been telling them stories of Steve from before the war even showing them a picture - he’ll never forget the look on the howlies faces when he told them that the sickly scrappy looking guy is the same one who can bench press motorcycles - and now they can never look at the captain the same
(However the story of the time Steve hit a guy across the head with a bat because he was talking shit about Bucky ,they believed that way easier this is the guy who singlehandedly broke into a heavily fortified hydra base just to rescue him)
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yes-i-am-happyaspie · 11 months
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So, I'm it's been debated before but, hey! Let's give it another go! (Because Discord said so 👌🤣 )
You know the drill. Reblog for a larger sample size and talk about your opinions in the tags!
Thanks for participating!
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hainethehero · 2 months
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So...I'm rereading Sugar Sweet Steven for the umpteenth time 🥰🥰 and I suddenly have many thoughts:
Stevie and the Howling Commandos! 👀
In this verse, did Steve and Bucky have to hide their love for each other from the outside world, or was it more acceptable as dom/subs exist? I saw that you mentioned Howard and Peggy helping out with Steve, but what about the Commandos? Do you think Bucky shared stories with his team about his sweetheart waiting back home for him? How did they react to this sweet boy saving their lives? Did they all take turns making sure their pretty Captain was taken care of, or did Steve cling to one particular person outside of Bucky?
I have so many questions about Steve and Bucky's pre-war and WWI days! But I'll leave at this for now. 🥰
Oh wow I've never actually thought about this. Good idea though! Because I absolutely love thinking about Steve in the pre-war days!
In the SSSverse I'd like to think Steve and Bucky don't have to hide their relationship. It's pretty normalized in this world. Dom/sub dynamics are definitely the norm.
I think Steve was Bucky's boy only. But he definitely sought comfort and shelter with his fellow Howlies. Especially Dum Dum, Gabe, Morita and James Falsworth. Whenever Bucky was occupied on base or away on something, Steve would have trouble sleeping. And so he'd cuddle with Dum Dum mostly, because he's a huge teddy bear and Steve gets clingy with his stuffies.
If Dum Dum was unavailable, he'd cosy up in between Falsworth and Gabe not only because they keep him warm but also because they tell the best stories for Steve to fall asleep to. (Sam reminds Steve of Gabe which is why he trusted Sam so quickly in the first place)
Jacques Dernier (a sub) teaches him French- which is why he knows certain phrases in French and can generally understand the language.
Before the rescue, the Commandos are all talking about their dames/lads back home. Bucky tells them of his little Stevie, the light of his life and also the bane of his existence because he's so darn stubborn and feisty. He describes Steve's love for art and his passion for protecting people. And he says he can't wait to get back to America because he's going to ask Steve to marry him and accept his collar.
So, you can imagine their utter shock when Steve, aka Captain America rescues them and he isn't at all like the skinny sub Bucky described. On the drive back, they all climb over each other to impress the pretty blonde who's blushing at all the attention and hiding behind Bucky's shoulder.
"I mean, you didn't say he was that pretty, Barnes," Dum Dum rumbles.
"Yeah," Morita chimes in, "instead of pretty little dame, he's tall, blonde and gorgeous."
Gabe says, "He's beautiful."
And Jacques recites something in French that has Steve blushing even harder.
Bucky goes, "Quit it y'all, my baby's shy."
And Steve just gives Bucky the look that just says, 'yeah, I like em.'
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greyhavensking · 2 years
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What’s a lion without its pride?
Nothing, so who’s next in line?
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Steve: pretending to joke-flirt So when are you going to go out with me? Bucky: I don't know. When are you going to ask me to? The rest of the Howlies and Peggy: And you just ran away?! Steve: I didn't expect him to flirt back!
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sunflowersoldat · 7 months
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Blood In The Water Master List
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Main Master List
Series Summary: Spin-off to All is Fair. Mob syndicates are yours and your partner's specialty. They don't call you the Sharks for nothing. There is blood in the water in New York City, not only is know Mob affiliate Steve Rogers missing, but the two other Mob bosses died in a huge shootout last year. It is up to you and your partner to uncover the truth, but not all is as it seems.
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Series Warnings: 18+! Mentions of blood and violence, bad language words, smut, manipulation, gaslighting, death, trauma, please follow the warnings for each chapter. There are chapters with brutal and dark themes, please read at your own discretion, warnings will be before each chapter!
Pairing: Mob!Buckyx FBI Agent!reader
Chapters are in chronological order.
Ch. 1
Ch. 2
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hail-americas-ass · 4 months
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Beloved nemesis and fellow bastards,
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IT'S IN THE WORKS! ALMOST DONE!
Based on this hilarious post
@kestrafagnor @amarriageoftrueminds
EDIT: It's up on my masterlist
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amarriageoftrueminds · 7 months
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Hi! Do you have any headcanons about the Howling Commandos?
Okay well sorry in advance 'nonny but it's been that kinda day so this answer might be a bit depressing
(to offset that here's an old ask with Howlie headcanons)
14 Headcanons about the Howling Commandos:
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1 - all of the guys in the 107 who were captured by Hydra and put to work in the Krausberg POW-camp/factory later died of radiation-related cancers because of being exposed to Tesseract energy. (This was reported upon in the scientific press, post-war, and is part of the reason why people like Bruce Banner were duped into believing that the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project would be interested in a gamma-radiation sickness treatment.)
2 - Because Steve made the 107 famous, post-war there was a controversy of unscrupulous members of the 107 who hadn't been captured (ie. the guys who threw rotten food and homophobic jeers at Steve) claiming to have been in Krausberg. But the fact that those guys didn't develop the same health problems as real 107 rescue-ees unmasked them as valour thieves. (Especially galling for the Howlies, since Dum-Dum had had to fight for the government to officially recognise Gabe and Morita's valour in medals, as they deserved.)
3 - one of the Howlies' acquaintance Steve never got to meet was Izzy Cohen, a kid Bucky took under his wing from basic training onwards, who had lied about being underage in order to get into the Army. The same guns which Bucky and the guys were later forced to make for the Nazis turned him into a blue mist at Azzano.
4 - Gabe and Morita came from all-POC squads who were killed off completely because the Nazi guards at Krausberg were hardest on them and because they were the first Zola picked off to experiment on. (This presaged later torture by Zola of Isaiah's men, and of Asian civilians by Werner Reinhardt; both men hired by Peggy's SHIELDra).
5 - During the war Gabe once sat next to Bucky at a campfire, watching Steve perform some feat of extraordinary strength across the way, and -- thinking of his friends he had lost -- asked Bucky what Zola did to them all in the lab. Bucky couldn't talk about it...
6 - over Christmas 1943, before being deployed back to the continent, the Howlies were sent on intense specialised training in the coastal village of Aberdyfi in North Wales, under the auspices of a secretly all Jewish troop of Continental-European Commandos, called X Troop.
7 - because Monty was in with all the right chaps in the Old Boys network, he was able to give Steve et al insight into a lot of the political goings on behind the scenes in the British forces, give him a hint on which of the English intelligence-officers to dismiss due to incompetence, nepotism hiring, etc. Monty once took Steve and Bucky to the London Ritz, where the basement bar was a gay club. 👀
8 - during missions in France the Howlies met Virginia Hall, Noor Inayat Khan (Morita proposed to her while drunk), Logan Howlett (an old war buddy of Dum-Dum's), and Ernest Hemingway (whom they did not think much of: despite being just a journalist, he was waving a handgun around trying to 'liberate' the Paris Ritz... which had been long abandoned by the Nazis by the time he got there.)
9 - while filming movies as part of his USO tour, Steve was biletted at a place called Fort Roach, California, where the US Army Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit was making animated war-propaganda short movies for cinemas. While there, he got Bucky a signed animation-cell of 'Trigger Joe' and met (and punched) some actor guy called Donald Reagan??
10 - During the Allied Invasion of Sicily, the Howlies met three Brits who were introduced to Steve later on, in London. In the modern-day, Steve was delighted to discover that two of them had gone on to become famous actors after the war: one of them starred in Star Wars and another -- still alive -- in Lord of the Rings. He and Christopher Lee kept in touch (Bucky and CL agree that it's great they got the stabbing-noises right in the movies). It blew Tony's mind when he found Steve listening to an advance copy of a heavy metal album, that his 'buddy Chris' had sent him from England. Bucky kind of had a crush on him back in the day... (The third Brit the Howlies met in Sicily was 'Mad Jack' Churchill, of broadsword, longbow and bagpipe fame; Bucky wrote his Scottish dad a delighted letter about it).
11 - Steve and the guys once had to physically restrain Bucky from punching General Patton, during one of their morale-boosting visits to a Field Hospital. (One of the guys at this particular hospital had just had his leg blown off. And Bucky made sure Steve visited in his dirtied combat gear, and not looking immaculate, because he remembered how demoralising it was for bedridden pre-serum Steve if Bucky waltzed in looking all dapper, while Steve was feeling his worst.) The punishment for this incident was the Howlies having to let news crews follow them around for a week, filming propaganda newsreels.
12 - they also repeatedly got in trouble for damaging historic churches in Germany ('accidentally' blowing off the antisemitic Judensau carvings) and loitering in Nazi-occupied areas to put up anti-Nazi graffiti on public buildings (Steve loved exercising the old artistic muscles again.)
13 - after the war, Gabe became a leading light of the Civil Rights Movement in the South. He was once present for one of the Winter Soldier's assassinations in Manhattan, but didn't see who was responsible. (In another universe, where Isaiah Bradley escaped a lot sooner and managed to get to Macon, GA, he and Gabe teamed up to become a sort of Holmes-and-Watson vigilante duo.)
14 - Steve's tactical innovation for the D-Day Landings was to imitate the testudo or shield-wall formation of Roman legions. By standing at the front of one of the LCVPs as it hit the beach, holding a massive piece of steel as a shield, he was able to lead Bucky and the boys (plus 30 others, carrying a second giant shield) safely up the beach, plant the steel-shield, and then retreat to repeat this with each incoming landing craft. This was bastardised in a famous war movie, where Steve McQueen's Captain America simply did an Evel Knievel motorcycle jump over the fortifications to land on the German guns. Everyone is disappointed when Steve has to tell them he never did this. (Bucky keeps telling everyone he did... 🤦‍♀️🙄)
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punkbuckybarnes · 2 years
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dernier: you got a blorbo back home, sarge? a meow meow? a special little guy?
bucky: yeah [takes out tattered photo of bruised steve with his latest black eye]
dum dum: that’s nice. really pathetic. looks like a drowned kitten
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