jumpingjacktrash: while i’m scatterblogging instead of doing anything coherent… has anyone ever written a version of the “bucky thinks steve is his new handler” trope where, instead of steve going all “nonono we must respect your autonomy and also our factual chain of command we don’t have,” he’s like, “ok, obviously you do need a…

King of Memes

buckykingofmemes: Or, how Tony Found Out About Bucky’s Blog.  Tony couldn’t seep. Sometimes he managed a few hours if he was tired enough, so usually he went to the gym and worked out until he was exhausted. Tonight, though, he found the gym already occupied: Barnes, with his hair tied up, working steadily at the…

there are little wings on steves costume to show that he thinks he can fly but yOU CANT STEVE. YOU CANT. PLEASE USE A PARACHUTE

cleo4u2:

fearlessinger:

tjhcmmond:

_{“That line was an interesting moment. At the time, the choice I was making is that [Bucky] had realized there was no way he was getting out of there, and someone was gonna die, whether it was gonna be him, Steve or Tony. When he says that line, to me, it was a turning point}

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he was, like, ‘Okay, I know what you want me to say, and I’m just gonna say it.’ When someone comes at you over and over again, and they can’t hear you, they can’t see you’re pleading with them, you’re trying to figure out how to get through to them and they just won’t accept it, at some point you just give in, and you go, ‘that’s right, that’s what you want.’ Of course [Bucky] didn’t remember them all.”

—

 Sebastian Stan

Wow. I had
honestly taken this statement at face value but if this is true then Bucky
lying about the extent of what he remembers isn’t an isolated incident, it becomes
a pattern, a strategy: Bucky intentionally
and deliberately using his memories, the only thing he truly owns at this
point, as a bargaining chip throughout the entire course of the movie to steer the
events if not in his favor, then at the very least toward what he considers an acceptable
outcome, namely sparing everyone else, and especially Steve, the pain of having
to deal with his shit. We talk a lot about Bucky’s lack of agency, but this right
here? This is him seizing and wielding the only tool at his disposal to exert
some influence on the narrative, despite having been left with almost no options.

In
Bucharest, he lies to make Steve go away. He wants Steve to distrust him, to
give up on him, and the only way he can see of accomplishing that is to pretend
that there’s not a “Bucky” anymore. He tries to shut Steve out completely, tries
to not even look (and fails, but he’s only human) as Steve is escorted away from
the glass cage. When he’s alone with the alleged psychologist though, he has no
reason to think Steve’s listening and no reason to lie, so he tells the truth,
a truth that is very important to him, especially in the face of being once
again trapped and examined by people who look at him and see only a weapon: “my
name is Bucky”.

Later, as
he wakes up with his arm trapped in the vice, he is hurt and disoriented and so
relieved when he sees Steve, that he can’t hide it. But it doesn’t matter,
because he quickly realizes that there’s no point in pretending anymore: Steve has
just done exactly what Bucky feared from the start: compromised himself for
Bucky in a way that he can’t take back. And Sam too. They made their choice, stupidly,
impossibly: they’re here for him. They need Bucky’s honesty now, or it will be
all for nothing. So Bucky gives it to them. He finally tells Steve that he
knows him, that he remembers him (the fact that it makes him so desperately
happy to be able to recite every trivial little detail, every hard won scrap of
memory that is a testament to how much Steve means to him, is made all the more
heartbreaking by the fact that he only does it because it’s become necessary). He
tells Steve and Sam about his encounter with Zemo, about the Siberian facility,
about the making and training of the other Winter Soldiers. The three of them
have a common objective now, a mission, and Bucky needs them, wants them, to
trust him.

It’s clear that
Bucky put a lot of effort into stitching together all the bits and pieces of
memory he could dredge up. And he did a good job of it. Does he already
know that there are still things he’s missing?  Or does he realize that only when he sees the
beginning of that video? Given how committed he is to record and preserve in
writing whatever comes back to him, does that realization make him feel like he’s
failed all over again those people he couldn’t even remember killing?

Whatever the
answer, if we believe Sebastian’s words, in that moment up there Bucky is choosing
to lie again. Telling Tony what Tony wants to hear. Giving Tony the excuse Tony
clearly is looking for to just go ahead and murder him. He has reached the
conclusion that someone is going to die in that place, and he says what he
hopes will ensure that that someone will be him.

Jesus christ: @xantissa

afro-elf: falloutsettler: afro-elf: *grabs bucky’s beefy face* you are a victim of numerous situations which were out of your control and i love you Still a murdering liar and iron man would be more than in the right to turn him and cap into a smear. i mean the murder part wasn’t his choice and…

quousque: yawpkatsi: robotmango: hellenhighwater: yawpkatsi: Concept: Some jackass shows Bucky how to make a blog and it becomes really popular. Not because it’s the blog of James Buchanan Barnes, American Legend, War Hero, Infamous Assassin, Alleged Terrorist. Nobody even knows it’s his blog. It gets really popular because people think it’s a really great shitpost generator…

bloodbuzzedohio:

maybe that’s the best you can do. (x)

Honestly, all CW managed to accomplish for me was ruin Steve & Bucky a bit. And sometimes I wonder if that was on purpose. There are so many issues between them now – from Steve stubbornly hanging onto a past that no longer exists, to him not accepting who Bucky is now, to Bucky not being allowed to deal with his trauma. Worse, they don’t even leave us with an implication that maybe they’re gonna work shit out while in hiding. Instead, Bucky gets iced to make sure that doesn’t happen. It’s shit.

fearlessinger: Yeah, it is. You know, I think the Steve/Bucky relationship in this movie suffers from two problems. Actually, make that three. The first and most obvious is clearly a bad case of NO HOMO. I do think the movie as a whole, and the Steve/Bucky relationship in particular, were intentionally gutted and left to…

mechinaries:

whatever you say bucky

buckybutts: marvelheadcanons: Imagine Bucky being really self-conscious about his arm until one day a little boy with an artificial leg runs up to him saying that they match.  #i have a lot of feelings about bucky aggressively rejecting that he’s actually a good guy #i don’t care that i used to be best friends with captain…