Sergeant James Barnes - Blog Posts

Loki, negotiating with Steve & Bucky

Loki: We have Y/N. Give us ten thousand dollars and they will be returned to you unharmed

Y/N: Whoa, whoa, wait, you think I'm only worth ten thousand dollars?

Steve & Bucky:

Y/N: MAKE IT ONE MILLION-

Steve & Bucky, in unison: Y/N STOP

Jason Todd: Mob Boss?

So I was reading bucky x reader as one does, and I noticed that there's a lot of mob!Bucky AUs. Which don't get me wrong, I love the trope, but then I realized my DC favorite character, Jason Todd (no I don't have a type shut up), doesn't really have any Mob! AUs. But then I was thinking...isn't the Red Hood gang already kinda a mafia? I feel like at some point, his gang (I hc them the Merry Men of Gotham) transcends normal gang level. They control so much, have strict rules like not dealing to kids or hurting the working girls, and once you're in you are part of the family - as in have access to the view of your boss bickering with his lieutenant while holding a sleepy stabby Robin. I'm pretty sure that's basically the requirements of a mafia, so. Jason's not just a crime lord anymore. He's the head of the Gotham Mafia.

I wonder if there are any fics about the rest of the batfam realizing this...

TL;DR Unlike mob!Bucky, mob!Jason Todd is CANON.

To commemorate Endgame’s two-year anniversary, have another rant (you’re welcome). Even after two years, something that troubles me no end is that, according to Endgame, Bucky and Sam et al. are just supposed to… get over losing Steve. That they were expected to just move on from the loss of their friend (in Bucky’s case, his lifelong best friend and alleged soulmate) and just be fine after a little while. Yet at the same time, Endgame Steve, who, roughly eight decades on, is apparently still unable to get over Peggy - the woman he kissed one (1) time and only when he was maybe about to die, the woman he knows lived a long, happy life without him, who actually told him to move on, and who he literally buried - is expected to do no such thing.

Because, of course, heterosexual romance, even of the blandest kind, is far more valid and important than every other kind of romance, friendship, and (found) family combined.

Steve and Peggy never even went on a single date. Never canonically said ‘I love you’ or anything of the sort (certainly nothing like 'I’m with you till the end of the line’). Fuck, Steve was even shown kissing Peggy’s niece not long after he buried Peggy. And yet we’re supposed to buy that in Endgame, Peggy is suddenly ‘the love of Steve’s life’, and losing her to old age devastated him more than the unexpected losses of so many of his friends - including Bucky, who he’d only just gotten back after years of looking for him, fighting for him, getting him back and losing him again - combined? 

We’re supposed to blindly accept that it makes total sense for Steve to then, at the end of Endgame, leave everything and everyone he loves to go back to the past, to a time that would’ve been horrible for him for so many reasons, solely to play happy families with Peggy? Even though Steve canonically told Tony in AOU that the guy who wanted stability and a family went into the ice 75 years ago and someone else 'came out’? Even though Steve fought the whole world to get Bucky back and keep him safe, gave up his shield for him twice, and would’ve given up his life for him without hesitation if the alternative meant having to live without him again (even at a time when Peggy was still alive, mind you)? 

The fact is, in the Cap movies we were shown that when it came down to it, nothing was more important to Steve than Bucky - certainly not Peggy. If anything came close, it was Steve’s relationships with the people he met in the new century, who he spent years living and fighting side by side with, and who, in Sam’s case, he canonically loved and admired enough to entrust him with his shield and legacy. What was between Steve and Peggy was canonically little more than a crush or mutual admiration/infatuation. If we’re supposed to take Endgame’s ending at face value, what Steve did was extremely out of character, deeply unhealthy and unfair, and most likely indicative of severe mental instability as a result of repeated and untreated trauma - not some romantic grand gesture to swoon over, and not a well-deserved happy ending. Apart from that, nothing we were shown in canon warranted Steve’s decision to leave everything and go back in time to be with Peggy in Endgame. And yet, that’s what the creators chose to go with, simply because it was the most widely palatable and therefore the most marketable option.

So yeah, Endgame’s ending is a farce and an insult to our intelligence at best, and a patronizing, cowardly, misogynistic, homophobic, capitalistic and plain awful mess at worst. And it is also one of the reasons why I simply do not vibe with canon any longer and I’m sticking to fanon forever more, thank you very much.

Okay so this is the closest gif I could find on short notice, cause I don’t want to lose my train of thought.

But you all know how their promise gets Bucky out of 70 years of brainwashing?

Well it kind of just hit me, and if you already thought of this good for you, BUT what if he also got out of it (because of/with the help of) the fact that he was looking down on a beaten/weak/defenseless Steve like he was ‘used’ to seeing back then??????

I really didn’t need to hurt myself like this but oh well...

You’re welcome everybody! Let’s suffer together🥳

i cant help but bolt awake at night sometimes when i remember that this happened. samuel l jackson confirmed and approved, chris evans as the first LBGT captain america with his boyfriend bucky barnes ❤️ this also confirms my headcanon that nick fury is in fact a gay matchmaker and he definitely helped carol and maria get on track together in captain marvel. i take no criticism.

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