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  1. Rec 27

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    Bucky stares at the linoleum beneath his beat-up converse. The two tiles right under his feet are worn-in, pale greyish-brown, where the other ones are still a light, speckled cream. He really should buy new sneakers. Once he doesn’t have to dig through the couch cushions to scrounge up enough cash to buy a loaf of bread, he’ll start putting some money aside for a new pair. Maybe he’ll just give these ones a good scrubbing with an old toothbrush or something. As soon as he has the money for a new toothbrush.

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    16 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 22

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    Bucky needs someone. Needs someone to take pity on him, needs someone to tell him what to do, needs someone to love him. How lucky he was, to find someone like Brock. To find someone so understanding, so kind, so attentive to his needs. Someone so willing to take care of him, to discipline him how he needs, someone to teach him what love really is, someone to dissuade him from his fantasies of rose petals and ice cream dates, to show him the firm hand that will save him from himself.

    **Prequel to I Am Ash From Your Fire**

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    12 Feb 2026

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    There wasn’t anything left to salvage. That’s what Fury believed. It would have been a kindness to put him down.

     

     

    When SHIELD finally releases Bucky from custody, he is not the man anyone expects him to be. Steve struggles to reconcile the stranger with the man who was once his best friend, but with Hydra regrouping after the events at Triskelion, Steve is dragged back into battle when Bucky needs him the most. Meanwhile, Hydra is itching to have its prize weapon back under their control, and a devastating betrayal pits Bucky against a terrible piece of ex-SHIELD tech that threatens to destroy everything he's struggled to rebuild. In order to survive, he must decide who he is going to be: the vulnerable Bucky Barnes or the indomitable Winter Soldier? It turns out there might not be as big a difference as everyone seems to think.

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    30 Jan 2026

  4. Rec *

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    Bucky has this thing inside him. Sometimes he is Bucky Barnes—sergeant, charmer, and Steve’s best friend. Sometimes he is the Winter Soldier—assassin, machine, and humanity’s worst enemy. Except when Steve found him, he didn’t become one or the other; he didn’t become a mix of the two. He’s just…both. Either-or. A two for one deal, all wrapped up in the same pounding head.

    Bucky doesn’t trust the asset. The asset doesn’t understand Bucky. The only thing they can both agree on a hundred percent of the time is this: They both would go to the ends of the earth for Steve Rogers.

    And whatever he is—whoever he is—Steve loves him too.

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    10 Jan 2026

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    College AU. May contain exchange students, a Starbucks addiction, daddy issues, anger issues, closets and how to get out of them, the ever-ominous influence of social networks, various levels of betrayal, awfully poor life choices, but also, ultimately, real chunks of love.

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    04 Jan 2026