half awake in a fake empire Anthology
Book 1 of half awake in a fake empire
Language: English
Abandoned Angst Anthology Crossover Hurt/Comfort In-Progress Original Characters POV outsider Pining Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD Pre-Serum Steve Rogers Recovery Slow Burn Social Media noted
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Published: Jul 6, 2014
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the first fic in this series is worth a read. it's not the best version of this kind of setup i've ever read, mostly because the actual posts are boring; doesn't do anything v interesting with the format. but it was fun enough. the sequel, which i forgot was unfinished by the time i got around to it, was the most fanficcy writing i feel like i've ever read. like every bad convention of the "genre" was present and it pulled me out of the prose constantly through the whole thing. phrases that mix metaphors, poor, unnecessary metaphors, example after example of telling over showing, & so much pronoun dropping. i swear fandom could give conservatives a run for their money with how much it hates pronouns. anyway it was boring but for the sake of my memory if i ever want to revist this for some reason: it does end in a place that works fine as a conclusion. (as an aside, i have marked another fic by this author as goated in calibre & made a classics cover for it. HM.) |
| 1583 | 1/4/2025 16:09:30 |
He still wakes up with the image of Bucky falling, screaming his name, burned into the inside of his eyelids. It’s been almost seventy years for everyone else, but for him, it hasn’t even been two months.
| 3062 | 1/5/2025 18:51:18 |
Steve knows Bucky is right about him. He’s the kind that bleeds on the inside until he chokes on his own blood.
| 3145 | 1/25/2025 12:47:55 |
“I think I remember your mother,” Bucky continues after a while,
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tin soldiers
In his 2009 book on Captain America comic books, war photography, and American propaganda, Everett claims: “There is nothing to suggest that either the graphic novels issued during the war or the photographs taken during Rogers’ stay with the Howling Commandos can serve as a basis for a queer reading of Rogers and Barnes’ relationship. But even more importantly, there is nothing to suggest that such a relationship ever existed in the first place, and as such, those queer readings are not only misguided, but also libelous” (197).
[from: Lynn E. Anderson, Captain America: Behind the Mask. Steve Rogers and the Contemporary Hero Narrative (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 242.]
In the aftermath of Steve's return to the world of the living and the battle of New York, the academia and the Internet react.
the gravedigger's handbook
Sometimes it's the most difficult thing, coming home. They both learn that, in their own ways. (In the end, Bucky comes back to Steve. In the end, it is all that matters.)