Happy birthday to me!

[sholio]

I am about half an hour into being 45. Celebratory beverage:



Birthday plans have been somewhat downscaled due to the possibility of pouring rain where I was going to go (Denali Park) but I still plan to get out of town and obtain lunch somewhere and hike around a bit.

Meanwhile, please appreciate my absolutely ridiculous 45th-birthday present to myself:



He comes with a tiny little codebook for controlling the Winter Soldier! He is currently hanging out with my Defenders (they are nervous) and my Nakia (Zemo is v. nervous).

I actually preordered this back in May, and it came much earlier than it was supposed to. Falcon & Winter Soldier has turned out to be my New Big Thing, apparently! Who knew! There's a pretty nice show!Bucky action figure as well, but I haven't found a Sam I like yet; I want one in civilian clothes, not the costume.

Things which I would like for birthday presents, if you want to leave me one:

• Birthday wishes are always nice!
• Prompts for Falcon & Winter Soldier ficlets, with the caveat that there is a VERY STRONG chance they might never be written. Any characters are welcome; however, I strongly suspect terrible things happening to Zemo (or presence of Zemo, generally) would greatly increase their chances of being written.
• Prompts for Iron Fist (always in style, ditto re: caveat about possibly never being written).
• Pretty pictures, recs, fic snippets, etc, for any fandom you know I'm into.
• Suggestions for ways I might combine my h/c bingo card with Falcon & Winter Soldier characters.
• Just generally talking about the show! Or Zemo. Meta prompts welcome!
• Suggestions for interesting photo ops for my new tiny!Zemo.

Comments

[sovay]

I am about half an hour into being 45.

Happy birthday! That is a magnificently ridiculous self-gift. You should probably not knock him over and put a postage-stamp-sized towel on his head. (Yet.)

[sholio]

You should probably not knock him over and put a postage-stamp-sized towel on his head. (Yet.)

I COULD THOUGH. I have a tiny couch!

[lunabee34]

Tiny Zemo is adorbs!

Ooooh how do Nakia and Jess get along?

[sholio]

They need to go kick ass together! Also, tiny Jess is my favorite out of all of them. She has the best little leather jacket.

[lilacsigil]

Happy birthday and congratulations on your tiny Zemo!

Falcon and Winter Soldier prompt: there are still codes that work on the Winter Soldier, just none of the "violence" ones. How does Zemo use them?

[sholio]

Thank you so much! <3

I realized that I had actually misremembered your prompt slightly (the violence part) only after I had already written it - and no obligation to comment in any case - but anyway ... this happened. xD

Soldat (2451 words) by Sholio
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Helmut Zemo
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Helmut Zemo, Sam Wilson (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt Helmut Zemo
Summary: Not all of Bucky's trigger words were deactivated.

[aurumcalendula]

Happy birthday!

[sholio]

Thank you!!

[mific]

Happy birthday!

Have some Zemo fanart.

https://www.deviantart.com/feyjane/art/Zemo-876980846

https://zemosimp05.tumblr.com/post/655317939976830976/so-heres-the-daniel-br%C3%BChl-artwork-i-was-talking

https://nach-zehrer.tumblr.com/post/657277880521342976/daniel-br%C3%BChl-as-zemo

https://elkleggs.tumblr.com/post/648818199227498496/for-sublimepigeon

https://sunsetagain.tumblr.com/post/649854511585869824/forget-about-me-bucky-but-remember-those-lost

https://t0e-beanz.tumblr.com/post/650261746337103872/some-fan-art-i-did-of-zemo-bucky-and-sam-because

https://www.deviantart.com/maxkennedy/art/Winter-Soldier-Swords-875576713

[sholio]

Aaaahhhh, these are lovely! Thank you so MUCH! ♥

[leesa_perrie]

Happy birthday!! :D :D

[sholio]

Thank you!! <3

[oracne]

Hmmm, Zemo prompt for your bingo card: After the loss of his parents at a young age [orphan], Zemo was mostly raised by his butler [learning to be loved]...but Tentacle People [tentacles] have different ideas about how to raise a child, and Zemo had no idea one day he would be battling a super-powerful demon [deals with (literal) demons] in the snow [hostile climate] to attain his true adulthood, nor that the one-armed [loss of limb] Watcher set over him for this ordeal [Winter Soldier?] has a distant connection to his dead parents.

[sholio]

Tentacle People [tentacles] have different ideas about how to raise a child

I am suddenly very charmed by the idea that Zemo's butler is some kind of Elder God tentacle person just pretending to be a butler.

[trobadora]

Happy birthday!

Yay for ridiculous presents. :D

[sholio]

Thank you!! What is the point of being adult if you can't spend money on ridiculous indulgences, anyway?!

[mikeda]

Happy Birthday!

[sholio]

Thank you!! :D

[xparrot]

Happy birthday! That is a fantastic self-present, I love your figures!

[sholio]

Thank you!! I have so much fun with them.

[goss]

Happy Birthdayyy! \o/

[sholio]

Thank youuuuu! :D

[silverflight8]

First, happy birthday!! and many happy returns :)

I love that Zemo figurine! That's actually a really nice one. I see they have incorporated his amazing fur coat from TFATWS despite the Winter Soldier book. (I wonder where that book is, in the MCU's present.)

The main thing I keep coming back to in TFATWS is the uneasy short alliance between Sharon and Zemo. It's the way Sharon as Power Broker was funding & ultimately creating the super soldiers, that she held the information and knew about the serum when the three of them came asking for help, the way she clearly has some major unresolved issues with what his actions did to the course of her life post CA:CW. More Madripoor fic!!

[silverflight8]

Also - it's not Zemo, it's Daniel Brühl looking very pretty as a priest, I think:

https://h-zemo.tumblr.com/post/657484034176385024/daniel-br%C3%BChl-as-antonio-intruders-2011

[cathexys]

Happy birthday!!! Loving tiny!Zemo so much!!!

[sholio]

Thank you!!

[yhlee]

Happy birthday!

Iron Fist optional prompt: Iron Fist coffeeshop AU in which Zemo is a customer
(I say this not having ever seen or met Zemo because I don't have Disney+)

[sholio]

Thank you!!

--

Honestly, Ward was the only person who did any work around here. Colleen was late, Joy was taking a personal day again, and Danny was ... meditating in the back, apparently. Ward swatted him with a pair of bagel tongs.

"Ow," Danny said, cracking an eye open. "You're really messing with my energy flow, Ward—"

"Fur coat guy is here and wants his usual. Go make it. You're the only one around here who knows how to do decent tea, apparently. And I need to change the filters in the drip coffee machines."

By the time Ward finally had a few minutes to look around, fur coat guy was, as usual, off in a corner with a cup of tea and a book. He had also, as usual, left a good tip.

He wasn't their weirdest customer by far, and he definitely wasn't their rudest. He was quiet and polite, he never did anything except order a cup of tea and occasionally a pastry, and then go and read at a corner table by the window, through which he occasionally glanced up at the passing foot traffic. He also creeped Ward right the fuck out for reasons he couldn't quite fathom. Something about the guy reminded him ever so vaguely of Harold, not in any obvious way, but there was something. It was like Harold on a good day, when he was dealing with people other than Ward: polite and perfectly nice, but with that coiled-steel violence under the surface.

"I think he's a spy," Danny said, pushing a broom in an apathetic kind of way.

"International assassin," Ward said.

He was well aware it was nothing of the sort, even as fur coat guy—the only person in Rand Coffee & Bagel at the moment—glanced out the window again. Spinning wild fantasies about their customers was just a way to pass the time. Still, of all the customers they had, he was probably the one that Ward would be least surprised to see on the 6 o'clock news. And, yes, that included Yelling Dude and the various creepy customers who hit on Joy and Colleen, and even the guy who regularly peed in the alley behind the coffee shop.

(When all the news about the UN bombing came out a few months later, Ward was surprised not at who was responsible but that they'd actually been sort of right for a change. Maybe that even meant Danny was also right that the big guy who came with the sweet nurse girlfriend was actually Harlem's Hero and not just a lookalike. But probably not.)

[umadoshi]

Happy birthday! *^^*

[sholio]

Thank you!!! <3

[sophia_sol]

Happy birthday! I hope it's a great one :)

[sholio]

Thank you so much! It has been really good. :D

[sartorias]

Wishing you a happy birthday, and a great year!

[sholio]

Thank you so much! <3 If the rest of the year is as nice as today, it will be a very good one.

[ellenmillion]

Happy Birthday!!

[sholio]

Thank you!! <3

[sheron]

Considering getting a Cactus icon just for you <3

Happy Birthday! I hope you get to do a hike :)

[sholio]

My cactus is free for the taking ... :D

Thank you!!

[lferion]

Happiest of happies!

[sholio]

Thank youuu! It has been good. :D

[dirty_diana]

Happy birthday! 🎈

[sholio]

Thank you so much!! ♥

[cornerofmadness]

Happy birthday. What a great figure

[sholio]

Thank you! <3

[schneefink]

Happy birthday!

Nice figurine. (I am now wondering if you could use figurines to make photo comics for h/c bingo prompts. It doesn't specifically say if it counts but I feel like it should. If you have some water nearby, maybe for "shipwrecked"; or "robots/androids/AIs", or "loss of vision"...)

[sholio]

Thank you! And oooh!! That is a really good idea, and totally fits the rules of the comm. Hmmmmm.

[grammarwoman]

A very happy birthday to you!

[sholio]

Thank you!! :D

[juniperphoenix]

Happy birthday!

[sholio]

Thank you! :D