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Some more recs
After a week of being largely in a creative dry spell, my urge to write/draw/etc finally hit today ... right before I leave for a week+ of visiting with family, which means there's no time to finish ANYTHING and also I still have to pack. Thanks a lot, brain.
Still, I wrote a bunch today, both original and fanfic. The fanfic was White Collar, some of you may be surprised/pleased to know. I still find it fascinating how quickly and easily I can write those characters; I sit down at the keyboard and bam, 3000 words falls out of my head. I've only ever been able to do that with SGA. I love writing for the MCU, but progress is slow and hard, even though it really shouldn't be. (They are superheroes! Canon itself is ridiculous! Why am I holding myself to a higher standard than the actual comics writers?) And yet.
Now I have that pleasant mentally-wiped-out feeling from a good writing session and I want to be chatty online, except I shouldn't start conversations when tomorrow morning is probably the last time I'll be online for over a week. So I figured I'd collect a few more MCU-verse recs and post them. Assume spoilers for "Winter Soldier" in EVERYTHING.
Music vids
I have basically been watching all of these vids on repeat.
Shelter by Gwyneth - This is an absolutely gorgeous vid (my current favorite "watch multiple times a day" happy-place vid, actually) that celebrates the aspect of CA2 that made me fall for it so hard: the theme of love and friendship and trying to protect the people close to you. Steve's relationships with Natasha and Sam and Bucky are highlighted in turn. All I know is to keep you close. Oh my heart.
Don't Stop Believin' by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
purplefringe - Fun, bouncy Sam/Steve (or Sam & Steve) vid set to Journey! LOOOOVE.
Firewood by![[www.livejournal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_other.png)
nel-ani - Steve character study, footage from all the movies with Steve. The vidder does some lovely things with color vs black-and-white, and oh, Steve. *cries*
Counting Stars - by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thedothatgirl - Tony/Pepper vid! A gorgeous relationship profile of my favorite couple in the MCU. eeeeee babies.
How Far We've Come bykaydeefalls - And now, back to Steve and his terrible, horrible, miserable life. This vid does a really neat job of contrasting all the thematic and visual callbacks between the different movies.
Problem bytalitha78 - I cannot figure out how it's POSSIBLE that an absolutely ridiculous, cracky vid in which Bucky is Steve's bad-news girlfriend does a basically perfect job of capturing the underlying essence of their relationship. And yet it does. Plus it's upbeat, bouncy, and has really great editing.
Light 'Em Up by YumKiwiDelicious (link goes to Youtube) - Everyone's favorite 90-year-old supersoldiers kicking ass. Or, a minute and a half of total competence porn set to music.
It's All Coming Back To Me Now by Trelkez (link goes to Youtube) - Okay, so, this vid ... IIRC, it was made for Festivids a couple of years ago, and it's ENTIRELY based on the Winter Soldier comics storyline/art (vidded from a not-even-remotely-subtle slash perspective). I actually watched it at the time, before I had any particular emotional investment in those characters or anything other than the vaguest knowledge of how the storyline went, and went looking for it again recently because, hey, didn't someone make a Steve/Bucky vid to Celine Dion once upon a time? I have to say that it's picked up whole new dimensions of hilarity now that I've read all the comics. It's goofy, campy, and yet heartfelt sincere at the same time, and probably worth watching just for how capably the vidder animates the static comics panels, especially towards the end once they have the 2000s-era art to work with (not that they don't do some amazing things with the Golden Age Captain America art).
Always bycaramarie - Steve, Bucky and Bon Jovi. I suppose it's evident by now that I have bargain basement tastes in vid music, but I don't caaaaare, Steve and Bucky's storyline has that particular quality of overblown mythic melodrama that means it deserves ALL the '80s rock ballads in the WORLD. (Please someone make more MCU vids to '80s and '90s pop, I will roll around in them FOREVER.) This vid is great and I could watch it forever.
And here is another dump of tumblr ficlets. Like the last time, these are presented with minimal description or commentary; most are not more than a few paragraphs long anyway. And they pretty much all feature Bucky, which is not so much an accurate indication of what's out there, but rather, what I tend to save.
Sam & Bucky wings AU - eeeee this is so gorgeous!
Sam/Bucky + team snowball fight
Sam and Bucky h/c
Steve making Bucky blush
Steve and Bucky have a telepathic bond and this goes just about as traumatizingly as you would imagine
Steve and Bucky bodyswap
Steve and Bucky leaving post-it notes for each other
Bucky/Steve/Natasha with bedsnuggling
more Bucky/Steve/Natasha cuddling
Bruce is allergic to cats and the results are adorable
this is just not right
Bucky teaches Pepper to fight
Bucky and Natasha have the worst sense of humor
Bucky realizes he's a hero now
texture helps Bucky ground himself, so his friends start giving him objects to help with that
Bucky disassociates and his friends help him come back
Bucky in Sam's therapy group
Steve/Bucky and Sam/Nat with sexting
Bucky learning slowly to let other people have his back for a change
Steve & Bucky domestic fluff (ish)
why Bucky didn't tell Steve about what was done to him in Zola's torture chamber
Bucky having nightmares
everyone mother-henning a sick Bucky
Steve finding Bucky after TWS
Sam/Bucky sweet fluff
Sam/Bucky soulmate AU where you have a soulmate mark appear wherever the person first touches you
Steve and Bucky crash into the Arctic together
Sam & Bucky action/mission ficlet
Bucky gets fan mail from kids
Sam taking care of Bucky with the flu
seasons change but people don't
a date that ends badly
"like walking a chihuahua with aggression issues"
And finally, I SWEAR I will manage to do an actual fic rec post at some point, but this one is so adorable I have to rec it now:
Guppy Love by Omnicat - Steve/Bucky AU in which Bucky is a merperson. WAIT PLEASE DON'T RUN AWAY. XD This is only a slight AU - it still follows more or less the canon storyline, except Bucky develops a fish tail in water -- and it's unbearably sweet and adorable and full of love/snark/boys-being-darling and pretty much my fic happy place at the moment. There is also a partial sequel on Tumblr during their WWII years with slight hints of Steve/Bucky/Peggy.
Still, I wrote a bunch today, both original and fanfic. The fanfic was White Collar, some of you may be surprised/pleased to know. I still find it fascinating how quickly and easily I can write those characters; I sit down at the keyboard and bam, 3000 words falls out of my head. I've only ever been able to do that with SGA. I love writing for the MCU, but progress is slow and hard, even though it really shouldn't be. (They are superheroes! Canon itself is ridiculous! Why am I holding myself to a higher standard than the actual comics writers?) And yet.
Now I have that pleasant mentally-wiped-out feeling from a good writing session and I want to be chatty online, except I shouldn't start conversations when tomorrow morning is probably the last time I'll be online for over a week. So I figured I'd collect a few more MCU-verse recs and post them. Assume spoilers for "Winter Soldier" in EVERYTHING.
Music vids
I have basically been watching all of these vids on repeat.
Shelter by Gwyneth - This is an absolutely gorgeous vid (my current favorite "watch multiple times a day" happy-place vid, actually) that celebrates the aspect of CA2 that made me fall for it so hard: the theme of love and friendship and trying to protect the people close to you. Steve's relationships with Natasha and Sam and Bucky are highlighted in turn. All I know is to keep you close. Oh my heart.
Don't Stop Believin' by
purplefringe - Fun, bouncy Sam/Steve (or Sam & Steve) vid set to Journey! LOOOOVE.Firewood by
nel-ani - Steve character study, footage from all the movies with Steve. The vidder does some lovely things with color vs black-and-white, and oh, Steve. *cries*Counting Stars - by
thedothatgirl - Tony/Pepper vid! A gorgeous relationship profile of my favorite couple in the MCU. eeeeee babies.How Far We've Come by
kaydeefalls - And now, back to Steve and his terrible, horrible, miserable life. This vid does a really neat job of contrasting all the thematic and visual callbacks between the different movies.Problem by
talitha78 - I cannot figure out how it's POSSIBLE that an absolutely ridiculous, cracky vid in which Bucky is Steve's bad-news girlfriend does a basically perfect job of capturing the underlying essence of their relationship. And yet it does. Plus it's upbeat, bouncy, and has really great editing.Light 'Em Up by YumKiwiDelicious (link goes to Youtube) - Everyone's favorite 90-year-old supersoldiers kicking ass. Or, a minute and a half of total competence porn set to music.
It's All Coming Back To Me Now by Trelkez (link goes to Youtube) - Okay, so, this vid ... IIRC, it was made for Festivids a couple of years ago, and it's ENTIRELY based on the Winter Soldier comics storyline/art (vidded from a not-even-remotely-subtle slash perspective). I actually watched it at the time, before I had any particular emotional investment in those characters or anything other than the vaguest knowledge of how the storyline went, and went looking for it again recently because, hey, didn't someone make a Steve/Bucky vid to Celine Dion once upon a time? I have to say that it's picked up whole new dimensions of hilarity now that I've read all the comics. It's goofy, campy, and yet heartfelt sincere at the same time, and probably worth watching just for how capably the vidder animates the static comics panels, especially towards the end once they have the 2000s-era art to work with (not that they don't do some amazing things with the Golden Age Captain America art).
Always by
caramarie - Steve, Bucky and Bon Jovi. I suppose it's evident by now that I have bargain basement tastes in vid music, but I don't caaaaare, Steve and Bucky's storyline has that particular quality of overblown mythic melodrama that means it deserves ALL the '80s rock ballads in the WORLD. (Please someone make more MCU vids to '80s and '90s pop, I will roll around in them FOREVER.) This vid is great and I could watch it forever.And here is another dump of tumblr ficlets. Like the last time, these are presented with minimal description or commentary; most are not more than a few paragraphs long anyway. And they pretty much all feature Bucky, which is not so much an accurate indication of what's out there, but rather, what I tend to save.
Sam & Bucky wings AU - eeeee this is so gorgeous!
Sam/Bucky + team snowball fight
Sam and Bucky h/c
Steve making Bucky blush
Steve and Bucky have a telepathic bond and this goes just about as traumatizingly as you would imagine
Steve and Bucky bodyswap
Steve and Bucky leaving post-it notes for each other
Bucky/Steve/Natasha with bedsnuggling
more Bucky/Steve/Natasha cuddling
Bruce is allergic to cats and the results are adorable
this is just not right
Bucky teaches Pepper to fight
Bucky and Natasha have the worst sense of humor
Bucky realizes he's a hero now
texture helps Bucky ground himself, so his friends start giving him objects to help with that
Bucky disassociates and his friends help him come back
Bucky in Sam's therapy group
Steve/Bucky and Sam/Nat with sexting
Bucky learning slowly to let other people have his back for a change
Steve & Bucky domestic fluff (ish)
why Bucky didn't tell Steve about what was done to him in Zola's torture chamber
Bucky having nightmares
everyone mother-henning a sick Bucky
Steve finding Bucky after TWS
Sam/Bucky sweet fluff
Sam/Bucky soulmate AU where you have a soulmate mark appear wherever the person first touches you
Steve and Bucky crash into the Arctic together
Sam & Bucky action/mission ficlet
Bucky gets fan mail from kids
Sam taking care of Bucky with the flu
seasons change but people don't
a date that ends badly
"like walking a chihuahua with aggression issues"
And finally, I SWEAR I will manage to do an actual fic rec post at some point, but this one is so adorable I have to rec it now:
Guppy Love by Omnicat - Steve/Bucky AU in which Bucky is a merperson. WAIT PLEASE DON'T RUN AWAY. XD This is only a slight AU - it still follows more or less the canon storyline, except Bucky develops a fish tail in water -- and it's unbearably sweet and adorable and full of love/snark/boys-being-darling and pretty much my fic happy place at the moment. There is also a partial sequel on Tumblr during their WWII years with slight hints of Steve/Bucky/Peggy.
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