#WhatAreFears

[damnyoucully]

It is absolutely batshit bonkers crazy town that most of Not Easily Conquered was published THE SAME YEAR CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER WAS RELEASED. A Long Winter was published in June. THE MOVIE CAME OUT IN MARCH. IN MARCH!!!!!!!!!!1!!!

#not easily conquered #nec #fics that nearly killed me #ao3 fanfic #stuckyism will kill us in the end #stevebucky #stucky #I am unwell #dropdeaddreams #whatarefears #bucky barnes #steve rogers #captain america: the winter soldier #ca:tws 10th anniversary #ca:tws

[fandoms-o-fish]

I Made a Printable Version of Not Easily Conquered

hello hello

As somebody who has fallen deeply in love with the idea of having physical copies of her favorite fanfictions, just downloading the Ao3 raw forms and printing those out causes me physical pain. There are always, no matter how beautiful the fic is, spelling/grammar mistakes, and the formatting is just...ew.

SO I made a print-able version of Not Easily Conquered (https://archiveofourown.org/series/115516).

The google doc link is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TpGV1aMGwcdUKevNGC6y7P-dzjQHIlmQgjprj-Bgz-k/edit?usp=sharing

If you notice any mistakes or weird page breaks, please let me know and I'll fix them. At some point I'll read through the whole fic in this doc and fix things as I notice them, but right now I'm sick of the fic lol

#not easily conquered #dropdeaddreams #whatarefears #those are the authors #this took so long lmao #like 3 months #stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #marvel #mcu

[brightbeautifulthings]

With Bucky, Steve is covetous. He has seen him in his dreams a hundred times. He has wanted him for a thousand years.

dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears, Not Easily Conquered

#Q: #not easily conquered #stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #dropdeaddream #WhatAreFears #fanfiction #book quotes #books

[originalmkh]

Stucky Fanfic covers, bc I searched the internet like a FIEND and couldn’t find anything that I liked. So I made these. <3 

#stucky #stucky fanart #stucky fanfiction #dropdeaddream #not easily conquered stucky fanfic #the thirteen letters stucky #a long winter stucky #whatarefears #world war 2 stucky fanfic #fanfic book covers

[greekcomedy]

WHATAREFEARS?????? THE AUTHOR OF NOT EASILY CONQUERED?????

#ive made it for real 😭😭😭 #poplars.txt #hello whatarefears your work is everything 2 me

[adventures-in-mangaland]

I'm going with 10 All Time Classics from the Captain America (MCU) fandom. I mean, they're all classics to me, at least. In no particular order:

1. This, You Protect by owlet

First installment in the Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail series, which are all amazing. It's a “Bucky escaping Hydra and rebuilding his sense of self” fic, which he does while spying on Steve. With eventual Avengers Family and a lovely cast of OCs bonding with Bucky in the meantime. It has a very distinctive perspective and writing style; Bucky's in constant internal (and sometimes accidentally external) dialogue with himself, making it hilarious and tragic all at the same time. I love it. I've recently been getting into The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells and this Bucky has a similar sassy-but-vulnerable vibe? Read this if you like that, anyway.

2. The One Who Knows by Dira Sudis (dsudis)

This is a Political Animals AU, in that no-powers Steve is inserted into the Political Animals world and Bucky is TJ. Discusses being outed and depression but is ultimately hopeful. The author is one of my all time faves and has written lots of great stories for this and many other fandoms.

3. Blue Scales by chaya

Steve is a merman AU. He's still Captain America, though. It's crack with heart, I love it.

Best line: "May your scales and your love story be our weird secret forever.”

4. Our Lingering Frost by eyres

AU where Bucky is rescued from Hydra in the 50s (?) and so is around for Steve to be found.

5. Assets Out of Containment by follow_the_sun

It's a classic to *me*, OK? Bucky goes undercover at Jurassic World just as that movie's plot kicks off. They're Hydra dinosaurs! It's just great. Also has a podfic and crossovers with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

6. Not Easily Conquered (series) by dropdeaddream and WhatAreFears

Some of the greatest fanfiction I've ever read, the whole series is epic. Anyway, it's a "Steve doesn't go into the ice" AU with added queer angst when (never sent) love letters from Bucky resurface. I particularly like the second installment in the series The Thirteen Letters, which are just Bucky's letters and are insanely well-written.

7. to memory now I can't recall by Etharei

Time travel AU! Featuring post-CATWS Bucky accidentally switching places with CATFA era Bucky.

8. If Wishing Made It So by Leveragehunters (Monkeygreen)

Genie!Bucky AU! This author is great at writing AUs with fantasy/genre elements, it was hard to choose. They've also written an excellent werewolf!Steve AU and a horse!Steve AU that I really love.

9. Into That Good Night by Nonymos

An Interstellar AU! Very angsty and tragic but with an eventual happy ending.

10. Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Speranza

Speranza must be one of the best writers in the fandom, so it was hard to pick just one of their fics. Other strong contenders were All the Angels and the Saints and The Fifties, so check those out too! But this one has a special place in my heart. Steve, Tony and Natasha accidentally time travel to WW2 London, leading to an accidental run-in with CATFA-era Bucky. The author does tragic and romantic time travel tropes so well, but with a happy ending.

I now realise that most of these are AUs, so here’s a bonus rec for a non-AU in-universe story that’s severely underrated and deserves more love:

+1

Heart, Have No Pity on this House of Bone by Sena

This story follows Bucky in-action in the Pacific Theatre. It’s very well written and, from what I can tell, well researched. Steve only appears in Bucky’s imagination and the story focuses on the horrors of war rather than romance, but it’s gripping! And it explores unrequited love, being closeted and period-typical homophobia, which I also enjoyed. I’m still holding out hope for a sequel.

#wow throwback #found this in my drafts #originally intended for international fanworks day #yikes #anyway #fic recs #fic rec friday #international fanworks day #captain america #fanfiction #mcu #stucky #nostalgia #kind of an old fandom for me now #but still #classic fics #fandom classics #stucky fic recs #stucky fic #my fic recs #my fic rec posts

[aristosmusical]

Not Easily Conquered on AO3 (dropdeaddream and WhatAreFears) // ARISTOS: the Musical (Muse Lee) // Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Stephen Trask) // ARISTOS // “Shine it on Me” (Jimmy Webb) // On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong) // This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone) // ARISTOS

Spotify / YouTube / Apple Music / Instagram

#aristos musical #hedwig and the angry inch #not easily conquered #stucky #shine it on me #ocean vuong #this is how you lose the time war #the iliad #patroclus #achilles #web weaving #parallels #dark academia #light academia

[serotinals]

A Long Winter | The Thirteen Letters | Not Easily Conquered

ao3: dropdeaddreams, WhatAreFears

#nec #not easily conquered #sorry poetry moots! ignore me 💋 #the thirteen letters #stucky #stevebucky #this took WAY. too long to make #I hope some nec lover out there likes it Im kinda blind to if it strikes a chord or not after staring at it for 3 days #yeah its 10 minutes! yeah there's 3 songs! my bad! #and yes this is the ship I hyper fixated on in high school thank you for asking #we are so back! #stucky edit #stucky video #I wanna edit this further so bad but alas my 7 year old MacBook Air can not handle my 10 minute canva video

[damnyoucully]

Omg I just today clocked that in the Red Room flashback in Age of Ultron Julie Delpy says “you are made of marble” to Nat??

FROM NOT EASILY CONQUERED?????

Emily and Ellen my god your minds

#not easily conquered #the red room #age of ultron #natasha romanoff #you are made of marble #dropdeaddreams #whatarefears

[musette22]

For the nonnie who asked: here are some of my all time favourite lengthy Stucky fics (30-200k, mostly multi chapter):

Not Easily Conquered by dropdeaddream, WhatAreFears

This, You Protect by owlet

Home Is Wherever I'm With You by cydonic

Lucky Seven by BetteNoire

Political Animals by @spacerenegades, Deisderium

Wishes and Words by wearing_tearing

A Company Man by @whtaft

Push It Real Good by spoffyumi

The Size of Perfection by @phoenike

Like Real People Do by 2bestfriends

Easy Work For Easy Pay by AustinB

Prince Charming by Brenda

What's in a Name? by levi_cas_tho, maichan

Critical Feline Mass by Kryptaria, zooeyscigar  

Ipseity by SkyisGray

Circling Back by chaya

Ain't No Grave (Can Keep My Body Down) by spitandvinegar 

The Necrofloranomicon by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen)

with all my skin and bone by unicornpoe

He's All That by @spacerenegades

Monoclonius by Zenaidamacrouras1

oh meet me, my darling, where the sun sets over the barley by charlesdk @trancowboy

Coming Home by charlesdk @trancowboy

The Settler by charlesdk @trancowboy

Waking Up Slow by odetteandodile

Family Placement by notlucy

I Held You in Gloved Hands (And I’m Not Letting Go) by @voylitscope

then a small thing happened by BeaArthurPendragon

North Fork by BeaArthurPendragon

Itsy Bitsy Yoga by wearing_tearing

All Those Little Pieces by Ellessey

Bucky Barnes Gets His Groove Back & Other International Incidents @silentwalrus1

Scents and Sensibility: The Working Assassin's Guide to Supersoldier Seduction by galwednesday, silentwalrus, skellerbvvt

Coming Home For Christmas by Chiyume

Chase the Lightning From the Sky by SilverSlashes

These next ones I haven't had a chance to read yet, but I love these authors' other fics so I'm sure these are brilliant too!

lane lines by @sparkagrace

Till It Bleeds Daylight by @cable-knit-sweater

Backhoe by @zenaidamacrouras1

hey now, you're an all star (get your game on, go play) (WIP) by @buckyismybicycle

I was alone, I took a ride (I didn't know what I would find there) by @otp-holic

Till there were no more wolves in the West by @dharmasharks

better to speak or die (WIP) by @between-a-ship-and-a-hard-place

Atoms by @andrea1717

I'm sure I'm forgetting some brilliant ones, so feel free to add to this! Also, please check out these authors' other works too, they're all brilliant <3

#in no particular order except for the first two lol #stucky #steve rogers x bucky barnes #steve rogers #bucky barnes #stevebucky #fic recs #I tried putting half of this under the cut but tumblr is being so difficult today for some reason #so sorry #long post

[brightbeautifulthings]

Working with Steve in the war, it turns out, isn’t that much different from working with Steve back home. This is to say that most of their strategizing consists of Bucky saying no while Steve repeats yes until Bucky finally throws up his hands and also says yes, subsequently regretting every single decision he has ever made in his life leading up to that exact moment.

dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears, Not Easily Conquered

#Q: #steve rogers #bucky barnes #stucky #not easily conquered #dropdeaddream #WhatAreFears #fanfiction #book quotes #books

[rexsterss]

Day 2: Hands and Heart @codex-week

So how long have I loved you for? Womb to tomb, sweetheart. Since before I was even here at all.

— dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears, from Chapter 3: Compilation in ‘The Thirteen Letters’

#once again putting them in a stucky environment lmaooo #not easily conquered i remember you wrenching my heart the first time #codex #codyrex #codexweek2024 #codex week #captain rex #commander cody #the clone wars #star wars #star wars the clone wars #swtcw #tcw art #cloneshipping #clone ship #marsdraws #marsrb

[babygirlyusuf]

Just you and me. Until the end.

a long winter by dropdeaddream & whatarefears // the old guard dir. gina prince-bythewood

#no im fine im normal i promise <3 #andromaquynh #the old guard #my edits #andy #quynh

[clown108]

"It’s like this. You were the best at mythology when we were kids, and I remember one day we

were reading about Icarus. And you remember this, I know you do, but I’m going to tell you the

story again anyway. Icarus made wings out of wax to escape a prison. But when he was outside for

the first time in years there was the sun hanging up in the sky above him and he thought it was the

most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He flew closer and closer and his wings started to melt, but

he didn’t give a good goddamn. He kept flying up until he couldn’t fly anymore, and his eyes were

probably burning, and his skin was probably burning, but still he didn’t care. And then his wings

melted all the way and he fell miles and miles into the ocean and brained himself on a rock, that

poor stupid asshole. And I’ll tell you what: I’m no better. I’m no fucking better."_The Thirteen Letters

by dropdeaddream, WhatAreFears

#digital drawing #digital painting #digital art #fanart #art #artists on tumblr #bucky barnes #stevebucky #pre serum stucky #pre serum steve #steve rogers #stucky fanart #stucky #stucky fandom #the thirteen letters

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: steve rogers survives his crash in the arctic

Authors: @whatarefears

Note from submitter: This is undoubtedly one of the best fics i have ever read to this day, its a real heartstopper, the drama and angst is fantastic and im not even in the fandom anymore but i always come back to this journey of a series

#official fic poll #haveyoureadthisfic #pollblr #tumblr polls #fanfiction #fandom poll #fanfic #fandom culture #internet culture #not easily conquered #marvel #captain america #submitted multiple times #mcu