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I’m bored and feeling extra salty and nostalgic after watching Captain America: Winter Solider, so I’m gonna need to vent really quick. 

So you’re telling me…after all this.. 

And the obvious—nearly tangible sexual tension. Intense stares and both of them initiating unnecessary physical contact just to touch each other. 

Constantly emotionally confiding in each other before anyone else. No matter how bad the situation was. 

Multiple kisses and clear flirting from Nat and heart eyes from Steve. Body language!

Steve putting himself in harms way to protect Nat on multiple occasions throughout the mcu. 

The literally tens of times they silently communicate. Showing how connected they truly are. 

Literally being attached at the hip in every appearance. Constant foreshadowing and coupling symbolism.

That Marvel still.. STILL didn’t make them official? STILL?! What more do you need—alright i’m gonna just go in.

Peggy literally said to Steve in WS “all we can do is our best; and sometimes that best we can do is start over.” This was clearly meant to refer to Natasha and Steve moving on and living his life. It’s as clear as day that this is what that scene was meant to foreshadow and allude to. Acceptance, healing and overall growth. 

Peggy said “my only regret is that you didn’t get to live yours {his life}.” Peggy didn’t want Steve moping around and hung up on something that happened almost a century ago. She loved him, and it was very clear that she was giving him permission to move on and grow. Plus she already had a husband and kids over the course of her life.

Peggy said “start over” “none of us can go back”. The Russo’s put these lines in the film and still decided to make Steve go backwards in his arc and be with Peggy. He went backwards. This not only anticlimactic but also not healthy. The next course of events for Steve’s arc should’ve been to accept what happened, heal and find his freedom by moving forward with Nat. Not constantly obsessing over a compass and being blind to the love right next to him because of it. 

It baffles me how Marvel/The Russo’s had Steve giving Nat heart eyes one minute then ignoring her the next because of a compass. I get it he’s a man out of time, I get that he misses Peggy and has this yearning inside him. But this should’ve been resolved after Peggy’s death in CW. 

Now you not only have Steve obsessing over a woman from almost a century ago. But now a dead woman from almost a century ago. While being blind to the partner that fate has brought him in Natasha Romanoff. 

Poor and lazy writing. It’s painting Steve as this obsessive creep with no emotional coping tactics so for over a decade he fawns over the picture of a woman that he last 70 years ago. Rather than making an effort to move on like any other normal person. 

Marvel failed to give Steve any real emotional depth. The only internal struggle they tried to give him was looking at that compass every once and a while. They never even introduced the idea of healing from his loss and accepting his circumstances in the future with his new family. It was always ‘Bucky this, Peggy that, 1940′s, old man jokes’. When realistically Steve and Natasha alike would be dealing with some serious emotional issues. His heartbreak and yearning for a time long past. Her childhood trauma and trust issues. Issues that we occasionally saw them confide in each other for before any one else. They clearly had a strong foundation of trust in their relationship. Which is saying something especially on Nat’s end. 

Everything, everything had been lined up BY MARVEL THEMSELVES for Steve and Nat to be the next Pepper and Tony. But the never executed when everything was perfectly set for them. 

The foreshadowing with Steve and Nat is so prominent throughout the entire mcu. On the scale of obvious and subtle. And we know that marvel does everything on purpose. And yet they tripped at the finish line and never sealed the deal on the couple that should’ve been.

Not Steve and Peggy. ❌

Not Natasha and Bruce. ❌

Not Steve and Sharon.❌

But Steve and Natasha. ✅

Steve and Natasha should have been together period. There are no if’s and’s or but’s. It was foreshadowed through the entire mcu. Purposely BY MARVEL. They were soulmates, two sides of the same coin, they balanced each other. Steve and Nat had one of the strongest and best relationships in the entire mcu. Even going back to their first meeting. There’s always been a spark. They’ve always had this unspoken thing.

Even silent exchanges between the two. Going back to avengers 1 Steve and Natasha immediately clicked upon meeting while the others were trying to murder each other. When they walked on the deck of the helicarrier together. When Steve launched Nat into the air mid-battle and she caught onto the chituari ship. And Steve had that ‘what a woman’ look as he looked at her in awe. This was their FIRST MOVIE and their future relationship and chemistry was already put into place. 

Put into place by the same man who later decided to come out of left field with that Black Widow-Hulk storyline. Like, what?!

Steve was the only person for Natasha and Natasha was the only person for Steve. All of Marvel other attempts at giving them romance outside of each other was terribly forced and not fleshed out enough to be believable.

Steve and Sharon was forced and made zero sense. That kiss in CW was poorly timed and not built up to at all. It was just like “hey you’re here let’s kiss cause why not?”

It 👏🏾made 👏🏾no 👏🏾sense! Especially considering all the tension, mutual trust and foreshadowing that the Russo’s have consciously and purposely wrote into Steve and Nat’s relationship.  Steve and Sharon had only about ten minutes of screen time together across WS and CW and now suddenly they’re kissing? They smiled at each other once. They had no chemistry. I swear the Russo’s just wrote that in cause it was convenient. How did that make sense or progress the story or their arcs at all? It was so random. Not to mention the fact that since the Russo’s wanted to put Steve with Peggy (after foreshadowing Romanogers in all their films); Sharon is technically his great-niece. They knew this and still forced the kiss and forced a way to put Steve with Peggy instead of with Nat. Why? 

Nat and Bruce was beyond forced, out of the blue and made even less sense. Where did Bru*eNat even come from? Especially coming off of WS. They never even tried to explain where this random Widow-Hulk storyline came from. So Nat just randomly has no memory of all of the things her and Steve went through together? The kiss, the flirting, having each other’s back, the sexual tension? Her and Steve just randomly forgot about that? 

They bedroom scene with Bruce and Nat in AoU is almost cringeworthy cause the whole time I’m thinkin ‘when tf did this happen?” Seriously when, how, why? Bruce and Natasha are not and should’ve been a thing. Their interactions have never even been slightly romantic. No all of the sudden Nat’ s all over him after being lowkey scarred by the incident with the Hulk in A1. 

And Steve is too busy staring at a compass and Nat has this random romance with Bruce after like three completely bland scenes together in avengers 1. Joss Whedon clearly didn’t know how to handle female characters (that said he didn’t even handle Cap well) and he just wanted to fit in the actually pretty sexist ‘pretty lady and a monster’ trope. Hence he forced it into the narrative of AoU. When it made no sense whatsoever and came completely out of left-field. 

Steve and Sharon should’ve never kissed and Bru*eNat should’ve never been even insinuated to be a thing. That’s not even just my opinion, that is just common sense and basic understanding. Honestly I could probably bring up hundreds of points about why romanogers should’ve been made official. I could write an entire encyclopedia. 

Nat came to comfort Steve after Peggy died. Steve called to see if Nat was okay after the UN was attacked. Nat betrayed Team Iron Man because of Steve. Not because she disagreed with the accords, but because she felt loyal to Steve Rogers as a person and as a partner. 

Especially by IW they should’ve already been a thing. You’re telling me that these two breathtakingly gorgeous people never even thought of going down on each other? Especially after CW when they were on the run together for TWO YEARS? What are they robots too now? Sexuality and emotion were completely left out in regards to Steve and Nat and each other. Like hello, they should’ve at least kissed in the bedroom scene in WS. That scene legit felt like the beginning of a porno and nothing. The Russo’s had to intentionally write these scenes this way.

But why? Just to not go through with the reoccurring theme that you’ve been keeping up for six years. Endgame was their last chance; and they flopped. 

So after Steve shed one single tear after Nat died in Endgame; he’s suddenly okay now and goes to marry the woman that he kissed once 70 years ago? Get tf out of here with that mess? What? No grief, no mourning. He knew Nat for 12 years and he moves on in a few hours. But he kisses Peggy once and he’s still obsessed with her almost a century later? Really, really marvel? 

Marvel completely and utterly failed Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff and shippers of the two. And in regards to their failure surrounding the canonizing of romanogers, they failed as storytellers. 

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tidal // steve rogers 🌊

↳ summary: tony doesn’t trust his kid and steve has to play mediator, although those duties don’t come without a reward

↳ relationship: dad’s best friend!steve rogers x stark!reader

↳ request: steve defending his soft girl when she starts crying when someone yelled at her…maybe she thanks him by putting her mouth to good use @donutloverxo + what about dad’sbestfriend!steve x reader?…I need me some Steve please!! (anon)

↳ word count: 5.4k (this has no business being this long)

↳ warnings: angst, smut, dirty talk, slight degradation, some light fluff kinda

↳ author’s note: i do love a stark!reader so this was so much fun for me - enjoy my loves! x

The relationship that you have with your father is complicated. It reminds you acutely of the foamy sea that you used to tentatively wade in and simply stare at with a wide-eyed, childlike fascination when your parents took you to the Maldives or Seychelles or Ivory Coast, each summer a different place and a different tide. There’s a sense of predictability to it, a routine you have in a language that is understandable to nobody but the two of you. He pushes and you pull, coordinating your movements in a choreographed dance so as to safely row your canoe filled to the brim with trust and love through the rocky seas of life. 

He’s made a mark on you that will always be a permanent imprint on your soul much like the way that water stains the surface of the sand but it’s not as if you perceive that as something negative. You attribute the best parts of yourself to your mother and father and although their DNA isn’t housed inside your body, you’re more Tony’s child than he could have ever asked for. He hears so much of him in the tone of your voice and sees Pepper whenever you cross your arms over your chest and pin him with a look he knows too well - her influence is all over your mannerisms - and the both of them in the charming brightness of your smile when you let yourself laugh freely.

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Fanfic writers appreciation

I think fanfic writers deserve to be treated with love for all the hard work they do so I'll make a post for all the writers I respect and love!

Chris Evans

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I hope I didn't leave any out. Feel free to add on!

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Slow Like Honey Masterpost (Complete)

Summary:  The gossip that buzzes around in the teacher’s lounge is that sweet, sensitive, divorcé Steve Rogers is hot-for-teacher. His daughter’s first-grade teacher, to be exact. Steve Rogers x Reader –

(*) denotes NSFW

Part I: Teacher Appreciation Week

Part II: Slow Like Honey

Part III: Heavy With Mood

Part IV: The First Taste*

Part V: Twenty Years and a Month*

Part VI: Three Conversations

Part VII: Try Again

Part VIII: Never is a Promise*

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netflix really did that ahahahahaha

no one can touch brie larson lol

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i hate his face i hate his chest tattoo peeking out i hate his hair and i especially hate how low his voice is here i hate i hate i hate

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remember how low chris’ voice dropped when he said he wants to be a daddy because i sure af do

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steve and the reader sneaking away from their wedding reception to fuck ?? 🥺👉🏾👈🏾

Anon, you think just like I do. You have my heart.

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Natasha and Sam have only noticed you and Steve have disappeared when it’s too late for them to do anything about it.

“Have you seen them?” Nat asks. She has to raise her voice to be heard over the music despite the fact that Sam is standing right next to her.

Sam shakes his head. “Nope,” he yells back, eyes searching the dance floor, squinting in the dim light. “I thought they were dancing?”

You were dancing. Just a few minutes ago you’d been jumping along with Nat to a hip hop song from way too long ago, laughing and shouting along the lyrics even though they were too fast for you to get right. Steve had been right there with you, and Bucky and Clint and Sam and Tony— everyone had been there, enjoying themselves celebrating the two newlyweds and then— boom. Gone.

Both bride and groom, nowhere to be found.

Nat bites her lip in worry, eyes darting around the room. “The speeches are supposed to start in ten minutes.”

Bucky walks over from where he’d been dancing with Morgan, her flower girl dress sweaty and soaked through. Natasha and Sam explain the situation, rolling their eyes at the no, duh look on Bucky’s face.

“‘S enough time for a quickie,” Bucky shrugs, a knowing smile on his lips spreading wide. “Oh, come on. You know that’s what they’re doing.”

In the back of her mind, Natasha knows. Of course, Sam knows, too. They still refuse to believe it.

Because in all the years you and Steve have been together, everyone thought you’d at least respect your own damn wedding.

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“I used to say I’d know you anywhere, but it’s getting harder.”

— Margaret Atwood, “Shapechangers in Winter” from Morning in the Burned House

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Tangier

Summary: It’s the year 1947 and Bucky Barnes rules New York. He falls in love with a lounge singer with a voice like heaven after a deal gone wrong. Mobster AU. 40′s AU

Pairing: Mob Boss!Bucky x Reader

Word Count: 4959

Warnings: Smut and violence 

A/N: Please let me know how this is!. I really love it. Like really really love it. But I’m a bit worried I botched the whole Mobster thing. Also thank you to @velvetofyourheart for always encouraging me and giving me such good ideas. <3 

Her hand is still against his chest, fingers digging lightly into flushed, sweaty skin, when he reaches over for the pack of cigarettes on the bedside table.

She’s watching him, her gaze light against his skin, eyes fucked out and sated. “Got somethin’ to say, doll?”

“You shouldn’t smoke,” comes her voice, low and smooth like velvet, like satin and angel’s wings against his ears. It’s the voice he’d fallen in love with the night he had walked into that smoky longue. She had been singing, her voice the most beautiful thing he’d ever heard. A deal gone wrong later, he had helped the girl from the floor amid broken glass and blood, not a single thread of fear to be found in those hooded, sensual eyes.

She looked at him with sweetness, not fear. “What if they come back?” She had asked, fingers tightening just a fraction around his. “What’ll I do if they come back?”

Bucky had lifted her hand and pressed a kiss to her knuckles, “You ain’t gotta worry about that, sweetheart. We’ll take care of you.”

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From the VMA incident in 2009, to now. Every battle we’ve crossed, we’ve survived. Our love and support is with you always. @taylorswift we stand with you, we support you, we love you.

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rumor has it.

Steve Rogers || word count: 4,000 || Professor AU.

» this is one of my submissions for @buckygrantbarnes‘s writing challenge! it’s my first time writing Steve and smut (consider that your warning), so all feedback appreciated!! 

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sunrise.

Steve Rogers || 18+ || word count: 978 || goodbyes are always the hardest.

» for @propertyofpoeandbucky​​, inspired by the song Babe by Piolo Pascual.

warnings: bit of smut.

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Oppourtunity (Part Two to “Notice”)

warnings: swearing

pairings: Steve Rogers x reader

Part 2 of Notice

Y/N flinched as the morning sun shone through her window. Shoving her face back into her pillow, she internally moaned. The soreness of yesterday was finally setting in to its full extent. She felt aches running throughout her body, she barely wanted to move. She started to stretch slightly when she realized the position she was in. Peeking up from her pillow, she found herself firmly pulled against Roger’s frame. Her arm rested across his chest, hand resting just under his jaw. One of his arms was wrapped around her torso as the other held her arm against him. Out of shock Y/N turned over too quickly, accidentally catching Steve’s neck as she did. 

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Notice

Pairing: Steve Rogers x reader

Warnings: angst, swearing, mild gore, exhaustion

Dedicated to: @babyblue-07

She remembered fighting, she remembered winning. But she didn’t remember getting the gash on her side.

Sam and Nat held her upright, her hand clutching her waist as they struggled to step into the quinjet.

“You’re okay Y/N, we’ve got you. It’s gonna be okay.” Sam said quickly, eyes filling with concern. She grunted as the pain shot up to her chest. “Fuck, it hurts.”

Nat cringed, blood smearing on her side as she tried lifting Y/N over the bump at the doors. “Close the door Bucky, close the doors!”

As the jet started taking off, they stumbled, making Y/N scream out in pain. Steve was pacing the deck, hand covering his mouth at a loss for words.

“You disobeyed an order. You could’ve got yourself killed.” He snarled, clearly furious.

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a one shot, in which steve x reader are together - openly. during their the last battle with thanos, steve becomes dumb, selfless steve again. angst! and fluff toward the end. requests are open! and so is my tag list!!

This was bad. You knew this was bad. It was you and Steve. It always did just come down to the two of you, the exhaustible hold he had over your heart would have you following him anywhere. Worse than New York - worse than Sokovia, it was worse than anything anybody had experienced. The emotion surrounding the fight was mammoth, Steve ultimately feeling as if this was his fault. He went into that damned fight wanting to make up for everything everybody else had lost in the past five years. He did. He fulfilled his wish twice over.

The gauntlet sat, alone. You knew what Steve was going to do before it happened, and all you could do is stand and stare at the love of your life make the most reckless decision he had ever made. Late nights at three AM when the blonde poured his heart out to you emphasised the guilt he felt. Guilt over something he could never have predicted, nor have prevented. But that’s the type of man Steve was. The reason you fell in love with him. The selflessness that filled him always made your heart soar with pride - ever since you first met him.

The memory brought a smile to your your face, but in spite of the situation it soon fell, tears silently falling down your cheeks.

Watching Steve stride toward the discarded gauntlet made bile rise up in your throat. He felt like he had to do this, that he had to change the way this played out for people. Ultimately, he had already sacrificed himself once - he could do it again. You knew he would. “Steve!” You call, pushing yourself toward the blonde. “Don’t.” Your voice was inaudible, the tears beginning to fall from your eyes. All you could do was stand and watch him. Watch the love of your life do this - again. Losing him was a reality you didn’t want to live with. 
“I have to, baby.” His response was short, assertive. His mind had been made up a long time before then, you knew. You swallowed, sending him a watery smile.

Steve’s eyes expressed everything he wanted to say, but couldn’t. He felt as if this was his destiny, his purpose in life. You knew he was destined for so much more but your throat ran dry and you’d struggle to push them out.

It was as if time just stopped. A ceasefire of some kind. Everybody had seen what that man was about to do. A stupid, but selfless move. You closed your eyes, you couldn’t watch. You couldn’t watch him sacrifice himself.

The clearing of a throat snapped you out of your daze, hastily scrubbing away the tears from your cheeks. “He wants to see you,” Bucky said, offering you a smile. All you could do was nod. You didn’t trust your voice.

“I thought I lost you,” You whispered, your voice not recognisable to your own ears. A hand wrapped around yours, squeezing onto your flesh. You heard that chuckle you’d been missing. You then knew he was going to be okay. “It wasn’t meant to go this far. I swear, baby.” 
All you could do was laugh, pressing your lips against the blonde hair that sat atop of his head. “Never again. Don’t do that to me again,” You whimpered, and Steve just nodded, pulling you into his side. A smile pulled onto your features, he wasn’t going anywhere.

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a one shot, in which steve x reader are together - openly. during their the last battle with thanos, steve becomes dumb, selfless steve again. angst! and fluff toward the end. requests are open! and so is my tag list!!

This was bad. You knew this was bad. It was you and Steve. It always did just come down to the two of you, the exhaustible hold he had over your heart would have you following him anywhere. Worse than New York - worse than Sokovia, it was worse than anything anybody had experienced. The emotion surrounding the fight was mammoth, Steve ultimately feeling as if this was his fault. He went into that damned fight wanting to make up for everything everybody else had lost in the past five years. He did. He fulfilled his wish twice over.

The gauntlet sat, alone. You knew what Steve was going to do before it happened, and all you could do is stand and stare at the love of your life make the most reckless decision he had ever made. Late nights at three AM when the blonde poured his heart out to you emphasised the guilt he felt. Guilt over something he could never have predicted, nor have prevented. But that’s the type of man Steve was. The reason you fell in love with him. The selflessness that filled him always made your heart soar with pride - ever since you first met him.

The memory brought a smile to your your face, but in spite of the situation it soon fell, tears silently falling down your cheeks.

Watching Steve stride toward the discarded gauntlet made bile rise up in your throat. He felt like he had to do this, that he had to change the way this played out for people. Ultimately, he had already sacrificed himself once - he could do it again. You knew he would. “Steve!” You call, pushing yourself toward the blonde. “Don’t.” Your voice was inaudible, the tears beginning to fall from your eyes. All you could do was stand and watch him. Watch the love of your life do this - again. Losing him was a reality you didn’t want to live with. 
“I have to, baby.” His response was short, assertive. His mind had been made up a long time before then, you knew. You swallowed, sending him a watery smile.

Steve’s eyes expressed everything he wanted to say, but couldn’t. He felt as if this was his destiny, his purpose in life. You knew he was destined for so much more but your throat ran dry and you’d struggle to push them out.

It was as if time just stopped. A ceasefire of some kind. Everybody had seen what that man was about to do. A stupid, but selfless move. You closed your eyes, you couldn’t watch. You couldn’t watch him sacrifice himself.

The clearing of a throat snapped you out of your daze, hastily scrubbing away the tears from your cheeks. “He wants to see you,” Bucky said, offering you a smile. All you could do was nod. You didn’t trust your voice.

“I thought I lost you,” You whispered, your voice not recognisable to your own ears. A hand wrapped around yours, squeezing onto your flesh. You heard that chuckle you’d been missing. You then knew he was going to be okay. “It wasn’t meant to go this far. I swear, baby.” 
All you could do was laugh, pressing your lips against the blonde hair that sat atop of his head. “Never again. Don’t do that to me again,” You whimpered, and Steve just nodded, pulling you into his side. A smile pulled onto your features, he wasn’t going anywhere.

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