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Okay, the chibi of Bucky I posted yesterday? I've refined him a bit and have decided to call him "lil buckbuck"...and hopefully create a wee bit of an ongoing series of buckbuck doing things that make him happy. Bucky Barnes deserves happy, and heaven knows we all need more happy ourselves.

So... here we go.


lil buckbuck chasin' butterflies

I'm saving the ones I've skipped for catching up on later, but this one I wanted to do because it also covers one of my New Year's resolutions, the one about making sure I sketch more and making sure I don't let the desire for perfection overwhelm my efforts.

Day 7

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Draft a critical essay about a particular media. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of a Broadway show, a movie, a concert, a poetry reading, a museum trip, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Compose some limericks, haikus, free-form poetry, 5-word stories. Document a particular bit of real person canon. Take some pictures. Draw a stick-figure comic. Create something. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Created this over on tumblr, in response to the extremely bitter cold weather we're experiencing in my part of the US this past week. I was cold and begged for Warm!Bucky headcanons and got so many lovely ones it made me doodle my own. :)
Warm Bucky wrapped in a blanket and wearing the fuzzy socks Tony gave him (thank you anon for that), sitting in front of Steve’s fire, too sleepy to keep reading but too happy and content to move. So he’s just sitting there in the moment, totally at peace… and Steve’s over on the couch laughing at his loopy expression.

Pencil on paper, sketched out while watching the first two episodes of Luke Cage on Netflix (which I loved... Luke is so... classy). The background is basically taken from the Captain America's fireplace holiday video Marvel put out this Christmas. If I ever get a Wacom or another digital art device thing like it, I might go back and re-create it as something more comic-booky. Who knows. But for now, it stands as an exercise in stretching my skills a little and sharing without waiting for it to be 'perfect'.
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Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I've written quite a few fics now for the Captain America fandom. Because they're gen and don't ship stucky as a pairing, I feel like they get a little lost in the crowd at Ao3, especially the one-shots. I like outsider POV stories and the very first Bucky Barnes fic I wrote was one, based on the comic side of Captain America:

That Kid From Brooklyn
According to his dossier, when on a mission on American soil in 1973, the Winter Soldier failed to show up at the extraction point and instead, confused and leaving great unease in his wake, worked his way across America until he boarded a bus in Chicago that took him to New York. A gap-filler, outsider-POV ficlet for the Winter Soldier, because I couldn’t stand the thought of no one showing Bucky any kindness in all that time.



I also wrote an outsider-POV fic as a companion piece to my ongoing story, You Will Call Me Friend, that I think works pretty well as a stand-alone piece,. It paints a picture of the neighborhood Bucky was hiding in while he was in Romania. MCU Civil War based:

Shadow Boy
Surely Bucky made at least one or two friends when he was in Bucharest. I wondered what those friends might be thinking about the day after they came for Bucky. Companion one-shot to "You Will Call Me Friend", specifically Chapter 10, which will be helpful to read first.


The third one is a bit of art. I am no fan artist, or any other kind of artist other than self-taught shamateur doodler, but I do enjoy sketching. This is one that I posted at tumblr, a pencil drawing and nothing fancy compared with most of the fan art in that fandom. It didn't get scads of notes, but I really liked how it came out:





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IT'S FINISHED. Wow. Been a while since I could say I've finished a multi-chapter fic.

Thank you, mrowe, nefhiriel, and imbecamiel for the incredibly helpful beta'ing!

Mr. Fix It
On the run for nearly a year after leaving Steve Rogers on the banks of the Potomac, Bucky's found a quiet hiding place in a city far from there, where he can work on becoming an actual human being again. Update: Now that I've seen CA:CW, this is mostly AU, but will be tied in to movie canon where possible. Complete.

Rated T for language
No pairings Oops, I mean Bucky/Pancakes (aka Buckycakes)

Ao3
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(I can hear y;all sigh with relief, don't think I can't....)

I posted another chapter on Mr. Fix It, if any of you here are reading that one (usual places, Ao3 & ff.net) and got a review yesterday that, despite its brevity, makes me smile:

"Holy poo you're an amazing writer."

That was it. That was the review. XD Much as I love the detailed ones, sometimes the short ones are just as gratifying. I think I'll whisper this one to myself in times of doubt.

Now for some writerly blather about Captain America fic and my own methods and how writing these characters is screwing up my method pretty thoroughly. Read on only if you're interested in reading how another writer agonizes over All The Things...

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For the rest of you who skipped all that navel-gazing, here's one of the cutest pics of Sebastian Stan to come out of the big CA:CW press tour....



Such a cute little ray of sunshine, that man.

The muse bit hard, so Mr. Fix It is now going to be a multi-chapter fic.

Mr. Fix It
Rating: T
Gen
Pairings: none

On the run for nearly a year after leaving Steve Rogers on the banks of the Potomac, Bucky's found a quiet hiding place in a city far from there, where he can work on becoming an actual human being again. No longer a one-shot! The muse ambushed me harder than t'Challa did Bucky. More chapters forthcoming.

Links to Chapter 2:
ff.net
Ao3

I'm sure you've seen this, mrowe, but wow....

This seems like good news:

Captain America: Civil War Reportedly Scoring Well With Test Audiences

Good to know my impending death will be caused by a quality film. :/

Knowing how the comic book Civil War run plays out, and also knowing how the MCU only takes cues from the comics and doesn't necessarily follow the plotline frame by frame, I am by turns excited about this movie and absolutely dreading it. I have no idea where the characters will be by its end, whether dead*, alive, at eternal enmity??? Supposedly, the Russo's have said it contains more humor than CA:TWS, but if the 'third act pulls no punches' bit is true, I'm guessing the humor is mostly front loaded and the end of the movie will wreck everyone completely, regardless of whether they're Team Cap or Team Tony. :/

I'm just hoping I don't ugly cry in a public theater.

Also... VERY spoilery venting VERY COMICS SPOILERY VERY VERY VERY I CANNOT EXPRESS ENOUGH SPOILERY about the comics and my feelings because I need to just vent and tumblr isn't a place where I can vent and feel like anyone actually reads it, still less talk me down from the ledge to me about it.

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... in case you haven't seen the first official Captain America: Civil War trailer that Marvel FINALLY released last night on the Jimmy Kimmel show (about the only thing that will make me watch Kimmel--RDJ and Chris Evans as guests) ETA: putting it under a cut for those who don't want spoilers... I'll be sure to do that from now on with any Cap 3 posts:
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