Sunday Reading List (13st of November, 2022)
So I didn't post a fic last week because I had a lot of stuff going on and it was a struggle to read. Luckily I felt better this week and read a lot of excellent fics. Please give all the authors some love if you read and enjoy their works. Let's appreciate these talented people 💖💖
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The rifle was a hard, solid line across his back. Somewhere above his head the sun was still floating high in the sky. Everything further than ten paces was covered in the same brown, putrid soup. They called it fog, but it was more like a gaseous sludge rolling up from the bay, the smell of burning chemicals and garbage left out to rot on a hot summer day.
In a world that's gone to hell, everybody needs something to anchor them in the moment. Sometimes that thing is the person you thought you'd let go.
A rescue mission gone badly might be what tips the scales.
Steve can't keep his eyes off the sex shop near his flat.
“Saturday. Yeah, that’s good,” Steve says, and actually scuffs his shoe at the ground. Like a ridiculous shy superhero damsel. “Say eight? I live-“
“Yeah, big building with the A on it,” Bucky says, and can’t help a big stupid grin. Steve stares at him, looking a little dazed, and after their whole conversation it’s only now that Bucky’s brain catches up and realises Steve finds him quite attractive. So. Win for Bucky.
“Let me get your number,” Steve says finally, after they’ve stared stupidly at each other for about three hours, taking out his phone.
So they exchange numbers, and then Steve says he should go, and Bucky agrees, and they kind of stare at each other for a bit more, then Steve actually does go, but not before taking Bucky’s hand and squeezing it warmly in a way that makes Bucky want to shiver all over. Then Steve is gone, and Bucky is standing alone in the alley, grinning to himself.
Right up until the moment he remembers that Steve thinks Bucky is an escort he’s just hired.
Gimme Sugar by geneticallydead [Shrunkyclunks, 10,838 words, Explicit]
The first time Steve sees Bucky Barnes, he knows he is so fucked.
He can’t be older than 20.
Golden skin and grey eyes with sinfully long eyelashes, a chaotic nest of gelled curls on his head, wearing an almost-transparent grey t-shirt paired with impossibly tight black jeans over his endless legs. He looks up when Steve comes into the lab – summoned by Tony to check out the latest suit redesign – and bites down on his plush lower lip and smiles shyly at Steve.
Bucky wants to be Steve's sugar baby, and isn't exactly shy about it.
Bucky clears his throat and finishes creating his ridiculously large latte. “You may have heard that Steve and I are living together,” he says awkwardly. Natasha raises an eyebrow at him. “What you may not know is that I pursued Steve pretty aggressively. And it was really, really worth it. So.”
Bucky smirks at them and sips his coffee.
Steve, with his natural brilliant timing, steps out of the elevator at that exact moment. All heads swivel in his direction, eyebrows raised. He blinks at everyone’s faces of blatant speculation, blushes, and looks at Bucky in confusion.
“Reeaaallllly worth it,” Bucky adds.
“Congratulations on sexually satisfying your partner, Steven!” Thor booms, and raises his coffee mug in toast.
Or, Bucky got his sugar daddy, Steve asked him to move in after less than a day together… now what?
No Condom Day by geneticallydead [Shrunkyclunks, 3,759 words, Explicit]
It’s hard to remember now that until a week ago Bucky was technically a virgin. That makes Steve not only the first person he’s had intercourse with, but the person introducing him to most sexual experiences. Steve is Bucky’s first for just about everything.
He’ll never admit it, but Steve loves that.
“S’not gonna fuck itself,” Bucky says after Steve sits staring for too long, and wriggles his ass.
Steve and Bucky got tested and now they can ditch the condoms. Porn ensues!
“You had a question for me” Bucky said to the strange creature in the water. The tentacle wriggled and then pulled back a little. Bucky found himself missing it.
“I do” the cecaelia before him said calmly. Yet then his brow furrowed just the slightest and he tilted his head, as if he was measuring Bucky out. The water rippled softly about him in the misty night as he moved half a feet backwards, floating effortlessly. “My siren sisters told me of one sailor that did not seem to listen to their song. One who did not move closer, but rather kept away. It is not often my sisters come across a man they cannot spellbound. And my question is, if that young sailor might have been you?” he asked.
Or; Bucky is a pirate whose ship is attacked by mermaids, but he makes it out alive. That night, a cecaelia calling himself 'Steve' visits him, wanting to get to know him better.
Bucky knew that works of art were meant to be kept in a museum, treasured by all who encountered them. Perhaps it was selfish to keep this one to himself, but Bucky couldn’t find it in him to care.
A lazy Sunday morning turns into a headache when the FBI approach Bucky while he’s buying cat food at the grocery store.
Thankfully, he isn’t their target this time… but if he’s not… who is?
Steve picks Bucky up from the airport after a teachers' conference.
“Are you Steve Rogers?” He asked, a smirk on his obscenely pink lips as he opened his mouth to ask again, “Pin-up artist, Steve Rogers?”
Steve responded with a nod and a timid “Yes.” He wasn't uncomfortable with being approached,but this was the first time that another man such as himself recognized him for his art - and not only that, but recognized him out in public. The man beside him had such a strong personality and approach, and the liquor on his lips, making them appear glossy in the dim and uneven lighting of the bar, was enchanting enough to get Steve’s full attention.
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Steve is a pin-up artist and Bucky, a WW2 sergeant, really loves his work.
“JAMES BUCHANAN BARNES, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?”
Bucky raises his head from the furry white ferrets rubbing their faces into his chest. He went to PetCo to look at some birdseed, because he likes putting birdseed out on Steve’s balcony because he likes seeing the Hummingbirds that come for the nectar- basically sugar water, and the Cardinals and Bluejays that come for the actual seed. And there were two albino ferrets that were going to be dumped had nobody bought them. So… Bucky bought them. And he bought their giant-ass cages, and the expensive food. Steve might be pissed. But the ferrets like him!
“Steve is coming over here in five fucking minutes! Impulsively buying ferrets doesn't cure depression!” Natasha yells before reaching for the ferrets, only for the female to let out the damn-near adorable hiss. “Ah! What the fuck! We need to get rid of these! How much did you spend on them?”
“Five hundred dollars for both of them…”
Doctor Steve Rogers decides to pay for sex for a night. What he didn't expect was Bucky Barnes.
Q is for... by roe87 [Omegaverse, 4,404 words, Teen and Up]
Bucky, shy and awkward baby-queer, attends another peer group session where Steve is group leader.
Bucky has so many questions about coming out, and doesn't want to talk during group, so Steve takes him to dinner to talk.
Buck Me by OhCaptainMyCaptain [Stucky AU, 32,103 words, Explicit]
Steve's been friends with Bucky for fourteen years. Unfortunately, he's also been in love with him for nearly just as long. He's been pretty good at hiding that over the past few years - until he follows a porn link one night and accidentally discovers that his best friend is secretly a camboy. Steve really shouldn't watch those videos... Not with the filthy things Bucky does to himself that gets him screaming every time he comes...
He shouldn't... he really fucking shouldn't.
It’s not that Bucky doesn’t like his job. It’s just that, given the choice, he’d much prefer to start his working day around noon instead of at 8.30am. He’s never been a morning person – though to be fair, it’s not like he’s particularly an evening person, either. Sometimes he feels like he’s barely even a person. And yet, despite his distaste for early wake-up calls, Bucky’s favorite part of the day has to be his morning commute to work.
Because every day on the 7.24am train, Bucky gets to see the man of his dreams.
AU meet-cute. Strangers on a train, but with less murder and more sexual tension.
steve and bucky are late to fury's birthday party because steve rogers is very easily manipulated into sex Also pregnant bucky in his his lovely dresses.
Target is a great place to make new strides in your relationship, especially when it means calling your big bear of a boyfriend Daddy. Just ask Steve.
WIPs
Bucky is a hot, famous, Omega movie star.
But his latest movie hits a snag when his Alpha male co-star quits right before shooting the first scenes!
Luckily, the new Alpha actor brought in is a total dish and Bucky really likes him...
Steve is tired of feeling sad and disgusted by his own body. When he complains to Natasha about another Tinder date gone horribly wrong, she convinces him to take some of the pressure off himself by hiring a sex worker to take his virginity. After all, they'll really know what they're doing, and it will probably be sexy and hot in all the ways Steve is worried his first time won't be.
What he doesn't expect is to open the hotel door where he's supposed to have the meetup to his best friend, Bucky. Bucky may have been lying to Steve about his line of work... and if Steve had to guess, he'd say Bucky is just as surprised to find Steve in the place of his client.
Bucky decides to fuck him anyway.
Oh, and did Steve mention that he's been in love with Bucky since he was 12? There's no way this is going to end well.
Criminal: UK by roe87 [Modern Stucky, 14,547 words, General]
Kamala joins an elite interrogation unit in London for work experience (and to check they're not doing anything wrong).
Through her people watching of the team, she happens to notice that one of her new colleagues (Bucky) has a crush on someone at work (Steve).
After a difficult therapy session, Steve knew Bucky needed something to cheer him up. The decision to start watching romcoms soon leads them down a path of new and amazing adventures.
Bucky first met Steve while the leaves were turning into shades of red, orange and yellow.
A story about falling in love, loving while being deeply traumatised, watching your entire life fall apart, and then putting it all back together.
