Fandom Meme, 13 & 14
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osprey_archer13. Do you prefer art, fic, or vids? Why? Bonus: If someone was to give you a fandom gift, what format would it be?
I like both fic and art, but I almost never watch vids. My brain just works less well with video for some reason.
14. A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
This isn’t a case of someone in particular changing my mind, but there is a corner of Captain America fandom which is obsessed with Rumlow, and that made me low-key ship Steve/Rumlow in a dirtybadwrong kind of way. Think about it: Steve has just woken up after 66 years in suspended animation on the ice. He’s adrift in a new world, with few ties or emotional connections. Rumlow, as his colleague on the STRIKE team, is probably one of the closest things he has to a friend… and Rumlow, as a secret Hydra operative, has every reason to want to get closer. Close enough, if possible, to compromise Steve’s judgment, even to lure him into Hydra…
Of course Rumlow does not succeed in this operation, but imagine Steve’s shocked horror at finding himself betrayed by his new best friend/lover. (His new Bucky, he caught himself thinking once, traitorously.) Because if there’s one thing Steve needs, it’s a new source of suffering in his life, am I right?
I like both fic and art, but I almost never watch vids. My brain just works less well with video for some reason.
14. A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
This isn’t a case of someone in particular changing my mind, but there is a corner of Captain America fandom which is obsessed with Rumlow, and that made me low-key ship Steve/Rumlow in a dirtybadwrong kind of way. Think about it: Steve has just woken up after 66 years in suspended animation on the ice. He’s adrift in a new world, with few ties or emotional connections. Rumlow, as his colleague on the STRIKE team, is probably one of the closest things he has to a friend… and Rumlow, as a secret Hydra operative, has every reason to want to get closer. Close enough, if possible, to compromise Steve’s judgment, even to lure him into Hydra…
Of course Rumlow does not succeed in this operation, but imagine Steve’s shocked horror at finding himself betrayed by his new best friend/lover. (His new Bucky, he caught himself thinking once, traitorously.) Because if there’s one thing Steve needs, it’s a new source of suffering in his life, am I right?
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Date: 2021-07-25 02:14 pm (UTC)Also SOMEONE wrote a heartbreaking story where Steve "mistook" Rumlow for Bucky but it really WAS Bucky, I wonder who that was....
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Date: 2021-07-25 02:58 pm (UTC)I REGRET NOTHING, and I'm sure that Rumlow piggybacks shamelessly on this incident to worm his way into Steve's trust and friendship and possibly also his pants. Steve probably cries after sex, not because he cries after sex in general but because he's just feeling so displaced and sad, and Rumlow tries to make his voice sound as Bucky-like as possible as he murmurs, "Don't worry about it, punk," and tugs STeve's hair.
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Date: 2021-07-25 03:14 pm (UTC)YES
(that moment in the elevator scene where Rumlow's all "Whoah big guy!" and I was like, THAT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A WORK BUDDY)
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Date: 2021-07-25 05:27 pm (UTC)Steve of course is dying to snuggle but he would never ask.
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Date: 2021-07-25 05:59 pm (UTC)Oooh good point about Rumlow def not wanting to get put on the record like that. He's a slippery guy. Maybe if he did come over once or twice, he'd be almost totally silent, like just grunting ("Bad day"). (Poor Steve.) I LOVE the idea of a safehouse. Maybe they even wind up staying in the same safehouse a couple of times. Or bunk up in the same hotel on a mission. (THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED.) There's how much time between Avengers and Winter Soldier when Steve is okay with "being Nick Fury's janitor" (LOL)? Plenty of time for some long-term missions!
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Date: 2021-07-25 07:24 pm (UTC)They have lots of after-mission safe house sex, but when Rumlow comes by Steve's place one time and Steve sort of vaguely hints in a sexy direction, Rumlow reacts in a way that makes Steve wonder if he somehow imagined the whole safe house thing. Or maybe this is some Bro Code thing he just doesn't get?
I can also just imagine Rumlow hinting at things with Steve and Bucky, like, God, you two were real close, weren't you? And Steve is just... unsure what to do with this.
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Date: 2021-07-27 09:42 am (UTC)Also of course then you can have the (AU) sudden realisation that Snoke was deliberately setting them against each other to avoid them challenging him, leading inevitably to the thought that possibly Snoke is redundant to the future success of the First Order...
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Date: 2021-07-27 10:59 pm (UTC)and Steve is so vulnerable at that moment, too...
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Date: 2021-07-28 04:02 am (UTC)ahahaha mmm there's definitely a corner of HTP that goes into this. I avoid those fics on purpose, but I know they exist. :)
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