Eirlyssas Bucky Barnes Bingo Masterlist

Eirlyssa’s Bucky Barnes Bingo Masterlist

For the @buckybarnesbingo. In case anyone wonders about the pairing of any given fill - just assume WinterIron or pre-WinterIron...

B1 - Height Difference Inconvenience - fic - Rating: Gen

B5 - AU: Fantasy World In Your Eyes - fic - Rating: T

U1 - AU: Fairytale Tale As Old As Time [chapter 1] - fic, unfinished - Rating: T

C1 - Abandonment Issues Never Let Me Go [chapter 3] - fic - Rating: T

C2 - Protectiveness One Call Away - fic - Rating: T

C3 - FREE SQUARE Force (Be With Us) - fic - Rating: T

C5 - WinterIron (Bucky/Tony) Show Me The Stars - fic - Rating: Gen

K1 - Recovering Bucky Mrs. Polkin - fic - Rating: Gen

K2 - Bed Sharing Loneliness Can't Touch Me (When You Are) - moodboard and snippet - Rating: Gen

K3 - Science and Magic Got Me So Crazy In Love - moodboard and snippet - Rating: T

Y1 - AU: Wings Beautiful Soul - fic - Rating: T

Y4 - Hurt/Comfort Hold Me Close - fic - Rating: T

Y5 - Magic Bewitched - moodboard and snippet - Rating: Gen

I am absolutely ecstatic!! This fic is so gorgeous and amazing and I am so, so happy with my gift!! Thank you so much @betheflame for this 💙💙💙

NEW FIC: Maybe I’m Amazed

“Tony,” Bucky called out to alert the other boy to his presence. Tony’s head snapped up and turned in Bucky’s direction.

“Barnes, I’m fine, I don’t need rescuing.” Tony’s voice sounded tired and Bucky’s heart hurt.

“Good, because that’s Stevie’s job,” Bucky replied easily.

Tony barked out a laugh. “You’re trying to tell me that you asked me to dance because you wanted to? Hilarious.”

“Yes,” Bucky said simply as he reached Tony’s side. “I asked you to dance because I wanted to.”

Tony blinked a few times - as though needing to process that piece of information - before he glanced back down at his wings. “Yes, they’re fake. How did you know? No one ever knows.”

Bucky shrugged. “I pay attention.”

“To what? To me?” Tony laughed. “Why would you do that?”

“Because you’re beautiful,” Bucky said quickly, before he lost his nerve.

~*~

Read on A03 - part of the @winterironholidayexchange for @eirlyssa

Fic Preference Meme

Copy/paste and bold your fic preferences because why not, gotta choose one (near impossible, but go with your first gut instinct), and tag someone because, again, why not.

slow burn or love at first sight

fake dating or secret dating

enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers

oh no there’s only one bed or long-distance with correspondence

hurt/comfort or amnesia (yes all the hurt/comfort)

high school romance or middle aged romance (uncertain about this one, sorry)

fantasy au or modern au

mutual pining or domestic bliss

smut or fluff

canon compliant (missing scenes) or fix-it fic  

alternate universe or future fic

one-shot or multi-chapter (anything I can get)

kid fic or roadtrip fic (de-aged, that is, or when the characters are younger than in canon)

reincarnation or character death (I do not like unhappy endings xD )

arranged marriage or accidental marriage

time travel or isolated together (time travel, to me, is iffy)

neighbours or roommates

sci-fi au or magic au (I literally cannot pick I love both)

bodyswap or genderbend

angst or crack (but, like, with a happy ending)

apocalyptic or mundane

Tagging (only if you want to - feel free to ignore this otherwise): @menatiera @the-kitteh @kimannhart @rebelmeg @letsallsleepoverwork @journeythroughtherain

There’s always a lingering question that I ask myself, which is why do I, a cis bisexual woman, enjoy romance between two men so much?  

There are easy answers, like that it’s just fetishizing.  And like, I find men attractive, yes.  But I also find women attractive.  I don’t have a problem with enjoying het romance, assuming I can find good ones.  I enjoy stories with female characters I can relate to.

But there’s something much deeper at play, IMO.  A friend of mine who is a gender studies professor was the first person to point this out to me, but a lot of women enjoy m/m romance and gay porn because of the lack of women.  It removes a source of pressure and sexism.  Without any women present, you don’t have to constantly evaluate the sexism of their portrayal, or be reminded of negative experiences in your own life.  It allows women to experience romance and especially sexuality without all the baggage that comes with it in our patriarchal society.

This was recently illustrated to me rather dramatically.  I read a recommendation for a het romance.  And it sounded cute, and came highly recommended.  The tropes at play were fun.  Until I read a snippet and realized this was a romance between a woman and her boss.  I had a visceral negative reaction.  

Instantly I’m thinking of sexual harassment stories I’ve read and heard from other women. I’m thinking of how uncomfortable it would be to have your boss develop feelings for you.  How icky the power dynamics would be, etc.  

And then I realized…this wouldn’t bother me if it were two men.  Now, there’s no logical reason for that.  Sexual harassment is just as wrong when its object is a man.  But I know I’ve read fics with a similar premise and never thought about it.  Because when it’s two men I can accept this is just a light romance, a fantasy, meant to be fun and sexy and not to represent the real world.

But I can’t when it’s a het relationship.  There’s too much baggage there.  Too much societal history of abuse.  I can’t relax enough with the premise to enjoy that story.  

Now some people can.  And that’s fine.  And some people are never going to be okay with power imbalances like that regardless of gender.  That’s also fine.  I don’t think having either reaction makes one morally superior.  It’s okay to just enjoy light entertainment for what it is without going into deep analysis.

But it’s much more difficult for me, and I think for many women, to relax and enjoy romantic and sexual stories when they involve female characters.  We’ve been burned too many times by shitty depictions, by shallow role models, by abuse portrayed as romantic.  We have developed a stress response, a trauma response to heterosexual romance.  We are hyper-reactive to a wide variety of triggers in regards to it.   But removing women from the equation makes stories safer for us.  And maybe it shouldn’t?  In an ideal world?  But for many of us, that’s the truth.

For as long as he was able to remember, Tony had known that being ill made him a nuisance to others. It was better to deal with it alone, without bothering anyone else.

Bucky disagreed.

This fic fills a number of bingo squares:

011 - "JARVIS" -  Winteriron - All Ages for the @tonystarkbingo​ flash event

Square G2 - Sickfic for the @winterironbingo​, which gives me a bingo just in time!

Square B1 - Height Difference for the @buckybarnesbingo​.

I hope your days are wonderful!

@weethreequarter I do not think either of my cats would appreciate this at all 😂 Though my dog is a bit more chill about stuff, I could see about making him a pumpkin helmet... 😝