#Bucky deserves better

[gmf122517]

just spent the last 5 hours listening to stucky fanfiction and drawing this, guess i was fealing bit nostalgic

#fanart #marvel #the first avenger #stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #i wish i lived in a worl where the movies made them real #i hate steves ending with all my soul #bucky deserves better

[acrushedrosestillwins]

I really miss Stucky today. Before they were done dirty....I really really really miss Stucky, the excitement, the gifsets...the hope... the anticipation of seeing them together onscreen...the metas...the what ifs...the maybe.....

#stucky #bucky deserves better #buckysteve #bucky barnes #i'm sorry steve #steve rogers #captain america #winter soldier

[a-hyperfixating-fanatic]

Everyone, let's thank Sebastian Stan for getting out of there so Marvel can't further abuse and tarnish Bucky's character

#Thank you Sebastian Stan #This is the best news I've heard all year #Also didn't Marvel treat him trashy as well? #Good for him for getting himself out of there #Bucky deserves better #as does Sebastian Stan #anti mcu

[luna-rainbow]

Hi! I just saw your post about how Bucky’s rule number two should have included him, and I totally agree with everything you said about that. But something that stuck out to me as odd about the whole rules system thing is, it seems more like something a psychiatrist would use to treat someone who didn’t have a good moral compass or some other issue like that? I could be wrong but “don’t do anything illegal” and “don’t hurt anyone” kind of sound more like things they’d say to someone with anger issues/sociopathic tendencies/other conditions with which harm to others and/or deviant behavior is a possibility. The show seems to imply that he was suffering from PTSD though, which doesn’t match up with that? I don’t know, I thought it was weird.

Thanks for the ask nonnie!

I won't pretend to be an expert on therapy methods but your point is solid and I've seen it mentioned a couple of times by people who do have a background in psychology. (As an aside, difficult anger control can be a part of PTSD - unfortunately it's the way a lot of men have been socialised to deal with fear and anxiety - but that's really not the way Bucky's been portrayed.)

Contract setting within psychotherapy is usually a good thing, because it sets clear professional boundaries and also means both the therapist and client have a common list of goals to work towards.

There was this chain of posts before (in case the gif doesn't work) but I agree. Look at the gesture she makes as she says "With your history, the government needs to know that you're not gonna..."

This is such a fundamental misunderstanding (or misconstruction) of his role in Hydra and of the actual nature of his mental health problem. Bucky's history is one of being tortured, mind-wiped and made to obey orders. Neither the Winter Soldier nor Bucky was ever aggressive until he received the commands to be.

This iconic scene of The Soldier sitting placidly in Pierce's kitchen when someone entered the scene unexpectedly, and Pierce had to execute the maid himself. The Soldier did not inflict violence until ordered to. The only time he was aggressive against command was when he had flashbacks to his capture. And in Civil War, Bucky was only ever shown to be "aggressive" when forced to defend his own life (Don't tell me self-defence is now a mental health diagnosis).

From a therapy perspective, you're right - those rules are about curtailing someone's actions, whereas Bucky's problem was more about learning the confidence to make choices. This isn't someone who's going to act out, he's had 70 years of being tortured and conditioned into obeying orders. This is someone who's going to hesitate about committing to a choice, he's going to defer to others as much as he can, and maybe as he grows more confident, he starts making some questionable choices that tends to position his own well-being last because he's been trained to think he's the least important in the equation (and with a unhealthy dose of guilt).

From a narrative perspective, this was intended to reinvent Bucky as a "bad" super soldier, cos "there's never been another Steve Rogers", and paint Bucky as someone who would regularly do illegal and violent things, and is so sarcastic about the rules (because -- that's the least of his problems!)

#tfatws critical #bucky barnes #bucky is a victim not a villain #bucky deserves better #bucky barnes meta #tw: ptsd

[nerdychristianfanboy]

MCU writers after Civil War when they couldn't use Bucky as a scary "villain"/plot device anymore:

#his treatment in tfatws shows they don’t care about him beyond the winter soldier persona #marvel #marvel cinematic universe #bucky barnes #winter soldier #bucky deserves better #mcu critical #anti tfatws

[sebastianstan-stanner]

Peggy Carter minding her own business in the late 1940’s

Steve Rogers walks up to her

Peggy: Oh hey Steve what’s- BLOODY HELL AREN’T YOU DEAD

Steve: Nope

Peggy: Then where’s your friend Bucky?

Steve:

#steve rogers #bucky barnes #sebastian stan #incorrect marvel quotes #peggy carter #chris evans #hayley atwell #bucky deserves better #peggy deserves better #marvel #incorrect quotes #Mcu #captain america #winter soldier

[ifandomus]

Some people: “Do you ever think about how sad it is that Bucky can't make amends to Tony? So there is one name on his amends list that he can't ever cross off. But maybe he can try to make amends to Tony’s family?”

Me:

#this is a horrible take that should die as soon as possible #mcu #anti tony stans #although its not just tony stans who are saying this #which horrifies me #anti tony stark #anti ironman #anti tfatws #tfatws critical #although the idea that bucky should make amends to tony or his family didn't start because of the ‘amends’ crap in tfatws #it it did really intensify it #and made it popular in parts of the fandom where it hadnt even been before #pro bucky barnes #bucky deserves better #bucky barnes

[endgame-steve-is-not-real]

What the actual fuck.

#wht #how tf do u say that without feeling like a huge asshole???? #im so pissed #bucky deserves better #bucky barnes #anti marvel #anti mcu #this man sucks👍

[gay-jewish-bucky]

the people who watch phase 4 for bucky content, in-character fanfic that doesn't destroy everything beloved about his character and turn him into a dudebro or contain harmful misrepresentations of trauma nor treat him like he needs to atone for what hydra did to him is right there

#marvel #mcu #bucky #anti marvel #anti mcu #marvel critical #mcu critical #like bestie you deserve better #bucky deserves better

[waywardsou2]

While I was writing my oneshot I just realised something. You know how in FATWAS (Falcon and the Winter Solider) he always points out Bucky’s staring. I don’t think it’s actually staring though.

I think it’s disassociating.

Look, Bucky undeniably has a fuck tonne of trauma and one of the biggest signs and repercussions of copious amounts of trauma is disassociating. Wether it’s because he’s remembering something bad. In a situation that causes him distress or in the presence of someone who has cause him harm *cough* Zemo *cough*

I only realised this just recently but o feel like it should have been so obvious to me because I disassociate in the same situations he does

(I would judt like to put a disclaimer that I am not a medical practicioner, I am not a therapist and at this point in time I an undiagnosed with C-PTSD, this is all unverified personal gnosis and all based off of my own experiences and what I can compare from that)

#Bucky #Bucky Barnes #winter soldier #the winter soldier #falcon and the winter soldier #marvel #trauma #ptsd #c-ptsd #Bucky deserves better #fanfiction #UPG

[live-love-read-fan-fiction]

Stucky as Songs: Immortal by Reinaeiry

"Sometimes when I look in the mirror..."

"I still see your face resting on my shoulder"

Is this just an excuse to promote my new fan fiction series? Yes, yes it is. BUT STILL!!!! This song is so stucky-coded it hurts. Need more examples? Here are some other lines from the song:

"And I'll always find you, again and again... and I'll love every version of you"

"And you're never truly gone as long as a part of you in me lives on"

"Cause I'll always find you, again and again... and I'll lose you every time"

It's just too perfect.

Anyway... if you're looking for a veryyyy angsty Stucky series based on songs from the wonderful Reinaeiry, check it out!! The link is below:

Love you all and happy holidays!!!

Much love,

Live_Love_Read

#stucky #bucky deserves better #steve rogers #bucky barnes #marvel #marvel mcu #marvel cinematic universe #fandom #fanfic

[hannaxjo]

when you say that the villain in captain america two is hot, and they start talking about bucky barnes. like?? bucky ain't a villain. he's a victim

#bucky #bucky barnes #captain america #captain america winter soldier #bucky deserves better

[rassvetsky]

What do you think about Rocket getting Bucky's arm as a gift

i have questions and i'll keep james gunn in my basement until i get the answers. jesus christ. what a way to use someone's disability for shits and giggles.

my dude didn't go through decades of torture for his arm to be ripped off and given to a raccoon. either way, he does get it back or gets a new one or something else (thunderbolts concept art!!) and i don't know how they're gonna play that out, but was it really necessary?

#asks #bucky deserves better #leave him alooooone #:( #i did laugh tho #my apologies. #bucky barnes

[rejectcroissant]

Still going on with the old ones

#avengers #daily marvel #bucky barnes #the avengers #bucky fanart #marvel fan art #winter solider #marvel edits #the falcon and the winter soldier #marvel #steve rogers #old Steve #james bucky barnes #Bucky deserves better

[teabag-of-mischief]

I hew down a tree with an axe every time marvel makes me feel bad for characters who deserve better and... currently i'm running out of trees.

#marvel #mcu phase 4 #i'm not even kidding #loki deserves better #wanda deserves better #bucky deserves better #mcu #i'm not okay #marvel makes me feel emotions and i don't always like it

[yourfavmother]

This is my first post in like months but I’m really into Marvel and this just came to my head

What if when Steve and Bucky were both frozen (Bucky in Cryo) they were together in like whatever you dream about when you’re frozen for 70 years straight, and sometimes Bucky would disappear from the place and comes back sobbing or something cause he doesn’t want to kill people but he can’t say it out loud so dream(?) Steve comforts him but one day after Steve is taken out of the ice, Bucky is all alone when he’s in cryo and he just cries because even his best friend isn’t there anymore. Finally after ca:tws, they reunite but both think it’s a dream and never mentioned it to each other so they were together all those years but never knew.

I think about Bucky a lot.

#captain america #marvel #bucky deserves better #my poor boy #steve too he must’ve been suffering for so long #the winter soldier #bucky barnes