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1. paint me in all my mistakes by maichan, ThisOneSatellite (RecoveringTheSatellites) for mxaether, buckyismybicycle

   Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   15 Nov 2024

   Tags

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   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
   • Steve Rogers
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
   • Clint Barton
   • Sam Wilson (Marvel)
   • Bruce Banner
   • Mentions of Alexander Pierce
   • Alternate Universe
   • Alternate Universe - No Powers
   • Alternate Universe - speculative future
   • Alternate Universe - Tattoo Parlor
   • Tattoo Artist!Steve
   • War Veteran!Bucky
   • connection in uncertain times
   • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
   • a smidgen of darkness and dash of action and a pinch of plot
   • (now i'm describing a recipe)
   • also snark and tough love and comic relief
   • Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson Bickering
   • Sam Wilson Is a Good Bro
   • Bruce Banner is just being Bruce and that's enough
   • Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug
   • Steve Rogers Needs a Hug
   • Don't copy to another site

   Summary

   Brooklyn, NY.
   Seven years after HYDRA has usurped freedom and democracy, there are rules about personal liberty.

   Rules about how to conduct yourself in public, and who to be, who to love, who not to love, and so on and so forth, down to which tattoos you can get. Bucky navigates this world like a sleepwalker, mostly detached from all inklings of emotion and reality, until he decides to get a tattoo.

   And meets Steve.

   And then emotion and reality come crashing back, because you can only sleepwalk through your life for so long, and also because quite possibly there's more to Steve, and more to life in general, and more to Bucky's life in particular, than anyone could have predicted.

    

   A story about the power of love in uncertain times, and the strength you find inside yourself, sometimes in places where you least expect it.
   Also lots of real connection, snappy comebacks, real snark, realer feelings, and the customary Happy End.

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