Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in DUNE: PART TWO (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

horror and remorse,

my love, i am sorry

waiting for everyone to get on board with "fiction that depicts dark subject matter is not inherently romanticizing it" so we can move on to "fiction that romanticizes dark subject matter should not inherently be condemned and sometimes the dark subject matter may in fact be Intentionally Romanticized to Make A Point"

#this scene changed lives

Please reblog if you can, I'd like to get as many different results as possible!

perfectly illustrates why you NEED to reblog fanworks you like.

bby 🤲

Fanfic reader's prayer: may my favorite author's hyperfixation on this fandom last longer than mine 🙏

Fanfic writer's prayer: may my hyperfixation last long enough for me to write all the fics in my head.

based on this n this

i want so much minutiae about bucky as the winter soldier… i want all of those classified files to be real so i can read them. i wanna know every single thing they documented… how long it took to break him and how long to put him together, how they trained him, how they punished him, what they experimented on him, how they attached the arm, how sensitive it was, what they fed him, how they kept him clean, how much he was allowed to speak, how many missions did he actually have, how much would he remember between missions, how many languages he knew and how he learned them, how much was he even aware of while he was doing it, did he even know he was human or did he think he was something else, how the soviets treated him compared to the americans, how many handlers he had, which one was his favourite, did he have favourites. did he like things and just know not to mention it or was he unable to even access whether he liked or didn’t like something.

i want fake journalism about this. i want medical journals about prosthetics and philosophical debates about agency and history books needing to be revised. whistleblowers exposing decades-old corruption in europe and investigative documentaries exposing the truth about the winter soldier and horror thrillers depicting a young soldier being captured and brainwashed. warring op-eds calling him a monster and a traitor vs those calling him a hero and a tragedy, and bucky thinking he’s probably all of the above. strange stories told by retired military officials from china and civilians from cuba, about a blue-eyed man who spoke their languages perfectly, who didn’t know how to smile but who gave scraps of food to stray dogs. stories their families had chalked up to trauma or old age or exaggeration, that when all pieced together create a very different picture of the man the media was calling a terrorist.

like bucky deserves privacy but the world would not give it to him. the winter soldier being a headline and an academic issue and a medical wonder and a folk tale and a ghost story and then maybe, eventually, a person.

YES to all of this. I want to know everything. I know there are fanworks out there that explore some of these topics, but it makes me so sad that all of this is completely ignored by canon when there are so many interesting stories to tell. Bucky is such a fascinating character with a uniquely interesting history and Marvel has done nothing but squander him.

Also regarding "bucky deserves privacy but the world would not give it to him," it's wild to me that everyone in the MCU seems to treat Bucky as just like... a regular guy. This is one of my biggest gripes with TFATWS, which is the first time we really see Bucky interact with the general public post-CATWS (not in hiding and with people aware of who he is). It's just not believable. He was already famous as Cap's best friend, he would be fucking infamous now. There would be a never ending stream of articles and movies and shows and books (both biographical and fictional) and people begging to interview him. There would be drama about whether Bucky should be called a hero in textbooks and museums anymore, if mentioned at all. The Trial of The Winter Soldier would be the trial of the century. He would have just as many fans as haters. Nobody would ever leave Bucky alone.

anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

looks like someone is purring while sleeping

SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (2021)

give an audience a canon gay ship and they will be entertained for one season. queerbait them and you entertain them for a lifetime.

Lady Margot Fenring