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    Mistake on the Part of Nature by

    Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)  

    19 Apr 2014

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    Steve takes in Bucky's betrayed look and Sam's confusion, follows Sam's gaze to the pile of mangled fruit in the trash can. Sudden comprehension fills his face.

    "Oh," he says. "Bucky found out about bananas."

     

    In which an American icon is mourned. But probably not the one you're thinking of.

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    Bookmarked by CrysstalClear

    11 Jan 2021

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    Okay. I've read so. Many. Not Team Cap Friendly/Not Steve Friendly fics today that I'm honestly feeling real upset and fucked up. Why're you reading them then, dumbass? You ask. Well, mainly because the summaries were compelling enough for me to click on the title and read the story itself, and the comments/kudos/bookmarks/hits of those types of stories are over the roof high and I JUST WANNA KNOW WHY AND HOW!!! Gosh, I'm so frustrated not knowing!! Like...are that many people furious at Team Cap for all they did in CW? Wow. I mean, don't go assuming I'm one of those blind defenders screaming in the comments of the Anti Team Cap fanfics 'THEY DID NOTHING WRONG, TEAM IRONMAN ARE THE ONES AT FAULT, STEVE ROGERS IS A GOOD LEADER' etc. I personally haven't seen comments like these (because I don't usually scroll through them), the above is something I'm guessing the Team Cap lovers would say.
    But anyway, I can see and accept Steve majorly fucked up in CACW, but I just can't seem to be salty at him (and Wanda, especially Wanda). I know Wanda's powers are out of this world, and I do think they're dangerously scary if not trained and controlled, but I would REALLY like to see more fanfics where her powers aren't being outright condemned and instead she learns to harness them and is a decent person in general. No, I do not hate Tony (which I hear is common for the Team Cap lovers), I really like him actually, and I'm sure I have quite a few Tony-centric fics floating in my bookmarks somewhere.
    I don't know why I cannot bring myself to enjoy the Not Team Cap Friendly/Not Steve Friendly fics, If I'm being honest I kinda want to since that'll give me more reading material (lol), and a few of those stories are actually written really darn well. BUT I AM UNABLE TO ENJOY THEM because my heart (FUCK YOU HEART) breaks every time Steve/Team Cap are being verbally slaughtered. Jeez, look at the animosity towards these characters! I don't want to, but I feel pretty darn horrible after reading fics like these.
    The worst ones are the ones where Bucky (BUCKY!!!) himself is verbally flaying them, especially Steve (OH GOD, I guess my Stucky heart really can't handle that *cries*) and bids them a giant fuck you goodbye. What, WHAT?? Ugh, I really can't take that. I've read some truly out of this world amazing Stucky/Steve & Bucky (some of which I have bookmarked, the others I'm hoping to get to soon so I can rave about them), but I think the main problem here is I stumbled onto the latter type of fics where Steve and most of Team Cap (I say most because Scott and Wanda aren't depicted alongside the former Avengers, at least not in the fics I've read) are real sweet, decent, awesome people you can't help falling in love with. While the former types of fics I ended up finding much later, after I'd already gotten pretty comfortable with Steve/the rest of Team Cap's characterization as decent, likable people instead of selfish, idiotic assholes. There's also the small fact I'm firmly anti Sokovia Accords (I'm not gonna go into the reasons now since I'm gettin' pretty tired having written this much), but yeah, like I said I'm feeling pretty frustrated at myself for not being able to enjoy Team Cap/Steve bashing fics, because the collection seems to grow at a steadying rate every. Single. Day. And I see them popping up EVERY. FREAKING. Where. And it'd be really fucking fantastic if I got to enjoy these subgenre of fanfics too instead of feeling pangs in my chest every. Single. Time I decide to give them a try yet again.
    If you've actually read up to here (HOLY SHIT WHAAAAAAT YOU ACTUALLY READ MY RANT SERIOUSLY), I...thank you?? No but honestly I was feeling this side of frustrated and didn't have anyone I could talk to about this, I supposed the next best thing was to write. And yeah, I probably should have written this in a Word document or something, but here's the thing...I'm not a writer. No, really I'm not. I honestly find writing a HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS (Seriously, the easiest of writing tasks takes me forever to do, and this rant is probably coming close to two hours now and I'M STILL WRITING HOLY SHIT), but I guess I'm finding out I can write if I'm frustrated enough, if it pertains to fanfic and if I can't talk to anyone else about my frustrations. And I guess I'm ranting on here instead of a Word document because I can pretend I'm talking to a person or group of people on here which helps my words to flow more smoothly, and I'm not all that self-conscious about phrasing my words and sentences just right, and I can just be myself on here, writing flaws and all. So as y'all can see, I'm accomplishing multiple goals by projecting my thoughts on here lol. And I don't think anyone'll read this, like, at all, but if anyone is unfortunate enough to find themselves reading this...I'm sorry.