And here are the other two illustrations I did for the @reforgedzine! I've been wanting to do matching art nouveau illustrations for these two for a long, long time and I'm very happy I finally got a reason to do it! I really like how these turned out! :D
Also, the leftover sale for the zine has now started! So go to the website if you're interested in buying one of the zines! And you can find the AO3 collection for all the amazing fics here :D
john calling buck by his actual name, gale. means that he has already accepted that buck is the past, well his past, and that john can no longer keep him as his.
he accepted that gale is just gale. and the buck he knows will only remains in his heart.
My chaotic thoughts on Bucky in THAT What If episode because I haven't been able to get it out of my mind since I watched it
The scream I let out when Bucky first appeared though 💀
The intense eye contact with Peggy?? The way his gaze was so icy and emotionless while Peggy stared back in shock and sadness and then after, while talking to Howard, her voice shook.
(the drama is juicyy and i am all here for it)
And how he looks down when Hope says "Peter deserves our help as much as anyone." baby :( oh baby no someone give him a hug :(( and the help he clearly needs :(((
"It's just you and me, pal." "There is no me." BUCKY. BUCKY.
Fic set in a universe where they never reversed the snap. The world has been grieving for 8 years.
Suddenly, one of the snapped reappears, but it is not Peter Parker. It's someone else (maybe Strange, Wanda, Bucky...)
There's debate about what to do. The returned person doesn't seem to remember much, although it's possible they remember more than they're letting on. Should the remaining Avengers study them, interrogate them, let them live out a peaceful life and forget about everyone else?
The debate gets way more intense when Tony Stark finds out what's going on. They've tried to keep it from him, knowing how he'd react, and he definitely lives up to expectations.
Of course they need to find out everything this person knows. They need to bring their missing people back. They need to bring back his son.
How hard will Tony push to find out the truth? to bring his kid home?
Bonus:
At some point, the person admits that they were lying about their memories. They're here because they fell through a portal. They're from another universe.
Except... they genuinely didn't know Tony had a son? They've never heard of anyone called Peter Parker. And yes, their universe does have a Spider-Man. Their universe even has a May Parker -- she died recently, btw. And it was Spider-Man's fault.
This awful news, and the horror story Tony infers from it, makes him even more determined to rescue his kid. Once they learn how to reverse the snap, he's going to make sure he lives to protect Peter from bullshit like what this other Peter Parker had to go through.
Still, he's heartbroken for the version of his kid in this other universe. Before sending the universe hopper back to where they belong, he tells them all about Peter and asks them to find him, to keep him safe. He may or may not send some tech with videos for all of their memory-zapped loved ones too.
This fic idea was inspired by this fic by @asyouleft!
heyyy have y'all ever thought about how 'the one that got away' is john's song for gale?
in another life, i would be your girl
john watching gale with marge and wishing he could be smaller and prettier and daintier and blonder and softer, thinking that if maybe he was a girl, gale could love him back
we'd keep all our promises, be us against the world
always promising each other "us against the world, buck" "always, bucky" but deep down john knows it'll end when the war does
in another life, i would make you stay
john hoping that in some other timeline, things turn out the way he dreams, they're able to have that house with the white picket fence, they raise children together, they get to stand across from each other in a chapel and john doesn't have to love him in secrecy
never one without the other, we made a pact
i mean c'mon. it's buck and bucky, bucky and buck. in a different timeline and era, they're the type of friends to make a marriage pact– "if we're still single when we're 30, we'll just marry each other, yeah?"
should've told you what you meant to me, cause now i pay the price
john spending the rest of his life wondering if things could have been different if he had been brave (or stupid) enough to tell gale how he felt. he knows realistically it wouldn't have changed anything, he knows he's not meant to be that person for gale, but sometimes he lets himself dream.
It's actually the sad, sad fact that I already had that one saved, locked and loaded 😭😭
Like, this is what my favorites look like, no joke, like I didn't manipulate it or anything, these are just the first 10 screenshots like...
LOOK, RIGHT WHEN YOU THINK WE'RE IN THE CLEAR, BOOM, AN INFLUX OF CALLUM AND AUSTIN. Like this is what my fyp looks like, they come to me in this order and I gasp and scream in surprise everytime one of them shows up. You don't wanna know how long I spent screaming and yelling and creaming and dreaming about that first Austin Butler edit 🧍🏾♀️
i wonder if gale ever finds the name he was born with unfamiliar ever since john stepped in his life. he seems unfazed by the name "buck", but his mind keeps telling him he's more like "buck" than the "gale" he was. tell me gale, have you ever thought of leaving the name you were named just to chase and to cling to the name you were given, a part of your lover's soul. does it mean anything else to you other than just that.
You'd definitely write a better Captain America movie than how the Russo brothers did with Civil War.
Oh dude I wanna take that as a compliment but it's not exactly a high bar is it? 😅
I was thinking the other day how that movie transparently wants the plot of Steve defending Bucky, but not the characterisation of Steve defending Bucky.
RIP M&M but if I was writing two friends who've known each other since childhood reuniting for the first time in years after being separated by terrible circumstances and one isn't even sure if the other one remembers him or not... I simply would've made it an emotional scene. 🤷♀️