#buckynat and the cats

[burninblood]

Liho and Alpine 🖤🤍

[hunkahulkaaburningfudge]

“Remember, Natasha…you love him.” I used to dream for days like these 😭😭

I hope they’re offically back together now and I’m going to take this as a sign that they are.

(Alpine tucked in Bucky’s jacket lol)

Women of Marvel (2024) #1

[nocek]

It only took about 1,5 month but colors are done!

But in my defense in that 1,5 month I managed to change jobs which was stressful af and then catch a nasty cold on my second day at new job which was annoying af with it's perfect timing :D

anyway here is clear lineart version and here is previous picture in the series (of two pictures lol) with the sketch for this one

[comic-art-showcase]

Black Widow and Winter Soldier by Rod Reis

[blood-and-winter-buckynat]

A BuckyNat story where their cats Alpine and Liho figure out that their humans like each other and decide to get them together, so the two cats arrange a series of feline hijinks to make sure their humans take time out of their busy superhero/villain/mercenary schedules to clean up the mess and "Nat, I'm so sorry, idk why my cat's been acting weird lately--" "Liho, why do you keep going over to Barnes' apartment?" But those 'chance' meetings are enough to trigger some chemistry and soon their owners don't mind their cats visiting each other, in fact Bucky and Natasha start going out.

[missmorwen]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Marvel 616, Thunderbolts (Marvel Comics), Black Widow (Comics), Winter Soldier (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov Characters: Natasha Romanov (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Liho (Marvel), Alpine the Cat (Marvel) Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Porn with Feelings, Shameless Smut, Light Angst, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Natasha is there to give him several Summary:

“Liho never gave you any scars?” “She’s a cat,” she reminds him and holds up her left hand. One nearly invisible scar runs along the base of her thumb and another more recent one stretches from the knuckle at the base of her index finger to the base of her thumb. Almost, but not quite, forming the shape of a mirrored L. He kisses the two scars with an air of reverence that makes her smile.

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Natasha and Bucky celebrates being back together in the best way possible: by being ridiculously in love with each other.

Note

You don't actually have to have read any of the comics to follow this fic. This is smut and fluff, written for the fun of it.

Inspired by Burninblood's incredible piece of fanart and the recent return of canon BuckyNat.

[icalledhimpietro]

IF YOU CAN CGI THE SET YOU CAN CGI ALPINE!!

YOU HAVE SO MANY OPTIONS TO INTRODUCE OR EVEN JUST HINT AT ALPINE!

THERES NO EXCUSE MARVEL!

[em1ree]

not to be wild but like nat would take a pic like this and send it to bucky and he'd be mad for like, eighty different reasons

[green-angst-and-ham]

It took a little while, since I really want to take my time with these next few chapters, but here’s the next installment! Hope you enjoy, and have a very happy Easter!

[burninblood]

Hey, Christmas is just around the corner, so it's the right time for some cute domestic BuckyNat (and the cats)!

Merry Christmas!

[911nmg]

Bring me out of the dark

Winterwidow/ Buckynat - normal life AU

Dual POV

Art by the incredible @burninblood

Summary:

As an aspiring ballet dancer Natasha Romanov didn't get to have many friends growing up, now, aged twenty-two, her flatmate Maria wants to solve it by introducing her to "the family", also known as the dorks of her friends, however childhood scars are still tearing her apart.

Bucky Barnes is not doing so well since coming back from Afghanistan, now disabled and with severe PTSD he doesn't even bother to hang out with Steve or Maria anymore, until he does.

When both meet they start a cat and mouse game that slowly tores away at their walls, but, can two damaged people bring each other out of the dark or are they destined to spiral into darkness?

Chapters:

Starring role - Natasha's POV

Can't sleep! Can't breathe! - Bucky's POV

Control - Natasha's POV

R.I.P. to my youth - Bucky's POV

Game of survival - Natasha’s POV

Unsteady - Bucky’s POV

Shadows - Natasha’s POV

Run boy run - Bucky’s POV

Demons (part I) - Natasha's POV

Demons (part II) - Natasha's POV

Battle scars - Bucky’s POV

Human - Natasha’s POV

Safe and sound - Bucky’s POV

Everything is lost - Natasha’s POV

Where do we go from here? - Bucky’s POV

My heart's grave - Bucky’s POV

I didn't ask for this - Natasha’s POV

Can't help falling in love with you - Bucky’s POV

Haunting - Natasha’s POV

Meet me on the battlefield (part I) - Bucky’s POV

Meet me on the battlefield (part II) - Bucky’s POV

Nightmare - Natasha's POV

Silence looks good on you - Natasha's POV

If I didn’t know better - Bucky's POV

Sanctuary - Natasha's POV

As the world caves in - Bucky's POV

What was I made for? - Natasha's POV

Read on AO3:

[nocek]

aaaaand lineart is done!

now it's time for the hardest things - colors >.<

and funniest thing - drawing dumb shit into the pictures on the wall that nobody will really see since most of them are too small but I'll have tons of fun :3 (and yes, the ones without frames next to the cat tree will be all pictures of cats, it's their own cat gallery)

[luciddreamslikeelectricity]

the BohkeeNaht glazing in those comics and in the fanbase glazing said comics is making me alkdvnkvnklnLMFAO

i can't even fully blame those writers or even the current editor bcuz, despite SteevShayrun writing/dynamic being objectively worse, BN pisses me off more. I think it's bcuz the loss/tradeoff for the ship's existence is more severe IMO. in the 2000s the men in charge had the bright idea of rewriting Nat's backstory to make her a Cap supp character, and now we have to suffer bcuz there's a gaggle of "Nat" fans that dgaf about Black Widow stories or supp casts and just wanna see her in Cap comics to enact their brainwashed teacher tropey romance bs.

but imma still blame those two "we love female characters even tho we write them terribly" writers bcuz omg the writing fuckin awful, even worse than SteevShayrun writing somehow, and Bucky doesn't even have a solo comic to repair the damage that those writers have been doing to his character the past year.

but even if he did have a solo, with the current i doubt it would do anything for him. ever since ~10 years ago when they got the job and editorial authority of every Bucky appearance, his character has been getting worse, i can't fully blame those men since it's a tag team effort. that editor is part of the problem ever since they got put on lowkey.

but the glazing of the turds is what gets me. CA fans will praise anything and ignore the shite writing as long as there's even worse written shippy panels to post omfg

I agree, it pisses me off a lot, too! I don't know why natasha went from being in a relationship with bucky (which was always a terrible choice, of course) and still having her own life & solo runs & being a generally well-respected member of the superhero community to being bucky's girlfriend with seemingly no life of her own and no solo runs :/ like, why is she co-parenting that fuck ass cat with him now or something?

#Those writers are clearly doing this because there's demand, though...while I'm happy to blame them for everything ever, I think this time, I'll equally blame the fans (why is buckynat so popular anyway? I feel like it's all people who noticed mcu fans being misogynistic towards natasha and decided to ship them harder than they normally would) because #they probably know they have a hard time getting people to read their books so they're forming an alliance with people who know nothing about the characters.

Is there any cap character who is being written well rn? I agree about bucky but I feel like every single character is getting atrocious writing and stories right now and the worst part is that their fans don't seem to care. The rest of us (fans of other characters) constantly complain about mischaracterization when it happens but cap fans seem to be happy with anything they get as long as the art is pretty and their ships are together 😭 sam literally tortured someone in his latest solo run and people were totally cool with it. Every writer who wrote sharon and bucky wrote them differently. Misty & natasha deserve better than to be stuck with these people and if they don't know what to do with steve, they should stop giving him solo books. I don't know how long the current cap editor was active for so I don't know if they're the only person to blame but they're certainly doing a terrible job regardless of whether they're solely responsible for all of these things...

[missmorwen]

Got my new BuckyNat stickers from @burninblood Cutest stickers ever 😁 I love them so much ❤️

And the bonus witch and cat is too damn cute 😁

[polizwrites]

PoliZ's WIP Update - 24 Jan 2024

Had a nicely productive writing week - I touched  6 fics (3 new works & 3 WIPs)  for a total of  2595  words - on track to break 10k for the month!  

On Ao3, I posted: 

 Chapter Three of   Half of the Flesh and Blood That Makes Me Whole  -  Post CA:CW  Stucky wingfic remix 

A (Not So) Misplaced Gift -  Bucky & Steve ficlet with a magic twist.  

Two of Swords, Ten of Wands -  No Powers!Tony/ Cap!Steve in a fated  meet-cute.

On Tumblr I posted: 

  Feline Fight and Flight  - a Flash Fic Friday fill with Steve & Tony rescuing a stray cat  

I carried over 16 semi-active WIPs into the new year 😬 with my  current  deadlines being the Bucky Barnes Bingo which now wraps on 31 Jan and the Tony Stark Bingo & Stony AU Bingo which both wrap in mid-February.    

See  below cut for what I’m working on/planning to work on - arranged more or less by bingos/challenges/etc.  As always, feel free to send me   prompts or plot bunnies as well as asks regarding  any of these projects  or any other WIPs I’ve got out there.   Interaction really helps feed the Muse and keep me motivated!

Bucky Barnes Bingo  - [BBB_R5]   (Ends 10 31 Jan 2024)

I’ve got  twenty-six fills  and six bingos, with  one WIP - thanks to the extended deadline, I’m getting an assisted blackout! 

* C2 - Yelena Belova–   The plan was to use this prompt in the next chapter of Peresmešnik,  (aka Three Avengers and a Baby), which is I poked at a little recently and is currently sitting at 1551  words (800-ish of which are mine). I’m thinking this will get carried over to the next round at this point.

* C5 - Marriage of Convenience/Pretend Couple - Combined with a Flash Fiction Friday prompt  [#FFF234 How It Ends] to write  A Mission In Prague - a Red Room-era BuckyNat ficlet where she and the Soldier are pretending to be a couple in love at a Christmas market.  I tinkered with it some more and it’s coming in at 478 words.  The new version will get posted to Ao3 before the event ends.

* K2 - Humor - see TSB  KINK: Cock-blocking 'bots  below. 

* K3 - Magic -  Wrote up A (Not So) Misplaced Gift as a crossover with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt   [#FFF232 Among Any Option]. It came in at 301 words and will  post to Ao3 before this event ends.

Tony Stark Bingo Round 7  - [TSB_R7]   (ends 15 Feb)

Twenty-five  fills and two WIPs as of the moment  - getting an assisted blackout, thanks to a couple of adopted squares! 

* T2 - KINK: Cock-blocking 'bots -  Thanks to a recent Flash Fiction Friday prompt,  [#FFF233 Imperfect Sign]  I finally sat down and wrote up the idea I’d been playing around with to  combine this with  the  Fictober Day 27: prompt   "I don't know if they will accept this."   I threw in my BBB - Humor prompt as well and ended up with  Competing for His Affections  - ‘bot shenanigans based on Tony & Bucky’s new romance.  It came in at 537 words and will be posted to Ao3 before the Bucky Barnes Bingo is over. 

* A1 - “Where are you?" –  Filled this with  Two of Swords, Ten of Wands. This ficlet - which also fills the  Stony JAnUary Week Four prompt: Supernatural  and my SAUB Fluff prompt – features a non-Iron Man psychic!Tony getting together with Cap!Steve courtesy of a bit of fortune telling. It came in at 622 words and posted this morning.

* A2 - KINK: Concubine -  Working on  The Sultan’s Gifts basically an extended PWP scene with Dom!Tony/ sub!Steve/ sub!Bucky.  Chapter One  - which will fill the TSB Jan Adoptable: Caning as well as my  SAUB Pre-Serum Steve Rogers + SRB Crops/Floggers/Whips  squares is coming in at  946 words and will post on Friday.   Chapter Two, which technically fills this square and my  SAUB Gentle Dom  and SRB Multiple Submissives squares is sitting at 483 words  words.  

* R5 - Doppelganger/Evil Twins -   The Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF214 Broken Mirror] got me at least a good start on the idea I’ve been playing with for this square. I posted NamNori on Tumblr and have a general idea of how I want to build on it to also fill my SAUB AU: Crack square. It’s currently sitting at 360 words and I need to stretch it to at least 600 words to fill both squares.   

* K5 - AU: Anime - I had Vague Ideas of doing a “Battle of the Planets” (my first anime and a childhood favorite)  fusion, with Tony as Princess, Steve as Mark and Bucky as Jason - but wasn’t sure who to put in as  Tiny (Happy? Thor?) or  Keyop (Vision?) -  JARVIS would have been their 7-Zark- 7 of course….  if I have time/spoons/inspiration - I may do something with this.   

* Jan Adoptable: Caning - see TSB KINK: Concubine

Stony AUniverse Bingo  [SAUB_R1] (ends 15 Feb)

Another brand-new bingo I’m helping co-mod!   I’m up to twelve  fills, four  WIPs and several  crossover ideas in play.  Not sure I’m going to get a blackout - but I’ll do my best!  

* S1 - Edging - Filled this with Ringing in the New, where Tony makes a suggestion to improve/change up their love life. It’s a crossover with a Flash Fiction Friday prompt: How Do You Use ‘It’? and came in at 324 words - I will post it to Ao3 before the event is over.

* S2 - AU: Crack - see TSB   Doppelganger/Evil Twins

* S3 - AU: Wings -  think I need to pivot on this - maybe I’ll be self-indulgent and do a second remix of some part of Take What Was Wrong (And Make it Right) from Steve’s POV - since  the first remix  is Bucky POV (and therefore tricky to make Stony-focused) 

* S5 - Accidental Baby Acquisition - see BBB Yelena Belova  - this may have to come off the table/pivot to something else.  

* T1 - AU: Fantasy -  CoffeeOwl shared a really cool dragon!Steve/indebted!Tony prompt in the ACB Discord server that I may be playing with for this.

* T2 - Adopting a Cat - combined this with last week’s  Flash Fiction Friday prompt  [#FFF236 Fight or Flight]  for  Feline Fight and Flight  - which will probably get a better title before I post it to Ao3.😁 This No Powers established Stony ficlet - where Tony’s rescuing a stray cat and Steve helps out -  came in at  390 words.  

* T4 - AU: Canon Divergence - I may write a follow up on Setting Aside the Shield   to fill this square. 

* O2 - Omegaverse - I have a Vague Idea inspired by  @kandisheek’s lovely art piece.  

* O3 - FREE - used this in combination with a previous  Flash Fiction Friday prompt:   [#FFF235 Little Pink Houses]  to come up with  Those Old Crazy Dreams (Just Kind of Came and Went) which was posted to Tumblr and came in at 461 words.  I may tweak it a bit before posting to Ao3 before this event is over.   

* O4 - Fluff - see  TSB  “Where are you?” prompt 

* N2 - Mutual Pining - crossover with CABB Royal Knight?

* N3 - Gentle Dom - see TSB KINK: Concubine above

* N5 - AU: Multiple Identities - Posted  The Secrets We Keep  to Tumblr.  It’s a first person alternating POV ficlet with mutual pining (and secret identity) Stony.   It came in at 314 words and will get posted to Ao3 before the event ends. 

Y1 - Pre-Serum Steve Rogers - see TSB KINK: Concubine above

* Y4 - AU: Soulmates  -  see TSB  FREE square   

Captain (America) Bottom Bingo - Round 2 [CABB] (ends 28 Feb 2024)

I signed up for a 3x3 card for this bingo and have six fills, two WIPs and a couple of crossover ideas.

* B3 - Royal Knight - see SAUB Mutual Pining.

Post July Break Bingo  [JBB_23p] (Ends Apr 2024)

One fill on my  2x3 non-fandom-specific card - still working on  potential crossovers.

* A1 - “It’s you. It’s always been you.” - This might fit in with my TSB Doppelgangers/Evil Twins fill NamNori above :: ponders::

* B2 - Character’s personality is split into two different beings – I’ve never played with Bucky & the Soldier being two different people, but this seems like the perfect opportunity! Will see what might be a good crossover on one of my open cards.

*  C1 - Touch Starved – another good fit for a Bucky-centric fic. (Steve or Tony or Clint).

Steve Rogers Bingo - Round 3 [SRB_R3] (ends  15 Jun 2024)

Five  fills  - need to ponder possible crossovers, especially with SAUB, & CABB.  

* C5 - Exes to Lovers  - crossover with  CABB - "B1 - "All I wanted was for you to be happy."  – Bucky or Tony as the Ex?   SAUB S4 - Arranged Marriage  might be an additional crossover  

* D1 - Multiple Submissives -  see  TSB  KINK: Concubine

* D5 - Crops/Floggers/Whips  - see TSB KINK: Concubine (multi-chapter) 

* E4 - Tower Fic  - Posted Chapter 3 of  Half of the Flesh and Blood That Makes Me Whole  on Friday. It’s a post CA:WS Stucky wingfic that’s a remix of Take What Was Wrong (And Make It Right).  It came in at 1379 words.   

Bucky Barnes Connect Four - Alt Jun-iverse [BBC4_R2]  {Ends June 2024}

The good folks over at @buckybarnesevents  have opened this event up early!  You sign up for a single row card of four squares and the challenge is to see if you can combine any/all into a single Bucky-centric AU fanwork - although you can also create 2-4 separate fanworks if you want.  

The combo of prompts on my first card [Reality Show,  Omegaverse, Talent/Manager, Royalty] sparked an idea that I’m about 230 words + misc notes into already -  Alpha!Bucky as a technical prince   who gets talked into joining a reality show that is supposed to match him up with an omega… but there’s a twist!   I’m torn between striking while the iron is hot vs spending time on the fics that have a looming deadline…  🙃

Hawkeyes Bingo [HB_R2] {Ends TBD] 

Just signed up for this fun Tumblr event - got a 3x3 card and want to swap out one square, but otherwise am looking forward to creating more  Clint-centric content and trying my hand at a bit of  Kate Bishop fic as well!    

*A1 - Werewolf AU -  possible inspiration to continue A Hairy Situation? 

* A3 - Awkward Flirting – this might be a good entry into my first femslash fic with Kate/Yelena?    

Build-A-Bucky Bingo [BaBB_R1] {Ends Oct 2024}

Another fun year-long  event from the folks at  @buckybarnesevents!  Each month there’s a list of prompts and you choose (at least) one  each month for your card!

* November:  Crackfic - DONE  

* December: Wingman  - DONE

* January: Wingfic  -see SRB Tower Fic

May also throw the Polyamory prompt into  A Sultan’s Gift  (see TSB KINK: Concubine)

Warm and Fluffy   Bingo  - [WFB]   (no end date)

Four  fills on my card, courtesy of   @warmandfluffybingocards  - need to try for another crossover or two! 

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On  other creative fronts:  I am working on a  Superman Stuffed With Character figure for the Hall of Heroes con in early March;  still have one figure to go for one of my Marvel Trumps Hate  auction winners:  Captain Rambeau aka Photon. 

If  you’re looking for one of a kind gifts for birthdays or other celebrations, check  out Stuffed With Character    over on Facebook for a full list of my designs (now over 150!).   These soft stuffed figures are  mostly Marvel and monsters, but I have some Star Wars, Star Trek, DC   and Disney figures as well. Plus I love to take custom design   requests  for any fandom!

[lilbittymonster]

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Tagged by both @fantasmagoriam and @ainyan, thank you both so much!

Current desktop wallpaper: I have it set to cycle through a bunch but currently it's on this

The last song you listened to: Minotaur Grid by Fixions (spotify | youtube)

Currently reading: I haven't touched a book in several years but the fic currently open on my phone is A Prelude to Ever After by WestmooreTales on AO3

Last movie: The Company of Wolves (1984)

Currently craving: A good steak. I haven't been able to find a good cut of steak in ages :/

What are you wearing right now?: Comfy CritRole sweatpants, my "fuck all this" mandala shirt from my aunt, and a grey flannel from my brother

How tall are you?: 170cm/5'7

Piercings?: Two in each ear, first ones stretched to 4g/5mm. I want more.

Tattoos?: 3 currently. There will definitely be more.

Glasses? Contacts?: Not yet, but I can see (heh) the need for them looming on the horizon.

Last drink: Twinings French vanilla chai

Last food: sandwich from the deli

Last show: Critical Role

Favourite colour: Cobalt blue glass

Current obsession: SO there's this dnd character that I made but then the campaign fell apart, so then I remade her in Final Fantasy XIV, the MMORPG that has a free trial up to level 60 including the aaward-winning expansion Heavensward with no limit on playtime, and now she's got a new family AND two hot elf partners, and in another life she was in a huge messy loving polycule, and in the same shared canon she's got a ton of cool other WoL friends, and then there's ANOTHER au where they're all living in Liverpool, and -*gets dragged offstage still talking about Kitali*

Unrelated obsession: Have you ever looked at a piece of labradorite? Would you like to?

Pets?: I have grown up with cats my whole life but sadly have not had one since moving. I would love to have a cat again someday.

Do you have a crush on anyone?: That's my business 😌

Favourite fictional character: You expect me to pick just one? You insult me.

Tagging: @yloiseconeillants @crackinglamb @raynshyu @livvyshmiv and @buckynats (zero pressure as always)