#idk why I even was posting on there ppl dgaf and like I mostly have irls there and they DO NOT understand my humor and obsessions so yep

[hershey-the-confused]

I've been trying to be social past few days by going to stuff and no it did NOT help instead i drained all my energy and had to sleep it off .

[struck-by-the-rain]

was inspired by a few other ppl on here to drop some of the kind of cringy tropey lore I made up about these 2,,, mostly how they met n stuff and how I personally see emm.... im v normal about them I prommy

maintagging this perhaps but it's under the read more so if u dgaf u can just look at the silly picture

ok sooo

they meet completely by accident because This Space Kicker In Particular (who I'm calling SK) gets a try again in space soccer and crash lands outside the karate family residence. he's fine though, probably because he's subject to cartoon physics or something (might rewrite this bit of the lore bc it's kinda goofy but it's the first thing I thought of).

v predictably they start out playing soccer together, like they take a ball to the park or whatever n just having a kick around. but they move on to hanging out in a non-soccer context pretty quickly. i imagine sk's really curious to see what earth is like (it's probably his first time there), like he's filled w whimsy and joy just to go to the cafe n stuff :) joe is meeting him behind seniors back!

sk isn't joes only friend - hes friends w yuka n the wandering samurai n a few others, but i don't know if he's actually close with them? partially because he's busy training, partially because he's quite a reserved person, n to me at least I think he struggles a lot with self-doubt/feeling inadequate for anyone around him (partially as a result of the way he was raised). not to get Angsty on main but I think he ascribes wayyy too much of his self worth on his training... I think he has a tendency to try and isolate himself from others, both physically and emotionally

sk is the opposite (tropey ik lmao) - he's v outgoing, silly n carefree almost to the point where he gets on people's nerves sometimes (he's cowboy sk's "annoying little brother" to me). I don't think he fully gets/realises exactly why joe is v reserved but I think he manages to grow close w him in spite of that... idk how to word it. but I think he's such a ray of sunshine he's able to break through whatever exterior joe has put up for himself (ik how cheesy that sounds but yeah)

ive made a post about this before but joe is v v v affection starved (because Basement) and does a terrible job at hiding it to the point where he just melts over the smallest things. sk meanwhile is suuuuuper physically affectionate so yeah

I haven't worked out exactly when this happens but I think they just kinda fall for each other over time, it takes a while for both of them to realise its mutual tho....

joe alsooo gets flustered veryyyy easily (source: karate man 2 ds superb screen). sk probs picks up on this right away lmao

im thinking sk is out here dropping the most obvious hints... but joe refuses to believe that sk would see him in that way. idk he probs does the wildest mental gymnastics assuming that sk is just being nice or it's like,,, a social norm up on his planet lmfao.

but yeah he eventually works it out too in the end... probably partially because he begins to learn to be a bit more confident in himself over time. i think they get to a point where they both v much know it's mutual but r too awkward to do anything about it/don't wanna mess up their close friendship/are too worried about the logistics/implications of living on other planets n senior. so they don't like acc Say anything or whatever for a while. but it's obvious n only gets worse over time lmfao. see the pic above the cut

blehhh silly thought but I hc sk to be besties with 6switcher who I think gets fed up of his shittt... like hes just like "Oh My God Please Just Tell Him. Like Please".

in my mind palace they end up going to the battle of the bands (joes a huge fan of the rockers but he's never been able to see them live before). and ummm after the concert they end up sitting outside live house ogu watching the stars together,,,, and u kno,,,, they kith.... woaw,,,,, but yeah I think because botb is the 1 time in game they "meet" (if u can even call it that) I thought it would be cute if it's where they end up getting together as a couple :)

hmmm like inconsequential shit unrelated to the main story but they find remix 9 cat as a stray kitten at some point during all of this n joe takes it in... i think I could do a follow up post about what happens next in the lore after botb because this is already mega long but they eventually end up living together on sk's planet and the cat comes w them :)

oh adding this on acc after I posted it, but I think when joe meets sk it's like,,, the first time in his life where he hasn't felt lonely...

[luciddreamslikeelectricity]

when i think abt some more (read: after comics blr/twt/ig's suggested posts feeds annoy me some more) Bucky getting his character reduced and turned into a just-for-ships white boi w long hair Cardboard Cutout is smth that smbckies participate in too🤔...

bc ppl are... somehow... still trying to gas up that fws d+ show like it didnt have awful character writing and some egregious jingoisitic propaganda all-round (not even just for bucky, but in general!) all bc they're celebritybrained and act like those cishet dudebro lowkey pervy actors standing next to e/o is... gay ship heaven or smth...

and it's these same ppl keep incessantly talking abt the upcoming CA movie, even tho BDS not only called for boycott+pressure on marvel but also double emphasized that specific movie, but they dgaf 😭

While I think natasha and sam are treated way worse in the fandom, I agree that it's bad for bucky rn like every move he makes is related to some ship or another by his "fans" (I remember when, during cold war, people made steve wanting to ask tony for help about w*nterir*n for some reason) & idk I think most people just want to date him or something & are self-inserting as various characters (if that isn't the reason, I have no idea why this is a thing) because they're all from the mcu fandom & mcu bucky barely has a personality even now.

I'm not exactly the biggest fan of fatws, either (the politics, mostly) but I didn't think it treated bucky especially badly, tbh. And yeah, that ship mostly exists the way it does because the actors are friends. I like 616 sambucky fine but it's also more bucky liking and respecting sam than anything else, let's be real.

About people talking about being excited for Cap 4: I wholeheartedly agree that people should stop talking about it. The BDS asked us to boycott marvel and disney specifically because of that movie so yeah, the least they could do is not promote that movie but what else can we expect from mcu stans?