Definitely fallen in too deep

Author’s summary:

 

“We hear that His Excellency might be married by summer’s end,” the merchant’s wife says and Wei Wuxian freezes, his heart in his throat. “The Gusu Lan sect has been buying enough red silk and brocade that the merchants in Caiyi can’t satisfy the demand.”

 

He feels himself grow brittle inside, like a flick of a finger to his temple might make him shatter. His ears are ringing.

 

“Who’s the lucky bride?” he asks despite himself. His tongue sticks to the roof of his mouth.

 

Or: The story of a marriage.

 

Words: 63439, Chapters: 7/7

 

Part 1 of the long way home series

 

Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín, Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Junior Ensemble (Módào Zǔshī)

Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Part-epistolary, Mutual Pining, Getting Together, Marriage Proposal, Homecoming, One Brain Cell Wei Ying Strikes Again

My notes:

 

This is a beautifully written continuation to the canon, and the latter parts of the series are equally good.

Author’s summary:

 

After being thawed out and realising that his dramatic death hadn’t lasted, Steve knows one thing:

he is serious about ending it, and he needs professional help…

 

So he hires a hitman to do the job for him.

 

(Funny how that hitman turns out to be Bucky)

 

~~~

 

Or, sad and dramatic Steve reunites with a cool and stabby Bucky

 

For Bottom Bucky Bingo squares: meet ugly, enemies to lovers, and identity porn.

 

Words: 6308, Chapters: 5/5

 

Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics), Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sharon Carter (Marvel)

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Captain America Steve Rogers, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Meet-Cute, meet ugly, Not Captain America: The Winter Soldier Compliant, Assassins & Hitmen, Hitman Bucky Barnes, Movie AU, Steve Rogers and the 21st Century, Steve Rogers Needs a Hug, Dramatic Steve Rogers, Identity Porn, BAMF Bucky Barnes, Gay Steve Rogers, Gay Bucky Barnes, Pining, Light Angst, Canon-Typical Violence, Humor, Action, dramatic gays, Identity Reveal, Amnesiac Bucky Barnes, Amnesia, Memory Loss, SHIELD, Angst with a Happy Ending, Minor Sharon Carter/Natasha Romanov, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Suicidal Thoughts, Morbid Humor, Happy Ending, Reunited and It Feels So Good, Bottom Bucky Bingo

My notes:

 

If you’re up to some morbid humor (and the subject matter!) this one is a really funny read, with a very cute ending.

Author’s summary:

 

“You could try dating other people,” Steve says hesitantly.

The blistering hypocrisy of him saying this to Bucky of all people is not lost on him. His track record of trying to turn off his feelings for the man in question has been pitiful at best, schadenfreudically disastrous at worst.

Bucky scrubs a hand over his face. “Fuck, I guess? I don’t even know where to begin.”

“Maybe I could help?” Steve’s mouth says, and then he kinda wants to stab himself in the face. Because silently pining for your best friend for two years is bad enough, but being said friend’s rebound? That’s pathetic, even for him. “I mean, I could help you find a date?”

 

Honestly it’s like something out of a Shakespeare comedy. Both of them helplessly, hopelessly in love with all the wrong people.

 

Words: 9479, Chapters: 1/1

 

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel)

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Friends to Lovers, Pining, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Bad Matchmaking, Matchmaker Steve Rogers, One-Sided James “Bucky” Barnes/Natasha Romanov - Freeform, everyone is bad at feelings

My notes:

 

I especially like their conversations at the diner, with the layer of what’s going on between them and what’s going on in their heads.

Author’s summary:

 

Unashamed Tower!Stucky porn. References to past-and-casual Steve/Thor.

 

Steve Rogers from across a room is as distracting as Steve Rogers close up; there is a shivering tendril living in Bucky’s scrambled brain that seeks Steve like magnetic north, even now. Steve is his constant, as his therapist often and unnecessarily reminds him. His childhood best friend and companion, his bunk-mate, his savior, his Captain, his mission.

 

Words: 7925, Chapters: 1/1

 

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers, Thor (Marvel), Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel)

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Avengers Tower, First Time, Top Bucky Barnes, Bottom Steve, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Breast Fucking, Porn with Feelings, Idiots in Love

My notes:

 

Here’s some delicious slow burn pining for you with equally delightful resolution.

 

Wei Wuxian spends some time resting at the Cloud Recesses after everything that happened at the Guanyin Temple.

 

Words: 9122, Chapters: 1/1

 

Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī

Relationships: Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn

Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, set during episode 50, Cloud Recesses, Resting, THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED, the state where you KNOW you’re in love but it’s not the right time to act, a pause before stepping on a new path in life

 

Notes:

 

I’m in this hole now with no intention of getting out.

 

Also I approve that the canonical version of “there was only one bed” tag is in all caps, I didn’t write it like that  😂

Author’s summary:

 

“Conspicuous,” said Steve, apropos of nothing. Bucky was putting away the last of the clean dishes.

 

“Conspicuous?” asked Bucky, nesting the heatproof glass bowl precariously in a short stack of significantly smaller cereal bowls.

 

“Yeah,” said Steve, scooping last of the leftovers into a container that, it turned out, was a tablespoon too small. “I’m.”

 

Nemophilist:

(n.) One who is fond of the forest.

 

Words: 5479, Chapters: 1/1

 

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Captain America - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Wade Wilson, Tony Stark (mentioned), Original Characters

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Captain America Reverse Big Bang 2019, Food, Brunch, New York City, Brooklyn, Travel, Sexual Content, enchanted forest, foraging, Inspired by Studio Ghibli, Anxiety, Slice of Life, Sex, STEVE ROGERS IS TRYING HIS BEST, Sleepy Cuddles, Hot Springs & Onsen

My notes:

 

Here is a happy little fic to bring smiles to your day!

Author’s summary:

 

He steps carefully through the unmown grass, and finds a wet, dilapidated cardboard box at the back. Steve gently moves one of the flaps, and there, underneath, is a tiny, emaciated kitten. It’s sopping wet – grey fur matted to its skin.

 

“Oh, you poor thing,” he says, scooping it up into one palm. It meows again, squeaky. Steve tucks it up under his chin, and immediately comes to a decision: this baby is coming with him

 

Words: 4198, Chapters: 1/1

 

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Original Female Character(s), Alpine the Cat (Marvel)

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Fluff, Baby Animals, Just Add Kittens

My notes:

 

Here’s an adorable fic with a kitten to brighten your day!

Will and Bran reconnect more than a decade after the summer in Wales and victory over the Dark.

 

Words: 5220, Chapters: 1/1

 

Fandoms: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Will Stanton (Dark is Rising), Bran Davies

Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Friends to Lovers, Implied Sexual Content, Magical Memory Loss, mostly fluff tbh

 

Notes:

 

Accidentally caught some feels while revisiting these books, and this happened.

Author’s summary:

 

He got used to the hospital smell, and the sharp need to look over his shoulder dissipated as he patiently fielded the most pleasantly uncomplicated conversations he’d had in longer than he could remember. Kids didn’t care how many innocent people Hydra had ordered him to take out. Kids didn’t care how deep his programming ran, or if he’d chosen to take up with the enemy. They wanted to know if he could pick up a car, and what it was like running around with Captain America, and if the Winter Soldier liked pancakes.

 

Recovery doesn’t mean a person always gets all better. Sometimes, recovery is finding a new baseline. There are few people who understand this better than Bucky Barnes.

 

Words: 5700, Chapters: 1/1

 

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Bucky Barnes is good with Kids, Bucky Barnes-centric, Protective Steve Rogers, Captain America Reverse Big Bang 2017

My notes:

 

I really like the introspection and the way Bucky’s thought process is portrayed here. The art is lovely too!

Author’s summary:

 

The supersoldier serum was a marvelous thing that relieved Steve Rogers of any of his past ailments. Equipped with a body superior to that of anybody else, he became the hero we all know and love.

 

Or so everybody thought. The truth was somewhat less glamorous: while Steve did gain strength and vitality, the serum was not without side-effects. He has simply learned to live with it and enjoy the good parts of his improved physique.

 

Enter a winter soldier who is determined to make sure that his former friend takes care of himself like he ought to.

 

Words: 4631, Chapters: 1/1

 

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Hurt/Comfort, disabled post-serum!Steve, Bucky Barnes Returns

My notes:

 

This is a very vivid take of a scenario where the serum didn’t make everything better (but people who care do!)