in case you needed to hear it today:
Pairing: Chubby!Baker! Bucky Barnes x Female Reader
Tags: Fluff. Slight Angst. Smut.
Summary: A fresh start in a small town brings her to a quiet bakery and a man who's built his life around routine and distance. Bucky Barnes doesn't do charm, and certainly doesn't do people, but small towns have a way of pulling strangers into orbit, and something neither of them planned for begins to bloom.
Word Count: 5.6k.
She made it halfway down the block before the smile bloomed across her face.
He'd said yes.
She'd asked, fully prepared for him to fumble through some polite excuse about being busy or tired or needing to prep for Saturday's bake, and instead he'd just... said yes.
*me at bill btw*
Like seriously!?!! He had to go and ruin things by saying some stupid shit. I bet he has a punchable face (Bucky sure thought so). Good thing Bucky was there to put him in his place.
Love the story as always! 💜🖤
Pairing: Chubby!Baker! Bucky Barnes x Female Reader
Tags: Fluff. Slight Angst. Smut.
Summary: A fresh start in a small town brings her to a quiet bakery and a man who's built his life around routine and distance. Bucky Barnes doesn't do charm, and certainly doesn't do people, but small towns have a way of pulling strangers into orbit, and something neither of them planned for begins to bloom.
Word Count: 5k.
The house smelled like dust and old wood.
It wasn't the first time she'd seen it; she'd made the two-hour drive from her hometown on a rainy Tuesday in March, trailing behind a bank inspector who chewed gum too loudly and kept pointing out everything that was within expected parameters for an auction property. Translation: everything was fucked, but not so fucked that the place would collapse on her.
I'm finally getting to this series and I'm so excited! It seems wonderful so far! 💜🖤
Bucky A/U - CEO/Billionaire Bucky, EA reader
Summary: James Barnes, Billionaire CEO and your date for the gala. Things seem to be going well, until a visit from a past 'situationship' brings your world to a screeching halt.
Content warning: Language, somewhat snobby James, flirty man-whore Steve, mean and spoiled Nat (Sorry, I made her mean in this one), slight class segregation and insecurities by the reader, doggos/animal shelter volunteering, and Tiny gets his happy ending because I'm not a monster.
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Tag list: @ria132love, @buckysgirl27, @onetoomanyfichusbands, @pattiemac1, @calwitch, @dunno-wut-to-do
"You look hot." Wanda said from your phone that was propped against the mirror of your bathroom counter.
"Thanks."
You sighed, calming your breathing. "I'm just so nervous. I mean, there's a red carpet and everything. What if I trip or say something inappropriate?"
This story is so good! I totally read it instead of my college textbook... Oops. 💜🖤
i miss you 2012 avengers. i miss you the avengers tower. i miss you irondad and spiderson. i miss you loki lingering in the tower for no other reason than that he's the main love interest. i miss you poptart-eating thor. i miss you grumpy bucky barnes. i miss you old man, chronically offline steve rogers. i miss you clint in the vents. i miss you girls night with wanda and natasha. i miss you the rare bruce banner feature. i miss you sassy sam wilson. i miss you christmas avengers blurbs in the middle of the fanfiction written by an autistic 14 year old. i miss you 😔😔😔
Synopsis: Bucky Barnes was falling in love with the pretty waitress at the diner.
pairing: bucky barnes x waitress!reader words: 4.4k contains: fluff, touched starved bucky barnes, emotionally stunted bucky barnes, mutual pining, post-fatws, sam being a menace, use of y/n, descriptive detail of shirtless and sweaty bucky (be warned!). author's note: this is my first fic i'm posting so please be kind!
You always felt Bucky’s presence moments before he walked into the diner. A quiet hush would fall over the customers and the other waitresses’ would check their appearance in whatever reflective surface they could find. And sure enough, seconds later, the bell would ring and a six foot, handsome super soldier would walk in.
Aaahh! So cute! 💜🖤
I’ve been patiently waiting for a nice second-hand wood dresser to appear on fb marketplace or at Goodwill for months. Finally, I grabbed this one yesterday for $50.
My inspiration for this project are some dressers I saw at Anthropology that have gorgeous carved details. But I want my dresser to cost $200 or less rather than $2,000.
Of course I can’t add actual hand-carved wood, but I’ve got clay and some silicon molds + epoxy and a potential overconfidence in my DIY abilities.
First up, I removed the existing hardware and sanded this pretty lady down. She is now looking MUCH better without all those terrible stains (and the drawer pulls weren’t doing it for her, tbh).
Up next, I’ll give her a paint wash or three and start trying my hand at faking some carvings!
She’s paint-washed and looking dandy. I’ll give her a light sand tomorrow and get to work on some fake carvings!
So I actually ended up glazing her first to bring the wood grain back out a bit and add some depth to the color. The glaze was very finicky to work with, but did exactly what I wanted it to (a comparison of glazed vs unglazed drawers in the first pic). I have several silicon molds filled with drying resin and I will begin experimenting with “carvings” tomorrow!
Oh yeah. This is gunna work just fine. BRB. Making and then painting c. 100 flowers and vines.
She's coming along great! I’m going to wrap the foliage around the side up top and then start working on the bottom right bit.
Alas, I ran out of flowers/vines so I will need to get more epoxy this weekend to finish the bottom corner. Shes so close to being done, though! The next update will be the last once I seal her and get the new hardware added. :)
She’s DONE. Cost breakdown: $50 dresser, $30 molds, $35 epoxy, $6 paint, $8 glaze, and $4 drawer pulls. Total: $133.
I surprised even myself with this one and am so delighted by the outcome. I’ve been using her for a week and dusted her once (with the amount of seal I used, a fluffy swifter duster glides along all the finicky crevices just fine) and she seems sturdy. Time will tell! Thanks for all the kind words on this fun little journey.
This is fucking gorgeous!
PAIRING: Bucky Barnes x Fem!Reader.
SUMMARY: When you find yourself upset and full of self-doubt at a bar, Bucky is there to remind you of just how beautiful you are.
NOTES: Best friends to lovers, alcohol consumption, tipsy!reader, emotional vulnerability, insecure!reader, hurt/comfort with a happy ending.
The bar is too loud in the way that makes everything feel slightly unreal, like you’re watching the night through glass. Music thuds low and steady, not quite matching the rhythm of your heart. Lights smear into warm colours when you move your head too quickly. You’re not drunk, just tipped over that edge where feelings stop waiting their turn.
You shouldn’t have agreed to come out. You knew that before you even picked your outfit, before you stood in front of the mirror trying to decide if this dress was doing anything for you at all. Natasha had insisted. Sam had promised it would be fun. Bucky had given you that look, the one that says he’ll stay close if you want him to, pretend he doesn’t notice if you don’t.
Now he’s leaning against the bar a few feet away, nursing a beer he’s barely touched. Dark jacket, sleeves pushed up, metal hand catching the light every time he shifts. He looks comfortable in a way you envy, like he belongs everywhere he stands.
Characters: Howling Commandos!Bucky x 40s!Nurse!Reader, a couple brief cameos.
Word Count: <2.8K
Summary: You told him no gifts. But when it comes to you, Bucky’s never been good at following the rules—Christmas included.
Content Warning: Brief description of wounds (post-rescue), fluff, secret romance trope (bc I’m a sucker for it), the L-word 🥰 , reader is shorter than Bucky, reader has hair.
A/N: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! Someday I’ll write smut again, but I hope you all enjoy the fluff in the meantime! Banner and dividers by me! Written and edited on my phone; any and all mistakes are my own.
Masterlist || AO3
It was never meant to be anything.
In fact, Colonel Philips strictly forbade it in his camp. Soldiers and nurses don't mix. It's too much of a distraction, one that could not be afforded on the front lines. Especially not for a Howling Commando.
When Sergeant Barnes first ended up in the medical tent, it was just after Captain America rescued him and other members of the 107th.
You were not in the mood that day.
Bucky was grumpy when he first stepped inside—feeling mostly fine, all things considered—and desperately wanted a shower and a hot meal. But his mood shifted quickly the second he laid eyes on you.
So sweet! 💜🖤
You thought you’d felt his fingers twitch against your face, and for a second, you really thought he’d kiss you. And then the doorbell rang. And he dropped his hand, looking away from you. “It smells amazing, thank you so much for this, kid.” He had to be joking.
warnings: age gap, hurt/comfort, angst, fluff, badly written make-out session, reader is oblivious, bucky is a yearner in disguise, yelena is a menace, thunderbolts being chaos demons
w/c: 8.2k
a/n: this... i kid you not, took me almost six months to finish haha! It was one of my first one-shots I had planned and when I finished tawgtp i had no energy to write long things so this idea died along with the first 2 thousand words, but I decided to finish it for the new year! hope you enjoy it, i am so beyond rusty haha!
This was so good! 💜🖤
Bucky x reader
Summary: You're the quiet new girl, but when you stumble home drunk from the bar after going out with some old friends and start yapping to Bucky as he takes care of you, things shift between you two.
Word Count: 11,319
You’re not really the “life of the party” type. Everyone at the compound knows you’re quiet – even among Avengers, who run the full spectrum of weird and loud, you’re known for hovering at the back of the room, listening more than speaking. Bucky especially seems to get it. He’s quiet too. You’ve always liked that about him, even if it means you don’t actually talk to him much.
So when you agreed to go out tonight with old friends in the city, everyone was surprised. Hell, you surprised yourself. But it was fine. Fun, even. A little too much fun.
So cute!💜🖤
Always embarrassing realizing you don't know basic facts about your friends. Like yeah hey, here's this person I love dearly, I've known them for 23 years, we've been through so much together. They're currently working in a lab.... developing... medicine? and also getting a PhD. I think. Don't ask me what subject.
Avoidance is the worst reaction to stress. Oh this thing is giving me anxiety? And it's something I could prepare for by looking at it more or learning things about the topic? No, I will take psychological damage if I look at it directly. I will still be thinking about it and be stressed though.
