thestuckylibrary | MOD’S READS: JULY 2018

Here’s the list of everything the Mods have read this past month!

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naturalization status by silentwalrus (complete | 807 | G )

The official press briefing on the apprehension of the DC14 assailant draws quite the crowd, and not just because Captain America is there.

CENTENNIAL MAN: The Legacy of Captain America on the Eve of his Hundredth by Spacedog (complete | 2,564 | G )

In a Daily Bugle Exclusive, senior reporter Harold H. Harold spends time with Captain Steve Rogers in advance of the opening of the upcoming Brooklyn Museum exhibit, Favorite Son: Steve Rogers in Brooklyn, 1918-2012.
or: how, at one-hundred, steve rogers took control of his own story.

Game of War by RichAtSin (complete | 2,547 | T )

It has been almost a year since he was put in this life - compensation for the crime of striking a young noble. It mattered not that it had been in the defense of someone else. The only reason he hadn't been charged with death was that his father had been a great soldier and Lukin saw great opportunity for a gladiator in him.

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Beneath the Gilded Head and Iron Palm* by CaptainHoney (complete | 18,119 | T) *major character death, graphic violence

In exile for years fighting border skirmishes for King Nicholas the Fury, Sir James is suddenly summoned back to the capital. Once there, he is roped into uncovering a conspiracy which threatens the king's life, and maybe his own.

winter wheat, sunflower peat by newsbypostcard (oneshot | 25,284 | M)

In the dead of the night, a man pulls over for a hitchhiker.

turn me up when you feel low by faerietell (oneshot | 13,891 | T)

Steve Rogers is a man out of time, in a city that used to be his home, a city he no longer recognizes. Through charming radio host, Bucky Barnes, he relearns his city, adopts a dog, and falls in love.

Tentacle Things I Like About You! by LadyAngelique, Mystrana (complete | 16,973 | E)

Living in the future hasn’t been easy for Steve Rogers, but at least he doesn’t have to worry about standing out because of his creature mark -- a lot more people have them these days. His past of being bullied for his lion mark is just that -- the past, though the memories of being beaten up still color his reaction to people trying to touch him in the present.
Steve joins the Avengers, a group of people who use their creature marks for good. And when he gets a chance to meet Bucky, a handsome agent with a tentacle mark who seems to like Steve?
Well, Steve might finally be open to letting someone touch him again.

Oh CapWolf, What A Big...* by Defiler_Wyrm, velvetjinx (oneshot | 5,150 | E) *explicit art embedded, read cautiously in public ;)

Steve and Bucky have been together a few months now, but Steve keeps disappearing for three days out of the month. Bucky gets curious, and follows him. But what he finds is much, much more than he'd ever bargained for, and he discovers some things about himself that he never knew before.

young hearts, out our minds by junko (orphan_account) (oneshot | 2,144 | T)

Bucky posts a selfie of the two of them in bed to his instagram.
He hashtags it #goodmorningamerica. Sam Wilson and Pepper Potts retweet it to their twitter accounts.

A Midsummer Knight's Dream by cobaltmoony, GoldBlooded (complete | 29,050 | E)

Sir Steven, knight, alpha, and baron of a small countryside estate, receives an invitation to a Royal Tournament: It’s a winner-take-all competition, and the prize? The hand of Prince James, the kingdom’s most eligible omega, in marriage.
It seems like a lifetime ago that young Steven left the palace – and his best pal, the prince - to attend to his familial duties. Since that time, he’s dreamed of reclaiming his friendship with the prince; if not as a companion, then perhaps as a member of the prince’s guard.
Prince James, royal, omega, and heir to the throne is tired of being reduced to his designation and pressured into an arranged marriage like a political pawn. He devises the tournament as a means to an end: winner claims his hand in marriage, but if he wins? He’ll get to claim his own future.
Let the tournament begin...

undersell, overcommit by silentwalrus (oneshot | 10,222 | not rated)

Steve goes so hard for Bucky that he becomes a licensed, practicing massage therapist.

The Bucky Barnes Guide to Household Management by CryptoHomoRocker (oneshot | 5,506 | G)

"Steve doesn't even notice at first, is the thing."
Or: Steve is unobservant, Bucky learns to be good at things that aren't killing people, and knitting happens.
(Written for starlight_sugar, who requested "domesticity, and also knitting.")

Abyssinia by bettyboopz (WIP | 38,760 | E)

"I wanna eat you, Steve," he whispers. "I wanna fucking eat you. Just wanna . . . Just let me, Steve. Just give me a little taste. Just a little."
"Bucky." Steve wants to laugh, but then again, he doesn't at all. He wants to turn around in Bucky's arms and – "You the Soldier now or something?"
Bucky doesn't answer.
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The Winter Soldier is an ancient, bloodthirsty creature of legend. In 1945, Hydra perfects the serum that can turn a good man into an infamous harbinger of death. No one has ever crossed paths with one and lived, or so they say.
Steve Rogers has always been exceptional.

Between the Ice and the Sky by lecroixss, Madara_Nycteris (complete | 30,108 | T)

A world covered in ice, blanketed in a magic darkness to keep its people safe. A prophecy that predicts the end of their lives as they know it. A group of people dedicated to making sure that prophecy comes true no matter what the cost—and those who oppose them. A boy who is also a wolf, and the boy who will give everything to stay by his side. This is a story about love lost and found; power taken and given; trust broken and gained.
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Written for the Captain America Reverse Big Bang 2018, based on and featuring art by the talented Madara_Nycteris!

The Abrelkan Saga Book 1 | Slave* by AgentCoop (complete | 53,691 | not rated) *graphic violence, dubious consent

Steve Rogers is the leader of the nomadic Kaelish warriors, guiding their fight against the massive Lliadan Empire. When Steve is captured, all hope seems lost. He is forced into a cruel life as a gladiator and slave to the Barnes family--leaders of Lliad City.
It's a new life of political intrigue, manipulation, and betrayal, but he will not go down without fighting. And when Steve is given to General Barnes's son? He finds he may have an unlikely ally in his plans to usurp the Empire.

On the Cover of Dawn by adeepeningdig, ellie-nors (flamewarrior) (oneshot | 6,238 | T)

“Listen,” Bucky says again, and pads to Steve, book still in hand. “I’d sell my soul for that/fawn/of a boy night walker/to sound of the ‘ud & flute playing/who saw the glass in my hand said/“drink the wine from between my lips.” He kisses Steve then, insistent, tongue sweeping into his mouth, body to body. Steve buckles beneath it.
Two stories. One poem.

Sub Rosa (Versus Finem) by Lorien, Queerily_kai (complete | 20,874 | M)

Steve and Bucky's relationship had always been a secret, with a flower code signalling when it was safe to sneak off to an old cabin in the woods, until Steve comes of age to become Duke and an arranged marriage threatens to separate them.
A love story across time and social clases with a magic spell to keep them safe until the time is right for them to be together. No one expected them to have to wait nearly 400 years though, or for the world to be nearly unrecognizable when they woke up.

Barnes & Rogers by Brenda (series, ongoing | 29,735 | M)

The grooves around Bucky's mouth deepen when he grins, rakish and wide. "Don't lie, you loved every decadent minute of it."
"Yeah, well, I never claimed to be smart where you're concerned." Steve shrugs, but answers with his own smile, because he doesn't think he could ever see Bucky smile and not want to in return.
Or:
Bucky discovers the horror of Wikipedia and Steve sort of fails to make breakfast. Post-Winter Soldier domestic fluff, because there isn't enough, and they deserve it. :)

If Destiny is Kind by earthseraph, tasteslikekeys (oneshot | 17,533 | T)

“JARVIS?” He asks quietly, his voice cracking from disuse.
“Yes, Sergeant?” JARVIS replies, not drifting from their usual script.
He licks his lips, thinking for a moment. He didn’t have a question ready for JARVIS, he just wanted to hear something other than the ringing silence and his own breathing.
“Tell me something true.”
“You were born under the name James Buchanan Barnes,” JARVIS begins, and it almost feels like he’s being told a story, “to Winifred and George Barnes. You had one sibling, significantly younger, a little girl by the name of Becca.”
(Or: The One Where Bucky Is Recovering, JARVIS Is Helping, Steve Is Moping, And Becca Is Still Alive.)

sokrovische moyo by greenbergsays (oneshot | 30,000 | M)

The one where Bucky is a dragon, Steve is a water nymph, and somehow, they fall in love.

lift me up by greenbergsays (oneshot | 3,875 | E)

Steve worries that Bucky preferred his smaller, more Omega-appropriate body to the new, bigger, more Alpha-like body of Captain America.
Bucky finds that thought utterly ridiculous.

I’ve also worked my way through Greenberg’s Tumblr archive and read a bunch for other fandoms, so not as much Stucky as usual in July.