why

wtf

why does fandom do this

I don't even go here and I'm in pain

it's a hard life for someone who just wants 616 gen fic

LOL

the more obscure a character you search the weirder mcu au you will find

thi sis why I can never go back to fanfic in this fandom

every fucking time!!

also all mcu is tagged "all mediums" but the universes are not mixable to me

i fucking HAAAATE that

I don't want your MCU crazy all up in my marvel 616 insanity

this isn't peanut butter and chocolate colliding and making a better dessert

I try to exclude all Aus and stuff but it takes forever to exclude all the things I want to exclude lol

...violence typically associated with dragons fighting.

natasha and sam are also dragons

but swords and sharp weapons are involved, too, Dee

darcy lewis……

this is the weirdest version of "we're not ignoring female characters, i promise" pairing i've seen since the ten minutes ago I clicked this tag

for those who do not know, rebecca barnes is bucky's little sister, mentioned in, oh, three comics

Iiii may or may not have played an AU in an au game where she and Steve got together lol.

(there's another character, rikki barnes, who is also fullname rebecca barnes and an actual superhero from a series of alternate dimensions, but this is supposedly the tag for bucky's sister)

I love Rikki

and there's becky barnes from exiles

just to increase the confusion

i took so much psychic damage

ao3 for any marvel character in the mcu is a nightmare

ao3 is a nightmare

becky barnes from exiles is rikki

ah

yes

fanfiction

/thousand yard stare

the problem is that rare fic is so good

this is me just scrolling the tag…… i'm not looking for bad things

...I went to wiki and see and

this is very confusing

I MEAN YOU'RE RIGHT

I'm just like

what the fuck

a less wikipedia explanation is

tbh I read the talk page and I agree that they're two separate characters?

but it's a very ymmv thing

that last one in the op is just a hallmark movie

So the first time I read "bucky barnes has had 5 pregnancy scares in his life" I thought this was going to be a mpreg thing.

^ this

I think it is an mpreg thing

steve has another relationship in the city who's talking about marriage but bucky teaches him the value of smalltown life and he stays in his hometown forever

the sixth pregnancy was mpreg

there's probably like a cake eating contest involved too

or some big wedding bucky's making the cake for

anyway with rikki barnes, I think once she became a survivor of counter earth somehow inexorably connected with onslaught they just went real ham making her as comics-y as possible

complete with constant and confusing resurrections

all of that is absolutely true

the whole end of young allies was too much onslaught

yeah the fact that it ended in an onslaught / secret avengers crossover is just… who wanted that

jeph loeb

i guess?

also if your supposedly comics-based fic has bucky and steve as childhood friends it's wrong and I click out of it

copperbadge, tbh, remember when everyone was mad at him for his terrible yet authoritative comics opinions

and yeah royaltimes it's obviously just a fluffy au, but like, why

i don't get the point of "au where everyone is normal and there's no superpowers except everyone's asshole is self-lubricating"

or, well, I get the point, I don't get the appeal

also i didn't realize becky from exiles was retconned into some weird reincarnation trip rikki went on until she existed again

i figured they'd just be au counterparts

it's very strange!!

though i guess rikki was from like, modern day instead of ww2

anyway, neat that she's back i guess

but again I suspect they were like "let's make this shit as complicated as possible, because we can"

poor rikki's backstory wasn't enough of a mess

let's take it to 11

I got ot play with a Rikki with muh Bucky once they were fun! he liked being an 18 yo uncle LOL

god searching for comics fic is awful until you filter out every permutation of every movieverse

basically

you might think the obscure characters are safe but you are wrong

they're the worst ones

"this character has thirty fics! eighty percent of them are set in movies they weren't in"

oh my god i remember copperbadge

their opinions were so bad

ahahha another one sucked in

I have so many friends who independently discovered his very popular but very bad comics opinions and like

were mad about them

I remember them coming up a lot on fandomwank tbh? blast from the fucking past.

he was bnf in harry potter fandom, so yeah

oh yes! it would have been harry potter shit

harry potter: the fandom that brought so many wanks that when the wanks calmed the creator stepped up to fill the void!

i don't remember him being particularly awful outside of his comics takes and expertdom, but being a bnf in that era of hp fandom must have been wild

honestly i mostly know about copperbadge secondhand

probably from you, in fact

i remember liking him fine in HP fandom way back

But Then Comics

I'd forgotten all about him honestly, but yeah I didn't dislike anything about him but his comics takes

a remarkably pure fandom grudge

on the other hand it gave us your sharon rebuttal, a thing of glory

and the entire blog scarletwitching

omg i didn't realise that one

WORTH IT

lmao I didn't realize until like… reading between the lines on some shade that she started the blog due to a Copperbadge take but when I did I cackled

sometimes spite is the best motivator

indeed