A lot of Steve/Bucky fic period is like that, sigh. It put me off the pairing even though I like it in theory. The fandom is just so over-the-top predictable about them though. It sent me to greener rarepair pastures.
TWS gave fandom some great fics, but my favorite fics are from right after Cap 1 came out. The Cap portion of fandom was small and most of the fics were very high quality. People familiar with the comics wrote some Winter Soldier!Bucky before it was confirmed that TWS would be the sequel, and almost everything I read was excellent.
After TWS, the pairing exploded and so many of the fics were a carbon copy of each other. It also started this trend of treating Bucky like he was helpless and needed Steve to rescue him despite the fact that Bucky is a highly trained soldier and doesn't need Steve to teach him how to eat or shower???
(Though, the trend I hated even more were all the fics that had Steve going to Tony for help with Bucky and Tony being so ~selfless and ~helpful because lmao no)
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Re: Fic Recs
(Anonymous) 2016-02-22 03:58 am (UTC)(link)Re: Fic Recs
(Anonymous) 2016-02-22 04:21 am (UTC)(link)Re: Fic Recs
(Anonymous) 2016-02-22 04:47 am (UTC)(link)After TWS, the pairing exploded and so many of the fics were a carbon copy of each other. It also started this trend of treating Bucky like he was helpless and needed Steve to rescue him despite the fact that Bucky is a highly trained soldier and doesn't need Steve to teach him how to eat or shower???
(Though, the trend I hated even more were all the fics that had Steve going to Tony for help with Bucky and Tony being so ~selfless and ~helpful because lmao no)