Still all about the poignancy of ex-Soviet assassins

NSFW Stucky fanart (angst & happy ending)

2019-04-04T23:44:31Z

“They sleep wrapped close together, fierce, as if something is trying to pull them apart — ice, or thorns, or time.”

Love Among the Ruins is complete!

Stucky, eerie romance, historical psychiatry, angst + happy ending!

(and 21 pieces of art!)

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Love Among the Ruins - Stucky eerie romance. (complete)

2019-03-31T16:19:34Z

Chapters: 18/18, Explicit

(Noncon tag applies to 4 scenes, but I am making it easy for people to skip those.)

Tags: eerie romance, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon Universe, historically accurate psychiatric treatment, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Pre-War, World War II, Canon Divergence - Post-Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Emotional Sex, Awkward First Times, Grief/Mourning, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Recovery, Tenderness, Hurt/Comfort, non-con is only ch 11 & 12 and I make it easy to avoid, no characters die except Sarah Rogers and Hydra, Protective Steve Rogers, Sleeping Bucky, Picasso’s Guernica, Anna Akmatova’s Poetry, Searingly Romantic Siberian Escapades, glamorous Southern lesbians, Illustrated

Forced insulin coma was a real psychiatric therapy.
Hydra aren’t the only ones using it.

Steve knows about the Chair. He doesn’t know about the Needle.

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Soft Siberian Stucky snuggling!

2019-03-14T22:45:20Z

Soft Siberian Snuggling!!! :D

Chapter 15, Love Among the Ruins: “White Wolf”

‘For a moment, Bucky’s eyes are mischievous. ”Always so impatient, Rogers.”

Helplessly charmed, Steve shrugs, his cheeks warming.’

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Menacing Russian water spirits, Stucky eerie romance

2019-02-14T02:33:16Z

Rusalka. Bucky shivers. He knows that word. Spirits of water who want to make skin cold and wet and dead.
His mind is growing bleary, dark with dirty water.

Chapter 11, Love Among the Ruins, eerie romance, angst with happy ending, historically accurate psychiatry.

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Stucky fic & and abandoned places ... water in ruins

2019-02-11T15:02:58Z

“This room must have been beautiful once. Now, the walls are encrusted with green damp and trees outside are reflected in a pool of water on the floor.

There’s nothing to do here but drown.”

Chapter 11 of Love Among the Ruins. “Sculpture.”

(I PAINTED WATER! It’s the third painting I have done, and I haven’t painted water before :D )

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Warmth amidst snow

2019-02-08T18:53:54Z

“Sam’s transfixed by the sheer surreality of the flames, vivid against the darkened snow, random and beautiful. He swallows.

Riley would have liked it”

Some moments of beauty amid industrial parkour in industrial ruin – Ch.10 of Love Among the Ruins

(Some blissful Sam/Riley in this one!)

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Steve and urbex aesthetics: Siberian industrial ruin

2019-02-05T02:18:26Z

“To Steve, it’s starting to feel like a kind of a kind of … burial. Choosing to immerse himself in the detritus of the past instead of an unbearable present. Choosing ash and grime and broken things.”

Chapter 10, Love Among the Ruins (Stucky, historical accuracy, eerie psychiatry, angst with happy ending (& happy intervals ;) ) )

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Ruin aesthetics

2019-01-30T23:55:27Z

I LOVE the aesthetic of ruin and urban exploration, and I painted this setting based on photography of an ex-Soviet ruined abandoned hospital.

“Bucky glimpses weird grandeur, wide arched corridors with flaking, blue walls. The floors and ceilings are cracked and moldering. Electricity only works in parts of the site, and in some places, the smell of damp and ash and ruin is so thick that it makes him choke.”

Chapter 9, Love Among the Ruins.

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Haunted Bucky, Tenderness

2019-01-28T12:54:42Z

"He wants to melt like wax under the hard heat of Steve's body. He wants to feel Steve move inside him, work inside him, his large hands strong on him. His own body arches back like the stem of a flower. He’s yielding. Supplicant."
Chapter 9 of Love Among the Ruins,
historical accuracy, eerie romance

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Stucky, snow and barbed wire

2019-01-23T01:21:21Z

“He can hear ghosts in that wind, but none are the ghost he dreams of.”

Let’s all go on a winter holiday – except it’s def. not a holiday and it’s Siberia.
Here, have 4,679 painstakingly-drawn pieces of barbed wire ;)

'Red Thorns, Red Book'

Chapter 8 of Love Among the Ruins
Historical psychiatry, angst with happy ending.

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Sing & record Russian poetry for Stucky Sleeping Beauty fic? Apparently I have.

2019-01-13T21:50:42Z

"Steven said, 'Why not write something that’s not so deep and meaningful?'

But the truth can be so tragic & beautiful."

- Empathy Test, “Bare My Soul”

. . I can say the same about chapter 7 of my fic Love Among the Ruins tbh! I’ll be honest, I’m nervous! I care so much about this chapter. It’s written in my heart’s blood. It is full of sadness, love, tenderness and comfort, Very creative comfort. <3

And… part of it involves poetry by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. During the course of writing it I just had to set the poem to music, a blend of Gregorian plainchant and Celtic lament. And it has been, er, sung. And, er, it may now be in an embedded video at the end of Chapter Seven, ‘Night’. (Hides.)

Stucky Sleeping Beauty fusion, historically accurate psychiatry, https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495

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Metal & Ice & Pain . . . Seventy Years Dreaming

2018-12-30T22:57:03Z

From love among the ruins

Stucky Sleeping Beauty fusion, historical psychiatry, angst with happy ending, hurt/comfort.

Chapter 5, War's Cursed Wood

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Stucky versus Hegemonic Masculinity

2018-12-28T18:46:34Z

The very first fic(let) I wrote: I Can't Believe it's Not Bug Spray. Stucky and unexpected challenges to hegemonic masculinity. M, 700 words, all RBB Slack’s fault.

Quite honestly if I hadn’t flung this silly thing together in 20 minutes I would never have been bitten by the Fic Bug and ended up writing 60k of Siberian Angst later in the year, so ,… THANK YOU RBB SLACK CHAT, for your Gateway Drug Temptations!

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Pre-war Stucky tenderness

2018-12-24T22:17:01Z

"They’re in a small, still place, together, in a world that doesn’t want them to be together at all."

(Queer in the 1940s not always being easy, though NYC a better place for it than most.
Chapter 4 of love among the ruins, Stucky Sleeping Beauty fusion https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495).

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Sadness and sex

2018-12-23T14:32:04Z

Chapter 4: 'Finding Home' (Vignettes, 1936-1942) of love among the ruins, Stucky Sleeping Beauty fusion, historical psychiatry, bittersweet. At ao3, https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495.

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1940s Psychiatry and Stucky historical meta (let's chat, if you like!)

2018-12-19T20:29:29Z

I’ve been loving all the historical meta on Steve and Bucky’s 1940s world. I will be writing my OWN, on psychiatry in the interwar and Second World War period, including of traumatized soldiers both once they returned to home and while they were still in war theaters.

Electroshock therapy is still well known, but we’ve largely forgotten the therapy that developed alongside it: insulin shock therapy, and forced sleep. It was truly grim and disproportionately affected women/queer people/traumatized soldiers.

For now, though, all that research is in the Stucky Sleeping Beauty fusion, love among the ruins. I am always up for talking to anybody about this research, here, or on ao3 or Twitter or tumblr.

I am always up for chatting about Fucked Up Psychiatric Practices of Yore, so if that's your kind a thing then let's chat somewhere :)

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Pensive smol!Steve, and an unusual take on Sarah Rogers ...

2018-12-11T00:08:19Z

‘Steve’s under no illusions. He knows his ma fights every day with something he can’t see. He thinks in a way it’s as if, when his father died in the War, his ma was forced into a War herself, a kind of conscript to some lonely combat that nobody else can reach.’

Art from the first 2 chapters of love among the ruins, Stucky Sleeping Beauty fusion. (Eerie historical psychiatry, angst w/ happy ending). https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929495

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Love Among the Ruins: historical psychiatry, Stucky, Sleeping Beauty, fic & art

2018-12-10T09:50:36Z

love among the ruins (3326 words) by daphneblithe
Chapters: 2/17
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Non-Con (The noncon tag applies to two chapters, but I am making it easy for people to skip them. The fic is mainly romance, angst and spooky.)
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Riley/Sam Wilson
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Nakia (Black Panther), T'Challa (Marvel), Riley (Captain America movies), Sarah Rogers, Shuri (Marvel), Wanda Maximoff
Series: Part 1 of Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

(Most chapters are illustrated, and a fic playlist is on Spotify and YouTube.)

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