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.
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.’
“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.”
'Red Thorns, Red Book'
"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.)
‘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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