I think a large part of it is that literally the only kind of fic anyone's talking about is fix-it, and that…isn't really what I want. I'm very much a source material sort of gal in some ways, and I like variety in my consumption--like, I love chocolate, but I can eat some good chocolate and be done for three or four months, and a steady diet of only chocolate stuff would kill me. That was what I loved about Winter Soldier--there were SO MANY different types of stories we could write, OMG. (Bucky coming in from the cold! Everyone accepting Bucky and living in the tower as a team fam! Bucky and/or Steve as avenging angel on the Hydra murder trail! Fluff and silliness! Steve and Sam and Nat up all night to get Bucky! and on and on and on.) And Civil War just shut that wide-open door and made it really tiny and narrow and we had to squeeeze our way through, and this feels like…well, you'll get fix-it fic and you'll like it now shut up and eat. Maybe there will be more creativity than I imagine, but it feels really limited to a specific type of story (and I've written my share of fix-its, and read a lot, but as the only type, it's just not as much my flavor, I guess).

All that said, though, I am hoping to see myself proven wrong, and I don't necessarily mind seeing it from Steve's POV because I feel like he got really, really shafted in this and we had almost no reactions from him, so I hope you will write that and post it. I hope all my friends list will write stuff and post and I can sit there in my wrongness and be wrong.