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.
YES, YES. I think for me it's a combination of feeling nearly all the solo movies finished their individual stories but still left stuff open, so there was room for fic, but the team movies closed everything down (BUT also left us hanging in limbo for the next team movie). And LBR, the solo movies have become more and more like sub-team movies because everything is marching toward these big two conclusions (case in point, "Captain America" Civil War). What I'm hearing people talk about is "what if Bucky's in another realm and he and Steve could still communicate and people are in another dimension" and I'm....just not thrilled with that. Or super duper Steve angst, and I'm just like, poor Steve has had ENOUGH angst. Watching his lifetime BFF crumble into CGI dust was just piling on the agony.
And in this case I've just hated the canon for a while now (Aou, CW) and I don't even want to read fix-its for all that. Those aren't the stories I fell in love with that made me want to write about the characters.
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YES, YES. I think for me it's a combination of feeling nearly all the solo movies finished their individual stories but still left stuff open, so there was room for fic, but the team movies closed everything down (BUT also left us hanging in limbo for the next team movie). And LBR, the solo movies have become more and more like sub-team movies because everything is marching toward these big two conclusions (case in point, "Captain America" Civil War). What I'm hearing people talk about is "what if Bucky's in another realm and he and Steve could still communicate and people are in another dimension" and I'm....just not thrilled with that. Or super duper Steve angst, and I'm just like, poor Steve has had ENOUGH angst. Watching his lifetime BFF crumble into CGI dust was just piling on the agony.
And in this case I've just hated the canon for a while now (Aou, CW) and I don't even want to read fix-its for all that. Those aren't the stories I fell in love with that made me want to write about the characters.