It's Thursday, it's October, this is Dora Reads, let's get some superhero-y comics-y goodness!
Dora Reads is the book blog of a Bookish Rebel, supporting the Diversity Movement, bringing you Queer views and mental health advocacy, slipping in a lot of non-bookish content, and spreading reading to the goddamn world! :) (All posts may contain Amazon links, which are affiliate, unless marked otherwise. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. USA ONLY - please do not make UK purchases with my links)
It's Thursday, it's October, this is Dora Reads, let's get some superhero-y comics-y goodness!
'Bucky’s knife skills are like a well-choreographed dance, smooth and dangerous and beautiful. He moves like water, the knife a true extension of his arm, and it’s all Sam can do not to let his mouth drop open like a goddamn cartoon character.'
To the surprise of probably no-one by this point, I'm here to rec you some more The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS) - specifically, more SamBucky.
(Look, the inside of my head is essentially a big ball of tangled spaghetti, the confusion of which is relieved by the presence of various fictional characters, who have taken their spots rent-free, and who fight each other for dominance.
Right now, Sam and Bucky are winning. 😅)
(Fandom Notes:
SamBucky is a romantic and/or sexual relationship between Sam and Bucky. Hence the name, lol.)
It's Thursday, the UK has entered the 'fuel shortage' stage of whatever apocalyptic media it is that we're currently inhabiting, let's get some superhero-y comics-y goodness!
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, so let's get some comics-y, superhero-y goodness!
'...he’s able to slink into a shadowed Pottery Barn. He makes it past the faint light cast from the skylights in the atrium, then the pain crashes over him.'
I love a good mission fic.
Especially when it's a The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS) mission fic.
Especially when it's a TFATWS mission fic with much Bucky whump and lots of hurt/comfort.
And it was my birthday on Wednesday, so I get exactly what I want 😜😘
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
'“...That’s why, if I wanna make sure someone knows who I mean when I’m talking about Bucky, I just say: my brother-in-law.”
Sam heaves an exasperated sigh and puts his head in his hands.'
This is The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS) - and I know I have no excuses for how often I read TFATWS fics, but neither do I need any 😉😅
Fangirls are gonna fangirl dearest nerdlets, and I am most definitely a fangirl.
It's Thursday, Comics Wrap-Up is back, this is Dora Reads, let's get an absolutely huge helping of comics-y superhero-y goodness!
'Bucky's voice in the back of his head told him they both knew that really Steve wasn't going to just leave a kid in a gas station parking lot in the middle of nowhere. Who was the Bucky voice to tell him that? He was right, but still.'
Honestly - and you know I'm always honest with you dearest nerdlets - I don't know what exactly it is that I read, with this fic.
I don't know what exactly to make of... *waves hands to encompass entirety* the whole thing.
I wrote a Sam and/or Bucky rec list a little while back, but I've rec'd a few The Falcon And The Winter Soldier (TFATWS) fics since then - so I figured it's time for a mini-list highlighting some specifically SamBucky fics!
Because in this house, Bucky Barnes is Queer af, OK? OK.
SamBucky, sometimes known as WinterFalcon (though SamBucky is generally preferred - at time of writing anyway - by most fan-creators,) is the name of the ship between, well, Sam and Bucky - which is kind of self-explanatory, really.
‘But as the days wore on in the TVA, blending together as they did, Loki realized that what they missed was magic.
And the freedom that came with it’
(Warning: this post briefly discusses Coronavirus/Covid 19, and vaccinations/needles)
July was way too fricking hot.
Like, climate change is real - summers were never like this when I was a kid. And while I'm the wrong side of 25, under 30. So some time in the last 10-20 years, things altered majorly with our weather.
It's not normal. It's not pleasant. It's gotta be some sort of punishment from the world for our collective environmental sins.
It's July, it's Thursday, let's find us some comics-y, superhero-y goodness!
It's Thursday, I am melting under an 'extreme heat' official weather warning (help,) let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, and I'm tired so expect a certain amount of archaic verbosity 😉😅 - let's get some comics-y, superhero-y goodness.
It's Thursday, so let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness here on Dora Reads!
It's Thursday, it's July 2021, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
It's Thursday, it's still June, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
It's Thursday, and I really think we should get some awesome-sauce comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Yes, it's another week of Pride Fics Fest, where I stop pretending fanfiction is anything but All the Gay™.
(You can check out last week's post here!)
I figured it out, Marvel!
You just didn't know how to give us Bucky Barnes as a Bicon! You were afraid of messing it up! That's what it was!
How cynical and misguided of us to think that you were Queerbaiting with The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS) - extensively - rather than trying to find a way to express Bucky's Bisexuality.