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    Steve asks: “How do you move on?”

    Sam’s eyebrows shoot skyward. He whistles air out from pursed lips. “Do you want the therapist answer or the real one?”

    “Surprise me.”

    “The truth is – you don’t get over it,” Sam says, his voice low. “Not when it’s that close to your soul. Not when he’s someone you built yourself up around. Maybe you fall in love again, maybe you don’t. It won’t feel the same. He’ll always be coming up in your peripheral.” As the bus pulls to a stop in front of them, Sam grips his shoulder. “But you still gotta keep living your life. For his memory, yeah. But mostly for yourself.”

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    Steve Rogers learns what it means to be a queer hero in a complicated modern age. He tries to move on from the pull of the past, and his lost loves, but fate rarely lets him catch a break.

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    “What’s the plural for a group of Steves?” asks Natasha, and it’s weirdly comforting that the question has a hint of whimsical hysteria to it. Good, Bucky’s not the only one who’s not dealing well with all of this.

    “A clusterfuck,” he says. “A clusterfuck of Steves.”

    Despite how little sense his life has made since he got on a battlefield to fight a bunch of aliens, Bucky's pretty sure he knows exactly what's happened when a much older Steve appears after the mission to return the Infinity Stones: he left Bucky behind to get his much deserved happily ever after in the past. Only then another Steve shows up, and another. And Bucky realizes he still hasn't got any idea what's going on.

    What he does have is a whole lot of Steves, a fraught relationship with his own Steve, and tentative plans to leave. But the more Bucky talks to all these different versions of Steve, the more he begins to wonder if leaving really is what's best for him and his Steve, or if there's a way to make something new out of their long friendship.

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  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    Steve is a merman with his whole life planned out for him. Except he doesn't want it. He doesn't want to find a good partner, settle in the castle, and have a few guppies. He craves adventure, the unknown, a little danger even. So what happens when a human is shipwrecked in front of him? And what does this mean for the carefully laid plans his future had in store?

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    “Barnes, right?” Steve slipped his hands into his pockets as he surveyed his new partner. Tall, built, cropped hair, gloves, cock-sure gait. The archetype.

    Barnes turned slow and returned the once-over, scanning him from head-to-toe. Steve could see the second it clicked in his mind, that this was his new handler in the flesh. And then, he laughed. An incredulous, long-suffering kind of laugh. Like Steve was just another in a series of practical cosmic jokes played on him by the universe.

    “You have got to be kidding me.”

    And Steve decided then and there, he hated James Barnes.

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    11 Aug 2025