SamSteve is such a cool ship full of potential… as long as there’s no past St*cky in it.
And it’s interesting that it never took off, when you think about it.
The level of trust they have in each other? The fact that they’ve lived in each other pockets for months or even years? How organic their relationship is? How easy it would be to put drama between the two?
@downwarddnaspiral thank you for the prompt!
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Sam Wilson and Redwing in Sam Wilson: Captain America (2025) #1
There’s something about how people write Steve in fanfictions…
I know you don’t see him as “person”. Certainly not as the character that has been in the MCU at least.
Okay, half of it is because of the MCU and their stupid idea to make Bucky a plot point in all of his movies but… the way he is reduced to this sad puppy having no life outside of Bucky is really concerning.
It’s even worse when he is in fics with PornTraumaBucky (you know, the one some of you LOVE to write. The one you add traumas on so much he barely can function as a human, that one yeah). Steve in these fics is Caretaker#1 who has no other purpose than to be “annoying” and “overbearing” and an emotional punching ball until Bucky finally decides that he wants him around. A carpet.
At a certain point, your writing does say things about you.
One thing I love about Black superheroes is that they all (in their own ways) celebrate different aspects of the Black experience.
T'challa, in the first Black Panther film represented Afro-futurism and Pan-Africanism.
Shuri, in Wakanda Forever, represented Black grief and the pain of loss.
Luke Cage represented African American pride and resilience
Tyrone from Cloak and Dagger represented the fear of living as a Black person in a white dominated space.
Miles Morales in Into the Spider-Verse, represented the creation of an individual identity (he even uses his graffiti skills to paint his own Spiderman suit). Each hero represented a specific aspect of the Black experience.
But Sam Wilson has always occupied a specific space that (until this moment) had yet to be filled. Sam Wilson, as an African American man, and as an African American Captain America, represents double consciousness.
(Potential Spoilers after the cut)
some behind the scenes photos of captain america: brave new world. credit @/makeupbytym on instagram.
in a world where st*cky does happen. sam is not nearly as invested in this relationship as the st*cky shippers make him out to be
i currently have two close friends im waiting to get into a relationship with each other. love them dearly, but i promise you my ass is not willingly watching those losers flirt with each other.
sam is out on dates! kissing misty! playing with his nephews! going for drinks with joaquin and leila! training with isaiah! gossiping with sarah! really anywhere except in the same room as st*cky
pls write an OC or self insert bc it’s horribly out of character for sam to give that much of a damn about that relationship
If Bucky isn’t constantly bringing up how much he misses Sam in Thunderbolts then what is even the point.
“Ah shit sentry can fly”
“You know who else can fly?”
“Bucky now is really not the time-”
“Sam used to tell me that too :( ”
