Tag: bucky barnes

writing trauma & survival: a Marvel primer

ladyofthelog:

After several months of reading and writing in Marvel fandom, I decided that I wanted to write a primer on trauma from the perspective of being a trauma survivor and coming from a disability studies background. You might be interested in the stuff in here if you’re writing about Bucky post-CATWS, Sam’s counseling practice, or the experiences of any number of Marvel characters. I’m drawing on a variety of articles, zines, and books, all of which are available to read online or download.

Keep reading

weaver-of-night:

Volatile Times, drawn in Photoshop

More Winter Soldier art. I think this is actually my first (finished) digital painting of him wearing his combat gear instead of civvies? 

For the curious, the gun I’ve drawn here is a Zastava M12 Black Spear, an anti-material rifle that fires 12.7mm Soviet ammunition up to 1.8 kilometers

Prints are for sale on Society6 if you want ‘em

ouyangdan:

magesmagesmages:

septembriseur:

therealdeepsix:

rogersbarnes-deactivated2015012:

Bucky mentally preparing himself for death is so fucking upsetting because after all of the torture he went through, after all of the physical and mental pain, he survived because Steve saved him, and here he is ready to die for him. He lets himself have this moment of fear because he knows what’s coming, he knows that he’s going to die and he allows himself to accept how scared he really is. He knew what he was getting in to when he made the choice to fight side by side with Steve (because what other choice was there really?), and part of him probably always knew this was how it would end – he was either going to live for Steve or die for him, the only thing left for him to do was to acknowledge his unhappy ending when the time came.

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT POSITIONING BUCKY’S SACRIFICE AS HIS CHOICE MEANS THAT IT WAS THE LAST TIME HE EVER GOT TO EXERCISE HIS OWN FREE WILL.

But this is actually really important, though, looking through a biopolitical lens, because in fact that choice (his choice to sacrifice himself, to die) got taken away from him. His “resurrection” as the Winter Soldier is a denial of his right to die, his right to decide what to do with his life, his body. That type of control is a horror that we tend to think of as a horror above or beyond death; there is something worse than death, and it is losing what we think of as the basic embodied human right of inhabitation of, autonomy over one’s own body. That’s what he’s about to suffer, and it kind of turns this scene from tragedy into horror story.

Holy shit just.

This has been sitting on the edge of my consciousness for a while now and it’s so truly horrible.

And it parallels with Steve (although never as bad, Bucky is everything that could have gone wrong and did go wrong and Steve is everything that could have gone wrong and somehow went almost right) because the same thing happened to Steve, he put himself in the water, he died to save the world and then the world brought him back and he got to see that his sacrifice meant nothing and it’s no fucking wonder he was so willing to let Bucky kill him on the helicarrier he realised too well that you can fight the good fight but the FIGHT NEVER ENDS and Steve is just. so. tired.

I have been trying to put this into words for a while now. Ty.