Obsessed with the idea that Gale’s babushka era was Bucky’s doing. He saw Gale shivering and maybe getting sick and dug up some sort of scarf/sweater/blanket thing and wrapped Gale up and fussed over it to make sure it was warm and Gale kind of hates it because it looks silly but it *is*really warm and he won’t begrudge it because it seems to make Bucky feel better.
Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West
sorry boss can't come in today i was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world
i do love the fact its textual that bucky gets white girl wasted and wants to sing karaoke going itsss my songgggggggggg
a Buck/Bucky tennis AU by phlegmatic
Gale meets John Egan at a Challenger in Bordeaux when they’re both 19 years old. After that, he can’t seem to shake him. But what’s more is, despite what his dad says about Gale’s game, and what the commentators say about their rivalry, and what he’s been told about tennis his whole life, Gale doesn’t think he wants to.
Hearing Lee yell “C’mon” above the groaning of the crowd isn’t because he’s louder than anyone else’s disappointment; it’s because it’s a sound that Gale is hearing inside his own head anyway. The aim had been correct, according to Gale’s eyes, but his body is lurching into serves with limbs dragged through pulpy juice—or something even more viscous, hotter, like the air weighing down his lungs. Weather forecast didn’t say anything about heat, but Gale may as well be breathing in the sun and seawater. Both serves (both faults), he looked down the court—desert stretch of orange—and Lemmons was made of soft rubber, but Gale could see the lines. The ball is the problem, not going where he sends it. His body is moving too slow, is the problem, and there’s a knife behind his eye, poking through the cotton wool filling his skull. The ringing in his ears is the problem, the dizziness.
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MASTERS OF THE AIR + major gale cleven in his babushka era *:・゚✧ (part 2)