LipstickAndMurder



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    Bucky Barnes leads a charmed life in New York; a well-off family, high-flying job, and caring boyfriend. At least—that’s how it looks from the outside. Until the day he finds himself out of work and newly single, set upon by parents determined to micromanage their prodigal son and his emotional support ice cream up off the couch and back into society where he belongs.

    Cue a drunken movie marathon with some old college buddies, a spur-of-the-moment vacation to New Zealand, and a lesson in taking the road less travelled—courtesy of a hot local named Steve who’s on a mission all of his own.

    From Cape Reinga to Invercargill—lollies will be eaten, cultural norms will be misinterpreted, and two idiots will fall in love somewhere along the way.

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    The money he'd stolen from Hydra has almost run out when he finds a black piece of card stock with blocky capital letters stapled to a telephone pole:

    FUNNEL NO. 9

    DO YOU HAVE KNIFE SKILLS?

    WE NEED YOU

    And then below, there's a phone number.

    Knife skills? I have knife skills, he thinks. That part is pretty self-explanatory, though he has no idea what Funnel No. 9 could mean. He doesn't really want to get back into the hitman business, but needs must, and Bucky Barnes is a practical man.

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    The pictures leak on a lazy off-season Sunday, in that muddled bit of midafternoon Clint never knows what to do with when he isn’t training. He curls up with Lucky on the couch and naps through the end of his whole damn life. And that, honestly, is pretty much perfect.

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    29 Jan 2021

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    At 43, James Barnes is a washed up old man. He’s got a dozen Grammys in the hall closet, an agent that can’t get him a deal, a decade-old case of writer’s block, a moody teen-aged daughter, and the gorgeous actress Natasha Romanova for an ex-wife. Well, one of them anyway. He’s a man who’s given up on finding joy in his life, and if it wasn’t for his kid, he’d have probably found a way to quit the world a long time ago.

    Enter Steven Grant Rogers, struggling twenty-something, orphan, and someone who has no idea who Barnes is, other than some musician his mom liked a lot.
    The two men meet by accident, doing nothing more than passing the time in a quiet bar. But when a pap gets a shot of the two men embracing, Bucky takes it as a chance to finally come out as bisexual, and his agent makes him a proposition: Ten new songs and one very sweet boyfriend will get him a new record deal that will maybe, just maybe put him back on top.

    Now all he has to do is write the songs, convince the kid, and not fall in love. Should be easy, right?

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    10 Aug 2020

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    “It’s dumb,” Steve shakes his head. “People are stupid for turning this place away as quickly as they did in the past. S’been through a lot of owners.”

    That piques Sam’s interest even more. His eyebrows lift and he looks around. “Someone die here or something?”

    “Actually,” Steve murmurs, pulling the sleeves of his sweatshirt down over his hands. He takes in the apartment before him with a nervous smile. “Legend says it’s haunted.”

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    Or, how many tropes can I fit into one long-ass Stucky fic? :)

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    26 Jun 2020