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✍️ dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears

14 titles · Romance, Historical, Angst, Drama

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❤️ Fave2013

Not Easily Conquered

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 227K words

The complete WWII-era Steve and Bucky story. From Brooklyn to the war to the aftermath. Epic historical romance with incredible attention to detail.

WwiiPeriod Typical HomophobiaWar TimeFriends To Lovers
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❤️ Fave2014

Soft as it Began

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 19K words

1930s-40s Brooklyn to the war and everything between. The way this captures young Steve and Bucky figuring out what they mean to each other is art.

Friends To LoversWar SettingSlow BurnAngst
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❤️ Fave2014

Not Easily Conquered

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 115K words

Told through letters, documents, and third-person accounts spanning decades. Steve and Bucky's love story as historical artifact. One of the most ambitious and devastating fanfics in any fandom.

Friends To LoversSlow BurnWar SettingAngst
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❤️ Fave2014

Soft as It Began

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 35K words

Post-TWS recovery. Bucky shows up at Steve's door. The healing is slow and messy and real. A quiet, intimate Stucky that doesn't rush anything. Sometimes the best fics are the gentle ones.

Slow BurnHurt ComfortDomesticFound Family
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❤️ Fave2014

Soft as it Began

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 38K words

Pre-war Brooklyn. Steve and Bucky falling in love in secret during the 1930s. The period detail is impeccable and the tenderness between them is devastating knowing what comes next.

Friends To LoversSlow BurnWar SettingAngst
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❤️ Fave2014

Not Easily Conquered

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 117K words

Told through letters, documents, and interviews spanning decades. Steve and Bucky's love story as history. The epistolary format is genius — you piece together their relationship like a historian. Masterpiece.

Slow BurnWar SettingAngstFriends To Lovers
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❤️ Fave2015

Not Easily Conquered

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 117K words

A collection of letters, journal entries, and Howling Commandos history. Told through documents, building a love story across decades. The format fic that made an entire fandom cry.

Friends To LoversSlow BurnWar SettingEmotional Devastation
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❤️ Fave2015

Not Easily Conquered

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 120K words

Told through letters, documents, and historical records spanning decades. Steve and Bucky's love story pieced together like an archaeological dig. The format is groundbreaking. Will absolutely destroy you.

Slow BurnAngstWar SettingFriends To Lovers
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❤️ Fave2015

Not Easily Conquered

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 117K words

Told through letters, transcripts, and historical documents. Steve and Bucky's love story spanning decades. The epistolary format makes it feel REAL. One of the most acclaimed Stucky fics ever written.

Friends To LoversSlow BurnWar SettingAngst
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Not Easily Conquered #1❤️ Fave2015

Not Easily Conquered

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 117K words

Told through letters, interviews, and historical documents. Steve and Bucky's love story across decades. The epistolary format is genius — it reads like uncovering a real queer history that was erased. Bring tissues.

Friends To LoversSlow BurnWar SettingAngst
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❤️ Fave2015

Not Easily Conquered

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 82K words

Told through letters, documents, and third-person accounts spanning decades. The love story of Steve and Bucky as seen by everyone around them. The epistolary format is genius. Will wreck you.

Friends To LoversSlow BurnWar SettingAngst
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❤️ Fave2016

Soft Spot

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 18K words

1930s Brooklyn. Steve is small, sick, and stubborn. Bucky is in love and terrified. Pre-serum Stucky at its most intimate — the tenderness of two boys who can't name what they are yet.

Friends To LoversHurt ComfortAngstSlow Burn
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❤️ Fave2017

Soft as it Began

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 120K words

Pre-war Brooklyn. Steve and Bucky navigate the Depression, queer identity in the 1930s, and a love neither can name. Historical Stucky that feels like holding your breath for 120K words.

Friends To LoversSlow BurnHistoricalWar Setting
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❤️ Fave2017

Soft as it Began

🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 130K words

Pre-war Brooklyn. Steve and Bucky in the 1930s, figuring out what they are to each other while the world closes in. Historical Stucky that reads like literary fiction.

Friends To LoversSlow BurnAngstWar Setting