Where texting-based communication is a feature of the relationship - may include tinder/Grindr interactions
Summary: Hey friend of Sam’s can I get an opinion on this outfit? Bucky texted, attaching the selfie taken in Sam’s bathroom mirror. He received an answer almost immediately. Bucky was almost expecting a lecture, or at least a concerned question about who had stolen Sam’s phone. He got neither. New text from Steve: What do you want it to say? Or: Bucky strikes up a flirtation with a stranger over text message in the month leading up to Valentine's Day.
Summary: It’s the quality that gets him first. The profile photo looks like it's been taken with a semi-professional camera: it's sharp and remarkably unposed compared to most people on Tinder. The guy in the photo is the size of a fucking fridge but with Marilyn Monroe’s waistline, accentuated by the way he’s standing half-twisted towards the camera. He’s also in the process of getting arrested. Steve, 28, it says under the photo. New York City. Some say I have an arresting personality. This photo is from my good side. The other has a shiner.
Summary: Bucky Barnes gets a text from a wrong number...
Summary: Pro-Tip: don’t accidentally sext with your competitive dickface BFF Bucky: whoops wrong convo. Clearly. Steve: Clearly. Bucky could practically hear the dry tone of Steve’s voice. Steve: Go on.
Summary: When Bucky gets a message from an unknown number, he never expects it to lead him on an exciting journey filled with naked pics, hot sexting and surprise flights over Manhattan with Iron Man himself.
Summary: Steve operates a glory hole. One of his regulars starts to get under his skin.
Summary: In which Bucky Barnes, Iraq war veteran and bicycle enthusiast, streams Overwatch on the side for fun under the handle President15, and one day his friend-of-a-friend FalconKnight introduces a new player to the crew, THECapRogers. It would be totally absurd for the actual Captain America to hang out in his stream and argue about baseball, right? ...right? This work is complete (roughly 35k). It is about 85% tooth-rotting fluff and 10% canon-typical angst and 5% Bucky Barnes being a disaster. **READ THE CHAPTER SUMMARY NOTES RE: CHAPTER 1A/1B PLEASE :)** You don't need to know anything about streaming or Overwatch to enjoy, I promise.
Summary: When Steve decided to cosplay Captain America, one of his favorite TV characters, at a convention, he didn't expect to meet a Winter Soldier cosplayer who looks like he stepped right off the screen (and has a great ass). He didn't expect to hook up with Bucky, or to find out that they live in the same part of Brooklyn. He definitely didn't expect the sexting, or the continued hooking up, or the dinner dates. Steve didn't expect any of this. Especially not the feelings.
Summary: Steve opens the fancy cardboard packaging and pulls out the underpants. They are bright white and look small, but the girl in the store had convinced him that they were just his size. The waistband is etched with the brand name. Apparently, that’s very important.
Summary: Steve is lonely and the number on his phone-screen is unfamiliar. He's not the social type, not even close, yet there's something about the man on the other side that makes him interested. He doesn't hang up until two hours later. - Wrong number AU in which phone sex is the answer and the question is irrelevant.
Summary: “Of all your harebrained fucking ideas,” is the first thing Steve says when he steps into their bedroom. “You’ve got quite the filthy mouth today,” remarks Bucky.
Summary: After Steve gets outed by a grainy cell phone picture, it takes the media less than 24 hours to discover Captain America’s secret relationship with James Barnes: classical musician, teen heartthrob, and son of a former president. The only problem? Steve has never met James Barnes in his life.
Summary: Bucky just wanted to send his best friend a picture of his cat being an idiot while he was taking a bath. Was it really his fault for forgetting the full length mirror right opposite the tub?
Summary: He headed in the general direction of his dorm, phone in hand, and when he finally managed to unlock it, he gaped, glad he hadn’t opened it in class. Because the most recent message in a set of nine texts and a single photo message, was my fingers don’t feel as good as your mouth baby, come home? From an unknown number. Okay. Hmm.
Summary: When Steve gets a sext from an unknown number, he politely corrects the mistake, assuming that will be the last of it. Only when Mr Unknown Number still wants to play, Steve can't quite resist the temptation to play along. After all, it's not as if this stranger ever needs to know who he really is and suddenly, for the first time in years, Steve realises he doesn't have to be Captain America. He can just be him, just Steve, and who knew that could be such a turn on...?
Smut Writing 101: Accidental Dick Pics and Nudes - AO3 Collection
Summary: Steve’s heart stopped for the second time that hour, and his body froze. He was going to die from a heart attack today, he just knew it. His headstone would read: Here lies Steve Rogers, a man killed by too many faux pas in one day.
Summary: Bucky doesn't have a job. Steve assures Bucky that there's no pressure for him to do anything; Steve's army back pay and his avenging days mean they're taken care of. Bucky's a kept man, and whilst he loves that, he isn't much of a house husband. So he goes out, and that's how it happens. He's sitting on the subway when he sees the magazine, garishly pink with a woman flashing big pearly white teeth on the front cover. He can't help himself. Letting himself do things he wants to do is one of the things the Wakandan healers had taught him, so maybe it's a step in the right direction. The magazine turns out to be a little less factual than Bucky’s usual reading material, but he loves it. He reads an interview with some actress he's never seen before, then an article on how to get the perfect brows (and he looks up at his reflection in the subway window then to find that his brows are-- what does the magazine say? on fleek already), and then he gets to something interesting. Sexting 101: What your man really wants to hear Now that is something Bucky wants to know more about.
Summary: “You know, kids,” Steve heard from the backyard, “one of the most common threats a superhero has to face is inside an active volcano! We’re going to have to work on your evasion skills, so for the next five minutes, the floor is lava!” This was met by a sudden spike in both volume and pitch from the small children as they scrambled onto every raised surface they could find and immediately launched themselves right back off. “I’ve never seen actual lava in my entire life,” Steve said, vaguely offended. “You got a superhero impersonator for The Falcon’s niece’s birthday party,” Sam said, incredulous. “The Falcon, who is an actual superhero.”
Summary: It all starts because Steve is too dumb to handle his smartphone. A wrong number AU in which Bucky Barnes doesn't enter Steve's life (meaning: Bucky wasn't born until the eighties, but Steve is still Captain America) until Steve accidentally dials the wrong number. Wherein there is a lot of texting, some advice via Natasha and Darcy, a bit of pining, and a first date in an amusement park. Oh, and on top of being a disabled veteran, Bucky is a professional catwalker. Literally.
Summary: Send noodz Steve has been staring at his phone for the last six minutes, eyes narrowed so much they’re almost closed at this point, trying to figure out what the hell Bucky means. Noodz? What the fuck are noodz? Listen, Steve is at least marginally aware of modern pop culture. He’s heard of nudes — not that nudes are exactly a modern invention; artists have been creating them for millennia — and he does know that people tend to misspell words to be cute or funny. They did that when he was young, too. Because time is a flat circle, apparently. But, wait—does that mean…? No. Not possible. Bucky isn’t asking Steve to send him…nudes. Right?
Summary: After Bucky came back in from the cold, he’d been afraid that Steve wouldn’t allow him to be in his life. Bucky is not the person he was before…before everything. He’s not even entirely a person, not yet. He’s barely verbal. He can’t stand to be touched. He has nightmares. He forgets a lot. But Steve had made a home for him. For them. And Bucky is working on it, learning how to be human again. Trying things. Ice cream. Sandwiches. Warm bread. Warm bed. Sleep. Rest. Smile. Rain and snow and a walk for the pleasure of walking. He is content. They are together, and that’s all that matters to him—to be near Steve, and protect him. That’s all he needs. Until he accidentally finds a sketch Steve has made of him, and discovers there’s still so much more to learn about himself and this “being human” thing. An Accidental Dick Pic Stucky Fic
Summary: Steve meets Bucky while canvassing for racial justice. Later that night, he sends him a dick pic (on accident! He swears!). He is the worst volunteer ever and he is totally getting fired for this. --------------------------- "I am not drunk," Steve said. "I’m like, respectably tipsy. Like an adult after a hard day of social justice work. I’m an…adult.” Steve looked down at himself. He was wearing She-Ra slippers and the sweatpants that had a small hole in the crotch. He was holding a Shirley Temple with two shots of vodka in it, and a phone that still plainly displayed the artistically shot nude he always sent to signal a booty call with whoever he had sex with last. An artistically shot nude that he had sent, instead, to the one hot guy on his whole canvassing list that had invited him in and given him a glass of water and asked him intelligent questions while he’d signed the petition. Fuck.
Summary: Steve, 7:05pm: I’m stroking my cock right now thinking about your tight little ass The text comes in five minutes into Bucky’s evening lecture. He’s taking notes on his laptop and the message pops up in a banner at the top of his screen, clear as day, legible enough for anyone sitting near him to peek over and read.
Summary:
Three Shield recruits find an unlocked phone in the locker room, and when the phone owner's girlfriend starts sending texts, they see an opportunity to have some fun.Until they realize their mistake.
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