1. it’s stylish. he might be a little sweaty from working on the field and with the goats, but he’s still bringing it. It’s boho-chic meets Wakanda meets no-need-to-go-that-hard-on-a-shoulder-cover-while-baling-hay. it’s an outfit that matches. it’s a look
2. DICK ZIPPER
DICK ZIPPER
he’s clearly living his best life and wearing sexy pants. you can kinda see his nips. he might be wearing one of Steve’s old collar shirts that he ripped the arm off of so his sexy bicep is free. you go Buck.
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
It’s been five years and I still don’t know why people don’t think Bucky was such a vintage!geek in the 1940s
Knows by heart how many women there are in New York and casually throws that in a conversation he has when he’s on his way to a science fair
“LOOK AT THAT FUCKING FLYING CAR" “Holy cow” feels
Best friend is a kid who is into arts and takes books with him to the army
“STEVE YOU’RE KEEPING YOUR SUPER HERO OUTFIT RIGHT??”
Smithsonian tells me Bucky was “an excellent athlete who also excelled in the classroom” – like, his grades were good enough Smithsonian thought “hey we should mention that”
If my math teacher wasn’t lying to me, you needed some pretty great math skills to be a good sniper in WW2, so there’s also that
People say “Oh Bucky was into science” but no, god, he was a full-blown nerd