December Daily: Current fandom

amalthia asks: what is your current favorite fandom and what do you love about it?

Right now I get all excited if a "Captain America" story shows up on my screen, especially a Steve/Bucky story.

I love the character of Steve Rogers, because he's good, but he isn't easy. He's interesting, too, because he's a stranger to our century, and he can take an outsider's view of things we take for granted; he turns the everyday world into science fiction just by looking at it.

There are a lot of different ways to write Bucky Barnes, but he can be approached as something like a feral cat, which is an approach I enjoy because it allows you to do that thing I love where you get physical intimacy (or at least bed-sharing) very early and have to wait for a long time for emotional intimacy.

One thing I don't like about the fandom is that some really fine Bucky-recovery stories are being labeled "Hydra trash" (inaccurately, in my opinion), which means either I have to miss great stories or I have to read things without knowing whether or not they're going to trip my torture squick.