Series summary:You’ve been assigned to write a column for your school paper on the team’s spectacular running back. You don’t care very much for your university’s football team; you just can’t understand the hype, okay? Turns out your distaste for football bigheads was exactly on point: James Barnes is insufferable.
Helloooo! Here I am with another series instead of finishing the ones I’ve already started. Writers core <3 Anyway, let me know if you guys want to read more of this one. I’m a hoe for this trope.
Title: No Such Thing
Summary: You’ve been assigned to write a column for your school paper on the team’s spectacular
running back. You don’t care very much for your university’s football team; you just can’t understand the hype, okay? Turns out your distaste for football bigheads was exactly on point: James Barnes is insufferable.
Pairing: college!Bucky Barnes x female!Reader
Word count: 3.6k
Warnings:
enemies to lovers, swapped insults, my limited knowledge of college football.
A/N: Okay, this one is another enemies/rivals-to-lovers, but it’s definitely got more spice than The Mess, for those of you that read that. Bucky is a bit of an a-hole jock in this one, but don’t you worry! Reader will get her moment ;)
“Alright. Final order of business: being that it’s midway through football season, Indra and I talked it over, and we decided that we should have an interview with one of the players. It’ll boost traffic and hey, maybe we’ll get actual readers for once.”
You hadn’t been paying much attention after your initial assignment to work on your own column about the musical theatre’s production of The Phantom of the Opera. So you kept typing on the clunky Mac computers they’d donated for the school paper, tuning everyone else out until you heard your name.
“Huh?“
Jamie frowned at you, hand on her hip.
"We’re doling out assignments. It’s your lucky day: you get to interview the
running back, James.”
“Excuse me?”
“Football, Y/N,” Indra offered helpfully.
“Oh. You know I haven’t been to any of the games, right? Like, none.”
fictional character discourse would be more fun if we all internalized the fact that characters are narrative tools, not people. once we have that basic fact down, we can start talking about what story the author is trying to tell using these characters, whether they’re successful, whether the story itself is successful and by what means we are measuring success—which are all really fun and interesting things to discuss! but we simply cannot get to that point unless we first accept that fictional characters simply do not have thoughts, feelings, opinions, or any agency on their own. a fictional character has more in common with the fictional chair theyre sitting on than with a real person
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