{"id":176456,"date":"2014-12-18T16:31:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/18\/stephrc79-can-we-just-talk-about-buckys\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:54:03","slug":"stephrc79-can-we-just-talk-about-buckys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/18\/stephrc79-can-we-just-talk-about-buckys\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-176456 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/18\/stephrc79-can-we-just-talk-about-buckys\/attachment\/176457\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ngrjuwzL2e1rfm03do1_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ngrjuwzL2e1rfm03do1_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_ngrjuwzL2e1rfm03do1_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/stephrc79.tumblr.com\/post\/105503216509\/can-we-just-talk-about-buckys-reaction-in-this\" target=\"_blank\">stephrc79<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Can we just talk about Bucky\u2019s reaction in this gif for a second? I saw it in a different post earlier, and something caught my eye. He\u2019s so upset and curious and flustered at the start; he\u2019s clearly still trying to figure out where he knows this guy (Steve) from. But then they push him into the chair.<\/p>\n<p>And everything changes. The moment his back hits the chair, his face goes from frustrated curiosity to placid compliance. Seriously, in the time it takes for his hair to shift in the breeze, his entire demeanor changes. From everything I\u2019ve read about a Pavlovian response, this is it. He feels the temperate compress of the leather chair at his back, and instantly he\u2019s completely docile for them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s heartbreaking to see this shift in Bucky, but it explains so much. It explains why, even as the world\u2019s best assassin, he still believes there are people who <em>can<\/em> control him. That\u00a0even though his heart is racing, and he\u2019s so\u00a0<em>clearly<\/em>\u00a0scared, he willingly (almost gratefully) takes the bite guard for the obviously painful mind wipe he knows is coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So many fics have written the idea of a formalized chair as a place of anguish (think a barber\u2019s chair), and this completely explains why. As Bucky\u2019s worked to break down what was done to him, he\u2019s realized that the association to these types of chairs is a place of agony and pure, unfathomable suffering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And now I\u2019ve made myself sad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stephrc79: Can we just talk about Bucky\u2019s reaction in this gif for a second? I saw it in a different post earlier, and something caught my eye. He\u2019s so upset and curious and flustered at the start; he\u2019s clearly still trying to figure out where he knows this guy (Steve) from. But then they push &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/18\/stephrc79-can-we-just-talk-about-buckys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31,5326,10701,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176458,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176456\/revisions\/176458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}