feathersmoons:

quinfirefrorefiddle:

feathersmoons:

teapotsahoy:

pitchercries:

teapotsahoy:

I always find it a little hard to believe in uniform kink in the fandoms best suited to it, so to speak, because while I can believe that the fandom is into the characters’ uniforms, I have troubles believing that the characters are, on the principle that nothing is less sexy than your nine-to-five.

But I don’t know if this is actually true.  Is military kink less common in actual members of the military?  Does anyone know or have anecdata?

THERE IS NOTHING LESS SEXY THAN MILITARY KINK for all the soldiers I’ve ever met, including myself. I’ve been out for nearly a decade & I sometime still have to back button out of stuff that fetishizes aspects of the military. (I mean, people are welcome to their kinks! But for me it’s an active turn off.)

Thank you for your perspective!

I’ve always been unpersuaded by bdsm-y stuff, where Bucky calls Steve “Sir”, because, Winter Soldier stuff aside, I am persuaded Bucky associates ‘Sir’ with doing dumb pointless boring necessary shit for dumb people he doesn’t particularly respect.

(Steve, on the other hand, I can believe fetishizes lots of aspects of military culture, for one thing, because he was barely in boot camp and got to opt out of a lot the military administrivia. And also because I believe the first time he saw Bucky in uniform he popped a boner that didn’t go down for a week.)

Note also that “uniform” potentially covers MULTIPLE outfits, particularly for law enforcement and military personnel: there’s a difference between the uniform Bucky’s wearing at the beginning of TFA, what he’d actually live in day to day, or for that matter things like dress mess.

And despite what TV may have told you, RCMP officers do not live in their red serge. 😛

(There’s also an aspect of “uniform kink” vs “kink for YOU in THAT uniform”, and not having the kink oneself vs responding enthusiastically to the way one’s partner does.)

I also totally agree re: Bucky and “sir” – “sir” = “oh God shut up already”.

One day Bucky is in a retail store and overhears an employee giving exactly that “sir” to an irritating customer.

His grin scares the shit out of both of them.

😀

Actual remark of Col Phillips re Barnes somewhere only semi-official: “possesses the most amazing ability to radiate disrespect and insubordination while at the same time not ever doing a single damn thing you can actually discipline him for, including the tone of his voice.”