Mistake on the Part of Nature
Captain America (Movies)

Mistake on the Part of Nature

by idiopathicsmile

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Summary

Steve takes in Bucky's betrayed look and Sam's confusion, follows Sam's gaze to the pile of mangled fruit in the trash can. Sudden comprehension fills his face."Oh," he says. "Bucky found out about bananas." In which an American icon is mourned. But probably not the one you're thinking of.

Reader Reviews

This Girl Is (non_sequential)

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Ahaha, that is adorable, I love it.

wobblyheadeddollcaper

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Hooray banana fic! I love it.

Anonymous

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Aww, this was adorable. A nice rest from all the angsty post WS fics around. I've heard about the banana thing before, and I loved what you did with it.

magog_83

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This is so adorable and hilarious :D

Kaiyo_no_Hime

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Haha, my great grandmother used to have the same complaint about bananas, it was hilarious when I was growing up.

Anonymous

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This is so very well-written! I hope you write more for this fandom. : )

frequencyskye

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lie-fruit. i spat out my yogurt. this is the most adorable thing ever.

Anonymous

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This is great! Hilarious, and I love it. :)Only now I'm remembering that there was a fic prompt kind of like this, somewhere, about how Steve had lost everything, everyone was dead, and all the bananas were gone. I wonder where that prompt was and if it ever got filled?

stitchingatthecircuitboard

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absolutely delightful. thank you for sharing.

mata

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Awww, grumpyBucky is so cute! Huh, never knew Gros Michel bananas were so coveted...I live in a country that produces this specie of banana and yes, it does taste better than the Cavendish banana!

Minim Calibre (minim_calibre)

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You wrote the bananas! Words cannot possibly express my glee!!! (I have banana feels, OK?)

rdemon

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You can also find it in Malaysia. But they're right you know. Those bananas that you westerners eat taste like crap. In my country, bananas has a variety of sizes but the most common ones are usually this short thick stubby bananas with black freckles. They taste really sweet. And then there are the ones the size of your arm. We usually made fritters out of those. I don't know if you have banana fritters though...do you?(Look at me, chattering about banana at two in the morning....my life sucks.)

some_stars

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saw this fic and immediately emailed my friend, "omg someone actually wrote the bananafic" because you WROTE THE BANANAFIC. and it's delightful. "lie-fruit"! "sorry i ruined all your stupid shitty bananas"! and then AWWWWWW best ending. and the sam pov is FANTASTIC. thank you for this bananafic.

Avelera

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Oh my god I'm actually crying with laughter. Sam's inner monologue about Bucky just slays me, looks that are "too significant" for 7am, Bucky and Steve obsessing over each other in front of him, the entire conversation about the fruit, Bucky's lack of social grace and the fact he can crush Sam's head with his hand, I'm dying here!

goshemily

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THIS IS BEAUTIFUL AND I LOVE YOU

Anonymous

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""Wait!" says Bucky, wide-eyed with some realization. For a moment, he sounds very earnest, almost young. "What about banana candy?" They both blink at him. "Well," he says, "it's not like the plague knocked out banana flavoring—" "Man, don't get your hopes up, banana-flavored anything is nasty," Sam tells him absently, scrolling down. "It's way too sweet and it never tastes anything like bana—" He pauses mid-syllable. "Huh.""You know, I knew this about bananas (and I was equally bemused by the idea of catastrophic fruit plagues) but this scene made me finally realize why I like banana flavored candy but not actual bananas. I thought it was just a weird personal quirk, but this makes sense!Also, I bet Steve and Bucky have similar issues with tomatoes (modern ones are bred to be more uniformly red) and watermelon (modern ones are bred to have fewer seeds) and some other stuff, too. Like, modern pigs are bred so pork is lower fat, modern chickens have been bred to have more breast meat,I'm sure there's other stuff, too.

Anonymous

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This is so sweet and cute, and manages to be in character despite being totally not your regular post-TWS scenario. I love it, please tell me there's a second part to this? Please? I need Steve coming back from the gas station and him and Bucky talking about things awkwardly.

steelphoenix

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This is quite possibly the most adorable thing EVER. So many lines I just laughed my ass off at, but especially the Super-Soldiers Against Modern Bananas, and "You don't know any better," which gets extra points for giving me the exact look that Bucky is wearing at that moment. Fantastic stuff. :)

soc_puppet

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How cute!

ForgetTheMoon

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Cute and hilarious, I love it <3

Anonymous

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Super-Soldiers Against Modern Bananas.i can'tI CAN'TOH MY GOD EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS PERFECT PLEASE ALWAYS WRITE STEVE/BUCKY SAM FLUFFY DOMESTICITY IT MAKES MY SOUL HAPPY/crying because these precious babies

EmilianaDarling

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This was absolutely hysterical, charming, and completely perfect. I loved the 'banana flavouring' revelation, the fact that Bucky took a bite out of EVERY SINGLE BANANA before giving up, and that he erroneously assumed that Sam and Steve were in a relationship, which is... really, just fantastic. Your Sam was to die for (all of his little '... yeah, or. you know. whatever'-type comments just make my heart soar). I'm so glad that such a capable author took up gyzym's fic idea! Although I, too, hope that this fandom can in fact emerge with a "distinct little subgenre of banana stories." I live to dream.Thanks so much for writing this, and for sharing it!

Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)

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THIS IS THE BEST :-D

Anonymous

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This was great! I laughed and also I was like, aw cute.Also of note, the fungus that wiped out the Gros Michel bananas has a new strain that's started wiping out the Cavendishes, so enjoy your bananas while they last because they might not last much longer.

antisepticdork

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... I actually wondered if someone would do the banana thing. What does that say about me? THIS WAS FANTASTIC. Sam's reaction was the best.

e_juliana

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**makes with the clappyhands and incoherent noises of glee**

raven_aorla

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This is wonderful. And no wonder I like bananas better when visiting relatives in Thailand! (I'm half-and-half Thai and White American.)

Lia

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SUPERSOLDIERS OUT OF TIME FREAKING OUT ABOUT BANANAS I LOVE THAT THIS IS A THING IT IS AN AWESOME THING AND THIS IS ADORABLE.

rageprufrock

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THIS IS TREMENDOUS. I WILL NEVER CALL BANANAS ANYTHING OTHER THAN LIE FRUIT AGAIN.

andwhatyousaid

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A++++++ characterization all around!!! Best pick-me-up ever. Bless you for this.

servantofclio

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OMG this is the BEST THING. Banana trivia, grumpy Steve and Bucky, the three of them being weird housemates. Awesome.

neveralarch

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Awesome awesome awesome :D

isweedan

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::joy joy joy:: Fic about Gros Michel vs Cavendish :DDDDD

Morose

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This story....sooo funny and omg perfect! :)

beachlass

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OMG THIS IS GREAT. And also banana plague really? I did not know

matanee

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This is literally the best post-TWS fluff I have ever read so far. I nearly pissed at some parts, all the kudos to you!

almeda

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Just so you know, this is brilliant enough I'm subscribing to lie in wait for your future production. (no pressure) :->

augustbird

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this is sickeningly cute I LOVE IT

SharoScylla

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I LOVE IT

AnnaMaraya

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Uh, this was completely beyond adorable, thank you so much for writing it. Sam was perfect and so sweet, Bucky was amazingly done. I can just picture steve sprinting those five blocks to get Bucky every banana flavored candy in the store. Cutest thing ever, off to read all your other fic, thank you so much for writing this.

batyatoon

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BANANAFICYES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES

OfTheDirewolves

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This is glorious.. You eat "dumb bananas" it's priceless

snowalice

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I love the slice of life stories where Bucky is kinda back to his self. These are so cute.But Bananas! I've never thought about the different chemicals put in our fruit from the past. Thank you for informing me. Although this doesn't really matter to me because I'm allergic to them! :)

ItsLineto

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This is everything I didn't know I DESPERATELY NEEDED in my life. So delicious!

breve711

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This is just perfect. Love it

Robinade

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This is so cute. Sam and Bucky interaction!!! I never see that in fic, bless u

Tayijo

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This is SO GREAT.

Zolac_no_Miko

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SOMEONE WROTE A BANANAFICI LOVE THIS FANDOMI LOVE GYZYMI LOVE YOU

shakeskp

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This, this is everything I want from Captain America fics. Bless you, bless your family, bless your cow.

Anonymous

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I really love this, and I love the article on bananas. Its a nice bit of natural history and political history. I was shocked to realize last summer that bananas were cheaper than zuchininis when one is local and known for super abundance and the other one is foreign and imported. Bananas like rubber trees are all going to be wiped out in a plague soon, only one variety is grown and they are all clones. Please write lots more.