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[Steve is restless and it shows. He's looking at the camera almost like he's waiting for it to jump out at him or he's challenging it in some way. While he's making an attempt to look friendly, he's also giving the network a far too serious amount of effort, like he's trying too hard at presenting what he has to say. Steve has a message and apparently it is An Important Issue.]

I'm starting a book club. If any of you have some things you'd like to share, I figure it can't hurt to get together and look at them as a group. If you're interested, let me know. I need the experience. Maybe some of you do too.

[ooc: While Steve says "book club" what he's really doing is creating meeting sessions for people to try new things using a book someone likes as a launching point. It's an interactive book club for trying new hobbies. Because Steve has to get his hands dirty at all times. If you're interested, I will make some book club related logs for sharing activities and messes as well.]

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A book club, huh? [That was a very serious video for starting a book club.] What kinda things are you hopin' people share?

They can share whatever they want. [He's so sore, Bucky! So. Sore.] I'm just trying to get out more.

[...with a book club. Yeah.]

No good ideas for your inaugural book club meeting? [He might be teasing, just a little bit.] You know, lives like ours, and this is still probably the most off-the-wall thing I've followed you into.

Well... I guess I didn't think of that.

[This is your friend, Bucky. This is what you deal with.]

I should probably come up with something.

Probably couldn't hurt. [He's definitely teasing now.] Is reading the book mandatory?

It's probably a good idea. [It's hard to tell how serious he's being since Steve is so dry by nature.] It is called a book club. We probably have to include some books somehow.

It's your club. You're the one who chose to make it about books. [He doesn't believe for a second that Steve wants to sit in a circle and discuss Tolstoy.] Guess you better pick your first book.

[Okay, so this is possibly prompted a bit by being left by his book-loving boyfriend. Just a little bit. But he is trying at least to make the best of things?

Even though he is clearly bad at it.]

...You're right. I need to find a good book to start with.

[He didn't plan this out well at all.]

[Steve does he need to come home and have a real talk with you?]

Picked up a recipe book the other day. State fair foods of the deep fried golden age. I could do a demonstration, it gives me a reason to buy that 44-quart turkey fryer I been lookin' at.

[Shhh, shhh, Bucky, he's fine. Let him be salty and have book club and pretend it's not because Loki told him they could read together some time.

And then left him.

Nope, not about that at all!]

A demonstration sounds fun.

[That would be the sound of a dog perking up his ears at the potential combination of food and play. This sounds like a great way to do a book club.]

We could try out some of the recipes in the book. See how it holds up.

[He will just table that thought for later. Maybe challenge Steve to a spar on the mats in their gym.

For now, he'll just feel slightly smug that he's done something to help Steve, even minutely. Nobody knows Steve Rogers like he does.]

Yeah, there's an idea. It could be fun. [It's also an excuse to buy a shiny new 44-quart turkey fryer.] Where you gonna host this?

[He's just pouting over it. He knows there's no way to necessarily repair things, but Steve has never been good at just getting over it and letting go.

And he's still riled up over how he thinks people are seeing him in general. Meanwhile, though, the book club idea really is to help get his mind off of those things. He hopes, anyway.]

Well, I thought we could get together at home. Or maybe someone's home. That's usually how people do book clubs, right?

[Hopefully this book club does help, even if it really sounds like more of a hobby club to Bucky. It's something for Steve to do, and hell, it's something for him to do too, because of course he won't let his best friend do it alone.]

I wouldn't know. We didn't exactly have time for book clubs back home. [He says wryly.] We could host the first one, at least. Drag some more chairs up to the roof or somethin'.

[Steve has not realized yet that he's not exactly describing a book club. Give him time. Although he's probably just going to stubbornly call it book club anyway.]

Yeah, we can put it on the roof. Maybe make snacks using those recipes so everyone can experience the book first hand.

[What better way to read?]

We can make it a cookout.

[At least he's sort of trying to involve books somehow. That counts for a book club. Maybe.]

Everybody does love food. Deep fried food. Then you can get someone else to volunteer the next book.

[Yeah, he is at least trying. And he does plan on reading new books. He just doesn't exactly know what to do once they've read them.]

I think once people see how it can be fun they'll want to share some of their own favorites. And I'd like to see what more people are reading. We've got people from all different worlds.

Not sure if that's exactly how book clubs work, but sure, why the hell not. It sounds interesting. We'll draw 'em in with food first and then try some other things.

[People are bound to show up at least for food, right?]

I think we can run them how we feel works best. We don't have to follow anyone else's example.

[Is that Steve being rebellious? Why, yes.]

People read in cafes all the time. Food and books go together.

Steve Rogers, wantin' to do things his own way? Well golly gee, I never saw that one coming.

You set it up. I'm gonna buy that turkey fryer.

Don't get smart. My way'll work fine.

[But he's grinning. Steve knows he's stubborn.]

We're not going to fry just turkeys, are we?

You say that even when it doesn't wind up working fine. At least book club won't get either of us killed.

They just call it a turkey fryer, Steve. You can fry anything in one if you get the oil hot enough.

You say that like it doesn't work out.

[They're both totally fine so clearly all his plans must have worked out great, right?]

Anything, huh? And I take it that's the plan?

Sometimes your plans could go better. [He points out blandly, the implication is, of course, there that Bucky is the one who salvages things sometimes.]

Be a cryin' shame to buy a 44-quart fryer and only use it on a turkey.

[Steve still sounds amused on his end. He's not even making an attempt to hide the fact he's enjoying the teasing between them. It isn't like Bucky wouldn't be able to guess anyway.]

What? My plans have been all right. What are you gonna cook for us?

[Bucky would be lying if he said he didn't enjoy it too. The banter, even just over the phone, without watching Steve's expressions and body language, is familiar. Home.]

For you, some nice deep-fried Capital planet cockroach. For your guests, I'm thinkin' deep fried Oreos.

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