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Shrinkyclinks
| Synonyms: | pre-serum Steve/Winter Soldier Bucky |
| See also: | Skinny!Steve, size difference, Shrunkyclunks, Twink Tank Stucky by maxbbs (2014) |
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Shrinkyclinks is an Alternate Universe trope within Steve/Bucky fanworks where Steve Rogers appears as he did pre-super-serum and Bucky Barnes appears as he does as the Winter Soldier.
The idea of Skinny!Steve/WS!Bucky came to Stucky fans pretty quickly after the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier in May 2014, but it is not clear where the name "shrinkyclinks" came from. It was probably based from the US 1970s children's activity kit Shrinky Dinks, a plastic sheet that can be drawn on and then heated in the oven, shrinking the item drastically, in an analogy to Steve's preserum size.
Fandom legend attributes the name "shrinkyclinks" to Bluandorange, who has in turn credited wingsandtails as a co-inventor.[1]
However, a number of fanartists were creating art for skinny!Steve/Winter Soldier around the same time. In addition to Bluandorange, logeirr, karaii, maxbbs, and kaciart were early contributors to the trope.
Tumblr user dsudis also gave a good explanation of the different components of "clinkshipping", as they put it, in this post dated May 23, 2016.
Example Fanworks
Fanfiction
- Turn Back the Clock, early (earliest?) fic by Bluandorange (May 3, 2014) (Rated E)
- Lifelines Like Branches by defcontwo (June 10, 2014) (Rated G & M)
- Original Programming by Zetsubonna (June 24, 2014) (Rated E)
- Factory Reset by Chaya (July 25, 2014) (Rated M)
Fanart
- shrinkyclinks tbh, fanart by envyhime (July 6, 2016)
- quick shrinkyclink before i go to bed, Archived version, fanart by jokeritadoodle (September 24, 2016)
- Factory Reset fanart, Archived version by Bluandorange (July 2015)]
- fanart, Archived version by kayaczek (March 29, 2015)
- fanart, Archived version by sergeantstuckbutts (Feb 2015)
- fanart, Archived version by kaciart (October 19, 2014)
- comic, Archived version by karaii (September 2014)
- fanart, Archived version by Bluandorange (July 2014)
Links & Resources
References
- ^ sonickitty at Tumblr, Why didn't anyone tell me you had a name for..., 19 December 2014.