Make a Thing Go Right (смешанная)

Sam meets Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes on a Thursday night, at a burlesque show, and how it happens is this:
It's already late, later than he should be out on a weeknight, but the theme of the show was a super hero revue and there was no way he was gonna miss that. It's loud in the venue, which is the back space of what probably used to be a warehouse right near the Gowanus Canal, and Sam's already had a few. He's up at the bar during the break, watching the act. He doesn't hear someone say, "Behind!" so when he steps away from the bar, he smashes right into the guy who'd just done the Captain America routine up on stage, and knocks his drinks to the ground.
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Or, I wanted to see more stories that captured the weirdness and complexity of being queer, in your late 20s, and trying to date in Brooklyn - which is my life - so I wrote one. Takes place in the MCU. Notes: This story would not be half of what it is without sonickitty. It is so crazy rare as a writer to have someone who is as excited about the story as you are, as invested in it, as willing to spend hours in research and story structure and talking it to death, and I couldn't be more grateful for all of the support, advice and love they sent my way.
Thank you as always to my betas essenceofmeanin and Scappodaqui - you guys are fucking awesome for putting up with me blabbing about this story for literally months before I ever started writing it.
There is a now also a soundtrack!
Thank you to everyone who reads this. This is a complex story, that deals with a lot of complex issues. There is a lot in here that are things I have personally experienced, but a lot that does not belong to me and never could. This story is not meant to represent any one way of living - as a person of color, as a transgender person, as a disabled person, as someone who lives with PTSD or mental illness - and there's no way it ever could, as there