so very, painfully public
Well, since you didn't want to do this in person, Clint, and I didn't want to do it in someone else's post, I hope this is an acceptable middle ground. In response to your comment on Isaac's post:
I'm genuinely sorry for my comment about punching you. I actually didn't mean anything by it -- definitely didn't intend to actually do it -- but I know intention isn't what counts in situations like these. I made an insensitive comment, and I apologize. I won't be saying anything like that again.
I recognize that I was wrong to try to tell Bucky who he could and couldn't talk to, regardless of whether I was just trying to look out for him. Doing that just made me like Pierce, and the thought disgusts me. I've talked to Bucky already and apologized for it, and won't be doing it again.
I am painfully aware that not everyone is going to like me, and that I make mistakes. I won't bother listing instances of both here, considering this isn't the place for me to go airing all my personal failings, but trust me when I say that I am intimately aware of both of those things. I admit that I am stubborn, and can be unnecessarily aggressive. I'm working on it.
I don't expect this to change anything. You don't have to forgive me, or like me, or anything else. But my conscience wasn't going to leave me alone until I responded, and I didn't want to do it in Isaac's post.
All that said, thank you for telling me to talk to Bucky.