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Bucky And Loki (Winterfrost) Masterlist 2

part one, part three

A Recurring Lesson of Learning New Skills (ao3) - lionessvalenti E, 12k

Summary: Loki has been wasting away in prison for three years. Bucky needs to go off-world to protect himself from HYDRA. Perhaps they can solve both of these issues with one arrangement.

Can I Bum A Ride? (ao3) - McFiddleStan E, 8k

Summary: The end of a relationship finds Loki driving to his parents' home in the pouring rain. He sees a man walking on the side of the road and feels bad so he stops to pick him up. And things escalate from there.

Cracked Actor (ao3) - Dont_touch_the_phlebotinum E, 11k

Summary: Everybody had secrets. Most people's weren't nearly as interesting as they liked to think they were.

There were always exceptions to that rule, though. Loki had just never expected Bucky Barnes to be one of them.

Everyone in This Cinema Hates Us (ao3) - emptymasks T, 2k

Summary: “Even though they’re clearly supposed to be highly traine-” The man stopped as the blonde next to him placed a hand on his arm.

“Brother, behave.” The man’s brother (why did Bucky feel relieved by that information) growled.

The man just smirked.

So Bucky wasn’t imagining things. Well, today just got a lot more interesting. This man might keep Bucky’s boredom levels from being fatal.

As long as the man’s brother, or anyone else in the cinema, didn’t get him kicked out.

Feral (ao3) - goldenwatcher E, 5k

Summary: Loki sees something recognizable in the Winter Soldier, something he might be able to manipulate. Bucky, however, turns the tables on him in a delightfully erotic way.

Frostbite (ao3) - Skarla T, 19k

Summary: James is more than a little wary at the thought of a new addition to the facility, especially when everyone else seems to have strong opinions over his presence. Loki doesn’t particularly want to be there, but then he doesn’t really want to be anywhere else either and Sargent James Barnes is the most intriguing Midgardian he’s met yet.

"I'll walk you home." (ao3) - McFiddleStan T, 1k

Summary: Bucky and Loki are at the tail end of their date. Bucky doesn't want him to leave, but Loki has an early morning call.

Man's Best Friend (ao3) - Dont_touch_the_phlebotinum T, 10k

Summary: Bringing a stray home doesn't usually end this well.

Relocation Services (ao3) - aurilly E, 8k

Summary: T'Challa puts Bucky in charge of helping the Asgardians settle in Wakanda. Thor suggests that Loki partner with him on the job.

Great. Just, great.

Stay With Me (ao3) - McFiddleStan M, 32k

Summary: A mechanic and a grad student meet in a club and a one-night stand develops into a weekend affair. But one, or both, might want more. WinterFrost, Modern AU

strange light in a purple sky (ao3) - Lake (beyond_belief) M, 10k

Summary: Loki gets kicked out of Asgard and lands in Arizona, where he's found by the Winter Soldier. Who has goats.

The Blue Planet (ao3) - aurilly E, 6k

Summary: Bucky gets hit with sex pollen while fighting space monsters with Loki.

Unfortunately, Loki doesn't immediately realize that's what's happening.

The Song Remembered (ao3) - Unforgotten M, 108k

Summary: The first person Bucky meets in Narnia seems pretty rude, and goes on to stab him for no good reason.

It probably shouldn't be the start of a beautiful friendship, but there you have it.

(Or: Five times Bucky and Loki meet in Narnia.)

until the stars rain down from the heavens (ao3) - aurilly E, 150k

Summary: Loki is only looking for attention when he runs away from the palace. Instead, he finds a friend. And a mystery.

It takes a few false starts and a lot of complicated scheduling, but the boy from the impossible town becomes the clock by which Loki measures his life. (It isn’t just a metaphor. There’s literally a watch involved. And some lost marbles.)

Vetr / Zima (ao3) - yumekuimono M, 18k

Summary: For his crimes, Loki has been sentenced to exile in Midgard, under the watchful eye of his brother and the Avengers. James has recently been rescued from the clutches of HYDRA, though he wishes people would stop calling him Bucky. They're both on the outside, looking in.

You Meet the Most Interesting People at 2AM (ao3) - Dont_touch_the_phlebotinum E, 10k

Summary: It wasn't the greatest trade-off for Loki, escaping New York City and his father's ambitions only to end up working at his brother's diner in the middle of nowhere. Or it hadn't been, at least, until a freak storm led a handsome stranger to his doorstep. Perhaps the night shift wasn't so bad after all.

[mitsususu]

Everybody wants to rule the world. In fic, Loki can always be counted on to help Steve and Bucky get together or stay together. Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:

“Space Oddity” (M, 147k) by crinklefries, cyclamental art (cyclamental), nalonzoo

After the world ends, things happen to Bucky in this specific order: he helps defeat Thanos, he rejects Steve’s attempt to address Feelings, he watches Steve volunteer to put the Infinity Stones back in time, he waits for Steve to come back, he is sad when Steve does not come back, he realizes that everyone thinks Steve disappeared in 2012 (???), he gets taken to space by Carol Danvers (!!!), he meets up with a depressed literal alien Norse God, he and the depressed literal alien Norse God travel through space, he and the depressed literal alien Norse God hit a wormhole and fall into the--Multiverse.

What the fuck.

This is the story of how Bucky and Thor pick up the pieces of their lives, find their own worth, find their own person, and find their way out of a multiverse of 100 realities stitched together with 100 tropes. There’s love, there’s friendship, there’s an extreme amount of Tesseract fuckery, but most importantly there are sexy vampires. Bon Appetit.

+ Endgame Fix-It. Loki and Steve shatter the tesseract in 2012; Bucky and Thor go on a multiverse road trip to find them. Found family, self-acceptance, and the happiest ending.

-☆-

“Shake It Up” (T, 13k) by aurilly

Steve knows he shouldn't try to change anything while returning the Stones, but he can't help himself. A certain God of Chaos is willing to help.

Loki's in for a wild ride.

+ Endgame Fix-It. Steve and Bucky return the stones together. Along the way, they each end up enlisting Loki to help their 2012 versions

-☆-

“Not Another Alien Green Card Marriage” (T, 14k) by crinklefries

“Dearly beloved,” the tired-looking court magistrate said. “We are gathered here today to join this man and this, uh, Norse God in holy...matrimony.” * The bifrost is broken and Thor is stranded on Earth, working for SHIELD without any authorized documents. Loki gets way too drunk and regrettably horny one night and offers to marry the big, dumb superhero for a green card.

This turns out to be a mistake, because even though Thor is smoking hot, the Avengers keep breaking Manhattan, Loki’s apartment suffers an unfortunate setback, and the U.S. government requires way too much paperwork. Also, Loki hates his job and his best friend is in love with Captain America.

This would only happen to him. Loki would take a nap, if anyone would goddamn let him. Instead, he gets bangs.

+ Shrunkyclunks. Modern Bucky and Loki run into the Avengers over and over again. Madcap courting ensues

-☆-

“Bop, Bop, Bop: Bop To The Top” (T, 10k) by attackofthezee (noxlunate)

When Odinson shows up it’s with half the basketball team and a lot of noise that Loki absolutely did not consent to have in his creative space.

His senses are being assaulted.

“This is a sacred space,” He says and he can practically feel Bucky rolling his eyes behind him, but there are points to be made and Bucky’s judgement is not welcome here.

“It’s an auditorium,” Thor says like he doesn’t comprehend Loki’s point, which is fair, because he is, after all, very very dumb. All those hits to the head doing jock things like football and smashing beer cans against his skull really can’t be helping. 

Aka a vaguely a High School Musical AU

+ Modern AU. Blonde jocks have been assigned to help with the spring play and theater kid Loki despairs. Bucky however, is delighted, and gets a date to the prom.

-☆-

"Big in Japan” (T, 6k) by gunboots

Steve hesitantly reaches out and takes the object in Tony’s arms to survey it. 'It' being a pillow upon which was an almost frighteningly accurate illustration of Loki, their on-and-off again nemesis. "I don't--how did you even get this? Who would MAKE this?"

Clearly Steve doesn't find the attention-to-detail on Loki's costume as hilarious as Tony does, which whatever. Like he said. Killjoy.

A.K.A The one time Tony buys Thor the world's worst souvenir and it somehow worked out in the end anyway.

+ Post WS. Dakimakura! Thor starts carrying around a body pillow with fanart printed on it. Loki founds out, and Bucky keeps the Steve pillows

-☆-

+ More Loki fics in the Space list

[stucky-ficrecs]

Author: aurilly Rating: teen Status: complete Length: 17K

Steve runs away after SHIELD defrosts him... 20 years earlier than in canon. He thinks he's alone, except he isn't, not at all.

[stellahibernis]

Saturday morning fic rec:

Author’s summary:

Steve runs away after SHIELD defrosts him... 20 years earlier than in canon. He thinks he's alone, except he isn't, not at all.

Words: 16866, Chapters: 1/1

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: 1990s, Identity Porn

My notes:

The premise for this is really fascinating, and I love how their relationship progresses and how the story handles showing us the things Steve doesn’t know. I especially liked how it grew into hopefulness, with both of them managing while not quite fine in the beginning.

[mthofferings2020]

aurilly

See aurilly’s existing works here.

Preferred contact methods: Discord: aurilly#6942 Email: lj.aurilly@gmail.com

Preferred organizations: - Anything from the list of approved organizations

Will create works that contain: I love wild (or not so wild) canon divergences and high concept or action-adventure stuff that plays with the worldbuilding. I also love more quotidian, romance or friendship-focused pieces with angst, feelings, humor, tropes, and/or fluff. I'm also up for AUs (ex. coffee shop or college). Basically, I'll love anything where the characters like and appreciate one another by the end (even if they start out wary or fraught), and there's a happy-ish ending. I also adore crossovers! (I'm talking about the kinds of crossovers where characters from two canons meet; not fusions.) Any fandom I've written or bookmarked on AO3 is fair game. Feel free to ask me during the bidding period if I know additional ones. As long as you're okay with me only knowing the MCU side of things, I'm also cool beta'ing a crossover between MCU and a fandom I don't know.

Will not create works that contain: bleak endings; BDSM; pregnancy; vampire or werewolf AUs; A/B/O; soulmates; Hydra Trash; dark!AUs; fandom fusions (ex. Avengers as the Inception team, or Avengers as The Old Guard); anything requiring an AO3 Archive warning (however, mentions of offscreen or backstory sexual abuse are okay, as long as it doesn't happen 'on-screen')

  -- Beta Service --

Auction ID: 1115

Will create works for the following relationships: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers - MCU Loki/Thor - MCU Loki & Thor - MCU Bucky Barnes/Loki - MCU Bucky Barnes/Thor - MCU Heimdall/Loki - MCU Heimdall/Thor - MCU Bucky Barnes/Okoye - MCU Loki/Valkyrie - MCU Bucky Barnes/M'Baku - MCU

Work Description: I'd be thrilled to beta for any gen or ship combination of Bucky, Loki, Steve, Thor, Valkyrie, and Heimdall, even if it isn't on my official list (ten slots was not enough!). I also love Wakanda-setting stories, and ship Bucky with any of the Black Panther protagonists. I know all the movies well, but I'm not familiar with the TV shows or comics. I'm totally happy to read something that draws from non-movie canon, but I won't be able to provide canon checks or anything. I will beta up to 40K words, whether all in one work or spread between 2-3 fics. I like to leave comments and track changes, so I will only work in Google Docs or Microsoft Word. I can help with brainstorming, planning, pacing, structure, characterization, logic/narrative consistency, emotional payoff, general reader reactions, SPAG... Just let me know what you do or don't need! I can do two passes per fic, if you need. I was a book editor years ago and really miss it. I'm a born and bred New Yorker, so can help with things set there, as well as general American picking. That said, I am overly steeped in Victorian and Edwardian literature, so am also very comfortable with characters who sound more British or 'old-timey'.

Ratings: Gen, Teen, Mature, Explicit

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[artgroves]

I look at you,

and the world's alright with me

for aurilly and @fandomcares

[aziraphales-library]

Hiya! do you know any good fics with Aziraphale belonging to the gentleman's club where he learned the gavotte? thanks!

Hello! Here are some fics about Aziraphale and the discreet gentlemen’s club...

Angels Don't Dance by JekkieFan (G)

It started not long after a certain squabble in St. James park over a particular type of water. The discussion left a lingering, heavy-sour feeling in Aziraphale’s stomach.

In which an angel tries to flee from his problems by joining discreet gentleman's club in Portland Place... but which one?

do you miss me like I miss you? by multifandomgeek (T)

When Aziraphale starts giving Crowley the cold shoulder, the demon decides to take a long nap, thinking the angel wouldn’t even care.

He couldn’t be more wrong.

Half an angel per pin at best by HariSlate (G)

Aziraphale is invited to a discrete gentleman's club and makes a friend.

No need to have read Raffles, or the previous work in the series.

The Govotte by Libbyfay (T)

After their last heated argument, Crowley has been sleeping for a while. He pops back in, unexpectedly, to check on Aziraphale, only to find that the angel has lately been enjoying life... and frequenting a discrete gentleman's club. Something new and positively earth-shattering has been happening, and Aziraphale had been swept up in it. Has Crowley ever heard of the Gavotte!?

Crowley isn't used to being jealous of humans.

A Regular Rip van Winkle by aurilly (T)

After almost an entire century spent asleep, Crowley wakes in 1888 to find the world more changed than he thought possible. His first order of business is to find his angel.

Also concerning the origin of the Baroque gavotte (spoilers: Aziraphale was feeling thirsty).

Like Sleep To The Freezing by WaitingToBeBroken (T)

A decade after their fight, Crowley wakes up to a new world and a different angel. What is he to do but don his human disguise and follow him to a certain discreet gentlemen's club? And if Aziraphale doesn't seem to recognise him, well, that's all for the better, isn't it?

He was going to leave after ensuring his angel was fine.

- Mod D

[marveltrumpshate]

August 2021 MTH fills part 2/2

Part 1 here. 

The best way to see all the fills that have been shared with us is our monthly roundups tag or our #MTH-fills channel on our Discord, but you can also view them through the following methods:

Our Tumblr tags: 2018, 2019, 2020

Our AO3 collections: 2018, 2019, 2020 (only has works posted to AO3)

Completed works tag list: 2018, 2019, 2020

To find specific content, use our completed works tag lists above which includes instructions on how to search for a particular character, gen or romantic relationship, universe, and fanwork type. 

@deluxemycroft - “a mountain no man has mounted” (Bucky/Thor canon-divergent IW road trip fic) for aurilly

@festiveferret - “Beyond Form” (werewolf Bucky/veterinarian Tony AU fic) for @betheflame, @rise-up-ting-ting-like-glitter, sleepoverwork, rudearrow, @summerpipedream, wonderlandgirl, and @saganarojanaolt

Nivelle/@nivellesart - Bucky/Clint-inspired knitted socks for heyboy

@potterspink - 2"x2" watercolor portraits of Steve and Bucky for nostringsonme

Rainne/@rainnecassidy - “Close your eyes, have no fear” (Bucky/Darcy/Steve A/B/O accidental baby acquisition AU fic) for filthyassistant

@shipsicle - Art of Maria Rambeau, Rhodey, and Sam racing one another in the air for @nostalgicatsea - Art of Maria Rambeau, Rhodey, and Sam getting food at a diner after their race is over for @nostalgicatsea

@thirstinart - Art of Steve wearing a sweater and cooking and Steve and Tony having sex in front of a fireplace in a cabin for @fiftyshadesofstony (on Twitter)

TJ Crochets/@tj-crochets  - Labrathor and Bucky Bear crochet dolls for catzy

[hartigays]

2020: Year in Review

i was tagged by: @andybvb thank u bea-sim!!! 💕💕

top 5 movies:

knives out

invisible man

project power

birds of prey

the devil all the time

top 5 tv shows:

santa clarita diet

justified

the pacific

band of brothers

the mandalorian

top 5 songs:

space ghost coast to coast - glass animals

pretty savage - blackpink

hallucinations- pvris

big love - louis the child and earthgang

boss bitch - doja cat

top 5 books fanfictions

Don’t Look So Damn Tragic by leslielol (justified, tim/jimmy)

every wave is tidal if you hang around by wolfhalls (the mandalorian, din/cobb)

working through it, together by buddhaghost (outer banks, jj/pope, sarah/kiara)

Voyage of the Sunset Swimmer by aurilly (marvel, loki/bucky)

sunshine on our backs by whip_pan (band of brothers, speirs/lipton)

top 5 positive things that happened:

graduated from uni with a degree in chemistry

got a girlfriend whomst i love very much 🥰

started writing again after a pretty long slump

participated as a contributor for the harringrove zine

i worked the polls on election day for a voter protection initiative

i’m tagging: @teenytinierlion @ithappensoffstage @prettyboyporter @mouffetard @stephensking @harry-strickland @harknessjack @verified-villain-fxcker @feralsteveharrington @inkedplume and anyone else who wants to do this!

[earlgrey-aziraphale]

Short and Sweet Stevebucky Recs!

Clint Barton And The Adventures in Terror Twin Rearing By stevregrsno (noxlunate)    (Gen)

Okay this one and its sequel are bloody adorable!! Steve and Bucky get de-aged and Clint has to babysit. It’s a real showcase of their personalities, especially before all the shit that happened to them, and how much they care for each other. It’s very sweet and very absurdly funny--includes some background America Chavez/Kate Bishop!

All Systems Snot By galwednesday, silentwalrus, skellerbvvt  (T)

OH MY GOD I forgot about this one until i found it in my bookmarks!! It’s stomach-splitting, really good for when you need a laugh. Steve gets super-flu, the squad has to quarantine, ramblings and one-liners ensue.  

Le Gran Pas De Quatre By aurilly (T)

Heimdall watches them through history. God I love outsider POVS, especially from Asgardians. This one is short-ish and very very well written, the metaphor works really well for them. Definitely worth the read. 

The Department Of Special Collections  By alby_mangroves, Speranza  (T)

I just love the ones where they’re historical figures! Their old love letters were uncovered and the boys get to go through them. 

Ears Everywhere  By Sproings (Gen)

Outsider POV from the SHIELD agent meant to be listening in on Steve as he adjusts, from post-TFA to CATWS. Get your good angst here. 

A History Of Birds by OddityBoddity  (No Rating/Gen) 

Are you ever sad? You wanna get sadder?? There’s a glimmer of hope but this short thing made me cry like a BABY. Also, fuck Alexander Pierce. 

tagging:

@i-sing-for-me  (I think you’ll love these!) 

[themculibrary]

Fics With Titles That Start With R Masterlist

Raiment of The Gods (ao3) - randomcelt jane/thor T, 10k

Summary: They say the clothes make the man ... or the god. But sometimes, they do the most for his friends.

(Or, a tale of all the times someone else wore Thor's clothes and the adventures necessitating such a development.)

Rarely Pure and Never Simple (ao3) - thesemovingparts mj/peter M, 41k

Summary: OR: Morgan had never been a part of their plan, all they’d wanted was to get their hands on Michelle Jones, investigative reporter who knew a little too much. But the kid had seen their faces, their truck, so the kid wasn’t going anywhere.

Ravioli (ao3) - monobuu bucky/tony M, 10k

Summary: Bucky attempts to get Tony's attention by claiming Pop Tarts are Ravioli. Tony reacts as one might expect.

Re-Engineered (ao3) - Opy3332 bucky/tony M, 73k

Summary: “Tony blinks. He blinks and his entire world changes.”

Tony is sent back in time from mid-Infinity War to just after returning from Afghanistan.

How different is Tony Stark, and the MCU, with all that knowledge of the future?

Haunted by the guilt of Rhodey’s injury, the betrayal and pain of Steve, the fear of Wanda, the loss of Jarvis, and the foreknowledge of Thanos, this Tony is one the universe hasn’t contended with before. And he is more than ready to re-claim his title of genius, billionaire, and philanthropist in ways unexpected.

Relocation Services (ao3) - aurilly bucky/loki E, 8k

Summary: T'Challa puts Bucky in charge of helping the Asgardians settle in Wakanda. Thor suggests that Loki partner with him on the job.

Great. Just, great.

Return to Hawkeye (ao3) - pherryt bucky/clint G, 5k

Summary: Bucky's Pandemic Mask Collection may have gotten a bit out of hand, but if he had to wear one, he was going to own it.

He just hadn't counted on certain people seeing the one he was wearing today.

Revelations (ao3) - snack_size clint/natasha E, 20k

Summary: He turned and grimaced at Nat. “Sorry,” he said, voice soft. “The new aids from SHIELD aren’t fitting right so I took them out.” He shrugged, and looked self-conscious - a look that Tony had never expected to see on the archer.

The Team learns that Clint is deaf, and uses hearing aids - and another major revelation looms.

Reward System - The Coulson Card (ao3) - AdamantSteve clint/phil M, 10k

Summary: Phil gives Clint a card which he'll stamp every time Clint (quietly, without fuss) goes to medical. When he's been nine times, he gets a free meal of his choice.

How could Clint resist?

Right Beside You (ao3) - scrappymitchell peggy/steve T, 106k

Summary: Steve Rogers is woken in New York City 1947, almost marking two years since his death. Now reunited with Peggy who has had a lot of things happen in her life during his absence. The pair get back to their relationship and are whisked away to sunny LA, throwing Steve back into work beside Peggy. As it should be.

Right or Left? Either Way I’m Screwed (ao3) - Office jane/thor, loki/tony G, 14k

Summary: Thor has been having some trouble convincing Jane to marry him and become his queen. Jane is suddenly pregnant and has to make a decision. Can Loki help sort out their relationship or will it end in ruin? Thor/Jane Est.FrostIron

right where you are (that's where I am) (ao3) - overtures mj/peter T, 8k

Summary: Luckily for Ned, Peter chooses that moment to slide into the spot next to MJ. “Hey guys, sorry, had a phone call,” he says, setting his lunch tray down on the table. The tension between MJ and Ned is apparently pretty obvious, because he starts to look back and forth between them, eyes narrowing in confusion. “What’s going on?”

“I was just asking Ned about the videos on your laptop,” MJ replies candidly, “since you won’t tell me what they are I thought I’d look for answers somewhere else.”

Peter groans. “You’re still on that?”

MJ nods, licking the yogurt off of her spoon. She doesn’t miss the way Peter’s eyes flicker down towards her mouth briefly, or how he pointedly swallows and steers the conversation away from the videos and towards a different topic. Huh.

(MJ develops a crush. Everything's fine, until it's not.)

Ring of Fire (ao3) - NyxEtoile, OlivesAwl pepper/tony M, 23k

Summary: Post Iron Man 2.

"Why don't we take a vacation?"

"Like the last vacation where you stole a race-car and we almost got sliced into ribbons by your crazy, tentacle-having nemesis?" She put her hand over her eyes, remembering the car she was in getting sliced in half.

"No. No, nothing like that one. A good vacation." He tapped her nose as if to distract her. "You. Me. Secluded island. No work, no cameras. No suit," he added, like dangling out a carrot.

Rise Up (ao3) - Wix stephen/tony N/R, 52k

Summary: Tony leaves the Avengers in the wake of Ultron when he refuses to standby and approve of their choices. Fate’s quick to step in though and show that where one door closes, another one just might open.

risk (ao3) - strawberrylipstick mj/peter N/R, 5k

Summary: “What kind of twisted, Jane the Virgin shit is this?” “MJ, listen—” “No! You listen. There’s no way I’m pregnant.” She stands up, then sits down, light-headed. Closes her eyes and a pair of warm brown eyes stare back at her. “I mean…I don’t think so.”

Or the one where Michelle Jones is indeed pregnant, but she hasn’t even slept with anyone. At least, she can’t remember who.

Robot Trip (ao3) - copperbadge pepper/tony T, 8k

Summary: Tony is driving from Malibu to Manhattan with a robot in the back seat and Captain America riding escort at Pepper's behest. What could possibly go wrong?

Rocket Science (ao3) - marsmaywander, youcancallmearrow bucky/tony G, 12k

Summary: Sleep-deprived and under-caffeinated, grad student Tony falls asleep in a conveniently empty classroom and wakes up in the middle of Bruce’s Physics 101 course. After seeing a groggy Tony fumble a simple question, actual-student Bucky offers to tutor him. In a moment of “oh no; he’s cute” panic, Tony takes him up on it. Now, in addition to his already complicated life, Tony has to figure out the answer to the incredibly messy question: “How do you look like you’re failing the class, when you literally wrote the book?”

Rocks Fall; Everyone Dies (ao3) - paperclipbitch pepper/tony M, 5k

Summary: Pepper tries to smile. “You know me,” she says, “always putting out Tony’s fires.”

[Civil War tie-in.]

Romantic Arrangements (ao3) - aphrosCartographer bruce/tony N/R, 3k

Summary: What happens when Tony and Bruce meet in their third year of university? What happens when Bruce gets snowed in his shitty apartment on Christmas and can't get home? This story answers those questions.

Rub a Dub (ao3) - Unforgotten bucky/loki M, 2k

Summary: After Bucky breaks his right hand and his metal arm in the same week, he has trouble with pretty much everything.

Loki's surprisingly good about helping out.

Runs in the Family (ao3) - benwisehart wanda/vision T, 27k

Summary: Starting a family is always a leap of faith. Sometimes relationships are hard. Sometimes your children turn out to be pieces of a demon's soul. Sometimes you lose everything. Sometimes you can't put it back together, but sometimes you can, even if it's different from before. Sometimes, you remember that love is worth it.

OR: In which Jan never mentions Billy and Tommy to Wanda by the pool, and everyone is better-off for it.

[ao3feed-stucky]

by aurilly

Steve knows he shouldn't try to change anything while returning the Stones, but he can't help himself. A certain God of Chaos is willing to help.

Loki's in for a wild ride.

Words: 13960, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Loki (Marvel)

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Loki & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Loki

Additional Tags: Time Travel, 2012!verse, Time Travel Fix-It, Identity Porn, Confused Loki (Marvel), Rescue Missions, Pining, Infinity Stones Returned, Implied future OT3 if you want, Or not

[beatrice-otter]

Fic: Realization and Renewal, Sense and Sensibility, Elinor/Colonel Brandon

The second fic I wrote for Yuletide was a treat for ChronicBookworm. It was a Sense and Sensibility AU which paired Elinor and Colonel Brandon, and one of their prompts was Elinor/Brandon/Edward OT3 which was a really interesting idea but I couldn't think how to include it without making the fic really really really long, and so I gave up and just did Elinor/Brandon. (Even though the idea of an OT3 was really interesting.) Title: Realization and Renewal Fandom: Sense and Sensibility Author: beatrice_otter  Written for: chronicbookworm  for yuletide  2019 Rating: General Audiences Pairing: Elinor Dashwood/Colonel Brandon Betaed by: Aurilly Length: 3535 words Warnings: none Summary: As Marianne recovers, Elinor and Colonel Brandon find themselves drawn to one another. AN: I tried to make it OT3, because you are right, Edward/Elinor/Brandon would be a delightful pairing, but it would have had to be MUCH too long a fic to be done in time to be a Yuletide treat. I hope someone else takes the idea and runs with it. At AO3.  On Dreamwidth. On Pillowfort.

With their mother now at Cleveland and available to nurse Marianne back to health, Elinor's presence was not in so much demand. And though her sisterly feelings and desire to be useful were no less than they had heretofore been, still she was glad in the respite of turning the primary duty of care over to her mother.

Finding herself tired after the tumultuous few days, Mrs. Jennings' speculation was more wearying than usual, and so Elinor spent her free time largely out-of-doors, enjoying the spring sunshine. It was there that she came across Colonel Brandon four days later, sunning himself on a bench in the shrubbery.

"Miss Dashwood," he said, rising courteously as she came in to view. They exchanged pleasantries and he invited her to join him, which offer she accepted with content. Although reserved, Elinor was not a solitary person by nature, and the Colonel's company was always agreeable.

"Your sister looked very well," Brandon said. "Or at least, she looked as if she will soon be very well, which is almost as good."

"Yes, we are all very cheered by her progress," Elinor said, "and I know that our mother's presence is a great comfort to her."

"Your mother is a good woman with a warm and generous heart," Brandon said. "You are very lucky to have such a mother."

"Yes," Elinor said. "We were fortunate in both our parents. Our father was of a different temperament, but just as kind and loving. Not all are so fortunate." With a pang, she considered what Edward's life must have been, with such a mother and such siblings as he had had. Little though Elinor cared for Lucy Steele, she must at least admit that Lucy was kinder and warmer than Edward's own blood. Last she had seen of them, Lucy had been doing much to ingratiate herself into her future relations' good graces. Though Elinor still believed that when the Ferrars family learnt of Edward's engagement the charms of the Miss Steeles would drop considerably in their estimation, it was possible that Lucy's brazen flattery would do much to heal the breach; and in that, at least, if no other way, Lucy would be a more capable wife for Edward than Elinor would have been.

"I confess that although I have spent time in your mother's company, I had never given enough thought to her to realize how much she is like an older version of Eliza," Brandon went on. "In my mind, she is always the young girl I knew as a boy, or the broken woman I found on my return. But on the way from Barton Cottage to Cleveland, I found myself thinking that in your mother I could see what Eliza would have been like in such a situation, had her life been happier. Had she lived to become a mature woman of strength and grace."

"I hope the realization gave you some comfort," Elinor said in some confusion. Did that mean he found her mother attractive? Considered objectively, Mrs. Dashwood was still a handsome woman, and closer to Colonel Brandon's age than her daughters were, but Elinor had never considered that her mother might be an object of attraction to anyone but her father. He could not seriously consider anything, Elinor reassured herself, for he had no heir and her mother was surely past childbearing.

"I do not know that it was a comfort, precisely," Colonel Brandon said, "but it did give me a new perspective on … several things. If there is one thing I have learned in the past few weeks, it is how my thoughts and perspectives have been largely trapped in the past, like an insect in amber."

"How so?" Elinor asked.

"You have no doubt noted the similarities—and the differences—between Marianne's experiences and those of my poor dear Eliza. Marianne is not ruined and Marianne will not die, but …"

"The outlines of the situations are very much alike," Elinor said. "Like silhouettes made of sisters. In full light they may not look very much alike, but in relief the profiles are strikingly similar."

"Yes, exactly," Brandon said, nodding. "A perfect metaphor, thank you. When I met Marianne, and as her relationship with Willoughby progressed and reached its unhappy end, all I could see was how like Eliza she was. It was as if I was seventeen myself again, watching the whole tragedy unfold for the first time. But I am not that boy any longer, and Marianne is not Eliza, and it gives me no credit, nor Eliza any honor, to pretend otherwise. As for Marianne, she should be valued for who she is, not as a reflection of someone I once loved deeply."

"I think you always saw Marianne for who she is, even as you saw the similarities to Eliza," Elinor said.

"I am not sure but what you give me too much credit," Brandon said with a sigh. He shook his head. "Still, that is my own lesson in all of this, and you have had the greater burden, as Marianne's sister and confidant through all of this, and as her nurse. I should not be so selfish as to burden you with my own concerns."

"It can be a relief and a distraction, to consider another's cares, when one has many of one's own," Elinor said.

"True," Brandon replied, "yet surely the greater relief is in sharing one's own cares, so that the burden may also be shared? You love your sisters deeply, and your mother, but given the differences in temperament between you I cannot imagine you wish to bear all the secrets of your heart to them, even if Marianne were not so consumed with her own tragedy of late."

"In that you are quite correct," Elinor said. "Marianne would never tell a secret I wished her to keep in confidence, but I learned long ago that she is seldom able to govern her emotions enough to prevent her countenance and actions from betraying it anyway. And if my feelings—or my expression of them—do not match what she thinks I should feel, she will either declare me heartless or assume me to be lying because of propriety." She sighed. "I should not say such things, because I make her sound quite selfish and heartless, and she is neither. Please do not repeat my complaints."

"It is only that she is young and cannot quite understand that not everyone is the same as she is," Brandon said. "Many young people are like that, and most learn better as they grow. But have no fear, I will not share your secrets. I have kept worse ones."

"Thank you," Elinor said. She wondered what had come over her; it was true, she liked and trusted the Colonel as she did few others, but she was not in the habit of giving such confidences to anyone.

"Have you ever had a true confidant?" Brandon asked. "Someone you could trust with your deepest thoughts and feelings? A friend in your old neighborhood, perhaps?"

"No," Elinor said. "I had friends, of course, but … none that I was terribly close to." Elinor had never been lonely, but she was the one others took their secrets to, not the reverse. She had shared with Edward thoughts and feelings which she had shared with few others; yet there had still been a reserve of propriety between them.

"I am trying to think of men I know who might have sisters or wives or daughters with whom you might form a connection," Brandon said, "but unfortunately, my circle of acquaintances is small now, and you already know most of them. If there was a bosom companion for you in that set, you would already have found them."

"Thank you for your consideration," Elinor said, touched. "But I am not lonely."

"It is possible to feel alone in a crowded room, if no one in it truly knows you," Brandon said. "I would spare you that, if I could."

Elinor could not speak, for she had never known that others could understand that sentiment. No dramatics, just a quiet loneliness that no one else could see. She touched his arm, a tangible example of the connection she felt with him in that moment. "Thank you," she said again.

They sat quietly together for some time. No further words passed between them, but none were necessary, for they were in perfect harmony.

Elinor found herself strangely reluctant to leave Cleveland, after all her yearning these last months to be back home in Barton Cottage. She and Colonel Brandon had spoken many times throughout Marianne's recovery, and though on no occasion was their conversation as deep as it had been that day in the shrubbery, still there was a closeness between them now that Elinor had only but rarely experienced in her life. And however often he visited them at Barton Cottage or saw them at Barton Park, they could not see one another as often as while they resided in the same house. And a greater proportion of their time would, of necessity, be spent within earshot of other people.

Upon realizing the source of her reluctance, Elinor felt quite shocked; for so great a desire for a man's company could only be the symptom of an attachment, and she had not been conscious of forming one.

The long ride from Cleveland to Barton provided ample time for self-examination, for Marianne was too tired to speak and their mother was mostly occupied in caring for her.

Her first thought, that she had finally learned to stop caring for Edward, was not true; her thoughts of him were tinged with as great an affection as they had been when she arrived at Cleveland, and the pain of his being engaged to another woman (but especially one unworthy of him) had not lessened. She still loved him, yearned for him.

Yet Colonel Brandon had, without her knowing it, become as dear to her as ever Edward had been; and although he had never indicated an interest in her beyond that of friendship, she found herself considering with interest the idea that he might. She hesitated to call so new an attachment 'love,' yet knew not any better word for it.

For one wild moment she thought that she would gladly have married both, if she could, and resented that she had to choose. But, no, she did not have the right of choosing; Edward was promised to another, and Brandon might think of her as nothing more than a friend.

Had she been alone she would have buried her face in her hands at this thought, and perhaps laughed at herself—or cried—but any such reaction would surely have drawn the attention of her mother and sisters, and they would not be satisfied without an answer, and their reaction she did not wish even to imagine.

Such a wild desire was more Marianne's style than her own, and Elinor's normal equilibrium soon reasserted itself.

It occurred to her, once at home, that while she had grown out of the habit of confiding in Marianne, her newly-realized affection for the Colonel was one thing she could share, and although impressing on Marianne her change in feelings might be difficult, it would at least prevent her sister from further dwelling on Edward's love for her. Their mother could not be told while she held such a firm belief in Brandon's love for Marianne, but if Elinor could get Marianne on her side, things would be much easier.

It was a difficult conversation, though, for Marianne still believed that a woman could only ever truly have one great passionate love, and that any second relationship must only be for material considerations.

"You must not give up hope," said she. "Edward loves you, I know he does, and he will come and ask you to marry him soon. You are still young, and we are comfortable enough here at Barton Cottage. You do not need to settle for—"

"I am not settling!" cried Elinor in some exasperation. She had known that Marianne would take some time to adjust her opinions, for she always did, and had planned on being as calm and even-tempered as always, but the strain of the secrets she had been keeping for so long had taken its toll, and now that she finally had something of importance that she could share with her sister, what she wished more than anything was to have Marianne return even a fraction of the understanding and support Elinor had given her since Willoughby's loss.

But though Marianne might respect a passionate declaration of love such as she herself might make, that was not Elinor's manner, and besides, in her present mood she might be led to say things more hurtful than she meant. Elinor thought back to Brandon's words in the shrubbery at Cleveland. "I wish," Elinor said, with an iron grip on her composure, "that you would learn that I am not you, and that my thoughts and feelings are different than yours."

"Elinor, of course I understand that we are different!" Marianne said.

"Then why do you dismiss every word of mine that does not fit with what you think I should be feeling?" Elinor said. "When I first came to care for Mister Ferrars, you scoffed. Then you became so great a partisan of our affections that when I did not wish to think of it any longer, you would not listen, to my very great mortification on more than one instance. Now I have a new attachment, but you would rather build castles in the air for me and Mister Ferrars than listen. At no time have you ever respected or cared for my actual feelings. I am sorry to be so severe." There was something she had long wished to say, and it had come out far more critically than she had wished. But she could not take the words back, and found that she did not wish to.

"No," Marianne said. Her voice was even but she had gone pale with shock. "If that was how you truly feel, I am glad you said it. I am sorry to have been such a poor sister."

"Marianne, no," Elinor said. "I dearly love you, and I know you love me—"

"It's only that you don't think I respect or know you," Marianne said.

"I would not say that," Elinor said.

"No, for you are far too kind and gentle to say such things even when it is the truth," Marianne said. "But can you truly deny that you feel it?"

Elinor could not.

Marianne nodded at her silence. "So," she said. "You have formed an attachment to Colonel Brandon. When did you first know?"

"When I regretted leaving Cleveland, because it meant leaving him," Elinor said.

It was by no means as passionate a declaration as Marianne was hoping for, but it was enough for her to imagine a more ardent feeling than Elinor was willing to share with her.

Colonel Brandon did indeed visit them at Barton Cottage soon thereafter, and Marianne proved a great ally in dis-arranging their mother's plans. Elinor could wish that she would be more discreet, but then she would not have been Marianne.

"May I enquire as to what that was all about?" Brandon asked, after a debate on the afternoon's entertainment started a battle of wills between Marianne and Mrs. Dashwood that led to Marianne and Margaret and their mother playing a game of croquet while Brandon and Elinor sat together on the other side of the lawn.

"Our mother believes that your journey to retrieve her when Marianne was sick is indicative of a deep affection on your part, and wishes to encourage such a match," Elinor said.

"And Marianne does not?" Brandon said.

"Oh!" Elinor said, embarrassed that she had implied what she did not mean to. "I do not know what Marianne's current feelings on the subject may be, but … I have missed our conversations, and Marianne knows this."

"She is a very affectionate sister," Brandon said.

"She is." Did that mean he did love her, still? Elinor wondered.

"I have missed our conversations, too," Brandon said.

Elinor smiled at him.

Colonel Brandon came to visit Barton Park so often that summer that he might almost have been living there. On more than one occasion, Elinor had cause to be thankful for her sister's wild and captivating ways, for with the eyes of all fixed on the beautiful Miss Marianne, there were few to notice when her quiet elder sister and the somber colonel sat on the sidelines and talked quietly. Mrs. Jennings could not be prevented from noticing and speculating on how often they kept company with one another, but Mrs. Jennings was always speculating about somebody or other, and Elinor and Colonel Brandon were not unduly troubled by it.

As always, Barton Park was a hub of entertainments and delights, for both Sir John and his mother-in-law delighted in company and good humor, and Mrs. Jennings in particular was fond of matchmaking.

"Marianne seems to like this one," Brandon said as they watched a rowdy game of cricket on the lawn. Marianne was not flirting with the young man in question as she had with Willoughby, but neither was she avoiding him as rudely as she had the first few young men Mrs. Jennings had dangled in front of her.

"I do not know if there is any particular fondness for him," Eleanor said, "but he plays well and she is fond of cricket. Still, we have not yet heard his opinion of any poet or composer, and those are far more important to Marianne than his skill with a bat."

"Your sister will excuse many things of a man who can read with skill and passion," Brandon said. "Though in this case, I have heard nothing against the young man."

"I think it will take more, now, for her to form an attachment than just similar tastes," Eleanor said, "for she learnt from Willoughby that it is not proof of a similar character. That said, however, I think taste will always be an important factor."

"And what of you?" Brandon asked.

"What did I learn from the last year's excitement?" Eleanor pondered the question. "I have had no great revelation or comeuppance like the heroine of a novel," she said at last. "My beliefs have been confirmed, that a good and honorable character is more important than any other factor. It is not that nothing else matters, only that it is the foundation upon which all else rests."

"I concede the point," Brandon said with a laugh, "although my question was not meant to be quite so profound. I was merely asking if there was a young gentleman on the playing field who had caught your attention."

"No," Eleanor said, for she had been looking for an opportunity to hint of her affections, "not a gentleman on the playing field." She caught his eye and held it.

Brandon blinked, and then a smile crept over his face. "Ah," was all he said.

When they turned their attention back to the game, they were sitting closer to one another than they had been before.

It was rapidly apparent that there was a growing attachment between Colonel Brandon and the eldest Miss Dashwood, which was followed soon thereafter by a marriage. Mrs. Dashwood learned to support the match, for her greatest desire was to see her daughters happy, and it was evident to all that Elinor was very happy. Mrs. Jennings and Sir John took great pride in their role in arranging it, and said so often and with great enthusiasm to any who would listen. Marianne's heart healed from Willoughby's treatment of her, and she had a number of less imprudent flirtations with the young men of the area, before finally accepting a man who was rather less exciting than Willoughby had been, but far more trustworthy.

Lucy Steele did her best to win over the affections of the Ferrars family, but though they all (except Edward) appreciated her flattery, their scheme of marrying Edward to one rich heiress or another (after Miss Morton's marriage to another man) never wavered, and even the most delicate hinting of an affection between Lucy and Edward met with such immediate disapproval that Lucy never dared broach the subject. At last, tired of waiting for either Mrs. Ferrars' approval or her death, Lucy broke her engagement to Edward to marry a gentleman of the Ferrars' acquaintance who had less money than Edward, but whose fortune was under his own control.

Edward eventually married a woman of less fortune than his relations hoped for, but who had enough wealth and connections to be acceptable to them. She was a woman of good sense and character, and they were well suited to one another.

Mr. and Mrs. Brandon were so naturally well-suited to one another in temperament and taste that their marriage was often held up by all who knew them as a model of domestic harmony and felicity.

[veliseraptor]

hey so i just obsessively read most of your loki fics in the past few days (particularly with the grandmaster, i can't even discern if i enjoyed it or hated it though it was certainly great and well written and i think you get loki on a really deep level that i honestly, absolutely love), but the thing is now i NEED comfort fics. fics of actual recovery. fics of letting loki just,,, rest for a bit. any recommendations?

“i can't even discern if i enjoyed it or hated it” IT’S FUNNY CAUSE THAT’S HOW LOKI FEELS anyway anyway. comfort fic. 

I’m not...the best at that (I read a lot of ‘things are hard and they might get better at some point but they still kind of suck right now’ fic), but I can pull out at least a few things maybe from my bookmarks? going to be kind of slapdash about this because I’m tired and I have such a recs request backlog (please in general if you guys can hold off on sending me more that’d be amazing!) but I wanted to throw something together for this since it’s...not a list I think I’ve done before.

you might try out: the only soul I’ve ever saved by valkyrisms (Peter Parker pulls Loki out of a dumpster), Les Soldats d’Hiver by aurilly (Loki and Bucky bust out of Hydra together), The Spaces Between Seconds by Ignisentis (the Loki and Bucky cross-country road trip), a lot of Flying from the blast by belmanoir, Darkness, Flooded in Light by galaxysoup, Tangerines Are Sweet Enough by FelicityGS, Shadows of Those Who Came Before by Tandirra (reincarnated kid!Loki on a trip with the Guardians of the Galaxy), halves of whole by valkyrisms (aka the Laura/Clint/Loki fic you didn’t know you needed).

there’s a start, anyway! like I said, this is the quick and dirty version of a list, here - at some point maybe I should try to put together a more...uh, complete one. 

jotting it down for when I don’t have ten other recs lists sitting unfinished in my drafts, fuck.

[stellahibernis]

Fic Writers Week 2017 Day 3: Small but Mighty

(List of prompts here at FWW tumblr)

A fic I read recently that deserves more love:

Behind the Tapestry by aurilly

Words: 12512, Chapters: 1/1

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: World War II, Flashbacks, Espionage, Angst with a Happy Ending, Getting Back Together, Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: The First Avenger

Summary:

Steve takes the opportunity of the Convergence's one year anniversary to hop over to Central Europe, where he and Bucky partnered on a mission during the war.

My notes:

This fic weaves a delightful espionage plotline into the canon we know, and it brings a fascinating complication to their relationship. I really liked to read how they’re both struggling with the circumstance and their expectations, as well as how it’s resolved in the end.

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One of my recent fics:

love must first shatter us

Words: 4250, Chapters: 1/1

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags:  Alternate Universe - Greek Mythology, Eros and Psyche, icarus - Freeform

Summary:

Bucky builds himself wings because he can, because he wants to fly.

One evening, just at sunset, he flies through a mist and finds an orchard on a hill just by the sea, bearing fruits he knows and more he doesn’t. He meets a man there, fingers smudged black from drawing with charcoals.

He knows stories of the domains of gods, he knows Steve must be more than his physical appearance says. He knows of the dangers of these realms to mortals, and as he leaves at sunrise, he knows he should stay home.

He goes back at next sunset, and every night after.

Notes: 

This was a bit atypical thing for me being an AU, but the Greek mythology one was probably inevitable. I loosely mixed two of my favorite myths and tried to bring Bucky and Steve into it so that it felt right and them. This was written fast and easily, the muses being very kind at the time, and I like the end result too.