to validate my belief that I don't want to watch Agents of SHIELD: that's the length of the previously-on for the season opener and it just made me want to yell "WRONG! WRONG!" and then flip my desk over.

(I wanted to see the flashback, of course. I have extremely grave doubts about the ability to make a satisfying Agent Carter series post-Cap 2, but, Peggy!)

. . . I suppose this post should have some actual content. *pokes at bookmarks* Here, have some fic I bookmarked to rec a long time ago and don't have time to re-read now.

Swap (1229 words) by biggrstaffbunch
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov
Additional Tags: Friendship, i mean they compare dicks but, ~friendship, Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Summary: Steve and Bucky switch bodies. Nothing of substance happens from that moment on.

Silly.

Five Reactions to Pepper's New PA (2746 words) by gladdecease
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Pepper Potts
Characters: Pepper Potts, James "Bucky" Barnes, Happy Hogan, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanov, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Community: avengersgen, Community: trope_bingo, 5 Times, Minor Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
Summary: Pepper gets a new personal assistant - a nice young man with a metal arm who helped Pepper stop AIM scientists from kidnapping her. There's really no need for all this fuss.

What it says on the tin.

Maisie Makes a Deal (5249 words) by antistar_e
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: Original Characters, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: POV Outsider
Summary: Maisie's pretty sure her grandmother's new neighbors are spies.

In which a fifteen-year-old learns to trust them.

Hollow and Honeycomb (11167 words) by antistar_e
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sam Wilson (Marvel), Riley (Captain America movies), Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Wings, Backstory, Non-Linear Narrative
Summary: Several years before Sam was born, a Supreme Court ruling decided that those who carried and visibly expressed a hereditary winged trait could not be mutilated, amputated, or otherwise altered without their consent, nor could they be discriminated against for housing, employment, etc. based on their possession of wings. // The world that Sam grows up in is one that remembers when it had been different. [Wing!fic AU.]

My note for this just says "Amazing." And it is.

Press (5932 words) by mardia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Characters: Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Always a Different Sex, Rule 63, Press and Tabloids
Summary: “So thanks to this interview, everyone thinks we’re dating,” Sam says, her voice flat. She looks up from the front page of the New York Post. The cover is a paparazzi photo of her and Steve out at the Indian restaurant last night, sitting together cozily at their table with the headline “America’s Heroes...America’s New Power Couple?” // Tony glances over her shoulder as he walks past the couch, and says, scoffing, “That headline’s awful. They should’ve at least been able to make a pun out of Falcon.”

So, so cute.

Middletown: A Study of Suburban Life (91712 words) by M_Leigh
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Jane Foster/Thor, various
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sarah Rogers, Thor (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Howard Stark, Clint Barton, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Darcy Lewis, Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, Natasha Romanov, Jane Foster (Marvel), Peggy Carter, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Bullying, Some slurs, bad parents and good parents, YOUTHS, teenagers doing dumb things teenagers do, spoilers for books you read in high school
Summary: In which Bucky is the new kid, Steve is the square who takes him in, Tony and Pepper fight over valedictorian a year in advance, Thor remains a golden god, Loki remains a drama queen, Natasha commits an act of vigilante justice, Clint somehow fails to make a your mom joke, Darcy is a Satanist, Jane is a goth, Sif is fine thank you very much, Sam climbs a tree, Peggy says no, Rumlow is a bully, and Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Coulson, and Ms. Hill are all very long-suffering. // Or: the story of the year Bucky Barnes finally learned how to talk to at least one other human being, discovered J. D. Salinger, started to try in school (kind of), got a haircut, landed a punch, almost got arrested, and kissed a boy on the mouth.

The style of this is hilarious and carried me through what I recall to be some wheel-spinning in the plot, such as it is, and also my disbelief that Steve Rogers in any era would never have thrown a punch before he met Bucky Barnes, because, really?

There's more, but I don't have time to sort through the maybe-rec tag now.

comment(s) | add comment (how-to) | link