12 Bookmarked Items in Long fics that changed my life
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As Soft as Steel by blackthorn_possum
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Mar 2024
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In which the Soldier makes a very long journey, the Captain takes on a new role, the Widow pays a visit to an old friend, Iron Man is a hot mess, and the Falcon is very done with everyone.
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It would be so simple to complete the mission.
So simple to acquire acceptable clothing – there were entire supply closets full of the medical uniforms – to cover the prosthesis with sterile gloves, blend in with the hospital personnel, wait until the change of guard to enter the Captain’s room. To slit his throat, press the hands over his mouth until his breath ran out, tamper with the intravenous medications, or introduce air into the veins. It had done these things many times before. Deaths in medical centers were easily disguised, and he had been so weak, so heavily damaged when it…
It pulled him from the river. Why had it pulled him from the river?
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- Part 1 of A Strange Sensation
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 283,775
- Chapters:
- 70/70
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- 1
- Comments:
- 4,548
- Kudos:
- 2,231
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- 491
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- 105,606
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The mission resets abruptly, from objective: kill to objective: protect
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- Part 1 of Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 64,326
- Chapters:
- 33/33
- Collections:
- 75
- Comments:
- 8,394
- Kudos:
- 32,285
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- 10,133
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If Never Again, If Every Day by gallifreyburning, takiki16
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Jun 2022
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Current-day Nicky wakes up one morning to find himself re-living the first day he met Yusuf in 1099, and Nicolò from 1099 finds himself with a stranger named Joe in 2021. Time-crossed and facing old and new challenges, the two lovers have to find their way back to each other.
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- Part 1 of Fic Tennis - The Old Guard
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 178,616
- Chapters:
- 61/61
- Comments:
- 2,577
- Kudos:
- 4,974
- Bookmarks:
- 1,085
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- 170,243
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Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach by Nnm
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
05 Oct 2019
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As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:
--His clothing was expensive and stylish;
--He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
--His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
--He looked angry;
--He was wearing sunglasses.What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 99,423
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Collections:
- 65
- Comments:
- 6,939
- Kudos:
- 33,521
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- 11,968
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- 598,694
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Make a Thing Go Right by hansbekhart
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Daredevil (TV)
13 Dec 2015
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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.
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- Part 1 of Do it Til We Get it Right
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 100,442
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 942
- Kudos:
- 1,708
- Bookmarks:
- 524
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- 36,870
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Love of Ours by emeraldine087
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies)
22 Oct 2017
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Tony Stark REALLY hates magic with a passion. He knows it's got something to do with how his memories aren't quite as he remembers them. He knows Steve screwed him over and sent him that shitty apology with an even shittier phone. And he is pissed supposedly with no end in sight and no resolution to be had. And yet, he also has this other set of memories - One where he is madly in love with Steve...
Steve Rogers REALLY feels like things with Tony could've gone a lot better. So he stubbornly stays in the Avengers compound to try to set things to rights, vowing to repair his Avengers family and his friendship with Tony. And yet, his endgame is still to help Bucky get rid of the Winter Soldier programming - Help his first and the one true love of his life to find himself again...
Bucky Barnes REALLY loathes having to rely on others to tell him about his life. Steve is a big help, but sometimes, Bucky feels like Steve's after helping him for the benefit of the person he used to be rather than the person he is. Unlike Steve, Tony doesn't give a shit about him. And yet, it's with Tony that he feels like he can be or do anything - Like fall in love with the man he had orphaned all those years ago...
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 253,827
- Chapters:
- 40/40
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 2,043
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- 4,342
- Bookmarks:
- 879
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- 126,788
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Blue-eyed matador by FlamingoQueen
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
27 Jan 2024
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The asset is programmed not to strike a handler. Not to struggle no matter who is doing what to it. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to shy away when technicians approach torch-first to take it apart and put it back together in the name of science, research, progress. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to object to the mouth guard, the restraints, the chair. Not to beg or plead when it is left empty and hungry in its cryo tube. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to so much as consider harming an operator, the highest of all members of the organization. And...
And if the silent, liquid fury in the asset’s eyes is any indicator, the asset does not comply.
(Or: The one where the asset is thawed out during the Chitauri attack on New York, escapes, and goes hunting for revenge with the Avengers hot on the trail.)
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- Part 1 of Blue-Eyed Matador (the series)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 582,590
- Chapters:
- 152/152
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 13,211
- Kudos:
- 4,139
- Bookmarks:
- 770
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- 228,141
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Such good depiction of recovery. Clearly did their homework with the therapists. Disabled main character(s). Post winter soldier the bucky/asset no longer identifies as Bucky.
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Known Associates by thingswithwings
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
25 Mar 2016
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Steve Rogers isn't a self-made man.
Or, how a tough little Brooklyn fairy got turned into Captain America, and then turned back.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 294,881
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 1,438
- Kudos:
- 3,699
- Bookmarks:
- 2,268
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- 113,344
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If They Haven't Learned Your Name by silentwalrus
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Apr 2018
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Steve gets out of the hospital in two days, but just barely. “I’m fine,” he tells Sam, Nurse Eunjung and the phalanx of doctors assigned to make sure Captain America didn’t bleed out and die and get bad PR all over their nice clean hospital. “I have an advanced healing factor. It’s fine. See? I’m standing.”
“That is not standing,” Sam tells him.
“You’re bending the IV stand,” Nurse Eunjung adds pointedly. “Let go and sit down, they don’t grow on trees.”
aka Steve and Bucky's Global Honeymoon Revenge World Tour.Podfic of this story available by the incredible quietnight!
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 237,623
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 4,835
- Kudos:
- 9,604
- Bookmarks:
- 3,231
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- 311,891
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War, Children by Nonymos
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
29 Feb 2016
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After Bucky was released from the hospital, it only took him a couple of weeks to give up on himself. Difficult to believe in any kind of future when the simple act of staying alive was almost too big an effort.
Out the frosted window, across the street, there was a tiny homeless guy burrowing under an awning.
- Language:
- English
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- 106,589
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Comments:
- 5,851
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- 14,785
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- 5,594
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- 253,227
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Makes me feel hope for humanity.
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After Reichenbach, not Mycroft but someone else entirely rescues Sherlock from his Serbian dungeon; someone with his own reasons for keeping Sherlock alive (at least for the moment) and who's willing to do whatever it takes to find what he's looking for...
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,346
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 212
- Kudos:
- 457
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- 110
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- 7,708
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Sebastian Moran is a rebel without a cause (literally - pro patria mori is a pile of shite). Jim Moriarty is an evil genius in need of a right hand (not literally - he’s already got one of those in the freezer). It's a relationship meant to be.
AKA The Life And Times of Sebastian Moran, Bastard Extraordinaire. Spanning seven years and three continents, containing 496 uses of the word "fuck", multiple murders, several criminal acts, a couple of explosions, a large amount of violence and sex (often combined), an utter disregard of rules and morals, and somewhere in the middle of this something that almost looks like a happy and loving relationship.
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 168,098
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Comments:
- 497
- Kudos:
- 1,852
- Bookmarks:
- 614
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- 76,662
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