A glorious celebration of the joys of shared fandom. Music by Meat Loaf.
Category: slash
Winter’s Children, by Neery
They looked similar enough to be siblings. All of them were small, skinny, with blond hair and narrow faces. They looked… familiar, looked like… like… Steve Rogers, he thought, but that was absurd. Rogers – Captain America – had been 200 pounds of deadly muscle, nothing at all like these frail little kids.
His head spun dizzily.
Adult, post-WS, kid!fic. The Winter Soldier herding a whole bunch of little Steve clones – this should be utterly ridiculous, instead it hits you right in the feels.
Sparked Up Like a Book of Matches, by Sena
Steve stops and doesn’t know what to do, to say. He wraps his arms around himself like he’s cold. He ignores the lady beside him cursing him for stopping in the middle of the walk. He makes himself move towards Bucky and he stops five feet away. He says, “Hey, Buck.“
Bucky says, "Why didn’t you ever send anyone after me?"
Steve doesn’t say it’s because he was afraid he was going crazy. He tells another truth. "Because you deserve not to be hunted.”
Mature, post-WS, non-AoU-compliant. In which both Steve and Bucky are damaged and made me want to hug them forever, but which still managed to have me laughing out loud several times because of the awesome Avengers characterisations and snappy dialogue. My favourite combination.
Vid: Wild One, by Sisabet
I’ve had a soft spot for Channing Tatum since The Eagle, exacerbated by him charming the pants off the internets/the world on a regular basis. This vid does him justice (including his naked bum – and cats!). *g* Music by Flo Rida and Sia.
Kleines Madchen Verloren, by x_art
Dick made a helpless gesture as he pulled away from Nix’s caress. Now that he was fully awake, he realized how bizarre the moment had been, how any attempt at explanation would make him sound delusional, maybe even insane. But Nix would never, ever let him not tell now… “This is gonna sound nuts, but I thought I saw someone in the doorway. A girl.”
Teen, warning for spookiness. Because it’s a ghost story, something I never knew I wanted. It’s also a love story – so the only drawback is the bad German, really.
Slip, Slide, by x_art
“I’m giving you a—” Hetty gazed briefly up at the ceiling. “Let’s call it a sabbatical. A sabbatical whereby you’ll have four uninterrupted hours to fix this.”
Adult, now AU. An attempt to make sense of G, Sam, and Sam’s family after the reveal in “Betrayal”. Rings true – and is hawt! 🙂
Homophony, by x
A series of five gorgeous pictures that tells a quiet, beautiful story of two men, a radio, and a peaceful evening at home.
Re-Entry, by flamethrower
He faced Qui-Gon a pensive expression on his face. “Qui-Gon—wait. That isn’t right. Master,” he said, bowing with his eyes closed, as if fighting off the dizziness that Terza had warned him about. “I owe you an explanation, yes, but I feel it is one that the Council should hear, as well.”
Qui-Gon realized he was staring at Obi-Wan. Who was this ultra-polite, refined, bewildering man that had replaced his exuberant Padawan?
Mature, AU, warnings for torture. After an injury put him into a strange coma, padawan Obi-Wan wakes remembering a whole history that now will never happen – at least not if he can help it. This is a mega-epic, spanning several novels – including a complete retelling of the canon as part of a vision in this awesome AU.
Vid: Starlight, by Sue
Oh, my Obi-Wan… This vid is full of his heartache and his realization that all he wants is hold Qui-Gon Jinn one more time. Music by Muse.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
How I Defeated the Tolkien Estate, by Austin Gilkeson
As anyone who’s read the appendices to The Lord of the Rings knows, both it and The Hobbit are Tolkien’s translations from the so-called “Red Book of Westmarch,” an ancient manuscript written in Late Vulgar Adûni. How Tolkien came to possess the Red Book is a mystery, and the Tolkien Estate has never allowed other scholars access to it.
This is made of so much win – and made even funnier because apparently some people were confused whether it was true or not. 🙂