Quick drive-by insta-rec

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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.]

I just read this and had to run over to rec it, because it is AMAZING. The worldbuilding is incredible, and it slots perfectly into canon, the AU differences working seamlessly with what is already there. Sam, Sam, Sam! And Steve, and Bucky, and OCs so vivid that I'm sad they aren't actually going to be in the movies. There is lots of good fic in this fandom, but I think this is one of my absolute favorites, the kind of story you come back to again and again because it's not only amazing fanfic but good fiction, period.

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Cum Laude [DW | AO3]
5700 words | PG-13 | Steve Rogers, Avengers.

summary: Steve navigates the sometimes choppy seas of being a celebrity in the twenty-first century and finds the time to fulfill a twentieth century promise and return to school.

"Cooper Union has asked if you’d be willing to accept an honorary degree from them in May. It’d be a speech and the usual gladhanding, but they also want to pull together a retrospective of some of your work — it’s why they’re asking so early."

"Honestly? I’d be more interested if they were offering to let me finish my actual degree instead," he said as he stood up. He’d meant it as a joke when he’d spoken the words, but he realized that maybe that hadn’t come across and, in hindsight, whether that had been intentional.