yet more CA:TWS fic recs

[kate_nepveu]

Another excerpt of recs posted to my journal.

"Sam is the best":

On DW, there's how does that make you feel by ignipes. Answering the question: "So what happens when Sam Wilson accidentally becomes therapist to all of the Avengers and their friends?"

Then over at AO3:

Bring Us Back a Souvenir (1521 words) by newredshoes
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Sam Wilson
Characters: Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Psychological Trauma, Recovery, Baseball
Summary: Even with all his hair hacked off, he doesn't look like a Bucky, Sam thinks. Maybe as some sort of stupid joke, like naming your most vicious dog Sweetpea. Steve's told him the stories, and he's seen the old newsreels; he knows what this Barnes guy used to be like. But it's not like knowing what to look for is going to magically make some spark rise to the top. This isn't an excavation.

Sam POV, a short look at him and Bucky and Bucky's baby steps of progress.

Not Exactly a Superpower (1252 words) by fabrega
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Spoilers, Crack
Summary: Sam Wilson does not have any superpowers, but he is not going to let that stop him. // (or: the one where Sam tries to talk to birds anyway.)

Turning a crack prompt into something cute and sweet.

Bucky-centric:

Retrograde (3779 words) by puella_nerdii
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Character Study, Brainwashing, Mind Games, Backstory, Torture, Bucky needs a hug, (bucky doesn't remember hugs)
Summary: Memory hides in the most unexpected places. Five things that the Winter Soldier shouldn't know, and can't explain.

A rarity, an angsty Winter Soldier POV that works for me.

Bucky And Mister Rogers (5421 words) by impertinence
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
Summary: Bucky accidentally becomes a surrogate brother to half the neighborhood, purely via the power of PBS.

As a chaser, this Bucky-POV story which is definitely on the fluffy side of the plausibility scale, but which is kind of ridiculously adorable (and saved from being tooth-rottingly sweet by Bucky's awareness of the atrophy of his social skills).

A Sharon Carter story:

Men do not live only by fighting evils (1517 words) by acaramelmacchiato
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Agent 13 (Marvel), Sharon Carter (Marvel), wait they're the same person though, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: agent 13 doesn't get free rent, how sad
Summary: Agent 13's first year with SHIELD involves a lot of laundry and lying.

A character study which I particularly like because it gives me support for reading Sharon at the CIA at the end of the movie as an undercover mission or something else that doesn't involve seeing the CIA as good guys.

And finally, a pastiche, inspired by fanart, of Frozen's "Do You Want to Build A Snowman?", which is absurdly cute.

Comments

[nefhiriel]

I hadn't read Men do not live only by fighting evils, and it was just excellent. Thanks for the recs! <3

[kate_nepveu]

Yay! You're welcome.