Hey there, Nonnie! I still am a giant fan of my big green fluffy angry baby, believe you me. Bruce needs all the loving and appreciation – and as he is STILL my Avengers fandom LBD, I am not picky about who is doing the appreciating! I am still reading the odd fic here and there. But I am a bit cool after AoU, tbh. I felt it didn’t characterise anybody properly, and so I have been sort of distant while I wait for everyone to turn back into the characters I love.
Also – and I hesitate to write this – there has been an awful lot of bashing going on in the Avengers fandom lately, which has made me pull back (like, to the other side of the moon). I mean, there’s a reason I wrote an ot6 lovefest, I love all these brave and broken twerps. I don’t enjoy seeing any of them reduced, simplified and demonised. IDK, I am small and soft and easily squished.
Looking forward to Civil War and Ragnarok, though!
Oh, thank you so very very much, Nonnie! I am thrilled you liked it 😀
Okay, well… here are some of my very fave Science Boyfriends fics. I return to these over and over. Some are unfinished (*sob*) but are still completely worth your time. I’ve marked those ones.
This list is by no means all of them, just the ones that first sprang to mind.
Summary: Bruce has been searching for a cure again, but Tony doesn’t think the green guy is a disease. Abruptly, he’s given everything he’s ever wanted, and… well, it seems it’s all more complicated than that.
FEATURING:
Hulk – Amateur Psychology Hour with Tony Stark – Clint as a troll – more Hulk – Bruce as an angry introspective mess – Hulk again – Steve as Team Dad – Nick Fury as Nick Fury – Hulk smash! – Tony as a caped crusader for Hulk Rights – Rules, Rules, Rules – Natasha as the boss of everything – the Experimental Method (by T. Hulk) – Thor as the God of Thunder and Frustration – Tony as the king of the oblivious idiots – Stealth Sass Master Banner ……and a lot of figuring out who you really are.
And Hulk.
what a wondrous thing to return to!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, ahhhh I can’t thank you enough! This is awesome, I absolutely LOVE IT! Thank you thank you thank you so sos osoooo much!!!
I got tagged by the wonderful, generous, kind, phenomenally talented and delightful @notanightlight! I adore you, lovely.
I have to give first lines of 10 of my fics. Okie doke! I do get a little over-enthusiastic at times, and so you get an opening paragraph instead 🙂 Links after each quote!
When Legolas returned to Eryn Lasgalen, he was much changed. His father embraced him gladly, and then pulled back to study his face. His eyes were deeper, and filled with the joy and sorrow and yearning of the Eldar who have walked too closely to mortality.
The first time Gimli sets eyes upon the Elf, he is less than impressed. He looks exactly like the rest of them: tall, pale and inscrutable. Not a whisker on his chin nor a line on his face. He is blank, a white unwritten canvas, with no distinguishing features or marks upon him to denote a personality at all.
So strange. And. Yeah, Bruce can’t quite get his head around it yet. Something actually affected the Hulk, scared him, scared him so badly he hid inside, so deep and dark inside their head that Bruce can hardly feel his usual presence. God, the strangeness of it all. He’d almost become used to being invulnerable, invincible.
Aaaaand last of all, a sneak-peek of the opening of the next chapter of the behemoth itself…
10. Ori stared at the massive sheet of parchment. It was covered
in crossings-out, and small notes were scattered all through the margins in an
assortment of different hands. He could just make out the blocky script of Thrór, the cramped chicken-scratch
that was Óin, and Frís’ graceful loops. All in all, it was an unrecognisable, unreadable
mess. A hot, sinking feeling began somewhere in his belly.
okay but can you imagine Bucky fucking something up and Steve’s laughing at him and Bucky glares and goes “Would you stop laughing at my boner and help me do something about it?”
and somewhere in the background Sam chokes on his food, knocks his knee into the counter and falls over to curl up on the floor and Steve just laughs louder
all Bucky wanted to do was get some more tea and now this. Thanks a lot, Sam. You had to fuckin’ tell him, you ass.
Aggressively Progressive Steve Rogers is so what I’m here for.
STeve would unleash and be all “DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WHOOPING COUGH SUCKS?! DO YOU?! DO YOU REALLY?! ARE YOU FUCKIN’ STUPID?! BUCKY, TELL THEM HOW I BROKE TWO RIBS! TELL THEM!”
Omg, new headcanon, Beleaguered Bucky Barnes being grabbed by the shoulders and practically lifted into camera view by Steve shouting about how Bucky needs to confirm some terrible illness because no one else is alive form that time to corroborate any of Steve’s claims. Bucky shyly telling the reporters that yes, Steve did indeed have that thing adn yeah it is dangerous and Steve jumping back into frame like “I told you! I TOLD YOU IT SUCKED SHUT UP JENNY MCCARTHY!”
“AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE?! POLIO!”
“Steve you never had fucking polio-”
“YEA BUT IT STILL SUCKED! KNOW WHAT STOPPED IT?! VACCINES!”
“Oh my God, Steve.”
“I DIDN’T EVNENKNOW WHAT THAT SHOT WOULD DO TO ME BUT I TOOK IT!”
“Steve, that’s… That’s not really a good argument.”
“I DON’T CARE FOX NEWS NEEDS TO STOP USING MY IMAGE!”
“Steve, doll, calm down.”
“I VOTED FOR OBAMA!”
I love everything about this post
And all the while Sam is just laughing his fucking ass off and Bucky is wondering if he could just go take another nap for a few years.
Okay but imagine the savvy pediatrician who shyly sends Steve a message at Avengers Tower. She loves his message. Loves it. Wants to know if she can give her vaccinated kids a sticker of the shield because she wants other parents to subtly get the message, and of course what kid doesn’t love Cap? She’s no graphic artist, but she got a picture of the shield off the Internet …
… two weeks later, a box arrives at her office. It’s an order of shield stickers, very clearly actually produced by a graphic artist. Some of them sparkle, some are metallic, and some of them say “Protecting my friends by protecting me!” for the older kids who can appreciate the idiocy of the anti-vax movement.
There’s also a hand-written note with Pepper’s personal address at Avengers Tower listed on it: Contact us when you need more. No charge. Keep fighting the good fight.
They end up going on sale after the pediatrician’s colleagues see them and want to pass them out. Steve insists that any profit they might make should go to the March of Dimes. Tony and Pepper barely talk about it before they go “do you know how little it costs to produce stickers, Steve?” and decide to donate the entire sales cost. They’re not expensive to sell, either, but it adds up.
Vaccination rate goes up. Being an anti-vaxxer stops being trendy and starts being seen as living in the dark ages.
My stack of Hulk comics is steadily growing, and reading The End gave me a desperate need to draw Bruce with friend/s.
Seriously, comic-verse is one big heart-wrenching clusterfuck. Movie-verse Bruce has it pretty bad, but at least Tony Stark has never shot him into space.