Yes, it is indeed. :D Thanks for the rec!

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A Meeting of Minds AKA Bonding ‘Verse

Fandom: Avengers

Pairing: Steve/Tony

Category: series; the Marvel version of Vulcan bonding (meaning extremis comes out to play); Steve is protective; Tony!feels.

Summary: As it turns out, the Extremis hadn’t quite finished rewriting Tony’s brain. The only potential fix has…consequences.

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PS - It says the series isn’t complete, but I think it’s worth reading as it is since you wouldn’t be able to tell there’s more if not for the author saying so.

marvel-slash-fic-recs:

Mr. July

“He’s covering himself with his shield,” Tony said. “Just the shield. How do you not understand the momentous terribleness of this occasion?”

Followed by:

Two events were a coincidence, three was a pattern, ten was time to sit up, take notice, and admit that yeah, maybe villains really were trying to rip Captain America’s clothes off. 

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can’t buy me, love

Captain America is not a slut for charity.

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Turn Around (Three Times Before Lying Down)

Everyone knows that Tony Stark is a playboy, billionaire philanthropist, but what they don’t know is that he’s also a werewolf. When a government agency known as SHIELD finds out, they use this information to force Tony’s hand and bring him into a new elite lycan field team, codename The Avengers Initiative. 

Suddenly Tony finds himself playing host to a bunch of lycans, a misplaced God of Thunder and an experimental supersoldier that isn’t as dead as everyone assumed. Can his week get any worse?

Just trust me on this one, since I know a lot of people (coughmecough) avoid werewolf fics automatically. Clint/Coulson is also an adorable side pairing here.

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In All the World

In a world where Sentinels, people with five heightened senses, bond mentally and spiritually with Guides, people gifted with empathetic powers, Tony Stark has spent thirty-three years overwhelmed by the emotions of those around him and running from his own. Sentinel Steve Rogers wakes up sixty years out of his own time and struggles to deal with the massive amount of new sensory input while trying to find his footing in a New York very different from the one he knew. When they finally find each other, how will their bond change them?

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Three Birthdays

Avengerskink Prompt: The reason pre-serum Steve is so weak and sickly? He’s Thor and Loki’s kid. Sometimes Jotun-Aesir hybrids hit the genetic jackpot (see: Odin), and sometimes they don’t. It’s also the reason he reacted so positively to the super serum; he had all the potential, he just needed a way to unlock it.

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Darling Heart

Tony stared at Steve, trying to figure out what his response should be. He had no idea what to do, because people didn’t do that, nobody told Tony Stark they loved him, nobody except for Rhodey that one time and Rhodey had been blackout drunk so it probably didn’t count anyway, and besides— 

“Tony,” Steve said, swallowing hard, his face still deathly pale. “Tony, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean—”

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On the Record

Tony vs the tabloids is an ongoing battle. These headlines might be the winning shot.

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Phil Coulson is Not the Avengers’ Public Relations Manager

From the Avengers Case Files of Phil Coulson: Grocery shopping is necessary, Tony’s a little too proud of his tech, Captain America’s lost on the streets of New York, and sometimes social injustice just happens.

Phil Coulson’s the one who’s got to write this nonsense up, and he is not their PR Manager.

Read this if only because it was inspired by this quote from Chris Evans:

“Are you kidding me? It’s insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It’s embarrassing, and it’s heartbreaking. It goes without saying that I’m completely in support of gay marriage. In 10 years we’ll be ashamed that this was an issue.”

Fandom: The Social Network

Pairing: Mark/Eduardo

Length: 15k

Category: AU but only a little; Wardo controls the weather (like Pudge!); Dustin’s a good friend.

Summary: Prompt: Eduardo has always had an affinity with the weather - odd things, like always being warm; knowing when it will rain/snow and it even pays off with friends - Mark is never cold when Eduardo is happy (flip-flops in the snow, for example). But it has never been a weird thing. Until the dilution - suddenly the weather is playing up in a major way, unseasonal weather - spring never arriving! - and odd bouts of weather for the people that have upset Eduardo (for example - Peter’s house floods; Sean nearly gets hit with lightening five times and it seems to snow over the Facebook offices). Initially Mark doesn’t notice, but everyone else does, and initially there is no obvious connection. Until the depositions and Mark just can’t help but notice that the weather seems to react to Eduardo’s moods. So Mark has to bring spring back :D

marvel-slash-fic-recs:

Bulletproof

At age fifteen, Steve Rogers had been in love with Tony Stark.

By age twenty, he’d (mostly) gotten over it. And then he promptly became Tony Stark’s fuck buddy.

And the second in the series is the Clint/Coulson side of things:

Phil Coulson was more than halfway through his six year plan, and everything was chugging along nicely.

Unfortunately, he hadn’t foreseen a cocky junior Art major waltzing into his life, or his floor.

(First Impressions Are) A Work in Progress

Tony has a point system for the times he can get Steve to be less than perfect.

A Partial Dictionary Of The 21st Century By Captain Steve Rogers, US Army

Steve is adapting well to the new millennium, and he has the dictionary to prove it.

Where every entry could conceivable have the subheading See: Stark, Tony.

The Beauty Asleep in the Workshop OR Sleeping Tony

In which Tony mouths off to a witch, catches up on his beauty sleep, and learns that True Love might not be such a crock after all. (His status as a princess, however, is still debatable.)

The Iron Beast

Once upon a time, in a tale much like the ones you’ve heard before, there was a merchant, named Joseph. The widower had three sons, all with hair of gold.

The Captain and the Prince

Steve has had a crush on Tony for years. Captain Rogers heads up the castle guard when Prince Anthony returns from his studies abroad. What’s a poor captain of the guard to do when his past crashes into his present?

Would the world spin round without us

Clint is sent to lay low in the English countryside, and Phil is sent along. Falling in love is not really something they planned for.

And I’ll cross oceans like never before

‘Oh, hell no,’ he thinks, looking down at his hands only to be met with furry paws instead of the fingers he expects.

—Or the one where Loki turns Clint into a puppy, and his new condition allows him to gain some startling insights into their resident babysitter agent.

I Am Judas

Marksmanship is not Clint’s only talent, but not every talent is a gift.

marvel-slash-fic-recs:

Length: good/long

Type: baby; Tony and Steve marry when Tony’s a girl (and when they’re boys, too); daddy!Tony is the best Tony; OTP finds their way together.

Summary: Babyfic! When Tony unexpectedly becomes a parent, his world view drastically changes. And changes. Then it changes again. And then again.

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When all of the parallel/alternate are being attacked, Natasha Stark gives her baby over to Tony to take care of before she dies. Tony takes to fatherhood liked you’d expect. (In other words, he’s awesome.)

marvel-slash-fic-recs:

All the fics that you will eventually read in this fandom. Not to sound indirectly threatening or anything. Just fact.

If I’ve missed anything, let me know and I’ll update.

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Ready, Fire, Aim  + its associated sequels/companions

There’s no “I” in “Avenger.”

(I can promise you without hyperbole that this is on every Steve/Tony rec list out there.)

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Tomorrow Belongs to Me

Steve wakes up in the 21st Century. He doesn’t think much of it, and it’s dubious about him. He meets a Norse God, joins a superhero team, and feels terribly awkward about the whole momument at Arlington he’s rendered obsolete by not being dead. Meanwhile, Tony is trying to make his mark on history by being the man who finally drove Nick Fury over the edge.

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Secrets of a Successful Marriage

Tony Stark lives a double life; he’s secretly the supervillain known as Iron Man. But his loving husband Steve has a few secrets of his own, as Tony is about to discover.

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Semaphore

“I’m trying to like you, Tony. You’re just making it very hard.”

(I avoided this fic for so long because the “Joking references to suicide” warning just sat wrong with me. But I read and I loved it and now I know why it’s everywhere you look when you first try to find some Super Husbands fic.)

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Team Building Activities

Fury’s a beautiful princess. Clint’s plotting a Communist revolution. Rhodey’s not sexy. Wall-E’s not a documentary. Clint’s not gay but he does give a great blowjob. This fic is not an AU.

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Average Avengers Local Chapter 7 of New York City

Steve and Tony accidentally start a national do-gooders association and fall in love.

(ADORABLE ADORABLE ADORABLE ADORABLE.)

Honey, I Can See the Stars

The most he’d ever cared about anything remotely related was his uniform, which, beyond the stylistic, was pretty necessary. But now his suit comes from a lab far more advanced than the basement of a Brooklyn antique shop, and the only decision he really gets to make is if his pants are too tight. (They were, but he doesn’t really think they changed them. He doesn’t know why, but he thinks that might have been on purpose.) That being said, he doesn’t know what he’s done to deserve the double take Tony gives him as he walks in the room.

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open to everything happy and sad

He wanted to shake Tony, crawl inside him and make him stop hurting himself and hurting the team with all his stupid bullshit. They were tired and covered in smoke and ash and bits of rubble. This was going to happen again and again until Steve ended up in a scene just like this one, except he’d be cradling Tony’s dead body instead of feeling for broken bones.

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There is no “I”

The reasons not to join the Avengers were many and varied. The problem was that when Captain America smiled at him, Tony had trouble remembering what they were.

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Homefront

Steve Rogers is a capable leader, a kind and cheerful man, a good friend, a strong role model, and a loyal soldier. He’s also teetering on the edge of suicide.

(Gives you all the Steve feels without overwhelming you with reacting to the PTSD/suicide issues.)

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The Last Love Song of Anthony E. Stark

After contracting an Asgardian virus, Tony starts forgetting things. And people. And Steve.

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The Roughest Day

Steve is in a motorcycle accident, Tony catches a cold, and someone may be after the New Avengers.

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Met the Dodgers

Written for a prompt over at avengerkink: Tony decides that, with his reputation, there’s only one best way to show Steve he’s serious about their budding relationship. Buy the Dodgers and move them back to Brooklyn for him.

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Length: 15k

Rating: PG-13

Category: AU; Cas the accountant (it’s a temp job okay); John; Anna ships it; siblings; a bit of pining.

Summary: When Castiel’s offered a senior position in the Heavenly Host, he decides that before he commits himself he’d better take that holiday on Earth he’s always wanted. So he does, and he meets Dean.

Fandom: Sherlock

Pairing: Sherlock/John

Rating: PG

Length: oneshot of moderate size

Category: AU; Reichenbach but spoiler-free; let this break your heart in a whole new way; happy ending; for a given value of happy.

Summary: In the afternoon of May 20th, 2015, Sherlock Holmes starts down the steps of the British Museum and walks neatly into the arms of a dead man. Reversed!Reichenbach, based off of the ACD!canon storyline — no spoilers for S2.

Something to fill the void as we wait for updates and new episodes.

All of the BBC Sherlock fics that I’ve read and liked are here. I’ve also got some more ACD/2009 Holmes recs here.

In my opinion, everything here is worth reading, even if it doesn’t sound like something you’d normally go for. I anticipate this will get rather long, so I’ll list a few general categories here so you can ctrl f to get where you want to go (since I’m computer illiterate and I can’t do anything fancier). The actual links will be under the read more.

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Categories

• Absolutely Have to Read
• Post-Reichenbach - not many (yet) - SPOILERS
• Canon
• Gladstone
• AUs

Read More

Pairings: Sherlock/John; Jim/Molly (temp.); Harry/Clara; there might be more that I’ve forgotten.

Rating: PG, I think

Length: a good size to longish

Category: rom-com; fic about characters writing fic; awesome formatting; pining; very cute; Mycroft.

Summary: Sherlock and John are BNFs in Sherlock Holmes fandom. Together, they fight crime. (Always.) And write porn, incidentally.

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If for nothing else, read this for the amazing job the author did with the formatting. Each time I was supposed to be moving on to the next part, I’d keep reading the comments because I thought the fic was still going. And she somehow managed to get Gchats in here! Oh, my shipper heart is satisfied.

In any case, this’ll help tide you over until series 2.

Pairings: Sherlock/John; Mycroft/Lestrade.

Length: long~ish.

Rating: PG-13 until the last part then NC-17. (Unless you consider talking about sex/kinks merits an R+.)

Category: AU; series; sweeter than it sounds; lots of gay bars; pining.

Summary: Sherlock ran a website called The Science of Seduction, on which he gave advice on the best ways to get laid, wrote blog entries detailing the results of his various sexual ‘experiments’ and generally contributed to the stereotype of ‘every gay man is a sex-mad playboy’. John avoided the thing like the plague.

AU in which Sherlock treats sex like he does crime in canon.

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I know this’ll sound ridiculous, given the summary, but it’s really not all that pr0ny. So if that’s what you want, this isn’t the place to get it. 

This was just so sweet. Sherlock runs experiments based around sex, John tries not to feel hurt once it’s pointed out that he’s the only person in Sherlock’s acquaintance (aside from Mycroft, of course) who Sherlock hasn’t slept with, and by the end we’re at the beginning of A Study in Pink.

Length: mid to short

Rating: PG

Category: oneshot; au that follows canon; cute; fantasy.

Summary: On John Watson’s sixth birthday, his mum gave him a flat wooden box to hold his wish stones.

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Really just absolutely lovely. I don’t know if this is an original fantasy concept of the author or if it’s based on something but it was wonderful. Basically, when you have a strong wish, your body creates wish pigment that comes out as stones that you can keep or exchange with someone else. But of course, Sherlock doesn’t make wish stones:

He’s not, but my God, can’t Sherlock see that it matters whether or not you care? Even if it doesn’t help you save people, it means that it makes a difference whether they live or die. It means you’re one of them, part of something much larger than yourself.

Oh.

Oh.

For how long has Sherlock lived like this, sure he is the only one of his kind? An anomaly? Unconnected to the rest of the human race.

Read it. You’ll be glad you did. :D

Rating: PG

Length: medium long

Category: fluff; crossover; rom-com; our childhood fandoms combined with our adult ones; cute; family; Mycroft.

Summary: Sherlock and John were married, had two beautiful twin girls and then everything went tragically awry and they separated. Years later, the girls meet at a summer camp.

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Crossover with The Parent Trap, if you couldn’t tell. I was just grinning the entire time. Truly wonderful.

PS - Parts 25 to the end are here.

Length: medium long

Rating: R?

Categories: romance; (AU?;) wooing; modern times; mpreg (though not squicky if mpreg isn’t normally your thing); reincarnation.

Summary: Merlin is tired of the centuries in between reincarnations in which he’s so alone, so he stops looking for Arthur. And yet Arthur comes back into his life, and even without his memories, Prince Arthur is playing for keeps.

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In honor of the embrace.