fic recs: the avengers
i am on holidays with my parents and supposed to be writing my thesis, so this felt like a great time to finally compile that rec list. i'll win the olympic games in procrastination next year, or maybe the year after that.
everything is complete unless stated otherwise. mostly steve/tony with a few other pairings and gen fics thrown into the mix.
{ steve/tony }
{ clint/coulson }
{ clint/natasha }
{ gen }
♥{ steve/tony }top
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Two Out of Three (Ain't Bad) by plingo_kat
It blindsides him one morning in the middle of his customary third cup of coffee; Steve walks through the door in loose cotton pants, shirt pulled up to wipe the sweat off his face from his usual morning workout, and Tony thinks: adorable.
| 9.5k | pg13 | this was the first fic i read in this fandom. it's hilarious and adorable |
♥Tomorrow Belongs To Me by valtyr
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.
| 87k | nc17 |
♥Ready, Fire, Aim by gyzym
There's no "I" in "Avenger."
| 21k | r |
♥Christmas Sweaters by kahn
Tony just wasn't used to not being the craziest person in his general vicinity, which was why he was caught completely unawares when Natalie--sorry, Natasha--strode into his office looking sexy and streamlined in a pencil-skirt-professional-blouse ensemble and chucked a hideous Christmas Sweater at his head.
Steve throws an Ugly Christmas Sweater party for The Avengers. Loki throws Tony out a window (again). Darcy brings her taser. There are love confessions and drunken Twister and Maria Hill in a flying car.
| 12.5k | pg13 | am i reccing a christmas fic in june? yes, i am. read it. |
♥Some Things Shouldn't Be a Chore by scifigrl47
Steve takes things like personal responsibility and respect seriously. Tony's got people he pays to take care of that kind of thing, and anyway, he's pretty sure that he's going to die of some exotic disease in his workshop, because Dummy's still a little spotty about what is 'clean' enough to put on an open wound. The rest of the Avengers are in this for personal gain, except for Clint, he just enjoys being a dick.
And some things shouldn't be a chore.
| 22k | pg13 | first part in the series. this is technically pre-slash with background clint/coulson, but it's amazing and read it, seriously |
♥Semaphore by devildoll
"I’m trying to like you, Tony. You’re just making it very hard."
| 40k | nc17 |
♥Average Avengers Local Chapter 7 of New York City by hetrez
Steve and Tony accidentally start a national do-gooders association and fall in love.
| 9k | pg13 |
♥But the Heart by kahn
"Okay. So. Kids. It can't be too hard, right? People dumber than us raise kids all the time. Not much to them. Just feed them, water them, distract them with shiny things and make sure they aren't unsupervised for too long. Speaking of which, how long has tiny-spawn been alone in your kitchen?"
| 24k | pg 13| steve and tony taking care of little peter parker! au backstory |
♥A Partial Dictionary Of The 21st Century By Captain Steve Rogers, US Army by sam-storyteller
Steve is adapting well to the new millennium, and he has the dictionary to prove it.
| 14k | r |
♥Run Program: DUM-E by amuly
Taking care of Tony is a lot of work. Especially when you’ve only got one arm. And your code dates back to the 1980s.
| 11k | r | this fic. omg. told from dummy's pov. this is amazing |
♥Arms And The Man by sam-storyteller
His best friend keeps cockblocking him, his relationship guru is a computer, and he might be gay. The future is very complicated.
| 14.5k | r |
♥Homefront by sam-storyteller
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.
| 13k | r |
♥I've got you under my skin by sirona
Five times Beijing 2008 Olympics Gold Medalist Tony Stark thinks it's going to be no more difficult a job to get ready for London 2012, than what he has just achieved. That is, of course, before Coach Fury comes to visit, and offers him a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a part of something much bigger than himself. Swimming AU.
| 38.5k | r |
♥slipping through the years by often_adamanta
The plane crash and subsequent ice might have killed him, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t still around, haunting those he cares about. And since the only person who can see him is Tony Stark, death sure isn’t going to be boring.
| 18k | r | be sure to check out the accompanying art!
♥the reason you ruminate the shadowy past by mizzy
So, Captain America effectively manages to cockblock Tony for a year.
It's not Steve's fault. Well, actually, it is. But he was just proving a point - that if a superhero is gay, how can it be wrong? Steve just picked the wrong superhero to make the point with. Now America will think they're dating - and Tony's not going to be the guy to break Captain America's heart.
There's only one way out. To save face, Steve and Tony have to become fake boyfriends. Steve thinks the "boyfriends" bit will be the hardest to act... but maybe it's the "fake" part that will be the hardest act of all...
| 20.5k | pg13 | so i sort of have a thing for pretend dating? |
♥The Twice-Told Tale by arysteia
For someone he'd hero-worshipped for so long, Steve Rogers in the flesh is a pretty big disappointment. For one thing, he keeps looking at Tony as though he reminds him of someone else, and even if he never says anything, Tony's pretty sure it's his father. A lifetime of not measuring up to Howard's expectations is more than enough, thank you very much, and he's certainly not going to make an effort to live up to any of Steve's. Steve's pretty clearly failed to live up to his expectations, in any case, and that's not hypocritical at all.
| 15.5k | nc17 |
♥(First Impressions Are) A Work in Progress by porthos
Tony has a point system for the times he can get Steve to be less than perfect.
| 15k | r |
♥Rom-Commed By Fate (Or JARVIS) by leashy_bebes
The best thing about being an Artificial Intelligence is the ability to parse, filter and modify the things people say until you've got the cause to do exactly what you wanted in the first place. Or, in which JARVIS cock blocks Tony into having an actual relationship.
| 14.5k | nc17 |
♥So No One Told You by kari_kurofai
Between them there're three apartments, a disgruntled downstairs neighbor, and a coffee shop with a barista who threatens them with tasers. Which, as a whole, that description sounds way more simple than it actually is.
| this is a wip! | pg13 |
♥Living In The Future by Closer
Eighteen-year-old Tony Stark is the boy genius who woke Captain America, and now he's stuck with him. That's not a bad thing, but between Steve's wide-eyed wonder at the new world and Tony's little fanboy crush, the awkwardness just keeps happening.
| 36k | r |
♥The More Things Change by cookinguptales
Steve's not entirely sure how seduction works nowadays, but he's learned from the best.
| 5.5k | g |
♥ Momentary Paws (or, DO NOT WANT) by velithya
WTF KITTEN
| 16.5k | r | tony turns into a kitten |
♥Indecent Proposal by gyzym & siria
On the plus side, marriage is bound to be easier than proposing.
| 2.5k | pg13 |
♥The Last Love Song of Anthony E. Stark by jibrailis
After contracting an Asgardian virus, Tony starts forgetting things. And people. And Steve.
| 42.5k | r |
♥Bulletproof by foxxcub
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.
| 20.5k | nc17 |
♥Something Death Can Touch by thatdamneddame
Tony nearly dies in the field on a Saturday.
Steve breaks up with Tony the Wednesday after he's released from hospital.
| 6.5k | g |
♥This is the half-light; see me as I am by sidney sussex
Tony poses for Steve's sketching. It turns out there's more than one way of being naked.
| 4k | pg13 |
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Launch Your Assault by foxxcub
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.
| 30.5k | nc17 | this is a companion fic to bulletproof |
♠Breakout by cy_chase
Phil Coulson has spent half his life working toward the Stanley Cup.
The Malibu Avengers might finally be the team to take him there.
| 3k | r | hockey au! there's a sequel from clint's pov |
♠Now We've Learned To Kiss The Sky by torakowalski
“I’m going to ask you something,” Phil says and then pauses and doesn’t ask Clint anything at all.
“Yeah?” Clint asks, leaning forward and resting his elbows on the table. “Is it kinky?” It isn’t, obviously; Phil never has a problem suggesting anything when it comes to sex.
Phil shakes his head. He looks up, catching and holding Clint’s eyes. Clint doesn’t make any more smartass comments. “Marry me?” Phil asks.
| 13.5k | nc17 | tora's fics are the reason i started reading this pairing in the first place and i could easily rec everything by her. so, just read them all? |
♠Disclosures by gqgqqt
Phil Coulson is miserable, distrusted by most of SHIELD, and still doesn't remember why.
It's only going to get worse before it gets better.
| 68k | r |
♠And I'll cross oceans like never before by sirona
'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.
| 16.5k | nc17 |
♠I Trust You to Kill Me by ghostrunner
Most people find Specialist Barton so annoying as to be impossible to work with. He's been bounced off so many black ops teams it's probably a record.
Agent Coulson is made of sterner stuff.
| 6.5k | nc17 |
♣{ clint/natasha }top
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we were emergencies by gyzym
It's not about being unmade; it's about remaking, one aching step at a time.
| 37k | nc17 | for me, 'gyzym' is synonymous with 'awesome' |
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Amateur Theatrics by galaxysoup
In which Thor’s primary problem-solving method (a mighty blow from Mjolnir) fails to have the desired effect on a magical artifact, and his secondary method (a mightier blow from Mjolnir) proves to be actively disastrous.
| 26.5k | pg13 | this is one of those fics you must read no matter what you ship |
♦One to Grow On by moiraine
Phil Coulson, kindergarten teacher at S. L. Shields Elementary School, a wealthy, upper-middle class suburb has just gotten his new class of students. Like every class he has, they have their ups and downs, and life is never dull. Phil does his best to give all his kids a good foundation, and help out those who need a little extra from him.
And if things sometimes get a little crazy, well, he's used to that.
| 23k | g | yes, kid avengers. i can't even |
♦by the light we see by somehowunbroken
It takes a little while for Steve to notice that something isn't right with Tony.
| 8k | g | steve & tony friendship |
♦The Enemy's Gate Is Not the Point by sidney sussex
Clint Barton goes to Battle School, but not every kid who ends up there wants to lead the Fleet.
| 10.5k | pg13 | ender's game au |
♦Epilogue by sam-storyteller
After the fighting is over, then come the hot baths, ice packs, resurrection from the dead, political maneuvering, and happy endings (not like that, Tony).
| 7k | pg13 |
♦The Stark Guide™ to Mission Reports by coffeesuperhero & sabinelagrande
With annotations by Clint Barton, and further annotations by Phil Coulson, and questions from Thor Odinson, for whom this was all written in the first place.
| 1k | g | I LOVE MULTIMEDIA FICS. technically this is steve/tony and clint/coulson, but reads more like gen anyway so i'm putting it here |
♦You’ll Find the Bright Places by BlackEyedGirl
Fury temples his fingers together. “Tell me how this started?” Phil tries to give a reasonable report of today's incident. As he spent most of his day trying to keep grade-school aged versions of his team away from a team of gunmen, he has only limited success.
| 5.5k | pg13 |
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if you have any recs for me, they are more than welcome! :D
everything is complete unless stated otherwise. mostly steve/tony with a few other pairings and gen fics thrown into the mix.
{ steve/tony }
{ clint/coulson }
{ clint/natasha }
{ gen }
♥{ steve/tony }top
♥
Two Out of Three (Ain't Bad) by plingo_kat
It blindsides him one morning in the middle of his customary third cup of coffee; Steve walks through the door in loose cotton pants, shirt pulled up to wipe the sweat off his face from his usual morning workout, and Tony thinks: adorable.
| 9.5k | pg13 | this was the first fic i read in this fandom. it's hilarious and adorable |
♥Tomorrow Belongs To Me by valtyr
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.
| 87k | nc17 |
♥Ready, Fire, Aim by gyzym
There's no "I" in "Avenger."
| 21k | r |
♥Christmas Sweaters by kahn
Tony just wasn't used to not being the craziest person in his general vicinity, which was why he was caught completely unawares when Natalie--sorry, Natasha--strode into his office looking sexy and streamlined in a pencil-skirt-professional-blouse ensemble and chucked a hideous Christmas Sweater at his head.
Steve throws an Ugly Christmas Sweater party for The Avengers. Loki throws Tony out a window (again). Darcy brings her taser. There are love confessions and drunken Twister and Maria Hill in a flying car.
| 12.5k | pg13 | am i reccing a christmas fic in june? yes, i am. read it. |
♥Some Things Shouldn't Be a Chore by scifigrl47
Steve takes things like personal responsibility and respect seriously. Tony's got people he pays to take care of that kind of thing, and anyway, he's pretty sure that he's going to die of some exotic disease in his workshop, because Dummy's still a little spotty about what is 'clean' enough to put on an open wound. The rest of the Avengers are in this for personal gain, except for Clint, he just enjoys being a dick.
And some things shouldn't be a chore.
| 22k | pg13 | first part in the series. this is technically pre-slash with background clint/coulson, but it's amazing and read it, seriously |
♥Semaphore by devildoll
"I’m trying to like you, Tony. You’re just making it very hard."
| 40k | nc17 |
♥Average Avengers Local Chapter 7 of New York City by hetrez
Steve and Tony accidentally start a national do-gooders association and fall in love.
| 9k | pg13 |
♥But the Heart by kahn
"Okay. So. Kids. It can't be too hard, right? People dumber than us raise kids all the time. Not much to them. Just feed them, water them, distract them with shiny things and make sure they aren't unsupervised for too long. Speaking of which, how long has tiny-spawn been alone in your kitchen?"
| 24k | pg 13| steve and tony taking care of little peter parker! au backstory |
♥A Partial Dictionary Of The 21st Century By Captain Steve Rogers, US Army by sam-storyteller
Steve is adapting well to the new millennium, and he has the dictionary to prove it.
| 14k | r |
♥Run Program: DUM-E by amuly
Taking care of Tony is a lot of work. Especially when you’ve only got one arm. And your code dates back to the 1980s.
| 11k | r | this fic. omg. told from dummy's pov. this is amazing |
♥Arms And The Man by sam-storyteller
His best friend keeps cockblocking him, his relationship guru is a computer, and he might be gay. The future is very complicated.
| 14.5k | r |
♥Homefront by sam-storyteller
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.
| 13k | r |
♥I've got you under my skin by sirona
Five times Beijing 2008 Olympics Gold Medalist Tony Stark thinks it's going to be no more difficult a job to get ready for London 2012, than what he has just achieved. That is, of course, before Coach Fury comes to visit, and offers him a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a part of something much bigger than himself. Swimming AU.
| 38.5k | r |
♥slipping through the years by often_adamanta
The plane crash and subsequent ice might have killed him, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t still around, haunting those he cares about. And since the only person who can see him is Tony Stark, death sure isn’t going to be boring.
| 18k | r | be sure to check out the accompanying art!
♥the reason you ruminate the shadowy past by mizzy
So, Captain America effectively manages to cockblock Tony for a year.
It's not Steve's fault. Well, actually, it is. But he was just proving a point - that if a superhero is gay, how can it be wrong? Steve just picked the wrong superhero to make the point with. Now America will think they're dating - and Tony's not going to be the guy to break Captain America's heart.
There's only one way out. To save face, Steve and Tony have to become fake boyfriends. Steve thinks the "boyfriends" bit will be the hardest to act... but maybe it's the "fake" part that will be the hardest act of all...
| 20.5k | pg13 | so i sort of have a thing for pretend dating? |
♥The Twice-Told Tale by arysteia
For someone he'd hero-worshipped for so long, Steve Rogers in the flesh is a pretty big disappointment. For one thing, he keeps looking at Tony as though he reminds him of someone else, and even if he never says anything, Tony's pretty sure it's his father. A lifetime of not measuring up to Howard's expectations is more than enough, thank you very much, and he's certainly not going to make an effort to live up to any of Steve's. Steve's pretty clearly failed to live up to his expectations, in any case, and that's not hypocritical at all.
| 15.5k | nc17 |
♥(First Impressions Are) A Work in Progress by porthos
Tony has a point system for the times he can get Steve to be less than perfect.
| 15k | r |
♥Rom-Commed By Fate (Or JARVIS) by leashy_bebes
The best thing about being an Artificial Intelligence is the ability to parse, filter and modify the things people say until you've got the cause to do exactly what you wanted in the first place. Or, in which JARVIS cock blocks Tony into having an actual relationship.
| 14.5k | nc17 |
♥So No One Told You by kari_kurofai
Between them there're three apartments, a disgruntled downstairs neighbor, and a coffee shop with a barista who threatens them with tasers. Which, as a whole, that description sounds way more simple than it actually is.
| this is a wip! | pg13 |
♥Living In The Future by Closer
Eighteen-year-old Tony Stark is the boy genius who woke Captain America, and now he's stuck with him. That's not a bad thing, but between Steve's wide-eyed wonder at the new world and Tony's little fanboy crush, the awkwardness just keeps happening.
| 36k | r |
♥The More Things Change by cookinguptales
Steve's not entirely sure how seduction works nowadays, but he's learned from the best.
| 5.5k | g |
♥ Momentary Paws (or, DO NOT WANT) by velithya
WTF KITTEN
| 16.5k | r | tony turns into a kitten |
♥Indecent Proposal by gyzym & siria
On the plus side, marriage is bound to be easier than proposing.
| 2.5k | pg13 |
♥The Last Love Song of Anthony E. Stark by jibrailis
After contracting an Asgardian virus, Tony starts forgetting things. And people. And Steve.
| 42.5k | r |
♥Bulletproof by foxxcub
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.
| 20.5k | nc17 |
♥Something Death Can Touch by thatdamneddame
Tony nearly dies in the field on a Saturday.
Steve breaks up with Tony the Wednesday after he's released from hospital.
| 6.5k | g |
♥This is the half-light; see me as I am by sidney sussex
Tony poses for Steve's sketching. It turns out there's more than one way of being naked.
| 4k | pg13 |
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Launch Your Assault by foxxcub
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.
| 30.5k | nc17 | this is a companion fic to bulletproof |
♠Breakout by cy_chase
Phil Coulson has spent half his life working toward the Stanley Cup.
The Malibu Avengers might finally be the team to take him there.
| 3k | r | hockey au! there's a sequel from clint's pov |
♠Now We've Learned To Kiss The Sky by torakowalski
“I’m going to ask you something,” Phil says and then pauses and doesn’t ask Clint anything at all.
“Yeah?” Clint asks, leaning forward and resting his elbows on the table. “Is it kinky?” It isn’t, obviously; Phil never has a problem suggesting anything when it comes to sex.
Phil shakes his head. He looks up, catching and holding Clint’s eyes. Clint doesn’t make any more smartass comments. “Marry me?” Phil asks.
| 13.5k | nc17 | tora's fics are the reason i started reading this pairing in the first place and i could easily rec everything by her. so, just read them all? |
♠Disclosures by gqgqqt
Phil Coulson is miserable, distrusted by most of SHIELD, and still doesn't remember why.
It's only going to get worse before it gets better.
| 68k | r |
♠And I'll cross oceans like never before by sirona
'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.
| 16.5k | nc17 |
♠I Trust You to Kill Me by ghostrunner
Most people find Specialist Barton so annoying as to be impossible to work with. He's been bounced off so many black ops teams it's probably a record.
Agent Coulson is made of sterner stuff.
| 6.5k | nc17 |
♣{ clint/natasha }top
♣
we were emergencies by gyzym
It's not about being unmade; it's about remaking, one aching step at a time.
| 37k | nc17 | for me, 'gyzym' is synonymous with 'awesome' |
♦{ gen }top
♦
Amateur Theatrics by galaxysoup
In which Thor’s primary problem-solving method (a mighty blow from Mjolnir) fails to have the desired effect on a magical artifact, and his secondary method (a mightier blow from Mjolnir) proves to be actively disastrous.
| 26.5k | pg13 | this is one of those fics you must read no matter what you ship |
♦One to Grow On by moiraine
Phil Coulson, kindergarten teacher at S. L. Shields Elementary School, a wealthy, upper-middle class suburb has just gotten his new class of students. Like every class he has, they have their ups and downs, and life is never dull. Phil does his best to give all his kids a good foundation, and help out those who need a little extra from him.
And if things sometimes get a little crazy, well, he's used to that.
| 23k | g | yes, kid avengers. i can't even |
♦by the light we see by somehowunbroken
It takes a little while for Steve to notice that something isn't right with Tony.
| 8k | g | steve & tony friendship |
♦The Enemy's Gate Is Not the Point by sidney sussex
Clint Barton goes to Battle School, but not every kid who ends up there wants to lead the Fleet.
| 10.5k | pg13 | ender's game au |
♦Epilogue by sam-storyteller
After the fighting is over, then come the hot baths, ice packs, resurrection from the dead, political maneuvering, and happy endings (not like that, Tony).
| 7k | pg13 |
♦The Stark Guide™ to Mission Reports by coffeesuperhero & sabinelagrande
With annotations by Clint Barton, and further annotations by Phil Coulson, and questions from Thor Odinson, for whom this was all written in the first place.
| 1k | g | I LOVE MULTIMEDIA FICS. technically this is steve/tony and clint/coulson, but reads more like gen anyway so i'm putting it here |
♦You’ll Find the Bright Places by BlackEyedGirl
Fury temples his fingers together. “Tell me how this started?” Phil tries to give a reasonable report of today's incident. As he spent most of his day trying to keep grade-school aged versions of his team away from a team of gunmen, he has only limited success.
| 5.5k | pg13 |
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if you have any recs for me, they are more than welcome! :D