Avengers fanfic and An Archive of Our Own...
I wasn't paying much attention. I thought it was just me, having connection difficulties with Archive of our Own, when I went there looking for Avengers fic.
Turns out -
isagel says it, so I believe it - we broke the site with strenuous overuse. I'm not sure whether to be ashamed or proud about it. Info about it can befound here.
Such a nice site, and we ask so much of it. I feel I should send it a care package of blankets and cookies.
While I'm here, let me recomment
resonant's Avengers fic at AO3. I was griping to
lunacy_gal about how I was finding too much bad Avengers fic - and she steered me in the right direction. I especially loved her Steve/Tony slash story, Steven Likes Tony. Not only does it have exactly what I like in a fic, not only does it make good use of Steve Rogers' situation, it has spot-on characterization for both of them.
One of the things I've been noticing in the random Avengers fic I've been reading is that in a lot of the stories, the Avengers aren't Avengers. They're scientists who spend their time in the lab doing science, or S.H.I.E.L.D. aagents working for Nick Fury, doing whatever they do at home - "home" being Tony Stark's tower, usually, or his mansion. And, yes, they do that in the comic too, but in the comic (and for something like forty years of my lifetime of reading), they've always got a crisis going on, always have a supervillain attacking somewhere, or they're off somewhere in the Quinjet because the world needs them.... Not so much sitting at home eating toast and reading the newspaper.
Now, I see why people familiar with the Avengers from the movie alone would see this as the status quo and as the viable scenario they want to deal with. And that's okay. But I'd like a little more external action, myself.
Tempts me to write Avengers fic, it really does....
And if any other of you have recs - thanks to
isagel for including a few today - if any of you have any more, do pass them on, okay? I'm a starving woman here.