The year in review: 2014

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Copy-and-pasted directly from Tumblr because I didn't want to dig up the platform-specific links, although the links mostly go to AO3.

All MCU.

Direct roundup links: Jan-June | July | August | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | (Dec.)

• Coda: Bucky, Steve, road trip. (Follows from Revenant.)
• Artefactual: Steve was more than happy to look through the notebooks with him because if Bucky was going to trust Steve’s narrative of his history over his own, well, Steve had always thought the world of James Buchanan Barnes and it was going to show.
• Still Life: Steve Rogers and a very modern form of art therapy. (The one where Steve draws himself out of despair and into some notoriety when his cartoons hit the internet, but he’s still not allowed to look at Tumblr without an okay from Pepper.)
• Qeryana: Thor and his efforts to live on Midgard, as opposed to just defending it.
• The Semiotics of Comestibles (aka the Roast Chicken Caper): In which there are jello molds and a dick joke (they’re related) and visits to politically relevant locations, Steve is a bit of a yenta, Bucky is metaphorically chased by a frozen chicken, Natasha goes to extreme measures to apologize, and everyone’s okay in the end.
• Practicum: The Winter Soldier watches the youngest Black Widow the Red Room has ever produced prove her worth.
• The Man IN Time: What was supposed to be a quick sketch to bring Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes into the modern era turned into a 2000 word bullet-pointed opus.
• Present Participle: Tony has a proposition for Steve post-CA:TWS, although ‘proposition’ implies that Steve can say ‘no.’
• Fermata: Natasha Romanova and Nick Fury: two wounded warriors and their wars, past and present.
• No Angel: The flightpath of Sam Wilson from Afghanistan to DC.
• Hard Landing: He starts walking away, unsure if he is supposed to make sure that Steve is still breathing or that Captain America is not.
• Leviticus 25: “You want to save Bucky Barnes? You are going to have to put your own house in order first because he is going to need a rock to cling to. You are not ready to be that rock for him. You owe it to him - and more importantly, you owe it to yourself - to figure things out, figure out how you can be happy in this time and place, whether or not Barnes is with you.”
• Recursive: In the wake of the HYDRA revelations, Steve Rogers finds himself both a pawn of the rebuilding SHIELD hierarchy and the leader of a newly-independent Avengers. He’s got masters he can’t run from, teammates he can’t let down, and a best friend who is turning his newly remembered past to ashes. But when a blast from a mysterious device seemingly sends him back to 1944, Steve has to decide if he should he change his past and risk ruining his future by fixing his greatest mistake.
• Excerpts from Interview #2 with SHIELD prisoner #2935734H: The prisoner has revealed that he was part of the ‘asset management team’ controlling the HYDRA operator known as the Winter Soldier [possibly SGT J. B. Barnes, US Army, MIA 5 September 1944, declared KIA 12 December 1944]. Further questioning suggested after follow-ups on provided information complete.
• That Others May Live: Sam was prepared to help Steve bring Bucky Barnes in from the cold, but this is not exactly how he’d figured on it going down.
• MCU: the odds and ends drawer: CA:TWS missing scene: Maria Hill & Nick Fury | CA:TWS post-movie scene: Natasha in flight | CA:TWS sorta-missing scene: Where in the world is Tony Stark? | CA:TWS sorta post-movie scene: Tony (and Rhodey) and the possible ghost of James Barnes. | CA:TWS sorta-missing scene: Where in the world is Clint Barton? | Freezer Burn universe: the beginnings of Codename Pandora | FBu: Codename Pandora: the introduction of Sam Wilson | FBu: Miranda Tung in Codename Pandora | FBu: Steve’s hipster tendencies
• PSD: Sam tags along when Steve goes up to New York to ask Tony for help.
• Cum Laude: Steve gets his BFA, deals with his celebrity, and sort of back-ends into the future.
• Rolling: Steve and his history of automobiles.
• Remedial: Bucky’s progress after he comes in from the cold.
• Field Trip Bucky’s in from the cold and on his way to recovery. But getting through the day in Steve’s apartment is a little different than going out and doing things as James Barnes among people once threatened by the masters of the Winter Soldier. Clint plays wingman on an errand that’s more than an errand. (original tumblr post)
• LP Steve doesn’t prefer records because just they’re old. Or, Steve and his music and how he hears it. (original tumblr post)
• ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Steve’s a little perplexed why nobody’s challenging him. Nobody else is. (original tumblr post)
• Bad Cap Bingo: Steve’s a permanent defendant in the court of public opinion and the choice is to laugh about it or cry.
• Escape Velocity: In which Sam gets his wings, Steve trades on the legacy of Captain America, Natasha dusts off an old outfit, and the utter insanity that is government bureaucracy ends up saving the day despite itself.
• Regret to Inform: Steve Rogers and the Barnes family.
• Freezer Burn series: Down the Rabbit Hole: The recruitment of Miranda Tung.
• Shielded: What if recovered POW Sergeant James Barnes is sent home, his war over, while Steve Rogers’s continues on?

Also posted at DW.