Three Favorite Fics (From Your Own Fics)
Tagged by @petersock !!
Alright I managed to narrow down three of my personal favorite fics from the ~210 on the Archive! In no particular order:
let not time deceive you (you cannot conquer time)
Rated E; 85000 words; JoeNicky
Summary : Nicolo Genova, or Nicky to his American friends, is just trying to get through his PhD program. He's writing his dissertation on Post-classical homoerotic poetry, but he cannot find anyone who speaks an extinct dialect of Arabic so he can translate a famed love poem by a little known poet, al-Kaysani.
Strangely enough, his friend knows a professor on campus who can translate the poem. What starts as a simple request for assistance on his dissertation blossoms into something that Nicky -- shy, reserved Nicky who abandoned his plans for the priesthood months before ordination -- had never imagined for himself: true love.
What he doesn't know is that Dr. Joseph Jones (his handsome, erudite, kind, lovely Joe) is harboring a secret too large for anyone to believe -- and that secret might just cost them everything.
I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust
Rated E; 41000 words; Stucky
Summary : Three years after the Snap halved the population of the universe, Steve Rogers still bears the weight of the Avengers’ failure on his shoulders. The dust has settled around him, trapping him in grief and burying him in regret. For three years, he’s assumed he'll never break free of the consequences of that day and his failure.
But, after his first group therapy session, he meets a handsome man haunted by his own ghosts; and they start to rebuild their worlds in the aftermath of an intergalactic tragedy.
(An Infinity War/Endgame re-write where Steve actually goes to therapy and doesn’t meet Bucky Barnes until after the Snap; they heal together and fall in love along the way)
what did you bury before those hands pulled me from the earth (what were you digging)
Rated: M; 18000 words; Zukka
Summary : Sokka is immortal; it's been tested, he knows that he can't die. He's immortal, but he's not quite a god like his sister, Katara. He's immortal, but he's not quite powerful like his friends Aang and Toph.
He's just sort of Sokka: good at fixing things, good at playing pranks, good at helping people.
When a bet against Toph goes horribly wrong, and an attempt to save him goes even worse Sokka finds himself the unwilling guest of the Lord of the Underworld. And, strangely enough, every story Sokka's heard about Lord Zuko seems to be ... completely wrong. (AKA a Hades x Persephone AU)
tagging: @aimmyarrowshigh @therebeccaw @ashabellanars
