Do you have any fics that you want more people to read? Not any specific trope, just fics you really like and wish more people gave love to. Self-promo encouraged too :)
Sure, Iâll give some underrated fic recs. At the moment, all of these have <300 kudos (but hopefully we can change that):
To Protect and Serve by AgentNerd
Happy Hogan looks after the people in his life. It's all he knows how to do.
^This is the character study of Happy Hogan that I wish everyone in the fandom would read. Itâs just so richly detailed and fleshed out and I love how they dive into his youth. Iâll wait 6 years for an update, i donât even care man
May the Fourth Be With You by Undercover_Royalty
Peterâs funeral is on May the 4th.
Ned is... trying to cope.
^An AU one-shot in which Peter dies in the snap and Ned is left to give the eulogy. Not the kind of fic I typically read, but I adored this one and Iâd love others to give it a chance too
Leave out all the Rest by @xxx-cat-xxx
âListen, Peter,â Tony says. âYou need to promise me one thing. Donât stop being Spider-Man. The world needs you, more so than it ever needed me. More than you know.â
Then he gets up, walking away at the slow pace of an old man, and Peter never sees the tears on his cheeks.
^Listen, if you want your heart to be ripped out of your chest and smashed into a million pieces, but in the best way possible, give this one a go. Itâs Tony with brain cancer and all of the people who love him coming to terms with that
âI hoped you would at least acknowledge it. Maybe ask for a little help, for someone to stay with you or something. Go buy you a gallon of ice cream or take you to see a movie, I donât know.â Steve bounces the heel of his hand against the steering wheel. âYou think Iâm stupid, Nat, but Iâm not. Youâre not the first person in the world whoâs ever felt bad and not known what to do about it.â
^ A Nat & Steve centric story that just hurts in all the right places. Mind the warnings, but itâs my favorite of the authorâs series and really hits in an angsty-but-warm way that I donât really have a word for, but youâll understand if you read it
For He's a Jolly Green Fellow by @twentyghosts
On the anniversary of Bruce's gamma radiation accident, Tony finds Bruce baking a very large cake for the day that he's come to consider Hulk's birthday. Party-loving Tony is scandalized to learn that Bruce hasn't made any plans for the day beyond the cake, and he scrambles to plan the party the Big Guy deserves. The resulting event isn't particularly elegant, but it's full of love. And frosting. A lot of frosting.
^ This is just incredibly sweet, but also really dives into Bruceâs mind and his own struggling to accept the Hulk side of him. Brilliantly well done <3
Ordinary People by tasalmalin
The Avengers are an extraordinarily effective team of superheroes, but their lives outside of fighting aren't quite so together. This is illustrated by their first real team bonding activity: dinner
^Itâs a bit crack, but itâs really well-characterized crack, which imo is the best kind. Definite 2012 Tower vibes and just disaster superheroes being disasters
Eggnog and Tums and a Stairlift and Too Much Pie by @whimsicalethnographies
âOkay, theyâre goneâŚâ
Peter looks up from his spot on the floor, where heâs dutifully cutting out snowflakes to add to Morganâs collection. Mr. Stark is in his chair at the window, where heâs been since Happy ushered May and Pepper out the door ten minutes ago.
â...nowâs our chance to be bad.â
^ Tony & Morgan shenanigans with poor Peter along for the ride and trying to be the responsible adult. Hilarious and adorable without at all being saccharine, and Morganâs characterization just makes me grin
It's all fun and games by @frostysunflowers
Peter loves playing pranks on Tony.
^I am such a sucker for Peter faking being hurt/sick for some kind of decent reason and this one is just superbly well done. I wonât give away the plot here, but when it hits, it hits brilliantly
Sweet 50  by @awesomesockes & @whumphoarder
While setting up for his 50th birthday extravaganza, Tony manages to hurt his back. Bruce and Peter try to help.
^This is just fun disaster-Avengers whump, and we name drop a lot of celebrities for the lols
