Recs: November 3, 2019

[bethbethbeth]

It's been 5 years since I've done a major update to this recs page, but I'm finally starting to move bookmarked fic from AO3 to this recs site. Please note that because I have hundreds of fics to move, I'll be using the "share" function instead of coding, and I'm no longer committing to hiding warnings. Sorry about that, People-Like-Me-Who-Hate-Warnings. I'm also not committing to saying why I loved a story (because honestly, I've probably forgotten why by now), but if the story's on this page, I really like it!

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CAPTAIN AMERICA / AVENGERS

traveller: The Henderson County LGBT Youth Support Group (6-8 PM, every other Tuesday) (1192 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Original Characters, Original Male Character(s) of Color
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Future, Near Future
Series: Part 2 of New York, Texas
Summary:

Steve accidentally starts Henderson County’s first and only LGBT youth support group (and it was Steve, it was all Steve) when the kid who came to fix their severely fucked up kitchen sink (also Steve) happened to open the kitchen door at exactly the same moment that Steve (of course it was Steve) had Bucky backed up against the fridge and his tongue in Bucky’s mouth.

GOOD OMENS

Aria: Everything Else Is A Substitute For Your Love (7537 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, The Alternate Universe Is Accidentally Created By Adam Young, Angel Crowley (Good Omens), Weird Metaphysical Sex
Summary:

"You can't have been a demon," Aziraphale said. "No one used to be a demon. Why would you say that?"

deadgreeks: all i need, darling, is a life in your shape (14243 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale & Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Anathema Device, everyone really, Adam Young (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Angst, Repression, oh god the repression, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, look it's very dull and it's just the mortifying ordeal of being known, you have to listen to strawberry blond by mitski first, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Sharing a Bed, Podfic Available
Summary:

After everything, Aziraphale and Crowley, by unspoken agreement, begin sharing their lives.

dollsome:i'd like for you and i to go romancing (6748 words)
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Summary:

In which people keep mistaking Crowley and Aziraphale for a couple, and Aziraphale starts to wonder if there might be something to it.

FortinbrasFTW: Anthophilia (49446 words)
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley, Crowley/Original Male Character(s)
Characters: Aziraphale, Crowley (Good Omens), Anathema Device
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Alternate Universe - Flower Shop, shops across the street, Romantic Comedy, Developing Relationship, past relationship, one night stand appearing again
Summary:

Anthony J. Crowley's life seems like it's finally falling into place: his floral shop has begun to gain an undercurrent of appreciation in the design elite of London, and he might have even finally found a boyfriend who looks just right lounging on his Tenreiro sofa. Things seem almost perfect, until one day the empty shop across the street is leased to frumpy fellow Oxford alumni, who doesn't seem to remember Crowley nearly as well as he remembers him, which really shouldn't bother him as much as it does - it was ten years ago after all, and it wasn't even that good of a kiss.

Handful_of_Silence: how big the hourglass, how deep the sand (27557 words)
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Life After the Apocalypse, Kidnapping, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, co-dependancy, Mutual Pining, Nobody Uses Their Words Properly, The South Downs Retirement Dream™, Imprisonment, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Ineffable Husbands (Good Omens), BAMF Aziraphale (Good Omens), Determined Crowley, After All This They Deserve a Little Cottage and a Spring Wedding, Angst with a Happy Ending, Domestic Fluff
Series: Part 1 of how deep the sand
Summary:

After the Apocalypse, and with characteristic slowness, both Crowley and Aziraphale think there might be something they need to sit down and talk about.

And then Aziraphale disappears.

Handful_of_Silence: love and its decisive pain (23522 words)
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Road Trip of Feelings, Dealing With Trauma, Healthy Coping Mechanisms, Communication, People Using Their Words, Hurt/Comfort, past trauma, Getting Together, Or Getting Together Properly, A Scenic Route of the Great British Countryside, Domestic Fluff, soft things, Minor Hurt Mostly Comfort, Idiots in Love, Ineffable Husbands (Good Omens), Declarations Of Love
Series: Part 2 of how deep the sand
Summary:

The cottage isn't going anywhere, Crowley reasoned. There was no need to rush these things.

Or, before they settle down, Crowley and Aziraphale go on a road trip.

punkfaery: every angel is terrifying (4769 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Eldritch Angels, Body Horror, Alien Gender/Sexuality, Idiots in Love, Established Relationship, Kissing, Theology, Domestic Fluff, is it possible for something to be sappy and horrifying at the same time, because that's what we're going for here, Ineffable Husbands (Good Omens)
Series: Part 1 of elegies
Summary:

“Why does it bother you?” Crowley asked. “Even if you can’t get to them in time to wipe their memories, it’s not like anyone’d believe them. Kid goes running to her mum saying Ooh, I’ve just seen a bloke with three heads and a sixteen-foot wingspan, what do you think’s going to happen? Chances are they’ll just pat her on the shoulder and tell her what a vivid imagination she’s got.”

“That’s not what worries me,” said Aziraphale.

singingtomysoul: good for the soul (3613 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Ineffable Husbands (Good Omens), Getting Together, Post-Series, Probably Book Compliant but it's been a while, Religious Themes canon-based and otherwise, More dialogue than I'd planned, TV Compliant
Summary:

Aziraphale doesn't feel guilty, for once, but has some things to confess.

Crowley doesn't think he has guilt, and doesn't plan to confess anything. On both counts, he's wrong.

thehoyden: Love Hath Made Thee a Tame Snake (3484 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: First Time, Post-Canon, Possessive Behavior, Service Top Anthony J. Crowley, Making an Effort (Good Omens), of one's own choosing, Cunnilingus, Snakes, Yelp Reviews
Summary:

He was the bloody Serpent of Eden, and he wasn’t going to stand for this kind of flagrant trespassing.

RPF-MISC

Vendelin: This delicate place (32855 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
Characters: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Nathan MacKinnon, Taylor Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins Ensemble, Marc-Andre Fleury, Crosby Family (Hockey RPF)
Additional Tags: Firefighter!Geno, Retired!Sid, Career Ending Injuries, burn injury, Burn scar, Not Hockey Players (Hockey RPF), Visiting Canada, Bedsharing, Sex complications, Erectile Dysfunction, Fingering, Anal Sex, YouTuber!Geno, Hurt/Comfort, Self Care, Mental Illness, Depression, Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, post-retirement, Soft Hockey Boys, Strangers to Lovers, Online Friendship, Online Romance
Summary:

Sid has escaped back to Canada after a career ending injury. It doesn’t dawn on him exactly how much early retirement has affected him, until Taylor introduces him to a YouTube channel where a firefighter talks about his own struggles with his mental health.

As I've noted before, I will never catch up with old stories. If you have a favorite story (your own or somebody else's) that you think I might have missed and it's in a fandom that I've recced before (see my main recs page, which includes links to all the individual major fandoms and a miscellaneous fandoms page), feel free to leave a link below. Most loved at the moment are stories from one of the following fandoms: Avengers, Due South, Good Omens, Hockey RPF (Sid/Geno), Lucifer, and Supernatural, but everything is welcome.

Special Note to Authors: If you're writing in a fandom set in the NYC area (Avengers, White Collar, etc), and you're looking for a beta for location-related issues in particular, feel free to email me at the gmail address on my profile page.

Comments

[doro]

Are you familiar with dsudis' bookmarks on AO3? I've picked up quite a few 'favorites' from her.

The list (almost 5000 now) filtered to Hockey RPF:
https://archiveofourown.org/bookmarks?utf8=✓&bookmark_search%5Bsort_column%5D=created_at&include_bookmark_search%5Bfandom_ids%5D%5B%5D=17959080&bookmark_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&bookmark_search%5Bother_bookmark_tag_names%5D=&bookmark_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&bookmark_search%5Bexcluded_bookmark_tag_names%5D=&bookmark_search%5Bbookmarkable_query%5D=&bookmark_search%5Bbookmark_query%5D=&bookmark_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&bookmark_search%5Brec%5D=0&bookmark_search%5Bwith_notes%5D=0&commit=Sort+and+Filter&pseud_id=Dira+Sudis&user_id=dsudis

One of my all-time favorite stories (comfort re-read many! times) [Note--locked to AO3 users]:
King and Lionheart - thehoyden - Hockey RPF [Archive of Our Own] -- 56K

Some others from AO3:

And Never Been Kissed - thehoyden, twentysomething - Hockey RPF [Archive of Our Own] - locked -- 167K

A heart's mark - ljummen (Vendelin) - Men's Hockey RPF [Archive of Our Own] - locked -- 36K, Halloween fest

A Marriage - sevenfists - Hockey RPF [Archive of Our Own] -- 47K, polyamory
[A Marriage 02 - my note of apparently related story] Tropic of Cancer - sevenfists - Hockey RPF [Archive of Our Own] -- 3K

[merisunshine36]

yay! I love recs.

[wanted_a_pony]

Mmmmmmmm, thank you! I'm in need of ignore-my-sucktastic-RL fics & some of these sound PERFECT for the purpose. ;-)))