Fandom news

This won't come as a shock to anyone who has interacted with me at all in the past week but I have found a new fandom playpen in the shape of the Avengers.

It's kind of a new fandom, but also kind of not. I dabbled in the Iron Man fandom when the first movie came out and that was actually before I got into the SPN fandom which is weird now that I think about it. And following on from that the guys at work got me reading the comics which is where I started shipping Steve and Tony. So really this is more like coming home.

As I mentioned in my post the other day I've been unhappy with SPN for a while but just sort of coasted along because I had nothing else. Now I do and I have fandom happiness that has been sorely missing from my life for quite a while. I'm excited and bouncy and full of squees.

I have a tendency to apologise when I find a new fandom. I know I did it a lot when I moved from Merlin into SPN. But you know what I can't apologise for being happy. I've been really fucking miserable for months now and this is just what I needed. I'm not saying I'm entirely abandoning SPN but at the same time I'm not promising to come back to it either. We'll see what happens. The joy about having something new come out is that you're never the only one to latch on. Have been happily squeeing with my SPN fandom friends and I know that those people who genuinely like me and not just the mutual love of Cas/Misha will stick around. Hell, I've still got friends around here that I met in various previous fandoms of mine and those are the ones that I truly cherish. Online friendships can go beyond a specific fandom.

So that's where I am at the moment. I don't post on LJ much any more but I do dip in when I'm not working and when I do post you can expect random Avengers flailing.

It's funny that prior to the Avengers coming out I was convinced once I'd seen it I'd be drowning in Steve/Tony shippiness and whilst it WAS awesome to see my comic OTP come to life on the big screen I have found myself unexpectedly pulled into Hawkeye/Coulson fics which I am adoring. It's funny because jacqui_hw, moonlettuce and dametokillfor all started shipping it ages ago (when Thor came out) and I just didn't get it. Hell, I didn't even really get it when watching the Avengers. I mean I love Phil and have done since my first Iron Man viewing but I barely paid any attention to Hawkeye when he was in Thor and I kind of shipped him more with Black Widow the first time I watched the Avengers. But then I read a couple of fics and fell in love with the whole fanon of Phil training Clint and them slowly coming to love and respect each other and just GUH.

And as a result of that I have become more than a little fixated with Jeremy Renner who plays Hawkeye. He's just...I don't even know but I keep taking 'Renner breaks' on Tumblr so I can go and look at pics and gifs of him. LOOK AT HIS ARMS ON MY NEW LJ HEADER.

So, yeah, expect much Coulson/Hawkeye gushing and Steve/Tony of course. And random flailing about Clark Gregg and Jeremy Renner.

And sorry for those who were just here for the SPN stuff. I don't think I'll be posting about it much (although I will be reading any bigbang fics that catch my eye).

Feel free to defriend at will. No hard feelings.

Monday fic recs

Gen (Avengers)
Coulson May Not Be A Nanny But He's Still Super by jade_dragoness
5 times Coulson takes care of the Avengers and 1 time they took care of him.
Just a little bit of wonderful Phil appreciation

Tony and Bruce Series by icarus_chained
Absolutely adorable Tony and Bruce friendship series. Love it.

Confidential by gqgqqt
Nick Fury's secrets have secrets.
His real talent is knowing how to make everyone else keep them.
[HUGE SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE]
A very, VERY much needed piece of fix-it

Phil/Clint (Avengers)
Making the Best of It by dentalfloss
“He’s not telling us everything,” Fury reached out and shut the projection off, “I’m not comfortable with this.” Coulson didn’t respond, didn’t need to. “Let Rogers know I want Barton watched; he doesn’t go anywhere alone until we understand exactly what’s going on. I’m not losing him to some egotistical mind-f***ing blade-dancer who has mentor issues and wants to take it out on our asset.”
Phil nodded efficiently. He couldn’t agree more.
I love the way Phil is written in this one. Feels very in character

Denial by heydoeydoey
Denial: failure to acknowledge an unacceptable truth.
SPOILERS FOR THE FILM
CRYING FOREVER :(

By the Book by gqgqqt and sidneysussex
There is a slight misstep in the binocular sights and a sudden cloud of dust on the opposite side of the ravine, and then everything goes dark for both of them. This is the high point of the operation.
Epic amounts of whump with both Phil and Clint still managing to be awesome despite it all

Steve/Tony (Avengers)
Some Things Shouldn't Be A Chore by scifigrl47
Steve takes things like personal responsibility and respect seriously. Tony's got people he pays to take care of that kind of thing, and anyway, he's pretty sure that he's going to die of some exotic disease in his workshop, because Dummy's still a little spotty about what is 'clean' enough to put on an open wound. The rest of the Avengers are in this for personal gain, except for Clint, he just enjoys being a dick.
And some things shouldn't be a chore.
This is easily the cutest and most awesome thing I have read in this fandom

(First Impressions Are) A Work in Progress by porthos
Tony has a point system for the times he can get Steve to be less than perfect.
This is just such a perfect Tony fic, because it's absolutely the sort of thing he would do

Arms and the Man by sam_storyteller
His best friend keeps cockblocking him, his relationship guru is a computer, and he might be gay. The future is very complicated.
And this is a perfect Steve fic

Dean/Castiel (SPN)
Wisps of Smoke by gedry
Demon!Dean and Angelic!Cas in a freshman college exchange program.
This was a really neat idea executed wonderfully. Loved it.