Long fics that changed my life
I am a long fic enjoyer. I love diving into a fic for days or weeks at a time, only to emerge feeling like a different person. The downside is that I cannot, in good conscience, recommend a 400k+ fic or series to my casual fic reading friends. Thus this collection was born. It will serve as a rec list for my fellow long fic enjoyers. It will have fics of a variety of fandoms, in a variety of tones, topics, explicitness, etc. But it is worth warning that I do enjoy some serious heavy topics.
I am making an operational definition that "long fic" is >50k words for the purposes of this collection.
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As Soft as Steel by blackthorn_possum
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Mar 2024
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In which the Soldier makes a very long journey, the Captain takes on a new role, the Widow pays a visit to an old friend, Iron Man is a hot mess, and the Falcon is very done with everyone.
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It would be so simple to complete the mission.
So simple to acquire acceptable clothing – there were entire supply closets full of the medical uniforms – to cover the prosthesis with sterile gloves, blend in with the hospital personnel, wait until the change of guard to enter the Captain’s room. To slit his throat, press the hands over his mouth until his breath ran out, tamper with the intravenous medications, or introduce air into the veins. It had done these things many times before. Deaths in medical centers were easily disguised, and he had been so weak, so heavily damaged when it…
It pulled him from the river. Why had it pulled him from the river?
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- Part 1 of A Strange Sensation
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The mission resets abruptly, from objective: kill to objective: protect
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- Part 1 of Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail
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If Never Again, If Every Day by gallifreyburning, takiki16
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Jun 2022
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Current-day Nicky wakes up one morning to find himself re-living the first day he met Yusuf in 1099, and Nicolò from 1099 finds himself with a stranger named Joe in 2021. Time-crossed and facing old and new challenges, the two lovers have to find their way back to each other.
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- Part 1 of Fic Tennis - The Old Guard
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Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach by Nnm
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
05 Oct 2019
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As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:
--His clothing was expensive and stylish;
--He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
--His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
--He looked angry;
--He was wearing sunglasses.What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?
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Make a Thing Go Right by hansbekhart
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Daredevil (TV)
13 Dec 2015
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Sam meets Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes on a Thursday night, at a burlesque show, and how it happens is this:
It's already late, later than he should be out on a weeknight, but the theme of the show was a super hero revue and there was no way he was gonna miss that. It's loud in the venue, which is the back space of what probably used to be a warehouse right near the Gowanus Canal, and Sam's already had a few. He's up at the bar during the break, watching the act. He doesn't hear someone say, "Behind!" so when he steps away from the bar, he smashes right into the guy who'd just done the Captain America routine up on stage, and knocks his drinks to the ground.
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Or, I wanted to see more stories that captured the weirdness and complexity of being queer, in your late 20s, and trying to date in Brooklyn - which is my life - so I wrote one. Takes place in the MCU.
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- Part 1 of Do it Til We Get it Right