(here's a list of my top 10 favorite long fics ranging from 259k to 59k words)
Momentum by children_of_the_shadows (ao3) 259k
If you have to ready any canon compliant (mostly) marauders through the years fic, this is the one, Children_of_the_shadows is one of the best writers ever, Top 3 fic authors.
2. Text Talk by merlywhirls (ao3) 141k
Everyone knows text talk, it's basically wolfstar bible, Non Magic AU where the boys meet by accidently texting the wrong number.
3. Time is a Fine Invention by bluepeony (ao3) 105k
Brilliant university non magic au, with the most imperfect and human characterization of both Remus and Sirius, read it if only to humanize the both of them and their relationship. Insecurity in a relationship and Coming of age and all the thoughts accompanying it are perfectly described in this. so much foreshadowing if you read it carefully enough.
It'll make you hate and simultaneously empathize with both characters.
4. Slughorn's Sanitarium for Troubled Boys by MelloPie 65k
TW: discussion of mental health, SA, institutionalization, ab*use, s*icide, self h*rm.
Non-Magic AU, set in a mental institution, where both noys have to share a room. Its one of the first long fics i ever read, so maybe i have a soft spot for this one, and every other fic on this list.
5. The Lad That Loved You. by MollyMaryMarie (ao3) 81k
I've said this once and I'll say it again, mollymarymarie is one of the best writers out there, another top 3 author for me, all of her fics are amazing, obviously including dear you holiness, we can pretend, the only living boy in new york, i might have to do a separate recs list for that.
But, if you had to read just one, i would say The lad that loved you is the perfect one, set in their 6th or 7th year? of hogwarts, they hide their new relationship by acting like they hate each other, and let me tell you, they are exactly, perfectly themselves in this fic, and by that i mean exactly how i imagine them.
There is not one single thing about this fic that i would change. Perfection.
6. Discards by picascribit (ao3) 76k words
I can't make a fic rec without picascribit. Cure for nightmares changed my life. Non-magic AU, Remus meets Sirius in the library he goes to study at, real love isn't always perfect and doesn't involve perfect people, is what i've take away from this fic.
7. ten reasons (to go to michigan) by greyeyedmonster18 (ao3) 59k
Top 3 Fics. If you had to read any wolfstar fic, it would be this one. I've read 100's spanning from 2016 - till date, and this is the best one ive ever read.
Remus is newly divorced, and he meets Sirius Black.
If you've ever lost someone one and had to re-learn how to live without someone you never thought you would have to live without, this fic will encapsulate the gist of it in words.
In one of their notes the authors says something close to 'the hardest thing about losing someone is finding out that the earth keeps spinning and you have to keep living'
8. Dating Remus Lupin by Children_of_the_Shadows (ao3) 83k
Top 3 fics. I can't explain this fic in any words, the writing style is brilliant, the characterizations are unique and wonderful and perfect. Everything about this fic is brilliant.
Set in Year 5, Sirius Black wants a boyfriend and James tells him about the only other openly gay boy in in their year, it just happens to be Remus Lupin. Much to his disdain.
9. Remus Lupin's Guide to Successful Courting by Children_of_the_Shadows (ao3) 87k
Non Magic AU, Remus Lupin finds harry in his yard having escaped from school and return him back to Dr. Sirius Black, who's new to town and coincidently doesn't have an inkling about Remus's past, his eyes clear of any judgement are what make Remus fall for him and pursue him, court if you will.
I again cannot explain this fic. Children_of_the_shadows is the most talented writer, i will make a separate fic list for their other brilliant work.
10. Sex Pistol by ArtificialAorta (ffnet) 86k
Musicians AU, Remus is punk rock, Sirius is akin to the prince of pop, how can they not fall in love?
#LISTEn listen most marvel fights feel so contrived and fake and like la-dee-da-superhero#but this one was REAL and had me on the edge of my seat and still does#partially bc of the street clothes not costumes#partially because steve is fighting 1 on 1 and gets stripped of his shield quick#and he has to show like his physical combat skills#and the ACTING on both their parts.. fucking ace#esp chris evans tho like his face looks PANICKED how often do u see captain fucking america panicked??#anyway in this essay i will (tags via @asterlark)
I think it’s also very important that this is a fight in which the characters *actually interact with their environment* in a way that feels real. Like, yes, have superpowers but there’s no cartoon physics involved, no obvious sense that this was filmed on an empty set with a greenscreen and the background was added later, or that they’re filming without even the people they’re fighting being present, just ‘look over here and make a hand gesture’.
The shield gets stuck in a car, there’s that awful moment of the knife sliding along the side of the van that cues up with the mounting tension in the soundtrack. Bucky’s arm impacts the pavement and actually dents it, etc. They’re jumping over/behind the cars and getting thrown into them/into the pavement in a way that feels more visceral than just ‘whoosh there was a wire & we CGI’d in the rest’. t has a sense of real world space to it, and that adds to the feeling of real world stakes.
This is one of the few fight scenes I can recall seeing that makes a little knife look like a real threat. Like I am legit scared for Steve when that thing darts in, because he’s not wearing armor and it really feels like the WS could open him up like a can. I feel like movie fight scenes don’t usually hit that note with knives.
It’s worth pointing out that this scene WAS filmed on a actual set with actual asphalt and cars (with fall pads and stuff, but still). They really were interacting with their environment.
But as a fight nerd, there’s one other thing I want to point out about this fight, and it goes back to @mikkeneko’s point about the knife:
This isn’t a magic fight.
Yes, they’re both super soldiers. Yes, WS has a vibranium arm. Yes, Steve has a vibranium shield. But there are no magic blasts going on here. There’s no wuxia and minimal wire-work (mostly protective for the actors).
WS shoots at Steve until he runs out of bullets because that’s the most efficient way to murder him. Steve either dodges or hides his whole body behind his shield because that’s the most efficient way to not get murdered. The shield gets thrown, caught, thrown back, wedged in a car. Then it’s a knife fight. Throughout, it’s really obvious that neither of them are fucking around. WS is trying to just straight-up kill Steve, Steve is trying to not die. No banter. No dick-measuring. No quips.
This fight is brutal, efficient, and not flashy. Steve’s knife defense is textbook, and aside from that cool little flip that was almost too fast to clock, WS’s attacks are textbook. He’s doing his best to control Steve’s defense and open a hole to wedge that knife in. Steve’s doing his best to control that knife hand and keep just enough space between them that he can close those holes before WS can get to them. It’s telling that he’s paying so much attention to the knife that when WS finally gets through his guard, it’s with his empty, vibranium hand. (Still no idea why he tosses him instead of crushing his windpipe though, that was 100% movie logic.)
When Steve does that flying knee at WS, that’s not about flashy martial arts moves, that’s about brutal efficiency. Your knees and elbows are the hardest points on your body. Steve can engage in fisticuffs with normal people; he can knock out hitler over 200 times. He could also break his knuckles on WS’s face before doing any appreciable damage, and we watch him figure that out. So it’s not kung fu, it’s muay thai. It’s krav maga. Those flips aren’t for show - that’s pure Jiujitsu, the ruthless throws that are supposed to segue into joint locks and dislocations. That is the way to take your opponent apart, literally. He was trying to rip WS’s non-vibranium arm out of its socket.
That pile-driver? That was meant to break WS’s neck. A normal person would die instantly if Captain America pulled that WWE shit on them. We are into the gritty shit now. We have two extremely strong, extremely skilled men who are just trying to kill each other because the only way to win this fight is to die last, and it shows.
They scramble for position through the fight. When one move fails, they don’t bother breaking apart before finding the next-most-efficient killing move and trying that. This is what two people who are actually trying to murder each other look like - most street scuffles stay on the ground once they get there and don’t involve this much skill, but we can excuse that because it’s Captain America and the Winter Fucking Soldier. I still recognize the blocking of this fight as a real fight, not a spar. The urgency, breathlessness, the pragmatism, the messy transitions between moves as you just keep trying to improvise faster than the other guy… that’s all correct.
There’s no magic. There are fists, feet, elbows. There’s a shield and there’s a knife - the first and oldest human-made tools of war. There are chokes. There are joint locks. Not a word spoken. And it helps that they are really there - landing on cars, landing on asphalt.
No other MCU fight even comes close unless you’re including the tv shows, because that Daredevil long-shot hallway fight was pretty fucking badass too.
i am back with more stucky recs that i've read lately and have enjoyed! as always, please feel free to peruse the list to see if there's any that you might like as well, and be sure to heed any warnings accordingly.
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(these are in no particular order, and feature a range of topics, ratings, lengths, and possible warnings. as with any rec, please be sure to also double check for any triggers yourself before reading. however, I will not rec MCD and very rarely unhappy endings.
if you read one and enjoy it, please be sure to leave a comment or support! if you don't, just move on. be kind!)
☆ THE FORTIES ☆
by darkbluechrysanthemum | M | 80k
A distress signal gets broadcast into the New Avengers Tower, and weirdly, its timestamp reads 1949. Yelena thinks nothing of it until she reports it to Bucky, who thoroughly loses his shit. And so this ragtag dysfunctional team’s first mission ends up being to New York City, 1949 to save Steve Rogers from one incredible returning-the-Infinity-Stones mission fuck-up. Or, in other words, to get Bucky his boyfriend back.
☆ STEVE ROGERS MIGHT WEAR TIGHTS, BUT HE'S NOT YOUR PINUP GIRL ☆
by RosaLui and what_alchemy | G | N/A
Bucky enrolls in a college course about Captain America. It doesn't go well.
note: genuinely can't believe I forgot to include this one in the first rec. it's a classic and one of the most creative formats for a fanwork I've ever read!
☆ GOOD BOY ☆
by triedunture | E | 13k
Bucky is still adjusting to life with the Avengers, and Steve is willing to do whatever it takes to make him feel comfortable. Increasingly, though, what seems to make him comfortable is strangely intimate.
☆ WE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE DO FOR FUN ☆
by Nonymos | E | 35k
Going to a professional Dom may be one of the weirdest things Bucky’s ever done. Especially since this skinny Steve Rogers guy doesn’t really look the part.
But hey, they might just find a way to make this work.
☆ SEASONS CHANGE (BUT PEOPLE DON'T) ☆
by ftmsteverogers | E | 2k
“If there’s a girl I’m meant to be mourning, I want to know,” Bucky persists, as though Steve hasn’t had a close brush with asphyxiation right before his eyes. His foot twitches against Steve’s under the table.
“There wasn’t a girl,” Steve coughs. “Why…?”
Bucky’s gaze is sharp and discerning as his eyes flick back and forth between Steve’s.
“There was,” he says, right hand gripping the counter behind him in a white-knuckled grasp. “A girl. A small blonde girl.”
☆ BLISTER AND BURN BABY ☆
by brenayla | E | 23k
Bucky yawns himself awake, stretching out over the arm of the couch. He scratches at his chest and turns his head to Steve. “Why did we mess around and then stop?”
“What do you mean?”
“You said we messed around when we were kids, then we stopped, then we started again in the war. Why?”
warnings: please heed the tags on this one. there is some definite gray area around consent due to bucky's canonical trauma, but this fic is written in such a wonderfully interesting way and is not a perspective I've ever read in a stucky recovering!bucky fic before, and I found it lovely!
☆ NOT ANOTHER SUPERSOLDIER FANTASY ☆
by triedunture | E | 16k
Bucky finds a popular sex toy modeled on Captain America's own anatomy. Well, isn't this just perfect? Because even after all this time, he still hasn’t seen Steve’s supersoldier cock. But apparently in this day and age anyone with $29.95 can get a decent replica. The unfairness of this is of galactic proportions.
☆ DON'T LEAVE ME HERE ALONE [SERIES] ☆
by suzukiblu | E | 36k | 3 works
The asset is not having an optimal day.
“Our cycles are syncing,” his mission says from the other side of the exam room, quiet and apologetic. He’s standing against the wall and the asset is sitting on an exam table. They’re in . . . a tower. The asset isn’t sure why. He doesn’t feel right, overheated and over-energized, and isn’t sure about that either.
“So you’re--my alpha, then,” he says haltingly, eyes flicking up to his mission’s face. Not his mission anymore. But always his mission, he thinks.
“Other way around,” his mission answers with a smile that all of the asset’s training can’t decipher the full meaning behind. It looks injured, and . . . and things the asset doesn’t know.
warnings: a/b/o dynamics but non-trad (my fave) -- but do heed the warnings/tags about the gender related aspects, as they are heavily tied in with the verse in this one.
☆ STARK NAKED: CAPTAIN XXX AND THE SOLDIER ☆
by thepinupchemist | E | 4k
Bucky likes his job. Hell, he loves his job. He works for Stark Naked Industries, which, headed by none other than Tony Stark himself, is the biggest name in the porn industry. The only problem? Bucky got typecast as a top, while in reality he prefers to bottom.
When Tony wants Bucky in their new When Tops Collide video series, Bucky is intimidated by Steve Rogers, the first person Bucky will bottom for on camera.
But mostly? Mostly, he's turned on.
☆ OUR LIVES CAN CHANGE WITH EVERY BREATH WE TAKE ☆
by sunflower_dragon19 | E | 30k
Bucky is seven months pregnant when his god-awful boyfriend abandons him halfway through their road trip and leaves him stranded in a Walmart parking lot. Penniless, alone, and anxiously counting down the days until he gives birth, Bucky spends his nights sleeping inside the Walmart and his days reading sci-fi novels at the nearby public library. It's there that he meets Steve, a handsome alpha who's got a warm smile, a knack for drawing cartoons, and a very big secret.
(Based on the film Where the Heart Is but you don't need to have seen it to understand this fic)
warnings: as is mentioned within the summary, this fic contains both a/b/o elements and mpreg. for those who enjoy those, this fic was incredibly sweet and tender.
☆ ASTRONOMY IN REVERSE ☆
by pansley | T+ | 184k
A year after the Winter Soldier failed his mission in DC, Bucky Barnes is doing his best to stay under the radar from both Hydra and Steve Rogers. His hope for a peaceful day-to-day life in limbo goes awry, however, when he meets Queens’ newest hero; a pure-hearted kid with a death wish and a ridiculous pair of red and blue pajamas.
The last thing Steve expects when he finally tracks Bucky down is that, not only has the man been living in Queens all this time, right under his nose, but also that, in the two years since they last saw each other, Bucky somehow acquired a kid.
Alternatively: How Peter Parker effectively fucks over Bucky Barnes, and also totally saves him.
notes: the stucky in this one is relatively slow burn, in that it doesn't become a plot point until much later in the fic and focuses heavily instead on the relationship between bucky & peter as father/son. something to be aware of if you're looking for strictly stucky, but this was absolutely fantastic and had so many sweet found family moments! give it a chance if you have the time!
☆ JAMAIS VU ☆
by Claudia_flies | E | 13k
They’re all gathered in the top floor private conference room because Tony wants to set up a Strike team, and he’s making some really excellent points. The Avengers aren’t a stealth operation, Steve has to admit.
He just doesn’t like it.
warnings/notes: some fuck or die elements, a/b/o dynamics
☆ SWEET LIKE HONEY [SERIES] ☆
by Dira Sudis (dsudis) | E | 11k | 2 works
"Come on now." Bucky sat back and let his thighs splay out wide, crowding against Steve. "Be a good girl for me and sit on my knee."
warnings: heavy feminization, but in a way that feels authentic to the setting and characters! check tags first.
☆ WAKING UP SLOW ☆
by odetteandodile | M | 44k
In 1945 Steve Rogers crashed the Valkyrie into the Arctic Ocean and was never recovered.
In 2019 Bucky Barnes is walking along the beach below the decommissioned lighthouse where he lives with his sixteen month old daughter when he finds the body of a man washed up in the surf, half frozen but miraculously alive.
Bucky manages to revive him, but finds that the stranger has no memory of who he is or how he got here aside from a name: Steve. Snowed in by a blizzard soon after and unable to get Steve a medevac, Bucky discovers that the funny, good-hearted man slips into the fabric of his and Alice’s life faster than he would have thought possible. The two are undeniably drawn to each other, but as their feelings grow so does the looming possibility that the answer to the question “who is Steve?” might be much more complicated than either of them realized.
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i have also published three stucky fics since the last rec i shared, so i'll include those below for anyone who might be interested! x
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☆ IT'S A SHOT IN THE DARK (DON'T THINK TOO HARD) ☆
T+ | 9k
Bucky is a glazier in DC who’s been getting no shortage of business since the Avengers have decided that the city is their own personal battle ground. At this rate, his plans of transitioning slowly into retirement and delegating to his crew are virtually impossible.
Things happen quickly.
1. Captain America writes an apology note.
2. Steve Rogers comes out as bisexual.
3. Bucky asks for a dance, and maybe a little more.
He’d like to claim that all of this is unrelated. There’s probably a metaphor about glass in there somewhere, too.
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☆ SMOKE SIGNALS ☆
M | 3k
You don’t know what the words mean, or if they have any meaning at all. You know only what they took from you—what they made you that you never asked to be. For a long time, that’s all they are: a reminder of the fact that your ‘no’ was buried under crumbling rock and ice and metal and dust and time, meaningless.
Somewhere along the way, you make them yours again.
warnings: heavily implied past non-con elements, but nothing overly graphic. please see tags and notes. second person pov; not a reader insert.
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☆ DEEP END ☆
E | 18k
“How’d it go with Barnes?” Natasha smirks.
Steve finishes strapping on his helmet. “None of your business.”
“He’s good, isn’t he?”
The airlock disengages, loudly prying open the hatch at the back of the jet as Steve steps toward open sky and refuses to look at her self satisfied grin over his shoulder.
“Shut up,” Steve says. And then he jumps out of the plane.
[or; try as he might, steve just can't seem to feel settled. in his body, in the things he wants, in this future timeline he's still not quite sure he belongs in. bucky's supposed to be stress relief, and he is.
but he's more than that, too.]
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will probably be back with a part three at some point!! stay tuned! :D
(and once again, please be sure to leave kudos or comments for the authors if you enjoyed any of the recs!)
I’ve been crazy busy with work lately, but I finally finished this little comic inspired by the amazing fic Kaleidoscope, which found a warm place in my little heart. (And it has a fully finished sequel now!! Go, read it and send author all the love!)
I haven’t spent this much time on a personal project in a while — it’s been a really nice change of pace
Hoping for more me-time soon, but for now, I’ll just chill for a while
DO NOT FUCKING TELL ME THE ROOM NUMBER WHERE ILYA AND SHANE FIRST FUCKED IS THE EXACT SAME NUMBER OF PHIL LESTERS FUCKING APARTMENT OR I WILL EXPLODE. WHAT THE FUCK.
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