Sorry, I'm asking here because asks aren't on your doomreed account, but do you have any fic recs for them ? You and vinnies art have intrigued me 😭 they both seem like such wet cats in different ways, and I love that
help i didnt know asks were off fixed that now thank you... I have two fics i keep in my back pocket as like, exemplary distillations of their whole thing (one in college vs one of their usual superhero stuff,) these are;
Supersymmetry and Night Blooms
Rly good examples of their usual shenanigans, the second one is directly based on a canon comic issue that *feels* like fanfic by a prolific yaoi author, the first is set in a modern-time re-imagining of the fantastic four where they meet in a supergenius internship thinktank for gifted youngsters. There's other fics that are good but i think they might be super confusing without canon context! which leads me to my second point. After you read these fics...
A lot, and i mean A LOT of official doomreed stuff feels straight up like fanfic. Either because its so beautifully woven or insane in concept (doctor doom points a gun at the real life Jack Kirby and Stan Lee to get himself written back into reed's life in his 3rd ever classic appearance, in the 60's, THAT'S the bodyswap issue)
or because the literal authors themselves come out to say 'they're soulmates' or 'they're in love' and Im talking abt this:
(^joseph culp, the first ever doom actor from 1994)
(^fantastic four (2019))
I've got even more stuff under the cut!! AND recs!!! CLICK! v v v
(^jonathan hickman, author of arguably the best FF saga & Secret Wars (2015)!!!)
(^Cantwell, author of the Doctor Doom comic!!)
These are excerpts from the canon fantastic four book, DOOMGATE:
There's even an RPG INSTRUCTION MODULE based on the idea of an earth where Reed & Victor partner up in college, Reed dies a tragic death (via their lab experiments) and Victor assumes such a traumatized widow role in his honor that he grows up to be a golden hero and protector of earth LOL (still a bit nuts):
This is not even to touch on the breadth of all their comic issues and little moments together. Victor canonically delivers Reed's second child and he chooses her name! Shes treated like his child too and calls him uncle doom!!
...Victor even asks Reed out on candlelit dinner dates for a yearly Latverian holiday!
In fact, that's the great starter doom/reed issue i keep recommending: read [ My Dinner With Doom right here. ]
If you enjoy that, check out my [ broader post guide for doomreed reading. ]
Still on the fence? try out these single comic issues:
Doctor Doom:
*Fantastic Four (1961) annual 2 (Classic origin of Doom issue)
*Some call it MAGIC (the introduction of Doom's struggle w/ the devil for his mother's soul)
Doomreed:
*Marvel Two-in-One (2017) annual 1
*Marvel Two-in-One (2017) #11 (2nd fic i linked is based on this!!!!!!!!!)
*'Duel Intentions' short story
*Doom 2099 (2019)
*Fantastic Four #700 special
*Shame Itself (noncanon satire mini)
Anyway I've had a lot of fun reading these series generally and their big, year-spanning arcs are incredible. People hype up Secret Wars for a reason, Hickman's fantastic four builds up a really compelling doom/reed epic of cosmic divorce proportions. And its about love! And Forgiveness!
Happy Birthday to Clint!
Bucky: Birthday cake.
Clint: Is that… cake or a blob of red brain matter?
Bucky: Eat it or piss off.
Clint: …Thanks for the birthday wishes.
Read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/63685006
by Chelsea616
Detective AU. Bottom Clint caught between Bucky and Natasha, with subtle undertones of Barney/Clint.
This is a translation of my previous work.(https://archiveofourown.org/works/41555478)
Words: 3127, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Marvel (Comics), Hawkeye (Marvel Comics), Black Widow (Marvel Comics), Winter Soldier (Comics), Tales of Suspense: Hawkeye & the Winter Soldier
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/M, M/M
Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Clint Barton, James “Bucky” Barnes/Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, James “Bucky” Barnes/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
No Powers/Modern AU. Clint's life had been smooth sailing from the moment he left his family for college —until Barnes showed up.
I really like the story I wrote, but since very few people in the Chinese community ship Winterhawk, I decided to translate it into English. I'll translate my work chapter by chapter when I can, but updates will be slower than the Chinese version. :)
do you have any fic recs for challengers by any chance? love your posts!
WELL, i've been procrastinating on a recs post for forever so let's do this, anon
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divorce era
To Camelot by greenTeacup (E | Art/Patrick, Tashi/Patrick, Art/Tashi | 19942)
He takes a long sip of whiskey before he says a word. When he does, his tone’s deceptively light, chipper, brutally clipped.
“So, hey,” he says. “What the fuck are you doing here?”
Patrick stares down into the bottom of his highball glass with a wry twist of the lips.
“Friend of mine’s getting married,” he says, and makes no effort at all to hide the bitterness. He lets it seep right through everything like red wine on white carpet, like the smell of sex on fresh sheets. “Figured I’d come pay my respects.”
“That’s for funerals.”
“I know what I said.”
like Jessica Rabbit, she collects bad habits by goddesspharo (E | Tashi/Patrick | 7695)
"You might be the worst person I've ever met."
Patrick blows a smoke ring inches away from her face and chuckles.
"Tashi, I'm not even the worst person in this room."
starts again always by loverism (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 10934)
'I fucking want him,' Patrick snaps at Tashi. 'That's it, okay? I always have. You two ruined me for anyone else and then you let him put a ring on your finger.'
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the post-canon hotel room
On the Brink by tevinterimperium (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 7840)
Patrick hadn’t minded all of the time it took, all of the media attention, all of the microphones pressed into his face to ask him about the challenger and his performance, and hadn’t even minded that he had lost, for once in his life.
“It was a beautiful game,” one woman had said, a gorgeous blonde with an endearing European accent that could’ve been from anywhere, “how do you feel now?”
On top of the fucking world, Patrick had wanted to say. A phantom utterance: Code violation. Audible obscenity. Point penalty, Zweig—On top of the whole damn world, he would correct.
Instead, with a distinct ringing in his ears, he had said, “Great,” and felt the fresh trickle of sweat fall down his nose and drop to the cement where they were huddled, “Really, really great."
ascendancy by crescentluce (E | Art/Tashi/Patric | 3896)
“I want him to ask,” Patrick says immediately, almost petulant and Tashi half-turns in her seat, looks at Art.
“Ask him,” she says, impatiently.
après-match by mnabokov (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 12424)
After the match—Art, Patrick, and Tashi return to Palo Alto.
So you quote love unquote me (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 7749)
And here’s Tashi in his car, wearing this black dress nightgown thing that Art’s surely touched himself unless he’s dead inside, and she’s got everything she ever wanted except playing tennis. And here’s Patrick, with nothing else but that. And here’s Art, or the absence of Art, here in between them as they carefully don’t look at each other.
There's always someone missing.
(Before the match, and then after.)
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art donaldson's midlife crisis
neverland by ameliepoulain (E | Art/Patrick, Tashi/Patrick | 14079)
“This is so sad,” Art says, shaking his head – but then he grins, the first genuine smile Patrick’s seen all night. It’s so warm and familiar that Patrick forgets for a second, that he’s nothing and they’re nothing, that the slight November chill is making them both shiver.
(Patrick and Art spend a confusing weekend together at the tail-end of the year)
2 die 4 by jaekyu (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 6772)
“You know, I could never hate you,” Patrick tells Art, still on his knees against the floor of the shower. “Not even if you ripped my heart out with your teeth.” The after, immediate and otherwise; come take a bite in the middle of the night.
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get coached, loser
a romantic fool by spqr (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 10300)
And Tashi spits back, “She’s not yours, Art. She’s Patrick’s.”
Art just laughs. “You think I don’t know she’s fucking Patrick’s?”
Homemakers by californianNostalgia (T | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 4262)
Nicki is unfortunate enough to be present when the Donaldsons show up as an allied pair of blindingly hot jilted exes laser-focused on her depressing mess of a tennis instructor.
Alternate title: My ‘Patrick Zweig wins a Grand Slam’ Agenda. (Outsiders POV.)
triptych by kithmet (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 10254)
Tashi begins coaching Patrick—as does Art, in a way.
back up off it (for a minute) by sundermount (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 4054)
Patrick shows Tashi his zero nicotine vape. “I have been following your orders.” He points at Art. “Your husband’s the one who’s been smoking actual cigarettes and eating junk food all day.”
Or: Art retires.
is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse by comosum (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 8952)
“Have you read this?”
Tashi doesn’t raise a brow but she does level him with a look. The look says that if she wanted to exert more than an iota of effort into this conversation, she would raise a brow. “Did you buy,” she drawls, still tapping out a rhythm on her laptop, “a teen magazine?”
“It’s GQ,” Art says. There’s a beat. “Tashi.”
honey, don't feed it (it will come back) by thcscus (T | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 3801)
“You know how he gets,” Tashi says. “The first time we had sex, he disappeared on me for a few hours, too.”
“Which is it, Tashi?” Patrick demands. “Is it a stunt or did I fuck your husband out there?”
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Or, it's all about tennis, until it isn't.
tender mercy by owlinaminor (T | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 2381)
Patrick never watches his matches.
But he watches this one. He sits, cramped, in his car in the parking lot of the New Rochelle Costco, phone balanced on the dashboard, hugging his knees to his chest.
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the through-canon disaster agenda
parallel furrows by a_peach_tree (T | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 5634)
There’s no escaping it. No matter how far they go it’s always this. It’s always the three of them. It’s always tennis.
A series of vignettes of the years before and between
the way the camera follows us in slow-mo by Lirazel (T | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 2906)
The thing is, the pivot point of all their lives was that day he and Patrick watched Tashi play in Queens, the day she crashed into their lives like a wrecking ball, a hurricane, an atomic bomb. Since that day, no two of them have ever been alone together: the other one is always in the same room, even when (especially when) they’re not.
But they’d never, not until that moment, all been in the same place.
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post-tennis??? is it even possible
The teacher of all things by Charlotte_Stant (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 3202)
Now that tennis was dead they all had weird hobbies.
soft living by spanish_sahara (E | Art/Tashi/Patrick | 2394)
Years after the New Rochelle Challenger. Vignettes of a summer in Los Angeles.
