Hi! Could you recommend me a few fics,that are easy to read? With a Max of ~30k words so the story doesn't even get that complicated. Like at an around B2 Level understandable, where you don't need to know overly technical words or very very long sentences? The goal is to improve my boyfriend's English reading capabilities and to get more vocabularies. I know this is a more time consuming and elaborate ask, and I am happy with whatever reply, or you posting this to ask other followers. Thx! <3
What a fascinating question! You’re referring to the CEFR scale? I just tested a few fandom favorites and came up with this list. It would be amazing if we could tag all fics with a CEFR level and/or a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level. I’ve just signed up for an account with readable.io so I can start doing this. If anyone would like to volunteer to work on tagging the stories in our archive, drop me a note.
Authors, if English is not your first language and you’ve been writing fanfic to practice, leave a reply or submit your work!
the It's Not Linear series by chaya
Steve looks for Bucky, Bucky finds Steve, Steve tries desperately to put Bucky back together. Bucky tries desperately to let him. (Spoilers for Winter Soldier.)
This, You Protect by owlet (starts out at this level)
The mission resets abruptly, from objective: kill to objective: protect
perfectly right wrong number by melonbutterfly
It all starts because Steve is too dumb to handle his smartphone.
A wrong number AU in which Bucky Barnes doesn't enter Steve's life (meaning: Bucky wasn't born until the eighties, but Steve is still Captain America) until Steve accidentally dials the wrong number. Wherein there is a lot of texting, some advice via Natasha and Darcy, a bit of pining, and a first date in an amusement park. Oh, and on top of being a disabled veteran, Bucky is a professional catwalker. Literally.
plant your hope with good seeds by rohkeutta
Bucky looks peaceful in the cryo; not the dead peace of that blurry picture in his file, but like he’s enjoying the world’s longest and best-earned nap. His face is smooth, slack with sleep, and he looks so painfully young under shadows and stubble, under the tired lines etched onto his forehead.
Bucky’s never been a huge, hulking guy, with his surprisingly delicate build and narrow hips, and he’s been slowly losing the excess muscle mass in his time in the cryo. He looks slimmer, smaller; like he could fold into Steve’s arms like an origami bird.
the future's so bright (I gotta wear shades) by KiaraSayre
Things Bucky loves about the future.
Your Lack Of An Answer Is Kind Of An Answer: Four Questions Natasha Asked Steve Rogers, And One Time Bucky Barnes Answered by Speranza
"All right, I have a question for you. Oh, but you don’t have to answer it. I feel like if you don't answer it though, you're kind of answering it, you know…"
The Real Thing by Speranza
Tony talks dirty. Steve gets a nosebleed. This is not a Stony story.
Side bitch out of your league by rohkeutta
“I tried to call Sam,” Captain America says, bewildered. He’s sprinting like Usain Bolt and doesn’t sound even a little out of breath. Fucker. “Who’re you?”
“Someone who’s watching you live on TV,” Bucky tells him as the tiny patriotic figure on the screen takes the turns like he instructed. Bucky should probably be a lot more freaked out about this, but honestly? After a tour in the Middle East and six years as a nurse in New York, even this isn’t enough to ruffle him. One sees a lot of shit in the ER. “Also, you better hang up now, that thing is behind the next bend.”
“Uh, okay,” Captain America says. “Thanks?”
“Whatever,” Bucky says, disconnects the call and turns the TV off to get ready for his shift.
The man on the bridge by boopboop (AO3 login required)
Steve Rogers turning up at Tony's door in the middle of the night might be a bit out of character, but it's not completely out of the realm of possibility. Stranger things have happened.
Steve Rogers turning up at Tony's door with an amnesiac assassin - who may or may not have some of Tony's personally designed hardware attached where his arm should be - well that's just far too interesting to turn away, even if Tony is trying to avoid all things S.H.I.E.L.D these days.
One Caress by fuck_me_barnes
Steve's rarely been touched in a way that didn't equate to some kind of hurt. The cold metal of a stethoscope against his frail chest or the sting of a needle drawing yet another blood sample, when he was a sickly child. The bone-shattering punches thrown by the neighborhood bullies on the playground, or by his own father at home, drunk and wild. His mother, weak and clutching at him as she grew more incoherent with the drugs as the cancer ate away at her insides. Touch was something he shied away from, something he told himself he just didn't want.
Except...he did. He just didn't know how.
Until he finds a flyer for a local "affection and intimacy services" program.
In which Steve learns how to become comfortable with touch, and there is one very good dog, and a slow-burn romance.
