#helens78

[bijesperfahey]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson Characters:  Sam Wilson (Marvel), Steve Rogers Additional Tags: Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Banter, First Kiss, Oral Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Wall Sex, (Well kind of at least), Love Confessions

Summary: 

For @helens78 for the @samstevegiftexchange

It was a publicity stunt, in a way. A chance to make the Avengers seem just a little more real, a little more human, to appeal to the public at large. The Tower was full of select members of the press, the richer members of New York’s elite, and anyone else that might be able to put in a good word for the team. After what had happened in New York, after the Mandarin had kidnapped the president, with how some people felt about the fall of SHIELD and what had happened in DC, it was needed. They needed to be approachable, more than just heroes who came in to save the day.

And Steve Rogers, who’d went into worse battles than this without nearly enough backup apparently drew the line at social situations without the right company. And it seemed that Sam was starting to develop the habit of following him into situations he never would have wound up in otherwise to provide it.

[yahtzee63]

Followers you’d like to know better

I was tagged for this!

Name: Yahtzee is all I go by in terms of fandom. At this point I have people in RL who call me this. 

Nickname: Yahtzee’s pretty much it. 

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Gemini

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor, according to all the online tests, which surprised me since I always thought I’d be a Ravenclaw. But then I remembered this constant dialogue in my head:

One self: I want to do a thing.

Other self: There are probably many complications and risks to that thing, which you have not yet thought through.

Whole self: I am going to DO THE THING.

And if that’s not Gryffindor, I don’t know what is. 

Favorite Color: Dark blue, dark purple, emerald green, black

Favorite Animal(s): dogs, specifically my dog

Time Right Now: 12:42 a.m., so this post is indefensible

Average Hours of Sleep: 7-8

Cat or Dog Person: Dogs, which is lucky, since I’m allergic to cats. 

Favorite Fictional Characters: Jean-Luc Picard, Leia Organa, Charles Xavier, Maisie Dobbs, Betty Suarez, Jack Bristow, the “I, Claudius” version of Livia Augusta, Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, Martha Jones, Supergirl, Sherlock Holmes, Peggy Carter, Spock, everyone in Jane Austen ever, and I know I am still leaving out many deeply beloved fictional persons

Number of Blankets I Sleep With: One, now that I live in a warm climate

Dream Trip: St. Petersburg, or maybe far south Patagonia

Dream Job: To my everlasting surprise and gratitude, I have it.

When Was This Blog Created: I honestly don’t know, because I came to start this Tumblr about four years ago and found that I’d already created one and never used it! When that was, IDK. 

Current Number of Followers: Are there a thousand of you? Maybe not quite. Honestly I don’t pay much attention to that. 

When did your blog reach it’s peak? Well, I used to be writing more fic, but other than that my Tumblr is much as it’s always been (except the Phantom Years at the start.) 

What made you decide to get Tumblr? LJ went slack, and I like looking at pictures of the X-Men actors, so there you have it. 

I shall tag! 

[fall-b-kind]

when fandom gifts you new a/b/o fic AND sex pollen fic on this bland grey monday morning

blast from the past and not complaining

[fourteenacross]

helens78-cat replied to your photoset: Random Pictures From My Vacation 4/? Love me some Christmas shit. ...

Wait what?! When were you at Disney?? I just got back, but all we did was Magic Kingdom & Epcot b/c toddler. :)

I was at Disney from about 12/5-12/10! My mom wanted to go and sort of talked my dad and me and my aunt and my two cousins into going together, so it was AN EXPERIENCE (my mom can be an irritating person to vacation with 😓 My aunt, my cousin, and I spent like, an hour each night bitching about her in the hot tub because I’m an A+ child). It was actually p great, tho--I hadn’t been to Disney World in about twenty-one years, though I’ve been to Disneyland a couple times since. I wish I’d had maybe one more day at the Disney parks (or that I’d been [more] in charge of our schedule and gotten us to the parks ON TIME EACH DAY) to hit up a couple things, but in general--gosh, it was great!!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[typical-trope]

I made the mistake of starting Hollow Minds and Dead Souls by Helens78 before bedtime, and now I’m afraid to go to bed. I had a happy couple-y dream last night! I want to go back to the disgusting age gap-but happy relationship! Not this terrifying zombie apocalypse nightmare!

[luninosity]

do you have any cherik fic recs? *-* your fics are my favorite btw! i love your writing style ><

Hi there! And thank you! That totally made my morning. :D :D

I have lots of Cherik fic bookmarked! It’s sort of hard to name specific ones without knowing more—do you want fluff, porn, AU, canon fix-it, any or all of the above? I need happy endings (or at least hopeful endings) and I don’t do kid fic or Dadneto and I have been less engaged in the fandom post-DoFP, so for anything along those lines, other people can help more?

BUT! I have LOTS of works that I’ve loved in the fandom over the years, and you should love them too! First, check my AO3 bookmarks, because there is no way I can list them all here. :D :D

And here are five that I love and adore—I’ll try to give you some diverse options as far as length and genre and rating.

A Summer Day So Late In Coming by helens78. G, 2790 words. Reconciliation at last, full of sweetness that’s been a long time coming.

Little Birds by winterhill. T, 35,995 words. AU in which they are all birds, and it SHOULD be ridiculous, but oh God it is gorgeous and you will feel ALL THE EMOTIONS.

Xmas in Connecticut by yahtzee63. T, 19,466 words. Now, everyone on the PLANET will rec yahtzee’s Anarchy in the UK to you, and I will second that wholeheartedly. But since everyone WILL tell you that one, I will send you to this one instead. Holiday fluff, no-powers AU, and an amazing Charles.

Apples and Ink by monstrousreg & pangeasplits. E, 6,133 words. Angst with happy ending, fix-it, boys learning how to emotion. The writing in this one is so damn beautiful. SO BEAUTIFUL.

The tough little baby telepath series by theletteraesc and pearlo. Various stories, pretty much all rated E for various reasons; series word count 221,490. Warnings for child abuse and age difference, but this is marvelous writing and world-building—it’s a modern-day cop AU, more or less, though really more—and glorious introspection and exploration of powers. 

I also have to at least mention aisle_one’s Missed Connections and tahariels' Backseat ‘verse, because the writing in both is utterly beautiful and atmospheric and sort of dreamy—the former is…kind of hard to describe, honestly, but it’s a modern-day AU with courtship from a distance, Charles seeking out strangers for sex, and a LOT of kink and emotions like broken stained glass and a happy ending. The latter is a BDSM AU with sub!Charles, and Erik and Charles learning how to live together and care for each other, and it’s pretty much never left my brain since the first time I read it, and was the inspiration for one of my own fic series in a different fandom—just the general idea and sense of it, I mean, not copying the world-building; but it made me want to go out and try to write something like that.

Hope some of that works for you! <3