Top 5 Works 2020 - Fanfic Edition
rules: it’s time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (ish) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!
tagged by: I got tagged three different times for this challenge, so I’m doing a fanfic version, a moodboard version, and a crafts version. For this one, we’ll say that the spectacular @deathsweetqueen tagged me!
For the fanfics, in no particular order...
1. Save Another Life (It Will Be Worth It) - This was actually a remix of "How to Save a Life (It Just Might Be Yours" in which the Winter Soldier found baby Tony Stark in the car when he was sent to kill Howard Stark. And then took him, and raised him, with all the Dad!Bucky and Kid!Tony shenanigans.
In that version, Tony met Bruce when they were kindergarteners, but then had to move away. I had several readers say they wanted Bucky to kidnap Bruce and take him with them. So this fic happened. And it’s a feels-fest, y’all. A lot of angst smattered with moments of tooth-rotting fluff, and a very, very happy ending. Have a summary:
James and his (somewhat stolen) son Tony have been living happy lives under the radar for the past five years. They move a lot, and leave a lot of friends behind, but then Tony meets a little boy named Bruce. In another world, James and Tony might move on, though it breaks their hearts to have to say goodbye to the scared, hurting little boy that is Tony's best friend.
In this world, however... they don't say goodbye.
2. Pepper Has A Thing For Idiots - One of my readers pointed out that silly Pepperony fics are few and far between. And that’s exactly what this fic is! Tony being an idiot (as a genius, he deserves a lot more idiot moments than the average person) and Pepper being moronsexual for him.
Pepper has always known she's attracted to idiots, but it wasn't until she met this one in particular that she realized just how moronsexual she is.
3. The Name You Gave Me - This fic is a collab with the amazing @fightingforcreativity! It’s another kid fic heavy on the feels, and we had so much fun brainstorming it! And then we had to slog through the process of filling in all the gaps, but working with J as absolutely great! The Winter Soldier and a tiny Natasha Romanoff escape the Red Room and are taken back to the States by Howard Stark, where they meet and bond with a tiny Tony.
If you asked the Asset, he'd say it started with being given a name, something of his own. For the first time he had something for himself, and he became greedy. So she became his as well.
If you asked the little Widow, she'd say, “It started with a brother. He was my brother and I wanted another.”
If you asked Howard Stark, he'd say, “It started with the Serum, and it ended with a Serum.”
But if you asked the youngest of them all, he'd answer, “It started like everything, an action was the catalyst for a chain reaction. I was just lucky to have a brother and a sister, a real father and another mother, through it all.”
The moral of the story is that a true family always finds each other.
4. The Most Spoiled Fish In Existence - More silliness for you, definitely inspired by my own fish and encouraged by the TSB discord peeps! It’s just cracky nonsense, some of which was inspired by real life fish shenanigans.
Tony finds a fish in his lab. Why would someone give him a fish? This remains a mystery, until he realizes that a particular Honeybear of his has simultaneously gone missing...
5. Through A Child's Eyes, It's Different - This is, to date, the LONGEST fic I’ve ever written! And while plot is still thin on the ground (I’m not awesome at plot, I’m a one-shot girl), I am still in love with all the many adorable kid!Tony moments. (Yes, another kid fic. This was the year of kid!Tony fics.) Tony got deaged, but kept all his memories, and everyone gets an unfiltered look at how he feels about them.
The Accords debacle is long over, and the ex-Avengers have come home. Things are not going well, particularly when Tony gets kidnapped by the villain-of-the-week and ends up in the middle of a freak lab accident.
Seeing things through the eyes of a child sounds kind of poetic, and in some cases, it is. But for the rogue Avengers, it's a shocking and harsh look at their past deeds, as well as a closer look at who Tony Stark really is when he doesn't have all his self-made masks up to protect him.
With Pepper, Rhodey, and Happy there to keep him safe and love him, Tony navigates the weirdness his life has become, while Dr. Strange, Thor, and Dr. Foster work to figure out what happened to Tony and if the deaging can be reversed.
There are not even words for HOW HARD IT WAS TO CHOOSE between all the fics I posted this year. It was like picking a favorite child.
Anyway, I will tag (no pressure tagging)... @menatiera, @weethreequarter, @originalobjecttheorist, @mitochondrials, @lbibliophile-mcu
