I don't wanna bog you guys down with another ask - you probably have loads on your hands too - but I'm looking for a fic with very existential characteristics. Dealing with themes like life and death and sublime human emotion and such?
Ah you want the fics that I stay up till five in the morning finishing while I cry listening to Daughter and the Antlers. Here are the ones that made me get all existential and think a lot about life and death and sublime human emotion and stare at the wall for a while.
Howling Commandos (series) by togina
Jacques’ grand-père had kept a lock of his wife’s hair, after she had died. He had worn it around his bony, age-spotted wrist, the way he had worn her smile in the reflection of his eyes.
Growing up a Boy by togina (pretty much anything by togina makes me get real emotional tbh)
“Is that enough?” James wondered, his head lolling toward his father’s shoulder, drifting toward sleep despite his determination to stay awake like his Da.
“To die in bed, warm and loved and named?” George responded, his eyebrows lifted as though he’d expected Jamie to know better than that.
Into That Good Night by Nonymos
Steve Rogers has lived for entirely too long—long enough to see the world’s end. The heroes are gone, and the Earth is pushing what’s left of mankind towards the exit.
But when a makeshift team rises from the ashes, when a mysterious presence all but drags Steve there, he begins to think there may be hope yet. As they shoot for the stars one last time, Steve will get proof yet again that the future is nothing if not an echo of the past.
It’s Just Temporary by perfect_plan
Bucky Barnes has no idea what he wants to do with his life and is stumbling from one temp job to the next. Hopefully he can keep his new job at Stark Industries for longer than a week…
Our Golden Age by augustbird
Wherein Bucky is the crown prince and Steve still becomes a hero.
