Meanderings of a Fandom Magpie

Yesterday I reread Owlet's Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail which has become---for me, and probably for a few other folks---one of the introductory Stucky fics that everyone recommends to new fans (the more so because it isn't Stucky until pretty late in the series---the main focus is on Bucky's recovery, from his POV.) I laughed (and cried, because there are plenty of those moments too) as GrumpyBucky discovered coffee, then grilled cheese sandwiches and along the way, learned what it was like to be a person again, to have friends, and know that he was valued and loved.

The thing about the series, and one of the things I appreciate the most, is that it's the kind of storytelling that's hard. You can write a Recovery Bucky story that's all pathos, all torture and mayhem, and those have their place too (I'm not knocking them!) But it's harder (IMO) to write one that has humor, where our heroes also make mistakes and grow and change and learn from their mistakes. Steve screws up, fairly epically, out of the best of intentions. He learns. So does Tony. So does Maria Hill. And so on. 

So, yeah, if you haven't read this series---what are you doing? Go read it! 

(And have a grilled cheese sandwich. I did, last night.)