Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: People Will Talk (1951) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dr. Noah Praetorius/Debra Higgins/Prof. Lionel Barker Characters: Dr. Noah Praetorius, Professor Lionel Barker, Debra Higgins Additional Tags: OT3, Classical Music, Cuddling & Snuggling, Fluff without Plot Summary:
“Do you want to go first, darling?” Debra asked her husband playfully. “You’ve known him longer.”
i mean im not the biggest fan of crossovers but even i know that its charm is from the two things being relevant to one another and interacting on the same level, otherwise you just get shit like this
this is a bad example bc honestly this fuckin rules
Man, IFTTT crossposting this makes it so much easier. That said, links don’t transfer, so for the benefit of DW/LJ, I’m including the straight URLs, which should (I hope) convert to links in the post. We’ll see if that works, and if not I’ll try something else next time.
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My organizational system is like none other on earth. Sorry. Enjoy? Everything but the “Non Marvel” list is Marvel.
In ‘n Out by PaxieAmor; Teen and Up, Gen. Inspired by a conversation Sci and I had about how Sci has trained her cats; super funny and a great take on our initial conversation. http://archiveofourown.org/works/5357459
Multiship/Poly:
Happy (Christmas) Lights by ladyshadowdrake; Teen and Up, Steve/Tony, Steve/Tony/Bucky, Clint/Coulson/Natasha, Jane/Thor. The newest installment in the Happy Lights series, featuring Colony, an amorphous assemblage of tentacles that adopts the Avengers. The entire series is great; this is just the latest installment. http://archiveofourown.org/works/5552435/
A Winning Hand by sara_holmes; Explicit, Bucky/Steve/Clint. Steve is REALLY TRYING not to be overly affectionate with Bucky or Clint, but they’re not making it easy. A pretty lovely example of well-resolved angst. http://archiveofourown.org/works/7266370
When I Lay Low by matchsticks_p; Teen and Up, Bucky/Sam, Steve/Tony Implied. Bucky sometimes forgets he’s not HBIC anymore, and the Avengers don’t spoil him the way Hydra did. Really funny, but with a hefty dose of emotional hurt/comfort as well, as Bucky reconciles his experiences with Hydra. http://archiveofourown.org/works/5346464
All Is Good That Is Desired by Archwrites; Explicit, Bucky/Peggy/Steve. Steve is drugged with a truth serum that may really be the best thing for all concerned, since it means both people he loves are now talking to each other, as well. A really nice take on this threesome with some extra points for lots of negotiation. http://archiveofourown.org/works/7472727
Steve/Tony:
This is Halloween by SciFiGrl47; General, Steve/Tony. Written for me! The story of Tony trying to give his son DJ a normal Halloween. DJ’s not all that interested in Normal. 😀 Sci’s usual blend of very funny and very sweet. Have you ever read a fanfic employing the phrase “the superballs are loose”? You will have, after this. http://archiveofourown.org/works/5119181
Captain Stark/Iron Steve by AvocadoLove; General through Mature, Steve/Tony. A really interesting series where Tony Stark was Captain America and Steve Rogers is Iron Man. They still manage to end up together, in very entertaining ways. http://archiveofourown.org/series/77647
Post-War Economy by cassievalentine; General audiences, Steve/Peggy. My Steggy Secret Santa gift, WOEFULLY overdue for a recc. I loved everything about it, from Peggy being independent and finding her way through her life post-Steve and post-war to the very satisfying conclusion. http://archiveofourown.org/works/5655898/
Unusual Weather by novembersmith; Explicit, Steve/Bucky. Tony drugs Bucky so that he can finally fix his arm; under the influence of the drug, Bucky’s a lot handsier than usual. Funny and sweet, and I especially liked poor Tony’s reactions. http://archiveofourown.org/works/1892094
Non-Marvel:
The Private Life of the Cougar by Arsenic; Teen and Up, The Losers, Cougar/Jensen. Cougar’s hard life before the Losers and leading up to them, as he tries to reconcile his sexuality with the rest of the world’s hostility to it. A really nice character study with some great Cougar/Jensen into the bargain. http://archiveofourown.org/works/5467439
by Unpretty; both Teen and Up, Gen. Arm Candy is an interesting indepth study of the Bruce Wayne side of Batman’s character; Empty Graves is about all the time-travelers Martha Kent has murdered to protect her son, and how they changed the way she raised him. Both well worth a read. http://archiveofourown.org/works/6819259 http://archiveofourown.org/works/6447187
“villain attempts to go back in time to kill superman as a small child, gets shot in the face by ma kent, who buries him behind the barn with the others” would probably have niche appeal as a comic but i don’t care, i want it
The first time a man from the future showed up at Martha Kent’s house, Clark Kent was two years old.
According to his birth certificate, anyway. She just kind of accepted that the details were a little fudged. Relativity, and all.
Maybe the stranger would have succeeded in whatever it was he wanted to do, except that he really did just show up. Appeared, like a ghost made flesh, right in the backyard. Clark, thank goodness, was out in the fields with Jonathan. He couldn’t bear to be alone, that boy, and they could never bear to leave him.
Which left Martha free to shoot the ghostly intruder in the face.
Martha had not always considered herself a shoot first, ask questions later sort of a person. But that was before she found a baby in a spaceship where her corn was supposed to be.
They’d switch off, Jonathan and her, who got Clark and who got the shotgun. Martha got the shotgun more often than not. Guns made her husband uncomfortable. She was hardly a fan, but she’d always been a terrible pacifist. Too determined to defend herself.
The sight of all that blood and brain and bone was still nauseating. She compartmentalized, told herself it was no different from slaughtering a cow; didn’t think about riot gear or tear gas or the friends she’d lost or all the things she’d moved away from when her heart couldn’t take it any longer. This was different. This was her son.
She prodded the corpse with her foot. It remained a corpse. A real nasty looking corpse, all big and burly and holding a gun much too large. She didn’t like making assumptions based on appearances, but she didn’t imagine he’d been coming for anything nice. She bent down to search his pockets, found a metal wallet and flipped it open.
Born 2018.
Well, hell. Wasn’t that just a kick in the pants?
Probably she ought to have been a bit more unsettled than she was. But she’d been waiting two years for someone to show up on her doorstep, men in black or UFOs or something. Hell, she’d half expected her sweet little boy to hatch into something worse.
Just because she brought home space babies didn’t mean she was a damn fool.
Jonathan had rejoined her in long strides, was holding Clark in such a way that he couldn’t see the corpse on the ground. “Well, shit,” he said.
“Eyup,” Martha agreed.
“Don’t look government.”
“Nope.”
“We burying him?”
“I’ll bury him,” Martha said, standing up. “You get Clark inside and read him a book or something. I don’t want him seeing any of this, getting him messed up in the head.”
“You sure? Looks heavy.”
“That’s why we have a wheelbarrow. I’ll stick him out behind the barn, might as well keep all our secrets in one place.”
Martha had a long time to think as she dug a time traveler’s grave. There were a lot of reasons someone might travel back in time trying to kill her kid. The first was her instinct as a mother, which was: he was a fucking asshole. Who killed a kid? Fucking assholes, that was who.
Now, it was also possible that her sweet little boy grew up to be some kind of space Hitler. She didn’t think she’d raise that kind of a kid, but she didn’t suppose there was any parent who set out to raise a Hitler.
Still didn’t sit right with her. She didn’t much like the idea of killing baby Hitler, either.
Mooncustafer 