31 flavors: Another three-fer today
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gwynBehind, again. After almost a year with very little work, suddenly having two short deadline projects in a row has really thrown me off kilter.
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napricot (Black Panther, 70,381 words, M)
Summary: N’Jadaka didn’t believe in the gods of his people. But belief was not a prerequisite of the gods’ attention, and the blood of the Panther tribe ran in N’Jadaka’s veins. Bast took hold of his soul in her mighty jaws and lifted it free of his body. She gave him a warning shake, just as she would a misbehaving kitten, and set him back. With one careful claw, she tweaked his path through time into a twisting loop. Wayward and abandoned though he was, N’Jadaka was still of her tribe. He could set things right, if given the chance.
Erik gets a do-over. Erik gets a lot of do-overs. Or: Erik Killmonger's own personal version of Groundhog Day, only with a lot more murder, dying, trips to the ancestral plane, awkward family conversations, and divine intervention.
People who know me know I adore a time-loop, and this one delivers in spades. Erik learns how to begin being a better person through a lot of time-loops. Very moving at times in how it deals with his trauma, and the collective trauma of the African diaspora.
The Drop That Overflows the Glass byTaste_is_Sweet (Captain America, El Ministerio del Tiempo, 6792 words, G)
Summary: Ernesto Jiménez meets Bucky Barnes in Bucharest in 2016, and offers him a job.
But first he meets him in Kreischberg in 1943 and saves his life.
(Defiance would fade. Ernesto was painfully aware of that. And when defiance faded, the will followed. And after that there could only be death, of one kind or another.
In roughly two weeks and fourteen hours, Steve Rogers' defiance would create Captain America, reborn in the ashes of this Godforsaken prison. But Ernesto was well acquainted with death; had seen—had caused—more then enough of it for several lifetimes. He'd seen the prisoners in Huesca and could tell which of them would live to cry and rant and endure another day. And which would not.
Barnes' defiance was fading, and when it died, so would he. He might not last two more weeks and fourteen hours.)
I don't imagine there is a lot of crossover audience for this crossover from the Into a Bar challenge two years ago, but I am definitely in it, and I think you can read it without necessarily knowing the show (and there's a bit of an intro to who Ernesto is). This made me really happy--a time agent from the Ministry of Time has to try to keep Bucky alive so he can be rescued by Steve, and what happens years later because of it. Just swell.
Falling Slow, Back to Earth byweshes (The Martian, 3252 words, T)
Summary: “You’re a ray of morbid sunshine,” Chris tells him. “I forgot what a delight you are to have on board.”
While this is not marked as a romantic relationship (/) this felt to me like essentially a Mark/Chris story and it's pretty nice, with some stuff set on the Hermes and then when they get back home.
god loves everybody, don't remind me by
Summary: N’Jadaka didn’t believe in the gods of his people. But belief was not a prerequisite of the gods’ attention, and the blood of the Panther tribe ran in N’Jadaka’s veins. Bast took hold of his soul in her mighty jaws and lifted it free of his body. She gave him a warning shake, just as she would a misbehaving kitten, and set him back. With one careful claw, she tweaked his path through time into a twisting loop. Wayward and abandoned though he was, N’Jadaka was still of her tribe. He could set things right, if given the chance.
Erik gets a do-over. Erik gets a lot of do-overs. Or: Erik Killmonger's own personal version of Groundhog Day, only with a lot more murder, dying, trips to the ancestral plane, awkward family conversations, and divine intervention.
People who know me know I adore a time-loop, and this one delivers in spades. Erik learns how to begin being a better person through a lot of time-loops. Very moving at times in how it deals with his trauma, and the collective trauma of the African diaspora.
The Drop That Overflows the Glass by
Summary: Ernesto Jiménez meets Bucky Barnes in Bucharest in 2016, and offers him a job.
But first he meets him in Kreischberg in 1943 and saves his life.
(Defiance would fade. Ernesto was painfully aware of that. And when defiance faded, the will followed. And after that there could only be death, of one kind or another.
In roughly two weeks and fourteen hours, Steve Rogers' defiance would create Captain America, reborn in the ashes of this Godforsaken prison. But Ernesto was well acquainted with death; had seen—had caused—more then enough of it for several lifetimes. He'd seen the prisoners in Huesca and could tell which of them would live to cry and rant and endure another day. And which would not.
Barnes' defiance was fading, and when it died, so would he. He might not last two more weeks and fourteen hours.)
I don't imagine there is a lot of crossover audience for this crossover from the Into a Bar challenge two years ago, but I am definitely in it, and I think you can read it without necessarily knowing the show (and there's a bit of an intro to who Ernesto is). This made me really happy--a time agent from the Ministry of Time has to try to keep Bucky alive so he can be rescued by Steve, and what happens years later because of it. Just swell.
Falling Slow, Back to Earth by
Summary: “You’re a ray of morbid sunshine,” Chris tells him. “I forgot what a delight you are to have on board.”
While this is not marked as a romantic relationship (/) this felt to me like essentially a Mark/Chris story and it's pretty nice, with some stuff set on the Hermes and then when they get back home.
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Date: 2021-01-24 11:19 pm (UTC)I liked the Nat and Tony ones, too--I had to think about which fics for certain fandoms I wanted to be the reps in this round of 31 flavors.
Yeah, those are great fics but those characters already get a lot of attention from fandom (me included, lol) so it's neat to see such a long, thoughtful story about Erik.
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