Like You For Always by Curiouslyfic

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

Heyas, arsenicjade here for Avengers-movie 'verse this go 'round. I'd love to give you some comprehensive plan for what this month is going to look like, but honestly? Um, Clint's my boy, h/c's my thing, I like strong ladies, so look for that stuff and for me to be kind of all over the place, otherwise.

Fandom: Avengers (2012)
Pairing: Clint/Bruce
Length: ~29k
Author on LJ: curiouslyfic
Author Website: AO3 Dashboard

Why this must be read:

Spoiler:

Coulson dies in this fic as he does in the movie, and stays dead.

What's hidden in that sentence is the exact reason why this fic shouldn't work for me. In fact, by all rights, it should be triggery for me.

Instead, Curiously has written what is probably one of the best fics I've ever encountered about grief, change, making choices, and moving forward. Hir prose is clever and often funny, casual in a way that matches the pace of the fic. Her characterizations are well-drawn, and full-bodied, as are the relationships between characters. And her POV voice is just plain amazing.

There is a kid in this fic, she is important, but she is also a kid, and a source of conflict and fear and all sorts of real-life reactions to a child. She never takes over the story to its detriment, which is a very hard thing to accomplish when writing in a child.

Basically, this is just a hella smart piece, and you should check it out.



“Something I should know about, C-3PO?” Clint slides Banner’s sandwich onto Banner’s workstation and hooks a foot around his own chair to push it into optimal Stark-menacing position.

Stark waves a screwdriver dismissively and goes right on muttering. Clint can’t tell if Stark’s cursing SHIELD’s medical science team again or deriding Hydra. It tends to be an either/or with Stark, though Clint figures someday he’ll really get going and cover them both together.

“I am not C-3PO,” Stark counters. “I am clearly Luke Skywalker in this scenario.”

Something hisses on her canister; something else clangs. Stark hisses something sharp that might as well be specs on the Millennium Falcon and sucks at his finger like it stings.

“Oh, I dunno about that,” Clint baits lazily. “Kickass pilot, ninja with a sword, extensively trained — personally, mind — in the fine art of mindfuckery by a pair of creepy old dudes? Sounds more like the Clint Barton: Behind the Music to me.”

Banner blurts a laugh. “Did you just call Yoda creepy?”

Like You For Always

Comments

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

Not all of us have a white LJ background. You need to either fix your HTML to also change the background to match the text and then add a "Highlight for spoiler", or use the LJ spoiler cut.

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

If you send me the proper HTML, I'll be all over that, but this was the only one I could find.

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

(text color=black background=black) your spoiler goes here (/text)
and replace the ( parentheses with the proper < angle brackets

You can set the color and background to any color, but most people use black for both. When it gets highlighted, the text changes color automatically.

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

You could also look it up on the internet.

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

Fascinatingly, look it up on the internet was precisely what I did, and the HTML I used was the answer I found, which suggests that, strangely, the internet has a wide array of answers.

Also hilariously, the code you gave me was wrong, but I managed to find the correct one.

But thank you for your gracious help.

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

Sorry the code I gave you didn't work. That's what I use as standard. It looks like you found a paragraph or table code that does the same thing. The results are what count, right? I'm glad it got worked out for you and the rest of the comm. :>