Rec Week #2

[whizzy.livejournal.com]

This week, we're reccing in honor of Captain America: The Winter Soldier!

The theme is Steve pining and angst, so bring us your stories of misery, woe, and feels.  (Happy endings optional, uwahahaha.)

Comment on this post with your rec(s).  Please include:

Title
Author
Basic plot or premise
Why you're recommending the piece
URL/link

We're also doing a secondary fun theme each week, highlighting trends we've noticed in the fandom. Is it coal power or is it magic? We want to see Steve vs modern technology!

Comments

[salmastryon.livejournal.com]

Steve Angst/Pining

Title Things to Do in New Jersey when you're dead
Author dorcas_gustine
Basic plot or premise Tony misses Steve. Tony brings Steve back. There's something wrong.
Why you're recommending the piece While this isn't from Steve's point of view, it is all about the Steve angst. Part of the fun on it is figuring out what exactly is going on.
URL/link http://archiveofourown.org/works/4259


Title What Rough Beast
Author immoral_crow
Basic plot or premise Steve Rogers, super soldier. It’s amazing really that it takes them all so long to work out just what the serum can do… but given enough time all things become apparent. This is a story about love, and loss; the things we would do to be true to ourselves and true to our hearts; and the prices you must pay to do that. (Note: There is a warning for Major Character Death, the author has notes at the end if you want more details.)
Why you're recommending the piece More Steve angst. This is basically about the depths that grief and loss can sink you to.
URL/link http://archiveofourown.org/works/548140


Title Bizarre Love Triangle
Author panickyintheuk
Basic plot or premise Once the idea was in his head, he’d started picking up on all kinds of things, like the way Stark talked about Iron Man with such affection, and seemed to share so many of his mannerisms, and was constantly working on ways of improving the suit. It was obvious.
Why you're recommending the piece Steve pining for Tony Stark while jealous of Tony's relationship with Iron Man. What isn't there to like. :)
URL/link http://archiveofourown.org/works/362129

Steve versus Technology

Title History Lessons
Author MemoryDragon
Basic plot or premise Steve hates modern television shows and history. Tony is determined to remedy both of those, provided they can survive each other.
Why you're recommending the piece It will make you cry and smile and cry some more. You'll also end up adding some new stuff to your to watch list.
URL/link http://archiveofourown.org/works/658779

Title User Interface
Author AlchemyAlice
Basic plot or premise Steve dares to stick his head into the workshop on a Tuesday which had so far been filled only with paperwork, and as soon as he actually comprehends what he's seeing, he kind of just wants to forget the filing and the G-33 forms and just stay down there forever.
Why you're recommending the piece This is just sweet, and I love Steve's fearless sense of awe and wonder at the technology in Tony's Lab.
URL/link http://archiveofourown.org/works/293232

[dragonofmemory]

Aw, thanks for the rec!

[hogwartshoney.livejournal.com]

What Rough Beast should come with a 'heartbreaking' warning, OMG!
Excellent bunch of recs, thank you