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So I just realised I'm going to be in California from tomorrow through Tuesday, helping my mother a) pack up a storage unit full of my grandmother's belongings and b) have an emotional crisis.

I mean, I won't help cause the emotional crisis, I'll just be there to drive the car.

It's a super long story, which I'll tell you all about at some point, probably while covered in seventeen years worth of dust, but for now suffice it to say that there will be no Radio Free Monday this week due to the aforementioned taking up all my time, compassion, and charitable inclinations. We're frankly lucky, given how this weekend's going to play out, that there will ever be Radio Free Monday again. There's this whole thing with a piano, I can't even go there right now.

But there will be RFM again! So if you do submit items, they will go in my file for the 9th; I can't guarantee anything before then. Thanks for understanding, everyone.

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Also because I will be working tomorrow morning and gone tomorrow afternoon HAVE SOME RECCS TODAY INSTEAD.

Been saving these up for a while. They're almost all Avengers-themed but I do have one awesome The Losers recc for you Losers fans:

Lucky Boxers by Anonymous: Mature, Jensen/Cougar. Jensen is hacking in his lucky boxers when Cougar shows up and suddenly those boxers get a lot luckier. I loved Jensen accidentally narrating the sex, and Cougar's total composure in the face of Jensen being Jensen.

And now for the Festival of Marvel, sorted by rating. Except for the Unrated who are just at the top because I wanted to put them there.

The Portfolio of Pining by soshhy: unrated, Bucky/Steve AU. Someone tagged me with this on tumblr and I really enjoyed it -- a college AU where Bucky gets a one-day shadow job on a fashion shoot and comes to the uncomfortable realization that he's just not into breasts. Please check warnings before reading, though, there's a great deal of internalized homophobia and some sexism (intentional -- it's pretty integral to the story). I was JUST TODAY told that this was an entire series (I'd only read part one) so I can't speak to later parts but I'm super excited to read the rest of them. :D

Untitled by wintersoldierfell: unrated, gen. Bucky, trying to recover from the events of Winter Soldier, comes across a woman who has claimed her disability in a way he's trying to, and gets a little boost on his own journey. I thought this was sweet and a unique exploration of Bucky's recovery sans Steve.

Untitled by historymiss: unrated, gen. A glimpse inside how Pierce might behave towards the Winter Soldier when the mission is over. Admittedly I prompted this one but I love it so much.

A Little Help From My Friends by troublesteady: General Audiences, Gen but with definite hints of Steve/Bucky. Recommended to me by Dreamwaffles. An experiment goes awry and lands several avengers with animal-like personalities, and man, that summary sounds so much dumber than this fic is. It's actually brilliant and super-funny, and worth it for Dog Bucky alone.

Feeling Words by Daroos: Teen and Up, Clint/Coulson. Clint and Phil are truly, despairingly bad at communicating, especially since Clint's not always verbal. Still, they get there in the end. I found the story really charming, and I love it when a character who may not even know what they want to say still gets to be loved and defended by another one.

Going To The Chapel by dinolaur: Teen and Up, Steve/Tony, Bucky/Natasha. Post-SHRA, Tony wants to rekindle his relationship with Steve. Perhaps proposing to him is a little crazy, but even Bucky agrees it might work. I think this is a strange, sweet, and funny story about trying to get a relationship back, and it's happily free of the silliness that usually accompanies that.

Lonely Houses off the Road by Etharei: Teen and Up, Steve/Bucky. This is a long, lovely fic about Bucky finally coming home, though he has to go through the rest of the Avengers first. I got totally sucked into it when I should have been socialising, and then I did that to like three other people when I linked them.

Still A Stranger To The Ground by queerly_it_is: teen and up, Steve/Sam. The story of how Sam got his wings back and then got his groove back, and how Steve seemed to really enjoy that. A fun mixture of heist fic and romance.

Stay With Me (Home Is Where Your Mind Is) by sara_holmes: Mature, Steve/Tony. This is a fascinating and surreal head trip of a fanfic -- Steve almost-dies and while comatose in the hospital enters a sort of parallel realm where dozens of versions of him have gathered, prevented from moving forward after death by something. It has its sad moments, but I love how weird and well-written it is.

Muscle Memory by Spiderine: Explicit, Bucky Barnes; warnings for nonconsent and torture. I'm gonna admit right off that I couldn't finish this one, but for people who enjoy reading *points at warnings* I think it will probably be extremely compelling. Proceed with caution, as the author notes.

If You Can't Say It You Shouldn't Be Doing It by maskedfangirl -- Explicit, Bruce/Clint. This is a really fascinating exploration of how Bruce's control issues may impact his body and the way he allows it to interact with others. Bruce is trying to give Clint what he feels a boyfriend should have, but he has limits, and he can't quite believe Clint is willing to accomodate them.

Got You Under My Skin by SakuraTsukikage: Explicit, Steve/Tony (Ultimates). This is Ults universe so it's a little harsher than the usual, but that really works for it -- Steve is so confused and adrift, and Tony is so insecure and damaged, and it's FANTASTIC. (They get their shit together in the end.)