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Chocolate Box!
Feb. 17th, 2018 11:34 amTo give you an idea of what this week was like, on Valentine's Day, S. and I ordered pizza because we were both too exhausted and under the weather to cook and then watched that most romantic of all things, a Black Mirror episode that wasn't even "San Junipero," and I forgot to send her the Valentine's Day story I wrote for her until two o'clock the next morning. Work has been a nightmare all week and I have yet to read anything in the collection that is not my gift but I did get to read my gifts and now finally get to talk about them in the gushing detail they deserve.
In the Area and Bodyguard are both adorable MCU Fury/Natasha stories, with the same gracefulness, attention to detail, and subtle sexiness. I love how the restraint of both these stories fits these two as individuals and as a couple: there's a process of the two of them interpreting each other and keeping cool when they feel anything but, entirely like spies in love, and it's delightful.
Let the Earth Leave You for an Hour is more MCU rarepair delight, this time for Fury/Tony, and it's a lovely. achey bit of physical and emotional hurt/comfort, with a lonely and injured Tony surprised--and tended to--by Nick Fury. There's a great wistfulness to the UST where you can feel it in the air but neither one of them is yet willing to risk going for it, and I like that carefulness and feeling of tenderness.
Susannah Descending is an incredible Dark Tower fic that mixes up everything I love about the ka-tet with some of my absolute favorite myths, Orpheus and Persephone and Lethe, and ties it all elegantly and painfully and wonderfully in with canon. Every line here bears examining and does something for the whole, and I'm kind of in awe of it. Gorgeous work.
I'm hoping to get to more of the collection in the next few days, since things should be a little bit calmer now--minus the Crowd of Very Important People coming to work on Monday and Tuesday, because of course they are--and because there's so much that looks good. But I don't think any of it could make me any happier than this particular collection of chocolates.
In the Area and Bodyguard are both adorable MCU Fury/Natasha stories, with the same gracefulness, attention to detail, and subtle sexiness. I love how the restraint of both these stories fits these two as individuals and as a couple: there's a process of the two of them interpreting each other and keeping cool when they feel anything but, entirely like spies in love, and it's delightful.
Let the Earth Leave You for an Hour is more MCU rarepair delight, this time for Fury/Tony, and it's a lovely. achey bit of physical and emotional hurt/comfort, with a lonely and injured Tony surprised--and tended to--by Nick Fury. There's a great wistfulness to the UST where you can feel it in the air but neither one of them is yet willing to risk going for it, and I like that carefulness and feeling of tenderness.
Susannah Descending is an incredible Dark Tower fic that mixes up everything I love about the ka-tet with some of my absolute favorite myths, Orpheus and Persephone and Lethe, and ties it all elegantly and painfully and wonderfully in with canon. Every line here bears examining and does something for the whole, and I'm kind of in awe of it. Gorgeous work.
I'm hoping to get to more of the collection in the next few days, since things should be a little bit calmer now--minus the Crowd of Very Important People coming to work on Monday and Tuesday, because of course they are--and because there's so much that looks good. But I don't think any of it could make me any happier than this particular collection of chocolates.