Only the Most Beautiful
The gorgeous, gut-punching, life-affirming fics I come back to time and time again. Sometimes it's love, unrequited or fulfilled. Sometimes it's friendship, family. Sometimes it's angst and horror and unhappy endings, sometimes everything is soft and nothing hurts.
Mostly Marvel, with some other gems. Use the bookmarks to see the full list of works with collector's commentary. Skip to the best-of-the-best if you want to be like that, but they're all the best.
(Maintained by WaterMe)
(Open, Moderated)
Random works
-
morning in the burned house by antivenom
Fandoms: Deadpool - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types
02 Jul 2020
Tags
Summary
Wade’s got a defense mechanism. Grin and bear it.
But the thing is, Wade’s angry into his bones.
(Or, this is what happens when a seemingly unassuming, run-of-the-mill hit gets personal)
-
Tags
Summary
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. In 1985, Remus Lupin realizes that Sirius Black is innocent. Now, he just has to prove it.
(written for the 2009 RS Games, Team AU)
Now featuring original illustrations by the fabulously talented glaciergrace.
-
Tags
Summary
When Julian volunteered to spend six months on Cardassia he set in motion a chain of events which forever changed his life - and Garak's.
-
Tags
Summary
“Strangely intimate.”
-
Daydreaming by Gement
Fandoms: STAS, BTAS, Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Sandman (Comics)
18 Jan 2021
Tags
Summary
Bruce Wayne is being haunted. Whoever heard of a ghost that only comes out in sunlight?
(Or, the least goth ghost story of all time, in which Bruce alarms his loved ones, spites Lex Luthor, and makes
outfriends with a ghost.)Series
- Part 7 of Superbat Saturdays
Random bookmarks
-
Bookmarked by WaterMe
02 May 2021
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
There's this John Darnielle quote about his song "This Year" that I think about a lot, about being seventeen and wearing his dad's old coat with a bottle of whiskey hidden in the lining and sitting behind a pinball machine with a girl, drinking until he's tipsy enough to face driving home and getting the shit beat out of him by his step-dad.
I keep meaning to write about it, because every time I listen to the album it hits me right in the chest and I think about it for days. And I may still write about it, but this one may have done a better job of it than I could have.
-
4 Minute Window by Speranza
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Jan 2015
Tags
Summary
"Look, if they catch me," Bucky muttered, "they're either going to kill me or they're going to put me in a box with a little window and—Steve, I can't."
Series
- Part 1 of 4 Minute Window
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 24,127
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 20
- Comments:
- 1,726
- Kudos:
- 17,556
- Bookmarks:
- 5,444
- Hits:
- 343,547
Bookmarked by WaterMe
22 Jan 2020
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
The post-Civil War fic where Bucky rescues Steve, instead.
-
not an end, but (the start of all things) by notcaycepollard
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
01 May 2019
Tags
Summary
They keep driving, for lack of anything better to do. A mission, Sam had said, and maybe that's true; maybe wherever they're headed is the way out, the way up.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 11,267
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 141
- Kudos:
- 2,415
- Bookmarks:
- 567
- Hits:
- 18,558
Bookmarked by WaterMe
06 May 2019
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
endgame, from another perspective
-
Summer Ice. by elastic honey (infernoconcealed)
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types, Spider-Man/Deadpool - Joe Kelly (Comics)
11 Apr 2019
Tags
Summary
Spiderman/Deadpool, teamup comics.
They decide they're gonna try taking the weekends off.
Slice of Life. Emotional Porn. Real Porn.Video Games | Krav Maga | Sex | 911 Calls
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,535
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 87
- Kudos:
- 911
- Bookmarks:
- 190
- Hits:
- 12,023
Bookmarked by WaterMe
06 Jan 2020
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
"For reasons that are altogether mystifying, Peter is suited up in full Spidey gear at 10am on his day off, those khol-colored cat eyes sharp enough to slit a throat, pretty enough to stop a heart. Legs strew to either side, he presses against the chair in frustration, because even in the most unlikely of situations, Webs is nothing short of a wet dream."
(One of those gloriously layered stories that you have to read a few times to truly feel the weight of. I keep coming back to it.)
-
I'll build a house inside of you by magdaliny
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
30 Jul 2015
Tags
Summary
Natalia is stacking blocks very carefully when the adults come into the room. None of them look at her, because they're all looking at her father. He's wearing combat gear, and the hair on the left side of his head is slicked back with blood. He smells like smoke and something unnameable, sweet and dark and a little sickly in her nose.
Father is saying, “Don't be ridiculous. The only thing children are good at is disobeying.”