Snowflake Challenge Day 2

3 Fic recs! I'm going for "Stuff I enjoyed and have surprisingly few hits"

A Far Better Thing I Do (5333 words) by BrighteyedJill
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steve Rogers, James T. Kirk, Tony Stark, Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Nyota Uhura, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Spock (Star Trek)
Summary:

A mysterious man with no paper trail was involved in a bloody attack on a meeting of Starfleet admirals. James T. Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise have tracked him to the Klingon home wold, Kronos, where they have threatened to unleash the experimental torpedoes Admiral Marcus sent with them unless the man surrenders. That man, Steve Rogers, has other ideas.

Jill gave me something that I didn't know I desperately wanted: that instead of Benedict Cumberbatch, it was Steve Rogers who was in that capsule.

The Sun Room (6329 words) by kvikindi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Peggy Carter & Howard Stark, Peggy Carter/Gabe Jones
Characters: Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, Gabe Jones, James Jesus Angleton, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan, Jim Morita
Additional Tags: S.H.I.E.L.D., Cold War, Espionage
Summary:

Peggy Carter and Howard Stark versus the future.

Is the SHIELD founders fandom still around? Anyway, this is my favorite -- it perfectly captures that sense of ... well, gray-ness in the Cold War years. Where compromises are made, and right doesn't seem that different from wrong. I absolutely adore the Peggy voice here.

Radio to the Youth (6189 words) by Scappodaqui
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Captain America (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Jim Morita, Steve Rogers & Jim Morita, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, Jim Morita & Howling Commandos, Jim Morita/OFC, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: Jim Morita, Morita Family, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, OCs, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan, Jacques Dernier, James Montgomery Falsworth, Gabe Jones
Additional Tags: Character Study, Second Person, Period-Typical Racism, Japanese Internment, Radio Nerdery, Mentions of Violence, Canon-Typical Violence, POV Jim Morita, WW II History, Radio Propaganda
Series: Part 1 of Radio
Summary:

The idea of America rides on radio waves, chasing itself across the plains like wind whipping through wheat, and sometimes there’s a storm.

Or: Jim Morita, before and during the war, and before and after he meets Captain America. (And teaches him to start a tractor.)

Morita + radio + immigrant feels. Seriously, so many lines resonated all the way down the pit of my stomach with my Chinese-American self.

The Soldier's Kittens (11367 words) by exclamation
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Sam Wilson
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Animal Abuse, Animal Death, Kittens, Bucky Barnes Recovering, Hydra (Marvel), Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Friendship, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Everyone Needs A Hug, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Bucky Bear - Freeform
Summary:

Hydra once gave the Winter Soldier a kitten to care for as a reward. Now Steve wants Bucky to be friends with Sam, but Bucky has learned his lesson. He will never show he cares for anything or anyone ever again.

This made me sad for days, mostly because it shows HYDRA using Bucky's kindness against him. But Bucky (and Steve and Sam) come through in the end! I'm a sucker for Bucky recovering his humanity despite all of the HYDRA conditioning, and this was a quick, effective dose of that.

And a bonus -- it has too many hits to count for the above, but I absolutely love Birdbrains' Propellers series. ESPECIALLY their performative Bucky in Chapter 3 of Let Your Arms Become Propellers is basically my favorite performative!wartime!Bucky. (Although my favorite wartime!Bucky has to go to The Thirteen Letters)

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anyone else feeling the lack of images on DW?

to address that, I'm going to try posting daily screenshots from whatever I'm working on. It'd be a good way to keep me on track, too. :)