What I Read this Week

It's been a crazy couple of weeks since Tumblr imploded. In between running around like a headless chicken trying to wrestle with the sense of loss mixed with the excitement of adapting to a new social media platform, my tabs of fanfiction have been sitting unread. A pity, but I thought I'd at least share the two most memorable fics I read this week.

Korpimaan kutsu (9905 words) by rohkeutta, Feanor_in_leather_pants
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
It's a Steve/Bucky fic based on Finnish folklore and you do get a sense of the fairytale strangeness and undercurrent of darkness. That said, it was actually a rather lighthearted read and I found the quest for Bucky's dowry to be very easily solved and left poor Bucky just lightly battered enough for Steve to kiss it all better~ I loved every single minute of it.

I wonder if my impression was influenced by the other fic which I'd also finished this week.

For Love of Mithril (56519 words) by erunyauve
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Now this fic, this fic. I'll be minding my own business, when out of the blue, I start wondering about some line or other and then I have to look it up. It is a trap. Each. And. Every. Time. There has never been once where I don't end up reading it from start to finish and hurt inside. The ship, Celebrimbor/Gil-galad, is extremely rare and yet Erunyauve manages to slot that all in in such a way that you believe that the events here are plausible in canon. Were my feelings gut punched, stomped to a bloody pulp and tossed in the trash? Yes. Was it worth it? Absolutely.

Fics I still have in the tabs: Baba by Crownofpins and Scenes from a Marriage: The Studebaker by Speranza