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When The Lights Go On Again (seanchai, elspethdixon)
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1-Line Reaction: Old School Fic, hello there ||
This one is on Livejournal, from 2008! I, an MCU fan who didn't get into this fandom much until a couple of years ago, always feel like I'm digging up an archeological relic when I find stuff like this. And then my PC crashes and I lose the bookmarks (of course)
616, alien invasion storyline (yay!), with a lot of characters and it is very long. Take several nights to go through it. It's really good though. Pairings are: steve/tony (eventually), hank pym/janet van dyne (established), and wanda maximoff/carol danvers, which I have never seen before but I am here for. It's time-shifted from some point in the 90s comics and there's a few characters/plotlines that I had very little or no knowledge of but it's not really overwhelming. You get to read about tony being sad and self-sacrificing and steve angsting about command and the general fun stuff that comes from running an underground resistance against an invading alien force. Also the aliens themselves were neatly developed, aside from an unfortunately distracting race name (they're called Argonians, but are not lizard people??). The only thing this fic really left me unsatisfied with was a lightly-developed plot wrap-up and the fact that Clint Barton did not get nearly enough hugging. Somebody give Clint Barton a hug, goddamit, screw you people!!



