Clint Barton

Clint Barton’s Home for Wayward Mind Wiped Assassins by rougewrld

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Title: Clint Barton’s Home for Wayward Mind Wiped Assassins

Author: rougewrld

Ship: Gen

Wordcount:6,506

Summary: “Where ever you were, whatever you did and whoever you did it for, it’s over. You need to pretend to be a person now, okay?”

Why this fic is awesome:

Combining comic book elements (of awesome Building Manager Hawkeye and Lucky aka “Pizza Dog”) with MCU. Following CA:TWS a guy shows up at Clint’s building. Clint helps him learn how to be human and in the process makes a friend who knits him socks and keeps challenging him to darts matches (and losing).

It’s a terrific, light but really well-written version of Bucky’s recovery from being the WS.

Avengers Rec: How Clint Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nancy Drew by boosette

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UPDATE 1/8/17 – this has been removed fro Ao3 (*sob*) but is currently still viewable on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20141201035207/http://archiveofourown.org/works/512332 

or https://web.archive.org/web/20160509042830/http://archiveofourown.org/works/512332

How Clint Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nancy Drew by boosette

Title: How Clint Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nancy Drew

Author: boosette

Ship: Gen

Summary: Clint Barton has an ongoing and complex relationship with libraries, used bookstores, and that one box of his mom’s romance novels he found in the coat closet when he was five.

Wordcount: 3,977

Why this fic is awesome:

Fics about bibliophiles are always a winner but what I actually love most about this is the way the author allows us to see snippets of Clint’s life over the years without ever sucking us in too deeply to simply rehashing backstory. Instead what we get is a quite a delicate dip-in-and-step-back approach which works really well- establishes the point (how Clint came to really, really like books and also kind of grew up along the way. It’s very sweet and, again, a topic I will assuredly revisit in future recs.

Keywords: Books Book Lovers Reading Reader Bibliophile