Old school recs?

[blue-underwing.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking (dangerous, I know). Given that both fanfic and the Avengers have existed since well before I was born, there has fic out there that predates the movieverse. But pretty much all the fic I've seen has been written in just last couple years. I've seen maybe a couple fics from the late 2000s (civil-war fixers) and nothing from early. So my question is, does anyone know where the older fic is living, and/or have some old-school recs for me? Some of it has to be awesome.

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[blue-underwing.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links. I hadn't considered the date posted ~= date written thing for AO3. :)


I guess I was hoping there might be someone uploading pre-internet fic somewhere. I passed trough Original Star Trek fandom last year and found some awesome fic from the 70s. Of course, there is sampling bias there. If someone holds onto hardcopy fic for decades and archives it to the net, it's got to be some awesome fic. :)

PS:¯\_(ツ)_/¯? never saw this before. I may steal it.

[argeneau.livejournal.com]

If there is awesome pre-internet Avengers fic then I really hope someone considers transfering it from hard copy to digital :D Even if it's scans of the paper if the author doesn't want to transcribe it.

From all accounts, Star Trek is one of the very first fandoms to exist but that was always TV so I think fic happened a lot sooner for it, where as fic for Avengers probably increased dramatically once it went from purely comic books to TV & film - from smaller audience buying comics to larger general audience watching. But may be worth tracking down some older fansites (Geocities etc), see if they link to any fanfiction sites? :-)

And you may steal the emoticon lol! I can't remember who created it, someone on a community I mod just started using it one day a year or so ago so we made it a tag :D