Okay, cool, still untempted. I'm not sure I could cherry pick the good bits knowing all that was coming down the pike.

I'm so glad to hear others are reading Hollow Your Bones Like a Bird. I tend to restrict myself to Steve/Tony, just because I have too much to read already, but I love scifigrl47's stories beyond belief. I haven't read the last chapter yet, but it sounds like I better go do that ASAP.

I feel like I might have exhausted my ability to find new (good) Steve/Tony, but that can't be true, and I wonder if that's because the top google hits are mostly movie 'verse or 616 and I don't know any communities/accounts to watch. But I think I haven't yet plumbed the depths of Ults.

I love beginning stories. Pre-slash that ends in slash. Actually, my tastes for S/T and C/P are the same as for D/C: meet, bicker, fall in love, all amidst lots of violence and whump. Save the fluff for the timestamps.

Just finished a C/C "pre-slash" (it's totally gen) that dealt with mind-control in a completely new way that was really great. Couldn't for the life of me tell you what it was, except that it was long and spanned decades.

I tend to just go to AO3, search on my pairing and then sort by hit count. I won't say you always get the best fics, sometimes only the most popular for a particular trope, but it does help sort the wheat from the chaff.

Also, this is a fairly extensive rec list of longer S/T fics: [link] , but most of them have been around for a while so you've probably already found them.

I've currently got a Clint/Coulson most-recent search open from AO3 and I'm looking at stuff from the past few days. I generally search by word count and complete.

What is the general etiquette of a stranger suggesting corrections in the comments?

I noticed an error in a scaramouche fic, so I messaged her on DW to tell her, and she said it was okay if I did so in comments.

I was reading another story I really liked, and I went back to the beginning, and noticed inconsistencies with her last chapter. Not anyone I've ever had dealings with (I've had short comments conversations with Annie D), but they just seemed like logistics (she'd forgotten how far apart she'd established they lived, for instance, and where Sam was in school). But then it turned out to be region-picking, because of a meaning of college that's new to me, and that was a bit of a back and forth.

Her last chapter had "jumper", "cooker", and "rubbish" so I thought I'd say something, but now that it's done (she made the edits and thanked me), I feel I might have crossed a line.

I often have that question, too. No answer for you, but I usually don't say anything.

I do, but I'm often a pain in the butt. I got Kudos on an old story this morning.

What is the general etiquette of a stranger suggesting corrections in the comments?

If there's a vaguely private way, I totally do if I like the story. I prefer not to leave them in general comments because it makes *me* feel weird. But I've emailed and such.

If there's no *subtle* way, I debate how big the edit is and how much the mistake nags at me. I've gone both ways.

AO3 doesn't have a way to contact the authors, right? Sheeit, I'd feel even worse if they do, but last time I looked there wasn't a way.

And, you know, scaramouche is pretty much bulletproof and BNFlike. Her not midning doesn't have to extrapolate.

I, just...good story! Glaring British vocab in SPN story set in the US! I want to help.