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Hollow Your Bones Like a Bird's (In Which Tony Stark Builds Himself Some Friends
Fandom: The Avengers
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, pre-Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
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In the wake of the Chitauri invasion, Clint Barton wakes up in a world that he very nearly had a hand in destroying. And confronting a loss he might not be able to cope with.
The Avengers always needed something to avenge, but once the crisis is past, what keeps them together?
Note: Although this is currently listed 6th in the series, this takes place before Some Things Shouldn't Be a Chore.
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, pre-Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
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In the wake of the Chitauri invasion, Clint Barton wakes up in a world that he very nearly had a hand in destroying. And confronting a loss he might not be able to cope with.
The Avengers always needed something to avenge, but once the crisis is past, what keeps them together?
Note: Although this is currently listed 6th in the series, this takes place before Some Things Shouldn't Be a Chore.
383 pages, ebook
First published April 14, 2013
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December 26, 2020
KIlls me every fucking time, but what a way to die.
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I didn't even know I needed this ship until I read this story. And I do. I need it so fucking much.
Oh. My. God.
Just all the crying happening all up in here. I don't have the words for it. Just...awesome. Loved the bird analogies, and the writing was just so well done. And I may have missed my bed time by basically the entire night, just so I could read this, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. The rest of the series that I have read so far is really good, but this one takes the cake.
I'm just really tired, and really wrung out (i used an obscene amount of tissues reading this. and not in any of the fun ways!). The words....just I....there are no words....
Yes there are: more. now.
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I didn't even know I needed this ship until I read this story. And I do. I need it so fucking much.
Oh. My. God.
Just all the crying happening all up in here. I don't have the words for it. Just...awesome. Loved the bird analogies, and the writing was just so well done. And I may have missed my bed time by basically the entire night, just so I could read this, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. The rest of the series that I have read so far is really good, but this one takes the cake.
I'm just really tired, and really wrung out (i used an obscene amount of tissues reading this. and not in any of the fun ways!). The words....just I....there are no words....
Yes there are: more. now.
March 31, 2014
My favourite of all scifigrl47's stories. She does Tony Stark and his crazytrain superbly well, but his one is about Clint Barton, my favourite amongst all the Avengers. Watching Clint pull himself up by his bootstraps is heartbreaking, listening to him classify his colleagues in ornithological terms is thoroughly riveting and you need to be totally heartless not to enjoy the ending.
February 25, 2016
I am sick as a dog... so obviously the first thing I did this morning was opened up my kindle with this book. I spent 98% of my time in tears, snot everywhere, Kleenexes around and my head hurt like hell. Then I finished up and went to sleep. Now I finally have the strength to tell how much brilliant this book was. Like seriously absolutely perfect. I loved it. Every single detail, Clint and Doc's relationship, Clint and other Avengers. And finally Clint and Phil. I cried like a baby thanks to Frigga and Clint scene near the end.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 29, 2019
Me, early 2019: “I just don’t enjoy fanfic. I mean, Steve and Tony as a pair? Clint and Phil? I’m not buying it. And don’t get me started on Bucky. And his hair.
My (wiser) cousin: You just need GOOD fanfic. Here, read this.
Me: Oh. OH. This is fantastic! Like, better than a bunch of “actual books” I’ve read this year. Is there more?
Wiser Cousin: A deluge that looks like the flood of Isengard
I’m so happy.
My (wiser) cousin: You just need GOOD fanfic. Here, read this.
Me: Oh. OH. This is fantastic! Like, better than a bunch of “actual books” I’ve read this year. Is there more?
Wiser Cousin: A deluge that looks like the flood of Isengard
I’m so happy.
October 21, 2014
3.5 stars
October 26, 2015
Perfection. Absolute perfection.
April 5, 2019
Plot-chronologically precedes all the rest of this series except "SHIELD Has Paperwork for Everything" (the romance origin story for Clint Barton and Phil Coulson) and the only(?) serious, high-angst series entry: set during the time when everyone (except Fury) believes Clint, as Loki's puppet, has killed Coulson.
I started with #1 (STSBaC), but I'm now reading the stories according to the chronology found on AO3's series page, and it was very odd to jump from this tear-evoking prequel to the much lighter Clint found in #2, "Ordinary Workplace Hazards (or, S&OAoST)". (They are barely shown together, and not "out" as a pair, anyway, during #1.) It's definitely an excellent story, though, as long as you know what you're getting.
N.b., yes, some typos, but not a ton of them.
Oh, and it also has some very interesting (if in some cases not pleasant) info about a number of species of birds.
I started with #1 (STSBaC), but I'm now reading the stories according to the chronology found on AO3's series page, and it was very odd to jump from this tear-evoking prequel to the much lighter Clint found in #2, "Ordinary Workplace Hazards (or, S&OAoST)". (They are barely shown together, and not "out" as a pair, anyway, during #1.) It's definitely an excellent story, though, as long as you know what you're getting.
N.b., yes, some typos, but not a ton of them.
Oh, and it also has some very interesting (if in some cases not pleasant) info about a number of species of birds.
July 28, 2018
Okay. So. I have read this an unhealthy amount of times and it still guts me every. single. time.
April 11, 2018
145 - 2018
February 26, 2014
very moving. however, heed the trigger warnings. I cried like a baby, very realistic representation of depression
June 29, 2016
I've read this story close to a half a dozen times and every time it makes me cry. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. The story is beautiful and heart breaking and worth the time to read it.
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