If I Don't Wake Up Dead

by copperbadge

Clint Barton -- sunny, ex-carnie white trash, spy -- isn't the kind of guy Captain America goes for. Nobody informed Captain America of this.

105 pages, ebook

Published November 21, 2013

About the author

See also author Sam Starbuck.
Copperbadge on Tumblr, LJ, and DW, @ouija_sam on twitter.
http://copperbadge.tumblr.com/
http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/pr...
http://copperbadge.dreamwidth.org/pro...
http://sam-storyteller.dreamwidth.org...

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wouldn't have even started this one, based on the AO3 tags, if I hadn't enjoyed a number of others from Copperbadge (a.k.a. Sam_storyteller). Turns out, the writing itself, and the emotional depth, are as good as ever, so I liked the initial stages well enough (2.75±), when it was just about what's apparently called "service submission" (control and caretaking), especially since there's some mutuality. However, I'm afraid I just can't enjoy reading about pain, one "good guy" getting whipped by another, et cetera — the final coda (post-CA: Civil War, which, BTW, I have so far, deliberately, still not watched) gets serious in the D/s depiction! — even if it's what he wants.
I read even that final chapter, despite the clear, specific warnings — I guess to see how I would react — but concluded that my horizons are broad enough. I'm afraid my inner voice is a bit judgemental, not that either of them is "bad", but that this is not an emotionally, psychologically (nor, obviously, physically) healthy "therapeutic" method for getting through difficult circumstances.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

95 - 2022

So... no civil war?

[B · Rating 4 out of 5]

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