Avengers recs, encore

The great thing about a big fandom like the Avengers is that so much gets written, which means that once you filtered out the kind of stories you don't care for, there are still more than enough left to filll your particular fannish tastes.  Of course, the flipside of this is that the sheer amount of tales means it's hard work to filter (while in small fandoms you're lucky if four or so stories per year to your liking get written) among the tidal wave of writing. Which is why I find rec posts helpful, and why I'm writing them now and then. :)

In my case, digging as I do the ensembleness and Natasha, it's not hard to figure out what will make me happy:

Anatomy for children: Natasha starts to adjust to her new not-quite-friends. Her pov on everyone sounds completely plausible.

walk a while beside you: Five observations Bruce has about living with Natasha in Stark Tower with the rest of the Avengers. This, conversely, is Bruce's pov on Natasha and the way she interacts with everyone.

Soft Skills: The team tries to bring Steve Rogers into the 21st Century. It mostly works. One of the things I really appreciate about the story is that it presents Steve not as some naive manchild and remembers the 1940s weren't the stone age.  It's delightful, and the humor and banter isn't one note.