RECCING THIS SO HARD CAPSLOCK IS NOT ENOUGH. Transhuman by gabby_silang

[quigonejinn]

It's a repeated transmission from a SHIELD orbiting satellite. It's been on a loop for days. It says, in mathematics, in spatial information, "Tony, can you hear us? Wake up."

In an hour, he's figured out how to reply. They'll tell him later that it was received as an email sent from their own IP address saying only, I AM AWAKE.

This is one of the best pieces of fanfiction I have read in my frighteningly long time in fandom. Fandom, period. Not Iron Man fandom. Not X-Men fandom (because yeah, this is all about the border between human and not-human, so there is Tony and Extremis and Jean motherfucking Grey and a surprise guest I am not going to spoil for). It is not terribly long, and it is not terribly involved, but it is just flat-out, breath-takingly imaginative and controlled and thoughtful and just plain, flat out, motherfucking move.

The tips of her fingers are so warm on him, and the gold leaves just start streaming further, all the way to his knuckles before he can stop it. When she pulls away there are two spaces left where it's just his skin surrounded by the undersheath, in the shape of her fingerprints.

gabby_silang, man. This fic, man.

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[gabbysilang]

Thank you! Again. Goddamn, do you remember when we started talking about this? The tyranny of superhuman-ness, Tony's need to other himself, something he can only do at the expense of other people.

Seriously, thank you. I look at this, and I see Hive.