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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Bucky Barnes is the star defenseman for the New York Saints: rich, reckless, adored, and very good at pretending that none of it feels empty.

    Lena Rabinovich is a pediatric music therapist with overdue bills, a dead mother, an overworked father, and no patience for men who mistake charm for character.

    Their first meeting ends with stolen grocery-store sushi.

    Their second ends with Lena booing him through the glass after he scores.

    Unfortunately for both of them, Bucky is harder to dismiss once Lena sees him off the ice, with his family, with sick children, with the people he loves and the parts of himself he tries to hide. And Lena is harder to forget once Bucky realizes she is not impressed by his money, his fame, or his carefully practiced smile.

    He thinks he wants the chase.

    She thinks she wants nothing permanent.

    Neither of them is prepared for what happens when wanting starts to feel less like a game and more like being known.

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    16 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    Some wounds don’t bleed. They just teach you how to disappear. Before being adopted, you learned early that love had rules: don’t ask, don’t need, don’t take up space. Bucky – your brother in everything but blood – was the only exception. Now you’re an adult, brilliant, controlled, almost untouchable… until one dinner shatters the fragile balance.

    This is a heavy emotional slow burn with taboo-adjacent family dynamics, trauma recovery, and an eventual happy ending.

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    06 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    MCU alternate universe where the Avengers are a happy family after the events of CACW. Self insert slow burn where reader is a failed HYDRA experiment sold to the Red Room. Once detained by the Avengers, the team trains her to fight for good, while she battles her own fractured mind and memories of the Winter Soldier.

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    04 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 58

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    ‘Please,’ Bucky manages in a strangled tone, ‘stop saying that word.’

    ‘Mas-turb-a-tion. Come on Bucky. Are you a prude?’

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    Bucky learns you don’t masturbate, and sets out to fix that.

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    02 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 15

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    Noemi Vega is a lot of things: a world-class criminal profiler, a S.H.I.E.L.D. veteran, and the girl with the blue hair currently standing in the middle of the Avengers’ common room.

    She’s spent her career reading people like open books, but James Barnes is a redacted file with the spine torn off. He’s grumpy, he’s hyper-vigilant, and he’s determined to stay in the shadows of the Compound. But Noemi doesn't do shadows. Armed with her forensic psychology degree, a pair of Lisa Frank Crocs, and a tiny dog in an Iron Man shirt, she’s about to prove to the Winter Soldier that he isn't a puzzle to be solved—he's a man who deserves to be seen.

    Bucky just wanted to read his book in peace. Noemi is about to make sure he never has a quiet moment again.

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    29 Apr 2026