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    Character-swap, ladies-centric AU, inspired by But we are not men by moonhine_givens.

    Also brought to you by two versions of the same song:
    The Hand That Thieves by Toh Kay
    The Hands That Thieve by Streetlight Manifesto
    Mainly because I was so desperate to see Justified fic based on the album.

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    In the months after Sauron's defeat, a village on the outskirts of Gondor prepares for the winter as best it can. Their crop yield was poor, trade remains disrupted, and they aren't hunters by profession. The world was saved, or so they were told; but heroism can't fill your stomach.

    In the mountains nearby, some unlikely settlers find themselves in a position to offer charity.

    (I'm obsessed with the idea of redeemable/free orcs rn)

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    05 Nov 2025

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    “What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” Clint says, instead.

     

    Barnes snorts. “Having a drink,” he says, then gives Clint another one of those appraising looks. “You a professional?” he says, after a second, and Clint is momentarily confused.

     

    A professional what?

     

    And then he realizes Barnes must be talking about pool, and Clint huffs a laugh. “Only when there’s money involved,” he says, smirking, and Barnes kind of nods, like that makes any sort of sense.

     

    Then Barnes nods again, a little more firmly, and says “You got a place?”

     

    Which is about the point that Clint realizes that he’s not meeting the Winter Soldier in a bar, he’s being picked up by the Winter Soldier in a bar and-

     

    “Yeah,” he croaks, clears his throat, thinks wildly that he’s really fucking glad Kate has Lucky for a few days, and says “Yeah, I got a place.”

     

    Or, how Bucky got his groove back.

    (And Clint too, but it was a different sort of groove)

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    02 Nov 2025

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    09 Sep 2025

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    A tiny bit of a reverse Beauty & the Beast. The beautiful scholar prince of a conquered country is given in marriage to the monstrous warrior queen of their conquerors, in an effort to keep his family and his kingdom safe. It's possible that his new wife didn't expect him to be quite as pragmatic about it as he is, though. To be fair, his family didn't either.

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    09 Jul 2025

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    He was such a pragmatic creature, their brother. Practical, calmly accepting. He was so fragile-looking, so beautiful and delicate and absent-minded. And underneath it, so horrifying. Perhaps the she-beast was not the only monster in this marriage. Perhaps his brother was not so grossly outmatched as he'd thought. She looked warmly upon him now. The she-beast looked at his brother with the beginnings of what might have been respect.

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    Jennifer doesn't get sacrificed. The future unfolds, as futures tend to. AU.

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    09 Jul 2025