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Twelve Step by boopboop
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Captain America - All Media Types
22 Jun 2025
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In the aftermath of New York, the freshly formed team is still trying to figure out how to live and work together without some kind of property damage.
Naturally, nothing says 'Team Bonding' like the decision to fix their fearless leader's love-life and hunt down an AWOL Steve Rogers.
Or, the Thunderbolts break a few timelines, attempt to un-fuck history, and decide they maybe, possibly, kinda tolerate each other in the process.
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- 79,538
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28 Jun 2025
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reasons why you don't want to talk (about reasons why you don't want to talk) by napricot
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
31 Aug 2024
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“What is all this?”
“Keys to Steve’s place in Brooklyn, and his motorcycle. Some records about his, ah, accounts and things. He—well, he hasn’t been declared officially dead, we can’t, you know, say anything about the time travel, but—”
“He’s not coming back,” says Bucky, before Banner has to try to couch it softly, or spare Bucky’s assumed feelings. It’s a courtesy Bucky doesn’t need. His feelings have seemed very far away since Steve left. “I know.”
"Yeah, so, uh, I just figured you should have all this."
Bucky is doing fine after the Blip. He has his amends, he has his exit strategies, he goes to therapy. Steve's gone, but that's fine, Bucky can deal with that, even if he can't deal with feeling like a ghost in the apartment that Steve left behind. But when Steve returns, they'll both have to deal with how to rebuild a friendship and a home that are haunted by the ghosts of who they used to be. Their methods of doing so are perhaps less than ideal, what with how they involve more sex and stealthy surprise interior decoration than any actual communication. Maybe that's all they need to make a new home together.
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01 Sep 2024
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Lost Vocabularies that Might Express (The Memory of These Broken Impressions) by dorian_burberrycanary
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
25 Mar 2024
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The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away. How’s that for some consolation on the road?
A post-The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Stucky fix-it as part of the all-American road trip, detours included.
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- 111,277
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- 47/47
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13 Apr 2024
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The good life never ends by pushdragon
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
30 Sep 2023
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The Flag Smashers are dealt with and the shield is in the hands of a man who deserves it. But it's still not getting better for Bucky. He’s seventy years out of sync with the world, and the one person who understood has vanished to a place Bucky can’t follow. Some days his fingers itch for the order and structure of the reckoning list he left in the notebook in Dr Raynor’s office.
Go out and find yourself some goddamn occupation, his pa used to say, when he was getting up to mischief. Bucky does.
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13 Jan 2024
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Bucky and Steve's Excellent Adventure by blue_beans
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
30 Nov 2023
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Six months ago, Steve set out on a final mission to return the infinity stones to their proper timelines, and returned a minute later having lived out a life of peace and contentment with Peggy Carter in the past. He died in his sleep a few days later, surrounded by his friends. Or so Bucky assumes. He wouldn't know, he'd been busy being locked up on the Raft while the government decided whether or not to pardon him for the whole Winter Soldier thing.
What with the court-mandated therapy and the constant surveillance by alphabet agencies and the crushing weight of his past, he's not sure if giving him a chance at "normal life" is more cruel than the alternative. But he's doing fine. Great, actually, so don't ask. He didn't have a nightmare. Especially not that strangely disturbing one about Steve...
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AKA I wanted to write the reverse time-heist and I'm still salty about Endgame. This is the result.
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01 Dec 2023
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Patroclus Lost by mscirce (avengerslut)
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
15 Nov 2020
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In which Bucky prepares French appetizers and ignores the man who abandoned him and all his broken pieces.
In which Sam Wilson knocks on Bucky's door to the tune of "Trouble Man", carrying a six pack in one hand and an unwanted message in the other.
In which Steve sits alone miles away, but his presence lingers in every nook of the two mens' lives.
A post-endgame ficlet that felt more obligation than desire. Set between endgame and FATWS if it ever does come out.
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- 3,111
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06 Sep 2023
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Winter Soldier's Endgame (Stucky Version) by DCAngst
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Feb 2023
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Christ, Bucky, what have you done?
He forced his gaze away from the screen and ran outside, thankful that he’d brought the suit. His car was parked just past the throng of media vans, but fortunately there weren’t any reporters present. He figured they were all on the other side of the building trying to cover the chase. Sam opened his trunk, pulled out the case, and suited up.
POST Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Bucky finds himself in serious legal trouble. With his future looking grim, he decides to cross off one more of his amends and travel through time to try to save Tony Stark.
This is a stand-alone sequel to Winter Soldier Resurrection (Part 1 of the series). You don't have to read the prequel to understand this story, but I highly recommend it and it'll give background on the time travel device. Part 1 is a fun, angsty story with lots of good Tony, Natasha, Steve, Sam, and Bucky moments. :) (And it's only 38K words).
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08 Aug 2023
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if I'm gonna get back to you someday by napricot
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
26 Jul 2023
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“What’s the plural for a group of Steves?” asks Natasha, and it’s weirdly comforting that the question has a hint of whimsical hysteria to it. Good, Bucky’s not the only one who’s not dealing well with all of this.
“A clusterfuck,” he says. “A clusterfuck of Steves.”
Despite how little sense his life has made since he got on a battlefield to fight a bunch of aliens, Bucky's pretty sure he knows exactly what's happened when a much older Steve appears after the mission to return the Infinity Stones: he left Bucky behind to get his much deserved happily ever after in the past. Only then another Steve shows up, and another. And Bucky realizes he still hasn't got any idea what's going on.
What he does have is a whole lot of Steves, a fraught relationship with his own Steve, and tentative plans to leave. But the more Bucky talks to all these different versions of Steve, the more he begins to wonder if leaving really is what's best for him and his Steve, or if there's a way to make something new out of their long friendship.
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05 Aug 2023
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05 Aug 2023
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Not Easily Conquered by dropdeaddream, WhatAreFears
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Jul 2015
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05 Jun 2023
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An apple pie, white picket fence American Nightmare. Dean and Cas, married and semi-retired from hunting, move into their first house together in a sleepy, secluded town. After a few run ins with the ghost that haunts the place, they must come face-to-face with the house's grisly past.
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- Part 5 of Halloween Horror
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22 Sep 2022
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A 14.13 Lebanon rewrite. When Dean uses a wish-granting pearl to try and kill the archangel Michael before he can escape the cage in Dean's head, they instead wind up with a newly-resurrected John Winchester.
It's been more than a decade since John died, and a lot has changed: Mary is alive, Sam and Dean have what passes for a proper home in the Men of Letters Bunker, and they're living with angels. John doesn't know angels are real, he doesn't know about the fragile new relationship between Dean and Castiel, and most of all, he doesn't know that Dean said yes to Michael, or that Dean's plan to defeat Michael would send him to a fate worse than death.
Now Dean must contend with both his father asking questions he can't answer, and his loved ones learning about the darker truths of his childhood, all while constantly battling the archangel trapped inside him. But Dean coming to terms with his history may be the difference between this being the beginning of a journey—or the end.
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- Part 2 of a triptych of dean/cas
- Part 3 of the greatest works, liz edition
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06 Nov 2021
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Two Deans, one Cas - it's not as sexy as it sounds
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An ethics lesson from Hell
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The one where Dean from the past meets Dean in the present. They're not sure they like each other very much.
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06 Nov 2021
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It’s partly to silence his own thoughts, and partly to explain his shell-shocked reaction that Dean says, “I didn’t even think that angels could feel stuff like that.”
Cas’s face goes blank. Neither Dean nor Cas say anything or look at the other for a long moment.
“To be fair, I don’t think angels are supposed to,” Cas finally says, voice rougher than it had been, and somehow distant. “Even as a human, I’ve never had a soul.” There’s a glassy look in Cas’ eye as he stares past a spot on the wall, and his voice dips quiet. “What should it feel like? To be in love?”
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Dean didn't think that angels could feel love. He's very wrong about that. But he's also determined to make up for his mistake.
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- Part 1 of All your secret wishes
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30 Mar 2021
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The briefing was simple: ‘Stand guard over the Michael Sword until the battle is ready to commence. Await further instructions.’
Castiel doesn’t mind working security duty; he was briefed shortly after the initial salvation of the Sword from the pit, and again before taking up his position. He knows what to do. However, it’s easy to forget that the green room isn’t real. Time moves differently there, the space ever-changing to make a prison of mountains, cathedrals, salt flats, orchards, and whatever Castiel was led to believe about Heaven’s greatest weapon—Dean Winchester is something entirely unexpected.
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- 11/11
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23 Mar 2021
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dean used to turn tricks. over a decade later, he met cas.
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07 Oct 2020
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God is dead. Sammy finally has what he always wanted. The kid is alive again and trying to figure out the whole human schtick. Cas – Cas is complicated, like always. And Dean is barreling headfirst into a mental breakdown. It’s the end of the road so far, and the future never looked so frightening.
“I can’t,” Dean stammers into Cas’s chest. “With you – I can’t.” And Cas goes very still, stops rubbing his hand up and down Dean’s back. But I want to. Please, Cas, don’t leave me. Because I want to.
“Dean,” Cas says, still not moving. “I can tell you’re praying to me, but I can’t hear you. I’m sorry.”
An alternate ending to the series, focusing a lot on *feelings* and *mental health* and *processing trauma* – because, you know, what’s better than that?
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- Part 1 of carry on 'verse
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- 91,862
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- 18/18
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27 Sep 2020
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“Sam, you gotta hear about this ghost story I found the other day,” Susanne says over the speakerphone, just as loud as she has been for the last half hour.
For the most part, Castiel ignores her—or tries—and concentrates on the beads dangling from between his fingers, centerpiece pressed to his forehead. Praying doesn’t work, but some mornings, when the coffee doesn’t get him going and the walls feel more like a prison than a home, he sits at the library table and whispers empty words into the crucifix, like Jesus can ease the festering ache in his chest.
He can’t—no one else can either.
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06 Sep 2020
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Your Mess Is Mine (Inktober for Writers/Fictober 2017-2018) by livingvakariouslythroughyou
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), Jessica Jones (TV), The Defenders (Marvel TV)
07 Jul 2020
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“Where’s your booze?” she asks over her shoulder.
He chuckles at her as he follows her into his apartment. “Top of the fridge. Pour me one too? Glasses are in the cabinet directly to the left.”
“You’ve got a lot to learn about me, Murdock. Because I don’t need a glass," she scoffs, crossing to the kitchen.
He stops at the edge of the counter, shaking his head at her as she arrives at the fridge and reaches into the cabinet above. “Oh, I know. The glass is for me so that I get some amount of whiskey before you drink the entire bottle.”
"Fast learner. Maybe you’re not as dumb as I thought," she says, smirking.
“Wow. Now, that is the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me.”
She downs a hefty swig and shrugs. “I’m feeling magnanimous today. But don’t count on that continuing.”
“I don’t know. I think I’m growing on you, Jones.”
“Don’t push your luck, Murdock.”
“Wouldn’t dream of it.” ---
A collection of the Inktober for Writers/Fictober one-shots I wrote on tumblr for everyone’s favorite snarky duo. They all exist in the same world (ish) and unless otherwise specified, could probably be read along with my other stuff.
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07 Jul 2020
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If Franklin can't cut it as a butcher, he'll be a lawyer, his mom decides. Foggy thinks things will start looking up at that point.
Boy, was he ever wrong.
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16 May 2020