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If Beatrice Page knows anything, it’s how to stay out of trouble. Walking on eggshells at home, keeping her head down at school, working herself to death just for a single shot at her dream of college—it’s all survival, just a means to an end.
But when an injured Spider-Man falls through her bedroom window, the one secret she’s spent her entire life protecting is put at risk. The estranged Peter Parker suddenly wants to reconnect, Tony Stark somehow knows her name, and the father she never knew turns up out of the blue.
Friendships are tested, secrets unravel, and Bea is left to pick up the pieces of her life, wondering if anything can ever go back to the way it was.
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After Marlene’s murder, Dorcas abandons the Order of the Phoenix for a life of solitude, her grief festering like an untended wound. She shuts herself away in Meadowes Manor, where she uncovers a spellbook belonging to a long dead ancestor. Within its pages lies danger and temptation—no spell can pierce the veil between the living and the dead, but the book offers another way.
Dorcas seizes that chance with both hands, but magic like that carries a hefty price. And when the last of the Death Eaters catch wind of what she’s done, they’ll stop at nothing to claim the ritual for themselves and restore their Dark Lord.
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Could this be how every day begins?
The sky set to burst, the gold and the rust
The colour erupts
You filling my cup, the sun coming upLike I lived my whole life
Before the first light~
After the events of the almost-Apocalypse, Crowley tempts Aziraphale into sleeping for the first time. Days later, the angel wakes in the early hours to find his demon asleep beside him and his bookshop flooded in almost heavenly sunlight. And when Crowley opens his eyes, Aziraphale remembers why his favourite colour is yellow.
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“I won’t laugh.” Bucky straightens out both his back and his expression and scoots closer, knee colliding with Sam’s own. He keeps it there; it feels hot and solid, even through the kevlar. “C’mon, I promise. Just tell me.”
Sam turns it over in his head for a long moment. Swallows hard. Rubs his palms across his thighs.
“Okay,” he says, looking away. “Do you believe in ghosts, man?”
Bucky laughs, the asshole.
Sam has been haunted all his life. This is the first time he's ever thought of telling anyone about it.
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23 Mar 2025
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Astronomy In Reverse by pansley
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
14 Mar 2021
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A year after the Winter Soldier failed his mission in DC, Bucky Barnes is doing his best to stay under the radar from both Hydra and Steve Rogers. His hope for a peaceful day-to-day life in limbo goes awry, however, when he meets Queens’ newest hero; a pure-hearted kid with a death wish and a ridiculous pair of red and blue pajamas.
The last thing Steve expects when he finally tracks Bucky down is that, not only has the man been living in Queens all this time, right under his nose, but also that, in the two years since they last saw each other, Bucky somehow acquired a kid.
Alternatively: How Peter Parker effectively fucks over Bucky Barnes, and also totally saves him.
Fanart by Monireh on AO3 and tumblr
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- Part 1 of Winter!Dad
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12 Feb 2025
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The Third Option by Uncertainty_Principle
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Jan 2020
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Homecoming AU.
Ben and May divorced before Peter’s parents died, so when Ben is murdered Peter goes into foster care. It takes just a tiny taste of superpowers for Peter to decide he doesn’t want to put up with his horrible foster father anymore—the streets are infinitely more appealing. All he wants is to be Spider-Man anyway.
So he leaves.
Simple.
Simple, that is, until Iron Man needs Spider-Man’s help. Peter isn’t about to turn down an opportunity to fight alongside Tony Freaking Stark, but he also isn’t going to let his hero know that his recruit is a fifteen-year-old homeless dropout. So they strike a deal. Peter will help Tony. In return, the mask stays on.
And that’s when things get complicated.
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19 Jan 2025
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Dean Winchester is on the run from his life. He's done something unforgivable, and can't face his family or friends ever again. So he does what any rational person would do: fakes his own death and vanishes into the ether.
Wandering aimlessly along country roads, he succumbs to the elements during a violent storm and wakes up hours later in the home of a stranger: a single dad living alone in an isolated beach house, with a haunting past of his own. Cas is sweet and shy, but welcomes Dean into his home and tells him he can stay as long as he needs, never prying into his life or asking him to spill his secrets.
As they rapidly forge a close friendship, Dean finds that the quiet life by the ocean with Cas is exactly what he's been dreaming of. He only hopes his past never catches up with him.
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- Part 1 of California Blue Skies
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01 Jan 2025
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What begins as a transforming love between Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak in the summer of 1965 quickly derails into something far more tumultuous when Dean is drafted in the Vietnam War. Though the two both voice their relationship is one where saying goodbye is never a real truth, their story becomes fraught with the tragedy of circumstance. In an era where homosexuality was especially vulnerable, Twist and Shout is the story of the love transcending time, returning over and over in its many forms, as faithful as the sea.
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17 Jun 2024