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I don't believe in much (but I believe in you) by stepsofthepalace
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Widow (Movie 2021), Hawkeye (TV 2021), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
02 Apr 2026
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Hanahaki. The disease of unrequited love.
It seemed absolutely ludicrous - a disease so rare and so beyond reason that most people dismissed it as a hoax or sheer fiction. But in a world with aliens and wizards and magic gemstones that rewrite reality, maybe it wasn’t so far outside of the scope of possibility. It still seemed completely absurd though. Besides, she didn’t love Kate Bishop, right? Kate was her friend. One of the only real friends she’d ever had since Ohio, and the only current one outside of some of the freed Widows. And she wasn’t going to ruin that with something as stupid as love.
So no, unrequited love was a bullshit explanation. Unfortunately, it was also the only explanation she had, and even more unfortunately, it meant she was probably dying. Of lovesickness and flowers.
So not a cool way to die.
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Yelena goes back for that drink with Kate Bishop and ends up developing feelings for her new friend. Feelings that cause her to start coughing up flowers, which is incredibly inconvenient.
As best I can, this will be canon through Thunderbolts*
Fic title and chapter titles are from "Hanahaki (Bloom)" by molly ofgeography
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First time properly participating in a Trimberly Week!
Day 1: Fluff
Day 2: Angst
Day 3: HOT (either smut or literal heat)
Day 4: Alternate Universe
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When the school cuts her soccer team and the boy's coach won't let her try out, Trini decides to pose as her twin brother at his new boarding school. Her plan gets complicated though when she actually becomes friends with her roommate and starts getting a little too close to her new lab partner.
In honor of the Power Rangers movie and the sequel that should have been.
Also in honor of the USWNT win!
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Sophomore Robin Mills feels stuck, going to college in the same small town where she grew up. She wants to have adventures and explore the world. Soon enough though, she runs into someone who shows her that with the right people you can have lots of adventures, even just staying put.
College AU
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I've had a bad week, I could use a friend by stepsofthepalace
Fandoms: Power Rangers (2017)
26 Mar 2018
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Another look at the locker scene.
Title is from St. Patrick by Nathan Leigh
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aqua regia by polarkai
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Widow (Movie 2021), Hawkeye (TV 2021), Marvel (Comics), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
17 Jan 2026
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She was trying valiantly to adjust to the world around her, but it was harder than she thought it would be. Being abruptly yanked out of chemical subjugation had been disorienting at best and dehumanizing at worst, as she tried and failed to learn how to be a person again.
At least before the Blip, she’d had Natalia to guide her. Now, Yelena had no one.
…Or so she thought.
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- Part 2 of when facing the things we turn away from
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16 May 2025
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When Kim wakes up, her head is fucking pounding.
or: throwing yourself in the path of imminent death isn't all it's cracked up to be when you have people that care about you
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- Part 6 of pink lemonade
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06 Aug 2019
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Who knew that saving a pretty girl from a rude merchant would send Trini’s life spiralling out of control? Not Trini, that’s for sure, but she wouldn't trade it for anything.
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31 Jul 2019
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(don't ask why) I can paint a picture of you in my mind by crosshatches
Fandoms: Power Rangers (2017)
23 Jul 2019
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She used to be able to just feel the urge to draw and pluck something from her imagination to work on. Now, every time she goes to put pen to paper it’s nothing but Kim. And it’s fucking embarrassing. So, she shoves it deep, deep down into the depths of her chest, as far as it allows, and settles herself in the fact that she’s cursed to just let her feelings pour out into sketches in a notebook and remain there, forever, unspoken.
or; trini has a bunch of sketches of kim in her biology notebook and she's fine with living with her huge crush until she accidentally gives kim the wrong notebook and oh god she's got to get that thing back before kim sees.
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24 Jul 2019
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My telling of Alice and Robin coming together in the Enchanted Forest before the curse. Double Stuff Cutesy Fluff. I ship these two so hard now and though they deserved a story.
Feed the Author. Let me know what you think. Jedi mind tricking you to Push the Kudos Button.Series
- Part 1 of Curious Archer
Bookmarked by stepsofthepalace
14 Oct 2018