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“You said it was bad,” Lena managed to hoarsely respond after a beat too long.
Nodding, Lillian stared up at the ceiling for a moment, her throat bobbing as her lips twisted wryly. “I’m dying. Stage four pancreatic cancer.”
“How long do you have?”
“A month, maybe two.”
“Oh.”
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Returning home for the first time in twelve years to the news that her mother is dying, the last thing that Lena wants is to run into the childhood best friend she hasn't spoken to since she left Midvale all those years ago. Especially when said friend was the reason Lena swore she'd never go back home again.
Still harbouring the sting of teenage love and rejection, as well as the pressure of her unsatisfying career and resentment towards her mother, Lena's life is brought to a halt in her hometown as she's forced to confront years of repressed feelings and the truth about what she really wants out of life while waiting for her mother to die.
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03 Oct 2025
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short fuse if you light my fire by lescousinsdangereux
Fandoms: Hawkeye (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
11 Dec 2025
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“Yeah, unless I don’t finish my degree.” It’s a grumpy little mumble, barely meant for Yelena, but she responds to it nevertheless.
“What do you mean?“ she demands. “You only have a small amount of time left! Why would you stop now?”
“I don’t know,” Kate murmurs, and Yelena is bewildered to hear a faint echo in her own emptiness, coming from nearly six thousand kilometers away. “I just don’t really know what to do now, I guess. Clint says I’m the new Hawkeye, but that’s not official or anything. And even when it is, it’s going to be a lot of training. So I’m waiting to wait, or something, and — and I don’t know why I’m talking to you about this, actually.”
“Sometimes, it’s nice to just talk,” Yelena thinks and then says. “But I don’t think you should drop out of school, Kate Bishop. School is cool.”
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(Yelena decides to go to college. It just so happens to be the same one Kate Bishop attends.)
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05 Jul 2025
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Cadmus has a surprise in store for everyone when a child is found in one of their bases. Now Lena finds herself the closest relative, who isn't evil or Superman, to a toddler. With Superman wanting to avoid the boy, Kara is furious and desperate to protect this youngest member of house El. So begins the childhood of one Conner Luthor, the son of two mortal enemies and now being raised by extended family. What could go wrong?
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29 Nov 2023
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Lena’s POV of the increasingly frequent and familiar kisses Kara keeps bestowing on her in the guise of friendship in the course of their ever more connected lives, and how her poor Luthor heart copes, or tries to and an exploration of her magic and how that might bring her closer to Kara in new and unexpected ways.
Set post s6. Written as a series of short chapters in one overarching story for Suprecorptober 2023 that will cover all the tumblr prompts just a little out of order and some have been paired up as I was a little late to the party! Now Complete. Tags updated to reflect where this story ended up as it got a little longer and more complex than I'd planned!
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25 Nov 2023
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notorious for staying out of the spotlight, chart-topping, viral musician imogen shocks the world when she announces a new collaboration with indie artist LAUDNA.
what follows is a blossoming friendship that neither of them expected, a song that hits the billboard top 10 within hours after it's released, and the realization that their new fame comes with consequences.
oh, and they fall in love.
aka: taylor swiftmogen au where they're both lowkey taylor swift
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12 Nov 2023