thompsborn
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but now i see, would i even change it? by bloodfiresandabram (thompsborn) for ezroyler (heart_that_shines_like_a_hobbits)
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
25 Feb 2026
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It's impossible not to change when the world shifts beneath your feet, when you're put through hell itself and come out on the other end of it alive. When, despite everything else, despite what the universe has convinced you to expect, things end up being, somehow, okay.
In the aftermath, they are family by everything but blood.
For each of them, the realization comes at different times.
the foxes comes from broken backgrounds. that's what makes them foxes. it's no secret - in fact, the whole world laughs at them for it, for being rejects and charity cases and lost causes.
but the foxes, despite it all, are still here.
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darling, won't you take me home? by thompsborn
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
25 Nov 2025
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Comparing this year to last year, there's about a million things that have changed.
Peter isn't malnourished, depressed, and barely holding on by a thinning thread. He isn't on the brink of losing it and drowning in his grief, barely paying attention in his classes and trying to avoid making friends that he ended up making anyway. He isn't patrolling until he collapses and passing out in his bathroom after giving himself stitches. He isn't alone.
Harley's starting to accept that his life ended when he died, and the one he came back to will never be like it was before. He can talk to his mom without mourning the years he was gone. He can catch up with Pepper or Rhodey, visit Morgan at the lake house or meet Happy for lunch, without choking on Tony's absence. He can feel alive again.
(With all the good changes, their second year at Empire State is looking promising. But there will always be obstacles that get in the way, and when some Spidey business gets scary, it's only to be expected that almost everything else has to go wrong, too.)
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you're the song on the radio i never play
you're the words in my soul that i wanna saySeries
- Part 3 of homeward bound
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come on, baby, make me fall in love with you by thompsborn
Fandoms: The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb), Spider-Man - All Media Types
07 Aug 2025
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Way back when—as in, before Norman Osborn died and Harry took over the company; as in, before Ben Parker died and Peter shouldered the blame, the guilt, and, of course, the responsibility that is being Spider-Man; as in, before Mary and Richard Parker’s plane went down, when Peter still had his parents around to teach him how to brush his teeth and make his bed—back before all that, Peter and Harry met.
Sometime after—as in, after Ben Parker’s death and Spider-Man’s creation; as in, after Norman Osborn succumbs to his illness and Harry shoulders the weight of it; as in, after Gwen dies and Peter can’t find it in himself to blame Harry for it because he let both of them down—the two of them meet again.
(peter helps create a cure for harry after everything went wrong. harry wants to be peter’s friend again and peter wants to never acknowledge the fact that he’s spider-man and neither of them know how to fix the broken mess left between them.
but they’re going to try, dammit. they’re going to try.)
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i just wanna live under the weight of your love by thompsborn
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
17 Apr 2025
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He wants to say it. God, he wants to say it, can feel the way the words form on the back of his tongue, and now would be so perfect, but… but they have a deal, they have a promise, and he won’t break it.
“Eighteen,” he breathes instead, wobbly smile pulling at his lips. “Y’know?”
(or: five times harley almost says i love you and the day he finally does.)
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- Part 14 of to build a family
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in all your blame, in all your pain (i will carry you always) by thompsborn
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
25 Feb 2025
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The idea of him never meeting Peter is stifling. The idea of him starting at Midtown last year, and maybe he would have still met Ned and Michelle, but he would have met the versions of them who had recently lost a friend. The hallways would have been haunted by a student who had passed over the summer, and all Harley would have gotten were stories of who that student was. He tightens his hold on Peter’s hands and says, “I’m so sorry.”
“It’s fine,” Peter murmurs, offers up a clunky little shrug and looks down at the carpet.
“It’s not,” Harley tells him—voice insistent yet shaky. “It’s not fine. You’re alive, and I’m so fucking glad that you’re alive, but—but I wish you could be alive without having to have all of that weighing you down. I—I wish you were weightless, you know? Just… healthy and happy, without all the bad things.”
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ten things that harley
keenerstark learns about peter parker's diabetes and one thing that he knows he'll never forget
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to build a family by thompsborn
Fandom Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
17 Apr 2025
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Life is kind of a mess sometimes. Or, you know, all the time, but this fucked up misshapen group of heroes, high school students, and whoever the fuck else shows up, try their best to make sense of their messy, messy lives.
(Peter/Harley centric, but with plenty of world building and chosen family trope to the max.)
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homeward bound by thompsborn
Fandom Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
25 Nov 2025
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When the world forgets Peter Parker, it’s no real surprise when Peter Parker starts to forget himself in the struggle of making it day to day. Too many emotions, the guilt and the pain, weigh him down constantly, making it harder and harder for him to find his footing in a life that no longer feels like his.
Enter a twenty four hour coffee shop, Empire State University, and a couple of stubborn friends, and maybe things might start to change.
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tumblr prompts + drabbles by thompsborn
Fandom Marvel (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types
29 May 2024
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parkner week 2020 by thompsborn
Fandom Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
16 Aug 2020
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Neil wakes up on his nineteenth birthday for the nth time in a row. He’s been doing this for a while now — wake up, ignore that it’s his birthday again, go to the locker room to clean up Riko’s awful surprise before the Foxes find out, play the game against Belmonte. It’s routine at this point. The only part that doesn’t play out robotically, the only person who refuses to play along, is Andrew, who Neil is starting to suspect is stuck in this time loop with him.
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Bookmarked by bloodfiresandabram (thompsborn)
13 Oct 2026
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Neil is the most attractive person Andrew has ever seen in his entire life. Too bad that Andrew can't express that fact (not opinion) properly to him. It all should be fine, it's not like Neil doesn't know he's hot, right?
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Bookmarked by bloodfiresandabram (thompsborn)
06 Oct 2026
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He saw the duffel.
It was battered all to hell and the strap was nearly torn from the bag, but it still glowed almost neon in the darkening night and streetlamp glare. Neil would never…
He dropped to his knees beside it and rifled through it, looking for any sign, any clue as to where Neil might have run. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Until his fingers found the keyring. Until he found the phone.Andrew's perspective on the Binghamton riot and the walking tragedy that is Neil Josten.
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Bookmarked by bloodfiresandabram (thompsborn)
04 Oct 2026
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“Tell me if you’re safe,” Neil amends, stupidly tenacious.
“I’m safe.”
Neil grimaces. He squeezes his phone so hard in his palm that he feels the plastic case bend.
“I’m coming to get you,” Neil promises, solemnly, fatally serious. The vow of it rings all the way into whichever lonely holding room Andrew is sitting.
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Or: While playing on separate pro teams, Andrew gets arrested. Neil drives across state lines to get to him.
Bookmarked by thompsborn
03 Oct 2026
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Your friends are a fate that befell me by violet8star
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
20 Sep 2026
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“No”
“Come on, Andrew, remember how fun the last time was?”
“I said no”
Nicky was standing in the middle of the room with his hands clasped like a man pleading before a judge. Andrew was sprawled in the bean bag chair with his eyes half-lidded, looking bored at his cousin's antics.
“Neil!” Nicky spun around, his face lit up with hope the moment he saw his teammate. “Back me up on this!”
Neil dropped onto the bean bag beside Andrew. “Back you up on what, exactly?”
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The foxes spend the weekend at the Columbia house and all go clubbing together. Chaos ensures.
Bookmarked by thompsborn
02 Oct 2026