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    14 years have passed since Tony Stark's life was sent reeling over the disappearance of his daughter just before her first birthday; before he'd been sent an email to say his one night stand was pregnant, he'd been a man with nothing left to give except the selfish addiction to booze; the year after, rock bottom was the most humbling part. Ever since, he's spent his days clawing his way out of addiction.

    The universe was reminding him he couldn't have good in his life - punishing him for ever believing otherwise, but to take it out on a baby who probably never lived to see the light of day again was cruel.

     

    Peace is a foreign concept to Penny Parker. She doesn’t have that fire in her eyes anymore and everyone around her knows it; she’s grief and rage and not much else. She stopped being surprised a long time ago when it came to people leaving, because for all that she is, she knows she’s never been enough to make anyone stay, and there’s a nauseating ache in knowing that.

     

    Bucky Barnes is stuck trying to find the version of himself he lost somewhere along the way. He’ll never be who everyone expects him to be.

    He’s proved wrong when memories revisit him over the course of two months.

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    15 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 89

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    Tony looks at the webbing appraisingly once more and makes an extremely impulsive decision, one that could change the course of both their lives.

    “Would you like a job here, Penny?”

    Instead of jumping in joy or thanking him profusely like most people do when he offers them a job, Penny just looks confused.

    “I already work here,” she says.

    Tony stares at her blankly.

     

    Or, in which Tony gets an intern, Natasha gets a hobby, and Penny gets a new family (a real one this time.)

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    01 Oct 2025

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    “Nanami,” says Tsumiki. “It’s Megumi. I can’t stop the bleeding.”

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    Okkotsu Yuuta blows up a school with the power of love, meets Gojo's kids, launches his career in organized crime, and figures out how to want to be alive.

    More or less in that order.

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  4. Public Bookmark 74

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    “Petya,” Papa sighed, exasperated. He wiped his hand down his face, then dropped it and looked back at his son. “What’s wrong? Bad dream?”

    Peter wished he could say that it was. Let his dad keep thinking that he was the nice little boy who never did anything bad, except for the times he was forced to. But he was bad now, and that realization caused a lump to grow in his throat.

    “There’s something wrong with me,” Peter gasped.

    ***

    It had been years since they were rescued. Peter grew older, became thin, sad, and violent. But violence was good. Violence maintained order. Order prevented chaos. Chaos had no purpose, unlike Peter, whose purpose, like violence, maintained order. And some people have to die to preserve that order. Dying is just their purpose. Peter was choosing to fulfill his.

    (or: Peter’s struggling, Bucky’s overprotective, the worst video goes viral on twitter, John Walker is an empathetic asshole, Valentina tries to control the narrative, and Sam saves the day)

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    09 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 65

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    Most nights, Yelena and Bob shared a bed.

    It was an innocent thing, the way they curled into the shape of each other; her breath on his neck, his hand on her stomach, a tangle of limbs that made it hard to know where the void started and the light ended; made it hard to know which was which.

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    Bob shakes his head. “I don’t think I’m supposed to be strong.”

    “Then it is good thing you have friends who are,” Alexei says warmly. “They’ll protect you. We will. зуб даю."

    He stares at Bob so intently he fears he might frighten the man, but Bob doesn’t shy away from his gaze. Instead, he looks right on back, like he was hanging on every word.

    “Besides,” Alexei goes on, “there are important things beside strength. You are kind, and sensitive, and only one in whole place who knows how to clean dishes.”

    Bob laughs wetly, and that was really all Alexei wanted.

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    The one where Bob has nightmares, and the rest of the Thunderbolts take turns helping him through it in their own ways.

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    16 May 2025