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darsynia · 1 year
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can i get Toby Z (WW) and Bruce Banner (MCU) in a humor scene? i think those two would just have so much to bitch about surrounded by giant...egos lol
Bahahhaha thank you for participating in BLURB WEEK, I had a blast!
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Summary: Toby Zeigler's been asked by one superhero to write a speech for a different superhero. Maybe it's gratitude that he's not in the White House and contractually required to make any of this make sense, but once he meets Bruce Banner, Toby appreciates his shy genius.
Length/Warnings: 1,282 | No warnings. Can be read as gen or pre-slash!
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A Banner Speech
“Just… wait here, okay?”
Toby shrugs and watches as the man he’s been contracted to write a speech for leaves the room to confer with the building’s owner. Bruce Banner seems a lot more shy in person than in the two magazine profiles he’s read about the guy. It makes sense; people want to picture the Hulk’s scientist persona as more Sagan than Einstein. It’s a quirk of history that one of the latter’s most famous photographs is of a stuck-out tongue. Einstein was sincerely introverted, often struggling in social situations.
Toby can relate.
When Tony Stark contacted him for this, he had mentioned feeling touched that then-governor of NH Josiah Bartlet had issued a statement lamenting the loss of Howard and Maria Stark, back in 1991. He wasn’t working for Bartlet at the time, but this is what people do; they make connections. You worked for this guy, and he’s a decent man. That makes you a decent man.
Ironically, Toby’s fall from political grace has lifted him up practically everywhere else, which is how he finds himself in a skyscraper in New York six months after an alien attack threatened to destroy his old neighborhood.
“You just had to say out loud how glad you were not to be working at the White House this year, didn’t you!” he mutters under his breath as he stares out of one of the floor to ceiling windows. No way in hell would he have wanted to construct a speech thanking superheroes for saving New York City from aliens.
“Do you miss it?” It’s Banner, hands in his pockets, shoulders hunched as though that makes the knowledge of who he can sometimes be more palatable.
“Only in my nightmares.”
This prompts a bright smile, strangely enough. “I suppose working at the White House is one of the clearest examples of ‘you can never go back home’ that there is, given how often the whole staff changes over,” Banner muses. “I had one of those, sort of. Only mine was, you know, destroying the whole lab.”
“My downfall was less structural and more personal,” Toby shrugs. He’s made peace with that, even if he hasn’t fully made peace with some of the people involved.
“Saved lives, though.”
“We would have saved them anyway. Just more quietly.”
Banner scratches the side of his face and looks sheepish. “My days of quietly saving people are behind me, I guess.”
Toby turns his head, notes that Stark is actively hovering on the other side of the glass doors which lead to their conference room. He nods over his shoulder and says, “With him around, why bother reaching for the microphone?”
“Funny you should say that,” Banner coughs. “Tony’s banned from attending this thing. Lifetime prohibition after too many cocktails and no procedure for dragging a billionaire off the stage.”
“I’d have liked to witness that.” The surprised look Banner shoots over at him is encouraging. Toby’s… not all that good with people, but he does have practice juggling big egos, and like recognizes like. “So you’re the next best thing? The Kent to Stark’s Luthor?”
Bruce Banner’s eyes bug out of his head and he turns his back on the window to give Toby a look. Then, his shocked expression turns shrewd. “You said that to see if he’s eavesdropping, didn’t you?”
Toby just smiles.
“They want a scientist superhero. I doubt much thought went into whether I have anything interesting to say.”
“Well, at least they’ll be afraid to play you off stage,” Toby says mildly. Before his implication hits too hard, he adds, “You should use that. Got anything you’ve been wanting to share with the world?”
“I--” Banner blinks at him for a little while, then nods, slowly. “Actually, yes.”
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“I told you you’re a genius, right?” Banner asks, fiddling with his bow tie again.
“No…?”
“I mean, yes, for the speech, which is brilliant, even if everyone’s going to know I didn’t write it, but also for getting the Chief of Staff to show up. He’s taking the heat off.” Bruce leans his head over to look out from backstage at the gathered crowd.
Toby moves to stand behind him so he can see, too. As expected, Joshua Lyman is standing beside his table in a crowd of people. The huge grin on his face is tempered only by the way he keeps looking toward the stage like he expects something important to happen at any minute, probably involving him.
It usually does.
“It’s a good thing your guy isn’t allowed to come to this thing,” Toby says in a low, amused voice. “The attention-gravity distortion between the two of them would probably mess with the laws of physics.”
“Fun to watch, though,” Bruce observes. “Did you, uh…”
“Promise him access? No, but I did promise--”
“Toby? There you are! They told me to come back here, but--” Donna Moss breaks off as she comes over to give him a half hug.
“--her access. Bruce Banner, this is Donna Moss. She is also a Chief of Staff, to the First Lady of the United States.”
“Aww!” Donna frowns at him.
“What did I do?”
“I told Josh I was going to try to get the Hulk to say ‘FLotUS!”
“Unless that’s an arcane synonym for ‘smash,’ I don’t think you had a chance of that, I’m afraid,” Bruce says with a slight smile.
“I was mostly teasing, I promise,” Donna grins. “It’s just that Josh goes heart-eyed at superheroes. I think it’s because he sees himself as a political version of Tony Stark, but with social capital instead of money.”
“He spends it just as quickly,” Toby says, picking up Donna’s wrist to look at her watch. As intended, the action is a gentle reminder that they’re out of chatting time, but to smooth the way, he adds, “I’ll send someone to fetch you and Josh later?”
“Perfect, thanks,” Donna says, her wide smile growing wider as she leans over to catch Bruce’s anxious gaze. He’s back to warily regarding the filling room. “If you get nervous during the speech, just look at Josh. He’ll probably be so enraptured you’ll feel like JFK in Berlin.”
“Ich bin die wurst at public speaking, so I doubt it,” Bruce tells her, before she heads off with a chuckle.
“You know what you just said, right?”
“I told a beautiful woman that I’m a sausage. I feel like a sausage,” Bruce says, tugging at his neckline. “In five minutes, I’ll be roasted on a spit.”
“In five minutes, you’re going to tell the White House Chief of Staff and a room full of people with money to burn that there’s a child hunger problem just begging for their help. They’re your captive audience, and not one of them will risk your wrath to interrupt, especially not when you tell them the problem’s not just in some far-flung nation halfway across the globe,” Toby reminds him.
“It’s also here. In our own country.” Bruce clenches his jaw. “There isn’t enough science in this speech. They’re going to be angry.”
“Well, you’re the expert on that,” Toby shrugs. He’s not looking at Bruce, but he can feel the other man’s amused glare. “Look, you sounded jealous about Stark being banned. I just took the hint and wrote a speech that’s the nerd equivalent of too much tequila. If they didn’t want a hero to try to save something, they shouldn’t have invited you.”
“You’re a good man, Toby Ziegler,” Bruce says. His voice is thick, like he’s forcing the words out past a few layers of emotion.
“It takes one to know one, Bruce Banner.”
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Recently saw a huge long thread of “which character are you like”, and then Matt Mercer posted the link and his full results.
I was guessing some of the scores (”slovenly or stylish” or “disarming vs creepy”? What kind of scale are those?) but it’s probably not entirely wrong.
I don’t know the top ones, but Data, Simon Tam, C-3PO  and Ross Gellar probably isn’t far out, and I’m happy to see Giles in the top 25!
Everyone over 75% (which starts with Hermione)
Bernard Lowe (Westworld): 90%
Lane Pryce (Mad Men): 90%
Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place): 90%
Filius Flitwick (Harry Potter): 89%
Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation): 89%
Amy Farrah Fowler (The Big Bang Theory): 88%
Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity): 88%
Dr. Chan Kaifang (Space Force): 88%
Brian Johnson (The Breakfast Club): 88%
C-3PO (Star Wars): 87%
Dr. Marcus Brody (Raiders of the Lost Ark): 87%
Ross Geller (Friends): 86%
Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons): 86%
Felix Gaeta (Battlestar Galactica): 86%
Evan (Superbad): 86%
Peter (The Room): 86%
Thufir Hawat (Dune): 86%
Artie Abrams (Glee): 86%
Dr. Adrian Mallory (Space Force): 86%
Al Robbins (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation): 86%
Dr. Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor): 86%
Tom Hagen (The Godfather): 86%
Leonard Hofstadter (The Big Bang Theory): 85%
Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory): 85%
Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer): 85%
Timothy McGee (NCIS): 85%
Count Alexei Karenin (Anna Karenina): 85%
David Rosen (Scandal): 85%
David Phillips (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation): 85%
Pope (Outer Banks): 85%
Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 84%
Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby): 84%
Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine): 84%
Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley): 83%
Ash (Alien): 83%
Jack Crawford (The Silence of the Lambs): 83%
Bruce Banner (Marvel Cinematic Universe): 82%
Abed Nadir (Community): 82%
Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock): 82%
Donald Mallard (NCIS): 82%
Jimmy Palmer (NCIS): 82%
Ray Ploshansky (Girls): 82%
Linus Caldwell (Ocean's 11): 82%
Severus Snape (Harry Potter): 81%
Dexter Morgan (Dexter): 81%
John Munch (Law & Order: SVU): 81%
Jasper Hale (Twilight): 81%
Michael Bluth (Arrested Development): 81%
Kimball Cho (The Mentalist): 81%
Dr. Aaron Glassman (The Good Doctor): 81%
Dr. Jennifer Melfi (The Sopranos): 81%
Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice): 80%
Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey): 80%
Miranda Hobbes (Sex and the City): 80%
Norman Wilson (The Wire): 80%
Peter Gregory (Silicon Valley): 80%
Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine): 80%
Marty Byrde (Ozark): 80%
Geordi La Forge (Star Trek: The Next Generation): 80%
Dr. Eric Foreman (House, M.D.): 80%
Oliver Hampton (How To Get Away With Murder): 80%
Ellen Parsons (Damages): 80%
Preston Burke (Grey's Anatomy): 79%
Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons): 79%
The Narrator (Fight Club): 79%
Billy Keikeya (Battlestar Galactica): 79%
Dana Scully (The X-Files): 79%
Walter Skinner (The X-Files): 79%
Henry Rearden (Atlas Shrugged): 79%
Johnny Rose (Schitt's Creek): 79%
Kenny Stowton (Killing Eve): 79%
Q (Tommorrow Never Dies): 79%
Brandon Stark (Game of Thrones): 78%
Cedric Daniels (The Wire): 78%
Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight): 78%
Ray Arnold (Jurassic Park): 78%
Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley): 78%
Donald Cragen (Law & Order: SVU): 78%
Randall Pearson (This Is Us): 78%
Jimmy Price (Hannibal): 78%
Caitlin Snow (The Flash): 78%
Capt. Oliver Queenan (The Departed): 78%
Varys (Game of Thrones): 77%
Principal Skinner (The Simpsons): 77%
Elsie Hughes (Westworld): 77%
Arthur (Inception): 77%
Dwight Schrute (The Office): 76%
Leo McGarry (The West Wing): 76%
Toby Ziegler (The West Wing): 76%
Jin-Soo Kwon (LOST): 76%
Dr. Strange (Marvel Cinematic Universe): 76%
Richard Webber (Grey's Anatomy): 76%
Lucius Fox (The Dark Knight): 76%
Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1): 76%
Betsy Heron (Mean Girls): 76%
Robert Fischer (Inception): 76%
Alan Harper (Two and Half Men): 76%
Jonah Byrde (Ozark): 76%
Dr. James Wilson (House, M.D.): 76%
Janet (The Good Place): 76%
Captain Jim Brass (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation): 76%
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Fandom One-Shots
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2vz14kb
by SkylerMonez45
A collection of X Reader Oneshots for a lot of fandoms.
Words: 1468, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare, Shadowhunters (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Supernatural, Sherlock (TV), Girl Meets World, Wizards of Waverly Place, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time (TV), Psych, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Chronicles of Narnia (Movies), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Stranger Things (TV 2016), Dear Evan Hansen - Pasek & Paul/Levenson, The West Wing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Hamilton - Miranda
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Underage
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Relationships: Harry Potter/Reader, Ron Weasley/Reader, Hermione Granger/Reader, Oliver Wood/Reader, Fred Weasley/Reader, George Weasley/Reader, Neville Longbottom/Reader, Jace Herondale/Reader, Alec Lightwood/Reader, Isabelle Lightwood/Reader, Clary Fairchild/Reader, Simon Lewis/Reader, Raphael Santiago/Reader, Sebastian Morgenstern/Reader, Magnus Bane/Reader, Anthony Lockwood/Reader, George Cubbins/Reader, Lucy Carylye/Reader, Sam Winchester/Reader, Dean Winchester/Reader, Castiel/Reader, Sherlock Holmes/Reader, John Watson/Reader, James Moriarty/Reader, Riley Matthews/Reader, Maya Hart/Reader, Lucas Friar/Reader, Josh Matthews/Reader, Alex Russo/Reader, Justin Russo/Reader, Rory Gilmore/Reader, Lorelai Gilmore/Reader, Luke Dane/Reader, Dean Forrester/Reader, Jess Mariano/Reader, Logan Hutzenberger/Reader, David Nolan | Prince Charming/Reader, Peter Pan/Reader, Killian Jones/Reader, Henry Mills/Reader, Shawn Spencer/Reader, Juliet O'Hara/Reader, Carlton Lassiter/Reader, Burton Lassiter/Reader, Tony Stark/Reader, Steve Rogers/Reader, Bruce Banner/Reader, natasha Romanoff/reader, Peter Quill/Reader, Peter Parker/Reader, Stephen Strange/Reader, Loki/Reader, Peter Pevensie/Reader, Edmund Pevensie/Reader, Susan Pevensie/Reader, Newt Scamander/Reader, Tina Goldstein/Reader, Queenie Goldstein/Reader, Steve Harrington/Reader, Nancy Wheeler/Reader, Jonathan Byers/Reader, Jim Hopper/Reader, Billy Hargrove/Reader, Evan Hansen/Reader, Connor Murphy/Reader, Josh Lyman/Reader, Sam Seaborn/Reader, Toby Ziegler/Reader, CJ Cregg/Reader, Angel/Reader, Rupert Giles/Reader, Xander Harris/Reader, Daniel "Oz" Osbourne/Reader, Willow Rosenberg/Reader, Buffy Summers/Reader, Alexander Hamilton/Reader, Thomas Jefferson/Reader, Angelica Schuyler/Reader, Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler/Reader
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2vz14kb
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thassalia · 7 years
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Get to Know Me Meme
Tagged by @khaleesa
One: relationship status: married almost 5 years
Two: favorite color: dark blue, dark green, I don’t have a favorite so much anymore
Three: lipstick or chapstick: lipstick (I don’t wear it much anymore, but god I love good lipstick. I have this flat matte hot pink that makes me feel swoon worthy even on days when I really feel anything but)
Four: last song I listened to: A LIttle Respect by Erasure (we were having Sunday dance party with the bab)
Five: last movie I watched: Doctor Strange (we went to see it in the theater two months after the baby was born and neither of us remember any salient details so we watched it again. I still think it’s pointless, but it was fun.)
Six: top three shows: Ever? Farscape, The West Wing, Doctor Who. (But also, let’s be real, I have watched A LOT of CSI. I love procedurals.  It seems criminal not to list The X-Files in here, because really, the whole course of my post-college adult life is kind of predicated on a fandom rising up around that show).
Seven: top three characters: Three? Ugh. Bruce Banner, Aeryn Sun, CJ Cregg. And Natasha Romanoff. John Crichton. Dana Scully. Toby Ziegler. Leia Organa. MCU Tony Stark. Amy Pond. The Doctor. And those are just movies/television.  Books are a whole other ballgame.
Eight: top three ships: Bruce Banner x Natasha Romanoff, John Crichton X Aeryn Sun, Dana Scully x BEING RIGHT BECAUSE MULDER IS A DICK
Tagging-- anyone who hasn’t done this yet. Please (for real). I love learning more about you all.
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darsynia · 1 year
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Midweek BLURB WEEK round-up
[The post that started it all] <- check it out, send some asks!
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{ Fave: 💚 }{ Romance: ♥️ }{ Angst: 🖤 }{ All Audiences: 🤍 }{ Smut: 🔥 }
EQUALS (Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff fluff) ♥️🤍 Oneshot
A BANNER SPEECH (Toby Ziegler & Bruce Banner preslash?) 🤍 Oneshot
RUIN YOUR DAY (Stephen Strange/Reader fluff) 💚♥️🤍 Oneshot
OATH OF THE BETRAYED ONE (Bucky/OFC smut) 💚🖤🔥 Oneshot
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Thanks to everyone who's sent in an ask so far! This is kind of a 'milestone' follower celebration too, if you're looking for a reason to participate! Thanks to everyone who's followed me over the past 2 and a half months, I really appreciate it 💚💚💚
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darsynia · 1 year
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MCU Masterlist
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Asks and questions are OPEN BUT SLOW for the moment (I have a bunch of things to write on a time crunch! If you want to send on in, just be aware it'be combined with a bingo challenge/fest story most likely!) Please comment if you'd like to be on a taglist! If you'd like to instead follow the account @darsywrites and turn on those notifications, that's my archive. Only my stories will be posted there.
I write primarily for Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, but I have a Bruce story, some Stephen Strange, and a couple of Steve/Natasha smut fics to post here someday. I'm open to suggestions (though, I can't promise I'll be able to fill your request quickly, as I'm a mom of 3 who are all as extra as I am. I will do my best!)
Tony Stark Masterlist
Steve Rogers Masterlist
Back to the Masterlist...
I have quite a few stories already on AO3 if you don't want to wait!
{ Fave: 💚 }{ Romance: ♥️ }{ Angst: 🖤 }{ All Audiences: 🤍 }{ Smut: 🔥 }
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TRUST FALL (masterlist) (Tony/OC, MCU rewrite from IM1+) ♥️🔥
Current Chapter: Ch 26b | TBC
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IRON HELIX MASTERLIST
(Tony/OC fan in the world, possible series) 💚♥️🔥 | Chapter Two
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MODERN MYTHOLOGY (Tony/OC soulmate AU) 💚♥️🤍
Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3 (complete)
IN SEARCH OF A FAIRY TALE (Tony/OC smut) ♥️🔥
Part I | Part II | (Complete)
PRESENT IMPERFECT MASTERLIST
Tony/Natasha fake relationship amnesia (complete in 8 parts) ♥️🔥 DAY ONE | DAY TWO | DAY TWO.WOAH | DAY THREE - MORNING | DAY THREE - MOURNING | DAY FOUR-SHADOWING | (A GOOD) DAY FOUR (BEING A HERO) | DAY SIXTY- FIVE
((See Steve for 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' a Stony Titanic AU))
I KNOW NO OTHER WAY THAN THIS ♥️🤍
(Tony & Bruce friendship, Bruce/OFC) Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3 | Ch 4 | Ch 5 | TBC
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PLUS ONE (Tony Stark/Partyguest!Reader kiss fic) ♥️ Oneshot
BUILD ME A COCOON SO I CAN CRAWL INSIDE YOUR LOVE (Tony/GN!Reader Hurt/Comfort) ♥️🖤 Oneshot
UNTIL MY STEPS RETURN (Tony/OC established relationship) ♥️🔥 Oneshot
THE SACRIFICE PLAY (Steve/Tony mid-Ultron) ♥️🖤 Oneshot
GOODNIGHT, FAREWELL, & AMEN (IronStrange angst) 🖤 Oneshot
LIQUIDITY (OR, WELL DESERVED) (Tony/f!Reader) ♥️🔥 Oneshot
REPEAT AFTER ME (Tony/f!Reader Soulmate AU Canon Divergence 'mob AU') Oneshot 🖤
5 TIMES TONY ALMOST PUSHED BRUCE TOO FAR, AND 1 TIME HE DEFINITELY DID (Tony Stark & Bruce Banner Friendship) 💚🤍 Oneshot
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THEY SHOW THEIR TRUTH (Steve/Natasha smut) 💚🖤🔥 Oneshot
EQUALS (Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff fluff) ♥️🤍 Oneshot
EPHEMERA (Steve Rogers/Artist!Reader angst smut) ♥️🖤🔥 Oneshot
HAPPY VAL (Steve Rogers/Barista!Reader fluff) ♥️🤍 Oneshot
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JUST RIGHT MASTERLIST
Steve Rogers/Armorer!Reader pining w/happy ending 💚♥️ Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 - COMPLETE
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NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE
Tony/Steve Titanic AU (not Jack/Rose, no death) Complete in 4 parts 💚♥️🔥 Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four
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SAFE IN MY (OUR) ARMS series 💚♥️🔥 (Eventual Steve x Bucky x lounge singer!Reader Sex Pollen)
Part I: HAND(S) OFF MASTERLIST -complete 4/6 Part II: SHIPPING AND HANDLING
Ch 1: Vicinity | Ch 2: Urgency | Ch 3: Gravity -new! 10/23
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ANIMATE OBJECTS SERIES(Stephen/OC, 'suspicion to lovers')
DAY EIGHT (first meeting, relic imprint) 💚♥️🤍
Part I | Part II | Complete
DIMINISHED SEVENTH (training to first kiss) 💚♥️🤍 Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3 | Ch 4 | Ch 5 | Ch 6 | Ch 7 - COMPLETE
SIXTH SENSE (coming someday)
RUIN YOUR DAY (Stephen Strange/Reader fluff) 💚♥️🤍 Oneshot
UPSIDE DOWN AND BACKWARDS (Stephen/Reader) 💚🤍 Oneshot
THE LIGHT OF HIDDEN FLOWERS (Stephen/OFC) 🤍🖤 Oneshot
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OATH OF THE BETRAYED ONE (Bucky/OFC smut) 🖤🔥 Oneshot
A BANNER SPEECH (Toby Ziegler & Bruce Banner preslash?) 🤍 Oneshot
BET YOUR ASS (Peter Quill/f!Reader hatekiss fic) ♥️ Oneshot
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These stories are on tap for posting to Tumblr someday. If you'd like to see one of them posted soon, send me an ask! Until then, you can find them on my AO3.
EXILE ALL THE LONGER (Tony/OC soulmate Endgame fix-it)
I KNOW NO OTHER WAY THAN THIS (Bruce/OC soulmate 'Sleepless in Seattle' vibes)
CLIMBING VINES ON MELANCHOLY WALLS (Steve/Nat FWB)
SOMETHING JUST LIKE THIS (Tony/Steve, Howard/Darcy Lewis as Maria epic time travel angst romp (I said what I said))
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