Only the Most Beautiful
The gorgeous, gut-punching, life-affirming fics I come back to time and time again. Sometimes it's love, unrequited or fulfilled. Sometimes it's friendship, family. Sometimes it's angst and horror and unhappy endings, sometimes everything is soft and nothing hurts.
Mostly Marvel, with some other gems. Use the bookmarks to see the full list of works with collector's commentary. Skip to the best-of-the-best if you want to be like that, but they're all the best.
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For The Merc Who Has Everything by Crockzilla, Vixen13
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types, Marvel (Comics)
28 Dec 2017
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Wade is so happy to be spending the holidays with his husband in their new house. If only he could stop having these weird dreams.
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"The stars incline us, they do not bind us." For Harry, it's something he learned long ago on the battlefield. But for his son, James, it will be a painful lesson in the form of a friendship with a boy named Scorpius Malfoy.
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Birds Eating Other Birds by aloneintherain
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
30 Jul 2016
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Peter wishes he hadn’t gotten out of bed that morning. Then, maybe, he wouldn’t be reduced to this—limp-crawling through the rabbit burrows that is Oscorp Tower, a monster of a man on his heels, bloody and bruised and choking on a panic attack.
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- Part 1 of devil in a sunday hat
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“Strangely intimate.”
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. In 1985, Remus Lupin realizes that Sirius Black is innocent. Now, he just has to prove it.
(written for the 2009 RS Games, Team AU)
Now featuring original illustrations by the fabulously talented glaciergrace.
Random bookmarks
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Bookmarked by WaterMe
06 Oct 2017
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"Ghosts aren't movie monsters. They're the holes in our lives where people used to be." - Toby
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One of my very first bookmarks. When I found this story, I was looking for a quick smut fix. Instead, the author did me dirty and sucked me into a supernatural detective mystery that I couldn't tear myself away from. Would re-read, again and again. -
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“Strangely intimate.”
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24 Dec 2019
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This should not work as well as it does, and yet here we are...
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Daydreaming by Gement
Fandoms: STAS, BTAS, Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Sandman (Comics)
18 Jan 2021
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Bruce Wayne is being haunted. Whoever heard of a ghost that only comes out in sunlight?
(Or, the least goth ghost story of all time, in which Bruce alarms his loved ones, spites Lex Luthor, and makes
outfriends with a ghost.)Series
- Part 7 of Superbat Saturdays
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- 38,762
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- 12/12
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Bookmarked by WaterMe
19 Jan 2021
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The most lovely and hopeful ghost story you'll ever read. Keep an eye out for big Sandman vibes, exquisitely researched Jewish culture, and A+ Lois Lane cameos.
"I thought of a name I liked," the man said. "But I only remember the story, not the name."
"Oh?"
"There was a wizard, and a shipwreck, on an island. And the name was in a cloven pine."
"The Tempest," Bruce said. Interesting choice. "Ariel."
"Yes!" The man's smile literally lit up his face, glowing from within. "I could be Ariel."
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"The stars incline us, they do not bind us." For Harry, it's something he learned long ago on the battlefield. But for his son, James, it will be a painful lesson in the form of a friendship with a boy named Scorpius Malfoy.
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- English
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- 336,468
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- 37/38
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- 14
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- 1,346
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03 Jan 2019
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It's long, but so incredibly worth it. Savor it like a well-loved novel.
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in cayenne and honey, in vinegar and lime by alby_mangroves, Nonymos
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Black Panther (2018), Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Jun 2018
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M’Baku fought for T’Challa. But should he keep fighting for T’Challa’s vision? The king is professing change, such deep change, while the Jabari are supposed to be the guardians of tradition.
It’s a complex problem, which demands a cool head. So M’Baku could really do without an old love coming back to haunt him, an obnoxious royal teenager, and T’Challa’s secret one-armed guest.
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- English
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- 27,530
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- 1/1
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21 Jan 2019
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One of the best of the best. An amazingly well-researched character study into M'Baku (and, to quote the tags, what a character!).