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    After Project Insight, the Soldier is left without a handler, so it returns to the only one it knows is alive -- the former target, the Captain, the man it remembers kneeling for. At first he seems unfit for the job. His protocol is strange, and he does not want to use it like the other handlers did. But as the Soldier comes to know him, it begins to think he might be the best handler it has ever had.

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    A long story of recovery that attempts to wrestle with identity, personhood, agency, unconventional relationships, and weird consent. This verse assumes previous HTP and deals with rape recovery in a way that your therapist probably wouldn't approve of.

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    08 Sep 2025

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    03 Sep 2025

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    “I watched a documentary on the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima a while ago. In the blast radius, sometimes a… a person blocked the bleaching effect of the radiation. So the person was vaporized, but a shadow was left behind, on a bridge or a wall – their shape, their outline, when they were completely gone," Steve said. "It’s called a nuclear shadow.”

    “If you’re implying the Soldier is like a nuclear shadow, then that is seriously fucking dark, man,” Sam said dryly.

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    Before the fall of the Soviet Union, the Winter Soldier was sent to the American arm of Hydra - only there was a malfunction in the cryo-unit that meant it couldn't be opened, and it was left, powered but abandoned, in an underground base.

    25 years later, the Avengers find it.

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    01 Sep 2025

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    Steve lives in Stark Tower and doesn't have much to do when he's not going after Hydra strongholds. He attends charity events to make Pepper happy. He goes hiking with Sam. He hangs out with Clint in Bed-Stuy and watches Dog Cops. Sometimes Tony gives him super alcohol in a sippy cup. Sometimes he sees Bucky out of the corner of his eye and wonders if it's real or if he's starting to lose his mind.

    Alternately, the one with terrible jokes, a foot chase through the Lower East Side, and a tiny little robot named Shitcan.

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    29 Aug 2025

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    27 Aug 2025

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    What started as a 10-20 chapter outline has become over 200 chapters worth of content, and no one is surprised, haha!

    This series starts out with the Asset escaping HYDRA's clutches in 2012 during the Chitauri attack on New York, includes his murder revenge tour against HYDRA across the country, his eventual capture and rehabilitation by the Avengers, and many adventures in therapy and recovery beyond that. Plus, Winterhawk (that's Clint/Bucky) slow burn that lasts hundreds of chapters as they circle each other and fall in love. Observe as villains die brutally on the page and civilians and bystanders occasionally become close friends of the cast and cast members themselves.

    There's some HYDRA Trash Party tropes in here that can get pretty dark, but everything should be tagged appropriately per chapter in the end notes. And since it's a revenge tour + recovery journey, most of the HYDRA Trash Party stuff is either referenced only or is firmly in the past. We're moving forward (slowly) not backward, here. ^_^

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    26 Aug 2025

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    The asset's orders at the end of The Winter Soldier weren't to kill Captain America, but to capture him, so that he could be wiped and turned into another asset. The asset has succeeded in that mission, capturing its target and taking him back to the Hydra base. But the Hydra soldiers are dead, captured, or fled, so there is no one there to give the asset new orders.

    Alone with its captive, the asset has no instructions on how it is meant to act. But the more time it spends with its target, the more old protocols start to assert themselves, like the protocol that when that face is hurt and bleeding, the asset is supposed to clean away the blood.

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    17 Aug 2025

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    His body is not his own.

    This may not be the first thing they teach him, but it is the first thing he learns.

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    16 Aug 2025

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    People keep their distance from Will Graham, and he can't fault them for that. His daemon reveals the dark shape of his soul, a soul that can too easily sink her teeth into other people's kills; he'd avoid her too, if he could.

    Hannibal Lecter is in perfect accord with his soul, until he meets Will Graham. The consequences of Hannibal's soul being able to speak without his express consent become harder to mitigate.

     
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    Hannibal has plans for Will. His feelings literally get in the way, but he won't let that stop him from achieving his wider goals - not when a part of Will is already so responsive.

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    Will's POV, with an interlude or two from others

    Chs 5, 7, &10 are NSFW, and Ch 13 (the epilogue) probably.

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    13 Aug 2025

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    One foolish man upset the entire balance of power in the Imperial Court within a single afternoon. In the aftermath, Jinshi and Maomao must choose their paths forward, even if those paths must separate.

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    27 Jul 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 62

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    It would not be appropriate for the Moon Prince to buy out a courtesan. Once Gaoshun ascertains Maomao's situation after she is fired from the rear palace, he cannot let Jinshi get involved. He moves to do what is needed himself.

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    27 Jul 2025

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    It should have been a typical feast. It should have been, and yet, it ended with a bullet in Jinshi's chest. While he recovers from surgery, Maomao is tasked with investigating the attack. As the days pass on, she begins to consider her place in Jinshi's life, as well as his in hers.

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    24 Jul 2025

  13. Public Bookmark 28

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    The Union HQ wakes up to one hell of an attack—which throws everyone into disarray and then proceeds to let them stew in their own chaos.

    (or: the one where everyone's powers get swapped and they must speedrun handling it to prep for a boss battle)

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    16 Jul 2025

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    Fuuko has a nightmare. Andy has an idea. He's pretty sure he can take her mind off things.

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    16 Jul 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 75

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    Set in early Season Five. When Dracula called Buffy ‘kindred’’, he was doing a bit more than just saying they had a lot in common. Hungry for knowledge of herself and her power, Buffy didn’t realize what kind of connection he had forged with her until he left town, and the damage was done. Hoping to break his hold over her, Buffy requests help from Spike. However, the way you break the hold of one vampire is to let another one possess you more fully. But, it’ll only be temporary, right? Simple business, that’s all...

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    11 Jul 2025

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    Buffy doesn't quite make it back to Sunnydale during Bargaining, and fairies might be to blame.

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    22 Jun 2025

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    A spell to ‘make Buffy as she was’ pulls college-aged Buffy into a future where her mother’s gone, her best friend is a hazard, Giles is worried, and Spike’s in love.

    On her return, Buffy begins to navigate the world using an entirely new roadmap, forging alliances and laying the foundation for a hopefully happier tomorrow. Meanwhile, things aren’t going so well for Spike and Dawn in the future…

    A story about making friends and keeping them.

    [Book One is now complete!]
    [Book Two is now complete!]
    [Book Three is now complete!]

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    21 Jun 2025

  18. Public Bookmark 19

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    This work is a response to a challenge by Killjoy

    Begins in Harsh Light of Day
    While on his way to fight Buffy with the Gem of Amara, Spike is distracted by an argument between two students over a poem. After being drawn into the argument, he decides that killing the slayer can wait…

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    10 Jun 2025

  19. Public Bookmark 53

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    Spike doesn't know who turned Buffy.

    All he knows is that his world is crashing down around him.

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    In which Buffy is vamp'd, Spike will follow her to the ends of the earth, and Dawn just wants her sister back. An angsty, smutty romp. Road trips, a well-meaning pursuit by loyal friends, and maybe some falling in love along the way.

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    07 Apr 2025

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    Getting used to Heaven is something of a marvel. It ain't perfect, and Dean thinks he'd hate it if it was, which is probably why it isn't.

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    "You don't understand," Dean whispers, exhaling shakily. "I know you don't, because even I don't. The instant you were gone, I wanted you back. Cas, I wanted you back. I wanted—I wanted—"

    Cas stares at him, searching his face. After a moment, his own face falls slack, eyes widening just so. "Oh," he breathes out.

    Dean wants to be furious that Cas has figured it out before he has—whatever it is—but he's not even that surprised. Cas knows him too well, always has, even more than Dean knows himself. He's been kicking Dean in the goddamn teeth with how deeply he understands him, even about the things Dean doesn't, ever since they first met. You don't think you deserve to be saved, that's what Cas had said. All bundled up in impossibilities and power, this being that looked at Dean Winchester and knew every single inch of him, as if he had a right to each part.

    "What?" Dean grits out.

    "I love you, too."

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    04 Mar 2025

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