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Christine - YouTube
Christine - YouTube
A young woman on a nutty evening of speed dating. Starring America Ferrera, Eric Balfour, Gary Dourdan, Josh Malina, Emily Rutherfurd, Corey Stoll Written an...
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Christine - YouTube
The Scoop by
The Scoop by
Cool outsider POV on Captain America and the Winter Soldier. (first person, if that's a problem for you)
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The Scoop by
Lab Rats by
Lab Rats by
"That was some good scientist-wrangling back there," Barton said. "Oh, I have experience. The trick is to treat them like toddlers. Well. Toddlers with weapons of mass destruction." He laughed. "I'll remember that. We'll see how Tony reacts next time he gets cranky and I tell him it's naptime." Adorable Clint/Darcy.
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and if there's life we'll see it by
and if there's life we'll see it by
“Is your memory so fleeting as that?” he asked gently. “Im.” Steve had to stop in the middle of the word and work moisture into his throat. “Imprecise, I think, would be the better term. It’s a. Protection.” “I would not want it.” “Neither do I,” Steve said hoarsely. Like those horrific stiff mugshots they used for your SHIELD files were anything like a substitute for your own, honest-to-God memories of the way your family had laughed and moved and spoken and stood and looked at you when you were being a genius and when they’d just dug you out of a collapsed tunnel with a dozen shrapnel-ridden bodies around you and the landmines going off in every direction and all you had was dumb luck and stubbornness keeping you on your feet. Thor’s hand came down heavy and warm on his shoulder. Steve takes pictures of the team. Poignant and lovely.
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Out of the bone white afternoon by
Out of the bone white afternoon by
It had been her call more than Clint's, keeping secrets and pasts as far in their history as they could. Things they didn't know could never be tortured out of them. And Barton knew so much about her. He knew about the Red Room, about what she'd been and why she couldn't ever be that again. (The details she hugged close--they still came hazy, but the picture of how she'd been made, Clint knew, just not the brushstrokes that had gotten her there.) He'd learned her long before he met her. Half of what she knew herself to be, she'd learned again because Clint had already assumed that was who she was, and Natasha adapted well to expectations. She hadn't asked to know the same things about him. If she had asked, Clint would have told her, and then it would be something soft and shared - a mutual accounting of miserable histories and great washes of red left behind them. Natasha had liked owing him for his silence, because she was accountable to no one anymore, save those she chose to be. It had felt like gratitude to her, leaving a debt that could have been paid. It was the easiest thank you Natasha knew how to find. But now here they were, limping along in the sky on a countdown to the end of the world, and she didn't know what to say that could toss a rope into the water and let Clint climb back to shore if he was lost beneath the ice. Sharp and evocative look at Clint and Natasha and their relationship with a really great Natasha voice.
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Choosing Family by
Choosing Family by
Sometimes, when the ship gets too noisy and her head too crowded, River retreats into the empty shuttle and closes the door behind her. It doesn’t help much, but she can stare out at the black and the stars, and if she concentrates hard enough, she can fill herself with all that dark empty silence for a little while. Sometimes, when bits are flying in all directions because she doesn’t have enough gravity to keep them all in girl-shape, Wash will tell the Captain he’s going out for a run around the block, and he’ll fire up the shuttle, and River will slip in behind him and shut the door. He never asks her along, but he always gives her a smile and a nod as she buckles in beside him. And he never goes without her. It’s almost like floating alone among the stars. Wash doesn’t talk to her unless she speaks first, and his thoughts are partly ship and partly slow and still and streaked with starlight. really lovely (and heartbreaking, in light of things) look at Wash and Zoe via River, with a great River-voice.
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that season left the world and then returned by
that season left the world and then returned by
If there was a way to make Jason understand what he meant. To them. To Dick. If Jason could just see. But Dick’s whole body has always been more eloquent than his tongue, and if he can’t speak about how he feels (and what Jason should know), well, Dick is just going to have to show him. Oh, Dick. Oh, Jason...
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Thieves. by
Thieves. by
Really nice look at Selina and Blake during the movie. Spoilers obv.
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Thieves. by
break common laws in twos and threes by
break common laws in twos and threes by
It takes a while, but they sort things out. Pepper will stay on as CEO, because unlike Tony, she actually likes it. "I mean, you do, don't you? I'm not just forcing you into this job out of, I don't know," Tony says, waving his hands around, "some twisted fantasy where you boss me around?" Pepper laughs, and not just because she's pretty sure Tony's forgotten all about the coil of wire in his hand. "I like it, Tony," she says, and she does: she likes managing people and situations, and she likes figuring out what's best for Stark Industries as a whole and then making it happen. Tony and Pepper, making it work. Lovely.
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Bruce Springsteen at Sixty-Two : The New Yorker
Bruce Springsteen at Sixty-Two : The New Yorker
But, unlike the Rolling Stones, say, who have not written a great song since the disco era and come together only to pad their fortunes as their own cover band, Springsteen refuses to be a mercenary curator of his past. He continues to evolve as an artist, filling one spiral notebook after another with ideas, quotations, questions, clippings, and, ultimately, new songs. His latest album, “Wrecking Ball,” is a melodic indictment of the recessionary moment, of income disparity, emasculated workers, and what he calls “the distance between the American reality and the American dream.” The work is remote from his early operettas of humid summer interludes and abandon out on the Turnpike. In his desire to extend a counter-tradition of political progressivism, Springsteen quotes from Irish rebel songs, Dust Bowl ballads, Civil War tunes, and chain-gang chants.
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Bruce Springsteen at Sixty-Two : The New Yorker
crown and anchor by
crown and anchor by
Meditations on the effects of the supersoldier serum in the various people treated with it. Or, the Avengers have to deal with a couple of Red Room survivors who are mutating.
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crown and anchor by
heroes of old brooklyn by
heroes of old brooklyn by
Steve and Bucky as yearning teenagers on the streets of Brooklyn. Heartbreakingly lovely (if in need of a good beta - tense changes)
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Stays a Secret Between Me and Me by
Stays a Secret Between Me and Me by
Walsh does have a great ass, his smile does go slanted when Casey surprises him, and she’s still not sad that he’s off-limits, because he’s happy now and Casey doesn’t actually want to date him. But she does look sometimes, because why not? She still thinks it could have been nice to roll into bed with him once, wake up in a strange bed and not think about anything more troubling than whether or not this was one of the mornings Walsh had somehow managed to ruin coffee. He would lend her a shirt, because he’s that kind of guy, and he wouldn’t make any bad jokes, because he isn’t an asshole.
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Sodium Silence by
Sodium Silence by
"I ..." she'd said, soft and so much more fragile than she'd ever been, in all these long years. Since the first moment blood had painted her hands, and she had known the monstrous thing inside her. "I don't know ... that I can do this." A world where they were not monsters, he'd offered. And she had known, even as she stared down the length of his arrow, into the silent, savage faith in his eyes, that it could not be so. That it could never be so. She had never ... never not been a monster. Brief, lovely look at Natasha making the choice to prove Clint's call correct.
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when i offer you survival, you say it's hard enough to live by
when i offer you survival, you say it's hard enough to live by
“There’s this other part,” says Steve, curling around Bucky, his hand resting on Bucky’s upper thigh. “Hmm?” Bucky leans back, head turning towards Steve. “He too is Alexander.” Someone else keeps getting to the bad guys before the Avengers can, and it turns out to be Bucky. ♥ with excellent Steve/Bucky/Natasha
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when i offer you survival, you say it's hard enough to live by
Apophasis by
Apophasis by
Really lovely Clint/Natasha, slipping from past to present. “You could be more careful.” “You could learn not to get shot.” “I just do it for the sympathy.” The corner of her mouth quirks upward in response. There’s nothing much else to say tonight and he hasn’t said it in a while and no one could ever accuse him of forgetting to mark an occasion. “You really should get around to marrying me sometime, Romanoff.” The quirk turns into a smile. “Shut up, Barton,” she says and that’s that. One – two, ritual complete. It’s as close as either of them comes to saying I love you because people like them don’t really say things like that. Besides, this is better anyway.
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Apophasis by
There's a Name For It by
There's a Name For It by
Bucky's pining for Steve, and he and Namor end up having sex that may involve feelings more than either one of them anticipated. Even as I was having a TON of Bucky feels (as, quite clearly, does Steve, even if they aren't the kinds of feels Bucky wants), Namor makes everything hilarious. (Invaders era, comics canon)
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There's a Name For It by