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to pull on that thread by every_oak_tree
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
20 Jun 2025
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But the dream changes nothing, and again, Steve is watching Bucky fall to his death. He is reaching out but not far enough. Let go, let go. What’s the point? Bucky is dead. Steve has failed. There are no other outcomes.
Except now there are.
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Or, Bucky Barnes, survived by the Winter Soldier, brought back from the dead by Steve Rogers. -
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When Inej Ghafa was fifteen, she met Kaz Brekker while awaiting trial for murder. He offered her a choice then: her freedom, or a life in prison. Fast forward five years, they happen upon each other through a mutual friend.
Thus begins a web of lies to cover up the reality of their shared past—but soon enough, their deception spins out of control, and they will have to face the truth.
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Kaz’s lips quirked humourlessly. ‘If it were a trick I would promise you safety; as it is, we’re breaking out of Hellgate, so I don’t think there is anything safe about that.’ -
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She doesn’t know what shaped him the way he is today, yet damage always leaves a trail, and his is a bloodbath. But what comfort can the dead really offer to each other?
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Alternatively, Inej and Kaz are ghosts circling each other; this changes everything, and nothing. What happens when you can no longer aim true? -
rattle your chains (if you love being free) by every_oak_tree for endoftheworld
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
05 Apr 2025
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Where do the Hunger Games end and where does reality begin? Sometimes he’s afraid there isn’t a specific line that separates them, he’s afraid of how they blend into each other until he can’t tell them apart, and sometimes he fears his reality remains the Arena in his mind. It’s like he left a fundamental part of him there, and he can never have it back.
Fool. You never left the Games, a voice whispers, and he knows this to be true.
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Or, to everyone looking, Kaz Brekker won the Hunger Games last year; but Kaz knows no one ever wins the Hunger Games. -
a political act by every_oak_tree
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil
28 Mar 2025
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‘You’re never giving up on me, are you,’ he asks, and it’s more of a statement, said humourlessly and with honesty that surprises him too.
Enjolras looks at him: the most serious and determined expression Grantaire has seen him wear. As if he says it enough, it will stick with Grantaire this time. ‘Never.’
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or, in a world where loving is a political act, a cynic dares to rebel by falling in love.
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an appropriate response to reality by every_oak_tree
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Feb 2025
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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick___
Or, Regulus survives the cave and becomes a professor.- Words:
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when the sun sets (we're both the same) by every_oak_tree
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Oct 2024
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This is the house that built me
and I’m gonna burn it down.
This is the river I crawled from
and I refuse to drown here.Clementine Van Radics
Snippets of the Black family - what drives them, what separates them and what brings them together.
Blurred lines of morality. Loyalty to the family, madness, honour, loyalty to friends, love and hope, the right, the easy, and the necessary thing to do. Choices, consequences and, perhaps, the meaning of honour.
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remould reality nearer to the heart's desire by every_oak_tree
Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
23 Nov 2024
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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey
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Of course, it would be unfortunate, were any of the Hotel’s sinners to come to harm; enjoying their company had been an unexpected variable. But to die for them? Caring about them? Was that what he had been doing? It was impossible.
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Or, slices of life, and complicated relationships- Words:
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through a forest wilderness by every_oak_tree
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 Jul 2023
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The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
From the moment it becomes apparent there are more threats in the world than everyone had thought, Dumbledore knows he has to act. To bring together a group of remarkable individuals, and see if they can become something more- that is, if they don't kill each other first.
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Or, the Marvel AU no one asked for.- Words:
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Collected Bones of All Kinds by hansbekhart
Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
03 Dec 2014
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12 Jul 2025
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lonely houses off the road by Etharei
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
28 May 2014
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Barnes is now glaring at him for some reason. It's somewhat terrifying but also, oddly, a little reassuring— because that's emotion right there, which means there's still somebody behind those eyes. Somebody who seems to think Sam is being a bit slow on the uptake. "Time parameters exceeded. Mission failed."
"Wait." Sam narrows his eyes. "Is this some kind of... report? Debriefing?"
"Mission report," confirms Barnes, looking pleased. Well, looking slightly less murderous than before.
In which various people deal with things they never signed up for, but at the end of the day no one's particularly surprised.
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10 Jul 2025
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Circling Back by chaya
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Movies)
04 Jun 2014
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Steve looks for Bucky, Bucky finds Steve, Steve tries desperately to put Bucky back together. Bucky tries desperately to let him. (Spoilers for Winter Soldier.)
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- Part 1 of It's Not Linear
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23 Jun 2025
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He's been in Steve Rogers's company for less than twenty-four hours and he's already losing sight of his mission.
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17 Jun 2025
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If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you by Scappodaqui
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
12 Aug 2015
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Bucky sometimes caught himself thinking, about the war: is all of this happening because old men saw the raw life in young men and wanted to squelch it? It was the same thing he had thought in school. Running track. When he had worked in the crew building the World’s Fair Railroad. And especially when he got his draft letter: they want to crush us like a piece of tin on train tracks.
Begins at Kreischberg prison camp, continues after the rescue.
Lots of angst. Lots of literary references, foreshadowing, and symbolism porn. A little bit of actual porn.
Oh, and also there’s a bit where we learn seven-year-old Bucky tried to play pirates by naming Steve “Jolly Rogers.”
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- Part 2 of If
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16 Jun 2025