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    Three months after New York was swallowed by a nightmarish blanket of psychological agony, Robert Reynolds was once again just Bob.

    And Just Bob liked boring French New Wave and Depeche Mode and pictures of baby Highland cows. He stacked fries in his burgers like Jenga towers. He liked Jane Kenyon, Allen Ginsberg. Made a mean Lasagna alla Bolognese. Played guitar (kind of). Knew how to jumpstart a car (pretty well, actually). He liked chess.

    He’d spent most of his life high, bridging sober gaps with odd jobs and side hustles and jail. He’d stolen from everyone who cared enough to let him into their home.

    Robert Reynolds wasn’t Sentry, he wasn’t the Void—but he had been.

    Wasn't it only a matter of time before he would be again?

    After the Void descended on New York, Yelena adjusts to the life her sister led—dealing with PR managers, government endorsements, and a team she’s only recently learned to tolerate.

    And then there’s the Bob thing.
    And the Bob thing is super fucking complicated.

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    10 Jun 2025

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    “The love he feels for Yelena is so big and startling. He is certain life is worth living because he can feel like this about her. And he doesn’t need her to feel the same way, he just notices how nice it is to love her. He’s on therapy session 23. He wonders when he’ll stop counting.“

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    31 May 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 43

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    Everyone claps. Bob claps, too, while Ava rolls her eyes. But as people start getting up, Bucky limps to the podium, and Mel knows what’s going to happen before it does. “Before we go, I, uh. Want to make something clear.”

    “Oh no,” Mel groans.

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    (When a gossip magazine suggests Mel might be dating former Congressman Barnes, she asks him to dispel the rumors. Afterwards, they find themselves in a sticky situation.)

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    28 May 2025

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    Sometimes on good days, when his dad wasn’t screaming and shouting at everything that moved, he’d put Bob in the truck and drive out on the 72 and go fishing with him in the evening. Flashlights in the dark, streaking dim across expanses of black water, muggy air, mosquitoes. Little red eyes looking back out of the water. They’d sit and guess how big the gators were from the distance between the eyes. You’d better watch yourself out here, Bobby, his dad would say sometimes, and pretend to start to push him forward over the boardwalk with a big hand splayed on his back. And he’d laugh and laugh, like it was funny.

    Bob had never thought it was funny. But he’d learned early on to laugh along.

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    When Bob tries out a new solution for his wellbeing, he's advised by Barnes to keep to a schedule and avoid any variables. But this means pulling away from the New Avengers (and Yelena) for a while, and even though the results are fantastic, all that pent-up need for connection and affection has to go somewhere when the adjustment period is over.

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    28 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 59

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    For Bucky Barnes, choosing to run his term out and join the New Avengers was an easy choice to make.

    For Melissa Gold, choosing to put de Fontaine behind her and ally herself with the new team was also an easy choice to make.

    But the world they both live in now exists in shades of gray. And many other decisions aren't that simple.

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    27 May 2025

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