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hello my precious babies, i just spent the last day and a half reading the most devastating spider-man fic i’ve ever read. it’s so good—i definitely recommend it, but it tackles some pretty heavy subjects, so read with caution.

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if I may (heh, May):

yesterday, I saw a change by aloneintherain

Inspired by prompt: 'Peter is unmasked on live television, and everyone goes berserk—you've already heard this one but here's the twist—he's wide-eyed, staring into the camera, frightened, but not because of his own safety. The first thing that comes out of his mouth is, "Someone please, please protect my Aunt May." And the entirety of New York cries out simultaneously. Heroes and neighbours and fellow students rain down on the Parker house, ready to defend her.'

This one is kinda beautiful honestly. People coming together to defend a woman they’ve never met, at risk to their own safety

It's fic rec sunday! In honor of my undying love for Aunt May, I've put together a list of my favorite MCU May Parker stories. Many of these are Irondad, bc when May Parker and Tony Stark co-parent Peter Parker? Well, that's what life is all about. In no particular order, and this list is far from complete!

You know in hoco when May was like "I used to sneak out too, you know." This is a glimpse of that type of May.

Really fun series with besties May and Tony

May introspective

Younger Peter with May

May and Ben's love story ❤️

Mostly irondad, but the parts with May are fantastic

Not as much May, but she makes it count when she's in it.

Already rec'd this one, but reccing again bc its goooood

Uncle Obie May have Lied and Other Lessons to be learned. Irondad Bio-dad au. SUCH a good May. SUCH a good younger Peter.

Takes place at the hospital, nice glimpse into the Parker's lives pre canon.

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A list of some of my favorite Peter Parker/Spider-Man fics! (that no one asked for)

PART 1: Team Red/Vigilante Peter/BAMF Peter

Inimitable by deniigiq

“Peter, is it supposed to be doing that?” One of his students asked him. He looked up to see the industrial-strength magnets he’d collected for this lab trying to crack through the glass between them to be reunited. The glass splintered.

“Yeah, no. That’s totally fine,” he lied. Then he inconspicuously chased everyone to the corner of the lab, donned a glove, and smashed the glass so that it wouldn’t splinter and stab someone in the eye in its explosion.

His students cheered.

He needed a drink.

Peter gets called back to the city at the age of 25 to help mitigate the rapidly increasing crime rate. He's in way over his head, so he sets out to re-establish Team Red.

45,483 words - 14/14 chapters

in an empty moral space by blueh

Then, “You want Spider-Man?”

“In exchange for your intern,” High-heels affirms.

“Spider-Man,” Mr. Stark repeats. He sounds more amused than worried for Peter’s apparent safety.

also known as: Peter Parker is held hostage…in order to get to Spider-Man. Throw in some Accords reconciliation and, well, Peter’s life just got a whole lot weirder.

5,403 words - 1/1 chapters

arachnid decathlon by blueh (Series: 2 works)

No one ever really tells you what to do in the case of bus explosions, field trips, hostage situations, and identity reveals. Of course, the aftermath is ten times worse and, well, Peter just considers himself lucky that he doesn't have to figure that stuff out on his own.

(First work) 18,378 words - 2/2 chapters; (Second work) 12,657 words - 2/2 chapters

The Lost and Forgotten by Litcraz

In order to save everyone's lives, Peter is forced to give up memories - their memories of him. As a result, he is left entirely alone in a world where no one knows he exists. After finally moving on with his life, a new threat arises, bringing Peter back directly into the Avengers' path.

272,413 words - 32/32 chapters

Fake Out by PinkAvidReader

“Are we on the same page?” Matt asked.

“We’re so gonna get caught.” Peter bemoaned.

“We are not on the same page.” Matt acknowledged.

They were soon enough, though, because what other option was there? The cops were coming, and there was no way to avoid them.

Hence, Matt was a concussed blind man and Peter was the terrified adolescent who'd stuck by his side.

5,397 words - 1/1 chapters

Peter Parker vs. Billionares, Boundaries, and Bad Recruitment Strategies by hopeless_hope

Tony is already moving towards the door and talking about how this might be dangerous, and he better tell his guardian, and Peter doesn’t even think before webbing Tony’s hand to the door, because wow. Fuck this guy.

“Don’t tell Aunt May,” Peter says firmly, mildly impressed with his own audacity. “Especially because I’m not going.”

Tony shoots him an incredulous look. “Of course you are. You’re on my team.”

“Your team? See, you haven’t even told me what you need me for,” Peter points out.

Tony pauses for a second before saying,“Think of it as a game of capture the flag with the Avengers except instead of a flag, we’re trying to capture some Avengers.”

or

Peter learns how to say "no" and stick to his boundaries. Mostly.

2,734 words - 1/1 chapters

In For A Penny by gender_bender08

Peter meets Daredevil when the man saves him from a shootout.

He meets Deadpool when the guy’s trying to steal a car.

He meets the Punisher when Red brings him to the gym.

He meets Jessica Jones when she corners him on a streetlight.

He meets Hawkeye when Jessica’s hired to solve one of his assassinations.

All of this to say, he meets a lot of people before he meets Tony Stark.

6,085 words - 1/1 chapters

HONORABLE MENTION: CROSSOVER FIC

time flies by (bye) by WHYISEVERYNAMETAKEN (Spider-Man/Batman crossover)

“Maybe," Peter thought, "I can make a life here."

Hence the tears and the guilt and the grief, because was Peter allowed to move on? Was he allowed to… to leave it all behind? Leave all the bad things in the past?

Peter was "The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man!" after all, and wasn’t he letting Queens - his people - down if he didn’t fight tooth and nail to get back to them?

or

Peter's tired. He's so tired, and he doesn't know what to do, but maybe things will get better.

(They do.)

113,538 words - 13/13 chapters

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Zombie setting where the undead are drawn towards unhygienic scents, so survivors constantly bathe to avoid being eaten.

Zombies are docile when adorned with flowers.

Settlements overgrown with herbs and flora.

Barely any banditry; everyone is focused on farming and gathering.

Different human factions and towns named after flowers like Lilies, Orchids, Roses, etc.

Instead of immediately killing an infected survivor, they’re given special funeral rites - the zombie is covered with flowers to keep them calm, and  allowed to walk out from the settlement to join the hordes.

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Behold!!! He is here!!!! I further fucked up my sleep schedule to get photos in natural lighting to show all the pretty details. Im so happy its done, i love him sm!!!! He sucked the soul straight out of my mortal body!!!!!!

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Could be platonic or not but

" what is that with male bats and super powerful aliens?" JL, at some point.

Bruce brings up a new Bat to the Watchtower and one of the alien members immediately perks up. Everyone groans.

Clark becomes the de facto “why does my Bat do that” expert. Because he deals with the worst Bat of them all.

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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE TELL MARKIPLIER

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three robins

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Casual wear

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Occasionally I picture Nightwing calling Red Hood "little wing" in front of others and people looking between this huge, 6'0 feet tall man with growing white hair, and then Nightwing, a shorter man who has flawless skin, probably around his 20's, and a fit but not too buff build and they just- don't know what's happening. Is it some kind of inside joke they aren't aware of? Why is Nightwing acting as if he's years older than Red-fucking jacked-Hood?

Nightwing: Little wing, you actually were decent in that fight! I'm impressed.

Hero, who was helping during this fight as well, listening in to the conversation: little...?

Red Hood: Wow, feeling very appreciated right now. Got any other backhanded compliments in there?

Hero: Wait, excuse me-

Nightwing: As a matter of fact-

Red Hood: Nope! I'm outta here. Screw you!

Nightwing: You know you love me!

Red Hood: In your dreams, dickhead!

Nightwing: Hey! We don't use that-

Red Hood: Not listening!

Nightwing: Jeez, kids these days...

Red Hood: I'm an adult and fuck you too!

Nightwing: What? Thought you weren't-

Red Hood: See you never, I'm out.

Hero: ...

Hero: what the actual fuck?

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tim: nah man, i stay away from drugs, last time i touched that stuff i killed someone

jason: you… killed someone?

tim: i mean, she was resuscitated after and definitely set it up so i would kill her (i think), but you know it’s the principle of the matter right?

jason: that’s an original experience i fear

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Desperately need a fanfic where instead of Jason making the dramatic ass duffel-bag-of-heads comeback, he instead starts doing things to mildly inconvenience Bruce and it increasingly gets worse.

It starts off small, like breaking into all of his cars and just slightly adjusting all the car mirrors, hiding tiny baby figures over the manor where only Bruce is guaranteed to find them (they’re all painted with little batfam suits), just enough plausible deniability that Bruce thinks it’s one of his other kids pulling a prank and doesn’t mention it to anyone.

Then it slowly spirals, Jason rigging the Batmobile to play “Barbie girl” on the loudest setting at random intervals and no matter what Bruce or Tim do, they just can’t figure out where it’s coming from. He drains all of Tim’s energy drinks and replaces them with regular soda, steals all of Bruce’s ties and hides them all around the house (mysteriously not able to be found by Alfred, who is actually in on the whole thing cause come on, its Alfred). He makes increasingly obscure animals appear in front of Damian (Bruce puts his foot down when a sloth shows up and brings him back to the zoo despite Damian’s many protests) and instead of a grand reveal, he hides in random places around the manor and lets Bruce see fleeting glimpses of him, disappearing right after until eventually he lets Tim and Bruce see him at the same time and and gets outed when both of them look in his direction and realise wait you can see him too?

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tim drake is the type of guy to drop random lore then walk away.

tim: ugh i hate baseball, it’s like, when you have to play it in order to save a whole planet once, every game after seem boring

dick: that’s not…

tim: only downside to that was how we almost totaled barts brand new spaceship

dick: what spaceship??

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tim: oh, hi mom

shiva: hello timothy, how are you? still keeping up with your training i take it?

bruce: mother? she’s not your —

shiva: let’s spar then timothy, let’s leave it strictly non lasting injuries, i don’t rather feel like dying by your hand again today

tim: of course!! ^-^

bruce: again?

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tim: man i forgot to take my meds again

duke: your meds for what?

tim: i have no spleen, so i have to take probiotics, it really is manageable but i dont know where those pills went

duke: i’m almost scared to ask, tim, how did you lose your spleen?

tim: weird spider dude, it was a whole thing

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tim: you talk a lot of shit for someone who got replaced as heir to your immortal grandfathers empire by me

damian: you what!?

tim: i regularly beat his ass at online chess every week too, and i don’t think you’ve seen him since he stole your corpse

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tim: here

jason: what’s this?

tim: a box of all the photos i took when i obsessively stalked you for your entire tenure as robin

jason: thanks?

tim: you’re welcome, bye!

jason: … creepy ass kid…

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steph: so how did you to get together?

bernard: well —

tim: i saved him from a getting cut open by chaos monster cult members

bernard: yep, i was rescued from being a vessel for a greek god, and we just really clicked afterwards

steph: well, it’s better than the brick

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Superbat headcanon:

Clark goes to interview Bruce Wayne. He expects either a flirtation by Wayne or just talking business. What Clark DOESNT expect, is to have Wayne, a multimillionaire/billionaire, info dump about Gray Ghost because nobody else would listen to him talk about it.

Now, when Clark leaves Wayne Enterprises, he knows all the Gray Ghost lore. What is he gonna do with this knowledge? He has no idea. But atleast Bruce looked happy infodumping on him.

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In a context where Batman is known and seen through his public League appearances, the misogynistic, homophobic, "alpha male" guys start using his image to illustrate their discourse of going to the gym, and seeking submissive women. They admire and misinterpret his traits as endorsements of their toxic masculinity. Online, they share images of Batman with stuff like "Be the Alpha, Be the Batman". They even use the word Batmen as a synonym to Alpha Male. "Real Batmen don't show weakness".

When Bruce becomes aware of this, he hates it. He despises them for all their messed up views, knowing they completely misunderstand his principles. Batman's true strength lies in his commitment to justice, empathy, and respect for all individuals, values that are fundamentally opposed to the toxic masculinity they promote. Bruce is determined to distance his image from their rhetoric, seeing them as nothing more than sexist and homophobic idiots.

So he decides to be a tiny tiny bit more Brucie when they appear in public. Not in form, but in substance :

When he's asked a question, he tries to go "I have no clue, I'd have to ask Black Canary.", or "I'm not sure, I'd have to see what Wonder Woman thinks about that", or "This time, we really couldn't have done anything, anything at all, without Supergirl."

Also, Batman becomes more visibly affectionate with Superman. During public appearances, if he senses a camera on them, he makes sure to be seen clinging to Superman. He would rather face dating rumors every day than be associated with those idiotic discourses.

(It's also a good premise for a superbat fake-dating fic !!)

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bernard is a little shit

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