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Weekly Roundups: Prompts

Mahoyo

Aoko x Alice but neither of them know what they're doing and it's really messy and awkward but still sweet

Kara no Kyoukai

something with Kirie Fujou, either with her using her powers on someone, or something about her disabilities

Smut, Shiki pegging her loving malewife Mikiya. It's so good that mikiya cries

Tsukihime

Incest tw, I need some respectful, reciprocated Kohaku/Hisui. I generally see it as Hisui being more forceful when it comes to engaging/starting, but leaving it to Kohaku to take the lead once they actually get intimate - of course, if the filler has a different take on the dynamic, I'd love to see that too! The main requirement here is fluff.

Fate/Stay Night

Smut, dubcon, Rin decides to end her rivalry with Luvia by having sex with her. Dubcon that quickly becomes consensual due to Rin's tongue game

Rin/Luvia, body swap

Smut, Artoria watching Lancelot and Guinevere have sex.

Kirei giving a present to Gilgamesh, trying to justify doing something that is good for another person.

I'd like to see Medea on a date, can be with Kuzuki, or Jason, or Master, or anyone really, i just kinda want to see her having fun and experiencing some of the youth she lost

medea and kuzuki crossdressing. not forcefem just a man wearing a pretty outfit his wife picked out for him because he loves her

Smut, Artoria Bimbofication followed by her getting gangbanged

I come humbly asking for Saber to be hairy as FUCK.

Smut, ok but the idea of having Gilgamesh having the random dream of the Artorias loving him so much that it becomes a artoriasome.

This world needs more trans Shirou being doted on ny the other members of the Emiya house, be that in a fluffy or smutty way. Bonus points for including Saber!

Smut, Shirou/Issei public sex, I wanna see Issei try and stay quiet

Shirou has a wet dream and accidentally projects Kanshou and Bakuya as very cute girls

Fate/Hollow Ataraxia

I know that Bazett had Cu for maybe a week or more, but I want just them get together for one night outing and have them act like a normal couple just before the holy grail war. I want it to be very sweet and hopeful. It doesn't have to end in sex. I wish there was more stuff cubaz stuff out there. ;3;

Fate/Zero

Fed up of "Jeanne" refusing to remember who she really is on her own, Gilles Prelati's Spellbook to see if he can find a spell that will make her "remember". Aka - Gilles de Rais brainwashes Artoria into thinking she's his heavily idealised perception of Jeanne de Arc

Fate/Extra

Hakuno is summoned in chaldea and they have a tea party with Alice.

Fate/Apocrypha

Force masc Semiramis, either with Amakusa or another Apocrypha character.

Fate/Grand Order

Smut, Tiamat wants more children, and thus is the duty of the master of Chaldea to fulfill her wishes by doing marathon mana transfer until they pass out

NTR, Yu paisen and Gudako have a (accidental) romantic date after all the crypters flake at their reunion post lostbelts

Smut, Tiamat/Raikou competing to see whos the better momther, only to end up screwing each others brains out and ending up dating.

Smut, Gilles de Ray, having sex with this man until he passes out

i want to see gudao/ko rayshift to emiyas gohan and make friends maybe they deserve to go on a 1 week vacation (real not clickbait)

tiamat turns BB into a lahmu after finding out what she tried to pull during summer 3.

Since we know that Baobhan Sith and Ritsuka have movie nights every once in a while i would like some fluff between them in one of those nights

Gudao walks onto Medea and Jason having sex, a multitude of excuses coming from the both of them soon after.

Smut, Siegfried fucking Kriemhild until she passes out

Tiamat interactions with Morgan & her knights . first off , Morgan should get the shovel talk from tiamat.

Smut, Itty Bitty Titty Committee hot springs meeting! Complete with hands on testing to make sure the current members can stay. (To clarify I do mean the adult women who are flat chested, like Shuten, Helena, Altera, and so on)

Chen Gong meeting Castoria, and she seems to really like him, and everyone is worried how she’ll react when he has to sacrifice her for the first time. Only for it to turn out that Castoria is massive masochist and she begged Chen for the opportunity.

Smut, Nightingale giving Gudao a very extensive and sensual prostate exam in her Trick or Treatment outfit.

Avicebron/Medea. I think of them either exploring their shared passion for creating or their tragic lives. Maybe both. Maybe these should also kiss.

Smut, Anyone willing to shove a cock up Gudako's ass? Consentual, dubcon & noncon are ok, but I insist she gets pleasure out of it.

Gudao telling dad jokes to Fuuma after he starts dating Danzo.

Grunhilde, pissed that Bloodaxe still hasn't convinced Guda to summon her, kindly through force makes Eric ask Medea(or Circe but I find it funnier Medea) to use her body for a short while. Medea agrees and they go on a date where Jason sees them and then shenanigans ensue. I would also like to add this is not a Jason/Medea fic but if whoever decides to do it goes in that way I have no reason to object.

Smut, Chiron getting fucked by redhare and/or Xiang Yu

Smut, Futa Tiamat fucking Gudao with spoiling and aftercare.

I am mad to say nobody has suggested this, but I wanna see Hijikata finding out about Okita’s tuberculosis one day when he repeatedly hears her cough daily and she’s all like, “WAIT I CAN EXPLAIN-“ cue Angry Pickle Man trying to help Okita despite the fact she is insisting she is fine.

I guess something where castoria realizes she’s in love (can be with gudao, oberon, or somebody else). the only problem? It seems that there’s a time loop. So now she has to find a way to break out of it and confess.

nobu decides to prank gudao with a trap, and she fails miserably because her girlfriend okita got in the way and accidentally activated the trap. so now she finds a way to fix her bullshittery

(rarepair hell) Something with Salieri and Kijyo Koyo, either fluff (him listening her play the Koto) or Smut (third asc on third asc)

Maybe something with ritsuka actually being selfish for once and taking up hajime saitous offer to run away with him? Or any servant really, he was just the first to pop to mind.

I’ve recently gotten into Mash/Tonelico (thanks to a certain unnamed writer) but I’m also into Guda/Morgan because of the whole “I’m your wife” thing. So in essence what I’m saying is: Mash: This is my girlfriend Tonelico and her spouse Guda.

Kinda of a Crackship, but i think King Hassan and Tiamat would make a cute pair

Tiamat's having a 24 hour session of her spoiling her children.

Kintoki gets trapped between Ibuki's and Shuten's fight for who gets to "play" with him

an epilogue were all the crypters and Olga are alive and they just hang out with Guda like normal friends

Xiang Yu breaks down in a way that he can't fix on his own. With no way out, he asks his wife to please help him out. As smutty or not as smutty as you would like

Smut, futa Koyanskaya forcefems Gudao, fucks him, rims him, edges him, and fucks his weak human cockhole with her superior knotted cock

Sieg and Castoria ending up dating because they spend so much time farming together, and everyone else being shocked/surprised

Smut, I would love a fight to death turns into breaking the bedroom sex (battlefield?) between Alter Ego Bazett and Alter Cu Chulainn. I want them both to wake up the next morning limping away while swearing that they will fight again, but then they just have sex again.

Ritsuka has a Big Massive Trauma moment and it's going badly. Morgan, a noted veteran of having Big Massive Trauma sees this, doesn't feel anything, doesn't like that she doesn't feel anything, and then goes to help Ritsuka intimately. And when I saw intimately I don't necessarily mean they fuck (Though they could), but I want the raw emotion shit. I want Ritsuka to cry and scream into Morgan, I want them to aggressively cuddle, I want Morgan to give the bone-crushing hug she never had.

Back during the FGO universe's holy grail war, Marisbury needs to give Solomon a good old mana transfer

BB gets bimbofied & made to dress like gudao by the koyan twins.

Ereshkigal/Guda (either gender,) aftermath of sex pollen. So your buddy got hit by the curse of Fuck Or Die, and you fucked it out of their system. Great! How do you handle the aftermath? You just fucked your bff (and/or crush) how do you deal with the awkwardness? do you talk about it? do you just kinda ignore it? i wanna know!! (you can write the sex pollen too if you want but i mostly want the aftermath)

There was a wacky theory Miss Crane is Demon Pillar Naberius. Would think it would be neat if there was a fic that explored that idea.

Smut, Nymphomaniac Ibuki, Barghest and Kukulkan plowing Gudako into a mindless puddle? Dicks and excessive amounts of cum are optional.

Smut, Gudako and Yu Paisen worshiping Xiang Yu's horse cock because there is no way a single person can satisfy him

Bradamante being bimboified by Merlin

Kadoc witnessing an event. can be a real event thats happened since or make one up tbh. (bonus content: kirschtaria gets to be there for the event too. how is he alive/in chaldea? u decide! i just think he'd get way too into it and have fun.)

nobu makes a bomb that self-destructs when she flexes how AWESOME it is. now she’s on the run because everybody is gonna get her. Even her master, but Gudao is… well, at the least to say, ‘loving’ to help her… mana transfer seduction.

lb5.5 kintoki/guda... platonic or romantic and even nsfw is fine!! id like for them to get along tho!

i feel the need to karmically balance out some of this guts rearranging. crackfic of shuten opening the world's most ethically dubious surgical clinic in chaldea

Smut, Caeneus x Gudako/Reader, Caeneus fucks me senseless with his horse cock

Smut, Ibuki/Raikou fucking

master of chaldea becomes a beast

FGO Bee Movie parody, starring Oberon as the titular bee.

Crossover

Local funny vamp Arcueid Brunestud and World's Most Annoying Man Gojo Satoru team up to affectionately annoy the hell out of both Tohno Shiki and Ryougi Shiki

Through a comedy of errors shiki ryougi and shiki tohno meet and come to believe the other shiki is the split personality they had kicking around their skull escaped and somehow having obtained a body

crossover in which fate/stay night illya adopts(kidnaps? stalks?) john wick as father figure pre-fsn because he kind of reminds her of kiritsugu

Any fandom

Smut, Hoi, Could I request some Grand Order Futa Somnophelia? Dont mind whos involved!

Suicide tw, Kinda fucked up, but i want to see a character having a mental breakdown and killing themselves

Smut, Anything where someone has a non-human cock. Artoria with a dragon cock, Tamamo fox knot, Shuten with a big blunt demon cock, anyone you can find an excuse to give a horse cock with a horse cock. Something like that

Can I have some furries? Can I PLEASE get some furries? Werewolf aus or dragon saber or anything you want just furry these bitches up pls thks

hnnngggrr Force-feminization is cool and all, but force-masculinization is comparatively rare. I'd love to see a fic involving some. Levels of explicitness, actual forcefulness, and characters all up to writer's discretion, but bonus points if involving characters who already have an unconventional relationship with their genders in any way.

Futa

creative uses for mystic eyes

I just want some fluff with rare pairs and crackships

Kohaku or someone else messing around with the carnival phantasm "true self" tea to different results than happened in the show

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Squash's Book Roundup 2023

Last year I read 67 books. This year my goal was 70, but I very quickly passed that, so in total I read 92 books this year. Honestly I have no idea how I did it, it just sort of happened. My other goal was to read an equal amount of fiction and nonfiction this year (usually fiction dominates), and I was successful in that as well. Another goal which I didn’t have at the outset but which kind of organically happened after the first month or so of reading was that I wanted to read mostly strange/experimental/transgressive/unusual fiction. My nonfiction choices were just whatever looked interesting or cool, but I also organically developed a goal of reading a wider spread of subjects/genres of nonfiction. A lot of the books I read this year were books I’d never heard of, but stumbled across at work. Also, finally more than 1/3 of what I read was published in the 21st century.

I’ll do superlatives and commentary at the end, so here is what I read in 2023:

-The Commitments by Roddy Doyle -A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Leila Guerriero -The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell -Uzumaki by Junji Ito -Chroma by Derek Jarman -The Emerald Mile: The epic story of the fastest ride in history through the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko -Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks -The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington -Sacred Sex: Erotic writings from the religions of the world by Robert Bates -The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics And The Feebleminded by Molly McCully Brown -A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin -The Sober Truth: Debunking the bad science behind 12-step programs and the rehab industry by Lance Dodes -The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima -The Aliens by Annie Baker -The Criminal Child And Other Essays by Jean Genet -Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer -The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov -The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere -Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont -Narrow Rooms by James Purdy -At Your Own Risk by Derek Jarman -Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm -Countdown: A Subterranean Magazine #3 by Underground Press Syndicate Collective -Fabulosa! The story of Britain's secret gay language by Paul Baker -The Golden Spruce: A true story of myth, madness and greed by John Vaillant -Querelle de Roberval by Kevin Lambert -Fire The Bastards! by Jack Green -Closer by Dennis Cooper -The Woman In The Dunes by Kobo Abe -Opium: A Diary Of His Cure by Jean Cocteau -Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68 by Fredy Perlman and R. Gregoire -Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher -The Sound Of Waves by Yukio Mishima -One Day In My Life by Bobby Sands -Corydon by Andre Gide -Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -Man Alive: A true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man by Thomas Page McBee -The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko -Damage by Josephine Hart -Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai -The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector -The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock n Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press -The Traffic Power Structure by planka.nu -Bird Man: The many faces of Robert Straud by Jolene Babyak -Seven Dada Manifestos by Tristan Tzara

-The Journalist by Harry Mathews -Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber -Moscow To The End Of The Line by Venedikt Erofeev -Morvern Callar by Alan Warner -The Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard -A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White -The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee -Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson -Notes From The Sick Room by Steve Finbow -Artaud The Momo by Antonin Artaud -Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle -Recollections Of A Part-Time Lady by Minette -trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer -The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars -Sweet Days Of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy -Breath: The new science of a lost art by James Nestor -What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund -The Cardiff Tapes (1972) by Garth Evans -The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe -Mad Like Artaud by Sylvere Lotringer -The Story Of The Eye by Georges Bataille -Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante -Blood And Guts In High School by Kathy Acker -Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton -Splendid's by Jean Genet -VAS: An Opera In Flatland by Steve Tomasula -Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come: One introvert's year of saying yes by Jessica Pan -Whores For Gloria by William T. Vollmann -The Notebooks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Walsh (editor) -L'Astragale by Albertine Sarrazin -The Decay Of Lying and other essays by Oscar Wilde -The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot -Open Throat by Henry Hoke -Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet -The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia -The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx -My Friend Anna: The true story of a fake heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams -Mammother by Zachary Schomburg -Building The Commune: Radical democracy in Venezuela by George Cicarello-Maher -Blackouts by Justin Torres -Cheapjack by Philip Allingham -Near To The Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector -The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander -Skye Papers by Jamika Ajalon -Exercises In Style by Raymon Queneau -Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein -The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson

~Some number factoids~ I read 46 fiction and 46 nonfiction. One book, The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia, is fictionalized/embellished autobiography, so it could go half in each category if we wanted to do that, but I put it in the fiction category. I tried to read as large a variety of nonfiction subjects/genres as I could. A lot of the nonfiction I read has overlapping subjects, so I’ve chosen to sort by the one that seems the most overarching. By subject, I read: 5 art history/criticism, 5 biographies, 1 black studies, 1 drug memoir, 2 essay collections, 2 history, 2 Latin American studies, 4 literary criticism, 1 music history, 2 mythology/religion, 1 nature, 4 political science, 2 psychology, 5 queer studies, 2 science, 1 sociology, 1 travel, 2 true crime, 3 urban planning. I also read more queer books in general (fiction and nonfiction) than I have in years, coming in at 20 books.

The rest of my commentary and thoughts under a cut because it's fairly long

Here’s a photo of all the books I read that I own a physical copy of (minus Closer by Dennis Cooper which a friend is borrowing):

~Superlatives and Thoughts~

I read so many books this year I’m going to do a runner-up for each superlative category.

Favorite book: This is such a hard question this year. I think I gave out more five-star ratings on Goodreads this year than I ever have before. The books that got 5 stars from me this year were A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Leila Guerriero, Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko, The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere, The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector, trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer, The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia, Mammother by Zachary Schomburg, and Blackouts by Justin Torres. But I think my favorite book of the year was The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia. It is an embellished, fictionalized biography of the author’s life, chronicling a breakup that occurred just before she began her transition, and then a variety of emotional events afterward and her renewal of a connection with that person after a number of years had passed. The writing style is beautiful, extremely decadent, and sits in a sort of venn diagram of poetry, theory, fantasy and biography. My coworker who recommended this book to me said no one she’d recommended it to had finished it because they found it so weird. I read the first 14 pages very slowly because I didn’t exactly know what the book was doing, but I quickly fell completely in love with the imagery and the formatting style and the literary and religious references that have been worked into the book both as touchstones for biography and as vehicles for fantasy. There is a video I remember first seeing years ago, in which a beautiful pinkish corn snake slithers along a hoop that is part of a hanging mobile made of driftwood and macrame and white beads and prism crystals. This was the image that was in the back of my head the entire time I was reading The Fifth Wound, because it matched the decadence and the strangeness and the crystalline beauty of the language and visuals in the book. It is a pretty intense book, absolutely packed with images and emotion and ideas and preserved vignettes where reality and fantasy and theory overlap. It’s one of those books that’s hard to describe because it’s so full. It’s dense not in that the words or ideas are hard to understand, but in that it’s overflowing with imagery and feelings, and it feels like an overflowing treasure chest. Runner-up:The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere. However, this book wins for a different superlative, so I’ve written more about it there.

Least favorite book: Querelle de Roberval by Kevin Lambert. I wrote a whole long review of it. In summary, Lambert’s book takes its name from Querelle de Brest, a novel by Jean Genet, and is apparently meant to be an homage to Genet’s work. Unfortunately, Lambert seems to misunderstand or ignore all the important aspects of Genet’s work that make it so compelling, and instead twists certain motifs Genet uses as symbols of love or transcendence into meaningless or negative connotations. He also attempts to use Genet’s mechanic of inserting the author into the narrative and allowing the author to have questionable or conflicting morals in order to emphasize certain aspects of the characters or narrative, except he does so too late in the game and ends up just completely undermining everything he writes. This book made me feel insulted on behalf of Jean Genet and all the philosophical thought he put into his work. Runner-up: What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund. This graphic designer claims that when people read they don’t actually imagine what characters look like and can’t conjure up an image in their head when asked something like “What does Jane Eyre look like to you?” Unfortunately, there’s nothing scientific in the book to back this up and it’s mostly “I” statements, so it’s more like “What Peter Mendelsund Sees (Or Doesn’t See) When He Reads”. It’s written in what seems to be an attempt to mimic Marshall McLuhan’s style in The Medium Is The Massage, but it isn’t done very well. I spent most of my time reading this book thinking This does not reflect my experience when I read novels so I think really it’s just a bad book written by someone who maybe has some level of aphantasia or maybe is a visual but not literary person, and who assumes everyone else experiences the same thing when they read. (Another runner-up would be The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, but I think that’s a given because it’s an awful piece of revisionist, racist trash, so I won’t write a whole thing about it. I can if someone wants me to.)

Most surprising/unexpected book: The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere. This book absolutely wins for most surprising. However, I don’t want to say too much about it because the biggest surprise is the end. It was the most shocking, most unexpected and bizarre endings to a novel I’ve read in a long time, and I absolutely loved it. It was weird from the start and it just kept getting weirder. The unnamed narrator decides, as a joke, to shave off the moustache he’s had for his entire adult life. When his wife doesn’t react, he assumes that she’s escalating their already-established tradition of little pranks between each other. But then their mutual friends say nothing about the change, and neither do his coworkers, and he starts spiral into confusion and paranoia. I don’t want to spoil anything else because this book absolutely blew me away with its weirdness and its existential dread and anyone who likes weird books should read it. Runner-up: Morvern Callar by Alan Warner. I don’t even know what compelled me to open this book at work, but I’m glad I did. The book opens on Christmas, where the main character, Morvern, discovers her boyfriend dead by suicide on the kitchen floor of their flat. Instead of calling the police or her family, she takes a shower, gets her things and leaves for work. Her narrative style is strange, simultaneously very detached and extremely emotional, but emotional in an abstract way, in which descriptions and words come out stilted or strangely constructed. The book becomes a narrative of Morvern’s attempts to find solitude and happiness, from the wilderness of Scotland to late night raves and beaches in an unnamed Mediterranean city. The entire book is scaffolded by a built-in playlist. Morvern’s narrative is punctuated throughout by accounts of exactly what she’s listening to on her Walkman. The narrative style and the playlist and the bizarre behavior of the main character were not at all what I was expecting when I opened the book, but I read the entire book in about 3 hours and I was captivated the whole time. If you like the Trainspotting series of books, I would recommend this one for sure.

Most fun book: The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko. This book was amazing. It was like reading an adventure novel and a thriller and a book on conservationism all wrapped into one and it was clearly very passionately written and it was a blast. I picked it up because I was pricing it at work and I read the captions on one of the photo inserts, which intrigued me, so I read the first page, and then I couldn’t stop. The two main narratives in the book are the history of the Grand Canyon (more specifically the damming of the Colorado River) and the story of a Grand Canyon river guide called Kenton Grua, who decided with two of his river guide friends to break the world record for fastest boat ride down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The book is thoroughly researched, and reaches back to the first written record of the canyon, then charts the history of the canyon and the river up to 1983 when Grua made his attempt to race down the river, and then the aftermath and what has happened to everyone in the years since. All of the historical figures as well as the “current” figures of 1983 come to life, and are passionately portrayed. It’s a genuine adventure of a book, and I highly recommend it. Runner-up: Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton. It asks “What if Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was actually a trans woman?” Actually, that’s not quite it. It asks “What if a trans woman living in poverty in southwest America believed to an almost spiritual level that Brian Wilson was a trans woman?” The main character and narrator, Gala, is convinced that the lead singer of her favorite band, the Get Happies, (a fictional but fairly obvious parallel to the Beach Boys) is a trans woman. Half the book is her writing out her version of the singer’s life history, and the other half is her life working at a hostel in Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico, where she meets a woman who forces her out of her comfort zone and encourages her to face certain aspects of her self and identity and her connection with others. It’s a weird novel, and definitely not for everyone, but it’s fun. I was reading it on the train home and I was so into it that I missed my stop and had to get off at the next station and wait 20 minutes for the train going back the other way.

Book that taught me the most: Breath: The new science of a lost art by James Nestor. In it, Nestor explores why humans as a general population are so bad at breathing properly. He interviews scientists and alternative/traditional health experts, archaeologists, historians and religious scholars. He uses himself as a guinea pig to experiment with different breathing techniques from ancient meditation styles to essentially overdosing on oxygen in a lab-controlled environment to literally plugging his nose shut to only mouth-breathe for two weeks (and then vice-versa with nose breathing). It was interesting to see a bunch of different theories a laid out together regarding what kind of breathing is best, as well as various theories on the history of human physiology and why breathing is hard. Some of it is scientific, some pseudoscience, some just ancient meditation techniques, but he takes a crack at them all. What was kind of cool is that he tries every theory and experiment with equal enthusiasm and doesn’t really seem to favor any one method. Since he’s experimenting on himself, a lot of it is about the effects the experiments had on him specifically and his experiences with different types of breathing. His major emphasis/takeaway is that focusing on breathing and learning to change the ways in which we breathe will be beneficial in the long run (and that we should all breath through our noses more). While I don’t think changing how you breathe is a cure-all (some of the pseudoscience he looks at in this book claims so) I certainly agree that learning how to breath better is a positive goal. Runner-up: The Sober Truth by Lance Dodes. I say runner-up because a lot of the content of the book is things that I had sort of vague assumptions about based on my knowledge of addiction and AA and mental illness in general. But Dodes put into words and illustrated with numbers and anecdotes and case studies what I just kind of had a vague feeling about. It was cool to see AA so thoroughly debunked by an actual psychiatrist and in such a methodical way, since my skepticism about it has mostly been based on the experiences of people I know in real life, anecdotes I’ve read online, or musicians/writers/etc I’m a fan of that went through it and were negatively affected.

Most interesting/thought provoking book: Mammother by Zachary Schomburg. The biggest reason this book was so interesting is because the little world in which it exists is so strange and yet so utterly complete. In a town called Pie Time (where birds don’t exist and the main form of work is at the beer-and-cigarettes factory) a young boy called Mano who has been living his childhood as a girl decides that he is now a man and that it’s time for him to grow up. As this happens, the town is struck by an affliction called God’s Finger. People die seemingly out of nowhere, from a hole in their chest, and some object comes out of the hole. Mano collects the things that come out of these holes, and literally holds them in order to love them, but the more he collects, the bigger he becomes as he adds objects to his body. A capitalist business called XO shows up, trying to convince the people of Pie Time that they can protect themselves from God’s Finger with a number of enterprises, and starts to slowly take over the town. But Mano doesn’t believe death is something that should be run from. This book is so pretty, and the symbolism/metaphors, even when obvious, feel as though they belong organically in the world. A quote on the back of the book says it is “as nearly complete a world as can be”, and I think that’s a very accurate description. The story is interesting, the characters are compelling, and the magical realist world in which the story exists is fascinating. Runner up: trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer. This is a series of essays taken (for the most part) from Baer’s blog posts. They span a chunk of time in which she writes her thoughts and musings on her experience transition and transgender existence in general. It is mostly a series of pieces reflecting on “early” stages of transition. But I thought it was really cool to see an intellectual and somewhat philosophical take on transition, written by someone who has only been publicly out for a few years, and therefore is looking at certain experiences with a fresh gaze. As the title suggests, a lot of the book is a bit sad, but it’s not all doom and gloom. A lot of the emphasis is on the important of community when it comes to the experience of starting to transition and the first few years, and the importance of community on the trans experience in general. I really liked reading Hannah Baer’s thoughts as a queer intellectual who was writing about this stuff as she experienced it (or not too long after) rather than writing about the experience of early transition years and years down the line. It meant the writing was very sharp and the emotion was clear and not clouded by nostalgia.

Other thoughts/commentary on books I don’t have superlatives for:

I’m glad my first (full) book read in 2023 was A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Leila Guierrero. It’s a small, compact gem of a book that follows the winner of an Argentinian dance competition. The Malambo is a traditional dance, and the competition is very fierce, and once someone wins, they can never compete again. The author follows the runner-up of the previous year, who has come to compete again. It paints a vivid picture of the history of the dance, the culture of the competition, and the character of the dancer the author has chosen to follow. It’s very narrowly focused, which makes it really compelling.

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington could have easily won for most fun or most interesting book. Carrington was a surrealist writer and painter (and was in a relationship with Max Ernst until she was institutionalized and he was deported by the Nazis). In The Hearing Trumpet, an elderly woman called Marian is forced by her family to go live in an old ladies’ home. The first strange thing about the place is that all of the little cabins each woman lives in is shaped like some odd object, like an iron, or ice cream, or a rabbit. The other old women at the institution are a mixed bag, and the warden of the place is hostile. Marian starts to suspect that there are secrets, and even witchcraft involved, and she and a few of the other ladies start to try and unravel the occult mysteries hidden in the grounds of the home. The whole book is fun and strange, and the ending is an extremely entertaining display of feminist occult surrealism.

Sacred Sex: Erotica writings from the religions of the world by Robert Bates was a book I had to read for research for my debunking of Withdrawn Traces. It was really very interesting, but it was also hilarious to read because maybe 5% of any of the texts included were actually erotic. It should have been called “romantic writings from the religions of the world” because so little of the writing had anything to do with sex, even in a more metaphorical sense.

Every time I read Yukio Mishima I’m reminded how much I love his style. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea almost usurped The Temple of the Golden Pavilion as my favorite Mishima novel. I’m fascinated with the way that Mishima uses his characters to explore the circumstance of having very intense feelings or reactions towards something and simultaneously wanting to experience that, while also wanting to have complete control and not feel them at all. There’s a scene in this novel where Noboru and his friends brutally kill and dissect a cat; it’s an intense and vividly rendered scene, made all the more intense by Noboru desperately conflicted between feeling affected by the killing and wanting to force himself to feel nothing. The amazing subtle theme running through the book is the difference between Noboru’s intense emotions and his desire/struggle to control them and subdue them versus Ryuji’s more subtle emotion that grows through the book despite his natural reserve. I love endings like the one in this book, where it “cuts to black” and you don’t actually see the final act, it’s simply implied.

In 2016 or 2017, I ran lights for a showcase for the drama department at UPS (I can’t remember now what it was) that included a bunch of scenes from various plays. I remember a segment from Hir by Taylor Mac, and a scene from The Aliens by Annie Baker. In the scene that I saw, one of the characters describes how when he was a boy, he couldn’t stop saying the word ladder, and the monologue culminates in a full paragraph that is just the word “ladder.” I can’t remember who was acting in the one that I saw at UPS, but that monologue blew me away, the way that one word repeated 127 conveyed so much. This year a collection of Annie Baker’s plays came in at work so I sat down and read the whole play and it was just incredible. I’d love to see the full play live, it’s absolutely captivating.

Narrow Rooms by James Purdy was a total diamond in the rough. It takes place in Appalachia, in perhaps the 1950s although it’s somewhat hard to tell. It follows the strange gay entanglement between four adult men in their 20s, who have known each other all their lives. It traces threads of bizarre codependency, and the lines crossed between love and hate. The main character, Sidney, has just returned home after serving a sentence for manslaughter. On his return, he finds that an old lover has been rendered disabled in an accident, and that an old school rival/object of obsession has been waiting for him. This rival, nicknamed “The Renderer” because of an old family occupation, has been watching Sidney all their lives. Both of them hate the other, but know that they’re destined to meet in some way. Caught in the middle of their strange relationship are Gareth, Sidney’s now-disabled former lover, and Brian, a young man who thinks he’s in love with The Renderer. The writing style took me some time to get used to, as it is written as though by someone who has taught themselves, or has only had basic classes on fiction writing. But the plot itself is so strange and the characters are so stilted in their own internality that it actually fits really well. Like The Mustache, this book had one of the strangest, most intensely visceral and shocking endings I’ve read in a while. It was also “one that got away.” I read it at work, then put it on my staff picks shelf, and only realized after someone else bought it that I should have kept it for myself.

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector blew my mind. I really don’t want to spoil any of it, but I highly encourage anyone who hasn’t read it to do. The build in tension is perfect and last 30 pages are just incredible. Lispector’s style is so unique and so beautiful and tosses out huge existential questions like it’s nothing, and I love her work so much.

Moscow To The End Of The Line by Venedikt Erofeev was another really unexpected book. It’s extremely Russian (obviously) and really fun until suddenly it isn’t. The main character, a drunkard, gets on a train from Moscow to Petushki, the town at the end of the line (hence the title), in order to see his lover. On the way, he befriends the other people in his train car and they all steadily get drunker and drunker, until he falls asleep and misses his stop. Very Russian, somewhat strange, and I was surprised that it was written in the late 60s and not the 30s.

Dr. Rat by William Kotzwinkle was what I expected. Weird in a goofy way, a bit silly even when it’s serious, and rather heavy-handed satire. The titular Dr Rat is a rat who has spent his whole life in a laboratory and has gone insane. The other animals who are being tested on want to escape, but he’s convinced that all the testing is for the good of science and wants to thwart their rebellion. Unfortunately, all the other animals who are victims of human cruelty/callousness/invasion/deforestation/etc around the world are also planning to rebel, connection with each other through a sort of psychic television network. It’s a very heavy-handed environmentalist/anti-animal cruelty metaphor and general societal satire, but it’s silly and fun too.

Confessions Of A Part-Time Lady by Minette is a self-published, nearly impossible to find book that came into my work. It’s self-printed and bound, and was published in the 70s. It is the autobiographical narrative of a trans woman who did drag and burlesque and theatre work all across the midwest, as well as New York and San Francisco, from the 1930s up to the late 60s. It was originally a series of interviews by the two editors, who published it in narrative form, and it includes photos from Minette’s personal collection. It’s an amazing story, and a glimpse into a really unique time period of gender performance and queer life. She even mentions Sylvia Rivera, specifically when talking about gay activism. She talks about how the original group of the Gay Liberation Front was an eclectic mix of all sorts of people of all sexualities and genders and expressions. Then when the Gay Activists Alliance “took over”, they started pushing out people who were queer in a more transgressive or unusual way and there was more encouragement on being more heteronormative. She mentions Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, saying “I remember Sylvia Rivera who founded STAR – Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. She was always trying to say things – the same kinds of things Marsha P Johnson says in a sweeter way – and they treated her like garbage. If that’s what ‘order’ is, haven’t we had enough?”

Whores For Gloria by William T Vollmann was exactly as amazing as I thought it would be. I love Vollmann’s style, because you can tell that even though the characters he’s writing about are characters, they’re absolutely based on people that he met or saw or spoke to in real life. The main character, Jimmy, is searching for his former lover, Gloria, who has either died or left him (it is unclear for most of the novel). He begins to use tokens bought from sex workers (hair, clothes, etc) to attempt to conjure her into reality, and when that doesn’t work, he pays them to tell him stories from their lives, and through their lives he tries to conjure Gloria. This novel’s ending had extremely similar vibes to the ending of Moscow To The End Of The Line.

Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet was a lot to take in. It was weird reading it at this moment in time, and completely unplanned. It’s just that I have only a few more books to read before I’ve made my way through all Genet’s works that have been translated into English, and it was next on the list. Most of the book focuses on Genet’s time spent in Palestine in the 70s and his short return in the 80s. He also discusses the time he spent with the Black Panthers in the US, although it’s not the main subject of the book. Viewing Palestine from the point of view of Genet’s weird philosophical and moral worldview was really interesting, because what he chooses to spend time looking at or talking about is probably not what most would focus on, and because even his most political discussions are tinged with the uniquely Genet-style spirituality (if you can call it that? I don’t know what to call it) that is so much the exact opposite of objective. It’s definitely not a book about Palestine I would recommend reading without also having a grasp of Genet’s style of looking at the world and his various obsessions and preoccupations, because they really do inform a lot of his commentary. It was also written 15 years after his first trip to Palestine, partly from memory and partly from journal entries/notes, which gives it a sort of weirdly dreamlike quality much like his novels.

Blackouts by Justin Torres was so amazing! It blends real life and fiction together so well that I didn’t even realize that most of the people he references in the novel are real historical figures until he mentioned Ben Reitman, who I recognized as the Chicago King Of The Hobos and Emma Goldman’s lover. The book follows an unnamed narrator who has come to a hotel or apartment in the southwest in order to care for a dying elderly man called Juan Gay. Juan has a book called Sex Variants, a study of homosexuality from the 1940s which has been censored and blacked out. Back and forth, the narrator and Juan trade stories. The narrator tells his life story up until the present, including his first meeting with Juan in a mental hospital as a teenager. In turn, Juan tells the story of the Sex Variants book and its creator, Jan Gay (Ben Reitman’s real life daughter). The book explores the reliability of narrative, the power of collecting and documenting life stories, and of removing or changing things in order to create new or different narratives.

Again, Clarice Lispector rocking my world! Generally I can read a 200-ish page novel in somewhere between 2 and 4 hours depending on the content/writing style. Near To The Wild Heart took me 9 hours to read because I kept wanting to stop and reread entire paragraphs because they were so interesting or pretty or philosophical. The story focuses on Joana, whose strange way of looking at the world and going through life makes everyone sort of wary of her. This book is so layered I don’t really know how to describe it. So much of it is philosophical or existential musings through the vehicle of Joana. Unsurprisingly, it’s a beautiful book and I highly recommend it.

I’m just going to copy/paste my Goodreads review for Skye Papers by Jamika Ajalon: This book had so much potential that just…fell short. I could tell that it was written for an American audience but the way the reader/Skye is “taught” certain British terms and/or slang felt a bit patronizing. The characters were fleshed out and interesting and I liked them a lot but the plot crumbled quickly in the last half of the book Things sped up to a degree that felt strange and unnatural, the book’s pacing was inconsistent throughout. Perhaps that was deliberate considering the reveal at the climax, but if it was, it should have been utilized better. If the inconsistent pacing wasn’t deliberate, then it just made the book feel strange to read. There were moments were I felt like there should have been more fleshing out of certain character relationships. Even with the reveal at the end and the explanation of Pieces’ erratic/avoidant behavior, I wish there had been more fleshing out of the relationship or friendship between her and Skye at the beginning, when Skye first arrives in London. Characters who seemed cool/interesting got glossed over and instead there was a lot more dwelling on Skye walking around or busking or just hanging out. I could have gone without the last 30 or so pages after the big reveal, where Skye went back through everything that happened with the knowledge she (and the reader) had gained. It dragged on and on and at that point I felt like the whole story was so contrived that I just wasn’t interested anymore. A friend who read this book before I did said she thought it was an experimental novel that just hadn’t gone far enough, and I completely agree with her. I think if the style with the film script interludes went further, into printed visuals or more weirdness with the interludes, more experimental style with the main story, or something, it would have been really good. It just didn’t push hard enough.

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson was a fun little true crime novel about a young flautist who broke into a small English natural history museum in 2009 and stole hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of preserved rare bird skins dating back to the 19th century. He was a salmon fly-tying enthusiast and prodigy, and old Victorian fly designs used feathers of rare birds. The book first goes through the heist and the judicial proceedings, then examines the niche culture of Victorian fly-tying enthusiasts and obsessives, and then chronicles the author’s attempts to track down some of the missing birds. It was a quick, easy read, but fun and an unusual subject and I quite enjoyed it.

In 2024 I don’t plan on trying to surpass or even reach this year’s number. I’m going to start off the year reading The Recognitions by William Gaddis, then I’m going to re-read a number of books that I come across at work or in conversation and think Huh, I should reread that one of these days. So far, the books I am currently planning to reread: Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, The People Of Paper by Salvador Plascencia, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere, McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh, Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neil, Acid Snow by Larry Mitchell, and Nightwood by Djuna Barnes.

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33 Rare Hidden Books on Freemasonry

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The Arcana Of Freemasonry by A. Churchward (1907) The Master Mason's Handbook by Frederick Joseph William Crowe (1890) An Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry Vol 1 by A. G. Mackey (1916) An Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry Vol 2 by A. G. Mackey (1916) The Symbolism of Freemasonry by A. G Mackey (1921)

Proofs of a Conspiracy: Against All The Religions and Governments Of Europe, Carried On In The Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies by J. Robison (1798) The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, or the Secret of Hiram Abiff by M. P. Hall (1923) Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry by J. F. Newton (1914)

A Lexicon Of Freemasonry by A. G. Mackey (1921)

A Concise History of Freemasonry by R. F. Goulde (1904)

A Ritual And Illustrations Of Freemasonry - Key To Phi Beta Kappa by A. Allyn (1903)

Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry by C. Vail (1909)

Brother Of The Third Degree by W. Garver (1894)

Digest of Masonic Law by G. W. Chase (1867)

Freemasonry and Catholicism by M. Heindel (1919)

Freemasonry and Judaism by V. L. De Poncins (1921)

Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked by G. F. Dillon (1901)

Illustrations of Masonry (1788)

Illustrations of Freemasonry by W. M. Morgans (1827)

Morgan's Freemasonry Exposed and Explained by W. Morgan (1882)

Mystic Masonry; or, The symbols of Freemasonry and the Greater Mysteries of Antiquity by J. D. Buck (1904)

On the Origin of Free-Masonry by T. Paine (1810)

Shibboleth - A Templar Monitor by G. Cooper Connor (1908)

Symbolical Masonry by H. L. Haywood (1923)

The Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry by C. H. Vail (1909)

The Cause of World Unrest (1920)

The Concise History of Freemasonry by R. F. Gould (1920)

The History of the Knights Templars - The Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. Addison (1842)

The Origin Of Freemasonry And Knights Templar by J. Bennett (1876)

The Perfect Ceremonies Of The Masonic Knights Templar (1876)

The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry Vol. 1 by E. A. Waite (1911)

The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry Vol. 2 by E. A. Waite (1911)

The Templar Orders In Freemasonry by A. E. Waite (1921)

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BBB Weeks 36 & 37, FINAL Roundup!

And with a grand total of 747 fills, Round Four of the BBB is over!  We’ve had so many amazing creators making so much awesome content this round, and it’s been fantastic.  We are working on putting together a Grand Masterpost of everyone’s masterposts in order to share all of your works, so please make sure you get those posted by the 21st!

Title: Let Me Count the Ways Creator(s): sidepartskinnyjeans Link: ao3 Square: Y5 - Shelter Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky x Reader Warnings: Bucky's mental health Major tags: Sad Bucky Summary: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38499523/chapters/106950423 Word count/format: 1338

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Title: Little Snack Creator(s): sidepartskinnyjeans Link: ao3 Square: C1 - AU: Rockstar Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Vampire!Bucky x Reader Warnings: Dub Con, blood drinking Major tags: Dub con, vampire, Summary: Your master gives you the attention you crave (part 2). Word count/format: 489

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Title: Of Witches, Witchers, and Werebears - Chapter 3: Darkness, Flame, and Salvation Creator(s): MuffinEngineer86 Link: ao3 Square: Y2 - Dark Fic Rating: Mature Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes/ Darcy Lewis Warnings: disorientation, discussion of mind control, falling from a bridge, memory loss, PDSD, night terror Major tags: Alternative Universe, Witcher Bucky, Hydra are evil warlocks, fae Darcy, witch Darcy, Werebear Bucky, bad dreams Summary: A soft voice relieved Bucky of his mind's torments, freeing him and calming him back into the nothingness of sleep. Word count/format: 100

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Title: Route 66 Road Trip [Moodboard] Creator(s): WC_ItalianRoast Link: tumblr Square: U4 - Road Trip Rating: Gen Ship(s): Scott & Bucky Warnings: None Major tags: Moodboard, road trip, Route 66, only one bed, Summary: For reasons that sounded like a good idea at the time, Scott agrees to join Bucky as he decides to take a drive down Historic Route 66. Queue the motels, miles of highway, all the fried foods, and somehow, only one bed! Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: The Chase Creator(s): scottxlogan Link: ao3 Square: C2 - Spy, Secret Agent, Assassin or Hitman Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark Warnings: Sexual content, swearing Major tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, Alternate Universe - Modern: No Powers, Spies & Secret Agents, Dark Tony Stark, Sexual Content, Swearing, Lust at First Sight, Enemies to Lovers, Light Angst Summary: Bucky Barnes and his team are sent to suburbia to seek out and take down the Merchant of Death after they were given a tip on where he would be for the holiday season. When their intel leads them towards some down time on the mission at a holiday party, Bucky finds himself flirting with danger in more ways than he'd imagined possible when the night began. Word count/format: 11,693

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Title: A Very Good Place to Start Creator(s): Ribbonsflying Link: ao3 Square: Y1 - AU: Flower Shop Rating: Gen Ship(s): Gen or Steve/Bucky Warnings: none Major tags: AU, Flower Shop, New Baby, Nervousness Summary: Bucky arrives at Steve's flower shop in a nervous panic to buy flowers for his brand new niece. Word count/format: 3054

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Title: I1. Next Time Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: U1 - Next Time Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: The First Avenger, Established Relationship, Night Before Bucky Ships Out Summary: Bucky doesn't even realize that he never guessed Steve's big news until it's weeks later, he hasn't gotten a single letter, and he might die here in this trench in Italy. Word count/format: 100

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Title: U2. Bucky/Steve Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: U2 - Bucky/Steve Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers Warnings: Panic Attacks, Disassociation/Depersonalization Major tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Panic Attacks Summary: солдат remembers Steve. Every fiber of his being remembers Steve. His lifelong mission has been to make sure that Steve is still breathing. But he left him on the banks of the Potomac without being positive. Word count/format: 100

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Title: U3. BDSM Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: U3 - BDSM Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: Subspace Major tags: BDSM, subspace, blow jobs Summary: Steve is never not touching Bucky, his hands gentle as he finger-combs through Bucky's tangled hair, murmuring praise just loud enough for Bucky to hear it over the wet sounds of his own mouth. Word count/format: 100

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Title: U4. Fireplaces Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: U4 - Fireplaces Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Cabin Fic, Not Civil War Compliant Summary: "Satisfied?" Steve asks, once Bucky has set the bugs inside a tinfoil-wrapped box within a tinfoil-wrapped box. The poor man's Faraday cage. "Yes," Bucky says shortly. His shoulders shift. "They don't need to hear my nightmares. They don't need to hear us." Steve nods, sympathy lining his face. "I get it. Now c'mere. It's nice and warm." Word count/format: 100

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Title: U5. Body Worship Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: U5 - Body Worship Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Bucky Barnes' Metal Arm, Body Worship, Gentle Kissing Summary: Steve kisses the metal arm like it's really part of Bucky. Like it belongs to him. Word count/format: 100

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Title: Cockwarming Y1 Creator(s): Late-to-the-party-81 Link: tumblr Square: Y1 - Cockwarming Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson Warnings: None Major tags: Light Dom/Sub, Fluff, Smut, Dom Sam Wilson, Sub Bucky Barnes Summary: After a stressful mission, Bucky is stuck in a spiral. Sam isn’t sure how to get him out of it, but then he has an idea, that will hopefully get his lover to relax Word count/format: 2.4k

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Title: Dating Trouble: Happy Birthday, Darcy Creator(s): MuffinEngineer86 Link: ao3 Square: C3 - Free Space Rating: Explicit Ship(s): James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes/Darcy Lewis/Steve Rogers Warnings: sex tape, restraint, bondage, exhibitionism, light d/s, spanking, gentle dom, praise kink, light choking, edging, orgasm denial Major tags: Neighbor AU, Single Parent AU, submissive Steve, Dom!Bucky, Switch!Bucky, Darcy’s birthday present, Steve’s a good boy Summary: Darcy had to work on her birthday, which put a bummer on her plans. To tide her over till she got home, Bucky and Steve had made her a little surprise. A sex tape. Word count/format: 1262

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Title: Sam dragging Bucky on social media - Part 6 Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: tumblr Square: U4 - metal arm Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Sam Warnings: none Major tags: social media, roomies, photo edit Summary: The continuing adventures of Bucky's wandering arm, and Sam's loyal documentation Word count/format: N/A

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Title: Someone Like You Creator(s): sidepartskinnyjeans Link: ao3 Square: K4 - Presumed Dead Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky x Reader Warnings: Angst Major tags: Angst, happy ending Summary: When a lonely Bucky forgoes the Avengers Christmas party he finds himself with an early Christmas gift from America - a glimpse at his life in other universes. Determined to find out if he can be as happy in this universe, he heads to the party. Word count/format: 3231

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Title: Bouquet Creator(s): sidepartskinnyjeans Link: ao3 Square: C3 - Free space Rating: Gen Ship(s): SamBucky Warnings: angst and fluff Major tags: angst Summary: Sam waxes lyrical about Bucky while arranging flowers. Word count/format: 787

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Title: C1. Asexuality Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: C1 - Asexuality Rating: Teen Ship(s): N/A Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Asexuality, Asexual Bucky Summary: Bucky knows that people around the Tower think he's sleeping with Steve. That's okay. People in Brooklyn thought that, too. Word count/format: 100

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Title: C2. Next Generation Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: C2 - Next Generation Rating: Teen Ship(s): N/A Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: New Avengers Team, Young Avengers Team, Grief/Mourning, Loneliness Summary: Somehow Bucky's become the old guard. Word count/format: 100

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Title: C3. Free Space Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: C3 - Free Space Rating: Teen Ship(s): N/A Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Bucky in Wakanda, Wakanda, Goats Summary: Bucky has a simple life here, a quiet life. It isn't anything he could have imagined as a city boy in Brooklyn, and he wouldn't have dared wish for it as the Winter Soldier. But it's a good life, and it's his. Word count/format: 100

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Title: C4. Fisting Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: C4 - Fisting Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: Explicit Sexual Content? Major tags: PWP, Fisting, Anal Fisting Summary: Bucky can't quite believe that Steve trusts him--trusts the metal hand--enough to take him inside like this. Word count/format: 100

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Title: C5. Friends to Lovers Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: C5 - Friends to Lovers Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: period-typical homophobia Major tags: 1930s, pre-WWII Bucky/Steve, period-typical homophobia, internalized homophobia Summary: Bucky has a horrible secret to keep from Steve. Word count/format: 100

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Title: Bucky’s Concubine Creator(s): BookDragon13, writing-what-writing Link: tumblr Square: Y1 - Kink: Concubine Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Reader Warnings: Smut, Concubine Major tags: concubine Reader, gladiator au, gladiator Bucky, implied sexy times, pining, fated lovers Summary: As a concubine in a harem, you don’t always have a choice. That is, until the most famous gladiator, Bucky, has chosen you. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: Moodboard Creator(s): Metalbvcky Link: tumblr Square: Y1 - Would You Rather Rating: Gen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Beaches, Established Relationship, Fluff Summary: "Where would you rather go for vacation? Maybe out west? Or somewhere closer to home?" "How about the Virgin Islands?" Bucky says, his smile reaching his eyes. "I hear they have good weather this time of year." Word count/format: A moodboard with 10 photos

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Title: Of Witches, Witchers, and Werebears - Chapter 5: Dreams, Memories, and Family Creator(s): MuffinEngineer86 Link: ao3 Square: U4 - More than a partner Rating: Teen Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers Warnings: memory loss, PDSD, night terror, falling from a bridge, poisoning, mentioned child abuse Major tags: Alternative Universe, Witcher Bucky, Hydra are evil warlocks, fae Darcy, witch Darcy, Werebear Bucky, Bard Steve, tiny Steve, big Steve, potions Summary: Bucky dreamed of the man Darcy reminded him of. He was a bard but long before that he was his brother. He remembered Steve. Word count/format: 889

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Title: Words Break Me Creator(s): BBD2BH Link: ao3 Square: Y3 - Sticks and Stones Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: mentions of blood from a bloody lip Major tags: Pre-serum Steve, Secret Relationship, Parallels, CA: TFA, CA: CW Summary: Words have a different effect on Steve than they do on Bucky. Word count/format: 889

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Title: Red String of Fate Creator(s): BookDragon13, writing-what-writing Link: tumblr Square: U4 - Red string of fate Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky/whoever you choose Warnings: None Major tags: mention of Hydra, soulmates, soulmate au, red string of fate Summary: Bucky contemplates the string that leads to his soulmate. Word count/format: 100

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Title: No, it is easier said than done Creator(s): endlesstwanted Link: ao3 Square: K4 - Coma Rating: Teen Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes/John Walker Warnings: Injuries, Mention of broken bones, Hospitals Major tags: Team Bonding, Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss Summary: Bucky wakes up from surgery to find out that John has been there all along. Word count/format: 1144

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Title: Does your heartbeat get a little bit louder? Creator(s): endlesstwanted Link: ao3 Square: B5 - Missing you Rating: Mature Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes/Sharon Carter Warnings: N/A Major tags: Exes to Lovers, Sexual Content, Gentle Kissing Summary: Bucky and Sharon move the catching up to bed, and it takes an unexpected turn. Word count/format: 992

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Title: Sam dragging Bucky on social media - Part 10 Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: tumblr Square: B2 - fix-it Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Sam Warnings: none Major tags: photo edit, roomies, Sam teasing Bucky, social media post Summary: Wonder if he left his towel and swim trunks behind too? Word count/format: N/A

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Title: Hug and a Haircut Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: ao3 Square: K2 - Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky/Natasha Warnings: brief passing mentions of past Hydra things Major tags: soft, trust, emotional baggage, hugs Summary: Bucky's ready for a haircut, and asks someone he trusts to help him. Word count/format: 420

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Title: Hug and a Haircut moodboard Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: tumblr Square: Y4 - touch Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky/Natasha Warnings: none Major tags: moodboard, haircut Summary: Moodboard to go with fic Word count/format: N/A

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Title: Something to Get Me Through the Nothing - A WinterIron Round Robin Creator(s): Faustess Link: ao3 Square: U2 - Hurt/Comfort Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Tony Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Hurt/Comfort, Bucky Barnes Remembers, Classic Cars, Memories, Comic Book Automotive Repair, Bucky Barnes Recovering, POV Alternating, Angst with a Hopeful Ending Summary: Bucky Barnes remembers December 16, 1991 and can't keep it a secret. When he talks to Tony, he finds he's not the only one with issues. They talk and bond over nightmares, unfortunate shared history, and classic cars... and maybe find the start of something more. Word count/format: 2638 (total); my part = 369

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Title: BuckyNat Date Night Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: tumblr Square: Adopted - seeing red Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky/Natasha Warnings: none Major tags: moodboards, drabble, sensual/suggestive themes Summary: Bucky and Natasha have a very red date night. Word count/format: 100

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Title: I abandon myself to the glimpses of prior times Creator(s): endlesstwanted Link: ao3 Square: B3 - Polyamory/open relationship Rating: Teen Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes/Sharon Carter/Steve Rogers Warnings: N/A Major tags: Slice of Life, Baking, Domestic Fluff Summary: After a disastrous attempt to cook for Steve, Sharon and Bucky come up with a new idea to save breakfast. Word count/format: 1676

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Title: Old-Time Taste of Brooklyn Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: ao3 Square: Y5 - wish Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & JARVIS, Tony & JARVIS Warnings: none Major tags: Bucky recovering/remembering, JARVIS is awesome, Tony has a heart and also his mind is in the gutter Summary: Bucky has a pizza-sized snag in his memory, but JARVIS is more than happy to help him out. Word count/format: 1209

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Title: Winter shall howl at the walls Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: tumblr Square: B5 - Winter Soldier with Shield (image prompt) Rating: Gen Ship(s): N/A Warnings: N/A Major tags: ca:tws, high way fight scene, angst, memory loss/identity issues, Bucky Barnes needs a hug Summary: The Winter Soldier’s thoughts during the CA:TWS high way fight scene Word count/format: 535

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Title: Till it bleeds daylight (Chapter 7) Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: ao3 Square: Y5 - “Don’t Panic” Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Steve x Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: AU - Detectives, Hitman Bucky, Angst Summary: Steve continues his investigation into the Hydra mole Word count/format: 5196

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Title: All of you, all of me (Intertwined) Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: tumblr Square: C5 - First Kiss Rating: Teen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Post-ca:cw canon divergence, getting married, fluff Summary: Steve & Bucky finally get married Word count/format: 782

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Title: Spa Day Creator(s): Turtles Link: ao3 Square: C1 - Take The Shot Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Darcy Lewis Warnings: n/a Major tags: spa day, unidentified goons, misuse of a bus Summary: “I thought,” says Bucky, bringing his rifle up and peering through the sight, “that this was supposed to a relaxing, ‘recover-from-your-vacation’ spa trip.” Word count/format: 352

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Title: Unexpected Getaway Creator(s): Ribbonsflying Link: tumblr Square: U3 - AU: Asgardian Rating: Gen Ship(s): N/A Warnings: none Major tags: Writer Bucky, Asgard, Vacation Summary: Thor and Loki show up at the house of fantasy novelist Bucky Barnes to invite him to Asgard. Word count/format: 485 words/ moodboards

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Title: Don't Panic, They Can Sense It Creator(s): ABrighterDarkness Link: ao3 Square: Adopted - "Don't Panic" Rating: Gen Ship(s): Stucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Deaged Avengers (Implied), Bucky Remembers Summary: Panicking was bad. Very bad. It was like blood in the water for sharks. He was pretty sure he read somewhere that they could sense fear. Or maybe that was dogs. Yeah, he was definitely panicking. It hadn’t felt so bad on the field, he’d been so caught up in getting everyone out that panic wasn’t even an option. Word count/format: 1024

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Title: Retrieval Mission Creator(s): LBibliophile Link: tumblr Square: K1 - Jailbreak Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Alpine Warnings: na Major tags: ex-Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Protective Bucky Barnes, Alpine the cat, drabble Summary: "BREAKING NEWS: Ex-Soldier Raids Animal Shelter With Assault Rifle, in Full Tactical Gear, To Get Cat Back." Bucky doesn’t like to fight… but that doesn’t mean that he can’t or that he won’t. Word count/format: 100

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Title: Pure hell red Creator(s): endlesstwanted Link: ao3 Square: C2 - Seeing Red Rating: Gen Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov Warnings: N/A Major tags: Modern Setting AU, Flirting, Manicure Summary: Natasha is back in town and looking forward to catch up with Bucky. Word count/format: 1633

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Title: Dear Bucky Creator(s): Laevateinn Link: tumblr Square: U3 - Band (swapped) Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes & Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers Warnings: N/A Major tags: Angst, Platonic or romantic is up to you, moodboard, set between Avengers and CATWS, Cemetery Summary: Dear Bucky; Today I discovered a band I’m sure you would have loved. It’s called PostModern Jukebox. Funny name, right? It was a recommendation from Natasha. You know Natasha, I told you about her before. Word count/format: 474

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Title: complimentary colours Creator(s): lavenderbucky Link: ao3 Square: Y2 - Compromise Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers Warnings: N/A Major tags: Interior Decorating, Domestic Fluff, Banter, Teasing, Established Relationship Summary: Steve wants Bucky to stop splashing him with paint. Bucky just wants to finish his accent wall. It'll be a miracle if they get anything done today. Word count/format: 477

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Title: photoshoot Creator(s): lavenderbucky Link: ao3 Square: K4 - Photoshoot Rating: Gen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Fluff, Established Relationship, Selfies Summary: Steve likes taking photos of Bucky on vacation. Word count/format: 100

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Title: returning home Creator(s): lavenderbucky Link: ao3 Square: U5 - Fluff Rating: Gen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Cuddling & Snuggling, Sharing a Bed, Showering Together, Established Relationship, Fluff Summary: Steve and Bucky return home from a mission and get ready for bed together. Word count/format: 300

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Title: burnt dinner Creator(s): lavenderbucky Link: ao3 Square: U2 - Worst Case Scenario Rating: Gen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Domestic Fluff Summary: It's not Bucky's fault he burnt the dinner. Word count/format: 100

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Title: breakfast waffles Creator(s): lavenderbucky Link: ao3 Square: B4 - Handle with Care Rating: Gen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: VERY brief references to Bucky's recovery, panic attacks and mental health struggles. Major tags: Breakfast in Bed, Fluff, Soft & Gentle, Alpine Summary: Bucky has a bad mental health day. Steve brings him breakfast in bed. Word count/format: 400

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Title: cat show Creator(s): lavenderbucky Link: ao3 Square: B2 - Mutual Appreciation Society Rating: Gen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Silly, Humour, Alpine, Roleplay Summary: Steve, Bucky, and a very patient Alpine. Word count/format: 100

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Title: No Matter How Old Creator(s): TrinityDay Link: ao3 Square: K3 - Family Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Sarah Wilson Warnings: none Major tags: family Summary: Bucky rarely talks about his past. It's understandable, after everything he's been through. But his past stretches back to before the war, to a family he left behind. When he finally lets it slip that one of his sisters is still alive, Sarah and Sam aren't going to let him clam up again. They both know what it's like to reconnect with a sibling after years and deaths, presumed or otherwise. Now they just have to figure out how to convince Bucky the risk is worth it. Word count/format: 3653

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Title: No Secrets in the Cul-de-Sac, Ch 1 Creator(s): ChrissiHR Link: ao3 Square: B3 - run Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky/Clint/Darcy Warnings: smut, wholesome fun for the whole gangbang, horniest block in the suburb Major tags: slutty neighbors AU; Exhibitionism; Voyeurism Summary: Global warming is a bitch. Thankfully, the east coast is the best coast—the one that gets actual rain and has a rainy season, so it’s not a total wash of good summer days. It’s just. The nights get so hot and humid. It’s like an oven in her apartment out here in the sweltering suburbs some nights, especially if she doesn’t open the windows. They’ve had frequent rolling blackouts and subsequent brown-outs the last week, with the promise of more to come. As far as Darcy can tell, the whole neighborhood is sleeping naked with the windows open most nights. They get by, though. It’s not so bad. Then the rolling blackouts start up again and the neighbors begin opening their drapes to let in light in the evening. And there are no longer any secrets in the cul-de-sac. Word count/format: 1453

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Title: The Olde Victorian Hotel, Brooklyn, New York, Chapter 3: Darcy Lewis and the Aftermath Creator(s): ChrissiHR Link: ao3 Square: B4 - biting (swapped w/ WC_ItalianRoast for kink: biting) Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky/Darcy/Steve Warnings: Thirst Trap, ABO Dynamics Major tags: Thirst Trap; Darcy Lewis is Elvira’s Niece; Darcy inherits a possibly haunted hotel in Brooklyn; it’s like flypaper for super soldiers Summary: Previously, in Chapter 2 of The Olde Victorian Hotel, Brooklyn, New York… …the bed rocked again and the next thing she knew, she was being flung unceremoniously out of it into the darkest corner of her room. She tumbled across the floor, her mattress upended from what she could see of it by the moonlight filtering through the sheers covering her windows. The room was dark, but empty. There was no one there. And just as she convinced herself she must have had a bad dream and pulled the mattress over as she fell out of bed, a terrifying voice boomed, “GET OUT.” Word count/format: 2005

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Title: Seeing Red Creator(s): ChrissiHR Link: ao3 Square: U1 - color blind Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky/Darcy Warnings: moodboard, digital art, general audiences, first meeting Major tags: moodboard, New York City, black & white, red lipstick, digital art Summary: Black and white images of scenes of a day and night out in New York City, an eye, and ophthalmology tools, Bucky in pseudo-EnChroma glasses in black and white, a tube of red lipstick in full color with a matching, deep red background, and Darcy Lewis in full color, wearing a black and white Jack Daniels tee and bright red lipstick. Word count/format: moodboard

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Title: The Olde Victorian Hotel, Brooklyn, New York, Chapter 5: Darcy Lewis and the Much Needed Rest Creator(s): ChrissiHR Link: ao3 Square: U2 - polyamory Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky/Darcy/Steve Warnings: ABO Dynamics, Thirst Trap, hurt/comfort Major tags: Darcy is Elvira’s Niece, ABO Dynamics, Mystery, Suspense Summary: Natasha is all of us—a nosy busybody. Word count/format: 1671

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Title: Firehouse Noir Creator(s): ChrissiHR Link: ao3 Square: U3 - cold Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky/Darcy/Clint Warnings: swearing, polyamory Major tags: Human AU, No Powers AU, Firefighters AU Summary: Tap, tap, tap. Darcy glanced up from her ledger at the rapid tattoo of fingernails on her storefront window. “Business or pleasure, Fire Marshal Barnes?” she asked in a teasing voice when she stepped out to join him. Bucky gave her a wan smile and opened his mouth to speak, but— “Fuckin’ embarrassin’ is what it is,” Clint grumbled from his spot across the wide stretch of lawn, where he stood, hands on hips, scowling up into the deep red canopy of leaves of the old Japanese maple that shaded their little corner of the block. Word count/format: 1447

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Title: Second Year, Samhain, Meriwether Family Compound… Creator(s): ChrissiHR Link: ao3 Square: U5 - arranged marriage Rating: Mature Ship(s): Darcy/Bucky/Steve/Clint Warnings: arranged marriage, supernatural, pregnancy, mentions of sex Major tags: arranged marriage, supernatural family, pregnancy Summary: Darcy knew a good thing—a powerful change in the air—when she felt it. She was keeping the pack. Word count/format: 973

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Title: The Olde Victorian Hotel, Brooklyn, New York, Chapter 6: Darcy Lewis and the Sweetest Dreams Creator(s): ChrissiHR Link: ao3 Square: K1 - cuddling Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky/Darcy/Steve Warnings: ABO Dynamics, Thirst Trap Major tags: Darcy is Elvira’s niece, ABO Dynamics, hurt/comfort, supernatural elements Summary: Darcy dreams and drifts, floating on the softest clouds back into the realm of reality so gently, she makes the transition still thinking she’s dreaming. She’s no longer held aloft by amorphous clouds, but rather by a cozy nest of them, cradling her gently in the warmest, most unutterably soft embrace. Word count/format: 1585

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Title: Beltane, First Year, Fort Salem… Creator(s): ChrissiHR Link: ao3 Square: Y1 - wolf Rating: Mature Ship(s): Darcy/Bucky/Steve/Clint Warnings: institutionalized polyamory; reverse harem AU; succubus AU Major tags: Motherland: Fort Salem AU, witches, werewolves, war college Summary: War packs, like covens, always work best in threes, so when Alpha Steve Rogers meets Cadet Darcy Lewis-Meriwether, he’s surprised her covenmates aren’t joining them for the Beltane celebrations. He’s brought his own pack, after all. If they’re really going to do this, he’d at least like to be on good terms with her coven. Word count/format: 1997

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Title: Steady as the stars in the woods Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: tumblr Square: C1 - Family of Choice Rating: Teen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Fluff, Found Family, Slice of Life Summary: Steve & Bucky have their friends over for a BBQ, Bucky contemplates the idea of family. Word count/format: 1913

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Title: Till It Bleeds Daylight (Chapter 8) Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: ao3 Square: U2 - Angst Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: AU - Detectives, Hitman Bucky, Bucky feels, Angst Summary: Steve worries about walking into a trap. He never expected it to all go this spectacularly wrong. Word count/format: 4135

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Title: When in doubt, find the plums Creator(s): Laevateinn Link: tumblr Square: K4 - Plums Rating: Explicit Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Warnings: None Major tags: College AU, Art museum, Fluff and fun, Moodboard, drabble Summary: Steve and Bucky finally had managed a trip to the Art museum. Word count/format: 100

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Title: Since you are, everything that was is now something new: chapter one Creator(s): endlesstwanted Link: ao3 Square: C1 - Anonymous confessions Rating: Teen Ship(s): Implied past-Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers Warnings: Recreational Drug Use Major tags: Developing Friendships, Light Angst Summary: Snippets on how to be wooed by two super soldiers, a guide by Sharon Carter. Step one: feelings exposure. Word count/format: 698

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Title: Packmates Creator(s): Dogsled Link: ao3 Square: K1 - M'Baku Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes & M'Baku Warnings: None Major tags: friendship, quiet, wakanda, black panther compliant, sad Summary: M'Baku has some words of advice for the White Wolf Word count/format: 906

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Title: Armed and Dangerous Creator(s): Dogsled Link: ao3 Square: C1 - Metal Arm Bros Rating: Gen Ship(s): Tony Stark & Bucky Barnes Warnings: None Major tags: enemies to friends, endgame divergent, steve still leaves, grief/mourning Summary: Tony tries to cheer Bucky up. It's arguable whether or not it actually works. Word count/format: 728

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Title: As a Treat Creator(s): Dogsled Link: ao3 Square: U1 - Open Relationship/Polyamory Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson Warnings: None Major tags: PWP, Polyamory, Blow Jobs, Double Penetration Summary: Sam's exasperation with Steve and Bucky fucking in every room of the house can only hold out for so long. Word count/format: 882

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Title: A Little Restraint Creator(s): Dogsled Link: ao3 Square: B1 - Getting Groceries Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Helmut Zemo Warnings: None Major tags: Stockings, Clothing kink, lace panties Summary: Chores get in the way of sexy times, and all Bucky can think about is what Zemo has on under his clothes. It's becoming a problem. Word count/format: 1000

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Title: The Doctor Is In Creator(s): Dogsled Link: ao3 Square: K4 - Doctor's Appointment Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Helmut Zemo Warnings: None Major tags: doctor/patient, body worship, zemo wearing glasses, sexual roleplay Summary: Bucky wants Zemo to try out a little roleplay with him. Starting with Zemo putting on THAT pair of glasses so as to better look the part. Word count/format: 2303

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Title: Burn the World Down for You (Chapter 18) Creator(s): Faustess Link: ao3 Square: B5 - Domesticity Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Brock Rumlow Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Mention of Mpreg (no details, though), Other chapters include: Masturbation, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Rimming Major tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Brock Rumlow, Alpha Bucky Barnes, Domesticity Summary: Chapter Summary: Yasha and Brock settle into life in their apartment and make a friend. Life's not without challenges, but it's good. Full Summary: Brock had a secret. Scratch that. Make it two secrets. First, he's not the alpha all the guys on his team think he is... and second, he might just have a crush on the Winter Soldier. Either one of them could land him in hot water with Hydra, but both combined? Bad News. Even if he could just walk away from Hydra, could he really leave the only alpha who's ever made him wonder what it would be like to live openly as an omega? Maybe it's all just in his head, though, and the Soldier hadn't really noticed him. It's not in Brock's head. The Soldier has definitely noticed. Note: This is not a Hydra Trash Party fic. Word count/format: 3883 (Ch. 18), 69,286 (total)

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Title: Bucky's Blanket Fort Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: tumblr Square: C5 - blanket forts Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & friends/family Warnings: none Major tags: drabble, fluff Summary: Bucky makes a blanket fort and has guests. Word count/format: 100

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Title: You Got A Guy? Creator(s): Kinko Link: ao3 Square: K1 - Marriage of Convenience/ Pretend Couple Rating: Teen Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes & Angie Martinelli Warnings: Period-Typical Homophobia Major tags: Friendship, Pre-Captain America: The First Avenger Summary: Bucky gets worried about the wrong people finding out the truth about him and Steve. Then he meets a nice waitress with a similar problem. Word count/format: 1143

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Title: I do. Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: tumblr Square: Adopted - Diary Rating: Teen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Angst, Bucky’s notebooks, memory loss Summary: He keeps them like treasures, each and every single one of them. The ones from earlier, months ago, read like not more than the ramblings of a mad man, words scribbled over and over, sometimes with painstaking effort to hold a pen or pencil without his hand trembling, with seemingly no intent behind it except to get them out of his head and onto paper, like he’ll feel less haunted that way. He doesn’t, not really, but it helps, at least for a little while, and at this point, that’s all he can ask for. Word count/format: Moodboard + 884 words

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Title: Red, White & Blue Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: tumblr Square: K5 - Live on TV Rating: Mature Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: shrunkyclunks, humor, wrong number shenanigans, bucky barnes needs to get laid Summary: Steve goes on live tv for one of his first interviews post-ice. He’s nervous enough as it is. The texts from an unknown number he receives while on air, that get more explicit by the second, definitely don’t help. Bucky is very horny and thinks he’s pestering a friend, but he’s really texting captain america. Word count/format: 3557

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Title: Till It Bleeds Daylight (Chapter 5) Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: ao3 Square: C2 - Spy, Secret Agent, Assassin, or Hitman Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Steve/ Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: AU - Detectives, Hitman Bucky, Angst, Hurt/Comfort Summary: Bucky gets ready for his mission. Things fall apart. Word count/format: 3950

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Title: Till It Bleeds Daylight (Chapter 4) Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: ao3 Square: K1 - Aftercare Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: AU - Detectives, Hitman Bucky, Angst, Hurt/Comfort Summary: Steve finally figures out what Hydra is planning with the Winter Soldier Word count/format: 4073

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Title: “It is my duty to keep an eye on you.” Creator(s): Girl Back There Link: ao3 Square: U5 - Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky/Natasha Warnings: None Major tags: pies & Secret Agents AU, Spy Natasha, SHIELD Agent Bucky, Sex as a Distraction, Subterfuge Summary: Natasha stepped in closer, running her finger along the edge of James’ tie, “I wouldn’t want you to not fulfill your duties.” Word count/format: 408

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Title: K1. Huddling for Warmth Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: K1 - Huddling for Warmth Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Canon Divergence, First Avenger, Graphic Injury Summary: Steve jumps after Bucky. Word count/format: 100

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Title: K2. Bucky/Darcy Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: K2 - Bucky/Darcy Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Darcy Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Avengers Tower, Pining Summary: "I'm not shy," Bucky blusters when he manages to find his words. "I'm -- respectful." "Well," Darcy says, swinging her legs. "Then you don't have to be so respectful." Word count/format: 100

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Title: K3. Praise Kink Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: K3 - Praise Kink Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Bucky Barnes Recovering, Bucky Barnes Has PTSD, Praise Kink Summary: Bucky has a complicated relationship to praise. Word count/format: 100

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Title: K4. Wakanda Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: K4 - Wakanda Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Wakanda, Languages and Linguistics, Soft Bucky, Soft Steve Summary: Bucky and Steve wander over to a stall that smells amazing, sweet and spicy and full of barbecue char. Bucky orders in Wakandan, and Steve beams. Word count/format: 100

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Title: K5. Ballet Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: K5 - Ballet Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky & Natasha Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Bucky Barnes Recovering, Ballerina Natasha, Balletomane Bucky, Red Room Summary: Natasha manages to remind Bucky of the steps, the combinations, the posture and perfection, without triggering the pain and fear and humiliation. There's something freeing about moving across the floor with her. Word count/format: 100

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Title: Metal Arm Bros -C1 Creator(s): Late-to-the-party-81 Link: tumblr Square: C1 - Metal Arm Bros Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky x Sam Warnings: None Major tags: Fluff, Disabled Bucky Barnes, Bucky Barnes Recovering Summary: Bucky is a secret. Samuel wonders what it is, but he knows Bucky will tell him in time. Most importantly, it’s making Bucky happy. Word count/format: 1.9k

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Title: Of Witches, Witchers, and Werebears - Chapter 6: Hostage, Dagger and Suspicion Creator(s): MuffinEngineer86 Link: ao3 Square: U3 - Good Guys Gone Bad Rating: Teen Ship(s): James “Bucky” Barnes & Geralt of Rivia, James “Bucky” Barnes/Darcy Lewis Warnings: hostage situation, extortion, good guy gone bad, False suspicion Major tags: Alternative Universe, Witcher Bucky, Hydra are evil warlocks, fae Darcy, witch Darcy, Werebear Bucky, Bard Steve, Jaskier in danger, doppelganger Summary: Bucky brought Geralt to the white fae witch. They talked about the reason for Geralt's visit and what happened to Jaskier. Word count/format: 666

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Title: From Another TIme Creator(s): ruckystarnes Link: tumblr Square: K4 - AU! Bucky Never Fell Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky x F!Reader Warnings: none Major tags: time travel, threats Summary: Bucky comes home to an uninvited guest in his home Word count/format: 685

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Title: Alpine's Master Plan Creator(s): scottxlogan Link: ao3 Square: B1 - Visiting The Vet Rating: Teen Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes/Tony Stark, Alpine the Cat & James "Bucky" Barnes, Alpine the Cat & Tony Stark Warnings: N/A Major tags: Alpine Plays Matchmaker, Getting Together, First Kiss, Enemies to Friends to Lovers Summary: Finding Alpine was the best thing that happened to Bucky Barnes. Fearing that he may have crossed one too many lines without asking permission in bringing her back to live with him at Avenger's Tower, Bucky is uncertain of how his reluctant host will respond to Bucky shaking things up again. However, Alpine charms Tony and finds a way to work her magic in bringing Bucky and Tony closer together in ways neither expected. Word count/format: 4134

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Title: Safe Creator(s): startrekkingaroundasgard Link: tumblr Square: U3 - on the run Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky x GN!Reader Warnings: None Major tags: neighbours, pining, mild threat, scientist!reader, protective Bucky Summary: Bucky sees he neighbour acting strangely and goes to help them. Word count/format: 1000

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Title: Have You Checked Your Butthole? Creator(s): startrekkingaroundasgard Link: tumblr Square: C1 - don't say it Rating: Gen Ship(s): Clint/Bucky Warnings: none Major tags: drabble, crack, established relationship Summary: “A funny thing to say to someone who’s lost their shit and is stressed out visibly,” Word count/format: 100

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Title: Hold Your Hand Creator(s): startrekkingaroundasgard Link: tumblr Square: B4 - hand holding Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky/Natasha Warnings: N/A Major tags: moodboard, asexuality, established relationship Summary: Asexual BuckyNat; I only wanna hold your hand Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: A Night in the Park Creator(s): scottxlogan Link: ao3 Square: B4 - Date in the park Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark Warnings: Making out, swearing Major tags: Date Night, Movie Night, date night in the park, Kissing, Making Out, Swearing, Established Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Adult Content, Team Bonding Summary: In Tony's latest return from a team mission, he takes Bucky on date night to a movie in the park where Tony has big plans for them moving forward. As Tony gears up for a big question, the team arrives and all his plans for date night go out the window. Word count/format: 4580

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Title: The Asset Creator(s): Kinko Link: ao3 Square: Y1 - Handle With Care Rating: Teen Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes / Steve Rogers (mentioned) Warnings: Talk of Bucky's past as the Winter Soldier Major tags: Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Unreliable Narrator, Misunderstandings Summary: Steve brings Bucky home with him after the whole ordeal with the helicarriers and promises to take care of him. Bucky, who still views himself as the Asset, does not trust him. Word count/format: 807

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Title: After One or Two False Starts - Chapter 2 Creator(s): PoliZ Link: ao3 Square: B3 - Sam Wilson/Falcon Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Sam Warnings: none Major tags: Post - Falcon and the Winter Soldier Mutual Pining, Alternating POV Summary: Bucky reflects on how his friendship with Sam has developed, and how he wishes it could maybe be more. Word count/format: 315

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Title: Adverse Possession Creator(s): PoliZ Link: tumblr Square: U2 - AU: Roommates Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky & Clint Warnings: threatening someone with a gun Major tags: Canon Divergence - Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes Recovering, Gen or Pre-Slash, POV Clint Barton Summary: Three tense months after the fall of the Triskelion and the discovery of Hydra's infiltration of SHIELD, Clint is finally coming back home to his Bed-Stuy apartment. However, it seems someone else has taken up residence. Word count/format: 919

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Title: Moving Forward (Using All My Breath) Creator(s): PoliZ Link: ao3 Square: K3 - KINK: Edging Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky/Tony Warnings: self-image issues, performance issues, Major tags: Orgasm Delay, Dildos, gentle Dom!Tony, Power Bottom, Bucky POV Summary: After being edged for what feels like forever, Bucky finally gets the best of both worlds, courtesy of Tony. But when all is said and done, Tony doesn’t think it’s enough. Word count/format: 896

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Title: Keep me forever, tell me you want me Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: tumblr Square: B3 - Silver Rating: Teen Ship(s): Stucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: AU: Actor/Director, age difference, Actor Bucky Barnes Summary: Bucky is an actor desperate to impress director!Steve Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: If your gonna have car trouble on a road trip... Creator(s): Girl Back There Link: ao3 Square: K2 - "This may as well happen" Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve/Tony Warnings: None Major tags: No Powers AU, Established Bucky/John Walker, Established Steve/Tony, Ultimatums, Breakups, Flirting Summary: Bucky didn’t set out to upend his life in Indiana or his relationship with his boyfriend. Or thought he would contemplate becoming part of a polyamorous relationship with a married couple in a different state. Life can be funny sometimes. Word count/format: 1383

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Title: A Bug In The System (Nexus, Ch2) Creator(s): Turtles Link: tumblr Square: U3 - Comics Rating: Teen Ship(s): Darcy Lewis/Bucky Barnes Warnings: n/a Major tags: Notting Hill AU, Modern AU Summary: It’s the start of another day in the life of Bucky Barnes—wake up, have breakfast, go to work. Nothing unusual at all. Word count/format: 2319

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Title: Throw your knives at my heart instead Creator(s): endlesstwanted Link: ao3 Square: Y5 - Hydra Rating: Mature Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov Warnings: Angst, PTSD Major tags: Hurt/Comfort, Rivals to Lovers Summary: Bucky finds Clint target practising with Natasha, and for a moment he’s the one handling the knives again. Word count/format: 1417

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Title: Two and Two Creator(s): TrinityDay Link: ao3 Square: K1 - AU: Noir Detective Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes & Peggy Carter Warnings: none Major tags: canon divergence, minor noir vibes Summary: Bucky Barnes came back from war missing an arm and missing his best friend. Steve hadn’t been supposed to go overseas in the first place, but Steve always found his way into things a saner man would steer far, far clear from. Now all Bucky has left is his gun, a small sorry office in a broken-down building, and his job as a private detective. He knew from the moment Peggy Carter walked into his office, she was trouble. He also knew he couldn’t resist when she asked for help. Bucky had always been a sucker someone in need. Word count/format: 1419

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Title: I Have Been Waiting For You Creator(s): newtypeshadow Link: ao3 Square: B2 - AU: A/B/O Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark Warnings: Threatened Violence, Mention of Howard Stark's Abuse Major tags: Speed Dating, Intimidation, Alpha Bucky Barnes, Omega Tony Stark, A/B/O AU Summary: Tony was beyond confused. He'd walked into this speed dating room expecting to meet Bucky, the kind, sassy, sexy alpha who'd been breaking hearts all over the agency for months by not asking to take home any of the omegas he'd charmed during their ten-minute meetings. Instead, he got Bucky the murder-faced knothead. What the hell was going on? Word count/format: 1591

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Title: Keep me forever, tell me you want me Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: tumblr Square: B3 - Silver Rating: Teen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: AU: Actor/Director, Actor Bucky Barnes, age difference Summary: Bucky is an actor who desperately wants to impress director!Steve Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: Manning the Store Creator(s): DarthBloodOrange Link: ao3 Square: Y3 - AU: Bookstore Rating: Gen Ship(s): James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Warnings: No warnings Major tags: Bookstore AU, Shrunkyclunks, First Meetings, Misunderstandings Summary: When Becca broke her leg, Bucky was more than willing to manage her bookstore in her absence. She warns him about one of her returning partons: a mysterious blond vet called Steve. She'd put in a lot of work befriending him, making him feel comfortable hanging out at Bec's Books. Threatening Bucky should he scare her friend away. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: Of Witches, Witchers, and Werebears - Chapter 7: Arm, Doppelganger, and Rescue Creator(s): MuffinEngineer86 Link: ao3 Square: C5 - Doppelgangers/Evil Twins Rating: Teen Ship(s): James “Bucky” Barnes & Steve Rogers Warnings: torture, violence, murder Major tags: Alternative Universe, Witcher Bucky, Hydra are evil warlocks, fae Darcy, witch Darcy, Werebear Bucky, Bard Steve, big Steve, Bucky has a new arm, teasing, evil twin mustache Summary: Bucky went on a rescue mission to get Steve back, as Geralt and Darcy were going to the meeting place for the trade-off. To Bucky’s surprise, he not only found Steve but also Jaskier. Steve had alarming information. Word count/format: 1068

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Title: Till It Bleeds Daylight - Chapter 6 Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: ao3 Square: C2 - Free Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: AU - Detectives, Hitman Bucky, Bucky feels, Angst, Hurt/Comfort Summary: Carol and Sam try and find a way to help Steve. Bucky accepts his situation for what it is. Word count/format: 3852

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Title: when I come home to you Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: ao3 Square: Y1 - Bucky in Wakanda [Image prompt] Rating: Mature Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Wakanda stucky, post-ca:cw, canon divergence, softness, happy ending these boys deserve, non-explicit smut Summary: After giving up the shield, Steve hangs up the uniform too, and finally goes home, home to Bucky. Word count/format: 1333

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Title: Rise and Shine Creator(s): TrinityDay Link: ao3 Square: K5 - Image of Bucky and Sam at airport Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky & Steve & Sam Warnings: None Major tags: Runners Summary: Bucky Barnes was back home and recovering from his stint as the longest POW in history. Bucky Barnes was taking his time to relearn about his likes and dislikes, trying new experiences with Sam and Steve beside him to help him navigate this new century. Bucky Barnes was not going to go running with the two masochists that he lived with, no matter how much Steve cajoled. Word count/format: 1835

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Title: Tame as the Wild Ones Chapter 2 Creator(s): TrinityDay Link: ao3 Square: B1 - Carnival Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes & Natasha Romanoff Warnings: none Major tags: Not CACW compliant Summary: Their second meeting (third? Bucky’s memories surrounding Project Insight are still fuzzy) this side of the twenty-first century might have gone better than it had any right to go, but that doesn’t mean Bucky is ready to be brought in yet. He trusts Steve, but not the government that harboured that same organization that kept him captive all those decades. Steve might not agree, but at least his friends believe they’re better off apart. When the Black Widow tracks him down in some small town in Austria, Bucky wishes he could be more surprised, both that she could find him or why she would even be looking. He always knew that his time wandering Europe by himself was limited. She’s come now to ask a favour–a big one. Of course it’s about Steve. Word count/format: 3885

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Title: Insomniac Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: tumblr Square: K1 - Insomnia Rating: Gen Ship(s): n/a Warnings: blood, strangulation Major tags: Bucky Barnes, Winter Soldier, Insomnia Summary: Bucky canonically has nightmares about his existence as The Winter Soldier. On those occasions when he can sleep, that is. Word count/format: moodboard

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Title: Baking Rivals to Bakery Co-Owners Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: tumblr Square: Y1 - Bakery AU Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes & Sam Wilson Warnings: none Major tags: Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, Bakery AU Summary: Classic cake decorator Bucky Barnes and Contemporary Cake Decorator Sam Wilson are rivals in every baking competition. They're the men to beat. Recognizing this, they come together to open a bakery to showcase both of their styles. Word count/format: moodboard

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Title: Way Up in the Air Creator(s): BBD2BH Link: ao3 Square: C5 - Kink: Mile High Club Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Modern AU, Public Sex, Mile High Club, Age Gap, Shrinkyclinks Summary: When Steve Rogers gets on his trans-Atlantic flight, he’s not looking for anything other than getting to the end of it alive. That all changes when his seatmate distracts him from his phobia of flying in a mind-blowing way. Word count/format: 3334

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Title: Y1. Mutual Appreciation Society Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: Y1 - Mutual Appreciation Society Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky & Wanda Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Baker Bucky, Baker Wanda, Avengers Tower Summary: After that, Bucky and Wanda start to bring each other fresh baked goods every-other morning or so. Steve would complain about all of the sugar, but he loves it--and he loves seeing both sad, quiet people start to blossom around their new friend. Word count/format: 100

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Title: This Isn’t That Kind of Fairy Tale Creator(s): BBD2BH Link: ao3 Square: U3 - AU: Fairytale Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: No archive warnings apply, references to canon compliant violence on the Winter Soldier Major tags: Canon Compliant, Fairy Tale Elements, Curses, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Dark Fairy Tale Summary: The Winter Soldier doesn’t get a fairy tale ending, but he does break the curse. Word count/format: 512

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Title: Something to Get Me Through the Nothing - A WinterIron Round Robin Creator(s): PoliZ Link: ao3 Square: C5 - “This might as well happen.” Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky & Tony (Bucky/Tony) Warnings: Nightmares, fear of death Major tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Hopeful Ending, Recovering Bucky Barnes, Nightmares, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, POV Alternating Summary: Bucky Barnes remembers December 16, 1991 and can't keep it a secret. When he talks to Tony, he finds he's not the only one with issues. They talk and bond over nightmares, unfortunate shared history, and classic cars... and maybe find the start of something more. Word count/format: 349

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Title: Lady Natasha’s Consort and Lord Steve’s Companion - Chapter 3 Creator(s): PoliZ Link: ao3 Square: U4 - AU: Arranged Marriage Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve (Bucky & Tony) Warnings: non-graphic autopsy (Chapter 3), semi-graphic death (Chapter 2) Major tags: Royalty AU, Secret Relationship, Political Alliances, Polyamory, Intrigue, Summary: Chapter 3: Bucky exposes a painful part of his past as Doctor Banner performs an autopsy on Rumlow; he, Banner and Tony discuss what comes next. Word count/format: 1025

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Title: Afterglow (Chapter 2) Creator(s): sarahbeniel Link: ao3 Square: U5 - Silence Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky/Darcy Warnings: Swearing, Intervention, Sexual Content Major tags: Tropes, Intervention, Snowed In Summary: Bucky and Darcy meet on what was supposed to be a weekend-long team-building exercise, and get snowed in. Word count/format: 4603 so far, for the entire work

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Title: Here, Love Grows Creator(s): Otpcutie Link: tumblr Square: B2 - Domesticity Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Tony Warnings: D/s undertones Major tags: Idiots in love, getting together, first kiss, comfort, D/s undertones, Summary: Tony discovers how much Bucky cares about him. Word count/format: 1.3k

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Title: Fanfic Creator(s): Metalbvcky Link: ao3 Square: Y2 - Without Fear Rating: Mature Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Fashion AU, Modeling, Auditions, Age Difference, Meet-Cute, Fashion Designer Bucky, Model Steve Summary: Bucky had cultivated a new fashion collection for his brand, White Wolf Exotics, and now he and his team were in the casting process. Only problem, they needed the best of the best. But then the one stepped out from behind the curtain. Word count/format: 3039

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Title: Fanfic Creator(s): Metalbvcky Link: ao3 Square: B5 - KINK: Cock Warming Rating: Explicit Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Modern AU, Established Relationship, Dom/Sub, Cock Warming, Face-Fucking, Office Sex Summary: Bucky helps Steve relax while he works, and then later, allows him to let off some steam. Word count/format: 1035

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Title: Afterglow (Chapter 3) Creator(s): sarahbeniel Link: ao3 Square: Y4 - "Just Do It" Rating: Mature Ship(s): Bucky/Darcy Warnings: Intervention, Swearing, Eventual sexual content Major tags: Meet Cute, Tropes, Snowed In Summary: Bucky and Darcy meet on what was supposed to be a weekend-long team-building exercise, and get snowed in. Word count/format: 7631 so far, for the entire work

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Title: Bucky's Blue Coat Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: tumblr Square: B1 - image prompt: Bucky in Howling Commandos uniform Rating: Gen Ship(s): n/a Warnings: none Major tags: bucky barnes,howling commandos, what if...? bucky, Summary: A fashion style moodboard featuring Bucky's coat Word count/format: moodboard

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Title: Cat + Mistletoe = Disaster Creator(s): Laevateinn Link: ao3 Square: U4 - Call for Help (swapped) Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: None Major tags: Fluff, Alpine, College AU, Mistletoe, cat shenanigans, banter Summary: Steve and Bucky had only been Alpine’s parents for a few weeks, but she was already giving them grey hair. Word count/format: 714

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Title: Y2. Bucky Barnes Recovering Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: Y2 - Bucky Barnes Recovering Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Not Civil War Compliant, Bucky Recovering, Bucky Has PTSD Summary: A few months ago, Bucky wouldn't have even recognized his own hunger. Now, he'll stand beside Steve in the kitchen, stirring batter for the French toast. It's a long road. Word count/format: 100

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Title: Y3. Broken Creator(s): https://archiveofourown.org/works/44122671 Link: ao3 Square: Y3 - Broken Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: Panic Attacks, PTSD Major tags: Panic Attacks, Bucky Has PTSD, Soft Steve Summary: Bucky drops Sarah Rogers' teapot. Word count/format: 100

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Title: Y4. Book Club Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: Y4 - Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Avengers Tower, Nerd Bucky, Book Clubs Summary: Part of Bucky wonders whether suggesting this particular book was Natasha's sneaky way of making fun of Steve, just a little bit. America The Beautiful, and all that. Word count/format: 100

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Title: Y5. Maimed Creator(s): aimmyarrowshigh Link: ao3 Square: Y5 - Maimed Rating: Teen Ship(s): N/A Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Major tags: Secret Injury, Bucky Barnes Has Issues Summary: Bucky is grateful that his uniform is black. It hides the blood best. Word count/format: 100

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Title: I'm Done Running Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: tumblr Square: B5 - Running Away Rating: Gen Ship(s): n/a Warnings: none Major tags: Bucky Barnes, Winter Soldier, running away, Summary: Bucky, after the pulling Steve from the river and walking away and did a bit of running away as well. Now, he's done running.  Word count/format: moodboard

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Title: Maybe it's Maybelline Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: tumblr Square: C3 - Eyeliner Rating: Gen Ship(s): n/a Warnings: none Major tags: Eyeliner, Makeup Summary: There was a time when Bucky would have squirreled away a makeup ad, if caught, he could say it was for his sister. He loved the looks of the models' eyes. Today Bucky embraces the 21st century ability to do his eyes up like the starlets and models he used to study. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: Wrong Number Creator(s): Turtles Link: ao3 Square: B3 - Wrong Number Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Darcy, Bucky & Sam, Sam & Darcy Warnings: n/a Major tags: Wrong number, Bucky makes a new friend Summary: Bucky answers a call from a number he doesn’t recognise. Word count/format: 464

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Title: Secrets and Hope (All These Stars Exist, Ch3) Creator(s): Turtles Link: ao3 Square: K2 - Amnesia Rating: Teen Ship(s): ane Foster/Bucky Barnes Warnings: n/a Major tags: Historical, Regency AU, Lady scientist Summary: Without any chance to protest or decline, Bucky found himself on an excursion to the longhouse with a party of Lord Stark's guests. To his surprise, he found himself in step with Miss Lewis and Miss Romanoff, whilst Miss Foster asked Steve question after question about the mural. Word count/format: 1068

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Title: When Stars Are Involved (All These Stars Exist, Ch 2) Creator(s): Turtles Link: ao3 Square: Y5 - AU: Regency Rating: Teen Ship(s): Jane Foster/Bucky Barnes Warnings: n/a Major tags: Historical, Regency, lady scientist Summary: Bucky is awkward, then an excursion is organised. Word count/format: 759

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Title: All The Single Ladies (In The Future, Ch3) Creator(s): Turtles Link: ao3 Square: U5 - Knives Rating: Teen Ship(s): Darcy Lewis/Bucky Barnes Warnings: Time travel, post-apocalyptic Major tags: Time travel, post-apocalyptic, canon divergence Summary: Turning around, Darcy’s eyes darted in several directions as she oriented herself and she blinked hard at the glare from the sun. Spots and stripes dancing in her vision, she lifted one hand to shade her eyes and peered into the distance. Steve and Bucky take Darcy home. Word count/format: yes

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Title: In The Halls of The Mountain King (In The Future, Ch 4) Creator(s): Turtles Link: ao3 Square: U1 - Alcohol Rating: Teen Ship(s): Darcy Lewis/Bucky Barnes Warnings: Time travel, post-apocalyptic Major tags: Time travel, post-apocalyptic, canon divergence Summary: Darcy gets some medical attention and learns a bit more about Earth’s new rings. Word count/format: 2724

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Title: I Remember all of Them Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: tumblr Square: B2 - December 16, 1991 Rating: Gen Ship(s): N/A Warnings: death mention (not pictured) Major tags: Winter Soldier, death of Howard and Maria Stark Summary: December 16, 1991, The Winter Soldier was sent out on a fateful mission to retrieve the super soldier serum carried by Howard Stark and leave no witnesses. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: The Battle is Never Over Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: tumblr Square: U1 - Karaoke Battle Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes & Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson Warnings: none Major tags: 40's music is cool, stubborn supersoldiers, Summary: Karaoke night is always a battle. Bucky and Steve occasionally side against Sam just out of principle. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: Just This Once Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: ao3 Square: B3 - Fluff Rating: Gen Ship(s): N/A Warnings: Animal Death Major tags: Animal Death, Adopting a Dog, Kindness of Strangers Summary: Within Bucky's mandatory reparations in exchange for parole, he also has community service to do. He does it at an animal shelter and struggles with the difficulties of the forgotten. Word count/format: 909

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Title: Here Comes the Rising Tide (So Come On) -Ch 1 Creator(s): Ribbonsflying Link: ao3 Square: Y2 - Artist Bucky Rating: Mature Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: Kidnapping, Past Trauma Major tags: Artist Bucky, Artist Steve, Childhood Trauma, Recovery Summary: Almost fifteen years ago, young teen Bucky Barnes was abducted from his own neighborhood in broad daylight. Now he's back home. But after the media and mayhem of Bucky’s return dies down, all that's left to do is for Bucky to try to recover himself again. He thought he was doing fine till the day he met Steve Rogers on a beach. Steve Rogers was terrifying. Word count/format: 2170

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Title: Gimme Shelter Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: tumblr Square: B4 - Shelter Rating: Gen Ship(s): N/A Warnings: none Major tags: Bucky Barnes, Rescue Animals Summary: A companion to Just This Once (sq B3), a fanfiction in which Bucky works at an animal shelter. Word count/format: moodboard

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Title: Here Comes the Rising Tide (So Come On) -Ch 2 Creator(s): Ribbonsflying Link: ao3 Square: C1 - "Are you even trying?" Rating: Mature Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: Kidnapping, Past Trauma Major tags: Artist Bucky, Artist Steve, Childhood Trauma, Recovery Summary: Almost fifteen years ago, young teen Bucky Barnes was abducted from his own neighborhood in broad daylight. Now he's back home. But after the media and mayhem of Bucky’s return dies down, all that's left to do is for Bucky to try to recover himself again. He thought he was doing fine till the day he met Steve Rogers on a beach. Steve Rogers was terrifying. Word count/format: 1795

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Title: Here Comes the Rising Tide (So Come On) -Ch 3 Creator(s): Ribbonsflying Link: ao3 Square: C3 - Free Rating: Mature Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: Kidnapping, Past Trauma Major tags: Artist Bucky, Artist Steve, Childhood Trauma, Recovery Summary: Almost fifteen years ago, young teen Bucky Barnes was abducted from his own neighborhood in broad daylight. Now he's back home. But after the media and mayhem of Bucky’s return dies down, all that's left to do is for Bucky to try to recover himself again. He thought he was doing fine till the day he met Steve Rogers on a beach. Steve Rogers was terrifying. Word count/format: 2855

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Title: Here Comes the Rising Tide (So Come On) -Ch 4 Creator(s): Ribbonsflying Link: ao3 Square: Y5 - Resurrection Rating: Mature Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: Kidnapping, Past Trauma Major tags: Artist Bucky, Artist Steve, Childhood Trauma, Recovery Summary: Almost fifteen years ago, young teen Bucky Barnes was abducted from his own neighborhood in broad daylight. Now he's back home. But after the media and mayhem of Bucky’s return dies down, all that's left to do is for Bucky to try to recover himself again. He thought he was doing fine till the day he met Steve Rogers on a beach. Steve Rogers was terrifying. Word count/format: 2985

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Title: The Only Creator(s): steverogersnotebook Link: tumblr Square: B1 - [image] Blue coat/Howling Commandos Bucky Rating: Gen Ship(s): The Howling Commandos Warnings: None Major tags: WWII Bucky, Howling Commandos Summary: The memories slot into place through a collection of photos from Bucky's days fighting alongside Steve and the Howling Commandos. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: Unexpected Creator(s): BookDragon13, writing-what-writing Link: tumblr Square: Y4 - Kid fic Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Kobik, Bucky & RJ Warnings: Lost kids Major tags: Werewolf AU, werewolf Bucky Summary: Bucky, a lone werewolf known as the White Wolf ever since he’d escaped the Hydra pack, unexpectedly finds himself taking care of two werewolf pups Word count/format: 683

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Title: The Selkie Creator(s): BookDragon13, writing-what-writing Link: tumblr Square: Y5 - Kink: stripping Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Clint Barton Warnings: Brief mention of Bucky dying Major tags: Selkie Bucky, getting lost, mentions of a breakup Summary: Clint finds himself lost in Scotland, and ends up finding Bucky Word count/format: 1179

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Title: A Sign of Strength Creator(s): Ribbonsflying Link: ao3 Square: Y4 - Sam Wilson/Falcon Rating: Teen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: PTSD, anger issues Major tags: Therapy, veterans Bucky and Steve, therapist Sam, crying, PTSD Summary: Group therapy session where Bucky and some others discuss their anger and PTSD. Word count/format: 1762

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Title: Dungeons and What Now? Creator(s): BookDragon13 Link: tumblr Square: K2 - Mission sex Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Darcy Lewis Warnings: Talk of sex, slight Daddy kink Major tags: slight Daddy kink, dungeons and dragons, Talk of sex Summary: A D&D session turns into something unexpected Word count/format: 866

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Title: You’ve Got a Friend in Me Creator(s): BookDragon13, writing-what-writing Link: tumblr Square: C5 - Team Bonding Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Thor Warnings: Mentions of past trauma Major tags: Bonding, Unexpected friendship Summary: Bucky finds an unexpected friend in Thor Word count/format: 769

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Title: Soulmates? Chapter 3 Creator(s): BookDragon13, writing-what-writing Link: tumblr Square: U2 - Hurt/comfort Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/Darcy Lewis Warnings: None Major tags: Soulmates, soulmate mark, Wintershock Summary: Bucky confesses why he ran away the last time he and Darcy were together Word count/format: 913

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Title: untitled fireman au Creator(s): Wick Link: tumblr Square: C3 - Free Space Rating: Teen Ship(s): Stucky Warnings: Structure fires & firemen Major tags: Fire Summary: Moodboard for the unwritten fireman au I haven't bothered to write yet but has been on my to be written list for over a year now. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: untitled musician/scientist au Creator(s): Wick Link: tumblr Square: K3 - Band Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/ Darcy Lewis Warnings: Images of space, a guitar, sunflowers, a couple on a date, Kat Dennings and Sebastian Stan. Major tags: AU and romance Summary: Famous guitarist Bucky and astrophysicist Darcy weren't your typical couple but they loved each other in a way some people never know exists. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: untitled wolf au like #4 Creator(s): Wick Link: tumblr Square: Y2 - Werewolves Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes/ Clint Barton/ Darcy Lewis Warnings: Images of the moon, the woods at night, wolves, a flower, JeremyRenner, Kat Dennings and Sebastian Stan. Major tags: Wolves Summary: They spend the moon running and chasing each other. In the morning they wake up in a pile by the backdoor. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: High Voltage Creator(s): Ribbonsflying Link: tumblr Square: B1 - AU: Biker Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Natasha Warnings: Alcohol Major tags: Bikers, Alpine, Spicy Romance Summary: Bucky and Natasha are bikers that meet at the same bar and he flirts with her even though he’s clearly out of his depth and she gives him a chance because Alpine peeks out of his leather jacket. Word count/format: moodboards

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Title: Sam dragging Bucky on social media - Part 7 Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: tumblr Square: C1 - handle with care Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Sam Warnings: none Major tags: photo edit, roomies Summary: Would you consider that colors, or fine washables? Word count/format: N/A

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Title: Exposure Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: tumblr Square: Y2 - Vulnerability Rating: Teen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: shrinkyclinks, modern au, photographer Steve Rogers, army veteran Bucky Barnes, body image issues, smut & fluff Summary: The last thing Bucky Barnes wanted after losing his arm and getting a Stark Industries prosthesis, was having his photo taken and calling so much attention to himself and how he’s changed. He can barely look at himself in the mirror some days. Too bad that when he signed up for the arm, he also agreed to being part of any promotional campaigns, and doesn’t really have a way to back out of it. Steve Rogers is in no way prepared for the model on his new project. He might end up needing a minute or two to get a full sentence out when he sees Bucky walk in. Somehow though, the veteran doesn’t realize how beautiful he is, and Steve sets out to change that. If some of the photos that come out of the shoot aren’t exactly what Stark had in mind - given the lack of clothing - well, that’s just a bonus. Word count/format: moodboard

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Title: Maybe, baby, I’m just losing my mind Creator(s): cable-knit-sweater Link: tumblr Square: U1 - Accidental Marriage Rating: Teen Ship(s): Steve/Bucky Warnings: N/A Major tags: Vegas wedding, bratty Bucky Barnes, lawyer Steve Rogers, accidental marriage, divorce, sorta enemies to lovers, getting together, happy ending Summary: Bucky gets married in Vegas after a couple too many drinks. He’s desperate to get out of it, but it’s more complicated than he thinks. He doesn’t want his parents to find out, so through a friend, he finds a different lawyer, Steve. Steve definitely judges him for his actions, and thinks he’s a rich brat. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: Sam dragging Bucky on social media - Part 8 Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: tumblr Square: K3 - ghosts Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Sam Warnings: none Major tags: photo edit, roomies, social media post Summary: Now the question is... which one of the neighbors brought it back? Word count/format: N/A

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Title: Sam dragging Bucky on social media - Part 9 Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: tumblr Square: K4 - nickname Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Tony & Sam Warnings: none Major tags: social media post, roomies Summary: This episode involves a comment thread! Word count/format: N/A

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Title: Green is Not Your Color Creator(s): rebelmeg Link: ao3 Square: U1 - jealousy Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky & Sam Warnings: none Major tags: jealousy, Bucky knows what he's doing, cat dads Summary: This whole roommate thing would go a lot better if Bucky would stop stealing Figaro's affection from Sam. Word count/format: 316

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Title: Regency Bodyswap AU Moodboard Creator(s): Turtles Link: tumblr Square: Adopted - Marriage Rating: Gen Ship(s): Bucky Barnes & Darcy Lewis, Bucky Barnes/Jane Foster Warnings: Bodyswap AU Major tags: Regency AU, Bodyswap AU Summary: When archeologist Bucky Barnes meets Miss Jane Foster, he's startled to discover she's an astronomer but it doesn't take long for him to decide that he rather likes her. Unfortunately, before he can really make any inroads into getting to know her better, he finds himself in an awkward situation... a very awkward situation. While showing Miss Foster and her companion, Miss Darcy Lewis, around the Viking settlement he and his associates are excavating, the unbelievable and impossible happens--they swap bodies! It doesn't take long for someone to insist that the unfortunate couple must marry. Word count/format: Moodboard

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Title: Bucky Barnes playing card Creator(s): LiquidLightz Link: tumblr Square: B4 - Poker Night Rating: Gen Ship(s): stucky implied Warnings: N/A Major tags: playing card, winter soldier, hydra, white wolf Summary: Bucky Barnes as the White Wolf rescues his Winter Soldier self from Hydra’s clutches. A Queen of Diamonds playing card Word count/format: Digital Art

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Title: play the way you feel it Creator(s): Ribbonsflying Link: ao3 Square: K2 - AU: Arranged Marriage Rating: Teen Ship(s): Bucky/Steve Warnings: Brief mentions of death and injury. Major tags: Arranged marriage, 1970s, car troubles, music Summary: In this world, arranged marriages are common in the US and they aren't big community occasions. Now Bucky Barnes's little sister is getting married to a stranger and there's a lot of apprehension that things will go sideways. And things do. Word count/format: 5655

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Title: Too Good to Be True - Chapter W Creator(s): Faustess Link: ao3 Square: K3 - James Rhodes / War Machine Rating: Mature Ship(s): Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes (also Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov and James Rhodes/Carol Danvers) Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply; past chapters have Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Torture Major tags: This chapter adds "Marriage Proposals" to the others that include Developing Relationships, Touch-Starved, Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Slow Romance, Sleepy Cuddles, and more Summary: Love is in the air when Rhodey finally proposes... which causes a few headaches, some frayed nerves, and finally - ? Word count/format: 5532 (this chapter); 55,820 (total so far)

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fully updated oc list

🐩 | Ramirus “Rite” Fulgentius - (Sanctioned Psyker) Officer/Master Tactician | Psy-Rating Gamma

🐇 | Kennerel “Kenna” Harke - (Unsanctioned Psyker) Operative/Assassin | Psy-Rating Delta

🐺 | Faustus (NOT HIS REAL NAME) Emil Killian - (Hive vigilante) Warrior/Arch-Militant

🐕‍🦺 | Call On The Emperor “Kal” Immanentize - (102nd Incronian, Discharged) Warrior/Assassin

🦔 | Zeta-198 “Zed” - (Kriegsman Guardsman) Soldier/Master Tactician

🐗 | Mikel Anselm- (Cadian Guardsman) Soldier/Bounty Hunter

ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ | Isidorus Psy-181 von Valancius - (Sanctioned Psyker) Operative/Grand Strategist | Psy-Rating Delta

🦙 | Makenna “Mak” Martin - (Unsanctioned Psyker) Officer/Assassin | Psy-Rating Alpha Plus

🦎 | Harlow Griffith - (Agri-world Ecclesiarchal acolyte) Warrior/Vanguard

🦅 | Safir “Seth” Hectymere - (55th Nimbosan Field Medicae, Unsanctioned Psyker) Officer/Vanguard | Psy-Rating Iota

Recruitment Quests/Roles under the cut!

the gender roundup

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The Art of Content Curation: Enhancing Your Blog Website's Marketing

In the vast digital landscape, where information overflow is the norm, content curation emerges as a strategic art form. For bloggers seeking to elevate their website's marketing game, mastering the art of content curation is akin to curating a sophisticated gallery of valuable insights. In this blog post, we'll explore the intricacies of content curation, its benefits, and how it can be leveraged to enhance your blog website's marketing prowess.

Defining Content Curation: A Curator's Approach to Information:

Content curation involves the careful selection, organization, and presentation of existing content from various sources. Much like a curator in a museum, a content curator sifts through the digital troves to unearth the most relevant and valuable pieces for their audience.

Benefits of Content Curation for Bloggers:

Diversification of Content: Content curation allows bloggers to diversify their content offerings by incorporating a mix of original and curated content, catering to a broader audience.

Authority Building: By curating high-quality content from reputable sources, bloggers can establish themselves as thought leaders and industry authorities, fostering trust among their audience.

Time Efficiency: Curating content can be a time-efficient strategy, enabling bloggers to provide consistent, valuable content without the exhaustive effort of creating everything from scratch.

Understanding Your Audience: The Curator's Palette:

Successful content curation begins with a profound understanding of your target audience. Identify their interests, preferences, and pain points to curate content that resonates and adds value to their experience.

Selecting and Evaluating Content: The Art of Discernment:

Curate content that aligns with your blog's niche and resonates with your audience. Evaluate sources for credibility and relevance, ensuring that the curated content enhances the overall quality of your blog.

Adding Your Unique Voice: The Signature Brushstroke:

While curating content, inject your unique voice and perspective. Share insights, opinions, or additional context to make the curated content seamlessly integrate into your blog's narrative and style.

Curated Content Formats: Crafting a Diverse Exhibition:

Explore various content formats for curation, including articles, infographics, videos, and podcasts. Diversifying the types of curated content keeps your blog dynamic and engaging.

Consistency is Key: Building a Reliable Collection:

Establish a consistent schedule for content curation. Whether it's a weekly roundup or a monthly curated feature, regularity builds anticipation and helps you develop a reliable curation pattern.

Promoting Curated Content: The Grand Gallery Opening:

Actively promote your curated content across your social media channels and newsletters. Encourage discussions and interactions to foster community engagement around the curated material.

Monitoring and Updating: The Living Exhibit:

Regularly monitor the performance of your curated content. Update outdated information, replace broken links, and stay vigilant for new, relevant content to keep your curated collections vibrant and up-to-date.

Measuring Success: Metrics of Curatorial Excellence:

Utilize analytics tools to measure the impact of curated content on your blog's performance. Track engagement, click-through rates, and audience feedback to refine your curation strategy continually.

Conclusion:

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital content, the art of content curation stands as a powerful tool for bloggers seeking to elevate their website's marketing strategy. By curating valuable, diverse content with a personal touch, bloggers can not only enhance their authority but also foster a community of engaged readers. The artful balance between original and curated content creates a dynamic and enriching digital space, positioning your blog as a go-to source for curated wisdom in your niche.

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TGIF: Roundup for June 30, 2023

SOLA Network is grateful to offer a free one-day event for church leaders thinking about the possibility of a long-term home for their church. Wednesday, August 2, at Living Hope Community Church in Brea, California, 9:45am – 12:30pm. Learn more and reserve a spot!

Save the date! “Writing the Next Chapter,” the 2024 Asian American Leadership Conference, will take place on April 23-24 in Orange County, California. More info coming soon.

This newsletter is one of the many ways you can keep in touch with us. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. For more, check out my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group and TGIF Playlist on Spotify. You can reach me on Twitter and Instagram.

Aaron Lee, Editorial Curator

Enter to win these excellent books! Thanks to P&R Publishers for providing these books for our giveaway, in partnership with my newsletters for @diveindigdeep and FCBC Walnut.

Reformed Theology: Jonathan Master writes a well-rounded and concise overview. Learn what makes Reformed theology distinctive and how its specific doctrines apply to everyday life.

When People Are Big and God is Small: Edward Welch helps you discover a fear of the Lord that, in Christ, is filled with gratitude, love, and devotion—freeing you to need others less and love them more.

Articles From Around The Web

Rooted: The SOLA Network: A Resource for Parents and Youth Pastors

Thanks to our friends at Rooted for sharing about us!

Peter Lee: Deuteronomy for the Asian American Christian: Intro (Part 1 of 8)

“The displacement that Asian Americans experience, especially those acculturated into western norms, is not unlike God’s people in these scenarios.”

Heidi Wong: “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?”

“The Bible is a mosaic of God’s grand narrative for his people, pointing them to the person and work of his son.”

Our new Books and Reviews page is your one-stop resource for all of your reading needs. It features Asian American authors and issues, book recommendations, and interviews.

Books, Podcasts, Music, And More

As in Heaven Podcast: The Next Generation: Forming Middle and High School Students for Lifelong Faith

Cameron Cole shares practical steps that parents and church leaders can take toward disciplining and instilling a love for the local church and an affection for the gospel among this crucial age range.

TGC Glo Podcast: Comforting and Empowering the Poor Through Christlike Love

Blair Linne, Aixa de López, Sharon Dickens, and Soojin Park discuss how believers and church leaders can provide mercy ministry that’s effective, biblical, loving, and sustainable — including a brief discussion on relational poverty in the Korean American community.

Aaron Lee: Related Works

Book Reviews: The Heart in Pilgrimage by Leland Ryken, The Character of Christ by Jonathan Landry Cruse, The Book of Daniel by Alabaster. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.

For Father’s Day, check out our Dads & Fatherhood collection! Featured authors include Cory Ishida, Daniel K. Eng, Tom Sugimura, Larry Lin, David J. Park, and P. J. Tibayan.

Featured This Week On SOLA Network

Aaron Lee: Preaching that Pleases God: Three Lessons I’ve Learned as a Beginner Preacher

“While I might feel foolish as a beginner preacher, I’m learning to proclaim the seemingly foolishness of the gospel.”

E.L Sherene Joseph: Rethinking Hospitality in Our Churches

“Radical hospitality can lead to a radical community.”

Steven Chin: Four Sustaining Principles: Letters to a Young Pastor at a Multilingual Church

“May the Lord bless you to minister with your overseas-born senior pastor in unity as you support him, as you serve with humility, and as you wait upon the Lord in practice and in prayer.”

Gloria Fanchiang: A Brief History of Asian American Worship Music

“I hope this brief and incomplete history of Asian American worship music encourages more Asian Americans to try their hand at writing their own unique contextualized worship songs, organizing our communities, and researching and building upon the work of those who have come before us.”

TGIF: Roundup for June 23, 2023

Imagine Dragons More Biblically / Young Men with Holy Habits / Motherhood Isn’t Martyrdom / All the Compassions of All the Tender Fathers / Fulfilling the Biblical Mandate to Care for Orphans and Widows

General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.

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How Many Train Depots Have Survived on the Nature Coast?

Who doesn’t love a train? Trains represent a period in America’s history that is romantic and powerful. The industrial revolution was fueled by supplies shipped via locomotives. People were able to travel by the “new” transportation quickly and efficiently compared to the horse and buggy or even the early automobiles. In Florida, Henry Plant and Henry Flagler built and bought railroads to help build the State. Senator David L. Yulee became the president of the Florida Railroad, completed in 1860, that connected the port cities of Fernandina and Cedar Key. Throughout the Nature Coast, trains helped to build cities and fortunes from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. Today there are several restored and preserved train depots that can be visited throughout Citrus, Hernando, and Pasco Counties. Others have dilapidated or been torn down… some towns they were in have disappeared! Enjoy our roundup of Train Depots on Florida’s Nature Coast and let us know which one you like best – and why. Crystal River Train Depot The first railroad depot in Crystal River was constructed soon after the first line was completed to Dunnellon in 1887. In 1900, the first railroad depot burned down and this one was constructed in 1901 to replace it. The Crystal River Lions Club leased the building in 1991. The first railroad depot in Citrus County was located on this site (109 NE Crystal St, Crystal River FL 34428) soon after the completion of Citrus County's first rail line from Dunnellon in 1887. Constructed by the Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf Railroad, the spur line would be continued to Homosassa with service beginning in 1888. The depot became the hub of a growing business area since Crystal Street was the main road going east. The original depot burned down around 1900 and was rebuilt around 1901-1902. The Historic Crystal River Train Depot was restored by the Crystal River Lions Club in 1991 but is owned by the City of Crystal River. It is maintained and managed by the Lions Club and is available for rental by contacting the Lions Club. Inverness Train Station The original Train Depot is part of the Depot District, with renovations restoring it to a beautiful amenity. Here, Christ Master watches his son showing off the balloon animal he got at the Grand Opening event. Image by Diane Bedard. Originally built in 1892, the Inverness Train Station was first constructed as part of the Atlantic Coast Line. Along with the newly renovated depot area, the Train Station has recently gotten a facelift of its very own.  Located next to the Withlacoochee State Trail and the Inverness Depot district - and a short walk from Liberty and Wallace Brooks Park, the Inverness Train Depot has a fun family entertainment business in it. The fun atmosphere with top notch assorted craft drinks and delicious food makes for a great visit. Stop by for lunch or dinner and some duckpin bowling any day except Mondays. What is Duckpin Bowling? It's the same number of pins, but everything is smaller. Located at 218 N Apopka Ave, Inverness, FL 34450. Call (352) 464-3967 for hours. Brooksville Train Depot The 1885 Brooksville Depot. Brooksville’s Train Depot has been in the same location since it was built in 1885.  As part of the Rails to Trails program, the old railroad track bed is now the Good Neighbor Trail. It’s located at 70 Russell St., Brooksville, FL 34601 The 1885 Train Depot Museum is made up of four parts and is open to the public Friday & Saturday from noon – 3pm. There is an office where passengers would come to buy their tickets, arrange for freight shipments, and send telegrams. Next, the freight room houses train artifacts and displays depicting historical railroad events. 1885 Train Depot in Brooksville by Richard Riley. The Good Neighbor Trail is adjacent to the Depot. On the enclosed dock of the museum, visitors can ring the bell, sound the siren, or take pictures sitting in an original 1925 LaFrance Fire Engine; the first fire engine purchased by the city of Brooksville. There is also work car was originally owned by Cummer Sons Cypress Lumber Company. The Brooksville Train Depot Museum is not just about trains. It also houses a Corn Sheller, various historical artifacts, and a collection of books, pictures, and maps that can be used for research. Trilby Depot at the Pioneer Florida Museum in Dade City Cummer Sons Steamer engine at The Pioneer Florida Museum and Village. Image courtesy of Pioneer Museum and Village Facebook page. Trilby Depot at Florida Pioneer Museum and Village. Image courtesy of Authentic Florida. I will never forget the first time I saw the Trilby Depot that was built in 1896 and its 1913 Porter Steam Engine that was moved to the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village from its previous location in the nearby town of Trilby. Trilb was once the third largest railroad yard in Florida and this steam engine was used for 50 years by the Cummer Cypress Co. to haul logs to its sawmill in Lacoochee. The logs on the truck are HUGE – and estimated to be between four and five hundred years old. The Pioneer Florida Museum and Village is located at 15602 Pioneer Museum Rd, Dade City, FL 33523. It is open Tuesday- Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm. It houses a variety of local buildings with historical value as well as several historic collections and a gift shop. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 Seniors, $6 for students and no charge for children under 5. Dade City Train Depot The Atlantic Coastline Train Depot in Dade City was built in 1912 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 1994. The tracks that run closest to the depot were the first to reach Dade City in 1887. Two additional lines were built through Pasco County in 1890. Much of the building has been maintained in its original state, aside from some minor renovations in 1996-97 which were federally funded. Dade City's Train Depot, beautifully restored, and now the Cultural and Heritage Museum. Image by Diane Bedard. The Railroad was originally owned by Atlantic Coastline (ACL), and later merged with Seaboard Air Line in 1967, becoming Seaboard Coastline. Until 1957 it was a station on a Trilby to Tampa branch of the ACL's Southland route to Tampa. In 1990 Amtrak brought train service back with its Silver Star on a routing along the old Seaboard Coast Line main line through Ocala and Wildwood to Miami. The service continued on a couple of different Amtrak trains through November 1, 2004.  The station was preserved and reopened as a tourist destination with a grand re-opening held on October 23, 2008. Through efforts from the city and residents, the depot was transformed into the Dade City Heritage and Cultural Museum in 2018, with a main exhibition space, a model train room, and a community archive and reading room. The Dade City Heritage Museum is a volunteer-based museum and operates on a monthly schedule, currently Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday 11am-3pm. Admission is $5 and children under 5 are free. The Zephyrhills Train Depot was restored in 1997 and can be rented for events. Image by Diane Bedard. Zephyrhills Train Depot The original 1927 Atlantic Coast Line Depot was purchased from CSX Railroad by the City of Zephyrhills in 1989 and relocated 200 feet west of its original location. Restoration of the 2,700 square foot building began in 1997 with a grant from the State Department of Transportation, and a ribbon cutting ceremony was held November 19, 1997, to celebrate its completion. Today, the Zephyrhills Train Depot, located at 39110 South Avenue, Zephyrhills FL 33542, can be rented for events, but is not open to the public. San Antonio Train Depot This depot is San Antonio's third, which replaced a 1927 facility that burned in 1948. It is located at 32627 Railroad Ave, San Antonio, FL 3357, and is the last train depot remaining on the Orange Belt Railway.  The historic OBR crossed Pasco County in 1888 to connect the St. Johns River with the Gulf of Mexico. This provided a long-awaited link with northern markets for shipping the area’s citrus and lumber. The Seaboard Coast Line had its last scheduled service at the San Antonio Train Depot in 1972. San Antonio Depot with Caboose. Image courtesy of The Historic San Antonio, Atlantic Coastline Depot. The Depot fell into disrepair and was then restored in 1976 when an excursion line began running from San Antonio to Trilby. In 1978, the railroad tracks were removed, dooming the Trilby, San Antonio & Cypress, an excursion line which ran from this station as the Orange Belt Railroad. Logo for the Orange Belt Route, image courtesy of the Historic San Antonio, Atlantic Coastline Depot Orange Belt Route Trilby San Antonio & Cypress RR engine. Courtesy of the Historic San Antonio, Atlantic Coastline Depot Volunteers restored the depot for community use in 1993. On March 21, 1999, the depot was rededicated with a new purpose as a community building where people can have meetings, birthday parties, etc. It is a voting precinct. It also serves as a museum where people can go by appointment to look at copies of old photos of San Antonio and the surrounding communities to see how our predecessors lived, worked, and built the communities that we know and enjoy today. For the railroad buff, you can see authentic memorabilia used at the San Antonio Train depot. You can see and touch a rare, restored caboose. The Withlacoochee Depot in Pemberton. As phosphate and turpentine industries took off, depots became known as criminal havens. Image courtesy of the Florida State Archives. Seven Historic Train Stations on Florida’s Nature Coast While there were certainly more than double the number of train stations in Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus Counties during the heyday of cedar and cypress logging, mullet and citrus harvesting, and phosphate mining than there are today, NatureCoaster found seven historic train stations in the area. Many of the train stations that are gone were on the west coast or central part of the Nature Coast counties. Many of them were in company towns that were left to rot and die. Some were paved over like Mannsfield in the Withlacoochee Forest and some were grown over, like Centralia in the Chassahowitzka Widlife Management Area. So get out and enjoy interacting with the train history we can still enjoy today. Read the full article

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VIZ Announces Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai Manga and More

VIZ Media hopped on Twitter for one of its semi-regular license reveals, announcing everything from an Uzumaki Coloring Book to more horror delights from Kazuo Umezz, the Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai manga, and much more. Read on for a roundup of everything that's on the way this time. 

  Unless otherwise noted, everything below is due out in spring 2022. 

    Uzumaki Coloring Book 

  Announcement: For those drawn-in by the hypnotic spirals of Uzumaki, this is your moment! The bizarre masterpiece of horror manga from Junji Ito, has been transformed into the Uzumaki Coloring Book. Hurrah! Releases Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/xSxQ8Tc3Gp

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Kazuo Umezz's Orochi: The Perfect Edition

  Announcement: The classic manga from horror master Kazuo Umezz gets a whole new format! The deluxe hardcover series Orochi: The Perfect Edition, featuring nine of his classic interconnected short stories, is out Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/dV080XMe4R

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Pokémon Adventures: X•Y 

  Announcement: Awesome Pokémon adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon X and Y video games! The reclusive child prodigy Pokémon Trainer, X, is stirred out of hiding after a surprise attack! Pokémon Adventures: X•Y drops Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/Y18gWG78Qm

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Deadpool: Samurai

  Announcement: Deadpool moves to Tokyo and encounters just about every kind of shonen trope you can think of! Chaos and humor collide in Deadpool: Samurai, out Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/jnLF6nkCf6

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Star Wars: Tribute to Star Wars

Featuring Akira Himekawa, Taiyo Matsumoto, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and more

  Announcement: Explore the galaxy through the beautiful artwork of 45 outstanding Japanese manga artists and illustrators, including Akira Himekawa, Taiyo Matsumoto, and Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. Star Wars: Tribute to Star Wars drops Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/wyFCZ6IZSb

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Onigiri (Cookbook)

  Announcement: Japanese rice balls are about to get really fun! A variety of recipes for these convenient little snacks, curated by popular Parisian onigiri restaurant Gili-Gili, are packed into this cookbook! Onigiri drops Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/UvLTsPjEAQ

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love

  Announcement: After years of missing out on love and dating for fear of rejection, Satomi decisively blurts out her feelings, but now the hard part comes: dating! This refreshing take on shojo, Ima Koi: Now I’m In Love drops Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/FMBMEPGcUY

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Rumiko Takahashi's Came the Mirror & Other Tales

  Announcement: Rumiko Takahashi, beloved creator of Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, and Urusei Yatsura, is back with an eclectic collection of short stories--Came the Mirror & Other Tales! Plus, a rare, autobiographical tale about the mangaka’s lifelong love for manga! Releases Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/gBNK4Xlk1Q

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai

  Announcement: With the help of his friends, Dai will set out on a grand adventure to become the hero he was meant to be in the first arc of the legendary adventure series set in the world of Dragon Quest. Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai is coming to bookshelves Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/Dt5PyrzNpS

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Demon Slayer: The Official Coloring Book

  Announcement: Now THIS is a coloring book! Add color to over seventy illustrations featuring your favorite characters from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, with art by manga artist Koyoharu Gotouge! Demon Slayer: The Official Coloring Book drops Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/Ljf4Dmh2l7

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Picture Book

  Announcement: Based on the masterpiece film from Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata, this is the untold story of Princess Kaguya. Includes scene-by-scene illustrations and character dialogue from the film. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Picture Book releases Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/7aBcnSZH9n

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  The Art of the Tale of the Princess Kaguya 

  Announcement: The art and words of Isao Takahata’s gorgeous adaptation of the classic tale come to life! This book captures the breathtaking art of the Studio Ghibli film from conception to production. The Art of the Tale of the Princess Kaguya releases Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/aXkiXZzJZZ

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  JoJo 6251: The World of Hirohiko Araki

  Announcement: The electrifying world of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is unveiled in this print-bound art compendium that’s a must for any fan of Araki-Sensei! JoJo 6251: The World of Hirohiko Araki releases Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/Q4OhMHAgvY

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Alice in Borderland

  Announcement: The manga source material for the hit @netflix series, Alice in Borderland, comes to bookshelves Spring 2022! Ryohei’s sick of the world, but his new world has a sick joke in store for him: it’s a game, and the only way to survive is to play. pic.twitter.com/kGBmuCJssb

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Sakamoto Days

  Announcement: Things are about to get super INconvenient for convenience store owner Taro Sakamoto when his past as a legendary assassin catches up to him! Sakamoto Days drops Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/cXGVGrlehe

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—Stories of Water and Flame

  Announcement: The Flame Hashira and the Water Hashira star in two back-to-back tales set in the world of Demon Slayer! Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba--Stories of Water and Flame releases Spring 2022! pic.twitter.com/9edRJuxSmd

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Digital Exclusives

Fall 2021

  Bone Collection

  Announcement: A VIZ digital exclusive! Grow a backbone and tap into your inner exorcist powers with both volumes of Bone Collection! Releasing Fall 2021! pic.twitter.com/Og1W2WIQc8

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Me & Roboco

  Announcement: A VIZ digital exclusive! In a world where most families own a cute maid robot, average elementary kid Bondo hopes for one of his own. But the wacky robot who shows up is anything but average! Me & Roboco releases Fall 2021! pic.twitter.com/Y1fcC86xbr

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin

  Announcement: A VIZ digital exclusive! Ryuhei Tamura brings you the fishiest cop manga to ever hit Shonen Jump! A missing cult, a mysterious little girl, and his new partner--a dolphin! Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin releases Fall 2021! pic.twitter.com/iqYupLP9pe

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Mitama Security: Spirit Busters

  Announcement: A VIZ Digital Exclusive! Rena's haunted by spirits, but when a strange guy comes to bust them, he may be more of a hindrance than a help! All 5 volumes of Mitama Security: Spirit Busters are releasing in Fall 2021! pic.twitter.com/VtkCmsu51A

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

  Magu-chan: God of Destruction

  Announcement: A VIZ digital exclusive! The reign of Mag, the God of Destruction, ends and he washes up on shore in a cute new form. Magu-chan: God of Destruction drops Fall 2021! pic.twitter.com/XRpk7BBoed

— VIZ (@VIZMedia) July 9, 2021

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

  By: Joseph Luster

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Weekly roundup: prompts

Kara no Kyoukai

Shiki Ryougi using the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception for mundane purposes.

Tsukihime

incest tw, ntr, Shiki/Kohaku explicitly framed as them cucking Hisui and Akiha

Kohaku and Hisui taking drugs together to deal with the Difficulties.

Hisui makes a horrifying discovery about the true nature of the "robots" that are named after her and look suspiciously like her. But on the bright side, it looks like Hisui #47 has more sisters than she thought.

Worried about Shiki's health after he's been bedridden for a couple of days, Akiha is told by Kohaku that Shiki'd contracted a terminal case of sugondeese. Akiha doesn't get the joke and goes around trying to find anyone who can help in complete earnestness.

Fate/Stay Night

smut, EMIYA gets fingerblasted by Artoria while getting his fat slutty tits milked for weeks on end.

Emiya "Ah yes I choose to go by no name instead of my actual name because I hate my name I MEAN FOR TACTICAL REASONS TACTICAL ONES" Shirou has her egg forcibly cracked.

ntr, Saber/Issei framed as both of them cucking Shirou.

EMIYA getting brainwashed and forcefemmed, becomes clingy and dependent to the perpetrator (maybe a master with bigger physique, any gender is fine) AAAHHH i really want to fill this myself but just typing this makes me really embarassed

smut, Fourth Holy Grail War Servant Orgy expressly framed as cucking the Masters and the Holy Grail War itself.

smut, All the Cus show up and consensually gangbang Shirou to death.

smut, guro, Sakura cuts off Shirou's legs, slices his belly open, smashes his testicles before rebuilding them with magic and then proceeds to clone herself so that she could have an ero-guro gangbang with the one she loves more than anything else.

smut, Cock worship feat. Saber's micropenis. Doesn't matter who the worshipper(s) is.

smut, Mordred fucking Guinevere with her giant cock while Artoria watches it while she is tied to the wall, crying with her pathetic micro penis exposed while her wife screams in pleasure

Merlin gives Artoria a micro penis.

We need more of that EMIYA Archer/Saber Artoria goodness, no preference on if its fgo/fsn/fha or fluff or smut as long as Saber loves him for the man he is rather than the boy he was.

smut, Might I ask for Saber and Rin having what starts out as slow tender wedding night lovemaking, and what ends up being Saber breeding Rin hard and fast, because however much they love each other, Rin is impatient, and Saber is needy.

Fate/Zero

a prompt about Iri, Saber and Kiritsugu expressly framed as cucking but nobody can figure out WHOS GETTING CUCKED. (its none of them, theyre all just morons)

I would like some fluff with Iri and Saber as married with Illya and Shirou as their children. Kiritusugu still visits and he stays with the kids during weekends and half of summer vacations, any further details is up to the author

Prisma Illya Kaleid Liner

vamp illya biting miyu, sfw.

Fate/Apocrypha

Sieg is literally cardboard. No questions asked.

smut, Problem: Thanks to the legends about his prowess, Astolfo's dick is big enough that he can't actually get it fully hard without passing out under normal circumstances; he fucks like a champion when possible, but the energy needed is too much for most to provide. Solution: Well, Sieg was made to be a magical energy battery, after all...

Fate/Extra

Hakuno and Rin in any context where they're not doomed by the narrative.

smut, Via some magecraft fuckery Nero's body temporarily changes into that of her evil alternate universe counterpart (mobile 3rd ascension draco) and her wives Hakunon and Tamamo try very hard not to spontaneously combust from lust on the spot

smut, Tamamo no Mae takes advantage of her shapeshift skill, grows a dick, and knots her Master.

Fate/Grand Order

the last scene of Lord Melloi II Case Files where Waver talks with Iskandar in his dream, except its Gudako and Romani

Guda + his partner where they are doomed by the narrative, angst

Olga in her last moments after defeating ORT looks at Ritsuka, she remembered, she remembered everything, she finally realized who she was, before becoming a beast, but its too late, again she is about to disappear and lose everything she worked so hard for

Since all hope is lost for Sita this time around I would like someone to find Rama collapsed (either drunk or just out of depression) and lead him back to his room. Some reminiscing on his wife if possible

Smut, Draco seeing Hakunon after so long shows affection the only way the beast of depravity could, by making Hakunon unleash her load inside her until her maestro's ball are empty

Medb and Emiya are sent to scout a new small singularity together, Emiya keeps getting annoyed at Medb complaining and Medb thinks Emiya is just a boring old man. Through their scouting mission they end up talking about their times alive, getting in trouble and getting to know each other. The girl who desired to be saved by a hero turned into a tyrant, and the boy that wanted to save others and become a hero, now nothing more than a machine. I think they compliment each other so well

medea is on her way back from picking up more craft material for her figure making hobby when she runs into mandricardo, she looks at this teenaged 30 year old man quivering with anxiety and decides hes cute in a mildly pathetic way and decides to take the sopping wet kitten of a man home, maybe its just her having a slight thing for stupid pathetic men but maybe she can help him with that

[baobhan sith voice] mash kyrielight did you fuck my mother

Gudako/Gorgon with some awesome size difference going on (or even edging into macro/micro) Gudako having her large and (terrifyingly) beautiful snirlfriend worshipping her tiny little Master :3

a more vore based version of SERAPH? Meltryllis having to watch as Kiara swallows Guda right in front of her, before being stuffed down the Beast's throat shortly after...

Smut, Ishtar getting her dick sucked by Gudako (or any other girl) and not paying attention to the time. Right when she hits her climax, the sun dips below the horizon, leaving Ereshkigal the one in charge of the body mid-orgasm.

Gorgon voring Robin Hood... Maybe Robin trying to shoot his shot romantically, and Gorgon deciding he's better off as a snack than a date.

Cleopatra/Caesar, preferably some smut with how Caesar historically loved to bottom

After finally ending the lostbelt saga all of chaldea and the servants make a celebration party that goes out of control.

Ritsuka and Cupid Caren being shippers hiding in trashcans to watch dates and matching up servant couples during valentine

Mash and Romani father daughter time! Maybe have him showing her his favorite movies

Tepeu gets DRUGGED

FGO again but tumblr has a character limit for bullet points and I can't trim the prompts any further so I'm splitting it in half

Gudako finally gets sick of Mandricardo’s constant whining and admits she thinks he’s worthless compared to most servants, and that she’s sick of hearing a middle aged man wallow in self pity

smut, boudica turning Nero into her cockslut

Modern AU, Gudako convices Draco to go on a date with her, draco being a cool rock musician

smut, Milf battle. Raikou and Tiamat fighting over Ritsuka. Wrestling, fight fucking, mommy kink.

Vinci Rider is kept awake at night by Vinci Caster loudly fucking Gudao (thinking they’re just wrestling or jumping on the bed)

Slight change of the rules of Chaldea is made so that rather than Arturia Lancer being her own person summoned separately, she's just Saber's mind in a different class container due to experimental magics. She also runs from the labs to Ishtar's room and tells her to put Rin in the driver's seat because Damn Rin, look how much my alter-ego was compressing into her breastplate. Breastplay/envy from both Rin and Ishtar follow, Arturia enjoys being taller and so on.

Tepeu and Kijyo become dinosaur friends

smut, guro, I want Medea to fuck Yan Qing, kill him, cut off his dick and walk around with his dick in her coochie for a week before she brings him back to life and tries to escalate from there.

I want Ritsuka to see Goetia using Romani body and going ballistic, punching the fucker until someone stops her because they know she is kill gonna him given the chance

AU where Flauros somehow got amnesia right after taking over Lev Lainur, causing the demon pillar to believe he's the human he's possessing

smut, how tf could Xiang Yu get pegged by his wife ?

It is Mother's day in Chaldea, and Ritsuka has now to make a party for all of their mom, wich are Da Vinci, Sheba, Raikou, Emiya, Tiamat, Dodrinya, Katou Danzo, Iri, Europa, Helena and Goredolf

smut, ntr, Ntr plot with Yu Mei Ren but the entire time she just complains about how Xiang Yu has a better cock and is nicer in bed, with an annoyed tone of voice.

Ok so in Pokemon, Ninetails (kitsune pokemon with, well, nine tails) has a pokedex entry that states that touching their tails leads to a curse. Anyway we take that, apply to Tamamo, ritsuka doesnt know the legend, and starts brushing her tail one day and unfortunately its curse of being horny. Tl;dr: touch tail get smashed by fox wife. Ritsuka wakes up dehydrated and exhausted the next day.

The GUDAGUDA Gang at Walmart, causing so much chaos. From arguments, fights, to even trying to get snacks on the highest shelf and causing the damn thing to fall-

Despite her best efforts, Barghest feels her instincts to devour her Master beginning to overpower her. The last thing she sees before she loses control is her Master pinned to a wall, looking up at her with a worried expression. When she wakes up the next day, she immediately despairs over what she did, only for her Master to pop up next to her. He comforts her and reassures her that she didn't hurt him, and he won't allow her to hurt him.

Blackbeard, Musashi, and Hokusai face punishment for being creeps towards children

U-olga getting summoned in Olympus rewritten to not just be a joke scene about how short and incompetent Olga is

smut, One of the lancer Artorias going for a horseback ride with Gudako. Except also Gudako is riding her huge dragon dick the whole way.

Guda being lovey dovey with Beast Nero and tiamat cockblocking them at every opportunity

smut, mozart being dommed by salieri and marie antoinette uwu

Castoria's dreams about Saber framed as cucking Knocknarea.

Guda gets to go Postal. Let them have an insane day. Attack people. Probably not any Chaldean staff but I think the servants can take it. Have an incredibly violent psychotic break in a singularity/lostbelt even. Use a badger as a weapon.

Dark Young Ritsuka is big and fluffy and a horrible abomination against nature whose mind is on the edge of sanity. How does everyone else react?

Guda secretly uses a command spell Nemo forcing him to take them to the imaginary numbers space where he suspects a certain someone is. Now knowing it is possible for him to make a contract with a Beast he plans on finding Olga, becoming her master and bringing her back to Chaldea, even if it means becoming an enemy of the human Order. Sadly for them, Alaya does not take this betrayal well and despite all their effort, it ends with Guda and Olga both dying fighting an army countless of servants in each other's arms

Wakchan/U-Olgamarie. Fluff or smut, I just want my dinoman to make the director happy.

Would It be possible to get Yu Mei Ren teaching Gudako to pole dance? (Yu's summer variant very much seems to confirm she knows how, based on her animations). Not intended to be Gudako/Yu, not a fan of NTR in the first place, but if the writer wants to make it some kind of Erotic that's up to them.

Crossover

Led by a transmission in the immediate aftermath of the Earth's bleaching, the remnants of Chaldea reach Baldanders, and are greeted by Sion Eltnam Sokaris, the last remaining member of the Atlas Institute and adoptive daughter of its director... alongside her wife, Riesbyfe Stridberg, a former captain of Knights of the Holy Church.

Crossover fic! Raikou FGO and Raikou Nioh 2 fuck!

Satsuki Yumizuka/Yu Mei-ren as a ship! preferably SFW

I just think heaven's hole demonic bodhisattva kiara sessyoin(fate go/extra) should meet with 'Throughout Heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one' satoru gojo(jujutsu kaisen). they should talk. they should fight. they should have hate sex. i want to see kiara tear through this man with her words and hands. maybe her demonic pillars as well

Mikya, Shirou, Shiki and Hakuno have a nice chat about their apocalyptically strong wives. Meanwhile Ryougi, Sakura, Arcueid and Beast Nero are having a small scale war to see who among them has the best husband

Guda and Beast Nero go on a double date with Hakuno and Normal Nero

smut, With new developments of FGO, Nero Beast has revealed her adult form and that who guided her to us was Hakuno. So after all that suffering she endured or girl deserve to be smashed by both Hakuno and Guda to relieve her stress!

Tepeu just hanging out in Tohno mansion in general, being a good guest to the household, still a dinosaur.

lumine & gudako should get together and have a few beers while they bitch about their brother/ male counterpart keeps hogging the spotlight.

Someone please make a Umineko/Fate crossover

Any fandom

Need more tentacles! Preferably with Gudako! Or Eresh! Or Mash! Or Shuten! Or any of the female cast!

Regardless of the paths they take, of the sacrifices they make, they always find comfort in each other. [Hurt/Comfort] (Shirou variants/Saber variants) No harem, but could reuse characters if doing them at a separate instances of time. Technically asking for a series of different Shirou/Saber pairings, but can also just be one pairing because that's a tall order. Would prefer to see at least Salter/Demiya (Or Edgemiya, whichever naming you prefer) because there's a lack of content for them.

Heartwarming Body Horror. I want a character's inhuman condition to be described, how much they're a monster in the shell of human form, really playing up the unnatural traits. Then I want another character to see all that and go "I love you." and give 'em a hug and kisses and maybe lewds. Shoot me in the feels.

Characters of your choice getting stuck in a cabin together with a storm outside

Pancakes lmao

[marjansmarwani]

911: Lone Star Week Fic Roundup

Since I actually did manage to produce something for every day of @911lonestarweek, I figured I would make a master list. 

Or, here is the link to the series I made on Ao3

Thank you so much to everyone who has read, shared, or commented! I appreciate all of you 💜

I enjoyed writing all of these and am proud of them all. I am also kind of astounded by how much I ended up writing (over 25k), but I guess that’s what happens when the stories kind of take over. 

Day 1: Family 

On Your Side

They may not have been together long, but the 126 has formed a bond. Its members feel like family; always welcomed and accepted. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is not always so kind. But if people think they are going to mess with a member of their team, they are sorely mistaken. 

Day 2: Great Dynamics

Voices of Home

Marjan Marwani had been raised to fight her own battles. Her parents had encouraged her independence, had instilled a sense of perseverance. Their lessons had gotten her through everything she had ever faced. But now, trapped in a dark cavern, separated from her team; she wondered if even that would be enough.

Day 3: What If? (Alternate Universe)

Who you gonna call?

The Ghost Hunting/Paranormal Investigators AU literally no one asked for

Day 4: Action & Adventure

Trouble Will Not Take Me

A routine call leaves Marjan and TK trapped in the aftermath of an explosion. Their radios are broken, there is no way out, and TK is fading fast. Marjan tries to be an optimist, but even she is struggling to find a bright side - or even hope. She just doesn't want to watch her friend die, and she'll do whatever she can to prevent it.

Day 5: Future Canon 

Adding Scars to My Heart

Time brings changes. Some are good, some are bad. There's nothing else to do but hold on to the ones you love, and catch them when they fall.

Day 6: Romance

All the Small Things

His dad liked to talk about grand gestures; big displays of affection to get your point across. But the more time TK spent with Carlos, the more he was learning that it was the little things – the day to day, the blink and you’ll miss it moments – that were worth everything in the world.

Day 7: Anything Goes 

Some, and then all of you 

The first time TK Strand met Carlos Reyes he knew he was done for.

He was so sweet and kind and incredibly hot. If it were any normal point in his life, he would have been all in. But these were not normal times by a long shot.

Or, a series of vignettes of TK coming to terms with this new relationship he has somehow stumbled his way into. (A retelling of my story "I had most, then all of you" from TK's perspective)

[fullregalia]

20/20.

This year, in hindsight, was a real write-off. I had grand plans for it, and while I ushered it in in a very low-key manner since I was recovering from the flu, I’d expected things to look up. Well, you know what they say about plans (RIP, my trip to Europe). I got very, very sick in early February, and I’m not entirely sure it wasn’t COVID. Since March, the days have been a carousel of monotony: coffee, run, work, cook, yoga, existential spiral, sleep. My Own Private Year of Rest and Relaxation, if you will. Of course, life has a way of breaking through regardless; I attended protests, completed my thesis, graduated from grad school, took a couple of road trips upstate, and celebrated the accomplishments and birthdays of friends and family from a safe social distance. It was all a bit of a blur, and not ideal circumstances to re-enter the real world, or whatever this COVID-present is. 

Throughout it all, in lieu of happy hours, coffee dates, and panel discussions, I’ve turned even more to culture and cuisine to fill the the negative space on my calendar where my social life once resided. However, since a global pandemic ought not to disrupt every tradition, here’s my year-end round up of what made this terrible one slightly more tolerable. 

TV

After an ascetic fall semester abstaining from TV in 2019 (save for my beloved Succession), I allowed myself to watch more as the year wore on, and especially after graduation. I caught up on some cultural blind spots by finally getting around to The Sopranos, Ramy, Search Party, and Girlfriends. I wasn’t alone in bingeing Sopranos, it absolutely lived up to the hype and then some; this Jersey Girl can’t get enough gabagool-adjacent content, pizzeria culture is my culture!

Speaking of my culture, there was also a disproportionate amount of UK and European shows in my queue. Nothing like being in social isolation and watching the horny Irish teens in Normal People brood. I’m partial to it because I share a surname with the showrunner, so I have to embrace blind loyalty even though there was, in my opinion, a Marianne problem in the casting. Speaking of charming Irish characters with limited emotional vocabularies, I belatedly discovered This Way Up a 2019 show from Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan. And while Connell and Marianne are actually exceptional students, I found the real normal people on GBBO to bring me a bit more joy. Baking was abundantly therapeutic for me this year, and watching charming people drink loads of tea and fret over soggy bottoms was a comfort. I also discovered the Great Pottery Throw Down, and as a lifelong ceramics enthusiast, I cannot recommend it highly enough if you care about things like slips, coils, and glazing techniques. GPTD embraces wabi sabi in a way that GBBO eschews flaws in favor of perfection, and in a time of uncertainty, the former reminded me why I miss getting my hands in the mud as a coping mechanism (hence all the baking). Speaking of coping mechanisms, like everybody else with two eyes and an HBO password, I loved Michaela Cole’s I May Destroy You; though we’ve all had enough distress this year for a lifetime, watching Cole’s Arabella process her assault and search for meaning, justice, and closure was a compelling portrait of grief and purpose in the aftermath of trauma. Arabella’s creative and patient friends Kwame and Terry steal the show throughout, as they deal with their own setbacks and emotional turmoil. Where I May Destroy You provides catharsis, Ted Lasso presents British eccentricity in all its stereotypical glory. At first I was skeptical of the show’s hype on Twitter, but once I gave in it charmed me, if only for Roy Kent’s emotional trajectory and extolling the restorative powers of shortbread. For a more accurate depiction of life in London, Steve McQueen’s series Small Axe provides a visually lush and politically clear-eyed depiction of the lives of British West Indians in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Lastly, how could I get through a recap of my year in tv if I don’t mention The Crown. Normal People may have needed an intimacy coordinator, but the number of Barbours at Balmoral was the real phonographic content for me.

Turning my attention across the Channel, after the trainwreck that was Emily in Paris, I started watching a proper French show, Call My Agent! It’s truly delightful, and unlike the binge-worthy format of "ambient shows” I have been really relishing taking an hour each week to watch CMA, subtitles, cigarettes, and all.

Honorable mention: The Last Dance for its in-depth look at many notable former Chicago residents; High Fidelity for reminding me of the years in college when my brother and I would drive around listening to Beta Band; and Big Mouth.

Music

My Spotify wrapped this year was a bit odd. I don‘t think “Chromatica II into 911″ is technically a song, so it revealed other things about my listening habits this year, which turned out to remain very much stuck in the last, sonically. I listened to a lot more podcasts than new music this year, but there were some records that found their way into heavy rotation. While I listened to a lot of classics both old and new to write my thesis (Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Prokofiev, and Bach) the soundtrack to my coursework, runs, walks, and editing was more contemporary. Standouts include: 

Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee, which makes me feel like I’m breathing fresh air even when I’m stuck inside all day 

La Bella Vita by Niia, which was there for me when I walked past my ex on 7th avenue (twice!) and he pretended that I didn’t exist 

Fetch the Bolt Cutters by THEE Fiona Apple, because Fiona, our social distancing queen, has always been my Talmud, her songs shimmering, evolving, and living with me every year 

Shore by Fleet Foxes, for the long drive to the Catskills 

Women in Music, Pt. III by HAIM, because these days, these days...

Musicians have been reckoning with tumult this year as much as the rest of us, and the industry has dealt with loss on all fronts. I’d be remiss not to talk about how the passing of John Prine brought his music into my life, and McCoy Tyner, who has been a companion through good and bad over the years. 

Honorable mention to: græ by Moses Sumney; The Main Thing by Real Estate; on the tender spot of every calloused moment by Ambrose Akinmusire; Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers; folklore by you know who; and songs by Adrianne Lenker. 

Reading

What would this overlong blob be without a list of the best things I read this year? While I left publishing temporarily, books, the news, and newsletters still took up a majority of my attention (duh and/or doomscrolling by any other name). I can’t be comprehensive, and frankly, there are already great roundups of the best longform this year out there, so this is mostly books and praising random writers. 

Last year I wrote about peak newsletter. Apparently, my prediction was a bit premature as this year saw an even bigger Substack Boom. But two new newsletters in particular have delighted me: Aminatou Sow’s Crème de la Crème and Hunter Harris’ Hung Up (her ”this one line” series is true force of chaotic good on Blue Ivy’s internet). Relatedly, Sow and Ann Friedman’s Big Friendship was gifted to me by a dear friend and another bff and I are going to read it in tandem next week. 

On the “Barack Obama published a 700+ page memoir, crippling the printing industry’s supply chains” front, grad school severely hamstrung my ability to read for pleasure, but I managed to get through almost 30 books this year, some old (Master and Margarita), most new-ish (Say Nothing, Nickel Boys). Four 2020 books in particular enthralled me:

Uncanny Valley: Anna Wiener’s memoir has been buzzed about since n+1 published her essay of the same name in 2016. Her ability to see, clear-eyed, the industry for both its foibles and allure captured that era when the excess and solipsism of the Valley seemed more of a cultural quirk than the harbinger of societal schism.  

Transcendent Kingdom: Yaa Gyasi’s novel about faith, family, loss, and--naturally--grad school was deeply empathetic, relatable, and moving. I think this was my favorite book of the year. Following the life of a Ghanaian family that settles in Alabama, it captured the kind of emotional ennui that comes from having one foot in the belief of childhood and one foot in the bewilderment that comes from losing faith in the aftermath of tragedy.  

Vanishing Half: Similarly to Transcendent Kingdom, Brit Bennett’s novel about siblings who are separated; it’s also about the ways that colorism can be internalized and the ways chosen family can (and cannot) replace your real kin. It was a compassionate story that captured the pain of abuse and abandonment in two pages in a way that Hanya Yanagihara couldn’t do in 720.

Dessert Person: Ok, so this is a cookbook, but it’s a good read, and the recipes are approachable and delicious. After all the BA Test Kitchen chaos this summer, it’s nice we didn’t have to cancel Claire. Make the thrice baked rye cookies!!!! You will thank me later.

Honorable mention goes to: Leave The World Behind for hitting the Severance/Station Eleven dystopian apocalypse novel sweet spot; Exciting Times for reminding me why I liked Sally Rooney; and Summer by Ali Smith, which wasn’t the strongest of the seasonal quartet, but was a series I enjoyed for two years.  

Podcasts

I’m saving my most enthusiastic section for last: ever since 2018, I’ve been listening to an embarrassing amount of podcasts. Moving into a studio apartment will do that to you, as will grad school, add a pandemic to that equation and there’s a lot of time to fill with what has sort of become white noise to me (or, in one case, nice white parents noise). In addition to the shows that I’ve written about before (Still Processing, Popcast, Who? Weekly, and Why is This Happening?), these are the shows I started listening to this year that fueled my parasocial fire:

You’re Wrong About: If you like history, hate patriarchy, and are a millennial, you’ll love Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes’ deep dives into the most notable stories of the past few decades (think Enron and Princess Diana) and also some other cultural flashpoints that briefly but memorably shaped the national discourse (think Terri Schiavo, Elian González, and the Duke Lacrosse rape case).

Home Cooking: This mini series started (and ended) during the pandemic. As someone who stress baked her way through the past nine months, Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway’s show is filled with warmth, banter, and useful advice. Home Cooking has been a reassuring companion in the kitchen, and even though it will be a time capsule once we’re all vaccinated and close talking again, it’s still worth a listen for tips and inspiration while we’re hunkered down for the time being. 

How Long Gone: I don’t really know how to explain this other than saying that media twitter broke my brain and enjoying Chris Black and Jason Stewart’s ridiculous banter is the price I pay for it.

Blank Check: Blank Check is like the GBBO of podcasts--Griffin Newman and David Sims’ enthusiasm for and encyclopedic knowledge of film, combined with their hilarious guests and inevitable cultural tangents is always a welcome distraction. Exploring a different film from a director’s oeuvre each week over the course of months, the podcast delves into careers and creative decisions with the passion of completists who want to honor the filmmaking process even when the finished products end up falling short. The Nancy Meyers and Norah Ephron series were favorites because I’d seen most of the movies, but I also have been enjoying the Robert Zemeckis episodes they’re doing right now. The possibility of Soderbergh comes up often (The Big Picture just did a nice episode about/with him), and I’d love to hear them talk about his movies or Spike Lee (or, obviously, Martin Scorsese).      

Odds & Ends

If you’re still reading this, you’re a real one, so let’s get into the fun stuff. This was a horrible way to start a new decade, but at least we ended our long national nightmare. We got an excellent dumb twitter meme. I obviously made banana bread, got into home made nut butters, and baked an obscene amount of granola as I try to manifest a future where I own a Subaru Outback. Amanda Mull answered every question I had about Why [Insert Quarantine Trend] Happens. My brother started an organization that is working to eliminate food insecurity in LA. Discovering the Down Dog app allowed me to stay moderately sane, despite busting both of my knees in separate stupid falls on the criminally messed up sidewalks and streets of Philadelphia. I can’t stop burning these candles. Jim Carrey confused us all. We have a Jewish Second Gentleman! Grub Street Diets continued to spark joy. Dolly Parton remains America’s Sweetheart (and possible vaccine savior). And, last, but certainly not least: no one still knows how to pronounce X Æ A-12 Boucher-Musk.

[buckybarnesbingo]

GRAND MASTER ROUNDUP!

Wanna check out all of the content that was created during the 2019 round of the BBB?  Look no further!  Here are the links to all the masterposts that our creators submitted, including our Flash Bingo!

avengerscompound

avintagekiss24

ceealaina

daeshikoba

eirlyssa

Faustess

fightingforcreativity

Gavilan

HalfWheeze/PrimeKent

hawksonfire

iamartemisday

judy-the-dreamer

ladydarkphoenix

Lbibliophile-mcu

Lbibliophile-mcu Flash

letsallsleepoverwork

lostinthoughtsandfeelings

massivespacewren

Menatiera

nashapixie Flash

pherryt

Politzania

queen-of-the-avengers

rebelmeg

rebelmeg Flash

Ruckystarnes

SeibelSays

SierraNovembr

sweeetmonstrosity

Tisfan

Trashcanakin

Trashcanakin Flash

until-theend-oftheline

Voodoosgirl1

welldonebeca

your-ginger-angel

[rafaelnadalfans]

ARTICLES:

How Rafael Nadal, World No. 1, Keeps Getting Better | ATP Tour

Nadal has served 3,449 aces in his career, with 271 (12.7%) coming this season. He served only 122 aces last season. A snapshot of where those aces were directed in 2019 can be seen from the 105 aces he served this year at ATP Masters 1000 events and the Nitto ATP Finals.

Nadal refutes “unjustified” criticism of Mallorca tennis academy | tennis.com

“I can assure you that this academy project could have been located in several placed in the world where we were offered important benefits and a lot of facilities,” Nadal said. “But though it was a higher economic cost, I wanted to do it in my home, in Manacor, where this project could be positive for my region and the Balearic Islands.”

He explained why he wanted to address the issues. “I don’t like to enter into these types of controversies,” said Nadal. “I just wanted to express my feelings of pain and disappointment [and] I think you should, also, have my point of view about things that people are saying.”

Rafael Nadal eyes firmly on surpassing Roger Federer’s Grand Slam record – David Ferrer | express.co.uk

Ferrer told Express Sport: “I think his goal is to win as many Grand Slams as possible. It is a target for him. He wants to do something like Roger. It is a very good target for him to still keep going. It is more difficult but in this moment he is the No 1 in the world. So he is in a good place. Tsitsipas, Thiem, Medvedev are very good players but Rafa for me is the favourite to finish next year as world No 1. He can do it.”

“He’s a superhero. He’s unbelievable. Every year Rafa surprises me,” he said.

Rafael Nadal, Bianca Andreescu and the best tennis in 2019 | espn.com

Rafael Nadal: Year-end ranking, No. 1

2019 record: 57-7 with four titles, including two Grand Slams

The player of the year can be the individual who was most successful or the one who had a significant impact on the game in general. Our choice this year qualifies on both counts.

Top Five ATP Match Comebacks Of 2019 | ATP Tour

The Russian raised his level in the final set and sprinted to a 4-0 lead. With Nadal serving at 1-5, 30/40, it appeared that Medvedev would pick up his first win at the season finale and 60th tour-level victory of the year. But, as Nadal has demonstrated countless times, he can’t be counted out.

Nadal, Barty, Djokovic and Gauff: Tennis’ 2019 wrap | CNN

Not for the first time — or second, or third — Nadal entered a season under an injury cloud. This time it came courtesy of yet more knee issues and an abdominal complaint. He has often lamented how much time he has missed over the years but always seems to rally, and impressively. Indeed, “I’ll be back” seems like a line tailor made for Nadal, not just for Arnold Schwarzenegger in the “Terminator.”

Tennis player Rafael Nadal sends video of support to 10-year-old Belgian girl with rare brain tumor | brusselstimes.com

PHOTOS: How NikeCourt’s Newest Shoe Unlocks One of the Most Critical Movements in Tennis | Nike News

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Rafa Roundup: “He’s unbelievable. Every year Rafa surprises me” ARTICLES: How Rafael Nadal, World No. 1, Keeps Getting Better | ATP Tour Nadal has served 3,449 aces in his career, with 271 (12.7%) coming this season.

[thebristolboard]

Best Comics of 2018

Here’s my contribution to The Comics Journal’s annual roundup. There’s lots of great lists. You should click over and read them all.

Berlin by Jason Lutes – a towering masterpiece 22-years in the making, Berlin is a high watermark for alternative literary comics and its completion feels like a significant milestone for the generation of post-Love and Rockets creators and fans who came of age in the ‘90s.

The Goat Getters by Eddie Campbell – Meticulously-researched and beautifully-designed, this is an important work of comics archaeology. Campbell sifts through the medium’s pre-history, focusing on “the missing link” between early sports cartooning and newspaper comic strips. He carefully traces this evolution, including detailed biographies of the major cartoonists (Swinnerton, Dorgan, Herriman, Fisher, Goldberg, etc.) and a lot of historical context. Not a light read, but definitely worth the effort.

The Troublemakers by Baron Yoshimoto, edited by Ryan Holmberg – If you aren’t following Ryan Holmberg’s work, you’re missing out on one of the best critic/historians in the game. Holmberg is an expert in alt-manga and his translation projects are always worth looking at. This year he edited or otherwise contributed to four collections with several different publishers. I still haven’t read Slum Wolf but of the other three (including Fukushima Devil Fish and Vérité 01), this was the standout, with six short stories from the ‘70s and ‘80s by Yoshimoto, a manga master I was previously unfamiliar with. Holmberg’s books also include insightful essays focused on the artist which adds to the appreciation and understanding of the works reproduced.

Frontier #17 by Lauren Weinstein – This memoir about pregnancy and childbirth is simply a beautiful comic, unflinchingly honest. Weinstein is not afraid to be naked on the page, both literally and figuratively, and never shies away from baring her soul. It’s definitely the best issue of Frontier to date and ranks high among Weinstein’s best works.

Hieronymus & Bosch by Paul Kirchner – From the creator of High Times’s “Dope Rider” and Heavy Metal’s “The Bus” strips, this latest book is a collection of silent comics set in Hell. Perfectly timed gags, often ending in the protagonist’s torment, are mixed with a healthy dose of dark humor. This is perhaps Kirchner’s best work. Plus it’s full color!

Blammo #10 and One Dirty Tree by Noah Van Sciver – Van Sciver’s work turned more personal this past year, revealing intimate details about his family life, relationships, and Mormon upbringing. At the same time, his storytelling, artwork, and especially his use of color have grown more confident and attractive. 

Mort Cinder by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia – Following Fantagraphics’ translation of Oesterheld and Solano López’s masterpiece, The Eternaut, a few years ago, this gorgeously reproduced translation of one of the greatest Argentinian comics ever is the first of several planned volumes in the Breccia Library. Breccia’s chiaroscuro brushwork is exquisite throughout as he dissects various historical eras from ancient Greece to World War I.

Coin-Op Comics Anthology by Peter and Maria Hoey – You don’t usually hear comics described as aerodynamic but this collection of short strips by the brother and sister duo is filled with sharp angles and sleek curves. The comics draw heavily on the siblings’ graphic design experience, giving the entire book a glossy magazine-like quality, but each strip is filled with clever film-inspired visual experiments.

Flem by Rebecca Rosen – An impressive debut graphic novel about assisted suicide and mother/daughter relationships. Rosen’s art has some similarities with Dash Shaw’s work, but her creative page layouts and expressive coloring portend great things to come. Definitely an artist to keep an eye on.

Ice Cream Man by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo – One of my favorite Image books in a long time. Each issue of this series is a loosely-connected one-off tale of suburban horror. Martín Morazzo’s style is reminiscent of Frank Quitely and Prince’s scripts are sparse, thought-provoking gems.

Honorable mentions: Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, The Beef by David Hine and Shaky Kane, X-Men: Grand Design and Second Genesis by Ed Piskor, Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze, et al., All the Sad Songs by Summer Pierre, Tongues by Anders Nilsen, Ensemble by Maxime Gérin, Amnesia by Al Columbia, and The Nib #1, the first print edition of the popular web-comic.

Finally, because nobody should limit themselves to new stuff only, here’s the ten best older comics and related stuff I read in 2018:

The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu – a fantastic and well-researched look back at the history of censorship and fetishism in early comics that led up to Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent.

Hostage by Guy Delisle – Delisle’s best maybe ever, certainly since Pyongyang. This should have been on my best of list last year.

March Books 1-3 by John Lewis and Nate Powell – I read all three books to my 6th grade son this year and we were both blown away. John Lewis is a true American hero and I’m grateful that he chose to write his memoirs in graphic novel form.

Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller by Joe Lambert – this was the third time I read this one and it’s still great; one of the most under-rated graphic novels in recent memory.

Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm by Percy Carey and Ron Wimberly – I had the pleasure of interviewing Ron on a panel at SPX this year and it was the perfect excuse to revisit this outstanding memoir about hip hop and gang culture.

Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes – I re-read this after finishing Berlin. It remains one of my all-time favorite graphic novels.

The Eternaut by F. Solano Lopez and Héctor Germán Oesterheld – I actually like this book better than Mort Cinder, but both are masterpieces. And Fantagraphics hit it out of the park on the design and slipcase packaging. Arsene Schrauwen by Olivier Schrauwen – I missed the boat on this book when it came out, but I’m really glad I went back and read it. Outstanding art with a creepy dreamlike story. I’m looking forward to checking out Parallel Lives soon.

2001 Nights by Yukinobu Hoshino – I love this hard sci-fi manga series so much, I wrote an appreciation for The Comics Journal about it.

Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne vol. 3-6 – I collected these off the stands back in the ‘80s and am amazed how well they hold up. I think this is Byrne’s best work for Marvel, even surpassing his X-Men run (and let’s also not forget Namor).

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