#partners to lovers

[freesketchgo]

- Diana and Bruce hiding on Themyscira -

Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like to see Diana find her way home, even with the help of the others, after the events of ZSJL. (Knowing Bruce and the others if anyone they would have probably found a way with Diana to get back to the island.) I wonder how the amazons would have received Diana's fellow warriors on the island and Bruce who is the most ordinary out of them yet a crucial member of the team. Surely he would have been tested by the amazons to see if he was worthy to set foot on the island and he would have proved it in the end for sure. As Diana was an only child there, she must have had many hiding places, so I imagine this place as one of her favorite childhood hideaways where she often spent time painting on the walls what she saw and experienced on Themyscira. I wish we could have seen them together in this paradise (or just Diana getting back to see her mother is still alive).

[deckerstqr]

"the truth is... i love you."

a playlist for jane + lisbon ♡

[nemo-duspy-writes]

Don't you just hate the 'partners-to-lovers' trope involving the main characters in so many detective TV-series (The Mentalist, Castle, Lucifer, Supernatural, Brooklyn99,...)

[authorjoydragon]

Whoa, Joy actually wrote something? Shocking I know.

For Kacchako Week 2023, prompt (blank) to lovers

[themculibrary]

Partners to Lovers Masterlist

After Me Comes the Flood (ao3) - monanotlisa steve/natasha E, 10k

Summary: She's an international spy who just burned herself. He's a national hero who just burned down a government agency. Together with their friend who flies like a bird, they fight crime.

Or: Happy birthday, Steve Rogers!

coming home (ao3) - hereforthehurts bucky/sam G, 1k

Summary: He leaves, and he still doesn’t know what to call this place.

OR: Four times Bucky Barnes came over to Sam's home and the one time he calls it his home.

I had a dream (you were in it) (ao3) - Cap_Sweet_And_Salty_Sadness bucky/tony E, 12k

Summary: The street noises assault them when they step outside, Bucky particularly with his enhanced hearing. There are vendors, young men selling their newspapers, gossipers, horses with carts trotting down the paved road. People closest to the duo throw them curious looks, and Tony immediately knows why, given that the men are dressed up in three-piece suits and women in a diverse range of long dresses with petticoats, some twice as large as them.

"Um." Bucky hides his daggers somewhere on him that Tony is too scared to ask.

"Maybe this is just a Victorian convention," Tony weakly says, his headache only intensifying. Bucky picks up a discarded Daily Mail. "Maybe a Victorian city convention?"

"I doubt it." The date on top is 1888. "We space and time traveled to London in full Victorian bloom." Bucky stares at the front page, shoves it back at Tony. "Middle of Jack The Ripper era, on top of that."

I'll explain everything to the geese (ao3) - napricot bucky/sam E, 50k

Summary: Bucky is so competent that it hurts my feelings is not a rational complaint to have about a person, and yet, after a year of being Captain America and partnering up with Bucky for the new and improved, post-Blip Avengers, that’s kinda how Sam’s feeling.

It’s not great. It maybe leads to Sam making some rash, ill-advised decisions like claiming he has a previously undisclosed superpower, and then getting caught in a web of lies when he ends up actually developing that surprisingly inconvenient superpower. Talking to birds had seemed like a harmless superpower, but it turns out that birds have a lot of opinions, and they don’t hesitate to tell Sam about them, especially when it comes to his supposedly subpar courting skills. Which is ridiculous, because Sam isn’t courting Bucky. Right?

I'm Not Worth The Time (ao3) - Cobrafantasies sam/bucky E, 12k

Summary: Sam walks in on Bucky getting blown in a bathroom and it changes their relationship forever. Or Sam and Bucky start casually hooking up and don't know how to talk about what they actually want.

In the Cool of the Evening (ao3) - imaginationrunsfree scott/hope M, 7k

Summary: After Germany, his second arrest and his betrayal, Hope Van Dyne is not sure she ever wants to see Scott Lang again. But when he has a dream about her mother trapped in the Quantum realm, she's willing to put her feelings aside to help bring her back. Little does she realize, doing so may not be as easy as she thought. *MAJOR spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp.*

Just Between Us (ao3) - LiandravZ steve/natasha G, 43k

Summary: Two years had gone by since they last saw each other. The big question is: how do you talk to someone whose heart you've shattered?

Does it ever begin with a, hello? hey? Or Hi, how have you been? She doesn’t have a fucking clue.

One for the now, and eleven for the later (ao3) - Amandjnx carol/natasha T, 37k

Summary: Natasha Romanoff, a Detective for the NYPD, followed her Captain and transfered to a new precinct where she get a new partner, Carol Danvers

only a wound that love had opened (ao3) - andibeth82 clint/natasha T, 9k

Summary: On Natasha’s first day at S.H.I.E.L.D., on her first full day as someone free of brainwashing or past mistakes, there are people that look at her like she’s still something that can be broken, like she’s still a bomb that will go off if you punch in the wrong code while trying to figure out another way to diffuse it.

And then there’s Clint.

(or, Clint Barton and Natasha Romanov throughout the years: the story of a spy learning to love a soldier.)

On my shoulders, the weight of my feelings (ao3) - jscar bucky/sam E, 23k

Summary: Sam and Bucky reconnect after month of just going on missions together.

Quickly, lots of hidden feelings break free and well... they fall in love.

Paths Through the Clutter (ao3) - archers_and_spies clint/natasha G, 5k

Summary: “Barton,” she says warily, “I’m not a Mender. You need—”

“I don’t care,” Clint interrupts, grabbing his heart and thrusting it right under her nose. “Do me this one favour, Nat.”

periodical (ao3) - starklystar sam/bucky G, 2k

Summary: Sam and Bucky sit down for a magazine interview and a buzzfeed quiz. It somehow ends up less chaotic than expected.

Some Strings Attached (ao3) - t_fic (topaz), topaz, topaz119 (topaz) clint/natasha E, 9k

Summary: "You," Natasha says slowly, "thought we should do something for Valentine's Day?"

"Yeah," Clint says, simple and direct, and Natasha is beginning to think she might never truly understand him or his motivations. "I made reservations and everything."

The Blue Planet (ao3) - aurilly bucky/loki E, 6k

Summary: Bucky gets hit with sex pollen while fighting space monsters with Loki.

Unfortunately, Loki doesn't immediately realize that's what's happening.

there’s no way that it’s not going there (with the way that we’re looking at each other) (ao3) - tryalittlejoytomorrow clint/natasha E, 6k

Summary: Clint and Natasha go undercover as a married couple. There's a red dress, and guns fastened to garters, and Clint is losing his mind.

Pre-Avengers.

Trust Building Exercises (ao3) - chezamanda clint/natasha E, 6k

Summary: From the moment Clint brought a young Natasha to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., he had been impressed with her abilities and perseverance. Over the years, their partnership grew and Clint realized that not only did he trust Natasha with his life, he had fallen in love with her.

[crowleys-hips]

[redflemmefoxy]

As a big partners to lovers and enemies to lovers going on a quest fan, I have to say we need more besties going on a quest too in fantasy & fantasy romances. Friends going on a quests sounds so fun🤩🥰

PS: I need more partners to lovers recs😭

[inkskinned]

in internet posts it is easy to cut them out of your life. they are hurting you! they aren't listening to you!

they held your hair back. they lent you lipstick. they held your hand at the train station and got you home safe. they rounded on your bully, got loud, said get fucked, spitting-mad in your defense.

they also cut the hair off again. told you that you should really think twice before wearing something like that. took you for granted. took your insecurities and threw them in your face again.

you know logically it should be easy. all the internet advice comments always read it will feel better. like an equation - if a person is rotten, you just remove them. you pull the tooth that's hurting.

but it was never a big flare-up moment. you don't live in a sitcom. they never tried to take your boyfriend or steal from your apartment. they showed up to birthdays and they wrote songs about you and bring you water without you asking. once you found out they carry an emergency inhaler for you, even though you haven't had an asthma attack in years - just in case.

where is the line? people fuck up. sometimes they fuck up badly. sometimes people have raw personalities, like a powerline, and being around them is dangerous. addicting. sometimes they can't help themselves, but you know they're trying. sometimes they are just rough-around-the-edges. sometimes they don't even realize how they sounded when they said that. sometimes it's just - you've both loved each other for so long now, the way this thing hurts goes back to the root.

and that's the fucked up part. you have pushed your fingers against the sweetheart of memory. things these days are electric, tense, harrowing. they didn't used to be. there were a lot of good days in there. sometimes you want to just close your eyes and say can this be over yet? do we still need to be fighting?

doing that would give up any chance you get of getting an apology, but you don't always know that you need an apology, you love them. once they flaked on your birthday party. once they told you to get over it, people are always dying. they also let you crash on their couch for a week after the breakup, handfeeding you when you were so sad you couldn't eat. they are also judgmental about everything, occasionally react to banal statements with an attitude that is weird and fiery. they also love you like a lighthouse sometimes, so strong they cut the storm like lightning.

but the problem is that you might be storm. you might be the thing that needs breaking. what if you are two forces who are desperately, horribly drawn to each other, shaped by the other person's passions, and both good for each other and bad in equal measure.

what if you're both just people, and you're no saint neither.

just cut them off! swallowing the saltwater, you catch yourself in the mirror. you've been shaking more than usual. there's an ache in you that is oblique, loud, impossible to soothe. is this what it looks like? when life is "easier"?

your mouth will always have a hole, is the thing, if you remove the tooth.

[furiousdinosaurdestiny]

Ugh 😭😭😭

[miss-americanbi]

ineffable husbands and ineffable bureaucracy perfectly sum up the two types of queer romantic relationships: painful mutual pining for 6,000 years and speedrunning from enemies to friends to lovers in the span of 0.5 seconds

[deckerstqr]

"i remember it. i remember us. i remember everything."

a playlist for peter + olivia 🌷

[gracenmoe]

crowley is me talkin about my hyperfixations

[impossible3girl]

Did she really had to fire him for us to get their first hug? 🥺

[camishroom]

hmmmmmmmm gortash and durge??? I love them

[ash-rigby]

I love unconventional vampire feeding locations. Like, yeah, the neck is undoubtedly sexy, but imagine your thighs...

[crowleys-hips]

things i headcanon Crowley invented:

only one sock disappearing in the washer/dryer. you know the one

youtube ads

gum on shoes

that one wobbly wheel on every shopping cart

you know when you're in traffic and one lane is going faster than the one you're in, so you switch to that one, but now this one's going slower than the other? that. it's one he often regrets.

back when wired earbuds were a thing - only one of them going bad

Nessie - an accident. he went swimming in his snake form once and someone took a blurry picture

unsynced audio or subtitles on media

pineapple on pizza - he did it to piss of Aziraphale

instagram poetry

pens/markers than run out of ink by the 3rd day (i'm looking at you Sharpies)

airplane food

the very common phenomenon when you forget your old password, go to reset it, and then get told your "new password can't be the same as your old password"

long red light/short green light

shower knobs that can't ever get the right temperature, it's either 3rd degree burns or hypothermia

crocs

feel free to add your ownnn