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MARVEL

Leave The Light On

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James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark
11k
MIT era, drug abuse, developing relationship
AO3

He was never doing this for fun. He'd just wanted to stay awake. And whatever you do, please don't tell that guy he's been fucking. He kinda likes him.



The Fourth of July, 1988

not_applicable
James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark
3k
MIT era, first time, fluff
AO3

MCU Tony/Rhodey, set during one summer break during their time at MIT. They missed each other.



Godchild

griseldajane
Gen
39k
The Avengers (2012), domestic, fluff
AO3

When Loki finds a de-aged Thor wandering alone on the battlefield, Loki takes the five year old child in and resolves to figure out how Thor was transformed and why...


The whimpering grows into sobbing and Loki waves the steam away with a sweep of his arm to reveal a blond haired boy wandering across the cracked pavement.

The child stumbles over Mjolnir and falls to the ground. Loki starts and not because the child is crying anew, but because Mjolnir shifted a small measure as the boy’s weight leaned against it. The hammer moves for no one save for the God of Thunder himself.

“Thor?” Loki questions and before he becomes fully aware of what he’s doing, Loki sweeps in, snatching the child into his arms.



Wild Ambition Fortune's Ice Prefers

amberfox17
Thor/Loki
199k
AU, arranged marriage, jotun!loki, epic worldbuilding, slow build
AO3

When Thor went storming into Jotunheim he was looking to start a fight, but accidently winds up a pawn in Odin and Laufey's plans for a permanent peace between the realms; namely, in exchange for the return of the Casket of Ancient Winters, Laufey is offering his firstborn child Loki, the Aesir-sized sorcerer, in marriage to Thor. Such a momentous decision is not to be taken lightly, so Odin sends Thor to live on Jotunheim - without Mjolnir - for a season with Loki, to get to know his prospective consort and to teach the wilful prince some diplomatic sense. Thor is horrified, his parents are insistent and no-one really knows what Loki is thinking, but he hasn't stopped smiling...

Or, a jotun AU arranged marriage worldbuilding fic, featuring a confused Thor, a manipulative bastard Loki, Jotunheim politics, a slow burn developing relationship and a motley arrangement of characters from Marvel and myth.



Covenant

RobotSquid
Gen
39k
canon divergence, jotun!loki, binding project
AO3

Frost Giants are ugly, cruel, and malicious creatures. Thor has always known this to be true. So then how can Loki, his beloved little brother, be one of them?



Intervention

Asidian
Gen
41k
mythology, torture, rescue
AO3

Tony's voice echoed in the cavern, hollow against the walls. “Are you out of your mind?That thing's going to take your head off!”

The snake, however, did not move- did not even seem to be watching his teammateapproach. And almost as though in response to his own voice, the sound from before came again, long and trembling- midway between a moan and a sob. This time, when his eyesdarted in search of the source, the darkness did not block his sight: the naked figure of a man lay stretched beneath the snake, bound to an outcropping of rock. He was all ribs and sharp ridges of bone, all too-thin pale limbs, all open sores on top from the places the venom had splattered and on the bottom where the rock had rubbed away the flesh. The man's face, directly below the snake's mouth, had gotten the worst of it; it was raw and red, glistening with blood and exposed muscle and the slick of poison. The man shouldn't have been alive, much less moving, and yet he was- was thrashing weakly in his bonds, turning his head as far as it would go to avoid the white liquid as it dribbled down. It was not far enough.

Tony thought he was going to be sick again.




MY HERO ACADEMIA

Number One Nemesis

heartsinhay
Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku
31k
canon divergence, humor, villain!Deku
AO3

Rising Pro Hero Bakugo Katsuki is assigned to a case that involves an old friend, one who steals from the rich and leaves riddles at the scene of every crime. How did shitty Deku become a YouTube-famous villain? Why is Katsuki so obsessed with him? And where did Deku find that Ground Zero body pillow?



What Kacchan Wants

heartsinhay
Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku
31k
canon divergence, humor, sugar baby
AO3

“I'm not that kind of sugar daddy,” Izuku insisted, “Kacchan thinks I’m giving him nice things because I'm a degenerate pervert, but I'm actually pretending to be a degenerate pervert so Kacchan will let me give him nice things!"

“Aren’t you, though?” Natsuo-senpai asked, “No offense, but you’ve kind of got that vibe. You know, like… the kind of guy who watches a lot of late-night anime.”

OR: Quirkless startup founder Izuku Midoriya runs into an old friend. Kacchan is a down-on-his-luck Pro Hero recently fired by his agency, and he's just as prideful and fiercely independent as ever. All Izuku wants to do is help, but will Kacchan ever let him?




STRANGERS FROM HELL

from eden

halftruth
Seo Moonjo/Yoon Jongwoo
41k
canon divergence, slow build, internalized homophobia, canon-typical violence, infidelity
AO3

Moonjo can’t help but smile this time, slow and undeniably fond. He hunkers down until they’re eye to eye. “No, jagi,” he says quietly so as not to disturb the dead silence of Jongwoo’s thoughts.

The endearment makes Jongwoo’s eyes harden into something cruel and beautiful.

“It’s what you wanted.”



in the house of flies

Eden loves Jongwoo.

canon divergence, ambiguous ending, supernatural elements


warmth

halftruth
Seo Moonjo/Yoon Jongwoo
41k
AU, infidelity, touch-starved
AO3

“I like you,” he repeats. It’s quieter this time.

“I have a girlfriend.”

“I know,” Moonjo looks over at him. “But forbidden fruit is the sweetest, no?”

or, jongwoo takes a liking to jieun's neighbour.




SUPERNATURAL

Blue Skies from Rain

lovesrain44
Sam Winchester/Dean Winchester
177k
canon divergence, slow build, internalized homophobia, canon-typical violence, mental institutions
AO3 | LiveJournal

The morning after Sam rescues Dean from the djinn, Sam and Dean go back to the warehouse to take care of the bodies of both the victims and of the djinn. But instead of what should be a simple clean-up job, Sam and Dean are sucked into a nightmare world brought about by the djinn's last dying act of revenge. (Takes place directly after What Is and What Should Never Be.) What do you do when you wake up in a mental institution and you think your brother is dead?



Look the Other Way

candle_beck
Sam Winchester/Dean Winchester
46k
AU, violence, downer ending
LiveJournal

dean is a cop and sam is his no-good brother.



Dictionary for a Dead Language

britomart_is
Sam Winchester/Dean Winchester
22k
season 5, canon divergence, apocalypse
LiveJournal

Under mysterious circumstances bitterly disputed by the historians, Sam Winchester said yes to Lucifer. Three years later, Lucifer is gone and the familiar landscape that the Winchesters once traversed is a burnt-out ruin of its former self — not to mention the damage done to Lucifer's vessel. Trapped in a grotesque parody of domestic bliss with a brother he no longer recognizes, a shell-shocked Dean has no reason to believe that happy endings exist for men like the Winchesters.



On Your Guard

theproblematique
Sam Winchester/Dean Winchester
97k
canon AU, size kink, stanford
LiveJournal

After the existence of the supernatural became common knowledge, the general public turned to hunters for answers. This group of unsung heroes, who had lived in the shadows for so long, was thrust into superstardom overnight and looked to for safety above all else. Among them, no hunter was more famous than Dean Winchester: a fan-favorite American icon who helped banish all demons from Earth.

His mysterious younger brother, however, had been absent from the public eye for years.




OTHER

Wonder Bread

Arrested Development
matriarch-gob-bluth
George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth/Michael Bluth
9k
established relationship, humor, semi-public sex
AO3

Michael Bluth just wants to do the company's taxes in peace. He asks Gob to go grocery shopping for him. He regrets it--almost.