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Coffee Run by cricket_reader
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
24 Dec 2025
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Bucky Barnes is sent out for coffee in the middle of December with a list of orders that make no sense and a growing hatred of the cold that winter brings to New York. The cafe is a warm, quaint little escape from the hustle and bustle of the big city. He doesn't expect that warmth to linger after he steps back into the cold, following him all the way back to the tower. He especially doesn't expect to volunteer to come back, much less to start looking forward to it because of a certain barista with a warm smile and a voice coated in honey.
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- Part 1 of Christmas/Winter Collection
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After too many failed dates to count, you'd resolutely sworn off dating for the foreseeable future. But Lois Lane wouldn't let you give up that easily. She swore that her insanely attractive coworker was nothing like the string of disasters you'd endured, that this one was finally different.
Yet there you sat, nursing your second glass of water, with no handsome reporter in sight.
OR: Clark Kent stood you up on your blind date. What you weren't expecting was a heartfelt apology served with a bouquet as he begged you for a second chance.
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Carving Skin Until My Bones Are Showing by cricket_reader
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
30 Jun 2025
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He never said your name. He didn't have to. You'd thought that everything was fine, until one overheard conversation shattered the illusion, your rose-tinted glasses fading to black. The words cut deeper than anything you've ever heard, and suddenly, you're re-evaluating everything: your relationship, your body, your worth.
Now, the man you love with everything you have exists peacefully beside you, as if nothing's changed, while you slowly unravel in silence. You're left wondering if he's already halfway out the door, and you're just the last to know.
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- Part 14 of June of Doom 2025
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Fraying Threads of Recovery by cricket_reader
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
22 Jun 2025
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Bucky Barnes doesn't have a home. He is a relic of a bygone era, abandoned, forgotten and alone. Life has thrown everything his way, and he has endured it; through World War II, seventy years of brainwashing, torture and murder, getting hunted by several governments, getting snapped into ashes, his best friend leaving him alone in a world he felt displaced in, reliving his worst memories to save someone he didn't even know, his only friend ignoring him over some stupid team name.
The fight felt never-ending, just one after the other. Bucky had had enough. This was no way to live.
He just didn't know what he'd be leaving behind.
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- Part 11 of June of Doom 2025
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The Rooftop Knows My Name by cricket_reader
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Daredevil (TV)
22 Jun 2025
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“Spider-Man?”
“Yeah, you know, your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man—well, not your neighbourhood. I hang out in Queens… most of the time. Although I did fight against aliens, so it could be argued that I’m every neighbourhood’s friendly Spider-Man. I also was in DC once, but that was a whole other situation.”
“You’re Spider-Man…”
“So you do know who I am?” Peter lit up.
“Well, yes…”
Peter’s excitement of being recognised by one of the coolest vigilantes was tempered down by confusion. “You didn’t recognise the suit?”
“Uh… yeah, it’s uh, it’s really dark.”
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Daredevil hears a kid crying on a rooftop just outside of Hell’s Kitchen and rushes to talk him down from the ledge. What he fails to realise is that this kid just so happens to be Spider-Man.
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- Part 13 of June of Doom 2025
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I'm Still Learning to Be Human by cricket_reader
Fandom Marvel, Marvel (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Jun 2025
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- 1
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- 3
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Christmas/Winter Collection by cricket_reader
Fandom Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
24 Dec 2025
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Fics that either are holiday/Christmas related or are set in the winter/involve snow. They don’t go in any order.
(The ones at the beginning are Christmas and the ones at the end are winter/snowy fics)
Enjoy and happy holidays!
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- 25,575
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- 10
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June of Doom 2025 by cricket_reader
Fandom Criminal Minds (US TV), Daredevil (TV), Marvel, Marvel (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
30 Jun 2025
- Words:
- 75,261
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- 14
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- 6
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June of Doom 2023 by cricket_reader
Fandom Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Daredevil (TV), Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
25 Jul 2023
- Words:
- 23,612
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- 18
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- 3
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Falling for the Facade Universe by cricket_reader
Fandom Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
02 Oct 2024
- Words:
- 8,647
- Works:
- 1
- Bookmarks:
- 2