Only the Most Beautiful
The gorgeous, gut-punching, life-affirming fics I come back to time and time again. Sometimes it's love, unrequited or fulfilled. Sometimes it's friendship, family. Sometimes it's angst and horror and unhappy endings, sometimes everything is soft and nothing hurts.
Mostly Marvel, with some other gems. Use the bookmarks to see the full list of works with collector's commentary. Skip to the best-of-the-best if you want to be like that, but they're all the best.
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morning in the burned house by antivenom
Fandoms: Deadpool - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types
02 Jul 2020
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Wade’s got a defense mechanism. Grin and bear it.
But the thing is, Wade’s angry into his bones.
(Or, this is what happens when a seemingly unassuming, run-of-the-mill hit gets personal)
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Summer Ice. by elastic honey (infernoconcealed)
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types, Spider-Man/Deadpool - Joe Kelly (Comics)
11 Apr 2019
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Spiderman/Deadpool, teamup comics.
They decide they're gonna try taking the weekends off.
Slice of Life. Emotional Porn. Real Porn.Video Games | Krav Maga | Sex | 911 Calls
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not an end, but (the start of all things) by notcaycepollard
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
01 May 2019
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They keep driving, for lack of anything better to do. A mission, Sam had said, and maybe that's true; maybe wherever they're headed is the way out, the way up.
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Time and Again by follow_the_sun
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
31 Aug 2021
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“Oh, thank God,” said Bucky. “I’ve been shipping the two of you since 1943.”
Steve goes back in time. Things go a little differently than he expects.
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"The stars incline us, they do not bind us." For Harry, it's something he learned long ago on the battlefield. But for his son, James, it will be a painful lesson in the form of a friendship with a boy named Scorpius Malfoy.
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bury me face down (in your heart) by actionpackedlips
Fandoms: Deadpool - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Deadpool (Movieverse)
19 May 2020
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Deadpool hasn't been back in New York since Peter told him, screamed at him, to stay away all those years ago. He hadn't just barred Deadpool from New York, but also from his heart. So when he sees a familiar black and red clad figure on the news, he knows Deadpool's back, and he's fully prepared to go confront him.
He doesn't want any of that anymore, anyway. Or so he's been telling himself daily since the very last time he laid eyes on Deadpool.
Peter's not prepared for what seeing the other man does to his resolve, and he finds what they ended all those years ago picking right back up from where they left off.
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20 May 2020
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My favorite balance of excessively hot and excessively sad <3
He whispered it like a secret; the wicked kind that wreaked havoc, started fights, ended marriages. The kind that made Peter feel small and humiliated.
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"I see you found us a couple of wounded birds," the man says to Kaylee. The words are dismissive but his tone is kind.
"They're headed for Judah," Kaylee says. "And they're broke."
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- Part 6 of Author's Favorites
- Part 4 of Firefly fanworks
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- English
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26 Jun 2021
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Book of Ruth x Firefly. I didn't know it could work so well, but here we are <3
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When Julian volunteered to spend six months on Cardassia he set in motion a chain of events which forever changed his life - and Garak's.
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- 72,071
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- 15/15
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26 Nov 2018
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Cardassian courting etiquette and post-war gorgeousness.
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Draco Malfoy has been missing for three years. Harry is assigned the cold case and finds himself slowly falling in love with the memories he collects.
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- Part 1 of Running on Air
- Language:
- English
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- 74,880
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- 17/17
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- 18
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01 Jan 2019
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The colour of the bones almost matches the summer-scorched grass pushing between the vertebrae. The ribs bend like stalks of wheat, permanently bowing to an invisible wind; the finger knuckles look like sun-bleached pebbles.
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It’s absurd, it really is, because for all that touching and groping and non-stop talking about how Peter’s body is his heaven on earth, he won’t stay.
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28 Dec 2019
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Read this one if you want to be real depressed :'(
"It’s perfect when they’re just kissing - clothes in tact, excitingly sweet, Wade’s big hands stroking his thighs. It’s when they get past that, when he wants to push the mask back, when Wade seizes him and flips him over and all the tenderness is gone."