Deathbyrat
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Bend Over, Here It Comes Again by Deathbyrat
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel
07 Aug 2026
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Captain America was born many times.
But truly, there is only one time people mean when they talk about the birth of Captain America. And they mean that day under Brooklyn. The day that skinny Stevie Rogers was loaded into a coffin and Captain America came out.
In that metal sarcophagus, Steve was injected with the Super Soldier Serum and bombarded with Vita Rays. The second it began, Steve could feel his insides falling apart. Dissolving into a pinkish slurry. It started with his muscles, his limbs, his bones. He screamed. But he did not let it stop. The forging of a weapon is painful.
Sixty-odd years later, a new weapon was built much the same. This time with bones of steel and iron, blood of hydraulics, and a mind of wires. Steve wondered if it screamed too. If copper blazed with synthetic pain as wars were fought across motherboards. If it too saw that Nothingness. And if that scared it.
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an Ultron rewrite, taking place just after the events of The Avengers, and featuring a whole lot of angst.
Reading SNAFU and Monkey Clothes is recommended
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- Part 4 of Neurasthenia
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Monkey Clothes by Deathbyrat
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
18 Mar 2026
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Margaret “Peggy” Carter was the last person on earth who knew Steve. And she was alive. Her file lay open on his kitchen table, the phone number staring at him accusingly. So he went for a run instead. Besides, he had his first mission soon. He’ll call afterward.
OR: Steve's journey from denial to obsession
This is a direct continuation of SNAFU, it's best if you read that one first!
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- Part 3 of Neurasthenia
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The Sugar Report by Deathbyrat
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
06 Mar 2026
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Bucky knew how to do this. How to stop himself from licking his lips. How to resist the urge to lick his fingers, wet with release. How to wrinkle his nose at it. How to act drunk. How to disguise the lust in his eyes. How to hide. How to follow the steps of this dance. How not to reveal himself.
Steve didn't know what he was doing. But the look in Bucky's eyes was like fire and God did he want to burn. So he kept pushing. And pushing. And pushing. Waiting for that final dam to break, for the walls to crumble and the drinks to flow. All for the permission that came in the dark.
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The 1940s was a bad time for two queer kids in Brooklyn. So they hid. From themselves and from each other. This is a story of sex and sexuality, and of hiding from yourself.
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- Part 1 of Neurasthenia
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Ilya Rozanov was in an internet fight. This was a fairly regular occurrence for him, he tried to get into at least a few every day. But this one was…unique. In an unfortunate turn of events, he had screenshotted his Twitter feed to prove how sexy and powerful he is, which ended up exposing his alternate account. One @shaneslover. An account he had kept for years, fanning the flames of ship wars, threatening Hayden Pike, and, as the name suggested, thirsting after Shane Hollander.
OR: what if your insane mutual of like 7 years turned out to be THE Ilya Rozanov. The one who goes a bit too far with the thirsting every time turns out to be actually for real famous hockey player Ilya Rozanov. The internet doesn't know how to feel
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Situation Normal: All Fucked Up by Deathbyrat
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
12 Jan 2026
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He stayed busy. He worked out. He read. He ate. Sometimes. He beat his fists bloody against heavy bags, letting the sand heal into his knuckles just to feel it. He kept an eye out for krauts. He didn’t look for dark haired and light eyed men with wicked smiles. He slept. Sometimes. He ignored the ghosts that overlapped with reality. He was handling it.
Steven Grant Rogers was fine. He repeated it several times a day, it was surely true. He was fine.
Or:
Steve has a bad time in 2012
Series
- Part 2 of Neurasthenia
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Neurasthenia by Deathbyrat
Fandom Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Aug 2026
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My reimagining of the MCU. A mix of comics, movies, real history, and mine own thoughts.
Now with 500% more Steve Rogers!!- Words:
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it was for freedom from myself and from the land by HeyJulien
Fandoms: ER (TV 1994), The Pitt (TV)
26 May 2026
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Robby puts up thick walls around himself. Jack starts to look too closely at the cracks.
Or: Jack Abbot falls in love with John Carter, he just doesn’t know it yet.
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- Part 1 of the ghost of chicago
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02 Sep 2026
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The Nightwing Protocol by PurpleSoot
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Animated Series), Young Justice (Cartoon)
17 Sep 2022
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In a universe that falls somewhere in between Teen Titans and Young Justice, Robin was fourteen years old on the day he was killed in action, caught in a clever trap laid by the world’s most dangerous mercenary assassin.
Deathstroke’s Apprentice was fifteen on the day he finally surrendered to the Justice League, with blood on his hands and scars that will never heal.
Dick Grayson is seventeen on the day he chooses to face Slade Wilson again.
Some things you lose and can’t ever find again. Some things you drop and leave behind. Some things you just have to learn how to carry with you.
(They’ll call that the Nightwing Protocol, if he survives.)
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“DON’T—!” The word tears from Tim’s throat, too late.
Wild magic slams into Nightwing dead-on, erupting in green light that swallows him whole.
When the light sputters and dies, it reveals his crumpled form. For a breath, the warehouse goes dead quiet.
The casters stare, eyes wide, as if they can’t believe they’d actually landed a hit.
Tiny Dick Grayson because it’s a classic
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- Part 4 of Sooner or Later
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Bookmarked by Deathbyrat
19 Aug 2026
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'Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.' Stephen King.
The kid sitting in the interview room swings on the rear legs of his chair, throws back his head, and at the top of his lungs, sings a painfully off-key version of 'Wanted Dead or Alive'. Hotch looks at Morgan with one eye-brow arched in question. "You think he's your unsub?"
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16 Aug 2026
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Recently released from prison on a manslaughter charge, Mickey Milkovich isn't looking for anything messy. He's had enough messes for a life time, with prison, his piece of shit dad, and his drugged-up brothers. He just wants to work forty hours per week to keep his PO off his back and make sure his little sister doesn't have another breakdown. Keeping his new life as tidy as possible should be easy.
Except there's an annoying red-haired dancer at the club he works at who keeps talking to him, and nothing about Ian Gallagher is tidy.
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Bookmarked by Deathbyrat
13 Aug 2026