Finally, Jason breaks the silence. “Do you need to wake Dick up...?”
“No,” Tim says quickly. “No, I was, uh. I was looking for you.”
Still very much asleep, Dick tightens his arms around Jason’s chest.
Jason blinks. Sleepy brain is dumb. “Me?”
“I had a...a dream. That, um...you—”
Tim’s mostly-whispered voice is getting higher and higher as he speaks, like he’s about to start crying. And that’s when Jason realizes.
“That I didn’t make it.”
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After a harrowing fight, a heavily-injured Jason and the rest of the Bat-family come home.
Submitted by @Sanetona
I saved this particular fic to read when I'm having a bad day. It's hurt/comfort but after the hurt has already been handled, so comfort in the aftermath of hurt. A single night after a close call, a really wholesome soft moment that never fails to make me tear up just a little
Only in fic will you get sexy times instead of being blocked. Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
“Here Lies Steve Rogers, Death By Bucky Barnes” (E, 11k) by fingerprintbruises
Steve’s heart stopped for the second time that hour, and his body froze. He was going to die from a heart attack today, he just knew it. His headstone would read: Here lies Steve Rogers, a man killed by too many faux pas in one day.
+ Modern AU. Bucky gets an unexpected text, and sprints home
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“To Seek A Nood-er World” (E, 8k) by jehans
Send noodz
Steve has been staring at his phone for the last six minutes, eyes narrowed so much they’re almost closed at this point, trying to figure out what the hell Bucky means. Noodz? What the fuck are noodz?
Listen, Steve is at least marginally aware of modern pop culture. He’s heard of nudes — not that nudes are exactly a modern invention; artists have been creating them for millennia — and he does know that people tend to misspell words to be cute or funny. They did that when he was young, too. Because time is a flat circle, apparently.
But, wait—does that mean…?
No. Not possible. Bucky isn’t asking Steve to send him…nudes.
Right?
+ Post WS. A message fails to deliver, but it all works out in the end
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“Dickmanship” (E, 5k) by Bittersweet_in_Boston
Steve finds out what Mr. Silent Treatment Barnes thinks of that later that evening at Tony’s pizza party. Bucky’s not there - of course - so Steve shoves pizza into his face and hangs around with Sam and Natasha, trying not to sulk. Somewhere around his eighth slice of pepperoni, his ass buzzes. He pulls his phone out of his pants pocket and opens the text.
Buck
u call that a dick pic
As Steve stares at the phone screen, another text comes through within seconds.
Buck
this is a dick pic
In which Bucky and Steve fight via dick pics and everything escalates quickly.
+ Post WS. A disagreement over a mission leads to a four day dick pic war
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“Nothing in the world that could stop it” (E, 8k) by rainbow_nerds
Bucky just wanted to send his best friend a picture of his cat being an idiot while he was taking a bath. Was it really his fault for forgetting the full length mirror right opposite the tub?
Modern AU. If Steve’s going to take a dick pic, it’s going to be artistic
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“Felt Cute, Might Delete Later” (E, 5k) by MurphyAT
Steve meets Bucky while canvassing for racial justice. Later that night, he sends him a dick pic (on accident! He swears!). He is the worst volunteer ever and he is totally getting fired for this.
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"I am not drunk," Steve said. "I’m like, respectably tipsy. Like an adult after a hard day of social justice work. I’m an…adult.”
Steve looked down at himself. He was wearing She-Ra slippers and the sweatpants that had a small hole in the crotch. He was holding a Shirley Temple with two shots of vodka in it, and a phone that still plainly displayed the artistically shot nude he always sent to signal a booty call with whoever he had sex with last. An artistically shot nude that he had sent, instead, to the one hot guy on his whole canvassing list that had invited him in and given him a glass of water and asked him intelligent questions while he’d signed the petition.
Fuck.
+ Modern AU. Steve is appropriately apologetic, Bucky really doesn’t mind
When a barbershop quartet joined in song each time they met, you would hear them harmonize “Sweet Adeline.” Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
“oh, you can feel how they love you” (T, 2k) by jehans
Steve keeps repeating it, over and over, like a mantra. Everyone’s alive. No casualties. They are. No civilian actually died. They managed to save them all.
But, Christ.
It was close. It was so fucking close.
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After a harrowing mission, Steve, Bucky, Sam, and Nat come home.
+ Post WS. Post-mission aftercare. Showering, eating, puppy piles and all the softness
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“habitation infiltration” (G, 1k) by galwednesday, silentwalrus, and skellerbvvt
Conning your way into cohabitation: a primer and how-to guide by S.G. Rogers
+ Post WS. How to get all your friends to move in without knowing it.
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“Kelly, the Well-Meaning and Very Confused Barista” (T, 6k) by chaya
An outside observer confuses the 'barbershop quartet' as one woman with a really bad habit for cheating. Complete fluff.
+ Post WS. Outsider POV; she doesn’t really know what’s going on, but she’s rooting for them anyway.
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“merry crisis” (G, 1k) by galwednesday and silentwalrus
Captain America, the Winter Soldier, the Black Widow and the Falcon walk into - look, it really should have been a bar.
+ Post WS. The four of them attend a fundraising dinner and get served very fancy food in very tiny plates.
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french mistakes (G, 1k) by silentwalrus and skellerbvvt
The barbershop quartet sees the Eiffel Tower. Sorta.
+ Post WS. More slice of life by these wonderful authors. Evading deportation, making action figures, and taking wrong suitcases.
when I was little it happened a lot but nowadays... I don't know. I actually usually get really cold and mean. You don't want to see me mad. Trust me.
33: What do people call you?
"oh no! it's that girl again". No, but really, I don't actually have a nickname? Laura is too short as it is.
58: Have you ever slapped someone in the face?
only once. I slapped a classmate in the face. I don't even remember why? We were in 5th grade, though, and she was really annoying. But I feel kind of bad for her. I mean, being slapped in the face can't be nice.
who is your favorite christine in phantom? favorite phantom?
you are the best.
but ha. tw: unpopular opinionmy favourite Christine is Rebecca Caine, hands down [followed by Anna and a few others]. Which I guess isn't the most popular opinion ever but is still pretty acceptable, right? I mean, her cadenza is the most beautiful thing ever and it always makes me cry and her acting is amazing and she's stunning and andanyway, yes.nowthe ~real~ unpopular opinionmy favourite phantom is and always will be Colm Wlkinson. I can see why people dislike his phantom but I simply adore his voice and his movements and everything. Oh, Davis Gaines is up there with him, too, with his liquid-gold-like voice and everything. But yes. Colm.
