It's that time of year where Halloween is right around the corner and the holidays are fast approaching. With that in mind, it also means that it's time to sign up for Marvel Rare Pairs Secret Santa Event 2025. While we welcome any and all fans to join us for this Marvel Rare Pairs related event, we're making it exclusive to members of our Discord group simply because last year when we opened it up to those not on the discord it was a bit challenging to keep in touch with everyone for the mandatory check-ins and making sure that if pitch hitters have to be brought in that we can contact all the participants much much easier.
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Sign up start date: October 1, 2025
Sign up end date: October 19, 2025.
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Reveal Tuesday, December 31, 2025.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Avengers (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, X-Men (Comicverse)
Relationship: John Allerdyce/Bobby Drake
Characters: John Allerdyce, Bobby Drake
Additional Tags: Blind Date, Dating, Online Dating, Gay Bobby Drake, Bobby Drake Needs a Hug, John Allerdyce is a good guy, Past rivals, Diners, Autumn, Rain, Kissing, Kissing in the Rain, First Kiss, Gossip, Catching Up, First Dates, Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Banter, Sweet, Cute, Cute Ending, Silly Dating Profile Names, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, moodboard
Language: English
Collections: Marvel Rare Pair Bingo Round 4
Published: 2024-08-24
Words: 6,151
Chapters: 1/1
Summary:
Now a member of both the X-Men and the Avengers, Bobby Drake finds himself on a blind date with someone he met through Stark Industries' new dating app. After being unlucky in love for so long, he doesn't expect it to go well at all and even contemplates sneaking out of the diner before the guy can get there. Only he hesitates long enough that his date shows up, and it is the last person in the world he ever would've expected.
Written for @marvelrarepairbingo Round 4.
G2: Blind Date Turns Out to Be an Old Rival
I4: Trying a New Dating App for the First Time
Here's my first drawing for the @marvelrarepairbingo 😊💕
A1 - College AU - SpiderHawk / A2 - Flower Meaning : Myrtle (Mariage) / A3 - Mid-Flight Love Confession / A4 - Day At The Beach / A5 - Omegaverse // B1 - Blind Date - Scogean / B2 - Cooking Together - SpideyPool / B3 - Ballet AU / B4 - Feeling Weak In The Knees - IronStrange / B5 - Love Gifts // C1 - Hogging The Blankets / C2 - "I made this for you" / C3 - Free Space / C4 - Insomnia/Sleepwalking - SpideyPool / C5 - Tattoo Parlor - ThunderHulk // D1 - Sharing A Bed For Comfort - BlackHawk / D2 - Noir AU - Wolveroenix / D3 - Spell Gone Wrong / D4 - Wearing Partner's Clothes - Shield Husbands / D5 - Broken Bones // E1 - Caring For Sick Crush - Science Husbands / E2 - Miscommunication / E3 - Break-Up/Make-Up / E5 - Mutal Pining
'Protège-moi, Protège-moi de mes désirs' - Rogan - 31.07.2025
I decided to go with Rock Star Rogue with Bodyguard Wolverine after rewatching the first Bryan Singer movie recently x) This is my first time drawing them 🧡
The song lyrics are from the French version of Protect Me From What I Want by Placebo :3
Done using ink pens, alcohol markers, colored pencils, gel pens, graphite pencils, acrylic paint pens and Photoshop for the background, jewelry, lace motif and the prompt title
AO3 post / Bluesky post / DeviantArt post / Instagram post / Pillowfort post / Twitter post
Done using ink pens, alcohol markers, colored pencils, gel pens, graphite pencils, acrylic paint pens and Photoshop for the background, jewelry and lace motif
AO3 post / Bluesky post / DeviantArt post / Instagram post / Pillowfort post / Twitter post
Additional tags: My entry for @steverogersbingo Steve Rogers Bingo Round 4 (Card SB4004), @stuckybingo Stucky Bingo Round 6 (Card SB6065) & @marvelrarepairbingo Marvel Rare Pair Bingo Round 4 (Card MRP-066).
Links: Wattpad, Ao3, Spanish version.
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The icy December wind seeped through the poorly sealed cracks in the apartment building where Steve lived, and the windows rattled with every tram that rumbled down the street. Outside, the yellowish streetlights flickered through the fog and drizzle, and people hurried along under their hats and worn coats.
Inside 6C, a small, austere apartment, three young people fought against the winter with the help of an old cast-iron stove that crackled, throwing off small flashes of light and a noisy but insufficient heat. The room was permeated with the aroma of burnt bread and hot soup; the floor was covered with newspapers used to try to insulate against the cold that seemed to seep in from all sides.
Steve sat in a rickety chair, wrapped in a gray blanket that barely protected him from the cold that penetrated his bones. His skin was warm to the touch, his cheeks were red, and his eyes, though tired and sunken, shone with a mixture of frustration, determination, and a hint of melancholy.
To his right, on the floor, Bucky wore a woollen hat that covered his ears and a worn military coat while holding a can of soup that he stirred with a rusty fork, his eyes watching Steve's every move with contained concern.
On the other side, with his usual carefully combed-back hair and round glasses that constantly slid down the bridge of his nose, was Arnie.
“Bronchitis again, Steve?” Arnie asked in a whisper, as if he didn't want Steve's coughing to be interrupted by a reprimand.
Steve sighed and coughed hard, the dry sound filling the small space. Finally, he cleared his throat and replied.
“I'm not that bad.”
Bucky let out a choked laugh and exhaled a cold breath that vanished into the air, then said jokingly,.
“Steve, you coughed so much last night, I thought you were going to lose a lung, and I'd have to catch it in midair."
Steve grimaced as he took the cup of hot soup Arnie had handed him. The liquid burned his tongue, but that didn't matter.
“Maybe this qualifies me for the army,“ he muttered. ‘If I'm missing a lung, they don't have to worry about my asthma.’
Arnie and Bucky exchanged concerned glances.
”Maybe the army isn't for everyone,” Arnie said. ”You can help in other ways. Your drawings, for example. Illustrations, propaganda posters...”
Steve frowned, feeling that this was like taking away his chance to do something really great.
“I don't want to be part of the war from a desk,” he replied firmly.
“And I don't want you to get killed on your second day,” Bucky interjected. Silence filled the room again, broken only by the pounding rain and the creaking of the cold wooden floor. The wind howled outside, rattling the old windows.
“I don't want to be left behind,” Steve whispered, staring at the steam rising from his cup. “I want to be like you guys.”
Bucky snorted with a mixture of irony and sadness.
“Us? Steve, we live in Brooklyn; we barely eat three decent meals a week. There's no glory here, just survival.“
Arnie looked down, uncertainty weighing on his voice.
”My uncle in Berlin isn't answering my letters anymore,” he said quietly. ”My cousins are disappearing. The whole neighborhood is disappearing.”
“I don't want to die,“ he confessed, his voice breaking. ‘I just want to fight for what's right.’
Arnie put a hand on his shoulder with a gesture full of understanding.
”Then fight with us, here. Day by day. You're already braver than many soldiers. You just... don't see it.”
The rain intensified, pounding against the window, and the yellowish light from the street illuminated the room with fleeting flashes. The stove now seemed smaller in the face of the immensity of winter.
Bucky got up and went to the kitchen. He returned with a piece of stale bread and an almost empty jar of jam, which he placed in the center of the circle they had formed.
“There's a war here too, you know? Surviving in this neighborhood, sharing what little we have“.
Steve took a piece of bread and broke it to share with Arnie.
”One battle at a time,” he said with a weary smile.
Arnie nodded, and Bucky let out a low laugh, almost a sigh of relief.
“Just promise me that if you ever join the army and see something really stupid... don't run straight into it,“ Bucky said with a crooked smile.
Steve looked at him defiantly, a spark of humor despite everything.
”I'm not promising anything."
Steve covered himself with the blanket again, his fever burning his cheeks, and his body feeling heavy.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Heart Eyes Over Coffee
by rebelmeg
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sarah Wilson
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Sarah Wilson (Marvel), Ned Leeds, Shuri (Marvel), Harley Keener, Peter Parker
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Protective Bucky Barnes, Dad Mode Bucky Barnes, MCU teens ganging up on their work dad, Awesome Sarah Wilson (Marvel), Bucky blushes a lot, Flirting, First Meetings, Mentioned Sam Wilson, the teens are all entities of sass, mentioned Harley/Shuri, Nicknames, Bucky will personally throw all mean or disrespectful customers out the window
Summary:
Papa Bear Bucky (wow, does he hate that nickname) falls in love at first sight, while his work kids ogle and make helpful commentary. "Helpful" being extremely subjective...
Notes: *Knocking out squares and prompts like a prize fighter* Warm & Fluffy bingo square N1 – Coffeeshop AU, @marvelrarepairbingo square O2 – unexpected love, @buckybarnesbingo square C1 – nicknames, @comfortember Day 16 – Coffee/Tea Break, and @fleurdelouve SarahBucky Month, Day 14 – Coffee Shop/Bakery AU!
RATING: Teen
WARNING: Ineundo's, Harley Keener is Harley Stark, Tony Stark is Harley Keener's Dad, Hanging on the side of a roof
They are both smiling, happy to just be and sit. “You would soak up the sun like a cat, and you could watch me surf down at the beach while you try to focus on the book you’re reading,” Harley tells Peter, coming up with all the reasons Peter would love Malibu. If they weren’t sitting on the edge of a building Peter would have hit Harley for the surfing comment, but they are and so he doesn’t. | Peter Parker/Harley Keener
fluffuly 🌝 2023 | rpb 📪 round 2
“You would love Malibu,” Harley sighs into Peter’s shoulder, legs dangling off of the top of their apartment building in Boston. It is sunny out for once and despite living in the penthouse, thanks to his dad’s expense, Harley can’t help but want to always feel higher, luckily Peter shares the same sentiment.
Peter lays back in the sun, basking in the warm glaze it gives on a Friday afternoon, the semester almost over with only two more exams to go between them. Harley’s final is in Unified Engineering: Thermodynamics and Propulsion, a bore of a class to be in when your whole life you’ve been working out the aerodynamics of a potato gun and Peter’s is in Just Code: The Ethical Lifecycle of Machine Learning, the last subject in his political science major before being able to focus solely on his chemical engineering course.
They are both smiling, happy to just be and sit. “You would soak up the sun like a cat, and you could watch me surf down at the beach while you try to focus on the book you’re reading,” Harley tells Peter, coming up with the best and snarkiest reasons he can think of for why his boyfriend would love Malibu.
If they weren’t sitting on the edge of a building Peter would have hit Harley for the surfing comment, but they are and so he doesn’t. He does have to admit that Harley often makes it hard for him to concentrate on things, but Harley is his boyfriend if Peter wishes to watch and preen he has all the right to.
The will set soon and so Harkye just keeps rattling off reasons before it does, “And you would love dad’s lab, and I have my own small section but I was too young when we lived there permanently to have my own like in New York.” He smiles thinking of both homes, the move to New York, meeting Peter because of the move, and all the other great things New York has offered, “there’s the boardwalk we could go to and ride all the rides, go shopping, just enjoy each others company in a king size bed.” For that Peter does really hit Harley, once he knows it is safe, and Halrey is prepared for it.
Moving further into the roof so they aren’t as dangerously dangling off from it Peter sighs, “Too bad we are stuck here for summer break,” he shrugs off the possibility of going to Malibu rather happy just to soak up the small amount of sun Boston will give them this summer. They should really be focusing on the upcoming exams they have but Peter just couldn’t resist the slither of sun.
“We don’t have to,” Harley takes Peter’s hand maneuvering him to fit into his lap, leaning back onto his chest, “I’m sure Dad wouldn’t mind us crashing, he, Steve and Morgan are all staying at the lakehouse permanently, nobody uses it but I know it’s clean and available.” Harley had already asked his dad about the possibility and while Tony was suspicious Steve thought it was a great idea, letting it slip that it is always prepared for visitors.
Peter smiles at the idea, that it actually might be feasible before he comes back to the reality of Peter Parker, not Harley Stark. Frowning thinking about the bill and the cost, Peter shakes his head in Harley’s chest “There is no way I can afford the flights Harls.” He sighs not moving to face Harley, because he really feels quite bad about ruining the fun of the summer and all the imaginary plans created in their heads.
Harley just laughs, holding on to Peter and kissing his cheek, “But I do, I mean well, Dad does and I know he would love to spend it on you, I would love to spend it on you.” They really care about each other and Harley appreciates Peter’s absence of using Stark money, but Harley doesn’t care, not when it comes to Peter.
“It is all worth it if it makes you smile,” Harley says, turning Peter to face him once again, leaning, matching their foreheads together, “I love you,” he finishes.
And Peter just smiles thinking of all the possibilities, the life ahead of them, the world for them to conquer as they sit up on the highest building, above everyone and everything. They love each other and the summer sun will be nice and they can watch the sunset and sunrises, bright and beautiful, sunshine. Harley makes Peter happy, and he’s in love.
Wrote this for @flufftober day 15 — Emergency, Confession, Adventure and @fictober-event day 15 — “Fine, explain it to me.”.
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Pairing: Natasha Romanov/Sam Wilson
Tags: Canon Divergence - CA:TWS, Domestic, Mild Blood, Developing Relationship, Intimacy, Idiots in Love, POV Sam Wilson
Summary: Sam’s having a chill night on the first cold one of Autumn when Camp Lehigh fell onto pieces over Steve and Natasha —literally.
Wordcount: 3,2 k
Also created for: @halloweenhorrorbingo — Party at a Friend’s House / @marvelrarepairbingo — image prompt: Sam Wilson with the shield / @blackwidowbingo — Saving Someone Who Didn’t Want to be Saved / @multifandom-flash — [round 1] — “He just kicked your ass, full-size. You really want to find out what it’s like when you can’t see him coming?” + [round 2] — “I’m not sure you understand the concept of a getaway car.”, Doom Magnet, Sleep Cute + Taboo bingo — Culture: Public Displays of Affection / @slumberpartybingo — Truth: Have you ever ghosted anyone?, Truth: Have you ever ghosted anyone? + fall flash — Autumn Aesthetics: Cold, crisp nights / @spies-bingo — Mutual Pining / @lyricalescape — “When the fire’s at my feet again.”
Excerpt:
“Spill it out, Sam,” Natasha suggested. “I know you want to say something.”
Sam stopped working and backed off, finding Natasha’s fond look locked on him. [...] “You haven’t replied to my texts. Well, you know that much, but I thought you were ghosting me. And now you are—”
“Bleeding on your kitchen table?” she stopped him, looking at some drops that had just fallen onto the counter.
“Oh shoot!” Sam quickly picked up a cloth he used to swap off the liquid from the surface while with the other one he pressed a gauze to Natasha’s forehead, aiming to stop the bleeding.
“I’m sorry,” she said, taking his hand to guide him in the right direction on her wound while Sam focused on the mess of his table.
“Don’t worry. It’s nothing some chemicals can’t fix, I’ll take care of it tomorrow,” Sam decided. “And since you brought up the elephant in the room and I’ve already shared the issue, it’s fine. Explain it to me only if you want.”
Natasha fell in silence until Sam was back on his seat and the wound gave them a break. “My boss was killed at the beginning of the week,” she explained.
Although the astute observer may note that this art only has one character in it, it was in fact made for the Marvel Rare Pair Bingo. The concept is that this is in the Gifted universe, in an AU from mid-season 2.
Lorna has followed fully in her father's footsteps - a path where Marcos can't join her. But she still shines for him. Every night he watches the sky in hopes of seeing the shining light of his North Star.
