TheMaraD

Here for fandom friends, not to follow content creators Elder millennial, writer, dinosaur obsession, ADHD, she/her, proud enabler Asks are open, Requests are closed, GMT, Founding member of TBGT @parchaeopteryx & @themarad on AO3 Sam Wilson, Peter Quill, Jurassic Park blog Heteroflexible This blog is a safe place

[themaradwrites]

Masterlist

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Fics listed are provided in the format: Fic Name with AO3 link (blog tag search) No 18+ fics are directly linked, please see the 18+ masterlist.

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Beta Reader: Not Available Requests: Closed Ask Box: Open! Anons: Off temporarily due to an influx of spam asks

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Jurassic World:

Owen Grady: Bad Date Saviour (Owen Grady x Reader) Murphy And His Law Can Go To Hell (Owen Grady x OC) I'm Fine (Owen Grady x Reader) Slowly (Owen Grady x OC, Claire Dearing x OC Soulmates AU) Emulsion (Owen Grady x OC, Claire Dearing x OC) COMING SOON The Law of the Jungle (Owen Grady x OC, OC x OC) COMING SOON

Jurassic World: Rebirth:

Redemption (Duncan Kincaid x OC) Evolution Series: 1. Regressive Evolution (Duncan Kincaid x OC) COMING SOON 2. Convergent Evolution (Reuben Delgado x OC) COMING SOON

Jurassic Park:

Idiot With A PhD (Alan Grant x Reader) Ferris Wheels & Strange Attractors (Ian Malcolm x Reader)

Sam Wilson:

Baby, It's Cold Outside (Sam Wilson x Reader) Learn to Fly (Sam Wilson x OC) Red String Theory (Sam Wilson x OC) Red Strings Universe Masterlist Colour Your Soul (Sam Wilson x Reader) Andie Knight: Cute Girl At The Front Desk (Sam Wilson x OC) Lovetacular (Sam Wilson x OC) 18+ Explicit fics: Worth the Wait (Sam Wilson x OC) 5 Times Andie Knight Pined For Sam Wilson + 1 TIme.... (Sam Wilson x OC)

Peter Quill:

Guardians of the Galaxy: Key Change (Peter Quill x OC) Guardians of the Galaxy: Remix (Peter Quill x OC) Just Shut Up And Kiss Me, Quill (Peter Quill x Reader) Call Me Pretty (In A Manly Sorta Way) (Peter Quill x OC) Merry Christmas, Star Boy (Peter Quill x OC)

Pietro Maximoff:

5 Times Pietro Maximoff Got Under Your Skin & 1 Time You Didn't Mind (Pietro Maximoff x Reader)

Note: Key Change and Learn to Fly are part of @mara-vel-cece-matic-universe

AO3 - parchaeopteryx, themarad Quotev - parchaeopteryx

If there's a work you'd like me to resume/finish/repost, please shoot me a DM! I promise, I'm nice - I'm Canadian, it's in our DNA :) And a DM about a fic you enjoyed might just boost my spirits and give my little brain goblin the energy it needs to continue! Even if it's a sequel fic!

Anon drama - I'm not replying to anon drama. Block and report. That's it. I've lost friendships over this by being dragged into it while I was asleep with no chance to address it. Now it's zero tolerance. I left high school too long ago for this.

I will absolutely reblog all fic updates and ask games as best I can (sometimes my ADHD will see a notif, think "I'll do that later!" then forget). And I will always send asks up and down the line - people I reblog from, people who reblog mine. As long as it's not frequently and repeatedly one-sided.

If you post a smut fic, I'm happy to reblog it, but please use the content label. We posted a How-To on OCX if you're unsure how to use the labels. I won't reblog anything that doesn't have a content label on it. This is a personal preference for the comfort of people who follow me and people who might run into my posts, it's not a slight against anyone.

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Old Masterlist

[marveldrabblechallenge]

Welcome to the Marvel Drabble Challenge!

NOTE:

For the purposes of this challenge, we are taking "drabble" literally - your entries must be exactly 100 words.

JUNE'S THEMES:

June 1st to 7th: New Teammates Tell us about how the team handles a new member, whether your team be the X-Men, Agents of SHIELD, Avengers, Thunderbolts*, Guardians of the Galaxy, Dora Milaje, or any others!

June 8th to 14th: Relaxing How does your favourite character relax? How do your OCs or Reader relax? This could be a picnic by the river, a day out on the lake, a day of shopping, reading, movies, etc.

June 15th to 21st: Firsts This can be the first time your character does karaoke, the first time they go swimming, the first mission with the Avengers, the first day of school - whatever you like, as long as it's a first for your character and it fits in the rules above.

June 21st to 30th: AUs Coffeeshop AUs, Soulmates AUs, College AUs, Vampire AUs - give us 100 words of an AU for your character(s).

There are badges for those who participate and those who complete the challenge.

DATES:

The first challenge begins 1st June 2026.

The last day to submit your challenges or masterlists will be 10th July 2026.

RULES:

Sign up on the attached form

Must follow the blog & tag us when you post or in your masterlists

When you complete the challenge, please tag us in your masterlist

Must interact with other people's drabbles, be it reblogs and/or comments

We're here for the community, not the drama. If you don't have something nice to say, keep it to yourself. Conversely, when we receive comments for the drabble challenge, let's assume positive intent :)

Along the same lines, be respectful to your fellow creators and commenters.

No NSFW fics with minors. No bestiality. No minor/adult romantic relationships.

Donation requests are prohibited in posts and asks. We cannot validate the legitimacy of every request.

No links to ko-fi, patreon, or anywhere you may be trying to profit off fanfiction. It isn't legal to do so, and we don't want to be caught in that fight.

Ensure all fics are correctly labelled and tagged. Any fics that don't put a content label on NSFW content or any fics that are incorrectly tagged will not be reblogged or added to any current or future collections.

We encourage OC and Reader fic on this blog! In fact, we love it! But please ensure that you're not cross tagging the two as it may risk alienating potential readers looking for one or the other. Also, please ensure to include Marvel in any OC or Reader fics in some way - that is the overall theme of the challenge :)

You must complete as many drabbles as there are days in the month, but you do not have to complete one every day. As long as you have the correct total by the end of the challenge, that's fine!

If you sign up but don't manage to complete the challenge, tag us anyway! We'll have a list of fics of participants that we'll be happy to add you to!

OTHER STUFF:

This will be the first iteration of the Drabble Challenge - there will be a second in November (the most popular option in the poll!).

Hopefully this will let us iron out any kinks in the process.

You can combine your entries with other events so long as they permit it.

Our sister pages @marvel-oc-hub (June Pride Event) and @sam-a-palooza (Spring Shipping Weeks) both permit you to combine events.

If you run another page that permits combining events, please drop it in the reblogs or comments and we'll compile a list here!

[sam-a-palooza]

Spring Shipping Weeks 2026 Masterlist

Sam/OC:

Sam/Reader: Wearied Bones by @indigo-jungle - Prompt: 1. Flowers

Sam/Nat: Bombshell by @marasfanfics - Prompt: 11. "Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead." (Lucille Ball quote)

Sam/Riley:

[stellar-solar-flare]

Expansion | Bucky Barnes x fem!wife!Reader

Bucky meets his newborn daughter for the first time. 100 words.

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence | Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies | Established Relationship | Married Couple | Pregnancy | Newborn Children | Domestic Fluff | Tooth-Rotting Fluff | Romance | No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert | Female Reader-Insert | girl dad Bucky Barnes | Reader-Insert Is Implied To Have Given Birth | Drabble

WARNINGS: Pregnancy, mentioned childhbirth.

A/N: I took part in the May 2026 edition of @writer-in-a-cryofreeze challenge. Now that I have been 'frozen', I shall publish this under my account and wish the best of luck for those continuing the competition to be the last author standing!

I hope you enjoy, and as always, your comments are most welcome!

Alternate Universe: The Avengers Initiative (AVIN) continued SHIELD's work after its collapse to corruption. The Avengers are living together in the Compound - Bucky has healed, and Civil War never happened because Tony and Steve worked through their differences like adults.

I do not own anything Marvel-related. This is an unofficial fan work. No copyright infringement intended. This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.

MY AO3 | MY TUMBLR MASTERLIST | ASK ME

Bucky Barnes hadn’t imagined he could possibly hold more love than when saying ‘I do.’

And yet.

His very heart was now growing, taking up the entirety of his chest to accommodate the newfound love roaring within him.

You, exhausted and sweaty and radiant and the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, gently rocking the bundle on your arms as if you’d been doing it for lifetimes and not minutes.

The tiny little coos of his daughter as he leaned in to brush her cheek with his finger.

His eyes. She had his eyes.

“Hi, little princess. Dad here.”

[themaradwrites]

Stella! What an adorable entry to the challenge! Well done :)

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

[themaradwrites]

Duck Duck Go can turn off all AI features via settings - the three lines at the top corner of the site.

[sam-a-palooza]

SPRING SHIPPING WEEKS 2026

Welcome to Spring Shipping Weeks 2026!

May 1st to June 20th 2026

Your Featured Ships:

SamNat

SamOC (any gender)

SamReader (any gender)

SamRiley

How it works:

Spring Shipping Weeks will have a list of things to inspire you to create.

All submissions must follow the rules on the pinned post.

You can submit whatever you're inspired to create, so long as it fits the prompts, the rules, and features Sam!

What we accept:

Short fic, long fic, oneshots, drabbles, multi-chapter epics, any fic length and style you can think of!

Poems

Art

Edits or moodboards

Aesthetics

Anything you create without AI that fits the vibes of the prompts!

While there are 30 prompts you don't have to use them all, nor do you have to use them on a specific day or for a specific pairing.

Pick what you like or combine them, and have fun!

The last day to submit for Spring Shipping Weeks is 22nd June 2026. After that, we'll be doing a Pride event to wrap up June.

THE PROMPTS:

Flowers

Eye contact in a crowded room

“It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.” (Ella Fitzgerald quote)

Come Rain or Come Shine by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer (Version linked is the Billie Holiday version)

"The storm's clearing up."

Garden Party

Forehead kisses

Soulmates

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Cherry Bomb by The Runaways

"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead." (Lucille Ball quote)

Mardis Gras

Home cooking

"I didn't know you could cook like this!"

Dancing in the rain

Poetry in motion

Everybody Needs Love by Marvin Gaye

"Come here."

A cherished photo kept on them at all times

"Don't look at me like...."

Saying "I love you" without words

One bed

A soft look when they think nobody's watching

A stolen moment

"What are we doing?"

Sick fic

"I didn't mean to wake you."

Meet the family

"I don't even want to know what happened."

Spring wedding

[catchymemes]

[marvel-oc-hub]

This year we're doing things a little differently.

Rather than daily prompts, we're doing weekly themes, plus two free days at the end of June.

Rules:

All community rules in the pinned post apply.

All submissions must include a Reader or OC.

Submit whatever sings to you during the week, as long as it fits the theme. Examples include: Graphics Moodboards Art Oneshots Long fic Edits

All colours of the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum are welcome!

Make sure to tag @marvel-oc-hub with your submissions so we can reblog them and gather them into the Pride 2026 Masterlist.

Tag your fic with the respective theme (or themes, if you choose to use more than one!) or include it in the fic description.

Have fun!

The last day to submit your entry for this event and have it added to the collection will be 15th July - we're giving you all a little extra time this year!

The Themes:

June 1st to 7th: Coming Out Show us a coming out story featuring your OC/Reader either as the centre of the story or an ally.

June 8th to 14th: Expand the Rainbow Show us relationships that live in little-explored areas of the colour spectrum! For example: demiromantic, homoflexible, omnisexual, etc.

June 15th to 21st: Queerplatonic Show us your OC/Reader's most important Marvel queerplatonic relationship(s). If the fic is NSFW, please ensure you use all appropriate tags/labels.

June 22nd to 28th: Ceremonies Show us any form of binding/wedding/commitment ceremony or celebration for your OC/Reader!

June 29th & 30th: Free Space Show us what love means to you, these days are free space for you to let your creativity shine!

[probablysomethingtm]

Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

[probablysomethingtm]

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

[probablysomethingtm]

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

[probablysomethingtm]

[marvel-oc-hub]

This year we're doing things a little differently.

Rather than daily prompts, we're doing weekly themes, plus two free days at the end of June.

Rules:

All community rules in the pinned post apply.

All submissions must include a Reader or OC.

Submit whatever sings to you during the week, as long as it fits the theme. Examples include: Graphics Moodboards Art Oneshots Long fic Edits

All colours of the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum are welcome!

Make sure to tag @marvel-oc-hub with your submissions so we can reblog them and gather them into the Pride 2026 Masterlist.

Tag your fic with the respective theme (or themes, if you choose to use more than one!) or include it in the fic description.

Have fun!

The last day to submit your entry for this event and have it added to the collection will be 15th July - we're giving you all a little extra time this year!

The Themes:

June 1st to 7th: Coming Out Show us a coming out story featuring your OC/Reader either as the centre of the story or an ally.

June 8th to 14th: Expand the Rainbow Show us relationships that live in little-explored areas of the colour spectrum! For example: demiromantic, homoflexible, omnisexual, etc.

June 15th to 21st: Queerplatonic Show us your OC/Reader's most important Marvel queerplatonic relationship(s). If the fic is NSFW, please ensure you use all appropriate tags/labels.

June 22nd to 28th: Ceremonies Show us any form of binding/wedding/commitment ceremony or celebration for your OC/Reader!

June 29th & 30th: Free Space Show us what love means to you, these days are free space for you to let your creativity shine!

[sam-a-palooza]

SPRING SHIPPING WEEKS 2026

Welcome to Spring Shipping Weeks 2026!

May 1st to June 20th 2026

Your Featured Ships:

SamNat

SamOC (any gender)

SamReader (any gender)

SamRiley

How it works:

Spring Shipping Weeks will have a list of things to inspire you to create.

All submissions must follow the rules on the pinned post.

You can submit whatever you're inspired to create, so long as it fits the prompts, the rules, and features Sam!

What we accept:

Short fic, long fic, oneshots, drabbles, multi-chapter epics, any fic length and style you can think of!

Poems

Art

Edits or moodboards

Aesthetics

Anything you create without AI that fits the vibes of the prompts!

While there are 30 prompts you don't have to use them all, nor do you have to use them on a specific day or for a specific pairing.

Pick what you like or combine them, and have fun!

The last day to submit for Spring Shipping Weeks is 22nd June 2026. After that, we'll be doing a Pride event to wrap up June.

THE PROMPTS:

Flowers

Eye contact in a crowded room

“It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.” (Ella Fitzgerald quote)

Come Rain or Come Shine by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer (Version linked is the Billie Holiday version)

"The storm's clearing up."

Garden Party

Forehead kisses

Soulmates

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Cherry Bomb by The Runaways

"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead." (Lucille Ball quote)

Mardis Gras

Home cooking

"I didn't know you could cook like this!"

Dancing in the rain

Poetry in motion

Everybody Needs Love by Marvin Gaye

"Come here."

A cherished photo kept on them at all times

"Don't look at me like...."

Saying "I love you" without words

One bed

A soft look when they think nobody's watching

A stolen moment

"What are we doing?"

Sick fic

"I didn't mean to wake you."

Meet the family

"I don't even want to know what happened."

Spring wedding

[marvel-oc-hub]

Marvel OC Hub's Discord server is now officially retired and you can join us on our Stoat server instead!

Please see our pinned post for the invite or click below the stoat, and we look forward to seeing you over there.

[themaradwrites]

This means I'll be moving fully over to Stoat shortly. I intend to be fully off Discord by end of the month :)

Come find me on Stoat!

[themaradwrites]

Just a note: I'll be clearing out the last remnants of my existence on Discord in the coming weeks, starting with the Marvel OC Hub Discord. By the end of May, I'll be fully off Discord.

Please come find me on Stoat! :) It's very close to Discord, but it's not implementing global age verification via vendors like k-ID (who've already had a data breach of government IDs and facial scans).

Feel free to ping me if you want an invite to Marvel OC Hub on Stoat or just to chat over there :)

[thefakebernadettebanner]

Happy 20th anniversary to They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard specifically

[themaradwrites]

[changes]

An update for users in Brazil and the United Kingdom

To continue our commitment to user safety and to comply with local laws, we will start using age groups to determine access to certain experiences.

People in Brazil or in the UK, who are 18 or older, will soon need to verify their age to change content label settings and view mature-labeled content. Until then, the settings will be locked to hide.

As a reminder, verification is handled by our age-assurance partner, k-ID. Tumblr won't have access to the information you submit, just the final age-verification result. Documents are deleted after confirmation, and facial scan data never leaves your device. 

Questions? Contact Tumblr support or learn more about these changes here.

[themaradwrites]

k-ID...as in this k-ID?

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says

The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

[kalatannya]

"Age in bio or i'll kill you"

You better pay close attention to the first one, and read it very carefully. I will quiz you on it later.

[themaradwrites]

I'd like to remind everyone how damn easy it is for someone to get personal information.

"Reblog if you're a July baby!"

"Take this quiz and share the top song from your birth year!"

"What day of the month were you born on?"

Congratulations, I now have your birthday.

Someone doesn't need much more than that, if even, to do some serious shit as Rachel Tobac demonstrates.

Yes, it's that fucking easy.