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    That's when I miss you, that's when I want you
    That's when, when I see your face
    That's when I love you, that's when

     

    “This is Clint Barton, he’s Hawkeye,” Steve introduced.

    Bucky frowned at the man before him, something in his head nagging him that he looked familiar. Clint reached his hand toward Bucky, palm out and facing up.

    “I love you.” A flash of blue eyes and blonde hair…but younger.

    “Who are you?” Bucky asked quietly.

    “I’m Clint,” he answered. “Honestly, when you were gone did you ever think of me?”

    Bucky’s frown deepened. “Do I know you?”

    “I’m going to buy this place one day. Fix it up." Another flash of golden hair, haloed by the sunset while his feet dangled over the water. "I’m telling you I’m gonna marry you someday."
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    Clint continued on but he never forgot that summer he fell in love with the assassin who almost killed him.

    Now he’s standing in the kitchen at Avengers Tower where Steve Rogers is introducing him to Bucky Barnes, who looks exactly the same even decades later. The problem is that Bucky doesn’t remember Clint.

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    12 Sep 2025

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    It’s not a whisper, not exactly. It’s just… matter-of-fact. Like saying it out loud isn’t the hard part. Like waiting for a reaction is.
    The words drop between them, sudden and small, but precise.
    Eddie blinks, caught mid-step.
    “What?”
    Buck searches his face. Something subtle shifts behind his eyes. “Wait… you didn’t know?”
    There’s no accusation in it. Just confusion. Like it never occurred to him that Eddie wouldn’t know.
    Eddie stares, his brain a beat behind his body. “No, I—I didn’t.”

     

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    Buck is trans and out. So out, that most people don't think about it anymore. So when Eddie joins the 118, no one mentions it. The question is, how long will it be, until Eddie finds out?

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    18 Aug 2025

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    Geralt was never supposed to survive the Trials. A submissive witcher was an abomination, an insult to the order of the world. He can never let anyone know his nature, can never accept a gentle touch or a kind word. It's too risky, too dangerous. He might slip up and that would mean the end of everything.

    But Jaskier refuses to keep to the script. After the boisterous (alluring), overly invasive (affectionate), and stupidly persistent (brave) Dominant walks into his life with bread in his pants, Geralt starts to think that maybe he could break this endless cycle of deprivation and pain. If only he could figure out how to deserve it.

    (This is a low, slow exploration of trauma, recovery, and learning to live with oneself. BDSM is the lens through which all that is explored, but this is not a story based around sexual encounters. Rather, it is one about intimacy, communication, agency, familial bonds, and seeing people as they are.)

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    02 Mar 2025

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    "Uh," says Clint. "So, you said you don't want to be involved with incubus stuff and I've been trying super hard to respect that, I swear it was an accident. I didn't realize you were having a moment there."

    "What?" Bucky puts down his e-reader. "Isn't the incubus stuff about having sex?"

    "It's physical contact plus arousal," Clint explains. "Sorry, I keep thinking Steve has gone over this with you. Giving someone an orgasm is the best way for me to get a good solid hit, but I can charge up more slowly just by touching people when they're turned on. So yeah, really sorry about that, I'll try not to let it happen again. I should leave you to, um... whatever you're doing." He backs away toward the elevator.

    Bucky swallows and says, "Wait."

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    23 Dec 2024

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    May realised a very long time ago that Buck was basically her stepbrother. So, when the lightning strike finally provided the impetus for Bobby to admit that he also brought a kid into their family, she had every intention of seizing the opportunity to properly integrate Buck into the Grant-Nash family.

    And, look, if in the process she also gains a brother-in-law… clearly the universe was just waiting for the opportunity to make that happen.

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    Or, the one where May ensures Buck is enfolded properly into the Grant-Nash clan, which means Bobby (and by extension the firefam, because gossip) suddenly gets significantly more insight into the inner workings of the Buckley-Diaz family, and all roads lead to Buddie…

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    23 Jun 2024