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"’Tis ordained, thou shall discard vulgarity" by slow_dance
Fandoms: MILGRAM (Music Videos)
29 Jan 2024
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Amane doesn't understand why Shidou and Mahiru won't leave her alone about the pancakes. She's already refused them twice, and she isn't going to change her mind.
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This Fledgling Thing by snarklyboojum for ocularpatdowns
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
22 Jun 2017
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They say 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' but Sam has pretty big hands and he'd prefer the birds to keep their beaks out of his love life, thanks.
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Bucky is the mirror man, an urban legend whispered to kids to make them go to bed nice and quiet.
Steve is an idiot with too much to prove, who doesn't know when to back down from a bully.
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12 Feb 2026
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Winter's Herald by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen)
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
22 Nov 2018
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"Steve, if there's a time when you don't have to worry about anything, it's now. I’m a Herald-Trainee, Winter's a Companion. You're exhausted. Just…trust us. We'll get you home safely."
For a long moment, a moment in which Bucky felt gifted with sudden insight into who Steve was, he thought it could go either way. Then Steve smiled, this one warm and bright and just for Bucky, and it raced through him, lodging inside him like a miniature sun. "Guess I'd be a bit ungrateful to say no."
Some Heralds change the world. Some Heralds save it. Some Herald's names are woven through the very fabric of Valdemar. But most don't, and most aren't. Most Heralds simply do their duty, their Companions by their sides, their stories recorded in dusty Crown records not Bardic ballads.
Steve and Bucky figured they were most Heralds—no ballads required, thanks—and they were mostly right. What they didn't account for was that no Herald was ordinary—and with the two of them bound so tightly together, extraordinary was sure to follow.
[Absolutely no knowledge of the Valdemar series required for this fic]
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11 Feb 2026
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And There But For the Grace by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen)
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
22 Jun 2016
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Magical Realism AU where demons exist and Steven was an angel lured to Lucifer's side in the war in Heaven. After the war, they threw him down into Hell, no longer an angel, but a demon.
Some humans know demons exist, summoning them out of Hell to use as weapons. Desperate to escape Hell, Steven answers a summons only to find himself bound to serve HYDRA. When they send him to possess Agent Peggy Carter, the encounter doesn't go as HYDRA expects and Steven is set free to roam the earth.
Sixty years later, frantic to escape another summons, willing to do anything to stay unbound, he takes refuge inside the killer sent to slaughter the summoner. The killer has a metal arm and a mind like broken glass and Steven soon discovers he isn't the only one hiding inside of it: he finds the man the killer's body belongs to. Fragile and lost, the more Steven seeks him out the stronger he becomes, until the day he remembers his name: Bucky. Determined to protect him, Steven will do everything in his power to set him free and keep him that way.
(Chronologically, this stretches from before Captain America: First Avenger to a year or so before the first Avengers movie but has spoilers for Civil War.)
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- Part 1 of And There But For The Grace
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10 Feb 2026
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Steve was a mage, not a fighter: he'd entered the tournament to face other mages. But when he had to face the Winter Soldier, he never thought he'd wind up being responsible for him, even if it was only for the time it took to get him off the Baron's lands. He hadn't dreamed it would lead to the Winter Soldier following him through half the kingdom.
Steve wasn't sure why it was happening, he wasn't sure what the man wanted, but for the moment he was willing to wait and see. He just hoped he wasn't making a terrible mistake.
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09 Feb 2026