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    The stuff that happens between missions, movies, and life-or-death chaos, because when you’re playing host to a team of giant aliens living in your shed, there’s never a dull moment.
    Besides, with five heavily armed war-machines watching your six, what could go wrong?
    Lots, apparently.

    Mostly fluff and crack for now, will get angsty eventually. Not yet. Eventually.
    Updates every Friday.
    AU, with characters and events picked out from the Bay Movies and Transformers: Prime.

    On hiatus until school and motivation allows us to actually do stuff. Apologies.

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    When Azula is nine, she becomes an only child. She hears the Fire Lord call for Zuko's life, and in the morning, her mother and brother are gone. Azula may be young, but she isn't naive. She knows what happened to them.

    Which makes it all the more surprising when Azula tracks the Avatar down and fights his group of peasant friends, only to find herself staring into an eerily familiar face.

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    10 Jul 2026

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    Benoit Blanc, about to host a solstice party with his husband Phillip for his former suspect-assistants, disappears. The last thing he wants is for anyone to run into danger chasing him. Naturally, everyone involved does exactly that.

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    01 Jan 2026

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    SO GOOD

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    Set between Avengers: Endgame and the very beginning of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (with a skip to Thunderbolts at the very end), this story explores a fascinating what if...

    What if there was one more trigger word?
    An old one. The first one. Hidden from all but the man who put it there. A man who considers the Winter Soldier to be more than one of the world's most deadly assassins.

    A man who considers him... a son.

    Explore one man's misplaced obsession, the stupidity of reactivating the Winter Soldier, the efforts of Sam to save him, and the power of an incredible friendship, even after death. Bonus peek at 1930s Steve and Bucky and a revelation of what Steve did for his best friend when he went back in time... that perhaps he wasn't *quite* as selfish as he seemed.

    (features angsty Bucky, 'no witnesses' Winter Soldier, ass whoopin' Wilson, sedentary senior Steve AND scrawny Steve, indispensable Red Wing*, with much hurt/comfort (of Bucky, not Red Wing), and yes, a major character death. But not the one you're thinking of. Lots of bad guys and not so bad people bite it too, but you can blame the Winter Soldier for that... or just admire his hair, up to you)

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    24 Jun 2025

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    SO FREAKING GOOD

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    “Look, I’m… I’m not really in the business of exploding little innocent laboratory experiment guinea pigs,” she said, patting Bob on the shoulder. The rodent in her hand squeaked indignantly. “So why don’t you leave here with me, and maybe we find you some clothes, and, like, a clif bar or something, because you still look sort of woozy. And then you can think about killing yourself in a way where I’m not the one pressing a button. Okay?”

    She smiled at him in an attempt at comfort, straightening her posture to give herself some authority, or at least an air of confidence. He looked at her, and then the bomb, and then the guinea pig, and then behind him to the shadows on the wall. And then back to her.

    “Okay,” he echoed, and she was pretty sure he had a bit less doom-and-gloom nothing-matters dejection in his expression now, so maybe she said something kind of right. Maybe.

    “Great. How do you feel about wearing dead people shoes? The options here are slim.”

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    Or, Yelena gets sent to destroy O.X.E. Group evidence in a lab in Malaysia and finds... Bob. Bob, who was for sure a human experiment. Bob, who was definitely supposed to be dead. Bob, who absolutely knows more than he's letting on.

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    28 May 2025

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    Really great fic

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    “So… shawarma?” Yelena asks after everything’s cooled down and the cameras are all gone.

    “Really?” Walker sneers, “Are you serious right now, cause— cause that’s not funny—“

    “I mean, it’s a little funny.” Yelena chuckles, which obviously means Alexei has to follow with loud boisterous laughter, even if he clearly doesn’t know what’s going on.

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    Or, Five times Bucky helped the Thunderbolts get through something, and one time they helped him.

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    24 May 2025