metaphoracle
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The Four Fs by metaphoracle
Fandoms: Fantastic Four (Comicverse), Spider-Man (Comicverse), Marvel (Comics)
26 Jul 2019
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In evolutionary biology, animals (including humans) are biologically motivated to follow four basic and primal drives or instincts: fighting, fleeing, feeding and fornicating.
A Spideytorch Week 2019 submission for Free Day Friday
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It's Tradition by metaphoracle
Fandoms: Fantastic Four (Comicverse), Spider-Man (Comicverse)
26 Dec 2018
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“I’m Jewish,” Peter complains, plaintively. “And you brought me to Macy’s. Macy’s, Storm. The week before Christmas.”
“It’s festive,” Johnny declares. He picks up a blouse and scrutinizes it before hanging it back on the rack with a dismissive head shake. “All the hustle and bustle.”
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When Spider-Man’s best friend Johnny Storm asks him for help in tactfully declining a marriage proposal from the King of Atlantis, Namor the Sub-Mariner, the only solution is for him to volunteer Daily Bugle photographer Peter Parker to pretend to be dating Johnny at the Engagement Banquet in Atlantis. Sure, it’s technically lying to his best friend about who Peter Parker is, but the important thing is that Johnny won’t have to marry Namor, and if Peter gets some photographs of Atlantis to sell, what’s the harm? Peter thought the most difficult thing about this scenario was going to be making sure Johnny didn’t figure out Peter is actually Spider-Man. Having to pretend he wasn’t actually falling in love with his best friend never crossed his mind.
Featuring fake relationships, forced (almost) marriages, identity porn, traditional Atlantean clothing, and amorous cephalopods.
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Tastes Like the Real Thing by metaphoracle for Traincat
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Comicverse), Fantastic Four (Comicverse)
16 Sep 2018
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“You can get back to whatever it is you were doing,” Johnny says, magnanimously. To his surprise, Harry doesn’t move.
Instead, he leans against Peter’s desk, an obscene monstrosity of wood and glass and metal. “I could,” he drawls. “But then you’d be alone, and well, what kind of a friend would I be if I didn’t make sure that my best buddy Pete’s friend is being entertained.”
Johnny crosses his arms over his chest. “It bothers you,” he observes. “That Peter’s my friend.”
Harry shakes his head and rubs the back of his neck, as if distracted. He avoids Johnny’s gaze when he replies. “I just find it interesting that a celebrity like the Human Torch is palling around with the head of a multi-million dollar tech corporation.”
“Peter interned for my brother-in-law,” Johnny reminds him. “Honestly, you should be asking Peter why the head of a multi-million dollar tech corporation is hanging out with a C-list celebrity.”
“Other than the obvious?”
Johnny huffs a bitter laugh. “Believe me, being Peter Parker’s boytoy would be so much simpler than our actual relationship.”
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He'd always had a need to please others, but this was different. Deeper. The satisfaction that came from pleasing Cougar filled some kind of psychological need. A thought filtered through his brain, half-remembered from AP Psych in what seemed a lifetime ago, about a pyramid of needs that culminated in self-actualization.
Cougar was Jensen's pyramid. Making Cougar laugh—that was one block. Taking care of him, when the other man allowed it, was another. And this...right now. Being perfect. Being silent. Being Cougar's in whatever shape the man made him. That was right at the top.
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When Ianto finds himself in wartime London and in the clutches of a strange but familiar conman, he struggles to find a balance between revealing the future and creating a paradox. Meanwhile, Jack tries to get Ianto back while dealing with a head full of memories that aren't his own.
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Bookmarked by metaphoracle
30 Jun 2026
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Russ shoved him into the passenger seat, impatient but gentle, and got behind the wheel. “You can’t go back to that antiseptic hellhole you call an apartment. It’s insane. Besides, you’re my partner.” He glared at Milt as if expecting an argument.
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Bookmarked by metaphoracle
27 Jun 2026
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"Why, hello there, Mr. and Mr—Baumgartner?"
"Yeah," Russ bites out. "That's us."
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Bookmarked by metaphoracle
27 Jun 2026
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Russ took the drink, gulped it down in one long breath, and said conversationally, “I just bet Holly two hundred bucks I could get you into bed.”
Milt laughed. That had to be a joke.
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Bookmarked by metaphoracle
25 Jun 2026
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Jack and Ianto return to Cardiff and the complications of their not-so-normal life with Torchwood after living together while undercover in Serenity Plaza.
Bookmarked by metaphoracle
23 Jun 2026