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anghraine · 3 months
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I struggled enough with the "best video game" meme I just reblogged that I decided to make a poll of all my personal favorites!
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incognitajones · 1 year
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For the meme: "Jyn could both follow orders and give them."
wait, wait, I know this... she's thinking about her time with the Partisans... pretty sure it's Undefined, aka the one where she's trying to figure out what "partner" means to Cassian?
[goes to check] And I was right! 😄
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36802534
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veliseraptor · 2 months
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get to know you better game! answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to know better.
tagged by: @brawlite - thanks!
last song I listened to: "time stands still (at the iron hill)" by blind guardian, which had me once again contemplating a silmarillion reread
currently reading: currently rereading three parts dead by max gladstone; when I finish that it's going to be we are satellites by sarah pinsker.
currently watching: rewatching campaign 2 of critical role if that counts? but also watching dead friend forever with @ameliarating. paused in a till the end of the moon watch that I need to get back to
currently obsessed with: kind of struggling to obsess about things right now which is part of my problem. but the closest things working for me right now are bg3 and the aforementioned critical role rewatch. hoping my brain starts letting me get excited about things again soon
tagging @ameliarating, @winepresswrath, @abigail-pent, @anghraine, @curiosity-killed, @spockandawe, @anyboli, @thatswhatsushesaid, and @elucubrare to do as you please (or not)
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heckofabecca · 2 months
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memety meme meme
Tagged by the wonderful @anghraine <3
Rules: answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to know better.
last song I listened to: "Solitude" (1990 Remaster) by Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong
currently reading: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, for class on Wednesday. I read this in 2020 first and I look forward to diving in again!
current watching: DropoutTV bangers such as Make Some Noise & Game Changer & Very Important People
currently obsessed with: my D&D campaign, Xóan's Legacy, which you can learn all about here.
tagging: @theemightypen @kareenvorbarra @croclock @jobean12-blog @marvelgirl7 @alliluyevas @an-old-lady @nobodysuspectsthebutterfly
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kareenvorbarra · 1 year
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catching up on all the memes i was tagged in over the last few weeks! this one is from @wizardysseus:
Comfort Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Sound of Music, Bend it Like Beckham
Comfort Food: mac and cheese...pasta in general tbh but especially mac and cheese. also ice cream
Comfort clothing: flannel shirts, sweatpants, the biggest wool sweaters available
Comfort book: A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett, Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold, the Protector of the Small series by Tamora Pierce
Comfort Game: i've found jigsaw puzzles very soothing lately
tagging @elwing, @vardasvapors, @anghraine, @squirrelwrangler, @ameliarating, @vefanyar
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ellynneversweet · 1 year
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Tagged by @aquitainequeen!
The game is to share the last written line of one wip and tag as many people as there are words. Gonna cheat and give you three seperate wips and pick the shortest one, because the two I tried were too long and I started fretting I couldn’t think of enough people to tag.
‘Because,’ said Zee, ‘the last time I heard of a living omega, I was more in the habit of hunting werewolves than having lunch with them, and an insult to an omega would have brought every wolf in Europe down on my head from that moment until my last.’
From the one where Mercy Thompson meets Anna Cornick née Latham, tentatively titled Like A House On Fire (I’m inclined to think that particular phrase sums up Bran’s take on how those two would get on, in every sense).
She grabbed the ornaments before Mercy’s kicking could vibrate them right onto the floor, and steered one handed to the counter, wiggling the stroller on purpose so Mercy wouldn’t work herself into a fit of crying in public.
From the one where Mercy has five shitty christmases and one nice one (tentatively A Very Mercy Christmas). Marji Thompson’s a fun pov.
He tried, desperately, to think of something to say.
From the one where Fitzwilliam Darcy desperately tries, for years, to talk himself into marrying his cousin Anne (probably Future Perfect).
Tagging @freetoflythecrimsonsky @capablecapybara @amarguerite @rain-sleet-snow @fairy-anon-godmother @anghraine @starry-sky-stuff @marzipanandminutiae @marypsue and anyone else who would like to join in.
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hoidn · 1 year
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@anghraine kindly tagged me (back in january, *cough*) in the last line of fic game and, in spite of
the fact that i haven’t written anything in months aside from random notes and what i think of as sketches, where i write my way through how i imagine a scene or an idea just to kind of give it shape in my head; and
the fact that i’ve got absolutely no idea what document i last worked on let alone the last thing i wrote in it; 
we’re doing this thing!
Rules: share the last written line of one WIP and tag as many people as there are words.
His hand hurts where she bit him and he wishes she'd broken the skin, wishes he'd have a scar to carry to show how she's marked him indelibly.
(it isn’t from a WIP but it is a sentence and it is the last line, therefore i say it counts.)
since i don’t even know 28 people, let alone 28 people who write, please consider yourself tagged if you’d like to be.
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brynnmclean · 2 years
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playlist music meme
I was tagged by @anghraine in a playlist meme!
Here are the rules:
you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs then tag ten people! no skipping!
Not sure I’ll tag ten people at the end and my music taste varies depending on what I’m doing while listening to music, but I’ll go with my Akallabêth Campaign playlist which is very long and is a mix of instrumental / video game music + indie stuff + sea shanties.  It’s 8 hours and 20 minutes now of music and I did arrange each track with a sense of flow originally!  But I do listen to it on shuffle often.
1. The Devil & The Huntsman - Sam Lee, Daniel Pemberton (from the King Arthur: Legend of the Sword movie which has no business being as good and fun as it is!)
2. Leave Her Johnny - Seán Dagher, Nils Brown, Michiel Schrey (from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag which is a great video game soundtrack... Seán Dagher is my favorite singer in all the shanties for those games, what a great voice)
3. As It Was - Hozier (how long you would wait for me / how long I’ve been away...)
4. Lead Me Home - Jamie N Commons (YES this song is from the miserable zombie garbage show BUT it is infuriatingly catchy)
5. Muddy Waters - LP (will this person’s voice ever NOT wreck me? the answer seems to be no. LP, please teach me your secrets, I have such gender envy)
6. I’se the B’y That Builds the Boat - The Revels Chorus
7. Hobbit Tunes: Jigs N’ Reels, Live - The Tolkien Ensemble (there are no hobbits in the game, but this is TOO GOOD not to put on a Tolkien TTRPG playlist, okay?
8. Never Love an Anchor - The Crane Wives (It’s a secret I keep tucked inside my chest / With this heart of mine that’s guilty not remorseful)
9. The Labyrinth Song - Asaf Avidan (can it be that all us heroes have a path, but not a plan?)
10. The Ends of the Earth - Brian Tyler (another AC Black Flag song)
I’ve gotta tag my player @laurenplayspeople first and foremost (/blows kisses to you & Merrie), and then I’ll tag @eisoj5, @rain-sleet-snow, @rainbowchibbit, @sassysnowperson, @allatariel, @heckofabecca, @skatingthinandice, and @urcadelimabean... and whoever else wants to play!  No pressure either way.  I like music recommendations, so know that if you tag me in something I’m going to check it out!
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squirrelwrangler · 1 year
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@anghraine Oh wait- okay so I always knew in my head that, even if the choice only matters for RP purposes because the game itself never references the race/gender/origins of the player character in a way that impacts the plotlines, that you play mostly human characters, so Hyur if you ever played XIV. And that of the two clan choices, Midlander is the generic from just about anywhere but the taller Highlander models are used mostly for Hyurs that originated from Ala Mhigo, the city state that had a geographical and political history of resource poor (except salt) highland in the center of the main trade route with the major cornerstone of their culture being their religious devotion to their patron deity and the fighting monks who also were deeply entrenched in their internal royal politics - the other major native DPS job being the magic rapier wielding class that does mostly spell-casting with a little bit of melee and some healing support. And that an extremely important main story element is how Ala Mhigo was conquered by the neighboring empire twenty years ago so there’s a sizeable Ala Mhigan diaspora and resistance movements and you’re helping out the factions and the political complications involved in the Base Game through multiple expansions. So, in my head, yeah, Elizabeth is an Ala Mhigan probably Red Mage. Visually the architecture and clothing is has elements of the Caucasus and Near Middle East to Western Steppe.
But! Elizabeth. I was thinking to myself how the equivalent race to the Charr in FF XIV are our Hrothgar, as our version of the fully cat-faced large and burly player race (who are based on FFX’s Ronso) as opposed to the less beastly more generic cat-earred race that is the most popular player race by far. And okay, the Hrothgar only have playable male options as of right now and we won’t get female options for Hrothgar until 7.0, the next expansion. But! the Hrothgar are not Charr, lorewise. Hilariously NOT. In fact, remembering what their lore was, I realized, omg what if. Because, okay that extremely expansionist imperialist religion-banning empire that conquered and subjugated Ala Mhigo? The empire ruled over by what are a Human subset without any magic and instead tech (unlike all other races) have been conquering a lot of places, trying to emulate the historical imperialistic high tech empire of Allag (The Romans to Garlemald’s Third Reich/Imperial Russia). And before they conquered Ala Mhigo, the other region that got the worst of their crimes -including the vaporizing of their capital city- and the country to whom we get extended plotlines about their preconquest, occupation, rebellion and rebuilding - is Bojza. Aka the main homeland of the Hrothgar. Whose naming structure is Slavic inspired and architecture is Mesopotamian. Where the city of Bojza had as its claim to fame being the holdout that resisted conquest from that original ‘Rome’, the only place to defeat Allag thanks to their queen. The Hrothgars whose ancestral weapon and combat style of gunblades was stolen and bastardized by the Garleans. Hrothgars who are explicitly set up as a matriarchal race, Bojza ruled by a queen with a council of priestesses. In fact the two sub-clan options of Hrothgars are divided up whether their clan has a matriarch or if she was lost (and the last names are the names of said matriarch). But they’re not a human race and I know you’d think Charr if see them.
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ncfan-1 · 2 years
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music meme!
I was tagged by @anghraine to do this meme! The conditions of the meme are as follows:
you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs then tag ten people! no skipping! 
Truth be told, putting one song on and listening to it on repeat for eight hours at a stretch is a little more my thing, but I do make playlists for my long fics if I can think of music that I feel fits them, and I did spend a lot of time listening to the playlist I made for The Mist Clears while I was writing it. So here goes:
1. Letting Raven In--X-Men: Days of Future Past (The Rogue Cut)
2. Renewed Hope--Green Lantern: The Animated Series (Volume Two)
3. Don’t Let Me Go (Acoustic)--RAIGN
4. Raise the Dead--Rachel Rabin
5. Truth--Game of Thrones: Season Seven
6. A Distant Promise--Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
7. Fate--Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
8. I Need You by My Side--Game of Thrones: Season Six
9. Henry Asks Parliament for Unity--The Tudors: Season 4
10. Love Remembered--Green Lantern: The Animated Series (Volume One)
Tagging anyone who wants to do this!
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anghraine · 3 months
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I'm not going to write it, but I kind of want to write an essay on the asari vs Bene Gesserit vs Aes Sedai because, while there are a lot of differences, I feel like the underlying fear/fantasy is pretty similar?
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incognitajones · 2 years
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WIP game
the rules: list the titles of your WIPs, whatever they look like. please make a new post instead of adding on to this one.
the game: your followers (or whomever!) may ask for snippets from any WIP and/or they can ask a question about any of them - without knowing anything more than the titles!
Tagged by @rain-sleet-snow
Tagging @anghraine, @carry-the-sky, @sassysnowperson, @woahpip, and @riflegoespurr
I have only a few WIPs right now, and they all have placeholder titles instead of anything memorable, but from oldest to newest:
North & South AU
pre-canon Jedha 
royal AU
whumptober prompt exercise
shelter part 3
This ended up being a little depressing 😔 A side effect of making 2022 the Year of Doing Less is that my WIP list is shrinking, and some of the remaining ones are drawerfic, i.e. never to be published.
I also haven’t started a brand new story in quite a while. I’m feeling a bit blocked creatively, since I tend to get some of my best ideas from exchange requests and random Tumblr prompts (which are decreasing as my fave fandom shrinks). Sometimes I get a burst of creative energy from getting into a new fandom; nothing has really grabbed me lately, though. I’ve even considered signing up to offer a story in a charitable fanwork auction, but that seems like the kind of thing that could backfire if nobody bids on it...
Enough rambling. If you made it through all of that, thank you for listening, and questions are very welcome!
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tar-elestirne · 5 years
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I love this game, but wtf is that pirate disguise that I have to switch to???
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heckofabecca · 10 months
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14 questions for 14 friends
Tagged by the glorious and wonderful @anghraine—thank you, dear Elizabeth!
Tagging anyone interested, but particularly @jobean12-blog @alliluyevas @marvelgirl7 @kareenvorbarra @croclock (sorry I forget your new blog!) @jaded-scorpio @onionjulius
1- Were you named after anyone?
Yes, my great-uncle Reuben. My middle name was ostensibly for my grandfather Maurice, but I learned recently that was a fake reason and it’s really after a song.
2- What is your dream job?
Ehhhh, not sure. I’d love to be an interpreter-slash-operations manager-slash-assistant director at a historic site... But I’d also settle for being a trophy wife. :P
3- Do you have children?
Nope! I would like to have one, maybe two, if the circumstances are right.
4- What's your eye color?
Blue-green with gold flecks.
5- What's the first thing you notice about people?
General appearance? If they’re wearing anything particularly cool, if their hair is particularly cool, if they are beautiful, etc. I always like to compliment people on things that they’ve chosen that I like, which might be the color of their shirt, a pair of earrings, their sneakers, glasses, tattoos, etc. "Something they chose” is a good rule for complimenting people, I find!
6- Do you use sarcasm a lot?
Sometimes—I love sarcasm.
7- Do you prefer scary movies or happy endings?
Happy endings. I am terrible at scary/horror...
8- Do you have any special talents?
I can draw and paint (which I do digitally), I have an absurdly high processing speed (which translates to excellent typing speed, reading speed, and boggle/bananagrams scores), I write well, and I am extremely adept at napping.
9- Where were you born?
Massachusetts!
10- What are your hobbies?
Games, digital art, writing, reading, and thinking about how I should get back into dancing.
11- Do you have any pets?
THE BEST GIRL, Hero! She’s a petite black cat.
12- What sports do you play/have you played?
I was in a girls sports club as a kid, which involved playing a variety of different sports without focusing on any in particular. I also did dance, gymnastics, and swimming (and was consistently the worst at gymnastics and swimming lol). At 18, I got into swing dancing, which I was very good at, until I stopped in March 2020. I have yet to get back to it :S
13- How tall are you?
5'4".
14- Favorite subject in school?
History! (Obligatory response for a history grad student lol) (I do love reading and English, but I am not very good at literary analysis.)
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child-of-hurin · 2 years
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@anghraine tagged me on this shipping meme ages ago! But tonight I’m suddenly chatty and inspired, so here it goes 😁😁
I’m tagging everyone who reads this until the end :P go ahead! I wanna read abt ur guy’s ships!
1. First ship: Hiei/Mukuro from the anime Yuyu Hakusho when I was uuuh 9? Thinking back, it’s kind of a blueprint of my favorite ships? From the bonding through trauma to like, being the straight canon couple hated the most by shippers of the slash juggernaut (Hiei/Kurama, a ship I respect but do not and have never gotten the appeal of). Mukuro is peak female character, and Hiei even has a little sister he’s obsessed with! Amazing, I get nostalgic for them once in a blue moon.
2. First OTP: I think Sandor/Sansa from game of thrones in like, 2011? Or Arwen/Aragorn from LOTR in like 2002, which I got disproportionately attached to because of the Arwen hate I was exposed to when the movies were coming out :P
3. Current favorite ship: these past months, these three ships are orbiting around my brain like a Three Body System: Elwing/Earendil, Utena/Anthy, and Sam/Dean. Túrin/Nienor is a constant in the back of my mind though <3 my mothership if you will. 
4. Your ship since the first minute: Syd/David from Legion because, for plot reasons, they had to establish that very strongly right away on the first episode - and they did, lol... by the end of S01E01 I was already all puppy dog eyes emoji 🥺 the actors have a lot of chemistry!
5. Ships you wish had been endgame: Honestly I tend to like messy break-ups as much as I like ships lol. Like I love Erendis and Aldarion, Anaire and Fingolfin, Andreth and Aegnor, etc. Celeborn and Galadriel’s separation at the end of their world that makes me ship them 1000000x more and with more passion. A break-up can be very sexy thing too ;) 
6. Ship you wish was canon:  Elizabeth said: “I can’t think of any right now, I have a tendency to like canon ships, but also to like exploring non-canon ships without begrudging non-officiality,” and that’s basically my experience too... 
There are books that leave me craving for in-page queer attraction/action, like Megan Abbot’s ‘Give me your hand’ (I KEPT WAITING FOR IT TO HAPPEN the two main characters were so potentially sexy) or Stephen Graham Jones “The last final girl” (Izzy and Crystal I’m...) (still holding out for Jade and Letha, Stephen!! Gibe), but they are not really like, fandoms, so... 
7. Ship that most of the fandom hates but you love: Same as Elizabeth, it’s more the other way around, me hating ships the whole fandom loves. My impression is that my ships that are unpopular are usually so due to the most unaffected indifference, not to hate. I would say Cersei/Jaime, but I feel like the whole “Jaime is a Good Man and Cersei needs to die by his hand so he can be purified by Brienne’s love” and/or “Jaime is actually gay, Cersei Who? I Don’t Know Her” are not as pervasive canon stances as they look like on tumblr :P 
8. You don’t even watch the show, but you ship it: I do have one, it’s Ysayle/Estinien from Final Fantasy!  @squirrelwrangler schooled me on that one (and gave me the gift that is the silm fusion, so I can actually appreciate it), it’s a class A ship :)
9. Ship you wish had a different storyline: Season 2 Syd/David from Legion. I don’t mind the break up and I thought they were very sexy at the beginning of S3, but S2 writing felt like such a mess. Too convoluted and for what? It wasn’t even hot, idk.
10. Favorite ship that’s endgame:  Really most of my ships, I tend to ship canon things just because I tend to a) only engage with canons I actually like, and b) the canon couples tend to be the ones that are the most developed in the canons I tend to like. It’s harder to think of a ship I like that was frustratingly NOT endgame, see #5. 
And I’m making up some questions I think a shipping meme should have:
11. Ship you initially didn’t think you would get into: Honestly, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, just because I had absorbed the notion that the book was really about Mina/Dracula. In the end I don’t care overmuch about Mina/Dracula except in how it acts as a vehicle for the most perfect same-trauma Jonathan/Mina... Pure ID candy tbh. 
12. Ship you lost interest in: Amanda/Nikita, just because the writing of the show made it hard to keep interested, and oh my god. For shame. Those two were REALLY hot. There’s barely any fanfic for it too because it precedes AO3 and it’s an f/f ship on the nasty side :’(
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thesokovianaccords · 2 years
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Fic Rec Tag Game
I was tagged in this almost TWO YEARS AGO by the fabulous @theawkwardterrier and am just now getting to it as I clean out my drafts folder (lol sorry Leah...)
Rules: Spell out your user name using titles of fics you like and/or love -  any fic that you enjoy for any reason whatsoever. Then tag at least one fandom friend to do the same.
WARNING! Only begin if you have time to kill. (This is FOR REAL! Even if you’re not digging around to find a specific fic, or trying to match a particular letter, or trying to decide which options to include, you WILL get caught up reading!)
Bonus option! Give it a 1-5 knowledge rating (KR) in terms of how well you need to know canon to enjoy the fic. 1 meaning “no previous knowledge necessary” and 5 meaning “need to be well-versed in all of canon.
(Jesus why is my url so long)
again, this is two years overdue so I have no idea who did this - but feel free to consider this me tagging you! it was so fun to go back through my bookmarks to find these fics lol 
time & spaces. by thesemovingparts - pre-michelle jones/peter parker, michelle jones is tony stark’s daughter (just trust me lol). KR: 3.5
Hold Your Voice In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms) by fluffernutter8 - steve rogers/peggy carter (aka that time that @theawkwardterrier wrote a madam secretary au bc she is the Actual Best). KR: 3.0
Extended Disarming by tara_stofse - phryne fisher/jack robinson - a short fluffy ficlet that really encapsulates them, I think. KR: 3.0.
Swipe Right, Swing Left by downn_in_flames - james potter/lily evans, a modern american politics/tinder au. yes I know. KR: 2.5.
one time thing. by bemusedbicycle - kate sharma/anthony bridgerton, modern au. hot af. KR: 2.0.
know your devils and your deeds by irnan - pepper potts/tony stark. an oldie but a goodie, god I love them. KR: 3.0 for 2012 mcu haha.
One For the Money (And Four to Go) by Lavendergaia - jemma simmons/leo fitz, daisy johnson/antoine triplett. bachelor auction au. excellence. KR: 2.5.
The Viscount Who Courted Me by theladyrainbow - kate sharma/anthony bridgerton. an au in which anthony pursues kate from day one. KR: 3.5. (it’s technically a T but mind ya business).
in tongues and quiet sighs by Elizabeth (anghraine) - cassian andor/jyn erso, han solo/leia organa. “Alderaanian runs under all the intersections of Leia Organa's and Cassian Andor's lives.” KR: 4.0.
A Strange New Story Every Time by gyzym - logan echolls/veronica mars. KR: 3.0.
no one can stop me, not even gravity or nasa by magneticwave - leia organa/han solo. KR: 4.5.
Any Fin Goes by vextant - gen. avengers. a heist. a shark. truly one of my favorites. KR: 2.0.
Casablanca by BeeDaily - james potter/lily evans. modern au. I love them. KR: 2.5.
Corner Man by Snapjack - james bond/eve moneypenny. oh yes. KR: 4.0.
One Hundred and Eleven Days by themonkeycabal - bucky barnes/darcy lewis, darcy lewis is tony stark’s daughter. ‘run verse. this whole series is one of my all-time favorites, but picking this one bc I needed a fic that started with ‘o’ but also bc it’s emotionally wrecked me for years :D KR: 4.0.
Rosehill Cottage by agentverbivore (verbivore8642) - leo fitz/jemma simmons, a holiday-esque au. a delight! KR: 3.5.
Don't Stop Me Now by CloudAtlas - clint barton/natasha romanoff, peggy carter/steve rogers, pepper potts/tony stark. college au, another oldie but a goodie. KR 2.5.
Summer Soldier by Remember When (scribblemyname) - bucky barnes/susan pevensie, one of the only ones out there. I need more people to understand how this ship is important to me and to the world at large. KR 3.5. 
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