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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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"What's this I hear about nude sunrise yoga?" Jack drawled. "Tell me more about these fantasies you have about me, Robby."
Robby shook his head once, like he didn't know what conversation they were having. Good. "It was a joke," Robby said, tone saying this was obvious. "The kid's miserable living with Santos. I wanted him to feel like he'd be helping me out."
"That just so happened to involve a very specific image of me," Jack pressed.
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"I go away for a single tour and come back to find people are spawning, you're decrying rank. One more and you'll be a hippie vegan fuck, singing 'kumbaya' and professing we should all just love one another."
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09 Mar 2026
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The Captain is just like any other man, only more so; Brad can rely on this even when he can't rely on anybody else to be who they say they are. An AU based on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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03 Mar 2026
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For a second, Nate is on high alert—his senses reaching out for the incoming attack, but then he gets a good look at Brad’s face and his smile goes wickedly soft.
“So it’s like that,” Nate says.
“Yeah,” Brad says leaning in. “It’s like that.”
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24 Feb 2026
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There’s a bottle on his neck and a boy pressed against him.
Steve should be terrified. He’s shoved higher up the wall he’s pinned to, the boy’s eyes wild beneath his tangled mess of hair, his breath all rasp and spit and fear.
The bottle presses closer, harder, almost enough to break skin.
Steve knows it won’t, though, because this isn’t the first time he’s been here.
Or, Steve keeps finding himself back in the boathouse where everything started, wrapped up in the arms of a boy who can’t stop dying. Saving him means ending his torment, and it also means falling in love.
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