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  1. Public Bookmark 31

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    “And because—” Ilya stopped. He was not a man who stopped easily, who lost words, whose tongue failed him. Shane did this to him: removed his fluency, made him reach for things that were not in their usual places.

    “Because, Ilya?” Shane stepped closer, and Ilya could smell him—the scraping tang of metal and stretched leather and beneath that, something faintly sweet—and this, in combination with the use of his name, made him dizzy, weak.

    “Because I would rather be known by you than survived by you," Ilya managed. “And if I am to be killed, I would rather it be by you than by another stranger.”

    Shane went very still.

    “I’m still a stranger,” Shane said after a moment.

    “Less now,” Ilya answered.

     

    or: shane, as part of the winter soldier program, and ilya as the son of its creators.

    ( you do not need to know a single thing about marvel, the winter soldier, or any of its associated media to read this. )

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    07 Mar 2026

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    "Sveta," he says, before she can greet him. "I think I'm about to do something very stupid."

    "You're always doing something stupid," she laughs, her voice tinny over the speakerphone. "What is it this time?"

    "I am in a staring contest with a bottle of pills," Ilya says. "And I think the pills might win."

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    Or: An alternate take on Ilya's mental health after moving to Ottawa, featuring the reality of long distance relationships, Ilya learning to captain a new team, and a series of game tapes made by Ilya's dead father.

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    03 Mar 2026

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    To him, the spring of '98 is about sex and funerals.

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    (Or: the big, bold, rocky, and epic post-war story.)

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    22 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 6

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    “In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams

    Sixth year: A runaway, a honeymoon phase, and the settling of accounts. What goes around must come back around. / Updates Tuesdays and Fridays.

    [This story was written by a trans person of colour, fuck JKR.]

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    15 Feb 2025

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    this countryside's burnin' with wolfmen fairies dressed in drag for homicide / they hit and run, plead sanctuary, 'neath the holy stone they hide / they're breakin' beams and crosses with a spastic's reelin' perfection / nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception / and everybody's wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood / sticker smiles sweet as gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud.

    - lost in the flood, bruce springsteen

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    06 Jan 2025