Only the Most Beautiful
The gorgeous, gut-punching, life-affirming fics I come back to time and time again. Sometimes it's love, unrequited or fulfilled. Sometimes it's friendship, family. Sometimes it's angst and horror and unhappy endings, sometimes everything is soft and nothing hurts.
Mostly Marvel, with some other gems. Use the bookmarks to see the full list of works with collector's commentary. Skip to the best-of-the-best if you want to be like that, but they're all the best.
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Birds Eating Other Birds by aloneintherain
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
30 Jul 2016
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Peter wishes he hadn’t gotten out of bed that morning. Then, maybe, he wouldn’t be reduced to this—limp-crawling through the rabbit burrows that is Oscorp Tower, a monster of a man on his heels, bloody and bruised and choking on a panic attack.
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- Part 1 of devil in a sunday hat
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powerful (with a little bit of tender) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Deadpool - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 Nov 2019
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There’s little fanfare, when his heat finally hits. Peter goes to bed with a sore throat and wakes up feeling like he could crawl out of his skin. He strips. It helps only a little bit. He showers. It helps only a little bit more. He sends Wade a quick text (get over hrere im dyign please rbing quesadillas).
Wade sends him several gasping emojis and then thumbs-ups of all different skin tones. He’s so much. Peter giggles, and then rolls around on his bed to distract himself from his brain trying to tell him that no one loves him.
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bury me face down (in your heart) by actionpackedlips
Fandoms: Deadpool - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Deadpool (Movieverse)
19 May 2020
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Deadpool hasn't been back in New York since Peter told him, screamed at him, to stay away all those years ago. He hadn't just barred Deadpool from New York, but also from his heart. So when he sees a familiar black and red clad figure on the news, he knows Deadpool's back, and he's fully prepared to go confront him.
He doesn't want any of that anymore, anyway. Or so he's been telling himself daily since the very last time he laid eyes on Deadpool.
Peter's not prepared for what seeing the other man does to his resolve, and he finds what they ended all those years ago picking right back up from where they left off.
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When Julian volunteered to spend six months on Cardassia he set in motion a chain of events which forever changed his life - and Garak's.
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Summer Ice. by elastic honey (infernoconcealed)
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types, Spider-Man/Deadpool - Joe Kelly (Comics)
11 Apr 2019
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Spiderman/Deadpool, teamup comics.
They decide they're gonna try taking the weekends off.
Slice of Life. Emotional Porn. Real Porn.Video Games | Krav Maga | Sex | 911 Calls
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What Dwells in Us by how_long_must_we_live
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
07 Jun 2022
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Three months have passed since Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived on Tatooine. He has settled into a quiet, uneventful life in the desert, watching over the infant Luke from afar.
Alas, his life isn’t going to stay quiet or uneventful for much longer.
OR: The novel-length story of Obi-Wan’s years in exile (and beyond!) I have always wanted to read.
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- 40/40
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Bookmarked by WaterMe
22 Feb 2020
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If the summary doesn't sell you on it, I don't know what will.
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when i die i’ll sacrifice (more than enough for the afterlife) by notcaycepollard
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 May 2019
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The fall is longer than Natasha expects.
It’s tears cold on her face, teeth bitten all the way through her lip and the taste of copper in her mouth; she’s falling and falling and then, bracing for impact—she wakes up.
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- Part 1 of a flame in two cupped hands
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- English
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- 41,322
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- 1/1
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- 10
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Bookmarked by WaterMe
29 May 2019
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We survived the Thanosverse. We deserve the Betterverse.
If I could only recommend one story, ever, for the rest of my life - it would be this one.
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half the night you’re a dependable chap (then the too white teeth all night) by voxofthevoid
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types
16 Apr 2019
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Steve Rogers is a sad fucking man, but he’s a soldier down to his bones, and Bucky’s always been weak to that particular combination of tragic eyes and fistfuls of blood.
That’s why he’s plastered to the walls and incapable of looking away from Rogers’s heaving chest and cracked knuckles. He doesn’t speak a word, doesn’t even dare to breathe loudly until a vicious punch from Rogers sends the poor bag flying across the room, spitting sand everywhere. There’s no startled sound from Rogers. He doesn’t even freeze, just huffs like he’s inconvenienced by his inanimate victim’s inability to withstand the pounding.
Bucky bites his tongue so he doesn’t offer himself as a replacement.
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Bucky makes a bad decision that snowballs in predictable fashion.Series
- Part 1 of couldn't get the boy to kill me
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- English
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- 4,885
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by WaterMe
21 Jul 2020
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This series is hot as hell and painful as fuck. Only read it if you're ready to have some FEELINGS (in your pants and your heart).
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powerful (with a little bit of tender) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Deadpool - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 Nov 2019
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There’s little fanfare, when his heat finally hits. Peter goes to bed with a sore throat and wakes up feeling like he could crawl out of his skin. He strips. It helps only a little bit. He showers. It helps only a little bit more. He sends Wade a quick text (get over hrere im dyign please rbing quesadillas).
Wade sends him several gasping emojis and then thumbs-ups of all different skin tones. He’s so much. Peter giggles, and then rolls around on his bed to distract himself from his brain trying to tell him that no one loves him.
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- English
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Bookmarked by WaterMe
27 Nov 2019
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omegaverse but make it real-ass humans, and also sweet and soft as hell
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The Sweetest Days by how_long_must_we_live
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
22 Aug 2017
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It had begun as a dare.
“Hello there,” the whore called out.
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- English
- Words:
- 10,465
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 3
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22 Jan 2018
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One of those out-of-left field pairings that I never in a million years would have gone looking for. And it turns out to be sexy as hell and heartrendingly beautiful.