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Pockets of belonging by Bergen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
28 Jul 2025
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Peter never made any plans to run away, until the day he leaves. It isn’t an idea that slowly creeps up on him. He just stands over the sink one day in early spring, watching his father’s bright red ashtray bob up through the soap bubbles, and feels an overwhelming urge to get the hell out of this place.
Two years later. Tony Stark has been keeping his identity as Iron Man a secret, successfully hiding behind his spoiled, rich asshole persona. It’s isolating, but he doesn’t even like people anyway, so it’s fine, he’s fine, he’s great. And then he gets saddled with a new intern, who isn’t just hiding secrets: he’s barely holding it together.- Language:
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04 Oct 2026
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Hard to read -- uncomfortable situations and emotions. Take breaks.
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Peter is fine, anyways. His boss might fire him soon, the Avengers might arrest him soon, the principal might expel him soon, but none of it has happened yet. And his dad—
“You didn’t get my coffee,” his dad says, halfway through his burrito. He has been in a state of low, simmering irritation all evening, and apparently this is how long it took for him to find a reason to blame Peter for it.
“You didn’t tell me to get coffee.”
“Do you have eyes?”
“Yes,” Peter says. “I have eyes.”
“So you could have checked if we needed coffee without me telling you every little thing, Jesus Christ.”
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Peter just wants to make it to sixteen so he can escape this life and strike out on his own. He has a plan and nothing will ruin it.
Not even Tony Stark quite literally crashing into his life.- Language:
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30 Sep 2026
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Weird AU because Peter is an unreliable narrator. Well-constructed, with lots of Chekhov's guns sneakily introduced, and fired by the end.
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If you're on the road by Bergen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
02 Jun 2026
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“Listen,” Pepper says. “I’m at the food bank right now and Ms. Zavala from R&D called in sick. She has two students coming in this morning to be interviewed for the internship, 9 AM. I won’t be back in time, so if you could just talk to them, or at least start with the first one, until I get back.”
Tony processes all that a moment.
“Tony?” she asks.
“You’re at the food bank? How much do I pay you?”
She gives another little huff. “Charity, Tony. Did any of the actually important things I just said register in your brain?”
“Oh, all right. Consider it my charity work for today.”
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Pepper should have known it was a mistake, setting Tony’s dumb ass on these kids.- Language:
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29 Sep 2026
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The Sacrilege! Stories by PlaidAdder
Fandom An Ideal Husband - Wilde, Downton Abbey, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
03 Oct 2026
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The first three stories in this series were written in the late 1990s and have been archived since then at Sacrilege!, a Holmes slash archive maintained by Cress/Miss Roylott. "The Adventure of Downton Abbey" was written in March of 2013; it stands alone, but it is also a kind of coda to the earlier three stories, and includes some references to them. Each can be read as a stand-alone story, though there is continuity. Whether you've already read them or are finding them for the first time now, I hope y'all enjoy.
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27 Sep 2026
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Classics by Plaid Adder!
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The Best And Wisest Adaptation I Have Ever Known: The Granada Holmes Rewatch by PlaidAdder
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Granada Holmes - Fandom, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV)
19 Jan 2019
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This is a complete collection of episode reviews for the Sherlock Holmes series filmed and broadcast between 1984 and 1995 by Granada Television (now ITV Granada) starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and David Burke & Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson. I re/watched the whole series in the summer of 2017, because the entire world was on fire and I needed a diversion. I have been reading Holmes and Watson as a couple for at least 30 years now, so that perspective informs all of these reviews. There are occasional comparisons to what happened with Sherlock. Also, I usually discuss the canon story on which any given episode was based. As with all the other rewatches posted here, I am critical, but always from a place of love.
All of these reviews were first posted to tumblr and will be cross-posted more or less intact. There may have to be slight adjustments made depending on whether AO3 treats the GIFs properly. Enjoy them again, or for the first time!