ThePoliteSpider
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If You Need a Hero by ThePoliteSpider
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
01 Jul 2023
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What if Aunt May and Uncle Ben had a kid of their own and what if she grew up to replace Peter after the snap?
(I swear it's more interesting than it sounds I just suck at summarizing)
- Language:
- English
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- 4,188
- Chapters:
- 1/?
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- 10
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Sokka convinces Zuko to fake date to avoid the pressures of his council while they work to fix the post-war Fire Nation government. It's a convincing argument. Zuko is entirely unbiased about the whole situation.
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27 Apr 2026
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Take My Hand (There's a World I Need to Know) by itsthehopethatkillsyou
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
04 Jun 2026
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Shane and Ilya have done everything right, with years of waiting, planning, and hoping. After too many almosts and not-quites, they go to one more adoption event with no expectations.
But one quiet conversation—and one perfect baby—turn “maybe” into something a lot more dangerous: hope.
And hope, it turns out, has a way of asking for more than they expected.
(AKA: hurt/comfort, so much yearning, accidental family, angst with a payoff, and yes—a hard-won happy ending)
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- English
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- 150,298
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- 26/?
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22 Jan 2026
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“You want us to foster a kid?” Mike finally asks, disbelieving. Will is half convinced that El will laugh in their faces, clearing up the misunderstanding with a, “No, silly. I want you to water my plants.”
“It doesn’t have to be forever,” El says. “Just until I can find another home for him. I can’t stand him living in the shelter anymore. Not right now. He needs emotional support. And don’t lie to me— I know you two have been wanting kids. This can be a trial run.”
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Will and Mike are tasked with fostering an emotionally distant, judgmental, sassy twelve-year-old boy from El’s shelter. As hard as they try to win his heart, they seem to be making no progress. After all, how could two strangers earn the trust of a boy who’s been hurt time and time again?
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- Part 1 of Broken Mirror: a collection of us
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- English
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- 179,861
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- 40/40
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22 Jul 2025
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The gate is closing.
Dustin lands on the floor of the real-world Munson trailer, managing not to injure anything else this time, but he hardly notices as he sees the rift that has also split the world on this side begin mending itself. The roof and side of the trailer reform, sealing together as the vines and the very crack itself disappears. Looking back up, all Dustin can do is watch as the opening grows smaller and smaller.
"Steve!" he calls, helpless. "No, no, no, no!"
"It's okay!" Steve shouts back to him, even though Dustin knows that it isn't. "We'll find another way out! Get to Nancy and Robin!"
And the vines retreat into the ceiling as the gate seals itself, slicing the last of the hanging sheet in half and leaving almost no trace that a giant portal to another world was ever there at all.
*Or, Steve goes back for Dustin after everything and gets trapped in the Upside Down, alone with Eddie. But that is only the beginning.
This story is from Robin, Dustin, Steve, and Eddie's POVs, as they all deal with what happens now.
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- Part 1 of : ::static:: :
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- English
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- 76,667
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- 16/16
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27 Apr 2025
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in the end, it all comes down to you. (you want it all; you’re all I want.) by mapofyourstars
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
06 Apr 2025
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Steve reaches out to Charles, asking for a partnership between the Avengers and mutants. Given the recent decade of peace between mutants and non-mutants thanks to Erik and the Brotherhood, Charles isn’t quick to accept Steve’s offer. Charles takes Steve’s concerns to Erik, and after involving others pivotal to mutants' safety, Charles and Erik agree to help the Avengers. Throughout this journey, however, Charles and Erik will be forced to make rash decisions that will change their lives' course; acknowledge their past and present, coming to terms with the pain suffered at the hands of the other; and lead others into a galactic battle to save their loved ones and each other.
(or the one where the avengers team up with charles, erik, and others to stop thanos ft. de-aging of my own creation, lovesick cherik who just really need to talk, witty banter between new-found friends, pushed-back timelines so the avengers exist around the year 2000, dadneto interactions that should have happened, and a reality where dark phoenix never happened. canon to the movies with a few exceptions with inspiration from the comics sprinkled throughout.)
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14 Nov 2024