#tsb week 30

[tonystarkbingo]

TSB Round 6 Roundup - Week 30/31!

Collaborator : deehellcat Card Number: 6028 Square Filled: T5 - abducted Title: through hell and back, no longer alone Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Bucky Word Count: 7343 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: AU-no powers, meet-cute, books, identity porn (sort of), attempted abduction, ableist language x1, homelessness Summary: While out on a doctor-mandated walk in Central Park, Tony discovers a hidden campsite, and starts a correspondence with the mysterious person squatting there.

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Collaborator : hereandnowwearealive Card Number: 6044 Square Filled: T1 - Art format: glitch art Title: Error Link: Tumblr Pairings: n/a Word Count: n/a Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Art fill Summary: image of Tony looking up, alarmed, accompanied with the text "error"

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Collaborator : Becca Card Number: 6023 Square Filled: K3 - Marriage Title: Home Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 457 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Team as Family, Drunk Steve Rogers, Drunk Tony Stark, Drunken Shennanigans, Summary: I saw a tumblr post or something mentioning a guy who was out with friends and was randomly like "I miss my wife. I'm going home." and if that doesn't describe exactly how Steve feels about Tony, I don't know what does. This is a short ficlet about Steve being that guy. Sort of.

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Collaborator : rebelmeg Card Number: 6001 Square Filled: A4 - Tony in Workshop Title: A Cure for January Blues Link: AO3 Pairings: N/A Word Count: 957 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: fluff, humor, banter, workshop shenanigans Summary: With mid-winter gloominess upon him, Tony has an idea for a project.

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Collaborator : nolanfa Card Number: 6007 Square Filled: S4 - Truth Drug / Spell Title: Trust Link: AO3 Pairings: N/A Word Count: 100 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: N/A Summary: What Tony might say if he were truth-serumed.

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Collaborator : DarthBloodOrange Card Number: 6066 Square Filled: Adopted - KINK: spanking Title: A Good Spanking Link: AO3 Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Word Count: N/a - Moodboard Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Sexual Content, Nudity, BDSM, Lingerie, Established Relationship Summary: The sharp hiss of the paddle is loud in the warm space of their bedroom, only interrupted by cries of pleasure and murmured praise. Kneeling before Bucky, the world is quiet and simple again.

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Collaborator : deehellcat Card Number: 6028 Square Filled: K4 - MIT Years Title: Too Well Tangled In My Soul Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Rhodey Word Count: 2014 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: MIT Years, Scars, Tony Stark’s Canon-Compliant Poor Self-Esteem, Mentions of Racism, Mutual Pining Summary: A couple of decades of Tony and Rhodey, what grows between them, and what might threaten to keep them apart.

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Collaborator : Me and me alone Card Number: 6069 Square Filled: A3 - Free Space Title: A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow Link: AO3 Pairings: Peggy Carter & Tony Stark, SteveBuckyPeggy Word Count: 2699 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Kid!Tony, Fluff and Crack, Disney World AU Summary: After an emergency calls Howard away, Tony is dropped off at the Carter/Rogers/Barnes household without little notice. Peggy notices that her poor godson hasn't had much of a chance to just be a kid lately and she knows the perfect cure: Disney World.

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Collaborator : SomeSortofItalianRoast Card Number: 6002 Square Filled: A1 - AU: Regency Title: A Soldier for a Duke Link: AO3 Pairings: Pre-Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 1550 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Alternate Universe - Regency, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Summary: Lord Anthony Stark, the Duke of Hastings, has determined that he shall wed this season’s Diamond of the First Water. Her guardian, Sergeant James Barnes of Buckinghamshire, has something to say about that. And it’s not “yes.”

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Collaborator : deehellcat Card Number: 6028 Square Filled: R2 - shipwrecked Title: The Treasures Few Have Ever Seen Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Pepper/Rhodey Word Count: 1237 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Polyamory, Shipwrecked, mentions of D/s dynamics, Not Endgame Compliant, Tony Stark Lives, the Russos whomst, Post-Endgame Summary: “Rhodey. Platypus. If anybody at MIT ever gets wind of this, I’m gonna wish Thanos had squashed me. I’ll die of embarrassment. We’re certified pirates. We helped start the school’s damned pirate program. And here we are shipwrecked!!”

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Collaborator : Girl Back There Card Number: 6021 Square Filled: R3 - Friday Title: Vibe Check Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Steve Word Count: 1134 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: No Powers AU, Peter is Tony's Kid, Harley is Steve's kid, Established Relationship, Fluff Summary: Harley and Peter worked too hard to get their dads together for Tony to forget to give Steve flowers.

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Collaborator : tencitizens Card Number: 6087 Square Filled: A3 - Free Space Title: Something to Get Me Through the Nothing - A WinterIron Round Robin Link: AO3 Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Tony Stark Word Count: 2638 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Hurt/Comfort, Bucky Barnes Remembers, Classic Cars, Memories, Comic Book Automotive Repair, Bucky Barnes Recovering, POV Alternating, Angst with a Hopeful Ending Summary: Bucky Barnes remembers December 16, 1991 and can't keep it a secret. When he talks to Tony, he finds he's not the only one with issues. They talk and bond over nightmares, unfortunate shared history, and classic cars... and maybe find the start of something more.

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Collaborator : Buckybeardreams Card Number: 6073 Square Filled: T5 - Disability fic Title: Sensitivities Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve/Bucky/Tony Word Count: 3243 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Internalized ableism Summary: Tony's always been a little different, but he tries so hard to be normal, to live up to his father's reputation as a bad boy billionaire genius, spent so many years trying to hide the parts of him he viewed as weaknesses, and then Steve and Bucky ruined everything by making him fall for them. Now, Tony can finally just let go, and let his daddies take care of him.

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Collaborator : scottxlogan Card Number: 6038 Square Filled: Adopted - de-aged!Tony Title: First Meeting Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 5387 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: First Meetings, First Kiss, Pre-Relationship, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Winter, Past Relationship(s), Past Abuse, On the Run, Age Difference, De-Aged Tony Stark, Older Man/Younger Man, Comfort/Angst, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Stalking Summary: Bucky Barnes is living a life of solitude on the run and hiding from Hydra in the hopes that he can find his way back to himself and his freedom again. On his path to freedom, Bucky encounters a younger Tony Stark hiding out from danger and hoping Bucky will play along in helping him escape the threat he's facing. When the two share an unexpected first meeting sparks fly and it opens the door to something more for each of them moving forward.

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Collaborator : PoliZ Card Number: 6019 Square Filled: R1 - R1 - Tony's Poor Life Choices Title: Never Have I Ever (But I’d Like to With You) - Chapter 2 Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Steve Word Count: 820 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Team Bonding, Never Have I Ever, Alternating POV, Mutual Pining, Love Confessions Summary: Tony can't get the thought of Captain America having joined the Mile High Club out of his mind, so he goes searching for answers.

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Collaborator : PoliZ Card Number: 6019 Square Filled: R2 - IronWidow Title: Lady Natasha’s Consort and Lord Steve’s Companion - Chapter 3 Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Natasha, Steve/Bucky, Tony & Bucky Word Count: 1025 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Royalty AU, Secret Relationship, Political Alliances, Polyamory, Intrigue, Summary: Bucky exposes a painful part of his past as Doctor Banner performs an autopsy on Rumlow; he, Banner and Tony discuss what comes next.

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Collaborator : PoliZ Card Number: 6019 Square Filled: R4 - Occupational Hazard Title: I Make Toys (But I Have Aspirations) Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony & Steve Word Count: 351 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Fantasy AU, North Pole AU, Elf Avengers Summary: It wasn’t that Tony didn’t like working for Santa. It’s just that he wondered sometimes if maybe he was meant for more. One day, his friend Steve asks for his help, and Tony finds his true purpose.

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Collaborator : rebelmeg Card Number: 6001 Square Filled: Adopted - Outsider POV Title: Inside Jokes Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony & Avengers Word Count: 3545 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: humor, inside jokes, friendship Summary: Ah, inside jokes. The epitome of hilarity and often utterly nonsensical to the outside eye. What better way to make someone feel included than to bring them in on their very own inside joke?

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Collaborator : ralsbecket Card Number: 6032 Square Filled: S3 - "I regret nothing." Title: In Another Life Link: AO3 Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark Word Count: 708 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: TVA AU, Multiverse, Pre-Serum Bucky Barnes, Ambiguous Slash Summary: Tony turned ever so slightly to the Hunter hovering behind Barnes, nodding once. “Reset him.” He picked up his gavel, lazily slamming it down to cement the verdict. As the Hunter grabbed Barnes by the arm, Tony told him jadedly, “I sure hope he was worth it.” “I regret nothing. Not a damn thing.” Barnes squared his shoulders even as he was dragged away, conviction clear in his voice. Tony wasn’t sure why his heart ached at Barnes’ final declaration: “Least of all loving Steve Rogers.”

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Collaborator : DarthBloodOrange Card Number: 6066 Square Filled: S1 - AU: Cyberpunk Title: Iron Cyber-Man Link: AO3 Pairings: N/a Word Count: N/a - Moodboard Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Cyberpunk AU, Future AU Summary: Cyberpunk AU Iron Man

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Collaborator : Girl Back There Card Number: 6021 Square Filled: S1 - Myths and Legends Title: A Price to Pay Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Loki Word Count: 584 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Fantasy AU, Shifter Tony, Open ending, Making a deal, Moodboard Summary: Stealing from a powerful wizard comes with consequences.

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Collaborator : deehellcat Card Number: 6028 Square Filled: T4 - carnival Title: Exactly How to Fill Those Shoes Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Steve Word Count: 5449 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: omegaverse, dating agency, au—no powers, pre-serum Steve, systemic injustice, veils, getting together, alpha Steve Rogers, omega Tony Stark, identity porn Summary: A small guy who's an alpha has a hard time being taken seriously, so Steve's friend Natasha persuades him to try signing up for a dating service. He meets Tony, who's as unconventional an omega as he is an alpha, and who has a few secrets.

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Collaborator : N/A Card Number: 6092 Square Filled: R1 - Warm and fuzzy feelings Title: Sulking Link: Tumblr Pairings: Bucky/Tony Word Count: 2.1k Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: A/B/O, Alpha/Daddy Bucky, Omega/brat Tony, Alpha Steve, Beta Sam, eh/c, friendship, advice, humour Summary: Steve and Sam are there for Bucky, giving him relationship advice while Tony is on a business trip.

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Collaborator : Buckybeardreams Card Number: 6073 Square Filled: K5 - 1990's Title: Little Love Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve/Bucky/Tony Word Count: 2633 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Underage, Tween Tony Summary: Steve is unfrozen in the 80s and meets Howard’s young son, not expecting to bond with the child. In the course of one visit, Steve’s life changes, and Tony becomes the center of his world, but the arrival of The Winter Soldier complicates things.

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Collaborator : SomeSortofItalianRoast Card Number: 6002 Square Filled: T3 - AU: No powers Title: A Soldier for a Duke (Chapter 2: The Library) Link: AO3 Pairings: Pre-Tony/bucky Word Count: 2126 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Alternate Universe - Regency, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Pre-Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark, Year of the OTP Prompt Event 2023 Summary: Anthony Stark, the Duke of Hastings, and Sergent James Barnes share an encounter in the library.

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Collaborator : rebelmeg Card Number: 6001 Square Filled: T3 - holding hands Title: Rebelmeg Drabbles - Chapter 24: Just Practicing Link: AO3 Pairings: Iron Family Word Count: 100 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: baby Morgan, fluff, drabble Summary: Tony and Morgan get a jump on practicing for those first steps.

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Collaborator : scottxlogan Card Number: 6038 Square Filled: A1 - Physical Therapy Title: Finding My Way To You Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 9849 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Past Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Heavy Angst, Sexting, Enemies to Lovers, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, References to Depression, Isolation, Touch-Starved, Online Relationship, Sexual Content, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt Tony Stark, Dark Tony Stark, Hurt Bucky Barnes, Self-Esteem Issues, Misunderstandings, Idiots in Love, Mutual Pining, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Adult Content, Mild Language Summary: After life has thrown him an unexpected curve Tony is in a bit of a slump in his personal life. After his break-up with Pepper, Tony thought he was fine. That is until Pepper moved on with someone new and an injury has Tony facing the idea of spending his life alone. Caught up in what he sees as himself having a mid-life crisis Tony joins a dating app where he finds someone special in the most unexpected of ways. The problem is that with Tony life is never as easy as he hopes for it to be and with his new love brings new complications to his world in the most unexpected of ways.

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Collaborator : N/a Card Number: 6086 Square Filled: A5 - Silver Haired Tony Title: Silver Haired Tony Link: Tumblr Pairings: Stony (Steve Rogers/Tony Stark) Word Count: N/a Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: N/a Summary: A Moodboard for a silver-haired Tony Stark.

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Collaborator : tencitizens Card Number: 6087 Square Filled: A5 - Flying Title: Tony Stark, Who? (Chapter Two: I'm Right Here, Asshole!) Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Stephen Strange Word Count: 5332 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: POV Tony Stark, Gen or Pre-Slash, Tony Stark Lives, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Curse Breaking, Not Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Compliant Summary: “Mr. Stark is missing, and no one remembers him!” Peter Parker is working with Mr. Stark in his workshop when all of a sudden he disappears, poof! He finds himself looking for help from a certain wizard down on Bleecker Street... Chapter Two shows Tony's POV of his time being cursed, invisible and forgotten by nearly everyone in the world.

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Collaborator : n/a Card Number: 6086 Square Filled: A4 - Cheesy Title: It's Just Us Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 4.1k Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: No Archive Warnings Apply, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Tony Stark Has Self-Esteem Issues Summary: For their first Valentine's Day together, Steve asked Tony for one thing: a poem. No one could ever say that Tony Stark didn’t throw himself completely into his projects. Cue research, frustration, and workshop shenanigans.

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Collaborator : endlesstwanted Card Number: 6085 Square Filled: R1 - Warm and fuzzy feelings Title: A Moment of Quiet Among All this Madness Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 1204 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, On the Run, Pregnancy, Slice of Life Summary: Tony wakes up in the motel room content, but craving Steve's warmth. He has to convince his alpha to join him now.

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Collaborator : tencitizens Card Number: 6087 Square Filled: A1 - Image Prompt of Mark I Armor Title: Iron Man (2008) - Suits Link: Tumblr Pairings: None Word Count: N/A Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Iron Man, Tony Stark, Obadiah Stane, Iron Monger, Dum E, Iron Man Suits Summary: Four gifs of the different versions of the Iron Man armors (Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, Iron Monger Suit) from the first Iron Man movie.

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Collaborator : rebelmeg Card Number: 6001 Square Filled: R2 - image of IM2 Iron Bros Title: Can't Miss What You Don't Like Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony & Rhodey Word Count: 3255 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: whump, angst with a happy ending, Tony survives his self-destruct attempt and has to face Rhodey afterward Summary: It's hard for a friendship to recover from something like a knock-down, drag-out, house-destroying fight. The thing is, Tony never planned on being around long enough afterwards to find out whether it could.

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Collaborator : n/a Card Number: 6086 Square Filled: A3 - Free Square Title: Proud of Your Boy Link: AO3 Pairings: none Word Count: 1217 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Grief, talking to dead people, references to Tony's capture in Afghanistan, cemetery Summary: After escaping Afghanistan, Tony needed to talk to his mom.

[teachingrounds]

Let's talk about risk factors for neonatal jaundice, which is found in >80% of newborn babies and usually resolves in 1-2 weeks as the infant feeds and poops. However, a small percentage of babies develop hazardous hyperbilirubinemia (TSB≥30) --> brain damage from bilirubin crossing the blood-brain barrier (aka kernicterus). Visual assessment of significant jaundice does not reliably correlate with high total serum bilirubin levels! Therefore all newborns should be screened 24-48 hours after birth or before discharge, whichever is sooner. Both transcutaneous and serum bilirubin levels are reliable screening tools, although if a TcB is close to the treatment threshold, it should be checked with a TsB.

Source: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/3/e2022058859/188726/Clinical-Practice-Guideline-Revision-Management-of

Image: "Intensive phototherapy Our area has as a very high level of newborn jaundice, which is sometimes fatal. The treatment is phototherapy for less severe cases, exchange blood transfusion for the more serious ones. This special, intense blue phototherapy lamp (NeoBLUE) was donated by Natus Medical, Inc. with the assistance of Henk J. Vreman, Ph.D., at Stanford University Dept. of Pediatrics.  (ECWA Evangel Hospital, Jos, Nigeria)" ~California pediatrician Mike Blyth, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

[polizwrites]

PoliZ's WIP Update - 30 Oct 2024

Another slower writing week - I touched three  fics (2 new & 1 WIPs)  for a total  of  1788  words, about 1200 of which were on a single fic - a WIP–on-hiatus that I’m getting some traction on.   

On Ao3, I posted: 

Better Served Cold - pseudo-Regency WinterIron Vampire AU one shot

On Tumblr I posted: 

 A Dark and Stormy Knight -  WinterIron Medieval AU double drabble

Dark Dreams Doubled -  Stucky angsty drabble

Bait and Switch - Stucky (Stuckony) ficlet that lives up to its name.

Looking High and Low - domestic WinterIron fluff

I’m juggling  20+  active/semi-active WIPs with my current  deadline being the Fictober, Flufftober and Whumptober writing challenges that run til the end of the month, along with the Build a Bucky Bingo. 

See  below cut for what I’m working on/planning to work on - arranged more or less by bingos/challenges/etc.  As always, feel free to send me   prompts or plot bunnies as well as asks regarding  any of these projects  or any other WIPs I’ve got out there.   Interaction really helps feed the Muse and keep me motivated!

WinterIron Gets It Done Bingo [WIGID] 

This new WinterIron Discord server event runs on a monthly basis as a flash bingo with a content creation card and an engagement card - working on filling squares for both! 

* Classic1 - "Oops"   Posted Love Potion Number φ - a WinterIron Magic AU  double drabble that crosses over with the FltT prompt 11. Ingredients & Spells as well as my TSB S3 - KINK: Aphrodisiacs square.  It came in at 200 words exactly and will get added to Ao3 at some point. 

* Classic_2 - Scary Movie - posted The Old Dark House  on Friday - a  WinterIron domestic fluff drabble that crossed over with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF274 Empty House] and will get posted to Ao3 at some point. 

* Classic_3 - FREE - posted the final chapter of Love is a Thing That Can Never Go Wrong - my (eventual) WinterIron Reality Show AU fic from this summer.  The final episode of Courting a Royal has James choosing his potential partner - and he throws a wrench into things with his choice.  It came in at 1092 words and filled the BaBB October: Formal Wear prompt and my  TSB:  R1 - WinterIron square.  

* Classic_4 - Fortune Teller - Posted   Madame Prophetrona Knows All yesterday - a true 100-word drabble that incorporates the Fictober prompt  22 - “Why are we doing this again?” with a bit of friendship (or established relationship) fluff.   

* Classic_5 - Dark and Stormy - Posted  Better Served Cold on Friday - a quasi-Regency vampire AU (vamp!Bucky and human!Tony) that crosses over with the Whumptober prompt  No. 18: REVENGE  + Loss of Identity,  the Fictober Day 25 prompt:  “it consumes me” and the BaBB October: Vampire AU prompt.  It came in at 1007 words.  

* Engagement_1 - Post A Prompt:  I shared the following prompt in the party thread: 

Prompt for this month's  Bingo:    Tony and Bucky work opposite shifts at a coffee shop.  They start leaving notes for each other - originally work related (malfunctioning equipment, cranky customers, etc)  but then start sharing bits from their lives  (acing a test,  making a therapy breakthru [physical or mental])  and become penpal friends.    They finally meet at the shop's  holiday party only to discover they already had met  (at the gym, shared class... one night stand?)

A couple of people in the thread are already taking the idea and running with it - can’t wait to see what they’ll do! 

Build-A-Bucky Bingo [BaBB_R1] (Ends 31 Oct 2024)

Another fun year-long  event from the folks at  @buckybarnesevents!  Each month there’s a list of prompts and you choose (at least) one  each month for your card!  At thirty-six  fills and one month to go, I think I’ve gone a bit overboard …. 😁 

* October: Formal Wear - see WIGID Classic_3 - FREE above. 

* October: Vampire AU - see WIGID Classic_5 - Dark & Stormy  above.  

* October: Alpine - posted Looking High and Low on Tumblr last Saturday - a domestic fluff WinterIron fic that crossed over with the Flufftober Day 26 prompt “I can’t find it.” and Fictober Day 10 prompt “Is this normal?”  It came in at 395 words and will get posted to Ao3 at some point. 

Flufftober 2024  [FlfT_24] (Runs 1-31 Oct)

This writing challenge hosted by @flufftober  runs for the month of October.  My goal is to write one fic a week that incorporates these prompts: ended up posting seven - and I’m happy with that.   Check back next week for a masterpost.   

* 5. Acorn, Chestnut, Pine Cone - Posted  Up, Down, North, South, East and West  last Saturday.  Combined this with R3 - AU: adventurers/explorers  for some Tony  & Morgan fluff. It came in at  347 words and will get posted to Ao3 at some point.

* 11. Ingredients & Spells - see WIGID Classic_1 - “Oops” above. 

* 12 - “This is spooky.” - “Really?” -- Posted Digging Into the Past as a crossover with the  Fictober prompt  - 12 “Did you hear that?” and my BBB B3 - "Anyone out there?"  square  for a pre-war Steve & Bucky fic where they venture into the creepy cellar of their apartment building. It came in at 577  words and will get posted to Ao3 eventually.  

* 18. Bewitched - Posted  Pussyfooting Around on the 18th.  It crosses over with my  BBB B1 - Magic  square and the Fictober 19. “This is getting ridiculous.”  for a  WinterIron ficlet  where something odd (and adorable) is going on with Bucky.  It came in at  at 272 words and will get added to Ao3 at some point. 

* 22 - Heirloom - Posted Chapter 10 of A Sugar-Coated Pill on the 18th.  It crossed over with my WIB G2 - Edwin Jarvis &  TSB T2 - Wedding squares - after  jumping forward in time,  Tony gifts a tie bar to Bucky as his ‘something old’ for their wedding.  It came in 1433 words and finished off the fic!  

* 26 -  “I can’t find it.” -  see BaBB October: Alpine prompt above

* FlfT Alt7 - Getting Revenge - Posted Bait and Switch on the 27th - crossing over with  Whumptober: Alt13 - Used as Bait  and Fictober 27. “let me remind you”  prompts, plus my  BBB Y2 - Kidnapped!  square for a Stucky (Stuckony) fic that is true to its title; it came in at 441 words.  

Whumptober 2024 [WmpT_24] (Runs 1-31 Oct)

This writing challenge hosted by @whumptober  runs for the month of October. My goal was to write two fics (whump isn’t normally my bag)   that incorporates these prompts. Ended up with four fics; check in next week for a masterpost.   

* No. 4: HALLUCINATIONS + “You’re still alive in my head”. Combined this with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt   [#FFF273 Invisible Guest]  for  Having the Last Word   where Tony confronts an imaginary (but still dead) Obadiah Stane.  It came in at 310 words and will get posted to Ao3 at some point.  

* No. 18: REVENGE  - see WIGID Classic_5 - Dark and Stormy above. 

*Alt9 - Secrets Revealed - This fits very well into what will probably be the final chapter of  My Love is Vengeance - part of my long-running WinterIron series  where the Winter Soldier gets assigned as a young Tony Stark’s bodyguard, with the mission of convincing him to join HYDRA.  But affection (plus a cognitive recalibration) leads Bucky to rebel.  It’s coming in at 1123 words and will probably post on the 31st so I can squeeze it into this event.  

* Alt13 - Used as Bait -  see  FlfT Alt7 - Getting Revenge

Fictober 2024 [FicT_24] (Runs 1-31 Oct)

Another October writing challenge with daily prompts - all of which are dialogue. Go check out @fictober-event  for details!  I was targeting one fic a week on this as well and ended up with seven - stay tuned for a masterpost.  Might keep this prompt list around for future inspiration.  

* 10   “Is this normal?” - see BaBB October: Alpine

* 12 “Did you hear that?”  - see FlfT 12 - “This is spooky.” - “Really?”

* 19. “This is getting ridiculous.” - see FlfT 18. Bewitched 

* 22 - “Why are we doing this again?” - see WIGID Classic_4: Fortune Teller 

* 25 -  “It consumes me.” - see WIGID Classic_5 - Dark and Stormy above.

* 27 - “Let me remind you.” - see  FlfT Alt7 - Getting Revenge

WinterIron Bingo 2  [WIB_R2] (Ends 16 Dec 2024)

Signups are still open for pre-made cards for Round Two of this super-fun bingo event! I have twenty  fills and zero WIPs at the moment - setting this aside for the moment, as I have other time-sensitive events going.  

* Iron Soldier (One Bingo, One Fill) - looking at combining my Column B prompts: Matchmaker, Bucky Riding Tony, Stark Gala, Inside Joke and Threesome.  Still working on a plot - if you have any suggestions/want-to-sees - let me know! 

* I3 - Car Sex -  Have a fun ficlet in mind for this - some of the dialogue & such already worked out in my head.  

* N5 - "I'm here for you."  - Possibly the next chapter of  Lady Natasha’s Consort and Lord Steve’s Companion ?  

Marvelous Yahtzee [MY_24] (Ends 31 Dec)

Another writing challenge that I kind of forgot I signed up for!  This one is a bit complicated - check out the Tumblr blog for more info.   Hopefully I can pick up a few lines and put something together before the event ends.  

Bucky Barnes Bingo - Round Six [BBB - R6]  (Ends 31 Mar)

This amazing bingo event from the folks over at @buckybarnesbingo is back!  I have twenty  fills (but somehow only one bingo) with one WIPs at the moment, and a couple  more crossovers planned. 

* B1 - Magic - see FlfT 18 - Bewitched above.

* U3 - Yelena Belova  - Magica and I are circling back around to Peresmešnik, (aka Three Avengers and a Baby) - with the next chapter featuring Tony’s interactions with Mirriam, and a revelation about her parentage. I’ve written 313 of the 560 words in this chapter so far - it needs about 500 more words before we’ll be ready to post - maybe sometime  this month?   

*  K2 - IMAGE: Bucky and Steve in Siberian silo hallway (CA:CW)  - Combined this with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt  [#FFF269 Living Weapon]  for  Reconstruction - a fix-it/canon divergent ficlet where Steve, Bucky and Tony team up instead of fighting.   It came in at 268 words and will get posted  to Ao3 before the event is over.   

* Y2 - Kidnapped!  -  see  FlfT Alt7 - Getting Revenge

Tony Stark Bingo - Mark VIII [TSB_R8]  (Ends 31 May)

This amazing bingo event from the folks over at @tonystarkbingo is back! Late signups should start this month  if you want to join in on the fun!  I have  seventeen squares filled, one bingo and one WIPs - with more crossovers planned! 

* S1 - Bodyguard - filled this with A Dark and Stormy Knight - a vaguely medieval AU WinterIron AU double drabble which crossed over with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF276 Dark and Stormy Night]. It came in at 200 words and will get posted on Ao3 at some point.  

* S3 - KINK: Aphrodisiacs - see WIGID  Classic1 - "Oops" above 

* T1 - Watching Helplessly -  Posted Stranded Among the Stars  to Tumblr as a crossover with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF265 Galaxies Away]. It’s a Nebula & Tony ficlet set on the ship - it came in at 345 words and will get posted to Ao3 before the event ends. 

* T2 - Wedding - see Flufftober 22. Heirloom prompt above

* R1 - WinterIron - see WIGID - Classic_3 - FREE above

* R3 - AU: adventurers/explorers - see FlfT 5. Acorn, Chestnut, Pine Cone above.  

* K4 - backstory - see Whumptober *Alt9 - Secrets Revealed 

Post July Break Bingo 2024  [pJBB_24] (Ends 30 Jun 2025)

I requested two 2x3 cards for this  Discord-server only event from @julybreakbingo  – so if you want to join in the fun, let me know and I’ll try to get you an invite!  I have four  fics posted & 0 WIPs - need to figure out some more crossovers.

* C2_B1 - Courting/courted in a different way than they're familiar with -  posted A Symbol of Devotion on Tumblr as a crossover with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF267 Gifted Violets] - a bit of Stony fluff with Tony  buying Steve little things for his apartment.   It came in at 374 words and will get posted to Ao3 before this event is over. 

* C2_B2 - Being there for someone after a traumatic event -  posted Melting Down  to Ao3 - a  post IM3 Pepperony ficlet where Pepper’s struggling with Extremis.  It crossed over with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF271 Tantrum Entrance] and came in at 416 words. 

Warm and Fluffy   Bingo  [WFB]   (no end date)

Eight fills on my card, courtesy of   @warmandfluffybingocards  - need to try for another crossover or two!

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On  other creative fronts:  I am working on a Mothra figure for a custom commission  and have seven figures to create for my two Marvel Trumps Hate 2024 auctions.  I’ve been in touch with my winners and they’re still deciding on who they want.  

If  you’re looking for one of a kind gifts for birthdays or other celebrations, check  out Stuffed With Character    over on Facebook for a full list of my designs (now over 150!).   These soft stuffed figures are  mostly Marvel and monsters, but I have some Star Wars, Star Trek, DC   and Disney figures as well. Plus I love to take custom design   requests  for any fandom!

[alexandraisyes]

Someone send me the motivation I need to binge 30 hours of TSBS lore

And also to finish that one set of goth earth drawings

And also to do all my commissions within a week

And also to-

[influencermagazineuk]

High Street Bank to Implement Overseas Debit Card Fees for 3 Million Customers

Metro Bank is introducing a 2.99% fee on all debit card transactions made outside the UK starting August 29, including in Europe, which is currently free. Customers withdrawing cash from their accounts abroad will also pay the 2.99% fee plus an additional £1.50 ATM fee. Currently, Metro Bank allows its approximately 3 million customers to spend on their debit cards and make cash withdrawals in Europe without fees. However, last week, customers received an email informing them of the new charges for transactions in all foreign countries starting in August. The email, sent on June 27, stated: "After August 29, 2024, debit card payments made in a foreign currency outside the UK will be charged 2.99% on the converted British Pound value of the transaction. Cash withdrawals made in a foreign currency using your debit card outside the UK will be charged 2.99% on the converted British Pound value plus a £1.50 ATM fee. This charge applies to each transaction." Although a 2.99% fee may not seem significant, the costs can add up quickly as the fee is applied to every transaction. For instance, if you spend £20 on your card, you will incur a 60p fee. If you make five £20 transactions, you'll spend an extra £3 in fees. For cash withdrawals, the charges are even higher. Withdrawing £100 in foreign currency would result in a £2.99 charge, plus the additional £1.50 ATM fee, totaling £4.49. One customer expressed disappointment, stating, "It's very disappointing to note Metro Bank will be charging the fee. I have had this account for well over 10 years explicitly to use in Europe. On occasion, there have been large sums in the account, but unfortunately, it will be canceled on August 29. I now need to find another free debit card." A Metro Bank spokesperson confirmed the change, adding, "Over time, we've seen our customer's needs and expectations evolve, and the demand for this service has been declining over several years." What do other banks charge?First Direct: No fees for using a debit card to make payments or withdrawals in foreign currency. Daily cash withdrawal limit is £500 or the foreign currency equivalent. HSBC: Customers with a HSBC Global Money Account can spend and withdraw cash abroad fee-free. Other customers will be charged 2.75% for shopping and 2.75% plus a 2% fee for cash. Lloyds Bank: Silver and Platinum account customers can use their debit cards worldwide fee-free starting July 1, 2024. Silver accounts cost £10 per month, while Platinum accounts cost £21 per month. Monzo Bank: No foreign transaction fees for debit card payments. Main account holders can make unlimited fee-free withdrawals in the European Economic Area (EEA) and up to £200 every 30 days elsewhere. After that, a 3% fee applies. Santander: Santander Edge, Edge Up, and Private Account debit cards allow fee-free withdrawals and spending abroad. Other accounts charge 2.95% for purchases and withdrawals. Starling Bank: No fees for using your debit card abroad. TSB Bank: TSB Spend and Save Plus account holders pay no fees on debit card transactions worldwide. Other account holders pay 2.99% in fees on transactions and 1.5% on withdrawals. No fees for cash withdrawals in Euros from EEA country ATMs. Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank: Virgin Money M Plus account holders are not charged for using their debit cards abroad, although some ATMs may still charge a fee. Read the full article

[anthonysstupiddailyblog]

Anthony’s Stupid Daily Blog (334): Mon 13th Feb 2023

One more shift until I get three days off. I love this job but I don’t know if I could do this if it was a 9-5. I need a full three days to recover from the strain and boredom of backing hundreds if not thousands of items into boxes for 40 hours a week while shitty music is forced into my ear canals. If I only had two days to recover from this shit then I’d be in a bad mood all the time. Interestingly enough when I worked at TSB they surveyed us and asked whether we’d be interested in switching to a four day work week and I said absolutely fucking not. 10 hours (minus two 30 minute breaks) of standing in one spot and silently packing items into boxes I could definitely do but 10 hours (minus one hour lunch and two fifteen minute breaks) of talking to shitheads on the phone, go fuck your Dad! Even though it would be less work the type of work in the TSB job is WAY worse than in the factory (also those fifteen minute breaks felt more like fifteen second breaks). I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since I left that shithole and frankly I’m not sure how I lasted six months there without ramming my head through a computer screen. Since I did a month of training, two weeks on holiday, a week off with COVID and ten days off the phones because their systems stopped working because the tech team are really incompetent, this means that I only really spent four months talking to dickheads on the phone but it was still way too much. I still regret not writing down the names and numbers of the arsehole callers I got so that when I go on trips away I could use public telephones to prank call them in the middle of the night to get back at them for talking to me like a piece of shit.

Six weeks until WrestleMania! Man I’m so fucking excited. For a while it seemed like I would never get there and now it’s so close. Next week I’ll go to the town and get my money changed over to dollars (or whatever currency Biden changes it to in the time between now and the trip. Hell the guy’s so senile he may pass a law ruling that people have to pay for stuff with underpants…although that would make buying underpants tricky). I might prepare for WrestleMania 39 by watching every single WrestleMania to get myself in the spirit of things. It also means that I’m going to have to start watching Raw and Smackdown again so that I’ll be up to speed on the storylines going into the show…urgh. I know that the Rumble and Mania still deliver but the stuff on Raw and Smackdown that isn’t Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn is just abysmal. Personally I think WWE are making a big mistake by going with Cody Rhodes being the guy to face Roman at Mania (unless he loses which he should in which case I’m fine with it). Rhodes did a good job last year of garnering fan support and establishing himself as a top babyface but it hasn’t been enough to warrant him being the one to dethrone Reigns. The person to take the belt off of Reigns should do so as the culmination of a lengthy storyline, not just because they won the Rumble. Sami Zayn is far and away the more logical choice to face Reigns at Mania, though I don’t think he should win either as it will be much more effective if they have him lose this year, have Reigns title run go over the 1000 day mark and then have Sami defeat him at Mania 40. Speaking of WWE pay per views I think next year I’m going to pull the trigger on the Royal Rumble too, although the location for the show hasn’t been decided yet. The great thing about my Mania trip is that i will be able to cross this item as well as visiting California and seeing the LA Lakers off my bucket list. Therefore I’m hoping that the Rumble will be located in a state that will allow me to cross off additional items. I’ve always wanted to visit New Orleans so having the Rumble there would be handy. I also want to see Edgar Allan Poe’s grave and the house he lived in which are both in Baltimore so hopefully they might announce this as the site of the show.

[lowspoonsfood]

If we're talking easy pasta, i have this bake I like to make if I have a lot of people coming over and I don't want to spend 3 hours cooking.

You need a box of pasta (I like fusilli, penne or rigatoni), 300-500ml cooking cream, milk, garlic powder or actual garlic, and whatever veggies you like. I usually default use onion, carrot, kale and anything else I have on hand that needs using. Also frozen peas and a can of tuna and some cheese mix.

Line a large baking dish, put in the whole thing of pasta, pour over all the ingredients and enough milk so the pasta is submerged but like not necessarily all of it and mix that all up. Bits of pasta sticking out is good because they get crunchy and delicious. Cover with as much cheese and you like and cover the whole thing with foil. Cook for about 40 minutes, but you want to check it after 30. So long as all the veggies are cooked it'll be ready. Once everything is cooked, take off the foil and let the cheese brown for another 20.

Sometimes I make this just for me and box up the rest for easy meals the rest of the week.

Oh for the pasta bake ask (same anon) if you have ground cloves on hand, put in a half tsb of those as well for an extra delicious flavour.

[lazychickensoup]

Fic/0ne shot/drabble idea: suga x reader, where their apartment spaces are right beside each other and their showers are on opposite sides, so there is only a wall between their showers. So when theyre showering at the same time sometimes they sing duets. They never figure out who each other is, bc different work schedules, but one day, outside they apartment, y/n starts humming a tune sung previously by her in the shower only to have a star struck stranger slowly join her.

-Tsb

Moving is never fun, but moving for a job that pays you twice the amount of your old salary is bearable. It’s been a long weekend of unpacking absolutely nothing. I was supposed to get all my boxes delivered on Friday, but I got a call saying that they went to the wrong address in a different prefecture. Luckily, I had packed some stuff in a suitcase for the first couple of nights because even if I had the boxes the last thing I would be doing is unpacking.

Tomorrow is my first day, or should I say night, at my job. Working night shifts is gonna take some getting used to. I stayed up all day yesterday and all night. It’s 4:30 in the morning, that’s late enough for me. I turn the nobs on the shower heating it up to a flesh-burning heat. I grab all my toiletries from my suitcase and set them up o the shelves before finally stepping in. The water pressure felt amazing, like a massage. I grab my shampoo and start my showering routine which of course meant giving my own concert. This song has been stuck in my head for weeks because of the radio. Having no shame I start singing the chorus not so gracefully.

“Oh good for you, you look happy and healthy, not me, if you ever cared to ask. Good for” I was interrupted by another voice on the other side of my shower.

“You, You’re doing great out there without me, baby…” It dies down after realizing that I wasn’t singing along anymore. “Sorry! Did I ruin your solo?” the voice called out. I put my ear up against the wall trying to hear the room across from me. I couldn’t tell because of the water hitting me but I think that there was a shower on the other side of my wall as well.

“Um no. You just scared me.” I continue to awkwardly wash my body, covering myself as if they could see me.

“Oh sorry! You’re my new neighbor right? How are you settling in?” Is he seriously trying to make small talk while we both shower?

“Um okay, I guess. All of my boxes got delivered to another address so I’m living out of a suitcase right now. I start my new job tomorrow though so maybe that will be fun.”

“Damn, all your belongings are with someone else? That sucks. Well, maybe I could meet you tomorrow for coffee on the way to work? My treat as a welcoming. What time do you go in?”

“I go in at 6pm. I work night shifts at a manga company. So no coffee for me sorry. What do you do that gets you up so early?” I hear him chuckle, it was kinda low and made my stomach twist in a good way.

“I work at an elementary school. So I don’t get off till about 4. Well, that’s unfortunate. Maybe I’ll bump into you one day. Give you a proper welcome. I got to go, nice talking to you.” I say goodbye as well turning off my water and throwing on some underwear and a T-shirt. I walk out to my door peeking out to see if I would catch a glimpse of the mystery man on his way to work. I sat there for a good 10 minutes before sleep won and I crawl into bed.

It’s been 6 days since my first conversation with the mystery man. We’ve talked to each other a few more times when we both coincidentally get in the shower at the same time. Every time we find a couple of songs to duet to. Our favorite one to sing together is Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus. We also talk about our lives and hoping to finally meet in between our busy schedules.

Having to wake up early isn’t a good look for me, I have no fucks to give at 4 in the afternoon which is really 4 in the morning for me. The only reason I’m up this early is that my boxes are finally coming in. I meet the driver and his buddies telling them that I would like them all inside since I have no one to help me unpack. They couldn’t seem to care less about what I said and still put them right in front of my apartment. As they are getting back into their truck I lean over the railing and call out to them.

“Yeah, fuck you too.” I turn around looking at the tower of boxes and groan. This is gonna take forever and I have to leave in two hours. I start taking them one by one into the house while humming my favorite shower tune. I walk outside to get another box when I heard the same song being whistled next to me. I look over to see a man about my height maybe a little taller. His hair was a silvery gray and look incredibly soft. I must have been staring too long, he looked over to me and froze just as I did. Eyeing me up and down. I could believe this was my neighbor he so pretty. I feel like I'm in some kind of story. “Hey, neighbor.” I wave awkwardly.

“Hi, I see you finally got your boxes in.”

“Yep, stupid moving guys put them all outside though so..”

“Oh, well let me help you, I just have to put my stuff away real quick.” He rushes inside and I walk to his door calling out.

“No no you don’t have to do that you just got back from work right?”

“Yes but this would be a formal welcoming wouldn't it? I Koushi Sugawara by the way. Please call me Suga.” He rolls up his sleeves displaying his slender but built arms. He waves me off with a smile and starts to pick up a box.

“Okay Suga, I’m Y/n L/n you can call me by ether.” I see no getting out of this one. I tell him where I would like them and go outside to get one myself. I bent down grabbing the box but Sugas voice makes me drop it sitting back up.

“Y/n? Are you not wearing pants?” I turn around to him sure my face was a deep shade of red. I had forgotten to put some on earlier because I was waiting for the moving guys to finish.

“I-um-why were you looking?” I shoot back at him his face also heating up.

“No no I didn’t mean to. You just had gone to grab a box and I-”

“It’s fine let just forgot this happened I'll go put on some shorts. Sorry.” I run into my room to get clothes. Walking back out I see him looking around at the empty walls. ‘“I see you brought in the last boxes thank you.”

“Of course neighbor. I have a question.”

“Yes?”

“How about one of your days off we go on a picnic date. I know some really beautiful parks around here.” He stares awaiting my answer but I was in shock. We had only met 30 minutes ago and now he want to go on a date?

“Um...Sure.”

“Great, see you this weekend beautiful.”

[tisfan]

Title: (Consider this) The Hint of the Century @tisfan Square: R1 - KINK: mind-controlled sex WinterIron Bingo: B2 - Losing Religion @27dragons TSB: S4 - Resurrection  Warning: dub-con (ish), anal sex, ghosts, possession, Bucky has a plan, this wasn’t it Pairing: Bucky/Tony Summary: It’s just a box that they found in the crypt of a desecrated old church that rumor says is haunted. What could possibly go wrong?Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19107763 Word Count: 7382

For @tonystarkbingo and @winterironbingo

A/n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Puller_von_Hohenburg Richard and Anton are, in fact, real people who had a real relationship and were burned at the stake for it. Obviously, we’ve fic’d it up a bit, but here’s where the origin story came from. 

“God, this place is probably older than I am,” Bucky said, looking around the demolished remains of the cathedral. Admittedly, they were in central Europe in one of those countries that Americans could never seem to remember the name of, and therefore something that was only five hundred years old were ‘upstart buildings.’ So it probably didn’t matter that they’d wrecked the place.

It really wasn’t their fault, Bucky was going to raise his hand and swear before God that they did not mean to knock down the church.

Some wanna be sorcerer had taken over the joint, raised a bunch of zombies with some magical… thingie… and made a complete mess of the entire area, terrorizing the locals. The Avengers hadn’t been called in until the Ghost dude -- he’d shouted his villainy name as being the Ghost Whisperer, or something -- had brought down a damn aircraft with a resurrected pterodactyl. Bucky wasn’t entirely paying attention to the rant-and-rave, being much too involved in the set up and take down part of the operation -- and he was being dragged away by a combination of local police and Dr. Strange.

Tony was consulting with the local police, which involved a lot of hand-waving, and he was clearly growing more and more annoyed by the second. Finally, he stomped back over to Bucky, rolling his eyes so hard that it looked painful. “Strange says the guy had some kind of magical pendant that he was using to... he wasn’t controlling the zombies with it -- that was the grimoire -- but to protect himself from them, maybe? I don’t know, magic doesn’t make any sense to me. Anyway, he doesn’t have it on him, so it’s got to be in there somewhere.” He waved a still-gauntleted hand toward the half-destroyed old church. “And the locals refuse to muster a crew to search for it, because they think the place is haunted.” Another eye-roll. “We just arrested the guy who was haunting it; you’d think they’d get that. But they don’t. So it’s up to us to dig through the mess and find the pendant.”

“Great,” Bucky said, watching Tony stride around through the rubble, occasionally assisted with a repulsored hop or delicate leap. Watching Tony in that armor was like witnessing a very aggressive ballet dancer. Beautiful, powerful, great ass-- Bucky sighed, shook his head. “Seems a little, I dunno, heretical or somethin’. Don’t you think? Digging through church wreckage? I feel bad enough about smashing the building to bits in the first place.”

Tony glanced back over his shoulder. “Didn’t take you for the religious type, Klondike. It’s just a building, really. And Strange says we really can’t let anyone else walk off with that pendant; we’ll just end up with another villain in three weeks.”

Bucky shrugged, a little sheepishly. “I grew up in in the 20’s and 30’s, Stark. I was an altar boy and everything. Used to take communion and listen to the litany in Latin.” He grumped about that; he’d been back to church a few times since Hydra. His first confession in seventy years had taken almost four hours, and he’d barely been able to talk for two days after he was done with his penance. But the service itself was in English, and that had been weird enough that Bucky had mostly given up the habit.

Tony tipped his head a little, which meant he was conceding the point. “Still, I’m pretty sure this place was deconsecrated long before we got here. Zombies will probably do that.” He crouched, took hold of a fallen beam, and heaved it out of the way. “...Huh. There’s a door in here. I didn’t notice that before.”

(more below the cut)

“Where, in the Sancrist-- oh.” Bucky stopped. “Uh. I think I know where he was getting the zombies from. That probably leads down to the catacombs.” He crossed himself, kissed his thumb, and then pushed the door open, very slowly. Haunted, the locals said. Bucky wondered if the place had been haunted before the Ghost Whisperer showed up.

Tony muttered something and a soft, wide light shone out of his chestplate, dimly illuminating the stairs leading down. He eyed the passageway. “Strange definitely said that closing the grimoire would drop any remaining zombies wandering around. So there’s nothing down there to worry about. Just...”

“Dead people.”

“Yeah, that.” Tony hesitated a moment longer, then sighed and started down the stairs. “Okay. Might as well get it over with.”

Bucky crept down behind him, torn between wanting to hold Tony’s hand, because part of him was always going to be that scared Catholic boy who was positive he was going to hell, and the other half wanting to yell Boo and see if Tony shrieked like a little kid, because that would be funny as shit.

“Did the locals specifically say what was haunting, around here, I mean, are we talking angry poltergeist that throws the bones of the dead at us, or just scary sounds at night?”

He was working himself right up, that’s exactly what he was doing. Given that they’d been fighting zombies in the morning, complete with the whole hunger for brains and the horrible smell, he was pretty sure he could be excused.

Still…

“Nope, just ‘haunted’ and ‘cursed’, over and over,” Tony said, sounding annoyed. “There was a bit in there about... it didn’t translate well. The two in one body? The two who became one? Something like that.” He glanced back as he reached the bottom, flashing Bucky that insouciant smirk. “So maybe there’s only two ghosts. I bet we can take ‘em.”

“Lovely,” Bucky said. “I don’t really want to take them anywhere. It’s not like it’s their fault that they’re dead. Someone mucking around with the natural order of shit. Oh-- look at that!”

Bucky turned as something glinted and glittered. It probably should have been blue, reflecting the arc-reactor, but it wasn’t. It was golden, sunshine, and pure. Beautiful. A tomb, carved from marble and inlaid with gold.

On the top of what looked like a double-sized burial chamber were two marble statuettes, naked and beautifully done, almost lifelike, reaching for each other but never quite touching.

“Wow.”

“You said it,” Tony agreed. He came over to look at the tableau. “There’s no dust on them.”

“It’s beautiful,” Bucky said, staring up at the statue. While gorgeously done -- Michelangelo's David might well have been jealous -- the expressions on the statues faces were of people who were in terrible pain. Grief, or despair. Bucky’s gaze was drawn to the space between their hands. “Sad, though.” He walked all the way around the statuary, and then-- “Huh, what’s this, I wonder.” He pointed to a reliquary at the end. There were strange marks on it, but the container didn’t look locked or anything.

“How should I know?” Tony wondered. “You think the pendant might be in there?”

Bucky reached for the box; gold and colored enamel, pictures. He squinted, picked it up. “There’s a story here.” He turned the box around in his hands until he found the beginning, an ancient series of events. A wedding, but the man was looking over his new wife’s shoulder-- at her brother, maybe? The estranged couple fighting, the man fleeing to be with his lover. “God, they were burned at the stake.” Bucky shuddered, still looking at the pictures.

“Well, that’s horrible. What are they doing in the church? I thought heretics weren’t allowed proper burial, or something like that?” Tony came closer, shining his light a little more clearly on the box.

“I don’t know,” Bucky said, his fingers grazing over the lid. “I wonder what’s in it.”

“You probably shouldn’t open that,” Tony said sharply.

“I just want to see,” Bucky protested. “It’s just a box, what harm can there be in looking inside a box?”

“Have you not paid any attention to the movies we’ve watched? At all? There are dozens of movies that explain why it’s a bad idea to open random artifacts in a cursed graveyard.”

“If I took your movies seriously, I wouldn’t go to the beach, either,” Bucky said, getting his nails under the lid and prying at it. “Man-eating sharks and everything.” Ahhh, there, there was a little catch under one side, and he pressed it. “Ha, got it!”

The box opened with a soft hiss and a delicate blue mist flowed out, all shiny, pretty, something highly magical is going on here fog. Great special effects, Bucky had time to think before he inhaled--

Richard von Hohenburg opened his eyes for the first time in six hundred years, looking around. The church, where they’d been tortured, forced to confess, burned, and then cursed. As if what they’d done was so terrible.

He’d been locked in a tiny space, no body, no anything. No contact with the realms of the dead. And sensing that Anton was nearby, sensing it, but not being able to touch him, tell him, apologize, nothing.

But he had eyes now. He could see now.

“Anton?”

                                                        ***

“It’s just a box, what harm can there be in looking inside a box?”

Tony nearly choked on his own spit. “Have you not paid any attention to the movies we’ve watched? At all?” To be fair, Tony hadn’t been paying a lot of attention during those movies, himself, largely because he’d spent them surreptitiously watching Bucky. Not that he had any intention of ever telling Bucky that. “There are dozens of movies that explain why it’s a bad idea to open random artifacts in a cursed graveyard.”

“If I took your movies seriously, I wouldn’t go to the beach, either. Man-eating sharks and everything.” Bucky was peering around the edges and seams of the box, and Tony couldn’t quite suppress a foreboding feeling.

“Maybe we should--”

“Ha, got it!” Bucky flashed Tony a grin, that bright, boyish smile that lit up the room and seemed to dissolve at least half a century’s worth of suffering from Bucky’s eyes.

Which meant that Tony saw, before Bucky, the glowing blue mist that curled up out of the box. “Bucky, back away!” But the mist had already slithered into Bucky’s mouth and nose like a hundred sparkling snakes, and was spreading rapidly.

Tony snapped his helmet closed. “Bucky! Are you okay?”

Bucky’s eyes met his, and for a moment, their normal stormcloud gray flickered and flashed the same blue as the mist.

“Shit, Bu--” The mist was seeping right through his armor, because of course it was, because fucking magic, and this was why Tony was never going on a magic mission again without--

Anton Mätzler gasped his first breath in centuries, since the smoke of the fires had choked out his last. He staggered back, away from the cursed relic with its compartments, keeping him from his beloved even in death.

“Anton?”

Anton’s head turned toward the sound of his name, a voice that was both utterly unfamiliar and at once well-known. “Richard, love?”

“What’s… what’s happened to us?” Richard was staring down at his hands, one was normal, human, if wearing strange gloves with no fingers, but the other-- the other was gleaming silver, unyielding metal, but as flexible as a normal hand. “And you, Anton, my dearest, look at yourself, clad in armor, like a knight?”

Anton looked down at himself. It was a strange armor indeed, with more of magic about it than metalsmith, ghostly messages and symbols writ across his very vision. “A strange knight, indeed,” he said uneasily. “I wonder how one removes such armor.” No sooner had he spoken the words than the armor... unfolded itself, spilling him out into the dank air of -- the crypts? Long abandoned, the sacred tombs fallen into disrepair and rot.

Anton felt no pity for them. Not after what they’d done to him, and to Richard.

He turned toward Richard, hands outstretched. “My love... I know not how this miracle has come to pass, but I can only be joyful to see you again. To touch your hand, your face...”

“I must say, you don’t look quite like yourself, but--” Richard came over to stand directly in front of him, clasped Anton’s hands in his own, and spread them, admiring. “It is a good form, nonetheless. And quite well-displayed in those strange garments. T’was always your brilliant mind that most captivated me, my dearest, although I did not object to a lithe form beneath me.”

Anton laughed. “Nor did I object to being beneath you, though it was your kindness and patience for which I first loved you.”

“Hey, hey, hey, sorry to interrupt, guys--” the voice that came from Richard’s throat was the same, but had a faster, less formal way of talking, an almost incomprehensible rumbling accent. “Tony-- Tony, you okay in there? Stark. Come on--”

Anton shook his head. “I know not this Tony--” And then it seemed he was rudely pushed aside, shoved to the back of his own consciousness, though he felt his throat working as he said, “I’m here, I’m here, Buckaroo, I’m okay. I think.”

Anton tried to push his way back to the forefront. “What sorcery is this?”

“I’m fuckin’ possessed,” Richard complained. “I owe you, like a hundred fuckin’ beers man, when we get out of this--”

“Stop! These forms are ours now,” Richard continued, face working uncomfortably as he seized control of the spirits that shared their bodies. “We have earned this, through countless centuries of torment. You will not--”

“Uh, no, dude, no, just-- ow!”

Richard went to one knee, heaving as if he was going to cast up his accounts, but when he looked back up, from his position on the floor, the twinkle in his eye and the suggestive smirk was entirely Richard’s own. There was a time when Anton would have killed for that look; a time where he had died for it.

Anton felt his own co-habitant jostling him, and wrestled for control. “Bucky! What the hell did you do to him, you--” Anton twisted back into place. “Please,” he said. “We died for our love, only to be held forever apart, unable to so much as whisper. Grant us a short while, at least!” With all his strength, he summoned his memories of the torture -- beatings and burnings, heavy chains and the ducking stool -- and pushed them at his host.

The body stumbled, and it was not Anton’s doing. “Christ,” the other said. “That’s--”

“Here, I’m here, my darling,” Richard said, and it was beyond heaven to be clasped in strong arms, willing to hold him, eager and exalting. “Let me kiss those honeyed lips, so long denied me.”

A kiss, tender and sweet, was pressed against Anton’s forehead, and even if the body was not his own, he felt it, keenly. Doubled, even, with a taste of regret, guilt… longing, underneath, until the sensation was almost unbearable.

Anton pressed into Richard’s arms, and if the feel of the metal one at his back was strange and unyielding, the gentle caresses of the other more than made up for it. “I love you,” Anton whispered, aching with the strength and sincerity of that emotion. “I could not recant that, even in the flames.”

“Nor did I,” Richard promised him. “Thus, this elaborate prison to keep us apart.” He spat through his fingers, protection from evil magics. “And I have you back, in my arms again, and nothing will keep me from you.” He stroked his fingers through Anton’s hair. “Say you will still be mine?”

“I have never been anything else,” Anton swore, “not since the moment of our first meeting.”

“Uh, hey--” The spirit that inhabited Richard’s body shivered and shuddered, “look, no, come on, romantical as all this is, I ain’t-- that’s Tony’s body and this one’s mine, and we’re gonna have to take up habitation again, an’ okay, no, seriously, that’s not fair, get out.. Get out of my memories!”

Anton felt his host’s frantic terror and fiery rage and laughed, delighted. “I believe these two hold each other in near as much esteem as we feel for one another,” he confided.

“It’s not like that--” Richard’s host snarled. “I ain’t nothin’ to him, an’ I don’t…”

“Shhhh, it shall all be well, my host,” Richard said. “You hunger for him, and you shall have him. It will be well. We will treat him… very well.”

“He doesn’t hunger; are you insane?” Anton’s host snapped. “Look, I’m sorry you got killed and locked up in a box for so long, but he’s not interested and you can’t just--”

Anton wrapped mental arms around his host. “My Richard does not lie,” he promised. “Nor are we mad, except with wanting each other. Let us have this, and enjoy your own desires come into fruition.”

“Tony--” and there was not a lot of change in the longing in Richard’s eyes. “I’m sorry. I don’t know, maybe it’s me. I can’t… I can’t fight it.”

“Bucky.” Anton’s hand tightened on Richard’s. “It’s, it’s okay. I don’t mind. Not if it’s you.”

And then, with an eager, fervid groan, Richard’s mouth was on his; a kiss of no finesse, no sweetness, but instead all avid hunger, devouring Anton, as if they could become one, as if they could hold each other tight enough to never have to let go.

Anton moaned, surrendering himself to that kiss, wrapping his arms around Richard’s shoulders, clasping at Richard’s clothes and hair and arms, anything he could reach, scrambling to press closer and closer yet, as if determined to merge their bodies into one.

“I’ve got you, I’ve got you, Tony, it’s okay,” and that was not Richard, but as he’d stopped fighting, and was letting those hands touch and caress, seemed to know how to unfasten the strange clothing they both wore, had stopped resisting and was now actively helping… well, it was good. It would be well.

Anton’s host -- Tony, apparently, and how strange that their names were so similar -- came forward again, more gently this time, showing Anton the strange clasps and catches that held Richard’s clothes together. “Yeah,” he said. “You always do. I’ve got you, too.”

Too hungry for his lover’s kiss to speak, Anton pressed their mouths together again, tongue flicking at the corner of Richard’s mouth, teasing and tasting.

Richard cupped his jaw with one hand, his thumb teasing at the corner of Anton’s mouth, coaxing it open. “Ain’t you sweet,” he murmured and Anton didn’t even know anymore, who was who, but it didn’t matter, those clever fingers were stroking his skin, raking passion up from the coals that had long since been banked.

Richard ran those hands down his chest, thumbing nipples erect, and then, “Beltpouch, second from the left,” he said, which made no sense whatsoever to Anton, but his host -- Tony -- was already sliding their hand into the indicated-- pocket? On a belt?

What Tony found there was some sort of packet, shiny like metal but softer, and whatever it was, it amused Tony greatly. “Really?” he said. “On a mission?”

“Look, you wanna go in dry with some randy old ghosts, be my guest,” Bucky said, and that didn’t make sense either, but that metal hand was curling around Anton’s member, stroking light. The metal wasn’t cold, either, but warmer than human flesh, and there was the faintest shuddering to it, a vibration from deep inside that stimulated and aroused. “But I done my share of trench quickies, an’ I’d rather be prepared.”

Still amused, Tony conceded the point. A deft twist of their hands opened the packet, and then Tony retreated a little, shooting Anton a burst of memories demonstrating the purpose of the contents -- it was like oil, it seemed, for this very purpose. Anton poured some over his fingers and -- oh, Tony had not been exaggerating; it was so much better than oil. Slicker, smoother. Anton reached between his legs and pushed the stuff into his hole, shuddering at the sweet burn of it.

“God,” Richard said. “You’re so beautiful.”

And Richard was nudging Anton over onto his knees, helping spread the oil, rubbing at the opening of his body eagerly, spreading it, tugging. “Careful now, you gotta-- gentle. It’s… well, I ain’t gonna apologize, but it’s a lot.”

“Yes, I can see that,” Anton returned, teasing. “But I have waited too long to delay any more than necessary. I would have you, my love, and soon.”

One finger pressed inside, thrusting, the slick easing the way, smooth and silky and perfect. Then a second, and that burned, but Anton had experienced fires much more potent, and all it did was make him whine and twist his hips, urging.

The fingers withdrew and then, yes, there it was, pressing urgently on him, and he bent his back, fingers clenching at the stone underneath him.

“Tony--”

“Yes,” they gasped, and Anton wasn’t sure which of them it was, speaking. “I need you, now.”

A strangled moan, hands gripping Anton’s hips, and he was pulled, slowly, impaling himself on Richard’s fine tool, filling him up, stretching him out. One hand went to the small of Anton’s back, rubbing in soft, soothing circles, tracing the line of his spine, and then gripped the curly mass of his hair, tugging his head back.

Anton gasped, curving his back even more, keening at the overload of sensations. “Fill me,” he begged, all shame long since gone, burnt up in their holy fire until all that was left of him was wanton desire, a burning need hotter than any flame. “My love, please!”

“I have you, I--” It was all hard, urgent rhythm then, being thrust into and pulled back from. The body that covered his was unfamiliar, and at the same time, that same, tender lover that Anton had given everything to, and been everything for. They moved together, hurried, racing toward release, eager to share in each other, the way they always had, and it was sweet, and rough, and just this side of blissful.

They moved together, push and pull, rocking together, words unimportant, only feelings, and the fire inside them, until..

“Oh, yes, yes, my darling!”

Anton cried out, groping for his own member; it took no more than a half-dozen frantic strokes before he was spilling, his whole body aching as it tried to clench down around Richard’s still-firm erection. He shivered and shuddered with the force of his release, a sudden wash of relaxation sweeping over him, like a deluge of warm spring rain.

Richard matched him, then moved slowly with him, stroking him down, soothing and sweet, and then he stiffened, biting down on Anton’s shoulder to stifle his scream. “Oh, oh, my darling,” he was saying, kissing the skin, as if tasting the imprint he’d left, his soft tongue stealing away the sting. “It’s always been you. Always you. Forever.”

“Until the end of days,” Anton promised, lassitude creeping in. “My only love.” How he longed for a bed, or even a rough pallet, where they could lie together and rest, tangled in one another’s arms.

“Look, a bed we got,” Richard said, apparently negotiating with his host. “Jus’ need to finish our mission here, yeah? There’s a guy, he hurt a lot of people, an’-- we’re looking for a pendant, about -- so big? You seen anything like that?”

“The priest who tried us wore an amulet of that size,” Anton recalled, sitting back on his heels. “He would have been buried...” Anton considered the catacombs, then pointed. “In that chamber.”

“Thanks,” Richard said, and offered him a hand up, already finding and pulling on his clothes. He made a face, apologetic, and handed Anton a-- surprisingly soft -- pale white shirt with no buttons and no laces. “T’ clean up--”

Anton might have protested, but what else was there to use? He wiped away the oil and the rest of it, rolling the shirt up around it. His host rolled their eyes. “Come on,” Tony said, “let’s find this pendant and get out of here.”

That chamber had been half-heartedly cleaned, and someone had set up a bedroll, and a desk. The cellar had been partially cracked open, perhaps in the battle, but Richard’s host was able to lift a portion of the collapsed rock out of the way.

“Our ghost whisperer,” Richard’s host said. “So, he probably already ransacked this place. You see anything in this mess, Tony?”

Anton moved over to the desk, looking it over. It was a spindly little thing, flimsy and unimpressive. He pulled open the first drawer and shuffled aside a few scraps of paper, and--

Anton backed away. “I don’t like it,” he said decisively. The pendant gleamed with power, sharp-edged enough to separate a man from his own shadow. He couldn’t quite take his eyes off it.

Richard went to him, as if to shield him from the amulet. It buzzed with surging energies, gleaming. “That is what our forms came to find,” he said. “To destroy it, or see it safely locked away, so no one else would suffer what we have suffered. They are, I believe, good men.”

Tony grunted. “Well, that’s the goal,” he said. He looked around. “We need something to put it in, until we can make other arrangements.”

“The box,” Anton said, pointing back the way they’d come. “The prison held us for centuries; it will surely hold this amulet for as long as you need.”

“I shall retrieve it,” Richard said, and he leaned in to kiss Anton’s cheek, soft and sweet. It shouldn’t have hurt to watch him walk away, he was barely going out of sight, and Anton would be able to hear him the whole time. But still, it ached with concern, throbbed with fear. The last time he’d let Richard out of his sight, they’d been separated, imprisoned. Told always that if he was willing to recant, to confess, to point the finger at his lover, that he would be spared. Told that Richard had recanted.

Anton had never believed that. Ever.

And, in the end, he was thus proven. Faithful, through all the long-- “How long, even, has it been, good host? What is the year?”

“What? It’s twenty-nineteen. Er, two thousand nineteen.” Tony, too, was watching the way Richard had gone, though Anton rather suspected it was the host who occupied Tony’s thoughts.

“That is… quite a long while to be imprisoned and alone,” Anton said. “We died in the year of our Lord, 1482. Richard was a knight, from Switzerland. I was his servant… and his downfall. He gave me gifts, clothing and jewels, and-- I looked too high for my station, so the church… declared us heretics.”

“I’m sorry,” Tony said. “Things are... better, now.”

“This thing ain’t exactly light,” Richard’s host complained, coming back into the room, “but I guess it’ll do as good as any. Strange’ll make heads or tails out of the whole mess anyway. Pop it in the box.”

Anton reached out and then hesitated, not quite able to make himself touch the horrible thing. Tony took over, scooping it up. It felt cold, much colder than mere metal and stone should be, even in a crypt.

There was a tug, like something pulling at his soul, loosening it.

“You know you have to go, right?” Richard’s host said, and it was very gentle. He reached out, touched his flesh hand to the other side of the medallion. “Not back in the box, but… you died. It’s time t’ move on. Tony can make a big church donation, get the bishop t’ do Last Rites, or whatever.”

Anton’s vision blurred. “Must we? We’ve only just come together again, and I’ve missed you, my love, so much.”

“Wish for it,” Richard’s host said. “You can feel it, right? The power the amulet’s got over the dead. Stay together, all eternity. No heaven or hell without the other.”

“Richard?” Anton wasn’t even sure what he was asking, but he needed to see the spark of his lover in those strange gray eyes, one last time.

“I am here,” Richard said. “And I will-- always protect you. Even if I failed before, I can-- together. Always.”

“Always,” Anton promised through his tears. “Until the end of days.”

There was another tug, and--

“Well, that’s… look at you, all non-corporeal and shit,” Richard’s host said, although he wasn’t really the host anymore, and Anton couldn’t seem to bring himself to call him Bucky, like he was some sort of pet deer or something.

Nor was Anton still in Tony’s body. Rather, they floated above the two men, and when he looked at Richard, he saw -- a ghost, like a wisp of smoke caught in a Richard-shaped glass, but it was Richard, the countenance he’d known and loved. “Oh, my love.” He reached out and, incorporeal as Richard looked, he felt solid, even warm, to Anton’s touch.

“My most beloved,” Richard said. “Always. We will have it, our forever.”

“Uh, so, like, it was good to meet you an’ all, but we really need to get this thing gone and safe,” Bucky said. “An’ like, totally take a shower.”

“I’m seconding the shower idea,” Tony agreed. “You two lovebirds have a good time, now. Don’t spook anyone who doesn’t deserve it.” The ghosts barely even glanced at them, then they were fading away entirely, hands twined and hearts in their eyes.

Tony dropped the pendant into the box that Bucky was still holding and twisted the cover into place. “Right, well. That’s that, then, I guess.”

“It… uh, it was somethin’, all right,” Bucky said, not quite meeting Tony’s gaze, cheeks and neck flushing.

And they were both standing around in an abandoned and half-destroyed church’s catacombs in their underwear. Because they’d let a couple of ghosts use them to fuck.

Yeah, that was going to land pretty high on the Weird Shit rankings, and Tony was just going to hope Bucky attributed the embarrassing stuff Tony’d said to ghost. That would probably be for the best. “So. We should probably, you know. Get dressed. And get this back to Strange.”

“Yeah,” Bucky said. “Totally that’s what we should do.” His hand fluttered a moment, like some wounded butterfly, in the space between them, and then dropped it before he could make contact. “Uh. Are you okay?”

“What? Fine,” Tony said, only a little brittle. “Never better. Well. Tired. And I really want that shower.” He eased past Bucky and went back to where his armor waited, his clothes still crumpled on the floor where they’d been dropped. He picked up his jeans and pulled them on.

“You know,” Bucky said, staring at his tactical armor, all over the place. “This is why Strange can portal. I gotta put all this shit back on… for what, ten minutes while we cross town?” Bucky gave Tony a grin, a little hesitant, like he wasn’t sure that Tony was going to laugh at his jokes anymore.

Tony grinned back. It wasn’t like he’d forgotten how to fake being relaxed and easy with someone he’d seen naked. And he didn’t want to stop laughing at Bucky’s jokes, anyway. They were friends, these days; once the awkward wore off, Tony wanted them to stay that way. “I mean, you could stroll across town shirtless,” he suggested. “Earn a lot of local goodwill that way.”

“I am shirtless,” Bucky pointed out. “You… uh… yeah, I have a tac-vest, but. My undershirt was sacrificed to the cause. It’s good, it’s great. I mean… we’re okay, yeah?”

“Of course,” Tony said. He pulled on his t-shirt and stepped back into the armor. “I mean, awkward. But no reason not to be okay.”

Bucky just nodded at that, threw the tac vest on and didn’t bother to lock it in place, showing off arms, and ribs, and the very bottom strip of his belly between his pants and the bottom of the vest. He bent down and hefted the case under one arm, and his gun in the other hand. He didn’t say anything then, either, just jerked his chin toward the exit, watching Tony with eyes that seemed somehow… thoughtful.

Tony wondered what those thoughts were, but shut that down almost immediately. It didn’t matter. They were going back to their separate rooms at the hotel, take hot showers, and catch a night’s sleep. And then in the morning, everything would be back to normal. He nodded and made his way back out of the church.

                                                          ***

Bucky couldn’t decide if he was feeling satisfied and smug, or guilty, and the two extremes were yanking at him. He showered, water hot enough to boil a lobster, until his skin was pink and stinging. It would fade soon enough. It always did.

Ug. This was not how he wanted any of this shit to go down.

Tony had been drawing back the whole time between when the spirits departed and when he’d faux-cheerfully waved Bucky off into the next room.

They needed to talk.

And god damn, if there was one thing Bucky was really, really bad at, it was talking. And in that subset of bad things about talking, there was talking about feelings. Bucky hadn’t had bloody damn feelings in so long, figuring out what to do with them sometimes took him all damn day.

Sit a plate in front of him, and he’d eat. Ask him what he wanted to watch on the television and he’d freeze up for an hour or more, trying to decide.

But letting Tony get back to the Compound without talking about this, or making a terrible attempt at talking about this, and Bucky wouldn’t see him for a week or more, while he hid down in the ‘shop and pretended that nothing ever happened, he was fine, why?

“Fuck.”

Well, yeah, and that’s exactly what had happened, too.

Bucky yanked on a pair of soft sweatpants, a tee, and a hoodie, his preferred clothing for between missions.

Knocking was pointless. Tony would pretend not to hear him, if he didn’t want to talk. Bucky was going to go with the Natasha method of talking shit out. It took him exactly six seconds to scramble the hotel’s expensive key-card entry system and he let himself into Tony’s room.

Tony… was still in the shower.

Which was, in and of itself, a little worrisome. Was he washing… Bucky off?

Bucky threw himself down on Tony’s bed and prepared to wait it out.

Not too much later, the water shut off. Another moment or two while he dried off, and then the bathroom door opened, and Tony walked out, stark naked, still scrubbing a towel over his hair and humming something under his breath.

“Oh shit! Fuck!” Tony practically teleported back three feet when he spotted Bucky on the bed, jostling the towel down to cover himself, more or less. Mostly less. “What the fuck!”

“Oh, my god, stop screaming, it’s just me,” Bucky said, sitting up. “And I literally just saw… all of that, like not two hours ago.”

Tony pressed a hand to his chest, the other one still holding the towel over his groin. “Jesus, don’t do that shit. Christ, you take in a handful of spies and assassins and suddenly there’s no privacy anymore.” He grabbed up a pair of sweats and pulled them on quickly, half-turning in an effort to preserve his modesty that only gave Bucky a really fantastic view of his ass. “What do you want?”

“You--” Bucky said, and Tony shot him a look so incredulously disbelieving that Bucky amended his statement somewhat. “To talk this out with me, Tony. I mean, maybe you didn’t notice, or somethin’ but we just had sex. I think… we should talk about it.”

Tony huffed, then opened the mini-fridge and pulled out a couple of bottles of beer. Local stuff, so it probably wasn’t swill. He tossed one toward Bucky. “What, you want a Yelp review? ‘Four stars; excellent technique and presentation but the ambiance left something to be desired.’”

“That was shitty technique,” Bucky said. “I totally would have-- it was rushed and relatively unconcerned about your pleasure. I’m just saying. If I was… in control of the situation.”

Tony took a swig from his bottle, throat working as he swallowed, his still-damp hair dripping water down his chest. “If you were in control of the situation,” he said, “it wouldn’t have happened.”

“Well, no,” Bucky admitted, “because I ain’t crass enough-- okay, no, not true, I’m totally crass enough t’ ask a fella for a quickie after a near-death experience. Jus’, you know, not… you. I wouldn’t do you like that. An’ I’m sorry as hell that it went down this way.”

“This way?” Tony was giving him that sardonic look, the one he used a lot when he was being snarky at the press. “What way would you have preferred, dare I ask?”

“I had a plan,” Bucky muttered. “I know they say Steve’s the man with the plan, but that idiotic bastard jumps out of airplanes with no chute, he doesn’t have a plan, he’s got a chip on his shoulder the size of the Titanic. I… I had a plan. Thought it might have been goin’ well. These days, we split off for a mission, I’m usually your backup. Which is good, right? You trust me… trusted. Me.”

Bucky sighed. Tony probably didn’t trust him at all, anymore. And Bucky didn’t blame him, not one bit, really. It wasn’t his fault, but-- but it was. He was the one who opened the damn box, wasn’t he? And he was the one who didn’t fight it, because he wanted Tony, and it was so damn easy to just let Richard have his way, have his body, have Tony’s body under him.

God damn it.

Frowning, Tony sank down onto the little desk chair. He rolled the bottle between his hands, intent. “You had a plan,” he repeated slowly. “For... me?”

“Yeah,” Bucky admitted. “We already-- the concert series, this spring, that we went to? I know you like music, an’ I’m still tryin’ to figure out what I like, so… we had fun, right? That was fun?”

“Yeah, that was great, I-- Wait, that was... part of the plan? The plan where... What, exactly, is the end goal of this plan?” Tony’s eyes couldn’t possibly get any more focused.

“The plan, Tony--” Bucky said, and he couldn’t quite resist the urge to roll his eyes, “was for us t’, you know, figure out if we liked each other. I mean, that’s what people do, when they like a fella, think he’s somethin’ else. If we like spendin’ time together, not the whole saving the world shit, that gets old, but… normal stuff. An’ then, I was plannin’ to see if maybe you liked me back, an’ we could spend more time together. I got… I got so much time back, Tony, and I just want to live it, an’ share it with someone special, and I thought… maybe that could be you.”

Tony’s lips moved, soundlessly, repeating the phrase someone special to himself. “You’re talking about dating,” he said, looking startled. “The plan was to date me?”

The plan itself had gone up to dating.

That Bucky had wild and crazy flights of fancy after that, well, he didn’t need to dump his whole heart on the ground right this second, did he?

“The plan was to find out if we wanted to date. Or… whatever,” Bucky said, waving a hand. “Who knows, you couldda been terrible to hang out with. Not… I mean, you weren’t, you were great, it was… yes. The plan was to date you. I thought it was goin’ well, and now it’s all smashed to shit, an’... it wasn’t my fault, except that it was, and Tony, I am so, so sorry.”

Apparently he did need to dump his whole heart on the ground, right this second.

“Oh my god, I’m an idiot,” Tony said. He was staring at Bucky, though at least he didn’t look angry or disgusted. “Those were dates. How did I not-- Well, obviously, because I was too busy trying not to let on how much I wanted them to be dates to realize they actually were.” He scrubbed a hand over his face. “Idiot,” he reiterated.

“So, uh, it was goin’ well?” Bucky asked, because Tony was getting really deep into self-recriminations, and that wasn’t the direction Bucky wanted this to go, at all.

Tony lowered his hand, and he was smiling, not that practiced press smirk, but a wry, almost hesitant smile that was purely Tony. “It was going well,” he said. “Maybe a little slower than it needed to be.”

Bucky blinked. “I tried for a kiss once, and you backed off an’ asked me if you had cheese on your shirt,” he pointed out. “I thought… I dunno. But you didn’t say no, the next time I asked you to go somewhere, so--”

“I thought I was imagining that,” Tony said. “I thought... overactive imagination, it’s a thing, with me. Also, I did in fact have cheese on my shirt,” he pointed out. “Your first kiss with someone shouldn’t be with them looking like a slob who’d just nosedived into the nachos.”

“They were really good nachos, though,” Bucky said. “I was brushing crumbs out of my shirt, too.” He inched a little closer, probably not being as smooth as he would like to be. “So, what-- should my first kiss with someone be like?”

“It probably should also not be because you’ve been possessed by a couple of horny ghosts,” Tony said. “I think... I think maybe it should be after you’ve told someone you like them, just so you’re both on the same page. And then it should be...” Tony swept forward, fingers curling into Bucky’s hair, palm cupping the back of his neck as Tony’s mouth brushed over Bucky’s lightly once, twice, three times, teasing, drawing away when Bucky tried to lean into it, and then finally lingering, tongue flicking against Bucky’s lip. “A little like that,” Tony finished, a little breathless.

“Just a little like that?” Bucky asked, his thumb brushing against Tony’s jaw, coaxing him to stay, to sit down, to-- enjoy the moment, Barnes, you didn’t think you were going to get to have one.

“Well, you know, there’s a lot of variables, it’s impossible to account for all of them at once.” Tony hadn’t pulled away, was tipping his head into the light caress. “Lots of different ways a kiss can go, you know.” His eyes were wide and dark and full of something like wonder.

“We could, uh, try some of them out, if that… was a thing you wanted to explore?” Bucky suggested, hopefully.

“We’ll have to test all of them,” Tony said thoughtfully. “Probably more than once. Science requires repetition, you know.”

“It’s only science if you write it down,” Bucky said. “An’ uh, I was thinkin’ this was more of a what happens in Zurich stays in Zurich kinda sitch here. I mean, not the dating. Or the kissing, that’s… I’m totally open t’ you know, having the team. Well, know. Not that Nat doesn’t already, but… spies, what can you do? But… I think we can skip on the whole sexual possession post-mission report.”

“Uh, yeah, that’s fair, that’s... definitely not anything anyone else needs to know about,” Tony said. “Went down into the catacombs, found his camp and the necklace, the end.” He brushed his thumb down the side of Bucky’s neck, considering. “So what’s your candidate, then? For a kiss?”

“Oh, I kinda like those standing kisses, pushin’ someone back against a wall, and kiss til your legs get all weak an’ the wall’s the only thing holdin’ you up,” Bucky said. “That’s my favorite.”

“Yeah?” Tony looked around. “Oh look. A wall.” He hooked his hand in Bucky’s shirt and tugged until they were both upright. “Want to show me?”

"I would, in fact, love to," Bucky growled. New plan, his brain decided. How to get Tony out of these pants and into the bed, a three phase project.

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TSB Round 7 - Week 22-25!

Happy Holidays from the TSB crew! If you need a break from the chaos, take a minute (or a few days) with the fics below.

Collaborator: rebelmeg Card Number: 7001 Square Filled: S5 - Tony x Happiness Title: Laugh Lines Link: Tumblr Pairings: Pepperony, Iron Family Word Count: 1003 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: domestic bliss, married life, slowly growing old together, grossing out your kid on purpose Summary: Pepper has spent years watching the subtle (and sometimes unsubtle) ways Tony's face has changed. This one is probably her favorite.

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Collaborator: endlesstwanted Card Number: 7010 Square Filled: T2 - Asking for trouble Title: Picking Love Link: AO3 Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Sarah Wilson Word Count: 2095 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Modern: No Powers, Meet-Cute, Flirting, Minor Steve/Tony Summary: Tony takes Bucky to the farmers’ market as an excuse to meet with his new fling, but Bucky makes the best out of it with the idea to bake something for his sister’s birthday.

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Collaborator: SomeSortofItalianRoast Card Number: 7012 Square Filled: K3 - Piggy-back riding Title: Tony Stark Bingo Mark VII - November Round Robin Link: AO3 Pairings: Loki & Tony Stark Word Count: 375 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Alpacas, Not Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Compliant, Time Shenanigans, Good Loki (Marvel), Tony Stark Lives Summary: "For Tony, it's another day at the lake house with Morgan and Gerald, his Alpaca.... Until in a manner of speaking, Gerald tells him that the world needs saving again. No really. Well... sort of."

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Collaborator: endlesstwanted Card Number: 7010 Square Filled: R5 - Protection Title: Tony Stark Bingo Mark VII - November Round Robin Link: AO3 Pairings: Loki & Tony Stark Word Count: 390 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Time Shenanigans, Good Loki (Marvel) Summary: For Tony, it's another day at the lake house with Morgan and Gerald, his Alpaca.... Until in a manner of speaking, Gerald tells him that the world needs saving again. No really. Well... sort of.

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Collaborator: deehellcat Card Number: 7014 Square Filled: T5 - hurt/comfort Title: surpassing things we’ve known before, chap 1 Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony and Howard Stark Word Count: 2290 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Kid Tony Stark, Canon-Divergence, Canonical Character Death, Howard Stark’s Actual Good Parenting, at least he’s trying, Emotional Hurt/Comfort Summary: Shattered by loss, little Tony and his father learn to hold on to each other for support, and start to construct a new family for themselves.

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Collaborator: SomeSortofItalianRoast Card Number: 7012 Square Filled: R1 - AU: Sci-fi/Futuristic Title: Of broken bonds, secret relationships, and mad scientists Link: AO3 Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Qui-Gon Jinn Word Count: 2149 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Hurt No Comfort, Angst, Canon-Typical Violence, Broken Force Bonds (Star Wars), Unhappy Ending, Implied/Referenced Brainwashing, Summary: Approximately 30 years ago, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn died on the planet Naboo. He was believed to be the first Jedi to die at the hands of the Sith in over a thousand years. While his death fixed the fates of Obi-Wan Kenobi and young Anakin Skywalker, it unknowingly set off a chain reaction that would lead to the rise of The Winter Soldier.

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Collaborator: SomeSortofItalianRoast Card Number: 7012 Square Filled: S1 - Holiday Fic Title: Of family, Hanukkah, and idiot ex-boyfriends Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve/Bucky Word Count: 1111 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: holiday fic, Hanukkah, Meet the Family, Jewish Darcy Lewis Summary: Darcy invited her boyfriend to meet her family over Hanukkah. It does not go well. It'll be a funny story by next Hanukkah.

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Collaborator: scottxlogan Card Number: 7017 Square Filled: A4 - Learning To Cook Title: The Beginning of the End (Chapter 2) Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 15127 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Sexual Content, Swearing, Idiots in Love, Past Abuse, Two timelines, Age Difference, Beginnings, Angst with a Happy Ending, Adult Content, First Time, Holidays, Falling In Love, Holiday Decorations Summary: Bucky wants Tony. Tony wants Bucky, so why aren't they falling into each other's arms already? That's the question that's been on Tony's mind as Tony decides to create a mood for a special night Tony's convinced neither one of them is going to forget.

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Collaborator: scottxlogan Card Number: 7017 Square Filled: K5 - Tony/Clint Title: All in a Kiss Link: AO3 Pairings: Clint Barton/Tony Stark Word Count: 2519 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Idiots in Love, Holiday hijinks, Mistletoe, Secret Crush, Kissing, Pranks and Practical Jokes, Partners to Lovers Summary: Following a team up with Tony, Clint realizes he has a crush on his sexy teammate, but getting around to admitting to that isn't as easy as Clint hoped. When Clint makes a plan to capture Tony's attention, it winds up having some unexpected consequences along the way.

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Collaborator: tinystark616 Card Number: 7008 Square Filled: K2 - Asking for help Title: Keep Me Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 2300 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, Angst with a Happy Ending, What if? Civil War, Earth-10208 Summary: Tony can't stop fighting for the Registration Act, but he also can't keep fighting Steve. He has a plan to end the war, but he needs Steve's help. Set in Earth-10208, the universe where Steve and Tony actually do talk and work things out, and everything ends well.

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Collaborator: rebelmeg Card Number: 7001 Square Filled: K3 - Pepperony Title: Strictly Ornamental Link: Tumblr Pairings: Pepperony, Iron Family Word Count: 363 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Christmas fluff, Stark family, humor Summary: Tony is doing some last-minute (see also: forgotten) gift-wrapping while Pepper tries to keep their baby out of the Christmas tree.

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Collaborator: rebelmeg Card Number: 7001 Square Filled: A2 - Avengers Compound Title: Gingerbread, Cocoa, and Coffee Link: Tumblr Pairings: Bucky & Tony Word Count: 395 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Christmas fluff and humor Summary: Tony tries to pull one over on Bucky, who is (unsurprisingly) not fooled. Also, there's a real big gingerbread house.

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[polizwrites]

PoliZ's WIP Update - 25 Sep 2024

Fell a little short of my weekly writing goal.   I touched four  fics (2 new & 2 WIPs)  for a total  of  1825  words,  about half of which were on a single fic.   

On Ao3, I posted: 

 Carrying Things Forward - a sequel to A Little Bit Carried Away  - a WinterIron No Powers omegaverse fic

 Tony Stark Bingo Mark VIII - August Round Robin - ScienceBros (Tony & Bruce) one shot 

Keep a Steady Hand - platonic WinterHawk (Clint & Bucky) one shot. 

On Tumblr I posted: 

  Melting Down - Canon-compatible post-IM3 Pepperony one-shot.  

I’m juggling  20+  active/semi-active WIPs with my current  deadline being the new WinterIron Gets It Done server bingo event  which runs til the end of September.  

See  below cut for what I’m working on/planning to work on - arranged more or less by bingos/challenges/etc.  As always, feel free to send me   prompts or plot bunnies as well as asks regarding  any of these projects  or any other WIPs I’ve got out there.   Interaction really helps feed the Muse and keep me motivated!

WinterIron Gets It Done Bingo [WIGID] (Ends 30 Sep 2024)

This new WinterIron Discord server event runs through the month of September and is a flash bingo where you choose one or more  five-square bingo strips to complete.  I’m targeting to get at least two strips done for a blackout - with a stretch goal of three - I’ve currently got 11  fills across three strips. 

* Classic_5 - Favorite Song -  combined this with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF270 Lights and Sirens] for  Duty Calls, an established WinterIron ficlet where a date gets interrupted.  It came in at 203 words and will probably get posted to Ao3 by the end of the month.  

Build-A-Bucky Bingo [BaBB_R1] (Ends 31 Oct 2024)

Another fun year-long  event from the folks at  @buckybarnesevents!  Each month there’s a list of prompts and you choose (at least) one  each month for your card!  At thirty-four  fills and one month to go, I think I’ve gone a bit overboard …. 😁

* May:  Bucky’s Trigger Words -  combined this with a previous  Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF251 Out There] for Just To Live One Day Out There - a Winter Soldier self-reflective ficlet. It came in at 312 words and will get posted to Ao3 Real Soon. 

* September: First Meeting - filling this with the upcoming Chapter Nine of  A Sugar-Coated Pill  where Bucky gets to meet Obadiah Stane.  Needless to say, he doesn’t get along with the older alpha.  It’s crossing over with my  TSB:  Aug Adoptable: Resolve –   it’s coming in at 1732 words and will post on Friday. Stay tuned for a final chapter in October! 

* September: Feelings Denial -  Posted Carrying Things Forward  on Friday - it’s a sequel to A Little Bit Carried Away - looking at Bucky and Tony living together and where their relationship is starting to lead.  It crosses over with my  WIB  N4 - A/B/O: Mates and pJBB - C2_A1 - "There's nothing wrong with you."  squares and is currently listed as chapter 1 of 2, but I’m using some of the ideas I had for the second chapter on  A Sugar Coated Pill,  so may re-tag it as a one shot, with potentially more in the series.  

Flufftober 2024  [FlfT_24] (Runs 1-31 Oct)

This writing challenge hosted by @flufftober  runs for the month of October, but the prompt list has already been published, so you can get a jump start!  My goal is to write one fic a week that incorporates these prompts - here’s some possible crossovers - if there’s one that sounds really good - let me know! 

* 1. Lost Pet Meet Cute - crossover with  BBB C2 - Bonded animal?

* 5. Acorn, Chestnut, Pine Cone - Decided to combine this with R3 - AU: adventurers/explorers  for some Tony  & Morgan fluff.  Up, Down, North, South, East and West is coming in at 347 words and will post on October 5th. 

* 10. Bet, Game, Contest - crossover with BBB U5 - Secret Admirer?

* 11. Ingredients & Spells - crossover with TSB S3 - KINK: Aphrodisiacs? 

* 18. Bewitched - crossover with BBB B1 - Magic? 

* 22 - Heirloom - Using this, combined with my WIB G2 - Edwin Jarvis &  TSB T2 - Wedding -  for Chapter 10 of A Sugar-Coated Pill.  It’s jumping forward in time and has Tony gifting a tie bar to Bucky as his ‘something old’ for their wedding.  It’s sitting at  966 words and will post on the 22nd.   

Whumptober 2024 [WmpT_24] (Runs 1-31 Oct)

This writing challenge hosted by @whumptober  runs for the month of October, but the prompt list has already been published, so you can get a jump start!  My goal is to write two fics (whump isn’t normally my bag)   that incorporates these prompts - need to  explore more potential crossovers. 

* No. 2: TRUST ISSUES - Amusement Park | Role Reversal | “You got away with the crime while the knife’s in my back.”  – crossover with WIB  N5 - "I'm here for you."  and possibly pJBB - C2_B2 - Being there for someone after a traumatic event

Fictober 2024 [FicT_24] (Runs 1-31 Oct)

Another October writing challenge with daily prompts - all of which are dialogue. Go check out @fictober-event  for details!  I’ve grabbed the  list but haven’t had time to dig in to see what might be good cross fills.  Targeting two to four fics that incorporate these prompts.  

WinterIron Bingo 2  [WIB_R2] (Ends 16 Dec 2024)

Signups are still open for pre-made cards for Round Two of this super-fun bingo event! I have nineteen  fills and zero WIPs at the moment - setting this aside for the moment, as I have other time-sensitive events going.  

* Iron Soldier (One Bingo, One Fill) - looking at combining my Column B prompts: Matchmaker, Bucky Riding Tony, Stark Gala, Inside Joke and Threesome.  Still working on a plot - if you have any suggestions/want-to-sees - let me know! 

* I3 - Car Sex -  Have a fun ficlet in mind for this - some of the dialogue & such already worked out in my head.  

* N4 - A/B/O: Mates -  see BaBB September:  Feelings Denial above. 

* N5 - "I'm here for you."  - Possibly the next chapter of  Lady Natasha’s Consort and Lord Steve’s Companion ?  

Bucky Barnes Bingo - Round Six [BBB - R6]  (Ends 31 Mar)

This amazing bingo event from the folks over at @buckybarnesbingo is back!  I have fifteen  fills with one WIPs at the moment, but a couple  more crossovers planned. 

* U3 - Yelena Belova  - Magica and I are circling back around to Peresmešnik, (aka Three Avengers and a Baby) - with the next chapter featuring Tony’s interactions with Mirriam, and a revelation about her parentage. The chapter is sitting at about 475 words, and needs more fleshing out before we’ll be ready to post … maybe next month?   

*  K2 - IMAGE: Bucky and Steve in Siberian silo hallway (CA:CW)  - Combined this with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt  [#FFF269 Living Weapon]  for  Reconstruction - a fix-it/canon divergent ficlet where Steve, Bucky and Tony team up instead of fighting.   It came in at 268 words and will get posted  to Ao3 before the event is over.   

Tony Stark Bingo - Mark VIII [TSB_R8]  (Ends 31 May)

This amazing bingo event from the folks over at @tonystarkbingo is back! Late signups will start next month if you want to join in on the fun!  I have  seven  squares filled and four  WIPs - I need to plan out more crossovers! 

* T1 - Watching Helplessly -  Posted Stranded Among the Stars  to Tumblr as a crossover with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF265 Galaxies Away]. It’s a Nebula & Tony ficlet set on the ship - it came in at 345 words and will get posted to Ao3 before the event ends. 

* A5 - excessive -  Posted Tony Stark Bingo Mark VIII - August Round Robin earlier this week - Tony throws Bruce a birthday party and shenanigans ensure.  

* R2 - I love you 3000  - came up with an Endgame-compliant drabble for this prompt:  A Difficult Decision is a look into Tony’s thought processes right after tucking Morgan into bed.  Will post sometime soonish. 

Hawkeyes Bingo [HB_R2] (Ends TBD) 

Working on this  Tumblr event - got a 3x3 card and am looking forward to creating more  Clint-centric content and trying my hand at a bit of  Kate Bishop fic as well!    

* A3 - Awkward Flirting – this might be a good entry into my first femslash fic with Kate/Yelena?    

* C1 - Magic -  Posted Keep a Steady Hand to Ao3 this morning.   Clint notices Bucky getting frustrated with a task and offers to help.  It came in at 625 words and crosses over with  a previous Flash Fiction Friday prompt  [#FFF259 House of Cards]. 

Post July Break Bingo 2024  [pJBB_24] (Ends 30 Jun 2025)

I requested two 2x3 cards for this  Discord-server only event from @julybreakbingo  – so if you want to join in the fun, let me know and I’ll try to get you an invite!  I have two fics posted & two WIPS  and need to figure out some more crossovers.

* C2_A1 - "There's nothing wrong with you." - see BaBB: September: Feelings Denial above. 

* C2_B1 - Courting/courted in a different way than they're familiar with -  posted A Symbol of Devotion on Tumblr as a crossover with the Flash Fiction Friday prompt [#FFF267 Gifted Violets] - a bit of Stony fluff with Tony  buying Steve little things for his apartment.   It came in at 374 words and will get posted to Ao3 before this event is over. 

Warm and Fluffy   Bingo  [WFB]   (no end date)

Eight fills on my card, courtesy of   @warmandfluffybingocards  - need to try for another crossover or two!

* I2 - Vulnerable Drunk - matched this up with a previous Flash Fiction Friday prompt of [#FFF258 Milky Way Dreams]  for Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines -  a MIT-era Tony & Rhodey ficlet, where a drunk Tony shares a childhood dream with his best friend.  It came in at 318 words and will get posted to Ao3 at some point.   

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On  other creative fronts:  I am working on a Dracula figure for an upcoming con along with gearing up for Marvel Trumps Hate 2024 - see my Marvel masterpost if you’re interested.  

If  you’re looking for one of a kind gifts for birthdays or other celebrations, check  out Stuffed With Character    over on Facebook for a full list of my designs (now over 150!).   These soft stuffed figures are  mostly Marvel and monsters, but I have some Star Wars, Star Trek, DC   and Disney figures as well. Plus I love to take custom design   requests  for any fandom!

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* Industry Special VII "Review and Prospect of Blockchain Video games" - Lootex. Justine Lu2020 Taiwan Blockchain Illustration Decentraland: Blockchain virtual entire world game Decentraland has been officially launched on February 20th and launched a 4-day time treasure hunt. During this period, gamers can explore in various places and discover treasure chests for benefits. Rewards include Decentraland's common trading foreign currency MANA, as well as some NFTs for personality costumes. On March 20, the digital image named "Crypto" on Decentraland has been offered at 61,550 MANA, which was worthy of 1,500 US dollars at the trade rate at that time.

* Blockchain virtual world evaluationI have been purchasing in Decentraland for any day, admiring artwork, wool, pole dance...Axie Infinity: Axie Infinity is a cute pet selection game, which started the Alpha edition of the fight in Q4 2019 Mode, and held the Infinity Cup in Q1 this season. It has moved into the third time of year and the bonus is DAI. In addition, Axie Infinity also integrates the Kyber process to simply accept ERC20 tokens to purchase NFTs. SoRare: Sorare is a blockchain-based football cards game. It has reached cooperation with many well-known football clubs which includes Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Western world Ham United and Lyon to jointly issue gamers' NFT cards. On February 26, the Juventus player card package arranged a new product sales record at a cost of 10.992ETH. Nine Chronicles: Nine Chronicles is a blockchain RPG game, jointly produced by the French game giant Ubisoft as well as the start-up Planetarium. The task will go through a shut beta in mid-April. The story of the game takes place within a dream world where gamers can discover dungeons and create crafts for trading. Players who want to take part in the shut beta can currently fill out an application. My Crypto Heroes: In February 2020, My Crypto Heroes announced a relationship with CryptoSpells, allowing gamers to exchange NFT possessions between different games. By the end of February, the amount of My Crypto Heroes users exceeded 100,000. From March 9th to March 23rd, the second round of the game and Osamu Tezuka's IP linkage will undoubtedly be launched, and gamers will have the chance to obtain NFTs with many well-known characters.

* Blockchain games versus. traditional games, Ethereum game "My Crypto Heroes" financial model and worldview challenges Daring Frontier Heroes: The brand new game Daring Frontier Heroes, produced by the builder of My Crypto Heroes doublejump.tokyo, has been officially released on The month of january 30th, and received an enormous response once it was released. Nine qualifying rounds had been successfully kept in the first quarter. In the land sale that began on March 30, the famous land was sold-out within 3 hours. Gods Unchained: The blockchain cards game Gods Unchained launched the Flux &Fusing function on February 20, enriching the game's play to earn mechanism. However, due to the network congestion after the ETH plummet, the Fusing function is temporarily unavailable. On March 24, 151 fresh cards were put into the GU extension pack, and the game content was more expanded.

* 500 days later, the second "big gamble" around the blockchain edition of Hearthstone game Gods Unchained

* Tencent major shareholder photo, DApp edition of Hearthstone "Gods Unchained" received another 15 million US dollars investment

* The game director from the Magic Club joins the Dapp edition of Hearthstone "Gods Unchained": "It's time to ensure it is mainstream." Somnium Area: Virtual Truth Game Somnium Area developed rapidly in the first quarter of 2020. After integrating the MetaMask pocket and the circulation foreign currency Somnium Cubes around the CoinPark Exchange, Somnium Space released the 2 2.0 version from the VR digital world game on February 21. In the subsequent land purchase, all 25 plots of land were sold-out, and a complete of 110 ETH has been acquired. Somnium Cubes, the existing in-game currency, may also be bought on OpenSea. F1 Delta Time: Blockchain racing game F1 Delta Time won 91 ETH within the public sale of the new magic size China Version 2019 Azure Dragon. From February 25th to March 9th, the game opened its initial official box product sales, with 2,37 boxes sold, and much more than 36,400 USD, which immediately grew to become the Dapp with the best transaction volume on OpenSea. The game's time trial mode was officially launched on March 30. As a little game, the time test mode gives gamers the opportunity to test their race NFT around the track before the full version of the game is launched.

* The racing game F1 Delta Time offered the ``blockchain digital treasure'' on Ethereum in a ``sky cost of 3.36 million'' NFTOpenSea: On March 27, the decentralized trade OpenSea announced that it supports embeddable NFT, that's, users can embed NFT on their blog or site for display by generating a web link on OpenSea. OpenSea is contacting bloggers and site owners to show their NFT choices in this manner. At the start of this year, OpenSea co-founder Devin released the "NFT Bible", which is by far the most comprehensive and insightful article within the NFT industry. highly recommended. Cryptovoxels: The blockchain virtual entire world game Cryptovoxels released edition 2.22.0 on The month of january 6. In those days, more than 2,000 plots (called parcels in the game) were offered, and various dealings and game activities on Cryptovoxels began to be frequent happen. On February 6, the NFT transaction volume of Cryptovoxels surpassed Decentraland for the very first time. It was the biggest blockchain virtual entire world game before. The NFT transaction volume that week was close to 400,000 US dollars. Cryptovoxels has also carried out various activities like the opening of VR galleries, concerts and VR parties, as well as an art public sale with a complete amount of more than 3,000 US dollars. The public sale proceeds will undoubtedly be donated to the Australian wildfire. By the end of March, edition 3.19.5 was officially released.

* Blockchain game evaluationThe virtual world about Ethereum Cryptovoxels - the expense reasoning behind 30 moments the land speculation SuperRare: As one of the largest encrypted artwork platforms within the circle, you can find already more than 5,000 artworks about SuperRare, and XCOPY is among the most initial artist whose product sales of works exceed 200ETH. In mid-March of this year, SuperRare grew to become the number one NFT-type software in weekly transaction volume. Async.Art: Async.Art can be an encrypted artwork auction site. On February 26th, the task was up-to-date and the first auction transaction has been opened. The initial auction work is a programmable encrypted artwork "Very first Supper". On February 28, "First Supper" was offered at a cost of 103 ETH, generating the annals of encrypted artwork.

* An "encrypted painting" of 720,000 yrs . old that could not really be completed in 1,000 many years was sold, making use of NFT to accomplish a constantly altering programmable artwork Avastars: Avastars can be an avatar-like NFT selection project predicated on Ethereum. The pre-sale premiered around the Opensea system on February 7th, as well as the NFT well worth 183 ETH has been offered within 4 days. Each Avastar comprises randomly generated hairstyles, epidermis colors, mouths and other features. Users can choose their favorite combos and generate NFTs for selection. By the end of March, Avastars introduced that the task will be formally launched and will launch more feature combinations. DeFiMaker: In the first quarter of this year, Creator released the "Dai IDEA" to market the use of DAI in games. Games such as for example Axie Infinity, Ignored Artifacts, and SkyWeaver have integrated DAI. On March 12, the price of Ethereum plummeted, leading to Maker to create a lot of assets to be liquidated. Due to the lower gas value set with the clearing bot (Keeperbot), the network congestion and higher GAS charges of Ethereum clogged the bidding. A liquidator ( Keeper) Get the auction at a cost of 0 DAI when there is no competitor. Subsequently, Maker launched a liquidation freeze module and launched the first debt auction to repay nearly $5 million with debt. In late March, the Creator Foundation introduced that it would completely transfer control of MKR tokens to token holders.

* MakerDAO's "no dollar bidding" caused 170 million loss, and the united states lawyer is convening a "collective problem" for that victims

* McAfee: Bitcoin is a junk coin, and Ethereum, Monroe, DAI is the upcoming of cryptocurrency

* Decentralized central lender MakerDAO cooperates with Xinchuang Monolith to launch a cryptocurrency economic card Uniswap: Uniswap introduced that it will discharge the V2 edition in the second quarter. Its fresh features include support for any ERC20 / ERC20 trading pair, marketing of cost oracles, and lightning mortgage functions. During the currency cost plummet in March, Uniswap's 24-hour trading volume attained $53 million.

* Launch for newbiesHow to earn money on the favorite DeFi task "Uniswap"?

* Beginner to DefiUnderstand Uniswap in this specific article, what's the "token trade protocol" about Ethereum Dharma: Encrypted Finances Dharma has deployed a fresh smart contract program: dTokens, dToken holders will receive 90% from the interest revenue earned by cToken. From then on, Dharma released the P2P exchange function, that allows users to send and receive U.S. dollars.

* "We processed 220 million yuan in loan products in under per month after going on the web"-Dharma, P2P private lending about Ethereum

* Decentralized lending system Dharma transforms and launches the second version, and uses the pool of funds with competitor Compound Rocket: NFT mortgage platform Rocket has issued 4 loan products (you are postponed), as well as the collateral includes (DAI, Decentraland possessions and encrypted artworks). Afterwards, Rocket cooperated with Bullionix to issue 5 "digital jewellery" NFTs endorsed by gold.

* Dapp ecology information PK in The month of january, Ethereum has a significant upsurge in the market share of Defi and games, 83% of TRON are gambling and high-risk users dForce: By introducing USR, users can earn down payment interest by depositing USDx in to the USR contract. If depositing into an interest-earning agreement that supports both USDx and USR (such as for example Lendf.Me), users will receive double interest. Lendf.Me added support for DAI and BUSD.

* New ambitions from the outdated empire: Libra is a Trojan horse for Facebook bZx: On February 14, the bZx team issued an announcement on the state telegram team, stating that hackers had carried out a vulnerability assault around the bZx process, leading to some ETH to be lost; on February 18, bZx has been suspected to be attacked for the second time. The second object is the ETH / sUSD trading pair. A complete of US$1 mil was collected for the two attacks, exposing the concealed dangers of DeFi systemic economic risks. In order to avoid the assault from happening again, bZx cooperated with Chainlink to adopt a distributed oracle treatment for avoid risks.

* What is "Flash Loan"? A DeFi technique to generate 350,000 US dollars from your "loan agreement bZx" within ten seconds

* How to use the Defi device to make a income of tens of huge amount of money with "10 seconds at no cost"? Detailed repair from the bZx hacking incident

* 42% annual down payment interest detonated a operate turmoil! The Taiwanese specialized team constructed the DeFi escape device overnight to save lots of the world

* The big winner of Bloodbath Day time! Binance ChainLink display crashed 99.9%, fortunate guy made 20,000 times in a couple of seconds Kyber: Kyber's cumulative transaction volume exceeded 500 mil U.S. dollars in late The month of january, as well as the cumulative transaction exceeded 600,000. By the end of February, the KNC token premiered on Coinbase Professional, which not only improved the liquidity of KNC, but additionally greatly expanded an individual base participating in the governance of KyberDAO. Katalyst is Kyber's major protocol upgrade plan this year to better meet up with the liquidity requirements from the DeFi ecosystem. It's been deployed around the testnet.

* Replace the centralized trade! Understand the Defi trade protocol in one post ``Kyber's fade out and rise''

* Qingming even fake fantasiesHow to build a "perpetual motion machine" that makes money online without employees costs? Compound: Compound has launched a multilingual version in the first quarter, and the Chinese version continues to be opened. In February, Compound commissioned a third-party system, Gauntlet Networks, to carry out a stress check. The results demonstrated that it can expand the total borrowing scale by 10 moments without significantly escalating the risk, as well as the default price is significantly less than 1%. In earlier March, Compound deployed the governance token COMP, but the tokens haven't yet been used for governance. The COMP token will not be open to the general public until the decentralization is completed.

* Launch to Decentralized FundUnderstand the lending mechanism in 5 minutes, what's "DeFi Lender" Compound? * ETHFANS columnLiquidity and standard bank run risk in DeFi, taking Compound as an example

* Venture capital legend a16z led the expense, Defi borrowed from the new venture Compound completed US$25 million in Collection A financing PoolTogether: PoolTogether is a lossless lottery task. It invests the collected funds into Compound to generate interest, then distributes the interest to the lottery winners and refunds the participation money of the rest of the participants. PoolTogether announced in February that it had raised $1 zillion from IDEO CoLab Projects, ConsenSys Labs, and DTC Funds. By the end of February, PoolTogether also minted plDAI and plUSDC tokens representing lottery possession and down payment certificates, allowing participants to exchange PoolTogether's lottery seat tickets to family members and friends. dYdX: dYdX's transaction volume in the first quarter more than doubled, and set a record high in a single day time on March 9th. The 24-hour transaction volume exceeded $17.75 million, and it provided more than $36.2 million in funds for that system and $13.5 million in loans. Beginning with March 10th, dYdX will charge a certain percent of transaction charges for transactions around the platform.

* 3 "invisible bombs" you need to worry about? Systemic dangers of big gamers, hacking money, Defi

* Defi set the highest-resolution computation amount in history. MakerDao has a 1.2 billion asset pothole. It isn't ruled out that an emergency shutdown is announced!

* Demystifying the "liquidator" within the mortgage agreement: How to make huge profits in DeFi? Kava: As the first DeFi task on Cosmos, Kava launched the CDP testnet on February 5. From then on, it cooperated with the blockchain social media platform Commun to determine the Kava local community. In March, cooperated with the oracle task Chainlink to create a safe and dependable decentralized economic product. By the end of March, Kava introduced that Testnet 5000 has been ready. This marked the first cross-chain transfer between the two Cosmos stores as well as the last & most important step for that delivery of USDX on BNB. Data chart: The growth trend from the dapp industry in Q1 2020. The total dapp transaction volume of Ethereum in Q1 of 2020 is 5.64 billion U.S. dollars, a rise of 652% from the same time period last year (740 million U.S. dollars). The primary source of growth is DeFi tasks. Since 2019, DeFi has gradually grown in to the largest trading branch on Ethereum and has developed rapidly. It is well worth noting that within the dealings of DeFi tasks, the proportion of indigenous tokens ETH is not large, & most of them result from ERC-20 tokens (such as for example WETH, DAI, USDC, etc.).

ERC-20 tokens contributed USD 4.74 billion in transaction volume, accounting for up to 84%. On March 12, the cryptocurrency market experienced severe volatility. The single-day transaction volume of Ethereum dapp attained a historic peak of 326 million US dollars, mainly from MakerDAO, dYdX and other DeFi projects.

In Q1 of 2020, Ethereum Dapps will even now maintain a good diversity. The transaction volume of game, lottery and other Dapps is equivalent to last year; the transaction volume of economic and transaction Dapps has increased sharply. In this article, we classify lending tasks (such as for example Maker, Compound, bZx) and derivative tasks (such as for example Augur) as financial (Finance), and decentralized exchanges (such as for example Kyber, Uniswap, Tokenlon), etc. Classified as transaction (Exchange). Both of these types of tasks are collectively known as DeFi. Compared with the same time period in 2019, in the first quarter of 2020: * Financial Dapp dealings reached US$2.95 billion, a rise of just one 1,743% * Exchange-type Dapp dealings attained 2.34 billion US dollars, a rise of 430% From your perspective of active addresses, in the first quarter of this year, the amount of daily active addresses on Ethereum was 16,763, a year-on-year increase of 55.86%, mainly from financial Dapps and high-risk Dapps (ie Ponzi games, such as for example Doubleway and Mil.Money). If the high-risk sorts are removed, the common number of on a daily basis active addresses is 12,505, a year-on-year boost of 23.55%.

The total number of active addresses of Q1 ETH in 2020 is 422,871, and you can find 243,252 addresses which have used risky Dapps, accounting for 52.29%, mainly from Doubleway and Millio n.Money (funding game). According to observations, there are always a large numbers of addresses that belong to swiping robots in terms of behavior. As the application situations of DeFi continue to increase, a complete of 31,299 addresses have used financial Dapps in the first quarter of this year, a year-on-year increase of 234.86%. Lottery Dapp transaction volume was the same as last year, but the number of active addresses improved by 39.88%.

In Q1 of 2020, Ethereum has a complete of 641 energetic Dapps, which really is a decrease of 173 from Q1 in 2019.

* You can find 33 active economic Dapps, a rise of 18 from last year. * You can find 72 active trading Dapps, which is the same as last year. * You can find 180 dynamic Dapps in the game group, a decrease of 42 from last year, and it is nevertheless the group with the biggest number of dynamic Dapps. * There were 71 dynamic Dapps within the lottery group, which was lower short weighed against the same time period last year (146). Influx field The total transaction volume of TRON's Q1 Dapp in 2020 was US$411 million, a year-on-year decrease of 73.8% (Q1 2019: US$1.57 billion). In the first 1 / 2 of last year, TRON lottery Dapps flourished, and a number of lottery Dapps emerged. The lottery mining token dividend mechanism has attracted a lot of users to participate. For instance, 888TRON has set a record of $82 million in single-day transaction volume. Subsequently, the recognition of lottery Dapps carried on to drop. No well-known lottery Dapps had been blessed in TRON this season, and the transaction volume stabilized, having an standard daily transaction volume of USD 4.57 million.

From your category perspective, lottery Dapp still dominates, accounting for 92.1% from the transaction volume. Compared with Q1 in 2019, the transaction volume of almost all categories has dropped:

* Lottery dealings amounted to USD 379 million, a decrease of 72.5% * Game transaction volume has been 2.35 million US dollars, down 63.56% * Exchange-type dealings amounted to US$28.21 million, a decrease of 82.7%

TRON's final number of dynamic addresses in Q1 in 2020 is 237,000, and the common number of daily dynamic addresses is 24,998, a year-on-year decrease of 39.48%. The energetic Dapp addresses of lottery, game and exchange have all dropped to varying levels. Zethyr, launched by the end of 2019, grew to become the first economic Dapp around the TRON. By the end of March this season, Justin Sun introduced the Simply (formerly Djed) stablecoin program similar to MakerDAO. The task will become a core component of the TRON DeFi ecosystem.

You will see 342 active Dapps in Q1 TRON in 2020, and 66 fresh Dapps will undoubtedly be added. Among them, 121 Dapps had been energetic in lottery, a rise of 29 from the same time period last year. There were 48 energetic Dapps in the game category, a decrease of 9 from the same time period last year. The number of energetic Dapps of other types has not changed much. EOS The EOS Dapp ecosystem nevertheless hasn't recovered from your mining activities of EIDOS. The total transaction volume of EOS in Q1 of 2020 has been US$1.74 billion, which was only 11.67% less than the same time period last year, but the number of daily dynamic addresses dropped from 85,316 to 11,402. , Shrunk 87%.

Much like TRON, lottery Dapp has been also the primary force of EOS ecology. In Q1 of 2019, lottery Dapp dealings totaled 1.61 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 79.67%. By the first quarter of this year, lottery Dapp dealings were just 400 million U.S. dollars, a decrease of 74.95% from the prior quarter. On the other hand, the transaction volume of transaction Dapp improved by 226.26%, accounting for 72.55% of the total transaction volume of Q1 in 2020, becoming the Dapp category with the biggest EOS transaction volume.

The adverse effects of EIDOS on on-chain transactions also directly affect game Dapps and lottery Dapps, causing a lot of Dapp project parties to select to depart the EOS ecosystem.

* Game Dapp transaction volume fallen by 86.30%, and total active addresses fallen by 42.58%. * Lottery Dapp transaction volume decreased by 74.95%, and total active addresses reduced by 86.01%. * The transaction volume of risky Dapp improved by 10.94%, and dynamic users increased by 146.09%. EOS has 406 dynamic Dapps in Q1 of 2020, in support of 19 fresh Dapps. The number of energetic Dapps within the lottery group is the largest, with 184, a decrease of 95 from the same time period last year. You can find 69 energetic Dapps in the game group, 5 less than the same time period last year. You can find 88 other Dapps, a rise of 16 over the same time period last year.

From your perspective of the amount of active addresses, Ethereum occupies the primary force in games, exchanges and financing, and TRON is the leader in lottery.

From your perspective of transaction volume, Ethereum dominates DeFi (that's, financial and exchange categories), EOS and TRON have jointly divided the lottery transaction volume. In addition, EOS also offers a certain market share within the transaction category. Along with ETH, TRON, and EOS, you can find four other public stores whose Dapp dealings in the first quarter of this year exceeded $10 million. NEONEO can be an early open up source public string, independently produced by China. Last year, a lot of high-quality blockchain game projects became a member of Neo, which includes Blockchain Cuties, NeoFish, XPET World, etc. In the first quarter of this year, 0xVideo games introduced the integration of two string games, 0xWarriors and 0xRacers, around the Neo blockchain. Beginning with Apr 1, 0xRacers' pre-sale activities on Neo are all 50% off. Another Neo-based informal game, NeoFish, also adds a Staking mode to integrate DeFi systems into the game.

In Q1 of 2020, you can find 28 energetic Dapps on Neo with a complete transaction volume of 11 zillion U.S. dollars. On July 28, the day-to-day transaction volume attained a maximum of US$555,000, the majority of which originated from the decentralized trade Switcheo. At the start of this year, the Neo Foundation made an equity investment in Switcheo. Switcheo allows the usage of Neo Gasoline tokens as transaction fees to increase support for that Neo ecosystem. More and more interesting Dapps are joining the Neo ecosystem, such as for example Novem, which will certify physical gold to provide users having a safer and much more convenient gold trading and storage encounter. In March of this year, the DappReview official website officially started tracking the ICON blockchain Dapp data, providing ICON users with expert and detailed data analysis services. The ICON network is a universal blockchain protocol that can run smart contracts, and its own token is named ICX. ICON adopts the BFT-DPoS (Delegated Proof-of-Stake) consensus process and adopts an financial governance protocol called DPoC (Delegated Proof-of-Contributio).

In Q1 of 2020, the total transaction volume of ICON Dapp will undoubtedly be US$19 million. ICON has 7 energetic Dapps around the C aspect, among which you can find DAO platforms like ICONBet and ICON Vote. Almost all transactions in the first quarter were contributed by ICONBet. In addition, STAYGE can be an motivating local community for Hallyu songs fans, and it has the largest ICON user group. IOSTIOST is a high-performance blockchain predicated on "Proof of Confidence (PoB)". In Q1 of 2020, IOST could have 34 energetic Dapps, of which game and lottery will be the main categories.

In Q1 of 2020, the total transaction volume of IOST Dapp is USD 10 zillion. On The month of january 16, the on a daily basis transaction volume attained a maximum of US$701,000, the majority of which originated from the lucky pull Dapp iPirates. TomoChain TomoChain can be an innovative treatment for the scalability problem of Ethereum. In Q1 of 2020, TomoChain has a complete of 15 energetic Dapps, of which lottery is the main category.

TomoMaster is the most popular Dapp, and it is also the state governance Dapp of TOMO. In Q1 of 2020, the total transaction volume of TOMO Dapp is USD 12.92 million. The peak day-to-day transaction volume has been US$838,000.

[tonystarkbingo]

TSB Round 7 Roundup - Week 1 ROUNDUP!

It's the very first roundup of our latest round! Check out all the amazing fills and send out some love to our incredible creators.

Collaborator: scottxlogan Card Number: 7017 Square Filled: T4 - Grief Title: Home Again (Chapter 30) Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 10319 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Post-Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Supernatural Elements, Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, References to Depression, Bucky Barnes Has PTSD, Bucky Barnes & Sam Wilson Friendship, Pre-Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Tragedy, Angst and Romance, Blood Loss, Adult Content, Explicit Language, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Blood and Injury, Dreams and Nightmares, Slow Burn, Sexual Content Summary: Bucky experiences a painful reunion and pours his heart out to an old friend as his grief over what he lost consumes him. Just when it seems all hope is lost, Sam offers Bucky a surprise that could change everything. Meanwhile Tony and Ramsay share a heart to heart that could potentially put Tony on the right track after his time with Bucky was stolen from his memory.

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Collaborator: scottxlogan Card Number: 7017 Square Filled: S1 - Wish Title: Home Again (Chapter 31) Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 19408 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Post-Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Supernatural Elements, Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, References to Depression, Bucky Barnes Has PTSD, Bucky Barnes & Sam Wilson Friendship, Pre-Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Tragedy, Angst and Romance, Blood Loss, Adult Content, Explicit Language, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Blood and Injury, Dreams and Nightmares, Slow Burn, Sexual Content Summary: After a few surprising truths are revealed Bucky and Tony are reunited at the reservoir in Wakanda. Will it spell disaster or prove to be the happy ending they've both been searching for?

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Collaborator: illogicalkat Card Number: 7009 Square Filled: R4 - Soulmates Title: These are the hands of Fate Link: AO3 Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark Word Count: 665 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: no warnings apply, soulmates, canon divergence Summary: Tony's thread has been with him as long as he can remember.

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Collaborator: purpleicedteas Card Number: 7007 Square Filled: R5 - Bucky Barnes Title: And So It Goes Link: AO3 Pairings: WinterIron (romantic) Word Count: 9456 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Single Dad Tony, Recluse Bucky, Brief mention of Pepper's breast cancer and death; Silver Fox Tony, Silver Fox Bucky, Single Dad Tony, Former FBI Agent Bucky, Recluse Bucky, Alpine the Cat Summary: Bucky Barnes was a retired FBI agent living as a recluse. Content with a solitary lifestyle, he lived for years with only the company of Alpine, his feline companion. When the empty home next to theirs is filled with new neighbors, Alpine and Bucky find their lives weaving with the handsome engineer and his daughter.

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Collaborator: Marveler Card Number: 7024 Square Filled: K5 - Hindsigh Title: Taskmaster Avengers Edition Link: Tumblr Pairings: N/A Word Count: 1209 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Point disagreements, drowning an inanimate object, taskmaster gameshow Summary: Tony suggests the idea of an Avengers Edition Taskmaster special and everybody seems pretty excited by the idea. Tony was too but hindsight is 20/20 and if it’s making people laugh, that is okay.

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Collaborator: Otpcutie Card Number: 7029 Square Filled: R2 - Jealousy Title: The Bait Link: Tumblr Pairings: Steve/Tony, Steve & Bucky, Bucky/Peter Word Count: 0.7k Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Detective AU, grumpy Steve, jealousy, besties and work partners Steve & Bucky, pining Steve, Bucky is fed up with it, undercover Tony, angst, love confession Summary: Tony goes undercover as an escort for a case.

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Collaborator: PoliZ Card Number: 7021 Square Filled: K1 - Conflicting Obligations/ Oaths Title: Blind Luck Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve/Tony Word Count: 844 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: AU: Med School, Hurt/Comfort, Eye Trauma, Miscommunication, Bathing, contact with cadaver Summary: It's late, and Steve has a phlebotomy practicum first thing tomorrow morning, but when he hears a call for help in a nearby lab, he knows he has to respond.

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Collaborator: scottxlogan Card Number: 7017 Square Filled: K4 - Seeing Red Title: Right Here Waiting Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 15556 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Not Steve Rogers Friendly, Not Peggy Carter Friendly, Canon-Typical Violence, Established Relationship, Tension, Confrontations, Pride, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Drama, Angst and Feels, Fluff, Angst and Romance, Past Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Swearing, Adult Content, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary: It's June and Steve's still struggling with coping over discovering the truth about Bucky and Tony's relationship. When Pepper plans a post-birthday celebration party for Tony's birthday to bring everyone closer together, the scene erupts when tension reaches a boiling point. In the aftermath Tony takes matters into his own hands and has a few surprises in store for those around him.

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[uk-news-talking-politics]

The covid housing crisis provides an ideal opportunity for reform

By Gary Buswell

For a moment, it seemed as if the UK real estate sector was experiencing a boom in the weeks after the covid lockdown ended. Despite the steepest drop in GDP in the country's history, the increased demand brought about by months of inactivity in the sector led to a rise in house prices.

Now, however, prices are predicted to fall in the coming months. Government measures to stimulate the market have come to an end and the young people and first-time buyers who might have taken advantage of them are instead more disadvantaged than ever.

The brief upswing in the UK housing market initially surprised many analysts. Although the country's GDP is down by 21% quarterly - the worst out of the G7 countries and the deepest UK slump on record – house prices rose steadily from July. Following 1.8% growth that month, average prices rose again by two per cent in August - the highest monthly rise in over 15 years and enough to drive the average UK house price to a record high of just under £225,000.

One of the main reasons for this growth was pent up demand that had been building during the lockdown period. The harsh, sudden stop for most activity in the sector between March and June meant around 150,000 sales were put on hold. To further incentivise the sector and boost sales, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a cut in stamp duty until March 2021, driving an estimated six per cent additional rise in transactions.

That backlogged demand is now petering out and the government's emergency furlough measures are coming to an end, leading to predictions that prices will drop steeply in the coming months. Research from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) predicts property prices will be 13.8% lower in 2021 than in 2020, dousing any hopes that the housing sector might emerge from the pandemic unscathed.

That's undoubtedly bad news for the market, but surely it should be good news for prospective buyers – especially first-time buyers who have struggled to get on the property ladder.

Unfortunately, the fall in house prices will not make homes any more affordable if covid continues to affect the economy over the next year. Further GDP drops will mean a decline in incomes, together with rising unemployment which is likely to offset house price drops. This will have a greater effect on young people, as well as those in lower income sectors who are most at risk of economic hardship once the furlough scheme ends.

While these groups are most in need of assistance when it comes to buying a home, the pandemic response from the UK's big mortgage lenders has been to put stricter rules in place. Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Santander, and TSB are among the banks who have put a hold on mortgage loans to customers who have saved a deposit of less than ten per cent. Some lenders are now even asking for a minimum of 15% deposit.

This has disproportionately affected young would-be buyers who often struggle to come up with such large deposits, leaving wealthier buyers - and those whose parents can chip in - free to benefit from the stamp duty holiday.

Lost among the headlines on rising prices, there are also the thousands of first-time buyers who lost tens of thousands of pounds they had already saved up, and could ill-afford to lose, when their purchases were derailed by the pandemic.

In a study by Butterfield Mortgages, around 30% of buyers reported losing their exchange deposit – the non-refundable deposit that provides security to the seller once the sale has been agreed – due to mortgage lenders turning down loans at the eleventh hour. This equates to an average of around £23,000 per buyer.

All of this is serving to exacerbate the steady decline in the number of first time buyers and percentage of young people owning their own home since the late 1980s. New mortgage restrictions, coupled with the decline in affordable new homes being built, mean that many people's hopes of getting on the property ladder could be buried for good.

Buying a home in many areas, especially in London, where there has been a 62% decline in affordable housing, was already tough. The effects of the pandemic threaten to make it near impossible – especially if covid continues into 2021 and beyond.

All of these factors make it a ripe time for an overhaul of the housing sector, especially in England. Both the Tories and Labour have talked up various schemes to encourage homebuilding over the past several election cycles, but the political system as a whole has failed to reckon with what has long been a systemic crisis. What is really needed is a sustainable cross-party plan for affordable homes to redress these imbalances over the coming decades. Scotland, for example, has demonstrated a commitment over successive governments to providing social housing, even if a rapidly growing population has nonetheless been causing demand to outstrip supply.

Covid has provided a reminder of the impact housing has on our health. Even before the pandemic, problems such as poor quality housing and overcrowded households were costing the NHS as much as £1.4 billion each year. Now, with people forced to spend more time at home due to lockdown measures and finding it increasingly difficult to afford the costs of a move, poor housing is likely to have an even worse effect on health.

As it deliberates how to navigate the difficult winter months ahead, the government will have to find a way to support both those already impacted and the many more who will suffer financially if a second wave forces the housing sector back into lockdown. Tax holidays may be an effective short-term stimulant, but what the country really needs in the long-term is more housing – along with more help to keep these homes affordable for current and future generations.