metaphoracle
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The Four Fs by metaphoracle
Fandoms: Fantastic Four (Comicverse), Spider-Man (Comicverse), Marvel (Comics)
26 Jul 2019
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In evolutionary biology, animals (including humans) are biologically motivated to follow four basic and primal drives or instincts: fighting, fleeing, feeding and fornicating.
A Spideytorch Week 2019 submission for Free Day Friday
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It's Tradition by metaphoracle
Fandoms: Fantastic Four (Comicverse), Spider-Man (Comicverse)
26 Dec 2018
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“I’m Jewish,” Peter complains, plaintively. “And you brought me to Macy’s. Macy’s, Storm. The week before Christmas.”
“It’s festive,” Johnny declares. He picks up a blouse and scrutinizes it before hanging it back on the rack with a dismissive head shake. “All the hustle and bustle.”
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When Spider-Man’s best friend Johnny Storm asks him for help in tactfully declining a marriage proposal from the King of Atlantis, Namor the Sub-Mariner, the only solution is for him to volunteer Daily Bugle photographer Peter Parker to pretend to be dating Johnny at the Engagement Banquet in Atlantis. Sure, it’s technically lying to his best friend about who Peter Parker is, but the important thing is that Johnny won’t have to marry Namor, and if Peter gets some photographs of Atlantis to sell, what’s the harm? Peter thought the most difficult thing about this scenario was going to be making sure Johnny didn’t figure out Peter is actually Spider-Man. Having to pretend he wasn’t actually falling in love with his best friend never crossed his mind.
Featuring fake relationships, forced (almost) marriages, identity porn, traditional Atlantean clothing, and amorous cephalopods.
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Tastes Like the Real Thing by metaphoracle for Traincat
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Comicverse), Fantastic Four (Comicverse)
16 Sep 2018
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“You can get back to whatever it is you were doing,” Johnny says, magnanimously. To his surprise, Harry doesn’t move.
Instead, he leans against Peter’s desk, an obscene monstrosity of wood and glass and metal. “I could,” he drawls. “But then you’d be alone, and well, what kind of a friend would I be if I didn’t make sure that my best buddy Pete’s friend is being entertained.”
Johnny crosses his arms over his chest. “It bothers you,” he observes. “That Peter’s my friend.”
Harry shakes his head and rubs the back of his neck, as if distracted. He avoids Johnny’s gaze when he replies. “I just find it interesting that a celebrity like the Human Torch is palling around with the head of a multi-million dollar tech corporation.”
“Peter interned for my brother-in-law,” Johnny reminds him. “Honestly, you should be asking Peter why the head of a multi-million dollar tech corporation is hanging out with a C-list celebrity.”
“Other than the obvious?”
Johnny huffs a bitter laugh. “Believe me, being Peter Parker’s boytoy would be so much simpler than our actual relationship.”
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He'd always had a need to please others, but this was different. Deeper. The satisfaction that came from pleasing Cougar filled some kind of psychological need. A thought filtered through his brain, half-remembered from AP Psych in what seemed a lifetime ago, about a pyramid of needs that culminated in self-actualization.
Cougar was Jensen's pyramid. Making Cougar laugh—that was one block. Taking care of him, when the other man allowed it, was another. And this...right now. Being perfect. Being silent. Being Cougar's in whatever shape the man made him. That was right at the top.
Recent bookmarks
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Negative rift spikes catch Ianto's attention, and he finds that he's not the only one hiding secrets in Torchwood.
Season One Spoilers Only.
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06 Jul 2026
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A week after the events at The Ferret, Ianto finds himself tumbling through the Rift once more, where he learns more than he ever suspected about Jack as he tries to get back to his own time. Set after Greeks Bearing Gifts and the Big Finish audio drama Broken, with many spoilers and perhaps a few new answers.
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06 Jul 2026
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Writing up the report on the Night Travellers, Jack finds one line in the Electro guide book that confuses him – it closed in 1977. It leaves him with one question, how did Ianto watch films there if it closed six years before he was born?
The answer is one he never expected, and the consequences for them both could change everything.Bookmarked by metaphoracle
04 Jul 2026
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Ianto Jones knows that working for Torchwood means the impossible is always possible. It's Christmas Eve, he's chasing a Rift opening, and he shouldn't be surprised to see Jack Harkness looking up him from the ground with a broad grin, but he is. Sometimes even Torchwood surprises Ianto Jones.
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01 Jul 2026
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A split second misjudgement takes Ianto's life off in a completely different direction, as he ends up thrown through time and space with Captain John and runs into Jack's brother, Gray.
Eye Candy, Companion, Time Agent..... after centuries of trying find his way home, who is the real Ianto Jones anyway?
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01 Jul 2026