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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    Hawke has crafted his pain into something beautiful. He has tilled his trauma into the soil of his soul and from it has grown a man as solid as an oak, firm in his sense of justice, unending in his supply of understanding and compassion.
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    How can I do anything but love him for that?

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    06 Apr 2026

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    It is 1962, and the world is changing. The future shines bright in Moscow, gleaming in the dark, and all the decades of suffering will soon at last bring their long-promised rewards. Utopia seems imminent.

    Meanwhile, Natalia Romanova discovers the true cost of creating the Soviet Dream. What future is there for people like her? What is she fighting for? What can Natalia be loyal to, if not the Red Room?

    (Or: a love story, told in the interstices of Mr. Khrushchev’s war.)

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    28 Sep 2025

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    Natasha thought the Winter Soldier was not her problem. Standing in front of the Bucky Barnes portion of the Smithsonian exhibit, she had to admit the Winter Soldier was at least a little bit her problem, if only because Steve was so thoroughly compromised when it came to him. She just wasn’t prepared for how very much the Winter Soldier was her problem too.

    In which Natasha is Psyche, and Bucky is Eros, kind of.

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    10 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 26

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    “Liho never gave you any scars?”
    “She’s a cat,” she reminds him and holds up her left hand. One nearly invisible scar runs along the base of her thumb and another more recent one stretches from the knuckle at the base of her index finger to the base of her thumb. Almost, but not quite, forming the shape of a mirrored L.
    He kisses the two scars with an air of reverence that makes her smile.

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    Natasha and Bucky celebrates being back together in the best way possible: by being ridiculously in love with each other.

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    10 Jul 2025

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    Some of Natasha’s memories are true, some are false, but throughout all of them runs one thread of remembrance: a cool metal hand gentle upon her back, tender against her cheek, tight around her throat; an assassin with a crooked smile and eyes like winter.

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    06 Jul 2025