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    "Have you ever heard of Omelas, doctor?"
    You pause, brow furrowing in thought. Fiction isn’t really your forte. You give a so-so kind of gesture.
    "Story from the seventies or something. Ursula Le Guin right?”
    De Fontane smiles that too-big smile again. The one that doesn’t reach her eyes.
    “Correct. Omelas is a Utopian city whose safety and prosperity depends entirely on the perpetual misery of a single child. Or person, in this case.”
    “Is that the job? Keep a child’s life miserable for the sake of the world?"
    “Well, we're not a utopia, that's for sure. And it’s not a child, it’s an adult man."
    "So my job, around my other duties, is to keep one guy miserable?"
    "Think more beige. Being miserable leads to an entirely different problem.”
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    If Bob is depressed, the world ends. If Bob is happy, the world also ends. It's your job to make sure neither of those things happen.
    In which Reader is hired on as a medic for The New Avengers and completely fumbles the brief.

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    26 May 2025

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    You had one last job before you were free. No more splitting, no more deaths. Unfortunately, that job seemed to rope in four other assassins and a... a man in hospital-wear?

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    22 May 2025

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    In the wake of battle and buried pasts, John Walker and Bob navigate uneasy truce, quiet rooms, and shared silences. Through tension and fragile kindness, they learn to understand one another—slowly bridging the gap between sense of duty and vulnerability, mistrust and care, until something gentler begins to take root.

    Or: me—extremely weary of superhero movies—was brought to a showing of Thunderbolts by one of my bffs. I came out the theater a changed person.

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    19 May 2025

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    a series of bob centric, thunderbolts found-family fics.

    upcoming fic summaries:
    · the avengers gala one, where joaquin and bob become good friends
    · the one where bob saves the team with his powers

    all fics are stand-alones, unless told otherwise! :) fic ideas r always welcome

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    18 May 2025

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    Wilson frowns. “Who is Bob?”

    “Bob,” a chorus of voices echoes, as six hands gesture emphatically toward the reading chair.

    Wilson glances back and forth between Walker and Bob, his frown deepening. “You are saying these two are … engaged?” he asks, suspiciously.

    Yelena cannot blame him for having questions. Positioned on opposite sides of the room, not quite looking at each other, both very clearly unhappy with current developments, Walker and Bob certainly don’t look like a couple of newly engaged lovebirds. If anything, they look divorced.

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    18 May 2025