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Mechanics and Microbes by CheerfullyCynical
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies)
11 Jun 2026
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The Sokovia Accords were supposed to leash the Avengers. Instead, they gave Eva Stratt a shopping list for the end of the world.
Fresh off the bleeding edge of Siberia, a broken Tony Stark discovers the sun is dying—and that Stratt has weaponized his stolen genetic records in an attempt to draft him for a four-year, one-way suicide mission into the dark. At the Compound alongside Dr. Ryland Grace, a rumpled junior high science teacher who just figured out how the solar parasite breeds, Tony is forced into a chaotic partnership over volatile space sludge.
To Stratt, sacrificing three lives to save seven billion is basic math. To Tony Stark, a one-way ticket isn't a tragic necessity—it’s just a design flaw. It’s time to break the rules, rewrite the physics, and make damn sure the universe's most expensive floating coffin gets a steering wheel.
And he, and Doctor Ryland Grace, would not be taking it.
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what it means to be an astronaut by CheerfullyCynical
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
03 Jun 2026
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As an elite ER doctor recruited for a desperate suicide mission to save humanity, you’re a master of keeping your emotions in a tightly locked box—until Dr. Ryland Grace walks back into your life. Ten years after high school graduation, your brilliant, bumbling former rival turns your carefully structured triage of survival into an agonizingly beautiful chaos, forcing a decade of unspoken grief and a fierce, suppressed love to the surface as the launch countdown ticks away.
In a world run by Eva Stratt, your frantic, behind-closed-doors grab for intimacy feels less like a generic romance and more like a desperate, clawing war against a terminal diagnosis. But the vacuum of space has a brutal way of correcting the timeline, and when the automatic alarms finally shatter the heat of the moment to leave you blinded by sterile medical bays, you’ll realize that the mind is a terrifyingly elegant machine—and some memories are a sanctuary, while others are a trap you are entirely alone in.
In the mix of it all, there's Ryland, and there's Rocky. And there's space. Too much space.
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The ER was meant to be a safe place. Mel had always considered her work in the ER her comfort zone outside of her comfort zone. That comfort zone is broken when a patient outside the ambulance doors threatens Mel with a knife.
Tragedy strikes... And where does that leave one Frank Langdon, former drug addict with a gigantic crush on one Mel King?
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Ghost by CheerfullyCynical
Fandoms: Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
31 May 2026
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You and Tony were parents.
But having a daughter didn't mean life stopped. No, you learned from Loki of all people that it took effort to be the mother you needed to be for your daughter.
But when Captain America came to you asking for advice about what to do with a something called Project Insight, you couldn't just put down your Rescue armor.
And who the hell was the Winter Solider?
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- Part 6 of Amatur Cor Mariae
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You had fallen in love with Alastor the moment you had locked eyes. Your family had joked that you were soulmates and both of you wouldn't refute that, especially as you called him your husband.
But tragedy strikes in the form of your murder. You are left in heaven, waiting years upon years for the love of your life to join you.
When heaven decides that it needs to start a war in hell, it becomes your problem. Now involved in politics you never cared about before, you find yourself making friends in places you had never dared to think of.
One thing was for sure though... You could do anything with Alastor by your side. All you had to do was find him.
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After Agent and Tony returned from their vacation in Alaska, it was time to get back to work before going on maternity leave.
Of course, in the typical craziness of their lives, that's when everything turns upside down. After a power outage at Avengers tower, a couple of too familiar faces are now stowing away in the Avengers home.
Those familiar faces? Well, they look a little older, but they're family... From a different universe and timeline.
---- The MCU Avengers meet Tony and Agent
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- Part 7 of Amatur Cor Mariae
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Dim Pasts and Hard-Won Futures by CheerfullyCynical
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
24 Sep 2025
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You and your younger brother, Anakin, were slaves on Tatooine, far from the Republic's control.
You had never dared to dream of brighter things. Life was about survival - about finding food, protecting your family, and getting enough rest to do it all over again. You had a hard past and an even harder life, one you didn't expect to be long.
All of that changed when a Jedi Master and a Queen stumble into your Master's shop, needing more help than you could possibly give.
But, when it all comes down to it... Who were you not to help?
Travel through the galaxy as a too-old padawan, one who has a tremendous amount of feelings, causes chaos and turmoil in one very special Jedi Knight: Obi-Wan Kenobi. Will your kindness be enough to get through Kenobi's iron hard, Force-forsaken shell or will you both follow the Jedi code to its written word?
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The Dark World by CheerfullyCynical
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
21 Jun 2025
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Finally, you and Tony had an entire year of complete normalcy.
Well... Normalcy filled with raising your newborn, Tara Maria Stark. You've figured out how to balance being a mom, a wife, a CEO, and a student. You were happy and you loved your life. Everything was perfect.
Loki's sudden appearance shatters your peaceful slice of heaven. He warns you both about the Convergence, something that could destroy the nine realms. Seeing as Asgard is in danger, Queen Frigga asks her wayward son to return home... With proof that he was innocent of his crimes on Midgard.
You made a vow to testify for Loki if he ever needed it and you refused to back out of it.
Could you survive being away from your daughter and husband on an alien planet with your only allies being the princes? What was Jane Foster doing on Asgard?
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- Part 5 of Amatur Cor Mariae
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The battle of New York was over.
You've done what you could for the people of New York, both as Stark Industries' CEO and for the new team known as the Avengers. It was time for you to focus on your family. After all, you and Tony were expecting.
But can Tony overcome the demons you've both faced? You may have survived aliens, but that didn't mean the fight left you both unscarred.
How much would Tony risk to make sure you were safe?
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- Part 4 of Amatur Cor Mariae
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Stark's Avengers by CheerfullyCynical
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
07 Jan 2025
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Tony was no longer sick.
Things started to feel normal once again. You were going to university, you were getting the hang of being the CEO of Stark Industries, and you were loving Tony every single day.
All of that changes when Phil Coulson walks through the door a year later. An Asgardian named Loki has the Tesseract and, while you vowed to never be a part of any other fight, both you and Tony get thrown into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s world of chaos once again.
And... Steve Rogers was alive?
What did you get yourself into?
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- Part 3 of Amatur Cor Mariae
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The Starks by CheerfullyCynical
Fandoms: Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
18 Aug 2024
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Finally, you and Tony were married.
But not everyone gets to run off into the sunset after getting married. No, you had things to do: a company to fix after Stane's death, super strength to figure out, a budding relationship between two friends to plot, and, well...
How could life for you continue when Tony was being slowly poisoned by the very thing that kept him alive?
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- Part 2 of Amatur Cor Mariae
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One moment you were on the lowest totem pole of Stark Industries... The next you were Tony Stark's PA.
Tony Stark was an arrogant playboy that you desperately wanted to understand. You were a small town girl running from an awful past. Then, just as you thought your feelings were developing for said playboy, you're kidnapped with Tony by terrorists when traveling in Afghanistan.
Iron Man wasn't the only one to make it out of that cave, you just had to remind him of that.
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- Part 1 of Amatur Cor Mariae
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A young Time Lord fresh from the Time War is regenerating for the first time... Too bad no one told you how to do that. Luckily, the universe still has two Time Lords stumbling around in it.
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Those Who Walk Beside Us by CheerfullyCynical
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
16 Jun 2023
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“Okay,” Anakin Skywalker, General of the Republican army, Knight of the Jedi Order said to herself, “I’ll admit it, this is bad.”
In an attempt to save her men, Anakin makes the ultimate sacrifice: Her life for the lives of of her men.
Luckily, a Sith Lord by the name of Obi-Wan Kenobi refuses to let her die.
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The Doctor gets into a bit of a pickle and, for some reason, the Master takes it upon himself to rescue her.
To their surprise, it goes better than they ever expected.
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The Doctor becomes tired of losing after the Flux.
From her pain and anger... The Valeyard is born.
“Hello, Master,” She said, head tilting as she considered him, “I’ve had an upgrade.”
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He met her where he always did as per their tradition, on the edge of the universe, before the end of time and yet after the birth of it.
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Thousands of years later and the tradition was still put in place, no matter what hurts happened between them. It was something she looked forward to and dreaded, all at once... She was here to visit the Master after the Flux and, despite it all, that's what she was going to do.
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The Doctor opens the fob watch.
She had not cried when the woman offered her spaceship. She had not eaten anything the woman had offered on the journey to this planet – to what must be her new home. She had hardly interacted with the stranger, unable to bear the fact that she would never see her friends or family again.
She may be safe, but she was alone.
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Sometimes, the Master takes care of the Doctor.