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.
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After losing his girlfriend, Ianto Jones heads to his local, where he meets a mysterious man who will change his life. Or perhaps it was always meant to be.
Bookmarked by metaphoracle
06 Jun 2026
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Cardiff, 1965 (wish you were here) by MonsterMince
Fandoms: Torchwood, Torchwood (Big Finish Audio)
26 Nov 2021
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In a new timeline after the House of the Dead, and back in 1965, Ianto has to figure out a way to stop the 456 before first contact. Eleven months doesn't seem like enough, without modern technology, or Jack's trust in him, and with Torchwood Three's blatant disregard for Jack and aliens.
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- Part 1 of Everything Changes in 1965
Bookmarked by metaphoracle
03 Jun 2026
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The Princess of the Underworld has an infinite lifetime to discover the twists and turns of the road to true divinity.
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18 May 2026
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When his phone rang loud in the stillness, waking Jack from the sleep of the dead he'd perfected in war zones half a world away, he sat straight up in bed and knew: something was wrong.
His phone announced it was Dana—and it was 0721—which shot a little thrum of worry through him as he answered. "What happened?" he asked, no preamble. She wouldn't wake him if shit hadn't gone sideways.
"Robby hasn't come in yet and he's not answering his phone," she said, voice grim. "He's never missed a shift without calling." She spoke quietly, probably standing in the middle of the ED, trying to keep up a brave face for everyone else. As much as she could, anyway. People tended to notice when the fucking chief attending didn't show up to work.
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12 May 2026
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Sometimes I'd forget
Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.
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Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors
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01 May 2026