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    After a long and brutal career as Spider-Man, Peter Parker has hit rock bottom. His old universe is gone, his family is gone, and he's abandoned in an alternate timeline where he'd never been born. On the streets and left as a living ghost, he hasn't given up on being Spider-Man. He hasn't given up on other people. He's only given up on himself, and that's still a tragedy. But even at his lowest, he's always what every hero aspires to be. It doesn't hurt that both Dr. Doom and the Incredible Hulk are stuck in the same mess.

    A slow burn superhero story about Peter Parker starting from the lowest point I can possibly put him in, and battling his way to the very top. This is going to be a long one, and while it starts off in a sad place, the overall direction will always be to somewhere more positive. There will be setbacks. Not everything will work out. But my promise is that he'll always be in a better place than where he started.

    Edit: Now with a tvtropes page!

    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/SpiderManRestitutions

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    11 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 91

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    You thought you knew what love was. It was cold, sterile, completely pragmatic in its application. A tender stroke of a hand when the pain became too much to bear, and praise when you had performed an experiment well enough to earn your parents the accolades of their colleagues. For over twenty years, you were raised by your adoptive family, traveling the galaxy to convention after convention, experiment after experiment where you thought you understood your lot in life. To love and to love, only to receive crumbs in return.

    In a great display, and the equivalent of said crumbs embedding themself into your skin when laid on them too long, your sister sent you off on your own. To grant your dreams, she said, though she didn’t consider much else in her grand plan of your salvation. Homeless and without a dollar to your name, an alien in New York City, you decided to try and make the best of your situation.

    It was funny. On this strange blue dot in a solar system far from everything you have ever known, you discovered there was more to life than chasing after scraps. You could be more than just a specimen for study.

    You could be a hero. You could be happy. You could be loved.

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    10 Mar 2026

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    It's said that every soul is connected to another by a red thread, and that these two souls are destined to meet. The thread, though it may tangle or stretch, will never break. That's not your experience, lucky or unlucky enough as you are to see the strings that bind people together. A red thread is developed and grown, not born, and you've worked hard to weed out any semblance of crimson that might cling to you. You pay your bills, you keep your head down, and you find whatever lost people or items you're hired to sniff out.

    Then the Devil of Hell's Kitchen tags along on a job, and your plan falls apart.

     

    Starts prior to Into the Ring, and loosely follows the canon timeline. There is eventually smut, so enter at your peril. Reader is never physically described but uses a false name and may be treated as an OC.

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    10 Mar 2026

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    She serves justice like scripture. He confesses to wanting her more than salvation. In the courtroom, they trade verdicts like vows—two believers, one slow-burning war of mercy, guilt, and desire. He craves absolution. She delivers judgment. Neither walks away clean.

    Rated E because I will write smut. Don't doubt me, people.

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    23 Feb 2026

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    You both survived Hydra, the Blip, and even survived each other. Yet you still hadn’t survived the hardest part—learning how to live normally.
    Bucky Barnes is trying to make peace with a world that finally stopped hunting him. He traded his rifle for a congressional seat, promising himself he'd do what he could to help. Congress meetings instead of missions, making headlines instead of spilling blood. But politics has its own kind of crosshairs and ghosts don’t rest easy.
    Neither does the woman who once fought at his side.
    You’re learning what it means to stay and build something that isn’t just survival. To trust the quiet when all you’ve ever known is the fight. You weren’t what Hydra made you, but when others start moving in the dark again—sanctioned killers under government badges—you can’t ignore what’s coming. Not when you’ve seen what simple orders can turn into.
    Bucky wants you safe. You want to protect him at all costs. And somewhere between that love and loyalty, both of you will have to decide if you can hold onto each other without losing who you’re trying to become as new threats stir and the past resurfaces.
    But even when you think the war is over, it still casts a shadow.

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    23 Feb 2026