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She doesn't want someone's hands, she wants Rupert’s heavy, calloused hands—the ones that handle those massive polo mallets with such sickeningly perfect precision—to be the ones bunching the cheap cotton of her skirt in his fists, his eyes the ones to rake over her like he wants to eat her alive, his tongue the one to plunge deep into her mouth til she can't breathe anything that isn't him, his—
Yeah, she thinks, Shelley is absolutely right.
— or, taggie gets drunk and calls rupert
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24 May 2026
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Frank is a logger living a life of isolation up in the mountains of Seward, Alaska. Running from his grief, he has retreated so far into himself that he couldn't find his way out if he tried.
Karen is an author who has rented the cabin down the way from Frank’s in order to get away and write her next novel in solitude. Having suffered severe writer's block, she's hoping that the quietude of Alaska will help her find her muse.
After years of falling apart, the universe has decided that it's time for these two to fall together.
"Frank watched her, with her head thrown back, fascinated. It had been a minute since he’d made anyone other than Curtis and David laugh. He was surprised at how easily it was coming to him—how relatively effortless it was to talk to Karen. He supposed, in part, it was because of her profession; he was sure that someone who spent most of their time studying people and writing dialogue would be a great conversationalist. But it also felt like he was dusting off the parts of him that used to be really good at this—the parts of him that were capable of making Maria laugh; were comfortable joking around. The parts that, while creaky and unused, were still there."
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05 May 2026
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Invictus by vardaesque (neonheartbeat)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Punisher (TV 2017)
24 Dec 2017
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It's been a month since the man they call the Punisher has been seen in the streets of Hell's Kitchen. In the wake of a terror attack, Karen Page finds herself tangled in a network of secrets that leads her back to the man she loves and keeps losing.
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05 May 2026
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“Work with me here, Frank,” Karen snapped. “Make some sense here. Talk to me. We can’t figure out what our next move is until you explain why you’re so disgusted at the thought of my being attracted to you — an attraction which, by the way, I’ve never let interfere with our work or our friendship —“
“I’m not disgusted,” Frank said in a strained, calm voice. “You have ghastly taste, but I’m not disgusted. No. It’s just the feeling of having carried a torch for miles and miles in the dark and... having the sun come up.”
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05 May 2026
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Frank Castle is a boxer at the top of his game. Laconic and anti-social, he has a reputation for being an incredibly-tough interview.
Karen Page is a sports reporter trying to prove herself in a male-dominated field. She's done playing games--trying to be the "Cool Girl" who caters to the male fantasy--and now she's on a mission to take no shit.
"For a while, the fact that an interview with Castle lasting longer than 5 minutes even existed was big news. Splashed all over the message boards—circulated among boxing and Castle fans alike. The very concept that someone actually got the man to sit down for more than a breath of time and give multiple-sentence answers to a question—it was huge. Massive. It was the only thing Castle fans could talk about.
Until three months later, when Frank Castle disappeared.
Then that was the news. It was the only news."
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05 May 2026