in a world where howard stark has a genius sister, the war doesn't just make a soldier. it makes a trio. steve rogers is the compass. bucky barnes is the heart. maxine stark is the spark with grease on her hands and sarcasm on her tongue, fixing radios, fixing rifles, fixing the people she loves because it's the only kind of praying she knows. ⋆˚࿔ but the future they used to joke about doesn't survive the 1940s. her lover falls from a train and the world calls it death. her best friend disappears into the ice and the world calls it heroic. and max gets too close to hydra's protocols, sees the pattern behind the cruelty, and hydra doesn't kill her. hydra keeps her. because she's useful. because she's leverage. because she's the one thing the winter soldiers body will still recognize when his mind won't. ⋆˚࿔ ⤷ ゛{ 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 → 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙪 } ˎˊ˗ 𝙗𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙮 𝙭 𝙊𝘾, 𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙩 & 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩, 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙪𝙢𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮, 𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙩/𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩, 𝙝𝙮𝙙𝙧𝙖 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧, 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮

Florence Barnes hated the term Cold War. It implies distance, and clean hands. A war that meant Americans never quite broke Soviet skin. Not a real war. That lie never held up to her reality. She was American, and she had fought Soviets. Florence had left bodies in East Germany and spilled blood in Vietnam. The war was real enough when it pressed a gun into her palm and told her to pull the trigger. Real enough when choice was removed from the equation. - Book 1 of 2 1949 - 2004

"𝐈𝐟 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞" The belief that asks for patience rather than force, for trust rather than control. It is about learning when to strive, and when to let go, finding peace not in victory, but in the way life continues to unfold even after our hands fall empty Or Keltie Phillips, only just coming to terms with both her disability and her growing devotion to writing, finds herself uprooted and living in pre- war New York with her father, Colonel Chester Phillips, there is she works as a reporter in a city braced for history. She meets a kind, dirty-blond man who gently, and relentlessly, tests everything she thinks she knows about the world, herself, and what she is capable of becoming. Even if it's only for a summer... ༒ STEVE ROGERS X FEM OC 1940s AU of my other fanfic : The Myzenien ༒ 1935 - 1951

Jigsaw falling into place / So there is nothing to explain. ✶ / STEVE ROGERS X FEM!OC © DAWNBITES, 2025. (Cover By @gavictrl)

What is it like to be a prophet? Everywhere she ran she found she was already there SAGE © 2025. Oc / Johnny Storm Fantastic Four

in which the darkness comes to light. [thunderbolts*] bob reynolds x oc ©2025imogenvolkov

soren akerman is tony stark's head of security and personal bodyguard but he's also a little bit in love with the genius. mcu, iron man ━ endgame tony stark x m!oc ©-starduo 2025

Through hell to the stars. Johnny Storm / Fantastic Four: First Steps © heyqueens-, 2025 Cover by @potter_spellbook

and now, I'll remember you for longer than I've known you ━━━ SCOTT SUMMERS // LOVE SICK © TIME RAVENS // 2025

you know you're better than this. mcu / robert reynolds © boygeniuses