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I haven't posted some recs in a bit, so I'm gonna do these. I've been reading a lot lately, and keep actually forgetting the plot because they all blend together, but a couple of these really stood out to me. I'll mark them with a **

Also a couple of these are a bit angsty sometimes, but overall really cute!

Long Day by em13bubble (2k) Bruce has a rough day. Clark comes to his office to help him relieve some stress. (They hold hands)

Picture Perfect by TheSaltiestDog (26k) Clark's spent close to a decade as Bruce's friend, he's seen him at his worst, but he's never seen all of him. Funny how his whole perspective changes with one lucky photograph.

To Bring Light Back To Your Eyes by GoldfishForHire (8k)** Months after the Justice League is formed in the wake of Steppenwolf's attempted incursion, Superman begins pulling away, becoming isolated and withdrawn. Bruce wants to help, but doesn't know how. He goes to Martha Kent for advice, and an offhand comment leads to a clumsy, though successful, outreach. Or, Bruce bakes Clark terrible pie to make him feel better, and Clark finds this very endearing. THIS ONE MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD, THEN I MADE MY FRIEND READ IT AND SHE WAS GIGGLING. SO CUTE AND FLUFFY

Could I Have This Dance by Pandamomochan (3k) Why is Superman the one who always gets reeled into JLA publicty stunts? The princess of Jasenael requests that the hero be her dance partner at her coming of age ceremony. Only problem, Clark has never learned the art of formal dance. Luckily Bruce decides to be his willing instructor.

You're gonna know my name by Dino_Cattivo (22k)** Bruce just wanted to get the interview over with and relax, but sadly the universe had other plans, and he found himself stranded together with Clark Kent and has to wait to be rescued to keep his secret identity. Which would have been a lot easier if Kent hadn't investigated things Bruce would rather have kept hidden.

With Matches by Dino_Cattivo (35k)** Clark is investigating a story in Gotham, where he meets the criminal Matches Malone. Despite their differences, Clark finds himself drawn to the other man but things can go terribly wrong when mingling with the criminal underworld.

To be in your arms by KingDimeSmoothied (3k) Bruce has never seen Superman treat him like a civilian before. Curious at the prospect, Bruce goes to Metropolis and ends falling in love with someone else. Or so he thinks. Or 5 times Bruce finds Clark while looking for Superman and 1 time he actually finds him.

When We Were Eleven

Evilpixie

Summary:

Bruce and Clark are soulmates. You'd think that would make things simple. But the course of true love never did run smooth.

scramble

IHadHimOnTheRopes (CarterReid), rory_gone_mattie (rosetinteddays)

Summary:

The words on his skin were his everything. After everything he'd seen, done and been through, they were a reminder that Bruce Wayne still existed. That somewhere there was a person who would love him despite the coldness in his chest and the scars that roped their way across his skin. A reminder that he wasn't alone - that he wasn't destined to live forever in the shadows, silent and isolated. That somewhere out there was the other half of his soul.

He just wasn't expecting the other half of his soul to be an alien.

Lost Time Without You

rotasha

Summary:

In a universe where your soulmate’s injuries show up on your skin, Bruce is convinced he doesn’t have a soulmate, and Clark is seriously concerned for his soulmate’s well-being.

Like Hand and Glove

megamindful

Summary:

Bruce Wayne doesn’t have a soulmate. He’s been bare-wristed all his life. Chosen by fate to be alone... but fate never planned on Clark Kent.

where i come from

soetry

Summary:

Bruce doesn’t have a soulmark, and Clark doesn’t have a soulmark, on an Earth where everyone has a soulmark. Somewhere in there is a simple solution. Somewhere to that solution is an overcomplicated journey. Surely two of the world’s leading superheroes will not take the overcomplicated route?

Surely not?

Of Red Flowers and Secret Identities

gaysandberries

Summary:

Clark had always wondered who his soulmate would be.

He'd wondered if his soulmate would be kind, or beautiful, or smart, or any measure of any positive quality he could possibly come up with. It was his favourite pastime, keeping him awake when he was meant to be sleeping, sketching different versions of his soulmate in his mind, painting them with his imagination.

But his wrist remained blank.

OR

Clark Kent has spent most of his life without a soul mark. When one finally appears, he's overjoyed, but the one who holds its matching image is someone Clark thinks could not possibly be suited to him, at all. Bruce Wayne is vapid, and vain, and airheaded. At least, that's what he thinks.

How to Succeed in Business

JustGettingBy

Summary:

An unexpected offer to buy the Kent farm sends Clark on a collision course right into his soulmate.

The only hitch in the plan is that while Clark has his soulmate's words, his soulmate doesn't have Clark's.

Love Doesn't Lie

HummusandPeeta

Summary:

Honesty is the biggest foundation of any relationship. When Bruce finds himself unable to lie to a certain Daily Planet reporter, he knows that he's found his soulmate. But it's not safe for Batman to be dating a civilian.

Fade Into a Dream

rotasha

Summary:

Bruce Wayne has always known he’d end up with Clark Kent. He knows because Clark Kent shows up in his dreams.

Bruce and Clark’s soulmate relationship, told through their shared dreams.

don't push me (cause i am close to the edge)

LinguisticJubilee

Summary:

Kara huffs out a breath in frustration. “Every Kryptonian has a heartsong. And they’re beautiful, but when you listen to one on its own it feels like something is missing. It’s like...they have something like this too, right?” She gestures outward impatiently, and Bruce forces himself not to flinch at her casual use of they. “Only they have words written down instead.”

“Soulmates,” Clark says, his voice strained.

site:<url of site where you read the fic> <a line you remember from the fic or character names plus a unique detail>

for example:

site:http://archiveofourown.org/ Todd Margo pedicure

     Hi there! Boy have I got a lot for you xD!

     First off, for AMAZING sickfics please check out @taylortut on their archive and tumblr for some epic langsty sickfics! She’s on a permanent hiatus from Voltron, but she still has all of her old fics up on the archive! Like seriously I would recommend all of her fics right here right now, but there’s so many! So, I won’t recc ones that she wrote, cause there’s about 5 pages of them on her ao3 account. This list will just be any other good langst sickfics I have! (which is a lot lol)

Less Than Helpful by winterspirit13 (ao3)

- Lance is sick, horrible headache and all, but it has horrible timing. Keith is coming to stay at the castleship, finding time away from the Blade of Marmora. So he tries to ignore his little cold until Keith asks him for a favor and his “cold” gets to be too much to handle

Brain Freeze by CondensationOnGlass (ao3)

- Feverish Lance who has ridiculous chills and is complaining all through debriefing, irritating everyone else. As soon as debriefing is over, Pidge goes back to her room. Lance knocks on her door shivering and delirious outside her room, hoping that she might have a heated blanket.

Lights Please. by Zeeboa (ao3)

- Lance is miserably sick on the couch but that’s not going to stop a tournament.

Neighbors by potato_fan_girl (ao3)

- Lance stood in front of him, but it was a Lance he’d never seen before. Granted, Keith didn’t know him well by any means, but he was positive that the regular Lance would be leaning against the doorframe with a smirk, maybe a couple finger-guns. Not this. This Lance had wrapped himself in a blanket, and was still shivering slightly. His skin was much paler than usual, with flushed cheeks and sweat on his brow. He sniffled. “Um.” (Or the one where Keith and Lance live in apartments next to each other, and Lance is too sick for Keith to just leave him by himself.)

Turn Up the Heat by copiel (ao3)

- Lance just wants someone to make his room warmer, and he gets more than he bargained for.

It’s The Quenchiest! by CastielTheAngel (ao3)

- In which Lance and Keith get stranded on a desert planet with little hope of finding the proper resources to survive. Lance ends up drinking some cactus juice. Unlucky things entail.

Coffee Fever by BombDiggityDog (ao3)

- Lance had been waiting forever for a relaxing time like this, and isn’t about to let a little sickness stop him from enjoying it.

Weight of the World by Zurela (ao3)

- Lance hasn’t been sleeping very well. He does a good job of handling that, really. Keith disagrees.

Operation “Feel Better” by wingedflower (ao3)

- sick!Lance and supportive!Shiro

I’m fine by something_else (ao3)

- Lance isn’t sick. It’s just allergies, he says. Space allergies are a little worse than Earth allergies, that’s all. (Headcanon where Lance is violently terrified of being sick)

It’s Only Allergies! Swear! by cacrefulren (ao3)

- Lance starts his week off with an innocent case of the sniffles that he believes to be allergies. Despite growing worse as the week progresses, he wants to believe that it’s still allergies. It’s not.

Inopportune by Ironic_Swag7782 (ao3)

- Lance is starting to regret offering to help out at Shiro’s wedding.

     AND I KNOW I SAID I wouldn’t outright recc stuff from taylor_tut cause her archive account in whole is sickfic angsty HEAVEN, but these three are my absolute fave sickfics so I couldn’t NOT recc them lmao

Quiet by taylor_tut (ao3)

- Lance is sick with a cold, but the other paladins are already cranky from a long day and snapping at him, so he tries to hide it until it turns into an upper respiratory infection.

The Pizza One by taylor_tut (ao3)

- Like four people requested an AU where Lance is a pizza delivery man and delivers a pizza to the other paladins (modern, college AU) while running a very high fever. They make sure he gets taken care of. ((This one has been continued by another author as well and is linked at the end of this fic!))

Dances and Infections by taylor_tut (ao3)

- College AU for the few people who requested the “Lance and Keith get detention but Lance is sick” fic. However, since high school AU is not my jam, I tweaked it a bit so they can be older, and it’s a college AU.

     I super hoped that helped! Also, I can’t even begin to stress how important it is to check @taylortut out! She has such an amazing variety of sickfics (and not just from Voltron!) so if you want langsty sickfic DEFINITELY go check her works out!

Have a super night!

I think that some people really can change. And they deserve to be happy. Loki is one of them.

His life was awful most of the time and being suffocated isn’t what should have happened after he saved both Asgard and his brother.

I hate this ending. It’s like telling that if you had done bad things in the past, the only thing you can do to fix it is to die. A horrible message.

Loki still had plenty of potential. It looked like he finally started to recover and they decided to kill him.

I really think that he needed a friend to help him go through all of it but the only one who was there for him was his mother. I feel like people except Thor (occasionally) and Frigga didn’t care about him enough.

I don’t care if he died as a hero. He could LIVE as a hero.

It’s hard being a student when emotionally, your life outside of the classroom seems like it’s being torn to bits.

It’s hard being a student when you feel like you’re the most lonely person on the planet and like no one will ever understand you or even love you enough to tolerate all of your baggage.

It’s hard being a student when you cry a lot of the time. Because the tears get in the way of your vision and the heartache gets in the way of your focus, and no one should ever have to cry and study for a midterm or write a research paper all at the same time.

It’s hard being a student when your family doesn’t understand. Anything. At all.

It’s hard being a student when you’re also a person, a real life breathing human being who needs things like food and water and social interaction and maybe a little bit of love to survive healthily.

It’s hard being a student when you want other things so bad.

It’s hard being a student when it all gets too much and too overwhelming to handle and all of the unfinished check boxes of you planner won’t stop reminding you that you have to get this done or else you’ll absolutely fail and die.

It’s hard being a student when you’re just so tired. of everything.

It’s hard being a student. I know it is. Because I feel it. All the time.

But you’ve come this far. And I hope you can learn to be a little more gentle on yourself. And I hope you remember one day your hard work might just pay off for a life you’ve deserved. One day the pain will go away.

But I need you to keep going. I need you to stay in this world and fight today.

Because being a student is hard. But the pain of giving up a whole lot of hope and dreams is harder.

An Article from Neena Susan Thomas

“Through a rapist’s eyes. A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interview…ed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:

1] The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun! , braid, or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.

2] The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women who’s clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry scissors around to cut clothing.

3] They also look for women using their cell phone, searching through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they are off guard and can be easily overpowered.

4] The number one place women are abducted from / attacked at is grocery store parking lots.

5] Number two is office parking lots/garages.

6] Number three is public restrooms.

7] The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don’t have to worry about getting caught.

8] If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming.

9] These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas,or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands.

10] Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you’re not worth it.

POINTS THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER:

1] If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk: can’t believe it is so cold out here, we’re in for a bad winter. Now that you’ve seen their faces and could identify them in a line- up, you lose appeal as a target.

2] If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front of you and yell Stop or Stay back! Most of the rapists this man talked to said they’d leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an EASY target.

3] If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a huge advocate of it and carries it with him wherever he goes,) yelling I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent.

4] If someone grabs you, you can’t beat them with strength but you can do it by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the elbow and armpit or in the upper inner thigh – HARD. One woman in a class this guy taught told him she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it; it really hurts.

5] After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy’s parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you’ll anger the guy and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause him a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble, and he’s out of there.

6] When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked audibly.

7] Of course the things we always hear still apply. Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can and if you see any odd behavior, don’t dismiss it, go with your instincts. You may feel little silly at the time, but you’d feel much worse if the guy really was trouble.

FINALLY, PLEASE REMEMBER THESE AS WELL ….

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do it.

2. Learned this from a tourist guide to New Orleans : if a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you…. chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won’t see you but everybody else will. This has saved lives.

4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping,eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON’T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side,put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU CLOSE the DOORS , LEAVE.

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:

a. Be aware: look around your car as someone may be hiding at the passenger side , peek into your car, inside the passenger side floor, and in the back seat. ( DO THIS TOO BEFORE RIDING A TAXI CAB) .

b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.

c. Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot).

7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!

8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked “for help” into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.

Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it and it’s better safe than sorry.

If u have compassion reblog this post. ‘Helping hands are better than Praying Lips’ – give us your helping hand.

REBLOG THIS AND LET EVERY GIRL KNOW AT LEAST PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD. So please reblog this….Your one reblog can Help to spread this information.

Although, carrying a gun isn’t the best thing. A pocket knife would be best.