Two weeks later, everyone miraculously still had their heads on their shoulders.

Yule preparations were in full swing across the entirety of the city. Not a street that wasn’t strung with fairy lights, not a square that did not have its trees and fountains and statues decorated and braziers put up for people to gather around. The days had been clear and sunny, but the air was bitingly cold, which was why people were grateful for any source of heat to have their mulled wine around.

Surf’s up, which means it’s time for the last chapter(!!) of the spinoff – Day 15: After-School Vacation, also on MangaDex! 

P.S. Check the tag for previous spinoff chapters!

On the last day of March, I want to thank everyone who’s taken part in the March GIF Challenges!

It’s been an absolute pleasure getting notifications of people showing what they’ve done with the challenge, and scrolling through the tag has just been the highlight of my day ♡♡ I’m constantly blown away by the massive talent that’s in our fandom and beyond!!

When I started this challenge, I never thought so many of you would join in, because I just intended it to be something for myself to work on, and maybe some of the lovely folks of the @mdzsnet​. Needless to say the response was overwhelming, so again, thank you 🥰

While March may be over, these challenges are open for everyone to do at any time they want. I’ll keep track of the tag and reblog whatever I find there, so please don’t be shy to try your hand at them if you’d still like to try!

Original challenge post: here

Compilations:

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Title: don’t you forget me

Fandom: MCU

Pairing: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff

Genre: Angst, Hurt & Comfort ; Canon Universe - Divergence from Endgame, Amnesia AU

Chapters:  8/8

Summary: “Every time she wakes up to a new day,” Bruce is staring into thin air, his voice constricting. “She forgets things from yesterday.”

Snippet:

If Natasha’s life is a song, she would have imagined it to go like this: its introduction starts off soft and light, instrumental notes drifting delicately and melodiously to listening ears; a clean sound. When she was a child, in the few years before the Red Room, Natasha remembers being happy - unreserved, confident, a heart that is pure and untainted.

Then the first verse comes in, and the innocence from the introduction fades away. Instead, the melody changes, setting the sombre theme of her song to be that of a mystery.  In the Red Room, Natasha remembers forgetting how it feels to smile, to laugh. She remembers many days in the dark, not knowing what awaits her beyond the closed doors. She remembers being moulded into somebody she’s not, a stranger living in her body. She remembers only pain.

The chorus of her song sets in and it is a deception of what it truly depicts; the notes seem to be in tune, harmoniously written, but if she listens closely, she would realise how messy it really is, staccatos inserted at all the wrong notes, in all the wrong places. It displays a clear message of her identity, who she really is - a life of lies, tainted with coercion and misrepresentation, overflowing with red in her ledger.

If Natasha’s life is a song, it is a tragedy.

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Verse

Chapter 3: Pre-Chorus

Chapter 4: Chorus

Chapter 5: Verse

Chapter 6: Bridge

Chapter 7: Conclusion