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Title: Abel Had It Easy
Fandom: Avengers
Series: Dyslexia!Verse. Chronologically this comes first, but it also works fine as a standalone.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Child abuse and neglect, minor canon character violence and deaths (not Coulson’s!), and a character with dyslexia being treated insensitively. If you need more information about potential triggers, please PM me and I’ll be happy to help.
Pairing: Gen (later in the ‘verse, Clint/Coulson)
Notes: This is Barney’s side of the backstory, drawing heavily from Jim McCann’s series, Hawkeye: Blindspot, where he makes all the abusive backstory canon.

Summary: A lot of Barney’s stories started pretty much the same way. Dad was drunk, and then… And then, and then, and then.

( Dad was drunk. )

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Title: Five Times Someone Noticed Peter Wasn't There (and One Time He Was)
Author: hoosierbitch 
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Outside POV of Elizabeth/Neal/Peter
Word Count: 2,800
Notes: This was written for wcpairings exchange! It's a pinch-hit (and a bit late, so it's unbetad, I'm so sorry!), but I had a lot of fun writing it. I hope you enjoy it. :-)

Summary: Five times someone noticed Peter wasn't there. (And one time he was.)

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( Burke's visitors came like clockwork. )

Title: Past Tense [2/2]
Author: hoosierbitch
Fandom: Avengers
Rating: PG-13
Series: Dyslexia!verse (LJ tag here, DW tag here, or on AO3 here)
Content Advisory: Grief, depression, character with a learning disability, dealing with the (temporary!) death of a loved one. References to alcoholic parents.
Thanks: To ivorysilk, as always.

Summary: Three months after destroyed landscapes and aborted kisses and painkillers that don’t work, Natasha’s gunshot wound heals enough for her to walk without a cane (a cane with a sword in it, an unexpected present from Hill) and Clint sleeps through some nights without the assistance of vodka and Natasha’s murmured lullabies.

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( feel better soon )

Title: Feel Better Soon
Author: hoosierbitch 
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Neal/Peter/Elizabeth, past Neal/Kate
Word Count: 4,400
Thanks: ivorysilk gave me the ideas for most of the flashback sections, and also was a lovely cheerleader. rabidchild67 was kind enough to beta for me! Any remaining mistakes are all mine.
Notes: This was written for the amazing arsenicjade. I combined three of her prompts as best I could: “It's just that he's not used to having people who care what he does, other than because they're sure he's going to mess up,” and “The last time Neal got any sicker than a mild cold, he'd been dumped from a job by his employer. It's beyond his comprehension that being sick might mean being taken care of, or, at the very least, people going easy on him,” with a little bit of Neal-not-realizing-that-Elizabeth-loves-him-too thrown in for good measure.

Summary: Three times Neal’s been sick, and the one time someone takes care of him.

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( feel better soon )

List o' Awesome:
1) arsenicjade has written a piece in my fledgling Avengers dyslexia!verse, and it is FABULOUS. I'm also working on a sequel (with AJ's encouragment and assistance, because we are writing braintwins) and her contribution is really inspiring. "Things Ain't So Lonely Anymore"
2) The wonderful fatum_sts has translated my Merlin fic To Command the Sea (the King of Camelot Remix) into CHINESE! How cool is that??? (My fic is a remix of mariana_oconnor's lovely fic, which can be found here.) You can read the new translation here! :-)
3) I saw National Theatre Live's re-broadcast of Frankenstein (with Cumberbatch as Frankenstein and Miller as the Creature) last week, and it was breathtaking. The physicality work was astounding. My jaw literally dropped. I'll be seeing it again in a few weeks, when they're going to show it with the leads in the opposite roles. So. Excited.
4) Summer Camp One is over! I'm working sporadically over the next few weeks, prepping for the course I'll be teaching and the show I'm directing, and bouncing around to different theatres in the area to meet people. I think it'll be nerve-wracking and boring in turn (because meeting cool people is scary, and also I am crap with unstructured time). I hope to do more hiking. B/c of DESERT.

Right. ONTO THE FIC:

Title: Mending
Fandom: White Collar
Series: Sneakers and Sheriff Badges. This is the fourth part, but can be read as a stand-alone!
Rating: PG-13
Content Advisory: Allusions to neglect and abuse.
Notes: This was written for the Whump-a-Palooza fest on whitecollarhc.
Thanks: I had two wonderful betas for this fic: neontiger55 and embroiderama! All remaining mistakes are my fault. Also, a special shout-out to ivorysilk, who's pretty much the entire reason that this is a 'verse, and not just that-kidfic-I-wrote-that-one-time.
Summary: Neal breaks his arm.

( “Never mind,” Neal says, more of his head disappearing around the door, until he’s just a fluff of hair backlit by the Batman nightlight in the hall. “Go back to sleep. I didn’t mean to wake you up.” )