chicklette:

So @frostbitebakery made this devastating piece of art and said it would be okay if I wrote something for it.

So I give you a Shrunkyclunks soulmate AU, rated M:

Everyone has a soulmate.  Everyone.

Since the counsel has been keeping records, there has been one exception to that rule, and considering the man, no one was very surprised.  After all, Captain America, ne Steve Rogers, was the exception to all the rules.

So when he plunged into the Atlantic in a plane loaded with enough explosives to take out the entire Eastern Seaboard, the nation mourned him, but the counsel breathed a sigh of relief.  Their perfect record – a soulmate for everyone – was intact.

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some people are just

bad in the blood, baby,

some people’s hearts pump

kerosene, gasoline,

thick hot tar.

some people bleed tree sap,

maple syrup,

grape juice or superglue

or clean river water –

some people scrape their knees

and watch champagne bubble up

through their skin.

i bite my tongue –
my frostbitten tongue -

and i taste 
salt brine.

do your veins run hot, my love?
do your bloody knuckles steam?
can you teach me how to thaw
the ice floe lodged between my ribs?

Nathaniel Orion G. K. (via nathanielorion)