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@lily-ellison on Tumblr (mainblog: @gracenm), gracenm on DW, LilyEllison on AO3
Ruin My Life - Zara Larsson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppw9vAc_wGU
doxology
As a condition of starting Nelson, Murdock & Page, Foggy insists on daily group hugs.
https://twitter.com/DemiKonti/status/1171519885144252416
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@DowneyStarkJr
Battle Cry - Skillet (https://youtu.be/kmWAhunhZJc)
War - Poets of the Fall https://youtu.be/0f_hewSrAH4
Return
“It’s not about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward, that’s how winning is done” - Rocky Balboa
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@beguilewritesstuff (tumblr) beguile (AO3, ff.net)
Dead Girl Walking, Barrett Wilbur Weed (from Heathers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EyDyxGZn_Y
Matt and Frank h/c, dealer’s choice as to who’s hurt and who’s comforting. Bonus points if there’s a dog.
I will walk by faith even when i cannot see - 2 Corinthians 5:7
New Year’s themed Fratt. Snow, champagne (or Scotch), nice suits, frosty windows, midnight, fireworks. Writer’s choice where all this goes. 
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c_doves@ao3 confusedandhopeful@tumblr
We Can’t Stop by Miley Cyrus (yes, really :P )
outsiderPOV post / AO3
do good feel good (source unknown)
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rrrNightingale on AO3, Twitter; @rrr-nightingale on Tumblr
Something involving Matt happens outside of the city (vacation, event, kidnapping, investigation, road trip, etc.), he is not amused.
No Powers AU
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@Starlord-draws on Tumblr and starlord_draws on Instagram
Caged
Matt walks into a street sign. He pretends it was accident but he actually did it to cheer Foggy up.
“One person’s crazyness is another person’s reality” -Tim Burton
In Chains by Shaman’s Harvest
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sholio on AO3 & DW, @sholiofic & @laylainalaska on Tumblr
We Built This City by Jefferson Starship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math. (from Guide to Troubled Birds)
Games night, movie night, snowball fights, or some other team/family/friend bonding activity!
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@maniskordaze (tumblr), givemesomewings (ao3)
static - ari lennox
kiss
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” - maya angelou
another song! middle of somewhere - the neighbourhood
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AO3: brittlestars
Kenny Wayne Shepherd “Blue on Black” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEqX5CWh7tY
A character gets a chance to try again. Will the outcome be any different?
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and science communicator
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@context-is-for-kingpins on Tumblr
Fire and Ice by Olivia Bray - https://www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/Olivia-bray-fire-and-ice-lyrics
Angels & Devils
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Tumblr: @Booksandcoffeeandink, Ao3 and Dicord: GealachGirl
cars
“It’s now or never. You’ve just got to be brave” (dialogue or internal monologue, your choice)
Heroism means that everything around you has gone wrong. That there is some sort of systemic failure.- Ari Kohen, political theorist, scholar of heroism
“If you can make yourself do it, it’s almost always best to do the hard thing.”-Hank Green 
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@cptnmarvell on tumblr, Elektra on youtube, scarletswitch on ao3
imposter
10 years high school reunion
“[…] this place, it’s just sand! It cannot love you back.” - Max, season one of Black Sails
link to the picture: https://66.media.tumblr.com/5be5265abbd49dade1069b75eb5cd2b2/93e4a0f83f6e1872-67/s1280x1920/206b58253789a3fec115fba65a13a40fdce809a4.png
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@StripedScribe on Tumblr and AO3
In A Week - Hozier https://genius.com/Hozier-in-a-week-lyrics
Martyr
(The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous)
And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
— The Doctor, Doctor Who, Season 5, Episode 12 (Matt Smith, Steven Moffat)
https://imgur.com/a/XWgsHa8
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IAmDannyRand on AO3, @IAmPietroMaximoff on Tumblr
Afterlife By Hailee Steinfeld https://youtu.be/UJm4jDFpgcg
Christmas at Heroes For Hire is a wild time. With special guests like Elektra and Frank Castle, The Defenders just need to make it past the holidays. GIfts, dinners, and tree decorating are all an ordeal in local family.
“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” Bob Marley
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katbelle @ ao3, @katbelleinthedark @ tumblr
Post-s3. Nelson, Murdock and Page. Their new start of something better. Matt tries very hard to make it work, but it just doesn’t. A heartbreaking story of how it organically falls apart all over again.
Matt/Foggy fic. Matt and Foggy have been together for some time and are happy, until the moment Something Happens (magic? truth serums? telepaths?) and it turns out that while Foggy does love Matt and finds him attractive, he isn’t and has never been IN LOVE with Matt. He’s been with Matt because that makes Matt happy and less recklessly suicidal. Happy ending optional.
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kotaka_kun on AO3; @kotaka-kun on tumblr
tremble
living together
Fall down seven times, get up eight. -japanese proverb
silly holiday hijinks 
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@murdockquills on tumblr, cinequeen on ao3
redemption
a night at a museum
❛ What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. ❜ — The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
Between the brown hands of a server-lad 
The silver cross was offered to be kissed. 
The men came up, lugubrious, but not sad, 
And knelt reluctantly, half-prejudiced. 
(And kissing, kissed the emblem of a creed.) 
Then mourning women knelt; meek mouths they had, 
(And kissed the Body of the Christ indeed.) 
Young children came, with eager lips and glad. 
(These kissed a silver doll, immensely bright.) 
Then I, too, knelt before that acolyte. 
Above the crucifix I bent my head: 
The Christ was thin, and cold, and very dead: 
And yet I bowed, yea, kissed - my lips did cling. 
(I kissed the warm live hand that held the thing.)
by Wilfred Owen
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@CeterisParibus116 on Tumblr, CeterisParibus on AO3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_2rFNSDvBQ
Illusion
Psalm 144:1 - “Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle” (the Bible)
Matt as a cat! Matt as a cat! Matt as a cat!

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Anonymous Music Prompts
- “Wonder” by Megan McCauley: https://youtu.be/VwK5q6Zgphw
- Old college try - the mountain goats
- Heavenfaced: The National. https://youtu.be/CnVE5WUorBY
- Violent by stellar* https://open.spotify.com/track/2czQWTvtwkVgUh19pn4Bhs?si=Kp_kMo1wQBm2Fe5A4g9BBw or You Tube https://youtu.be/6asB6mRfaV0
- obsession by ok go, https://genius.com/Ok-go-obsession-lyrics
- Broken Hymn by Brett Detar (has some great lyrics and was in Nelson V Murdock). YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvbpuYT7IWk. Lyrics: https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Brett-Detar/Broken-Hymn
- Hand Me Downs - Arkells
- interrobang - bayside ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJS5OVXBG4 )
- Ship to Wreck— Florence + The Machine; https://www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/Florence-the-machine-ship-to-wreck-lyrics
- Panic Room, by Au/Ra, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjjqbE5Qf3g
- Requiem, op. 9 - Maurice Duruflé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRzPi0CA1rg
- Still Worth Fighting For (Song by Demon and My Darkest Days)
- It’s how we all begin (Son Lux - “Dream State”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjlABP5t1Q)
- Missile, Dorothy (https://youtu.be/U1Ov4c7cxZ4)
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Anonymous One Word Prompts
Blameless
yeet
Yield
Boxing
cannibal
respectful
piano post / AO3 !
Nostalgia/c
obscene
Frost
Tentative
stoic
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Anonymous Scenario Prompts
- MattFoggy Quest for Camelot AU
- Clerical error
- lots of famous people happen to like a particular butcher shop/lawyer’s office in Hell’s Kitchen
- Danny and Matt have a karaoke contest for the sake of offering distraction during a mission (perhaps something came up that needs more in the area of Jessica and Luke’s heavy-lifting expertise). Turns out they both can sing, and things get a bit out of hand.
- A college AU where Matt while in law school (still with his heightened senses) meets Frank before Frank is going to ship out on his first tour. They hit it off, maybe even leading to a one-night stand. Years later, they meet again as Daredevil and Punisher. Matt recognizes Frank right away (how could he not?), but does he tell Frank who HE is?
- Fake dating to fool someone, but becomes not so fake!
- The other three Defenders find out Matt is alive after Midland Circle!
anything with Matt thinking he needs to be alone/cut people off and the Defenders/Karen/Foggy proving to him that no matter how hard he pushes they’ll never stop being their for him. idk make me cry.
- Matt has a bad cold, an otitis… something reasonably benign that meditation can’t get rid of, & that messes with his senses so that he really, really needs his cane etc. How does he react, behave, etc? Is he grumpy, does he hide under the covers, does he cope well or not? What about the people around him, his friends, their clients, etc? What about his DD activities? Basically a lighter-hearted version (not necessarily 100% fluff!) of Matt’s early S3 predicament. Shippy or gen.
- After reminiscing about childhood holiday memories, it comes out that one of the other 3 defenders (or maybe more, it’s up to you) has never had the opportunity to build a snowman, but Danny isn’t having that and promptly decides to take them all out to rectify the situation.
- There is a bullet in Matt’s mouth.
- Power outage
- a series of small disasters on a mission for daredevil boyo that ends with an identity reveal
- The firm goes camping
- "One More Drifter in the Snow" - The title of Aimee Mann’s 2006 Christmas album.
- Just the Defenders, being real friends :)
- Invincible skin
- Dex and Frank cross paths.
- An outsider pov of someone who doesn’t know/isn’t aware of knowing any of the Defenders personally but wants to give back.
- There are someone coming in, Matt and Frank hide them selves under the bed. (Not their room.)

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Anonymous Quote Prompts
- "The great danger of lying is not that lies are untruths, and thus unreal, but that they become real in other people’s minds. They escape the liar’s grip like seeds let loose in the wind, sprouting a life of their own in the least expected places, until one day the liar finds himself contemplating a lonely but nonetheless healthy tree, grown off the side of a barren cliff.“ - From Caging Skies by Christine Leunens
- "You hear that, babe? We’re legends.” - Lup, The Adventure Zone
- “Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books, and your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merry place.” — Thorin Oakenshield (The Hobbit/Battle of the Five Armies)
- “There is so much crime in New York. No one should live here.” -Jake Peralta from B99
- And whom do I call my enemy?
An enemy must be worthy of engagement.
I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking.
It’s the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind.
The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun.
It sees and knows everything.
It hears the gnashing even as it hears the blessing.
The door to the mind should only open from the heart.
An enemy who gets in, risks the danger of becoming a friend.
“This Morning I Pray for My Enemies,” by Joy Harjo
- Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. - Dalai Lama
- "People in Hell’s Kitchen are … pretending to be me … or what I was – Daredevil. One or two of them sound like they’re actually pretty convincing. I keep hoping it’s a fad that’ll disappear before someone gets hurt …“ (from Daredevil #10 (2019) by Chip Zdarsky.)
- "I’m ashamed of how arrogant i was to think that death could mean so little…” (Marianne, Fire Emblem: Three houses)
- "I am creation, both haunted and holy
Made in glory
Even the depths of the night cannot blind me
When you guide me"
creature – half alive
- A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error. (Matt Bellamy, Muse)
- Sometimes to love someone, you got to be a stranger. (Blade Runner 2049)