StarlingDust
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- Top Gun (Movies) (4)
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He’s pulled Goose into his mess again, like a habit that he just can’t break. Every time, he swears it’s going to be the last: he’s going to think things through, he’s going to be better, he’s going to prove everyone wrong. And every time, Goose is the one left fielding the consequences.
or; Mav, Goose, and art of never saying it out loud.
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There’s a box at the back of his closet that’s getting harder to ignore, haunting him from behind wire hangers: a mundane curtain of wrinkled shirts drawn close across the ache of it that’s becoming less effective by the day. There is, he knows, no way to avoid it forever.
or; the Christmas gift that Maverick will never get to give.
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“What do you say, Rooster. Want to make it fun?” Jake asks, irritation finally wearing his restraint thin.
“Sounds like it's plenty fun already.” Bradshaw says. “What's the pool at?”
“350 for the highest scorer,” says Payback. “And losing team buys dinner.”
Bradley gestures, one hand flicking up briefly from the dark blue pleather, as if to say see?
“Betting on the winning team is all very well,” Jake drawls. “But I'm talking about something a little more… personal.”
Or; the team play laser tag. Surprisingly, Bradshaw's the one who fights dirty.
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Conditions of Absolute Reality by StarlingDust for shealwaysreads (onereader)
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
01 Jan 2026
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The moment they’d bundled Bradley into the medical bay and the heady cocktail of elation and relief and pride had quieted its song in his bloodstream, a strange sense of detachment had descended on him. Two weeks later, it still hasn’t lifted. Bradley feels like he’s been watching the world from behind a thick pane of frosted glass—everything muffled and faraway and just beyond his reach.
If anything, the nightmares are a relief, because at least they feel real.
Maybe it’s his mind trying to protect itself from the trauma. Maybe the bailout rattled his brain harder than anyone realised. Maybe, he thinks, letting his head fall to one side to catch a glimpse of the unfamiliar landscape peeking through the gap in the curtains, it’s just the surreality of everything that’s come after. Like ending up here, in Jake Seresin's childhood home.
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anything the field marshal bloody well pleases by Fuchskreuzkraut
Fandoms: Powder Mage Series - Brian McClellan
13 Oct 2023
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They are fighting a war half-lost already, and sometimes that drives men to distraction.
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Situated in the rural mountains of western Virginia, Coalwich Creek is a sleepy little town with a mysterious little secret.
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Greatly Approved by damalur
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
24 Jan 2015
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An apostate's guide to popular fiction.
(Or: Hawke runs headlong into Cassandra's book club, Varric comes along for the ride.)
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- Part 1 of Greatly Approved
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Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton has a crush on the hot guy filmed saving turtles from a flood. Said hot guy turns out to be John Laurens, Director of the National Parks Service, and he's coming in for a meeting. Scandal ensues.
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Bookmarked by StarlingDust
17 Sep 2019
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By a Thread, By a String, By a Rope by ThrillingDetectiveTales
Fandoms: The Magnificent Seven (2016)
11 Feb 2019
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“Shut up, Clay,” Faraday muttered. He let his gaze linger on the red mark for a long second, the hard white buzz of shock rattling his thoughts to pieces and sending them spinning.
His stomach twisted as he recognized the peculiar tugging sensation that had been plaguing him all night for what it really was – a magnetic pull toward whatever poor bastard was on the other end of this tie, some mystical accident of biology trying like hell to draw Faraday into the distant promise of a soul-mate.
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- Part 1 of By a Thread, By a String, By a Rope