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Some things in life you just take as they are. Gravity. Oxygen. The sun coming up every day. Buck-and-Bucky.
Things change at the camp.
Or, actually, that's not quite it.
At the camp, things expand.
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17 Dec 2025
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conversations at the end of the world by Swifty_Fox
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
31 Oct 2025
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Gale can’t look long, can’t maintain eye contact with that empty cavern of a hood for anything more than a second, or two. Something looks back out at him that he knows, from pure animal instinct, is not at all human. Or hasn’t been for a long time. It makes his ears ring, a pressure vibrating through his head that he fears allowing to grow too strong. He looks off to the left, at the thing’s shoulder, where the robe drapes, soft and gossamer and grey. Like ash-filled cobwebs.
Its neck cracks as it regards Gale silently.
“I didn’t see it coming,” Gale says. His voice sounds shockingly numb.Bookmarked by copper_head
11 Dec 2025
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flesh and blood amongst war machines by gummysharksdoingcrimes
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
26 Jun 2025
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Before, above, and after Schweinfurt-Regensburg
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05 Dec 2025
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04 Dec 2025
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never saw things going so right by brianmaybrianmay
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
11 Jun 2024
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"You need a break. I think the colonel ought to fix you up a weekend pass."
"You should come. London. Let's do it up, Buck. Paint the town red."
"Yeah, maybe next time."
"We'd have a hotel room. A bed, forty-eight hours of leave. You remember what we spoke about in Algeria, don't you?"Series
- Part 2 of blue skies
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03 Dec 2025
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Gale had believed, maybe foolishly, that after everything he could count on John to be there, at least. Maybe it was because he’d never had any other close friends aside from Marge, but he’d thought that being John and Gale—Buck&Bucky—was something immutable. That it meant as much to John as it did to him. He’d known it wouldn’t ever quite be what he wanted, but it had never even occurred to him that John might just…disappear completely.
Or, Gale and Marge have a lavender arrangement that works for the both of them. Unfortunately, no one bothered to tell Bucky.
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26 Nov 2025
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15 Nov 2025
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"They had a strained conversation after mail call, all those months ago, walking slowly across the barren, muddy ground, and John wouldn’t look at him when he told him he was afraid that people would only ever know the person he was becoming.
Gale could see it hanging over him, then: the spectre of the person John thought so diminished and so unworthy of being known. The person he was so afraid of becoming. And Gale thought, back then ‘what kind of person would not want to know every aspect of him? What kind of person would not love every version of this man?’"
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Or: Gale, through it all.
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15 Nov 2025
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Breathe Me In (Exhale Slow) by johnslittlespoon (quickcatton)
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
24 Mar 2024
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Gale’s boot taps restlessly, knees bent to half–hunch over them, only his lower back leaning against the wall of the plane. He picks at the skin of baby–soft lips, staring out to the edge of the wing with glazed over eyes, and John’s heart twists.
He can think of a hundred and one ways to distract him, but not a single word of reassurance. He’s not good at that sort of thing; that’s Gale’s area of expertise. He feels useless.
“Here,” he murmurs, holding out his cigarette.
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09 Nov 2025
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The first letter Gale gets from Bucky is about a unicorn.
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Gale’s used to John rambling when he’s drunk, usually while hanging off one arm hooked around Gale’s shoulders, but there’s a different note to his written word. When he’s drunk in person, he likes to pester Gale with questions, get Gale to talk about himself. When it’s just John and a pen, it seems he simply shares every little thought that crosses his mind.
He lets the letter close on its own again, staring down at his eggs until he hears “Good morning, Major!” from outside the mess hall. Hurriedly, Gale tucks the letter back into its envelope and the envelope into the pocket of his trousers. By the time the doors swing open, John sauntering in like he owns the base and the mess and the doors themselves, Gale’s sure all knowledge of John’s words—of that lipstick print pressed onto paper beside John’s name—has been wiped from his face.
All the same, he can’t resist taking a peek. John’s walking on air. Gale smiles.
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- Part 1 of Synchronicity
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30 Oct 2025
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my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder by Swifty_Fox
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
31 Jul 2024
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“You’re a good story teller, you know.”
Buck can feel the heat of a blush burning against his skin. He shrugs, shoulders brushing his ears. Their bodies bracketed the center of the bed in an identical curvature, breaths perfectly out of sync. Buck inhaling John’s exhale, sighs out oxygen for him.
“So’d those kids invite you back for the next game?”
Buck smiles, and wonders again at the steadfast belief John held that Buck was just as likable and good as himself. “Nah.”
“I would have.” John says softly, “I’d teach you how to catch that baseball Buck.”
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It's hard to come home.Series
- Part 1 of sonnet of the sweet complaint
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27 Oct 2025
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17 Oct 2025
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knocking on the door of unhappiness by MarionetteFtHJM
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
18 Jul 2024
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“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
― Albert Camus, The StrangerBucky has spent his youth living life with an expiration date; letting his impulses lead, taking for granted what he had, uncaring of what others thought about him. But now that his shelf life was seemingly over, he has to think about what comes next. And worse yet, he has to do it all on his own.
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- Part 4 of The MOTA Files (unrelated)
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16 Oct 2025
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The war is over, but some questions remain about where Gale and John go from here.
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Gale’s not sure who he’ll be without the war, without the Hundredth, without a B-17. But he knows he won’t be Buck without Bucky. Won’t be himself without John.
Perhaps that’s why John tried to slip away unnoticed tonight, why he came out here and tucked himself into the copilot’s seat. An attempt to sever a limb, one he knows he can’t take home with him. They’ll hang up their dog tags, box up their flight jackets, try to forget the rumble of a nine-cylinder engine and the buzz of a voice over the radio and a blue, blue sky.
Gale doesn’t know how to tell John that a life without him would be like never feeling the sunlight again.
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“My name’s Gale,” He says, right before the door shuts on their encounter.
And his outlaw laughs, wild and delighted, and not for a second does Gale think he’s being laughed at.
“Your name,” His outlaw says warmly, “is Buck.”
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Modern day Outlaw John Egan just won't stop robbing Gale's convenience storeSeries
- Part 1 of eudaimonia
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14 Oct 2025
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and the waxen wings of ambition melt by MarionetteFtHJM
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
01 May 2024
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“So you’re Buck and he’s Bucky?”
“Right you are!” Bucky gloats, eyes alight with mirth. “Been that way since the very beginning!”
“That’s what he’d like you to think.” He snorts, kicking John under the table, catching the toe of his boot.
Much as John would like to cite it as such, that’s not really the truth.
No, Gale “Buck” Cleven hadn’t always gotten along with one John “Bucky” Egan. Not like he does now, not even remotely. These days, you’re more likely to find them together than not, but back at the very beginning, it wasn’t like that at all.
(All the things that flying too close to the sun entails)
Translation into Russian available here!
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- Part 2 of The MOTA Files (unrelated)
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14 Oct 2025
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for tonight, let's love like there's no goodbye by brianmaybrianmay
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
30 Apr 2024
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The war was over. They were going home tomorrow. Bucky didn't know how to feel about that.
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13 Oct 2025
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Some nights you are the lighthouse, some nights you are the sea by hauntingcontradiction
Fandom: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
11 Jun 2024
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13 Oct 2025
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Bucky gets to the Stalag half dead and sees two people he thought were lost to him forever.
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09 Oct 2025
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a prayer for which no words exist by london_cowboy
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
19 May 2024
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All the times Gale Cleven chokes, and the one time that he doesn’t.
Please do not walk into this expecting more than just a bit of a character study. Some repression, some pining, a pinch of trauma, and a little bit of smut to finish things off (lol). But mostly just an idiot in love.
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09 Oct 2025