eating_custardinbed
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an inch away (from more than just friends) by eating_custardinbed
Fandoms: Ghosts (TV 2019)
31 Dec 2025
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“Good Lord!” he exclaimed, and looked down to see exactly who he’d stepped on.
Sitting there, slumped against the doorframe, was none other than Lieutenant Havers.
An (unauthorised) night at the pub brings the Captain and Havers together, in more ways than one.
(title from 'naked in Manhattan' by chappell roan)
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a kiss won’t mean goodbye (but hello to love) by eating_custardinbed
Fandoms: Ghosts (TV 2019)
29 Nov 2025
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“I’m married,” he says.
The reaction is instantaneous. Everybody turns to look at him. The expressions range from confused to shocked to straight up disbelief. He does his best not to shrink down into his seat.
“...To a woman?” Julian chances, being the first to speak.
Captain James Hutchins (The Captain to his co-workers) has been working at Button House PLC for a year. The job is... well, it's okay. However, the office does not know about his husband, who has just been re-stationed for six months. When his co-workers find out about his husband Anthony's existence, they become curious.
The Captain is about to have lots of questions to answer.
(title from 'when the lights go on again’ by vera lynn)
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"...the lake. It’s… special for them.”
snippets of the Captain and Havers' relationship, both in life and in death, from the lake at Button House.
(follow on from 'why did we meet in the middle of a war? (what a silly thing for anyone to do)')
(title from 'how will I know?' by Whitney Houston)
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- Part 2 of following the map (that leads to you)
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why did we meet in the middle of a war? (what a silly thing for anyone to do) by eating_custardinbed
Fandoms: Ghosts (TV 2019)
22 Aug 2025
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A plan, a visitor, and a mysterious letter bring another ghost hurtling into the lives of the Button House gang. Except this ghost is well-known to the Captain...
(title from 'dear bill' from operation mincemeat)
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- Part 1 of following the map (that leads to you)
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The Captain hated music... Catch him at any ordinary moment and he would tell you, quite sternly, that all music made these days was absolute poppycock, and he would have that racket nowhere near him.
Pat Butcher, on the other hand, adored music... and he’d formed a band.
Can these two middle-aged men, at seeming loggerheads with each other about anything and everything, find some middle ground and maybe, just maybe, something about themselves along the way?
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- Part 1 of Randomly Generated Fic
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some things just make sense (and one of those is you and I) by eating_custardinbed
Fandom Ghosts (TV 2019)
29 Nov 2025
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a collection of Capvers stories set within a modern AU set out in 'a kiss won't mean goodbye (but hello to love)'
(series title from 'still into you' by Paramore)
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sending my love (from the other side of the apocalypse) by eating_custardinbed
Fandom Good Omens (TV)
02 Aug 2023
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Grace, Meet Futuristic Buzzfeed by holyflyingswisscheese
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
01 May 2026
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Some small slices of Grace’s life after returning home to Earth with Rocky in his old age. Prominently featuring Futuristic BuzzFeed (and associated personal revelations)(what do you mean the whole world thinks he’s autistic like Albert Einstein???)
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Bookmarked by eating_custardinbed
27 Apr 2026
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Turns out dying is the easy part. Navigating the afterlife with the recently discovered ghost of your former lieutenant is decidedly harder. As old memories are dredged up and new traumas are dealt with, the Captain and Havers get the closure they need (and I very much want).
Bookmarked by eating_custardinbed
20 Jan 2026
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The war is over and James and Anthony have finally found a way to be together at last.
Vignettes of a quiet life that might have been.
Bookmarked by eating_custardinbed
11 Jan 2026
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what could have been, unexpected twist, 10/10 and nearly made me cry
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In which the ghosts are finally sucked off and arrive in the afterlife (some would call it 'heaven').
They adapt together to a modern lifestyle where they can make use of technology and move around as they please. There are reunions to be had with those who've been there a while, but best of all: they can eat again!
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Bookmarked by eating_custardinbed
05 Dec 2025
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He couldn’t very well slack off and stand to the side. For one, the thin wood floorboards did little to muffle the pulsing music down below. He might as well brave the brunt of it himself. Keeping his distance would serve only to limit his knowledge of the goings-on downstairs, and he already knew he wouldn’t be able to stand not knowing.
Therefore, the Captain decided that he himself would handle surveillance. It was good form for a Captain to join his men on the field, even if the field in question was a bustling sitting room full of alcoholics and perverts. The least he could do was keep an eye on things and step in only if absolutely necessary.
And so it was that he found himself pressed up against a wall in the beating heart of the celebration, squinting through the purple mood lighting and resisting the urge to cover his ears.
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Alison and Mike hold another rager. The Captain finds it hard to keep a level head.
Bookmarked by eating_custardinbed
04 Dec 2025