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    John MacTavish hasn't seen Simon Riley since the day Simon rushed him to a London trauma center... and then walked away. The absence made John's road to recovery all the more agonizing, but luckily, the rest of the 141 along with other friends and family filled the hole left by a ghost.

    Now, three and a half years later, John finally has his life together. He works for the MOD (and the CIA... ahem) as a civilian demolitions consultant. He's got a house, a (mostly) clear head, and most importantly, a date with someone new to his best mate's wedding.

    John's ecstatic to be standing up as Kyle's best man. Unfortunately, it also means standing in the same room as a certain Lieutenant. It's okay, though. For Kyle's sake, John can keep all the anger and hurt festering inside of him in check. All he has to do is avoid Simon for the next few hours, and they'll go their separate ways.

    Too bad Simon has other plans that, unbeknownst to either of them, will change their lives forever.

    For better or for worse.

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    23 Dec 2025

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    AHHH!!!! This is such a heartwarming story and I really did love all the characters. I genuinely cried most scenes lol

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    What Ghost gives Soap is companionship. Ghost doesn't treat anyone else the way he treats Soap, which makes him special. Soap adores his lieutenant beyond any words he could fathom, and secretly feeds off of knowing he's well taken care of. That night in Las Almas, Soap gained respect, trust, and even a small crush on his superior. One that, despite his desperate attempts against, only grows. Which is fairly problematic because Soap would rather die than lose everything he's gained with Task Force 141. With Ghost.

    The desire for Ghost drives Soap to dire straights, desperate to appease the itch deep in his bones. But there's something off about Ghost's behavior toward him. Soap can't tell if Ghost knows what he is doing to him, or if he's imagining things. Maybe he's one inch away from pushing too far.

    It's a dangerous, explosive game Soap plays in trying to be satisfied with what Ghost gives him already while desperately trying to find ways to ask for more and risk losing it all.

    EDIT: I went in to fix some grammatical errors and my oopsie on Aziz's name a few times.

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    20 Dec 2025

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    okay what the hell this was incredible!!

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    When John “Soap” MacTavish leaves the city behind for a neglected farm he inherited from his late grandfather in Pelican Town, he expects soil, sweat, and a quiet life. What he doesn’t expect is to meet Simon “Ghost” Riley, a gruff, masked recluse living in the mountains. Between tending to his animals, the changing seasons, and dangerous dives into the mines, Soap’s path keeps crossing with Ghost’s. Soap came to the valley to start over, but he never imagined Ghost would be the one to take root in his heart.

    [Or: The Stardew Valley AU nobody asked for, but I wrote anyway]

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    15 Dec 2025

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    this is such a nice read (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

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    But Ghost didn’t seem to mind, quietly filling the kettle before setting it to boil, those dark eyes watching as John paced the kitchen, one arm flailing about in the air, the other locked tight around his half-melted pint of rocky road.

    He told Ghost he was stressed. That the entire MacTavish clan was coming into town, which meant awkward hugs, judgmental stares, and nosy questions from people he hadn’t seen in years. John could handle all of that, he really could.

    But what he couldn’t handle was the questions. Why he hadn’t settled down yet, why he didn’t have a nice Scottish girl on his arm.

    Why he wasn’t married with a child on the way, because Ethel and James weren’t getting younger, and John was already too old. For fuck’s sake.

    “Maybe I don’t want to bring home a wee lass,” John had snapped, voice cracking as he dug his spoon in harder than necessary, a brown, congealed clump of freezer-burned rocky road flying onto the floor. “Maybe I don’t even like women, has anyone considered that?”

    And there, in less than twenty words, John had completely outed himself. 

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    13 Dec 2025

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    fuckin love this shite, mate. GIMME 14 OF EM RIGHT NEOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Soap is a PhD student, doing his research in Antarctica on the behaviors and hunting habits of leopard seals. During his expedition, he becomes obsessed with a leucistic seal, who he's taken to calling Ghost.

    His attempts at tagging Ghost for tracking purposes have all failed, leaving Soap frustrated, but determined to try again. He won't stop until he gets the data he needs for his dissertation.

    At the same time, Soap is stuck in an escalating, heated flirting match with a hydroponics employee at another base. It's foolish to form romantic relationships with someone he knows will vanish from his life once their expeditions are over, but there's something fascinating about this man that he can't ignore.

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    A fun little MerMay twitter fic, adapted for easier reading on ao3!

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    12 Dec 2025

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    okay wth gurl I LOVE THIS?????? AHHHHH I ADORE ANY GHOSTSOAP LOVE CHILD, I SWEAR!!!! This is so adorably amazingly and adoringly cute. 10/10!!!