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“I think people underestimate how stupid the human brain really is. It’s all very simple, the way we work. Remarkably so, honestly. If something causes us pain, our brain tells us to avoid it. Fear is one of the most singularly powerful motivators for survival we possess.”
Cardboard bites into Naim's palm. Fingers open, then close, crumpling it smaller and smaller, the coffee soaking between his fingers where the bloated paper releases it.
"So what happens when someone betrays you so thoroughly? How does your brain decide to process that? You’re fighting back against your own base instinct.”
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Naim steps off the bus into a new life- but that doesn't garuntee it'll be easy. -
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Cher, Snaf calls him all through the war, through mud and wet and blood and offal. Cher, Cher, Cher, every turn, every chance, and through the full spectrum of emotion a man might feel. Comedy, anger, fear, joy, affection, relief, warning. Fear. Whatever meaning it might have, Snafu gave it a million more, and by the end of it, Eugene responded to it as readily as he would his Christian name, Gene, or Sledge.
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John rolls up to the Stalag like a car on fire.
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In reality, it could have been any number of people. His parents, or the neighbors, or a little girl walking her dog on by. Anyone would stop to watch two boys throwing stones at one another.
Ryan kills Naim that night, too
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Short fics based on the Breathing universe
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- Part 2 of Breathing Universe
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Years before Gale understands what arousal is, he watches two men grapple in an alley.
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Johnny had enough going on. He had enough baggage without trying to teach someone how to carry any of it. He was too busy with his work.
A Johnny/Benny-centric Cicada Season Sequel
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- Part 4 of Cicada Season
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The whales are there for only a few minutes, surfacing once more and then never coming back up as the light fades to an inky black night, nothing but the ship's lights creating a halo of visibility around them. Winter clouds above, there are no stars to differentiate the sky from the sea. It's a cold, unsettling feeling, and John’s hairs are rising on the back of his neck, Alice rolling over waves he can’t even see. A speck of life dropped off the end of the world.
“Entering the crab grounds now, boys. Everybody on deck to load those pots and drop ‘em down.”
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An au posed by the simple question: What if you took the enduring love of John and Gale and combined it with the hit 2005 show Deadliest Catch. -
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“Somebody piss in your Communion wine?”
“Jesus, John,” Gale breaks, frustration crackling into his voice.
John clicks his tongue at him, one eye squeezing shut and a finger coming up to aim a perfect shot between Gale’s eyes. “I came for Confession.”
“You pulled that one already, remember?”
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- Part 9 of Little Beasts
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“You a pepperoni guy?”
“Ah, I’m not picky.”
FUN, HOT, really made me want pizza-- anonymous review
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“It’ll be fun,” Marge says to him over the phone as he’s unpacking another box in his tiny, studio apartment. “I’ve been to a few other classes, it’s a good environment.”
“It doesn’t sound like my sort of environment, Marge,” Gale says, picking up an astrophysics textbook that pushes the bounds of what a single-handed grip is capable of. It strains the tendons in his wrist as he tries not to drop it on the way to its new home in the built-in bookshelf. The edges of it are bloated, almost rubbery with how many times it’s been painted over in the same shade of white, a few spots chipped away to show rich brown wood underneath.
“Your sort of environment is on a hill with a telescope, with nobody around.”
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- Part 1 of Breathing Universe
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He didn’t want to name it, because if he named it then he would have to acknowledge it. And if he acknowledged it he would have to do something about it.
This is John's end of the war.
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the long awaited Kingdom for a Kiss sequel
updates every other WednesdaySeries
- Part 4 of sonnet of the sweet complaint
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“Everything alright, Deputy?”
“Yeah, Tim, fine,” Raylan says, voice distinctly thick, “I got a question for you.”
Tim throws another shot of tequila, “Shoot.”
“Did you take my form?”
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or, the five times Tim, did Raylan Givens' paperwork, and the one time Raylan did Tim's
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“Do they know I’m divorced?”
“Christ, Buck,” John scoffs. “They’re not from the Dark Ages.”John brings Gale home for Christmas. A Dom Gale fic
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- Part 4 of everything and the kitchen sink
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Alone on thanksgiving? Mad at your dad?
Gale responds to a Cragislist ad after realizing he's facing Thanksgiving alone with his family. He can't quite decide exactly who's crazier; him or the guy who wrote the ad.
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There’s a certain scent to John on a night that he’s looking for trouble. Something chemical and sweet, like gasoline that overlaid his regular musk. Whiskey and cinnamon.
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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. -
where the lemon tree grows by euph0riac, Swifty_Fox
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
21 Sep 2025
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“John,” a soft voice murmurs to his right, calling him in.
It’s Buck. He knows without even having to look. Even so, John turns to look at him, peeling his gaze away from the disgruntled alpha and turning his back blatantly. Buck watches him with something unreadable, pupils blown wide in the poorly lit street.
“Buck,” John says slowly, working the name over his tongue like he’s just first hearing it, drawing out the syllables. “You tryna rein me in?”Buck tilts his head, eyes glinting in the moonlight. “Do I have to?” He looks bored and vaguely irritated.
John sighs, maybe a little dramatically, and slings an arm around the alpha’s shoulders, easily achieved with the slight height advantage he has over him. “You’re no fun.”
“You’re too much fun.”
He grins. “No such thing.”
Buck frowns. “There is and you’re it.”
OR: The Omegaverse bludgeons its way into Masters of the air and forces a rewrite of the canon timeline
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- Part 1 of Unlikely Places
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“Hey,” John says.
Gale’s blues flick back to him, brow furrowing more at the grin creeping sideways across John’s face.
“I got you something,” John says, and then sits up, folding his body in half with a groan that’s torn somewhere from his lower back.
“No, you didn’t, John,” Gale says in the same tone he used to tell John not to sing.
“Did.”or, the fic where John and Gale celebrate the end of the war with some cupcakes
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While numerous studies have been conducted on the effects of captivity on other classes of vertebrates, very few studies have investigated the effects of captivity and its related stresses on amphibians. Chronic stress results in elevated levels of corticosterone (CORT) released from the adrenocortical cells, which in turn result in hyperglycemia, anorexia, and changes in behavior.
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PhD Student Gale Cleven's got his research and he's got his routines and no time for the fella working construction on his house who seems very, very determined to make friends.Series
- Part 1 of Cicada Season