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  1. Public Bookmark 36

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    “If you stay,” John says, almost to himself, “what’d be the difference this time?”

    His thumb caresses Gale’s cheek, the callus on it catches on the stubble Gale hasn't bothered to shave in days. Gale keeps his breathing steady, letting his decision solidify inside him.

    “What you asked for back then,” Gale says, “I’d give you now.”

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    After the war, Gale and John build a life together.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    When Pete Mitchell is ten years old, he sets his mind, there and then, that he’s going to be the best goddamn pilot the Navy’s ever seen, and nothing and no one is going to keep him out of the air.

    When Tom Kazansky is twenty-seven, their paths collide, and it makes the world shift beneath his feet. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is not a part of his Twenty Year Plan, but Tom can’t seem to shake him. He stops trying, after a while. It’s the best— and worst— thing that’s ever happened to him.

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    07 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 78

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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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    15 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 58

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    When John Egan meets his mate, it’s instant certainty. The world brightens to high saturation, the air sings of bliss. His heart swells with a profound ardour he can never go without again.

    When Gale Cleven meets his mate, it's a body slam into awareness. His heart expands against his ribs to the point of breaking, squeezes the air out of his lungs. It's making room for his alpha before he's ready to receive him. And then the man opens his big mouth and breaks the spell.

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    Omegaverse AU: Gale and John fall in love at first sight, get to know each other, and fall even more. It takes a while to get there.

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    16 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 21

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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.

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    10 Jan 2026