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When he wakes up in a clean bed in what he later will learn is a sanatorium, he finds a pair of flintlocks and a rose quartz rosary lying on the night stand next to him, meaning they're probably his.
Not that he has the slightest idea where he is, or how he got here in first place.
As he tries to gather himself, a group of people wearing unfamiliar faces enters the room. They crowd around his bed and ask questions, but when he has no answers it is them who tell him that he was lost to them for nigh half a year, dead and buried, mourned, and now brought back to life by a miracle of the Light.
They tell him this place is called the Hamlet, and that his own name is Dismas.
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update 22.12.2023: chapter 6 now includes commissioned art!Bookmarked by zerosconsort
18 Feb 2026
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Tony gets Hanahaki for Steve. They work together in the hopes of convincing Tony’s heart to fall out of love.
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01 Feb 2026
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love you as the plant that never blooms by sugarybowl, wishingonalightningbolt
Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)
03 May 2016
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Dex doesn’t roll his eyes, but only because he’s overwhelmed with the thought that he really does have feelings for Nursey. Gooey feelings. Romantic ones. They see each other every day; they’ve been close, there’s been touching, and maybe—maybe it’s not quite as platonic as Dex assumed it was. From watching Ransom and Holster, anyone could get the idea that that’s just what friends do. But… It feels different.
“I like him,” he says, soft, contemplative. “I like when he’s around and it’s frustrating to watch him go. It’s horrible to think he might be upset at me, or that he thinks I lied to him. It’s killing me.”
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Dex doesn't know what it is to want. With Nursey, he learns.
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09 Jan 2026
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Shitty Knight takes a post-graduation road trip. Four friends, six thousand miles, two tents, several embarrassing photos, a giant rabbit, three cops, and a bear.
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- Part 1 of Road & Romance
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28 Sep 2025
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“What are you thinking about?” Tony asks.
Steve knows that Tony expects him to say something mundane or boring. Propelled by the perpetual urge to throw Tony off-balance, Steve tells him the truth: “I’m thinking about sex.”
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12 Sep 2025
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Tony gets three dates to win over a skeptical Steve. Three, no more and no less.
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09 Sep 2025
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The walk back to the clearing where they’d pitched their tent was quiet. Soap was unsure why; he had done well. Their mark was unconscious in a puddle of his own filth, hexed to forget the night entirely, and a lead had been pried from his now-skinless jaws. It had been a good hunt.
“They teach you that in the King's Guard?”
The non sequitur startled him. He should have obfuscated the truth: that his violence was an instinct he carried since before he could walk. That it was the thing that most starkly othered him amongst his order, even more than his tusks, or his naivete. But he didn’t. Couldn’t. “No,” Soap said. “They tried to beat it out of me.”
Ghost's eyes were warm, after Soap spoke. Warm as tinder on coals, when a fire is young and new. “They would have ruined you.”
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27 Jun 2025
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“Why are you hovering?” Soap snaps at Gaz one particularly bad evening.
Gaz shrugs at him sadly, pityingly, “Because he asked me to.” Soap doesn’t know what the fuck that’s supposed to mean but he knows he doesn’t like it.
On Sunday Price summons them both into his office and delivers the only news he can: Ghost isn't dead yet. Not yet. The words echo around Soap’s head like gunfire. He’s lost men before, lost friends and officers before, it's part of the job. He doesn’t know why this time is affecting him so deeply. 'You do know.' His mind screams at him. 'You know why you can’t bear to lose him.'
Soap takes long pulls from the bourbon bottle that night hoping for a dreamless sleep, instead for the next seven hours he pictures nut brown eyes and white bone.
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05 Jun 2025
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“I haven’t…” she starts, watches his blue eyes narrowed in concern and it’s distracting, everything’s distracting. “I haven’t had a body in a hundred years,” Zelda manages, and shrugs one shoulder, as if to say what can you do? “I was Hylia, mostly, and a little bit me, but I wasn’t a person. I was the sun and the wind and the water and the dirt and I was in a prison and I was the prison. I feel like I’m blindfolded, now, without that sense of the world, but also everything is so bright and loud and close and I hardly know how I’m managing to speak to you when my skin is feeling wind for the first time in a century. It’s…” she trails off, her words failing her, which is infuriating because she’s a scholar, she’s good at words. “It’s a lot,” she finishes awkwardly, for lack of anything better to say.
Or: Learning to be a person again, after the end.
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- Part 1 of Something So Magic About You
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20 May 2025
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Yearning, Ghost realizes, aches even deeper than a bullet wound.
He’s trained himself not to desire, the same way he’s trained his body to sprint while in full tactical gear, the same way he’s trained his eyes to focus through a sniper scope for hours on end.
But he’s never wanted someone—anything—like he wants Soap.
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13 May 2025
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He was made to be a killing machine.
He wasn’t made to be domestic. Wasn’t meant to clean or cook or take care of a dog.
But he’ll try. He’d be damned if he didn’t.
He wanted to be more than what he was programmed to be.
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06 Apr 2025
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Or: John "Soap" MacTavish's extremely case-specific guide to wooing an idiot dragon.
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- Part 1 of Incompatible Mating Practices
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03 Apr 2025
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02 Apr 2025
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Noah and the Anglerfish by HigherMagic for Niceven (Nicevensilace)
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
13 Jan 2025
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“Steamin’ bloody Jesus,” Soap breathes. “How often does he do this?”
Gaz turns, then, and meets his eye. “Us, and Price… We’re the only ones who’d live to talk about it,” he says. “It’s a last resort.” He reaches out, then, and puts his hand on Soap’s arm. “Being his handler means being the one to call the shots, Soap. We’re the only bloody things he cares about. Everything else is fodder. If you ever have to make this call, you better be damn sure you don’t care about survivors, because there won’t be any.”
Price had been so eager to give the order. Imagine holding the nuke in your hands, knowing that you’ll be the only thing to survive its detonation. Imagine being Noah, but with the power to call the Flood whenever he wished.
Soap shivers, something not altogether kind or good curling around his brainstem at the notion.
Whether Gaz clocks it or not, he can’t say, but he eventually murmurs, “You’ll need a psych eval after this. We all get one after Ghost smokes out. Even him.”
Soap frowns. “Why?”
Gaz shrugs. “You’ll have to ask him. Personally, I think we all like it a bit too much.”
Soap blushes, and doesn’t have the words for why.
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01 Apr 2025
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Bombs, Babies, and Bullets by HigherMagic for Niceven (Nicevensilace)
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
15 Aug 2025
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For a long time, the 141 has been exclusively birds.
This isn’t by design; a lot of those that choose to go spec ops are birds, or particularly well-suited breeds of dogs and cats, the occasional mustelid and, for one particular mission where they’d had to house a foreign unit, a very inconvenient bull. Usually, though, it’s animals that are good in small groups as well as large ones, groups that can form flocks and packs and colonies, respectively.
They are a flock, mismatched and odd though they are, and Ghost has always assumed that, should they welcome a fourth into their unit, for a trial run or otherwise, their prime candidates would be other birds.
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01 Apr 2025
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keep me sharp (test my worth in blood) by Ivillpunchyouinthethroat for spidehpig
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
28 Feb 2024
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“Left you a gift, Johnny,” Ghost answers.
“Aye?” Soap says and Ghost can about hear his grin. “I’m quakin’ in excitement, Lt.”
Soap leaves his mic on and Ghost can hear the creaking of the door open and the soft rustle of Soap's tac gear as he walks over to the body.
A sharp intake of breath and then a low whistle.
“Careful, Lt,” Soap rumbles, accent noticeably thicker, “bloody gifts like these, might think yer courtin’ me proper. The old way at least.”
And that's how it starts.
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29 Mar 2025
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In the aftermath of Makarov’s attack, a forcibly retired Soap is left alone and bored in the Scottish Highlands with nothing to do but secretly paint portraits of the man he misses the most.
When an idle wish brings one of his paintings to life, Soap does very little to discourage this miraculous new clone of his former Lieutenant from sneaking into his bed. It’s not like anyone - let alone Ghost - will ever find out, after all.
He should’ve known a copy of Ghost would be just as persistent and cunning as the real man himself.
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26 Mar 2025
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this is what we do to survive by Areiton
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
17 Mar 2025
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This is what he does to survive:
He isolates himself. He doesn’t allow himself friends, doesn’t allow himself the small community in District 8. Yinsin loses himself in his work as a doctor. Tony loses himself in a bottle of whiskey and the endless design of weapons.A Hunger Games AU
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19 Mar 2025
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to you i can admit (that i’m too soft for all of it) by furiosophie
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
21 Jan 2024
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"Kids?" Soap asks, curving his fingers into a silent okay to Ghost without thinking. "Plural?"
"Yes. A boy and a girl. Little Joseph was born a couple of months ago, according to the records."
"Oh," is all Soap says because oh. He has a nephew. A little baby nephew. And then, because that is apparently not enough of a revelation, the doctor says:
"You are listed as their legal guardian, Mr. MacTavish. We need you to pick them up."
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The Time It Was Again by Sineala for VenNooBee
Fandoms: Original Ultimate Universe (Marvel Comics 2000), Ultimates (Original Ultimateverse), Marvel (Comics)
18 Feb 2025
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Good news: here in the enlightened future, Steve no longer has to be promised to an alpha in order to be Captain America. Bad news: he has to be actually claimed by one.
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23 Feb 2025