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[the-ace-with-spades]

just wanted to say i would 100% read any hangster omegaverse you write there is not enough of it out there tbh. and also like truly whatever combo/dynamic you feel would be amazing but i would frankly die for some omega bradley cause i never see people take that route and it's such an interesting take on his character to me BUT ANYWAY like i said follow your heart and i'm sure it would be glorious if you do decide to write it

Hi! Thank you for the ask, I'm absolutely flattered ✨ I'm also happy to say that my cliche omega Bradley/alpha Jake mpreg fic has been planned out already - hope you don't mind me using this ask to ramble about it a bit 👉👈

As for the dynamics, we're going with:

omega Bradley and alpha Jake

alpha Mav and alpha Ice

(only mentioned but ) omega Goose and alpha Carole

so Bradley was raised mostly by alphas

omega Phoenix, beta Bob, beta Coyote

scent-wise, they're both on suppressants the majority of the time but when they aren't, they both smell like fuel and dust (Bradley loses it when he stops flying), but Jake's natural scent is dry, earthy one, kinda like straw and hot air on a sweaty day, and Bradley's is honey and vanilla/cinnamon; Mav smells like leather and jet fuel and Ice like cool mint and old paper

Not sure whether this is going to be written in my typical non-linear scene format (alternating past & present povs) just because I'm aiming to try and fit in 40-50k but the backstory/premise/whatever is well, this:

Bradley's experience growing up as a male omega was different than what most expected — most of his family didn't care about what the society said about designations and what was proper and what not. He was very much a stereotypical 'sensitive/soft' omega but he never thought that would hold him back, he literally was taught he could be anything and anyone he wanted. His mom was an alpha that choose to stay home, his dad was one of the first omegas allowed into combat, and after they both passed away, he was taken in by Mav and Ice, two alphas that by society's standards couldn't work out together, but did so better than most couples, and who tried to raise him to be his own person, not a designation. So he had plenty of ‘unconventional’ examples as a child.

That's why it hurt it so much when Mav said he wasn't ready and pulled his papers — it's like all he was taught about being whoever he wanted to be was a lie. Obviously, Bradley reacted by shaming himself out of being soft (to the outside world anyway).

Bradley and Jake met in flight school. They were only supposed to be something out of convenience, to spend heats and ruts together and nothing else. But then they were placed in the same squad after training and things continued and escalated and before they knew it, they were living together, they were each other's emergency contacts, they were each other's official heat/rut partners, on paper.

Jake'd never made him feel like any less because he was an omega and never doubted he was competent enough to be where he was in life — he was an asshole to him the say way he was to others, which was better than being undermined or coddled. Bradley felt like maybe he wasn't confident enough to be himself without care, yet, around Jake, but one day he would.

It was an unspoken thing on base — Bradley was Jake's omega and vice versa.  Unspoken because despite eight years together, they never bonded.

Bradley still has issues, about being an omega, that mostly strive from Mav's you aren't ready and the general opinions about omegas in the Navy. He was okay without all the usual stuff omegas wanted from alphas — couldn't be scented much because of scent neutralisers and suppressants he had to wear at work, couldn't make nests since they spend a lot of their time on deployments or trainings away on different bases and ships, he liked touch but it was both unprofessional at work and very omegian of Bradley at group outings (and he didn’t want the guys he worked with to think too much about him being an omega). 

At home, behind closed doors and in their own bubble, Jake didn't have a problem with giving him those things — what Bradley asked for, he got. Affection, nests, scenting, praises. In private, Jake never hesitated to fulfil whatever stereotypically omegian thing Bradley wanted and never held it against him. Jake’s family didn’t know about them, but given that Bradley wasn’t ready for bonding, that was probably for the best — he knew people could be nosy about when will you get bonded or married, when will you have kids, should you keep working in the Navy after bonding, etc. It bothered him a bit, especially when he had to leave their place and stay with Nat whenever Jake’s family showed up in town or stayed alone over holidays, but well, he never asked Jake for any of it to change and Jake never made the first move.

So Bradley hoped he wouldn't mind giving it all to him when Bradley finally did ask for it.

Then they just came back from deployment, after months on heavy duty suppressants, and his heat and Jake's rut synced up — something that happens only after bonding or after big big stressors — and then he found out he was pregnant.

He took a few to process everything and decided that he wanted it more than he was afraid of how it’d change their life and how people would see him, and he was going to ask for more from Jake and tell him.

Then he comes home and his nest is dismantled and Jake’s got two cans of scent neutralizer on the kitchen table and the first thing he tells Bradley is, “My sister is visiting for a week, gotta be fast because she’s going to be here tomorrow.” And Bradley isn’t so sure anymore.

(probably not the actual dialogue but the gist of what happens) "It's just going to be a few days and everything will go back to normal." "What if I don't want it to go back to normal?" “Look, you’re not exactly the type my family expects—” “So, how do you see us, in the future? Do you not want to get bonded, get married or—or have kids? Or are we just going to do all those things while sneaking around your family forever?” "We have a good thing, why change it? It’d all just be so inconvenient with our lives—”

And Bradley makes a decision again. Packs his stuff, tells him he isn’t comining back and leaves. He was fine alone, he’ll be fine alone again. He just needs some help first.

(gonna get short now, just not to spoil too much) Bradley goes to the only person he can think of — Ice. He moves in with Mav and Ice for the time being, things are awkward so Mav moves out to the hangar and Ice schemes so his two dumbasses talk and they forgive each other.

Fast forward, he’s six months in and the Top Gun recall happens, Bradley is currently Cyclone’s flag lieutenant, and ThingsTM hit the fan.

Scenes the dialogue is written down for (no promises on actual inclusion in the fic):

Jake being a dumbass and calling Bradley fat the minute they see each other in San Diego

The snow scene from the mission but with Mav and Jake arguing about who needs to come back home more

The beach scene with Bradley sitting around with Penny on the patio, drinking mocktails and being thirsty (the other kind)

Jake finally telling his mom

Bradley and Mav getting tricked into going to a doc appointment together (by Ice)

Bradley teaching (or ordering him around, more like) Jake how to do the flooring in the nursery while he sits on a bean bag and eats a whole box of strawberries

It's gonna be a while before I post the first chapter because I want to have at least dialogue written for the whole thing and will shuffle around scenes and plot points, but it's coming!

Thank you to you, anon, and to anyone who helped me figure out some stuff about this au fic 💙

[itshoneywhatever]

Now i have the urge to write a hangster bodyguard AU, where Jake is the son of an important businessman and is receiving threats on his life because they don’t think an omega should run the company in the future and his father hires Bradley, an alpha who also happens to be an old hookup of Jake’s, to be his bodyguard. Jake hates it, because he feels like they are empty threats coming from small minded people and he drives Bradley insane working longer hours than necessary or taking to long to be ready — but when Jake is drugged to induce his heat in the middle of some fundraising, Bradley protects him and drives him home and takes care of him in a non-sexual way and Jake falls just a little bit in love.

sneak peek 1, 2, 3

[nixies-creations]

Title: Who Helps the Helper? Pairing: Bradley Bradshaw/Jake Seresin. Rating: SFW/No Archive Warnings Apply. Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics; Alpha Jake "Hangman" Seresin; Omega Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw; Hurt Jake "Hangman" Seresin; Sudden Heat; Jake isn't doing great in this one babes; Jake "Hangman" Seresin Needs a Hug; Alternate Universe. Word Count: 820. Created for @topgunalternateuniverse Square Filled: A/B/O: Sudden Heat/Sudden Rut.  Chapters: 1 of 2.

Summary: 

Post Mission, Bradley goes into a sudden heat and Jake helps him through it. But who helps Jake deal with the guilt of assisting his ex-boyfriend, his former omega, through something that is meant to be shared with someone an omega deems worthy?

Read On Ao3.

[nixie-deangel]

make me write 📝

send me an emoji for one of my WIPs and i’ll write three sentences for every emoji you send :)

you may send in multiple at once!!

🦇 vampire jake/human bradley - hangster

🍼 non navy bradley/fighter pilot jake as parents - hangster

💔 icemav break up / icedad

🐺 shifter au - hangster

🔥 virgin jake - hangster

🥺 chap2 of helper - a/b/o hangster

😎 win a date with jake - hangster

✍🏻 insecure bradley - hangster

😭 jake doesn't deal with bradley's death - hangster

💐 serial killer Jake - hangster

🍷 Jake's family causes the hangster break up

🤠 music producer Bradley x rancher Jake

✨ Retired Bradley, Jake climbing Command

👀 B&B, Celebrity Bradley, handyman Jake

Currently not taking emoji asks for these!

make nixie write this weekend!

[tgmsunmontue]

WHAT TO WRITE WEEKEND

(27th - 29th September)

THIS IS AN OPEN CASTING CALL. All numbers and letters are free game. Have at it. 1, 2, A through to T - give me up to three (3) and I'll give you a minimum of 250 words on each. Tracking words here.

WRITING GOALS:

To post a minimum of three things. ANY three things. Some things might be short and sweet. Others longer.

Sagas of Solitude 13/21 - IceMav with side Hangster AU - angsty Nepo!Baby (Last updated 22nd September)

Season to Taste 21/? Celebrity Chef Bradley and Naval Aviator Jake Seresin (Last updated 26th September)

A) Upon which our souls touch - 6/? - Hangster Fantasy AU (Last updated 7th September)

B) Never knew I was missing you - 1/? - Hangster AU with Jake a naval aviator and Bradley and A-list Hollywood star. They meet on a dating app. Famous and cat fishing that isn't cat fishing because online relationships are rife but...? (Tumblr idea) (Last updated 21st September)

C) To wake, perchance to dream - 4/? - Jake wakes up in the future, gets a glimpse of what their life could be and then wakes up back right before being called back to Top Gun for the special detachment (e.g. TGM). (Tumblr post and the beginning of the fic) (Last updated 1st September)

D) IceMav with unknown about children because the US Navy is evil and produced offspring because of genetics being a THING. (Tumblr ramblings)

E) Cyclone/Maverick - Cyclone is struggling to deal with being attracted to the most annoying person he's ever met. Why does he like him so much?

F) Olympic AU - Jake and Javy are the Flyboys, a synchronised diving pair. Bradley is a gymnast.

G) Party of 5 AU - Jake raising his younger siblings and trying to run the family business and grieve the life he had started to build at College.

H) From the top 2/? - an Ice/Mav epistolary fic where Jake and Bradley matchmake them, not realising exactly who it is they've matched together. AU divergent ish. (Last updated 23rd July)

I) Bradley runs away and joins the circus. Tumblr ramblings.

J) Barista Jake? Fleshing this out into a proper length fic? (HERE)

K) Caring, Keeping and Collecting Transformers - A Guide - 8/?Transformers cross-over for help me @yeagrave is 110% to blame for me adding this... (related to this post) (Last updated 13th September)

L) Hangster Sports Team AU with Hangster being ex-es and the trade deadline coming in hot and Bradley being traded in and all hell is about to break loose... Ramblings

M) Practical Magic AU (Tumblr ramblings)

N) Two guys in the mines hooking up... (Madness)

O) Long-distance/Zoom D&D players. (Madness)

P) Rooster is a shapeshifter trapped in his animal form? Crackity crack crack. (Madness)

Q) EMPTY SLOT 😱 OR IS IT???

R) IceMav Bingo of the Florist and Undercover agent variety.

S) Jake leaves Bradley at the alter and everyone is heartbroken. Including me.

T) Bradley a mechanic and Jake still an aviator. Hopefully a short little ficlet which is actually short. (Tumblr prompt/idea)

[redfurrycat]

🐓🤠Hangster Fic-on-Tumblr Recs🤠🐓

🐓🤠Hangster Goodies to Read! 🐓🤠

Check the Top Gun Masterlist post for the latest updated version. 💕

Tumblr Authors: allbark-no-bite, film-in-my-soul, green-socks, hangster-hangout, icemavs, natashatrace, norabrice1701, ravens-words, semperhuggs, tgmsunmontue, the-sun-and-the-sky.

(Use this post to let me know about your works, it’s easier for me to keep track!)

(Reminder to come here in case Our Beloved is Down.

*True Story of why I wanted to do this specific recs list*)

TGMSUNMONTUE (AO3 – SunMonTue)

Tgmsunmontue’s Masterlist, including:

Another Time ➡️ 14 Chapters | M | BodySwap | Jake wakes up in Rooster's body ~30 hours post-Mission and they have to deal with it. They're adults. Apparently.

Bird on a Wire ➡️ 3 Chapters | E | Meet-cute | Jake tries to make a good impression on one of the servers at a restaurant. Except he turns out to be the head chef. Who in turn tries make a good impression. Their families try and help.

He remembers ➡️ 1 Chapter | Bradley remembers key points in his life as he faces starting at the USNA. IceMav feels.

It's all academic darlin' ➡️ 9 Chapters | E | Academic Professor AU | Bradley is a professor but living his best well-adjusted life with IceMav parents. Jake is a pilot. Maverick tries (and fails) to play matchmaker, so he tries again.

Lonely Nights ➡️ 4 Chapters | E | Smut | Rooster really needs to get laid.                                                                                       

ICEMAVS (Ao3 – Sreshaw)

Avery’s Masterlist, including:

Planes, trains, and gay people ➡️ 3 Chapters | E | Planes, Trains, and Automobiles AU | Bradley just wanted to get home for Thanksgiving to see him mom and uncles. What he ended up with was three days with a hot stranger who happened to annoy the shit out of him.

Springsteen ➡️ 2 Chapters | M | High School | Bradley Bradshaw has to pick up and move from San Diego, California, with his not-dad Pete "Maverick" Mitchell to Corpus Christi, Texas. He's not upset about it, but he doesn't expect to fall hard for a boy he meets there.

Whiskey and Rye ➡️ 1 Chapter | E | Only One Bed | The Dagger Crew got turned into a real-deal instructor squadron after the mission. They get sent on missions and demos to teach new pilots how to do what they do. On this trip to Florida, the WSOs are staying with their pilots, but Jake and Bradley, since they are WSO-less, have to room together. And the hotel fucked up.

NORABRICE1701 (Ao3 – MidnightBlast)

Twist My Heart ➡️ 6 Chapters | Twister AU | E | The hope of anything with Jake is a fool’s hope. Bradley has understood that from the first minute Jake waltzed into the lab with his dazzlingly brilliant smile, sun-kissed skin, and grass-green eyes gleaming with dangerous red flags. Yet still Bradley let the man get under his skin, burrow in his chest, and take root in his heart. 

GREEN-SOCKS (Ao3 – Aprilfoolish)

(Do You) Share My Affection ➡️ 1 Chapter | M | Bradley and Jake end up on a date with each other through an anonymous dating app (because they are just a little bit idiots about each other). The date is the wakeup call they needed.

RAVENS-WORDS (Ao3 – Ravens_Words)

been you all along ➡️ 5 Chapters | T | Kid Fic | Somehow, in a truly horrifying twist of fate, Bradley's mortal enemy became his daughter's favorite person. Or, Five times Jake was his daughter's favorite person, and the one time he was Bradley's too. (🐈 Note: +1 on Ao3!)

THE-SUN-AND-THE-SKY

The Joke's On You ➡️ 1 Chapter | Fluff | In which Hangman makes a joke and Rooster takes it literally.

FILM-IN-MY-SOUL (Ao3 – ReformedTsundere)

Ficlet Bingo Soulmates ➡️ 1 Chapter | T | The time between getting shot down and reuniting with Maverick, Rooster isn’t alone. First Kiss ➡️ 1 Chapter | T | The night before the rest of Bradley’s life he gets pretty drunk and a little lucky. Whump ➡️ 1 Chapter | T | Jake is hurt. But it’s alright. Bradley is there. A/B/O ➡️ 1 Chapter | M | Between waves of Jake’s heat, he and Bradley have a domestic moment. Epistolary ➡️ 1 Chapter | T | In a box, there lives two letters that the writers never want read.

NSFW Alphabet S = Stamina ➡️ 1 Chapter | E | The thing is, Jake hadn't really thought Bradley was serious when they'd made The Bet. He'd laughed when Bradley had stated his terms ( "I want to fuck you til sun up.") It had sounded like a cheesy line, like he'd never left that pre-twenties stage of sex-based hubris. And then Jake had lost. Y = Yearning ➡️ 1 Chapter | M | He’s paying the piper for the gift he’d been given: shockingly easy submission, a slack, wet mouth, a freely offered place to rest his need and have it soothed with tongue and sex.

HANGSTER-HANGOUT

The Love Chicken ➡️ 1 Chapter | Fluff | My dad said he knew my mom was the one over a bottle of wine and the best roast chicken he ever had.” “And now you’re making it for Hangman. So he can figure out that you’re the one.” “Something like that.” Bradley cooks for Jake. It goes even better than expected. 

NATASHATRACE (Ao3 – crueltether)

first I love you/bronco conversations under the stars ➡️ 1 Chapter

daily create challenge (2/365) ➡️ 1 Chapter | something something Jake thrives in chaos but craves peace, something something Bradley thrives in peace but craves chaos

Restraint ➡️ 1 Chapter | E | Smut | “What was it you said, Jake? Something about being snug on my perch?”

ALLBARK-NO-BITE

mr. iceman, sir ➡️ 1 Chapter | Fluff | they called him Iceman for a couple of reasons. Jake is sweating under his stare. a snippet of Jake asking Ice to marry Bradley

SEMPERHUGGS (Ao3 – Semeprhuggs)

Slider's Matchmaking Again? ➡️ 3 Chapters | Present day Christmas with the Daggers and the Flyboys.

Proposal ➡️ 1 Chapter

[film-in-my-soul]

Let's play a game! Ficlet Bingo!

Above are 25 spaces just ready for the picking. Below is a list of ships (just the ones I'm feeling atm). Send one of the tropes and a ship, and I'll write a ficlet (less than 1k words) based on the combination. Once a space is claimed, it'll be marked off.

3 left!

(For Song Inspired, go ahead a drop a song!)

⭐First Bingo hit!⭐

Ships:

Top Gun: Iceman/Maverick

Top Gun Maverick: Hangman/Rooster

The Sandman: Dream/Hob

Stranger Things: Steve/Eddie

9-1-1: Buck/Eddie

Teen Wolf: Stiles/Derek

Supernatural: Castiel/Dean

Ask Box

(see below for filled spaces links)

Filled Spaces:

Fix It! - Icemav

Soulmates - Hangster

PWP

Post-Nightmare - Sterek

Only 1 Bed - Icemav

Darkfic ⭐- Icemav

Song Inspired

First Kiss - Hangster

Outsider POV - Icemav

Whump - Hangster

Missing Scene - Icemav

AU: Dealers Choice - Icemav

Writers Choice! - Steddie

A/B/O - Hangster

Reincarnation - Icemav

The "Oh" Moment - Icemav

Future Fic - Steddie

Canon Divergence - Buddie

Epistolary - Hangster

Role Reversal - Icemav

Chatfic - Sterek

Dialogue Only - Icemav

Soc-Med AU - Icemav

Dual Narrative

Power Imbalance - Icemav

[icemankazansky]

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

@boasamishipper tagged me to do this, even though she knows (a) I do not have a folder or a filing system or anything of the sort, and (b) I haven't finished a single one of the WIPs I listed the last time I did this! Villainy.

TG2 Icemav poly

Icemav model AU

Icemav serval AU1

TG Age of Sail Working

TG Ghost AU

TG fake dating AU

TG Zine

TG Dirty Dancing AU

TG Hooker

TG A/B/O

Taking Chances Ch2

R/W D/s AU

TH R/W dark d/s AU

unconventional

There's more in there, but these are the ones on the first few pages that actually stand a chance of being finished one day.

Tagging @victimofthemusic @topgunreacts @icemankazansky86 @foolishmortal @hangsters and... um, nine other people. Are you one of them?

[barnes-brain]

Top 5 hangster fics both yours and then other authors!!

Mine too?

I think I’ve only written five?

Sliding

Handle

Carry

Don’t

Every

Oh I guess I have next life but that’s not finished so IDK how much I like it yet 🤣

Other authors…

Ummm

Anything by @floydsin aka Ginnydear but if I have to pick

Unsportsmanlike conduct (AKA the NFL au)

Men Like Us-dancing disaster

Rule breaker by fuddlewuddle (A/B/O warning) (anything by them)

Callsign: rooster- Valkyrie_the_Bogwitch

Cruise control -res_judicata (must be logged in)

Bonus because I love it and her

A girl, she once told me I'd be happy again...- @anadorablack

[the-ace-with-spades]

Writing the a/b/o hangster WIP and I keep switching tenses so... Please decide for me 🙏

[itshoneywhatever]

Oooooh the abo bodyguard au please!! 💕💕

Hi, lovely anon!! I’m more than happy to talk about my Hangster Bodyguard AU 🥰

This AU cane to me like a fevered dream because I wanted to write Bradley taking care of a roofied Jake. You can check my original idea here

Somehow that idea is at some 17.6k words now 😂 I truly love it, i am proud of it and can’t wait to finish it so I can share it with all of you💞

You can read a sneak peek here, here and here

Thank you for asking about this story 🥰💞

[cristinuke]

WIP GAME

Rules: reveal the titles of the documents in your WIP folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

Tagged by @icemav86 who is partially to blame for most of my WIPs if only because she keeps encouraging more.

My WIPs folder is too much, with literal subfolders of ideas and snippets and half-written things, so let's just stick to what docs I currently have open.

(Top Gun) IceMav D/s AU: Mav struggles to go down and Ice works with him on it. Chance of completion: 10/10, only because I just finished it last night and is going through edits currently.

(Call of Duty) Soap/Ghost Sleepy Sex: Soft fic in which Ghost comes back from a mission exhausted but missing Soap and nearly falls asleep fucking Soap. Chance of completion: 9/10.

(Top Gun) CyMav BDSM: Mav is a masochist in denial and Cyclone is more than happy to show him how great it can be. Chance of completion: 8/10

(Top Gun) Hicemav A/B/O AU: IceMav rescue an abused Jake from a breeding facility and help him find a home with them. Chance of completion: 5/10. This was a riff that went off the rails (18k) and is complete in terms of ideas/general gist, but I'd have to clean it up before it gets anywhere close to being posted. I only just started cleaning it up and it's a bit daunting.

(Call of Duty) Soap/Ghost heavy BDSM/smut: A study in how Ghost helps Soap come down from mission highs through sex. Chance of completion: 9/10

(MCU) Steve/Bucky & Sam & Natasha MTH: My fill for MTH 2022. Chance of completion: 10/10. I always complete my fills, so this one'll get written :D

(Top Gun) Hangster Top Drop fic: My gift fic for @renai-chan! Chance of completion: 10/10 (Even if the deadline for it keeps getting pushed back because apparently vacay keeps getting in the way)

Tagging in @renai-chan, @artgroves, @film-in-my-soul

[viridessense]

Angsty Hangsty Drabble: Pt 1

This just sort of ~came to me~ whilst I was procrastinating something vaguely urgent lol so. TW: Child abuse, child neglect, splitting up, breaking up, miscommunication, death of a parent, omegaverse, homophobia.

Context: This is for the omegaverse space au I keep rambling about. Know that both Bradley and Jake are alphas, and that in some spaces for this setting, that is very frowned upon. I'll go into why that is in another post so if you want to know more check my "viri does top gun" tag and bam, more content.

I'm still iffy on when exactly this happens, but it's around the time they graduated from Top Gun, and they went kind of all in on being a couple. They're one leave, kind of over the moon about getting leave at the same time.

They'd had a recent argument/tiff when Bradley rebuffed Jake wanting to cuddle/chat/hang out. That in itself almost ended the relationship, Jake was on the verge of walking out when Bradley apologised.

SO Jake gets a call. It's from his mother. Which is a pretty rare occurrence. Enough to bring Bradley up short. This is still new for them, so it's kind of the moment in which he realises that hey, he doesn't know much about Jake's family or childhood, and he's kind of subconsciously not been pursuing it or pushing it because he himself is not exactly eager to discuss that sort of thing. So he doesn't move his eyes off his phone, and pays keen attention to what he can hear.

When he sees the way Jake, who'd gone taught with tension as soon as he answered the phone and heard whoever it was, go somehow even tenser, he gives up trying to seem like he's not paying attention. He reaches across the desk and puts his hand on the back of Jake's neck.

Jake's father is dying, and he has to go to his home planet, Pan.

Jake finishes telling Bradley that he has to leave and is dialling Javy's number when the man himself strides into the house and pulls Jake into a crushing hug.

"Mom's been nagging me to come home anyway, we can shuttle together."

Bradley, not at all prompted by a tiny spike of jealousy, thank you very much, buys himself a ticket to Pan on the same shuttle, in a different section. That's just what he needs to do, surprise Jake by being there for him when he needs him!

As soon as Jake sees him in the kicked up dust of Pan's Space Port, the sheer panic in his eyes brings Bradley to a halt a good six feet shy of meeting him in the massive hug he'd planned for this moment.

At that same moment, a dust cloud unearths a crowd of people who are seemingly ECSTATIC to see Jake and Javy. Bradley watches through the dust as Jake is promptly engulfed in several hugs, fussery over weight he's apparently lost, how tall he's gotten???

Bradley steps forward to introduce himself to what has to be Jake's family. He clears his throat, and gets cut off before he can even say a word by Jake gesturing to him with a sweep of his arm, "Addie, this is Bradley Bradshaw, he's a top gun graduate with me an Javy. He didn't believe that Luna's cooking is the best in the universe so we've kidnapped him and brought him along to prove him wrong."

Adeline Machado casts a lazer-beam eye over Bradley from the toes of his boots to the sun-lightened ends of his hair, "Right, well, the Machado Ranch is happy to have you, Bradshaw, even if you end up not liking my wife's cooking."

Which is how Bradley finds himself squeezed into the back of a battered family transporter with Jake perched in his lap, neck craned so his face is in Bradley's neck so he doesn't brain himself on the ceiling for every bump on the road.

Jake's face suggests he might never be able to straighten his neck again, and Bradley's own twinges in sympathy, but mostly he's grateful for the opportunity to ask the dozens of questions buzzing against his forehead like a swarm of bees.

"So, uh, do you usually ride with the Machado's?" he hedges.

He feels more than hears Jake's sigh, "Yes. We're neighbours."

Right, so pulling teeth it is. "And what if you come home without Javy?"

"Hasn't happened yet."

Bradley resists the urge to curse, as there's a very small child staring at him with very large eyes from Javy's lap right next to him. "Right. Ok. So, uh...any hint on what I can expect? Is your mom gonna poison my casserole for stealing her darling boy?"

He expects a chuckle, maybe a pinch, but what he gets is the whitening of Jake's knuckles over his grip of the headrest in front of them, "I'm actually thinking you should just hang with Javy at their place while I get my parents sorted. No need for anyone to fuss."

"Fuss? Jake, I came here to be there for you. I know this isn't easy-"

"Listen, I get that. But you don't understand. My dad's a staunch traditionalist. If I show up with anything other than a perfectly human lady on my arm-"

"You think they'll hate me because I'm Helionoid? Jake, you're an alpha, just like-"

"Yes, Bradley, just like you. My dad's already on his last. There's no point in getting him worked up now. If he sees me all lovey-dovey-"

Bradley takes a hard breath, "Okay, so you're not out to them. They don't have to know what we are to each other. I could just be your friend lending a hand."

He feels a groan against his throat again, "Fine. Christ, just let me breathe."

Bradley's stomach drops out his ass and he breathes through the memory, his shame over telling Jake "stop clinging, it's not a fucking honeymoon". Shame, as ever, easily curls into rage, "Sure, seeing as you're the only one allowed to."

Jake actually lifts his head to stare at him incredulously, before turning to the kid, "Hey, kiddo, I'm breaking my neck on this emergency handle over here, switch with me?"

Bradley spends the rest of the ride enduring Javy staring daggers at the side of his head, and making shapes woven between his fingers with a piece of string to entertain his tiny companion.

Fuck, I gotta go an do that thing I was procrastinating. Stay tuned for the rest!

[tgmsunmontue]

WIP FIC List - pinned post

All completed fics can be found at: ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN, however if you prefer an up-to-date list you can visit this Tumblr post, as it lists all my TG/TG:M fics and links to both AO3 and the first Tumblr post for that fic.

*ACTIVE WIPS - (updating ~weekly depending on chapter length)

Sagas of Solitude 12/21 - IceMav with side Hangster AU - angsty Nepo!Baby Bradley Bradshaw who has to keep his relationship with Mav and Ice a secret when he starts at the USNA. Featuring married Ice and Mav (but not to each other). Prologue He Remembers and Lonely Nights are both set in this verse. (Last updated 22nd September)

Season to Taste 24/? Celebrity Chef Bradley and Naval Aviator Jake Seresin who have a relationship spanning the globe before they realize how tightly bound they are to one another. Heading into this little world. (Last updated 6th October)

*Active WIPs, versus WIPs listed below - more writing time and energy is spent working on the above, while the below are fics I work on sporadically (or in the weekends).

WIP STATUS (+ FIC IDEAS CURRENTLY GERMINATING)

FYI - everyone is welcome to take any of the ideas and do their own spin. Don't plagiarise obviously, but definitely feel free to take it and add your own twist.

A) Upon which our souls touch - 6/? - Hangster Fantasy AU (Last updated 7th September)

B) Never knew I was missing you - 4/? - Hangster AU with Jake a naval aviator and Bradley and A-list Hollywood star. They meet on a dating app. Famous and cat fishing that isn't cat fishing because online relationships are rife but...? (Tumblr idea) (Last updated 7th October)

C) To wake, perchance to dream - 4/? - Jake wakes up in the future, gets a glimpse of what their life could be and then wakes up back right before being called back to Top Gun for the special detachment (e.g. TGM). (Tumblr post and the beginning of the fic) (Last updated 1st September)

D) IceMav with unknown about children because the US Navy is evil and produced offspring because of genetics being a THING. (Tumblr ramblings)

E) Cyclone/Maverick - Cyclone is struggling to deal with being attracted to the most annoying person he's ever met. Why does he like him so much?

F) Olympic AU - Jake and Javy are the Flyboys, a synchronised diving pair. Bradley is a gymnast.

G) Party of 5 AU - Jake raising his younger siblings and trying to run the family business and grieve the life he had started to build at College.

H) From the top 2/? - an Ice/Mav epistolary fic where Jake and Bradley matchmake them, not realising exactly who it is they've matched together. AU divergent ish. (Last updated 23rd July)

I) Bradley runs away and joins the circus. Tumblr ramblings.

J) Barista Jake? Fleshing this out into a proper length fic? (HERE)

K) Caring, Keeping and Collecting Transformers - A Guide - 9/?Transformers cross-over for help me @yeagrave is 110% to blame for me adding this... (related to this post) (Last updated 28th September)

L) Hangster Sports Team AU with Hangster being ex-es and the trade deadline coming in hot and Bradley being traded in and all hell is about to break loose... Ramblings

M) Practical Magic AU (Tumblr ramblings)

N) Two guys in the mines hooking up... (Madness)

O) Long-distance/Zoom D&D players. (Madness)

P) Rooster is a shapeshifter trapped in his animal form? Crackity crack crack. (Madness)

Q) Community Theatre putting on Grease with a twist - Jake as Danny and Bradley the new Sandy.

R) IceMav Bingo of the Florist and Undercover agent variety.

S) Jake is a blacksmith and artist and Bradley is a high school history teacher.

T) Get your motor runnin' - 4/? Bradley a mechanic and Jake still an aviator. Hopefully a short little ficlet which is actually short. (Tumblr prompt/idea) (Updated 9th October)

[himawaribees]

i have to finish my hangster fic and then i also need to plan the a/b/o one i wanna write for them but i ALSO just planned a long yoshiden fake dating AU, AND i wanna get back to working on All That Part 6 because it's been taking me FOREVER... lads i'm stretched too thin. too many fics, not enough time

[thebahwrites]

any fics that youre reading that you’re really enjoying?

SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET TO THIS BUT!!! I'm usually BAD at keeping up with ongoing fics, I tend to read more completed pieces/oneshots or shorter pieces because..... focus... But here are some I hold near and dear!!! <3

You're My Dream Come True It's an a/b/o IceMav piece and I'm usually not a great fan of omegaverse because I think it can be written a bit sketch but this one won me over! It's sweet and dramatic the way I like!

Always A Hangster piece I really enjoyed, canon retelling, very romantic!!!

Perfectly Matched A CyMav piece because I really like that ship, it's REALLY funny and sweet! Just something about mavdad and tinder shenanigans that have a grip on me... Sliding Into Home Of course, your mandatory hangster baseball AU... I'm not done reading yet, definitely not keeping up because I suck but I think it's really well written! Very charming!

Obviously Also Hangster, I'm particularly fond of this because of trans!Hangman, fluffy angtsy romance, real nice, also not done reading but again, another well written piece! Mentions that are on my list but I haven't started reading yet but they caught my attention! Blackberry Pie (IceMav) you take it to the heart (icemav & hangster it seems) And You Said That I Was Done (Well You Were Wrong) (hangster) and they were rivals - series (hangster)

I don't keep up with a lot so if you want more oneshot recs, lmk! But these are the ones I really enjoyed! <333