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the bridges I have burned (light my way back home) by magdarko for MadeItUp
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
31 Jul 2025
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The voice is right behind him, cutting through the soft ambient sounds of the bar. Bradley freezes, his glass arrested halfway to his mouth. The easy drawl, alight with that ever-present smile, the faint note of that familiar peppery aftershave… no. It can’t be.
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Bradley finds his destiny on the vacation he takes to avoid it.
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Bookmarked by halestrom
11 Sep 2025
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“You sending me away?”
Rooster was a hit for hire, Jake reminded himself. He had other obligations and his loyalty remained to the people who’d trained him. Jake could keep funneling money into his pockets for jobs well done, but Rooster was never expected to be a permanent fixture on this side of town.
Jake shrugged. He pushed his coffee to the side, mug still full.
“Up to you.”
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or: the mafia auBookmarked by halestrom
15 May 2025
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the one where jake and bradley are The Worst and i love them your honor.
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Rooster is cold in some snow-covered ground, lost during the mission in a shaky sacrifice from a prodigal son. He's lucky, though – Jake has known a simple truth since he was a kid: everything that dies can find its way back.
In fourteen days, Jake resurrects their love from the dead.
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- Part 2 of blind devotion
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27 Feb 2025
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this love burns so yellow (becoming orange and in its time, exploding) by meliebee
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Jun 2020
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Ten months after Zuko is crowned at seventeen, he faces his first coup.
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10 Feb 2025
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06 Apr 2024
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It was Amelia who insisted that they try it out on Rooster.
Jake pointed out that: (1) they're entirely too old for TikTok; and (2) it's never going to work.
"We've been together three years, pipsqueak," Jake said, "I don't think me calling him by his actual name is going to get the reaction you're hoping for."
But Amelia had one goal and one goal only: to make her pseudo-step-brother and his boyfriend go viral. And she was not above blackmail.
*New* Chapter 2: Would you kiss Jake for $100 or the hottest man in the world for $1000?
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22 Feb 2024
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“You said we’re dating?” Maverick asks, eventually, incredulous, with no indication of whether or not he’s willing to help Ice.
After Ice’s divorce, he tells a harmless white lie to get his kids off his back. Turns out it’s not that simple.
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Bookmarked by halestrom
09 Jan 2024
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In which Stiles learns to Stalk That Stalk. (Or, how to accidentally woo your unfriendly neighborhood alpha in roughly five hundred handwritten steps.)
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18 Dec 2023
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Love's a Battlefield (and the Navy Did Not Train Steve for This Shit) by cyerus
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
30 Jul 2013
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The Kalakaua-Kelly clan are determined to matchmake Steve. Out of desperation, Steve makes up a boyfriend named Danny.
It doesn't quite go according to plan.
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18 Dec 2023
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i can hear it now like i heard it then (c'mon, i dare you) by davidbyrne for perishablealex
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
15 Jul 2023
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He and Jake have been many things to each other, from rivals to genuine enemies to tentative friends to lovers. But they’ve never once, in their entire acquaintance, been awkward with one another. Even in those early days of a relationship, when the boundaries between friendship and something more were soft and blurry, Bradley never felt at a loss for words. They fight and they fuck and they whisper embarrassingly soft things and they banter inconsequentially, but they’re never silent. But they’ve never been broken up before.
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two road trips, four months apart
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Bookmarked by halestrom
13 Dec 2023
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02 Dec 2023
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The first thing Bradley thinks when he wakes up with a crick in his neck is that his mouth tastes horrible.
The second is that he’s not sure he’ll recover from the glimpse he catches of Hangman, tiptoeing past him from what’s presumably the bathroom to the kitchen, towel slung low around his waist and hanging on for dear life.
Jesus Christ, Bradley grumbles silently. How hard is it to put on pants when you get out of the shower and not waltz around with maybe-maybe not-friends-probably-still-just-coworkers in your living room? Some of us need our brains in the morning. To think.
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bradley's struggling post-mission and hangman keeps calling him for some reason
Bookmarked by halestrom
18 Nov 2023
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hours don't turn into days
coconutcordialeThe first thing Bradley thinks when he wakes up with a crick in his neck is that his mouth tastes horrible.
The second is that he’s not sure he’ll recover from the glimpse he catches of Hangman, tiptoeing past him from what’s presumably the bathroom to the kitchen, towel slung low around his waist and hanging on for dear life.
Jesus Christ, Bradley grumbles silently. How hard is it to put on pants when you get out of the shower and not waltz around with maybe-maybe not-friends-probably-still-just-coworkers in your living room? Some of us need our brains in the morning. To think.
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bradley's struggling post-mission and hangman keeps calling him for some reason
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Bradley doesn’t really know when it ended. If he’s honest, he doesn’t know when it began, either. He and Jake are like the tides, pulling in and pushing out on an endless cycle with no discernible edge. Sure, there’s a pattern there, but Bradley can’t find it, can’t control it. Or maybe he can, but he doesn’t want to. If there’s an end to be found, he doesn’t want it. Even if that means he’ll be dragged out every time he’s pulled in.
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bradley's afraid of fate, and jake doesn't believe in it
Bookmarked by halestrom
16 Nov 2023
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There’s oceans between you and me (once again)
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Bradley doesn’t really know when it ended. If he’s honest, he doesn’t know when it began, either. He and Jake are like the tides, pulling in and pushing out on an endless cycle with no discernible edge. Sure, there’s a pattern there, but Bradley can’t find it, can’t control it. Or maybe he can, but he doesn’t want to. If there’s an end to be found, he doesn’t want it. Even if that means he’ll be dragged out every time he’s pulled in.or
bradley's afraid of fate, and jake doesn't believe in it
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His old man dies on a Wednesday.
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15 Nov 2023
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The impossible by bimmyou
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Bradley Bradshaw meets Jake Seresin. Bradley Bradshaw hates Jake Seresin. Bradley Bradshaw wants Jake Seresin. Bradley Bradshaw’s getting too old for this shit.
Or: Before Top Gun, they're two kids who keep running into each other at the worst possible time. A study of fate and courtship over borders, milestones, and fifteen long, tension-filled years.
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21 Oct 2023
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Coyote found Hangman alone in the locker room, having changed out of his flight suit and back into chinos and an oxford button-down. He looked like he’d stepped straight off the set of a Ralph Lauren shoot. It was a testament to the strength of his anger that Coyote didn’t even take a second to enjoy the view.
“You want to tell me what the hell that was about back there?”
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After Rooster and Hangman's fight, Coyote tries to get Hangman to do the right thing and apologize. Hangman doesn't see it that way.
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15 Oct 2023
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10 Oct 2023
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Of course it’s Extra-Hot-Means-180 Degrees guy, in his absurdly tight black Las Vegas Fire and Rescue t-shirt with his abysmal personal mug that never fails to rub off a smudge of permanent marker onto Jake’s palm once it’s hot. And it’s always Jake’s palm because of course Las Vegas’ hottest man insists that only Jake makes his triple grande blonde latte (extra hot) correctly.
Features flirting via coffee cup, hand holding, rock climbing, and a daring rescue.
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Bookmarked by halestrom
09 Oct 2023
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In a Walmart at three am, between beef jerky and tortilla chips, with the lights flickering above them like it’s the fucking twilight zone, Bradley wants him more than he’s ever wanted anyone.
or: it's a hundred degrees in texas.
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Bookmarked by halestrom
08 Oct 2023
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Jake bet fifty-fifty on whether he was going to enjoy this conversation and stepped up to the passenger side door just as the window rolled down. He was greeted with a warm, smiling, moustachioed face which took him off guard. Though Jake didn’t recognise the driver, something about him verged upon familiar. His smile faltered as his gaze flitted over Jake’s face, eyes tightening in a way Jake didn’t want to overanalyse, but it made him seem no less friendly overall.
“Where you headed?”
“Closest ranch,” Jake replied, trying to keep his tone neutral as he made the snap decision to not identify himself for reasons he would rather not think about.
or... little bit of homecoming, whole lot of drama
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- Part 15 of the many different career paths Bradley Bradshaw could have picked
- Part 1 of my family lives in a different state
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Bookmarked by halestrom
25 Sep 2023