MOTA Collab
Collaborative group blog created to run Masters of the Air events.
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“John, darlin’,” Gale whispers into the quiet of the space between them. He doesn’t want to say it, but he forces himself. Chokes it out, “What if something happens to one of us?”
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“Listen, we don’t want trouble”, Gale says. John shakes his head, puts a hand on his arm to stop him, but Gale has already walked past him. He stands in the empty street, between John and the three men that have emerged from the shadows.
John’s heart plummets.
OR: sort of John's backstory in a Caught Stealing crossover.
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- Part 1 of Caught Stealing x MOTA
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What ain’t living (can never really die) by LogicBomb
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
06 Oct 2025
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As he stares at himself in the mirror over the sink, curly hair dripping water into his eyes, he catches a flash of a face behind him. Blue eyes and a strong jaw and - Fuck. He's losing it.
Or, John is ready to disappear, but the ghost in his house isn’t going to let him.
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Bucky's fun winter day with his friends and "the father of his child."
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- Part 10 of High School AU
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Craving affection, Gale decides to go the coffee shop where his alpha's doing a night shift.
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Then, coming as if from out of nowhere, was a white horse with the bullet wound in its side; a violent crimson spilling out onto its otherwise pristine white coat. It trotted down the road not minutes after those armoured vehicles, from the same direction, and Gale felt rooted to the spot as it suddenly stopped right in front of them.
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Or: A deeper dive into Episode 9 and Buck's survivor's guilt post-escape and Bucky's miraculous, if unexpected, return.
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02 Mar 2025
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Fic rec submitted for the MOTA 1st birthday bingo, prompt: "Post-stalag"
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John has a crush on a regular at the café where he works. When a wrong order turns into an almost tragedy, it might just be the push he needs to confess his feelings – or learn the guy's name, at least.
Coffee shop AU with a side of attempted murder
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26 Aug 2025
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Creation submitted for the 2025 MOTA A.U.gust
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He takes the final step, lifts the lantern to flood the empty station with light, and sees a man laying on his stable floor.
He’s brunette, sweating, breathing unsteadily. There’s blood wiped messily on his forehead, down his neck. Half laying, half sitting up against the stack of haybales Buck keeps at the bottom of this station, he’s got one bloody hand pressed to his right thigh, which is caked with crimson. His other hand rests wearily on the Colt that’s tucked into the waistband of his pants.
Gale’s heart jumps, he wishes suddenly that he really did have a rifle, but when the man sees that Buck’s unarmed he raises the hand slowly, in a shaky surrender.
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“You got a name?” Buck asks, in an attempt to distract.
The stranger swallows and takes a deep breath. “Bucky.”
Buck almost pauses in his work. He scoffs and shakes his head. “I’ll be damned.”
“Why’s that?”
“People call me Buck.”
Bucky huffs out a pained laugh, which quickly devolves into a groan. When he’s finished, he says, “Goddamn fate.”-
The one where stablehand Gale finds outlaw John “Bucky” Egan bleeding out in his stables.
(The sequel, seven miles out of freedom town, has been posted.)
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- Part 4 of nothing but blue skies
- Language:
- English
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- 28,215
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 372
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- 1,165
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28 Aug 2025
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Fic rec submitted for the 2025 MOTA A.U.gust
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there is so little content for them so i had to feed MYSELF! but it's okay bc I love them. enjoy my margebuckies
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- Part 9 of johnbottoms' nsfw drawings <3333
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- English
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- 3
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- 1/1
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- 15
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21 Feb 2025
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Fic rec submitted for the MOTA 1st birthday bingo, prompt: "Meme 9"
Fic rec submitted for the 2025 MOTA Advent -
I Fall to Pieces When I’m with You by oopsiedaisiesbaby
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
22 Oct 2024
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Thursday at 9:15.
A last desperate attempt to fix the building tension between them that only continued to grow as the weeks passed and they drifted further and further apart.
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- Part 6 of Kiss Me in the D-A-R-K
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28 Aug 2025
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Fic rec submitted for the 2025 MOTA A.U.gust