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    Soap is a PhD student, doing his research in Antarctica on the behaviors and hunting habits of leopard seals. During his expedition, he becomes obsessed with a leucistic seal, who he's taken to calling Ghost.

    His attempts at tagging Ghost for tracking purposes have all failed, leaving Soap frustrated, but determined to try again. He won't stop until he gets the data he needs for his dissertation.

    At the same time, Soap is stuck in an escalating, heated flirting match with a hydroponics employee at another base. It's foolish to form romantic relationships with someone he knows will vanish from his life once their expeditions are over, but there's something fascinating about this man that he can't ignore.

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    A fun little MerMay twitter fic, adapted for easier reading on ao3!

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    11 Aug 2026

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    The Thesus’s Ship is a paradox, a thought experiment. If you replace every single part of a ship one by one until none of them are original, is it still the same ship?
    If every cell in Simon’s body has changed, is he still the child he used to be?
    Navigating through his memories, he sometimes struggles to believe they are the same, sometimes struggles to imagine they could be different in any meaningful way.

    One memory after another, retracing the journey that has led him here, he wonders what mistake the stranger he once was might have avoided. Could he do better, could he be better ?

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    28 Jul 2026

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    "LOTUS is one of those places that is always busy and is almost too happening, but Riley trusts the bartenders and most of the regulars. Knows he's safe for the most part, but what night club is 100% safe all the time anyway?! Maybe that's the real reason he keeps coming back - the undercurrent of danger looming, lurking. Fuck it — YOLO."

    Riley thinks it'll just be another night out at his favorite club - cheap liquor, sweaty dancing, and maybe some casual sex if he's lucky. However, a sexy stranger has other ideas, and the sex is anything but casual.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    UPDATE: Now fully illustrated chapters 1-6!

    In 1919, the Riley, formerly Reimann, family moves from Berlin to Manchester. After Mr. Riley leaves in the middle of the night, it’s up to his eldest son to stabilise things.

    Simon adjusts as best he can, coming of age and fighting to balance his family’s needs and expectations with his love for his newfound best friend, John MacTavish.

    In the two decades between the first and second world wars, Simon and Johnny find solace in one another.

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    09 Jul 2026

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    Fated Foes. Fated Friends? Fated to be something more…? We’ll Meet Again follows the story of two of Fate’s finer creations. Two souls, handpicked by the divine herself, to walk the Earth together until the condition that breaks the spell which binds them is met. Through many reincarnations, living more lives than they could keep track of, John and Simon loath, laugh, live, and perhaps learn to love each other.

    Fate is to blame for a lot of things. Some of them good, some of them terrible. Some see her work in the little, bothersome moments, like forgetting your umbrella on the only rainy day in June. Others believe that she walks around with a ball of red yarn and ties it between the fingers of lovers as they sleep. Fate herself would say her actions are much, much larger than simply losing your keys or the trivialities of romance.

    We’ll Meet Again provides a glance into each of these fickle lives, where the men face trials, trivialities, and the huge challenge of coming to terms with their feelings. Feelings which, at the time, could land them in some very hot water.

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    09 Jul 2026