18 Bookmarks by MindJester
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A Drag Path by thecouchsofa
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Dec 2025
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5 times Ilya says I love you in Russian, and the first time he says it in English.
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23 Dec 2025
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i've been the archer (i've been the prey) by londonfoglatte (nimbus2003)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
19 Dec 2025
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five times their friends realize shane might be the scary one, after all -- and one time ilya reminds the world he's only soft for shane.
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their friends – and hayden fucking pike, who, for some reason, remains shane’s best friend – are slowly realizing they can be more complex than Hollander and Rozanov. they can be Shane and Ilya, too.
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- Part 1 of hollanov 5+1
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,046
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 210
- Kudos:
- 5,064
- Bookmarks:
- 951
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- 25,356
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21 Dec 2025
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Post-MW3: Struggling to adjust to life in protective custody after Makarov's bullet, Soap grapples with his own failing memory as he hides from an enemy he can no longer remember.
The mercurial SAS officer assigned to protect him isn’t making matters any easier.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,758
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 25
- Kudos:
- 678
- Bookmarks:
- 87
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- 2,481
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30 Nov 2025
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cerulean sentinel, poised savagery by miss_vanderlinde
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
10 Dec 2023
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Attack dog (n) : a person who is very aggressive in defense or support of someone or something.
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“The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.” — Oliver Goldsmith
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His personal attack dog, shown in three perspectives; Ghost would die for him, and he’ll hurt anyone who messes with him.
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- Part 1 of ghost & soap, beloveds
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22 Nov 2025
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The Chandrasekhar Limit by Monsterlice, Spiltspit (SoUsernamesHaveThePotentialToBe40Letters)
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
16 Nov 2025
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The Chandrasekhar Limit:
The theoretical maximum mass a white dwarf star can have before it collapses under its own gravity resulting in a neutron star or a black hole."The shot that nearly took Johnny from him had been anything but silent. It'd been deafening in the close quarters, but still somehow paled in comparison to the sound Johnny's body made when it hit the ground unsupported. The shot may have been louder than the supernova, but to Simon, it had been no less devastating."
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19 Nov 2025
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When John “Soap” MacTavish leaves the city behind for a neglected farm he inherited from his late grandfather in Pelican Town, he expects soil, sweat, and a quiet life. What he doesn’t expect is to meet Simon “Ghost” Riley, a gruff, masked recluse living in the mountains. Between tending to his animals, the changing seasons, and dangerous dives into the mines, Soap’s path keeps crossing with Ghost’s. Soap came to the valley to start over, but he never imagined Ghost would be the one to take root in his heart.
[Or: The Stardew Valley AU nobody asked for, but I wrote anyway]
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18 Nov 2025
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"This is supposed to be easy. Home is supposed to be easy.” Simon pinches the bridge of his nose and shuts his eyes, refusing to even look at him. “With you, it was always easy."
The smell of the spilt takeout is cloying; it's hot in here, so hot; Johnny can't breathe.
Seven years of "mine," "yours," and "ours" comes to a head.
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14 Nov 2025
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Soap is a fucking siren, Ghost knows it, and yet he’s seemingly fated to steer his ship right into temptation, smashing himself to pieces on the rocks before he gets so much as a taste of the forbidden fruit.
The song of Ghost and Soap. Theirs is a song that always ends on a minor chord, hanging tense in the air until it dissipates into nothing.
Ghost can ignore it most days, but Simon is enraptured.
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- Part 1 of Elements of Attraction
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13 Nov 2025
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"So, ye really never take it off, then,” Soap said bluntly. He’s nursing whiskey, lamely, because while he had taken at least a few sips while sitting in this dingy bar, he’d really been more distracted with the rest of the team.
For example, his lieutenant, who gave the impression of someone who didn’t want to be looked at more than once. Unfortunately— he’d already solidified himself as Soap’s number one target of interest.
“I wasn’t lying to you,” Ghost said back, flatly.
“Aye. Just figured… if ye bought a drink,” he gestured, “surely ye’d take the thing off. Unless ye’r planning on waterboarding yerself.”
Ghost looked at him blankly, unamused as his head tilted to the side. “Have a fascination with my face, do you?”
Just with you, I’m afraid, Soap thought.
(Devotion; as defined through several recollected moments.)
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- Part 1 of pouring like an avalanche
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11 Nov 2025
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After a mission gone wrong leaves Simon “Ghost” Riley deaf in one ear and Johnny “Soap” MacTavish with a permanent leg injury, both men are forced into early retirement. Soap uses his pension to buy a crumbling house on the edge of a quiet town, determined to make something of it, even if the place looks like it should’ve come with a tetanus shot.
Ghost shows up with a duffel bag and his usual scowl, moving into the guest room to help with renovations. Between faulty wiring, leaking pipes, and a fridge that seems to growl at two a.m., the two of them fall into a new rhythm of grocery runs, hardware store trips, and late-night fixes. The banter is sharp, the silences softer than either expected, and somewhere between the broken walls and peeling paint, they begin to rebuild more than just the house.
It’s a story about finding purpose when the battlefield is gone, about healing old wounds in the comfort of shared domestic chaos, and about realizing that sometimes “home” isn’t a place, it’s each other.
(My project for my friend KettMason's Inktober 2025 Challenge, "Build a Room")
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 147,633
- Chapters:
- 33/33
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 374
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- 789
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- 191
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- 18,875
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01 Nov 2025
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Cuddling lambs is better than drinking yourself to death. But at what cost?
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29 Oct 2025
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“Simon?”
Simon slides a book into place before turning around. The man in front of him is lean, worn thin, with bags like dusky thumbprints beneath his eyes. He’s swallowed by the massive black hoodie he’s wearing, his hands wedged deep into his pockets and his shoulders hunched.
For reasons he cannot begin to understand, Simon wants to crush this man into a tiny ball and then shove him into the mouth that gapes, screaming, around his own starved heart.
He doesn’t do that, obviously. He’s on the clock.
Or: Ghost loses his memories and falls in love with his husband, again.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 31,104
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 228
- Kudos:
- 2,411
- Bookmarks:
- 630
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- 19,700
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09 Jun 2025
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Will You Halt This Eclipse In Me? by masterassassin, V0idthedevourer
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
31 May 2025
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Having survived Makarov’s bullet, Soap struggles adjusting to life as ex-service. Feeling alienated and lost, having to deal with a multitude of new challenges that make his daily life that much more difficult, he withdraws more and more, seeing no future for himself.
That is until months later, someone unexpectedly shows up at his front door.In the aftermath of Soap getting shot and his subsequent medical discharge, Ghost finds himself suddenly faced with his long-buried past, leading him to make a drastic decision.
Spinning loose, he does the only thing that feels right.—
A story about acceptance, opening up, unexpected confidants, and the long road to healing.
Written as part of the COD Big Bang 2025!
Fic by masterassassin
Art by V0idthedevourer- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 50,437
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 199
- Kudos:
- 546
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- 123
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- 8,322
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02 Jun 2025
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Simon Riley is a renowned monster hunter, a lone expert forged by years in the wilds. He knows monsters, how they move, how they kill, and how they think.
But when the beasts begin behaving unnaturally, John Price, the leader of Simon's small guild, intervenes, assigning Simon a partner whether he likes it or not.
Enter John MacTavish, talented, sharp-eyed, and infuriatingly talkative. Simon can’t deny the man’s skill, but his cocky mouth and inability to stay quiet ignite tension that threatens to boil over.
Yet with the change these monsters are going through, a change happens between Simon and John, both of them having no choice but to work closely together, unveiling secrets about the other and the pasts that haunt them.Slowburn, enemies to lovers. <3 <3
Updates on Sundays and Thursdays!- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 127,707
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 478
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- 719
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- 239
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- 21,301
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26 May 2025
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- Part 5 of PuppySoapWeek2025
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26 Apr 2025
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He wades in it now, eyes still open, fixed on the speckled ceiling, begging himself not to crave bomb blasts and artillery fire in his childhood bedroom. Although…there might be something beautiful about it all, Johnny supposes, those noises in the thick. The gasps in between discharge that say: I’m here, I’m a part of this song too.
After a near-fatal injury, John MacTavish finds himself back in his hometown in Scotland. Fresh off an untimely discharge, he's forced to cope with disability, his dysfunctional family, and the lingering knowledge that there are some things he's just not ready to leave behind...
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- Part 1 of silver and gold
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 167,708
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 3,490
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- 9,604
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- 243,431
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23 Jan 2025
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Ghost seems to have picked up a new habit involving one Soap MacTavish and his tactical vest. Maybe it starts to make Soap feel certain things.
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5 times Ghost grabbed Soap by his tactical vest and 1 time Soap grabbed Ghost.
- Language:
- English
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- 6,579
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 27
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- 3,093
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- 354
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- 21,965
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16 Jan 2025
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The Shield and the Shadow by a_platypus, Martuzzio, TrashBard
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
09 Nov 2024
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Ghost knows he's destined to spend the rest of his life going through the motions of being the sharp, shadowy knife those in power use to backstab one another. He's made peace with it. He's a professional. His newest contract, at least, seems promising. Taking down the head of the Royal Guard? A welcome challenge.
Sir John "Soap" MacTavish is far too busy to be fucking around in the frozen arse-end of Anfēowern. He's got an entire team of knights to direct, a king and a prince who are hell bent on making his life as difficult as possible, and an incoming visit from the king of a neighbouring country that will surely plunge his next few months into complete chaos. He’d love a day off. Fuck, he’d love five minutes off.
Fate must have a dark sense of humour, because Ghost and Soap are about to collide.
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- Part 1 of The Shield and the Shadow
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 93,393
- Chapters:
- 14/?
- Comments:
- 876
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- 1,857
- Bookmarks:
- 467
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- 46,215
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01 Jan 2025