Flyingforts

Hi, my name is Miller (she/her) and honestly I have no clue what I’m doing. Current hyperfixation: Masters of the Air

[sledgenes]

their faces when bucky started singing

meanwhile buck :

they were being such haters to bucky like let him sing don’t you know 🗣️THAT’S HIS SONG 🗣️

[stevieroqers]

so stupid but i have been laughing at this review since last night

[shipstorms]

fic

return to sender (finished)

John finds out a new side to Gale.

Part of him is tickled silly about seeing the full picture of it. Surely he'd laugh if it were anyone else; call them a dog for leaving that trail of bodies and rag on him until the end of time, but this is Gale, so that feeling gets flipped inside out, leaving John seething with the kind of jealousy on par with a physical burn. He slaps on an impish grin. "Not sure what you want me to say here, Buck. Congratulations? You wanna change your nickname to Lady-Killer?"

[swifty-fox]

In typical me fashion, I was so busy getting out the end of Salt Drops i forgot to post these beautiful art pieces I commissioned @moontashpena for a few weeks back....

our little crab fisherman,

[flyingforts]

They’re so cute!!!!!

[flyingforts]

I’m hoping putting a little bit of this story out into the void will help motivate me to write more, so here’s the first little bit of my clegan soulmate au! <3

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John fell in love in Walla Walla.

He fell in love with that split second on the runway when he pulled back on the yoke and the wheels of his B-17 left the ground for the first time. He fell in love with the shock of relief of the icy high-altitude air after spending too long taxiing the runway in the stagnant air of an enclosed cockpit.

He fell in love with a fort almost seeming to float through the air, all engines feathered.

He fell in love with messy golden hair tumbling out of the hatch and a smile as bright as the sun glinting off of metal wingtips.

So it was no surprise, really, that when Gale ran a hand across the hull of his plane gently, reverently, and said “I’m in love,” in that low awestruck croon, that his name was simultaneously etched into the pale skin of John’s wrist.

[heretoobsessstuff]

The thing w mota is that when u haven’t watched the actual series in a while you’re like wait but was it as gay as I thought? And then u rewatch it and ITS EVEN GAYER

[juneebugs]

i love when people make very specific aus based on like their own careers but when i think of one i could make im like. what would that even be. john keeps locking himself out of his dorm at night and gale works the front desk for overnight shifts ?

[flyingforts]

I’d read the hell out of this!!! Sounds like a perfect setting for John shenanigans. :)

John, bursting through the door: “so you won’t believe what happened this time-“

Gale, already getting up from his desk with the master key: “maybe you just shouldn’t get a key if you keep losing them and that means you’d see me every night instead of only once or twice a week”

[pietroabelardo]

Every time I spend just a second thinking about how much the buckies loved each other my organs start to shut down. They were literally In Love. A war was going on and the most important thing in the world was the boy in front of you.

[flyingforts]

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

[kingsofthehighway]

i love this shot i once saw someone say they look like a farm couple discovering their crops are dead

[hogans-heroes]

[hogans-heroes]

[flyingforts]

So I’m a HUGE fan of soulmate aus, and lately I’ve been thinking about one where your soulmate’s name shows up on your skin when you fall in love with them.

Which I think is fascinating, because there are so many possibilities there? Like, some people get a slow bleed of ink onto their skin, hard to make out the name, as they gradually fall in love. Some people get a white-hot sensation and striking bold ink as they fall in love all of a sudden. Some people have a mix of the two. Do the soulmarks fade when people argue with their soulmate, or when some of that early love fades? Do they fade completely if you fall out of love? So many options!!

But I’ve been thinking about the Buckies, as I do, and I think both of them would be the white-hot, all of a sudden, “oh shit I love him” kind of soulmates, but for vastly different reasons.

John’s mark shows up quickly because he falls in love hard, and he falls in love fast. And Gale’s mark would surprise the fuck out of him but also pop up fast, because he’s Repressed and Oblivious about his feelings.

… am I opening up a word doc to start writing this? Absolutely I am.

[hogans-heroes]

John really had to look at Gale on that train and realize that they both genuinely thought they were going to die in a matter of hours, had to listen to Gale admit he had actually believed John’s blustering about being the only two pilots left in the air, that he had held onto that through everything and is saying this like he almost can’t believe he believed it but can’t face the fact that it wasn’t true, that they’re going to be killed. John has to watch Gale’s face as he decides “I can’t die without telling John how much he means to me.”

[flyingforts]

So. Who gave you the right to absolutely shatter my heart like this. 🫠

[flyingforts]

Hiii welcome to the Masters of the Air fandom!! I love your idea for a firefighter au and I think you’re right about John being very VERY dog coded. It’s kinda a running joke in a lot of Mota fics actually

Aww thank you 🥺🥰 yall seem really lovely and wonderful so far!! It’s been a very warm welcome.

Hahaha I love that John dog is a universal thing! To me he’s, like, livestock guardian dog: loyal to a fault, protective, gets antsy when his people are out of his sight, feral when someone threatens his flock. But also big squishy floofy BABY with his chosen people. Just a big Great Pyrenees of a guy. I love him 🥰

[gummysharksdoingcrimes]

John’s croaky little “is Cleven’s fort still with us” is both heartbreaking because he sounds so incredibly small and scared and also objectively funny because somewhere in his panicky mind he’s like ‘it’s less suspicious if I call him by his LAST name’ as though he hasn’t been singing the ‘Buck Is In Trouble And I Must Now Go Save Buck Because I Love Buck’ overture for like seven real hours at this point

[flyingforts]

Hello! I'm new to the fandom, and Very Anxious to be posting, but I just wanted to throw this out there:

Clegan Firefighter AU, where John and his firehouse go to Wyoming and volunteer to help the local firehouse get a handle on a raging wildfire out there. Naturally, he takes One (1) look at firefighter Gale and proceeds to chase after him like a dog after a bone (John is so dog-coded it makes me insane, ok).

I'd love to hear your thoughts/headcanons! :)

[butdaddyilovehim99]

Something to propose as someone who lives here in Wyoming, Gale as a Wyoming Hotshot

Gale is born and bred for grueling hikes at higher elevations and constructing firelines, clearing vegetation and making trenches before performing control burns.

Bucky is not, spent his whole life living just above sea-level and is your average city firefighter—structure fires, car accidents, and medical emergencies.

Bucky’s fire department travels to help the Hotshots during a rough wildfire season in the Big Horn Mountains and each Hotshot gets a partner to show the ropes. Gale obviously gets paired with Bucky, grumbling something about John keeping up with him before he sets out to get to work. Bucky’s red faced, sweaty and breathing hard, but keeps up with a grin and yaps relentlessly. He’s already designated Gale as ‘Buck’ and flirting relentlessly.

Gale blames the hot weather for the flush on his cheeks.

[flyingforts]

Ok I had to look up what a hotshot was tbh but I’m OBSESSED WITH THIS!!!!! Honestly this is exactly what I was picturing, I didn’t know they were called something different!

Gale giving those noncommittal hums of his, because he knows it’ll keep Bucky yapping as they traipse through the underbrush. He tells so many hot jokes it’s not even funny (ok it’s a little funny, and weirdly charming).

[moontashpena]

I can't stop thinking about them