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[peaktotheocean]

pride - hangster

@topgundrabble

"You are still covered in glitter," Javy tells him as Jake flops into his seat.

“My best friend”—

“One of your best friends,” Javy corrects.

“One of my best friends,” Jake allows, “Is a drag performer at Wreckers.”

He delights in the confusion & dropped jaws from the Daggers who have heard of it.

"Please tell me you've tried on her heels," Nat asks eagerly.

“Of course I have. We’re the same size," Jake tells her. “She says I don’t have the legs for it which is horseshit. My calves are stunning. Right, Bradshaw?"

"I..."

"Close your mouth. You're catching flies."

[peaktotheocean]

#7 please and thank you! 🫂

🌻💛🌻

everybody wants #7 😭😭 just gonna have to write more

"Bradley, I know it's hard to wrap your head around but take it from someone who was in the foster care system."

Mav pauses to sigh and it's rare that Bradley really sees Mav's age, but something about this week really seems to have hit home.

"Sometimes, you're let down so many times, that you need to keep the idea of a pipe dream. Because if you're let down just one more time, it'll be the last. It's about keeping yourself safe and if this is the only way that Jake can do that, then so be it."

"You don't want him to come back?"

"Of course I do, Jesus," Mav assures him. "But that's not up to us. I'd rather him keep himself safe, even if that means from us."

[peaktotheocean]

Can I get a snippet from #7 of the ice is Jake’s dad fics???

Hope you’re having a good week ☀️

☀️☀️☀️☀️ a snippet from this same story asked about here. icemav with jake just hoping to find his family

"At least I know now, you know?" Jake says in such a sickeningly earnest way, like he's saying what he believes with his whole broken heart right here at this bar. "There's no wondering if he's going to pretend to like me just cause I'm his kid."

Beau’s own heart sinks as Jake's words piece together a picture.

"He hates me! And that's even without knowing that I'm his son. So I know now. And that's okay. I'll just never see him again and it'll be fine. He doesn’t have to know!”

It sounds like it won't be fine at all, but Beau isn't about to say that to Jake.

"I'll be your dad," he says instead for some reason. He thinks that his husband might kill him.

"You don't like me either," Jake points out, like it's just a known fact.

"That's not true."

What’s truer is that Beau has never really thought about Jake Seresin at all outside the context of the United States Navy, but now it is all he can do.

"You just met me out of uniform for the first time. You don't know me enough to not like me," Jake assures him, tipsy yet serious. "Trust me."

[peaktotheocean]

Number 7 please! Whatever it is😂 I love all of your fics with this concept so I'm hyped you have so many coming

hi!! oh boy, this one is a dooooozy and i got asked for it twice so these two asks def go together. icemav, with jake just trying to find a family

"Ice was too harsh to one of my lieutenants and he fucking flew the coop," Mav complains to Slider over the phone.

"I was being proactive, Mav," Ice calls from the kitchen table, where he is already annoyed with the crossword puzzle.

"We were bonding over foster care. He wasn't trying to get into my pants, you old coot."

"It's not your khakis I'm worried about."

"Hangman gets his promotions by himself. Come on now."

"I can admit that perhaps I overreacted, but he and Bradley also got into a fistfight during your training."

"They apologized to each other and settled it. They were really coming around to each other too before you scared him off!"

"If he can be that easily scared off..." Ice keeps going, but Mav doesn't hear the rest of it. Because his husband makes a good point, even if that isn't his original intent. Mav has never seen Hangman spooked like that. Ever. Maybe they're missing something.

[peaktotheocean]

OOOOOH OOOH. number.... THREE please for your wips :)

number 3! featuring zookeeper jake who soured on the navy when mav pulled his brother's papers and it almost destroyed their family, but everyone is cool now. icemav and probably jake/bob

“Actually, let me get a photo of this," Nat insists, not caring that they are at the zoo and Jake is technically working. "Two brothers, different khakis.”

“They don’t let you wear shorts?” Jake examines Bradley's pressed trousers, perhaps a bit wrinkly now from transport.

“Bare thighs in the Navy would have really wreaked havoc on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”

"And the communal showers didn't?"

They both look at their pops, but Mav just shrugs with a smirk that Jake refuses to think about. He's heard enough stories Mav and Dad from Uncle Slider to scar him for life.

“I’m shocked that you’re allowed to wear shorts. Don’t you have to deal with animal diseases or whatever?”

“Ew, Bradley. I have long pants if I need them.”

“Ew me? Ew you.”

“Boys, we’ve been stateside for a whole twenty minutes," Mav sighs loudly. "Bradley, you’re still in uniform and representing the US Navy, and Jake, you’re at work. Let’s not get in a slap fight.”

"Mean, all of you," Jake grumbles. "Just for that, we're visiting Bobby's favorite animal first."

“Penguins?” Bob perks up.

[peaktotheocean]

WIP WEDNESDAY

tagged by @tgmsunmontue & @sonnywrites

this is an unedited snippet from my Sweet Home Alabama Hangster AU where bradley & jake married young, jake never joined the navy, but mav still pulled bradley's papers

"I'm not dating anyone. I took our vows seriously just like you," Bradley insists, but it sounds desperate even to his own ears. "To have and to hold. In sickness and health," Jake says aloud, just to remind Bradley that he's actually been doing none of it. "I just needed you to know, that’s all,” Bradley grumbles. "You sent divorce papers express. First class mail. What was I supposed to think?" "You thought that I had found someone else,” Bradley realizes. "Figured you needed to get divorced in order to marry them." Jake shrugs and he is no longer making eye contact with Bradley. He's looking off at the barn like all he wants to do is go back and bury himself in his sheet metal creations. "There's only ever been you." It's too sincere but it gets Bradley a real reaction Jake flushes and then seems to be furious with himself for doing so "I got selected for a mission. One that I might not come back from. I was…" "Tying up loose ends," Jake guesses. "Don't say it like that."

i don't have a WIP list anywhere but i do have EIGHT wips where ice is jake's dad so gimme a number from 1 to 8 and i will give you a snippet in addition to writing more of those fics

tagging to show me them wip snippets please @prollybradshaw @green-socks @halestrom @hangmanbradshaw @starry-graves @mxrcusflint @texasteaparty @jakekernerkazansky @seekstrivefind @topgunidiot @flyingfightingfishy @caystar13star @the-ace-with-spades @stars-of-nixie @rainbowsuitcase @no-bread and also if you are reading this and i did not tag you, you are now tagged. sorry i do not make the rules

[tgmsunmontue]

The BEST part of my Thursday and Friday is getting to read WIP snippets and going absolutely FERAL over them. I want to shake my monitor (and the writers) because they're all so freaking GOOD.

[havinganormalone]

Fanfiction is insane. You can write porn so good you make friends.

[peaktotheocean]

A couple days late but for WIP Wednesday, I'd like to ask for "the big slider/ice, jake/bobby, bradley/therapy fic"

ofc!! <3<3 i think the only other context needed for this snippet is that the slider is jake's dad and jake & bradley are both in high school

"Damn. I liked this school," Jake tells Bradley by way of Uncle Ice’s living room ceiling. "What makes you think we're moving?" "I normally get sent to Uncle Leo's during deployments if no one else is around,” Jake says as though it’s a foregone conclusion and he should just start packing his things. It was a nice summer with everyone around, but the unexpected orders means the adults were no doubt in Uncle Ice’s office talking logistics. "Oh, the ranch. Mom and I only ever went there for summer vacations." Jake is quiet, not wanting to interrupt whatever memory of Carole Bradshaw is going through Bradley's head. This is the first time Bradley is really at the whim of the Navy just like him and Jake isn't sure he's realized it before right now.

[peaktotheocean]

So torn about asking between Ice gets custody of Bradley and the sequel for Bradley, nee Seresin. So, how about you decide which one you'd like to talk about!

hmm how about some ice & bradley <3<3

"Do you think Uncle Mav is gonna call this week?" "Honestly, sweetheart, I'm not sure where he is." Bradley just hums and leans against Ice's side, watching as he flips their burgers in the frying pan. Sometimes, it's so easy to show affection to Bradley that Ice has to force himself to stop thinking of the coldness of his own father so just he can get dinner finished. Bradley would never think twice against invading Ice’s personal space, regardless of if he’s cooking or on the couch. He's not scared to go to the school nurse with a stomach ache because Ice has shown him time and time again that he's the most important part of Ice's life. He won't be left in the nurse's office and forced to take the bus home while hugging a bucket. No, Ice will get the call, cancel his afternoon, and get to the school within a half hour. It's a privilege to do so, in more ways than one.

[peaktotheocean]

Ooo I can get a snippet for Bradshaw né seresin sequel??? I’ve been obsessed with the first fic since I first read it!!! Hope you’re having a good week friend!!! ❤️❤️

hi!!! yes of COURSE <3<3

"We can make copies of whatever you want,” Mav promises, watching Bradley use his phone to take a picture of the one photograph that has Carole and Nick side-by-side, with a happy toddler content to lounge in Carole’s lap. "I know, but I just wanted to send this one to Jake." Bradley tilts his phone so Mav can see Jake's immediate response of "BABY BRADLEY!!!" "Oh, he's head over heels for you, kid." "Feeling is mutual,” Bradley assures him, looking at his phone screen for longer than he needs to. "He is going to be thrilled. No one ever believes him when he tells them I used to be blond. He always likes to say that we used to match."

[peaktotheocean]

WIP Wednesday!

tagged by @tgmsunmontue

I have really been running through some WIPs this week so here are the options for snippets & nudging me to add another few hundred words

sequel to bradshaw né seresin

the pitt- robby leaves, jack follows

ice gets custody of bradley instead of mav

the big slider/ice, jake/bobby, bradley/therapy fic

the icemav lost polaroids fic

no pressure tagging, but also i wanna see your WIPs if you got 'em 👀 @jakekernerkazansky @mxrcusflint @hangmanbradshaw @roosterseresin @icemav86 @sonnywrites @starry-graves @doodledraw @prollybradshaw @stars-of-nixie

[angel-of-the-lorde]

how it feels to enjoy multiple contradictory headcanons for a character

[peaktotheocean]

WIP Wednesday

tagged by @tgmsunmontue <3

this is from one of my many ice-as-jake's-dad AUs

Bradley took a breath, just long enough for Jake to start ignoring him. "Jake. You look good." Jake didn’t answer him right away, but that was mostly due to three long screws he now had trapped between his lips on the right hand side of his mouth “Drop them,” Bradley commanded, used to this from Jake. This was how the guy ended up swallowing a steel nut. He had bought him one of those magnet tool bracelets for Christmas one year but Bradley was willing to bet that it’s still in Jake’s own tool box back at home. He held out his hand and the three screws dropped neatly into his palm

i feel like surely everyone has been tagged so far but if NOT, IF YOU ARE READING THIS AND HAVE NOT BEEN TAGGED. consider yourself tagged. lemme read the cute WIP snippets please!!

[doodledraw]

surprise surprise, your local sports au enthusiast is back with ANOTHER sports au......this time tennis icemav, brought to you in partnership with @topgunbigbang and @peaktotheocean who blessedly wrote a banger of a fic to accompany my unhinged sketch!!

Please go read the fic!!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[topgunbigbang]

Artist: @doodledraw Author: @peaktotheocean Title: a year on the circuit

"What do you really want?" Tom asks, a hair too desperate than he intended. "To be friends." Pete says it so slowly, as if he’s explaining the concept for someone who has never heard it before. "Why?" The word breaks out of Tom like it’s trying to escape before he shuts it away. "Because otherwise the whole circuit is going to be miserable,” Pete says fiercely. His expression, Tom is horrified to realize, is his determined game face, the same one Pete wears on the court. Tom thinks that it might be match point in Pete’s favor and he hadn’t even realized they were playing. “This sport can tear people down. I refuse to be one of them.”

It’s Pete’s first year on the circuit and he’s determined to keep his head above water. Far too many people worked together to get him here and he’s not about to let them down.

Tom has no interest in making friends, but that won’t stop Pete.

or,

70 tournaments, 23 countries, 2 men, one NES console, and all the short shorts that the 1980s have to offer

see the full art and read the fic on ao3!

[noicouldnevergiveyoupeace]

do yall ever wonder what you’re best known for in the fandom ?