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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    The BRCA2 gene will be discovered in 1995, a year after BRCA1.

    But it’s 1988, too early for any of that, too early for gene panels and prophylactic surgeries, too early for hard answers. BRCA1 hasn’t even been discovered yet, let alone its quieter, more elusive sibling. Cancer, in 1988, still feels like a curse more than a code to crack — a roll of the dice rather than a data point.

    And Maverick? He’s not thinking about any of that right now. He’s just trying to get his five-year-old into a goddamn pair of swim trunks.

     

    (Or, Maverick needs to have a double mastectomy as a twenty-eight-year-old man. He decides that no one else needs to see it).

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    16 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    “Hey, sorry but this isn’t your friend.”

    A picture came through. It was the cowboy again.

    “He paid the price of a dance for me to just text you. I’ll admit it is a little odd, but I’m not going to turn down an offer.”

    "So you’re a stripper?”

    “Dancer.”

    “An exotic one.”

    There was a pause between responses.

    “On the weekends, yes.”

    Bradley chuckled weakly.

    “And is this outfit a regular thing?”

    “That depends...You like it?”

    “I’ll admit it makes me want to save a horse.”

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    Bradley Bradshaw has a one time text conversation with a stripper cowboy he'll probably never meet in real life. Little does he know, Jake Seresin has already decided he has fallen in love and won't stop until he's in his arms (a little bit of a Cinderella story if you squint).

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    11 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 52

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    31 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 25

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    Was he just fated to lose everyone he loved? Rooster wondered as he read Mav’s diagnosis over and over, willing the words to change on the page before his eyes. Because losing another of his family to cancer would just be cruel.

    But the words didn’t change.

    And neither did Mav’s diagnosis.

     

    There was nothing that could be done.

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    29 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 17

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    An AU where Mav and Bradley talk instead of Mav going behind his back and Bradley doesn't become a naval aviator - he becomes a firefighter, working in the San Diego Fire Department since he was nineteen, and makes commercial flying into his side gig

    ignition - the first and main work of the series, based on my first tumblr post about it
    sparks - upcoming one-shot/drabble series collection post-ignition (might still be posted in separate works...)

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    29 May 2025