Homomorphisms – Chapter 1, by RookSacrifice – Star Trek [Archive of Our Own]

“Well I do. Like what I see, I mean. You’re…” Jim tries to find the right word and suddenly understands what his xenolinguistics professor meant when she complained about how limiting it is to speak in Standard. The Vulcan has an air of familiarity about him, like walking into the kitchen back at the farm house in Iowa after a long tour in the Aldeberan system, but the house in Iowa never felt much like home. This is “Magnetic.”

“Vulcan blood is hemocyanic. I am merely exhibiting paramagnetism in the presence of your own flux,” The Vulcan says, no affect. Jim feels the corner of his lips quirking up despite himself. He’s never met a Vulcan who knew how to flirt before.

Source: Homomorphisms – Chapter 1, by RookSacrifice – Star Trek [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, BDSM, ace!Spock. Set early in Strange New Worlds, Kirk and Spock run into each other in a BDSM club during shore leave, not knowing they’ll be working the next mission together… Pain play isn’t normally my thing, but this fic is really something special. Their scene is done while melded and feels incredibly sensual and intimate – but I love the aftermath even more, when they have to deal with their surprisingly deep connection. Love, love, love their undeniable attraction as well as their discussions about chess and philosophy!

With Your Feet on the Air and Your Head on the Ground – Chapter 1, by flippyspoon – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Spock’s hand shook as he pressed his fingers to Kirk’s psi points. He had no particular plan. Just putting together a thought as coherent as “I should try a mind meld” had taken some doing. “My…mind to…your mind…” He grit his teeth. It was a bit like pushing a shuttle up a hill by himself while working quantum equations in his head. The real trick to it was putting himself in Kirk’s mind while retaining his own defenses against the psionic field. “My thoughts…to your thoughts…”

He didn’t enter Kirk’s mind, so much as fall into it. But it was chaos. He could make no sense of it; cacophonous sounds, images, memories, text, emotions, thoughts, all a tempest endlessly whirling in a void.

Source: With Your Feet on the Air and Your Head on the Ground – Chapter 1, by flippyspoon – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, SNW, post-Subspace Rhapsody. Due to an accident Kirk ends up in Spock’s mind, intimacy ensues. This is simply lovely, full of emotions, sexual tension and bonding.

All Our Tomorrows Come Today – Chapter 1, by flippyspoon – Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

Kirk opened his mouth to ask Spock what the matter was, the Vulcan’s eyes were wide and stared fixedly at Jim, who found himself unable to move and now noticed an uncomfortable heat coming from the stone, fitted between their palms and interlocking fingers.

He wanted to yank his hand back and couldn’t move. He couldn’t understand what the professor was saying, and neither could he speak.

Commander, he heard Spock say in his mind , I do not think this stone is inactive.

Not for us, apparently , Kirk thought back.

Source: All Our Tomorrows Come Today – Chapter 1, by flippyspoon – Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, canon-divergence. I must say, I simply adore SNW fics about these two, especially when they integrate so beautifully into TOS.

knocking on the door of unhappiness – Chapter 1 – MarionetteFtHJM – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

He doesn’t think he could – he knows he said he’d be Buck’s best man but… he doesn’t think he can do it. Doesn’t think he can stand at the altar and watch as Gale marries the girl of his dreams, the one he’d gone back to even though he spent more time with John than he ever has with her.

And if that’s a petty thing to think, then so be it.

               Howdy, Buck!

He starts the letter, sloppily penning it with his head in his hand, sitting on the ground at the coffee table.

How many horses does it take to make a cowboy? Is one enough? Her names Eurydice, real fancy! Hope you got my last letter, since I got no reply and all. Do I need cows to be a cowboy? I could get some, I have the land now. I think the cat in the barn is having kittens, it’s getting real busy around here. I think Peg wants to set me up with her daughter. Didn’t you say you want to go back to studying physics? Sometimes I dream about you dying and I need to know you’re alive. Say hi to the loveliest Marge for me!

Your newly-minted rancher,

Bucky.

Source: knocking on the door of unhappiness – Chapter 1 – MarionetteFtHJM – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, post-canon. Bucky is back home and trying to cope without Buck. It doesn’t go so well, in spite of a lovely horse and some new friends.

Bring Me to Life, by Alethia – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

“I want to be alone, Jack,” Robby said, short and sharp and pissy.

Fucking great. Apparently in the 45 minutes since Jack had last seen him, Robby had gone from devastation to anger. This would be fun.

“It’s nice to want things,” he drawled, deliberately light. “I wanted to walk out of Iraq on my own two feet, but hey. No plan survives contact with the enemy and all that.”

Robby turned then, looking at him over the top of the couch, face drawn, eyes dark in the low lights. “Yeah? You my enemy?”

Jack scoffed at the thought, setting the plastic bag on the bench inside the door, dropping his backpack to the floor, and then sitting down to take off the prosthetic. “Nah, man. Just a friend.”

Friend, he internally mocked. In a sense it was true, but it was also wildly insufficient.

Source: Bring Me to Life, by Alethia – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, episode tag to the season 1 finale. This is pure perfection. I’ve been thinking about Abbot following Robby home at the end – this version is full of feels and hotness, my favourite combo!

The Call of the Void, by Alethia – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

“Would it help to know I’m out here because it reminds me that I want to be alive?”

“I can think of other things for that,” Robby shot back, a little challenging.

“What, jumping out of planes? Did that, not impressed. Drugs? Not interested, even if it wouldn’t fuck with my license. Sex? You want to talk about the market for a traumatized, widowed, workaholic vet who’s down a leg? It’ll be a short conversation.”

“You’d be surprised,” Robby said, low, but the note of heat in it got Jack’s attention, finally had him turning back to look at Robby.

Source: The Call of the Void, by Alethia – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own

Adult. The first time Robby finds Abbot on the roof, he offers him an… alternative way to feel alive. Delicious!

flak-happy, fancy-free – Chapter 1, by mercess – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

Gale’s not sure who he’ll be without the war, without the Hundredth, without a B-17. But he knows he won’t be Buck without Bucky. Won’t be himself without John.

Perhaps that’s why John tried to slip away unnoticed tonight, why he came out here and tucked himself into the copilot’s seat. An attempt to sever a limb, one he knows he can’t take home with him.

Source: flak-happy, fancy-free – Chapter 1, by mercess – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, set on VE Day. Bucky disappears on Gale, and Gale doesn’t hesitate to go find him. Perfect first time fic.

my type – Chapter 1, by mercess – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

One corner of Gale’s mouth ticks upward. John wants to press his thumb to it. Gale has to know John is looking, but he doesn’t protest it, doesn’t try to stop it. He doesn’t even look back, as if content to let himself be watched.

They’ve been dancing around this for so long now that even Gale, with his two left feet, is an expert at it. He could dance it without music, upside down, and backward, and still make it look pretty. They linger and the music begins. They lock eyes and take that first step. They laugh and twirl in time, easy and free. It feels weightless. It feels like an anchor. One day, they’ll cut the chain loose and see where the wind takes them.

Source: my type – Chapter 1, by mercess – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

Adult. This fic is like a beautiful dance indeed, as Bucky and Gale decide to try some new steps on the wing of a plane (of course)…

Love Tokens, by Perpetual Motion (perpetfic) – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

The first time a replacement asks about it–because Major Cleven doesn’t seem the type to collect odds and ends–Demarco barks a laugh and buys the replacement a drink.

“It’s not Cleven’s collection. Well, it is. But it’s not.”

The replacement stares at Demarco. “Uh-huh. Clear as mud.”

Demarco sighs. “They’re all his, but he didn’t pick them, okay?”

“That’s no clearer.”

Demarco shrugs. “You’ll figure it out.”

Source: Love Tokens, by Perpetual Motion (perpetfic) – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

G, outside POV, no homophobia. This is an absolutely adorable look at Buck and his darling magpie Bucky.

A Kiss with a Fist, by Perpetual Motion (perpetfic) – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

Buck reads people, and these pilots are tired and drunk and a little pissed off because they wanted to do the jobs themselves. He can sympathize. He really can.

But it’s one thing to tease about how Bucky touches. It’s another to imply that it’s wrong somehow. Bucky’s touch is one of the few things that brings Buck a little quiet in this fucking war, and he won’t have it insulted.

So, there’s going to be a fight.

Source: A Kiss with a Fist, by Perpetual Motion (perpetfic) – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]

G, canon-divergence. So, what if Buck had taken the fight against the RAF guys? This is a short, gorgeous, slightly feral Buck POV.