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1945. The war is over. As London starts to rebuild itself, Hester and John have to grapple with the question: can love borne from war survive peace?
Sequel to 'In This Morning Search for Meaning'.
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- Part 2 of Don't Let the Shadows Hold Back the Dawn
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In This Morning Search For Meaning by OutdoorGirl
Fandoms: Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical - SpitLip
06 Jan 2026
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John Bevan and Hester Leggatt have worked together for a long time. A series of vignettes from 1937 until the end of Mincemeat and beyond.
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- Part 1 of Don't Let the Shadows Hold Back the Dawn
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Ewen Montagu is the bluster of icy wind and all the hard lines of winter’s rigidity. He is the unstoppable force of spring’s rebirth. He is the irreverent freedom of summer’s dappled sunlight. He is the warm hearth of an autumn evening, waiting for Charles to find his way home.
Or: Charles watches Monty over the course of a year.
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Jean has always had a complicated relationship with tea.
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Don't Let the Shadows Hold Back the Dawn by OutdoorGirl
Fandom Operation Mincemeat - SpitLip, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical - SpitLip
15 Feb 2026
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John and Hester's love story over a decade of war and peace, told through an encyclopaedia of smiles, an army of gentle, gangly ghosts, and many, many cups of tea.
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Charles Cholmondeley is well acquainted with things going wrong. He understands the mechanics of misfortune, the way small problems clump together one by one by one until they reach some critical mass and short-circuit the brain.
Fascinating stuff. Or it would be, were he not in complete and total hell over the fluorescent lights in the MI5 basement.
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20 Jan 2026
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If it's up, it's up as one. by nimara
Fandoms: Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical - SpitLip
07 Jun 2025
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“Lights! Cameras! And we are live in three, two, one…”
The light on top of the camera drone turned to green and Monty plastered his most charming smile on his face.
With the annual reaping planned the next day, Ewen Montagu, Victor of the 67th Hunger Games, has to play the Capitol's game to perfection. Not knowing that a simple slip of paper in a bowl was about to turn his world upside down.
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21 Sep 2025
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descend to brightness underground by LailaLiquorice
Fandom Operation Mincemeat - SpitLip, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical - SpitLip
12 Feb 2026
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Cold rain and fog on the top abound, Descend to brightness underground
[aka, britain's brightest minds in that disgusting basement air]
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13 Sep 2025
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Hissing Hatred and Healing Hearts by normalisoverrated
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021)
03 Nov 2025
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America wasn't like the sitcoms Wanda watched as a child. There were no laugh tracks, falling was painful not slapstick, everything didn’t come out OK after 20 minutes, and the guy in the hospital didn’t go home at the end of the episode. If the Avengers were one big, happy family, then Wanda wasn’t a part of it.
Steve and Sam didn’t trust her and they were right to. Natasha was perfectly professional, as if Wanda hadn’t locked her into her worst memory and walked away. Clint had to return to his family and the other boys were rarely around. And Pietro, the life always sprinting parallel to her own, as crucial as oxygen, lay unnaturally still and silent, his mind closed off.
And then, one day, Natasha brought her daughter to work. And for the first time in four weeks, Wanda felt hopeful. Wanda was good with kids. Really good. And the others adored Steffie. Maybe if the kid warmed up to Wanda, the others would too.
… That wasn't precisely what happened.
Or how Wanda and Steffie hate each other until they don’t, and their sharp edges cut until they stitch.
(Can be read without reading the previous fics in the series, but you'll miss some of the context and humour.)
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19 Jul 2025
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Status: Post-Intercept by SheMadeHotFood
Fandoms: The Martian - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015)
17 Feb 2026
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Mission Specialist Mark Watney, DOB 10/8/1996, was retrieved via EVA at 15:47 UTC, after 549 SOLs stranded on Mars with limited access to food and water for bathing and hygiene. Patient under significant amounts of physical and psychological stress.
Vital signs: BP 85/58, HR 113bpm, Body temperature 99.7F, O2 saturation: 97% on room air.
Level of consciousness: Alert and oriented to self, time, and place.
Appearance: Sweaty, emaciated, covered in dirt. Smiling.--
A series of emails, memos, press releases, and medical records detailing the journey home from Mars with all 6 members of the crew safely aboard.
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19 Jul 2025