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  1. Rec 64

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    Evan Buckley was truly fucked. One week after leaving the only home he’d ever known—his parents’ house—Ground Zero hit, and the world went to hell. Eight months later, he’s still searching for his sister Maddie in Los Angeles, armed only with a tear-stained note: “I’m leaving Doug. I’m going to Los Angeles.”

    When Buck finally tracks her to Safe Zone 118, he realizes that maybe having a family—and surviving alongside people who actually care—isn’t so bad.

    At 118, firefighter Eddie Diaz, a single dad, turned his fire station into a refuge with his team when Ground Zero struck. Just trying to keep his kids safe, he’s thrown for a loop when a stranger shows up claiming to be Maddie’s brother. Buck is skilled, prepared, and oddly magnetic—forcing Eddie to question everything he thought he knew about survival, trust, and maybe even… something more.

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    21 Feb 2026

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    Jake learned early that silence meant survival. Left behind in the foster care system after his brother was adopted, his childhood became an excercise of endurance, of violence, of illness, of being forgotten. The Marines offered him structure without questions, and when it took everything it could from him, it discarded him just as easily. By the time Pandora entered his life, Jake had already learned not to hope, only to last.

    Pandora was never meant to be home. It was meant to be an escape: a borrowed body, borrowed freedom, borrowed air. But as Jake is drawn into the Omatikaya, and into the orbit of Tsu’tey, he begins to realize that freedom is not the absence of pain, but the courage to be seen despite it. And for the first time, Jake must decide whether survival is enough, or if he is willing to risk everything to belong.

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    Previously called: From the Ashes

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    06 Feb 2026

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    The AU where both Sully brothers end up on Pandora, but the rules of biology and society aren't the same for everyone. The Na'vi have secondary genders, and because Avatars are grown on Na'vi DNA, Avatars do too. Humans don't.

    Jake has no context for any of it.

    And then it gets worse: a Na'vi warrior mistakes Jake for his twin brother. So he ends up trapped in the middle of a strange community, while the one person who could clear it up isn't there to do it.

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    05 Feb 2026

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    Jake and Tommy have always been closer then most siblings, even with them being twins. Words like 'codependency' and 'trauma bonded' were tossed around a lot by the shrink they'd been forced to see when they'd been swept up into foster care. Jake didn't really give a crap what they called it; Tommy was the only thing in the world - any world - that was his. He'd do anything for Tommy. He was just lucky that Tommy felt the same way and sprung for him to be placed on the Pandora team as a security officer. Jake was more than willing to go; watching Tommy's back would never be a trial for him.

    He just wasn't expecting to find the only Alpha scent that had ever appealed to him to be wrapped up in bright blue skin.

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    31 Jan 2026

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    Jake and Tommy make it to Pandora just in time for everything to change. For friends and love to be had, and friends and family to be lost. Where a boy who has never belonged will find a family that will never let him go, and a place to call his home.

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    31 Jan 2026