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Ava visits the coastal town of Suncliff Beach thinking whales will be the most magnificent sight to behold. Beatrice works at the local bookstore and believes her first love is the ocean. They are both very, very wrong.
(or, a small town AU)
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Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
27 Dec 2023
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The photo underneath the headline catches Ava's attention before she can figure out what she’s looking at. It’s a landscape shot of a lighthouse sitting atop a cliff and silhouetted against a bold sunset, its beacon lit. It looks like it’s at the end of the world, surrounded by rocks and the sea.
She frowns.
The ad is for a relief lighthouse keeper. She tentatively scrolls down to look at the duties and requirements, fully expecting to find that she’s unsuited for the job.
Except she’s kind of… perfect for it?
Unmoored, a little lost, and always impulsive, she thinks fuck it and spends the next three hours fixing her resumé, digging for her certification details, and writing an overly enthusiastic cover letter.
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- 9/9
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Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
10 Dec 2023
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for ava and beatrice, falling in love was easy.
it's everything else that was complicated.
a coffee shop au
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- 15/15
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04 Nov 2023
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Ava’s not the most skilled chef in the world and her baking skills are even less developed - but she’s learning and has expanded her ‘trusted dishes’ list to well over fifteen.
Even if Lilith tells her that five of them are only edible with egregious amounts of sauce and or salt.
Still, she’s getting better and today is a big test. Hell, today might be the most important test of her kitchen skills she’s ever had.
The last thing Ava wants to do is fuck up her daughters first birthday cake.
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a small town, slow burn au
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- Part 1 of mom!ava au
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- English
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- 9/9
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16 Oct 2023
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Ava shrugged. "But we'll never know, because he didn't let me install a ring doorbell before it happened!"
"Miss Silva." Judge Wright-Lee sighed, taking off her glasses and pinching the bridge of her nose. "I know what I said earlier about developing your answers, but sometimes less is more."
"Well, your Honor, I'm more of a more or less kind of girl." Ava responded without thinking too much.
And she could have sworn the judge twitched her lips in a smile before saying, "I've noticed."
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Or the one in which Ava gets a ticket for something she didn't do and Beatrice happens to be the judge at her trial.
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15 Oct 2023
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“I could have asked for a portrait,” Beatrice eventually confessed, voice quiet.
From the corner of her eyes, she saw Camila glancing at her. “Why didn’t you?”
“Because if I had, it would have meant that I care about what she looks like. About who she is.”
A hand settled on the crook of her elbow, and she glimpsed at Camila.
“I’m sure she’s a lovely woman,” Camila said with the softest smile.
“It doesn’t matter,” Beatrice replied. Then, after a while, she murmured, “But let’s hope so.”
She was, after all, about to spend the rest of her life with her.- Language:
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Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
01 Oct 2023
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The handshake is firm, stark because of calloused fingers.Beatrice does not know what to do then. Her plan was not to come in. Her plan was not even to eat some of the pie.
"Ava," Beatrice repeats, unknowingly building a connection in her brain that will later associate the three letters with the very sweet and decadent taste of the huckleberry and blackberry pie in Beatrice's mouth.
Ava smiles as if she were aware of it.
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It is 1983, and Beatrice’s mother is dead set against the new neighbors. Beatrice ought to disagree. Ava Silva is the perfect neighbor - to experiment with.
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Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
30 Sep 2023
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Beatrice goes head-to-head with Ava when her group of troublemakers inadvertently joins the school's play that Beatrice is set to direct.
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30 Sep 2023
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From the road, Ava could only make out their broadest features: a woman in a white tank top, her muscled shoulders tanned from the sun, an axe dangling casually in one hand. She had already placed a log in front of her, and as Ava watched she lifted the axe above her head and swung it downwards in a single fluid motion, the taut muscles of her arms working so perfectly with the axe they might have all been one. The log split easily into two, as though she were cutting through paper, and the woman picked up the two halves to place them into a neat stack nearby.
“Ah,” Schaefer said, catching the line of her gaze, “That’s Beatrice. Your new neighbor. Don’t mind her too much, she’s a little… eccentric.”
Ava liked eccentric. She also liked women who looked like they could tear her in half without too much effort. She had a feeling she was going to like Beatrice a lot.
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Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
12 Sep 2023
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“I made a list!” Ava trills.
“A list.”
“Yeah!” Oh no. Ava’s grin is wicked. “Of all the things that turn me on when I’m with a boy.”
Jesus Christ. Good thing Beatrice lowered that bottle.
“Care to explain?” she groans.
“I call it the to do list. I figured if I do all of this stuff with a girl and I get turned on, it means I’m also into girls.”- Language:
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Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
11 Sep 2023
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“You saw an angel? As in the biblically correct - multiple eyes, terrifying celestial being-”
“No!” Diego stomped his foot, this was clearly a serious matter. “The pretty girl type.”
“The pretty girl type, huh?” Ava hummed.
“Yeah, she was so nice and pretty and she had a really nice smile and… and, and…” Diego fell back dramatically on his bed, arms spread-wide as he let out a long sigh like the dashing romantic leads in Sister Gretchen’s costume dramas.
“Is she a new girl at the orphanage?” Ava inquired, imagining a girl with pig-tails and a gap in her front teeth who laughed at Diego’s jokes.
“No. She’s a nun.” Diego corrected, lifting himself up on his elbows to peer over at Ava.
“A hot, kind nun.” Ava whistled, chuckling to herself in disbelief. “It's like a double rainbow.”
Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
08 Jan 2023
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Toni Shalifoe has never shied away from being a total geek, but she wishes it didn’t make it so hard to catch Shelby Goodkind's attention.
But as it turns out, it's actually pretty easy.
AKA the Geek!Toni and SecretGeekPopularGirl!Shelby High School AU
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- Part 1 of Geeks and Freaks
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- 10/10
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22 Aug 2021
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Shelby and Becca have a longstanding tradition of betting on anything and everything, and the outcome is always the same: the loser has to complete a dare of the winner’s choosing.
Lately, a certain girl (who just happens to be exactly Shelby’s type) has had a front row seat to all the embarrassment.
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16 Jul 2021
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I don't mind you comin' here (and waisting all my time) by Ekhwanders
Fandoms: The Wilds (TV 2020)
11 Jul 2021
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Thirty year old Toni Shalifoe owns a struggling local automotive repair shop. It's a normal day at the garage until none other than Shelby Goodkind from the rivaling Goodkind's Automotive Center, saunters in.
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08 Jul 2021
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11 Jun 2021
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Toni's still recovering from a breakup with Regan when Shelby Goodkind decides to come out--by asking Toni to pose as her date and her girlfriend for her parents and their classmates.
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Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
09 Jun 2021
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Toni was seventeen years old the first time she saw a tumblr post from family-jesus-pageants.
Or: an AU where they go from enemies to lovers, not on an island, but on a dying social media and microblogging website.
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Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
30 May 2021
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After an incident with Toni’s most recent foster family, she gets placed into a new foster home:
The Goodkind Family.
Now, Toni has to live in a new town with a new family, who to Toni’s assumption, only took her in as a charity case.
Will Shelby prove her wrong?
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Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
28 May 2021
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All I ain't got is my breath (you stole it the first time we met) by Thatoneloser_kid
Fandoms: The Wilds (TV 2020)
10 May 2021
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Shelby is newly to being out and proud gay, Leah and Fatin annoyed the local bartender until she agrees to show Shelby a night of 'lesbian adventures'
Bookmarked by MotivatedPickle
11 May 2021