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Three days since she climbed out of a helicopter on her front lawn, grabbed a handle of whiskey, and crawled into bed. Three days since she started drinking until she lost consciousness, only to wake up and do it all over again. And again. She doesn’t remember much beyond retching over the toilet in the dark, cool porcelain pressed into her cheek, fingers opening and closing around empty air.
Three days, during which it occurs to her that she hasn’t heard from Manousos at all.
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post-s1. our reluctant heroes, in and around saving the world.
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08 May 2026
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Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person by bladeruiner
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
08 May 2026
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Two years after the Unjoining, she saw Zosia in London, of all places – nearly unrecognizable in her winter attire – bundled up to her nose. But Carol felt her presence like a sawed-off shotgun wound to her stomach. The sight of her eyes peeking over the edge of her scarf, sparkling with mirth as she shouldered the woman she was walking with –
Well, it was fucking devastating.
‘Who is Carol?’ Spray-painted in canary yellow, stood out against the rain-darkened concrete of the building across the street from The Ritz where Carol was staying.
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06 May 2026
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Helen convinces Carol to have a baby. Maybe she shouldn't have.
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06 May 2026
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A League Of Their Own AU
Carol Sturka is the Rockford Peaches' best pitcher. Zosia Bartoś is the catcher from the Belles who took her championship in September. "The Polish Wall" is traded to the Peaches next season, and Carol has thoughts about it.
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- Part 2 of Close Quarters
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06 May 2026
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Myosotis: (/ˌmaɪəˈsoʊtɪs/), genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, colloquially known as forget-me-nots.
Two love stories give rise to another.
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30 Apr 2026
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An Orchid Of One's Own by taweretsdagger for obsessivedaydreamer
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
16 Apr 2026
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When Helen tags along with her client on a writer's retreat, she thinks fabricating her own writing chops will be the biggest challenge the trip has to offer. But the setting reminds Carol a little too starkly of things she'd rather not remember, and more than anything Helen is determined to protect her from them all.
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22 Apr 2026
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Mystery Work
Part of Working on
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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20 Apr 2026
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Novelist Carol Sturka is still grieving the loss of her beloved wife when the management at her publishing house force her to work with a new manager on her Europe/UK book tour after the disaster that was her US tour.
Shenanigans ensue.
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“You call being forcefully escorted out of an establishment after engaging in a physical altercation with a member of the public an incident?”
Carol winced.
“Is arriving late to most of your events and then refusing to sign a paying customer’s copy because she has ‘a weird energy’ an incident? Is—”
“I get the idea,” Carol interrupted. “Can you just?” Her hand facing downwards, she gestured for him to calm down and sit down. Her palm had left a sweaty impression on the ridiculous table. She collapsed back into the chair and let out a heavy sigh.
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20 Apr 2026
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Twenty eight year old Carol Sturka is an aspiring author, presently working a temp position at Brooks & Bennet Law Offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She's also a self-proclaimed misanthrope, insulted by romance, holding firm in her assertion that to need another person is weakness, and to want them is even worse. So, literally running face first into the most gorgeous woman she's ever seen is maybe the worst case scenario. It's about to be her lucky day.
Helen Umstead is being careful. She understands all too well what it is to have your life feel completely out of your control, and she isn't about to let it happen again. She finally has a real job, with room for forward momentum, and her own apartment. She can manage the subtle chaos of daily life, and she feels stable for the first time ever. So, that restlessness nagging at her from the pit of her stomach, waking her up at all hours of the night, really isn't helpful. The monotony is what's best for her, or at least that's what she tells herself. Getting involved with the whirlwind that is Carol Sturka is a risk. A big one. And she just might have to take it.
TLDR: Baby sturstead desperately tries not to fall in love (three guesses how that turns out)
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20 Apr 2026
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Zosia Kowalski has been hired by conservative and religious Carol Sturka to organize her weeding. Both need to pick the apple.
A what if Carol had believed all the lies of Camp Freedom Falls and she meets Zosia years later...
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20 Apr 2026
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Carol finds it in the third week of living alone with an unhived Zosia: a New York Times article, “To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This.” An intimacy experiment involving thirty-six increasingly personal questions and, at the end of it, four uninterrupted minutes of eye contact, which sounds fake and humiliating and somehow still not bad enough to stop her.
Carol, obviously, prints it out.
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20 Apr 2026
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Carol, thinks Helen, taking another long drag, is like cold water, shocking to even consider approaching, let alone dipping your feet in, but Helen feels its pull, feels herself wanting to wade in, and finds herself asking, rather leadingly, “So… why are you here?”
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Baby Sturstead in the 1990s because I couldn't stop thinking about them
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19 Apr 2026
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After the death of her wife, nihilistic and closeted romance author Carol Sturka descends into a stupor of drunken depression which is only compounded when her fanbase finds out she’s a lesbian and erupts in outrage and deems her disingenuous. Her publicist has the perfect solution to rebuild Carol's public image and free her from the "romance slop" genre forever, but Carol isn't going to like it.
She's right. Carol hates it.
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19 Apr 2026
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Online, a friendship blossoms between two anonymous women.
In real life, an author and editor enter a contentious relationship that only sours more by the day.
The Sturstead answer to "what if beloved oomf hated celebrity you?"
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15 Apr 2026
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A collection of one-shots,
usually one day per chapter, in no particular order,
following Carol and Helen through twenty-seven years of banter, bad decisions, quiet mornings, frozen eggs, loud fights, ice hotels in Norway,
and the particular intimacy of two people who know each other so well that silence is its own conversation.***********
Summary for Chapter 3 | The Bavarian Alps | Rating: G
Carol has already made her peace with two weeks of hiking and Helen's relentless optimism about the Alps. What she has not made her peace with (and what Helen's limited German failed to warn her about), is the fact that their final campsite permits a dress code best described as “optional”.
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04 Apr 2026
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Holly and Kitty have been seeing each other for a few weeks — still new, still figuring each other out, still occasionally getting it wrong.
So when Holly phrases something badly and Kitty reads it through the lens of all her deepest insecurities, a small misunderstanding turns into something much bigger than it should.
What follows is a spiral of doubt, distance, and the things that go unsaid when two people are convinced they already know the worst.
This fic can absolutely be read as a stand-alone, even if you haven’t read the rest of the series. Especially if you enjoy a nice big helping of angst 😭😈
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- Part 5 of Kitty/Holly Moments
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02 Apr 2026
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Project Hail Mary AU.
OR: A novelist, a paranoid engineer, and an amnesiac pilot are humanity's last hope for saving the sun from an alien organism Carol accidentally invented in a romance novel.
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28 Mar 2026
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On the desk, next to the ash-filled saucer, the packet of cigarettes waits. The plastic wrapper is crushed at the bottom end, catching the light, but she doesn’t smoke anymore.
Not unless she’s with him.
Post-canon slow burn.
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27 Mar 2026
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i like my girls just like i like my honey (sweet, a little selfish) by nutmeg101
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
03 May 2026
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Enemies to lovers detective AU.
All you need to know is that Detective Carol Sturka is a little sad, a little sarcastic, and a little horny.
And Lieutenant Zosia Nowak is rude and hot.
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“Are you always this insufferable?”
Zosia’s eyes widen almost indiscernibly.
“Careful, Detective,” she says lowly, taking a deliberate step forward. She places her hand on the metal bar next to Carol’s and their fingers brush together. Neither of them pulls away. She tilts her head down ever so slightly. “That almost sounds like a compliment.”
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25 Mar 2026
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Carol Sturka is a fifty-three-year-old best-selling fantasy author who secretly hates the story that made her famous.
She is also a widow.The world knew Helen Umstead as her manager. Carol knew her as her partner of twenty years.
On her first European tour without her, Carol boards the ÖBB Nightjet from Amsterdam to Vienna with a deluxe sleeper cabin still booked for two and no interest in speaking to strangers.
Zosia Wyspiańska is thirty-nine, a cultural anthropologist who studies intimacy, identity, and the way people perform love in public. She boards in Münster. She recognizes Carol immediately. She is not a fan. She is curious.
What follows is a two-month book tour across Europe, a slow collapse of control, and a love story Carol once believed she had already lived.
Slow burn. Grief. Mutual tension. Very explicit.
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25 Mar 2026