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The concept of suffering a separation while in the midst of the magnitude of the Joining was... disconcerting, to say the least.
Zosia had been claimed and had been discarded. But even after that, in amidst of sleepless nights soaked by whisky, Zosia was still needed – in safe doses and at safe distant – for Carol Sturka and all her contradictions.
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17 Jan 2026
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“Turn me back. Please, please, Carol. Please, I want to go back!”
Carol reaches for Zosia, then doesn’t.
“I don’t think that’s possible,” she says.
Or: One more take on deplurb’d Zosia for your reading pleasure :)
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15 Jan 2026
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Carol Sturka, a novelist and English professor, struggles with grief and isolation after the death of her wife. Upon her return to work, Carol discovers she is now forced to share her classroom with Zosia Rybak, an ESL instructor. Initially resentful, Carol learns that Zosia admires her writing and specifically requested to work with her. Time heals, and even though Carol's wounds are deep, she learns that there's something still left for her to pursue.
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- 23/?
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11 Jan 2026
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0.002% is a comfortable margin to love someone by.
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31 Dec 2025
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From the moment Rumi was born, Celine moulded her to be King of Great Joseon. Rumi was smart, athletic, and capable, nearly perfect except for one glaring deficiency—Rumi was a girl. Celine hid this secret from everyone, raising Rumi as a boy and fooling the entire kingdom into believing that their king was a man. Rumi accepted this lie, knowing that revealing her secret would cost both her and Celine their lives.
While the kingdom generally accepted their king’s more feminine facial features, the lack of a queen was something that simply could not be tolerated. At the late age of twenty-five, their king needed to be married and producing heirs and both Celine and Rumi knew that they would have to acquiesce to their courtiers' demands or face civil unrest.
Luckily, Celine has the perfect candidate in mind.
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24 Dec 2025
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She wants them.
She wants Mira and Zoey so badly, in whatever way, shape, or form that comes in.
For once in her life, Rumi wants to be selfish.
Or: HUNTR/X works towards sealing the Honmoon and falls in love along the way. Pre-reveal Rumi, hiding both her patterns and her wants, loves her girls in whatever way she can until she's free (whether that means shielding Mira and Zoey in fights or pretending to be something she's not). She just has to hold out until the Honmoon’s golden. Straightforward enough, right?
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- 10/10
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12 Dec 2025
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When you put starlight up against the purple rot of a demon’s skin, it sears. That is why beneath their blades the demons turn to ash. It is a cleansing, an exorcism—
It is the greatest kindness Rumi thinks she’ll ever be allowed, the pyre she’s born on being set alight by the two halves of her heart who no longer recognize her heartbeat as something good.
(Or, alternatively, Rumi thinks the only way to be good is to take herself out of the equation — again, and again, and again.)
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- Part 1 of happy honmoon
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- 11/11
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08 Dec 2025
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waiting like a dog at a grave (for love to return) by eyexsight
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
29 Nov 2025
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Celine’s rules have kept her alive. Celine’s rules have kept her safe and warm and loved. Celine loves her, and because she loves her, she tells her that she can’t bond with her pack, her girls. If they found out— if they found out, it would be over. Celine tells her that it would be over because they’d kill her, that they would use their weapons against her, but all Rumi hears is that it’d be over because they would stop loving her and maybe that would kill her before their blades ever could.
Rumi has always kept a tight leash on herself—until her control starts to slip.
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13 Nov 2025
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I want to die like a citrus tree (but that's not a milkweed's fate) by ILovedHerAndSometimesSheLovedMeToo
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
17 Oct 2025
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Mira and Zoey don’t know this yet (they will, one day soon, they will), but Rumi died for the first time the Monday after her eleventh birthday.
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Rumi inhaled, the rush of air filling her lungs, inflating that tiny balloon called hope trapped behind her ribs.
“I love you, Celine.”
The words tumbled out of her gracelessly, but so so sweetly. She waited, and all the while, that little balloon grew and grew, the plastic skin of it stretching and thinning with every second before—
“You too,” Celine said back.
‘Pop.’
“Celine,” Rumi tried again, voice shaking as tears she didn’t even know she still had left to shed began to drip down her left cheek. “Celine, I said I love you.”
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If demons (even half-demons) could kill themselves, there probably wouldn't be many left. Rumi doesn't know this, yet. She learns.
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15 Sep 2025
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Hermione agrees to pretend to be Andromeda Tonks’ girlfriend for a month long holiday at the Black family’s remote Chateau. Far from home in the French countryside, Hermione finds herself ill prepared to handle the strange intensity of the eldest Black sister.
Bellatrix’s suspicion of their charade keeps Hermione on her toes, wondering just why she’s so invested in the authenticity of their relationship. Is Bellatrix seeking only the truth, or is she coveting something else altogether?
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12 Sep 2025
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Furina has run out of money and asking her friends for help seems worse than death. So she decides to solve the issue on her own by becoming Arlecchino's courtesan. That is to say, Furina is accepting large sums of money in return for being Arlecchino's exclusive plaything for half a year.
Unfortunately... some feelings start to slip through the cracks of this business contract- Language:
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29 Aug 2025
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Home Is Where the Hearth Is by Smashing_Successor
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
05 Jul 2025
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“You are sure?”
The Knave has no stake in the former Archon’s choices. Regardless of what happens, the outcome, whether it may be good or ill, will not affect her. But still… to erase a life, to destroy the very essence of a person and let another one usurp their place… It feels damning, sacrilegious even. A mockery to all that was sacrificed.
So she asks, one last time, even though she knows the answer. One final attempt, to save a soul beyond saving.
The former Archon stares back at her with eyes that have long since given up on hope.
“What have I got left to lose?”
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After the trial of the Archon, Furina comes to the Knave with a desperate plea- erase 500 years of memories for a chance at the life she never had. Arlecchino agrees and suffers the consequences.
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21 Aug 2025
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I'd sooner die than bury you (grieving, grieving, constantly grieving) by ILovedHerAndSometimesSheLovedMeToo
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
17 Jul 2025
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This is what Rumi knows to be true: Zoey and Mira don’t want her.
Zoey and Mira don’t want her, and she does not want herself, and so she goes to the only other person who might.
(She always found herself jealous of euthanized dogs)
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As Zoey and Mira walk towards their impending doom, into Gwi-Ma's gaping maw, the entire world waits with bated breath for a hero. For someone to come with a song, a light in the dark, to save the day. But, no one does. And as destiny falls apart and fate screams in disapproval, the Honmoon reaches out to fix a cosmic error. Again, and again. No matter how many times it takes.
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16 Jul 2025
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lover, will you look at me now? i’m already dead to you by goldfyshie927
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
04 May 2025
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Inside, the party continues as if their hostess hasn’t abandoned them. Bass thumps in Caitlyn’s chest and she flicks the half-spent cigarette from her fingers and watches the embers fade as it falls to the sidewalk below, then explode into hundreds of tiny sparks against the concrete.
“Vi isn’t coming,” Jinx says. “Did you see her text?”
The animosity normally present in her voice is strangely absent. Instead, Jinx just sounds resigned. Caitlyn grimaces a little, wishing she had some way to cover for Vi. “I was hoping maybe she’d make it after all. It is your birthday.”
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caitlyn attempts a truce with jinx. it doesn't quite go according to plan.
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11 Jul 2025
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Six plus one, POV outsider
Six times someone realized Azula might actually like (or even love) her wife Yue. Whether she realizes that fact or not is another thing entirely.
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The very unlikely but weirdly functional arranged marriage between Princesses Yue and Azula, as told through the eyes of the unsuspecting people around them.
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- Part 1 of Daughters of Sun and Moon
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04 Jul 2025
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Shauna Shipman never asked to get caught up in Spider-Woman’s bullshit. She never asked to get stuck with this - whatever this is, that controls her body and fills her mind with so much hunger and anger and violence.
But she did, so she might as well try and deal with it.
AKA, Venom!Shauna AU
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- Part 2 of Spiderlottie AU
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- 9/9
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28 May 2025
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I feel more free than I have in years (six feet in the ground) by fowles
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
18 Oct 2023
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Without the crash, without the tragedy, Jackie and Shauna head to college separately.
A reunion told over four years.
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26 May 2025
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Jackie asked Nat, in a moment of desperation to fake-date her, not fully thinking about the kind of mess she was getting herself into.
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- Part 1 of jackienat fake dating au
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17 May 2025
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a half-step to the left by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 May 2023
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It’s not that Ellie means to stalk the couple she catches lurking in the shadows at 1 in the morning after sneaking out of her dorm because sitting in the room alone was making it hard to breathe, but fellow curfew-breakers can hardly expect privacy. All’s fair in love and rule-breaking or whatever their English teacher said in one of the rare classes when they were learning something not related to FEDRA policy.
And there’s something in the way the man holds his hand out to help pull the woman up over a crumbled brick wall that she just can’t look away from.
There’s a gentleness there despite his size and obvious strength that makes her breath catch for just a second. It’s too far for her to hear what they’re saying, but the woman says something with a little half-smile and presses her hand to the man’s shoulder, and the casual affection of the gesture fills her with a nameless want.
So, trailing them at a distance it is.
(AU in which Ellie follows Joel and Tess around and meets them with no Fireflies involved)
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- Part 1 of a half-step to the left
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- 8/8
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15 May 2025
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Shauna's dad's promotion means a chance to enroll in Wilder Academy, the prestigious New Jersey school with a stellar writing program and an Ivy League golden ticket — her obsession ever since she can remember. But fate, ever the cruel comedian, deals her a lousy hand. Her dad can afford to send only one of his children to this academic wonderland, and it sure as hell isn't Shauna.
But when her half-brother rejects the opportunity for a gig in London, Shauna concocts a daring plan to seize what she wants without her father's knowledge. All she has to do is dress and act like a guy. Doesn’t sound that hard, no biggie, right? After all, how hard can it be to act like a dude?
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Or, the JackieShauna Twelfth Night/She's The Man AU that nobody asked for but me.
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- 118,315
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31 Mar 2025