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   the criterion of embarrassment by seabiscuit

   Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   07 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Carol Sturka/Zosia
   • Carol Sturka
   • Zosia (Pluribus)
   • Manousos Oviedo
   • hate sex written by an author with a tender rom com heart that won’t be denied
   • cannon compliant in the way the 1978 star wars holiday christmas special is canon compliant
   • also canon compliant until szn 2 blows this away with a 12 gauge shotgun
   • instead of including a bunch of hyper specific tags i will just say
   • everything that happens between carol and hived zosia has happened
   • and it has all the implications on her relationship with real zosia that you would expect
   • Discussions of past rape/non-con
   • but it’s also a sitcom because im the one driving the bus
   • you’re just going to have to come inside and see
   • enemies to (gunshot noise
   • man screaming
   • sirens)
   • Riding the strap
   • but at what cost
   • sexual dynamics that will scare the eyebrows off your face

   Summary

   “I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”

   Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”

   “I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”

   Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.

   “Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.

   After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.

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