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  1. Rec 11

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    The woman walking toward her was not the Andrea she remembered.

    Or rather: she was, and she wasn't. The face was the same — the same particular warmth to it, the same mouth, slightly too wide for conventional beauty but somehow more interesting for it. But everything else had shifted. She carried herself differently. There was a straightness to her spine that hadn't been there before, a kind of settled confidence that showed not in how she held her shoulders but in how she held her ground.

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    Andrea is different now. Emily doesn't know what to do with that.

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    10 Feb 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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    05 Feb 2026

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    i’m bookmarking this before it’s been completed but wow. this is like THEE fanfic

  3. Rec 60

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    Diana feared for a moment that it would not work—that the light of her power wasn't enough, and the ice would never melt.

    But then the first splintering crack reached her ears, and a moment later the wall of it before her had cracked, shattered; pieces broke off and slid away, the ice splitting deeper and deeper, still reflecting with red-gold shimmers of light. And then, all at once, a series of gasps, ragged startled half-drawn breaths—and Lois coughed.

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    30 Jun 2023

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    well written

  4. Public Bookmark 52

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    She blushed then, worsening the heat pooling atop her cheekbones. “This is how you’re gonna take advantage of me? Feed me whiskey and tell me I’m blushing?”

    “Maybe, maybe not.” Zosia set Carol’s glass back down. “You’re very demanding.”

    “Gonna kiss me about it?”

    (gratuitous stursia mommy kink smut in celebration of ep8 canon teasing and banter)

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    23 Dec 2025

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    another startling revelation happening here

  5. Rec *

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    “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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    07 Jan 2026

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    wow just pure excellence i was grinning at this like a madman
    edit: chapt two is everything that i need for season two of yuribus im being so deadass