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a white flag waves in the dark (between my head and my heart) by ifthebookdoesntsell
Fandoms: The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021)
21 Jun 2022
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“I would advise you be on time next time for pick up. It can make it so your kid gets the wrong message.”
“Listen,” she starts, leaning forward and putting her free hand on the table. “What’s your name?”
“Alicia,” comes the reply, simple, direct, undaunted. If anything, the woman is faintly amused.
“Alright. Listen here, Alicia,” Leighton hisses. “You know nothing about me. You know nothing about my family, and don’t you dare tell me—”
“MOM!”
Leighton forces her features to brighten as her eight-year-old daughter, one Nicole Jackson-Murray, comes barreling towards her.
(Or, a single-parent au where Leighton is picking up the pieces of her life, Alicia is a teacher at her daughter's school, and they both just really need to get their shit together.)
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26 Nov 2023
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“This is going to be so much fun, Toni,” Martha says distractedly, as she scrawls down her own name. “And this means that I can properly introduce you and Shelby at auditions! You guys can now officially become friends!”
Across the cafeteria, Toni accidentally makes eye contact with Shelby, sitting at a table surrounded by other glamorous shiny girls in expensive clothes with sleek ponytails, Andrew Johnson next to her with an arm slung around her shoulders. Shelby’s expression is inscrutable, green eyes piercing, and Toni uncharacteristically is the first to break eye contact.
Yeah, right, she thinks. Friends.
What a fucking joke.
or, after an accident that results in her suspension from the basketball team, Toni’s social worker encourages her to join the all-girls school production of 'Romeo and Juliet'. There, she meets Shelby.
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- 135,221
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- 20/20
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11 Jan 2023
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Shelby just transferred to a new college, looking for a fresh start away from the girl who could have destroyed her life. Toni just got dumped by Regan and is ready to burn the world to the ground. Can the two of them hatch a plan to make their exes jealous, and can they do it without killing each other?
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Toni, breath hot on Shelby's cheek, "Well what's in it for me?"
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In the process of trying to fake date each other to make their exes jealous, Shelby and Toni form a bond that neither of them ever expected.
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- Part 1 of "angel"
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- English
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- 94,235
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- 17/17
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17 Dec 2022
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Ten years after Shelby unceremoniously broke Toni's heart and vanished from her life, a twist of fate brings them back together when Toni rescues her from a dangerous fire.
Toni swears she's moved on and doesn't want to have anything to do with Shelby again, but her heart seems to have missed the memo.
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- 35/36
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20 Oct 2022
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Leah watched as Fatin kicked the ball around, dribbling it between her feet as she weaved between cones before finally sending the ball flying into the goal. She did it with such ease, like it was nothing to her, like she’s done it a million times before. She probably has. The next girl was up, but Leah's eyes followed Fatin as she jogged off to the side of the field and grabbed her water bottle. She took a long drink from it before pouring some water over her head. Leah couldn’t take her eyes off her.
Or Fatin is the team captain of the girl's soccer team and Leah may or may not have a crush on her.
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- 14/14
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25 Sep 2022
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baby, i know places we won't be found by hedaswolf (thebaddestwolf)
Fandoms: Pitch Perfect (Movies)
02 Jan 2022
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They meet at the table read.
Beca didn’t know what Chloe Beale would be like in real life -- her years in the music industry have taught her to never take someone’s public persona at face value. No one is who they project themselves to be on social media and red carpets, least of all actors.
But Chloe Beale, Beca quickly learns, is the exception to the rule.
or, a bechloe actor au
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- 60,266
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- 11/11
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02 Mar 2022
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Chloe Beale gets the opportunity of a lifetime when Residual Heat signs "The Bellas," her all-female singing group. And the best part of the deal is that the album would be produced by none other than producer prodigy Beca Mitchell - someone Chloe's been a fan of for, like, forever. Unfortunately, as it turns out, Beca is totes a pretentious douchebag, with a chip on her shoulder and the emotional capacity of a walnut, and none of that stops her from being really hot??
Bechloe endgame, maybe an Aubrey pairing because I just can't help myself/Anna Camp is a delight. I'll try to mark M/E chapters!Bookmarked by caffeine_smalltalk
01 Mar 2022
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Shelby goes on her first date during her freshman year of high school and things only go downhill from there, but she learns a few lessons along the way. Toni watches and waits for her to figure things out.
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02 Feb 2022
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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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- English
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- 41,810
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- 10/10
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07 Dec 2021
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Toni owns a plant shop in Minnesota. Shelby can’t keep a plant alive, but something (or someone) keeps drawing her back to the store, week after week.
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02 Dec 2021
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you’ll be breaking my heart (if you don’t stay) by shelbyshlf
Fandoms: The Wilds (TV 2020)
23 Oct 2021
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Toni is an up-and-coming painter and Shelby is a biology major who walks dogs for a living.
They went to the same high school but life pulled them apart, until it brought them back together at the airport for a one-way flight to the same destination.
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24 Oct 2021
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Martha (7:12PM): just thought you’d like to know i saw toni working at the tech desk ;)
Shelby looks at the text for a long time. She should go down there. She should go down there and just look at Toni and -
And what? Hope Toni asks her out? Stand there until she does? She can’t ask Toni out herself. What if Martha was completely wrong? She’d never survive the embarrassment of that rejection.
Okay, so that plan might not work. Shelby stares at her laptop in front of her. Without even thinking, she picks up her water bottle and holds it above the keyboard.
Just as she’s about to tilt it and absolutely destroy her laptop, she thinks, “They’re not going to be able to fix that, dumbass.”
So she sets the water bottle back down.
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The one-shot where Shelby purposefully breaks her laptop so she can see that Toni girl at the campus tech desk.
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- 7,006
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- 1/1
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25 Sep 2021
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all’s well that ends well to end up with you by cobblestaubrey, hallelujah99
Fandoms: The Wilds (TV 2020)
12 Sep 2021
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“A deal is a deal, right?” Shelby’s voice was bubbly as ever, her accent not at all lost from her years in California.
“If I remember correctly, we did shake on it.”
Toni and Shelby reunite to go through with a pact they made a decade prior.
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13 Sep 2021
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can't wait for tomorrow (i might not have that long) by GetTheUhaul
Fandoms: The Wilds (TV 2020)
25 Aug 2021
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Toni's life was perfect - professional basketball player, considered a "rising star," amazing wife, money for the first time in her life - but it was interrupted abruptly by a tragic accident.
Now, Toni's trying to pick up the pieces of her nonexistent basketball career, failed marriage, and bitter outlook on life. While planning a charity Gala with her manager, Fatin Jadmani, Toni meets Shelby Goodkind, the one person who might be able to convince Toni that life is fucking incredible if you let it be.
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- 58,586
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- 19/19
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26 Aug 2021
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25 Aug 2021
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"So, neither of us has been flirting yet we’ve been getting numbers from people. I wonder what would happen if we did start flirting.”
“Are you suggesting some sort of competition?” Toni asked with a smile.
“Maybe. I know you love competition.”
Toni scoffed, “you’ve known me for three weeks.”
“And yet I see right through you. Come on, tell me I’m wrong.” Shelby nudged Toni lightly in the shoulder.
__Shelby and Toni work at a queer bookstore together and decide to have a little contest to see who's the better flirt.
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19 Jul 2021
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Leah Rilke had spent years working her way up the chain in her publishing job, she had a solid plan. That plan is thrown out the window when she finds out the girl who hit on her the day prior just so happens to be her new colleague/boss.
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A pause, then she was reaching across, hands fixing Leah’s hair as the girl blushed profusely beneath her touch. “There. You look hot as fuck, but stop ordering garlic bread. Order the aged whisky, costs a fair bit more, maybe you’ll make him sweat.”
“Noted.”
“And hey, garlic bread girl-"
“My name’s-”
“You have something in your teeth.”Mostly M but rated E for a couple chapters.
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19 Jul 2021
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i'm singing out of tune (the music is mine) by cobblestaubrey
Fandoms: The Wilds (TV 2020)
12 Jul 2021
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What could be worse than show choir?
Probably a show choir with your ex-girlfriend, the human embodiment of sunshine, and a director who's blackmailing you.
Toni's got all three.
All she wanted was to survive senior year.
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17 Jul 2021
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i want her to want me when i'm not around by cobblestaubrey
Fandoms: The Wilds (TV 2020)
30 Jun 2021
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PostScript blows up overnight in Shelby’s small town of Fort Travis. She’s edgy, contemporary, and a lesbian.
She’s the town’s definition of condemnable, but that doesn’t stop Shelby from slipping under her sheets at night and playing PostScript’s music real low, low enough her so daddy doesn’t find out.
OR, Shelby's kind of in love with a SoundCloud artist that she's certain is writing songs about her. The only issue is that she has no idea who it could be.
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01 Jul 2021
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Toni needed players for her netball team. It was just really annoying that Shelby Goodkind, the girl she’s hated ever since she came to her school, had to sign up.
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- 167,038
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- 42/42
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24 Jun 2021