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What happens when two women, accustomed to grand narratives, choose to cultivate a love that's stubbornly, beautifully ordinary? Lena Luthor and Kara Danvers learn to live in the "present," crafting their own grammar of taps and shared vulnerabilities, defying the myths a city tries to make of their happiness. Their personal "audits," the tender and humorous negotiations of boundaries, and the profound realization that true connection is found in the quiet, honest moments they build together.
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- Part 6 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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Kara's new golden retriever onesie has a tail that constitutes a "public hazard." Lena, armed with a pair of cat ears and the precision of a CEO, just wants to survive the night with the candy bowl's symmetry intact.
Between managing a "hostile takeover" of the candy supply, a disastrous pumpkin R&D failure, and one very discerning astronaut, they discover that their domestic ballet has room for both silliness and something much, much steadier.
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Lena Luthor and Kara Danvers try to be sensible: rules in daylight, coffee as a truce, clean exits, no mythmaking. The city turns into a laboratory for consent and restraint—museum cafés, sidewalks, borrowed hours—until boundaries start meaning more than distance. Tell the truth without spectacle and let hope learn to live at noon.
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Lena Luthor finally crosses the ocean; Kara Danvers meets her in daylight. Rules, coffee, consent, borrowed hours—slow-burn honesty over spectacle, and a hope that shows up at noon.
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- Part 5 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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After a year of silence, Ghostlight flickers back on. Kara Danvers has turned heartbreak into art—her new column, The Ghosts That Haunt Us, sets the internet (and one particular philosopher) on fire. Lena Luthor reads it, realizes subtlety is a scam, and hits send on a text that rewrites both their lives.
Across cities and time zones, old ghosts start talking again: late-night messages, cross-continental flights, and the unbearable question of whether love can survive the versions of ourselves we became apart. There’s guilt, glamour, champagne, and catastrophic yearning.
In other words: Kara’s writing essays about ghosts, Lena’s busy becoming one, and neither of them is handling it well.
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- Part 4 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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After a year of yearning, Kara Danvers finally sits down and writes the column that has been haunting her life in National City.
It’s all about yearning, glitter, ghosts, and sequins—perfectly fitting for a spread in CatCo magazine.
And perhaps, beneath the prose, there’s a whisper of the name of a certain woman with ravishing green eyes and impeccable posture.
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The column that Kara writes at the end of the second part of this series.
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- Part 3 of The Ghosts That Haunt Us
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Lena Luthor doesn't plan to have any kids. Or to get married, even, really. After the revelation that she is actually of Luthor blood after all, she's quite set on ending the family line with her and not taking the risk of any more drama.
Then Lorelai L. Danvers crashes into her life, claiming to be her seventeen year old daughter from the future.
(picking up after 2x12)
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- Part 1 of The Adventures of Lorelai L. Danvers
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If her life had been a book, she would have figured this out years ago. Long before the lines appear around the corners of her eyes and the silver sets into Killian’s hair.
But life isn’t a story, no matter what her eldest child thinks, and it doesn’t happen that way.
No lightening falling from the sky.
Instead, realization comes in waves; gentle at first, until it picks up in intensity.
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20 Jul 2022
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I do not longer wish to have this thing in my heart called a heart PLEASD. God this is so beautiful 😭😭
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you say swallow the fire, i'll choke it down. by MoonlightViolet
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
23 May 2022
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Regina's eyes flash as she adds, with bite this time, “I don’t do well with orders.”
With that, she pushes past Emma completely and makes for the exit. She’s leaving without even telling Emma what she’d come for, and Emma’s so wrapped up in that fact that she almost misses the best part of it all.
Something sharp and urgent blips in her chest, just below her ribs, and it’s not until the door is thudding shut behind Regina that Emma realizes what it is.
Her superpower.
Her lie detector, flashing red, clear as day.
Emma can work with that.--
absolutely shameless, filthy smut.
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12 Jul 2022