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    Van Palmer's in her forties, come home again to take care of her ailing mother and get her video store off the ground. Taissa Turner's in her forties, fresh off a divorce and a failed Senate bid, in need of a low-stakes job. Neither have seen the other in twenty-five years, but old habits--and first loves--have a way of coming back to claim you when least expected.

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    A year in the life of a friends-with-benefits arrangement that will certainly not spiral out of control.

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    05 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    summer vibes, closed eyes, sweating, sharing, sunshine - carabiners, cowboys, and crushes

    a trio of modern AUs: one time they were already in love, twice meeting for the first time – many facets of jesslupe <3

    for the jesslupe pride sprint 2024

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    19 Jul 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    They meet every month in the basement of an abandoned warehouse, where the only lighting comes from flickering bulbs hanging overhead by their wires. The basement is gross, unclean, dusty. But every month, thirty odd women show up there. Some are regular faces, some are new. And all of them fight.

    Lupe has been coming here for just shy of a year now, for the adrenaline rush, for the bruised knuckles and bloody lips, for the black eyes and busted ribs. Nights like these, she wants to taste her own blood in her mouth. Nights like these, she wants to fight out her failures.

    [Fight Club fusion]

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    26 Sep 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    McCready just gives Lupe a chin jerk and stays standing. Her eyes are bright and interested as she looks Lupe up and down, unblinking even when Lupe gives her a grimace in return. Lupe’s never exchanged even a word with her, and there’s definitely—something, now, something a little like wariness, a little flicker of aggression and familiarity that dances between them that’s not just team rivalry, not just feeling each other out. McCready has a strong face, with a wide mouth and a whole lot of jaw and angles and hollows and bones, and she doesn’t drop her gaze when Lupe tries to stare her down; if anything she sharpens, her eyes and her body honing in on Lupe, her presence somehow starting to crowd into Lupe’s personal space even though McCready doesn’t move a goddamn muscle.

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    Rival teammates AU.

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    22 Sep 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    Ding, ding, Lupe. A marvel of a woman. She spins around, all Hollywood. Got a dish rag in one hand and a dish in the other, an obligatory smudge of red velvet on her lips, tethering out all pink the further away from the blotch of her mouth, and she's a glowering, mean, immovable object. Lupe works in binary ways: Yes‘s and Nos. It’s apparent from the line of her body that the grease stains on her navy apron, not her shirt. And then she speaks, and her voice is something so sonorous, so divine and melodic, oak-dark-pitched, gut-deep—
    „Get the fuck out.“

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    22 Sep 2023