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  1. Public Bookmark 51

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    “Carol."

    Zosia Bartoś has said Sturka on panel shows and she has said my colleague on Twitter and she has said "the anchor at Liberty" in interviews and she has said "Carol Sturka" the full two-word name in writing, but she has not said Carol, just Carol, since a hotel room in Cincinnati ten years ago.

    "You can say gay on television.”

    Someone in the audience gasps, another says oh my god too loudly into a mic that should have been dead and the room comes apart.

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    Carol Sturka is a closeted conservative anchor. Zosia Bartoś is her progressive ex. Netflix has them on a stage in 8 swing states for 4 months.

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    First in a series of Stursia Romance/Smut AUs and one-shots. Different genres.

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    22 Apr 2026

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    Carol finds it in the third week of living alone with an unhived Zosia: a New York Times article, “To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This.” An intimacy experiment involving thirty-six increasingly personal questions and, at the end of it, four uninterrupted minutes of eye contact, which sounds fake and humiliating and somehow still not bad enough to stop her.

    Carol, obviously, prints it out.

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    22 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 36

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    Carol looks up at her and frowns, obviously not expecting her. But the fight doesn’t leave her. “He got my drink wrong three times.”

    “Did he get your drink wrong, or are you downing them and then asking for a free remake?”

    “I—” Carol stops. Lets out a breath. “Look, lady. It’s not my fault if he has to remake it. I shouldn’t have to pay for a drink that’s wrong.”

    “Correct,” Zosia says. “If the drink is wrong, it will be replaced. You, however, are drinking the drink, despite it being wrong, and therefore are going to pay for the additional drinks you’ve been brought.”

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    12 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    An unseasonal answer to udon_cheese's question "What if Helen and Carol met while working as a mall Santa and elf?"

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    09 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 56

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    Carol Sturka is the forty-seventh President of the United States, and the most convincing thing about her presidency might be her marriage to Julian Vane, which is warm and genuine and entirely platonic. Helen Umstead, who serves as her Press Secretary, is the woman who sees through all of it, and who Carol cannot stop noticing in ways that have absolutely nothing to do with press strategy. After a Republican senator starts questioning the true nature of the marriage and an emergency in the Arctic forces the administration into intense scrutiny, Carol or Helen learn that the White House contains no space more hazardous than any room that leaves the two of them alone.

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    03 Apr 2026