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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.Series
- Part 1 of Close Quarters
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Misty Watercolor Memories by DangersUntoldHardshipsUnnumbered
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
18 Mar 2026
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A collection of emails, phone transcripts, and notebook scribblings of Helen's, framing moments of their life together.
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31 Mar 2026
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A mediation on grief and loss that also happens to be hardcore lesbian porn.
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30 Mar 2026
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everybody's equal in the glow of radiation by thelittlestbear
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
27 Mar 2026
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“Zosia, when I look at you I feel sick to my stomach.” That was not what Zosia was expecting to hear. From the look on her face, it was not what Carol had come in expecting to say either. She had stopped pacing. Zosia just gaped at her, front door still hanging open. “I didn’t mean it like that.”
Zosia shut the door and went to sit back down on the sofa. She looked up at Carol, and crossed her arms. “What could you have possibly meant it like?”
Carol sighed, and started pacing again.
“I used you. I hurt you, I drugged you, I blew you up, and I fucked you. I did all of those things knowing that you might still be in there, knowing that you couldn’t consent. I can’t sleep at night because every time I shut my eyes I think about every horrible thing I did to your body and now you’re back, you’re back because I wanted you to be back, I wanted it to be you, and now I can’t even look at you.” True to her word, Carol was staring up at the ceiling. The words poured out of her like sputum.
“To be fair, I killed your wife.”
“That’s not funny.”
“I’m not joking.”
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Zosia had a brother, once.
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29 Mar 2026
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It’s a miracle, really. Not just that the Joining was reversed, but that there were little to no lingering side-effects after the year that to most just felt like a strange dream. No brain damage. No societal collapse. No mass trauma. It’s only been eight months, and the world is already back to some semblance of normal.
And don’t worry, Carol. The United States government will take excellent care of the botched science experiment we found living in your basement.
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23 Mar 2026
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Zosia Zulawski, a Polish art restorer with crippling anxiety, arrives at an isolated Yorkshire village to uncover a medieval mural hidden beneath centuries of whitewash.
Carol Sturka, an American archaeologist based in England, is digging up the grounds beside the same church, looking for a grave that may or may not exist.
Two women used to uncovering what time buried.
The mural reveals itself slowly. The excavation deepens its meaning. And something between them begins to surface.
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15 Mar 2026
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Zosia never meant to fall for the woman behind her grandmother’s favorite romance novels.
Carol Sturka writes sweeping straight love stories and guards her private life carefully. But one late-night message turns curiosity into connection, and connection into something neither of them can ignore.One lives in New York. The other in Albuquerque.
And falling in love might cost more than just the distance between them.- Language:
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14 Mar 2026
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“No shit. Not sure I wanna wear a stranger’s panties, though.”
“Your loss. I’ll even let you keep them. Call it a souvenir from your first night in London.”
OR: 33-year-old Carol Sturka goes to a writer's networking event in the hopes of bagging herself a book deal, and, instead, finds a charming Polish model.
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14 Mar 2026
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heal the scars from off my back (i don't need them anymore) by justalover
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
07 Mar 2026
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"Carol knows in her heart that she shouldn’t pour herself another drink. The glass is sticky enough to remind her that she’s spilled the amber liquid over her own hands at least three times, and she’s licked them clean as if wasting a single drop of her favourite poison were a crime. If anyone could see her now, they would deem her pathetic, disgusting, hopeless. The fact that she can still feel the stinging shame of knowing that she’s exactly all those things makes her realize that she’s not drunk enough."
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“You’re Carol, right? I’m Zosia. I hear you’ve had quite a day.”
Carol scoffs, trying to conceal the cracks in her voice.
“And it’s not even noon yet.”or
the one where Carol struggles through loss, grief, addiction and trauma, doesn't ask for help, but gets it anyways.
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08 Mar 2026
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“Trust?” Zosia forced a humorless laugh. “That’s a pretty tall order. I don’t know anything about you.”
The woman considered this. She nodded, though it seemed mostly to herself.
“Okay, uh, what do you want to know?”
“To start, your name,” Zosia said. “And then maybe, I don’t know, why you’re here, what you do, a fun fact about yourself, things like that.”
The woman gave her an incredulous look.
“You wanna do fucking icebreakers right now?”
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Zosia gets unplurbed, and Carol has to be the guide through this insanity that she wishes she had while trapped in a one bedroom apartment and being probably madly in love with her.
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- Part 1 of a case of you
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06 Mar 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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13 Jan 2026
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“Turn me back. Please, please, Carol. Please, I want to go back!”
Carol reaches for Zosia, then doesn’t.
“I don’t think that’s possible,” she says.
Or: One more take on deplurb’d Zosia for your reading pleasure :)
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03 Jan 2026
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“What do you all dream about, anyway,” Carol asked.
“Colors,” Zosia said. “And language, sound. Architecture.”
Carol lifted her head. “Architecture?”
Zosia either smiled with just one side of her mouth — which was new — or Carol could only see one side — which was also new. In either case, her own mouth felt dry.
“Systems,” Zosia said. “Simplicity. We’re interested in continuity.”
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02 Jan 2026
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Carol and Zosia Meet before the joining AU
Carol is in Berlin for a writing residency, she becomes friends with a group of her residency mates who introduce her to Zosia, a young ex-pat who lives with more confidence than Carol has even been able to muster.
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01 Jan 2026
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Zosia raises an eyebrow. “We never lied to you. I never lied to you.”
“And I didn't either,” Carol says. “But you chose to leave out the truth so you could turn me into something you know I don’t want to be.”
“So what did you do to me then?”
There’s a moment where they just stare at each other, pain mirrored on both of their faces.
or: carol and manousos manage to un-hive zosia. it goes as well as expected.
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31 Dec 2025
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“There's nothing wrong with you, Carol.”
She emphasized the word ‘nothing’ as hard as she could. She wanted – needed – so badly for Carol to believe her. Carol sat back up, facing Zosia, who was still kneeling in front of her.
“Then why can't I ever be enough?”After the events of the finale, Carol surrenders into a pit of depression that worries Manousos enough to ask the enemy for help.
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30 Dec 2025