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Helen gets sick. Carol takes care of her, in her own way.
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10 May 2026
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Rhea and Karolina make amends, just in time for the London honeymoon.
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10 May 2026
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The Heartbeat of the World by DangersUntoldHardshipsUnnumbered
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
01 Jun 2026
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When the Muse of Song decides to try and tell a story...
Carol Sturka writes the Nashville hits that blare out of car stereos on every country road, but her soul is in the songs she plays to nobody on Monday nights. Zosia, a young hungry singer feeling boxed in by the Nashville machine, hears Carol sing one of those songs in a crappy bar and makes it her mission to find Carol and record that song. Helen, an emotionally guarded studio owner who has a painful history with Carol, against her better judgment, decides to make it happen.
They find resolution, healing, love and the creative partnership of a lifetime. And a busybody Muse who will give you, dear reader, all of the tea.
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06 May 2026
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Hints of nostalgia were exactly what she had in mind when she decided on New York. Things that she had known from her time here back then, and thus she could prepare herself for while adjusting to new routines.
Zosia, however, was not one of those.
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As she sets out to start fresh after over a year since Helen's death, Carol is thrown off course by the unexpected reappearance of someone from her past.
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04 May 2026
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Zosia has been slowly separating from The Others until one day she shows up on Carol's doorstep, seemingly half-unhived. Carol takes her in, despite Manousos' protests, and begins the slow process of discovering who the "real" Zosia is. Even after months apart, Carol still wants to save her girl—but she also wants to save the world. She's not sure if there's really much difference between the two...
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04 May 2026
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Online, a friendship blossoms between two anonymous women.
In real life, an author and editor enter a contentious relationship that only sours more by the day.
The Sturstead answer to "what if beloved oomf hated celebrity you?"
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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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07 Apr 2026
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each night, as sure as you’re born (you’ll hear me howling outside your door) by wanhedalycia
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
19 Mar 2026
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Whoever it is is still fucking knocking, and Zosia pulls out, instantly plunging her fingers into her mouth, smiling at her almost innocently as she sucks the taste off.
“I think someone’s at your door,” she quips. The little shit. “I’ll be upstairs.”
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zosia gets drunk, carol is stupid, and manousos is SICK of them
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- Part 4 of sweet like honey
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24 Mar 2026
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The year is 1950. Carol Sturka is a private detective when, out of all the offices in all the towns in all the world, Dr. Zosia Danziger walks into hers…
Written for Pluribus Week Day 4 - Alternate Universe.
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24 Mar 2026
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“Look, I don’t have time for this! If you lost my eggs, or let them defrost or something it’s fine. I don’t need ‘em anymore. So you can—“
“They were implanted in another woman.” Clifton speaks quickly, rushing so fast to make his confession that the words almost blend together.
Carol finds out her eggs were wrongly implanted in to a stranger, and her life is turned upside down overnight when she's drawn in to the woman's world.
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- Part 1 of Baby Stursia Series
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18 Mar 2026
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rest your head upon my shoulder (i just wanna feel your lips against my skin) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025) RPF
12 Mar 2026
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“I wish I could have been there with you,” she continues, and Rhea quirks an eyebrow. “In that dress, with your hair pushed back.” She dips her head suddenly, ghosts her mouth over Rhea’s cheek. The feeling of her breath sends goosebumps across her skin. “Your waist, your collarbones.” She brushes her lips over her neck. “And you know how I feel about your arms.”
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rhea misses out on the award. she is fairly compensated.
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13 Mar 2026
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drag my teeth across your chest (to taste your beating heart) by wanhedalycia
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
28 Dec 2025
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“Can we give you anything, Carol?” Her voice had dropped, low and gravelly now, cracking slightly when she said her name. “Do you want something from us?”
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carol doesn't want any help. and zosia? well, zosia just wants to give her what she needs.
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10 Mar 2026
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when you get a taste (tell me, what's my flavour) by wanhedalycia
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
04 Jan 2026
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The bubbles moved again, and she could see Zosia’s hand moving between her legs, the water distorting the sight enough that the details were blurry, but not enough that she couldn’t assume.
“Is this making you happy, Carol?”
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carol has the upper hand for like, two minutes. then again, she doesn't really mind being underneath.
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10 Mar 2026
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don't you see what you're finding? (this is heaven in hiding) by wanhedalycia
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
19 Jan 2026
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“Drink this, and I’ll consider serving you again,” says Legs, and there’s something in her accent.
“What are you, my mother?” She scoffs, already lifting the bottle up to take a sip.
“Why, do you want me to be? We just met. It’s a little early for a mommy kink."
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carol is the lamest person at the bar and still, somehow, against all odds, gets the girl
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- Part 1 of sweet like honey
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10 Mar 2026
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she told me open your mouth (she said i got a surprise) by wanhedalycia
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
01 Feb 2026
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“Zosia, I’m fifty. I’ve not smoked weed in literal decades."
"So?"
Carol stops, searches for a good reason. Comes up empty-handed.
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carol and bartender!zosia meet again, and this time there's a bed involved
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- Part 2 of sweet like honey
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10 Mar 2026
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don't handle me with care (when you're pullin' my hair) by wanhedalycia
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
15 Feb 2026
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"You think she'd fuck you like this?" Zosia bites out, and Carol can't find the words to ask what she means. "The girl from the bar? What was her name?"
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zosia is the only one allowed to hit on carol, actually. not that she cares, though.
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- Part 3 of sweet like honey
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10 Mar 2026
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then she came up to my knees (begging baby would you please) by wanhedalycia
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
02 Mar 2026
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“Aww, what’s the matter, Carol?” Helen shakes her head from side to side, Carol’s neck boneless all of a sudden. “Where’s all that fight you had earlier?”
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carol mouths off in a meeting and helen deals with her ... appropriately
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10 Mar 2026
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“I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”
Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”
“I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”
Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.
“Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.
After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.
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10 Mar 2026
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“You can draw me,” Karolina mumbles against her skin as she kisses across her cheek to her jawline, teeth grazing the sensitive area under her ear.
“What?”
“You can draw me, if you want. I’ll pose for you.”
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karolina sees rhea's sketchbook
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20 Feb 2026
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The clearance shelf orchid at the hardware store is $4.99 and more dead than alive. Helen takes it home anyway.
Four moments across eight years. One plant that outlives what it shouldn't.
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20 Feb 2026