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  1. Rec *

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    A chic, streamlined site skin based on the Rosé Pine palette.

    "All natural pine, faux fur and a bit of soho vibes for the classy minimalist."

    ✿ UPDATED - 6/17/26 ✿

    This skin has received a major update—please review the instructions carefully as many changes have been made!

    For existing users: The font, text decoration, and UI variable sections have been moved from the theme skin to the base skin for easier control. If you've made personal modifications to the base or theme skins I strongly recommend saving them somewhere else before updating.

    When updating, make sure to update all of the skins!

    You can view update details on Github.

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    18 Jun 2026

  2. Rec *

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    A site skin that gives AO3 a slightly modernized, semi-flat look and enhances the user experience.

    Features:

    • Slimmed-down header
    • NEW: Optional header image
    • Sticky dashboard (desktop only) and sticky filters
    • Custom content icons and stats icons
    • Color-coded tags
    • Improved tablet and mobile compatibility
    • Optional automatic switching between light and dark mode
    • Seven customizable color schemes (more may follow)
    Available color schemes
    • AO3 Default Colors
    • Black & White
    • Charcoal Rose
    • Dusky Dark Purple
    • Midnight Black (true dark mode for OLED)
    • Powder & Pink
    • Tumblr Blue (based on the low-contrast classic palette)

    Last updated: 30 May 2026

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    18 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    In a world where diplomacy demands deception, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher step into a lie that exposes the fragile truths between them. Bound by protocol, forced to pretend what they’ve always buried, they navigate alien elegance, intimate proximity, and unhealed wounds. Beneath the surface of practiced poise lies a history too heavy to ignore—and a love too dangerous to name. As shadows of the past stir and new possibilities bloom in unexpected places, one truth becomes inescapable: pretending was never the problem. It's what happens when the pretending stops.

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    26 Oct 2025

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    Work: The Gravity of Pretending

    The Gravity of Pretending by MercyHoward | Star Trek: The Next Generation

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    In a world where diplomacy demands deception, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher step into a lie that exposes the fragile truths between them. Bound by protocol, forced to pretend what they’ve always buried, they navigate alien elegance, intimate proximity, and unhealed wounds. Beneath the surface of practiced poise lies a history too heavy to ignore—and a love too dangerous to name. As shadows of the past stir and new possibilities bloom in unexpected places, one truth becomes inescapable: pretending was never the problem. It's what happens when the pretending stops.

  4. Public Bookmark 2

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    “but what are two fools if not a couple of broken souls that drown themselves in the hope of salvation.”

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    13 Jun 2025

  5. Rec 25

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    Beverly had never intended for their separation to be permanent, even if that is what it had been in danger of becoming. For his own sanity, Jean-Luc had long ago given up any hope of seeing her again. With a chance to build something new, with their son in the middle of it, Beverly and Jean-Luc uncover old wounds and tend fresh pain while the rest of the world rebuilds.

    Or, the final first time. (Eventually.)

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    14 May 2025

  6. Rec 4

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    In which Delilah makes a simulacrum of herself so Sylas can fuck it.

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    28 Apr 2024

  7. Public Bookmark 9

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    Jean-Luc Picard was no stranger to denying himself—for duty, for pride, for friendship. For a lifetime, his response had been to turn away from what he could not have. Old habits die hard.

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    24 Apr 2024

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    Work: (don't) Look

    (don't) Look by itmakesmeblue | Star Trek: Picard

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    Jean-Luc Picard was no stranger to denying himself—for duty, for pride, for friendship. For a lifetime, his response had been to turn away from what he could not have. Old habits die hard.

  8. Rec 16

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    Following what Crusher is certain is their final break-up, she is very unexpectedly expecting. But Picard won’t stop stepping into harm’s way, and she cannot imagine how they could raise a child in that constant shadow of danger.

    She tells him anyway.

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    19 Apr 2024

  9. Public Bookmark 8

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    They walked in sync along the grape vines. Arms interlocked together as they traveled. Days like this were Beverly's favorite, days where they could simply be husband and wife with no interventions from Starfleet or their other obligations.

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    27 Mar 2024

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    Work: desperate prayers of a cursed man

    desperate prayers of a cursed man by spacemombev | Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Picard

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    They walked in sync along the grape vines. Arms interlocked together as they traveled. Days like this were Beverly's favorite, days where they could simply be husband and wife with no interventions from Starfleet or their other obligations.

  10. Rec 4

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    On Casperia Prime, Beverly Crusher and Jean-Luc Picard enjoy their shore leave.

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    15 Mar 2024

  11. Public Bookmark 11

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    “Johnny why didn’t Walker ever get on you about not having a next of kin listed in your personnel file,” Jack Crusher waved the padd around from the couch in Jean-Luc Picard’s Ready Room.

    This was supposed to be "The Five Times Jean-Luc Really Didn’t Need an Emergency Contact + The One Time He Really Did" but then it gained feelings and I couldn't control it.

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    12 Dec 2023

  12. Rec 8

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    Anyone would’ve expected her to flinch, but after everything she’s seen, she hasn’t flinched in years.
    “Do you trust me?” he asked, his tone unreadable to her. It was a trick question. It had to be. After all, he was the one who spent years drilling it into her head that she was not to trust anyone.

    “Should I?”

    He chuckled. “Probably not,” he said, far too cool for her liking.

    In the dark mirror-verse, Jean-Luc takes his relationship with Beverly to a dangerous level.

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    06 Dec 2023

  13. Rec 21

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    "I didn’t plan on leaving, as I just told you. I planned the opposite. But Jean-Luc, there were consequences that we didn’t see coming. There was no time for us to sit and think about the fact that we had just fallen into bed together. I thought, for a fleeting moment among the chaos, that we would pretend it never happened. But consequences have a way of finding a path to you no matter where you may be. I made the choice to leave because I wanted to spare you of these consequences."

    A year after being aboard the Enterprise, Beverly makes an abrupt decision to leave the ship and take a temporary posting at Starfleet Medical Headquarters. Speculation as to why she has left is tossed around, but in a series of letters to Jean-Luc, she explains the truth… and the secret that sent her running.

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    14 Nov 2023

  14. Rec 10

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    After a very public fight, both Jean Luc and Beverly refuse to apologize to each other, citing that the other was wrong. As a game to entice the other to apologize first, they withhold sex from each other. Now, they’re both set on trying to tease the other one to the point where they’ll cave and apologize first. The entire ship's crew watches in disbelief (and places bets on) at the lengths they’ll both go to in order to win the game

    This would somehow become the notoriously known great battle of Picard v. Crusher. Anyone from high ranking senior staff to janitorial crew members were aware of, and subsequently involved in what was to become described as ‘holy shit, you just had to be there.’ And at the end of the day, it wasn’t just about who would apologize first; it was about who would break first

    [Kinktober 2023 Finale Fic]

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    30 Oct 2023

  15. Public Bookmark 3

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    Maybe we should be afraid, she says, but maybe what she means is, I’ll ruin this. | For Trektober 2023, 'Pining'.

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    21 Oct 2023

  16. Public Bookmark 11

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    Jean-Luc inhaled sharply from next to her and she immediately knew that he was awake. That should’ve been enough for her to still her hand and at least try to pretend that she wasn’t shamelessly masturbating in front of him, but everything they both felt was far too overwhelming to give a damn. She didn’t need to explain, he already knew just from their connection that she had witnessed his dream and that had set a domino effect into motion. His dream and his desire awakening her own, him feeling her lust and sparking it alive within her had heightened his own until it became a paradox of torture.

    While stranded on Kesprytt, Beverly witnesses a dream about herself coming from Jean-Luc’s mind. However, neither of them were aware that sensing each other’s feelings would lead to an echo effect in their implants. Overwhelmingly desperate for each other, they do the only thing they can to put an end to the never ending relay of heightened arousal.

    [Fifth installment for Kinktober 2023. Prompts sent from my P/C kinktober submission survey]

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    20 Oct 2023

  17. Rec 7

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    “If I have to go, then your father has to go,” Beverly said as she attempted to fasten Jean-Luc’s collar, “and if you say your collar size hasn’t changed since the Academy, I will actually leave you there defenseless.”

    “And if I have to go, Jack, then you’re going,” Jean-Luc said, cringing as Beverly nearly caught his skin again.

     

    While attending the Admiral's Ball, Jack finds out a secret about his parents that they've been keeping from him.

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    15 Oct 2023

  18. Public Bookmark 10

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    From where she stood, she couldn’t see the hand he had in his pocket. Keeping entirely focused on the conversation he was having, he activated the device to a medium setting. Beverly’s body lurched without her permission as the vibrations came back to life, rumbling against every deep and sensitive spot inside of her.

    “You managed to fool an empath. Well, at least I think you did. Maybe she sensed your arousal the moment you stepped on this deck,” he taunted, his hand rubbing small circles on her lower back. “There’s never any fooling Guinan, so let’s not kid ourselves. However, I wonder if you’ll be able to fool a full telepath.”

    That caught her attention. She jerked her head upright to look at him, shooting him daggers with her eyes. “What does that mean?”

    While attending a birthday party at Ten Forward, Jean-Luc decides to have a little fun with seeing how far he can push Beverly.

    [Second installment for Kinktober 2023. Prompts sent from my P/C kinktober submission survey]

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    05 Oct 2023

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    01 Oct 2023

  20. Public Bookmark 22

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    She could handle sharing a room with him. She could handle sharing a bed with him. But the explicit sounds from the next room over? She was sure that three days of that at a Starfleet conference was going to break her.

    And it did.

     

    (screams in 'there was only one bed')

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    17 Jul 2023

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