ifthebookdoesntsell
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“The church was… the only path before me, at the time, and I never questioned it," Beatrice admits.
“And now?” he asks, looking concerned, and Bea realizes she’s curled into herself against the counter. She didn’t even notice how small she’d become. He offers her the sugar. She takes it.
“Now, I think differently,” Beatrice says, rising to her full height, rolling her shoulders back. Now, the future is an open road, and she’s got her hands at ten and two and her foot on the gas.
Now, she sees how wrong it was: to be pushed into giving up her life as if it would mean she would no longer ache to live it, as if that could ever be possible. Now, she is learning how to choose herself. Sometimes when you’ve suffered a whole lot, it’s hard to stop, but she’s trying. She takes a sip of her tea, savoring the sweetness on her tongue.
“What about God?”
“What about Him?” Beatrice answers, trying to sound sure of herself. “I'm– I'm fairly confident that He still loves me.”
(Or, post-canon Beatrice, learning how to love herself while she waits for Ava to come back.)
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what happens when all your dreams come true by ifthebookdoesntsell
Fandoms: Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
25 Nov 2025
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Breathing in deeply so the smell of old parchment fills her nose, Glinda tries to put the memory aside. Her hands shake, crumpling the edges of the letter where she’s clutching it. She closes her eyes.
Suddenly, she’s eighteen again, writing home asking if it’s alright for Elphie to come home for half-term; nineteen, celebrating her birthday with a cake, a field of poppies at sunset, and her four dearest friends, whispering in Elphaba’s ear about some secret that she can hardly remember now. She wracks her brain too long for what it could have been, and then she’s almost twenty-five—though birthdays hardly seem to matter anymore—and she has her hand pressed over her mouth because she knows Elphie is right, she can’t be found here, and she hasn’t heard a sound from Elphaba since she closed the door between them. But Elphaba said everything would be fine, and she believes her, has to, because she can’t imagine what will happen if, if—
The sound of Elphaba’s agony rings in Glinda’s ears.
(Or, Glinda's time between the end of canon to when she buys the house for her and Elphie. A farmhouse-verse prequel told in moments throughout the four years in the middle.)
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- Part 1 of honey, us, the fable
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good grief by ifthebookdoesntsell
Fandoms: Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
13 Nov 2025
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"Elphaba will want you two to get married eventually, you know,” he says.
Galinda shrugs. “And if she doesn’t, that’s okay.”
Fiyero smiles. “That’s why she’s going to want to.” It suddenly occurs to him that he and Galinda were never this honest with each other as kids. Because that’s what they were— kids. It feels a bit like being naked, being with someone who has known you so well for so long.
It’s lovely, truthfully, how you never really stop growing up.
(Or, farmhouse!Gelphie through the eyes of Fiyero throughout important moments of their lives.)
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- Part 4 of honey, us, the fable
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what we choose to do with our time by ifthebookdoesntsell
Fandoms: Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
30 Oct 2025
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“You know, we haven’t seen snow together in almost ten years?” she says, pressing her lips to Elphaba’s shoulder.
Elphaba nods, slow, measured. Thoughtful. “Snow at Shiz was different, though.”
Galinda knows what she means. It was softer, somehow. It didn’t feel nearly as cold, even though it most certainly reached lower temperatures.
It felt wilder back then—life—more fun, and the urge to throw snowballs at each other hadn’t quite curtailed. Galinda smiles at the memory of Pfannee accidentally taking one to the face before he tackled ShenShen onto the ground. Elphaba had laughed and laughed; in response, Galinda kissed her, her warm mouth on Elphaba’s suddenly timid lips, while their friends whooped and hollered.
It feels too long ago. Out of reach.
Maybe— maybe they were just different. Still taken by how every snowflake looks different if you catch them beneath a magnifying glass.
“I was going to surprise you and make tomato soup,” Elphaba says after a moment.
(Or, winter over the ridge at the farmhouse.)
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- Part 3 of honey, us, the fable
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the road where they collide by ifthebookdoesntsell
Fandoms: Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
27 Jul 2025
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“You should have left Nessa out of this,” Elphaba continues, approaching but still out of sight. “She– she did nothing to you. If you wished to wound me after Fiyero, you could have—”
“That’s not how it happened,” Glinda interrupts suddenly. She’s trembling. “You don’t understand.”
“Oh?” Elphaba says, but she doesn’t sound particularly curious, not really. Righteous anger. Always so righteous, and right for it. “What don’t I understand? Tell me.”
Glinda opens her mouth, then closes it. There’s so much she could say. So much she wants to, but it all feels out of reach. She can’t help but think it pitiful really, that when she really needs her words, she can’t find them, but before a crowd of thousands, the lies pour from her like tears.
“You should get out of here, Elphaba,” she tells her instead. “Before someone discoverates you. Please.” She leaves the chocolate for Nessa and scoops up her useless, useless wand. “We both should.”
(Or, a re-write of the cat fight scene with a twist. Crowlinda beloved.)
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honey, us, the fable by ifthebookdoesntsell
Fandom Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
25 Nov 2025
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I waited so long for love
and suddenly, here it is
standing in the garden, hands full
of heirlooms hot from the sun.Soon we’ll make a supper of them.
Salted slabs between slices of bread.
Your beard silvers. My hips ripen.
The mail piles up.Phone calls go unanswered. Forgive us.
Our mouths are full of tomatoes.
We are so busy
being small and hungry and alive.- Joy Sullivan
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- 52,512
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- 4
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- 51
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i'm not art (i'm just a woman) by ifthebookdoesntsell
Fandom A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
31 May 2023
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- 37,087
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- 3
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- 14
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we were reaching in the dark (that summer in rockford) by ifthebookdoesntsell
Fandom A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
25 Mar 2023
Summary
a set of character study-like pieces set within the canon compliant period of aloto season 1, all exploring how you find everything you never thought you could if you just reach into the dark a little bit, if you just let yourself be brave.
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- 26,694
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- 7
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- 5
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see yourself in my eyes (baby, you shine) by ifthebookdoesntsell
Fandom A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
23 Jan 2023
Summary
a collection of my gretson smut fics, some set in modern au and some set in canon period :)
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- 11,728
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- 4
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- 9
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invisible string (tying you to me) by ifthebookdoesntsell, RootsCanary, snixsrose, Thatonegayone
Fandom In The Heights (2021), In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes
09 Nov 2021
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"Time, curious time, gave me no compasses, gave me no signs. Were there clues I didn't see? And isn't it just so pretty to think that all along there was some invisible string, tying you to me?"
Daniela and Carla are destined to meet in every kind of life they've ever had, past and future. Throughout time, they find each other. Why wouldn't they? How could they not?
(Or, a series of unconnected (sometimes) alternate universes for Daniela and Carla, because some people are just soulmates.)
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- 5
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