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Agatha couldn’t move. It was her, she was sure of it—the dancer from the club, on the night of the last day of school. A stripper was standing in her classroom, addressing her second-graders. A stripper who, until this very moment, had been filed neatly into the category of things Agatha would never think about again. (Except that one time, when she got too drunk on the Fourth of July. And that other time, when she got too drunk on the Seventh of July, which was just a normal Tuesday.) And yet here she was, in practical jeans and a black tee, looking every inch like a competent professional.
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First ten minutes of Afternoon Delight meets...the American public school system? (THEY'RE TEACHERS)
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16 Apr 2026
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“Can I get you something, Professor Sturka?” Zosia asks with an almost teasing lilt to her voice.
Carol freezes at the title, sucking in a quick breath before covering it with a small chuckle, “You can call me Carol if you’re about to make me a drink.”
There’s a twinkle in Zosia’s eyes that makes Carol’s stomach burn as she attempts the question again, “Can I make you a drink, Carol?”
Carol immediately wishes she’d never told Zosia to use her first name.
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03 Mar 2026
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“Friends do not do what you and Rio did. And you and I certainly never have.”
“Me and Rio had—” Agatha pauses, her eyes sliding over to Teen, who has stolen one of her gelt and is nibbling on it, “—s-e-x one time. And then decided to be friends. Just friends. And have been friends ever since.”
"I’m seventeen,” Says Teen tiredly, “I know how to spell sex."
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Or, after having sex once (or like three times, but who's counting, definitely not Agatha) Agatha and Rio decide to be friends. Just friends. They are amazing at it, obviously.
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- Part 2 of the neighbor's blessed burden
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26 Feb 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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24 Jan 2026
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Three months after the Joining turned humanity into a hive mind, Carol Sturka has a nuclear bomb and a plan to save the world. Step one: unhive Zosia. Step two: figure out why the woman who just called her pathetic won't stop looking at her like that. There is no step three.
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20 Jan 2026