BerthaDarling



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  1. Public Bookmark 25

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    Paul drags himself back to reality like a drowning man breaching the surface: only for a few seconds, just long enough to take a single breath, before slipping back beneath the waves.

    (Or, Paul goes back to his owner.)

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    06 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    A freak, a fighter, a geek, a repeat, and a bully end up in a haphazardly-run Saturday detention. Eight hours stuck together in the school library. What could be more boring, more life-changing, to a bunch of teenagers?

    Or: A “The Breakfast Club” AU.

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    05 Jul 2026

  3. Rec 50

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    The three teenagers sit huddled to the back of the interrogation room, each tucked under their own shock blankets in varying stages of comfort. Only Peter looks up at the door’s rusty groaning. His arm is in a sling.

    “Hey, yous,” Ted steps through the threshold. “So, hey, when I said I could come pick you up for whatever, whenever, if you’d just dared to live a little, I didn’t mean at the ass crack of dawn on a goddamn Wednesday while I’m hungover, Petey.”

    “What the fuck did you just say?” Officer Bailey interrupts.

    “Oh, nothing, sir, all classy law-abiding topics of conversation here,” Ted says. “Hey, Petey, at least tell me you’re wasted off your ass and that this was all worth it.”

    “I’m not,” Peter says, voice hoarse.

    “Fucking useless.”

    (Or: the one where Theodore Spankoffski shows up at the police station that night after the nightmare is over.)

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    05 Jul 2026

  4. Rec 4

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    Max had been a mess ever since the night Steph had invited him to that rager at the Old Waylon Place.

    He can’t sleep, he can’t eat, and he can’t go five minutes without three repeated phrases rattling through his head.

    Unsound. Black book. Pay the price.

    The thing that makes it all worse though is that, no matter how hard he tries, Max can’t remember even going to the Waylon Place. Can’t remember anything about that night.

    All he knows is that he keeps finding himself in the middle of the Witchwoods, face-to-face with the Old Waylon Place with no recollection of getting there.

    Something is calling out to him to enter.

    Luckily, Brenda is always there to drive him home.

    Or; Max Jägerman & the mortifying ordeal of being alive.

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    04 Jul 2026

  5. Rec 18

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    you long for someone to get closer, to notice the seams, to peel back the mask. but at the same time you can't bear the thought of anyone seeing you for what you are, because what you are, you've learned after facing enough ridicule for a lifetime, is wrong.

    (or, your name is paul matthews, and you've never been happy.)

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    04 Jul 2026