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    “Why bring her to me?” She was not a savior, she was a monster. Every day she carried the broken pieces of stone birds into her temple and mended them with clay and twine. The few animals she kept have had their sight removed, yet they nuzzled into her hand all the same. Her garden flourished, because it could not see the cruelty of the face of the one who tended to it. The island had been pristine when she had found it. Alive. Thriving.

    The Nereid only tilted her head, sea-weed dark hair sliding wetly across her shoulders and throat. “Her quest was to find you.”

    “Find me?” She scoffed. “People find me for one reason only.”

    “To kill you?” grinned Zoey. It was a feral thing, revealing rows of serrated teeth. The illusion of a beautiful woman suddenly replaced by something wild, something dangerous. How apt.

    She shook her head morosely. “To die.”

    OR
    The Greek Mythology AU where Rumi is Perseus, sent to slay Mira as Medusa, but Zoey, daughter of the ocean, is tired of tragedies, and manipulates fate just enough to get something entirely different. This is a tale of how three women find each other despite their destinies, and build a love strong enough to defy the gods.

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    10 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 93

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    Can a djinn who's been making a point of granting wishes terribly for centuries find comfort in the modern age when two college students become her latest masters?

    Can they end up more than any of that?

    [Or, Mira has been a djinn for centuries and ends up with Zoey and Rumi as her new masters in the modern age. This can only go well.]

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    28 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 68

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    "Bobby," she says, watching him carefully. "You're making a big deal out of this. What's wrong?"

    His shoulders tense before easing into an odd half-relaxed state. Bobby turns to her, head tilting just so, a funny little furrow in the middle of his brow. A frown looks uncomfortable on him, cheeks sagging. "You just should have given us some time to prepare is all."

    "Okay," Rumi says, though it sounds like a question. "I'll… keep that in mind for next time?"

    "Maybe you should stay in town tonight," he adds. "It's dark out. Going to be hard to find your way through the forest—I'm sure Celine hasn't left the lights on along the path."

    "I'll be fine," she insists with a dismissive wave. She leans her weight onto one leg and shakes the numbness out of the other. "Like riding a bike."

    Or: Rumi has spent four years away from her hometown. Now that she's graduated, she's ready to visit her family again. But time has left her behind and things have changed—and someone else has taken her place.

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    21 May 2026

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    wow…. so incredibly good… i love the tone of this

  4. Public Bookmark 80

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    Galinda is quiet. "I'm going to become your new best friend," she says finally.

    This startles Elphaba so much that she looks up from her book. There's no twitch in Galinda's lips; she's gazing at Elphaba with uncomfortable sincerity. Elphaba glares back.

    “You'll see,” Galinda promises, her ineffable cheer returning. "I'm irresistible."

     

    Elphaba realizes the black hat is a prank before Galinda has the chance to make it up to her at the Ozdust, producing the most one-sided best friendship in Shiz history.

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    11 Jan 2026

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    Glinda opens her mouth to warmly greet her new roommate, but her words die at her throat when she finds none other than a green figure in the middle of the empty living room amidst a bunch of dreary, brown boxes.

    Elphaba Thropp.

    Oh. Oh, no.

    How in Oz did she end up having to live with her number one enemy at Shiz University?

    or: enemies to lovers/fake dating au no one asked for

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    25 Dec 2025