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    Angela has been crashing weddings since college. Now, in her early thirties, she's struggling to find auditions, and wedding crashing is her way of letting off steam. It's always been a way to keep anonymous: somewhere she can blend into a crowd, but still feel apart of something.
    Everything changes when she keeps running into the girl who’s always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

    AKA: the Wedding Crashers AU nobody asked for, but you're getting anyway.

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    12 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 48

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    Angela thinks, later, that if it had happened in some bigger moment maybe she could have handled it better.

    But no.

    It happens in the middle of a Moose Master video shoot.

    That’s what kills her.

    Just Amanda laughing.

    It settles into her bones with a horrible, gorgeous kind of certainty.

    She loves her.

    Angela glances down.

    And there it is. For one completely insane second her brain refuses to make sense of what she’s seeing.

    A thin red string looped around her pinky finger.

    Her eyes follow it before she can stop herself. Over the cards. Across the table.

    Tied right to someone else’s finger, linking them both.

    Amanda.

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    26 Jun 2026

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    “It’s okay. I know a guy.” Ellie likes talking about Joel like he’s her mob lackey or something. Makes everything feel a little less looming and leering and lethal. She called Joel "a guy" when it came to getting an extra slice of pie or getting outside of Jackson's walls when she needed a day off of school, when she couldn’t fucking stomach it anymore. He told her to cut it out whenever she called him that. It was a bit. She liked all of their bits these days. “He’ll get you out too.”

    “I’m Ellie," she volunteers though she doesn't want to. This woman isn’t an enemy. She’s as caged in as Ellie, worn down to the point that she barely had her wits left about her. There was a look in people’s eyes when they got that way, when they’d started giving up hope. Ellie would fucking know.

    The woman shakes something loose from her bones, digs her teeth against her lip before she answers, “I’m Sarah.”

    Ellie snorts. “Yeah,” she says with only the edges of humor clinging on. “He’ll definitely fucking save you.”

    or: On Outbreak Night Joel and Tommy are separated from Sarah. They spend the next twenty-one years assuming each other is dead. Until Ellie and Sarah find each other in the same awful circumstances.

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    22 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 57

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    It never bothered her when he took care of her on the road because they both knew he held her life in his hands every day; it really was do or die. But she didn’t know if she expected it to continue in Jackson, if she could expect anything at all. She’d hoped, maybe—in secret, the way she treasured the times he pulled on her ponytail or teased her or let her fall asleep on his shoulder while they watched their DVDs—but knew it wasn’t deserved or even necessary.

    Love had never been necessary. It was a luxury that some people had, if they were lucky, but you didn’t need it. And so even when she got something from him that seemed like love it still felt like too much, it didn’t fit, and she didn’t know whether to embrace it or push it away.

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    09 Jul 2025

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    I saw a girl one summer and thought she was ordinary, and the rest of my life was spent marveling at the fact that I could have ever been so wrong. [Finnick's POV, starting with Annie's reaping and ending during Mockingjay. Companion to 'Where Soul Meets Body']

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    04 Jul 2025