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“It’s not that impressive,” Kara mutters sulkily, arms crossed. “Don’t look so shocked.”
Linda looks between them—up into Kara’s pinched, surly features, and Alex’s beet-red gape—and then between her legs. “Well, I think it is. But, you’re entitled to your own opinion,” she shrugs, pushing the head down with a finger and watching it bob back towards her stomach. “But, it always hurts when I’m with Lena. I told her it hurt, that she was making it hurt. And then she said she was sorry, and that she could help, if I wanted.”
The silence that follows draws out interminably long—long enough that Linda starts humming It’s A Small World under her breath while she lets it flop up and down against her stomach in tune.
Eventually, Kara collects herself enough to cry, “What?” and Alex starts laughing so hard she doubles over in tears.
Or, alternatively:
The one where Red Daughter, alias Linda, is justifiably, albeit overbearingly, smug; Lena just can’t seem to help herself; and Kara just about has a seething, jealousy-induced aneurysm trying to process it all.
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slow air by subtleanarchist
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Rise of Kyoshi, Avatar: The Shadow of Kyoshi
23 Mar 2021
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“What happened between you and Rangi?” Yun lay stretched out on his back, arms under his head. “Caught her crying at the table when you left. Did you two fight or something?”
A furrow deepened between Kyoshi’s brows at that, her brush strokes flying in wide, erratic swathes across the page. “We’re not friends anymore,” she said eventually. Yun rolled over onto his stomach to regard her with open surprise.
The tip of her sleeve got caught in the ink-pot, pigment seeping into the threadwork like tar; she turned her face away from him for a closer look, but he caught a glimpse of her tear-stained face all the same. “We aren’t good for each other,” she said softly, and her voice broke. “It took us a while to realize that.”
Or, alternatively:
The one where Kyoshi works herself into a tremendous jealous fit because she thinks she isn’t good enough for Rangi; Rangi suffers through a crippling bout of passive-aggressive, sapphic insecurity because she thinks she isn’t good enough for Kyoshi; and Yun all but flings himself into a screaming, root-pulling paroxysm because they’re both being insufferable.
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‘I’m getting married,’ Lena breathes emphatically, entreatingly, and her attention snaps to like a band pulled taut. She watches with increasingly disaffected pliancy as Lena seizes both her hands in one of her own and flashes her left at her, right under her nose. ‘Say something,’ Lena laughs, a little too breathless, a little too conscious. ‘You’re making me nervous.’
Don’t, she thinks she could’ve said, and the vehemence of the very thought startles her. Why? is a little better, syntactically, in theory—less cruel, an open question, room for conversation. Really? is enthusiastic, breakwater, appropriate, adequate.
‘Oh, god,’ she says instead.
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In which Lena announces her engagement, to everyone’s immense horror and Kara’s heartbroken disbelief, and everything that follows after.
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Whoopsie daisies we anonymously banged and now we work together and the sexual tension is going to drive us insane.
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I'm the Moodboard, She's the Inspo by punk_rock_yuppie
Fandoms: You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)
06 Oct 2023
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Stacy Friedman wakes the morning of her seventeenth birthday with the Earth-shattering realization that she’s in love with her best friend.
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Wednesday had hoped sharing a room with Enid Sinclair once more would be, if not enjoyable, at least a predictable part of her Nevermore experience.
She soon discovered it was to be neither predictable, nor particularly unenjoyable, after waking up one morning to discover her roommate has abruptly presented as an Alpha.Or
Wednesday is fully in charge until the exact moment she doesn't want to be anymore.
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07 Sep 2025
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There’s a pause, and then Wednesday speaks again. “I admit that I do have one ulterior motive in asking you to visit for the holidays.”
Enid laughs, unsurprised; there’s the Wednesday she knows, even a phone line and a coast away. “Yeah? What is it?”
“I told my parents that I’m in a relationship,” Wednesday says, offhand, like it’s just another sentence and not a lightning strike to Enid’s heart. "With you, specifically."
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“Had I been drowned in the River Lethe, my mouth would still remember the taste of yours.”
One of the most romantic lines I’ve ever read in a fic, possibly ever.
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Enid shakes her head, “I don’t want to make a mess.”
Wednesday hums, considering. As much as she finds the idea of Enid’s seed marking her appealing, it would be a shame to ruin their uniforms. So she does the only logical thing left to do. She drops to her knees.
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Wednesday begins helping Enid out with her Alpha issues and a friends-with-benefits-with-feelings-involved situation ensues.
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