TheConscienceThing



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  1. Rec 23

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    Three slaves escape into the wastelands beyond a city’s heavily fortified walls. Forced into an arrangement with a motley group of thieves, they struggle to survive while avoiding recapture.

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    17 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 36

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    When Emma signed up to work as actress Regina Mills’ bodyguard, neither of them thought that what was supposed to be a temporary gig would result in one of the closest relationships of their lives—or that a few days spent rooming together at a convention would change their dynamic forever, transforming their simple intimacy into something new and life-altering.

    Or: The actress/bodyguard AU where Emma shows Regina the true freedom of submission.

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    11 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 60

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    Regina Mills has been MIA for six years. When Emma Swan heads to California to visit some friends for a long-overdue vacation, the last thing she expects is to find Regina there.

    This is a story of them rekindling their friendship, a story of falling in love even if the timing is (still) all too wrong. This is a story where they both find a second chance despite the obstacles life throws their way.

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    29 Jan 2026

  4. Rec 18

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    When the Darkness is no longer tethered to the Crocodile, it seeks out a new host.

    “You think, you are the diner at the feast, tasting the offerings. A little love, a little darkness. What you don’t realize is – you are the feast. And the Darkness has tasted you. The Darkness likes how you taste, dearie. It doesn’t mind the bitter, and now that it’s started the meal, it’s going to finish it.”

    Regina knows she is just the appetizer; Emma Swan, the Savior, is the feast.

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    15 Jan 2026

  5. Rec 30

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    When Emma Swan was 18, it wasn't the best time to raise a baby. She was in juvie, the best foster mother she ever had died suddenly, and that jerk Neal let her take the fall for their mistake. So the best thing she could do was let baby Swan be put up for adoption.

    Ten years later, after a semi-decent career as a bail bondsperson, Emma is looking for clues to make sure that letting baby Swan go was the right decision. There isn't much she can find out (legally) because it was a closed adoption, but the leads brought her to a small town hidden in Maine, where she got a job as a deputy sheriff.

    Regina is the fifth generation embalming in the basement of Mills & Sons, a family funeral home operating for over 80 years. Her funerals are orderly, quiet, and families usually have no complaints about her work, to which she dedicates herself with a professional passion. But it wasn't always this way. There are days in Director Mills's past that left a deep and permanent mark. Her greatest joy: little Henry, the precious baby boy she adopted when he was three months old.

    An administrative error that brought Deputy Swan to the foyer of the town's only funeral home could change these two women's lives forever.

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    09 Jan 2026