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Eight years after the fall, Sadie Adler is very good at hiding her pain. But her relationship with Arthur was more complicated than anybody knew, and without him, deep inside, she still struggles every day to reconstruct the pieces of her puzzled heart. So when John shows up, out of the blue, with a relic from their shared history, Sadie finds herself reliving the past, facing the hard realization that she does not have to suffer alone.
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08 Feb 2026
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John is wearing an old pair of fingerless gloves that she thinks she recognizes. He is turning a quarter between his fingers. She wonders how much of Arthur is left behind now, in John, and then she looks away.
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my father comes and he goes by birthdaycandles for lesbianrobin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 May 2019
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So, for Max, he doesn’t punch Billy Fucking Hargrove. He just sits there in sweltering heat and listens to the C’s being announced, and when parents cheer for their kids he tries not to think about how his parents are currently in Colorado.
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06 Jan 2026
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But he has a couch waiting for him, so it all seems alright.
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Hot sex and cold comfort.
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08 Sep 2025
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“You should get a haircut,” she says, then winces at how maternal she sounds. He just smiles, though, and she can feel the curve of his mouth against her skin.
“But the Flow-bee manual said this style was really popular with the ladies.
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Death And The Maiden by incubationformadness
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
13 Feb 2026
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After becoming District 12's escort at the age of twenty-two, Effie Trinket is forced to work alongside Haymitch Abernathy, the embittered sole survivor of the Second Quarter Quell. Both fractured by hidden traumas, their resentment of each other becomes complicated by their mutual longing for human connection.
Content: Most pivotal to this story is the theme of trauma. One significant plot point is Effie's backstory as a victim of childhood sexual abuse. This will never be shown graphically - however, allusions will be made to the nature of her abuse & how it continually affects her as an adult. There will be canon-typical violence, substance abuse, disordered eating, self harm, & dystopian atrocities. There will also be sexual content.
I also post about this fic on my Tumblr (incubationformadness).
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25 Aug 2024
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And maybe he could tell her something.
Not everything, but something. That there could be a world better than this one. That maybe they wouldn't have to always be bound by pain and dead children. He wonders what it would be liked to know her in wintertime, whether she likes the snow.
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Effie spends her first years in Twelve, wondering how different her life would have been in the Capitol. Certainly, her hands would still be smooth and free of calluses, but she knows there would be bloody stains on her soul the longer she had stayed.
Haymitch wonders if it would have been easier to fade into obscurity as Twelve's only victor finding solace at the bottom of the bottle or in a bed not his own. The arrival of the Capitol girl ruins his plans to fade away.
Loneliness is a dangerous disease that infects them both, but time somehow finds a way to weave them together.
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04 Feb 2024