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Pitt Times Media Co. (Half-baked Journalism AU Idea!) by hell_to_breakfast
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
23 Mar 2026
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Am still figuring out the nitty gritty of an actual plot (lol) but in the meantime, here are the bones of a local journalism AU plaguing me that I will write once I 1) update at least one other WIP, and 2) graduate from grad school!
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- Part 2 of from scratch
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Ah. So his name is Anthony. Like his father, like the Roman general.
Like the name carved into the meat of her fucking collarbone.
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or, the one where Sydney makes peace with the fact that Carmy isn’t her soulmate, after never having wanted to know him at all.
Turns out the universe hasn’t gotten the memo.
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for he is a star (and your world is dark without him) by hell_to_breakfast
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
23 Jun 2025
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Arthur is safe; he had saved Arthur. His duty is done.
That’s why he doesn’t see the arrow coming.
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Or, Merlin saves Arthur from his fate at Camlann. Under any other circumstance he might ask for the rest of the week off. Unfortunately for him, it seems like an arrow in the back will have to do.
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It comes up one night when they’re laying side by side, both fried and thinking of other things.
“The women in my family make good mothers,” she says decidedly, not really talking about anything in particular. “It takes a while, but when they do it, they do it right.”
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Or, the one where Josh realizes just exactly how stupid he is when it comes to women.
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A random woman — all blue eyes and blonde hair and legs — ties Josh’s tie for him on the metro one morning on the way to work. He chalks it up to a strange one-off and settles for being grateful he doesn’t have to look like an idiot at Senior Staff.
+ or, the one where Donna and Josh meet as strangers on a train… over and over and over again.
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There’s little certainty in the business. Lottery tickets, the weather. A dimpled man with wild hair telling her, “You have enormous value to me. You have no value to Eastern Europe.”
+ or, the one where Donna can see the future … sort of.
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It’s not that Josh wants to be fondling Donna’s panties as they sit — Donna-less — at the bottom of his suit pocket. He doesn’t enjoy the fact that he can’t help but stare directly at her, unblinking, like a fool while he does it.
That’s just how it is. That’s just how things have been shaking out for him lately.
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or, the one where neither Donna nor Sam were around to see the package Karen Cahill sent to the White House and things … escalate quickly.
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There’s another reason that Donna drove halfway across the country to join a fledgling campaign in 1998 that had nothing to do with a shitty ex-boyfriend.
+ or, the one where Jed and Abbey Bartlet put a baby girl up for adoption in 1974 without anyone the wiser.
(aka The Adopted Donna AU)
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It’s an incredibly toxic environment, they’d said — the scientists.
It’s a shame that was the one time they had been telling the truth.
+ or, the one where there are consequences to all those hours spent dimension-hopping without the proper PPE.
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“We can’t keep doing this.”
“I love you.”
“Shut up.”
+ or, the one where CJ and Toby keep falling into bed together because they’re in love. It’s not as romantic as you might think.
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You're practical. You always have been.
Your mother is a doctor and your father is the President. And you are not your father’s favorite daughter.
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or, an Ellie Bartlet character study.
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First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Sorcerers by hell_to_breakfast
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), The Newsroom (US TV)
20 Oct 2022
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So, Arthur loses his shit on a sorority girl at Northwestern. And it’s…
Yeah.
It’s as bad as it sounds.
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OR, the Newsroom AU where Arthur is the hotshot anchor of Camelot Cable News, Merlin is coerced into becoming his EP again years after a dubious resignation, and everyone else has to try to keep them from killing each other on national television.
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You can’t be blamed for this, and you’ve realized only this morning that neither can she. This is just one of those things that happen sometimes when you lose a grip on your life a little. I parked in front of a fire hydrant. I left tin foil in the microwave. I fell in love with my best friend and never told him, and now he’s getting married.
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- Part 1 of grin and bear it
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He needs something else to call her besides Wrong Donna or Bad Donna. Dory Donna also, probably, wouldn’t be a winner but he has yet to try that out in his day to day thought processes, God forbid he slips and says it to her face.
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or, the one where Donna falls and develops amnesia after the President’s second Inauguration. As it turns out, Josh is only too happy to pick up the pieces.
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Marriage is much easier than Donna had ever assumed it would be. There is the part where her husband may or not be dying with his chest cracked open on a table, true.
But the fraud part goes off without a hitch.
+ or, the one where Donna faces an obstacle in getting to Josh at the hospital after Rosslyn and decides to marry him about it.
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panacea by hell_to_breakfast
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
10 Jul 2022
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There’s an investment value, he reasons once, in healing.
+ or, the one where Jaskier decides to travel the continent by himself and learn medicine after Geralt leaves him on the mountain. He’s happy to have something to do, to be useful — to not be stuck under Geralt’s thumb anymore.
(He is happy. He is. He swears.)
Too bad Geralt doesn’t get that memo.
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Okay, so, she doesn’t get the baby.
Nichole. Her sister.
+ or, the one where everyone had expected Hannah to struggle when adjusting to life after Gilead. Trauma, tantrums, resentment. Just not an overprotective attachment to her little sister.
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mortification of the flesh by hell_to_breakfast
Fandoms: The West Wing, The Handmaid's Tale (TV)
13 Jun 2022
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"You look good."
"You look like death on a Triscuit."
"Thanks. I'm seeing a new form of government."
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or, an incoherent working skeleton of the TWW/Handmaid's Tale crossover I'm currently obsessing over but don't have time to write right now.
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- Part 1 of from scratch
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“This is an emergency,” Jack tells him again. “He asked for you, specifically. Won’t let anyone else touch this until you’ve given your recommendation.”
And that does stop him.
Because even if Jack had been lying up until now, he wouldn’t lie about this.
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or, the Scandal AU in which Will is the best political fixer in D.C. and Hannibal is the Euro-centric cannibal he got elected President of the United States.
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AU where Erik made a promise on the beach:
"I'm coming back for you. I'm not giving up until you are by my side. I'm coming back and you will come with me. Whether you like it or not."
It is five months after the beach and Erik is tired of waiting. He doesn't go himself at first, but when the news comes back around that Charles (his Charles) is . . . crippled (by Erik no less), things get a little . . . out of hand.