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On her last night living in New York City Carol gets high and has a chance encounter with a beautiful stranger.
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What if Carol and Helen met when she was high on Heroin? What if the universe decided that they were supposed to meet and keep finding each other?
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“All those words that live in your head and the best you can come up with for me is a Disney moral conscious?”
Carol pauses, the words and the protest were too real, even for her imagination. Maybe it was the drugs still in her system. Maybe all those years behind the bottle were finally catching up with her. She pinches the tip of her index finger, reigniting the sting of the torn skin underneath. This was real. Right? She turns slowly, the grit of the outdoor tile sticking to her feet in a way that reminds her its been too many days since her last shower.
Finds the empty space she expected and is almost disappointed in a way she doesn’t quite know how to put into words.
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After losing Helen Carol spirals. Finds that maybe if she wants to save the world she has to let herself be open to the possibility of happiness again. Of love.
Of falling for the mystery that is Zosia.
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Rumors swirl after someone tweets that they saw Carol looking cozy with her manager at a Shadowstorm of Wycaro book signing. Naturally, Carol takes matters into her own hands — with disastrous results.
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- Part 2 of pre-canon sturstead snapshots
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28 Jun 2026
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There was a cardboard box sitting on her office chair when she arrived. A yellow Post-It was stuck to the top, bearing the words “help yourself” in sloppy handwriting that Carol immediately recognized. She knew what she would find inside, but she opened the box anyway. Sure enough—it was a collection of business casual attire, clearly pre-owned but seemingly devoid of holes and stains.
Helen Umstead can go fuck herself, Carol thought.
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The story of Carol and Helen.
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28 Jun 2026
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Online, a friendship blossoms between two anonymous women.
In real life, an author and editor enter a contentious relationship that only sours more by the day.
The Sturstead answer to "what if beloved oomf hated celebrity you?"
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- Part 1 of Hearts Often Tack
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28 Jun 2026
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Carol finds it in the third week of living alone with an unhived Zosia: a New York Times article, “To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This.” An intimacy experiment involving thirty-six increasingly personal questions and, at the end of it, four uninterrupted minutes of eye contact, which sounds fake and humiliating and somehow still not bad enough to stop her.
Carol, obviously, prints it out.
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time to update.
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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11 May 2026