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Carol Sturka is one of Hollywood's most respected directors - and one of its most emotionally guarded. When she finally gets the greenlight for the sapphic love story she's been circling for years, she makes an interesting choice: Carol casts Helen Umstead, award-winning actress and former almost-something, as her lead. Opposite her? Zosia Kamińska, an actress who looks at Carol like she's a puzzle worth solving and a door worth opening.
The film is about two women who want what they cannot have.
The production is about three women discovering what they want in the first place.
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All Carol asks for is a completely normal, romance-free February 14th. Helen agrees. Technically, Helen is lying.
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Helen is basically rage-baiting Carol on Valentine's Day.
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"When's the last time we cleaned behind the fridge?" Helen asked, pulling it away from the wall with a scraping sound that made Carol's teeth itch.
"Define 'we.'"
"Fine. When's the last time anyone cleaned behind this fridge?"
"I'm going to say the Bush administration. And I'm not specifying which one."
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A historic blizzard buries Albuquerque under thick snow and knocks out the power, leaving Carol and Helen stranded at home without internet, television, or any of the distractions Carol relies on to avoid feeling things. What starts with deep cleaning and Scrabble arguments escalates into a game of truth or dare in front of their fireplace.
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Two times Carol almost proposes to Helen. One time she actually does.
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Carol Sturka is capable of writing four bestselling novels but incapable of asking one simple question.
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Between Purple Prose and Terry Cloth Theft by oceansidedrive
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
30 Jan 2026
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Carol set down her cheese cube. "The what?"
"'Recipes from Wycaro.'"
"There's a cookbook. Of my fictional world. Where people eat hardtack and salted pork and occasionally each other when supplies run low."
"There's a recipe for 'Lucasia's Sunset Stew,' according to Val."
"I've never written about a sunset stew. I've never written about any stew. I don't think I've used the word 'stew' in four books."
"And yet."OR
This fic contains: one deeply anxious author, one competent wife in a pink suit, one podcast host whose warmth switches off like a light, one earnest production assistant named Jake and a mid-roll HelloFresh ads.
It also contains explicit sexual content because apparently that's where my brain went after writing about the horrors of publicity.