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Every morning Carol wakes up and tells her it's doomed.
But Zosia has been Tibetan monks and olive farmers; Zosia has been Carol’s swim instructor when she was four years old and flat refused to let the water above her neck. She knows patience.
This is a one-shot of the kind of day they have together.
This is a one-shot of the love you can't let in, can't let go.
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09 Aug 2026
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[EP - 0131]
MIKE: Sorry, I don’t even know which one of you I’m talking to. What’s your name?
CAROL: That’s Zosia. She’s the reason people listen.
ZOSIA: Are you fishing for a compliment?
CAROL: No. It’s the truth.
ZOSIA: Well. You can have one. Your voice is hot. I noticed it immediately, the first time we met. I think everyone does.
CAROL: All right, stop, please.
ZOSIA: Oh and your emails are really funny.
CAROL: Mike, do you have a question?It is May, 2026. They got married in 2019, and at the wedding everyone joked they had already been married for years. Carol left the house in November, 2024.
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A divorce lawyer and a couples therapist start a relationship advice podcast, fall in love, get married, and spend years teaching millions of strangers how to save their relationships. Eighteen months into a secret separation, their six-year-old daughter gets suspended for punching a boy at school. Convinced the secrecy is doing more harm than the separation itself, Zosia asks Carol for a divorce.
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29 Jul 2026
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And even if getting Rhaenyra in as a soloist was a staggering show of nepotism, she was still the best concert pianist on the planet. It was like when Dmitri Junior recorded Shostakovich’s second. You could get mad about it for a bit, but it was ultimately fair game. Alicent had already reached all these conclusions because Viserys had spoken to her weeks ago about programming the Concerto, which only had the unwanted effect of giving her time to turn it over in her brain like a particularly nauseating Rubix cube. Each solution of the puzzle led her to the same conclusion: she would be seeing Rhaenyra imminently, and there wasn’t a damn thing she could do about it.
After ten years apart, Rhaenyra Targaryen re-enters Alicent's life for a set of solo engagements with her orchestra. Things go about as well as expected (not very).
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- Part 1 of on rachmaninoff's birthday
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29 Jul 2026
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“We’ll be doing this again, then.”
Vi doesn't look up from the buttons of Caitlyn's blouse, still opened and baring her chest to the quiet serenity of the office. Frown lines dance across her forehead as Vi tries to fit the tiny things into their respective frustrating holes.
“Seems like that's kinda the point of this whole bargain, isn't it?”
Caitlyn furrows her eyebrows. “You keep talking about an arrangement, a… bargain, but I’m not sure I follow you. What – how exactly is this supposed to work?”
Vi laughs, and Caitlyn supposes she must be quite funny in her ignorance. “How it works is you get me all these nice things I never even asked for, and in return, I fuck your smart brains out. Simple as that.”
Simple as that."
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Caitlyn Kiramman is Vi's older best friend, incredibly gorgeous savior, and sugar mommy. It's all going quite well, really, with one tiny exception. Caitlyn herself doesn't seem fully aware of the situation.
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28 Jul 2026
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the camera lies (so does my eye) by Lumyart
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
26 Jul 2024
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Alicent Hightower is at loss regarding her generation's use of technology and deeply convinced that social media has melted people's brains. Aged thirty-five, divorced, and a newly revealed lesbian who has yet to be offered any true experience in that world, she refuses to hold a device in her hand for more than a Sunday phone call to her father or a check-up on her son's wanderings, and even less to pursue women.
A promise that is soon broken when, after decades of weirdly charged friendship, she is introduced to Rhaenyra’s Instagram page - and to her great misery, to Rhaenyra's daily (and revealing) gym updates.
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Alicent finds out that Rhaenyra has been getting unfairly muscular, and wonders why that is of any interest to her.
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18 Jul 2026