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Carol thought breaking up with Zosia would be the end of their story. Instead, she and Manousos find themselves helping her escape the hive mind before following her into a massive underground silo hidden deep beneath the surface.
There, Carol finally gets to meet the real Zosia, not the version shaped by the hive mind, leaving both of them questioning how much of their relationship was ever real.
Inside the silo, they meet Juliette, a sheriff trying to hold everything together as life underground becomes increasingly unstable. As the three of them grow closer, the situation between them becomes far more complicated than any of them expected.
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20 May 2026
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Two and a half years after Carol Sturka saved the world, Zosia still hates her. No, that's not quite right. Well she doesn't not hate her. But the word isn't quite strong enough. She thinks about her all the time. Between shitty cups of staffroom coffee, impassioned lectures to dozing students, and reading Carol's ridiculous romantasies (she only picked it up because it's rude to leave a charity shop without buying anything).
Fic version of 'what would happen, if you just...called Taylor up?'
A character study for Zosia
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19 May 2026
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Carol Sturka, a reclusive and enigmatic author, is recovering from an alleged nervous breakdown in the quiet isolation of her English countryside manor. Zosia Nowak, a caretaker hired to help Carol heal, arrives with her own agenda and quickly becomes fascinated by the woman behind the pages. Her curiosity deepens as she tries to unravel the mystery of Carol’s collapse, but will the line between caretaker and patient begin to blur?
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15 May 2026
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everybody's equal in the glow of radiation by thelittlestbear
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
27 Mar 2026
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“Zosia, when I look at you I feel sick to my stomach.” That was not what Zosia was expecting to hear. From the look on her face, it was not what Carol had come in expecting to say either. She had stopped pacing. Zosia just gaped at her, front door still hanging open. “I didn’t mean it like that.”
Zosia shut the door and went to sit back down on the sofa. She looked up at Carol, and crossed her arms. “What could you have possibly meant it like?”
Carol sighed, and started pacing again.
“I used you. I hurt you, I drugged you, I blew you up, and I fucked you. I did all of those things knowing that you might still be in there, knowing that you couldn’t consent. I can’t sleep at night because every time I shut my eyes I think about every horrible thing I did to your body and now you’re back, you’re back because I wanted you to be back, I wanted it to be you, and now I can’t even look at you.” True to her word, Carol was staring up at the ceiling. The words poured out of her like sputum.
“To be fair, I killed your wife.”
“That’s not funny.”
“I’m not joking.”
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Zosia had a brother, once.
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08 May 2026
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Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person by bladeruiner
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
20 May 2026
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Two years after the Unjoining, she saw Zosia in London, of all places – nearly unrecognizable in her winter attire – bundled up to her nose. But Carol felt her presence like a sawed-off shotgun wound to her stomach. The sight of her eyes peeking over the edge of her scarf, sparkling with mirth as she shouldered the woman she was walking with –
Well, it was fucking devastating.
‘Who is Carol?’ Spray-painted in canary yellow, stood out against the rain-darkened concrete of the building across the street from The Ritz where Carol was staying.
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07 May 2026