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Digging like you can bury (Something that cannot die) by arcadiagaybeacon
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
26 May 2026
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The warmth of Helen's embrace centered Carol's spinning, panicky mind. Of course it did. This was her Helen who for some unexplainable reason has fallen more and more in love with her every day. Her Helen, who was patient and let Carol bare her body and soul little by little until she was at the point where she was now, sobbing in her arms over fears that lived inside her heart for far too long.
"I'm just terrible at being able to just be fucking happy," Carol said, tracing patterns idly in Helen's palm. "I keep trying to be present with you and feel good, and I do but then their voices creep up on me and they've been getting worse and worse."
"Their voices?" Helen asked, coming to a realization. "Do you mean the ones at-"
"Yeah," Carol said.
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Carol's past traumas nearly drown her, and Helen helps her to the surface
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I'm the fury in your bed (I'm the ghost in the back of your head) by arcadiagaybeacon
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
18 Mar 2026
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Despite having the working knowledge of roughly 6 billion adults, there was often a familiarity to the way Zosia touched her ... running her fingers along Carol's back with a reverence that only comes with decades of understanding each other.
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Like a dream come true I'll take you where I roam by arcadiagaybeacon
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
02 Mar 2026
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"And I say this to Helen all the time but you're welcome to drop by here whenever you want. You're family now."
Family. The word stuck with Carol, almost feeling foreign. Family scared her. Family betrayed her. Family was what the smiling counselors said she and all the other kids were in the eyes of God.
It wasn't the comfortable warmth that radiated in the Umstead home. It wasn't relaxed conversations or spending time in town without a creeping sense of dread or holding Helen's hand over a bonfire in front of everyone without fear. It wasn't the acceptance that seemed as natural as breathing to these people.
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Carol meets Helen's parents
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Drifters by arcadiagaybeacon for simpslayer_ren
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
02 Nov 2025
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Two women meet by chance at a bar.
OR: The B-side of chapter 22 of "burn all your old photos, they don't exist anymore" by simpslayer_ren. Please read it if you want 1) a more satisfying LiS follow-up than Double Exposure and 2) a Pricefield fix-it story.
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Intersections by arcadiagaybeacon
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024), Life is Strange 2 (Video Game)
15 May 2025
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After choosing to save Arcadia Bay, Max finds herself at a breaking point on the road. Luckily she comes across a roadside warrior.
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My favorite LiS2 side character meets my favorite LiS protagonist.
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“We love you, Carol.”
She is sixteen and can’t meet her parents’ eyes as they try to say goodbye, her duffle bag at her feet and Camp Freedom Falls in front of her. She doesn’t want to be here. She doesn’t need to be here.
Fuck this, and fuck them.
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or: Carol Sturka and her complicated relationship with loving and being loved
Bookmarked by arcadiagaybeacon
22 Mar 2026
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Carol's mom dies. Carol cleans up after her. Helen picks up the pieces.
Bookmarked by arcadiagaybeacon
22 Mar 2026
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the stars get red (and, oh, the night's so blue) by sweetshotofkerosine
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
06 Feb 2026
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The end of the world in three parts.
First, Carol saves the girl (done)
Second, Carol saves the world
And then, just maybe, she becomes okay with just being good.
Bookmarked by arcadiagaybeacon
22 Mar 2026
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It’s only been a little over a month, but already the warmth of Helen pressed against her chest is an anchor, any tension in Carol’s limbs unspooling over the steady thrum of her pulse.
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snippets of carol and helen, before.
Bookmarked by arcadiagaybeacon
22 Mar 2026
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“I mean, are you just not into me? ‘Cause you can just say it. I’m not that thin-skinned.”
Carol is staring back, totally blank. Her lips have fallen just slightly open — those perky pink lips that press together when she hears something funny, that tug sideways when she’s embarrassed, the lips Helen’s watched sipping glasses of wine for months now and has never been allowed to touch.
Bookmarked by arcadiagaybeacon
22 Mar 2026