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Best friends don’t spend two years dancing around each other like that; best friends don’t grab each other by the hips and spin them against the wall and get jealous over other people and not talk about it. Nayeon did not have the courage to interrogate this openly. But the volcanic force of her emotions had made everything feel so vivid and real. And she had thought: maybe.
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Really, Chaeryeong thinks, making brief eye contact with the embarrassed-looking driver through the tinted window, they’ve got it all wrong. It wasn’t the lack of albums, or the sparse touring, or the mistimed hiatus that tore through the group in the end. Five members meant five different directions, after all, each with its own gravitational force of desire and need. Yuna refused to speak to Jisu for a week after she sat them all down and told them she was leaving ITZY for good. Yeji had been slated to debut as a soloist first, but was then passed over after longer complications with her injury. Ryujin got the better song, but in a stroke of random luck Yuna’s went so viral that it propelled her into stardom with the general public.
And as for Chaeryeong —
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Chaeyeon, with a scalpel-like meanness that could only come from a sibling, had called her a coward. Maybe that’s what Ryujin had recognized in her, in the end.
“We just weren’t that compatible,” Chaeryeong says, with a half-shrug and a half-smile, like she was telling an old joke. “There’s not that much to the story.”
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didn't even see the tides change by judascontract (cortanasol)
Fandoms: ITZY (Band), Aespa (Band)
16 Feb 2025
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The problem—and Yizhuo recognizes this to be a real fucking problem for both her sanity and their standing in the championship—is that Ryujin knows how to read her too.
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Anyone else and Chaeryeong would’ve hexed them to the North Sea for that. But it’s just Ryujin, stupid and tactless and boyish and decidedly un-Slytherin, and privately Chaeryeong likes being at the receiving end of this kind of easy ribbing, where a joke is a joke and not a scathing critique wrapped in twelve layers of small talk.
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friends with benefits (no pensions though) by slimimi
Fandoms: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
29 Aug 2026
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"After Benji you told me you hated every single second of it, I will not let you do this again Em–"
"I have no choice!"
"Date me." Andy said.
Emily stopped. Around them, the restaurant went on. She looked at Andy, who had said the sentence fast before she could talk herself out of it, and now looked slightly stunned by her own mouth, but she didn’t take anything back.
"I'm sorry," Emily said. "What?"
"Fake-date me, instead."
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Emily needs Prada, Prada needs to believe Emily isn't at war with Miranda Priestly, and Andy has a very stupid idea.
Written for Sachston Week Day 3: Fake!Dating.
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29 Aug 2026
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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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24 Aug 2026
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“Oh, Andrea.”
The name slipped out before Emily could stop it. Andrea’s breath caught, and Emily heard it. The sound was small. It was devastating - and Emily decided to dig the knife in deeper.
“That has always been the problem, hasn’t it?” Emily said. “You don’t know. You don’t know what you want until someone else has paid the price. You don’t know whether you want fashion or journalism, ambition or virtue, New York or elsewhere, me or the clean little story where leaving was brave because staying would have been complicated.” Andrea’s face went white. Emily kept going, her voice barely a whisper. “You arrive twenty years later with slightly better trousers and a sad little apology, and I am meant to do what, exactly? Admire your growth? Provide texture for your article? Reassure you that the woman you abandoned has done splendidly, actually, so no harm done?”
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Andrea leaves Emily, who has famously not got over a single thing in her life. Now Andrea's back with a vengeance - and Emily is taking the vengeance part quite literally. Minimal plot, quite a bit of smut from chapter two onward. For the love of God, please heed the tags.
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24 Jul 2026
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Andy gets caught somewhere she shouldn't be and rescued by someone who bleeds. The next morning, her new project partner has a bandage in exactly the same place.
In which Andy meets Spider-Woman, then meets Emily Charlton, and does not yet realize these are the same problem.
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23 Jul 2026
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she works hard for the money by upriserseven
Fandoms: The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)
12 Jul 2026
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“Well hey, I don’t have Benji money but that first advance just came through, so if you’re ever looking for a marginally less impressive patron, you let me know.”
“It would be nice for you to have someone more sophisticated on your arm, I suppose.”
(In which Emily finds a new benefactor and friends with benefits… with benefits begins.)
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14 Jul 2026