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some animal instinct starting up again by softestofmornings
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
19 Aug 2026
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It’s been over 10 years since Madeline married Ernest and sent Helen off to the health spa. A chance encounter at LAX has the actress discovering just how much can happen over the course of a decade.
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"I heard about all that. How you holding up?"
"Hasn't been the easiest year."
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Rebecca's three birthdays following the not-so-easy year and the people who made them easy.
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“She assumed it was an act: the bumbling American on holiday who plays up the midwestern charisma and charms his way into her bed. And that was fine. That was what she wanted, for fuck’s sake. Never in a million years would she have guessed that the kindness and the good manners and the obvious respect for her as a human being were all genuine.
Sodding Americans.”
Rebecca brings someone home from the bar with a clear goal in mind: to pass one night in the throes of mindless debauchery with a stranger. She’s single. She can do whatever she pleases, thank you very much, which apparently includes getting herself in over her head when the stranger turns out to not only be very good in bed, but very good at worming his way into her heart.
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A first date, a brief interlude, and a second date.
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but then I turn a corner (& recognize myself again) by softestofmornings
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
12 Sep 2023
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“Oh wow,” Ted mutters. “Would ya look at that.”
Rebecca does look, but it takes some time before she understands what she’s seeing.
“Oh.”
Embedded in the porch beam are silver nails arranged into the shape of a heart, and in the center of the heart, the letters “T” and “R” are joined together with an addition symbol.
“Ted…”
“And Rebecca,” he says, laughing a little disbelievingly, turning to her with an astonished grin. “What do you reckon those odds are?”
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or, Ted and Rebecca and their search for a home.
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the lives of Zelda Spellman & Mary Wardwell.
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now that you don’t have to be perfect (you can be good) by coaxiumed
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
25 Apr 2026
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“Madeline, I haven’t asked you to be anything.”
“You don’t have to ask. It's just a fact,” Madeline says, looking up at her, eyes glassy.
She stops again, swallowing hard.
“And I hate it, Helen,” she continues, barely above a whisper. “I hate the possibility of not being everything you want and need, because that means one day soon you’re going to realize I’m not worth all the trouble I’ve caused you and you’ll leave me for good.”
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06 Aug 2026
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Roman gets a surprise nighttime invitation to Gerri's. It doesn't go as expected. (Set during season 2.)
Bookmarked by softestofmornings
25 Jun 2026
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you give me cause for love that I can't hide by LightLeadingMe
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
18 Mar 2026
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Helen is the new teacher at school. Madeline is going through a divorce. After a bumpy beginning, the two become friends.
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18 Jun 2026
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don't you want me, baby? by private_property_pelican
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
03 Sep 2025
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The dress is probably designer, probably couture, and probably very beautiful. All Madeline can see is the way it perfectly hugs her curves, the way her tits are practically spilling out of it.
Madeline had carefully curated her outfit, too; her dress’s dipping neckline shows off plenty of cleavage, just not as much as Helen’s. She had anticipated being the hottest person at the party, had planned on taunting Helen with what she’d given up. But her ex-wife has shown her up. Now she’s the one filled with longing and regret and a building heat in her core. She almost walks out of the party then and there, judgmental looks be damned.
It would’ve been better, if that’s what she had done.
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Madeline goes to Helen's book party after their divorce. They fight, they fuck, they yearn.
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05 May 2026
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Stepping into Rupert’s shoes as owner after the divorce leads to many surprising realizations. Perhaps the most surprising being that people who like sport are a superstitious bunch.
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17 Mar 2022