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    Carol finds it in the third week of living alone with an unhived Zosia: a New York Times article, “To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This.” An intimacy experiment involving thirty-six increasingly personal questions and, at the end of it, four uninterrupted minutes of eye contact, which sounds fake and humiliating and somehow still not bad enough to stop her.

    Carol, obviously, prints it out.

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    25 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 81

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    The thought is an offhanded one, with little meaning deliberately thrown behind it: “I think I’m bad at being a human.”

    She doesn’t learn until the next day that words spiral into bigger things, that snowballs gain mass as they tumble down hills. When she enters the kitchen, she finds Gloria at the counter, poring over a sheet of notebook paper with Sasha at her side.

    “Great timing,” announces Gloria.

    “We’ve compiled a list,” Sasha chimes in. “Thirty different activities that’ll help you feel more human. And counting.”

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    or: gloria teaches barbie how to feel alive.

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    13 Mar 2026

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    "Mother also says you're not friends anymore. Why?"

    When Alicent lowered her gaze to Joffrey, she read no reproach in the little boy's eyes, merely innocent curiosity. Why weren't they friends anymore? There had been so much pain, so many elements beyond her control that had led to this situation that Alicent had never clearly dared ask herself the question, as if the answer couldn't possibly be simple anyway. And yet the words came to her naturally, like a breath too long held in her lungs.

    "Because we hurt each other, mutually."

    "Why?"

    "Because it was so decided."

    "I don't understand," muttered the child.

    "I don't understand either," was all Alicent could reply.

    It had been four years since Driftmark, since Aemond's lost eye and Rhaenyra's blood. Four years to pray and forget.

    Four years after Driftmark, when Alicent thought she had finally forgotten, the maester announced that little Jaehaerys' lungs were sick and that only Dragonstone's sea air could cure him. And, once again, Alicent was forced to remember, to confront a past that was far too heavy, an echo of all she had lost.

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    25 May 2024

  4. Rec *

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    “Who better to stand in my stead, to stand as the Crown,” Viserys raises his hands, like he’s about to shock them all with his wisdom, “Than its trueborn heir.”

    Rhaenyra preens at the praise, the recognition. “Thank you, Father.”

    “And the Queen.”

    The smile drops from her face.

     

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    [Post-1x06] The King sends Rhaenyra and Alicent to strengthen ties with the North. Alicent lasts two days with a chill that reaches her bones; and then she finds a solution.

    (the bed-sharing fix-it that wonders if dragon blood really runs that hot)

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    06 Apr 2024

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    But I must admit it, I would marry you in an instant
    Damn your wife, I'd be your mistress just to have you around

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    sometimes a family can be a lesbian, her stepdaughter, her gay husband, his lover and their eight children

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    06 Apr 2024