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    Through a series of tragic events Ellie Williams ends up in the foster care system in the small town of Jackson, Wyoming.

    More alone than ever, Ellie struggles with settling in.

    That is, until she gets the opportunity to learn to fly. Literally.

    Joel Miller is a man that's had his fair share of tragedy. Despite life's cruelties he's managed to carved out a life for himself in Jackson.

    Determined not to complicate or jeopardize that he tends to keep everyone at arm's-length.

    Little do either of them know the impact they are about to have on each other's lives.

    or:
    Modern AU. No Outbreak.
    Ellie takes flight lessons; Joel is her instructor.
    Unplanned bonding ensues (with a healthy side of angst).

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    29 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 71

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    It’s a Friday evening, her thirty-seven year-old boyfriend dumped her a month ago after finding out her real age (seventeen), and she’s drunk off her ass at Matt Garson’s annual spring break party with the rest of their pretentious, elite arts academy student body. And maybe she'd bet a hundred bucks - against the fuckboys of the water polo team, or maybe one of them's a nepo baby, whatever - on being the one to pull Fatin Jadmani that night.

    It's not the worst idea she's ever had, but it definitely might come close.

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    10 Apr 2025

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    She picks up the keychain. It only has one key on it, and it’s a boring keychain, just one of those stretchy plastic bracelet ones that look like hair ties.

    But it’s still a house key.

    “You’ve known me for less than eighteen hours.”

    “Highlight of my life,” Joel mutters.

    Or: Another foster kid au!

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    27 Dec 2024

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    They migrate between beds like some sort of strange, three-bodied alien, always pressed together in tangled limbs and huffed laughter and gentle teasing. It works, somehow, and days turn into weeks turn into months, and for the first time ever, Elphaba thinks--hopes--suspects--she might not be alone

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    None of them were supposed to interact at Shiz. They should've been separate, should never have even crossed paths, really, but they did and they can't change that and to be honest, they wouldn't do it even if they could. What they have is too good to be stopped by little things like society.

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    28 Nov 2024

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    “Brutally honest,” Jamie says, as if he’s still trying to get the point across. “No more secrets.”

    Roy stares at him. “Yes. I know what words mean.”

    “Okay,” Jamie says, and then he says, “I talked to Keeley about maybe being bisexual because that night we fought over her I wasn’t just jealous about her.”

    Or: Roy Kent finds himself in a situation. Fuck everyone, and Jamie Tartt in particular (gently, on soft sheets, all night long – ugh).

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    01 Jun 2024