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  1. Public Bookmark 15

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    Six years after leaving Britain, Hermione Granger comes home looking like sunshine and seawater and everything Harry Potter never stopped missing.

    He tells himself he’s only happy to have his best friend back.

    Then a winter wedding, an old heartbreak, and one reckless introduction leaves him cast as her fiancé and he finds that playing the part is not that hard at all.

    It’s remembering they’re supposed to be pretending that’s the challenge.

    Written for the Harmony Out of the Ordinary fest- multiple tropes

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    12 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    Elphaba peered over her glasses and said, “Do you mind?”

    “What?”

    “You’re being…distracting.” Elphaba gestured to all of her, which made Galinda grin mischievously.

    “Distracting… in a good way?”

    “Is there a good way to be distracting, Galinda?”

    “I believe there is a very good way to be distracting, Elphie.”

    Or: Wicked should have been for the lesbians. This is a Gelphie at Shiz burn in the “in betweens” of scenes in the musical (act 1) / movie with book references where things went slightly differently the night of the Ozdust Ballroom and set a different story in motion.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    Galinda Upland is an up-and-coming architect with one of Oz' premier firms, Morrible & Diggs. She's most definitely straight. (But, still, she has sex with women and tells herself it doesn't count.)

    Elphaba Thropp is the dour, antisocial chief legal counsel at the same firm. She's bi. She has needs. People aren't exactly lining up to date her, and Galinda is convenient, even if Elphaba knows better than to get involved with the most closeted woman she's ever met. (Besides, she's absolutely not looking for anything but sex.)

    And thus, the arrangement.

    Reader, you'll be shocked to find it goes off the rails.

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    09 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    Glinda expects to sleepwalk through divorce negotiations with Fiyero; it's been amicable enough, they have no children, and he has more money than she does, so there's no need to fight over assets. Nonetheless, he's being a brat about the cabin she decided they should purchase, and so argue they will. Bring on the boring, dry, negotiations.

    She just wasn't expecting his divorce attorney to be the most beautiful woman she's ever seen.

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    modern AU, Elphaba's Fiyero's attorney as he and Glinda get a divorce. Glinda flirts with Elphaba and makes it her mission to seduce her when Elphaba won't acknowledge the sexual tension between them

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    08 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 47

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    "Why?" Regina whispered.
    Emma didn't answer. Didn't know what to say.
    She simply readjusted her grip — and led her on.

    Regina is alive. That's the only truth Emma has.
    She takes her son and the woman who tried to die and drives until Storybrooke is behind them — no plan, no destination, only the road and the certainty that staying would be worse.

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    07 Jul 2026