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  1. Public Bookmark 38

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    Margo seeks Sophie out after their game of spin the bottle.

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    20 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 58

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    A prequel to New Spring and a coming-of-age romance that begins before they arrive at the Tower and ends with the Accepted test. The story follows the book timeline, includes events that are referred NS and builds towards the characters and the deeply committed relationship that we know from the show. It was born from a need to resolve some book/show discrepancies and write happiness for the fishwives.

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    02 May 2026

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    After one too many drinks at Girls’ Night, JJ and Emily have a sleepover—totally platonic, obviously. Because best friends cuddle. And steal each other’s clothes. And stay tangled together in bed for as long as possible. Nothing to see here.

    One sleepover turns into two. Then three. Then a habit neither of them questions. Because best friends do this, right? They fall asleep wrapped around each other after long cases. They take care of each other when things get too heavy. And of course, they pretend it doesn’t mean anything.

    Emily is pining. JJ is oblivious, doing everything except processing her feelings. And the rest of the team? They’re placing bets.

    AKA: A slow-burn disaster featuring pining, oblivious idiots, suspiciously domestic sleepovers, team scheming, and a little bit of smut, as a treat.

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    05 Jun 2025

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    “I don’t have sex.”

    Agatha’s face screwed up somewhere between delight and incredulity, “You don’t ever?” She scoffed, “As in you’ve never at all? How long have you been here?”

    “Since the inception of life itself.”

    “And you’ve never fucked?” The way she said it, it did sound a little stupid, “What do you do to pass the time?”

    “I scare children,” Death shifted in her chair, still rubbing at the skin of one hand with the other. No wonder Agatha had nowhere to live, she thought. She was unbearable. “Amongst other things.”

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    Upon meeting Death, Agatha takes it upon herself to educate her on some of the finer points of being human.

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    30 May 2025

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    Rio stared at her quietly, slowly tapping her foot against the tiled floor. A wrinkle formed between her eyebrows from thinking about Agatha's predicament, and the lawyer sighed, waving her hand dismissively.
    "Stop trying to find a solution to this. It will give you a stroke."
    "Marry me," Agatha was glad she had finished her drink because she would spill it all over the bar at the words. She blinked to regain her composure, her mind scrambling for a teasing remark to fire back at Rio, but her tongue could only form one word.
    "What?"
    "I'm not a stranger from Craigslist, and I know probably most psychopaths would say that, but I'm not a psychopath. So, marry me."
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    Agatha learns about a clause in her mother's will that makes her unable to inherit Evanora's fortune unless she gets married by forty. While drowning her sorrows at a bar, she meets Rio, a PhD student working behind the bar to make ends meet, who proposes an insane solution to her problem. Or rather, proposes to Agatha.
    Everything spirals out of control after that.

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    03 Mar 2025