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  1. Public Bookmark 37

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    Canon divergent at episode 4. Lydia finds a script that someone left behind after rehearsal. In the margins, there are funny observations, brutally honest opinions, and heartfelt confessions that make her desperate to know who the owner of the script is.

    She and the mystery person start writing anonymous notes back and forth in the margins, and before she has a chance to stop it, she finds herself coming to care for them.

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    13 Sep 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    The others find out that Cynthia cuts her own hair (or tries to). Lydia offers to help.

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    01 Aug 2023

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  3. Rec 8

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    She’d never have admitted it to anyone else. So whenever someone asked, she would just fake a conspiratorial glance over each shoulder and say, sickly-sweet and false, “Well, a girl, of course. My own little mini-me.” But as soon as she was alone, she’d lay a hand over her stomach and pray to a god she never believed in.

    And then the nurse handed her the baby, swaddled in that god-awful, damning pink, and exclaimed, “You have a baby girl!”

    Mary fought the grimace off her face, smiling down at her daughter, and leaned in to kiss her forehead. “Oh, my girl,” she whispered, so soft no one else could hear. “My poor girl. I love you so much. I’m so sorry.”

    OR: Lydia & girlhood.

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    29 Jul 2023

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    ajrjanfbakfhamfbanelabgbd *sounds of me chewing through the floor*

  4. Public Bookmark 33

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    “Then move not—”

    She stilled.

    She stilled, because her eyes were met with something entirely unexpected.

    Because between their entwined fingers, their held hands, there was something there that shouldn’t be. Something that wouldn’t be there with anyone else.

    A ball of faint orange light, cradled gently in their joined grasp like a fragile newborn.

     

    or: soulmate au - when you touch your soulmate, colors will appear on your skin at the point of contact.

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    13 Jul 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    "Why do your friends hate me?" The question roars out of her like a volcano's eruption. Impatient and needy, everything she hates to be.
    "They don't hate you-"
    "They hate me. I hate that they hate me." She hates it because she's starting to think she isn't good enough for Cynthia and all she wants is Cynthia.

    or, Lydia vs. the truth of her feelings, vulnerability, and Cynthia's guard dog group of friends.

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    08 Jul 2023

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    this. this is how you write lydia, alright