19 Bookmarks by hubbywhospartmachine
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Limited by EaManning
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movie 2024), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman
20 Jul 2025
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The Wizard has outlawed magic in order to protect his daughter, Elphaba, from any uprisings that might threaten her reign. Sheltered and lonely, Elphaba keeps to her studies and only knows of the outside world what her father decides to tell her.
When a blonde stranger bursts into her room one night, on the run for harboring illegal magic, Elphaba makes the impulsive decision to help her.
It's a decision that quickly changes both of their lives forever.
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- Part 1 of Limited verse
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- English
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- 260,865
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- 50/50
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13 May 2025
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Elphaba slowly learns about Galinda's panic attacks through the course of their relationship.
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- English
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- 54/?
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12 Feb 2025
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I Can't Imagine a World With You Gone (Hold On, I Still Need You) by Drunk_Breadstick
Fandoms: Scream (Movies)
22 Oct 2024
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She always knew she was going to die at a young age. Growing up, she thought she would die from an overdose, when she left home, she thought she would die from her own hand. After coming back to Tara’s life, she thought she would die protecting her sister. But she would have never guessed it would be like this.
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- Part 5 of I've Had Days I Feel I Don't Deserve Love
- Part 22 of Whumptober 2024
- Part 14 of Whumptober Stories- Scream
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- English
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- 13,800
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- 3/3
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15 Jun 2023
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'cause i'm a broken home, you're better off alone by pinkranger
Fandoms: Scream (Movies)
05 May 2023
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And all she can think about is the voice on the phone telling her that anyone close to her was going to be made to suffer.
All she can think about is how Gale's blood hasn't quite washed off her hands, and Mindy's eyes keep going distant toward the empty space at her side, and Sam hadn't even answered the phone when Danny was trying to warn her about Quinn.
So, as she watches Chad, Mindy, and Tara lean into each other, seeking comfort in the face of fear, Sam makes her decision.
Not to let Ghostface win, but to keep them from continuing to know what it's like to lose.
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Or: A dive into Sam's guilt and burden of responsibility, and how that could've eventually played out in Scream VI.
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18 Apr 2023
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She collects scars like loose coins these days, tucking them away and forgetting about them until the weight begins to drag her down. They're a visible chronology of everything she's lived through, from scraped knees to stab wounds, and she sees the way that people look at her sometimes—all pity and vague nervousness that whatever has happened to her is contagious, bad luck transferring like a virus if they get too close to her.
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Or: A 5+1 of Sam's scars and her many, many trust issues.
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- Part 3 of seek out sins and solace
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16 Apr 2023
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Once, when Sam was little, there was a freak snowstorm—not a proper blizzard, by any stretch, but more snow than she'd ever seen in her life. She remembers laying down in it, making snow angels and feeling the way that the flakes melted on her skin, and she'd stayed outside long after she began to go numb from the cold.
It was only when she finally went back inside, peeling off soggy denim and a half-frozen sweater, that the pain hit.
Being outside in the cold, that wasn't the part that hurt—it was only once she started to thaw that the agony set in, tiny pinpricks at her fingertips that grew into flames that licked up and down her body. It was the sort of pain that couldn't be dulled or ignored, demanding to be felt.
She thinks of that a lot these days, and she wonders if maybe it will be less painful for everyone if she keeps her distance and leaves the warmth and sun to the people who actually deserve it.
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Or: Sam sucks at letting people love her.
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12 Apr 2023
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She watched as they all just sat there, silently.
Sam exhaled, before moving to look for an exit.
She had to protect her family.
She was protecting her family. She hoped they would understand. Their lives were much more valuable. And she had to make sure they lived long enough to make a difference.
She just hoped they would forgive her.
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Sam does something stupid.
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11 Apr 2023
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11 Apr 2023
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She oscillates between extremes, clinging to Sam in one moment only to shove her away in the next. Shame creeps up her throat until it strangles her each time she reaches for Sam and her sister welcomes her with open arms, something like gratitude shining in her eyes as she pulls Tara close. It takes so little to fix Sam, to ease the weight of the world from her shoulders for a few precious minutes, and it just makes Tara feel worse because she could be doing that all the time, could be a source of comfort and support and love rather than giving them both whiplash as she pivots from soft embraces to words laced with venom.
She doesn't even know what she wants anymore.
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Or: Having Sam back in her life is the best thing to ever happen to her. It's also the worst.
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- Part 2 of seek out sins and solace
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09 Apr 2023
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This was supposed to be a "5 times Sam almost lost Tara" fic. It will be 10 chapters. Those two things are not related. Follow me on Tumblr for other stupid little feelings.
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07 Apr 2023
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Their reputations, their fear, follow them wherever they go, stepping against the backs of their heels wherever they walk. Between the press, the conspiracy theorists and the threat of another Ghostface striking at any moment — there are days where everything can’t help but to seem too much.
But they’ll get through this, together. Of course they will, they are the Core fucking Four after all.
A series of (mostly Sam centric) one-shots about the Core Four being a family and looking out for each other, with a big focus on angst and hurt/comfort. Accepting requests!
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05 Apr 2023
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On nights when sleep is impossible, her mind drifts to the stories she used to read Tara when they were kids. Of little red riding hood and wolves, fairytales with clear lines in the sand between good guys and bad.
She thought back then that she would always be one of the good ones. She would be the one to protect those she cared about. To protect Tara.
These days, she's not so sure what side of the line she truly belongs on. Broken promises to her sister, the twisted pleasure of hurting another person, Billy's eyes searching for hers in every reflection—those aren't the traits of a knight in shining armor. Maybe she's been a wolf this whole time, just pretending at being a good person until her true nature is revealed.
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Or: Sam thinks Sidney's promise of "Eventually" might have been a lie after all.
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- Part 1 of seek out sins and solace
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03 Apr 2023
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Tara, Mindy and Chad have noticed Sam is smiling a lot more.
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29 Mar 2023
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i'm alive by the skin of my teeth (won't you try and have some mercy on me) by pinkranger
Fandoms: Scream (Movies)
19 Mar 2023
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But she doesn't know if she'll ever get used to strangers looking at her like they know her. Like they hate her. For something she didn't orchestrate or execute.
It's degrading and, frankly, depressing, and it's harder on some days than others to get past it.
But she does. Because Tara loves her, and tells her that. Mindy makes it a point to stand close to her and link their arms when they're out in public, and Chad often slings an arm around her shoulders and says, "Don't listen to any of these chucklefucks, Sam, they couldn't survive a fraction of what we have."
And it helps, on the hard days. The shitty days.
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Or: A post-Scream VI piece that imagines how the conspiracy theorists will likely still persist even once the truth comes out
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22 Mar 2023
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Sam Carpenter has escaped three ghostfaces, but she can't escape the public's hatred.
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22 Mar 2023
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22 Mar 2023
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i wasn't dead when they found me (watch as they pull me down) by pinkranger
Fandoms: Scream (Movies)
15 Mar 2023
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She doesn’t limp anymore, except for on really cold days, and her breath only barely catches when she turns around and someone is standing just a little closer than she expected, and she’s, overall, for all intents and purposes, fine.
She’s moving past what they went through last year, as best as she can, and she wishes that others would believe her when she says that.
She wishes that Sam would believe her when she says it.
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Or: a pre-Scream VI exploration of Tara's coping mechanisms and the Carpenter sister dynamic.
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22 Mar 2023
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All Sam can do is stand there, wide-eyed and streaming tears, as her world begins to fall down around her.
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22 Mar 2023
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It's All Blood and Sweat and Life is What You Manage In Between by JackEPeace
Fandoms: Scream (Movies)
07 Feb 2022
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Deciding to leave Woodsboro had been the easy part.
Now Sam has to figure out what is supposed to come after.
(or Sam and Tara work to rebuild their relationship in the wake of what happened in Woodsboro)
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22 Mar 2023