#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #lesfic #sapphic #QueerWriters #LicoriceAndMint From Tales from New Darpana Bay V2: Manic Pixie Dream Girl (First Draft) archiveofourown.org/series/3591394
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Nat had understood eventually, although perhaps not at first, about the One Rule. The queer community was messy. And it was easy to fall for women. Ceres had done far too much of it in her earlier years. Women sucked you in. It was easy to catch feels, easier still to let those feels grab you by the throat. Before you knew it, you were carving a trail of broken hearts through a community so small that by the time you were done, you were either a queen or a pariah, or both somehow. She’d been both, more often than she cared to admit it. So now she had rules. And the first one, the most important one, the one that applied to everything no matter what -