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fizzigigsimmer · 6 months

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I wish I had more time to write. I have so many fic ideas that live in folders that I am afraid will never see the light. After I finish my Big Bang fic I still have to finish To B With Love & All The Kings Men (oof poor baby has gone so neglected). So this brain bunny will sadly probably not see life until next years big bang honestly. But I love the idea so much and want to share it. All my love to @dream-about-dancing who helped me with my initial brainstorming and encouraged me that this wasn't too dark of an idea lol.

That said. Warnings ahead for some dark!romance as in, this is fucked up with purpose.

The idea came to me after the massive disappointment that was Don't Worry Darling. I just feel like the film missed a lot of the horror and emotional beats that make the original Stepford Wives so twisted and compelling.

So my idea for a Harringrove Stepford!Wives Au was born.

A secret government organization has given Martin Brenner funding for "The Eden project". The goal of Eden is to create an actionable community model that would end poverty, wealth inequality, crime, war etc in the western world. Their slogan is " take the first step to world peace. Choose Eden."

World peace is the surface goal, but we all know Brenner is a closeted sociopath - so naturally he's using Eden and the technology behind it to create a weapon that can control/erase/change the will of others on a mass scale. World peace through mind control in other words. Everyone in Eden is essentially a test subject.

Brenner finds volunteers by preying on fringe groups and people who are ostracized in society, because they can more easily disappear without being missed. Nobody cares if the guy dealing drugs out of his van stops showing up to the corner, or some "tranny" quits their job and moves without telling anyone.

Billy and Steve are college roommates, it's the 80s, and they're both deep in the closet. Billy struggles with his childhood trauma and Steve is there for him like no one else ever has been. Steve is exploring his own sexuality and trying to live independently of his overbearing parents for the first time and they form a very codependent relationship.

Steve's parents start to suspect somethings up with him and his roommate and start to put pressure on him to live up to his responsibilities (Aka join his father's firm and get married to a nice girl). It doesn't help that Billy is fearful and possessive of their relationship and generally just a giant redflag. Steve just wants to be with Billy, but he knows they don't have a future and he doesn't want to be the son who fucks up and ruins his family over something he shouldn't even want - so he breaks up with Billy.

Billy spirals. He completely ignores the part about Steve breaking up with him because he's an unstable mess lol and fixates on Steve's parents and the world telling them it's wrong to be together. He knows Steve was happy with him and that Steve loves him and is desperate to get him back.

He meets someone at a bar who introduces him to Project Eden and indoctrinates him into Brenner's circle. At first Billy thinks this sounds like some weird geek novel bullshit, but the idea of a safe world where he's not wrong for being the way that he is, and where Steve still loves him and he's powerful and successful and nothing can touch him? Appealing as fuck. Sign him up. He'll be a warrior for world peace.

Cue him literally abducting Steve on his wedding day and bringing him into Eden, where they become The Hargroves. They have the perfect life and the perfect marriage that the outside world tells them they can't have. Billy's the provider and each day he gets to come home to his blissfully happy and submissive husband.

He was afraid at first that Brenner's technology would take away what he loves most about Steve, but no he's still the same dork with the same fire. The only downside is Billy knows deep down that Steve didn't choose this and he lives in fear of Steve waking up one day and truly hating him.

The first crack comes when Steve starts to have upsetting dreams about the past, including the time his dad called him a slur and accused him of ruining the family and breaking his mother's heart. Billy tells him these are just nightmares but he knows they are really Steve's memories popping up where they shouldn't. He starts to panic and does everything he can to "fix" Steve, gaslighting him the entire way.

Meanwhile poor Steve is on a reluctant heroes journey slowly regaining his memories and his own mind. He starts unraveling the mysteries behind Eden with the help of Eleven and his friends, who are also fellow residents of Eden. Eleven is Brenner's "daughter" and unknowingly is a big part of how the technology works. Max and Lucas came to Eden together so they could be together without persecution. Heather and Robin were lesbians who didn't know each other and wanted a chance to experience being in love. Jason was a closeted man escaping religious trauma, but in Eden he's the perfect husband to Chrissy who isn't sick or being abused by her mother anymore, and Eddie was a poor social outcast who wanted the world to hear his music. In Eden he's a rock star and has a budding romance with Jason & Chrissy.

Steve agrees that they can't allow Brenner to use El and the Eden technology for what he's planning, but the more of the truth he discovers the more he wishes he'd never woken up. Because despite everything, he loves Billy and the life they have. Billy's very sorry of course. It was never his intention to hurt Steve. He just wanted to make things right for them. And it can all be right again if they all just take this little pill and go to sleep.

Decisions decisions.

#harringrove #plot bunnies #dark romances #twisted love stories #stepford wives au #the plot bunny vault #fic ideas #fizzi writes fic

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clevercloudpoetry · 1 year

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I will never be a good book critic. I, for the life of me, can't leave a review lower than 3* and don't leave anything if I can't finish it. I've been binging Dark Romances because why not. I go through phases of genre and for some reason Dark Romances intrigue me. So,anyways, I have been leaving 5* reviews on most things and I see 1* reviews about the depth of the story. Ma'am, I'm here for the smut. The story is appreciated but not really the main focus here.

#I know different people different opinions #but I just had to write this #because I keep reading bad reviews and sniggering like a moron #I need sleep #dark romances #also some of those books made me forget about the smut so there's that

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jayvespertine · 7 months

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— Trista Mateer ,“I Still Forget We’re Not Even Friends”

#literature #dark academia #poetry #quotes #poem #light academia #romance #romantic academia #love quotes

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poetryforall · 12 days

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-Rumi

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ihateyouvishal · 2 months

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"I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again."

//Arthur Miller, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

#dark academia #quotes #poem #light academia #romance #romantic academia #love quotes #poetry #literature #arthur miller

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themachomoron · 10 months

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If reincarnation is real I wonder how many people stare at their own art in museums, listen to their own music they made in a different life and read books they don't remember writing

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sinamoan · 26 days

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the urge to have him pin me like that....

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manincaffeine · 5 months

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not to be a horny but i think we should hold hands and go on museum dates together ♡

#txt post #txt #dark academia #dark romanticism #intimacy #desiblr #desi tumblr #romanticism #writers on tumblr #desi academia #love #love quotes #litrature #romance #artists on tumblr #winter #spiled ink

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berlinsct · 1 month

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bebs-art-gallery · 19 days

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The Lovers by Andu Artist

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the-overanalyst · 11 months

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unmatched ship dynamic: "i've done terrible things in the past" x "all i care about is who you are in the present"

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letsbelonelytogetherr · 10 months

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Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

#dark academia #literature #memes #poem #quotes #poetry #light academia #romance #love quotes #romantic academia

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joytri · 10 months

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Neil said, "I was good. I was really good."

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jayvespertine · 11 days

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– Audrey Hepburn

#literature #quotes #dark academia #light academia #poetry #romance #romantic academia #poem #memes #love quotes

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risqueraven · 3 months

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#alternative goth #goth girl #gothcore #gothic aesthetic #gothic style #romantic goth #alt girl #alternative #dark aesthetic #gothic #darkness #dark academia #dark romance #daddy's good girl #daddy’s babygirl #goth #sillouette

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thedomesticanthropologist · 3 months

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It will always be sooo funny to me that in every route, every origin except his own, Astarion needs the most babysitting or he goes off the deep end, gets himself killed if you don't recruit him, etc etc

EXCEPT DARK URGE, wherein he sees the ONE person on Earth that is such an incredible wreck that it inspires him to become the stable one in the relationship

Absolutely fucking hilarious 10/10 no notes

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #astarion bg3 #astarion romance #the dark urge #bg3 durge #durgestarion

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