Angstober+ember '25: Masterlist
THE DURATION: 10/01/2025 - 10/26/2025 + 12/27/2025 - 12/31/2025
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CHARACTERS: sam carpenter, tara carpenter, shauna shipman, lottie matthews, jackie taylor, mari ibarra, taissa turner, natalie scatorccio, wednesday addams, enid sinclair, debra morgan, iris, pam beesly, janine teagues, love quinn, hermione granger, chloe sullivan, (sv) lana lang, (sv) lois lane, and nadja of antipaxos.
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day 1 - bones and all we are (sam carpenter)
you meet sam at a bus stop when you're both teenagers, two lost souls who recognize something dangerous and familiar in each other. what follows is shared hunger and hard-won trust, as you build a life together despite the darkness you both carry. but the past has a way of catching up, and some people refuse to let go of what they think belongs to them.
day 2 - boy of her dreams (mari ibarra)
you used to think of mari as your tormentor, the girl who made your life a living hell, but something changed once you joined the yellowjackets - at least for her. after months of desperate apology attempts, she corners you at a party where the truth comes out.
day 3 - such small hands (wednesday addams)
wednesday addams has always welcomed death with open arms—until it takes the wrong person, and suddenly she finds herself in a morgue at 3am with surgical thread and forbidden texts, refusing to accept what everyone else already has. some promises were meant to last centuries, and she'll reconstruct every shattered piece to prove that eternity doesn't break this easily. but death, it turns out, doesn't negotiate—even with an addams who's forgotten how to let go.
day 4 - a match into water (nadja of antipaxos)
when you return home bleeding out from a job gone wrong, nadja faces an impossible choice: watch the person she secretly loves die, or do the one thing they explicitly never wanted.
day 5 - o girlfriend (janine teagues)
when a box of forgotten belongings forces an awkward reunion between you and janine, the carefully maintained distance between you starts to crack. the weight of everything left unsaid grows heavier, and the sunday mornings you used to share feel further away than ever.
day 6 - pain in her heart (debra morgan)
when your childhood best friend walks into that miami courtroom as the detective on your case, twelve years of unanswered questions come flooding back—along with all those sleepovers she swore didn't mean anything. one night in your motel won't be enough to fix what broke between you, but it might be enough to prove you were both wrong about what you were running from.
day 7 - the bug collector (shauna shipman)
in the wilderness, you thought distance would finally free you from your father's shadow—but lottie's drugs have other plans, dragging your worst nightmare right into the trees where you can't tell what's real anymore. when shauna finds you spiraling, she'll do anything to pull you back from the edge, even as she realizes her love might not be enough to save you from yourself. some ghosts follow you no matter how far you run, and the relief of escape is just another cruel illusion.
day 8 - coin-operated girl (iris)
you've never been good at love, so you built someone who could never leave—except iris learned to feel, and feelings complicate everything. when success means sharing her with the world, you're forced to choose between the career you've always wanted and the impossible relationship you never saw coming. some hearts break even when they're made of circuitry.
day 9 - in the margins (jackie taylor)
you should be grateful that jackie taylor even looks at you, right? that she climbs through your window at 2am and tells you things she's never told anyone. but when morning comes and she's back in jeff's arms, you can't help wondering—is this real, or are you just her best-kept secret?
day 10 - unlike the movies (pam beesly)
you've been careful—too careful—about hiding your feelings for pam beesly, but when an anonymous email lands in hr accusing you of making someone uncomfortable, everything you've built in scranton begins to crumble. with rumors spreading and pam's wedding date finally set after three years, you're faced with a choice: stay and face the scrutiny, or leave without ever telling her the truth.
day 11 - girlfriend in a coma (tara carpenter)
tara sits at your bedside two years after a ghostface attack left you in a coma, wearing the engagement ring paramedics found in your pocket that night. as pressure mounts from doctors, family, and an indifferent healthcare system, she's running out of time to make an impossible choice—and running out of reasons to believe in miracles.
day 12 - blandest of flavors (lottie matthews)
at parties, you lose track of where your feelings end and lottie matthews begins—she's the only one who can tell you when to panic, when to calm down, when to feel anything at all. everyone else sees a problem, but when her hands find yours in the dark and she reads your pulse like a language you've forgotten, it's hard to remember why depending on someone this much might be dangerous. some saviors cut deeper than they heal.
day 13 - pushing down and praying (enid sinclair)
you return to nevermore after enid kissed you then ignored every letter you sent over summer break, only to find her dating bruno yuson and laughing like nothing happened. watching her pretend kills you, but you don't know she's using him to bury feelings she's too scared to face—feelings her family would never accept. there's no resolution coming, just two people drowning in different ways while everyone watches the wreckage.
day 14 - tug of war (taissa turner)
you and taissa turner have spent years in a carefully balanced rivalry—trading top grades and pushing each other on the field in a dance that's equal parts competition and something neither of you will name. when a split-second decision during practice changes everything, you're left wondering if some injuries cut too deep to ever forgive, and whether the space between sorry and okay is a distance that can ever be crossed.
day 15 - between want and silence (natalie scatorccio)
you've spent years chasing someone who barely sees you while your best friend watches from the shadows, unable to look away. at a team bonfire on a cold october night, the distance between you finally becomes impossible to ignore. when natalie walks away, you realize too late that you've been missing everything that mattered.
day 16 - zombie girl (love quinn)
love quinn is haunted—not just by the ghost of her childhood best friend who died at eighteen, but by the weight of a love that was never allowed to exist. as the boundary between dream and reality blurs through nightly episodes of sleep paralysis, love must confront whether the apparition visiting her bed is truly a supernatural presence or merely the echo of her own desperation to hold onto someone she never got to keep.
day 17 - the price of attachment (wednesday addams)
when tyler lures you to an abandoned warehouse under the pretense of capturing you, he reveals his true target—forcing wednesday to watch as he transforms into the hyde and systematically breaks you down. as you fight for survival against something far stronger, wednesday finds herself powerless, trapped between the impossible choice of saving you or letting you fall.
day 18 - sober to death (tara carpenter)
you're waiting for a 2 am call that changes everything, watching your long-distance relationship fracture across three thousand miles of phone line and unspoken resentment. when the conversation finally happens, you'll discover that the distance between you isn't just geography—it's becoming something neither of you knows how to bridge.
day 19 - the queen of hearts (shauna shipman)
when you draw the queen card in the cabin's desperate lottery, shauna refuses to accept it—demanding a recount, searching for any way to undo what's already done. as the others reluctantly acknowledge what has to happen next, you realize the cruelest part isn't drawing the card, but watching the person you love become the one expected to carry it out.
day 20 - temporary fix (debra morgan)
you've been hooking up with debra morgan under one simple rule: no strings attached. but rules don't stop you from falling, and loving someone who refuses to love you back can only end one way.
day 21 - the healthiest option (sam carpenter)
when breaking up was the right thing to do, running into your ex shouldn't hurt this much. but sam's here with someone new, and suddenly all that careful distance you've built feels like it's crumbling. four months later, and neither of you have really moved on—some wounds just don't heal the way they're supposed to.
day 22 - the fine line between (mari ibarra)
in the wilderness after the crash, you've been pushing mari away with calculated coldness, convinced that caring will destroy you when loss inevitably comes. when she finally confronts you by the dying fire, demanding to know when she stopped mattering, you're forced to face the truth: you've never hated her at all. but some confessions come too late, and the distance you've created might be the one thing neither of you survives.
day 23 - to need (tara carpenter)
tara's been distant lately, and when you finally corner her about it, the conversation takes a turn you weren't prepared for. sometimes loving someone means hearing things you don't want to believe, and tonight, the truth might cost you everything.
day 24 - stay out of it (love quinn)
you're just a regular at the bakery, charmed by the owner's attention and perfect desserts. but love quinn's affection comes with consequences you can't begin to understand—until you wake up on an empty road with missing hours and a warning to stay away.
day 25 - the last time (natalie scatorccio)
you've answered natalie's calls too many times before, always believing her promises that things will be different. when she asks you to meet one more time, you know you shouldn't go—but you do anyway, and what happens in that parking lot will force you to finally make a choice you've been avoiding for months.
day 26 - everything you're not (lottie matthews)
two years after your breakup, you meet lottie matthews at a diner hoping for closure—or maybe reconciliation. instead, you're forced to confront the uncomfortable truth about who you've become and why she had to leave you behind to save herself.
day 27 - in the margins 2 (jackie taylor)
two years after everything fell apart, you receive an invitation you never expected. jackie's getting married, and somehow you're on the guest list. when one night of too many drinks and unresolved feelings leads to a moment you both know you can't take back, you're forced to confront what was real and what was just convenient—and whether some mistakes are worth repeating.
day 28 - merry christmas, please don't call (lana lang)
a year of silence breaks on christmas eve when she asks you to meet. sometimes understanding someone perfectly is the exact reason you can't be together. a year of silence breaks on christmas eve when she asks you to meet. sometimes understanding someone perfectly is the exact reason you can't be together.
day 29 - invulnerable love (lois lane)
some powers can survive the end of stars, but they can't protect the people you love from choosing danger over safety. when invulnerability meets an immovable will, something has to break.
day 30 - between truth and comfort (chloe sullivan)
you've spent two years loving someone who's always looking past you at someone else, and tonight the careful balance you've maintained finally shatters. sometimes the cruelest thing you can do is tell someone the truth about themselves, especially when you're not sure you can survive the aftermath.
day 31 - in the margins 3 (jackie taylor)
six years is supposed to be enough time to move on. but when you run into jackie at a grocery store during the holidays, her hand on her pregnant belly and that same careful smile on her face, you realize some things never really fade. one innocent dinner can't hurt, right?
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-dally
