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In the autumn of 1988, Professor Vera Caldwell crosses an ocean to accept the Defense Against the Dark Arts post at Hogwarts. Arriving with little more than a suitcase and a past she has no intention of discussing, she hopes the ancient castle might offer something she has not known in a very long time: peace.
Professor Severus Snape has long since accepted that peace is an illusion, and that one’s past never truly leaves them.
Over the course of the school year, two guarded professors settle into an unexpected rhythm of shared silences, sharp wit, and quiet understanding. But some ghosts cannot be outrun forever, and even Hogwarts cannot shelter everyone who passes through its halls.
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A slow-burn character study about loneliness, intellectual companionship, the ghosts of the past, and the inconvenient business of falling for the wrong person at the wrong time.
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13 Aug 2026
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Kinktober 2022 by TalkPoliticsToMe
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Doctor Strange (Movies), Loki (TV 2021), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
18 Mar 2023
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Here are all my entries for Kinktober 2022. The first page is an index for the entire month that will be posted here.
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02 Jan 2026
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In a dystopian capitalist hellscape HydraCorp has a way of making criminals pay for their violence against capital.
Or: The one where Steve is Forcibly Genetically Modified Into A Cow for Ten Thousand Words
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09 Dec 2025
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Twelve years after the fall of Voldemort, Estelle Ophelia Black returns to Hogwarts. Not as a student, not as the girl who once carved runes into windowsills or stole apples from the kitchens with the Marauders—but as a professor. As a survivor.
Twin sister of Sirius Black, former Slytherin tangled in Gryffindor friendships, a girl caught between legacy and rebellion, and still haunted by the scent of firewhisky and ash.
In a castle full of ghosts, she finds herself again facing dangerous truths and the long shadows of war. Remus Lupin is still kind beneath his quiet, Severus Snape is still sharp behind his scowl, and the past—well, it never really left.
This is not just a return. It’s a reckoning.
Essence of Dittany is a slow-burn, emotionally layered canon-divergent epic that weaves through the aftermath of grief, the ache of forbidden love, and the cost of surviving. For those who loved the Marauders, who mourned what the war stole, and who always wondered what it might take to come home again.
This one’s for you.
And for her.
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05 Dec 2025