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So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything AGAIN.
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When they told her story they harped on her innocence, her brazen cloak, the dangers of talking to strangers and straying from the path.
Red agreed that those were dangers. After weeks of catching her breath, she did not agree they were wrongs.
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Little Red Riding Hood was not little. Her name was not Red, but they called her that. When she got back to her mother’s house, after the wolf, she hid her red cloak in the back of her closet.
Had a huntsman cut her out of the wolf’s belly? Had she realized the danger and tricked her way to safety? Or had she had a little pocket knife in there with her, and cut her own way to the light? All she told her mother was that there was a wolf.
But this was not the story of her first death. This was the story of her life.
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daughter of air: a cane and a conch shell by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: The Little Mermaid - All Media Types, The Little Mermaid (1989), Den lille Havfrue | The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen
03 Nov 2014
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Ariel will not be sea foam or a queen. There is life beyond love. There is love in just living. Her true love will not be married on the morn--the prince will be married then, in glorious splendor, but he had never been why she was here.
Ariel traded her voice for legs to stand on, a chance at another life. When she poked her head above the waves, it wasn't the handsome biped that she fell for. It was the way the hills rolled, golden in the sun. It was the clouds chasing each other across blue sky, like sea foam you could never reach.
(She does reach it, one day, bouncing around in the back of a blacksmith's cart, signing jokes to him in between helping to tune his guitar. They crest up a high mountain pass and into the belly of a cloud. Her breath whistles out, swirls water droplets, and she reaches out a hand to touch the sky. Her feet will scream all her life, but after that morning they ache just a little bit less).
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The moon asked the sun, “What do you know of love?”
“It burns,” said the sun. “It brightens. It is something you make and then give away.”
“Don’t listen to him,” said the clouds. “This big ball of gas doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
“Yes, I do,” said the sun. “Who but me makes the roses grow?”
“We do,” said the clouds. “Love nourishes, like the rain. We turn the hills green and fill the creeks so they will sing in their creekbeds.”
“Why do you ask?” said the sun.
“I think I might be in love,” said the moon. “I am trying to understand.”
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Real Enough by esama
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Apr 2016
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Harry Potter, JARVIS and whole lot of artificial existentialism.