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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    "You ask, who will answer? / In need, who will come? / When the last line is broken / When the day is all but done." - The Rider, Paris Paloma

    The howls start at dusk.

    Isn’t that always how it goes? When Nell was small she would curl up next to Helicent, smelling flour and apple cider, and every story the old nurse-maid told would start it was a cold, dark night, or a man found himself at a crossroads, at dusk. Always night. Monsters can only come out at night.

    But these aren’t monsters howling outside the walls of Ashemark, only men.

    (In which the Young Wolf takes the seat of House Marbrand.)

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    24 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 30

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    "And it hurts to miss you, but it's worse to know / That I'm the reason you won't come home / But I still call home that house in Nebraska / Where we found each other on a dirty mattress on the second floor / (Where I needed you, and I need you still)." - A House in Nebraska, Ethel Cain

    In the end it had fallen to Ser Quentyn to separate them, furious, though he turned on Baelor before he did Daemon, berating him, telling him that a prince did not brawl on the floor like a drunkard. Baelor had brushed himself off, still dignified even with blood pouring from his nose.

    “If you touch my sister again,” he had said to Aegor, quite calmly, looking around Ser Quentyn’s restraining arm, “I will kill you.”

    Maera had always loved her brother, but after that day she had worshipped him, almost shamelessly.

    (In which the fourth and final child of King Daeron the Good and Queen Myriah Martell is a girl.)

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    22 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    “CHORUS: Brave girl.
    KASSANDRA: People never say that to a lucky person, do they?” — Agamemnon, by Aeschylus (trans. Anne Carson)

    It had seemed like the bells had tolled funeral marches without end. First had been Prince Rhaegel, the King’s sickly middle son, and then his second-born, Prince Aerys. Then most shocking of all, Prince Matarys. He had only been four-and-ten, a hale and healthy princeling. With his brother Prince Valarr dead on Ashford Meadow, the primary line of succession was wiped out in a single stroke. Fools on the street began saying that House Targaryen was cursed, that the price for their incest and fornication and tyranny was finally coming due.

    (In the aftermath of the tourney at Ashford Meadow, House Targaryen reels.)

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    21 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Harry Potter never went to Hogwarts. In fact, he had only been back in England for a few months. An auror now, he's got a new partner named Weasley and they've just caught a case that will eventually change... everything. AU, inspired by season 1 of True Detective.

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    01 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    "The king is old. When he dies, Valarr will climb the Iron Throne in place of his father. Each time a battle is lost or a crop fails, the fools will say, ‘Baelor would not have let it happen, but the hedge knight killed him.’”

    Valarr Targaryen clings to life while so many others do not. And yet still the sickness will rage, the drought and famine shall come, and the Blackfyres and Ironborn shall descend upon the weakened realm.

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    21 Mar 2026