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  1. Public Bookmark 66

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    “You look tired,” Rhaenyra said.

    Alicent could not suppress a snort in time. “I was just sick, if you recall,” she said.

    “I mean in general. You look… bone weary. You've looked like this for a while.”

    Alicent let out a laugh that sounded like a sigh.

    “I've been told I seem to be glowing from happiness,” she replied wryly.

    Rhaenyra paused and looked intently at Alicent. “Are you?”

    “Am I what?,” came Alicent's clipped answer. She felt a familiar itch at her fingernails, and resisted the urge to hide her hands under her skirt.

    “Happy,” Rhaenyra did not look away from her face. “Are you happy about getting married?”

    “Any maiden would naturally be happy to be getting married,” Alicent smiled and tried not to choke on the words. She hoped Rhaenyra would realize she was uncomfortable and stop pressing the issue. It was not Rhaenyra's nature to be merciful, however.

    “But are you happy, Alicent?” she asked once again. Alicent could not remember when was the last time she had heard the Princess speak her name.

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    25 Jun 2025

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    Something about this woman is painfully familiar, but she can’t say ‘I feel like I know you, what’s your name?’ when the stranger hasn’t shown any hints of knowing Leah.

    (Aside from the warmth in her eyes that Leah brushes off as friendliness. Aside from the slight pull of her lips that Leah brushes off as annoyance. Aside from the screaming heart between Leah’s ribs that Leah brushes off as embarrassment at staring openly at such a beautiful woman.)



    or, Leah meets Fatin again. And again. And again.

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  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    toni topaz has a gift. she doesn’t really think about it as the most amazing thing in the world, or the most useful, for all that matters. it doesn’t change the fact that it’s hers and no one else’s.

    she also has a system she's developed to deal with it. and it's so second nature to her that she hardly dwells on it that much. especially not at parties, especially not at one on the Northside, especially not when she sees the most gorgeous girl standing alone by the kitchen counter, a glass of some drink in her hands and a number thirteen above her head.

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    09 Aug 2020

  4. Public Bookmark 44

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    a look at cheryl and toni’s love story through the eyes of the people around them as they navigate the end of senior year.

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    23 May 2020

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    here’s the thing.

    if you had told toni topaz about a year ago that she’d currently be in some restaurant in riverdale sipping mimosas with the craziest girl in town, the cop who was way too good at her job and suffered the price for it, a girl who disappeared years ago only to come back as a goddamn assassin and some kid she’d never met before with a habit for pick pocketing, she would’ve told you to go back to snorting coke off a stripper’s back and leave her the hell alone.

    but, again…here’s the thing.

    that’s exactly what she’s doing. with three crazy broads, all who she’d never met before a couple weeks ago who now seem to be something akin to sisters to her.

    after what they’ve been through, seems strange not to have that kind of sisterhood with them.

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    toni topaz doesn't consider herself a 'good guy'. neither does cheryl blossom, veronica lodge or betty cooper for that matter. but when riverdale's resident 'bad guy' is close to getting his hands on unlimited funds to source his evil plan, they find themselves banding together to put an end to his madness.

    hell, crazy can't be defeated without a little crazy itself.

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    aka, a birds of prey au.

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    20 Feb 2020