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  1. Public Bookmark 93

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    Gideon is convinced that if her and Harrow just said "fuck it" and banged it out, the weird tension that exists between them would finally be resolved; so, she created a totally simple, not at all convoluted, multi-step plan to seduce Harrow. It was going really well, too, until Harrow promised to make out with her if she attended their organic chemistry study group each week.

    Not that Gideon was complaining about the kissing or anything. It was just now things were getting emotionally messy and their dynamic was slowly but surely developing into something complicated. And she had to read a fucking textbook.

    (This is a retelling of my other fic, We Have Chemistry, from Gideon's POV. It contains enough new scenes that it should be interesting to people who have already read WHC and enough repeated scenes that those who haven't read WHC will still be able to enjoy this!)

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    15 Jun 2024

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    Gideon was having a perfectly normal, perfectly pleasant evening (or at least, what passed for normal and pleasant in Canaan House) when Harrow looked up from her flimsy-strewn desk and said,

     

    "In the interest of remaining transparent, you ought to know that I've asked Sextus to marry me."

     

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    Harrow and Palamedes refuse Lyctorhood, and get married instead. Gideon and Camilla are totally fine about it, honest.

    God, however, is not.

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    13 Nov 2023

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    In which Gideon the First finds Wake, kills her, and then absconds with her child.

    And in the shadows of his soul, Pyrrha and Wake fight for control of the bomb.

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    08 Nov 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 40

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    They were without a doubt the nerdiest band of weirdos ever to be condemned to Saturday detention.

    Gideon was used to slumming it every weekend with the roughest of the rough; today she found herself packed in tight with a gaggle of overly inquisitive science geeks with no self control, and the exasperated ride-or-die jock friends who had reluctantly aided them in their weird-ass academic hyperfixations, most of which inevitably involved dead things, or things that could be set on fire.

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    A ten-year high school reunion brings the old Canaan High cohort back together to relive the events surrounding a fateful weekend detention, unearthing old skeletons in the closet and feelings that should have been buried six feet under.

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    27 Oct 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 55

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    But Gideon can’t fix her. Can’t bring her mother back. Can’t make her father come home. Can’t make her worthy enough to even ask for it. She can’t make the Lord forgive her.

    Except she doesn’t say any of that. It’s too hopeless. Too pathetic.

    Instead, it’s a weak plea that does escape her. But how could she ever understand? What is God to an atheist? What connection do the two of them have when it’s her whole world?

    “Has anybody ever died for you?” Harrow whispers, “Would anyone ever? People are selfish. They’re cruel. We hurt eachother, we take from eachother—and that’s why. That’s why I believe. Even if it makes me a fool in your eyes, I have to.”

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    In a rural, hyper-religious country town in central Australia, Harrow and Gideon grow up sharing a wall. Deeply, reverently, irrevocably in love, but violently steeped in enough religious shame to hide it, they fail to learn the difference between love and worship, want, and lust.

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    19 Oct 2023