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    Harrow, naked on the bed. Blindfolded. Nerves churning.

    Arching into the touch—
     
    The woman whispers: “So willing. And you don’t even know me.

     

    or,
    Harrow wants blindfolded anonymous sex. Guess who she gets matched with.

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    12 Mar 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 56

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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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    14 Dec 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 99

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    Harrow sometimes felt like she was losing the plot of her own life.

    She didn’t do casual hook-ups, she never had. But with Gideon Nav, she couldn’t seem to stay away. Never mind that they only seemed able to get along when Gideon was getting Harrow off. And Gideon was willing to get Harrow off in empty rooms at house parties, in bar bathrooms, and one particularly memorable time in Gideon’s own bedroom while a MarioKart tournament was happening one room over.

    All Harrow had to do was keep ignoring the pit in her stomach that seemed to get bigger every time Gideon left her alone after sex that seemed to suggest that maybe Harrow wasn’t actually having fun anymore. That maybe she wanted something more.

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    16 Sep 2023

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    “So you want to shake off Ianthe and I want to make Corona see me as a legit romantic prospect. I have the perfect plan,” Gideon said, her eyes glowing in the way that told Harrow she was much drunker than she’d been letting on.

    “That’s not a comforting statement coming from you,” Harrow replied, knowing she was definitely not drunk enough for whatever Gideon was about to say.

    “We should pretend to date each other."

    “No,” Harrow said. “Absolutely not.”

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    Harrow agrees to fake-date Gideon and it goes completely smoothly and according to plan.

    Just kidding, it's an absolute disaster of pining and repressed feelings.

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    15 Sep 2023

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    “What’s with the sword theme?” She asks.
    “Aiglamene likes swords.” The walls of Scabbards are leaden with them, replicas of swords, pictures of swords, a suit of armor off in a corner holding–you guessed it–a sword.
    “So why not call the bar ‘Swords’?”
    “Well,” Gideon is only a little delighted that she’s asked this. “Imagine a sword is a dick, then a scabbard must be a–”
    “Ah.”
    “‘Pussys’ would be too on the nose for a lesbian bar, so Scabbards it is.” Gideon leans forward, hands on the counter and a conspiratorial tone in her voice. “You do know you’re in a lesbian bar, right?”
    “Yes, Griddle. I have eyes and critical thinking skills.” Harrow takes another too-big drink.
    “I didn’t know nuns went to lesbian bars.” Gideon says, to be a shit.

    Or: I was just gonna write a fun little thing about Gideon being a bartender and a drummer because I find both of those things attractive, and then 2k of tragic catholic guilt attached itself to Harrow like a revenant, so shit got angsty.
    There'll be porn in later chapters, I promise.

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    02 Feb 2023

  6. Public Bookmark 52

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    Gideon doesn't have a lot of rules. Don't blow smoke in her face, don't pick up girls too drunk for anything to count as consent, and don't break into her apartment when she had specifically asked you not to.

    Harrow doesn't like that last one.

    They shower together over it because healthy communication is for people with good childhoods.

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    17 Jan 2023

  7. Public Bookmark 16

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    That smug grin comes back, a little faded around the edges as Gideon's gaze flits between Harrow's eyes, mouth, lower. "You know," she drawls, "we could always get out of here. Go upstairs. I'll give you the grand tour."

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    26 Dec 2022

  8. Public Bookmark 38

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    Harrow's having trouble sleeping, so she goes to where she feels safe.

    [written for the fluff prompt: in the shadows.]

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    23 Nov 2022

  9. Public Bookmark 71

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    God, there’d been a time when Gideon had wanted nothing less than to be close to Harrow. And then shit had happened that had made them both…realize some things. Harrow had inherited the throne, had needed a guard, and Gideon had been…well. Bored.

    Who could have fucking guessed that they’d fall in love? That she, Gideon fucking Nav, buff beast of the Ninth, would have fallen for a glorified stick figure that rattled with every step from the sheer amount of bones she wore?

    It was comical. It was absurd. It was fucking great.

    -x-

    Medieval!AU where Gideon is queen Harrow's personal guard, and they fuck in a church.

    That's it, that's the fic.

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    03 Nov 2022

  10. Public Bookmark 51

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    Harrowhark Nonagesimus came back into Gideon’s life the way most people their age return home during breaks from school and after graduation: Gideon was a safe place to land and review options before taking off into the world at breakneck pace once more.

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    26 Oct 2022

  11. Public Bookmark 53

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    Gideon finds the movie she wants. Some recent supernatural-horror. She says, I know this one really well. It has two climaxes.

     
     

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    Gideon tells Harrow: I’m fucking you. Watch the movie.

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    23 Aug 2022

  12. Public Bookmark 31

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    She’s very aware of how Harrow shivers, and barely manages to keep herself still and serious as Harrow readies herself. She is so close like this, but the positioning is still so awkward, and after a few tries, Harrow just huffs and clambers into Gideon’s lap. She won’t look Gideon in the eye, but she is insistent and almost petulant when she says, “Try now.” Gideon places one hand on Harrow’s hip to keep her still, and relishes in the shiver that runs through her body, and flicks on the lighter once Harrow looks her in the eye and nods.

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    16 Apr 2022

  13. Public Bookmark 12

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    “I’ve seen the way you look at me,” Harrow said again. “Seen your leering looks. The way your eyes scan everything before your brain finally catches on. Well, it’s your lucky day, Nav. I’ve finally thought of the way to make you mind."

    "Harrow,” Gideon said, one last tired time, “let me go. Just let me go.”

    Title from The Cat In The Hat Has The Right To Sing The Blues. The problem with sainthood is that you have to be dead.

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    16 Apr 2022

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    To: Gideon Nav [14 Oct 2021 11:34am]
    Hello Griddle. I hope this message finds you well. I’m just following up with our conversation over breakfast; please clarify what time I should be at your office for the roleplay. Best, Harrowhark

    To: Harrowhark Nonagesimus [14 Oct 2021 11:39am]
    Harrow. We are married. Why are you emailing me this like a weirdo? Check your phone. And 2-3pm, please. Warmly, YOUR LITERAL WIFE

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    In which Dr. Nonagesimus and Dr. Nav are busy professors wives just trying to catch a break.

    (Or: Five times college professors Gideon and Harrow mess up the teacher/student role play, and one time where they get it just right.)

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    22 Mar 2022

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    Harrow glances at the display of pastries for a long few moments, but then shakes her head decisively and turns her midnight gaze back to Gideon, who totally does not feel her knees go a bit weak. “Just the coffee,” she says, and then, almost playfully now, “thank you, Gideon."

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    11 Oct 2021

  16. Public Bookmark 12

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    It was really only a matter of time before it all came spilling out.

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    11 Oct 2021

  17. Rec 54

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    Harrow's pulling another all-nighter for her biochemistry homework and loses track of the time. Gideon convinces her to go the fuck to bed.

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    11 Oct 2021

  18. Public Bookmark 4

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    Since the fall of Erawen and Maeve, Elirea has been in a constant state of repair. Aelin and Rowan finally get around to having a big wedding and reception, bringing Manon and Elide back into each other’s orbit.

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    06 Oct 2021

  19. Public Bookmark 9

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    Elide Lochan, hunter of all things unnatural.

    Her friend and hunting parter never came back, so it's up to Elide to hunt the vampire that killed him.

    One small problem: the vampire she promised to kill, she's falling for her.

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    06 Oct 2021

  20. Rec 91

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    I am going to send you some images. YOU ARE NOT TO OPEN THESE IN PUBLIC. Once you respond to this message, you are going to put your phone back in your pocket. Do NOT look at it again until you are back home. Do you understand?

    Gideon suddenly feels hot.

    She takes a deep breath to calm herself before finally opening her message thread with Harrow.

    And then she burst out laughing.

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    05 Oct 2021

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