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    "All her growth was the conveying of a corpse of hope."
    (From 'The Rainbow', D.H. Lawrence)

    This is a story about coming into one's own, a meditation on the twilight of girlhood and the violence of crash-landing into womanhood. Follow Hermione as she navigates through the quagmire: Saving the world, getting top grades, falling in love, lust, and a whole lot of trouble, and comes out of it hopefully (at least) partially sane.

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    25 May 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    This. A Hermione story. The magical trials and tribulations of girlhood, and young womanhood. A temporal treat. Witty, clever, smart, dramatic, mundane (Muggle?). A beautiful synthesis of art and music and literature to make something new. Author has a gift with words.

    And that doesn’t even mention the romance. The love. The yearning. The progression. So vivid and so realistic, it was like I was living in it. Lost in the sauce, absolutely. One of the best Dracos written, to match a wonderful and complex Hermione.

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    "As Edward planted a kiss behind my jaw, a lightbulb sparked in my foggy mind. This was how vampires operated. This was how their beauty and smell and touch disarmed prey. He would sell me a dream and pull the bait-and-switch like any rational predator would. The spicy cinnamon scent. The lilting voice, soft hands. The static. If he ripped out my throat, it would take too long for me to notice and be too late for me to care.

    All I could think about now was how good it would feel to have him on me, in me—teeth and venom and all.”

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    18 Apr 2023

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    "On a scale of one to ten, how comfortable would you say you are with me physically?" she asked.
    "Zero."
    Hermione's lips pursed in annoyance because she really should have seen that coming. How charming that the extent of his arseholery could still surprise her.

    In which Hermione is determined to find a loophole to free her from a forced marriage with Draco Malfoy. But with only two weeks until they are legally required to consummate, it would be irresponsible not to prepare for every contingency.

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    13 May 2022

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    They say the Pirate King has married the sea, in secret and sacred rites that no mortal man could know.

    Elizabeth Swann, and what came after

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    07 Aug 2022

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    Maybe weeks ago he would've wished he was dead.

    But that reality isn't his anymore; dogs don't wish for the existential. They wag their tails and sit up straight. They stare forward and bare their teeth on command. They beg for attention, and treats, and praise.

    And he's a dog, a once disobedient thing that mauled without caution, that starved to survive. A husk of something that knows in the pit of its gut it isn't supposed to be heeling at the side of two gamblers and a warden.
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    Or the one where Las Nevadas needs a guard dog and Dream gets out of prison, just not in the way he expects.

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    12 May 2021

    Bookmarker's Notes

    oh, to wield language like this!