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  1. Public Bookmark 83

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    There are some benefits to dating a superhero and a supervillain.

    Or, Emily is the luckiest normal person in the world. (If you ask her, that is.)

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  2. Rec *

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    Quen felt peculiar up on the dais, flanked by stags and lions and wolves.

    The Usurper had once been a formidable man, with blazing eyes and a massive war hammer. Now, he was just a red-faced fat man, a pathetic drunk who ate as gracefully as a half-starved hog.

    His Queen seemed to be a perpetually unhappy woman. Cersei Lannister was as beautiful as the singers said, though the woman had all the warmth of a dead fish.

    She might have done well in the north, Quen thought, almost pitying.

    (Or: The gods in their blind malice give Theon the feeble body of a woman.)

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    30 Dec 2024

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    Simply brilliant!

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    Unable to speak due to a genetic defect, Aleksis Kaidanovsky finds his voice, and all that he never knew he longed for, through the Soviet Jaeger Program. Here, on the brink of the apocalypse, he finds the place where he truly belongs.

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    29 Dec 2024

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    "All our silence could not excuse/Disappoint or further prove/Anything other than what we already know." - MS MR, 'All the Things Lost'.

    “Who did you promise?” she asks him, tearful with alarm and terror.

    He gives an odd sort of little half smile, then rasps, “Lyanna. I always kept my promises. She would have been so angry with me… otherwise. I had to help her. It was the only way.”

    “What was the only way?” Catelyn feels cold sweat dripping down her back, feels slightly feverish herself. “What do you mean, Ned? Did Lyanna ask you to do something?”

    “Keep him away… from Robert,” he whispers. “To protect him.”

    (Mortally wounded during the Greyjoy Rebellion, a delirious Ned makes a deathbed confession to Catelyn, leaving her to pick up the pieces of both her life and Jon Snow's.)

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    27 Dec 2024

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    Magical mistletoe that rang a tinkling bell or showered confetti after a kiss? Hermione would’ve considered it fairly tame for a Weasley-instigated game if not for the fact that when it came time to kiss the annoying Fleur Delacour, there was no tinkling bell and no confetti. Why didn’t it work with her when she earned bell chimes with the others? Was it a holiday party conspiracy? Did the mistletoe hate them? How could she fail at something as simple as a kiss? Hermione Granger never failed. Ever. Fortunately for her, the Veela had a competitive streak that matched her own

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    21 Dec 2024