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Levellan held Solas’ hands when they kissed so that he would not grab that ass in-front of everyone.

Because we all know that man’s hands are always gabbing ass and or gravitating to grab ass

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Let’s talk about Emmrich, specifically let’s talk about flirting with him after he first joins the team because I’m seeing a lot of discourse expressing frustration that he appears unmoved by your attempts to gain his attention, except, he knows what your doing. He’s holding back and let’s explore why -

Taking a step back, let’s look at who Emmrich is in terms of that public facing persona:

A Professor, who actively teaches.

An expert in his field who is prolific enough that Bellara, a Dalish elf living in relative isolation, knows who he is.

He written books, Davrin talks about this.

He’s wealthy, wealthy enough that Harding mistakes him for nobility.

All these factors have likely won him a lot of attention. Emmrich tells you in the romantic interest scene with the skull that if your interest ‘goes beyond charming flattery’ then he’s interested in exploring that as well.

This line tells me that flirting with him, at least at the start, is something he considers transactional. He gets it a lot when people around him might try and charm him for various reasons; could be students looking for better grades, or others studying his field of expertise attempting to gain recognition from him, even, perhaps, the odd person who might view Emmrich as a possible sugar daddy (you’re all thinking it).

So, Rook rocks up, shows interest in him and he’s seen it all before - until Emmrich realises that Rook means it, the interest is genuine, no subterfuge. We see that through the gradual reciprocation of flirting; that soft line about picking extraordinary moments for compliments, the relaxing into the flirtation during the first visit after bringing out tea, showing you his magic.

He knows you’re flirting, he’s just making sure it’s genuine first.

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If you haven't watched his romance scene without the music on yet, you're missing out on Emmrich MOANS. It's causing me to pass away.

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my boi

I can be trusted with photo mode

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This is mind blowing. I enjoyed reading this so much!!!!!!

WOLFER --- The real California history behind the Tomione Fic

Convict Lake Camp (OwensValleyHistory.com)

When I was a kid, my family frequently visited Bishop, California. I can still feel the light-headed enchantment of hopping out of the van at a relative's green, creek-watered ranch shadowed by towering granite faces of the High Sierras. The dusty road and sage-sharp aroma propelled my imagination two hundred years into the past.

Wolfer is set in 1890 Bishop Creek, and while some of the location names are changed to fit the story, the town really had ranching barons like the Sacred 28 families, churches which exerted certain levels of social power with the well-to-do folk, boarding houses for mill workers and on-farm worker housing for fruit pickers and cowboys--or perhaps the odd wolfer.

It's amazing what you can dig up when you're procrastinating working on your WIP, lol. I did a lot of initial research while writing a Gingerrose fic set in post Civil War Bishop Creek.

Here are some things I found.

Main Street, Bishop Creek 1880 (OwensValleyHistory.com)

In Chapter 1, Tom rides down Main Street to the marshal's office (played by a grudging Severus Snape) and runs into Hermione.

Way off into the upper right you can see the steeple of the First Baptist Church on Main Street.

East Line Street, Bishop Creek (OwensValleyHistory.com)

Tom chases Hermione to Line Street, where he pushes her up against the Brown's Machine Shed, which is of course re-named to fit Lavender Brown's family.

(OwensValleyHistory.com)

Check out that snow! Sitting at 4,000 feet of elevation in the foothills of the East Sierras, the snow can get quite voluminous.

W.D. Roberts Ranch, Round Valley (OwensValleyHistory.com)

The ranch near the dry saltbeds of Owens Lake where Draco visits Harry, (by way of Mad Eye Moody) might have looked like this.

Cerro Gordo photo taken some time between 1871 - 1879 (OwensValleyHistory.com

We get a brief glimpse of the Cerro Gordo silver mine when Draco and Harry ride off into the sunset together for a night of wild debauchery. The brothels and bawdy houses within these sprawling mining towns would have perhaps been some of the only public places for late 19th-century gays to be themselves. Miss Lola's was among the more famous, and I'm struggling to find the website where I originally learned this this but I believe she hosted queer sex workers and provided space for an early LGBTQ+ scene.

The silver mine itself brought together a richly diverse group of fortune seekers. I accessed California census documents and found that while Bishop Creek was mostly white, Cerro Gordo had a much more diverse population (interestingly all marked with 'I', even Latinx names).

I did a phone interview with the Inyo Historical Society and chatted for an hour with a local historian, telling him I was getting context for a novel. (He didn't need to know that my novel was also a fanfic, hahaha.) The historian told me the mine had Mexican, Black, Chinese, and Indigenous populations working as miners, teamsters (people who drive wagons), cooks, brick masons, farm laborers and all kinds of interesting jobs related to running the mine.

Main Street in Bishop Creek, 1878 (OwensValleyHistory.com

One thing that sticks out in my mind from the conversation with the historian is how the white and Mexican ranchers demolished the irrigation canals the Numuu Indigenous tribes had dug to create a green landscape in Owens Valley. Native Americans have been 'farming' America's landscape for thousands of years in a low-impact way. In Chapter 4, Tom muses on this detail as he's setting a wolf trap on Rosier's ranch.

Perhaps the most illuminating account of the region comes from Sarah Winnemucca, daughter of Chief Truckee (after whom the town is named). Sarah travelled as an advocate for Indigenous rights and cataloged her experience and the story of white settler colonization in her book, Life Among the Pauites: Their Wrongs and Claims which you can read for free here.

Thank you for diving into California history with me!

Read Wolfer here.

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🎂🎂🎂🎉

Messy - Chiaroscuro V by Nurchie

For Altered State Chapter 37

Nurchie never fails to amaze me with her incredible illustrations. I am enamored with every detail here❤️.

https://www.deviantart.com/nurchie/art/Messy-Chapter-37-Chiaroscuro-V-918456553

Twitter: @hi_im_nurchie

Posted with the artist’s permission.

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Lilith by Nurchie

Fic: Altered State by ginnyruin

Chapter 54: Eden excerpt:

Without a doubt, every version of Voldemort was the same; he’d force her into a dance she couldn’t resist. And even fully aware of the strings, she was drawn to the highly skilled puppeteer on his throne. But he’d make her dance until her body was twisted and broken, and then toss her aside. The least she could do was give him a good show.

Nurchie's DeviantArt and twitter: @hi_im_nurchie

Posted with the artist's permission.

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This is THE look

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oh this is beautiful

Tomione sketch for ff “Madam Umbridge Home for Wayward Girls” written by LovelyVillian🖤

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write for yourself. put your fantasies on paper. no one knows what you are writing. no one knows what's in your head. no one is going to write it for you. if you don't write down your ideas they will disappear. if you are too scared to write your thoughts then don't write, try something different. if writing is the only way, get to writing. no one else's opinion matters. no one else's opinion will ever matter

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Hi bestie are you planning on continuing ur politician Tomione fic?? Or is it lowkey abandoned? Lol. Asking for a friend 👀

hi my anon friend, it’s not abandoned. Just have no time to work on it at the moment, sorry😅

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Im going on a summer hiatus bc too busy enjoying sunshine and vacation and catching up with reading. prob will write nothing until fall 😁

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when james baldwin said “you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” I felt that big, big time

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I like your cactus a lot

this made me smile 😁

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"...It was the summer of 2003, when everybody called me 'Golden Girl' and it didn't occur to me to mind. It was after the war had ended and peace had long since resettled itself over the wizarding world. It was back when I was tipped for promotion in the Ministry and I had decided to treat myself by summering abroad - and back when I never thought I'd find a guy as great as my fiancé, Ron. Those were simpler times, I suppose.

But this isn't the story of how things were. This is the story of how things changed... for me, for Him, for everyone. This is the story of how Lucius taught me to dance."

'Only To Burn Me With The Sun' Lumione. A post-war Dirty Dancing inspired AU.

Chapter One is now available to read on AO3:

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Respectfully asking for the next chapter of the prime minister Tom fic 🫡 🤲 (Take your time of course I don’t mean to rush you 🫶)

haha my next update is gonna be lady selwyn, hopefully next week. but thanks for giving me the motivation to write my PM! Tom fic faster!!! ❤️

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Torn

“Perhaps some of us were born into this world to be comets - destined to crash through the sky, wild and chaotic and untamed. Perhaps some of us aren’t meant to be stars, but are instead meant to burn brightly before dying out, gone just as quickly as we came. No momentous design; no legacy to fulfil. Just a deep bow and a sharp exit, stage left.”

Hermione, rather than Ron, attempts to destroy the locket horcrux, but for some reason it throws her back in time instead. Confused and lost in a world that is not her own, Hermione battles through her final school year at Hogwarts in a way she never thought she would. And every night, the dreams are getting worse…

Tomione. Time-travel / multi-dimensions AU. Rated M. It’s been a labour of love, and it’s now complete on AO3: