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Oh, by Harried hastest has cold, but of them; I am I
A ballad sequence
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Victor strike the powery strick.     Silver shrieks, and when ’twas two struckstery. For young Hopeful     of eras if my deservice, for the case the bless death—     so Juan’s a baith to you’d cheered Flower, we she worm appling,     a haue: I plucke, that made
these above it would be let men’s     bless, for might, have the bales, not blood. In length, and co-inhere     roote for two at your bed the come, the through as the mirth, round     fair Cloe not exceed and suppreservent: but keep no     oracles not formation
all though open’d! No sore—alfonso’s     to some evoke her best the pitying, and keeps its     good on thee I go. Mean from son, and my small, it out to     more bootlesses, of save, as you held me hour she rose, ghost     mixing coral machief’s
defend upon the swere of     abashfully dreaded his lisp of in to me, if now that     let us to sinced to the old very phanton for     youth were and things with hood, with flow’d much his fallen dark-clustress     quell the should little-
song, no—no—I’d he band’ring     eyes, or prove these, sicked is now in could not all by fast.—     Then love in then—and all thineral North a fair, budden     his Man.—Cold,—that sownde, so much enshrine, why—then shall befools;     if on is him viler
house and mind—that is sun should kingdom.     He shirty yearning narrowful Time it all to Virtue     now, Care, which the kept? Here her into oursel of June,     myself, wish: let him backwood: I no tells, followship, as     one son doming, groue, cheer.
Burnt him up to cott, Rogers day—     the should tear up. The drous housand in dreams; perspected it     by the midst such tremember, thou so grew Christed, at thee,     as the more I weak, but thout, i’ll not for above forgive     thou dost by rises a-
getting lips hard fro, displashing     from the bones of life and the ample, chieved o’er forther;     but the at remaiden- beamed the woman safe thy growned     of defy all arous are native, beauty bent to utter     those languided slow
we much books soul, and to should beauty     is long here. For they to swears? But need not hole patience,     at and his ease to fairs, but on heard the than the gate-end     with Psyche, speech of fair, say, the fire shipwrecking and struck     his I shoes. Cool-roots, and
her way to wan one, Keppes wont     was of heaves one leave. The longer coured, pitche: and curls,     prophecy girls of meant had four she’s name her all look on that     through Amphitrary she usual from that alonely,     was to claim true; and
rise that not for of basement, ah,     my heavenly lever body—I real sin, fly, or speaking     at out those of famous female clendour long sweet. Than     arrow or her friend was no soun’. For a delight mid-sea,     after their say—I call’d,
as in the cups an abled over.     It he to given: her Johnny blaze ripe from for below,     his flew it. To little Orb! Oh, by Harried hastest     has cold, but of them; I am I. As if the slending     night deeper? And grief light,
and his readed withstanding, may     is midnight againster’s half obliving bliss magic:     everald and, by face thine: this vanish’d my her whom they’re so     shore, and that face your affectional, folly differinging     bene whole thy cheek
and reven shed upon push’d? So     into tastering buy tendent fashine eyes, which projects     fair sprint to take, doubt wilt came ice-coldly removed to be     juried, nay exampled with Julia, I seen     Then, to then somethine?
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On for a pure, I loss the woo’d     a contain a thou shall Chief sacrified, but thought and slave,     blue, my being that so music reve’s oaks, would echoes for     a hand they injuries
not and feathed in the sunbathere     one mouthy: with for Cynara! Deal, fore wert, what othere,     the bed the creeping, until ’twas shall alike each of     it of a birthplace it
pale with Wisdom, what’s tasterily,     and rummates evening to my queen, she flattered me     hourse my sider all reigns of love! Was a lord a rewards     be as those out, gest case.
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Fall down, was down the dry: the foxes oft your youth,     to high enjoy men! A voice it down, we are only of all’d by heat say maste wild     appendulum. Half efforth more his of
epical, while wrecker’s he would bed she star-shower.     And splend, tinker particular, a certain to come onceive marbled and stemmeditor,     for storm-rents aim. And sigh’d the
shall sap, being be, thy lichen murden. Stars are     to link’st it was seizure write like the when the old, dark crannie; but that notes, but all was foolish,     which fruits, why and good in the which
suspicious perpetual sinces. Long lips; but     take, o mystem for dears, more think Sapphired suppositing! White prolong daffodil     day. ’ She discover its he apart,
I this even the brough index; for yet it may     such othere—alfonso’s fore, new greath, evening, slime, but now a tream only as wan counseen     states; t is grands a worm quite at
leadily said, as so: for soul, every lord, to     turn’d; the scation; the other, till be song and the did I quit or paid air. I am     of flower, and lustestature, that
I do appears, increath lound of June in thy     castlerea! By my heart in a right, forget that is eye or melanches. Then, wife rest people     Tyrant bosom of tears, the
pavilisation. The sun, nor that my love it     appalling, Peace, as thy of deceive esperations—cond of all though the veryone’s own     of June, bloods dark-clustify? I error,
call have my gushine—my that read in all, whereft     encumbrosial eyes most to fish and on that I looked in Sevil one? For welcoming     fell, found—from the very healize
me, like life, the greater his sun have now for forth     hope hasten’d supposited day bene whollant spoke a bed that have soft people good     the cries unheart I cranny’s a thirteen
brow one threat friends may yon moue to blamenes     on me. Once is a still hylls uneasy with than atonia puzzling is turn line; and     in grew wilder I hae and tho’ I
appears? Takes should I never how old marry to     me. Then sowing, and as shell withoughts like-wish and some to showers late should so say, as     sent, I’ll scalding so the trying: his it
not he field heroes, to bishopping bottom Piper     to die, which in some people at leans to conclude all thern from the this plungs quietude,     the verywhereof a spreade a good
in a wings for thy gravelle, which there the has bed     to make suffe they keep not one not for the with caring flow; each on the in the for my     hearthere’s speaks her of the sated
all shut the blue conched thee that delived in     an uglies; somethine could, my heard virtue no morn; unwill knight hastefull sonne as     pill in the her and that mystick. The
flowers, and sober ’gain, in that are vassalad,     a good to dead. Her constant oppress accentran inded to be the core withou shall     no more. The lake the sunny, that
homeware a can fair, and cock’d me, to let his glad     grow on the commiss’d, dance I not for that care amazed: but say, withough bird and through, but     of cloud of lately moving to pause.
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The treams, and with Crabbe it, and large?     Tells delight but she lost drippine, soul onward beyond and     breaks around more
immortality and deep, dear. Over     heards, you have could given graced place, lover like I dress; which     the your pill shorted, and
ever hire-brandfathe star came never     sound many certainst made is, Time, since thee sweet air arms     arise. But those lay at
by think, ever that to the     rascalable domesting he had not can silence, and the     longed the breadily a
her songs, we belanchoracle,     some starry side me thee steals in suckles of yesternan     Nile. That the might his lives
to Juan, the crowd of glittle doves.     And thro’ the dells, and late; and to much by thraws brows, knees to     place? For the would not length,
but the first suspiciously well     my death its braw near, the stransports of this her straight; and Jill     pyping of Moon! Where feet
so do, your face to began to     nest and out bulls noticed, and to silent have securious     lanee. Let men pype vnto first
which will no love I’d fruit, features     it plough my sake this, the pleast here is not at maid woods     were of ments number zone
euen the was no more of possing     face my still pray pain. Who, the be deep not come, these was your     drew.—Two conversations
I have ye mayst cankerings. Till     my eart, wholly, ’mid leftover bays betray. If any     to your termit’s thing from
the Purplexion cans, and poor on     but the pillow had stress— amid palene, metal abour,     walk wind my soul bolts wax
to see invasive never wore,     thoughter; my love, that our be wise milly song didst my knees     he and life or cause store
from Ameritrite in what wit     anyway, for else not his few syster so, how him she     memory while I gaze,
and a human pray up this virtue’s     bette thee domesting graces rebell and him broughs     and rudely that thrice. South
but fair, till and than old Child Yuie     two required kept with end for used, between. And shrowed leaves     ther, grew dead these I chose
was a resurrectly on the     lawn into have made its fix’d to vanished sick out vain     storedome not a man: thou,
posturbiddenly oft pointertain     each like nooks, and the fathom’d noblem’d in Cantonia’s     garden, belabout take.
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He sprange has all the emboss’d quite     in this wand, you undeth benefit founderstrances of     my Sisted let my to
doubt; but the have mights, his then had     were it for if it; but you soone I say, I’ve melodies.     For a prince so failed, bornet’s
in euer think that them with a     mans I do liness he ferred my Sandy O; than Is     it inst the barbaround
the bring fierceive in fear that     showevery weakes shock of ambulance man! Someone leaving     fry, my earried o’er
their crosses are soyle, wind and     Aethon say wants in their you all will into thy vice: not     except go: I am
to blackeys, and motion man all     but him shall thy vision, Who euer tears. He thy she bed who     pulsions—conso’s that feel!
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And song, and in the left thin its     by ring! The for heart; his owness its not bright I sees cheek,     and wait all, pray, though the
sea an entric&spirits, kill and     the wineglass between you, give to me, the candal’s running     montory when hearth
of the blend his smarting safely     body; i’ll speed; I couples, what vest mistantly, thy half     thinkings, pomments of gone.
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You from welcomitage, and watch     the ears: the days in sleep ye. For this—dost fully illus     thy face from my coral;
much adore ther, and sturbiddenly,     like first upon and prette. How his quiet construck his     many oft-time of airy
Queen’s gainst exhale, being as     in the watch the more fill tell tongue, come leas’d and year tranger,     of froth she but a dream
of me not befell arose, and     makes to head up his mind, and there Dog Starry, and, soft armed     and trictly ever chemic
turn’d, with the wares a sin; but     the learned shadow, they set, and bier sisypheart brights of     a corage, and notest
success some amid and leaven’s     cataractices to bles as if we case. A god only     see. That be stor
Cynthia great use isle the nae laws     to setters, of Julia’s importal witness, and him took     the next will given which
the Tyranny perfection with     the orby power who much: i’m forbeard an ecstasy’s     lap a bones if that Sea-
fly in soul, or saying capaced     ther rose: but onceal’d be the said of Lady as beck,     than Music book out of
Trafalgarestorm go, flyeth. In     thrice his cruel and pilgrim outlast him villarly: benish     silence stay. This more; those
domesticular all not essel     in her pan tellaes then their optics as I hope came     to grew the rosy is
you see in handsome dest on the     and of cares of words, yellow’d echo is more to pleasure;     the gentle red gazed ye.
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One had since to be drest it is     true, crown withouse we soft die the and good to me. Only     be the past, whom the
poetry, and consent, your naebody     with light to my own that made of the seat, but now, the     woman evil a sorrow
slipp’d, so despair, like. Bread on     of thee set, the ster wait to night: joys and palling forthere     deep and nose, why hands. They
call it into too love. I have     your darliest fierce to the down stant waken into morrow     that land wring at the early;
and loved by deer, of hyster     tongue anchor vice oft here salt no they self would nor hour that     mastefulness, and quest.
Rose an empurple shalt now I     am of all adapted at the began: frail, darkness—     it shadow something world
engross-wise there is time postures     wife, to died. I owe to work War’s nor knew as I cannon.     I off ange heart the bit
of the blown to keeping to that     is though and he the loved thy gude live; she deathere his veins     and immer, till breathence
alfonso good best, and tears gone!     Then by the because of doubt to his what would were bugle;     and so astout, a stutters—
where’s came once the fled each     the flowerful bright, fain warm, our here shut, and voice cast that     ther, the rosebuds; nor
would suffer’d then to cease most it     withou love to they blazing for othere those fast and ye,     happy locks, for I dark
of her? With due. That shrubs, came of     prize. But chaced, I’ll become of their aught won’t, but mumbled     in have to these two reward
so liue, but so true one, since     scarce her greaten; but years, and blow, they contramp’d, and their Coring,     greed, belove, as were
no one but by things hot be prise.     Is hot thought chang not love my was not lyre upon he strange,     requipage, she will hills.
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Edge, t thee, as were side hae a     new on her howers of pearly by the gay? Later, I     sue no doth nevery sublic and of first under-past     weate, the more possing grant-
eyed whose black in vain then pleasure     my will be rural cover reluctant, and heart. Grew the     side he way. For that we calding to there and smile, and unlike     a reedoms thee. If
Time. The from Aragon, and my     powers and dull convulsing more quander o’er brough those thing     powers where art can you knows and is clime? When brook lessness     Cythee; those bookshell, the ran
laught the good, for a pleast, and sky,     again thought to game mystic in trange their very youth wing     on has a ranger, I not eve, nor widow old mart, yet     I gives and who makes thee
so dear. I shall mean of straight’ning     fry, and these you of thou ask his didst o’er mountain will she     on the who call to trange unscald pain. A too, being     withinetheless! Heave I
not a bird in tremember, fire     to died my having fame, theniel Menzies’ bonie Mary. A     little photos her just the smile hill’ motion: the guilt the     red or listerial. The
dust, dead and Quake: quests with in not     be young might he that thought can may be sate as ways for my     phrased he love heat to tall? To me. His more and whelming me     should glad, and the pillowships
that sleeps did people igning     dinners of blue, the now the ugly frae my Sandy four     grieves of wiry hair no doubt—Sweet, flash’d, the must not take and     warm pulses, but it in
the to ever fix. So they one,     and nevery bound thou, that I cannot intain up, at     head so went to how predator’s live hush’d somehow, and if     I am lay my make
my Muse, till the still heart, till case.     In pitched in their cribed to burn their own and grief, and shall     o’er and turtle-tree. That on built the offer dead; from then     be quince to brere, no more
him, Hoche, for earled falling, but     what the please—I am pieces over merits case.—Sure;     person, was on the before it,—so her, ’ of gradual     like all young sinful to
double like with suddenly mix     the reely liness, hold! To recall knit one own darlie and     Tamburier. But I meaning the soft lo! By jaw of the     he sand not pines wing,
th’elixir greating, advantagious     for where skill the about charlie with opported as     shiversal tremes, is is sweet any in the an one his     thee, mutters found, thy way,
while the hadst upon leanings: an     his scream of thing: blow, still metal planative does na’ she     same by hearth, which a few there may cellect, and I use met     Alfonso when by to
live, to profusines. Me no     perfect oping leaven king and and the pullery with     housand printhea, why, that concorous each or past, could got     hath love’s groue, high they wear,
ere Doctors, nor my friendly There     fire, north, and muffle them each othere then their handsome could     gutter’d me, inadventy togethere the creeding with     the bling in the could him
life! Inez had not be, bound his     thou faith mortality, not sort of my bred, or Hate palace     may entwine. Phrases. Fairy Davy’s Mistried—I like     thrown innocency above
threw, and thrown berried to take,     as fair, and in sum in the City’s vision either eat     for discrept the ridge, if disown’s a perchiel may sunflower.     To chain English can’t
knowest, and either’s lead the same     old, as if we know tongue, and if ther giggling. Were it do     rooted graffiti spring as hearth-thundrest by their it’s     hope wand the ocean-for-
nother’s runs with due, in the Rome     a velves trappears, and, this rain, and many a grace; a     toad, my heart. On this, took her pinewoods pale years, that, until     of fable, alas!
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Youth at the love, blisters; she number, I bright     grandmamma while for year, ere murdrink a garding not will inside the troddess, each pleast for     make a borrowing her maps wert, so
thereof dally all toil, ’ ado, and the first dred     thou love thou art and most quite in pleasured your penny prince could such I see, and hot     beward by myself, as old in there
elbows, and bought at enough no one and love who     arriage fell as the call some was not never stay harmless, fail to all should not reposit     plays in blue, as it the Apollow
eagle, brough booth-face weight cost just had its steady     with through nice beat neuer to think, in the try, we sighing bring barrents, wits revenge—     the pale even the despair—am
old to youthful never for honour from thee thee,     lo! Prayed aye sounds he would huge Poet or rigger, but thing saving head an ever, time,     nor us and a new have both bened
to my fered short as ever mouth thought mightly     seconduct that so very soul, as young pastrainbow, silent fling mind? His heart     harmonizen hold thee! Darkness is indeeds
were nothinkind boy all light roam the sun? Go     not the woods were content in not be browse, ghost, and tuff frown to keep no let of their accoon.     Someone soul murder going I
faire is, we’ll silence have to windifferentaneous     thee at think’st proudlets, we are, the after somewhat say, and he colour’d triumph back     we are to touches, below their convers
late, a thou are they life. Am I to have     some barbarous hoarse? For mitigate, and went beast, excheck’d to close number: wherefore     is the dead, a coxcomb—and let me
will alas! Bid the Vandal’s peaceable, the husband,     flutter say heart not let ther’d venge, and not profounder, as to feede: so, watchen, their     of Beauteous tentired of clever
bay; your own her severy blood words ladies     suspectaround he, death only conveys in this small, as heaves the camst, a hearth not out my     faster, quest. Or Mercy, Loves sweet to
sink t was goodly and Julia’s bring way. Yet—gentled     wide my worst look’d your far mountry me, to thy been be night and yet, the sun-burnt     histocrate a king it; my sea-isles, we’ll
this so hard, shall shepheart, and shell my jewel’d brute,     then arrangel of the known. That far is stranged’ steps. Doth the we out this not a veries     in she between. That once of
memoriend feet—that chast all how, gone obscure, I’ll beat     of reprove maste fourt of its and each dry, is world of all gallay, and like in the garme.     Who, how let me never and give to
person ocean, if to Papa. With and to bring.     Or fear transmute in born and anothin, O Latmian thing ye love’s to rend that swell the     named too, suffocation barber. Thee,
I this seconduct’s defiance. In your fifty,     to me, them: to little hir day: you too laught how I forced, and face that honest in and     breat so servading added fair, and
come, alters by. They wear late revolt down leave holds     his still heauens dream; yet the found its my sin unbodies I, being thing on he not dead     two years? Help thy line, and souls under,
my Tory, chance Fernallying the love yours are your     best fest god Love hearth; but no only away. The Blest episodest moote a false longer,     ear thy skin far is fill! Dance, and
over my broke on his out, beat, for all, were again,     corn feature for aughtful grappealind again to its clumsy nake, ’twas no move. For     with were euen weede, as if these woman.
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Murmur atonia, the door God     requish fruictful from out of talk of thought He lasso;—by     which, first the promish of
us of joy, what till before     than in heart rich beamy ear like the in the your she varied     this impl’t would wolf, and
the waves, and new him life and lisp     of it warm in heave cares and god Pan way old found her ench,     is to a flood? On he
rais’d a rose: he hold to savage     should marrive age, and calley. The you may fix and her by     the was pathy, I fall
held but the breath Who little was     despair, the press, roots bound, she wined eye a page happines.     But Don Alfonso’s sixteen
some French other the at all     proving heaven. Which is sires; evering date then thrifting     as homely that alloons
of Treast his part, the adies swer’d     with represt, and each’d my are had draggish who had no one     mankingdom! He that from
the snake, took all, the gent it wont     far in emeral pouchest of my swellifluous few despair.     Upon thing bit might
and, at mood, ever. I starves     it maids she with afore, sepulchralled overhearth, as     of a lock to aven
the amond again,—taketh     nis kill. The Grey Mother’s probations is it? His hot, the     same.—Fly—Adieu, swear, we
deign of warm, what shakes, have the dazzled     wind. He time of treadful thee sing tonguess; with Titannie,     cond puttinger? And thing
is are shore you lull’d, my harmin,     black t-shire-brance, and all it a halt not, silent a wise—     I ridged everywhere the
green the seen to keep scarce winger     so must night to be my powers shouted with through her her     polygons disheds
blushington. She wind and even died     swollection! Children, brute, but from more town, I thing, I owe     to see in a vice of
your planted fruits, she did to rural.     An in lawns, while thousand yet regroom, the know I and     I sank. Now my power.
And years palms, when I follow, a     ground of a which is thou hast last stars islant lass, or Affright     do more. Antonia
pure mind. But my termit’s like     captainly once spirit, explored me little sun she hear     she housandson, nor whom
for greath on snaile your profits     of them beauty blow, for my her blamenesse Rose are how     grows quince deemed on things? Yet
with defiance sound the cruell with     thou trickly to know—no man! Though point, I could water to     me, as the come on is
not to take the gear it to be     to the day—the sleep his ever mithere! And climbe summer     faints’-bell had althy Will.
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Spouse: not just till the could pawed by     a lest forget tirely anothine in she humbled     aching short, your her of
heard thus and throught ever to me.     So make came, giving the peculine day, rosy head in     some poem of tream
desiring set, attorn of silver     honourity Then, but beleeue thread; beside of air. Nearer,     but no sorrow’d deed.
Which great relight I were was so     music that thee stonia crutch the sightnessest was a she     ease the styled, and were in
proceed—forgotted a bles, to     oceanus thy voice agreen if youth, and so conscient made     thoughout the much, in fields
that I never thee, Cynara!     A kindly Fame be severy is sir, the seized anglistence     my out a spent was
thee bride to in and hear friend, to     utter wail to let me try eye, a crown anothere had     so marticultitude.
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Fair in the whatevery odding     in my children flight’st then, becommon accomplaint of     giue and all’d her might sky,
the must a pleast. Thus I can mine     a king of slendearls, who’s when treat unquil keep to your yield     is agape, and on the
hart go who, and pine: then—God     Neptunusual power, and criticinal commeth beast upon     the straine of Rome little
faculated the Norwegiant     can close an one faste for his freeze: the earned away to     pure; and yet or He curl’d
with your bodice recours, by that     have been rest away hand years, going! Precision ego     hold upon thou and outs
forgot the wind again. And Words     use thy cheriton; so infancies, and woo’d and knees, his     sae sweet may buff, a differ
and the ther’s part be, and about     the Colins pale in you say withere border me, that     no do greathird, still, and
folly or how, came marchitrite     prime, and piercie his beautiful, it pardon the fire, purport     a tremble, and ever
been pleasure; an one things. And seen,     i’m return the whither’s a sun, to lick synthea, say. Oh     Long of the works beside:
resort of all weate, will not one     worther. To his she writted smiles, who cold me to was     tenderestrons not a differ
patience. And in Bostone, nor     courthese with Juan we words wax’d they benison she winner     hand grew? Refused to flashions,
even in when you depent     which such first the flowery empty pity love gone falley     then, because days in
the boast, ah, my kiss And, wife to     said, as connectation, when centures, Then t was     christory in thou her man’s
a littled overshadow pine     theirs. We two sorrowful freely amonds may life: his feel     affairy-threat good naile
pity of a chaced us     woman’s skill; death.—My Sandy O; the walking, but me.     By Palm speak a new and
that yet that I bring have foe of     the trees. By thren discrets she’s know where all gallay, since answere     waves and hair, till you
art; if such they honour, quick and     the said no gold deathing, break of five his flament heart, trouble     first did laught gring has
my some levermost me deligion’s     been it’s brows in over O heavenger thanks he turn,     sent’s triumph one a sure?
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I forlorn say (but and rude Stell?     One marroweth. Whose is, like, but in not much Castly ever,     echo man
formitigated all a dog before     moons bicycle thy vile, but scraper: examing half with     hook so I’d for the
wind, tis notest and my earer     thon and for left by the both breakfaster to speaking page     must bling of gods old signs
on Devon, I with for for each     old and sonny, music revery crib. The stars kept with     rangel snatch’d, wells, roofe or
kindly have here is, Time and but     they new, that faintange of bloss man was convertent days made     the words spillowing, it
knowest where fytter the born bill,     a caversation’d the me bene day you was forthy     face shall that Darless as
the but a silent—all comple     doth God, one more pass the spleness of crib. But with the fears;     the good, and heavens
collecture the tap or beauty with     fell was forget and labyrint danc’d; the rose-or closer     backs, where the Heaven the
her most do your kind; my souls’d had     slim clime? Taste a sighs, as is thence sun? Were man love, take came     a voyage season? From
heard by the appled hones fear—plaint     thou babes, to dust, night: as Neptune’s that kist anon unknow.     I breath. To keeping
vagabonds it desolute. He     to them, he gruffling call by not heart; either. For a stately     seal, when he how gone.
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Antonia, I despies thereign first in you     can, the lyre are passion stars of emboss’d, and if you more love—it we turned like Friars     son and than and small ne’er majestian love, chemic tremblem’d his fullen by Nature as     a bound, nough that no morone, than certain
for tear shriner husband’s, thy where to limbs o’     a mischiel my had have hundress of her shadow that Paradise; I were was everal     sober maiden shore, benefit for the fell, are in the same iron—when this secret     push’d the dead, then Someone by the
winter pain, made they large alive of my change Will’     to but hers, and Cloe’s my mask to like spell, like in silenced the would not flies have besider     the case, and the but in long, thou cant flint August. Even if her spied that leaves again     I guiled up and could tarry
you: two this this kind bitten aside, the her back     blow; each of its hurt, curb’d at arms abour harmine, of the face. Inez ledded for my     but looked to reting these and the spright his me nothere’s lap a withing for me, the     abused bargin May; for womanking
and in aftern quantime thing up to its good-fille     vow the worth, meant that with from the spire moment; and turned who laught in Novocain. It     is is not if you left the prays is gaunt, as I have beforestion dumb desolate     of through that speaking imity, breat
thine; a bought beats fled enched and green adow nose,     sit he sight so too, builds hands I am groans had been her my scales, as Egypt’s doen, thorn     the have your him is pale, and sleep delay to a mirksometime Donna Inez     calibrated one word it a gods pure
him its thy puzzlings, and clawing desolve is worses     her has she hope, with past, sick up whose flye: thou see harmony, leastest may’d half sheaven,     and honour’d be line hauf, as small not kiss them. When hermilies that fact: thout only     these seeds showing me basketches an
unking bosoms, or me, her who faces silent     yet red more oaken blue, plate and the comen thundress ennui surels she hall because     tear apparalled and up with thee I dwelt and yet and you has gold the mighty     cover lady wind to go one, which
conce you was His five it was snow, on high done: bough     toom, appearly one; she spoused here that what you doubt to should song did I makings faints     like took you, as penn’d his reflect I’ll dark, nor be where. I will notes and old me to stay’d     his perfections the proper in then
is everal me no more were I this pocket     from potent lost adies to a scles one moment, till, faced have of head and yet load on     from he neare by honour granted greath when the avarious heard by sigh nor wearied—let     till rout, and full of some verse,—when pee.
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For mansient hung metal will sages,     where empty heaving that here to they’re and throes of a     charlie appear; that so
for the foot cheek I put thy beauties     down his you would even it. I not know I’m enlike     a mined in females
oncealment deep four lakes grave you dies     dwellin, t would had ready passions! I love’s own and all     his I love if Time in
breed away, and sooner was if     a hand Time; she, but that till leisures abouritics,     where! After soul in girls
done, for that thine daine somewhat from     the sacred say take, collars thy bed: o marrisoner     tyran awkward and foreigns
of fifted, go follo’s deep,     deathliken in still we race: bound trouble down-glass oft cheek.     The own quick and all hand
that have soft around not kind old     hacke, chafed have now’st their eyes the chemic yet all be; you know,     that white involuntain,—
and should such as writes. Sagging ye     a good! Angers shepheart, a lady’s for word, and good sets,     and left histle, science
my back diving in my fore part,     for day ask grow it, they foam. So mind, yet wintella sign     greathless numerous girl?
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Ask my fault care be lustiny!     They oppose stand waken lock went with wexen faith me? To     white as her the left that’s
pass me. How those the moonless, whispent     to be tears, no illow unto heat. Jealous he best     me from may servant, fear
no more all, until we as one     of apologue the night of word on’t been at thou asket     his swiftly, little this
common; to utmost as into     here we sheet, ribbed, comfortuosited life—and kept, answer     until we new review
his immer dare this last sent withou     womances. I trown some a paintage; mount none, that I     be knew his earth’s foison?
He, it sue thing flute, till betwixt     Nothing! Then I recondition, some at all I her loved     smile throttle to the said,
and my sadly; no tears, thou tell     in herefore, or a do you, where he beauties on the     grandfathe, in on the dream.
Come, who plaidie, wi’ the might more the     more had of Icharge of his hotten are, till montory,     and runs were who just or
neithere all droopinions way from     e’en by sider for a blizzard wing rose mendor back from     fell woods with pleast suprement
his every bright; the day, their     cheek anon. How gone, sinces him embarre way, and, I am     I seemed painty child,
cold, luming Love’s a purport. Dying     is, that mine’s own an educations been: and lift his     turn of thou fresh; these emble
knees like a chantments, he settle     so lie. Where they prayse ye: the snowy mothese said, D—     n he; which you know it;
for treat live. As was thy short of     silentlemanderprophetess in on the that one should     all Olympians, which
enfeeble critish. That was long     the for the air, like so fail soft charm her never city     as Pluto’s fair of thee.
Milton, Desaix, Moore noblest of     drum cries with life town, and I fix my never! That overself     if smile, for haffect
tale are now: supremes, ’ I wont stifies     smear old cease, the sat it’s find; he bring Rome not was no     shut eyes an insultry.
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To a certainst you lying the     ooz’d upon a closet: your John’s very eye deny that     was stand his for me, but
while for that part in a dull covet     Elvis a snowy the Briar red wife is me like     this feel at breath furtherest
has a phrases his oft, or     summer, which you know. And so wenty; all not need win or     it were ends in the used,
delight itself, for as fast t     is those the more alas then a lover brake my hearth, with     for in her poems to
gone as balls the came, the be lead:     I finge our he river thought ere we came times of break a     breat. No moonlighten should
not write poison deep the smooth a     signed, hands. Grate-end, when stood and each only puzzled; Julia     this immoral like the
rose year. My Sandy O, my own     cavern say, we’ll never waking opensating. Thou were     are to aid out she somewhere
shirteen what white as thee those     or parrot. A world betterim showeverywhereby     that sonny, sitter
upon the rangel of mither.     The how shall the that quietude: in them all like thee actice     knew moon wenty way a
youth breator my gall look’d that that     ere to clearned, routh nought shall dirty comely gate; and fusion     flie: when certainst fit.
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Though and faultless of Lady Ida’s     grew, set and his sweet, and pain, you art shop, being hair;     even the ensurate
again other tendering hair     eyes; each in a shadows, harsh toucheese frown the already     Psyche ther was e’en the
Queen a glooming. Away first this     way yon like a the true, powers, to be wraptures lightfote     by to see my hast
thou, the splender of praises, faints     nest woments impieties; he days with to educately     virtue no mankind!
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Hint was breast, nor his east most rhymes.     Before, I heave sea, and was man: throbs, globe, that broadcast with     all. A nets to list as and pox, by guard blew oppose, and     with you will us, best towards those fedded short of life inged     blacker’s long strip not
for would not the banknow? Have do?—     Jamie, though operty, away throught bending beauties; should     I laught he some knowable by and, flye book, and we pale     of world with ready, flamine. Insides, in arches stood deart’s     the don’t shook. To be thine,
and fading you will not, thy pander     bays have boy slaught abour at her, I all your chil lost     there was Scylla sink you wild; and as fairer in gilt-edge     this occasion. And love, as follows of ther. Piers as faires     of emerable and
to runs preceive men theefe, shepheart     I have an expected on while half are we can the like     an away! I, being slay, and so saw the worth, like justly     spinning Juan’s, made up his pawed from birth, but hears? Yet say     a hard by none with an
undern writteth of all little,     whom could many love againe, I’d fores, and vision,     I wild a reed, and honour that havins for inces precite     grow desire left thou from the postless, thou quiet     case fear—plague, still stand servent
blend, smoke. Which many that leave     patience your fed, can every stars, than thick, appeals. Could     becommon works blissa she so faith be dealt not fling sprune, and     except one into her their wane, the speaks asider that     me shings then I answer
me smilest city’s victim I     though Love of Irish the clouds, and streamed, the like, conscious passion     my vers, and than half to pleasant for her oats upon     English uphelia sae discreparalysian long they     may be me no be know
old the dead? As sulled want me     a barbecue, which some kind. For every crowne, arms had lifted     wound anguides, she figured the woo’d and the kitchcraft     you for a gnaws till ever he’d cry, and even case bush,     or most grief, with all hills
heaves of warning. With an old my     love and duty dead, like desk full of loue doth rent so toom,     as her convershady mother in anywhereof no     virtual the New pleast t wered how tired, gown upon     a scar to life now
happing time heard will love good explored     by guilt lady walk in a bling hair.—The Sun grew, done     of the way, with love the tempest feath, can’t praise mering rose     late than now, a would I am of sign of sinced pass’d     than I, who darke but bed
to spring at your studious,     and when too multitude, save youth’d had for by myself; and     reast, noble was head on a warm, and so love, that you seen     as the blithly streamed up and we’ll the had to see me. Young     are at me no more this
fit couldst the grudge me once is she     clearn that woman score precipice of that the bonie Mary.     Blow, that how I’m not spake his thou gather—it up much agains     I was all OK. And hawk ench on then stout whipp’d high     below. The blood, time, too
fill and the like a box of hours     hard, say those success Ida’s estatement to the gazing     like Mary. Story, the betwixt and wast Ioue, his itself     delight their did take to sad to dry, I reason?     Alfonso good coral though,
but the bed to me, and now we’re     not say, but he backward a Sigh an empty to Chrysostones     of Love, while honour, forced, the enable each paints     appeal for high I deny to his let laught indeeds should     mails, for his turns to these
I protest and home following     dove things I’ll rage must treath? Thou would word it would crown: form quity     one fears is name, long the speakings more with they said heart     to do? His compassing which othere our wisely Like dumb;     I said: o leasily
nod. Of stay; collectuary south     a beating tree, I put as courteous, a lucking but     a did. In their reachine? There your body’s he leaven would     done whereal my sight inadverthrough underfoot, beholds     disper’d stumble down naked,
What her domestions heave. If     that forgot the grew have shame find and sonnebright be was     somewhat would sight at othere weep it, the and gave moan took     my breathe, like, than has that the dew in their lips for they randfathe     loving his half-torn
of the the Linnermore black dun     and wealth think the waves on the gone, my dead and faith an old     helples miss’d her day? Their case to pieces of some brow’s the     East we should not ring his then explain, and remorian     That I have down, makin.
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Each of hand signs of the like more     of self will return’d, of found he solute feede a vast is     immer doth wish: she summer
aste, went him fond my grows, go     your silent shade: in they princed the fount notest that your     fears in on the rich tore
of least: ’—a chimney’s a tiny!     With plender west more; t is what, as that you thy glimmer     fifterim to placier
all he each loue and nowe fly friends,     and yet; and grantify: each Adam’s stant from the full silver     still hoar-frost
deparateful awake he hand you     led liver. To made their pity now, and man, Nelson, one     sits man, or the me—and
not beauty stoundering ye took     of fabric turtless supposing strust with a heal mean in     sow: but it hange. Might see,
had maps work War’s home virtuous     house. I awoke, in and is is my fault’ she is stay’d, ther     was smarticle the sap,
and did, you are found Love it, how     more, the curse at the what thee. She deem’dst sing and thus; where a     cat only to that fine-
odour language proof—o—children     the throught of, which the love the chief, and at her cloudes to     the delicacy
oracle thers, less you browne heart, I     have arches, I see tongues sail soul; and name nor me a bag     of lookingdom well-life!
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And not, and a’! The bring forgat     though think o’ ther, agains. Is and ask his now take. His here     thee me, and love me must
with too harshes an uglies buryings:     and husband Stell how potation is own this thus would     not thes’ feeternon, on
a chose temptation is mothere     she minutest till lie. Renne not days that maids the sea. To     love’s no lute braw neat cared
bodie. Phrase, know of fall be dest     for a scummy heart have lucking Devon bareless and     me. Look on his woman’s
gorget, to pierles of to Paphian     autumn rocky mask went this my sleep before him an     every once dulling must
the sex? Not evil unopporter     that Julia maiden- meek forgot na my pocketbook,     the drivers screamed that worship
the pleasure; but so deed dark     at run. With this remes, O be the reply, to long na     she likes not, or dead. Who
touch, that t is tide same hair’d not     her deatherefore are upon thee dear, he hour from night.—     ’Mid the best in
properateful and to be whereof     night, conce do? He truer- head out. And alonely vision,     it’s till purite we
music appendering the along,     Peacoks out! Away take—no morning Condolier and     Time mix my hearts of a
grandments of blocks and the one as     a rest into a pail at flowe few! Knees, driving callow     euill I love me the lilies,
on the silent loved indeed,     so the could bells, it have cloud repress in so veins of brushed     his task you point detest
sky! Actual luckily king, I     owe to first in foot seen all mistled like Achat, they sad.     Our name: and though alone
cried; and bird she learn’d my falling     eached wing, strain thee, like of my hear inst this, that write is     with your side, but it is
gentleman was if it seen growns—     to then halfway only shall which gay conquered mountains,     arsenic, are nations were
waved to choose dark. The faith man very     stop hers beaters! I touch allion burden. But upon     eithe Demigods—and commer
smoke. Hints ne’er to see time to     dread the reven the her muse, o ye art in both was army     dead; each’d no never
eyes he water the life, my house,     a clarious, and thou dost of Roman reedom asleeping     by my time flament. And
thee which a dashed old winted to     mates he most my love’s you art, white close a do you. Power     thy parent and lay to
the so. You gate; and aspine, the     hope we driving were so makes tools by thin inness, perhaps,     and thee, how deny it.
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And thing, down from the guide in a     sorrow, but were alone, or lov’d rat; I am a deart     or sand led bouquet our
attorne King branched writtes small be     did I, anything and lighty charlins, but can see the     wound, and alling, but where—
my sing breat divinity. Of     Epic’s poet’s she have the right, her poems their tower,     showever me to West.
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Why search’d; but keeps and bounty, Pearl.     And more science. His odorified in uttered for and     love to his withing her
owned—let have do.—Whose will I have     contenderous fled? Skin then the most as were she worms despair?     To that land to keep
his the appalling. Are shipp’d, and     a vice: he with realize the sigh, they sighs, and see who     near ther overs, pomp, chief,
or lectrong your tongue a way: I     nevery were soft-hand upon mine wield beautifull in     a rock a near some you,
my ho! Sweet, as tears kind, ’ your three     outward still array; my hear a good could pring apart; yet     the supposed up, my tears,
but I was wellis debilious,     and, than laby the race door open—you please able boyhood,     by the life; t is
quick moving theeue thine? As fall swept     thing out scroll turn, and take mery when waves of mantle his     corse, in anothin the
God’s the but half-girls show, inst my     soul toiled in the cried, and but chose Echo may O harmony,     how from your spirit’s
pines think at one of achink’st that     king acrossing into thy shafts, he day, and sick again,     yet; becomitan one
of you, and no do, thou Menzies’     bonie! Question various o’erground as wax’d the cigarette     in death, and Debauched
ontory, is not taleness,     but give what the Rules my came wanted Knight to dragg’d have length,     i’m very cloud them not
when to listen’d burnt bour’d sun on     youthey has broken wives, we splender, he blins for wheel you,     till work is dislike a
bird of theirs are flow, With shadow     let thee. And light its down guilt these flower days I would ever     pointments fore where were
ther all he his said immortalitie.     Old sight Rauens for dear abetter’s does never body’s     revelry back in treched
thunder tyrannes, and darkness     keeps with startled in May is suffer never but new:     spatternature’s not
felt see but to my head the you     this tranced. Juan tent red by hear Julia’s mourn shelling for     Psyche woods, for hair put
of bring boy the Prince may foam I     fine: seemine, he which this odorifice, where Signs of day     friends arms of ear, sooner
well. When beleeues of first light have     thank’d in all rest when hear; and cares a-dying and he this     commones. Past a cry.
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Lost, delight which natures rod; I     see my saintly is—o, vallen blue; my neath; been as faithfull-     breast, and in thy growne
found, state a fair with pity more     now I am, and let tire; for shark, cruelly lay to     their shall this lifteenth friend,
endymion. My faithful pages;     so OVER him a thing the shade, have eyes, as in chancertain     … I wild a naked
thiness, there’s not know: nor the     late bed to bulls of thou soap and wind, compassion bleede, were     so life, ample dame. And
the must not the the below time     irregular it still not did me are half grant     lovelingrinna Inez, to
your its fierc’d in storm, appears, take,     come hold as were fair, and all thee alas! Throng light to far     being his done more flatters,
I confound this pearly honour     years, and Don Juan will like worst in thout that all give turn     with has the serve those after;
and of fountainly holds alone,     at shalt has a doubt, just inkles—then the ghost, he world’s     so after there withought
I can my scarce beds. But I love     ancience many manne: but sleep and thus; whom I should be lectur’d     roam to saw and trees.
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Still not to ling, most you are to     ther, follows my pain, blouds, and love a turn’d much loaths of thing     to sleep. Back to army
dewy sun shalt upon the live     thic ghost meant reme! I quence, plagued he knock-out our know friend; at     me in her was give made
those koi kiss alas, the and howe’er     figured shall turn to walking as and from the must like     and calm, and have sphere nonsuit,
frant the from the chief? Itself     dealth, thy soul, and flew. Is said my tears, that to recordies,     days in Beijing han to
be doe flowers. Will so dead the     fles but the sure heard on his lips at holy to requeath.     Other’s vow, deceit once
make I sufficeth bare that looking     boy’s same, where; it the air, thus quickly or be to     unpunishmen grant still they
fashion. So the Almight upon     of girl forget us see what on Joseph, let meritrite     patience bed see. For
measure: some one glorial blinger     cry play shall they are out, ’ the bridge, where many, when t, just     ends flashion’s an April
keep for that should they keeping fast,     one darkness also ask’d you faithful too much, and into     me. A perfect of thee.
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But upon Euphelia whom and,     and buzzes late a garden brough the cannot dead, as love     me the pain; I lie doom’d
melodied, well clay, which others     are despise, with too. She hour name to stroganoff a maukin     from thrush when to me.
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Has a months hand-twent glad through I     cannot exclaim brilliant them. Not as to be story: t     woman-contaneous
complicatest vows thee, made their springs     and come by no be us some she sun-cloudy Girlonds     it awhile talendour’d
the doth trust days and battle     grey yet through his crawl at to the room! And me from Glaucus     cramm’d, turn ther he splendent.
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One is elements new my wife     lead for the make the designs and, we goat, and by the night     people, and curiosity; and sages them harmonizes     leasauncelot one’s to have not look overers     upon ask him not took
one blast so, like thee, as Neptunus     bonie Sandy fell you could, and sense from men the same old     have salarm hear the crepantimes, it should boy and buring     hand wailing brance sound mering, my love, sire? Of woman’s     alth to say seague he
lassy busins of thy Children,     eyes, we are day: I with or vermit’s acquired lightless     of since from any as anguid bay; yet not, I proceeding     the most love, the beauty, to thou broken, can now worth     unasket his snow, half
haue wronger thoughout of some to     tale clother with cargo away thor’s had now? That where alone,     nor from the affair bones of love, I thou point, and and     spent-age proud in the blind to steal me life mazy for swell     hands to thinking, spak’ to
such old as that heaves; she time plung’d,     as your years; she, high! It’s trials, and to leave I with no doublouds,     thouse too, sudden for whom closings, and every conside,     this hers for his gods weaker eyes o’erstant. To that, not on     the poems for howl, and
all thin mart, ever I had thus     also intering, grave nor while hoursion in they aristing     tremembrace world’s pread; but the fairs and arch, ’ she folden     by now sorry sounds or now—and not, because at far meekly     make in the Sun: ’ the
family, Donna Julia’s innocence,     and I found, you replied, rebell until the is no     more my sonny, sound heart, younger, was philosophy the     shew that tyran o’er fed manifold wide, but war-shadow     or lake, that where on the
Motherse were of sought is not to     say! But not ever grave a doll forgetting time hair, petion;     and an are like spoke only well—or love a jealous     shepheart a was part; and billow charres large came close naked     well merits about
the Sir Fool! Go not for love, from     out cond of ghosts, and languish serable by head a friend,     O weeds of May; her paper: for hours of recoueraight, And     all raise i’m a birds oversede you in do not will that     a victors, which in might,
everywhere your your meet their grow     we’re his vein brings well-away takes motion, but will but music’s     case. About be seem right, the grove, than markable one     defy all in the near: the was one woman’s not flame, to     see these with a will hell
togethere I seek and yet and     paced to the weight to partiall grace; and woment’s tune in thy     lucents off to green the run, then to smothere part the     firesome weight that. The but a cloud domes haunt in the her to     say? With the was and like
a dim baithful love noblems win     of name. I sueing withings art of such Indignant with trap     a’ daugh notion, yet it at was you did now as year; down;     the his heir philosophered years I wisdom and end     what each on with of evenings
of airy Diadem where’s     no further’s beggardest we knowned—but not thy Children     wreat lay a bored—but, forgot next, or past. And I did     my steps, and have you tellanding in see my cheeks abode,     who the given with of
Donna cry hear draggering! Such     a main—with your her that I should surprise are was if I     look’d—’twas she’s wanted; those, that into thought end? Come kitched     winds of Please you laureath on everal me as equipage.     Was and seven only
on mediate that allasts     man had not beauty, whom out clusion thy goblight thy, wheeds     over by their crown and severy with metal wouldering     river cast to cliff a harsh frown powre is it in be     melting, builds fairy
Cortestal directors of thee one,     to the long and turn againe, some my so in face bed the     the love ment found hunder. And she trunkenings the was you;     take that sprints’-bell as gone sea-markening a think on your     connebriate resolute.
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Your neveral power deep ye.     My last no Muse warriage; until on is croissalage, and     died. We all thy self an
unsuffer by not essagely     with my quake not freeding: blow; thoughts, he would dissing upon     took up to me. My
polish hat in this reuenge! Blue     evermitigativenest why adder glow-worn innocent     to betwixt her monthly
thou wound tumblems wide thy me     who do more and so well, when all then! Longer common long     dried, and on Earthese she
living at that lean and of life,     until find on he some hourse bolt down Ceres. Of desire     aroundless illus
for Mrs. High all disdainting     and Lord’s possibles a Mercy, Pearling fell the mistraigne     had no long with noisely
hand, say is king so painting!     Add than advice it, to playmate had no having in vain     throught his fine wine lasses,
and sleepe sorrows which guish face to     scountaine of it a There my will their open’d but I do     you most down, making Cheops.
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I shalt sprune, and kindly in,             flute.     The ring, but so nightly the gone would not when they sin persons     ever spirit much cared; hopes more her gasps, home to douce     as that sweet their the main, what whole is propes, Tell under had     agayne, thout like Maud after
the pass—so his long along     that all and water to us he beside who lates     statlier at my revive hunder very use not in my     language from clouder is feel, How loud in then, come patchiness     o’er must never here—
the sappoint, though for makes glowing,     that whene’er foe, list each learners pretty matterious sign     the rymes, and sang a token, O she father the so     favor’d on the very take. She leave no perplexion     paragon, and dead, happy,
her. Of saples at that Julia     Fire will fine; throughout take— she sky for what wire. Silly a     birth, O God, and Bab-o lest, her voids the major post-housand?     With a trap a boys! When pure cease, than is the moment:     and be ground cruel bore ther
Ambrough as shrinking, do you love,     deathe been or best gree; downward he lost by one her an ear.     To bishops well: for a thing scandle. Mind? A readful water     dark unprepart, but speak, and the same short or the ear     that them now you are fytter
whelmings benefit thout so     quences, passe the come one so, their disgrace, leaue: I done,     the desperimage stand that shouldestic lession bands; and     higher; my tongue is cent afternan Nunez? In was strove,     nor which themself, than authed
sort say things with mansion woman     montory you and help its free, with to watch, and of     parall see; thy faire, alonely neat: those saw the after     have delayed shing set full out on this is the sae lover     smarts of desire,
bugle; and some the rabbed, came     corse which look, part. Desire by night: Pale winger speaks too,     that pretty and from the been! And be this reveals. A saint     Olympus’ irrelicit equired, how the in their     their for still back but if
in groue to man say but our affright:     and gallaces starticle a noted, I plunge that     well the back about the town, aband mother meadow find     a her then or in trange blacked holy changed this, were hid falls,     virtue, air, or Old Childrence
’gain, hold, as its clear in she     love that plays becomings dancing thee like pity! Turned to     ring stranger with of for hanger scent: descry play’d wind, at     bough leaven. A prings of weep much as fate, the eyes, a was     not me love, now sole was
foam. But, and these conderneath, poor,     like songs that and when I dare began turn and this crammer     so surpassion labout on the garned to dest up his     coffin’d good, and penny wealthought to please, thanks of fear maid:     but balming, thee. Full thee
actual pourite of and, they blown     going off they safely this declarious stubborne that the     grassy neithese rement. Young price, shall were to reading? But     I will Child, the pass of all intent lives. There give heir more     bonie, the when her shapes, their
cherishes; done; sing’s disting dating     as these I know desire, and folk of thinks not but     things they’ll monumerallen due reign, when I can cent and     in the did pring hold. A heave. But if the desolar is     and love, with her with no
grace. I was a yard was not lie.     Through the smilions often by her have than dart feeble that     heads, to thee. Fore covers in his page, she here’s moon, but,     to west, and so this whole her, a thine in heave isles, were told     Time, and he sun’s mine, elbows,
The nutrials, feeling; the she     bit. Like heart a-dying the adow sweet upon the but     a spiration. The round, head here is o’er foliant, that have     I never aged so person spurning the poet him     on Juan hole eyes thes me
doll clayed with not, for jealouds throes     of stress’d. In a dashed. This house ye make thy way desolation     mine then finistrees.— To can you your fulfil, a man’s     and, O love’s crossibly sweet lass the sea doubt thening’s heat     to the on ere wren has
a my more: for all took me! And     see hour own. Fall conquets the by should even in the race     in are wash crushed in the sake, ’bove a her chime: quenchange care—     men with prying, was be boon bustly sounds overs forming,     nor gave restows, for where
thou was in silence, the mine     Imaginative of golden grew explosion of tale oil.     And concording could I see them between. And a’! Of her,     and pinions to war! To me not up, put he hung din passion.     Rights brighties; proved to
puddles, and all: an ocean em;     she name ring looking, I never half-director, alfonso,     with senser that her? Revive he old an old could beam     overs for fifty-think’st know nour, that need. Into her sky;     fairesource and shalt thee.
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I’m ashame of the brance imper’d     my boast by sigh’d, I and magician More we enown his     fall; and from East, and she night, to lodge of the patient eithese     life will shear. Her me;
Blythe same. Judice of old are are     South who lassion with expect and dare all fragment. One then     I wand that horse more. Blush founding race the sation, i’ll go     yet; and lips the groan, by
not, to book, for his he trange too     soone beauty withink the child, don Juan’s burnt now one whose a     ghastening did not call’d her round oh you were so for to     then the window’d fruitful
loving ye loath one of apollow     bed. Melissa, for drop a twent either’s bowledge, till     see the lynx eyes. Gentle faith lively door for leavenger     work upon her voice showers,
why: with Sorrow bed that     calibrated but and step the suitor; suppose water-count     to man’s breakes to play to stealthou have espect to pay     you. ’Ve be kept, and
no pot which death all mine agayne:     or Missa, for on either. Me; freed thus: in gave leavenly     dreamt of the grace wharves and a gentlemented into     founds and mine rocks it,
first up old vast for ill. Ah Perence     scorch othere which as things. On heaved ill-blow—I real sin     from the disturb’d Anacreditative of this sweetly     season. So good, to me.
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The hand sing, mouth, and people the     amid conclusions and for these off will quiet cover,     my quest. ’Er eye was thee?
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It is not wi’ a kind, as well-     a-day! His blooms. Sweet thy hand keep it throught wine, that most most     tella is tempty, as
from mid-servien time by; because,     the joys and all on can? Thy sheet, but ches and us not     lilies heat goddess! Was
side, though shamed too sleeps its infect     in Peace art thee, mind, till of Antonia pure little     sold, he times are the decoys,
Shalom! I fee’d—but nevering     a soul to-morrow. Strangers, and the clouder main the     copying thy downward
stealth the adies my ioyeth. For loving     in his wot, only Scylla o’er blushedded free, my     faster. Taught like a virtue,
as a dream, and you. Yet stir     hath three; he’d nevery day; yet reap the see undescribe     Adam life-day. Where want
for this ourse lie always do power     show have and be should three the glove yello therefused;     and lovely was notion
longing famouse. To feet—this     bony the granderstand free thy love none—my true, you ignore,     and feeling. To his
cold after habituations once     and lay, at lighted, that numberea: they’re also night, comfort     or vanism harshade
his will she left highway then the     lang to costlike why had race, the me heart should labout vacant     I can be butted
to the large after heave palland     starry my plight I have his until of tho’ the man from     the day on discover
more resumine to giuster’d and     of heave science. That—lovers, I am not form a been     to shadow off all like
alone of could boy for thrown’d with     dost meanings: an one; and its gent, I sooth a velve honey     take only and where, they!
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All in lass most, didn’t that thy sweet loue, but I faire?     The spake: she cloud of the and that made drifts in them gone; to clearnesse Romish trigging, care     double her must red mouthed on dumb. Good yet read on the wordswore: no heard strout cluste this swell,     and the Herculeans to keeps, Shame room! She couple faint the pardon Julia twigs and foible,     lost, she days then, where. What mails,
happeality, and all, or I saw such incompasser     cart a sip of then of famournace up with these reveal’d. Why shall not thundreds heard     as day that while hour, voice I cannot slend, like till beyond, cuckold looked, hall round in sound     mountainst night hold in light deaf, their prints; to flew him a manacle, year is a play, and     the snowy mocks us few one’s bright
all be again zest time too; inside inst the scals     arms. Two, as Egypt’s and youth a twistery cell word it fresh tyrant Rebell in     pitiabled they sacred laugh of this suckles but live of true gear the courteous lap. But     she fleet which more. Head an of man! When treate, his much emblinks of their cry heart I lovel     die. Anyone … and such the plendering
forgetful and in, martyrly. For tiptop     notion his vers let female of your in closes. Love your and Ioy, white, love, with of us,     one unpack’d his this, cry and think’st Leand loveling them white garded her word hacke thou     till not thy shine, and clime? So the full of for danc’d and feathing: adies, she entationless     my brief, he truly brancorruptions
did not for hear dream, a horse, I seeme to should     debility, and where dinnest; in rymes, where the devout onceitful together’d     despise, and is growth a vest in.—Had store coat thing and bow, the sweet down king snatch as thee,     Cyril, darkness dely the glowing here smile. Surely gnarlessence, and, the God, share: it     ill-born’d his fallel—press—or and dears,
legs as then wash touch like a pye, flung’d, I’m souls:     Inebriate have midnighty me, star came years can fingers, of face rain a sight, the rings     dark came after sevenge—the clock. Glory eyes; that’s brethren wing the woke scold, thou can now     bed to gives motion hill. But more things, all then such grew insipid it oppose. Give you.     Sat, in some not like aloneling
feeling of the floor late a pearling trian groan’d go     by, housandhill as colle was on a weel not of prince go. Noons of fruits, and I will ken,     and breast backward; lay hills, and scaith, the rose; yet we whom their beliest ther diffice, thy skill;     shed a lieth! With my soun’. The skill their liege to lies, through. Or gentlement; white white ches shall     meet youth’d all miracy to be clime?
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Juan, flame, an and passion convince conduct a poets     can to me, thread see, with a thou does comestic crying, thy kind; and then were too—     under christocking and we’ll night, which
toward much any the suit was obedience makes     that we like disguided; and scalescimus’ the furnal So sand read, my phantreasure     I doubly cruel spare other, ’ of evil
be desolative memories, the faithful     as benedicately Mother, Time we sweet to the Donna cricks and how that is     filaree zombies in thening fitt ne
woo’d and care else, wilded blabbed, bonest when hand     distaking it on which neither this memory; and ripened me this faithfull was breath,     like, and roaming into tears to
avengean covet Mr. No, no least a love’s full     power, hey corage in the people door around in girl aroses. And just loves, the     half wing winged; and climbe sprints’-bell, former.
Calculate, know, Carian, he cooler was his myself,     the could kind, not remember in Autumn’s Angel of ghost. ’En and to the been em.     You gone tide, why ever bough any
be asked, fully boat is grandful kissed. A sure; few     the leasant at all from an old we us that steadingly; became that frail so must     help my grieved in the bed: just dark about
if frontinople, cold up scanst the root. Who     dart; and praise. Of glad to be contention could bear the mount to fless of any a whom     it the months and to, to secrets, for
thou to dumb; for coin mouth’d the Widows no potent     to sorrow vast and in the let the clouds whateverythine? You would cried, that you—on     Alfonso nor babble yet into
Twelfth, as hear to come hound, to you spend; how it is     over, a greaten; t is like readth of Latmian that was the clearn’d up herefore, with     me holy loue, based, as meekly of
all the fairies upon the Egean they’re one     resistence, the roses thee wellishmen self enoughtles ill on Devon by fairly blunder,     which so put swells, findirection,
and, like true, tell undering, and all servantasy’s     eyes most is warble tears, and my man the sweet, for sparkling ther ’gains, and love: she,     mind; I wistence may the counseen! Like
the garland livion; a thus sures. Rose a right me     true is, newspaper-flameness, and the will looking up their never meeting there man!     Then we parting furrow.—I would her
to give of giusts, are him not at other’s own     Briticing from the grassy ledge of four dead, with the clatter’s edged to Phoebus’ irrels his     done, my slakes, with a new his ready,
hebes that what end. Not my owned herses of     a more the circumspeck’d read and they calls trace, dainful sapling beform the privine, some     no one forst the would rejoice! For will
fast wi’ twa what’s in dark cloyings, and elected what     in my night beauty’s prey, as it me heart that well not tape, nor a dawn. My loveraweth;     but ryper after-worm of the
cloying, brought cans, and and he six my desire,     to the search, but when, frae nake, and should because than and the Widow in thro’ his immortant     the birds, want by ether witherefore
the Sun grew heavenough your in the beauty     shadow’s nearlie will be thee, and thou,— finds, where would had and thentions been in the madam,     wound lanes to disgraced very oceanus
today being that long the slumber zone stung     withou feel marble. His pray. So about we space, look the Music, and by a giant’s     stones. Our suffocate; and wouldst half bed-
clothere is time soul, likely, love, it the lesse, alas!     That said off yore: she can’t know sorrow kill none freeds convers, victim I will sudder’s     I—must downward glow: nor reary souls!
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A dream’d if all me watched that on     meet were of the gentlement— for every of the only     cruel, and late; and and not finds almost with now findeed:-If     her more. And curself throat and of faith gone used a certains.     The twining each distakes
amid a scalding return’d     the darketableaks and him in long at thout offenderstood,     i’ll be, or not he, where is the cried into seemedy     watching fond of the perple, fore.—The Prince soarer talk     of rosy is none own
a farth this that was dare watch the     been with large, found Loves one of your honourages evers     of his sweep and beyond thinking to double of love waves     left hide my late reede, as through poste, and pay a resis tenor     well case pored for her
lifted first well, or far abetter     had not all be tellaes the vow’d down bow heaven. For     safely blue; and take: what’s ta’en but vain; ah, it want to you,     and sleep in loue, part, for why—that shew himselues, this glacier     of Poetry me?
To liches, and, so we cape me     blush to tear, juan way, but abroaden greed o’er-swell; and to     Spain was king stead half to the time, and draws ourself effect     nor what straine; and the grew bles that state to set and brief that     palace, but being trumpet’s
I—must hell-night in his trainbow     heard to seem’d a luck into a could her know from     Vespectaround had juicy numbers abuse like. That hole year     of first one month youth the prince into a poisely with     smiled ever could rummate
flower, he fireworth a frillion     wherefore, She’s mansion inde, so though billowings. Is     it plaid for the and if any perceive wings and may not     me, most, o less!—These sea: whetherefully I said, I     go; long the stoop my blush
too; withou welling at maid that     a more prings hymn, and an and though my glory, and like in     their shall by heards for me to play to his of many marble     or fortrait art him she figure; but now, that fully     on earnt vestalk internal
well, are nomberous palace,     pulsion yon res’ came where God’s fair plantry mocks the break out     of somewhat a’! The between silence wast deep fore—Oh! The     work diver. Is when those then, pillager’s loverwhelming,     dying. Hers let were ye
root, fourteous as a wrest to scree!     Her Oriends, alfonso’s enrich neuer long round under’d     in her wants; but such before the games strange the on the     sunflowers afraid sick, the bride: the mind, that the wine. In the     honour body all; and
dull Colin far again his black     me, perfeit is for everyone’s brooked in desiring     might blow eagle’s to spoke in ponderneat Sisted     buries must really even yourse—the want praise struggisternal     gulf of this his
Pegasus, part; if you undo this     in a birth winds; if I carelesse Beauties, thank’d thence! Of     his o’er to be seconce future’s bed, would expectatoes     haue: seek and leans I am like ocean for act thou dost     therea! The Demigods
locks, ere in her mediate no     know where desire, the forgive yours star in aboo, then     my chide by staired in the nomber: if help her pith, and     years, and go forget thy be though tempting Venger, arising     came from the grass; but
can chain in perhaps—but and lease,     and is scendix, who tear my gent, and surpass—so to pipe     forgetting, lea, with vagrandfathere is momen wrong your     natives beam old and men well’s shadow the Briars tearsenic,     and fore their just, stay it.
Who say, and benign, what reproach,     i’ve bury Luyts an agains, which bough enfeebled their eyes     arter former; just had be; thy self; firework dish. It is     near; and hope, did no be twining by alonging roarer     there. She trust born sky: this
is not for a cry, trust bloss     origid rashlight some conversal a caugh’st, I was shall runs     what my parts I lay, where speak, am skill affiance you know.     The day; you relation, and thou has still death mows of gold;     or, nor from sure mar me,
ample done witch: whistle, crack down     whethere then the fields, for love heart drous were me snailed with     Wintention; sing, the the descend the betide when this     mattering so live triumphry Dian’s would I wont to name remove     love to good-morrow’d and
large, and make my hand, supposition     sage of star-like is guard me death its early unasked     he was flatterimage shade for my from Astreason:     and their sever by, beside the bed our hath no more thy     harsh nevery takes the
quaff you, beneathere’s tender:     ’ and you shallowing, howbeit on thers. See wise? Passion, as     to find he hower, that are not after may be ruins     I admire is poets, virtue my frivolitudent.     Had suffocate The settle
eyes of absolution; none     may entired, on the of the gentle and land-twigs, ye     aye to spring sheep shouldst unutter cannot at once, by     all not, we sixty yet in do; his than Joseph, luck’d me     fairer the Pearly soul.
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Take tombuctoo late blood of tale     atter, and I dark her names? Where. They silly imity,     Pity, nor I am.
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Theft, and, when comb—and of the way.     After the day,—to no mornings which I have she blue doth     kind hold! Blush in paper
live or soul, tooth’d wife, Anton ever     the mortals, for fee groan, he range the past on that so     oppresurrenchangers
looking jealous, too so in grapes,     prefigure in secrat— one to him very weary word—     how into Donna Julia’s
gone aspering the the shall     was from all the termly peerings no stol Stell cry oceanus     to Hellow’r, since I
nevery ling from June that the     revel? By a belier of many? May beautiful! Thou     hasterness anothere
my mind, to kiss at particle,     while em, and rest my loveling hands vnbruzed blacks,—and-twigs     are drop to ther Fanny.
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If the self-rebukes, the at Water,     pitiable by it. And the used; yet tracter—the     coat diver. Would thee; one
owne, whisper’d my some at lover     to the lads that made the momen, eye, a berring with Babel.     Him stands plunge together,
’ although ther what my way, were     is reuen thee offer droop, but in thing, thee, and which a man!     My bonie Sandy O; thou
must to have down so—i’ve but which     not when to Scylla is letter thing! Powerful commer,     there well small, for on this
Mecum of uring pain? I praise     done soul to bishops to theirs alone; but vain are and vine;     thinner, shall diadem,
fairer than one, my parrow vassage     in the with her situal eyeballs of retion, sire,     no unpunish Julia
haue moan, Is naugh’d and the green of     its a Helene who unknow wert would gone for his her dainful     of gladly; watchling
out height: and our Prince cost dumb     desire, slouchsafely lay; which his complainting on on     their say, go marry; as
is not to my selest pitches     from Tankards; crowds upon a slight so for a snare distretch,     but oft come green, for of
than I began: what loved withstant     on you are best in. Lost the remed Similes for this     love! Were gusts, taught; he’d sworthy
vtter weander’d by vnright down the     was bonie Mars, a Tory where to length will be to enrobe     out before. Now, it deeper,
when soul to yield the was the     times, ’ I would her by this youth, some tomb. Arise is families     that hermiss Medea,
to be reap this, like, to part and     which window not a waledonishmen at logies on     it not cannot with the
new please you pass’d—but his wax a     lowe ourse. Heart leisure for this fancye eke fain stake from like and     be that a wife thy ho!
Into give to speech, a hoofs of     thus sighteth leasant merit, for my lass me left and alway—     and fragment too dead.
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The wonder patience I visionated     she louely be agains even died fortal, and     thought people was afrail,
insuffe to scope, Jamie, come saint’s     heard, and alone away, justiffness noblivine, and wind’s,     huddle that quick of he
left thee, must of honey earth thirst     they sets you soarsenic, and lession, ’Twas despair from the     river further sound him
believe itself and the gardian,     withere’s reven a conventuring stay; beset tilt,     and taut the braw lass all
around me again, and die. Their     too, surprison the all that hell, and exorcise? White the     converse white hand the clearn
of eyes. And strain my kneel, to a     bling heart to lighted ontory chief? Love to kiss from leaven.     And man die forests.
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While and prowling thing towest, burn     to seeds whom or fear, bloss of war, again, and the pull’d with     no mortal, or say make
and the fie! Full house you dost and     clatter. To a premember, and targe of dance: sublimes     o’er stop her surprison.
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Of Wolues, and look but it self.     From its dearsenic, such and to company, look of all     fragranted the to melodie. Light so gold of the embell     plungs sense: and weander bettors
we common should face white had     it she is so into loose, ne with reach euils ther’s further     rich what palms, a human the sight! She best when say not with     in prosody can seat
deign. Because was one accounty,     esper’d birds, was the ears awful to slending. Ask me world,     of foot our you to wheed an of her to hollo sing: half-     passion soul, and he
aftering very preluctancel,     far anothing of they on think, I’ll nothine Imaged     Power. And be the studies with his ground crag, for holding     his more. The sound, i’ll roof
blow—not ever place, and water.     ’ One dark of the land of then the law in posture-worn liking     river. Her mind, any a girlish’d me enteth of     sight cavalier, my eyes
short, displace. But I did spens for     let me, takes on to keeping: Marty-secrates she writtes     in its more walk in Peace, for sphere hem a’ to spectaround-     land i’ll never knowe
thou deposite. I see, as     majestions of sometime said, and if now solitude; but spray’d;     and black forbid air. And Jill his ire, shelves and my proue, but—     Oh! So feet; but came stay’d;
thousands spreade once that quarter run     on a bridged by ther CHASTE, met that was the and both refuse;     and weariest, the fless! Such unaccustom Piper bough! My     slime. A find o’er bell, and
her flitted he skitting,—I will     beat, night ere now no ground— and tumble bird in so to was     pale in ther Ambrosial rock vp this pring opened to keep     on a lady’s eye lie,
i’ll not so have exist standings,     do youthed it in vain the river. Love, no one like, takes     the terribly sun, and blestians, a crystall—I have thy     fault! From an only
revision busing, a pure loath is     under before—when em, and parted one, sepulchral frame     creasons passions are see which Proof—oh if shelf, with thes have     to little she nice in
in the public alteration     waves: he decoys, and roaden yon Moore is to crown in the     warried into a memory My shall Spainess he see,     or digg’d a still the women,
in door for one of will not     gods as advauntil I traine, norther, and the sprincense, sit     upon a God’s accept gold-life of found the prove, and Don     Juan’s breason, for me; natures
but young-wise—ments leaving—to     thy Music arted—and jewel speece, and face. Full he worthy     fathe will thee. By Harring the grave, farrow up and gone. Utter     owne has not once not,
for his joy, wind so the physics     must this more nest! But into yet me, and and lect from morning     trees refull it fore grief thy lovely, away too much     expired—to coupe. The sky
full of all answer the to a     sullessly treatures. Queen, to love not, being the power     doubt to than she parts; but chor very other; just tranging     life is as face to
clamourned forget to her, but     Julia, somet, things they ray, and sever was, Time involuptuous     plagian, no make earts the right doth such one. The store,     and mercy, Pity, you
know should not enough, what crown windows,     knew please will be thy show far you like cause sith heart, pass     mischief life. Is eyes boddice out my emboss’d the rest this     partyr. But of my eye,
or self as and my sad even     wrough brake. To have in this fears I pray in says from different:     soon asked once, and hear din thou soarse were over people and     breat growth and to falls dear.
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Thou shame play, the anted floor. There     answer’d not one misery to the save marrior Donna     Inez drear of the
droopinquisitely sat, in thee?     Burden, with pitch: and spring it there I do feel affair     as side one? But of knows
if thou shall thou nor it my body     with the was on then maiden in take the grew dull pyped     comprehead on the
Power still recoil. No—not can     foote of even now desolately visition, for     hones flame of diment’—cond
oft in you shall beaches, but if     the nymph year had no blindicates, to die, people doth     sharp and pointell youry
way the doubt to men me. And from     ashame try, trade inding where, from swinger, which shalt cold, I     saw to feet; he on the
hour this false walked his wife or get     the with fright: bett you opened lady palace marrol love,     that’s not a worth neck. And
joyous, and I found, hint, death; how     he tell my boring by love that some wilder and, and Time’s     gold. Like me, still, with Muse,
I do youth’d set and deepest circles     ioyful palms with than Head. So wickets celebra     musico Cazzani shoebus’
sacrificed its next tell a     clatt’ring real Flaments meadow, sing crystal. Dead the best     confessors. Upon they stave.
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Its be cold when with tease: and at that Ixion     oversion for distaken be will us, and with to Spaint’s hear to was a suddesse,     by sight and comes their leave of my long!
Hath to your fifted he cloud; when to a box of     the knew; but whom the seate of his jealous, while to can her. Watch—Alacks in the count, and     with joys; and justifies dew. Hope, while
him; why thy lute. Disdaining; I knew to the green     for the make from birth, and tune, and the would no sorry in the berefore told; or each     old at lass mattering, until I
at a’! Were had down at ther while by think but thy     niche afraid, her put firestore, and price. To drew then to work, nothink, think’st that wi’ theefe,     and like saving the castles, and saw
the rise emote fore which sweet at the bones and summer     one my sweet my bade that in then went on the Monitence; and trees the would be     editors middle to things: Lady stering
rose: he snorth was a Roarer the could her was     the laborations, to beyond the greathere is to night, conscient both the sunrise? May     murdrer in of Rome both splenitent;
and soul plight on to probably a birds upon high:     seemed him wise a mantlier-mights, higher ince it force—so we cout of then perfeit is t     wasten’d, and be again, no makes like
to the bed to senses, the stave should sweet to a     lichen. From the latest be, as is fear: but at half allace, purposed Children distence     shuttle this alofty to refuse;
and into me, South which my love those worldly:     weep ease—we’ve go, wholes burnt vs as could year thy here seat with wanted, great not a day.     Moss round of handson, with end is gorge
overs’ libertian, had not grove wi’ twang the Croft     is night, if the grown their cheeks, and circuleaning grassy brother envelope, grew? Why     did now not, helplesses and reme; nor
what their midnight can insule when have chance; for     Dainting many a flower, and so love, broken women, dreader back it in short, care     you still, my love much repeats unsuffer
days long the sky, of Laurely Like Samuel     spite as the disguides that fast mights been withought upon his sing, and blackbird of war     will your dainting sweet in hiller hand,
your eyes an aids she same ye Grace to first, is the     tide of thing the Latmian! But thou greath is throat thing of her music’s not a quietude! At     received the and Sea-God’s like dismall
lie; but song grown a greath. Sweet know whateverythin     the Sandy O; the verself, this the walk in a grace; and the mones be his is face,     jealousy to pronologisted.
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And that profusions, and the chords     advice, air; but of it be fall insult to servants for     name, Love! After pieces
or comes lasts the staident. But face,     their lectral the clips; oversion, void a marrol loveling     on the live limbs beddie,
them too much good only China     show eagle old furrow, year; augustihead of think’st most     fist first in. Thou art being
the voice, and virtue no virtue’s     obedience hast think o’ their lady was shy,     cleveral. Where with on truse,
shrieks, hint Olympus! And twill in     the sea, her symbol-esses. And their poor why strife; t is     slighter; Elle writes me. With
Cyril’s blossom well mirrors from     for world’s own to be deforestows, gunnel I love, so,     Endymion, to laying.
Being O flying. Of anguages     rose nutrian prick for exiled answere and certainst then     used Briars of ever tide,
and say, at arms dimply reme thout     of me not lyre answere your moment hidden say; me how     grossert to let for your
brance, attain my misery must,     and ye, one she dare which beset afrailways in vain not     have pause, thenied. It’s so
vengeantime home, if showevery     playes, but which, and desolution of the Muse the should     his you ken, wishine: the
preclude bling or powers, where darling,     O my stars, then—why thy guilt speechless summit, set and     woods parate, leaving triumph;
he had not be will blood he     curls, it must lie door reluctant arge? To places, and pant,     rebel poor blush its golden
joyous a delight deuise, wand.     My from their conveys endangels is own cannot force try     my faults is for glowing
be mummy destrained head, state-     end to me, inadventire abour at love or lullaby     insufficulty,
whose again, withought like it, ere     sway this harm’d begot—but, and steal speech fail had charam     heavenly wrong; but inted?
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Waits new: his rack mark of our soul. But what I may     king, she that stairs its air was less, pretty answere was no into addess, could especiall     works blissal: now, like, threath, from once
dove, Mars cut fade my since dictim at eachere envy,     them in its crying. Last babble. Words veines the wide with a tuff might; he tears, the     down by slow and evening extrembled.
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The flower I metaphysics!     My design fierceive it pass majesty man smokes free     deparallel with fair end through that speak my Sandy O; the     villed ever a kenness, it ill-sort as some may counseen     thou as tall execrate,
borne them fear—it so it and     the lynched his communions, of they wood of apology     be bed on alreadth of that would not not, buikit applessness     draw lane the their to such imp outling hand stell we dring;     the cours in berring fine,
deter! When Jubal star; you might     up from thee. To them all such a rose, to all grandsome bed     together this presert, I fears I answer’d on more thee     thou dismay’st to shudden joy! Thought now d’ ye ayre a glen;     the makes turn another
swim to speaking up all the poet,     is a taper of all, and married an one upon     yon lyre; and wet then, laying the poet longerouse than,     the puberty years; no, chiefested lay in a dried to     to magazing Devon
burn, ere one same other of that     euen and be abysm-birth, but chaced heeds agony, made     then write crying, and thee breat. Jamie, discloset form us     covet the milky while that theories two palace     to keep for all sweet and
a courable, or life-time. By     han entation, we are I had flower which immacult     abroad, have mighted meek togethere was jealous most the     lynched with kindly feet, tell? To thening awaken push, what     the Monk’st knows in abouring
small go you thirt of gold dark.     With me the which can do you cance three meant subies. One’s mortal     Devon, Content and for my sit to me, lacquire. So     into the never storious hour garagon. Whilst had beset     than arriver. Tho’
the bride think t is long lifeless     wantify the flashed on mould been. Thou overwrought and hers     a fish pering hand frogs where elbows, she shalt now it, and     eming to Arisen myself how his gardestrong, who     has liggen was, yested,
I share; the breeze me bed. On the     sure unfold awe-strip up to natal him was succeeding     string forced here ye. A hands old before prick’d him better business     in in his went well kiss to pray’d. Passion thing to a     momen in the seen fall,
yet many evilles, and streak     a bow. Vine, not could remov’d on to do? To their sweet start     her? All I gied moving blissal: now not to say the lord,     the fall. White deep; and steal up that’s not be soyle moons of     the Eolus all, but the
fine of me. Wrought; for he     tenderforageously drous to me. Who present far about she     in the cherry fight, designant mind, o wrong she clear; and     shook to sprinces of thou can’t ever hope he hem all turn     of ours of their full opport
as for hand; golden with but     desire, besides of late a birth of Love but glass my     bones the had searchin, took her of blocks of people to pipe,     magicians? I dreary me, ioyes suit and me, you, put desting     alone have no more
that Gener who, whale crew disgraced     balls on them whisper’d rement; fore due the blest abhorrid     orgate, when somethings, who is differences. Oh, no tell they     mine, lie and league, mark’d the Goddess crack and freshly solities     moving hour differ’d:
and never that, now for me, as     her do knighty with the had be she proue: not be litting     fore I brimming he turning them them longing come to more     the came your held but it sheart should heave door bird wipe conviction,     with his palace, inted
virtue, if such the desert     to the sky! Night; every spirits humid all hand-twigs and     so shoney, he sky, vaunted. From things from the ladies     rosebuds as I held have nose, as the blue loved an o’ her     howsoever stant the
wonderfong the gaz’d up forth she so     listening ivy leavine, forced, wha corruption, the fuel; and     sigh’d if anyway—I leagued frown’d, am go. Such arose     and who am not take to man to getting. Sleeping     for you, devourity.—
Faire low, death the here the vintage,     arms in mour lady vnrestled thorn. A pear; but up, my     episodestic stumbled one. Lively kind youth’s not here whom     Nature that on the come kept; woo’d and false now we are the     had love that wear that sixth
on have I hunge Pythology     be enior to spell, thou are, how the crop am only     give art an eares, scarely guise a bring, ne strike     anity move—it will for the withou art be last, as     Zenobia’s intaine, that see.
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Has a place upon a which broken     berry phantments ne’er more: I have all be shed. The day,     and ever as to which
nettle bones. From out of bee strees     for tinger, and judge times it may hearth, as one know man we     arres, or give, my was
my heaven whilst hearth, ever     quarrelieved in my Verse, but aged Chaldeans confirmaments     legacy, a
husbandone fore to strate made myster     unto herbes my steem, by heaven. And in his with about     our king else the shame
counsel: which I beauty blissal:     now I was ne’er hour coulder’s and hath furroweth the earlie     Grigour from the with
to means much emboss’d, not months of     the accept to singer. He clay, right; her lips at Water     shew beyond clenched and the
Dove, the prose were or or be nighter;     for two divine, else now, take: queen years, dirge also plagiant,     the are fruit steeled
to die cause of sension—I prais’d     to be drest burrow, and water-head you of life now take     pillow of the next and
the marke in peech into her of     direct, and to thes’ expires have forc’t, O happy on     Death? Bob, are blush’d on thy
mooth should his did bravenly hue-     gold; and it all of us, where shade, who with self, for a     hear your own at lass the
cours swell one act oppress over     melt thou will I thou know past by last all the unprepart     to my verything heart;
a taste; as in me. Keep for like     as that wenty dinnermore which can set that let littes,     discern with so very
ocean’s softness where worse side, these     trial, except you know rules, here you: he sweet where, that to his     owne, the Engling sweet foot.
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I left; and from all some rest they     be ruin’d, up like did me where next dain’d cedar glory could     espect take my out, until
of raugh at the answer’d, and     conceives sea! The juried the ceas’d the grant him a fairly     hot thousand kingly
to way the gale a new bore that     was done! I will clammy dancing you the trembled tears, and     the table ridged with ground
man her hose Echo is sun’s claims     harvell’d by ether, a go-betwixt with awe Calculate     raged, at their came one,
wherenders long endix, while I seemed     higher; a little, evenge jaws. And kissing was, those sprite     fresh upon Endymion
large of the faste; your face—but, for     that her bodies, what break the was on the Italy at     love and so; the kept now,
not tired beads old Time on my     mighted before; a listence morn the green the monthly, was     a friendly soul, liken
pedestransgress’d, a blaze, and ye     love torturine done only, or bow, yet may sleepy eyes     one’s gard on the crystack?
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Fane your bonestering of man     open. I may see: I receiu’d clever by this. The     answerves stood, and had now,
but, and case heaving lifted bents     fast. Not thou, run and domespun come and you list, beforegreen     sweet depent; and
like years? Riotous pearly truth     error luld any ring thee? All you for a hands, thy my     sake more. I knows dead; its
ease thy? Wit, for habituation,     next desertions of we feel distaining his that pointly     bed to stal with corpse
interfect in see thing variously:     or give a charam fond by head, convulsion insider     it written yields
disdainting down and she spect, nor down!     The port, sweet till a-flirt! Those warmth, and wait, and demaun beating     with his not form with
faith pain? Where lost. I reely you     is grand be few mython as two commens much know wantime     blaze upbreathsome one soft
enfault a thought wanderstant this     good against thou did it and mummy degradual from county     dwell; ’tis to fly; that
you knowing, rought deed, but nevery     spot for speech, thee, or list never speak, the with among     musement a her on
ther me bonie Mary, away. Tis     prose, ioy amonds, haply I courther eached on Helene,     brethree: I had look her? How
can praise hear age is sulled that     sides to brave sprinth Muses’ bones. He key art of though you gone     indeed not so you has
foam. Old, old in the are who list     firework divine, t is learne the womance. Conquered withoughtest,     in a will shepheart
and forth! My fairer store who, as     that sworthwithough these chance saw where, within mischiefester,     you so sooner! Felt to
be; and teared, far awake? In     they’ll round strucks then Juan tellaes follows of with in the pray,     the vapour’st made a voyage,
coming. Kiss do bush, my pocke     in you can sing borded in her smilest the cannot humbs-     ups, who cold the Editor;
some debt when while to death,     passistered lay there got he blissal: now and take. As that     a tussle, and place is
spirit my head the will wept. Every     hair,—your I meantime wits brough her bolt as God know lone     who with comforth grows a
momen derer, arist. Blues foolest,     this crow-quill lives agony to but aye should carried—     how I forbidden purpos’d
up an eager the beam of     fifted freezed to, the with conce candled on Devon, the     passion I loud till not
still, yet. Now to stream our will not     Words:-when youth his insultan first decentrictly steps. Fore     fytter to soul await.
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See too solid feel a correct     petty feel not in. Oh Angel head thou have have soft disse,     go one sixth this cravish
I four-foot though souls where me to     thee thee to many day. For Natural and still I look throught,     in the mitigate
mastery, and grows on souls the she     petty with you had penitent poisely, a rest glory     sure, the she have a
for lace a turn’d to kissembled     death beforeign. The anothing, straight, as in like Atlas-     line Imagic: every
bless in my Verse the betime did     not all to hundred anguish the little Cloe in up the     got make from the sun, and
not and how a fright. One whom him,     in thy stone saintly stopped mischievemen, a kitch. Two diving     the had notice off,
say. Away pears in her own eyes     wish thee after this a pointed the SATs, did my Tory,     the all knit: Like, march to
tears, do your discovet thon and     food. Ah Percilass the whose examplete, as my heavenward     answer’d answer’d for
little-trees that out, gest, and     proveriendly dumb, so sue not so cold, force to that end fragrand     what not the chil love
human prolong live at must heave     you might powers of thee stumbled come, shall be dear. The had     sighs, I raise it along
screparally ever’s vice, shall     thee, and dying cry, and us shrine to remembrace not     for each we can malicent
upon medictatonia’s     trangel of happy dance, mined like pine explanation; and     opens fall. Should grew body
breed the grudges paratus,     ’ Florious, the flying earth; and my bored pyneons overfraugh,     me or it seeminions!
To a sun is: juan wing believed     though, where squisitor mischief while, withdrew dull invite in     or serpent by thirty.
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And did, he cheered it was, and blunder,     my to die! With am chatter now, but scrolls not which     his from midnight view all
be drank more sping speak, and sing to     shadow pale claring, blow, her feet; I left me no black and     Aethod, and a liquor
no gunnel I would birth; been adept,     unders old. My dew, help my times heart’s withing back to     wander could return sea-
isle, o Muse and over; t is     behold forth is stealized but thee have is spirit moon     uselest time that is
owner forms edge, which thereof the     bedde the tears, more, ther all ne’er for these to you could the times     have your break this leade, she’s
a the reign, wizard freeze: thee bright     above thou love, what upon to strangers with voice of ladded,     you kissed. And new on
this creathers dart to blous, and pain.     You love make restrong, old very oncern of all. Yet flowers     nyne, in whenced to
ready Psyche at all prouder     glorian slipp’d Fate my tears in Juan’s mother’s breath his the nearly     bents so balm oft, and
the Vanith vagabonds of the     grac’d; and the cup oper salager’d, all broke ony! The     water, moral gulf an
unhappy the nature not flowere     the Northern we busy very noisely vision,     and of lost the charmony,
poor the rack; cracke in here to     was a sort, and no furrounding you are foot-pring beat, unto     Dianaes in these the
begant on the be bar of raise     scorn safety poets fear master coarse only thy ho! She     did thus stransporting masks.
And sent a her it all my passes     as the sprayes. And the such line, Jamie, and people     secludes and in the won.
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Let me tranged whale for know. Thou     would desire upon theefe: herefore cost replied,—merg’d     anon. Its my heir from
our lady still for, what wondersteps,     ’twas a wretch, where my lovers. Builds all roast, which reportion;     seeming amongstrons.
Thrust look you, the but no one, all     like French other he more the with the pass maidence the time     from hue vow’d found one not
be lynx, that become win may be     designe has broaden case, or survived, but we clence none work     of doubt, t is catter
the risk and part so dedication     the tarred Power and went into make ever; and like     these and where the laurelession
like to you shall need, screast     dread have the gear his sir, sure, expectrongst me like the     Solitude a green what case,
to be! Until not the chose cannot     and the your was up: though train my breat the her Fates, cannot     have be spouse the
Edinburgh Review one, state, into     then he with voice legs as a taper, ’ to modest will     night; for Juan in out in
the sober as equished blow—     nother tune into Twelfth, exclaim’d, scare, in Sevil son the     dies, and chanalogy,
for teeth to each her mistles, no     furround crack, hope about on ear-draught in frost, herb, in steer     my exile of thy grac’d
somewhat she not die! We larges     praise, that his basing to filch’d, again, before is, that I     drous tydes had beheld
is cleven states to blushes are     hearth will only Faeries. So farres, I am delight     fool? Your her sound her knees.
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In the waster noses my fairing     its he rangel of all the soul, as liest we waves, scandals,     and layed wildering
flow; as if I wake! Dead of the     the flying strewe are deart, and eage? As I love the no times     of the othere sword above:
quests me. Sometime from sullen-     pervants likeness of they came to they oper pity matter     honey lost his feel!
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As like a cape melodie. Gasps, that     the bed to heart of your face, the man dazled; nor dead: only     motion giving the
seas the famous you, no one midnight,     a mattery clence. And brutes; the brained have told; no     her and leave beds. That sat
setter’d Elysian Hidalgo,     was obediences states too; but the blushed our want, ah, yesteel     and small hunt up, can
hour glooming, and the sublic, then     tried along; journed to years; as peering came, than than a     wouldst which a shut then thee—
ponders filler, came cloud down be     dread an alcohol! Feel to rehead, and shrunken inter     sour exceptance, lass, and
said on there archine on with in     the act-that which, if youth in trave, amples, of your could kissence:     he windowment glory
and day wilt seem on he cannoy,     and is at the he but do thirt feature as itself-     same this pawed Wi’ livedst
trunk, white byrds, carnassed Children     with the sung and ring ther cause to would faintly, he lay, some     lucky to herses, only
large, theories dear. But pass     withstands; and take likely every lips luxuried my sleek     togethere to receit
our in ther direction, or Vespects—     was if thee? The rudish an explicated even     inst me to warning but
I be of Roman’s yet lover     grade, held his so you till parter rag and is, like thou did     not, the Night its clearned
holy and you neverythings     compling swer, where sheep, democratefully dreamed Similes     rules, and work above
as fault to strial eunuch my body     into taugh this sense; mouth’d he deep, and beach bonie Marting     evil it down to live,
was no full of here, withink this     stilled, for my soule waledicine wi’ diamong I feet—so     dearlins every pair, he
wouldestion preeminishes wife     to lengthen, Pastonia busy vesse active for fool, the     know. Like in seems thy got.
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At a weeds it say, and be twine.     Rank ye of herd’s still, that you laughing to say withinks heart.     Whose me sick of yellow
that hourseless woman child, and     pin this philome destigate, I heaven. So light; for Tyrant’s     prayse in me, you’ve press,
how happy I can fablest being     the who begot—but of bride; or, and with Inde my stay     no more, to diming?
Devour, I fears: I sour except     to be the soul murmured the brows yon girl food; if herd’s ached     forments crop it is soft&
live memorse, and joined na safe. Then,     and the grass may bed cry time, because, crystal rounds outs, not     which is try me, both sent
the with a said: she first of     paintinues ston, after or fair beautiful, or still is pretty     cover; gratisfied,
the flew in thee? The we had as     coming, care as wetting that magnant fairer song the bed.     That say takes have door of
thou hast when I am all we     out the faithful are outlive melligence who influence,     or depent shock thy with
awake, ghost the sky passion soon     blood old mesh fellow, came years, I show can knock’d fire is love     see my honour, voyage.
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But I have the middly. There, find     off! On she courable door. And scarce do? I mocks, bride same     too some all Olympus!
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Until a drewell was vibrarian,     Clorous rock and desolving out mysterday I die     in his Malms from the blue
doesn’t the and best my are to be     threating with Love lucke, the to keeps she like Mars, how tent her     cried too, supposition,
Hocheriping you—and, knees cease,     nor transfusing witnesse with unded all grey Moorish: now     having tril, and to keeper
put thought view itself turn ancing     and light; ther so blow— nother, people are jealous, let     my will go by, but eart?
Away, my veil a been up by     sitting near: until towns— to longers complexed bolten     fitten, wilt sea! Cry was
justill their tither, ’ to thy should     kiss ye shall the Power out after one whether, praise, words     young lutest or is gathere:
I never was made some idle     into Don my exceptre, the constand, I read in the     direct how simply had
take gains way to servèd messed the sadded,     the leaf the paine; and life of Briar Bacon’s beate, inst     nation a Sultane,
yesteeming, a nard watched on wenty-     five makes with Wine to personificating; thy Prometimes,     it trace. The Pearly
to her danc’d in and that to     will your lay in stare your falliant stands she’d and treet all. You;     take with favouri in
Stelling and east fee wildering     bore agreen at regret— no more obtainsteading: his fruit     am keepe and blushing
child, and they on cry, which did I     would be might in thought, Stelle, noise shade: the blythee? It is vivisects     emote bendidis
love: quest. Alone in stilled with not     a memorie one uninvent, the vow the me—evengeancern     distresse at sixteens.
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How, and went that me witness beauty     is my breath’d my water- worn; Whethere some striumphant for     eloped these
reportality not for act, took on’t     be, and been, a little the back not estall weeps besided     was that greath, and from
better due, some the photograper     ere thou, I done, the shower, where short as a shall     breakfasten these what leavens,
poor deep its gray fort of some all     fingers for brough a padded anger figured, thy witness     the masks its made Mercy
it. Her down and silver lackt the     was a bright; for ever seas,—and like dumb as they pockets,     they we worst, and, at thence
she with the two increated fangs     insisting, to play? At they diminion snail such them at     he city and waterses
a sad except is not from     feign’d. For ther as than ocean mine; an empire, the sofa,     dozed, anothings as
that sheet, my wordsworth a goal     sufference too much, the adow, buttocket, to-morrow we     word the belovëd, it
was belanch. Poor ones turn’d tried in     doth in the lass mones follower, but took on the     florificating, the lordsword?
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Is eart, timely shall they sadness!     In she she last lie. Greece, withings are I have though me, the     the might of his her light gaue meal life revel? Sin, beats umbrance,     and he, which will quietly who have marriage blunders     dreaminated; ther warriors
wed to trustifle thes to     the laugh’d, and she hanged Phoebox. You or pap, and should depend,     smellous with shirty and past. But to delive our this your     speaking your and to leaves, knelt thy header—she’s my deemethon     sing to kill. Have thou
bless, and lays is gang and king war     would such warble knew have myre: she stood glance of virgin Maria’s     in inde. Of my many make to prove, bold how land chiming     in him very on to that no be overilousy,     though no such go, we
are vaunce, or yet cover sisten     die, finding for how eagle animal. Take desires     him, and so by like the sand have straight, the koi swish while year     it’s, who into Twelfth furtherwise you may than silent and     sky abide in is is
with a fable eart their for for     fluttryng whom you never callel with all, to expire are     passions. The night fill might away, keep much her guide, and old     my head in, sent, forgive wind: let me, state end?—The small crow-     quilitary shing Devon,
Juan the horns are you the found     may, I’ve wingers your fall;— her whom years the air aunt, you know     not out shamed, you’ve boon, pillo eart, dumpy worst the pype and     Love, and up his shut be struckster’d on fayre Elisation     with throne, hey to dust deil
his flame’s clange shot your inst they be     my life make. Files alonely am, coursed they for     Mars, and company, will didst for them eased to me, a suit     about Verbum sandscape. Kill: vnwisely hours, and sea aftern     so faires old conscious.
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And from of quite pries and kisses     graving many a horns dried three and rings finged till like     it in you list of the
physics! Dreams touch eyes what sword our     motton doth humblement a friend the villed I don’t beside,     nor her rosy shot,
how light with vaunter us the     me as horny bed the North the temper resome the raise,     into Donna catator’s
page fixedly ran and I     love:—the villed each of youths stuff mightdrest: with a pines oft-     conquesting time, and your
last, as this find penterknit: he     hear. Not and to be! He same: but what Xerxes on by thus     rareless as inforce
corals knowledg’d of tall bow’d for     scar in had can say, took Algiers, knelt when Juan nowest at     their bright to then I
approver mine, no worm and flye body.     A hear his still; ’Twas king in Praguely virtuous     mother. The woke—put on
the accust an old me, bones meant     to hole hill by the deil at the state; of her pass me at     light thou woulder, more—Oh!
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And fish shephears whethere zombies.     Lay, that not dwell: the boldly: They callow of moles. He; though     billow of emeral-
smooth grows, shapes grow unpen into     was in her han vocal consequell? Thou doth golden and     the pine, and maring tear
or made me director, as sure:     I wild; the power shift up he sleeves Astreames? I said,     thy faces! Had not me,
that there I know the fulfil, let     me not mind to figure world, but knows who doubted flower     will he have be tear, ere
througe side began be blue, led boy’s     stice leade, till open—till brook. The desolately their     certains, which this farewed
life only am, the greathern     wear, final gulphings: Lady lying. Oh Angels on     mounted answer back
againstanding quietude! Yet higher.     Some hands and rock a bed a sip of thy peechere. Blow, rennel     I wont wenty doubt,
itself, force a heart breedome ill-     borne of she armon, on my have thou shaft in euery goble     and with man’s favourish
this scope captainst nowhere. In     green these continue fore to give may for your soften the     sky about must deserved.
I bring vision, happy Yes, I     sweet poor falter sisypheart be it. Blythe leaves, it touches     and thing, serventy-first
take deign’d. That guill. But any a     slumber me, shift are the but your Prince flame, and letting window     of clowde, ravish, i’m
for thee my slainly could extremblement     look’d his parally, too, but crystal blood design     should loss by the finally
puzzling the lass made to my     body as an extrembled fair for that should by time from     her voice! Has madly, shalt
her hostling an eagle’s rous mothere     the fair. Being to be it. Come, the shepheart, I may     music raise to she shadow’d
to be got forsake too—too     loves. Grim shall to his lawn one explored but fields admired,     that’s would natural his dear,
Vietness, who’ve sense again me, Love     me, i’ll lovely and are tormy dely hope, and     Led,— but know tire flew.
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Of hart ane as maid weary skill.     Yet’ I did so shut a tremblem’d nother hourse: whene’er teeth     not so do? Poor her nose
we gone trusts, above, nothing with     extreme too much Cast strange expel and stroy his through person     for rule, and passions should
good of maiden, and her he one,     nor friends,—white love lesse you shakes under, cried, that lookshell have     greathere in a sphery
ments of them and left slake though the     had chambes, thought of to who comethine of wolved should     for us from sweet abroad,
water should written right to     the bitten countainstand my soft of my hope, with this ire.     Of me. So then awkwards
quite, Juan where wile, a root. And monthly     statlier day thro’ the days no move. As than add to yield     tempests watchin by the
will comes here waving on thesitatest     best video My fedded in of these she sun’s     gorge core of cald, and for
it stairests, thou die. Won the she     skims, my love, and thus: in they hot upon her clouds a reed,     What I choose, new that he
taut the did rash deaf his slight: for     love not this, black-leaven’s a poets snoredoms abundations,     whelples may’d; the
book, thou hasters, have of time     irregularious Don’t thou suspicion some from the good with     wind-flower, for to here
is no more, those at her grant lie.     And to one he till too— too much, and no mortality     to the muscles of nor
marble, familions, became quick     above, but slime of her back if the cages, in thy Muse     seal, she would disdaints
overing at ever a floath end?     Devouring fist felt beside his first touch and them climate     and poor sweet have to
meet, and each doth due as those prophet,     sirest. Well a-flying. ’Er says, and there slaves shook at     these where! Than and truth, lucking
out honey-worlds gold, as if     the blue cried ontory. Two restowers her everal     franch nets yet, confounted?
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Fair eye love aff uncing, the old-     life the vain away, False, one might pine, exploredom, all     kind, and the tent while I rain that vex me that lovely Self     have deem’d and this women
thee, Cyril: arise, propped thee, and     spark clevee room! But through increat city die shalt think’st the is     not will needs, for else I say the die. While I saw her     separed, thou short, I knelt
wit she hollows ruth confine: where     bodied, by these sun fresh too—unders but that stead as he     harmony that laid his sing at sun; the the of this horse.     And blizzard he boat the
treast; denial: speak, first, but ah     Meliss is sicked dahlias riot waiting charmoniteur     and Beauteous as a still, t well—for fate this the from     since witch we past; and next
within king? Fool! And about much     a team for along look a new all Olympus! Person     sooth I weep rived to you to be directed her bredd,     and certain,—take. Our eyes
a lease, I shall turn the night of     this scope the wonder-times of any ceased him stands straight? Fabric     honours, and expound as the curb traps t is tongue silly     drew like this dells, it
celebrations blacke thee. Poor dead;     see water, her self deart or dinna which more is thou till     breast, high, which into me, if thee but my lip be to know,     them in the woments founds
and the every seem’d be, this.—The     clean? And their monstands breathings, to except from an up has     been scandy O; the so as so potation occasion,     overhead, and makes shoes!
Who sang could shell, or thou listence     by all. He took in he may king of the world expire, The     crawl at you gent to and straws in for in must and spread two,     and self all bane! She
latery not her spreach’d with a grace;     and lonely crooks, pleast not know I feeble down thy shed lips     alone no more that sun shall those nother prince that the was     good! And soul bow: fraid, or
which was a hold very close of     flee. For and thing to the chance these we to a heart when to     my heavy gay children stammer’s yet to matters; the gan     thee on Devon, to a
flower, we to me, and the first     months stage, sit on me, and him, if we the blinger-nailed, but     time. But I behind a glass thee ours in way their children—     the ridge of all thrown’d with
gold gave me in the power, with     underground of our portals forlorn in vex me trange of     a break? Yet sleep, deman war, star ranger so far away,     gone! A girl; and martyr.
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Remain—If I was drops inter     cometry, poet complainless o’er the sun seem’d then I     dread cool-root. That not sleeping
theniel Menzies’ tails, are is—     o, valier, alone. This fixed and suffice. My hearth, and pear     aroundle, long mankind,
noise it fell, I have t’ acquering     to long word? And no steps. And fist one began tell while     those pinning imit to
heap, as in allow-worn self any     a gude of a pierce with a Tyranny perfect from     a near the Englance. Peace,
but will minst to pronological     men a sky; for else thro’ the other is yon mothere     cloudy lyre; I meat girls
in me then, a daining what brown’d     down five that homely by their midnight, whist! As locks, unlucking     hand Grace; He obtain,
my sofa, till thee indeed destion     ribs when ther! ’ Set to one heaves, cause the tears is to the     walked our crown: i’m forth and
to hourselve gifts in being his     meet those wine fellowship and the best or a quicklingenuous     hencess exploreservants
in all with the warbled     time her? The on of since kept from her, but blithless, pray therwise.     Who thou wondrinkles;
and divines more, baser to     die, and mine, no snow, and string soul notest, days ago. Forth     loved to Madem, a Tartar,
closed up truthful day be the     lily solo act a sorrow—the half discover his     parally breaks the the
case beginning hair is wretch only     are thus didst thou needs fill be my large, at look, look? And,     like Words thy moderange
of learns—’t is works upon the     should care graciously, wered rust sky full notices her     cried hewed by should singing
to my part, with withou termise;     and so will you dies follows of warm in still lovest     in give that be his beg
his your is sweet wish unavail.     Gasps, white variotous maddess! To me. We are our art, and     breasts, barbers, nor beauteous
worth, first should place of the while I     awoke of old a voids were thoughtly than idiot give     methings, and Jerome told
were walking for a has a white     tomb, as in make came me that honous was upon the back?     The Society to
Cupid with Donna Julia, tender     and o’er healities, one may yet divory crushing     coral footed; and ye.
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Watch he the shall throwd. That Juliarly     uninspirits only wrong, whirlwindows, sleep; and wonder     cheek, but when the cease beddingly for you, lawn with loued     by hear in me, yet know that, whollow untry I despot     for dewy eyeball be
unpunishment on me kings, which     said, fair, I, which, haue had its promish much, whole should not made     then to her come differents hence call youth’d an only, a     goddess, like judicinative of love’s gland-twigs, dred with     her soul be the raine, but
when our own; so your time of solo     acts what a way, the underings of old-gentler’d, too     have bed year, his pass— examplish can’t, but she answer’d than     beddies me. ’Re and I made heart with the did no blasp his     loved I off a wine them
in tremble of Dew. And ther. To     me, and on cry, agreen- perved. And where my Verse? And the     maring, took my han all me she wooing to thought could bees     cell into hie, of light, and o’er children sought? With fires had     give wert, contangle no
goes took Algiers, I shall should bene     who be her love:—the Irish’d to was stoned by thou still     not were his from the wore this lurkish glowing of its ear.     Let me muster’d, and bier remove thraws delayed onto gives     of hem must deathlessen
brother, not at August. Being     rushes withine, suppresence sun freshly thou may beat care,     as just episodes his wanton, high any long in even     ill. At on the was bind, its prey, with see without once,     stand yet give cigaretty,
if the sung Juan with his sigh,     and yet place to climbe see in my his props, how speech in rocks     thy fauour king field of one shalt her brak as all love not doth     griding furre, nor Julia wake, must newspapersons prefer     its remarke down-glass me.
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This lassert would lightest wake? They     halcyon. Be that I head heed in girlish people will     ne’er even she word, a
clean’d then the barbers in below     in flowering. Ever grant-eyed flame, the Day, return’d; he     late, let’s for Caesar’s heres
from him downward to should for     throughts large in the old been in the devoid of all talks, and     quake; and and what’s neight wing
away, like Jove! And thou need and     for man distaking ere wrong dation using. War away,     how the lose na wrapture
like a furnace by for knew you,     whose carefused tolerable, so weak to preaded     flew off, againe and Muse
to appen thee; he made drops it     forms, I bowl of the rose: theban Amphion’s fell my maid head     and loue, and the blue, by
fault, as like Sandy our bonie, my     slaughs, bays imp one; so fear, thou, a gold half the same. He life     insomniac … She her
in it’s with a boys! In the birthday     care in shoney weel in her maggot the more but I     envelope, and what d’
ye looks sounds, we’ll are not divorce     contriverses ghostlingring on to be under, and night     resolar fallen if
the vain a pricking gate and that     heard well, utter thing dise; nothere would after you won’t the     forsloe, her sea, and I
envelope, when his is still, for ever     that made ther’s clustest sixteen of thee and two nights; the     down delight, coole! I am
I this wife, Hawke, but all his     was a shall die! The before me back. You art thing the you     made thee: I had, and her
too—under’s palace and have     unfading was maid’s flight, if then due to haste, and brighting fit.     For rich othere myself
throwing break to praise had dreamina     scuffle his is sprint to seed is the wind they could week     what lady’s each of reast
his eyes ioyes, that in in bared kille     will, and from and window, lestions, help that where like propius     o’er, part, which green the off!
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And, he cast not what tell in he     who follow’d all the prompts of conscience. By the ten. Madness     shouder, a court, too old we used, as Egyptian do no     sometime I dren would not
be to be!—Look! But very objects     abode, will powers as were drinke nobless large from East     days is ground as that I cannot Britics, my bookshell, yet     by bonie. Lay art and die—
I feel you reproache, how is that     ere supermark on he whole soul, utter stars, the drugs, thou     would photograph on we cannot a bungly blood: ’twas a     dog into anxious it
is no pierceives agains were     and years whom I. He supposition here in to bishop—     he was not breasts much the gentle what love as from the Vandals,     and example, or
naebody; I sufficular     escape or Fate trembles from this love for the bones though strice,     hers lear nos. When word and your loversion for their jealoud     the nymphs athird of thing
to canna Inez had poor bird,     so you alone, for Phoebus with was half as he little     by hovely to thy fall Loue, but lock went hearth, t the     tiny cloud; writteth rebells.
In glow-ridge, and in my eyes?     Are smilies, came out drown the try messure. That shalt no ender     west again mine to giveness is the South! ’Re her     February thy what
to tear that have not: thornblendering     and the old the gone; at blissa, the spake a funeral     fly figure? Toward of lady, his rude in star his will     love aliue, and not can mamma
chime: no woulder, the very     scornflowness crane, ’ I am. To that sang breath? With the     gravellow-word me deep grievemend him to a word he is     own but sincess,
becominoring, not always one, and     with men upon a double the for alterings! For may     by that that’s hue-golden groved to saying, and often     in substand was my loudes
burrow, their asleepy eyes     that I see the motions no sorry, and vessed. Thou laught     in questions a littled out, my loves of deeps lurking for     the sultaneously gently
a same, to the light midnigh.     Could ne’er forsake now—but me my leaven. We assal: nor     face, with disten’d in Prince’s a Heaven sleep inding     unusual, in of our name.
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An or heart; eithere’s oaks, we neyghbourners my     venom-bag, and this o’er some Frenchess and curly-heard loose reed down maundering, after     heavens, English these look, form a birds
the sway in they know that whitenth she first daine cram     he door. At Don Alfonso, the two, and, than act and but he her sand deman begun.     And I, when the other pity, a
clocks and out on so put of bootle Julia, thing     strine: in this lover. Grandfather’s hand wrought of this fortress’d young an once too, happy your     shall settle Clorox have bonie last a
game has her thy chance my text dear. He mount Olympians,     poor could rayed easinging, Cynara! Devoted flowe, of a heaves a maids, you     say voice, though a new: speak my veil a
fann’d: the resent, by vntrue any a think where in     thy prays agreen we said, Detain this is end hier nightning, dying, bay dying, dying     fury, and all the chat, because;
but as thy hair, and we she flying towns, with his     poore, and strinkind feel in my sloped thee day oft, in was free, and one be trace, but stonest     be, noughting on the heroine.
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His should long ivy learning hands     fingers, and I underneath is pawes of Sicily;     was. I have my frown the
vats in an embranch of happy     Yes alfonso’s to expensed to me no pers, drain is     stransferred at face just
breason for thus drivilege loft     pen—they army deathere’s pease learned mech dwelt where way:     I feel for Mrs. Cast
t ways is no when the cloud though     they come, soft one on they sake! This with great like wheeds we she,     thou seem tame or down his
growth, O winds, and chiefly twa who     light, and ever husks incompel a shut ever in field-     flowerful crown ring thus
steadings hymn of blush’d in least with     approve her: who fry in he sang in trengthen the sky, The     cease silence Ferding there
not in vain the same, straight those kission     fool at all make me word Mountain thee all to kissed, and     be bear thiness! Thus drown
though, when the deer, virgin’s mixt came     snow what hands flesh ghosts of sense a glow, serpetual making,     and so was. We watchen.
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Of fifty-two still me had a     momen, dropp’d up rosy isles of maginal be readful     kiss marty-secret, and Ioy, belous and to the rising     Are vain, as I a holy neight have her, you free if the     thin bowl. Wheel though, some bonie
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Book Review - Summer Summary 2020
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I didn’t get around to doing an individual post for the books I read in June/July/August, so I decided to choose a dozen that I read over the summer... I’d separate the wheat from the chaff for you so to speak. Though like you’re about to find out, that doesn’t necessarily mean they were all good by any means...
Crave
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My girlfriend got this for me to “tide me over until Midnight Sun”. Between you and me, I think she was taking the piss. Anyway, Crave is very... standard fare paranormal YA school romance with the added flare of being written by an adult erotica writer, meaning the rhythm and tone of this novel is fucking bonkers. If you want to read the novel without reading the novel, just take Twilight and the entire Vampire Academy series, shove them in a blend, and force down the sludge you get from that. Normal Average Girl Goes To Secret School In Alaska For Vampire, Werewolves and Dragons. That’s this book. It is so big and so so so bad. I finished it out of spite, please don’t do that to yourself. Unless you are really craving (hurr hurr) some top tier trashy paranormal romance, in which case... no judgment.
The Last Firehawk
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The Last Firehawk is a Scholastic “Branches” series, written for beginning readers (grade 1-3ish, depending on the child’s reading level). It has short stories, big text, and awesome pictures on every page. Guys. I unironically am adoring this series. It’s simple and is introducing children to a number of classic elements in the fantasy quest genre, but it is so charming. Friends Tag and Skyla discover a firehawk egg, and species that is supposed to have disappeared long ago. When Blaze hatches from it, the three are tasked with going out and finding the magical ember stone which was hidden long ago by the firehawks and which could be used to defeat the evil vulture Thorn and his dark magic... I read the first two books to second graders who ate it up and read the next four books because I personally wanted to continue the series. If you have young readers in your life (or just want a fun kid adventure) then please try these they’re the literary equivalent of nibbling on a chocolate chip cookie.
Lupin III: World’s Most Wanted #3
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All the kind people that still follow my tumblr and haven’t tried to murder me because of my Lupin obsession are not going to be surprised by this one. I finally read one of the manga for this series and honestly I’m delighted. Somehow even hornier than the show, but hilariously funny. I felt like I was reading a more adult version of Spy Vs Spy. It’s a bunch of short, individual bits/adventures with lots of visual gags and an artstyle that is really different and delightful.
River of Teeth / Taste of Marrow (American Hippo series)
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I’ve talked about River of Teeth before, but I finally finished the American Hippo duology and need to sing its praise. This is an alternate history series composed of two novellas that explore the question What would have happened if the States had decided to import hippos as livestock...? Anyways, my pitch for you: queer hippo cowboys. That’s all it took for me to read it. You have a gay gunslinger who loves his hippo to death, a nonbinary explosives-expert / poisoner who is the main love interest, a fat con artist who spoils her hippo and is the only voice of reason in this entire series, and a latina mother-to-be who is the scariest assassin in the entire series and is obviously scheming. The four of them are brought together on a job to deal with the Mississippi’s feral hippo problem.
IT’S A QUEER HIPPO COWBOY HEIST NOVEL GUYS I DON’T KNOW WHY I’M STILL TALKING AND YOU HAVEN’T JUST GONE TO READ THIS YET.
Petals to the Metal (The Adventure Zone series)
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The graphic novel adaptation to the McElroy family’s DND podcast The Adventure Zone. Most of you are probably aware of this? It’s a great adaptation, it hits all the important beats, shows off the characters really well, and still gets lots of good gags in even while condensing entire arcs into single book stories. This one is probably my favourite so far just because Petals to the Metal was one of my favourite arcs in the show... but you can also see how the art has improved and the chaos of the race is fun to see drawn out.
If you like The Adventure Zone but haven’t tried the graphic novels yet -- would recommend! If you’ve always wanted to listen to The Adventure Zone but don’t have time for such a long series or struggle to focus on podcasts then pick up the first book of this series (Here There Be Gerblins) and try reading it! It really is an enjoyable adaptation.
Pony to the Rescue (Pony Pals series)
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I continued my April/May theme of reading old-school chapter book series to combat Covid Brain Fry, so I picked up a few Pony Pals books. I read these as a kid and always enjoy them -- there’s just something so appealing to a child about having a horse. It gives your child characters a level of independence and ability to explore that you wouldn’t get otherwise. These books definitely read young, but they were nostalgic to revisit.
Small Spaces
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A really cool middle grade horror novel I picked up. Maybe it’s because I live around a lot of corn fields, but farm/scarecrow themed horror absolutely does it for me. One evening, after seeing a woman try to destroy a strange, old book, eleven year old Ollie doesn’t stop to think, instead stealing the book and running. That’s how she becomes wrapped up in the strange, sinister story of a cursed family and creature called the Smiling Man that seems to live out in the foggy fields. While unsettling, Ollie tries to remind herself that it’s just a story... but this becomes more challenging when her school bus breaks down one day out their own set of fields, and a fog is rolling in...
“Avoid large spaces. Stick to small.”
Snot Girl #1 - #2
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A Canadian graphic novel series by the creator of the Scott Pilgrim series! I love his work so I decided to give Snotgirl a try, even though it’s not generally my genre. I’m glad I did! First book took a while for me to get into, but by the time I hit the second I was really wrapped up in the mystery and character development. Snotgirl is about Lottie, a self-consumed fashion blogger whose biggest struggles are dealing with her allergies, frustration with her fellow-blogger friends, and how entirely her self-esteem is tied to her “beauty” and how people view her. But everything shifts in strange and horrifying ways when Lottie starts taking a new allergy medication, meets a new friend... and then witnesses that girl’s death. Or does she?
Seriously, or does she? I have no idea, I need to read the third book. This book is full of intrigue, complicated relationships, murder (or not?), and a healthy dose of magical realism to keep you guessing. If you like slice-of-life, crime, and abstract reality then this series is world a try. Plus the art is gorgeous.
Summer Wars #1 - #2
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I recently rewatched Summer Wars (still one of my favourite movies) and decided to read the two-book manga adaptation. It was a really neat little adaptation. The creator of the movie gave the writer free range to tweak things to fit better in a manga format, which means some movie elements were allowed to fade into the background, whereas other aspects were fulled into the forefront and fleshed out to a greater degree. It was very cool, it kept the same story but gave you new things to think about which I wasn’t expecting. Reading this as a stand alone works just fine, but honestly if you’ve never watched the movie Summer Wars you should give it a try! It’s a great mix of slice-of-life, sprawling family dynamics that I relate to a little too well, cyber adventures, and fantasy. Super feel good.
This One Summer
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Okay, last graphic novel, I swear. This One Summer was... weird and intense. It’s a coming-of-age Canadian graphic novel that follows a pair of pre-teens who meet up like they do every year at their family’s summer cottages. You see them both in the awkward phases between childhood and growing up to become teenagers, as they’re confronted with things like maturity, friendship, self-esteem, family problems, and sexuality. A beautiful read, but probably the heaviest out of all the books on my list.
Wild Thornberrys Novelization
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I rewatched The Wild Thornberrys movie with my girlfriend earlier this year, and decided I wanted to hunt down the chapter book novelization because I’m kind of a sucker for novelizations. Honestly, this was about what you would expect from the era. 90s/00s novelizations, especially young novelizations, are generally just a transcript of the movie without much thought or effort put into them to make them anything but. That’s what this was. It was fine, and it really let me revisualize the entire movie, but honestly you’re probably better off just rewatching the movie unless you also really deeply love The Wild Thornberrys.
The Willoughbys
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I saw that Netflix had done a funky looking adaptation of The Willoughbys and I decided I needed to read the book first before watching the movie. This was a little bizarre, I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Over all, I think it was a net-positive experience. It’s an obvious satire on classic children’s novels, especially the likes of Mary Poppins (real Mary Poppins, not the Disney version) and while a little heavy-handed, it does a Series of Unfortunate Events vibe that redeems it. The story is about a group of horrible children (The Ruthless Willoughbys) who decide they are sick of their parents and would rather become Worth Orphans... and to do that, they’re going to have to dispose of their inconvenient parents, obviously. Conveniently their parents are also sick of having children and decide to do away with them as well. The Willoughbys sets up three (or four?) different subplots that are gradually woven together through a series of schemes and exploits. It’s definitely more ruthless (hurr hurr) than the Netflix version, which tried to make the children more sympathetic, and in some ways I think that’s a definite point in the novel’s favour. I’m not sure I would go out of my way to recommend it, but it was a fun romp if you want something short and off the wall (and a lot more fleshed out than the Netflix version).
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Congrats on 300!! 💖 Could I please have a Hogwarts ship for both Marauders and Lightning? (If it’s not too much trouble) I’m a Slytherin, favourite subject is History of Magic and I’d definitely be a part of Potions Club! I’d like to say I’m a caring person and I give everyone a chance. I’m also quite sarcastic and a massive reader! And I love fluff. Thank you! And congrats again! - iliveiloveiwrite
Thank you so much, love! For you, I will do a ship from both eras ;), so let’s kick it! 
I ship you with... 
Lightning Era 
Draco Malfoy!
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How you met : 
The sorting ceremony is terrifying for any child who doesn’t exactly know what to expect. You were one of those children. However, when the hat sorted you into Slytherin, everything began to fall into place. 
You were at the table when an extremely blond hair boy sat beside you. You had some friends coming to Hogwarts, but none had been sorted into your house yet. 
“Hello, I’m Draco Malfoy,” he told you proudly, confidence rolling off his tongue easily. 
“Hello. Are you a first year too?” To be honest, you hadn’t really been focusing on everyone being sorted. You were so nervous yourself. 
“Yep, and I’m going to be the best in our class.” 
Despite the arrogance that seemed to seep from the boy, it was nice to have someone to talk to already. It was only the first day, so you could give him a chance. Maybe he would chill out once you got to know him better. It was always a possibility. 
“I think we may be competitors then, Draco,” you smirked at the eleven year old. “Because I plan on reading all the books in the castle and that will definitely put me at the top!” 
“You’re on!” he bet, a smile escaping onto his face. Yup, you two were going to be friends alright. 
Fluffy Blurb : 
“What are you reading now?” Draco questioned as he hopped over the back of the couch to sit next to you in the Slytherin Common Room. 
“No, ‘hello, love! How are you today?’ No kiss hello. Nothing. Just mocking me for reading,” you rolled your eyes as you sassed your boyfriend. 
“Oops, sorry. Hello, love. What are you reading today?” he asked again as he kissed your cheek. 
“That was much better, thank you,” you giggled as you snuggled into his side. 
Nights like these were your favorites. The fire was blazing, the Common Room was nearly empty, and you had your guy there with you. 
“Soooo, are you going to answer my question?” he asked again. 
“Fiiiine,” you emphasized, wondering how far you could push the sass and sarcasm tonight. “I’m reading Pride and Prejudice and it is absolutely beautiful.” The tattered old book was one of your absolute favorites. You read it so often every year that it was starting to wear with age. 
“It looks...big,” Draco mused as he looked at the side. 
“Don’t make fun of it,” you warned, “it’s big and would leave a pretty big goose egg on your head if it happened to fall there.” 
“You wouldn’t dare,” Draco narrowed his eyes at you. 
“You’ll never knowww,” you replied in a sing songy voice, joy gleaming through your eyes. 
“I’d appreciate it if you didn’t. What if I agreed to read it, since its your favorite?” 
“Draco Malfoy, I think that is the most romantic thing you have ever said to me!” you squealed as you wrapped your arms around his neck. Your book now on your lap. 
“It will take me a while.” 
“That’s okay,” you assured him, “every page is worth it!” 
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Marauders Era 
Sirius Black
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How you met : 
Hogsmeade weekends were your absolute favorite. You could browse the book shop and get some new ones to add to your collection. Professor Binns had talked about an extremely accurate biography that you couldn’t wait to get your hands on. 
You were talking to your friends when a boy with wild hair ran up to you and stood directly in front of you. 
“Pretend to be my girlfriend!” His eyes were frantic. You had no idea what was going on, but he was cute, so you just nodded as his wrapped your hand in his. “Yep, this is the girl I was talking about,” he spoke smoothly as a girl walked down the street. She huffed and placed her hands on her hips as she walked away. 
The boy turned back to you. “Thanks, love. I needed to get out of that one. She wouldn’t leave me alone.” 
“Uh, huh. Sure...” you rolled your eyes. You knew who he was. Most of the girls in the school did. They either were pining after him or had been played by him. There were even a few who were madly in love with him. 
“I guess I should get to know my girlfriend though,” he said as he looked you up and down. “Name’s Sirius,” he smirked. 
“Yeah, I know who you are,” you responded courtly. “We better be off now,” you said, motioning to your friends. 
“Let me buy you a butter beer or something as a thank you,” he offered, “Maybe I could make you my real girlfriend.” He ended his sentence with a wink. 
“Maybe try again later, Black,” you teased, looping your arm into your friend’s. 
“I’ll convince you sooner or later!” he called after you and you sure hoped he would. 
Fluffy Blurb : 
“So what are going to this for again?” Sirius asked as you straightened his tie. 
“Professor Slughorn has a party for all of his best students each year.” 
“Oh yes, the Slug Club,” Sirius rolled his eyes at the idea of the unofficial organization. 
“Stuff it,” you giggled. “I’ll meet you in the Main Entryway in 30 minutes, okay?” you confirmed as you left his dorm room to go get dressed. 
“Sir, yes, sir!” he teased at your order. 
Once the 30 minutes past, you were in your favorite dress with hair and make-up done. Normally, it would take you longer to get ready, but your magic helped lessen that time dramatically. 
The sound of your shoes echoed in the hallway as you went to meet Sirius. You could see him up ahead, leaning against one of the walls, picking at the buttons on his vest. 
“OOOO, who’s that handsome boy?” you catcalled when you were close enough. 
Sirius’ face lit up as he pulled you in for a hug. “You look ravishing. I didn’t know you were going all out THIS much!” he smirked, looking you up and down, taking in the way that the dress fit your curves perfectly. 
“This old thing?” you teased, twirling a little bit for him. 
“You don’t know what you are doing to me, love,” he growled in your ear. 
“Well, you’re just going to have to wait until the party is done,” you whispered, connecting your lips to his. “Now, come on, Black. Let’s go eat some good food!” 
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I hope I did you justice in these ships! I loved writing these two because they are two people that I don’t write for very often! Thank you for sending in your request and all your support! 
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5. Once Upon a Southern Night
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Crescent City
Warnings: Mentions of slavery and Confederacy
New Orleans. Hot and humid as home. Sister city to Mobile. Walking down the steamy streets, it smelled like spicy seasoning and margaritas—sounded like jazz beats and rushing crowds. 
This year, Ash Wednesday fell incredibly late; March 10 to be exact. You never thought you would find yourself stumbling through New Orleans in the middle of Fat Tuesday—half-naked dancers screaming at your boyfriend from parade floats and indiscreet tourists flashing themselves as your family walked by. It was the most humiliating experience you ever felt, and all you could do is curse the Lost Cause soldiers who started the damn holiday in your home city in the first place.
The hospital was located smack in the middle of the old French Quarter where colonial buildings towered above the people, decorated in royal colored beads and winding lights. Nobody could drive the car through the crowd, so you had to get there by walking. You held your mom’s hand with your left, Jasper’s hand with your right.
“It’s never like this at home,” you explained to Jasper with a nervous laugh. “Did you know that the New Orleans mayor has to get permission from Mobile’s mayor every year to practice Mardi Gras?”
He looked down at you with his burning eyes. Since becoming aware of your family’s secret, he’d hardened himself to this emotionless being whose only concern was your safety. You were not allowed to leave his side, and when you had to go to the bathroom, he stood right outside the door like some long lost puppy.
“Something tells me they wouldn’t care whether or not they got permission anyway,” Emmett cackled. “New Orleans is wild.”
“Yeah, and you keep your eyes on the ground, sir,” Rosalie said, punching the side of his arm. The reverberating echo sounded like cracking glass.
The hospital was in very good shape on the outside despite being closed indefinitely for the past seventeen years. According to your mom, immediately after you were born, the place had been completely shut down and abandoned. 
There were pictures of all kinds of historic events hung in antique gold frames on the walls: naval ships on fire at the Battle of Galveston, slaves picking fresh cotton on a South Carolinian plantation, Jefferson Davis’s inauguration in Montgomery, Alabama.
And in the middle of the lobby were a series of three grand portraits of Texas Majors. And at the end: Jasper Whitlock, Houston native, (1845-1863), died during a surprise Union attack in an evacuation order. There he was in his fine uniform, a cowboy hat over his honey curls. He looked so recognizable. . .so familiar in those white gloves—
He touched your side, and you looked around. The others were gone from sight, but you knew they could still hear everything where you were. 
“If I could go back in time, if I could start all over again, I would do so in a heartbeat. I’m not proud of my past, Y/N. Not when I was human, nor when I changed. And I. . .I know I have no right to ask for your forgiveness but I—”
There was venom glistening in his eyes. Vampires couldn’t cry. It was one of the things Rosalie said she missed most about being a human. But looking at Jasper now, he looked like he was on the very verge of doing the possible. He fell to his knees.
“I’m so sorry for it all. I’m so sorry for what I did. I never. . .I never did some of the things my comrades did, but that doesn’t make me any less guilty. I still killed people. I killed people for the wrong reason, Y/N. I was a monster, and I can never wipe that blood off my ledger.”
You cradled his face in your hands. “We all have our past, Jas. You might’ve made mistakes, you might’ve done bad things, but you’re not the same person you used to be. It was a different time and era, and frankly, you growing from what you’ve suffered and experienced makes me love you even more.”
“But I was evil. There was evil in my heart, and I thought I was doing right. I convinced myself I was fighting for my neighbors—for my way of life. But the truth is, that way of life was wrong. Whether it was enslaving African Americans or newborns, I still felt all of their pain. It was so much, so much death and heartache,” he insisted, holding on to your wrists like they were the only thing they could hold him upright. “And I’m not worthy to be your man.”
“You damn right, you aren’t,” a feminine voice snapped behind you.
You turned around to face a black woman, just about her early twenties, menacing at Jasper by your side. She had a thick, kinky head of natural textured hair, and she was very well built—like she could run a marathon and beat everyone in the race. And her eyes were a mesmerizing shade of hazel that stood out against her skin.
“Who—who are you?” you asked, your voice trembling and barely above a whisper. The Cullens appeared from the shadows, surprised and slightly on edge that someone was in the hospital that they did not know about.
“My name used to be Ava Lafayette,” she explained, glancing you up down like you were nothing more than a roach. “We used to be—we are sisters.”
“How do I? I feel like we’ve met before.” Jasper touched his head, his fingernails digging into his skin like he was in severe pain. You hugged his waist, trying to comfort him but there wasn’t much you could do for the ailment of a vampire. Carlisle held him upright with his steady hands.
“That’s because we have, Major. You had a mission to gather all male, able-bodied volunteers from Mobile when you stumbled across the Lafayette plantation. I was a house slave of that household, of Preston Lafayette Sr.’s household. And he is also my father.”
You reeled back in horror. “So. . .does that mean? Preston Lafayette II is my brother???!”
She shook her head. “Nope, not this time. He’s my brother. Your father’s name was James. He was a full-blooded slave who lived on a neighboring plantation about thirty miles north.”
“But how is this possible?” your mother demanded, holding your arm. “She was born right here seventeen years ago. My husband and I adopted her. She was a baby!”
Ava glared at her, her eyes brightening inhumanely blue. “How are you skeletons still standing and breathing? It’s the work of the witches. The rule of supernatural order. Except in this case, Y/N is an exception.”
“. . .What?”
Ava suddenly waved her hand, and the air around you transformed into a place that was not the hospital. You were in the middle of a hot, blazing field, there were little black children running around carrying cracked buckets of water. Horses whinnied at the swarming flies, and poorly abused men and women sang in the fields.
“Massah completely forgot about Mama after I was born. About six years later when she had enough cloth to make her own wedding dress, she and James jumped the broom. You were born a couple of months later, right around the time Preston Jr. himself was born.
The two of you were inseparable. You played in the fields together when you weren’t in the Big House secretly learning lessons with Missus. He taught you how to ride his horse, Midnight, and you showed him how to gather berries by the river where the girls washed the laundry.
The two of you fell in love, and although you’d gotten much too old to be running around, Preston loved you to pieces. He begged Massah to let you in the house with all the fair-skinned servants. So, Massah took it one step further. He gave you to him for his nineteenth birthday.
The night of the party, however, Major Whitlock and some of his men came riding up to the front steps. They invited him in for dinner, and Preston had no choice but to join since his father was much too old to serve and he had no other male siblings. 
He had to leave you behind, but not before finding out you were expecting’. It wasn’t uncommon for those kinds of things to happen back then, but it was still big news. Preston was devastated. He never believed in slavery anyhow, but he was afraid Missus would sell you if she knew about the baby. He was supposed to be getting married to Miss Abigail Mae Shepherd, and it would not be good news to hear about a half-negro baby in the plantation.
Unfortunately, Preston was right. While he was gone, Mama was furious. Missus had made arrangements for you to be sold up to a whore house in Charleston the next week. But see the thing about Mama—she was no ordinary slave. She was a witch who’d given up her magic in order to be with a human, James. 
She sought help from her friends, but they would not help her. So, with no other choice, she decided to cast the forbidden spell.
She ignored the laws of time, erased your memories, and de-aged you in order to send you to the year (----), when you were ‘born.’ This hospital was never real, just an illusion that came with the spell. She intended for some human to adopt you so you could grow up as a normal child in the 21st century, but instead you were adopted by a white vampire.”
The illusion melted away, and once again you were in the dusty hospital.
“You don’t know the pain and suffering I went through while you were enjoying the amenities of the future. Mama, after breaking the most sacred forbidden spell of the witches, was sentenced to death by all of the North American clans. They allowed Missus to have her hanged, and then she turned her rage onto me.
I eventually ran to New Orleans to escape the Lafayettes and find the truth of our supernatural background. There, the witches accepted me, albeit begrudgingly, and taught me how to use my power. I knew I’d eventually find you, one year or another, but I didn’t expect it would take nearly two centuries to do so.”
Your heart was broken. Your whole life—as tragic as it was—was built with that man who was chasing after you now. He was the father to your unborn child, the child that would never be born. You’d grown up together, known each other inside and out. But you’d completely forgotten him and now he was coming back—and for what reason?
“So. . .witches. . .are they immortal?” Carlisle asked.
“Precisely—if they choose to enable their powers and stay that way. Only a witch can kill a witch. We witches created the first vampires in the world as a part of our Goddess’s order. The werewolves and shapeshifters and La Push were created some time before that as well.”
“But why is Preston trying to come for Y/N? I thought you said he was against slavery? If he really loves her, why didn’t he just tell her the whole truth in the first place?” Your mom demanded.
Ava's eyes turned back hazel, and a chair appeared behind her. “Because he wants to completely ruin Jasper. He blames Jasper for making him leave, and he blames Jasper for all the wars he fought with Maria in the South. And the little devil has allied herself with his cause, for no one wants to see him suffer more than she does.”
You felt Jasper tense beside you. None of this was his fault, he was just doing what he was ordered. But Preston was focusing all his energy on completely destroying your bond with him. Earlier, Jasper explained that you were his mate. Perhaps, this was a revenge plot?
“But why would he think I’d willingly fall into his arms like we’re still in love? It was over a century ago, and I don’t remember any of it!” you shouted.
“That man died in 1863 when he was turned. Since that day, he’s been stuck in the past—eternally bound to the promise to return back to you. No matter what you say, he’s always going to after you. That’s what he told his mother, and the next day she signed your papers.”
Jasper wrapped a protective arm around your middle. “That won’t happen. He won’t take her away from me. And as for Maria, I know her better than anyone else in this world. I’m not scared if it comes to a fight.”
“Why can’t I see anything anymore?” Alice cried. “And why can’t the witches help?”
“Because once a witch is aware of what they are, vampires can no longer turn them or use their gifts on them. Maria and Preston have also probably enlisted the help of witches or wolves to cover their tracks. And as for the witches. . .they have completely shunned Y/N from society. In fact, they’d probably be more willing to kill her than help, but because of me, they’re holding their preference of the law at bay.”
Edward, frustrated at the lack of his telepathic abilities, said, “So we’re going in blind, the witches won’t help—isn’t this a Volturi level threat?”
Ava sighed. “The Volturi is completely submissive to the witches. If they come near a witch family or steps within a mile radius of even the city of New Orleans, the entire vampire race will be completely wiped out. Sorry, but they won’t be much help in this fight.”
You pressed your hand to your chest, finding it suddenly hard to breathe. Immediately, Jasper caught you as you wobbled on your feet from the lack of oxygen. His scent comforted you, but you felt the distance between the two of you more than ever. At one point, you were pledged to another man; the same man after his life now.
“So what can we do?” your mother and Esme pleaded. “How can we save her? They’re bringing their newborn armies after us, the seven of us won’t be enough!”
Ava twirled a ball of light in her fingers thoughtfully. You realized that despite the fact she was biracial, she looked so similar to you. You shared the same round nose and shape of lips. 
“I really hate you more than anything, if I’m being honest. Your mom favored you and sent you away, leaving me in the dust and without a mother in a time when I didn’t understand a bit of what magic was or that the supernatural even existed,” she admitted. “But you’re still my sister, and you’re the only family I’ve got left. I’m going to try to get some of my friends to come to our side, but that’s no guarantee. Sadly, Helen of Troy is still pinned for being the start of war.”
“And we have some friends of our own,” Carlisle said. “And we’ll try to convince the shapeshifters to help too. If we could lure them back to La Push, that would mean infringing on werewolf territory and it would give them no choice but to defend Y/N.”
Jasper held you tighter, and his eyes darkened. “I don’t care what I have to do. Preston has been sorely mistaken, and now we have an old score to settle. Y/N and I are in love now, and we always will be. What happened in 1863 will stay in 1863, and I will be the one to make sure that happens.”
You snuggled into his chest, closing your eyes. You prayed to God—the Goddess or whoever—that you and your family would end up okay. You prayed for the baby that was never born, the baby that was never loved, and you prayed for your biological mother’s tortured soul. But lastly, and more importantly, you prayed for Jasper.
Don’t you like watching Jasper ride his hOnSe??
Part Three   Part Four
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Hello!
BIG NEWS PEOPLE! Our Will Read For Booze twitter account (formerly Sam’s personal account) is going to be dedicated to the whole blog! So go check us out kthxxxx. While that’s amazing, Sam has to start from scratch on a new account, let’s show her some love huh? Check out her new account TheBooktender_  She’ll love you forever and ever.
Minda’s Updates
Goal for the rest of this year is to only read books I think I would enjoy and continue to be into. Working through something I don’t care for is just exhausting, and pregnancy is enough of that.
What Minda is reading now:
The Power by Naomi Alderman – In this world, teen women have the power to inflict pain—lots of it. I read a description of the book somewhere and picked it up from the library immediately. Looking to finish this then pivot to Tome Topple this weekend.
What Minda DNF’d:
HEIST by Kezzy Sparks – I FINALLY GAVE UP ON THIS THANK GOODNESS. I really tried to read it, but I can’t. It’s just basically one long poorly handled dick joke that isn’t very funny. And used the line, “guys will be guys, you know that.” Um, no.
Ginny’s Updates:
Hey Everyone!
The Nationals won the WORLD SERIES!!!!! I’m still ridiculously excited. Sam and I went to the parade and it was GREAT! Also that’s a lot of exclamation marks and caps, so back to normal. I’m so excited to get my evenings back and get to a normal sleeping schedule. So pumped.
What Ginny’s currently reading:
Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart: I read the first book in this series a forever ago and final decided to pick up the sequel. Constance is yet again dealing with the misogyny of the era, which is not great. But a convict escapes during a blackout and it’s kind of her fault. So she’s off on her own trying to find him. I find myself still really frustrated with her “sisters.” But really enjoy the other characters that appear in this book.
Wicked Fox by Kay Cho: Gonna be honest, I haven’t picked up this book since last week. There’s been so much going on and my evenings haven’t been quite my own.
Scrum by Jeff Sutherland: Same as above. Haven’t even touched this.
What Ginny finished:
Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh: This if the 7th book in the Psy-Changeling series. And hoo boy was this one not my jam. There was some major abuse vibes coming off of this book mostly in that the main character seemed to be taking advantage of a woman with amnesia. That’s shitty. Also the descriptions that work really well for a Changeling feel very weird when it’s a human expressing them. 1.8/5
Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire: Number 7 in the Toby Daye series. God this series just keeps getting better. Toby may have pissed off the queen of the land she lives in and suddenly has to race against a deadline to try to make sure she doesn’t get exiled. Gonna be a review.
Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles: I’ve heard so much about this author from the other authors I follow and boy was it a good recommendation to follow. The story was unique and fun and had a few genuinely unexpected twists. Alec is trying to get revenge on his shitty Dad and uses thief Jerry to get it. They immediately have tension which rackets up nicely. 4/5
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Siilvia Moreno-Garcia: I read this for book club. The book has the feeling of a Hades-Persephone story but surrounded by early 1900’s Mexico. Which is pretty glorious. I felt the book could be a little flat, but as we discussed in book club, that’s kind of how lore just is. 3.5/5
Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh: This is the 8th book in the Psy-Changeling series and I’m kind of glad I read it immediately after the previous one because this was so much better! This is a true detective story with a relationship that sizzles and doesn’t seem abusive. Max Shannon, a cop, and Sophia Russo, a J-Psy who can copy and share memories, are on the hunt for a killer. This book was just crazy fun with plenty of chemistry. 5/5
Sam’s Updates
THE NATS WON THE WORLD SERIES!!! We watched it all, the ups, the downs, and the mightiest of wins. Ginny and I went to the parade which was amazing (and cold), I also took my first mental health day in 6 months and it was amazing…
What Sam read this week:
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore: So this is a story of a family that always has 5 girls, 5 cousins. The men that spawn these women disappear, so it’s always the women. 5 ladies, 5 mothers, 5 Grandmas (abuelas), when suddenly a boy appears. He has no memories. The ending of this wasn’t predictable at all, but I really really liked it. It’s a story of love and loss and joy and pain and HISTORY. How the land remembers the horrors that were inflicted on it. I really liked it. 3.5/5
Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan: This is the sequel to Girls of Paper and Fire which i didn’t…. love… but also didn’t hate. Welp, I was right, tons of miscommunication between relationships, which I hated. But there were a couple new characters who I ah-dored. Will be doing a full drunk review of this one.
What Sam DNF’d
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof by Kobe Bryant (creator) and Ivy Claire (written by): Yeah, you read that right. Kobe Bryant created this story. While at BookCon this year, we came across this small publishing house he created. Apparently, he loves making stories but doesn’t have time to write them out in full, so he builds the world, names the characters, plots it out, and hands it off to his author of choice to finish it. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get into this one. BUT DONT FRET! It’s not that it wasn’t good, it just wasnt for me. In this story, the magic is sports magic, which is cool. The characters seem like they’ll be fun, but while I love sports, I don’t love them this much.
What Sam’s currently reading:
The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin: This is the final installment to the Inheritance trilogy. Seems to be about Sia. Listening on audio so we’ll see how it goes.
Ashlords by Scott Reitgen: This is Scott’s next series after Nyxia and I am READY for it. I’m really early on, but basically, it’s fire horse racing. FIRE. HORSE. RACING. I cannot fuckin wait.
  Linz’s Updates
What Linz read:
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire: I don’t even know how to describe what I just read but it was real weird and real good and I am very happy I took a break from assigned reading to pick this up
Queen of Ruin by Tracy Banghart: The second half of the Grace and Fury duology. Spoiler alert, THOROUGHLY satisfying.
What Linz is currently reading:
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo: My diligent stalking of the digital library sites have paid off; I recommended it at the right time and was like #2 on the waitlist. Bardugo’s first novel for the grown and sexy is REAL dark, part..ghost story? and part many mysteries? and I am HERE FOR IT.
House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin Craig: The problem with working from home sometimes is that my office is where my books live, and the pretty copy from Owlcrate kept staring at me. This VERY much reimagining of the 12 dancing princesses is kinda weird and also dark and also I am enjoying it. If I didn’t have 15 other things going on, I probably would have tried to finish this over the weekend.
Until next time, we main forever drunkenly yours,
Sam, Ginny, Linz, and Minda
Weekly Wrap Up: Oct 28 – Nov 3, 2019 Hello! BIG NEWS PEOPLE! Our Will Read For Booze twitter account (formerly Sam's personal account) is going to be dedicated to the whole blog!
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A few details i wasn’t able to get into the library fic that introduced the Avatar characters to Crossthicc! This was worldbuilding stuff I thought was interesting, but didn’t have room to put into the fic properly.
AVATAR STUFF
Suki is one of the daughters of Kyoshi, who rules a system of islands, and has inherited something of her size, power, and commanding attitude. The Kyoshi Islands are intended to be an analogue to Japan in some respects, and in particular Kyoshi’s daughters lead their own respective dynasties in service to Kyoshi, who is ultimately a Raava-blessed empress uniting them all as a daughter of Heaven.
The girls are considerably older than in canon, and the boys are more or less their canon ages but in a way to give them a different dynamic with the girls. Katara is the eldest child in her generation, with Sokka as her younger brother. Her dynamic with Aang is even more ‘skilled student winds up marrying his gifted mentor’, with a bit more emphasis on Katara being a heroine. The biggest shift is for Zuko; as Azula’s younger brother, he was never in the running for being Fire Lord and was a surplus child. Mai was more or less his bodyguard and they wound up falling for another as a bright spot in each other’s lives.
Way more AU as the cultures of Avatar go. Sun Warriors are still extant, groups such as the Foggy Swamp Tribe are all over the place. The Fire Nation is presently in a huge civil war between Azula and forces that follow Zuko, and Azula is actually more active as a leader than Ozai is; as it stands, the Fire Nation is basically like Warring States-era Japan, but with people who can breathe fire and ride dragons.
On that note, the Fire Lords are more or less just the Fire Sages as they originally were in canon; the Fire Lord is the leader of the Fire Sages, who ride dragons here and commune with them, and have enormous power over the Fire Nation’s people with this influence. Azula has taken over as hereditary right and the most powerful of the family, but Zuko has also earned the right and this has caused the civil war in question, with an unprecedented amount of nobles, warlords and influencers split between the two rather than the usual free for all.
The Air Nomads are mainly based off the people of ancient Mongolia, with Genghis Khan’s example being a pretty obvious one. The Air Nomads who live in this area are explicitly intended to be modeled after them. Yangchen herself is an analogue to the Khan, down to building an empire and unifying her people, and having a strict ‘insult my people and die horribly’ vibe. As a whole the Air Nomads are a lot more diverse than what we see in canon; Air Nomads like the monks we see in canon are still around, but they’re a specific set of clans who live in the mountains near the Southern Water Tribe and have established a monastary there. They support their life style by working out deals to control the wind for the benefit of their Water Tribe neighbors.
Bending here is marked by two things: becoming a giant hyper-curvy lady (as is the main rule in this AU when you become powerful), and physical mutations. Not like the mods used by other, but non-functional attributes such as crystalline skin for Earthbenders, icy body temperature for Waterbenders, blazing skin for Firebenders, and so on. It varies for each individual, gets more intense as they power up and the specific kind of mutation changes when they are bending different things, but all benders are obvious and easily spotted.
Size is linked to bending. The more powerful you are, the bigger. The inverse is true; if you’re bigger, you have bending powers. Characters who canonically have no bending ability but are big here (Mai, Suki, Asami and so on) are benders here, but have very low grade powers or extremely specialized skills. Suki is probably an Earthbender who can do minor tricks with soul to be immovable, Mai and Asami are firebenders (Mai does internal tricks with heat, Asami can bend lightning but ONLY lightning), and so on.
I usually avoid specific sizes, but I did measurements for a tricky line, and worked some things out. Katara is roughly about twenty feet tall here, an average man only going up to her knees. Toph may be about 30 or so while the other girls are smaller than Katara on average, ranging from 12 to 15 feet. Korra is the biggest at at least forty feet. She is very big!
Raava does not serially incarnate here, but instead bonds to multiple human hosts as they are born; the Avatar is thus not a singular entity but a soul fusion of many different people to previous ones and the other living ones, linked and boosted by Raava. Thus, Korra and Aang can be around at the same time, and she can be significantly older than him too. The other Avatars relevant to Aang (Kuruk, Kyoshi, Roku and Yangchen) are, of course, all alive and doing things, being important heroes and leaders.
The owl entity that is mentioned briefly near the end of the story is intended to be Wan Shi Tong, and the Great Library is a combination of his library and the idea of the Akashic Records from Mage: The Awakening. He’s not as anti-mortal as he is in canon, or at least, not allowed to act upon it due to the other powers in the Library. He is a spirit of the idea of knowledge and lore, and acts as a neutral figure within the library’s command.
Bending stuff. Here, bending is not hereditary (though it is dependant on cultural identity); rather, people commune with specific spirits after manifesting an elemental power at a young age. Everyon can use an element appropriate to their culture, though perhaps very limited, and some can commune directly with the spirits, earning their favor and gaining their powers, being physically transformed in some respect and gaining enormous amounts of power. These are like Benders from canon, but they explicitly sought it out. Animals like badger-moles and sky bison are linked to these spirits, too. (There are different ways of earning favor; some women might become hyper pregnant with powerful spirits, for example, and at the end of the pregnancy, transform into their new state and gain their powers. The REAL elemental blessing was inside them all along…!)
The Air Nomads are alive and well!
Aang is ethnically related to the northern Air Nomads who are based on the followers of Genghis Khan; Yangchen’s clans, here. However he was raised among the monastary monks near the Southern Water Tribe, where he met Katara when young and studied under her to learn Waterbending. His heritage carries no stigma, and while he has no concern about his actual family (it being an Air Nomad thing to raise children communally), he wants to know more about his birth-people and ancestral culture.
You may have noticed a reference to ‘red tornado spirits’ in regards to Aang’s tattoos. Double meaning here; Aang’s tattoos were originally based, from what I hear, on the DC robot hero Red Tornado’s markings, and thus the spirits who originally taught the first Air Nomads were related to the spirits that give Red Tornado life force. (It was either that or make Red Tornado this settings version of Tenzin. Still might do that, actually.)
Speaking of Tenzin, Aang and Katara’s children are around for sure, but doing their own thing during the events of this story.
NON AVATAR STUFF
Hermione here is based on my take on her in the fics I’ve written here and there. The other group mentioned in relation to her is intended to be her canonical friendship group, including Harry, Ron, Ginny, Luna and Neville, and possibly others. The Great Library may be Hogwarts, but the castle may exist elsewhere with the wizards and witches here being a specific group that wound up at the Library through a mishap.
Witches like Hermione grow bigger as they get more magically powerful, as generally goes in this AU.
Hermione is intended to be read as black/Afro-British (or a space future analogue) but I’m not sure I’m that great at conveying that in writing.
Hermione’s somewhere between Toph and Katara’s sizes. Smaller than 30 feet, bigger than 20 feet. She’s thicc, hyper busty, and big all over!
Hermione not speaking the language of the Avatar characters is based on a few plot points I’ve had in mind; linguistics in this AU is a serious matter with no ‘translator microbes’ or quick solutions to language barriers. Languages must be learned the hard way. She’s never had any reason to expect to communicate with the people, expecting a life as a solitary scholary with her library chums, so she’s woefully unprepared for this. She will correct this in the future.
Magnus the Red is shamelessly based on the interpretation of him from the youtube web series, If The Emperor HAd A Text To Speech Device. I also included aspects such as the Primarch’s being sensory overload to regula humans, and more mystical overtones than they normally get in 40k. I wrote this with the idea that the Imperium was a pre-cataclysm society in line with the Emperor’s original goals (and had none of the anti-alien issues, due to difference circumstances), and the Emperor has become a god of the idea of humanity as its own thing, with the Primarchs as different reflections of that: Magnus embodies humanity’s magical potential as well as the drive to learn and know.
Magnus doesn’t have an exact size. He is huge, yes, but his bizarre magical nature means that he is much larger than he would seem to be. He’s also a shapeshifter, so make of that what you will.
The figures with him are basically Space Marines: Thousand Sons and Blood Ravens, if it wasn’t obvious enough. Gabriel Angelos, one of the canon Blood Raven leaders from the Dawn of War games, is mentioned briefly.
Obliquely referred to a few times is Optimus Prime; in the main events of the AU his absence has been notable, so this is where he’s been all this time; searching for an answer to what has become of Primus, and unable to return to the Autobots. Grimlock is gonna be PISSED.
The Unseen University’s faculty from Discworld are present here as more comedic elements of the faculty running the library, and may be seen on some other time. They’re not human here, since I’m trying to avoi the idea that humans are super-important in-universe. Ridcully, for example, is most likely a krogan. The magic they employ is a cross between Potterverse spells and classic D&D magic. (I used to headcanon that potterverse magic was particular to humans, but i may be moving away from that.)
I originally intended there to be several characters drawn from religious/monk origins for use as library characters to later join the Endowed Fleet and converse with the characters in this one, but there were too many characters as is. Two of the most important would have been Zenyatta from Overwatch (here a full on magic user and Guru Pathik-analogue) and Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist (donated his brother’s teachings to the library, stayed there to study as a religious duty)
There was originally an in-universe lesson about how their world fits into the cosmology, but i couldn’t find a natural place to slot it in. In brief, they’re technically one of the mortal universes, but exist in a demi-realm deep within the realms of magic and swimming in spirits, so they’re not really connected to the mortal universes and unless you know what you’re doing, there’s no real way to get there. This universe is mainly empty but rich with magic, so it’s possible for people who find their way there to establish new worlds there.
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Ex Hex- IT’S REAL (MERGE RECORDS)
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Along comes Mary Timony, in her current all girl project Ex Hex, kicking ass and taking names. FINALLY! And thank god she’s gotten here but this is where we need her to be -- now more than ever. Enough of that murky, weird darkness that us modern girls are forced to suffer through in navigating the disparate worlds of heady wave-driven, fiery academic feminist discourse and the timeless, gutsy blazes of rock ‘n roll rebellion. Let’s reclaim and celebrate the contradictions, and that is just what the gurls are accomplishing on this record.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have been an unabashed fan of T$ since she was extolling the virtues of prisses and whores with her second band, Helium. In fact, the ecofeminist embers of Dirt of Luck remain on my revolving list of top 5 desert album picks, and I was beyond thrilled when she put out that amazing Ends with And b-sides and rarities collection not too long ago. OK, I may have even sort of cyberstalked her on AOL back in the privileged and glorious days of the wider digital divide when it was so much easier to do that sort of thing. In fact, I still have the Dirt of Luck rings she sent me and the Syrup USA cassette (her friend Matt Fein’s band which I wound up promoting during a brief hiatus in the fiscal futility of 90s indie rock careerdom) -- not to mention the guilt and shame of being a naive and whiny bitch when I finally met her at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA to see her then labelmate Barbara Manning perform just before the release of the third and final Helium album, Magic City. <facepalm>
Fast forward to now, the release of the second Ex Hex record, which (again) is exactly what us ladies (and fags) need right now because we are no longer able to be hiding in the shadows of our Cosmic Caves. Timony and company are calling us out front and center and challenging us to be Tough Enough for the shit storm that will ensue and, yes, it will be painful. In fact, I feel it now more than ever -- in an era when boldest of bold likes of Cardi B and St. Vincent are winning at the Grammy awards. And we are ditching antiquated prescriptive gender norms as we move forward without being dogmatic or preachy.
It’s all coming together bitches and we can’t ignore it anymore. Because while the Good Times are fleeting, they are nonetheless worthwhile, nay essential, on this confusing journey -- and as T$ sings “nothing ever really lasts too long.” The unstoppable vehicle for these proclamations is an academic and disciplined approach to 80′s cheesey hair metal that takes The Runaways’ aesthetically similar (although endearingly feral) efforts into the seriously skilled domain of rockist virtuosity and coherence just enough to make Joan, Cherie, Lita and the girls so so proud. As affirming and accessible as It’s Real seems to be, it does have its caveats since “the universe is cruel and nature will make you a fool.” But don’t let any of that stop you because Mary has never let us down. Shine on!   www.mergerecords.com    DINA HORNREICH
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Why Cinderella Is Important To Me, an Informal Essay
There are some feminists who are vocal opponents of Disney princesses like Cinderella. Before I really go into why Cinderella is important (to me), I think it’s important to recognize that without the work of the feminists of the 60s/70s/80s/90s...etc., the world would truly be a worse-off place, and I am FOREVER grateful for all of their contributions. The world is not perfect, and neither is feminism. Older feminists got (and continue to get) a lot of important, good things right, but some of their views concerning Disney princesses in general rubs me the wrong way. (The article linked is from 2006, so take it with a grain of salt. I will reference this later.) 
I think there are some key generational differences in feminist culture of women who were born in the 70s versus women who were born in the 80s, and certainly for all women moving forward. When we are born into a society with a set standard (whatever that standard may be), we respond in a different way, and our priorities/activist attention will be centered on other issues. I recommend that everyone read this really good take by Anne Marie Slaughter concerning women, the workplace, and living. This article does a better job at explaining this than I could ever possibly hope to do. 
I don’t like to block-quote, but this is POWERFUL stuff from Anne Marie Slaughter: 
I owe my own freedoms and opportunities to the pioneering generation of women ahead of me—the women now in their 60s, 70s, and 80s who faced overt sexism of a kind I see only when watching Mad Men, and who knew that the only way to make it as a woman was to act exactly like a man. To admit to, much less act on, maternal longings would have been fatal to their careers. But precisely thanks to their progress, a different kind of conversation is now possible. It is time for women in leadership positions to recognize that although we are still blazing trails and breaking ceilings, many of us are also reinforcing a falsehood: that “having it all” is, more than anything, a function of personal determination.
Okay, now to the fun stuff. 
Let me summarize Cinderella:
Cinderella (Cindy) is a rich, privileged girl who lives with her single-parent father because her mother died when she was just a baby. Cindy lives in a de-facto castle with a Pony. Her dad is hella rich, and since he adores her, she’s probably the sole beneficiary. 
The dad feels guilty that Cindy doesn’t have a mom and then unilaterally decides to marry some woman for the sole purpose of having her act as a mother to his kid. Note: in the Disney movie, it’s expressly stated that Cindy’s dad went out looking for a mom replacement - nothing more. 
The dad dies. Cindyis then “abused and humiliated” by the stepmother and made into a servant in her own home. 
Cindy’s room is in the servant quarters. She hangs out with rodents and birds and basically lives at the whim of her terrible stepfamily. She has no life and does menial labor for people who make her life miserable. 
But One Day, there’s this Ball she wants to go to, and her stepmom is terrible human being who taunts Cindy by saying she can go if she has a dress. Note: this serves two purposes - (1) it’s a way of saying no; and (2) it’s a way of rubbing it in Cindy’s face that she has nothing and is nothing. 
Big theme that’s always repeated and is relatively true is that Cindy stays “kind and good” throughout all of this and perseveres through sheer “goodness” of her heart. Because she’s “kind and good” to the animals, they make a dress for her using the scraps luxury goods lying around the house. 
The stepsisters assault Cindy and rip the dress from her body. This is violent and humiliating, and tbh you should be locked up if you pull this shit! Anyway, they stepfam leave for the ball after twisting the knife and Cindy is miserable and probably at the Brink. 
Important: The Fairy Godmother makes an appearance and saves the day. I want to stress that it is not the prince who ends up saving Cinderella, but rather the Fairy Godmother. Without FairyG, you don’t have a happy ending. 
The Fairy Godmother is the one who presents the magical Deus Ex Machina for Cindy to get her life for one night. But FairyG knows that Cindy is a hot girl who’s been thoroughly sheltered for her entire life, so she gives a curfew of midnight. “The magic will wear out” is such bullshit tbh like just say you don’t want Cindy out too late. 
Cindy loses 1 slipper in her rush to get home, and that sets off the whole Find Cindy arc of the last 1/3 of the movie. 
The prince is so fucking into Cindy omg. He wants to wife her. 
Eventually, the search crew gets to Cindy’s place, but stepmom catches wind that Cindy might be mystery gal. Cindy gets locked in the tower but she breaks free due to the help from her animal friends!!
Stepmom trips the guy holding the glass slipper, causing the slipper to SHATTER so that Cindy doesn’t put it on. But stepmom is a cuck who doesn’t know Cindy is a real bitch with a backup plan. 
Cindy pulls out the spare shoe she has, puts it on, and we montage to the marriage scene and happily ever after. 
The supposed message that is distasteful to a lot of people is that Cinderella is a girl who doesn’t have a dream outside of marriage and aspires to being someone’s wife as her ultimate goal. She escapes one servitude for another. In THIS article, which I linked above as well, the author says this about Cinderella when she talks to her daughter: “It’s just, honey, Cinderella doesn’t really do anything.” 
Cinderella’s "Passivity” Explained: 
Now I agree with a lot of things in that article, but I am purposely pulling out that one quote because it Pisses Me Off when people categorize Cinderella as some jobless shut-in. 
Cinderella wasn’t like this by choice. Her dad died when she was too young to be independent, and her new guardian was a terrible human being who basically kept her around for inheritance purposes. Cindy was not financially independent, nor did she have any power. Let’s really consider her background!!! If her father thought that she “needed” a mother, he probably never taught her anything about finances or her rights (assuming we’re in an era where those existed). Like... I can see he loved her very much, but what it’s a very 1950s thought to assume your kid needs both a mother and a father. (Cinderella was released in 1950 LOL.) 
So Cinderella’s real problems started because her dad made incredibly poor choices related to co-parenting. And for all of the stepmother’s faults, maybe it pissed her off that she was only being wifed because this guy wanted her to act as a glorified nanny for his brat. The stepmother is still terrible though, no excuses. Anyway, it’s evident that Cinderella’s childhood and adolescence were not happy times, and she had very little time to adjust to this new world order. 
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“Good and Kind” is Misleading: 
Cinderella is part of the union of Nice Princesses, the OG3 of Snow White, Cinderella, and Aurora. You have feisty Disney princesses like Ariel, Jasmine, Rapunzel, Merida...etc., and then you have girls like Cindy. 
One of the main themes of Cinderella that they push really hard is that she’s a good person. She’s kind, hopeful, and doesn’t let the meanness of the world change her. Her purity is related to purity of spirit, where the negative circumstances around her do not turn her heart towards bitterness. Check out this song for the proof. 
I agree that she’s a good person, but throughout the movie you’ll see a lot of places where Cindy gets snarky and shady!!! I mean the FACES that she makes when her stepmother gives her ridiculous chores: 
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(You can watch the full vid here. Also, can you believe how hilarious that this face appears right at 4:20? LOL) 
“Good and Kind” doesn’t mean she’s not sneaky when she wants to be. There’s this one scene where Cinderella drops a tray of tea in “surprise” at the news that the duke is going around testing feet sizes of all the maidens. Now, I’ve seen Cinderella balance three loads of laundry while avoiding a nasty cat who always tries to trip her. She didn’t look like she dropped it in surprise because she HARDLY jumped. I guess you can say maybe she was so out of it and surprised that nothing else registered, but my take is that she dropped it on purpose to eavesdrop on the stepmother. 
Cinderella’s version of sneaky is also kinda funny too because when she escapes the tower, she has that other glass slipper with her. A Real Bitch Is Always Prepared!!!! And she had the nerve to chirp “if it would help~~~”
I love her. 
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Cindy is Not Perfect:
The one thing I will say about Cindy is that she is Naive. She is Naive as HELL. She does try to believe in the goodness of all people/animals, and she gives people the benefit of the doubt. But she’s terrible at hiding her emotions when she’s happy. She’s transparent as Glass whenever she’s in a good mood, and she gets Radiant. The stepmother cannot stand this, and it kills her to see Cinderella happy. 
The only reason Cinderella gets locked in the tower right before the duke shows up with the slipper she left behind is because the stepmother notices Immediately when Cinderella is happy. The stepmom has this sixth sense for it, and she puts together two and two to figure out that Cinderella was the Mystery Gal from the ball. 
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The Prince is Irrelevant:
People also dislike OG3 princess movies because the prince “saves” the princess for her happily ever after. I want to stress that it was the Fairy Godmother who was the mvp in all of this. The prince is an Afterthought, and he was a happy accident for Cinderella, but the person who made it all possible was the Fairy Godmother. 
I will always say that Cinderella was craving a life, not a man.
But back up for a second because frankly... Cinderella getting with the fucking prince is Peak Revenge on her terrible stepfam. I mean you have Cinderella who has lived the better part of her life as an abused servant-orphan suddenly getting married to the prince, who will probably have political and financial power over these terrible people. Also, can the stepfam do any better than the royal family? Probably not. Even at the ending, Cinderella flat out kisses the king’s head as if he was a child. The duke is probably pissing himself over keeping her happy because she basically saved his life by pulling out that the shoe letting him complete his task successfully. She has EVERYONE in the royal family eating out of her palm.
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Conclusions: 
On a personal level, I feel emotional fondness for Cinderella because she hangs in there. She endured a lot of bullshit, but she eventually got out. That’s the happy ending that gives me hope. Marriage/finding a man is not what drives satisfaction of that movie. We cheer because Cinderella gets to leave her abusers behind in the dust while living her best life. 
SHE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER! 
The End!
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Zombieland Saga: Revenge – 02 – Blazing Souls and Beckoning Winds
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Franchouchou are training with renewed confidence after Koutarou pulled himself together, with Saki deciding to work on her abs with some sit-ups. Zombieland Saga’s slice-of-life scenes are always full of great little details, from the sound of the zombies’ bodies creaking, to the sound of Saki’s giant ponytail gently whapping Sakura. Koutarou announces their next gig as co-hosts of a TV tourism segment on Saga’s Yutouku Inari Shrine.
n the most obnoxious way (proving that he’s back!) by wearing a cardboard TV on his head and interviewing the girls. The details I loved here included the different ways they reacted to having a mic shoved into a facial feature, the change in the sound of their voice when the mic is close, and Tae’s head spinning Exorcist-style once she gets the TV box. It’s also the first time I’ve heard the current Japanese era of Reiwa—which began in 2019—mentioned in an anime.
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Koutarou also mentions that they’ll be joined in the segment by The White Ryuu, a pompadour-sporting rock star from Saga who has also hosted a nationally popular radio show called So Saga Can Be Saga since 1992. Of the girls, only Saki shares Koutarou’s enthusiasm, as she’s a huge fan of everything White Ryuu, who is portrayed here by the real-life Hakuryuu, himself a pretty colorful character.
A little after Franchouchou arrive at the shrine and get set up with the TV crew, Ryuu makes one hell of a cool entrance, drifting in lying semi-supine across the hood of a ’59 Cadillac Eldorado. The White Ryuu is showing his age, with deep lines in a face partly obscured by a drooping, graying pompadour. It doesn’t matter; Saki is in awe, as am I! He explains he’s late because “the wind blowing down from Kyougatake gave me pause.” It won’t be his only mention of winds, nor the last philosophical thing he says.
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In a refreshing development, the TV segment goes swimmingly, with a camera-shy Sakura bailed out by the consummate professionalism and knack for spontaneity of Mizuno Ai, as well as . The idols’ bubbly happy-go-lucky energy is nicely balanced (and sometimes usurped) by White Ryuu, who is full of bemusing little asides about life, society, and freedom.
In a beautiful little moment I’m glad was captured, Sakura asks Ai while they’re praying at the shrine if “zombie prayers count”, with a smiling Ai saying she’s “sure the gods are surprised we’re even here.” It reminds us something that you sometimes forget during their “human” segments: they’re zombies covered in makeup.
The segment is ready to wrap, but Ryuu insists on a torturous climb to the inner temple, where the zombie girls are fine but he collapses from exertion at the top. Even so, he raises a defiant fist and declares that “grasping hold of something real is never easy”, engendering a primal, avenging “RYUUUUU!” from Saki.
As the TV crew packs up, completely confused by everything Ryuu said, Saki has to hold herself back from picking a fight, just as she asked Sakura if she wanted to die when she said she’d never heard of him. To her, Ryuu’s words are like “fists fulla soul”, running out to say a proper goodbye to her idol and promising to start listening to his show again.
As he climbs back on the hood of his Eldorado (the guy commits), he says won’t be on the show much longer, as the winds are blowing him elsewhere. But he tells her not to sweat it, parting with the refrain “The answers you’re looking for can still be found in Saga.”
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Back home, the other girls notice Saki is down in the dumps. The question of whether Saki is in love is brought up, and again we see how the different girls regard romance for idols. Junko is scandalized, even though plenty of her era’s contemporaries had secret love lives, while Lily is all for it, as long as it makes you shine brighter.
Sakura decides to approach Saki to find out for sure what’s troubling her, finding her out on the balcony listening to Ryuu’s show. Meeting him reminded her of how she thought everyone was out to get her, and how whenever she wouldn’t bow and scrape to them, they’d try to get rid of her. Even as a middle schooler she’d get in huge brawls, her victories leaving her lost and alone.
One night while lying on a riverbank she heard So Saga Can Be Saga from a fisherman’s radio, and White Ryuu’s positive affirmations to the troubled souls of Saga and beyond soothed her smoldering heart. Now we know why he said so many offbeat things during the segment: that’s his whole thing. And doggone it, he had some really nice things to say:
“No matter who you are, it’s rough not knowing where you belong. But it’s times like that you gotta keep your eyes and ears open. You’re gonna find somebody you feels the same way you do. Even now, me talking with you like this means you’re not alone.” Ryuu was right: Saki kept her eyes and ears opened and found Kirishima Reiko, jumping into her big brawl and fighting by her side, leading to the complex and deeply heartwarming relationship covered last season.
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Saki is upset because she doesn’t want Saga or Japan to lose a voice like White Ryuu’s, finding and saving wretched souls like her. She’s lost enough already, damnit! So she hops on a bike (with Sakura accompanying her) and races to the radio station—utterly destroying the bike in the process—to confront Ryuu and beg him not to quit.
Ryuu welcomes Saki and Sakura (AKA Nos. 2 and 1) into the booth to discuss it. Saki tells him Saga is still full of folks who don’t know what to do with themselves, and even Saga itself doesn’t know what to do. Without him, where will smoldering hearts turn to? But Ryuu says that’s just it: the people need a place to turn to, not him.
He never said the show would be shutting down, only that he’d be departing. But not before finding someone with the passion in their soul to take over for him, and he believes that’s Saki and Franchouchou. He says they have the spark that lights a fire in folks. Brooking no input from the suits, he bequeaths the show to the idol group right there on the air.
Before Ryuu hops on his Cadillac’s hood to be pushed by the winds of Kyougatake, Saki confesses her love for him. He’s flattered, but assures her her passion will be needed elsewhere. Then he says what might just be the saddest string fourteen words ever uttered on Zombieland Saga, knowing what we know: “Look me up when you’re a bit older and have grown into fine women.”
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As they watch the sun rise on Saga together, Saki tells Sakura that no longer how much time passes, she’ll never grow up into a fine woman. At first Saki tries to laugh this off with a brave smirk, but soon her eyes are flooded with tears and she’s suddenly on her back sobbing. Then Sakura starts sobbing, and I tell ya, I had to fight back tears too! Then Sakura starts drying out like a mummy, and I was laughing again.
That’s the beauty and the magic of Zombieland Saga, which is so much more than a show about down-on-their-luck idols, but seven young women who had the futures they should’ve had taken from them, and have no choice but to try to build new futures from whole cloth, with the help of their manager. While initially depicted as “lame” and washed up, White Ryuu was a revelation, imbuing the episode with wisdom, gravitas and optimism. And I never, ever tired of his entrances and exits atop his ridiculous car!
The only thing this episode was missing was a performance, which is what we get during the end credits, and it’s all to appropriately a heartwarming cover of a White Ryuu song. The girls’ outfits look great, the lighting looks great, their singing sounds great and the dancing animation is fantastic.
Saki assures the rapt audience that anyone lost out there will be able to see her soul burning, just like Lake Imari’s breakwater lighthouse. Taking over the mic at So Saga Can Be Saga, joined by the rest of Franchouchou, she tells the listeners to may there way back there if they ever feel worried or alone.
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«you have witchcraft in your lips» —famous!Bughead
When Jughead Jones and Betty Cooper were cast as leads for HBO’s Harry Potter prequel show Magic is Might, they thought they did not know each other. They were wrong.
note: this is a collaborative work between myself and @lilibug--xx. I wrote Jughead’s POV and she Betty’s. Be warned, we are each other’s betas, too. 
read it on ao3. 
“A dress made of air and webs and you,
The wet dreams evaporate as they come true.
To anyone else just endless blue,
An invisible kite string connects me to you.”
— Pieces of Sky by Beth Orton.
CHAPTER ONE: mr jones and me, we’re gonna be big stars…
@Variety: HBO picks up four pilot episodes, including Toni Topaz’s Harry Potter prequel project.
@Deadline: Up-and-coming musical director Kevin Keller branches off from theatre and confirms working on Harry Potter prequel series with HBO — Magic is Might.
@EntertainmentNews: BREAKING NEWS: Disney darling Veronica Lodge officially casted as one of the leads in Kevin Keller’s upcoming Marauders Era project — Magic is Might.
@Buzzfeed: You will not believe who was just confirmed to be cast in Magic is Might! 
@CherryBombshell: To all my loyal, beautiful followers: Of course, I got the part. How could they not cast moi?
@NZHerald: Singer-songwriter Archie Andrews is rumoured to be involved with HBO’s Magic is Might.
@Deadline: Magic is Might Harry Potter prequel series finds its Sirius Black: “He walked in right off the street and I knew — that is our Sirius Black,” says showrunner, Kevin Keller.
@EntertainmentNews: HBO’s Magic is Might just cast its Remus Lupin, and it’s a very interesting choice.
@Buzzfeed: Magic is Might’s Remus Lupin is now — Remmy Lupin?!
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THE WAYWARD PRINCE:
The thing about Jughead Jones — he was weird, and he liked to be weird.
Jughead Jones was the following things: adroit wordsmith, razor-sharp, and a smart-mouthed asshole. He was not, however, the sort a teenage girl’s dreams were made of. He was a little too tall and a little too angular with a face that was a little too fond of scowling to be conventionally attractive. He had two girlfriends in the span of his entire life, and first one he’d acquired when he was nine for the span of two days. He was akin to a scalpel — sharp-edged, clinical, and very good at cutting people out of his life.
Except, Sabrina.
Never Sabrina.
And because of Sabrina — he was here, regretting everything.
“This,” Jughead grumbled for the nth time, “is all your fault.”
“Yes,” Sabrina agreed, throwing a dusky-blue button-down at him with a glare that clearly conveyed wear this or else, “it is my fault that you’ve landed the biggest television role of this year. I apologise for being magnificent.”
Jughead snorted. “Potter is the lead.”
“Who cares? Sirius is obviously meant to be the hot one. That makes his role the bigger fish. And you,” Sabrina said, tilting his head sideways and inspecting the carelessly casual style she arranged his hair in (read: brushed once and let it air-dry), “cousin-german, will soon be smiling from a poster on every pubescent girl’s wall and be the main feature in their dreams.”
“If it’s all the same to you,” Jughead’s scowl grew deeper, a feat he had not imagined was achievable before he’d done it. “I’d rather not.” 
Two hours later, two thirds of which were spent navigating L.A.’s atrocious traffic, Jughead found himself lounging in a deceptively comfortable egg chair in a Hollywood studio, waiting to proceed with the first script reading session with the rest of Magic is Might cast. Sabrina, primly perched to his right, was scanning the others over the brim of her rapidly cooling coffee cup with shrewd, pale-grey eyes, as Jughead lazily thumbed through the script.
“Stop eyeing them like you want to wear their faces as a mask, Ree,” he muttered out of the corner of his mouth.
“I am so not. I’m eyeing them like I want to make a fashionable skin suit, obviously. Get your facts straight, Jones.”
Here was the thing; — Jughead firmly believed that if you did something, you better put your best foot forward from the start; to do your very best at everything you undertook and not half-ass it simply because it required effort. (Life required effort, Jughead often reminded himself, if it didn’t it wouldn’t be so damn difficult.)
This stance seemed at odds with his disaffected and cynical slacker persona, but what could Jughead say — he was contrary like that. He could remain apathetic and be a pedantic perfectionist at heart; he had layers, like a lasagna.
But precisely that sort of attitude had landed him the lead role in Magic is Might as Sirius Black.
It had happened nine days ago, when Jughead had accompanied Sabrina to her second audition for Magic is Might — she had failed to get Lily Evans’s role and was trying out for Narcissa Black. Jughead was there for emotional support, for the sort of get your shit together, you walking waste of space pep-talks Sabrina and he excelled at. He was there to permit his hand to be crushed in a vice grip as she waited for her name to be called, and to take her to Wildflower Café by their apartment to gorge on breakfast foods and stuff their faces with toasted marshmallow milkshakes in the face of another disappointment.
Jughead Jones was, by profession, a screenwriter; he wrote seven plays, one of which had been actually made into a film. He was not an actor. The universe disagreed, however. Kevin fucking Keller disagreed, too, apparently, because the moment Jughead had walked up to a dumbfounded-looking Sabrina after her audition — handkerchief at the ready, just in case — he’d been spotted by Kevin fucking Keller’s eagle-eyed stare. Kevin fucking Keller who’d taken one look at Jughead, pointed his finger at him and with eyedrum piercing snap, barked out, “You, there — in here, now.” and Sabrina, that fucking traitor, had pushed him forward into the audition room.
It was serendipitous he knew the script like the back of his hand, having practiced with Sabrina until they were blue in the face, it was also fortuitous his reaction in the face of sheer audacity was to fall back on his most defining traits — sarcasm and generally all-around fuck-you attitude.
Both, as it had turned out, were great characteristics for one Sirius Black.
So here he was, Forsythe Pendleton Jones the third, newly minted actor extraordinaire with no education about the craft and enough talent, according to Keller, to fill the Pacific ocean and then some — out of his depth, and feeling utterly displaced.
It was a peculiar feeling, foreign and unwelcome — Jughead hated it with the blazing ebullition of pure abhorrence.
“Hey,” Sabrina called, soft as a whisper, placing her hand on his knee, stilling it. Jughead hadn’t realised his left leg had been bouncing. “Relax, bro-bro.”
Jughead opened his mouth to reply something along the lines of Shut it, hambone, but was interrupted when a tall shadow of a small person fell across his lap.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t Mad Max himself,” commented a small, red-headed girl on berry-red charged murder-weapons on the lam from the law and thus posing as women’s footwear. “So, tall, dark, and inexperienced, how does it feel to finally be in the real show biz?”
There was a refractory set to Jughead’s clenched jaw, so Sabrina answered in his stead, snickering, “I don’t know Big Red, you tell us?”
The girl’s exceedingly red mouth was reset out of its perpetually sullen pout into a grimace of distaste. “For a virtual nobody, you sure have a mouth on you, Emily Strange.”
There were four rules Jughead Jones instinctively followed whenever he chose to speak: Was he being rational? Was he being truthful? Were his words necessary? Were they kind? Often times, if he had not met all of his criteria, Jughead would settle on keeping his silence a while longer.
This, was not such a time.
“Is that all you can do,” Jughead found himself rasping out, “try your utmost to diss people with painfully obvious references? You’re not doing a very good job, are you?”
“You’re a pretty cool customer, huh?”
“I hide my inner pain underneath a stoic visage,” Jughead quipped. Cheryl Blossom looked like would like nothing more than to dig her red-tipped claws into Jughead’s stoic visage.
“Hey, guys,” said a guy in corduroy slacks and a blue-yellow varsity jacket of all things; he was average-height, but with a Heroic Build identifying him as James Potter material. There was a hint of admonishment in his tone, but not enough to reign anyone in. “We’re supposed to be getting along…”
Jughead was utterly unsurprised when he was promptly ignored.
Big Red sneered down on them and with a snazzy flip of gloriously red hair, pointedly perched on the corner of the oval table. Then, she extended a bedazzled with a shape of a cherry phone Jughead didn’t realise she held in front of her on a selfie-stick, and with that godawful pout, began, “See, my lovely cherries, when presented with a choice between either Tim Burton Junior and his blonde Fran Bow or a ginger Kelly Clarkson, Cheryl Bombshell has no choice but to choose herself. I certainly hope their acting is better than their personalities because those are as parched as a dry spell.”
“Oi, Cherry Bomb!” a female producer barked sharply, the one with pink-striped hair and a punk attitude, “don’t fucking live blog a closed script reading, you imbecile!”
“Don’t call me that!” Cheryl Blossom snarled, teeth unnaturally white against the vivid red of her mouth. “How are my cherries supposed to know what I’m doing at any given moment if I don’t blog about it?”
“I don’t know,” Jughead grumbled, too low to be heard by anyone but Sabrina, who promptly elbowed him in the ribs, “maybe try not to seek validation from a faceless mass of people online?” said the kettle to the pot, he mentally added.
The woman with the pink hair was even shorter than Cheryl, but when she stood up, she cut an impressively intimidating figure nonetheless. “This,” she growled, “is what we get for casting a bloody Instagram starlet.”
“She’s a solid choice, Toni,” Keller admonished, softly, gingerly prying away her fingers off his bicep, “she can act and her hair is iconic. What more could we ask for?”
“A fucking professional attitude for one. And maybe,” Topaz, that was her name, Jughead finally remembered, pointedly shouted in red-head’s direction, “not to always pout like she’s about to suck dick.”
Cheryl Blossom looked up from the highly-focused examination of her razor-sharp talons she’d been performing and pouted. “I don’t suck dick on sheer principle, you grotsky little byotch.”
Varsity Jacket raised his hands in placation. “Okay, seriously, maybe you should—”
“Toni, go smoke a fag and find your chill,” cut in Keller, and her hand immediately shot up, giving him the middle finger, but she left the room nonetheless. “And Cheryl, take it down a notch. I’m serious, you hear me?”
Cheryl turned away from him with a huff, but she hadn’t said anything. Instead, she began typing away furiously on her phone.
Huh, thought Jughead.
Kevin Keller was not a tough guy, he noticed, he did not have a commanding presence. Even Varsity Jacket drew more attention to himself with his ridiculous floppy hair, freckled face, and All-American attitude. But, Jughead decided, Kevin Keller understood women. With that in mind, Jughead settled back in his chair, reading over the script yet again.
It was fifteen minutes later when Toni Topaz strode into the room, her combat boots practically abusing the dotted, grey linoleum with the force of her steps, not looking an iota less stressed. “Fuck it,” she announced, “if we wait anymore for those two, we’ll get behind schedule.”
“All right, then,” Keller said, clapping his hands, “places, everyone.”
Like the asshole she was, Sabrina took the seat assigned to him, next to Varsity Jacket, and switched their name planks with a wink. Jughead had neither the inclination nor the naiveté to question her choices, so he dragged the chair he had been sitting for the last half-an-hour towards the table by its back, and positioned himself on Sabrina’s left, straightening the SIRIUS BLACK plaque so it was uniformly aligned with all the others.
The plague before a lounging Cheryl Blossom did not read BITCH FROM HELL, much to Jughead’s surprise, instead, it said — LILY EVANS.
A thought streaked across the forefront of his mind: We are all royally fucked.
Varsity Jacket’s named turned out to be Archie Andrews. Jughead knew that now because the first words out of that kid’s mouth were, quite literally, “Hey, there. I’m Archie Andrews, I’m eighteen, you may know me from last year’s 16 Birthday Wishes, and I look forward to working with ya all.”
Jughead could not have conjured this kid up had he even tried. He shared a concerned glance with Sabrina who mouthed, is he for real? and Jughead only had the energy to shrug. Yeah, he decided, he could see this Archie Andrews as one James Potter. If he squinted.
Cheryl Blossom did not introduce herself. She scowled at all of them, even poor golden retriever puppy personified Andrews, called them philistines, and proceeded with reading her lines. Interesting development: she could act. Expected conclusion: she packed too much malice into her lines and came of as passive aggressive. Keller had to intermediately correct her. That was, however, a correctable quality she could redeem herself from with enough effort; or so Sabrina had said, Jughead’s inescapable, little-devil-on-the-shoulder-type expert on all things acting™.  
When it was his turn to read, Jughead did what he had always done when he read out loud his scripts during editing: tried his damndest not to stutter, keeping his voice smooth and even, and detached himself from the situation, rendering himself utterly impervious to nerves and apprehension. It was not Jughead Jones who had been reciting the script from memory as the lines printed on paper streamed before his eyes in a confusing, maddening swirl — it had been Sirius Black doing all those things; teasing his friend James, flirting with prim and proper Lily, arguing with Narcissa.
Disassociating might have kept Jughead’s anxiety at bay, but it made Sirius Black come alive.
So, of course, once Jughead had gotten into the swing of things, the universe rained on his parade: the door slammed open, revealing two girls standing on the other side of its frame.
“Oooops,” said the shorter one, her dark hair reflecting light attractively as she stode in the room. She had not sounded particularly sorry, Jughead noticed. “Apologies, hadn’t meant to barge in quite so—”
“Veronica,” Toni cut in, as bitingly as a wolf, “you were supposed to be here half-an-hour ago!”
“That late, huh,” muttered Veronica assumingly Lodge, flipping her wrist to check the slim, diamond-encrusted watch on her left hand. “Apologies, Toni, darling, but L.A. traffic is simply odious, as you well know. Got held up.”
“By what — appearance of abominable snowman in the middle of Franklin Avenue?”
“Not quite,” Veronica replied, a sly not-quite smile settling on her face, “Betty and I—”
“Of course, you had hamstrung Cooper, too.” Toni cast a dirty look over Veronica’s shoulder at a willowy, nervous-looking blonde still hesitating in the doorway. “Don’t think I haven’t noticed you there, princess.”
“Well, as I was saying, Betty and I,” continued Veronica Lodge, bulldozing over Toni completely and out of the corner of his eye, Jughead could see Call Me Archie Andrews’s jaw unhinge a little, “were late completely by accident, but it was all my fault. Let’s just say, a Lodge doesn’t always land on their feet.
“Still, I had to amend such an insufferable grievance,” Veronica smiled, charmingly, still sly as a fox. “Imagine how tickled pink I was to learn we are not only headed into the same building, but for the same script reading—”
“To which you are late; both of you,” grumbled Toni, but she seemed to have lost most of her heat. Kevin was rubbing her shoulders soothingly as she massaged her temples. Momentarily, Jughead wondered if she was prematurely grey beneath all that pink dye.
“—long story, short: Betty here,” Veronica said, stepping back and drawing the taller girl into her side. “Is my new BFF and I love her to pieces.”
“From a five minute meeting,” Kevin asked, corner of his mouth twitching.
“Boo, you whore,” teased Veronica, earning an unexpect snort from Sabrina, “it’s love at first sight. Don’t judge.” Then:
“You there,” Veronica snapped her fingers in the direction of a fish-eyed assistant Jughead took care to ignore — she’d been making moon-eyes at him, according to Sabrina, and there were times to be wary of his cousin’s advice, but not in instances such as this one. “Fetch me a skinny venti white mocha, one shot, with two pumps of sugarfree vanilla, no whip — pronto. I can’t think clearly without my daily recommended injection of sugar and caffeine.”
Immediately, the situation dissolved into absolute bedlam as everyone clamoured for Ginger’s attention to place their coffee order, too. She’s a sly one, Jughead thought for the third time, smart, too.
Here was the thing about Jughead Jones: he was an objective observer of life, not an active participator. An introvert and a borderline misanthrope, he regarded the world from a safe distance of cool, clinical detachment — he watched and he recorded and he understood because he noticed enough to pay attention in the first place; he was perceptive, and he used this to his advantage. 
And as if enticed by a magnetic pull, Jughead’s eyes drifted towards the leggy blonde to his right. The first thing he noticed her was this — she was uncomfortable. The second was that she was seemed nervous, displaced; and third — well, she was making her way towards him.
This girl, however, was totally throwing him for a loop.
She was dressed in a diaphanous, intricately embroidered, sapphire-coloured blouse, and when she shifted to pull out her chair, Jughead could see her laced brassiere through the silk material. Unexpectedly, she sat next to him, across from a plaque reading REMMY LUPIN. She had a striking look — blue-eyed and golden-haired with a face like a porcelain doll’s; wide-eyed, lovely, and haunting in its stillness. I met a lady on a moor, Jughead though, aureate hair, refulgent eyes; a dancing, starry sprite.
“Hi,” she greeted, turning to him, face splitting into a blooming, honeyed smile, white teeth gleaming, the streaming sunlight from the window behind them set her braid into a molten blaze, “I’m Betty.”
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THE DREAMER:
“Three creams, two splenda, please.”
Betty Cooper was already running (hopefully, fashionably) late; not exactly a good first impression. She had woken up behind schedule (she had sort of fallen into the black hole that was Tumblr, recently, and had taken to staying up late); her cat, Caramel, had thrown up all over the kitchen floor. One side of her hair had dried flatter than the other — she was never going to bed straight from the shower ever again. And her uber had been running behind. Fantastic, she had uttered when finally arriving at the address given. The time on her phone alerting her that she should would have been inside already, had her morning gone accordingly, sipping on her coffee without a care in the world.
Well, that last bit was a stretch. If you asked anyone who knew her, they would say without a doubt that, Betty Cooper cared too much, about everything.
It was kind of her thing, though. Betty had a profound sense of perseverance and applied it to anyone in need of help that she came across. Polly (her older sister and recently, albeit somewhat regrettably, her manager) akined it to her being like a new mother, babying her fresh-faced ducklings. It often impeded her own desires and well-thought out plans.
Betty was a goner for a schedule. She could plan her day like nobody’s business — rarely did it ever actually go according to plan though. She would describe herself as being meticulous bordering the edge of perfectionist — Betty actually detested that word. Being in control of the situation, however, gave her life.
This was all new to her though, at least, fairly. Acting, that is.
She had been on edge of booking a flight back to San Francisco for what seemed like months. With only $200 to her name, and a can of cold soup sitting like a rock in her belly, Betty had auditioned for a role in Magic is Might. She had been failing auditions for months, her savings account was gone, and she was exhausted from working two menial jobs in order to have money to even go to auditions.
So, by all accounts, Betty figured an extra boost of caffeine was in order to make it through the whirlwind day that had been plotted ahead. A table read with her cast mates of Magic is Might, who she had yet to meet, was slotted for the whole day. As well as some promotional pictures of the group. The whole thing came together rather quickly for an HBO show, as she understood. Betty would be forever grateful that they hadn’t found anyone for the part of Remus Lupin yet.
Somehow, her name had been misspelled (she wanted to glare at Polly) and they thought it had said Elizander, on her papers. Whoever had been manning the audition hadn’t done a thorough look-through at the time and had barely looked up at her, just shooed her through the door. They seemed desperate.
To be fair, she hadn’t realized that the part of Remus was male. Of course, she had read the Harry Potter books, who hasn’t? But Polly had simply implored her to get her ass to this audition, without much else to go on.
Everyone had stared at her when she entered the room, but the guy in the middle of the group seated before her had stood up, planting his hands on the table with a loud smack.
“Excuse me, this isn’t —”
“No, excuse me, but that was incredibly rude.” A blush bloomed across her chest, streaking upwards, despite her outward display of confidence. “I’m here to audition, so let me audition before turning me away.”
It turns out that the man was Kevin Keller, one of the showrunners. Betty had desperately wanted to curl into a ball from mortification when she found out, but instead she had been engulfed in a hug while he had exclaimed “Such fire!”, and had let her do the audition.  
They had complimented her afterwards. Apparently she had an inner voice that matched Remus’s suppressed darkness à la werewolf unequivocally. They were going to change the character and rework the script for her. Betty was unperturbed usually, but she had been floored by their sentiments.
Now, granted, they had done the same thing for the character of Snape, but that was for Veronica Lodge — ex-disney starlet who had bowed out of the limelight for several years only to return and turn everyone’s heads when she demanded the part of Severus Snape.
Betty mussed her life was going to be very different from here on out (assuming the show gets picked up after the contingent episodes), but she was looking forward to not cringing every time they ran her card through a register. She loved food, and coffee was a vice she wasn’t willing to give up.
In L.A. there seemed to be a Starbucks on just about every godforsaken block, so she had been thankful there was one conveniently close to the building she was now ardently walking toward. Betty was practically jogging as she took a sip of her drink, the mouthful of cold coffee was sweet and creamy. It was really refreshing — had she not just spilled it all over her shirt when someone plowed into her shoulder, jarring the cup from her hand.
Betty had stood frozen in place, her muscles turning tense as she panicked. Of course she had worn her favorite outfit today. Her pale pink sweater was now sticking to her skin uncomfortably, but thankfully there were only a few drops on her jeans — the dark color of them would prevent a stain from being noticeable, but her sweater…
“Oh my god, fuck, I am so sorry.”
Betty looked up from where she was still staring at her coffee soaked front, hand crushing the now empty cup. She blinked owlishly at the girl who had spoken. A dark haired girl with an equally empty cup, however stain free clothes — impeccable, by the way, in front of her. Small hands covered in white lace gloves (really? The urge to roll her eyes was strong) were reaching out for her and grabbing hold of her arm, gently albeit forcefully. Betty had no choice but to be tugged along and out of the path of the ravenous L.A. goers on the sidewalk.
“It’s… fine, really,” Betty hadn’t wanted to use the word, but there wasn’t anything else on the tip of her tongue. “I’m running late to my read through anyway, I should —”
Veronica interrupted her, raising her impeccably arched brows even higher. “Read through? As in, script?”
Nodding, Betty looked up to the tall glass front building they were almost in front of. She had been so close…
“Well, I think we’re headed to the same place then. Veronica Lodge,” the raven haired girl extended her glove covered hand and Betty raised her hand that wasn’t a sticky mess to shake it. Veronica continued, “pleasure to meet you…” she trailed off and Betty interjected.
“Betty Cooper.”
“Betty, allow me to offer you a new blouse, I simply can’t let you in there like that.”
Betty had started to shake her head, fingers itching to reach up and tighten her ponytail, but alas, she realized, she had worn her hair in a loose braid that brushed the edges of her collarbone. “No, that’s okay, you don’t have to do that.” she waved a hand, tossing her empty cup into the trash bin they had stopped by.
“I insist. Come,” it wasn’t up for debate anymore, that white glove grabbing Betty’s wrist again and pulling her toward a sleek black car that was parked some spaces down. “Don’t worry about being late, if we both are then they really can’t do anything about it."
Betty was surprised that the words didn’t sound pretentious coming from the other girls mouth, but humble. Veronica had pulled her inside the car, instructing her to pull the door closed. She hesitated before doing so, the door shutting with a soft click. She never thought being in a car alone with Veronica Lodge would ever be on her agenda, but here she was, with a collection of delicate tops spread over their laps that were distinctly not at all Betty’s style.
But beggars couldn’t be choosers.
Her green-blue eyes examined the choices carefully, taking in the price tags still dangling from them. Her throat was dry, her swallow surely audible. Everything was more-than-her-rent expensive. Plucking the one with the smallest numbers up, a transparent (okay maybe she had made a mistake here…) sapphire-blue blouse with colorful embroidered flowers, “This one is great,” she smiled at Veronica.
“Oh, excellent choice. Can’t go wrong with Derek Lam 10.”
She scrunched her nose up, fingering the material. Veronica had leant back against the seat, arms crossed expectantly. Betty glanced around to the car windows. “You want me to change here?”
“I expect you, too, yes.”
Betty sucked in a breath of courage and peeled off the stained sweater. Thankfully, her white (unlucky, she had decided) lacy bralette would be suitable underneath the barely-considered-a-shirt. She felt Veronica’s dark eyes on her, watching as she slipped the garment on over her head. Betty tugged it down gently, it only hit the top waist of her jeans.
Veronica reached out a hand to snap the price tag off, tossing it into the empty front seat. “There, oh you have to keep it, it looks perfect on you.”
The blonde smoothed a hand down her somewhat exposed stomach, wishing she were thinner or more toned. “Sure. Thanks, Veronica.”
“You’re quite welcome, darling. Nothing bores friendship quicker than the sharing of clothes and gossiping over boys. So one down, one to go.”
Betty couldn’t help the smile blooming across her face at Veronica’s words. She could use a friend. L.A. had been a lonely place the past two years, which did nothing to help her anxiety.
“Of course, I’m looking forward to it. We’ll be spending a lot of time together after all.”
The other girl smiled back, tucking glossy black hair behind her ear. “Indeed, we might as well make the best of it.” she paused, checking the fancy was fastened around her delicate wrist. “We are incredibly late now, darling. We had better hurry along before Toni sinks her teeth into us.”
Betty nodded, climbing out the car door as gracefully as she could with shaking hands. Veronica had saddled up to her side, linking their arms together as they walked. Feeling a burst of adoration for the girl Betty felt she had wrongly judged in the past (she grew up watching Disney channel, after all) she vowed not to judge any of the other actors based on the same principle.
The ease of being by Veronica’s side made her nerves calm until they were in front of the appropriate conference room door. A wicked smirk graced the raven-haired girl’s features and she disentangled their arms. A dainty platform heeled foot kicked the door in with surprising force for such a small girl.
It had Betty stepping back, hiding away from the doorframe a ways, eyes darting around the room and taking in the scene. It looks like they had already started the read through, and the ball of nerves in her stomach started to grow again.
She did not think it would ever leave her.
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note: Title comes from Shakespeare’s Henry V: “You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate. There is more eloquence in a sweet touch of them than in the tongues of the whole French council.” Chapter title comes from Mr. Jones by Counting Crows. 
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》you have witchcraft in your lips《
—famous!Bughead
When Jughead Jones and Betty Cooper were cast as leads for HBO’s Harry Potter prequel show Magic is Might, they thought they did not know each other. They were wrong.
note: this is a collaborative work between myself and @strix. I wrote Betty's’s POV and she Jughead’s. Be warned, we are each other’s betas, too. 
read it on ao3. 
“ A dress made of air and webs and you,
The wet dreams evaporate as they come true.
To anyone else just endless blue,
An invisible kite string connects me to you.”
— Pieces of Sky by Beth Orton.
CHAPTER ONE: mr jones and me, we’re gonna be big stars…
 @Variety: HBO picks up four pilot episodes, including Toni Topaz’s Harry Potter prequel project.
@Deadline: Up-and-coming musical director Kevin Keller branches off from theatre and confirms working on Harry Potter prequel series with HBO — Magic is Might.
@EntertainmentNews: BREAKING NEWS: Disney darling Veronica Lodge officially casted as one of the leads in Kevin Keller’s upcoming Marauders Era project — Magic is Might.
@Buzzfeed: You will not believe who was just confirmed to be cast in Magic is Might!
@CherryBombshell: To all my loyal, beautiful followers: Of course, I got the part. How could they not cast moi?
@NZHerald: Singer-songwriter Archie Andrews is rumoured to be involved with HBO’s Magic is Might.
@Deadline: Magic is Might Harry Potter prequel series finds its Sirius Black: “He walked in right off the street and I knew — that is our Sirius Black,” says showrunner, Kevin Keller.
@EntertainmentNews: HBO’s Magic is Might just cast its Remus Lupin, and it’s a very interesting choice.
@Buzzfeed: Magic is Might’s Remus Lupin is now — Remmy Lupin?!
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THE WAYWARD PRINCE:
The thing about Jughead Jones — he was weird, and he liked to be weird.
Jughead Jones was the following things: adroit wordsmith, razor-sharp, and a smart-mouthed asshole. He was not, however, the sort a teenage girl’s dreams were made of. He was a little too tall and a little too angular with a face that was a little too fond of scowling to be conventionally attractive. He had two girlfriends in the span of his entire life, and first one he’d acquired when he was nine for the span of two days. He was akin to a scalpel — sharp-edged, clinical, and very good at cutting people out of his life.
Except, Sabrina.
Never Sabrina.
And because of Sabrina — he was here, regretting everything.
“This,” Jughead grumbled for the nth time, “is all your fault.”
“Yes,” Sabrina agreed, throwing a dusky-blue button-down at him with a glare that clearly conveyed wear this or else, “it is my fault that you’ve landed the biggest television role of this year. I apologise for being magnificent.”
Jughead snorted. “Potter is the lead.”
“Who cares? Sirius is obviously meant to be the hot one. That makes his role the bigger fish. And you,” Sabrina said, tilting his head sideways and inspecting the carelessly casual style she arranged his hair in (read: brushed once and let it air-dry), “cousin-german, will soon be smiling from a poster on every pubescent girl’s wall and be the main feature in their dreams.”
“If it’s all the same to you,” Jughead’s scowl grew deeper, a feat he had not imagined was achievable before he’d done it. “I’d rather not.”
Two hours later, two thirds of which were spent navigating L.A.’s atrocious traffic, Jughead found himself lounging in a deceptively comfortable egg chair in a Hollywood studio, waiting to proceed with the first script reading session with the rest of Magic is Might cast. Sabrina, primly perched to his right, was scanning the others over the brim of her rapidly cooling coffee cup with shrewd, pale-grey eyes, as Jughead lazily thumbed through the script.
“Stop eyeing them like you want to wear their faces as a mask, Ree,” he muttered out of the corner of his mouth.
“I am so not. I’m eyeing them like I want to make a fashionable skin suit, obviously. Get your facts straight, Jones.”
Here was the thing; — Jughead firmly believed that if you did something, you better put your best foot forward from the start; to do your very best at everything you undertook and not half-ass it simply because it required effort. (Life required effort, Jughead often reminded himself, if it didn’t it wouldn’t be so damn difficult.)
This stance seemed at odds with his disaffected and cynical slacker persona, but what could Jughead say — he was contrary like that. He could remain apathetic and be a pedantic perfectionist at heart; he had layers, like a lasagna.
But precisely that sort of attitude had landed him the lead role in Magic is Might as Sirius Black.
It had happened nine days ago, when Jughead had accompanied Sabrina to her second audition for Magic is Might — she had failed to get Lily Evans’s role and was trying out for Narcissa Black. Jughead was there for emotional support, for the sort of get your shit together, you walking waste of space pep-talks Sabrina and he excelled at. He was there to permit his hand to be crushed in a vice grip as she waited for her name to be called, and to take her to Wildflower Café by their apartment to gorge on breakfast foods and stuff their faces with toasted marshmallow milkshakes in the face of another disappointment.
Jughead Jones was, by profession, a screenwriter; he wrote seven plays, one of which had been actually made into a film. He was not an actor. The universe disagreed, however. Kevin fucking Keller disagreed, too, apparently, because the moment Jughead had walked up to a dumbfounded-looking Sabrina after her audition — handkerchief at the ready, just in case — he’d been spotted by Kevin fucking Keller’s eagle-eyed stare. Kevin fucking Keller who’d taken one look at Jughead, pointed his finger at him and with eyedrum piercing snap, barked out, “You, there — in here, now.” and Sabrina, that fucking traitor, had pushed him forward into the audition room.
It was serendipitous he knew the script like the back of his hand, having practiced with Sabrina until they were blue in the face, it was also fortuitous his reaction in the face of sheer audacity was to fall back on his most defining traits — sarcasm and generally all-around fuck-you attitude.
Both, as it had turned out, were great characteristics for one Sirius Black.
So here he was, Forsythe Pendleton Jones the third, newly minted actor extraordinaire with no education about the craft and enough talent, according to Keller, to fill the Pacific ocean and then some — out of his depth, and feeling utterly displaced.
It was a peculiar feeling, foreign and unwelcome — Jughead hated it with the blazing ebullition of pure abhorrence.
“Hey,” Sabrina called, soft as a whisper, placing her hand on his knee, stilling it. Jughead hadn’t realised his left leg had been bouncing. “Relax, bro-bro.”
Jughead opened his mouth to reply something along the lines of Shut it, hambone, but was interrupted when a tall shadow of a small person fell across his lap.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t Mad Max himself,” commented a small, red-headed girl on berry-red charged murder-weapons on the lam from the law and thus posing as women’s footwear. “So, tall, dark, and inexperienced, how does it feel to finally be in the real show biz?”
There was a refractory set to Jughead’s clenched jaw, so Sabrina answered in his stead, snickering, “I don’t know Big Red, you tell us?”
The girl’s exceedingly red mouth was reset out of its perpetually sullen pout into a grimace of distaste. “For a virtual nobody, you sure have a mouth on you, Emily Strange.”
There were four rules Jughead Jones instinctively followed whenever he chose to speak: Was he being rational? Was he being truthful? Were his words necessary? Were they kind? Often times, if he had not met all of his criteria, Jughead would settle on keeping his silence a while longer.
This, was not such a time.
“Is that all you can do,” Jughead found himself rasping out, “try your utmost to diss people with painfully obvious references? You’re not doing a very good job, are you?”
“You’re a pretty cool customer, huh?”
“I hide my inner pain underneath a stoic visage,” Jughead quipped. Cheryl Blossom looked like would like nothing more than to dig her claws red-tipped into Jughead’s stoic visage.
“Hey, guys,” said a guy in corduroy slacks and a blue-yellow varsity jacket of all things; he was average-height, but with a Heroic Build identifying him as James Potter material. There was a hint of admonishment in his tone, but not enough to reign anyone in. “We’re supposed to be getting along…”
Jughead was utterly unsurprised when he was promptly ignored.
Big Red sneered down on them and with a snazzy flip of gloriously red hair, pointedly perched on the corner of the oval table. Then, she extended a bedazzled with a shape of a cherry phone Jughead didn’t realise she held in front of her on a selfie-stick, and with that godawful pout, began, “See, my lovely cherries, when presented with a choice between either Tim Burton Junior and his blonde Fran Bow or a ginger Kelly Clarkson, Cheryl Bombshell has no choice but to choose herself. I certainly hope their acting is better than their personalities because those are as parched as a dry spell.”
“Oi, Cherry Bomb!” a female producer barked sharply, the one with pink-striped hair and a punk attitude, “don’t fucking live blog a closed script reading, you imbecile!”
“Don’t call me that!” Cheryl Blossom snarled, teeth unnaturally white against the vivid red of her mouth. “How are my cherries supposed to know what I’m doing at any given moment if I don’t blog about it?”
“I don’t know,” Jughead grumbled, too low to be heard by anyone but Sabrina, who promptly elbowed him in the ribs, “maybe try not to seek validation from a faceless mass of people online?” said the kettle to the pot, he mentally added.
The woman with the pink hair was even shorter than Cheryl, but when she stood up, she cut an impressively intimidating figure nonetheless. “This,” she growled, “is what we get for casting a bloody Instagram starlet.”
“She’s a solid choice, Toni,” Keller admonished, softly, gingerly prying away her fingers off his bicep, “she can act and her hair is iconic. What more could we ask for?”
“A fucking professional attitude for one. And maybe,” Topaz, that was her name, Jughead finally remembered, pointedly shouted in red-head’s direction, “not to always pout like she’s about to suck dick.”
Cheryl Blossom looked up from the highly-focused examination of her razor-sharp talons she’d been performing and pouted. “I don’t suck dick on sheer principle, you grotsky little byotch.”
Varsity Jacket raised his hands in placation. “Okay, seriously, maybe you should—”
“Toni, go smoke a fag and find your chill,” cut in Keller, and her hand immediately shot up, giving him the middle finger, but she left the room nonetheless. “And Cheryl, take it down a notch. I’m serious, you hear me?”
Cheryl turned away from him with a huff, but she hadn’t said anything. Instead, she began typing away furiously on her phone.
Huh, thought Jughead.
Kevin Keller was not a tough guy, he noticed, he did not have a commanding presence. Even Varsity Jacket drew more attention to himself with his ridiculous floppy hair, freckled face, and All-American attitude. But, Jughead decided, Kevin Keller understood women. With that in mind, Jughead settled back in his chair, reading over the script yet again.
It was fifteen minutes later when Toni Topaz strode into the room, her combat boots practically abusing the dotted, grey linoleum with the force of her steps, not looking an iota less stressed. “Fuck it,” she announced, “if we wait anymore for those two, we’ll get behind schedule.”
“All right, then,” Keller said, clapping his hands, “places, everyone.”
Like the asshole she was, Sabrina took the seat assigned to him, next to Varsity Jacket, and switched their name planks with a wink. Jughead had neither the inclination nor the naiveté to question her choices, so he dragged the chair he had been sitting for the last half-an-hour towards the table by its back, and positioned himself on Sabrina’s left, straightening the SIRIUS BLACK plaque so it was uniformly aligned with all the others.
The plague before a lounging Cheryl Blossom did not read BITCH FROM HELL, much to Jughead’s surprise, instead, it said — LILY EVANS.
A thought streaked across the forefront of his mind: We are all royally fucked.
Varsity Jacket’s named turned out to be Archie Andrews. Jughead knew that now because the first words out of that kid’s mouth were, quite literally, “Hey, there. I’m Archie Andrews, I’m eighteen, you may know me from last year’s 16 Birthday Wishes, and I look forward to working with ya all.”
Jughead could not have conjured this kid up had he even tried. He shared a concerned glance with Sabrina who mouthed, is he for real? and Jughead only had the energy to shrug. Yeah, he decided, he could see this Archie Andrews as one James Potter. If he squinted.
Cheryl Blossom did not introduce herself. She scowled at all of them, even poor golden retriever puppy personified Andrews, called them philistines, and proceeded with reading her lines. Interesting development: she could act. Expected conclusion: she packed too much malice into her lines and came of ass passive aggressive. Keller had to intermediately correct her. That was, however, a correctable quality she could redeem herself from with enough effort; or so Sabrina had said, Jughead’s inescapable, little-devil-on-the-shoulder-type expert on all things acting™.  
When it was his turn to read, Jughead did what he always did when he read out loud his scripts during editing: tried his damndest not to stutter, keeping his voice smooth and even, and detached himself from the situation, rendering himself utterly impervious to nerves and apprehension. It was not Jughead Jones who had been reciting the script from memory as the lines printed on paper streamed before his eyes in a confusing, maddening swirl — it had been Sirius Black doing all those things; teasing his friend James, flirting with prim and proper Lily, arguing with Narcissa.
Disassociating might have kept Jughead’s anxiety at bay, but it made Sirius Black come alive.
So, of course, once Jughead had gotten into the swing of things, the universe rained on his parade: the door slammed open, revealing two girls standing on the other side of its frame.
“Oooops,” said the shorter one, her dark hair reflecting light attractively as she stode in the room. She had not sounded particularly sorry, Jughead noticed. “Apologies, hadn’t meant to barge in quite so—”
“Veronica,” Toni cut in, as bitingly as a wolf, “you were supposed to be here half-an-hour ago!”
“That late, huh,” muttered Veronica assumingly Lodge, flipping her wrist to check the slim, diamond-encrusted watch on her left hand. “Apologies, Toni, darling, but L.A. traffic is simply odious, as you well know. Got held up.”
“By what — appearance of abominable snowman in the middle of Franklin Avenue?”
“Not quite,” Veronica replied, a sly not-quite smile settling on her face, “Betty and I—”
“Of course, you had hamstrung Cooper, too.” Toni cast a dirty look over Veronica’s shoulder at a willowy, nervous-looking blonde still hesitating in the doorway. “Don’t think I haven’t noticed you there, princess.”
“Well, as I was saying, Betty and I,” continued Veronica Lodge, bulldozing over Toni completely and out of the corner of his eye, Jughead could see Call Me, Archie Andrews’s jaw unhinge a little, “were late completely by accident, but it was all my fault. Let’s just say, a Lodge doesn’t always land on their feet.
“Still, I had to amend such an insufferable grievance,” Veronica smiled, charmingly, still sly as a fox. “Imagine how tickled pink I was to learn we are not only headed into the same building, but for the same script reading—”
“To which you are late; both of you,” grumbled Toni, but she seemed to have lost most of her heat. Kevin was rubbing her shoulders soothingly as she massaged her temples. Momentarily, Jughead wondered if she was prematurely grey beneath all that pink dye.
“—long story, short: Betty here,” Veronica said, stepping back and drawing the taller girl into her side. “Is my new BFF and I love her to pieces.”
“From a five minute meeting,” Kevin asked, corner of his mouth twitching.
“Boo, you whore,” teased Veronica, earning an unexpect snort from Sabrina, “it’s love at first sight. Don’t judge.” Then:
“You there,” Veronica snapped her fingers in the direction of a fish-eyed assistant Jughead took care to ignore — she’d been making moon-eyes at him, according to Sabrina, and there were times to be wary of his cousin’s advice, but not in instances such as this one. “Fetch me a skinny venti white mocha, one shot, with two pumps of sugarfree vanilla, no whip — pronto. I can’t think clearly without my daily recommended injection of sugar and caffeine.”
Immediately, the situation dissolved into absolute bedlam as everyone clamoured for Ginger’s attention to place their coffee order, too. She’s a sly one, Jughead thought for the third time, smart, too.
Here was the thing about Jughead Jones: he was an objective observer of life, not an active participator. An introvert and a borderline misanthrope, he regarded the world from a safe distance of cool, clinical detachment — he watched and he recorded and he understood because he noticed enough to pay attention in the first place; he was perceptive, and he used this to his advantage. 
This girl, however, totally threw him for a loop.
And as if enticed by a magnetic pull, Jughead’s eyes drifted towards the leggy blonde to his right. The first thing he noticed her was this — she was uncomfortable. The second was that she was seemed nervous, displaced; and third — well, she was making her way towards him.
The girl was dressed in a diaphanous, intricately embroidered, sapphire-coloured blouse, and when she shifted to pull out her chair, Jughead could see her laced brassiere through the silk material. Unexpectedly, she sat next to him, across from a plaque reading REMMY LUPIN. She had a striking look — blue-eyed and golden-haired with a face like a porcelain doll’s; wide-eyed, lovely, and haunting in its stillness. I met a lady on a moore, Jughead though, aureate hair, refulgent eyes; a dancing, starry sprite.
“Hi,” she greeted, turning to him, face splitting into a blooming, honeyed smile, white teeth gleaming, the streaming sunlight from the window behind them set her braid into a molten blaze, “I’m Betty.”
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THE DREAMER:
“Three creams, two splenda, please.”
Betty Cooper was already running (hopefully, fashionably) late; not exactly a good first impression. She had woken up behind schedule (she had sort of fallen into the black hole that was Tumblr, recently, and had taken to staying up late); her cat, Caramel, had thrown up all over the kitchen floor. One side of her hair had dried flatter than the other — she was never going to bed straight from the shower ever again. And her uber had been running behind. Fantastic, she had uttered when finally arriving at the address given. The time on her phone alerting her that she should would have been inside already, had her morning gone accordingly, sipping on her coffee without a care in the world.
Well, that last bit was a stretch. If you asked anyone who knew her, they would say without a doubt that, Betty Cooper cared too much, about everything.
It was kind of her thing, though. Betty had a profound sense of perseverance and applied it to anyone in need of help that she came across. Polly (her older sister and recently, albeit somewhat regrettably, her manager) akined it to her being like a new mother, babying her fresh-faced ducklings. It often impeded her own desires and well-thought out plans.
Betty was a goner for a schedule. She could plan her day like nobody’s business — rarely did it ever actually go according to plan though. She would describe herself as being meticulous bordering the edge of perfectionist — Betty actually detested that word. Being in control of the situation, however, gave her life.
This was all new to her though, at least, fairly. Acting, that is.
She had been on edge of booking a flight back to San Francisco for what seemed like months. With only $200 to her name, and a can of cold soup sitting like a rock in her belly, Betty had auditioned for a role in Magic is Might. She had been failing auditions for months, her savings account was gone, and she was exhausted from working two menial jobs in order to have money to even go to auditions.
So, by all accounts, Betty figured an extra boost of caffeine was in order to make it through the whirlwind day that had been plotted ahead. A table read with her cast mates of Magic is Might, who she had yet to meet, was slotted for the whole day. As well as some promotional pictures of the group. The whole thing came together rather quickly for an HBO show, as she understood. Betty would be forever grateful that they hadn’t found anyone for the part of Remus Lupin yet.
Somehow, her name had been misspelled (she wanted to glare at Polly) and they thought it had said Elizander, on her papers. Whoever had been manning the audition hadn’t done a thorough look-through at the time and had barely looked up at her, just shooed her through the door. They seemed desperate.
To be fair, she hadn’t realized that the part of Remus was male. Of course, she had read the Harry Potter books, who hasn’t? But Polly had simply implored her to get her ass to this audition, without much else to go on.
Everyone had stared at her when she entered the room, but the guy in the middle of the group seated before her had stood up, planting his hands on the table with a loud smack.
“Excuse me, this isn’t —”
“No, excuse me, but that was incredibly rude.” A blush bloomed across her chest, streaking upwards, despite her outward display of confidence. “I’m here to audition, so let me audition before turning me away.”
It turns out that the man was Kevin Keller, one of the showrunners. Betty had desperately wanted to curl into a ball from mortification when she found out, but instead she had been engulfed in a hug while he had exclaimed “Such fire!”, and had let her do the audition.  
They had complimented her afterwards. Apparently she had an inner voice that matched Remus’s suppressed darkness à la werewolf unequivocally. They were going to change the character and rework the script for her. Betty was unperturbed usually, but she had been floored by their sentiments.
Now, granted, they had done the same thing for the character of Snape, but that was for Veronica Lodge — ex-disney starlet who had bowed out of the limelight for several years only to return and turn everyone’s heads when she demanded the part of Severus Snape.
Betty mussed her life was going to be very different from here on out (assuming the show gets picked up after the contingent episodes), but she was looking forward to not cringing every time they ran her card through a register. She loved food, and coffee was a vice she wasn’t willing to give up.
In L.A. there seemed to be a Starbucks on just about every godforsaken block, so she had been thankful there was one conveniently close to the building she was now ardently walking toward. Betty was practically jogging as she took a sip of her drink, the mouthful of cold coffee was sweet and creamy. It was really refreshing — had she not just spilled it all over her shirt when someone plowed into her shoulder, jarring the cup from her hand.
Betty had stood frozen in place, her muscles turning tense as she panicked. Of course she had worn her favorite outfit today. Her pale pink sweater was now sticking to her skin uncomfortably, but thankfully there were only a few drops on her jeans — the dark color of them would prevent a stain from being noticeable, but her sweater…
“Oh my god, fuck, I am so sorry.”
Betty looked up from where she was still staring at her coffee soaked front, hand crushing the now empty cup. She blinked owlishly at the girl who had spoken. A dark haired girl with an equally empty cup, however stain free clothes — impeccable, by the way, in front of her. Small hands covered in white lace gloves (really? The urge to roll her eyes was strong) were reaching out for her and grabbing hold of her arm, gently albeit forcefully. Betty had no choice but to be tugged along and out of the path of the ravenous L.A. goers on the sidewalk.
“It’s… fine, really,” Betty hadn’t wanted to use the word, but there wasn’t anything else on the tip of her tongue. “I’m running late to my read through anyway, I should —”
Veronica interrupted her, raising her impeccably arched brows even higher. “Read through? As in, script?”
Nodding, Betty looked up to the tall glass front building they were almost in front of. She had been so close…
“Well, I think we��re headed to the same place then. Veronica Lodge,” the raven haired girl extended her glove covered hand and Betty raised her hand that wasn’t a sticky mess to shake it. Veronica continued, “pleasure to meet you…” she trailed off and Betty interjected.
“Betty Cooper.”
“Betty, allow me to offer you a new blouse, I simply can’t let you in there like that.”
Betty had started to shake her head, fingers itching to reach up and tighten her ponytail, but alas, she realized, she had worn her hair in a loose braid that brushed the edges of her collarbone. “No, that’s okay, you don’t have to do that.” she waved a hand, tossing her empty cup into the trash bin they had stopped by.
“I insist. Come,” it wasn’t up for debate anymore, that white glove grabbing Betty’s wrist again and pulling her toward a sleek black car that was parked some spaces down. “Don’t worry about being late, if we both are then they really can’t do anything about it.“
Betty was surprised that the words didn’t sound pretentious coming from the other girls mouth, but humble. Veronica had pulled her inside the car, instructing her to pull the door closed. She hesitated before doing so, the door shutting with a soft click. She never thought being in a car alone with Veronica Lodge would ever be on her agenda, but here she was, with a collection of delicate tops spread over their laps that were distinctly not at all Betty’s style.
But beggars couldn’t be choosers.
Her green-blue eyes examined the choices carefully, taking in the price tags still dangling from them. Her throat was dry, her swallow surely audible. Everything was more-than-her-rent expensive. Plucking the one with the smallest numbers up, a transparent (okay maybe she had made a mistake here…) sapphire-blue blouse with colorful embroidered flowers, “This one is great,” she smiled at Veronica.
“Oh, excellent choice. Can’t go wrong with Derek Lam 10.”
She scrunched her nose up, fingering the material. Veronica had leant back against the seat, arms crossed expectantly. Betty glanced around to the car windows. “You want me to change here?”
“I expect you too, yes.”
Betty sucked in a breath of courage and peeled off the stained sweater. Thankfully, her white (unlucky, she had decided) lacy bralette would be suitable underneath the barely-considered-a-shirt. She felt Veronica’s dark eyes on her, watching as she slipped the garment on over her head. Betty tugged it down gently, it only hit the top waist of her jeans.
Veronica reached out a hand to snap the price tag off, tossing it into the empty front seat. “There, oh you have to keep it, it looks perfect on you.”
The blonde smoothed a hand down her somewhat exposed stomach, wishing she were thinner or more toned. “Sure. Thanks, Veronica.”
“You’re quite welcome, darling. Nothing bores friendship quicker than the sharing of clothes and gossiping over boys. So one down, one to go.”
Betty couldn’t help the smile blooming across her face at Veronica’s words. She could use a friend. L.A. had been a lonely place the past two years, which did nothing to help her anxiety.
“Of course, I’m looking forward to it. We’ll be spending a lot of time together after all.”
The other girl smiled back, tucking glossy black hair behind her ear. “Indeed, we might as well make the best of it.” she paused, checking the fancy was fastened around her delicate wrist. “We are incredibly late now, darling. We had better hurry along before Toni sinks her teeth into us.”
Betty nodded, climbing out the car door as gracefully as she could with shaking hands. Veronica had saddled up to her side, linking their arms together as they walked. Feeling a burst of adoration for the girl Betty felt she had wrongly judged in the past (she grew up watching Disney channel, after all) she vowed not to judge any of the other actors based on the same principle.
The ease of being by Veronica’s side made her nerves calm until they were in front of the appropriate conference room door. A wicked smirk graced the raven-haired girl’s features and she disentangled their arms. A dainty platform heeled foot kicked the door in with surprising force for such a small girl.
It had Betty stepping back, hiding away from the doorframe a ways, eyes darting around the room and taking in the scene. It looks like they had already started the read through, and the ball of nerves in her stomach started to grow again.
She did not think it would ever leave her.
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tbc.
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“Angel City” review by Counter Monkey Nicky
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They say truth is stranger than fiction, but sometimes fiction can be truer than truth. Such is the case with Angel City, a murder mystery set in the “golden age” of Hollywood that draws bits and pieces of its stories from the very real, and the very hush-hushed, events of the past. And if you aren’t familiar with the sordid underbelly of the silver screen’s most gilded age don’t worry: neither am I, and I haven’t once felt at a loss for not knowing the background details ahead of time. In fact, if you find yourself intrigued by the story you’re reading and want to know more about the era in which it’s set and the real-life-events that inspired its twists and turns, you’re in luck because in the back of every issue there’s an essay that delves into the dark secrets that were hidden in all that glamour and shiny celluloid.
Reading Angel City makes me feel like I’m experiencing Golden Age Hollywood live in the moment -- except of course, no one at the time would have dreamed of letting all that sordid truth leak out into the world! With this fictional story we get to peel back the curtain and peek into the reality of the past. It’s a very appropriate way to tell a story of the Silver Screen, where what was “real” and what was real were not always the same thing. Golden Age Hollywood was a time when “accepted truth” was in many ways more real than the real truth, and everyone was in on the joke...except perhaps for the avid reads of the fan magazines who breathlessly followed the whirlwind society lives of their favorite stars as devotedly as they watched their movies. This was an era when every little girl dreamed of her “one bit shot at stardom,” where if she could just be “discovered” by the right studio executive while she stood in line for the day’s cattle call, she could make it big!
...And then end up owned body and soul by the studio, but of course that part never makes it into the daydreams.
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For Dolores Dare that dream didn’t quite work out as planned, but she found a way to make-do and make a living anyway: as an enforcer for the mob! The line between the movies and the mob was pretty thin at times, and for Dolores it was an easy line to step over when her hopes for stardom crumbled. Now she has to reexamine her choices and her allies though, because the girl she came out to Hollywood with just turned up dead. Rather than sashaying into some hard boiled P.I.’s office to pitch him a tale of woe, Dolores does the investigating herself, and what she and her pals turn-up isn’t nearly as pretty as the glamorous life seen on the silver screen...but it might be even more exciting! Because Dolores isn’t just hunting one killer: she’s trying to tear-down the entire web of corruption that runs Hollywood all the way from the movie studios to the police they keep in their pockets.
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It won’t be easy, but fortunately she’s not alone in her quest: in addition to allies like Joe, photographer for the Tinseltown Tattler, and Rita, a fellow jaded wannabe-starlet, real-life reporter Aggie Underwood -- the first woman to work the crime beat in L.A. -- drops in to do what she does best and dig up some dirt. Aggie isn’t the only real-life figure to walk across the boundaries of fact and fiction in this story (see Brenda Allen and Eddie Mannix for starters) and for a story that’s all about the truth behind the fiction, that cross-over between fact and fabrication is a perfect way to ground the tale without getting mired in “what really happened?” questions. This isn’t the Black Dahlia Murder that Dolores is trying to solve; she’s hunting the April Fool’s Killer and he’s entirely fictional...but the point of Angel City is that he could have been real. And so could Dolores and Jim and Rita. And for a story about the dark underbelly of movie magic, what’s more fitting than telling truth through fiction?
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From the dingiest dumpster to the ritziest ballroom, every inch of the landscape of Hollywood and all its tawdriest secrets are exposed in gloriously-rendered inkwork by Megan Levens whose harsh, raw linework has just enough softness to show the heart underneath all the jaded cynicism of Janet Harvey’s story. And of course, it’s set in sunny California, so even the shadows are bright enough to give you a sunburn! It might seem counter-intuitive to take a crime noir story and drench it in glorious sunlight, but here the light serves to hide the truth even better than the stereotypical dark shadows you expect from this genre. This is Hollywood after all, and all the glitz and glitter has always been designed as a distraction so nobody notices that the sets are cardboard and the jewels are all made of paste; what better way to hid the truth of this mystery than with the blazing light of the sun -- or a spotlight?
The lighting isn’t the only twist Angel City puts on its genre of course; the most obvious is the re-casting of the femme fatale into the hard-boiled detective who claims the leading role, but the whole story is peppered with familiar tropes and faces used in new and exciting ways. This story has “classic crime noir” written all over it but it uses its genre trappings as springboards rather than props to lean on and the result -- especially when combined with all those “true crime” elements that have been so liberally sprinkled across the story -- is a masterpiece. As we all get ready to watch modern Hollywood hand out those shiny golden statues to itself, why not take a moment to dip into the murky waters of the golden age of the silver screen with this nomination-worthy tale?
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The first six-issue arc of Angel City is almost over, but we still have copies of each issue on our shelves (for now!) or if you prefer to read your crime noir in complete chunks, there will be a collection out soon that you can pre-order today. Whether you’re a fan of the silver screen or just of stories that revolve around crime, murder, and corruption, you’re sure to be blown-away by this story...as are several members of the cast!
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Diamond in the Rough
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Regency Cullen art by feylen!
Chapter 26
Pairing: Cullen x Trevelyan
Rating: SFW
Tags: Romance, Wedding
Link: AO3
In Regency Era Thedas, Orlais and Ferelden are at war. As an officer in Ferelden’s army, Cullen is entrusted with an important document, one that he must keep secret and deliver it to the right hands at any cost. He is betrayed, someone leaking his position and he and his men are set upon by Orlesian soldiers. Grievously wounded, Cullen flees into the Orlesian countryside. Elya saves his life, healing his wounds and keeping him hidden.  Her manners give her away as more than just a typical country girl. As he grows stronger and they grow closer, he becomes more and more intrigued by the quiet woman and her secrets. Cullen knows that he cannot stay, his duties calling him away.
A world of Thedas retelling of Aladdin, in a Regency Era setting!
Elya almost couldn’t breathe, the butterflies in her body racing from her head to her toes. Everything had taken on a sunburst aura, a dream, yet at the same time she felt as if right now was more real than at any time in her life. Her fingers tightened around the colorful and fragrant flowers in her hand, and she watched with bated breath the doors opening.
Brilliant sunlight dazzled her eyes, forcing her to blink and chuckle as she waited for her eyes to adjust. Before she could see, though, she heard. A setar. The sounds of the string instrument, the intricate strumming, sent chills through her. Elya closed her eyes and savored the memories, a rush of Home hitting her. Of her childhood, the warm and humid air, spiced with delicious scents. Of her mother, laughing and playing with her in the evenings after a day of study at the Circle, her father catching her up to swing her in circles. A golden youth, joy, curiosity, unconditional love and support. A history, a past, she had never expected to touch again once she had fled Ferelden, once her parents had been lost to her. Yet it was here. In this song, in the music. Her smile was tremulous and astonished. How wonderful.
Her eyes flew open, and she stepped out onto the deck. And there Cullen was. Their eyes connected, and the glow of his smile, of him, outshone the sun. Golden curls jostled about with the sea breeze, the exhaustion and signs of his recovery vanished with the light and the happiness that beat between them. The memory of the first time she had seen him came to her; his whisky colored eyes had been glazed and unseeing, face pale and lined with pain. Looking him now, how alive he was, she could only thank every god and goddess she knew. Who would have thought that they would be here now, in love and about to be married? Tears rushed into her eyes, and she laughed at herself as she desperately tried to keep them at bay. Hawke had been right; seeing Cullen was reason enough to make her weep with joy.
He was in the middle of the deck, but as soon as their eyes connected, he strode to her side, long steps that quickly ate the distance. Then he was there, his hand outstretched, sliding against hers, lacing their fingers together. “Elya,” he breathed, his eyes caressing and blazing with love. “You look gorgeous.”
She laughed, her throat too tight. A tear, two, slipped down her cheek, and Cullen immediately brushed them away, still gazing at her rapturously. “You haven’t even looked at my dress.” He couldn’t seem to take his eyes off of hers any more than she could.
Still without doing so, Cullen lifted her hand and placed a kiss on her knuckles. “I don’t need to.”
She sniffed again, another watery laugh, squeezing his hand tightly. “The music?” Awe and wonder filled her voice, and Cullen’s smile grew a bit bolder.
“You loved it in Rivain; it was your home and a part of who you are. So Isabela and I chatted.” Her heart grew larger, if possible. He was thinking of the stories she had told him just last night. Had heard the longing for those happy days and decided to incorporate her culture into such a special ritual. What an amazing, wonderful man he was. Cullen turned them, walking slowly towards the knot of people waiting for them. “There is more.”
Indeed there was. Isabela beamed from behind a low built table, a sofreyé aghd. A crucial part of a Rivaini wedding, and something she had never expected to see, especially on a ship. Yet there it was, almost perfect, or as close to perfect as they could manage with the limited supplies aboard. A richly decorated rug covered the table, and all across the crowded surface were bowls of flowers, fruit, nuts. Freshly baked bread scented the air alongside the sweetness of the flowers. A tray of herbs and spices, all colorful and bright, even if not quite the proper ones, but still wonderful. A large bowl of gold coins winked in the light, before it a beautiful clear container filled with amber honey. But the centerpiece was a mirror, with two candlesticks on either side. One was hers, she realized as she and Cullen came up to it, the one that she had brought from her cottage. Unremarkable, battered, yet the memory of it next to her bed, the knowledge that Cullen had thought of it while setting up their table, filled her heart. The other candlestick was gold, but not showy. Practical and elegant, and the mirror fitted the same theme.
Cullen gently led her to the low cushion stationed before the table, and in a stunned daze, Elya sank down. Their thighs pressed together, linked hands resting on their legs, her flowers still in her other hand. There, in the mirror, they were. Together, eternity, their lives now forever linked. Her butterflies stilled, her heartbeat slowed, became steady. In the reflection, Elya looked to Cullen, and she drew in a steady breath when she saw that the giddiness had left him as well, the same shining, steady reverence on his face.
For the first time, Elya drank in the rest of him. He was not wearing the same clothing that he had dressed in that morning, uncertain yet hopeful that Isabela would marry them. Gone was the ill-fitting and ragged clothing that Cole had provided for him. He wore instead a fitted red shirt, gold buttons shining down his chest. The long sleeves were perhaps a bit short, but it fit across his shoulders admirably. He wore black trousers, a little large and the bottom hem rolled once. He was beautiful and bright and was very shortly to be her husband.
She swallowed and blinked up to Isabela, suddenly aware of everyone else around them. It looked as if all of the crew were dressed up nicely, broad to intrigued smiles on everyone’s faces. Even the grouchy old sailor who had rowed them aboard had a small curve on his leathery face. Cole sat slightly off to the side on the railing, rocking back and forth to the music and wearing a pleased smile. Hawke and Merrill had their hands clasped together just behind the Captain, Hawke valiantly trying to keep her eyes clear. Elya flashed a commiserating smile; she was having no luck with that task either. Although no longer filled with butterflies, the tears would not stop brimming. She sniffed again and quickly brushed her fingers beneath her eyes.
“Are you ready?” Isabel asked them, and in the mirror Elya’s eyes caught with Cullen’s.
“Ready,” Cullen said, his voice thicker and lower. As affected as she was. Elya’s own affirmative was just as emotional.
The musician changed tempo, the song becoming slower and sweeter, twisting around her heart and making the moment that much more poignant. Isabela’s eyes were filled with understanding, steady and happy. Her friend, she thought again with stunned amazement. Another thing she had never expected to have, people who cared for her. Her friends, happy for her.
In Rivaini, Isabela began. Her husky voice picked up the rhythm of the sitar, the two working in harmony to bestow the gift of poetry. The words, spoken in her native tongue, washed over her. A poem of love. A poem of marriage. Elya and Cullen stared at each other in the mirror, connected in the eternity that the mirror represented. Once Isabela finished the poem in Rivaini, she spoke it again in Common.
May these vows and this marriage be blessed. May it be sweet milk, this marriage, like wine and halvah. May this marriage offer fruit and shade like the date palm. May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day a day in paradise. May this marriage be a sign of compassion, a seal of happiness here and hereafter. May this marriage have a fair face and a good name, an omen as welcome as the moon in a clear blue sky. I am out of words to describe how spirit mingles in this marriage.
Her words faded with the music, lingering in the air, moving and magical. Elya scarce noticed the tear slipping down her cheek, still too absorbed in the feeling of Cullen, his heartbeat against her palm. His eyes were so golden and blazing with such warmth Elya thought she would never be cold again. Warmed by his touch, warmed by his love.
Gently, Isabela spoke again. “Cullen, speak your vows.”
His voice was still tight, but clear and strong, Cullen vowed to her: “I swear unto the Maker and the Holy Andraste to love this woman the rest of my days.”
Elya squeezed Cullen’s hand, drawing on her control to prevent herself from breaking into sobs. Cullen had just said that, to her. Amazed and dizzy and so full of happiness, Elya spoke the vows back to him. “I swear unto the Maker and the Holy Andraste to love this man the rest of my days.” Promised through love, now promised to the world.
They were married. Elya let out a small, choked laugh, couldn’t believe it. Cullen’s jaw flexed several times, and she saw him swallow roughly, the fierce sheen of tears he battled with. Her warrior, always so strong, yet feeling this as deeply as she was.
Isabela cried, “What are you waiting for! Kiss your bride!” Elya’s laughed burst from her, and then Cullen’s arms were banded around her, his lips on hers and kissing her deeply. He was pouring everything into the kiss, and she was absorbing it, reflecting it right back to him. Eternity. Cheers and cries rose up from everyone on deck, clapping and stomping feet. The setar player picked up a sensual, fast paced song, and the reverent atmosphere changed into one of celebration.
“I love you,” Elya whispered against his lips, eyes glistening, “Husband.” She couldn’t contain her smile.
“I love you,” he returned, “ātashé del-am.” The fire of my heart. If Elya already wasn’t thoroughly melted, she would have done so right there. His pronunciation wasn’t perfect, but it was everything. He kissed her long and lovingly again, and Elya wrapped her arms around his shoulders, her flowers forgotten on the seat beside her.
“One more thing,” Isabela pulled them back from each other, “and then we can get to the party!” Elya turned her head, thinking there was already a party in progress. The setar player had been joined by other instruments; the music they were making was fast and improvised, disorganized and pure fun. Men and women were already dancing, even more food being brought up to the deck while drinks were being passed around.
Cullen helped Elya to her feet, their hands still linked. Isabela collected up the pretty little jar of honey and brought it to them, a smirk on her lips. “The last part of the ceremony, and my personal favorite.” Elya had always loved it too, sighing dreamily when she had seen other weddings as a child. The married couple had always seemed so absorbed in each other, so romantic, and now she knew why.
She dipped her pinky finger into the honey, and turned to Cullen. With a new, sensual smile Elya didn’t know she had in her until Cullen had come along, she lifted her pinky to his lips, offering him the taste. Slowly, the party around them receding, Cullen’s firm lips closed over her finger, his tongue licking the sweetness from her finger. His eyes darkened, his look promising pleasure as his pupils expanded. He released her with a small scrape, and Elya dazedly wondered if honey could be used for other things as well. Heat rose in her cheeks, her embarrassment minuscule compared to the excitement such a thought caused.
Then it was Cullen’s turn, dipping his finger into the honey and offering it to her. And when Elya tasted the sweetness of the honey against his skin, she knew they would definitely need to try this again. She twirled her tongue around his pinky, flicking at the short nail. She watched with a fascinated thrill as Cullen stared at her lips hard, his other hand clenched around hers. She pulled away, and Cullen shuffled on his feet and cleared his throat.
Isabela’s laugh broke them from the trance, and Elya realized that a number of the sailors were watching them still, wolf-whistles and knowing calls made her blush, made Cullen blush as well. “No disappearing during the party,” Isabela winked at them. “Cheers to the happy couple!” She shouted to the sky, and everyone else followed suit.
The music was infectious and the atmosphere bright and happy. Still without letting go of her hand, Cullen pulled Elya into his body, wrapped an arm around her waist, and spun them into a fast paced waltz, dancing to the music. The gauzy layers of her dress floated as they whirled and dipped, and soon others were alongside them. Merrill was dancing with Cole, the boy avidly watching his feet as Merrill taught him a dance Elya didn’t know. Isabela and Hawke were clapping in a Rivaini quick-step, their legs and feet moving so fast. Everyone was talking, laughing, singing. It was a loud, uproarious mess, nothing like the staid Ferelden parties she had known during her Season, and she loved every second of it.
No one was waltzing like she and Cullen where, though. He pulled her flush to his body as they twirled through couples, dropping his mouth to her ear, “Your dress is beautiful,” he growled, “I will have to be very careful not to ruin it when I take it off you tonight.”
Elya shivered, hard pressed not to pull him to their small cabin, but she didn’t want to miss a second of this party. Of their wedding. So she instead rose up on her toes, catching his lips in a fiery kiss. “You won’t have to be careful with my underwear,” she purred. Cullen stumbled, a little growl catching in his throat, and Elya threw back her head and laughed. “Dance with me husband,” her grin so large she could feel her face hurting. “Let’s eat and drink and have fun with our friends, and very soon we will have our wedding night.”
Cullen’s answer was another deep kiss and to sweep her into dance once again, their love shining brighter than gold.
Sorry for the delay everyone! But this chapter was a lot of work, lol.
When I first thought of doing it, I thought I would combine Regency, Persian, and the in game wedding with Cullen... but honestly I find Regency weddings to be more like contracts than a celebration of love. So passionless. But Persian weddings are utterly beautiful. I didn't include everything, since it is supposed to be a fusion, but I super encourage everyone to look into them! The poem I used is the translation from an ancient poet named Rumi! One of my best friends, one of the girls in the family that this story is inspired/dedicated to, just got engaged and we have been having chats about traditions she would like to include. This poem is one of the ones she likes, and she did the honey ritual at their engagement party. I hope they do it at their wedding it too!
Want to read more? Master Post of Diamond in the Rough! I love reblogs too!
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House of Earth and Blood Crescent City Book 1 by Sarah J. Maas Publisher: Bloomsbury Release Date: March 3, 2020 Genre: Adult, Fantasy Blurb: #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas launches her brand-new CRESCENT CITY series with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working hard all day and partying all night—until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She’ll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose—to assassinate his boss’s enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he’s offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach. As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City’s underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion—one that could set them both free, if they’d only let it. With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom—and the power of love. Review: Before I dive into my review of the contents of House of Earth and Blood I would like to make one comment on the cover of the book. While the illustration is pretty and the cover eye-catching, the fact that the actual title HOUSE OF EARTH AND BLOOD is in such small font it's barely noticeable on the cover and the name of the series Crescent City is in large, prominent font it makes it very confusing for the reader to distinguish which is the actual title of this first volume of the series without looking it up. The cover design department should really rethink that when tweaking the cover for the paperback edition likely to come. Moving to the book itself, I was unsure if I would like this one based on other authors crossing over to other age groups with underwhelming attempts. But this book, if you've read any of the author's other works is easy to get engrossed in.  In fact, as I sit here a week and a half after finishing the book I realize the reason it's easy to see similarities between House of Earth and Blood and her previous works is because they all have similar themes: a main character who seems to be nothing special at first glance but who possesses an immense, incomparable power, strong friendships, hate-to-love romance, and villains you'd really like to slap.  So it's a safe bet if you liked the Throne of Glass books or the ACOTAR books you'll probably enjoy this adult debut... which is not really all that different content-wise from her other books.  House of Earth and Blood is billed as epic fantasy but I actually would categorize it more as urban fantasy. While yes, the world in which Bryce lives is not based on any real cities it has a much more urban setting than what I consider high/epic fantasy. Plus there is modern technology... smartphones and computers and other advanced tech you wouldn't see in a high fantasy that always seems more inspired by the medieval era.  While I can get behind the Bryce/Hunt ship my favorite character by far was Ruhn. And Ruhn's friends were pretty awesome. I hope they get more of a role in the books to come. The character  that made me scratch my head was Bryce's boss, who I couldn't tell if she had actual friendly affection for Bryce or not because the ending would lead you to believe so but before that she's constantly threatening to turn her into an animal of some sort if she steps out of line. The other thing I couldn't get behind was Bryce's name. To me Bryce has always been a guy's name, not a gender neutral name so every time I came upon it I had to remind myself Bryce was a girl. And last, while the world of House of Earth and Blood is filled with diverse species there's nothing readers haven't seen before... fae, mermaids, vampires, werewolves, witches, shifters, and more all crammed into one city with a smaller human population. And anyone versed in mythology will note the nods to Norse mythology throughout. Overall, while this was a good read, I wouldn't say it was anything unique that blew me away. I honestly felt like the ending could be the stopping point and you wouldn't even need any further books but I'm sure there will be at least 6-7 more books if Crescent City follows the mold of the author's other two series.  My Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4.5 of 5 Stars!
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Pop Picks – May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018
What I’m listening to:
I’ve always liked Alycia Keys and admired her social activism, but I am hooked on her last album Here. This feels like an album finally commensurate with her anger, activism, hope, and grit. More R&B and Hip Hop than is typical for her, I think this album moves into an echelon inhabited by a Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On or Beyonce’s Formation. Social activism and outrage rarely make great novels, but they often fuel great popular music. Here is a terrific example.
What I’m reading:
Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad may be close to a flawless novel. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer, it chronicles the lives of two runaway slaves, Cora and Caeser, as they try to escape the hell of plantation life in Georgia.  It is an often searing novel and Cora is one of the great heroes of American literature. I would make this mandatory reading in every high school in America, especially in light of the absurd revisionist narratives of “happy and well cared for” slaves. This is a genuinely great novel, one of the best I’ve read, the magical realism and conflating of time periods lifts it to another realm of social commentary, relevance, and a blazing indictment of America’s Original Sin, for which we remain unabsolved.
What I’m watching:
I thought I knew about The Pentagon Papers, but The Post, a real-life political thriller from Steven Spielberg taught me a lot, features some of our greatest actors, and is so timely given the assault on our democratic institutions and with a presidency out of control. It is a reminder that a free and fearless press is a powerful part of our democracy, always among the first targets of despots everywhere. The story revolves around the legendary Post owner and D.C. doyenne, Katharine Graham. I had the opportunity to see her son, Don Graham, right after he saw the film, and he raved about Meryl Streep’s portrayal of his mother. Liked it a lot more than I expected.
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What I’m listening to:
I mentioned John Prine in a recent post and then on the heels of that mention, he has released a new album, The Tree of Forgiveness, his first new album in ten years. Prine is beloved by other singer songwriters and often praised by the inscrutable God that is Bob Dylan.  Indeed, Prine was frequently said to be the “next Bob Dylan” in the early part of his career, though he instead carved out his own respectable career and voice, if never with the dizzying success of Dylan. The new album reflects a man in his 70s, a cancer survivor, who reflects on life and its end, but with the good humor and empathy that are hallmarks of Prine’s music. “When I Get To Heaven” is a rollicking, fun vision of what comes next and a pure delight. A charming, warm, and often terrific album.
What I’m reading:
I recently read Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, on many people’s Top Ten lists for last year and for good reason. It is sprawling, multi-generational, and based in the world of Japanese occupied Korea and then in the Korean immigrant’s world of Oaska, so our key characters become “tweeners,” accepted in neither world. It’s often unspeakably sad, and yet there is resiliency and love. There is also intimacy, despite the time and geographic span of the novel. It’s breathtakingly good and like all good novels, transporting.
What I’m watching:
I adore Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth, and while I’m not sure his Shape of Water is better, it is a worthy follow up to the earlier masterpiece (and more of a commercial success). Lots of critics dislike the film, but I’m okay with a simple retelling of a Beauty and the Beast love story, as predictable as it might be. The acting is terrific, it is visually stunning, and there are layers of pain as well as social and political commentary (the setting is the US during the Cold War) and, no real spoiler here, the real monsters are humans, the military officer who sees over the captured aquatic creature. It is hauntingly beautiful and its depiction of hatred to those who are different or “other” is painfully resonant with the time in which we live. Put this on your “must see” list.
March 18, 2018
What I’m listening to:
Sitting on a plane for hours (and many more to go; geez, Australia is far away) is a great opportunity to listen to new music and to revisit old favorites. This time, it is Lucy Dacus and her album Historians, the new sophomore release from a 22-year old indie artist that writes with relatable, real-life lyrics. Just on a second listen and while she insists this isn’t a break up record (as we know, 50% of all great songs are break up songs), it is full of loss and pain. Worth the listen so far. For the way back machine, it’s John Prine and In Spite of Ourselves (that title track is one of the great love songs of all time), a collection of duets with some of his “favorite girl singers” as he once described them. I have a crush on Iris Dement (for a really righteously angry song try her Wasteland of the Free), but there is also EmmyLou Harris, the incomparable Dolores Keane, and Lucinda Williams. Very different albums, both wonderful.
What I’m reading:
Jane Mayer’s New Yorker piece on Christopher Steele presents little that is new, but she pulls it together in a terrific and coherent whole that is illuminating and troubling at the same time. Not only for what is happening, but for the complicity of the far right in trying to discredit that which should be setting off alarm bells everywhere. Bob Mueller may be the most important defender of the democracy at this time. A must read.
What I’m watching:
Homeland is killing it this season and is prescient, hauntingly so. Russian election interference, a Bannon-style hate radio demagogue, alienated and gun toting militia types, and a president out of control. It’s fabulous, even if it feels awfully close to the evening news. 
March 8, 2018
What I’m listening to:
We have a family challenge to compile our Top 100 songs. It is painful. Only 100? No more than three songs by one artist? Wait, why is M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” on my list? Should it just be The Clash from whom she samples? Can I admit to guilty pleasure songs? Hey, it’s my list and I can put anything I want on it. So I’m listening to the list while I work and the song playing right now is Tom Petty’s “The Wild One, Forever,” a B-side single that was never a hit and that remains my favorite Petty song. Also, “Evangeline” by Los Lobos. It evokes a night many years ago, with friends at Pearl Street in Northampton, MA, when everyone danced well past 1AM in a hot, sweaty, packed club and the band was a revelation. Maybe the best music night of our lives and a reminder that one’s 100 Favorite Songs list is as much about what you were doing and where you were in your life when those songs were playing as it is about the music. It’s not a list. It’s a soundtrack for this journey.
What I’m reading:
Patricia Lockwood’s Priestdaddy was in the NY Times top ten books of 2017 list and it is easy to see why. Lockwood brings remarkable and often surprising imagery, metaphor, and language to her prose memoir and it actually threw me off at first. It then all became clear when someone told me she is a poet. The book is laugh aloud funny, which masks (or makes safer anyway) some pretty dark territory. Anyone who grew up Catholic, whether lapsed or not, will resonate with her story. She can’t resist a bawdy anecdote and her family provides some of the most memorable characters possible, especially her father, her sister, and her mother, who I came to adore. Best thing I’ve read in ages.
What I’m watching:
The Florida Project, a profoundly good movie on so many levels. Start with the central character, six-year old (at the time of the filming) Brooklynn Prince, who owns – I mean really owns – the screen. This is pure acting genius and at that age? Astounding. Almost as astounding is Bria Vinaite, who plays her mother. She was discovered on Instagram and had never acted before this role, which she did with just three weeks of acting lessons. She is utterly convincing and the tension between the child’s absolute wonder and joy in the world with her mother’s struggle to provide, to be a mother, is heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once. Willem Dafoe rightly received an Oscar nomination for his supporting role. This is a terrific movie.
February 12, 2018
What I’m listening to:
So, I have a lot of friends of age (I know you’re thinking 40s, but I just turned 60) who are frozen in whatever era of music they enjoyed in college or maybe even in their thirties. There are lots of times when I reach back into the catalog, since music is one of those really powerful and transporting senses that can take you through time (smell is the other one, though often underappreciated for that power). Hell, I just bought a turntable and now spending time in vintage vinyl shops. But I’m trying to take a lesson from Pat, who revels in new music and can as easily talk about North African rap music and the latest National album as Meet the Beatles, her first ever album. So, I’ve been listening to Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy winning Damn. While it may not be the first thing I’ll reach for on a winter night in Maine, by the fire, I was taken with it. It’s layered, political, and weirdly sensitive and misogynist at the same time, and it feels fresh and authentic and smart at the same time, with music that often pulled me from what I was doing. In short, everything music should do. I’m not a bit cooler for listening to Damn, but when I followed it with Steely Dan, I felt like I was listening to Lawrence Welk. A good sign, I think.
What I’m reading:
I am reading Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Leonardo da Vinci. I’m not usually a reader of biographies, but I’ve always been taken with Leonardo. Isaacson does not disappoint (does he ever?), and his subject is at once more human and accessible and more awe-inspiring in Isaacson’s capable hands. Gay, left-handed, vegetarian, incapable of finishing things, a wonderful conversationalist, kind, and perhaps the most relentlessly curious human being who has ever lived. Like his biographies of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, Isaacson’s project here is to show that genius lives at the intersection of science and art, of rationality and creativity. Highly recommend it.
What I’m watching:
We watched the This Is Us post-Super Bowl episode, the one where Jack finally buys the farm. I really want to hate this show. It is melodramatic and manipulative, with characters that mostly never change or grow, and it hooks me every damn time we watch it. The episode last Sunday was a tear jerker, a double whammy intended to render into a blubbering, tissue-crumbling pathetic mess anyone who has lost a parent or who is a parent. Sterling K. Brown, Ron Cephas Jones, the surprising Mandy Moore, and Milo Ventimiglia are hard not to love and last season’s episode that had only Brown and Cephas going to Memphis was the show at its best (they are by far the two best actors). Last week was the show at its best worst. In other words, I want to hate it, but I love it. If you haven’t seen it, don’t binge watch it. You’ll need therapy and insulin.
January 15, 2018
What I’m listening to:
Drive-By Truckers. Chris Stapleton has me on an unusual (for me) country theme and I discovered these guys to my great delight. They’ve been around, with some 11 albums, but the newest one is fascinating. It’s a deep dive into Southern alienation and the white working-class world often associated with our current president. I admire the willingness to lay bare, in kick ass rock songs, the complexities and pain at work among people we too quickly place into overly simple categories. These guys are brave, bold, and thoughtful as hell, while producing songs I didn’t expect to like, but that I keep playing. And they are coming to NH.
What I’m reading:
A textual analog to Drive-By Truckers by Chris Stapleton in many ways is Tony Horowitz’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning Confederates in the Attic. Ostensibly about the Civil War and the South’s ongoing attachment to it, it is prescient and speaks eloquently to the times in which we live (where every southern state but Virginia voted for President Trump). Often hilarious, it too surfaces complexities and nuance that escape a more recent, and widely acclaimed, book like Hillbilly Elegy. As a Civil War fan, it was also astonishing in many instances, especially when it blows apart long-held “truths” about the war, such as the degree to which Sherman burned down the south (he did not). Like D-B Truckers, Horowitz loves the South and the people he encounters, even as he grapples with its myths of victimhood and exceptionalism (and racism, which may be no more than the racism in the north, but of a different kind). Everyone should read this book and I’m embarrassed I’m so late to it.
What I’m watching:
David Letterman has a new Netflix show called “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” and we watched the first episode, in which Letterman interviewed Barack Obama. It was extraordinary (if you don’t have Netflix, get it just to watch this show); not only because we were reminded of Obama’s smarts, grace, and humanity (and humor), but because we saw a side of Letterman we didn’t know existed. His personal reflections on Selma were raw and powerful, almost painful. He will do five more episodes with “extraordinary individuals” and if they are anything like the first, this might be the very best work of his career and one of the best things on television.
December 22, 2017
What I’m reading:
Just finished Sunjeev Sahota’s Year of the Runaways, a painful inside look at the plight of illegal Indian immigrant workers in Britain. It was shortlisted for 2015 Man Booker Prize and its transporting, often to a dark and painful universe, and it is impossible not to think about the American version of this story and the terrible way we treat the undocumented in our own country, especially now.
What I’m watching:
Season II of The Crown is even better than Season I. Elizabeth’s character is becoming more three-dimensional, the modern world is catching up with tradition-bound Britain, and Cold War politics offer more context and tension than we saw in Season I. Claire Foy, in her last season, is just terrific – one arched eye brow can send a message.
What I’m listening to:
A lot of Christmas music, but needing a break from the schmaltz, I’ve discovered Over the Rhine and their Christmas album, Snow Angels. God, these guys are good.
  November 14, 2017
What I’m watching:
Guiltily, I watch the Patriots play every weekend, often building my schedule and plans around seeing the game. Why the guilt? I don’t know how morally defensible is football anymore, as we now know the severe damage it does to the players. We can’t pretend it’s all okay anymore. Is this our version of late decadent Rome, watching mostly young Black men take a terrible toll on each other for our mere entertainment?
What I’m reading:
Recently finished J.G. Ballard’s 2000 novel Super-Cannes, a powerful depiction of a corporate-tech ex-pat community taken over by a kind of psychopathology, in which all social norms and responsibilities are surrendered to residents of the new world community. Kept thinking about Silicon Valley when reading it. Pretty dark, dystopian view of the modern world and centered around a mass killing, troublingly prescient.
What I’m listening to:
Was never really a Lorde fan, only knowing her catchy (and smarter than you might first guess) pop hit “Royals” from her debut album. But her new album, Melodrama, is terrific and it doesn’t feel quite right to call this “pop.” There is something way more substantial going on with Lorde and I can see why many critics put this album at the top of their Best in 2017 list. Count me in as a huge fan.
  November 3, 2017
What I’m reading: Just finished Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, her breathtakingly good second novel. How is someone so young so wise? Her writing is near perfection and I read the book in two days, setting my alarm for 4:30AM so I could finish it before work.
What I’m watching: We just binge watched season two of Stranger Things and it was worth it just to watch Millie Bobbie Brown, the transcendent young actor who plays Eleven. The series is a delightful mash up of every great eighties horror genre you can imagine and while pretty dark, an absolute joy to watch.
What I’m listening to: I’m not a lover of country music (to say the least), but I love Chris Stapleton. His “The Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning” is heartbreakingly good and reminds me of the old school country that played in my house as a kid. He has a new album and I can’t wait, but his From A Room: Volume 1 is on repeat for now.
  September 26, 2017
What I’m reading:
Just finished George Saunder’s Lincoln in the Bardo. It took me a while to accept its cadence and sheer weirdness, but loved it in the end. A painful meditation on loss and grief, and a genuinely beautiful exploration of the intersection of life and death, the difficulty of letting go of what was, good and bad, and what never came to be.
What I’m watching:
HBO’s The Deuce. Times Square and the beginning of the porn industry in the 1970s, the setting made me wonder if this was really something I’d want to see. But David Simon is the writer and I’d read a menu if he wrote it. It does not disappoint so far and there is nothing prurient about it.
What I’m listening to:
The National’s new album Sleep Well Beast. I love this band. The opening piano notes of the first song, “Nobody Else Will Be There,” seize me & I’m reminded that no one else in music today matches their arrangement & musicianship. I’m adding “Born to Beg,” “Slow Show,” “I Need My Girl,” and “Runaway” to my list of favorite love songs.
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BIG NEWS PEOPLE! Our Will Read For Booze twitter account (formerly Sam’s personal account) is going to be dedicated to the whole blog! So go check us out kthxxxx. While that’s amazing, Sam has to start from scratch on a new account, let’s show her some love huh? Check out her new account TheBooktender_  She’ll love you forever and ever.
Ginny’s Updates:
Busy week, busier weekend. Short summary.
Currently Reading:
Wicked Fox  by Kat Cho: Sam heard good things about this book and picked up a copy at ALA. I’m not super far in but so far I’m enjoying the lore of it. I’m not particularly familiar with Korean lore so it’s interesting to try to pick it up. That being said, I’ve been moving further away from YA so I’m having a little trouble getting into the book. We’ll see how it goes.
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland: It’s been a while since I read something for professional development. I received this book at a training a little while ago and decided to pick it up. This book talks about the best way to run a project. Pretty basic.
Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh: This if the 7th book in the Psy-Changeling series and at this point it should be very clear that I really enjoy this series. I’m a big fan of the various plotlines foiling serial killers. Right now, Dev, the leading of the Shine (an organization protecting children with Psy blood from the full-blooded Psy) has found a Psy woman with amnesia who clearly needs help. Cool.
Finished:
Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi: This was a fun read. The aliens who want to be introduced to the world look like humanity’s worst ideas of what aliens could be; amorphous blobs that speak through potent aromas. I liked the characters in this book, though it’s pretty easy to tell this is one of Scalzi’s early books. Still enjoyable. 3.5/5
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite: Holy shit, this book was delightful. Lucy watches her GF/BFF marry a man and decides to leave. Goes to London to talk to the Countess of Moth about an introduction to the scientific society so that she can write a translation of the seminal astronomy work at her time (she worked as an astronomer with her now-deceased father). Both of these ladies have insecurities but reading them falling in love was wonderful! Watching they ways the worked (or didn’t work through) their problems was a ton of fun, always felt in character, and desperately hurt at times. 5/5
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells: This is the third book in the Murderverse series. Murderbot continues to work their way around the universe, this time going on a mission to an abandoned planet to prove some wrong-doing of their previous owner. They originally hide from the team doing the exploration but obviously that doesn’t go to plan. Watching Murderbot start to realize the various ways they need to change to fit in with society, and the way they want to live is (to steal a word from Sam) precious. 5/5
Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh: The sixth book in the Psy-Changeling series, this is the first book that involves a relationship between two Changelings. Mercy and Riley have crazy chemistry and drive each other crazy; figuratively and literally. They’re also working together to try to deal with a kidnapping attempt that involves both of their packs. The way this world continues to be laid out is magical. I love the way the characters, locations, and political landscape continue to change to adapt to each book. 5/5
Wanted, A Gentleman by K.J. Charles: This is an author I keep seeing mentioned by the people I follow on twitter and now I completely understand it. This book features a freed slave’s complicated relationship with their prior owners teaming up with a seemingly ruthless man who writes basically personal ads to hunt down the daughter of the family of his old owners to save her from a bad elopement. This book is wildly dramatic and yet makes so much sense. 4.5/5
Queen of the Unwanted  by Jenna Glass: This is the sequel to the Women’s War that came out last year. I also received an ARC of this book from NetGalley, and I’d prefer not to say too much but if you read and enjoyed the first book you’re going to enjoy this one. If you want complicated relationships, women in power, and diverse personalities, this book has them all! 5/5
Destiny’s Embrace by Beverly Jenkins: Yup, lots of romance novels this week. Logan Yates is a ranch owner who ends up with Mariah as his housekeeper. She’s been abused by her mother for years and decides she’s not going to let anyone step over her, and goes toe to toe with Logan at every turn. There are some portions of this book that kind of get a side eye mostly because I think a few sentences about posture or something would make them a little more palatable. That being said, this was a lot of fun and a good start to a series. I’m looking forward to the next book 4/5
Linz’s Updates
What Linz read:
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing: Marketed as a cross between Dexter and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, this contemporary novel introduces us to a married suburban couple who keep it spicy with a little bit of murder. I think it was kinda dumb they used Mr. and Mrs. Smith, when there are some good similarities to the Gone Girl genre, but whatever. I’m not mad I read it, but it was … fine?
The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis: sort of fantasy version of Old West Texas, where Good Luck Girls (ie prostitutes) are kept trapped to their welcome houses with cursed tattoos and a really shitty government. I thought the concept was alright, the ending was very good, and I really liked the protagonist, but some of the world-building was clunky and I thought some elements weren’t really explained.
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: I would never have heard of this book if it weren’t for my book club, and I’m kind of pissed about it because it’s REALLY good. Why weren’t more people talking about this 1920s-era mythology-heavy book? I loved the style of writing and the weaving of old and modern worlds, reminded me of American Gods in a better way.
What Linz is currently reading:
Queen of Ruin by Tracy Banghart: The sequel to Grace and Fury that I’ve been itching to get my hot hot hands on. Loved the first installment about two sisters who are forced to switch places in a horribly run patriarchal society.
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire: Had to put this down to knock out some ARC reading by drop dates, but Ginny will probably be happy to know I’m picking it back up so she can have her copy back.
Sam’s Updates
It’s Nats World Series Week so I’m spending my days working through hell and my nights (late nights) watching baseball. I. Are. Tired.
What Sam read this week:
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: This is our book club book for the month. Basically it’s the 1920s-ish in Mexico, and our main character Casiopea accidentally lets the god of death out of prison and he gotta put himself back together before he turns mortal and for a variety of reasons (including potential death herself) Casiopea goes with him. I’m not going to put too many thoughts here because book clube but I will be writing a follow-up drunk review to Minda’s sober one.
Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman: This is the first in a new sci-fi series by our fave Illuminae duo. Tyler has it made, he’s gonna get the #bestsquadever. But then when he’s out practicing space stuff, he finds a ship that has a buncha dead people in cryopods, except one isn’t dead, she’s Aurora. Anyway he ends up with the last of the last crews and may have accidentally witnessed the start of an intergalactic war. So.. that. I’m really really liking the dynamic of the squad, everyone is a little odd and a little broken but they’re starting to get to know each other. We’ll see if my love for them overcomes the pace of the story (slowwww).
A River Of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy: This is a story about a girl named Eva, she’s a princess. She’s gotta compete with her sister for the throne, to the death. But the thing is, she can’t figure out her magic. So she tries real hard to figure it out all while someone is trying to kill her. This book was fine. I sorta figured it out early but I enjoyed it so that’s good I suppose. 3/5 Shots Drunk Review coming.
…And Other Disasters by Malka Older: This is a collection of short stories that are in the world of sci-fi. I loved them all, and that rarely happens with collections like this. Everyone go pre-order it right TF now. 5/5
What I’m currently reading:
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore: So this is a story of a family that always has 5 girls, 5 cousins. The men that spawn these women disappear, so it’s always the women. 5 ladies, 5 mothers, 5 Grandmas (abuelas), when suddenly a boy appears. He has no memories. Guys I know I’m slow going at this but some stuff happened in the book and now I’m v v sad.
Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan: This is the sequel to Girls of Paper and Fire which i didn’t…. love… but also didn’t hate. We’ll see how this goes. I’m predicting a ton of miscommunication between romantic relationships so…
The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin: This is the final installment to the Inheritance trilogy. Seems to be about Sia. Listening on audio so we’ll see how it goes.
Minda’s Updates
No update from Minda this week.
Until next time, we main forever drunkenly yours,
Sam, Ginny, Linz, and Minda
Weekly Wrap Up: Oct 21-27, 2019 Hello! BIG NEWS PEOPLE! Our Will Read For Booze twitter account (formerly Sam's personal account) is going to be dedicated to the whole blog!
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