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There is a Lhazareen saying: ‘No rain without thunder, no child without pangs.’
One week before Queen Aemma’s due date, a slave who speaks the bastard tongue of old Valyria is brought to King’s Landing with a prophecy and a wish. One that foretells the Queen's death in childbirth, and a wish to deliver her child safely. This is the story of a modern midwife in Westeros.
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20 Jun 2026
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A Mandalorian and an EduCorps Historian walk into a bar. The Mandalorian starts a fight. The Historian starts a lesson.
The conversation starts a realization, a reckoning, and a revolution.
(Please read the tags before reading. This gets Heavy before it gets better.)
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22 May 2026
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Sand Dollar Child by withay for 60sec400
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
16 Sep 2022
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There's far too much divinity in Percy Jackson. It oozes from him, to the point where he's sometimes mistaken for Poseidon. Percy doesn't know this yet. All he knows is that this nereid is asking to borrow five drachmas.
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19 Mar 2026
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“‘Mudblood’ is no mere insult, Professor - no ’mere word’. It is a threat of violence, and I have the right to defend myself.”
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When Hermione Granger was eight years old, she set a boy on fire for vandalizing her treasured copy of Discours sur le Colonialisme.
OR: Scenes from the early life of Britain's least expected -and most radical- Dark Lady.
(In which the Wizarding World casts the first sparks of its reckoning.)
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04 Mar 2026
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Not to be lost. For ENDLESS rereading.
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Petunia remembered magic. Being young and making things happen--strange things, impossible things--and then the pain when that man took it all away, locked it inside her.
She doesn't get it back until Lily's started Hogwarts already and by then she's old enough to decide she wants to keep her own magic a secret.
She didn't know that this would ultimately lead her on a quest to raise her nephew and defeat an evil megalomaniac calling himself Voldemort.
But, well, here she is. She will do whatever it takes to keep her nephew safe.
And hey, if she gets a pseudo father, rescues a convict, makes friends, becomes an almost permanent babysitter to two additional children, and writes books along the way, then that's a definite bonus.- Language:
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22 Feb 2026