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Tarnishing James's Image
We saw that Severus tried to make the detentions more unpleasant for Harry to make them sink in more, and that he hinted (mendaciously) that they should be continued the following year. But I think he saw that his fundamental strategy wasn’t working, and that he did come up with something else.
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Home and Deranged, A Parody
Oh, give me a home
Where I'm stuck all alone
And the fears and anxieties prey
Where seldom is heard
An encouraging word
And the skies are now cloudy all day!
Home, home and deranged!
Where the fears and anxieties prey
Where seldom is heard
An encouraging word
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In Defense of Voting for Hillary on Principle
I’ve been thinking long and with a troubled hear about the points raised about Hillary and foreign policy.
Yes, she is more hawkish than I personally am comfortable with. As a long-time peace activist, I have deplored some of her decisions. For example, I was ( Read more... ) -
G. O. P. Grab Our P***
A decade ago, Donald Trump was sixty. And admitting to-bragging about!-being a sex offender. Not just making lewd comments about women he found attractive, and hateful and disparaging ones about ones he did not, but boasting that he regularly physically sexually assaulted women half or a third his age. A dirty old man, bragging he could get away ( Read more... ) -
A pence lie I've not seen called out directly
Another thing Mike Pence lied about last night that I haven’t yet seen called out: His contention that he would never seek to punish a woman for seeking or having an abortion.
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a poem on inspiration
I have been revisiting my much-earlier writing days, and reverting to poetry. Here's the first poem I have written in nearly 30 years:
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Hi, everybody!
Sorry I have been incommunicado! I have a boyfriend as of late January (my first in twenty years), and I'm finding my new relationship rather, er, absorbing. In particular, not only have a lot of my attention and emotional energy been given to him, but I've been emailing him a lot and have started keeping a journal, so issues I had been using ( Read more... ) -
Levicorpus, a Fanfic
Disclaimer: Any reader, I assume, already knows to whom the characters and setting belong. I claim nothing.
AU to canon, and to my fanfic “Liberacorpus.”
Warning for language, and for (non explicit) violence.
Summary: Snape reconsiders a decision that he had previously reached. So does Lily.
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