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twilight is the part of the day where your eyes stop working good and you can't discern anything on the ground because the sky is too bright to let them properly adjust to the shadow. that's twilight

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do authors even know, like. what twilight is

whew we are having a time tonight in romance novel land

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THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 2018

FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE FORMATION OF LED ZEPPELIN

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« Cain Black was a local celebrity, a rock star who lived in Crystal Lake when he wasn’t touring the world with his band, BlackRock. » i’m sorry is this really the best you can do

i’m sorry, Cain?? the biblical figure who murdered his brother, who was used by American Protestants to justify slavery?? Cain Black??

BlackRock???

« He was a younger version of Springsteen with a dash of Led Zeppelin thrown in. » i’m sorry who??

also this author knows absolutely nothing about any of the types of people they write about, so there’s that

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it's just so…… conceited

my advice as an author is to have ONE conceit. one is plenty. you don't need three

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i'm back, kids

back to reading this romance paperback which is at least better than that other romance paperback even if i kind of hate it

« On the front cover of the Spanish edition, Harry is holding the sword and looking at the Basilisk, but looking into a Basilisk's eye's is fatal, so, technically, Harry should be dead on the Spanish front cover. »

« Much is made of Hagrid's innocence of attacking Muggle-borns, both from his time as a student and when he was taken to Azkaban as a precaution, but there were several offences that he should in fact have been charged with and wasn't, such as keeping a dragon as a pet, endangering students with some of the creatures in his class and breeding the Blast-Ended Skrewts. »

« Although there is no exact number it is likely that most of the people in the battle saw someone die. »

« Delphi's is considered a highly controversial addition to the canon by select fans due to a commonly held belief that Voldemort would not have been able to conceive a child due to him possibly being sterile as a result of his soul being split so far » is this a Catholic thing or

JK Rowling invented “runic numbers” (??) based on animals (???) for harry potter and the names of the runes are

0. Demiguise
1. Unicorn
2. Graphorn
3. Runespoor
4. Fwooper
5. Quintaped
6. Salamander
7. Unknown
8. Acromantula
9. Hydra

like half of those are just knockoff pokémon names come on

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there’s a lot we can all agree upon regarding the harry potter franchise but i hope that foremost among them is that the names were bad

i also think the united states is too big but the problem is that most of the people who have wanted to break it up have been racists

maybe then i could actually learn something on this webbed site

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just post the literal things, there’s a ton and you don’t need to fake them

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sometimes i don’t understand bots, like, why would you markov that, the source is way more interesting

this is right up with there with “hope i haven’t used gosh or jeez” because there isn’t christianity in pokémon

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i can’t ⁜really⁜ get mad at Galar fics given its treatment in the anime but even so, sometimes repeated overt americanisms just get grating

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