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wanderlustmagician · 4 months

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Welcome weary intergalactic tumblr travelers to my humble blog amongst space.

I am Wander (or Magi). A simple alien who enjoys writing, learning, and is in general a very excitable dog in a trench coat.

Fun Facts about me can be found at the tag -

#wander facts

I apologize if you came here for my writing and found a lot of shit posts and yelling about food crimes. I use the following tags for;

Shit posts/posts about life: #wandering thoughts

Food related: #food talk

I have several feral cats (mutuals) that I interact with a lot that have their own tags. I did absolutely steal the alliteration thing from Cheeto. No regrets. :D

hotcheetowastaken - #cheeky cheeto

somer-writes - #sassy somer

evablueblanket - #effervescent eva

estelian-01 - #effortless este

marcusdoodlesalot - #marvelous marcus

needfantasticstories - #super skip

There a probably a couple I’m missing but I’ll update this as we go.

I am always open to receiving asks.

Please do not be afraid to send me something. I will be very enthusiastic about answering any questions*. 💛

*unless the ask is rude, cruel, or mean in nature. This is a safe space for fun and silliness. Anything of the prior listed nature (rude, cruel, or mean) will be unanswered and deleted.

As I said before, I do write! I have an AO3 account under the same name -> wanderlustmagician

My current word count there is: 31,020

My goal word count for the end of Feb 2024: 45,000 (69% achieved)

Writing tags:

#wandering pen / #theres an au for that

I currently mostly write and post for Linked Universe (Legend of Zelda). Though I have written for HxH (some works still up under an old user), Tokyo Ghoul, D. Greyman, DC Comics/Batman/Young Justice, Voltron: Legendary Defender, and Akatsuki no Yona/Yona of the Dawn. Some are posted under a different user, some have been taken down due to personal reasons, and some will never see the light of day.

All tags will be listed in the tags on the post

Now that you’ve had a wandering glance me and who I am… Click the Read more to see my current posted works, ongoing writing projects, and future projects.

My Current Series:

Everything but Blood -> Linked Universe Modern AU

Posted Works Count: 2 // Status: Ongoing

Visions of a Calling (Complete)

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, Want to Stop (Complete)

[Stealing Clothes WIP]

[Adopting Imp WIP]

Tags: #lu modern au // #everything but blood

Cataclysmic -> Linked Universe Witch AU

Posted Works Count: 2 // Status: Ongoing

The Truth Begins (Ch 1/?)

Heretic (Complete)

Price of Ignorance (Complete)

Tags: #lu witch au // #cataclysmic

Skyloft Valley -> Linked Universe Stardew Valley AU

Posted Works Count: 1 // Status: Ongoing

Welcome to Korok Town (Complete)

Into the Valley (Year One) (Ch 2/3)

Tags: #lu stardew valley au // #skyloft valley

The Sages Journal -> Linked Universe Atlantis AU

Posted Works Count: 2 // Status: Complete

Lanaryu’s Blessing (Complete)

Path to Thriving (Complete)

Tags: #path to thriving // #lu atlantis au

My Other Posted Works:

Ongoing Works:

Lost & Found (Ch 5/?)

Also known as the big brother Time AU of my Modern AU setting.

Tags: #lost & found // #lu modern au

Potential Upcoming Projects:

A Links Meet series that I’m called Forged. It’s still in the planning stages and I’ve not decided the end of it yet.

All of these will be updated as I make and post content. I have over 300 notes of writing. So there is always something in the works! Drop me an ask or at @ if you’re ever curious.

Thanks for wandering through and sticking around for that bad joke!

Hope to see you wandering into my asks or comments soon! Gotta blast!

#wander facts #wandering thoughts #food talk #wandering pen #there’s an au for that #lu modern au #everything but blood #cataclysmic #lu witch au #lu stardew valley au #Skyloft valley #lost & found #path to thriving #lu atlantis au

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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so-shiny-so-chrome · 5 years

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Witness: KirkyPet

Creator name (AO3): KirkyPet

Creator name (Tumblr): kirkypet

Link to creator works: https://archiveofourown.org/users/KirkyPet/works

Q: Why the Mad Max Fandom?

A: I was actually quite fixated on Fury Road after watching it on DVD. I didn’t expect to particularly like it - I’d never seen the previous Mad Max movies (I finally have!) - but I was transfixed. And I didn’t particularly ship Furiosa and Max until the haemothorax/transfusion scene (although then I very much did). There were just so many layers of detail and backstory there waiting to be explored, because so little was actually said or explained. It’s like a neutron star of fic-fodder. And I didn’t discover ao3 til summer 2016 so I spent a full year wandering around like a lost soul. So, yeah. Quite a huge deal for me really.

Q: What do you think are some defining aspects of your work? Do you have a style? Recurrent themes?

A: Music. Minor characters looking on and commenting on the protagonists (big fan of Thomas Hardy’s more comedic efforts, where this happens a lot). Reasonably happy endings.

Q: Which of your works was the most fun to create? The most difficult? Which is your most popular? Most successful? Your favourite overall?

A: Maybe the small town modern AU (Ordinary People), because it was a nice change from the Wasteland setting. I’m not very Wasteland-minded at all. But the Bladerunner AU (Do Androids Dream etc) and the new Firefly AU are lots of fun because the two sets of movie worlds mesh together way better than I’d expected.

The most difficult? - My Wasteland headcanon stuff. It’s too fluffy and not remotely violent which doesn’t really ring true. I’m very aware that my Furiosa is hardly ever violent, or my Max particularly mad. But that’s the great thing about fanfiction - the infinite versions of characters and scenarios. Surprisingly the Blues Brothers AU is quite tricky. I can’t quite make Jake Blues and Furiosa the same person. But it’s an excuse to listen to great tunes. And Jessie will make a comeback in that one though (she’s not dead, I should make that clear).

On the old kudos-to-hits ratio, the Firefly AU is taking off surprisingly well, but it’s quite smut-focused so that might well account for it ;) early days yet. Bladerunner AU is doing well for a multi-chapter. Up Around The Bend (an oldie, the escape from the Citadel) is hanging in there.

Most successful? I’m happy enough with all of them, except maybe I Kissed A Girl. Please don’t read that. Favourite overall - It’s a toss-up between Ordinary People (a chance to explore my headcanon in a modern small town setting) and the Bladerunner AU (it makes me weep).

Q: How do you like your wasteland? Gritty? Hopeful? Campy? Soft? Why?

A: Hopeful and silly and everyone has access to a record player somehow. This is why I stick to writing AUs these days. But I’ll happily read all of the above!!! And entirely intend to!

Q: Walk us through your creative process from idea to finished product. What's your prefered environment for creating? How do you get through rough patches?

A: Watch a film, browse tumblr, listen to music, get an idea. Have a good think about it, think about it some more, find a starting point, write it down, go from there. Maybe stick a draft on tumblr if I’m not sure if it’s going to fly. Write it anyway.

For OCs, figure out what someone looks like. That’s weirdly essential for me. Zal (Furiosa’s Dad) is Ed Harris, Young Val (Furiosa and Max’s grownup daughter) is Alicia Vikander and Toots (rescued-kid-turned-Wasteland-son-in-law) is Didier Drogba (bit of a blast from the past but hey). I was getting nowhere with Blues Mothers Jessie until I recast her as Sofia Boutella (because if Max is getting a generational update, she needs one too). And Firefly AU’s Mister Jobassa is Jakob Oftebro. All very pretty people, but what are you gonna do? But they’re only these people in MY head - they can be whoever the reader wants them to be. Oh, and Pin from Ordinary People was 100% an actual real tour guide I met on holiday once.

Preferred environment? Usually while half asleep in bed, or walking, or In the gym, or watching tv - world building seems to be something that happens away from the keyboard. Writing itself is exclusively on my phone so can and does happen anywhere at all. Rough patches are usually caused by guilt that I’m not spending enough time on the day job :P

Q: What (if any) music do you listen to for help getting those creative juices flowing?

A: I listen to music all the time anyway, mainly upbeat pre-90s tunes. Disco, funk, ska, motown, anything like that. And it always find its way into the writing. Sometimes artificially (where I’m on a song-lyrics-as-title theme - it took ages for some of the Wasteland fics) but most times it can help shape the story in a BIG way. I can’t listen to certain songs now without reliving a chapter or a whole fic - Dionne Warwick’s Do You Know The Way To San José is Bladerunner!Furiosa’s Green Place song, and Ash’s Angel Interceptor is StarTrek!Max’s flying music - it’s noisy enough but also speaks to me about a longing to not be alone in the universe. Concrete and Clay is smalltown!Max’s bittersweet lament for Jessie and Twistin’ The Night Away is the final party scene in Cheedo’s update of The Rivals. Some fics wouldn’t have been written at all if it wasn’t for a particular song. The Black Keys’ Heavy Soul was my original Wasteland Furiosa/Max ship theme back in 2015, before I’d even heard of ao3 - that’s the closest I’ve come to a song fic. Caleb was only Caleb because of a line in Symarip’s Skinhead Moonstomp, and I was so desperate to write a fic with Leo Sayer’s You Make Me Feel Like Dancing In it that it was the final excuse for a whole modern mirrorverse to my Wasteland headcanon series. Bet you’re sorry you asked now. But I’ll have to go and put together a Kirkyverse OST list.

Q: What is your biggest challenge as a creator?

A: To put the damn thing down and walk away. To not assume it’s awful if I don’t get a kudos in the first thirty hits. Thumb cramp from phone-typing.

Q: How have you grown as a creator through your participation in the Mad Max Fandom? How has your work changed? Have you learned anything about yourself?

A: I didn’t write at all before the Mad Max fandom. Apart from a ghost story when I was about seven (it did win a prize tbh) and a truly god awful Stephen King rip-off when I was fourteen (which makes me nauseous from embarrassment when I think of it). So a fair bit, it’d probably be fair to say. It would be impossible not to, you know, from zero :) My work has changed from spinoffs of inspirational fics (thanks Squid!) to ‘well, I suppose I’ve got a head canon, let’s see if I can make this work’ to ‘goddammit I’ll finish this if it kills me’. Then I missed my exit on the Roundabout of Fic Endings and had to go round again in a modern AU mirror verse. Now it’s all movie mashups, which is lots of fun and probably never-ending. During which time I have learned that crossovers are my favourite to write. And that writing fanfic is probably not a temporary fad :)

Q: Which character do you relate to the most, and how does that affect your approach to that character? Is someone else your favourite to portray? How has your understanding of these characters grown through portraying them?

A: I don’t really have a favourite tbh. They’re all their own people and do their own thing. Writing them is very dependent on their environment, and it’s often surprising how they behave and where they end up. It feels a bit like they’re on Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Q: Do you ever self-insert, even accidentally?

A: Hah yes. The first one was Zephyr the annoying visitor in Witches and Ogres. Young Val’s social awkwardness in As was very much on loan from me.

Q: Do you have any favourite relationships to portray? What interests you about them?Furiosa and Max are pretty much always there - sometimes it’s probably platonic, and sometimes there’s a third person involved (nothing posted yet but but but). It depends on the fic.

Q: Do you prefer to create in one defined chronology or do your works stand alone? Why or why not?

A: One big long chronology for the headcanon series (childhood to old age), then a whole bunch of little universes for everything else.

Q: To break or not to break canon? Why?

A: Not to break, as much as I can. But it depends.

Q: Share some headcanons.

A: Furiosa was never actually a wife - she was captured but dodged the whole Vault experience. Max is the original Max, of Jessie and Sprog fame. Toecutter was Joe’s younger self - he scooted around on motorbikes and raised hell before deciding to settle down and take the Citadel. AU Toast and Dag are twins (from a shady mob family). Furiosa’s Dad is a friendly Wasteland bandit.

Q: If you work with OCs walk us through your process for creating them. Who are some of your favourites?

A: They’re supplementary characters who make the plots fit together, and sources of conflict or humour (usually both). I think I like Ordinary People’s Alexa and Mallory best. Although the Irish War Boy crew in Beyond the Pale were fun to write. Ace’s trio of love interests (Brick, Big Dave and Caleb/Pin) are a consistent theme. Sometimes I steal characters from other sources (stand up Christopher Brookmyre) when it’s convenient.

Q: What sparks your many wonderful AUs?

A: Movies, tv, gifs, tumblr prompts and general chitchat (thankyou btw!!!)

Q: A lot of your fics are light-hearted and hopeful, which is great to see for the apocalyptic Mad Max world. Your thoughts on that? What is it about the characters that inspires you to reframe them?

A: I just really like comedy and am committed to winkling it into every fictional scenario whether it’s appropriate or not. Glad people don’t hate it!

Q: Who are some works by other creators inside and outside of the fandom that have influenced your work?

A: Well, it was Squid’s ( @sacrificethemtothesquid )Length and Breadth of Fury Road that got me out of the starting blocks! Christopher Brookmyre’s The Sacred Art of Stealing was a big influence on my headcanon series, as was a particular Coronation Street storyline from some years back :)

Q: Tell us about a current WIP or planned project.

A: Blues Brothers AU series (Sweet Home Chicago) -Wasteland Star Trek First Contact AU (Angel Interceptor) -Firefly AU (Our Mister Jobassa) -His Dark Materials AU (unnamed as yet, just brewing in my head, hope it just stays there for the meantime) -Will combine all the headcanon works into one long fic sometime. That’s everything from Witches and Ogres through to Ordinary People. Probably be called ‘All the Things that I’ve Done’ (basically the two lives of Furiosa: Wasteland and mirrorverse).

Thank you @kirkypet

#Mad Max Fandom Creator Spotlight #Mad Max Fandom Spotlight #mad max fanfic #mad max fanfic author spotlight #fury road fandom #fury road fanfic #kirkypet

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faintheartless · 7 years

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Part II of Witchy Activities!

Considering how popular the original ‘Witchy Activities!’ was (honestly, you guys thank you <3) I thought I’d make a part two, however this one will be a lil’ more focused on crafting and things to make which could be incorporated into your practise, or just for witchy fun! You can find the original witchy activities here ! Please let me know if any of the links are broken or otherwise unsuitable!

Make a pentacle wreath! As an altar decoration or for home protection?

Perform a spell to save the bees, or other causes you feel strongly about! Or if you include deity in your craft, a cause related to them?

Make your own incense, extracts or candles. Use correspondences for later use in spells and rituals?

Bake your own moon cookies for the Esbats

Craft a Goddess Pendant as an altar decoration, necklace or amulet?

Make sea shell candles, for a ritual bath or water altar? Or maybe to honour a sea deity or for use in ritual?

Learn the mythology of pantheons that interest you and rewrite your favourite tale! As a children’s book to inspire budding lil’ witches or as a devotional act to your own deities? (I got this idea from another witch on Tumblr but have forgotten who so if you know, please tell me!)

Make Elemental Jars as seen here or stay tuned for when I post my own version which I’ll eventually link here ! To represent the quarters when circle casting?

Take a ritual bath with your own bath recipes ! Before a spell or just as a way of practising on its own!

Talking of spells, why not just practise spell writing for later use? Or write silly spells just for the fun of it to get you feeling witchy, like one to see a cat on your next outing that’s up for strokes or something like that! Or ask on Tumblr if anyone wants to request a written spell from you!

If you’re into Tarot or Oracle reading, why not try and challenge yourself to designing your own deck?

Or if you prefer using pendulums for divination make your own (here is a link on how to wire wrap a crystal) or a board for it!

Make your own teas because there’s certainly witchy potential in that! Correspond your ingredients to your intent?

Spells to protect loved ones, familiars, friends and relatives are always good!

Make sigils for future use! Or take requests from Tumblr users? Or make ones to gift or help friends!

Put up your wards, witch!

If you like using emoji spells, as I know some witches do, write some and post them! You might find them useful in the future or at least another witch will be grateful!

If you’re feeling artsy why not partake in the Witchsona Week or the Witchy Art Challenge !

If you’d like, open your inbox for people to request readings from your favourite divination technique whether it be Tarot, pendulum, oracle etc

Seasonal jam making! Perfect as gifts or to treat yourself and it makes you aware of what fruits are ripening as the wheel of the year shifts! You could even find the fruit wild although make sure you know your area’s laws on the matter and you’re sure of what you’re picking!

#witchy ideas #witchy things to do #witchcraft #witch #witches #witchy activities

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perception-6 · 7 years

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This book blog has no book posts. Let’s amend that!

I give you, Heir of Fire. Rating: 4/5

Heir of Fire is the third book in Sarah J Maa-

Oh. Right. Forgot what platform this is on.

Heir of Fire came out right around the time I was becoming aware of the presence of bookish communities on the Internet. 2014 (as far as I can tell) was the year when this series freaking BLEW UP on social media, and HoF was the book that really stoked the young Throne of Glass fandom. So, for me, finally reading this book close to three years after seeing it everywhere in my first explorations of Booktube (And trust me, my first encounter with Booklr a year later got the point across that the love for these books was still going strong) was sort of surreal.

In all honesty, HoF was almost… well, disappointing. I should clarify that I rated Throne of Glass 4.5/5, both times that I read it, and that I gave The Assassin’s Blade and Crown of Midnight a solid 5 stars each. If it feels like I put too much fire (hahAHAHAHA I hate myself so much) on this book, that’s partly because it fell flat in comparison to its predecessors; but, all things considered, this book was pretty great and I definitely recommend giving it a shot if you’ve come this far in the series.

(Mostly thematic but some specific spoilers from this point onward!)

Heir of Fire follows four main storylines through four different characters: Celaena, Dorian, Chaol, and the new one, Manon Blackbeak. One of the most jarring parts of HoF was that only half the book, if that, was set in the city of Rifthold, which was the stage for the other SJM books that I read, except the first half of Assassin’s Blade. By itself, this doesn’t mean much (Lord knows I wasn’t particularly attached to Rifthold), but the shift comes with a greater shift in the nature of the plot that took some getting used to. THIS WAS NOT A BAD CHANGE. I LIKED THE DIRECTION THE STORY IS TAKING I SWEAR. But, it made getting into the story that much harder because I wasn’t expecting it to be so different.

Chaol and Dorian keep on keeping on with regards to finding some of their Magic Answers, and it was beautiful to see them make up (apparently they were still hostile at the end of CoM?). I did find their plotlines more or less interesting, though the only major changes until the end were the subtraction of Celaena and the introduction of new characters.

Sorscha was cute, her relationship with Dorian sweet, and the revelation of her treachery was actually pretty surprising and made me like her character even more. I had a feeling she wouldn’t make it to the end though- I was SURE Tumblr would’ve talked about her more if she was in more than one book.

As for Aedion, he wasn’t at all what I was expecting, either in position or in character- For one thing, he’s a general in the army of the King of Adarlan, when I thought he was in some royal position in Terrasen, while still being ruled over by the King. For another, he’s not nearly so clear-cut and chivalrous as I once believed, though after he reveals his intentions to Chaol it’s clear that he would do anything for his cousin. Yay for unconditional loyalty! I was actually pretty nervous for Aedion’s fate in the end of the book, but it looks like I’ll be able to see that reunion I was wondering about in future books.

Celaena’s plotline takes predominance in Heir of Fire, which makes sense; I really wasn’t expecting any sort of real contact with the other continent, which seemed to me like the land beyond the sea in Lord of the Rings- more dream than reality, anyone who goes is leaving the story (remember that healer in Assassin’s Blade? I miss her. (ALSO REMEMBER ANSEL?? I SAW THAT, SARAH, AND MY ANSWER IS VERY YES)). Wendlyn is a total game changer because, unlike in Adarlan, magic is still very much present and usable, and the Fae and Demifae inhabitants are very magical in nature. Was I excited to explore the magic that the other three books danced around? Of course! At the same time, I was very aware that the introduction of magic meant that this was no longer just a human story.

All of the story emphasis up to this point has been placed on the characters, not the magic. Throne of Glass,_ The Assassin’s Blade_, and Crown of Midnight each did a spectacular job exploring human struggles like grief, fear and tyranny. This may be silly, but I’ll always be a bit nostalgic for the days when the main problems were death by human methods. Which I realize makes no sense because Chaol, Dorian, and Celaena opened a portal into the Wyrd after almost being killed by a human twisted and mutated by magic. And I realize that magic can definitely be a plot mechanism that fuels human characteristics like Celaena’s identity or The Kings’ and Arobynn’s hunger for power. Still, I feel like the change of setting and introduction of magic make the world of this story larger, and more complex (But, I mean, it was large and complex to begin with. Am I making sense at this point? Probably not.).

In a less silly way, the introduction of magic took away from the plot in part because time was needed to introduce the rules and systems of practicing magic, and build up Celaena as a competent user of magic, both of which could barely be played around with in magic-barren Adarlan. I was less interested in Celaena’s plotline in HoF because so much of it felt like a prolonged daily training story- which is fine, but a bit slow after the fast-paced love affairs and killing sprees of the last three books. Ironically, training in magic brings so much more focus onto Celaena as a character because of how it forces her to look introspectively. Given how shielded Aelin can be, even to herself, finally seeing her acknowledge the early parts of her life and seeing a full-ish view of her past was satisfying.

Rowan was also a nice addition to the story, but once again I was wary of setting high expectations for an element of the story that Tumblr had hyped up to the extreme. All things considered, Rowan resonated well with me, almost to the point that I’d be into a romantic relationship between them, even if I’m not sold on it yet (because I mean, it’s not guaranteed to happen, is it? oh wait). Wherever Rowaelin goes, I have to say that as of this book, Rowan has something over Dorian, Chaol, and even Sam (sorry, bro.): Rowan has seen it all. Or at least, closer to all than the others ever got. He’s been with her through her revisiting the deaths of her parents, her time in Endovier, Nehemia, LITERALLY ANYTHING PRE-AROBYNN. Dorian never got anything of the sort (as far as I can remember), Arobynn forced her hand by taunting Sam with her past (after which Celaena still wasn’t willing to say anything to him), and she only gave Chaol a vague hint after their relationship was over and she was about to leave Erilea for a long time. Even if it isn’t romantic yet, Rowan and Celaena have developed a strong sense of trust (on the deepest levels) that’s unique among her relationships so far. That’s really nice to see.

Now. Let’s. Talk. About. MANON FUCKING BLACKBEAK. THIS QUEEN. THIS AMAZING STORYLINE. Manon intrigued me from the start (again, thank you Tumblr for giving me presuppositions of various characters in books 3-5), and she sure as hell didn’t disappoint when I got to know her more. The witches were kind of a blank space so far in the story (ANSEL WHERE ARE YOU), and learning a little more about their backstory, history, and characteristics was very satisfying. As for Manon herself, I am (as usual) a sucker for female badass villains (Is Manon a villain though? Not that it matters. She’s abrasive, she doesn’t take crap, and she’s aware of the empathy within herself, and she’s conflicted, and well-rounded, and I love it). Manon and Abraxos are the ultimate OTP of this book, since most of the other romances are dulled down for now. Sorry, Sorian. But. Animal bonds. Trump. All things. If anyone reading this has also read_ The Scorpio Races_, by Maggie Stiefvater, that’s the kind of sentiment towards fantastical animals that I love to see in books, and Heir of Fire captures it perfectly.

Anything else? Oh, yeah, Arobynn’s probably back next book. Which I have a feeling about, but I’m not sure how… pulls our Tumblr-English dictionary let’s see…. My… Son? MY SON. Yes.

Overall, even though it wasn’t as awe-inspiring as the other Maas books I’ve read, Heir of Fire had a very distinct flavor; it truly stood out from the other books, and I swear I mean that in a good way. As I got further into the book, I kept finding that I when I wasn’t reading, I actually wanted to read it. I’ve been in a pretty aggressive reading slump for the past few months, so finding that feeling in any capacity was nice. Even typing out this review now, over a week after finishing the book, that same addictive quality is creeping back into my mind. Part of how you should judge a book is how often you think about it once it finishes it. By that standard, Maas has never had much trouble with me.

I really need to stop waiting so long between these books.

#Heir of fire #throne of glass #crown of midnight #sarah J maas #aelin ashryver #aedion ashryver #celaena sardothien #chaol westfall #dorian havilliard #rowan whitethorn #manon blackbeak #the thirteen #booklr #book review

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