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  • It's every girl's dream to discover she's extraordinary, except when it isn't. Margarette Anne Maynard, as many a well-born lady, had absolutely no designs on greatness or adventure. She intended to finish her schooling, get married, and spend the rest of her days shamelessly criticizing her husband along with all the other lady's of the court whilst she awaited the summer season and with it her annual trips to Paris. Very few people inherit the lives they expect in their youth though, and in this (as in most other respects) Ms. Maynard was completely unexceptional.
  • Her chest heaved and plunged as air rushed to her burning lungs. She’d never run so far in her life, but then again, she’d never had to. Alicia’s head spun as she tried to still her ragged breaths. Her legs fell from beneath her as she crumpled onto the cold, marble floor.
mar 10 2011 ∞
feb 11 2015 +
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  • under floorboards
  • between the pages of old books
  • in strangers wisdom
  • beneath pillows
  • inside hollow trees
  • deep within caves
  • in old houses
  • or plain sight
  • under water
  • in wanton hearts
mar 25 2011 ∞
mar 25 2011 +
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  • avoid eye-contact
  • bite their lips
  • blush ferociously
  • converse with their converse
  • cough or yawn
  • cringe inwardly
  • hide their face
  • hope to die
  • lie
  • look ceaselessly around the room
  • play with their hair
  • pretend they're on the phone
  • pretend they're waiting for someone
  • run away
  • touch their faces
  • try to blend in and become invisible
apr 12 2011 ∞
apr 13 2011 +
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  • ancient rome
  • the russian empire
  • nordic invasions
  • egypt in the 1920s
  • america in the 1920s
  • the tardis
  • turn of the 20th century
  • the future
  • victorian era
feb 22 2011 ∞
feb 25 2011 +
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  • Adonis and Venus
  • The Doctor and Rose
  • Heathcliff and Catherine
  • Hero and Leander
  • Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater
  • John Keats and Fanny Brawne
  • Lancelot and Guinevere
  • Mark Antony and Cleopatra
  • Odysseus and Penelope
  • Orpheus and Eurydice
  • Paolo and Francesca
  • Paris and Helena
  • Pyramus and Thisbe
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Salim and Anarkali
  • Tom Lefroy and Jane Austen
  • Tristan and Isolde
  • Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan
apr 14 2011 ∞
jun 8 2011 +
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  • handwritten letters
  • feather quills
  • first kisses
  • moonshone walks
  • wanderlust
  • a dress that fits just right
  • lukewarm tea in the morning
  • finding friends you didn't know you needed
  • late night swims
  • being home alone on a sunlit afternoon
  • sighs that lay hidden between the pages of a good book
  • the stardust we're made of
  • fresh strawberries
  • aurora borealis
mar 7 2011 ∞
mar 25 2011 +
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proper name ⇨ common name

  • Adam ⇨ Adam
  • Aiden ⇨ Dean
  • Albert ⇨ Al
  • Alexander ⇨ Alex
  • Benjamin ⇨ Ben
  • Bradley ⇨ Brad
  • Brian ⇨ Brian
  • Brice ⇨ Brice
  • Charles ⇨ Chuck
  • Christoph ⇨ Chris
  • Colton ⇨ Cole
  • Conner ⇨ Conner
  • Daniel ⇨ Danny
  • Darien ⇨ Darien
  • Desmond ⇨ Desmond
  • Devon ⇨ Devon
  • Dimitri ⇨ Dimitri
  • Donald ⇨ Donnie
  • Elliot ⇨ Leo
  • Eric ⇨ Eric
jan 24 2014 ∞
jan 24 2014 +
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  • beneath your bed-sheets
  • in the leaves of a majestic oak tree
  • the midst of a masquerades
  • the pages of a book
  • the room of requirement
  • revolving walls and bookcases
  • under the stars
  • where old films flicker on silver screens
  • with good music
apr 12 2012 ∞
apr 14 2012 +
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"and plunging down forgot in cruel happiness that even lovers drown." - w.b.yeats

part one: where the fairies often roam

  • come little children, erutan
  • l'il red riding hood, amanda seyfried
  • holding out for a hero, ella mae bowen
  • the red shoes, kate bush
  • fairytale, sara bareilles
  • happily ever after, he is we
  • red, martha tilston
  • alice (underground), avril lavigne
  • airplanes/brick by boring brick, justin robinett
  • all about us, he is we
  • white rabbit, jefferson airplane
  • my jolly sailor bold, whitelion

8trk...

jan 23 2014 ∞
jan 24 2014 +
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  • sleep to travel to a world beyond measure
  • sleep to assuage the aches and pains
  • sleep to rest your weary eyes
  • sleep to avoid responsibility
  • sleep to flee despondency
  • sleep to forget worries and grief
  • sleep to hide from the bitter chill
  • sleep to imagine yourself whole and safe
  • sleep to find yourself lovely and full of grace
jan 25 2014 ∞
jan 25 2014 +
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  • banshee | a female wraith whose keening foretells the pending death of a person in the household, tied to a person or family similar to an attendant fairy. she doesn't cause a person's death though. the banshee is seen as a young, fair woman, having long, unbound hair, and dressed in white, though, sometimes she is seen dressed in a gray cloak over a green dress. because of continuous weeping, her eyes are always red.
  • bean nighe | a relation of the banshee, the bean nighe is the spirit of a woman who died in childbirth, condemned to wash blood the shrouds of the soon-to-be-dead until the time at which these creatures would have died of old age themselves. the spirit has one nostril, one long fang, sagging breasts, and webbed feet. if you’re brave enough to steal a suck off her breast, you can claim status as her foster child, an...
mar 28 2011 ∞
oct 16 2012 +
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  • alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll:
    • alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures of conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
  • the bell jar by silvia plath:
    • it was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in new york. I'm stupid about executions. the idea of being electrocuted makes me sick, and that's all there was to read about in the papers-- goggle-eyed headlines staring up at me on every street corner and at the fusty, peanut smelling mouth of every subw...
oct 25 2012 ∞
jan 23 2014 +
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on pages

  • Aragorn
  • Fitzwilliam Darcy
  • Tyler Durden
  • The Hatter
  • Peter Pan
  • Eric Northman
  • Fred Weasley

on screens

  • Michael Corvin
  • The Doctor
  • Daniel Jackson
  • Henry Walton Jones, Jr.
  • Anakin Skywalker
  • Jack Sparrow
  • Tony Stark
  • Angus MacGyver
  • Jess Mariano
  • Marty McFly
  • Patrick Verona
apr 12 2012 ∞
aug 25 2012 +
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  • old, mysterious houses
  • dreams
  • memories
  • alternate dimensions
  • the seaside
  • a wake
  • empty homes
  • garden soirees
  • libraries
  • forests
  • tragic childhoods
  • under the sea
feb 22 2011 ∞
feb 25 2011 +
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  • cry to relieve anxiety
  • cry to dispel your apathy
  • cry at the change of seasons
  • cry to honor the dead
  • cry to morn your losses
  • cry to celebrate endings
  • cry to assuage your fear
  • cry at the horrors of illness
  • cry to pass the lonely nights
  • cry to respect well-written words
jan 23 2014 ∞
jan 23 2014 +
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  • being mistaken for a flower
  • the boy in the woods
  • the identical "cousins" who were demigods
  • the pirate king
  • one child, born twice, who saved the world
  • finding a new world where lies become truth
  • the boy locked in that wicked, living house
  • the dead-girl, murder mystery
  • the goddess who saved the drug-addict in her dreams
  • time traveling boys mistaking me for the hero of this story
  • the group of artifact smugglers and the british bastard
  • the bloodmage
  • trading eternal servitude to vampires for a little girl's life
jun 9 2011 ∞
nov 1 2012 +
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  • 221b baker street
  • a galaxy far, far away
  • an old, new, borrowed, and blue box
  • down rabbit holes and through looking glasses
  • hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry
  • in a world where users rule
  • the second star to the right
  • under the sea
  • where no man has gone before
  • wherever wild things are
  • worlds that begin where wardrobes end
apr 14 2012 ∞
jun 16 2012 +
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  • alice in wonderland, lewis carroll
  • bluebeard, charles perrault
  • the book of genesis, bible
  • cupid and psyche, mythology
  • the chamber of secrets, j.k. rowling
  • dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, robert louis stevenson
  • middlemarch, george eliot
  • pandora's box, mythology
  • peter pan, j.m. barrie
apr 13 2011 ∞
aug 25 2012 +
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  • across the sea
  • under the stars
  • old museums
  • libraries
  • safe in bed
  • the airport
  • cinemas
  • in a lover's arms
  • long walks on a warm afternoon
mar 25 2011 ∞
mar 25 2011 +
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  • through the looking glass, lewis carroll
  • the night i disappeared, julie reece deaver
  • mythology, edith hamilton
  • why i let my hair grow out, maryrose wood
  • the bell jar, sylvia plath
  • fight club, chuck palahniuk
  • sunshine, robin mckinley
  • the collected works of, edgar allen poe
feb 23 2011 ∞
jul 21 2011 +
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proper name ⇨ common name

  • Abigale ⇨ Abby
  • Alexandra ⇨ Alexis (Lexi)
  • Alicia ⇨ Alice
  • Alyssum ⇨ Lyssa
  • Anastasia ⇨ Anya
  • Annabel ⇨ Anne
  • Annette ⇨ Anne
  • Breanne ⇨ Bre
  • Callista ⇨ Calli
  • Cassandra ⇨ Sandy
  • Charlotte ⇨ Charlie (Lottie)
  • Chloé ⇨ Chloé
  • Diana ⇨ Di (Anne)
  • Elizabeth ⇨ Lisa
  • Emilia (Amelia) ⇨ Emily (Amy)
  • Eveline ⇨ Eve
  • Helena ⇨ Ellen
  • Jocelyn ⇨ Jo
  • Katarina ⇨ Katya (Kaylee)
  • Lauren ⇨ Laura
feb 23 2011 ∞
jan 24 2014 +