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@MissSnarkerson It's OK. I just got off the phone with the head of the English department, and the superintendent had shot down her proposal after reading a bit and seeing this line:

"The slight smile on her lips and the mischief sparkling in her eyes suggested to Saul that Elisabeth Bathory wasn't the sort of woman a man brought home to meet his mother. She was the sort of woman a man begged for a collar."

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@starbreaker @MissSnarkerson@octodon.social I was secretly hoping for some Poppy Z. Brite level stuff.

@stuarttempleton @MissSnarkerson That passage was from chapter 2. I've got angry wizard sex in chapter 22.

@starbreaker @MissSnarkerson @stuarttempleton Entirely too late for #angrywizardsex. All the best (and by best I mean mine) literary theories prove that squares have already become inured to the freak by chapter 13, so the people who most need angry wizard sex won't be in a receptive head space by then.

@DaveHiggins @stuarttempleton @MissSnarkerson Yeah, but it wasn't relevant to plot or characterization until chapter 22, so there. :)