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Real talk: IDK what inspired me the other day to pick up my battered old copy of Sherwood Smith’s Crown Duel, but I did! That was a thing that happened! And I was suddenly hit by all my old-school, preteen Feelings™ for the scrappy main character, Mel, and her ill-conceived rebellion, aaaaaand her “~adversary~,” the Marquis of Shevraeth, with his awesome reputation as a “pleasure-seeking wastrel courtier,” when he’s really this baller soldier dude, all inscrutable and hard-to-read and shit. IT’S GREAT.

Obvious next step was photoshop and Hot People’s Faces. This Is A Blog You Follow. The End.