Notes

This chapter- wow. It was brilliant, razor sharp, evocative writing, a total dream to read.
I'm a little pressed for time right now (writing this at lunch hour before a meeting), so I'll just make some quickish notes- I still couldn't not review this.

-Eternal love to the way you write your characters. They're so complicated and dynamic, and full of contradictions. Clemence strikes me as someone who's so self aware and delusional at the same time, knowing she's not in love but trying to convince herself that this is it, and I think everyone's been a bit like that at some point in their lives.
-A+ subversion of that ice queen cynic trope, by the way. You are chewing up and spitting out fairy tales and the traditional storytelling structure, the way we are supposed to view heroines and love stories, and I love you for it.
-Random note: Clemence also reminds me of Halsey's "Badlands" album.
-Dom and Rose! Romance/shipping, girl power/#squadgoals as a tool for power...they're so whip smart in the way publicists for celebrities know how to cultivate their public image and attract fan interest using these techniques and I love them for it.
-Scorpius is a cinnamon roll. A cupcake, one may even say ;)
-The Clemence/Appy dynamic is one of the most interesting character relationships I've ever read. There's something so potent about it. One could argue, I think, that they're the primary relationship in etc.- much of the fic is about their (perceived) differences, similarities, adopting of tropes to set themselves apart from the other, their struggle for power. That war for dominance, that kiss. I kind of get Sherlock/Moriarty now?
-Welp, there's the death of Clemence/Albus. As written above, A+ subversion of all these tropes and love stories and the way they
"should" go.
-The falling apart of Clemence and her house of cards, her showing her cracks to Pickett: there was something so visceral and real about it, and I love it. It broke my heart a little.
-oH MY GOD THE NEWSROOM IS BEING TORCHED. I obviously did not see it coming AT ALL, but now I can't imagine any other way of it all ending. And that final twist. And Albus was right in a way, just she's more complicated than he anticipated.
-All in all there was something so visceral about this chapter. Weird comparison, but it reminds me of the dreams in Inception (fave movie forever) and when I tried on a prototype virtual reality headset at first (tech worker best friend for the win). Something was just so real and visceral about this chapter that in real life, I felt more than a little disoriented (In a really, really, good way).

And of course, for the HPFF Review-a-Thon. Now, I must meander off to the forums and figure out how enabling posting and stuff works, something I am apparently awful at.