Welcome to Charming, where swirling petticoats, the language of flowers, and old-fashioned duels are only the beginning of what is lying underneath…
After a magical attempt on her life in 1877, Queen Victoria launched a crusade against magic that, while tidied up by the Ministry of Magic, saw the Wizarding community exiled to Hogsmeade, previously little more than a crossroad near the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the years that have passed since, Hogsmeade has suffered plagues, fires, and Victorian hypocrisy but is still standing firm.
Thethe year is now 1895. It’s time to join us and immerse yourself in scandal and drama interlaced with magic both light and dark.
Complete a thread started and set every month for twelve consecutive months. Each thread must have at least ten posts, and at least three must be your own.
Did You Know?
Did you know? Jewelry of jet was the haute jewelry of the Victorian era. — Fallin
A lost bet was a lost bet, so Kayin sat down on his writing desk and began to compose:
September 13th, 1893
Dear Bored Lady ,
I am just two weeks shy of turning twenty-seven. What a boring age, don't you think? I am hoping that your spirit will manage to keep me young, lest my hair starts graying the second I blow my birthday cake's candles!
Witch Weekly is pleased to inform you that your recent submission to our Lonely Hearts article has generated a response. Witch Weekly is devoted to providing help to all of our readers, no matter what their social disadvantages, and we are delighted to provide this service to the lovelorn in our magical community. We hope that you will be able to create a happy ending with our help, instead of being doomed to a tragically lonely life.
Please see the enclosed letter and advise us whether you will need your advertisement repeated in further issues of our magazine.
How lucky! You see, that was my theory. I fancied it impossible for anyone to remain truly entertaining beyond the age of twenty-seven. At twenty-seven, one is nearly thirty, and at thirty one may as well be dead.
(In fact, I think that is a myth drilled more into the heads of young women – but you may as well be my test subject of the theory. Now you really must keep writing to me to prove yourself, else I shall have to write you off as old and tedious.)
What are you planning to do to celebrate your birthday? It had better be something wild and entertaining!
