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    I’m looking for books where someone lists specific tasks that must be done for x to happen, and only looking back at the end do you realize all the tasks have been completed without the anyone consciously trying to make them happen

    Examples I can think of are:

    Spinning Silver, where the king tells the main character that she’ll never meet the criteria to be a true faerie queen, and then throughout the books she fulfills each of them

    Stardust, where the mom only gets freed if “the moon loses her daughter, if that occurs in a week when two Mondays come together”

    Howls Moving Castle, where Sophie is told Howl would only leave the house without primping for someone he truly loves, and later the comes to rescue her looking all disheveled

    Thank you!

    by hmsseagull

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