#only in a parallel universe

[daughterofyourdarklord]

Trick’or’Treat please!!

Delphini’s eyes were drooping, her lids so heavy she could hardly keep them open.

Dinner with the Blacks was certainly never a timely affair, but that didn’t make Delphini any less excited each and every time their little family floo’d over. Tonight’s event in particular took an exceptional toll on the three-year-old. Draco had just begun to really get a handle on walking, which, of course, resulted in Delphini running circles around him all night, teasing and encouraging her little cousin. He chased her - as best he could at least - with a gleeful laugh and incredibly sticky fingers despite Auntie Cissy's many cleaning charms.

They’d worn each other down rather quickly. Narcissa and Lucius had left with their now sleeping baby shortly after dessert, all a smile as Delphini planted a goodbye kiss atop her cousin’s wispy white hair.

Both of her parents opted to stay for one more nightcap, resulting in Delphini haphazardly fighting off sleep in her mother’s lap.

Or rather, hardly even hanging onto her mother’s lap. 

“What do you think of the elvish bitters, Bella? Druella and I decided to try something a little more seasonal for this time of year.” 

Bellatrix glanced up at her father quickly, right arm looped awkwardly around her daughter who was now pulling tightly at her dress. 

“It’s delicious, daddy. Adds just a touch of cherry, no?” Bella attempted to re-arrange her grip on the little witch who was slipping out of her lap, causing Delphini to stir lightly before cuddling closer. 

Walburga hummed in agreement beside her. “It’s definitely something sweet, mulberry maybe?”

“No - it’s elderberry.” A commanding voice offered, Delphini eye’s cracked open a bit at the sound of her father.  From across the table she watched as her grandfather lifted a glass towards Him, completely missing the scathing look Walburga shot His way.  

“Elderberry indeed.” Orion confirmed, eyes drifting back over to his daughter’s predicament. “Though it doesn’t seem Delphini is keen on letting you enjoy it much, hm Bella?” At the calling of her name the three-year-old gave another sleepy look at her grandfather. 

“She’s getting too big for you to balance with just one hand.” Druella added, smiling into her glass.

“Here let me-” Her great-Auntie said from her mother's left, Delphini flinched as Walburga reached for her. 

“-No!” She whined, turning into her mother further, the witch in question could only laugh in response. 

“Come on, Delphini,” Bellatrix coaxed. “Mummy needs to get you in a better position so you don’t drag us both to the floor, hm?” Delphini shook her head against her mother, refusing to be moved let alone passed off to Walburga. 

“She’s a bratty little witch, Bella - wonder where she gets that from.” Walburga teased, across from them Druella almost spit out her tea in a laugh.

"One can only imagine." The former Rosier said rather pointedly.

“Come on, darling.” Bellatrix tried again, getting a second hand around the cranky witch who was really making this much more difficult than it needed to be.  "No."

“Bella,” That commanding voice spoke again. “I’ll take her, Bella."  

Now that was something Delphini had no issue with.

She sat up eagerly in her mother’s lap, earning another bout of laughter from the table of Blacks as she lifted her hands towards her father.  The dark lord very obviously rolled his eyes at the little witch, almost reluctantly pulling Delphini into his arms. She could do nothing to hide the massive smile breaking out across her features as she snuggled closer.

Lord Voldemort sighed before reaching for his glass.

“I’m almost jealous.” She heard her mother murmur as the witch reached over to pull some of Delphini’s loose curls out of her face. 

“Don’t be,” her father started, long fingers coming to rest on Delphini’s back to steady her. “I’m beginning to think she’s been planning this.”  

The little witch giggled into his chest. The voices around her resuming in a steady hum, one that was quick to lull her to sleep.

[bereft-of-frogs]

There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

[camilleflyingrotten]

[iwasbored777]

She's already begun to match his freak

[emotsper]

Szai week day 5 - Parallels

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[thelilylav]

So while everyone is trying to get any discourse that isn't Apple related going, would this be a good time to mention I think Faybelle/Apple and Briar/Raven have more parallels than Apple/Briar and Faybelle/Raven? Or talk about the realtionship between Raven and Briar at all? Anybody here?

[beargyufairy]

Two Sides of the Same Coin

[bonehilda-deactivated]

One of the best things about Disco Elysium by far is that it does not fear ugly women. The world is full of ugly men, but ugly women are so hard to come by.

[moonilit]

I was reading The interview of Judd Winick about his characterization of Jason Todd in the book Under the Red Hood 2006, and he mentions what Jason feels about each of the other bat siblings, and Dick:

And I was like, Wait, I know another pair of Siblings where one feels like they were show by their parents they weren’t good enough or fit enough for them, and end up developing a superiority complex to compensate. Using the other sibling as a punching bag, attacking them and doing everything in their power to hurt and inflict pain on them. In a way they are exciting Vengeance for what their parents made them feel like by hurting their ‘favorite child’.

“YOU DONT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES” “YOU ARE PATHETIC AND WEAK” and so on

RIP (or hell) REDHOOD og characterization, you were one Crazy mf and we could had evil sibs team up with you lmao.

(The evil nightwing jason only for vibes no clue about the actual plot. Thank you)

[stormyoceans]

by god the cuntometer is showing readings of astronomical proportions

[governmentmandatedryujinstan420]

releasing this from the hj discord dungeon because the public populace was in agreement also i'm chronically offline on tumblr and need to fix that for my chronically online ahh

[thefallenangel2008]

I'm sorry, but you mean to tell ME, that out of the INFINITE UNIVERSES, where there are so MANY possibilities, the only universe where Mabel and Dipper survived is THE SHOW? Nah bro, cap. Because no. That's not possible. There are INFINITE universes out there. There could be many universes where they didn't, but there's no such thing as "many" or "few" or "all" compared to infinite. There are many/few for US because our brains, while they know what it means, still can't quite grasp the concept of infinity. But in infinity... There are universes in which they survived and in which they didn't. There are a MILLION possibilities, and out of all of them, there's absolutely no way that only one worked. Bill just said that to trick us. To make us think he's THAT powerful (he is powerful but come on bro).

[howifeltabouthim]

Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. Therese waited. Then as she was about to go to her, Carol saw her, seemed to stare at her incredulously a moment while Therese watched the slow smile growing, before her arm lifted suddenly, her hand waved a quick, eager greeting that Therese had never seen before. Therese walked toward her.

Patricia Highsmith, from The Price of Salt

[coastaltowned]

you're trying to make things better. you're often times feeling really desperate because we have a sort of gut intuition that things are not going to go the way that we hope...

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Hey hey hey can you do one about the dull buzzing pain of despair ?

i hope you're doing okay <33

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[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Ough Sonourge/Shadeclipse parallels you mean so much to me