#smart in magic but dumb in basic school things

[musubiki]

better to not ask next time

[sidewalk-dreamer]

marauders & the raven boys! my favorite codependent friendgroups!

we truly need to be talking more about the raven boys/ marauders parallels… like i’ve seen a few people mention it in passing but there is so much more there than surface level similarities u don’t get it like i do!!!! so this is me taking matters into my own hands and talking about it :) let’s look at the main four boys of each and discuss! 

(if u haven’t read the raven cycle yet do NOT read this yes i am talking to u specifically u know who u are… go read trc then come back okay ty)

james & gansey

born into comfort, into wealth, into high society. both come from intact families and neither has ever gone without love. 

incredibly naturally charismatic. they collect interesting people to themselves and then refuse to let go. they are loyal and trusting to a fault.

glasses :)

hopeless romantics but also really bad at romance… james was so annoying that lily basically hated him for years. gansey accidentally called blue a prostitute the first time they talked. and yet despite fumbling so hard, they both landed girls so far out of their league? unfair.

a bit pretentious. maybe even more than a bit. neither of them is genuinely uppity or snooty, but they know how to put their airs to use when they must.

smart without hardly even trying. school comes easy to them, but both love a challenge. james canonically spends a lot of time practicing intense, extracurricular magic. gansey tries to solve a thousand year old myth. jocks with special interests!!

also just. jocks. 

dumb as shit at times. accidentally hurt the people close to them kind of a lot, without even trying to. 

neither really knows who they are when they are alone.

the first time we meet each of them, we already know they die young <3

sirius & ronan

also born into wealth, but neither fits into it the way gansey and james do.

messy families. and not just for the drama; sirius has the whole incest thing, and ronan has the whole his-mom-was-actually-literally-dreamt-up-by-his-dad thing, which is like… messy.

they hate their brother(s), but would literally die for them.

they’d actually die for any of their friends.

both look tough and scary (and can be so when necessary), but are also just like emo nerds. they know latin for some reason.

reckless, chaotic. the type to act first and think later. will charge headlong into danger for the fun of it.

the dog thing! sirius is a literal dog at times. ronan was called gansey’s dog by kavinsky, and he neither denies nor resents the implications of that. even gansey admits kavinsky had a point there.

jealous with their friendships. they don’t want to have to share the people they love.

had massive crushes/ were like fully in love with their respective boyfriends for so long before they ever made a move. both thought they were subtle about it. literally everybody knew.

remus & adam

physically they are like… the exact same to me. too tall, too lanky, covered with freckles and scars. neither has any idea how attractive they really are.

rough childhoods, like, physically. remus dealt with transformations every month, and adam had to deal with his father’s anger every day.

the outsider. they come from a different world than the other boys, and are absolutely conscious of that fact. they care a lot more about these differences than the rest of their friends do. 

stubborn. they don’t want to accept help, they might not even know how to. vulnerability is dangerous, and admitting weakness is like admitting failure.

probably the smartest, but because they have to actually work for it. they cannot afford to fall behind. where their friends coast or simply don’t care, they work their asses off. they could thrive academically, but their circumstances make it a lot harder for them to do so.

always tired. too many bills to pay all the time.

both are pretty much literal forces of nature. remus is controlled by the moon. adam offers himself over to the control of the forest.

they each think they are unloveable. literally all their friends have had a crush on them at some point. 

peter & noah

NO IM NOT DOING THIS ONE NOT TO MY DEAREST DARLING DEAD NOAH. well… i’m kinda doing it. i don’t want to talk too much about them personality wise, bc where i am partial to a fanon peter-never-betrays-them-and-is-the-funniest-and-most-diva-of-them-all interpretation, canonically i hate him and he sucks.

there definitely can be some character similarities between them… both are furthest from the group, in a way. peter was called once more of a follower than a friend of the rest of them. noah, noah was more when he was alive. the whole ghost thing makes it hard for him to fit in at times :(

HOWEVER what i DO really want to talk about is how noah and peter are direct narrative foils !!!!!! this is my favorite thing! look at it this way:

james died because of peter’s selfishness. gansey lived because of noah’s sacrifice. 

really, the whole plot of both series is directly influenced by peter and noah. if not for peter, james wouldn’t have died. harry would never have to be known as the boy who lived. if not for noah, gansey would have died the first time. he would have stayed dead the second time.

noah, to me, is what peter could have been. we don’t know what made peter betray his closest friends; but i think it must have been out of desire for glory or honor. i mean, he was a gryffindor, but he sure as hell wasn’t brave. perhaps he got sick of living in the shadow of his friends. he can’t have betrayed them simply because he was forced to do so; he was the one who actively brought voldemort back. why would he do so, if not to try and prove that he was greater than james, than sirius, than remus? he had something he wanted to prove.

however, noah? noah accepts his non-life in the shadows. we know it hurts him, being less than when he was alive, and while he might be jealous of gansey, ronan, and adam at times, he never resents them. he makes the ultimate sacrifice when he chooses to give himself up for gansey. he quietly slipped from time, and received the opposite of honor and glory. his every memory was forgotten. but, for love of his friends, he did it anyways. he didn’t need anything, besides the knowledge that the rest of them could live. he is the best of them all.

...

wow okay! i said a lot but also not nearly enough. i could talk for so long about all these boys… also! fanon peter get behind me idc! i know i went on this whole rant about canon peter but let it be known that i can and i will reject canon whenever i like! so to me, noah is alive and well and peter is just like him. i miss them both. i miss them all!

(last little note! though there are so many similarities between each of the boys, blue is not comparable to any of the girls… she’s all her own person, she’s all blue. i think she’d like that)

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Do we know exactly why yuu is called 'trickster'? Pretty dumb question ik I actually don't know if this has been answered alread

The nicknames in TWST are not usually explained. The main exceptions I can think of are “Monsieur Dent-de-Lion” for Ruggie in book 5, “Baby Seal” for Grim in book 4, “Goldfish” for Riddle in Floyd’s School Uniform vignette, and “Crabby” for Ace in the second volume of the light novel. We have to draw on assumptions for basically the rest of them. I’m guessing that “Trickster” is meant to allude to Yuu’s implied strategic nature despite passing off as plain and unassuming by appearance alone.

I believe the closest we get to learning the origins of Yuu’s nickname is in the first Happy Beans Day event; in it, Yuu is part of a ploy to trick the Monster/Beast team in order to seize the golden harp the other team is protecting. However, Rook is calling them Trickster long before the final deception is revealed in chapter 13, in which he remarks that Yuu is truly deserving of the nickname.

The issue I have with it is that I think Yuu has done very little to maintain it 💦 Sometimes Yuu has flashes of intelligence (like realizing that the contracts aren’t invincible). However, outside of the prologue (guiding Grim on where to shoot fire and formulating a plan to take out the OB In the mines) and maybe that small segment in Happy Beans Day (though most of the plan was Jade’s), we rarely ever see Yuu being that much of a tactician or trickster. Rather, they are often strung along on other people’s plans or doing minor or coincidental things (like making noise to prevent Leona from sleeping/stealing the magic carpet and crashing into Octavinelle) to push the narrative along while letting other characters do the Big Brain work for them (it was Leona and/or Azul who actively orchestrated the plots). I guess the argument could be made that maybe Yuu helps in tricking others (Endless Halloween Night, distracting Jamil with board games while Kalim is interrogated in book 4), but it doesn’t come off as a particularly strong or defining trait of theirs if several other characters also engage in the same acts (Floyd, Azul, Malleus, Lilia, etc.) or Yuu had little involvement in planning the deception.

I just think it’s a wasted opportunity to give Yuu such a cool nickname but then never fully commit to showing us why Yuu has “earned” that title. I guess it implies that Rook, who is an observant character, sees more in Yuu than being generically nice or cheering about friendship. However, it rings… somewhat hollow if characters are just saying Yuu is smart (Leona + a few others also have lines that express similar sentiments) or telling Yuu what to do without Yuu actually doing anything smart or actually planning a ploy themselves 😭 It’s “telling” us what Yuu is rather than “showing” us. This is likely done for the self-insert aspect of TWST/to make players feel important, but I don’t think it’s good from an actual writing standpoint.

[yams-here]

So I like thinking about franchises that disappointed me in some way

and after watching too many reviews I redesigned the High guardian spice characters (and thought of how the plot could work way too much)

Rose in this version isn't a complete idiot, and may not be so book smart, but she is very good in combat because she's kind of a fangirl. Like, "she studies attacks and can probably name pretty much every guardian" fangirling. While she is still kind of a dumbass, she's the one that always brings Sage down to earth whenever she gets too stressed. Although she is mostly the source of that stress. Her mom was taken by the rot, but she isn't really sure what it is, so when Thyme mentions it devastating her home she's like "!" so they can actually have something that might bring them together. She decides to take on forging and weapon enchantments so she can have a moment where she steps out of her mom's shadow to do her own thing teehee Sage here is still kind of an ass (her sexist discourse to snap was NOT a Girlboss Moment) but here I think it would be interesting if it was something that other characters think its weird too. Like its a belief ingrained into her together with the more traditional upbringing by her family (thus her only knowing old magic) so it can be part of her character development learning how those thoughts should be changed and that not everyone thinks like that, But she still tries her best to be respectful and kind. (also, her parents sent her to the academy because new magic is VERY new, so the fact that it was being implemented in the curriculum was not widespread, specially in a small town like where she was raised in.) she's an overthinker to the core, so sometimes she needs her friends to calm her down, although sometimes that anxiety is what prepares them for something they weren't even expecting.

Parsley is honestly well written enough in the original show, so the only things I would change is that the progress with the conflict with her parents is stretched a little through episodes, and the conflict is that while her parents want her to be a blacksmith and take on the family business (and help take care of her three thousand simblings) she wishes to go out and do something for herself as a warrior, because she wanting to go to school to become a blacksmith and her parents fighting her on it because they want her to become a blacksmith is kinda dumb. also her short ass hammer feels so weird to watch in the series, so I think that a longer handle would make it a little better. also tiny irony of her weapon being taller than her. Thyme feels like she should be written better because shes the only one that actually has any correlation to the plot, but she kind of... isn't?? I like her backstory of being ran out of the woods she lived in because the rot was devastating it and her dad staying behind to try to solve it, but I think it would be more dramatic if her dad was killed in the conflict but she doesn't know so dramatic moment when she finds something that belonged to him (maybe a little charm she made? for protection? in the way children do that stuff for their parents) and she connects the dots. Also the rot here is because the overuse of the power new magic is able to draw out without the control of old magic is taking too much energy from the earth, and woodsy areas thrive on it, thus the root like structures of the rot. The trees are basically oysters for the magic energy of the world. When its bad, they turn bad too. Also make her more of a "expresses affection through favors and actions, not words" person. She, Rose and Sage took wayy too long to become friends. Amaryllis stays the same because she is perfect and I love her and if you disagree to talk to the wall I personally think Snapdragon is good too but I would make him genderfluid instead. I think that the idea of Caraway THINKING he might be a trans girl but that ending up not the correct answer would reinforce his "there's always more options than you think" speech. And someone needs to point out how he's drawn to women that scream at him. Also we need a better arc with his dad instead of the raw carrot that was the canonical "his dad reinforces toxic masculinity hurr durr" thing we got (that wasn't even well made btw) NOW TO THE SIDIES

Slime boy is now named Slime boy because of an accident he had in potions class the previous year (he's one year older than the main cast) which caused him to continuously produce a slime like substance instead of stuff like spit and sweat. It doesn't inconvenience him a lot other than him making bubbles when he speaks every now and then. He's just an assistant in the terrasphere shop, and the owners are Alloe and Anise (wow they actually do something else in the story!!) but he's mainly just a more experienced student that sometimes knows things the main cast doesn't like secret entrances and cool rooms and stuff. He's a full on bard because that was barely explored in canon and music based attacks are cool. He has the tiniest little crush on parnelle cuz I thought that would be fun Parnelle is ENBY because I SAID SO (and cuz cal is stablished as transphobic and I like payoffs) and since whatever they're doing at the academy is never really clarified, I made them kind of an animal whisperer, like they call on animals to assist them in battle and other stuff. (Maybe then we actually get to see the trixies again after their prolongued mating dance that lead to literally nothing in episode 1) being an animal whisperer is a very rare "old magic" hability thus why they entered the academy one year earlier than expected. They sew their own clothes and are still the generally weird little guy they are in canon, except this time its explained as them preferring to communicate with animals ever since they were a child. They are still very polite and friendly tho, always happy to help. Cal is (his full name is calamagrostis and like if I was named that I'd be an asshole too) still parnelle's cousin, but he doesn't outright bullies them. in fact, he isn't an outright bully, he just tends to look down on other people that don't follow what he believes in, which is a more traditional view on the world, kind of like sage, so I thought of him maybe being a catalyst to her being like "wow I can see why my way of thinking may be bad now, I don't want to be like him" which pushes her to grow and stuff. And I want him to grow as well, so I thought, maybe he and Snapdragon used to be friends, but recently they drifted apart and he started to kind of resent him after he came out as genderfluid, but deep down he still misses his friend, so maybe that pushes his character development. And other people saying that hes kind of a prick. idk I just really hate the trope of a bully character just being there to be the mc's punching bag instead of getting development.

In general, the lore would be (I think, I'm not the best at lore) that Guardians are generally like soldiers, but in a more captain america type of way. they're more like beacons of hope and symbols or power and peace than soldiers are, (thus rosemary knowing a bunch of them as they're usually famous) but they are still required to know combat. High Guardian Academy is known as a guarantee to become a good soldier, and a high chance to become a guardian. They VERY recently implemented new magic in the curriculum, but are experimenting with mixing its high power output with old magic's control of it, (thus why caraway knows how but why none of the students are being thaught it. It's a fairly new tecnique they'd rather get a good grasp on before teaching a bunch of children how to use it) because since they're expertly trained guardians they can tell that a terrasphere takes too much energy above what would be considered okay. They just aren't aware of how much tho, the extent of the rot is a secret held close to their chests by witch country, which is where the terraspheres come from, which has brought them tons of profit and advancements. So when someone knows about the extent, or tries to stop it, they are eliminated, (thus why thyme's dad died. People that stayed in the fairy woods and knew how bad new magic could be were all "silenced" so they could keep profiting out of it.) (Any letters or research about the rot, or from the people that knew, were burned and interfered with, thats why no one else knew about it.) idk what else to talk about cuz this show had such little things to explore but there's so much filler that almost none of it got explored but I think it had potential, even if I prefer to focus on character interactions and how they change eachother. Again, I'm not very good with lore. and plot.

[girlberrie]

( ⛪️ 🌻 ⌛️ ) — from the hozier ask game!! it can be for your hogwarts or golden trio reality.

ty ty ty for this ask!!!!! i’ll be answering for my hogwarts dr!!!

                                    𓆙

( ⛪ : is there something you find yourself devoted to? is it a person? or is it an ideal? or something else? what makes you drawn to it or them?

ooooooooooh. i’m devoted to my research and experiments. to invent time travel. i’m devoted to it because i have a heavy obsession with history and when i was young i was like………if i’m a witch……that can do magic shit……..can i not just time travel and live in history????? boom. future illegal time traveling witch . hi. that’s me.

i am devoted to tom ofc ofc ofc. i will raid vampire parties and dangerous guarded libraries and meet death for this man. i will make him immortal because that is what he wants. i will wake up at the crack of dawn because he wanted to show me something interesting in the forbidden forest. i will abandon my precious orange juice to give him a quick rundown on what he needs to remember for the transfiguration quiz he has coming up after lunch. i will find a way to transfigure him into a mini version of himself so that i can carry him around my pocket whenever he is being too smart and witty and mindfuckingly annoyingly gorgeous. i will suffer through the most boring ass dumb slytherin common room ‘meetings’ the pureblood heirs like to do because he asked to not be alone. yeah. what makes me drawn to tom…? well. we are both very similar. we are ambitious. we want to do something deemed impossible by wizarding society. we have kinda skewed morals. we are scientists at heart. he is so so so so so so so damn smart and alluring and argumentative and smug and and and prickly intelligent and SO british and i just think he is lovely. and i trust him with everything. and i love love love love love him .

 ( 🌻 : what makes you fall in love with life every day? it could be something big, like your s/o, or something smaller. what brings life to your day to day and makes life worth living?

the creak of wood when i step on the floor of my dorm after waking up. the sounds of hogwarts. the chirping of birds in the transfiguration courtyard. the quiet murmurs and loud gossiping of the great hall in the mornings and during dinner. the sounds of leaves brushing against each other on a windy day. the taste of a simple breakfast on a busy school day. the kisses i give tom on the cheek that make the tips of his ear blush. the letters my mother signs off with a ‘love you, mum’. the sound of scribbling quills during a pop quiz in potions (which is a hellish scenario, really). the surprised yelps of first years when they get caught on a staircase as it decides to move around. tom brushing a rebellious piece of my hair behind my ear because i am clearly overstimulated by it. the rustle of pages in the library whilst i’m in a corner somewhere study ancient runes. being able to dry my hair with a wave of my hand. the little perks of magic.

basically anything regarding the ambience of hogwarts. the little peaceful moments where things are silent. whenever tom is holding me and cradling my head to his chest like he is protecting me from anything and everything inconveniently saddening. anything that my mother does, because she is wonderful amazing lovely best mother ever. yeah

 ( ⏳ : do you enjoy being alone? or do you find enjoyment around other people? is there something you like to do when you're alone? or is there someone you'd rather be alone with?

i like being alone. i also like being around people. its not the amount or lack of people around me that makes me enjoy a moment, its what i’m doing that matters. i love existing peacefully, whether that’s with friends or not. i like just sitting near my friends as they’re doing something mundane whilst i just read or do homework or something. i like just sitting and sharing silence. i like whispering in the common room after curfew. when i am alone, i usually read. or just wander around the castle. i never go to the forbidden forest alone. sometimes i just like to go to my dorm and lay on my bed. and just stare at the ceiling. who i would rather be alone with……… i mean its obvious. tom tom tom tom tom my love my life. i like sitting with my back to his chest. i like it when we sit like that in silence and i can feel the puffs of his breathing on the back of my neck or my ear. i like that his hands are cold and that they lessen the overheated feeling on my skin after a long day. who wouldn’t like being alone with their s/o??

ty again for this ask…………….i am always open to more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love to yap!!!!!!

                           (the hozier: self-titled ask game!)

[fave-fight]

ROUND 1, MATCH 26

NO MAGIC, POWERS, OR WEAPONS

Dr. Coomer:

“i… don’t think he would win.”

“HELLO, GORDON!”

Floyd Leech:

“If he stays in human form and has no mage stones, he's just Some Guy, so he still qualifies. This mafia motherfucker would FIGHT. One time when faced with a monster, everyone else was like "oh no, we need magic" and he was like "nah, let's punch it" and then he DID. He hasn't used his pointy teeth in canon yet, but he could in theory bite someone if necessary, and it would hurt like a bitch. He'd fight dirty, I just know it. Let him punch everything and then get punched in the face, it'd be so great.”

“This guy is a menace who almost never uses weapons or tools to terrorize people. He's strong and athletic, smart enough to get what he wants on a whim, and squeezes contract-breakers until they faint on a regular basis.”

“NOTE: Floyd is a magic boy, but the “no mage stone” thing is there because it means he won’t be able to use magic, because people in Twisted Wonderland can’t without accumulating deadly magic toxin unless they have the stones. He’s also a merman, but he’d be in his human form. His human form does have pointy teeth (like the anime character kind) but I’m not sure if they have any real effect in game other than to intimidate people. Other people in this game have them too who are allegedly “human.” And again, plenty of “human” anime characters have them. Myfeeling is that they shouldn’t be disqualifying on their own.  This game is about magic boys at a magic school, but don’t worry, they get into traditional fist-fights so often it’s literally a randomly generated event that can happen in your Guest Room space. And Floyd Leech would never use magic in a fist-fight. He’d think that was “no fun” or “totally lame.” His signature magical spell just nullifies other people’s magic that targets him… so he can fight them with his fists. Since no one else here has magic, it’s totally irrelevant.  Also I’m not sure he uses fists so much as he does something to his opponents that he describes as “squeezing” them. I don’t know entirely what he means by that when he’s in his human form, but how much it scares the faceless NPC students indicates to me that he’s found a way to make it work. I do know it’s supposed to have a whole mafia vibe to it. Because his dad (and his childhood friend he lowkey sort-of works for) have real mafia boss energy. And Floyd’s basically decided that if he’s going to do this mafia shtick it’s Capo or bust. Floyd doesn’t always feel like doing stuff, due to his wildly unpredictable mood swings, but it honestly seems like the thing he can most easily be convinced to do is beat the shit out of people. During the “Beanfest” event (which was somewhat analogous to a paintball match), he insisted on throwing his weapon away and beating up aforementioned childhood friend even though the game was over and he’d already lost, just because apparently “once Floyd has decided to fight nothing can be done about it" and you just have to fight him if you want to get on with the rest of your day. He’d started out that event “not really in the mood” but somehow ended up spending the entire day beating the hell out of every person he ran into. In the camping event, when all of the boys were being picked off by a monster in the woods one at a time and were panicking because they didn’t have magestones or cellphones and therefore couldn’t defend themselves with magic or call an adult for help, Floyd was literally just like “why don’t we just beat the shit out of it?” And then he DID. And it was awesome.  But before you think he’s just some sort of dumb thug, let me assure you that Floyd is actually one of Night Raven’s most intelligent students. He has a photographic memory and can create valuable gems in alchemy class with minimal effort. Unfortunately, his mood swings make it impossible for him to maintain a decent GPA. But he’s actually a smart, tactical fighter. He’s just violent and unstable. Oh and if you’re wondering, his personality is generally abrasive and confrontational. He regularly starts arguments with the most volatile people at the school, just to mess with them and see where it goes because he’s bored.  Finally, if it sweetens the deal for anyone, Floyd would wear some killer designer shoes to this fight. Don’t worry, they wouldn’t be dangerous/weaponized. They’d just be expensive and custom made. You know, so he can get upset when someone scuffs them up.  Like for real, is there anyone who deserves to be in a crazy bitch fist-fight more than a moody mafia prince who’s secretly some sort of genius, but seems to only truly love fighting and designer footwear? If there is, I can’t think of them. ”

[orionsstory]

girl, so confusing | Kyranade

she's out !! almost 16k words later and the first chapter is out! You can read the full thing here on AO3! since the whole thing is. super long I won't be posting it in full here, but here's a small snippet!

"Well done, miss Marmalade. Quite the impressive feat."

Marmalade smiled as La Voix passed her paper to her, a 98 plastered across the front. A near-perfect demonstration. A small note had been made that she was a bit too stiff when performing the spell, but that didn't really matter to her. She felt herself smugly grin, the hours of work she had put into perfecting the spell paid off. As per usual, of course.

"Fantastic work miss Kyran! Another remarkable showing- a perfect score!"

Her grin faltered as her attention zeroed in on the girl sitting in front of her. How the hell had she done better than her? What more could she have done?

"A levitation spell without the use of a wand! You show a great amount of potential, young lady. Keep it up."

She almost let her face drop for a moment- how had she been able to do that? Doing magic without a wand was something they didn't begin to learn for another year. It was far more unpredictable than using a wand, everything she had read told her they had to master the basics first. She couldn't dwell on the thought for too long, as she shot back to the perfect and poised look she always presented as Kyran turned around, holding her paper up for her to see.

Kyran Thrax. A girl who transferred to their school about a year ago. The bane of her existence. Was that dramatic? Maybe, but it was accurate. The two didn't really know each other well, but their desire to be top of the class led to them often butting heads. Kyran seemed to take joy in provoking and gloating at her, which further fueled their rivalry. She was smart, Marmalade would give her that, but she wasn't going to be first in the class. Not if she could help it.

"Look Marm- a perfect score. Soon enough, I'll be top of the class."

Kyran grinned at her. That stupid, smug, grin.

Marmalade wanted nothing more than to wipe it off of her face.

"In your dreams. You've got a long way to go."

"Keep thinking that. I'll swipe it out from under you in no time." She mumbled in response.

"Please, it takes more than dumb luck." Marm bit back.

"Good thing I've got the smarts to back it up. You'll see." She winked at Marmalade who flushed in response, rolling her eyes. Kyran laughed as she turned back around, leaving Marm to silently fume.

"How does she do it without a wand? I can barely use mine..." Actavia mumbled beside her, stuffing her paper back into her folder. Marmalade's expression softened as she turned towards her friend. The two had known each other since they were children and had been best friends ever since. Actavia knew her better than she knew herself sometimes.

"Did the lessons not help? We can work together more on the next one if you'd like."

"Oh no- they did. Got an 83." She smiled, showing the mark at the top of her paper. "But I swear this thing hates me. Charra said it's probably because I break it so often..." She lifted her wand to demonstrate, Marm could see some of the wood splintering off- and of course, there was the duct tape wrapped around the middle of the wand from when she had split it in two. How that thing was still kicking was beyond her.

"When I performed the spell for La Voix the book levitated, but my wand started splintering in the middle of it and it dropped early," Actavia explained, twirling the wand in her hand.

"Why don't you just...take it to a repair shop?"

"Mum said I have to earn enough to pay for it myself...I'm stuck doing chores for the next two months. Said she wasn't paying for it a second time in four months."

"Well, look on the bright side- you'll probably be a whole lot better when you fix it."

Actavia shrugged, putting her wand away. "I guess so. Just hope I can survive the next few tests until then. Maybe I could learn how to do it without a wand..."

The girls chuckled at that. La Voix finished handing back tests to the rest of the class before starting their lesson, and as hard as she tried to concentrate on the lesson, she couldn't get Kyran out of her head. How had she managed to do that without a wand? It bugged her to no end...she could always ask the girl, but that would be admitting defeat. She couldn't do that.

Instead, she resigned herself to stare daggers into the back of Kyran's head.

-

"Well done Marmalade. Such a fantastic essay, you have a real talent with words."

Marm smiled as Ms. Garbo passed back her latest essay, a perfect score like usual. English was her best, and favorite, subject by far. It was the perfect combination of creativity and control, just challenging enough to make her think about how to best get her point across. Actavia teased her for it, but she truly took pride and joy in her writing.

Especially because she was better at it than Kyran.

"You have some good ideas Kyran, but you need to work on editing."

She watched as Kyran took the paper and Ms. Garbo walked away. It was her turn to be smug now.

"Top of the class, hm?"

Kyran turned around, rolling her eyes at her. Marmalade felt her heart race, a sly smile forming on her face.

"So what, I'll still end up on top." She retorted.

"I guess we'll see about that, but I wouldn't hold your breath."

"It's just one grade, don't act so confident."

"One grade better than yours, darling."

Kyran turned back around, clearly annoyed with her. Marmalade rode that high for the rest of class, being even more eager to answer questions than usual. Every time she spoke she noticed the other girl roll her eyes, further boosting her satisfaction.

[my-memed-tw-adventures]

Book 3 — Chapter 34

*stares at watch again* HOW THE FUCK

God I’m back at this shit what is time

Anyway, let’s be sad together

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AHHHH BABY NO

Why are children so mean man

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“Hopeless in studies” my ass boi. You were literally just dealing study guides that helped students get 100%s on tests. I think you have to be smart to create stuff like that

Now if only you didn’t scam people

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Games are fun Azul! They don’t have to be productive. Tho I guess little bitch children like that do absolutely ruin the fun of any game huh

Fuck those kids for making Azul this way. Now I have to deal with his trauma as an underpaid therapist

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How does writing with ink in the water even work??? Also he must be braining very good because I can barely focus on writing with my two limbs. Imagine writing 5 things at once. Couldn’t be me

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Awwwww little Azul meeting little Jade and Floyd! They all sound so cute!

Also what bullshit was Azul saying about not being able to assert himself. He like immediately threatened the twins when they tried to touch his stuff

I love that it sounds like Jade and Floyd just decided to keep Azul and he had no choice in the matter lol

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Oh yeah. Azul saying he’s hopeless in studies when he’s able to do magic like Ursula. He better quit selling himself short here

I love that Jade and Floyd know it’s him. I mean, it’s pretty obvious but still. And they just basically call him out on it

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Oh boi he’s lost it

Azul, holding into middle school revenge plots and grudges isn’t good for you man. I think we did you a favour with the contract destroying. You need a fresh start bro

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Azul, honey, as your severely under-appreciated and underpaid therapist, observing your bullies for moons on end is not healthy. Please find a better coping mechanism than holding issues over their heads and hoping no one like us comes along to fuck it

This man needs help with his control issues from someone who actually knows what they’re doing. Aka not me. Get a real school therapist Crowley

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AZUL THIS ISN’T HOW IT WORKS

I get it but sir not like this. He’s too dependent on the scrolls as a part of his identity to realize he’s smart and capable and no longer at the bullies’ mercy. He’s not that same little octopus, not cause of the scrolls but because he grew as a person (mostly, he’s still a baby dumbass like everyone else at the school)

Also him thinking he’s invincible because he has the scrolls. He’s kinda dumb there because he like knew he wasn’t

Masterlist

[katyspersonal]

You talk about underrated bloodborne cooperators? How about some headcanons on olek or gremia if you have them?

Ahhhhh, shoot; Sorry for the delay ;-;

🦠 Honestly, for him, the things are sort of,, writing themselves? He is a unique cooperator: he doesn't step back during the boss fight, but will always jump into the battle aggressively, as well as being a unique cooperator that can sprint just like the player! This is especially interesting, since he is a cooperator for Isz Dungeons. Another Isz cooperator is Damian, who has like three long distance Hunter tools, a healing bell, and a shield that was distributed specifically for the Tomb Prospectors that delved into Isz. You also cannot summon both Damian and Gremia... This gave me very strong feeling of them having worked together and fallen apart, as well as them having directly opposite hunting styles - Damian being overly cautious, and Gremia being.... opposite of that.

🦠 His affiliation with the Choir is further hinted by him wielding Rosmarinus! Again, he appears to be not a full member, but the lower class that would simply bring them cool stuff from the dungeons... Isz dungeons, specifically. I think it is weird that he doesn't have Loch Shield even as an unused item, though? I can't help but feel as though it is a deliberate choice - he believed it was completely pointless to guard himself from basically "magic", seeing how it was the VERY thing his institution pursued... Basically, not only he is the type to jump head first into a battle, but also he had that concept of 'if that Arcane stuff is truly a good thing, it is not supposed to harm us'. It was both very smart and very dumb idea. Like... He had the right logic, but not the right picture.

🦠 He is one of the characters using the generic face data. You might know it from gems such as:

sgfgdgfd okay sorry for cursing you xd But yeah, I've basically spent it on him, since other characters with this face data had their faces COMPLETELY obscured. He though, shown enough face to earn it. I simply chose the hairstyle and added the 'aged person' spots on his skin.

🦠 Like I said, he used to explore with Damian, whereas Damian would always have his sorry reckless ass saved. But I write down Damian as one of the 'still alive' cooperators; so, Gremia's hatred would be because Damian is in School of Mensis now (hence no way to summon both of them). Gremia is not very capable and educated on the Choir's shenanigans, but with whatever naivety and honesty he has, he believes them way more and is devoted to them no matter how many Ls they take :( Though, in the way, he adopted the mentality that was around in earlier Healing Church somewhere - that you should strive to do good, even if it is not always a smart choice... Or something like that. He swears he can't remember where it came from.

🦠 He visits the base at Choir occasionally, only to cover up rare celestial larvae that would grow into teen or adult state and then petrify. None of those babies is able to grow up to be like Ebrietas, they all lean stronger to half-human and just... go still at some point. I simply drew it from the fact that the "statues" in Upper Cathedral seem to be weird Eldrich figures covered by fabric, as well as themes of petrifying upon facing too much arcane being enough in Bloodborne:

🦠 He is actually on good terms with Wallar! That dude also might originate from Choir's prospectors, moreover, he is wielding an arm of a smaller Amygdala as a weapon... And Amygdalae are trademark Great Ones of School of Mensis. They are both more on the "just block and report" side regarding opposing institutions; but whereas Wallar is more malleable and puts curiosity before principles, Gremia is... well, not that.

🦠 I am not entirely sure where he came from, but hmmm. Loch Shield was initially used in Research Hall by bodyguards of the Healing Church staff that were performing "rituals". I'd say Damian was there for the practice, but Gremia was not. He was simply more of the Healing Church hunters trained by Ludwig. He is also one of like, four people that ever saw Ludwig's Moonlight Sword shining in action - in his case, this was an accident. He told Forgotten Madman, though, and whoever else would listen, because he is absolute garbage at keeping secrets, but only very few actually cared.

🦠 In fact, his penchant for picking up fights and blurting out whatever he thinks was the real reason why Choir collectively agreed to never promote him, at all cost. Gremia is not a fool just because he can be naive and blunt to a fault, but he could not be predicted and controlled in the way they wanted... Hell, they had to lie to the guy that the orphans were terminally ill and experiments were their only alternative from dying early, because if he knew the true nature of those "experiments" - he'd tear them all apart! Like I said, he has a good faith, but is also naive enough to be diverted where "smarter" people want him to be. If you have morally questionable plans - you simply should never let him in, that's it. He won't understand, and jump straight into conclusions.

🦠 He likes working out at the times when he is not exploring the dungeons, nor tending to what remained from the Choir's base. Physical activity just gives him peace! However, if only he lived at the time when photography was developed enough, he would be obsessed with it. He likes pointing out interesting bits about his environment! Without a good camera, though? Yeah, he is bringing along TOO many "discoveries", including the pointless ones, like arcane plantlife everyone saw 7 times this week already, or a literal brick from the wall. At the very least, this passion ensured that he'd bring a LOT of Pearl Slug eggs...

🦠 At the same time, he is forgiving to a fault. If Damian came to him saying that maybe School of Mensis was a failed institution, after all, Gremia would just go 'oh, good, glad you are done being a dumbass'. He is only hostile for as long as it is relevant. Patches woud've approved ���

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⛏️ Everything around him suggests being a very basic Tomb Prospector of the Healing Church! His weapons are Kirkhammer and Repeating Pistol, his summon locations are Pthumeru dungeons... Interestingly, in the layers 4 and 5 of Pthumeru Dungeons, you can only either summon him OR Queen Killer. Yeah, I know, gameplay mechanics and all, but!! I try to use what I can + I headcanon that the surviving veteran Queen Killer was helping School of Mensis to capture Mergo's cord from the undead Queen Yharnam (only to be left to die as he expired his use...). So I feel as though the "normie" Healing Church and School of Mensis had a competition for Mergo's cord. Do I even need to mention that Yharnam's battle in the dungeons features her as still pregnant, but with still a slice on her belly area...?

⛏️ You probably don't need a reminder in who won that competition, but yeah... Olek is a rare cooperator that is technically dead as you summon him. I think he fought Queen Killer and lost. He is one of the people that honoured Ludwig, though. If you got to fight him as a hostile NPC - he'd recite Ludwig's inspirational speech (same as what Yamamura recites in his madness).

⛏️ He was not rude to Simon for his weird ass choice of weapon (well... weird in Healing Church's concept of such). Only a few people were understanding of Simon, actually!

⛏️ Otherwise, he was a very devout hunter. It is funny that you asked for both Gremia and Olek, as they are both devout to their institutions! I separate the "normie" Healing Church focusing on the blood ministration and the "nerds" Healing Church focusing on Arcane and Eyes; and so, Gremia would be more interested in eyes, whereas Olek would be more devout to blood. But they both would struggle to listen and consider alternative ideas.

⛏️ I also found his design interesting! The curly hair is my liberty, actually, since his original face data is bald. But he looks rather 'not white', which I wrote in my headcanons about how Healing Church opted out to blaming the "foreigners" for the beast plague, and Olek looked.... very foreign. So, much like with many other hunters and Tomb Prospectors that looked not like typical Yharnamites (think Czech + Polish + Hungarian people), he ended up being tasked with too many requests, just as long as no one had to see him.... Only, he survived for a long while, one of the few.

⛏️ His genuine faith in Healing Church and passion for hunting could bring him back from the death, after all. (More about it in this ( x ) post)

⛏️ He would've been rather social aside of his duties before the Healing Church. He would know every neighbour he has. He would know every friend's birthday and special day to prepare the gifts for. He would always be ready for any celebration months ahead! Basically, he is a 'backbone' person of the community, doing his best and lost to a pointless quest he has lost in anyway.

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Thank you for the ask!

[simplylove101]

2023 Horror Challenge: [19/?]

↳“You wanna know what I think, Clare? I think you're a selfish bowl of bitch sauce." Wish Upon (2017) dir. John R. Leonetti

Plot: A teenage girl discovers a box with magical powers, but those powers comes with a deadly price.

Starring: Joey King, Ki Hong Lee, Sydney Park, Shannon Purser, Sherilyn Fenn, Elisabeth Rohm & Ryan Phillippe

Going in, I already knew this movie was gonna be a hard one for me. lol Joey King's character is just so incredibly unlikeable and selfish so that right off the bat was a challenge. I get her character is still dealing with loss and school's hard for her, but to make the decisions she makes... At the point when it's quite clear that her wishes are killing people and she still does it anyway, I was done with her. Sorry to Joey since I'm actually rather cool with her as an actress but the script was doing her no favors. Now I gotta talk about how insane that cast is because wow, sooo many familiar faces in here! Pretty cool thing in an otherwise unpleasant watch. The kills are kinda insane as well if that's any consolation I guess but honestly, I was mostly annoyed and bored throughout. Not to mention, the very ending (mid-credits scene) had me fuming because it has one of the characters who was smart make a dumb decision. Now given there's plot context missing that makes it so that decision is possible but it's still annoying when you remember his stance the whole movie about Claire's wish-making. Anyway, this was a mess basically. lol

[sokokoko]

These are from @awfulalignmentcharts

I have wanted to fill out alignment charts for so sooo long. I even have some saved on Pinterest that I might get to later

Using my characters from After School Guardians for this <33 I did 10 charts because I don't have self control

Sorry I haven't made proper drawings for everyone yet :((( but these are them. I'm going to rant about my characters and their placements now though🚨🚨🚨

Any good, healthy decisions Ash makes is as a result of him thinking about his father

I was so tempted to put him in doesnt study and it shows seeing as he's proved to be a problematic disaster (see: road trip and living together 😭)

Stormy aces without studying even though she's not much of a brainiac (more of a fashionista type, tbh) because a lot of her youth was spent either surviving or sharpening her mind. She's unexpectedly smart sometimes (kind of sad that it's "unexpected", as if she can't be both beauty and brains). She has photographic memory and commits important details to mind (which really helped her when she was on her own) and I think that'd transfer over to remembering things she needs to ace tests

There's no other way to put it but to say Shadow is a himbo. but!!! he can't completely be blamed? He, Ash, Crystal and Stormy are all non humans getting used to human things so stuff's kind of complicated. Although, it probably makes him look really dumb seeing as the others aren't doing things as silly as him

On the note of them being non human, (Shad a boogeyman, Stormy a siren, Crystal a harpy and Ash an it's complicated) they don't attend school (they'll definitely have their moments where they show up and embarrass the human gang or get into shenanigans) so the studying one is definitely hypothetical

I'd honestly be scared to give some of those guys phones. Crystal would follow instructions on how to use it (probably being guided by one of the humans), Shadow would struggle for 3 months and discover a new feature every other day ("huh?? You can check the weather? I thought this was just a calculator???" "Shadow, PLEASE 😭") Stormy would probably always be getting hers wet/forgetting it's not waterproof and Ash would be the one with the horribly cracked screen, disgusting fingerprints all over or losing his phone frequently (possibly all at once. If so, Zinthia would faint after seeing the "phone" and she isn't phased by many things [execpt Ash being Ash])

It's okay though cuz Zinthia and Alan are our rich kids!! Just buy more phones and ignore what Ash is doing to his current ones 💞

Zinthia steals your wallet only for the thrill of stealing it but doesn't care about money cuz she has her own ✨

Alan will def help u out by holding ur wallet for u but he got his own money so he wouldn't even have any particular intentions. He's not not touching your money cuz he cares about you or your feelings. No, no. Koko is the only one who could be accused of caring about feelings (Shadow too but not in the situation in which you give him your wallet and say he can buy something if he likes)

Crystal's alignment explained wallet wise; she simply doesn't care about material goods (but food is 💯 the way to her heart)

The phone wallpaper one is actually really interesting to me cuz the pairs seem to mostly have the same tastes. Crystal is Nino's guardian, Stormy Alan's, Ash Zinthia's and Shadow Koko's and they're all basically next to each other ("basically" cuz Koko and Shadow deviated, dang it, guys)

The arrows in the thunderstorm one indicate that they'd just be comforting their magic guardians and Alan would use hot coco (never been so glad before that i used Ks in Koko's name 😭✋) while Nino uses his awkwardness

The storm one is funny but Crystal and Stormy are literally reliving trauma so that puts a bit of angst to an otherwise lighthearted situation. Thanks, Soko 🙏 just what the Dr ordered 💞

I felt the need to add something special for Stormy during the road trip. She'd appreciate me letting her have a place at the top <3

Nino and Koko protect the snacks in shifts but show no loyalty/there are no discounts for each other if they both happen to awake at the same time while one is guarding and the other is craving snacks

The urge to say Stormy disappears into to the ocean was so strong but considering the fact that she's a siren that's literal just running away 🤣 so Nino gets to avoid his problems through cryptidhood

Im crying at how Ash's placements literally tell a story

And Alan's "aesthetic" wallpaper exclusively means he goes through rotations of pictures of stars. Because he is obsessed with them by virtue of his family and their history. I won't get into that just like I won't get into what Ash is because that is a whole Thing™️™

Also, Alan is not meek, that's just the drawing. He's more of an intelligent, dedicated and composed person. Crystal might seem a bit similar to him because they had some similar answers or in how they are studious, but she is quiet and stoic in her intelligence and has a bit of a superiority complex towards the others at first. Alan just tries to wrangle these heathens he's been stuck with (read: everyone but Koko and occasionally Shadow if he doesn't get attacked in conversation. Despite how silent and level headed she is most of the time, Crystal gets hella argumentative with Stormy.)

✨ Refer to this post for the old + new summary of After School Guardians ✨

[ustalav]

OC Tag Game

i was tagged by @idolsgf thank u, i love talking about my ocs lol

Favorite OC: So this is liable to change but Gideon Trevelyan has my heart and brain at the moment. He was actually my first inquisitor after several false starts getting into dai and he has evolved a lot but I love him so much. Andrastian Loyalist Circle Mage Prettyboy

Newest OC: probably my unnamed Renegade Shepard. I am playing through MELE with a different OC (Gideon's brother actually lol) doing a Paragon run but I am already mulling her over in my brain. [EDIT AFTER FINDING THIS IN MY DRAFTS LMAO:] her name is Grace and here is her pinterest board so far. I am really enjoying fleshing her out, but her basics are that she is earthborn + ruthless + vanguard.

Oldest OC: LMAO welllll I could give my like warrior cats OCs from my middle school days but no one wants that fjsadklf sooo I guess the first OC I made for tumblr rp groups back in like 2015 that I still think about from time to time was Edward he was a dirtbag loser that came into a lot of money and didn't know what to do with it. Still have his pinterest board

Meanest OC: That's an easy one, Grant Hawke. He is gruff, blunt, prone to solving things with violence. He pretty much only cares about his closest friends and his family. Grace Shepard may end up being meaner than him though lol, she does not have family to soften her up.

Softest OC: Soft Andrastian Scholar with the constitution of wet tissue paper Gideon Trevelyan. He is full support mage in combat, there is a lot of fade stepping out of melee. He is also very kind, very sweet. Perhaps internally prone to being judgy and spiteful BUT he really does care about people.

Most Aloof/Standoffish OC: That would also be Grant Hawke, he is pretty quiet, not one for small talk or being buddy buddy with many people. Although in his own way Faron Lavellan can be emotionally aloof. It's harder to catch onto because he's very extroverted and talkative, just keeps people at an emotional distance.

Dumbest (Affectionate) OC: Welllll there is a certain trait passed down the Trevelyan line that has left them all a bit ditzy. Gideon's naivete leads to some ditziness, he can be gullible. He also struggles a lot with magic, although that has more to do with religious trauma than intellect. His brother Hessarian Trevelyan isss pretty dumb sometimes. The lights aren't all on. He was hit a few times in the head by a mage's staff when he was still a Templar.

Smartest OC: Probably Muren Tabris, she is very calculating, very aware of her next moves. She can be crass about it, I think she is often underestimated because of that and her somewhat violent sense of humor. But she is very smart! Has been helping take care of her family for years. Although if she doesn't care enough about something, she's not putting her mind to it. That sort of happens with the Wardens, so she does end up stepping down from Warden-Commander to focus more on the Denerim Alienage with Shianni and assisting Zevran as much as she can in Antiva!

OC I'd Probably Be Friends With: Hmmm I think I would find Muren cool from a distance but wouldn't speak to her lol. Probably Gideon honestly, but also I would heavily disagree with him on many things.

tagging @sinquisition and @transprincecaspian idk if y'all have done this yet but if you want to!

[pinkiemachine]

Movie Plot:

So each of them falls into the role of one of the characters in the film. Barry is the lead—a loner, loser outcast who’s been practically invisible his whole life, but this year’s going to be different. This year, he’s going to ask his crush to prom in the most spectacular way that will ensure she says yes and that the entire school remembers him. Joining him in this endeavour is Bruce, his wealthy best friend; a la Peter Parker and Harry Osborne. He’s so prim and proper and preppy that he’s never done a wrong thing ever in his life. Who’s the crush of our story? Why, it’s none other than the most popular girl in school, of course, played by Diana! She’s a straight A student, captain of the cheer squad, and everyone is saying that she and the star quarterback, played by Arthur, are gonna get together. Our lead character cannot let this happen, however, because the quarterback just so happens to be a huge bully (to him specifically). Everyone else thinks he’s the best thing to happen since sliced white bread. Well, except the cheerleader’s quirky childhood friend, played by Zatanna. She is so totally over this plain of existence and would much rather be spending her time at the local cemetery than providing emotional support in the bleachers at a high school football game. Rounding out the cast, we have Clark and Hal who are playing the bully jock’s idiot lackies. (think Crabbe and Goyle.)

Now, that’s the plot of the film… but what actually winds up happening is…

Barry is simultaneously taken back to his own high school years when he was legitimately kind of a nerdy loner. However, he was an exceptionally smart kid, and didn’t meet the girl he liked until after high school. So in this film, he’s very frustrated being given the role of a comic book reading, low grade achieving, invisible “weirdo.” Plus, in the real world, he already has a girlfriend. Iris. So… awkward much? Then there’s Bruce. There is no livin’ lovin’ way he’s going to slip into the role of “happy, preppy, perfect rich kid.” Oddly enough, he slips into more of a punk role, rebelling against his picture perfect parents whom he cannot stand. (keep in mind, the JLA’s actual parents and loved ones are NOT present here. These are just random characters) Arthur finds himself in a similarly unfortunate position because he didn’t play football in high school. He swam and surfed. So he has no idea what he’s doing, and he’s sick and tired of all the high school girlies constantly following him around, asking for his number, because back home he has a wife! This leaves Diana in a predicament. Without any love interests, her character ceases to have function in the plot. Not to mention, she’s really bad at being a cheerleader. She’d much rather be out on the “battle field” than dancing on the sidelines, so when she sees Arthur bumbling about (not knowing what he’s doing) she throws down her pom poms and runs out in the middle of the game, grabs the football, starts BARRELLING through the other team—the announcers and the audience losing their minds—as she runs towards the end zone and scores! All the while, Zatanna sits alone in the bleachers, as none of the other kids want to be near her. She’s basically at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to reputations at their school. She’s unapproachable, 100% goth, into the most creepy, edgy things, and the only reason she’s not picked on more is because she’s been friends with Diana’s character since they were little. Zatanna is one for dramatic flare, but this is way beyond dramatic. She’s used to being the center of attention—the person who makes the crowd smile—but now everyone avoids her and treats her like she’s a disease. Yes, she’s magic, but she’s not angsty or scary! No one will believe her, though. Clark is in a similar boat. He’s one of the bully jock’s dumb minions, also on the football team. Both of those are problems because, 1: everyone at the school expects him to beat them up for their lunch money (despite Clark literally being the kindest person you’ll ever meet), and 2: he was never allowed to play football in high school because his parents were worried he might hurt someone with his powers! So every time he’s on the field, he’s playing like a kitten, because he’s terrified he’s gonna snap someone’s neck. Finally, Hal… who ironically is in about the same position he was back when he actually went to high school. Although, this time he’s specifically “the dumb one.” The slacker, skater, delinquent who was so incompetent he could not make the football team and instead had to make do with being the team mascot. But other than that jab at his intelligence, he’s just straight up vibin’.

More thoughts may come…

Concept: an episode of the Justice League cartoon where the MCs get sucked into a 90s teen movie… powers get reset to when they were that age.

[ragana62]

What are your main characterization pet peeves when it comes to HP fic? Like a big one for me is when Draco is incredibly magically gifted or competent. I don't want him to be a potion prodigy! I think he's more interesting when he's not! If any member of the golden trio could flatten him in a duel pretty easily, then the needs to find... alternate solutions for problems. Which he tends to lead to some pretty fun outcomes.

I hear you on that one for sure. I also have a big pet peeve with what I call Pushover Hermione (and Pushover Harry, though I read less fics centered on him so I see it less personally). The general hand waving that goes into where ‘oh sure that character has been an absolute monster to her, both in canon and sometimes in the fic itself but we’re just going to ignore it because I want them to get together and I don’t want to deal with the problems in the dynamic’. If it’s a PWP one shot then fine, nobody needs complicated discussions of morality in their smut, but for longer fics where Harry and Ron are terrible friends to her to a genuinely shocking extent (like, hurling literal abuse at her on a regular, letting her constantly take the fall for their actions, other properly egregious stuff where you’d literally try and have an intervention if it was your real life friend letting it all happen) and she just waves it off because ‘they’re practically family’ or where her romantic lead is a Death Eater/other some such like but the closest we come to even an acknowledgement of changed beliefs is at best a ‘you’re not like other muggleborns, you’re smart and hot’ thing and she’s somehow just fine with that.

That’s probably my main one. I’ve also got a problem with the Lavender and Hermione Hate Each Other Forever Because They Both Liked the Same Boy At 16 trope. It just feels lazy, especially if the fic explicitly doesn’t have either of them actually getting with Ron, but also just generally. Like, they lived together for the majority of 6 years, they don’t have to be best friends (though I do like them as friends), but odds are a few months of awkwardness isn’t going to completely kill any chance at basic civility between them, and beyond that I think it’s a touch ridiculous acting like two women in their twenties or older with jobs and lives and who literally fought in a war together are still feuding over a high school crush. If they are, that’s a them problem, and I don’t think it’s a very accurate characterization for either of them.

Last one that really gets to me is ‘Dumb Harry’. Like, the boy can be a bit socially oblivious at times, sure. He doesn’t know everything there is to know about the magical world. But he does have basic intelligence, is kind of weirdly perceptive at times, all that good stuff. It’s one thing if he’s not noticing someone flirting with him despite them literally paying his favorite quidditch team to write ‘I Love Harry’ in the sky, that’s fairly canonically accurate tbh, or if he isn’t aware of some niche magical custom established by the Accord of the Banshees in 1786 or whatever because why would he be, but when people go all in on ‘Harry is a complete moron who notices absolutely nothing happening around him ever and knows absolutely nothing about anything’ without giving a very good reason (I can tolerate completely oblivious Harry if he’s being spelled to not notice/remember things and it’s a whole plot thing for instance), it bothers me.

[thevividai]

JOEY COMES FROM A RICH POSH FAMILY WHO LIVES IN THE HIGHER END OF THE BOILING ISLE

he’s Rowan’s cousin but they’re basically brothers from how much time they spend together

He’s a charismatic trans showman who pursued Illusions his parent’s and family were supportive of his career and his identity

He was dumb and got a sigil young and during the day of unity he died like full on died. He doesn’t have a big magic gland so when it got drained so fast it killed him.

He met Vivian when she was interested in Illusions and he tutored her for a while and introduced her to Rowan

Rowan Vivi and Joey then met Saffron who was an outcast for her temper and invited her into their group

Saffron comes from a broken home her mother cheated on her father and when they divorced she lived with her mom who constantly left her alone to go clubbing or partying and she’s had a lot of men enter and leave her life because of her mom this instability makes her lash out at the world with anger issues

She was excluded from a lot of school things because of her temper and because of her mother who was known as a female dog

She met Vivian at lunch when Viv sat with her and they gradually became friends. Vivian was Saffron’s lesbian awakening before she was turned down due to Viv being straight

They remain friends and Saffron joined the potion track

Vivian is indecisive and autistic so she gets special interests for different magic tracks like clockwork which is how she met most of her friends

She’s a friend of Amity’s since their parents are friends but they’re more so ‘Our parents want us to get along so we’re civil’ type “friends.”

She met Alador by accident after getting lost in the blight house since its big as frick wtfff (flying flooking fudge)

She started observing Alador do abomination magic and even got to help a bit further cementing her choice of abomination and bard magic. She got to meet Darius but chose to apprentice under Alador instead.

She doesn’t get a lot of attention at home or in general because she’s shy and has a speech impediment that gets her talked over. So she kinda sees Alador as a dad since he pays attention to her

Rowan lives near hexside and he’s super charismatic and hyper kinda like a husky he’s apart of the drama and acting club but he’s also super smart

He met Saffron because she picked on him- And now they’re inseparable. Saffron died trying to save him during the day of unity although they got her heart pumping before her body went cold so they brought her back

Rowan is in the bard coven and idolizes Raine Whispers he wants to be exactly like them and adores them, he got to meet them once and nearly died from excitement

He met Vivian when she was a new kid and got picked on before Amity’s click picked her up, Rowan busted a guys face in for picking on Vivi so they’re very close as are him and Joey

(Joey = White hair, Vivian = Purple hair, Rowan = Three eyes, And Saffron = Long hair girl)

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a list of things that make me happy bc i haven't been feeling like myself lately and this semester has been rough and not feeling like myself has made me even feel less like myself by making me Very Sad:

my friends. their laughter. their beautiful goofy smiles and their gorgeous faces. their hugs or other expressions of affection. the fact that they will hug me even though i know some of them aren't the biggest huggers in the world. the fact that they listen to me go on and on about things they wouldn't care less about if i wasn't the one saying them. the fact that i would gladly listen to them on and on in rapt fascination about whatever thing they like that i wouldn't care about if it wasn't them saying it. when they send me things and simply say "you." my friend who won't stop offering to help, who gives advice on music all the time.

a separate bullet point, well-earned: the fact that though i am in school to be a musician, every single real friend i've made here is friends with me because they like me as a person, not because of how well i can play my instrument

seeing dogs on campus. the big white service dog with his happy face of pride. the fluffy brown and black mop dog sitting like a stuffed toy under it's owner's chair next to the lake. the pitbull looking thing that was waiting patiently for her guy to get back and keep going on their walk. my friend's dogs who i've met or not met. my sister's dog who is a little bit dumb but smart for a dog and you can see her self awareness in her eyes and the way she's like a child who would give you flowers before telling you the principal is going to call for shitting on the carpet. her bald tail because she wags it so hard that my sister doesn't need to decorate for halloween, and yet she keeps wagging like she doesn't feel the pain of it slapping into everything her height. my tia's dog who's basically a bratty human baby and the time my brother held her and everyone was shocked and amazed bc she'd never looked more in total complete happiness.

kitty cats. campus cats. the black cat who followed me around with the biggest eyes today bc he could smell my unfinished pollo tropical bowl. the orange cat who's meows kind of sound like a person yelling a little bit who rubs against every single surface and the way all the cats turn around from walking away and try to nonchalantly sidle up the second i put my bookbag on the ground bc they know they're gonna get treats. my teacher's cat who's all grown up now and has two brothers, but once upon a time was so small he sat behind me in my chair while i was playing in a lesson, so i had to not move/be very still other than playing in order to not disturb him. and the way he wouldn't fit in my lap then bc i was too small AND he was too small. the old men (two of them, not sure if they even know each other) who come to feed our campus cats every single day at the same time. the old black cat who's very beat up and won't go near anyone other than that one old man, but yet has the highest pitched, baby-iest sounding meow ever.

the magic of musicals. the way the order of operations is "when you can't talk anymore, you sing, and when you can't sing, you dance." how these beautiful intricate constructions tell stories upon stories, some of which most people will never hear unless they get Really Really into it (or it's their job) and they analyze the scores to high heaven. sideways's youtube channel. anastasia. once on this island. les mis. everything sondheim. i can't even begin to describe how much i love musicals. i cannot i truly can't. the first and enduring real love of my life.

my parents, because even though they drive me insane and i frequently (the older i get more like) want to run away and scream that it's all their fault, they have so far always stood by me, and i have always been more or less safe at home (even if they don't know certain things about me that i fear would make that change). their humor. them being my headache.

the time my little brother texted me back "take your rest" when i offered my only spare 30 minutes of the day to help him learn something. that meant a lot to me.

downloading PDF after PDF with far too many pages but knowing i'll at least look through them and learn a little more.

learning. knowing. understanding. knowledge. i love learning i will never stop loving learning and reading about new things about old old old things. about the world.

quiche. that's it quiche makes me happy.

feeling comfy cozy.

breathing.