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Turns out spending 12 years in Azkaban and sleeping in a cave does not do wonders for your hair...

(based off of that one scene in Chapter 185 of ATYD)

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I just hate having no energy, wanting just to lay down at stare at the wall, but at the same time being bored as hell and totally discontented with my own thoughts

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Is it too early for sitting in a park with a book?

Because this is certainly what I need right now.

Three degrees Celsius 🥲🥲🥲

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They look so sweet😭

Moonflower study dates! Because it’s possible to be both academic rivals and the best of friends 🌙🪷😌

James and Sirius are definitely sitting across the table drooling over them

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Art of word

It feels like literature and texts in general are the most free form of art.

I mean they are not limited by anything, but forced censorship and basic grammar.

While video must be beautiful or at least marginally fine-looking to attract attention and music have to be easy on the ear, text can be anything. It doesn't have to comply to any beauty standards or expectations.

Of course literature has it's rules and not all videos have to be exactly beautiful as well as music - melodic and nice.

But it feels like even any horror clip (that is supposed to be hideous) has to fit into some frame and music is limited to the notes, harmonies and stuff. Text in it's turn is different with all the ways it can and will make you uncomfortable.

I was always troubled by the fact that certain characters from books are somehow made more attractive in movies. The only reason for that being attracting audience.

That's why we get Hermione with perfectly fine teeth and Snape looking like he is some dark academia God (and not a greasy-headed man in baggy robes and crooked nose). This upsets me and formed certain ideas.

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episkey - @wolfstarmicrofic - word count: 189

Sirius was not the best student. He was smart- incredibly so- but he couldn't bring himself to care much about school. First if all, school was easy. He could get by without paying much attention. And second, pranks and friends and everything else were much more important, in his opinion.

Which is why it was so shocking to everyone when one day, in fourth year Charms, Sirius raised his hand, looking genuinely curious.

"Er...yes, Mister, Black?" the Professor called on him, looking a bit nervous.

"Could you go over the proper wand work for episkey again?" Sirius asked, scribbling away at the notes he had on his parchment. "I want to be absolutely sure I have it right."

About half the class turned to stare at Sirius, dumbfounded.

"I...yes. Yes, of course," was the response, and Sirius continued writing furiously, nodding along as he listened.

"Sirius...why the sudden interest in Charms?" James whispered to his best friend, nudging him with his elbow.

Sirius took only a second's break to look over at James and whisper back earnestly, "Never know when Moony might need our help, mate."

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It is what it is *throws up*

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#almost every single day of my life actually

Bilbo: Do you ever have one of those days when you're holding a stick

Bilbo: And e v e r y o n e looks like a piñata?

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Random Plot Points

A little about me as a writer, I love daydreaming about adventure stories. I usually know the general set up and larger plot points but oftentimes struggle with the how, how do characters get from point A to point B. 

So, I made a list of random challenges for my characters that I look at when I'm stuck.

Sharing in case helpful to others! (intended for adventure, sci-fi, fantasy stories) 

characters are delayed/blocked/experience a natural disaster (storm, fire, flood, avalanche, earthquake, epidemic, etc) (BONUS and forced to take a detour from the original path)

character(s) is trapped (quick sand, fall through ice, in room filling with poison, on sinking ship, in a trash compactor on the Death Star, etc) (BONUS- fall into hidden room and discover something) 

characters go to a festival/ball/party/political summit (where inevitably it all goes wrong)

character(s) overhears a secret (at bar, at party, from a whispered conversation below them in a stairway, etc) 

characters are attacked by an animal or mysterious force 

characters(s) caught in a mob/riot

character wins/loses something in a bet

character is brainwashed or possessed 

character is stranded/lost

character is poisoned 

character succumbs to injury or illness 

characters are chased/ attacked by antagonists 

character is captured or arrested (and needs to be rescued)

character is kidnapped and kidnappers make a demand for their release (financial ransom, exchange of information, prisoner exchange, etc) 

character(s) go undercover to retrieve information

characters decide to steal something they need for their quest (weapon, magical object, money, information, etc). (BONUS- time for a well-planned heist!) 

characters need to protect/ retrieve/ destroy something 

characters uncover a network of spies (up to you if they're unexpected allies or antagonists)  

characters discover hidden passageway, room, ruins etc that leads to an important clue

characters forced to hide from someone/something

characters need to escape 

characters lured into trap set by villain (BONUS if the villain doesn't even care who wins but only goaded them to learn how a magical object works, the extent of heroes powers, emergency response system of a government, etc) 

characters set trap for villain (BONUS- use someone or something important as bait) (if in Act 2, they fail) 

characters reveal critical information to villain in disguise 

a character is mistaken for someone else (and then is wrongfully arrested, receives information not intended for them, etc) 

characters receive help (hitch a ride, get help hiding from captors, get help escaping somewhere, etc) from an unlikely new ally 

characters forced to team up with an unlikely ally/ morally grey character, etc

characters learn something from simple library research (an oldie but a goodie)

characters just literally just stumble upon or witness something important (secret weapon, secret society etc) 

characters uncover a secret map/ coded message on the back of an old unassuming document (time for a classic treasure hunt!) 

someone escapes from prison (an old villain or an old ally) that changes the quest 

someone is being blackmailed (or otherwise forced to act against the protagonists)

someone is discredited (rumor, disinformation campaign etc) 

something stolen from your characters 

something (document, magical object, money) turns out to be fake

OR, something unassuming turns out to have special powers or meaning  

something is hacked (defense system, infrastructure, bank, private records, etc)

something critical is attacked (important bridge, port, bank/ financial system, safehouse, capitol building, character's familial home, etc.)

a computer virus is unleashed 

a biological weapon is unleashed 

a piece of information the characters believed was true, is false 

an ancient myth turns out to be true 

a secret is made public 

A law is changed or a vote on a critical piece of legislation loses/wins 

a political opponent wins an election/ a political ally loses an election 

character(s) help a passerby (from raiders, local tyrant, beast, mystical force, etc) 

characters "follow the money" and realize someone who was thought to be their ally is actually working for... (crime syndicate, villain, local tyrant etc) 

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Yatai

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Sirius: *Rambling about a hyper fixation*

Remus: *Interrupts to tell Sirius how he loves to hear him talk and to hear him talk about something important to him*

Sirius: *brain short-circuits*

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Jeez smb said it at last

I hate the use of “identity” and “identify” when talking about sexuality. I don’t identify as a lesbian, I am a lesbian. I always have been one and I always will be one. This is part of what makes up my identity as a person, but my sexuality itself is not “my identity”. I have a lot more going on for myself than just my sexuality.

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My relationship with German

"It's complicated" :)

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I also feel like everywhere I go my little shitheads who happen to be my characters "follow me".

Like, they are not even completed. Their personalities are vague and the pictures of them in my head are unclear.

Some kind of ghosts who are like "you forgot us. Yeah, u left us for long again. He is suffering and I don't know what to do with myself. Ur bad mum. "

And it kind of pisses me off

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This is the advice I never knew I needed, and now I feel bad that it wasn't there for me before.

writers, don’t delete that sentence you think isn’t good. have it saved in a separate folder where you can come back to later. because here’s the secret, more often than not, those sentences/paragraphs you hated ended up being not just good but great when you came back and reread them later.

and the reason you even disliked them at first is mostly because writing can understandably take a lot of energy from you, and when your brain is tired, it tricks you into hating your own creation and thinking that it’s bad, when it could in fact be a masterpiece.

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The best kind of classes we are having right now.

Just casually listening old school pop/rock and German folk instead of actually learning German.

Oh I love studying ✨