#<— ​those are the two shipnames i’ve been using for these three

[spac3trash]

polymar!!!

twitter really liked this one, so thought I’d share it here too,,,

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001 FOR THR ASK THING I NEED TO KNOW

Here have this incoherent ramble <333

Favorite character: DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE! AAAAAAAAAA

When I first got into it I really liked Duck, then I grew to really like Yellow, but now… I can’t choose no matter the situation. They’re all my lovely skrungly gremlins, I love them equally, yet in… different ways? Same love, but… different reasons.

Least Favorite character: …………………..the larvae creature from webseries 3. Real ones will get it.

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon):

********DEEPLY INHALES********

Well. You know I don’t… se the characters the same ways that you do. Of course, specifically Yellow and his age. And I deeply respect you for your views, as well as your ships.

I… I quite like fluffybird. It’s nice, ‘classic’. It realy got me into the fandom and I fiit funny. Red and Duck are like those two friends where they both get up  to mad shit when unattended together. Old man yells at old man. Wonderful. Noit much can be said that hasn’t been said already, really. And also, along with that, lately I’ve really been liking….. imma call it rubberduck.

Kind of fruity to longingly look at a picture of your dead mate, hand on your heart, while sitting on his bed and singing longingly about your old life together. Kinda fruity to wear his overcoat and be so grief-stricken that you grab a shovel to dig him up.

Third, uh…. LOVEBUG! I’m as sucker for LoveBug because realistically Warren could NOT pull Shrignold but it’s funny to imagine the most homophobic little insect falling for the grossest ickiest boy ever and believing him  to be a miracle sent from Malcolm himself.

…………………………………………I’m also a PaperWiresandClockwork enthusiast because I believe in ‘make love, not war’. I don’t like seeing people fight over Padlock and DigitalTime, it’s kind of…. Uncomfortable? Especially when genders are brought up. From my own pansexual perspective I see no problem why Tony shouldn’t be with either of them. Unless he’s related to one or one was actually a child, which isn’t likely. Also TimeChild is their son <3 he has his Clock Dad’s posh accent, his Computer Dad’s technological advancement, and his Paper Mum’s creativity.

Fifth….. Lesley and Roy. I like the idea of them being bitter eldritch divorces fighting over the custody of their creations [and son], but I also like their Padlock-esque darkness, where they beat the shit out of eachother and end up fine a second later.

Character I find most attractive: ………again, Christ, don’t make me choose between these cringefail grimy loser men……. With their stupid cute mullet and old man twead dress sense and a literal nudist.

Character I would marry: ………….there’s three of them…………… I can have three wives…………. Wow…………………….

Character I would be best friends with: Hmm… Sketchbook. She seems really chill in comparison to the other teachers and I think I’d get along with them. Also Grampa Chooch [my name for Transport Guy]. Because he’s funny. But in all honesty I want to be friends with all of them because they’re all  so dear to my heart <3

A random thought: Yum yum yum

An unpopular opinion: uh…………………… creativity is creativity, as long as it’s not illegal or would be deemed illegal if it was real.

My Canon OTP: 1920 [Roy and Lesley’s shipname, which I like a lot so props to whoever came up with it]

My Non-canon OTP: ………..FluffyBird has not been officially confirmed, it is basically confirmed but not properly. Also RubberDuck.

Most Badass Character: Duck. I don’t even need to explain he’s just so slay. The serve. Go girl give us nothing.

Most Epic Villain: Lesley. Sorry Roy but she is absolutely serving in that outfit. The reveal. The absolute glamour.

Pairing I am not a fan of: uh………. I’m pretty chill with it. I’m even chill with Claire. I’m  just not fond of incestuous/predatory ships. At all. In fact they can go into the greasefire.

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): …no one? They’re all done pretty well to me, there’s not much to add here.

Favourite Friendship: Red and Yellow. Despite me literally F/O-ing the Three of Them, I like Yellow and Red being friends to each other, friends so tight they share a love. Slay.

Character I most identify with: …the reason I love the three is how deeply I relate to all, but all in different ways.

Red because of his deep need to find others ‘like him’, but when he does… they end up not liking him. As a foster child, who never knew much of my own family at all, but then meeting my dad’s side it just… it gets me in the gut every time.

With Duck, it’s the annoyance. I can be annoying, I can awfully blunt, and unknowingly mean without ever even knowing it.

With Yellow… it’s the constant bashing he gets for being him and for accidental mishaps. He just wants to create, be it music or paintings, but nobody wants to let him flourish, they won’t let him think. Sometimes it hurts when I try to think, when it’s too loud or I’m overstimulated.

Character I wish I could be: OATS. REAL ONES’LL GET IT.

[batarangsoundsdumb]

hae interrogationes multae respondeant quia demens .

if you read this entire ask post you deserve a gold star and financial recompensation

Um, Obviously because when you’re adopted by a white guy you automatically become white duhhh

this is about this post lmao and yeah youre absolutely right, you have to hand your poc card in when you get adopted by a white guy.

Do you think Cass would listen to Yanni, the YouTube channel epic symphonic rock, or some other stuff? There's some cool mashups but idk if that's up your alley, I kinda feel like I'm pushing it with my weird taste of music by recommending an orchestra cover of metal, but i just love that sort of thing and mashups :P @harvestyourcherries 

i haven’t heard of that? but in my personal (correct) opinion steph listens to classical music, and then both modern and older, and then also stuff like black sabbath, iron maiden, but also hardrock and hardcore. i like the idea of cass just liking the most extreme screaming songs full of noise and then also listen to pachelbel’s 370th sonata yanno? THANK YOU for the rec tho

speaking of ur cass playlist hc...reminds of the time (yesterday) i found 2 playlists randomly on spotify from the same user. one was abt 3 hours of instrumental/classical "dark" & "nostalgic" music. the other almost 11 hours of nothing but hardcore bass/synth/electronic music. just an incredible tightrope act to put on in public. the synth one was also called like "psalms for synth sluts" which is Also incredible

tbh i LOVE synth SO MUCH like for no reason at all but then also cannot handle a poppy electronic beat lmao. but this seems like the kinda thing i’d do but just in one (1) playlist bc i just sort songs by vibe instead of genre? that’s how i end up with britney spears and billy ray cyrus in the same playlist. 

Oh, I want Kate Kane playlist next! It would be amazing if you could do one when you have time and will 🙏

how rude would it be of me to just say no? like sorry kate but idk you and also you seem way too keen on the us military for an institution that homophobically targeted you? (and also commits war crimes) but let’s unpack the fact that the institution that caused the death of your mom and sister and also got you blacklisted for being gay is still one you align with???

'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' --- when i tell you i fucking screamed LOL!!!!!!! i can imagine the cameraman not knowing if he should cut to commercial or keep it on these two weirdos fighting on stage (bruce definitely ruffled dick's hair/noogied him right?? 

about this post but yeah lmao. this cameraman just turns to like the audience to get a reaction and it’s just multiple moments of CLEAR shock.

you are the only funny person on this hellsite

how egotistical is it for me to say that i get this ask multiple times a month? bc it literally happens so often it’s hilarious to me.

Wish there was more john/Bruce content 😔😔😔 was so hungry I actually looked at canon media 😔😔😔 (Justice League Dark babeeeyyyyyy)

check out batman: damned for some mediocre content but at least it’s john/bruce (also very interesting story and stuff, just got very >:( over this weird part where harley quinn tried to r*pe bruce or something? it’s not for everyone)

dick grayson but he's nicki minaj

his anaconda don’t want none,,, unless...... 

Dick Grayson was never a cop, he played Marshall on Paw Patrol

you are SO right. also paw patrol is a fucking good show idc. that shit could’ve been the new steven universe on this hellsite.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CS1lI0bLI7-/?utm_medium=copy_link

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why do people keep reposting my CONTENT. if you are not funny yourself don’t just grab shit off of tumblr and post it on insta,,, get a life. sidenote: should i start an insta and get all these ppl to take my content down that would be funny as hell.

Might I suggest for a Gotham City Meme: something about the true crime fandom thirsting for the rogues gallery

ok can i just say something slightly controversial?? no? i don’t find true crime ppl who are into criminals funny, that shits disturbing irl im not gonna bring that into my very chill universe.

i may have never seen a 'jason cleaning guns in sink' fic but i do know he WOULD

THANK YOU

bestie im sorry to say this to you but while you can, and people do wash their guns in the sink, that is a lot of lead in a very vital part of the kitchen.

people tend to do it in the bathtub.

WHY???? like damn why do you even have guns

i dont think i read many gun sink fics exactly but i have read lots of fics where jason cleanes his guns in the living room. usualy dissembles them and cleans them with a rag i think

lmao fair enough, like i think that’s a large part of what i remember as well.

if you say you've seen/read gun sink fics I believe you. I think those of us who didn't see them are lucky or maybe didn't search for fics by tags or something idk

i mean ive never sought them out but i HAVE seen them,, like definitely i know almost for certain.

saw your tags and I'm interested in Steph/Kara now. They would be the most chaotic couple <3

literally thoooo, i have a wip where they get together in a zombie apocalypse and like UGGGHhhh i am so in love with them.

I am the Breece anon. Thanks for the recommendation; am reading now. I’ve always been a hardcore Superman fan because I love my pure himbo farm boy. My logic is, if one Bruce is a Broose, then multiple Broose are a herd of Breece. And this is a hill upon which I will perish.

fair enough,,,, like moose, meese, goose, geese, bruce, breece. i get your logic and i stand by it as well. (glad you enjoyed the comic recs!!!!)

It's a beautiful day in Gotham, and you are a group of horrible Breece

OH my god dude lmao

there only being 42 fics on ao3 for tim and bernard is honestly so sad i need more

it’s like twice that now!!! we did it lads. (tho very sad that my fic isnt number one but like number 4 :((((  )

i'm too late you already did the poll lol but may i suggest bethy (bernard + timothy)

shit dude that wouldve been so fucking funnyyyyy. think ppl have just stuck to timber tho, tim/bernard kinda died down recently and i think it’s too bad, they’re a great couple and i love them.

Wait, hear me out

Bernothy @redlightofdawn

great recommendation (lmao this ask is from like a month ago) but very sorry to announce that NARDTH is the superior shipname

Wait, we know that bernard likes milfs (Tim's step-mom) but what about dilfs? gilfs?

Wait no, I regret sending that ask

these were two seperate asks and they’re HILARIOUS. in my personal opinion tho,,, milfs, gilfs, dilfs are just about vibes and bernard is just attracted to sexy ppl who may sometimes be milfs, dilfs, or EVEN gilfs.

crime in bludhaven would drop to half if nightwing had a boob window. in this essay i will-

WHERE’S THE ESSAY ANON, WHERE’S THE FUCKING ESSAY

Wait if Barbra and Tim r at opposite ends at all times what happened to Barbra once everyone’s Tim’s ever love before started dying lol

she won a lottery ticket and spent 2 weeks on a resort in the bahamas before returning home and finding out that the joker was arrested for tax evasion and then spent a month staying at her big tiddie goth girlfriend’s house before conner came back to life and she broke her pinkie playing table hockey.

Why is the opposite end thing so funny and compelling to me. Tim comes back from his depression quest for Bruce and Babs is now a literal god

lmao when tim loses his spleen barbara reaches nirvana.

Are you still taking music recs because I have three songs that remind me of Jason that I think you'd like

send to me or lose a toe

🌸 ⭐ put this star into the inbox of your favorite blogs. it’s time to spread positivity! ⭐🌸😋

thanks, i wont tho on account of i wont.

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This is the whole of Blüdhaven and everyone anywhere.

Nightwings ass alone saves more people in a calendar year and does more for so society than most heroes do their whole career.Also u are one of the funniest tumblr pages out there. The vibes are unmatched and the memes and tags ✨send me✨.Thank u and goodnight @julia-flow 

fanksss also lmao.

That's going to be a little bit difficult to explain, but

There's some music that you listen to and you think, "oh my gosh, I can perfectly imagine Dick Grayson singing this song, with the same voice as the singer because that voice matches with Dick Grayson"?

oh yeah totally lmao. i have a lot of songs that i think are just entirely dick grayson yanno? kind of all of my playlists have that vibe, but i really find bleachers to fit with dick? idk.

"Lois lane/Superman" fics this, "Lois lane/Clark Kent" fics that, (/lh) let's get into the real good stuff. Some people ship Lois, Clark, and Superman as a throuple. Most popular fic tag for sure

yes totally, i think they’d be absolutely killer on ao3 and clark gets so fucking embarassed about it.

I miss your post, hope you’re doing okay!!

haha this was like 2 months ago, but i was doing fine then too! just didn’t have a lot of inspiration in terms of content.

Doot doot!

noot noot

I’m confused. What did DC do now? Like with nightwing? And another sibling? Please spoil everything for me

lmao they gave him a secret sister plotline where they had his dad cheat on his mom with tony zucco’s wife, bc dick’s life wasn’t traumatic enough yet.

sorry but it's so funny that batman is called "the dark knight" when the gotham city baseball team is called the gotham knights. it'd be like if a vigilante was running around new york called like "the scary yankee"

lmaooo no. but like yankee comes from dutch names or something so wouldnt it be HILARIOUS if gotham knights came from like german names and bruce would be running around called the dark KLAUS UND NIEK @graysonnightwing 

(not a batcest shipper) it’s so funny to me that the responses are “i’m a batcest shipper because i can differentiate fiction from reality and and it doesn’t bother me personally, but i understand why you oils think it’s weird” to “i wish all batcest shippers a very fucking die”

yeah lmaoo. i personally basically flipped my entire stance around to ‘i dont care please leave me and everybody else alone’ bc i think there’s really no point in starting a moral dillema over some fucking fandom bullshit. Please just,,, go home,,, log off, find a nice forest to have a little walk in and remember that somewhere in history, somebody probably died in the place you’re standing. and you will also die someday, and somebody will have to look at your internet usage and see you fighting multiple people anonymously while being named ‘nightwingsbuttchin200186′ like... calm down, we’re all gonna die this is not the thing to worry about.

so since like "wards" don't really exist in modern society almost all the batkids are foster kids, right? i used to work in the system and imagine: monthly visits from social workers and guardian ad litems, bruce having to get permission to take the boys anywhere out of state, calling their social worker at like 8 a.m. like "yeah dick broke his arm again... a gymnastics accident this time...." their poor social worker. bruce send her a huge bouquet and box of chocolates every month to stay on her good side

i imagine the social worker just getting into the case like ‘yeah let’s get this kid a good guardian’ and then ending up having to work with 22 y/o bruce wayne and his 50 y/o dad. and so this social worker is like ‘okay we can work with this, this is the best home i can find’ and then like it ends up landing on its feet and then the kid gets adopted and then they get a call a year later like ‘uhm so hi, this kid tried to steal my tyres can i adopt him?’ and like 3 years later. ‘okay so basically, my neighbours’ kid imprinted on me and now they’re dead, can i keep him?’ two years later it’s like ‘okay so this assassin child-’

ever since I saw that one post of yours, the meme that's something like "I know that abba's backup dancer got me" with a picture of discowing, I've been haunted. Every once in a while I'll be minding my own business then the image of abba's backup dancer dick grayson aka nightwing aka discowing will flash in my mind and I'll be frozen in place. Today at work I was in the middle of folding clothes and suddenly once again discowing entered my mind and I suddenly lost the ability to see anything except He. Thank you.

wow. the IMPACT.

Braver than any US marine man props to you🤝

this shit is about the time i wrote an article on batcest, like man,,, the fact that i didn’t get cancelled is MIRACULOUS. also like,,, uh if anybody on here did gossip on me,, send screenshots i’d love to see it.

Hello, just wanted to say your article was great. Thank you for taking the time to provide an unbaised answer. It should provide people with nuances they couldn't possibly conjure on their own.

May I ask where your username originates from?

yes you may (also thanks!!!) i thought it up when i was trying to find an original username bc i didnt want to be called like ‘timdrakes something something’ or ‘jason todd something smoething’ or ‘dick grayson something something’ yanno? so i thought batarangs, they sound so dumb and that’s my username story... now it’s my whole entire brand lmao.

yno that bit in kick ass where red mist asks kick ass if he wants a hit of his blunt, was that the inspo for stoner tim

no? it’s bc i think stoners are hilarious and drugs are great. (dont do drugs tho) 

How would u feel if someone actually wore one of those bruce or ollie pride shirts u edited

fenomenal next question.

Dick as lil huddy and Jason as James gave me radiation poisoning and now I’m screaming crying throwing up so thx for that

(Rico suave as Tim is perfect tho literally no changes needed)

i was so funny for that shit wasn’t i??? lmao i loved those weird ass fancasts

You're doing the Lord's work by providing us with all these Gotham/Metropolis citizens memes, thank you for being so relentlessly funny @nellethiel-aranel

you’re welcome!! i really enjoy making memes, but getting validation for my content and my memes is REALLY nice.

Bruce is such a slut in your memes and honestly i love that for him @rhodey-rhudert-rhodes-main 

he’s that much of a slut irl too dw.

Bruce and Alfred have an emergency pride flag for the batkids. Oliver Queen printed an emergency "I love my gay son" t-shirt and as soon as Roy told him he was dating Jason, Oliver started wearing that shirt everyday and Roy always cringes when he sees it. Oliver also has an emergency "I love my lesbian daughter" shirt just in case for Cissie.

lmao YES i had a post like this bc like all of their kids/family members are so gayy

stop bringing back batfam fancasts it is not real it is not real it is not- 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

oh yes it is my darling.

did discowing burn down the notredam because he hates the bees? @allulily

no he did it bc fuck the french.

im gonna beg for 1 thing and 1 thing only. please please please put physical by olivia newton john on dick's playlist

okay then beg. bc i wont. physical reminds me too much of glee and that hurts me mentally.

your playlist is sorely missing some Madonna. Specifically Into the Groove, Like a Prayer, and Vogue

i’m scared of madonna that’s why she’s not on there. she haunts me in my dreams.

suggestion: son of batman by aaron dews for dick’s playlist🤩

sorry, i listened to it and the vibe didn’t agree with me.

Hear me out, metropolis citizens sending rare pair fics of Clark Kent x Superman fics to Lois to edit

yes, absolutely hilarious. even more funny if they send like physical copies, no address attached and lois sends it back marked with red ink, SOMEHOW

Imagine all the smut Clark must of read editing the fics

clark reads smut confirmeeed

NOT LOIS READING SUPERBAT PORN AND EDITING IT A 2AM 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hc that alfred is a meta that boosts healing factor of the people around him. if the bats are injured as much as they seem to be they would be doing bat stuff MAYBE half the year. no one including alfred knows about this. whenever the kids move out they inexplicably dont recover from injuries as fast and feel better whenever they visit the manor they just chalk it up to homesickness. bruce just thinks he heals really fast. alfred thinks everyone doesnt take care of themselves properly @finchcollector

that’s actually such a great idea, but i think that alfred would find out and learn how to concentrate it better so he can help more people, bc he’s great and i love him.

One of your dickfast posts reminded me of that tweet that goes: 'so you've had sex how many times? Yeah technically that's not a bromance' lol that's dickwally or dickroy

literally tho. like that’s all of dick’s friendships. once it gets past a certain time dick is like ‘wow i wonder what it would be like to make out with wally, wally come make out with me’ and wally’s like ‘we’ve done this like 40 times, dick, you know what it’s like’ and dick is like ‘sorry are you complaining?’ and they just make out.

superfam and batfam associations??

-batman and superman

-dick/barabara and supergirl?

-conner and tim

-jon and damian

pls enlighten me I am confused

nope,,, uhm batman and superman, but dick and superman as well, and then conner and tim, jon and damian and steph + babs with supergirl

I came across a fic in which Wonder Woman calls Batman "Stella" (like Stellaluna, the children's book) and I can imagine the batkids hop on the trend and maybe copies of the book appear at random places (aka, everywhere Bruce frequents)

sorry can’t reciprocate that was the name of my high school chemistry teacher and it gives me nightmares to think about.

good human what are your pronouns?

wouldn’t you like to know?

I need me some gothamites preferring harley over joker memes

everyone prefers harley over joker youre just very fucked up if you dont

don't understand why people try to add like veteran policy to the batfamily

dick pulling out his veteran batfam member card so he can eat first: step aside, peasants

Do you know the song Simmer by Haley Williams? It (the first verse anyways) reminds me of Jason? It's about rage.

damn yeah i LOVE HAYLEY!!!! youre right thoo

Okay so I like listen to your stoner Tim Drake playlist 24/7 but would he listen to skegss? Also I keep adding songs mentally it’s killing me 😩✋🏼 Anyways,, I literally love and worship your playlist 😃🤞🏼 And uh yeah have a good day ✨

stoner tim drake playlist is lyfeeee. also dont know who skeggs is? i’m stupid? have a good day!!

All the Robins (and Batgirl) decide to trade costumes for one night just to fuck with Batman and all the villains in Gotham. @subspacecadet 

batman knows it’s them youknow but like,,, what does he call them? he’s like ‘red hood?’ and 3 people answer and he’s not about to compromise some identities so he’s just Pissed.

I aspire to treat cops the way my dad treats them. This man is a 45 year old Asian immigrant to the US and the treats them like his pets. He talks about them like unruly children. Sometimes he pays off local cops to shut up and stop acting racist. And usually it works. I don’t know why but I can see Oliver Queen doing this

vibes... and also yes? oliver queen handing a local cop a donut to shut the fuck up lmao. but yanno i commit enough crimes to not really want to ever see a cop ever, so they kinda scare the everloving fuck out of me.

seeing as tim hasn't aged in years, that means he was 17 at peak emo tumblr era. im back on my emo tim bullshit and im not letting it go

emo tim had a wattpad account send tweet

People seem to think that batman is so dark and serious when the rainbow batsuit is right there. He wore it with no shame.

dude the 60s were a DIFFERENT TIME

dick grew up in a circus, jason grew up on the streets, and tim was probably raised by the internet

all of them cuss every other word and you cannot tell me otherwise

bitch i KNOW but dc has to change to an 18+ rating if they want to sell comix with swear words in them so we gotta deal with imagining the swear words in ourselves

thoughts on teen titans and young justice

haven’t seen teen titans on account of havent seen it and young justice was LITERALLY my favourite thing ever, tho i do gotta admit it’s not at all similar to the young justice comics unfortunately. i really wouldve liked to see timmy bart kon cassie and cissie animated on tv!!

ew ew ew how to delete batcest shippers I genuinely digust them

log off tumblr?

Okay as poc who was called racist for calling an Italian pastabrain: in the batfam are Italians bit Damian just yells various insults about the others being Italian. Just him yelling “What are you doing you moronic spaghettihead!” At steph etc

huh? i meant real italians. homeboy is telling steph he hopes she chokes on her fucking garlic.

I think it's dumb as hell to pull the batman is the best fighter in the batfam argument because like it's just irresponsible of Bruce to let his kids fight when they couldn't possibly be on his league or something

fair enough, but also like who cares they could all kill you just sit down and take a beating.

lady shiva, thalia al ghul and Selina Kyle are all milfs @notanothertimburtonenthusiastugh 

unfortunately, i have to admit,,, you’re right

why tf didn't someone give joker a death sentence already? like he's a mass murderer...give him the electric chair treatment wtf

idk i think plenty of people would have tried to murder him already (boring answer is: he is a popular character so they can’t kill him off bc he brings in lots of money)

There’s no such thing as “ copaganda”.

all american media is propaganda. happy to clear this up for you

is it bad that I find lady shiva owa owa

no. find her as owa owa as you want.

aight I'm guessing the order of your favs in batfam:

1. tim

2. Steph

3. dick

4. Duke

5. the rest

you’re wrong but it’s cute that you tried, i generally don’t have favourites, but i have a special place in my heart for steph, tim, dick and cass. bc they were like my introduction to batfam. but damian, jason, duke, bruce, babs and alfred are NOT FORGOTTEN OR UNLOVED

oh my god i was literally just readily willing to believe that italians werent white ty for clarifying it was a joke im so dumb sdkvjskdfs

i mean some italians aren’t white? italian is a nationality as well as an ethnicity, so like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

since I saw so many people doing headcanons about the nationalities of batboys, I see Dick as an Italian.

dont know if youre serious or not, but sure.

super random but

jason 🤝 damian

old english

lmao fair enough.

tim absolutely has 1 gay uncle and his parents shit talk said uncle all the time so after bruce adopts him he specifically reaches out to this uncle to be like "heyyyy just so you know you majorly influenced my life yes i know i havent seen you since i was 5 and at the family reunion yes i know you dont remember my name idc thank you im gay too" and then they never talk again.

yuppp lmao that’s definitely something that could happen. i can also consider tim having no family members, like none. until he does like a dna test and he realises he has like an aunt living barely 2 miles away from him who’s like some illegitimate child of his grandpa.

I dare you one of them sends clark superman/clark fic and clark corrects the shit out of it and then goes like ps his dick is not that big, just telling as someone who has seen it. internet either explodes or goes who tf did he not fuck at this point.

i think everybody would call clark a buzzkill and try to cancel him over that.

so you're telling me Tim Drake wouldn't buy Starbucks?

no. dunkin donuts all the way

One of my favorite things is imagining people finding out jason came back from the dead and being like "oh no does he have magic powers now?!?!?" and he just pulls out a gun and tries to shoot joker

now he doesn’t even have the gun :) lmao

my favorite batfamily fanfictions are the ones where they use their shitty codenames, unironically, in any context

bruce gets codename ‘ugh’ everytime. he hates it.

crazy that tim being a 17 y/o ceo and a stoner who does brand deals are all actual canon things written in detective comics comics and not made up for shits and giggles by you, tumblr user batarangsoundsdumb @rowdeyclown

SO CRAZY HUH?

batman au where everything is the same but his utility belt is bright pink

absolutely, but i raise you, his boots light up like sketchers when he kicks people.

unbeknownst to the superhero fandom writers in the dcuniverse, clark and BRUCE are one of the most prolific fanfic writers in the superhero rpf tag on ao3. clark writes the best lois x superman angst, full of unhappy endings and scenes that are a so detailed you'd think you were in the middle of a superhero beatdown. bruce made an ao3 account to fuel "the do the butts match" thing, and makes batman/bruce fics from time to time. he wrote a superbat fic as a joke but ended up making it REAL porny. @concrastinator

dude they’re WAY too busy for that. Oliver Queen and Hal Jordan on the other hand are the most prolific fanfic writers in the superhero rpf tag writing what is Mostly porn.

When the dining table topic gets to politics, Steph says "eat the rich" as the solution

bruce just silently takes away her fork and knife while she’s talking.

[ablogthatishenceforthmine]

My Thoughts On Titans Season 3 Trailer

Overall

So, the trailer was pretty much what I expected (and I don’t mean that disparagingly); mostly focusing on Red Hood and new Gotham setting, but with a fair amount of other stuff, with most character getting at least one moment that emphasized them.

The characters who I felt got the most focus were Red Hood/Jason, Dick, Babs, and Kory (in that order). No, this isn’t based on a quantitative analysis of screen time in the trailer, just a general feeling of who was emphasized that I came away with. But overall, it didn’t feel that unbalanced to me, and felt like is tried to give at least something to most of the characters.

Kory

Kory looks so good! Like so so good! I can’t get over it. I know people were hoping to see more of her (and I for one could always take more Kory), but I didn’t feel like she was sidelined. As previously stated, I felt like she got the fourth most focus/emphasis (and Titans has a lot of characters). And she got the final line of the trailer, which I don’t think is insignificant.

Blackfire

I know people are also disappointed by the amount of Blackfire in the trailer. But, I don’t think that necessarily reflects her role in the season. And I don’t necessarily mind. There are many possible reasons that she was only in a few shots. They could want to keep her role and what she is doing under wraps (if this is the case then I support it, because I kind of want to be surprised with her story). Or the trailer could only be from the first few eps, and her role in those may be smaller. Or a lot of other reasons. Based on how much she’s been filming, I’m not super worried about Blackfire’s presence in the season.

Dickkory

I, like a lot of fans, were disappointed with the lack of Dickkory in the trailer, but, I didn’t really go in with any expectations of what we would see of them in the trailer. So, I’m not upset or angry; it’s just something I would have liked to see. I also think you can’t tell anything about Dickkory this season from the lack of them in the trailer. They might get together this season, they might not. This trailer doesn’t say anything in regards to that; it’s totally neutral.  I don’t think the lack of them in the trailer says that they won’t happen or that they won’t have that many scenes together. I’ve seen some people convinced that they will never happen or that they won’t have scenes this season because of this trailer, and I think that is WAYY too much to extrapolate from a trailer. A trailer only tells you a very limited of stuff, and doesn’t always mean that much. While I have no idea if we will get romantic Dickkory this season, I do really think we’ll at least get some scenes, based off things one of the writers and the Titans account said on twitter. Now many scenes they’ll be or if it will be building to a romance, I have no idea, and I don’t think anyone else can reasonably say so either based off the small amount of info about them and this season that’s been released. 

Also, on this subject, while the writer’s and Titans twitter’s account responses about Dickkory have been encouraging, I also don’t think that means we will necessarily see them in a romance this season. For one, for some people using a shipname might not necessarily using or seeing it in a romantic way. They might see Dickkory as referring to Dick and Kory and their general relationship, and not as referring to a romantic relationship. I’ve definitely seen that happen with other fandoms, where people behind TV shows would respond to or use shipnames just to refer to a dynamic between two characters. Now, I’m not saying that’s the case here (I actually lean more towards that it’s not), but it is still a possibility that I think a lot of people overlook. I’m not trying to discourage anybody or rain on anybody’s parade, I just don’t want people to feel they have been definitively promised something. I’ve seen this a lot in fandoms (people feeling they were promised something and getting angry when they don’t get it) and often it comes from a miscommunication between the creative teams and fans. That being said, I am still pretty confident we’ll get more scenes between them in season 3 than we did and season 2, and am also hopeful about their romantic future in the series; nothing in this trailer changed that.

Dick

I so a lot of people fearing that Dick will take up the Batman mantle, and again I don’t think that’s NECESSARILY the case. It might be! But it might not. For one, we didn’t see Dick’s response to Bruce’s request. And second, it’s unclear what Bruce even means by telling Dick he needs to be a better Batman. He could be referring to literally being Batman, or he could referring to “Batman” just as a superhero who protects Gotham. In the latter case, Bruce could just want Dick to protect Gotham as Nightwing. Like most things in this trailer, and most trailers, it’s unclear. Overall, despite his prominence in the trailer, I didn’t get a good feel of what Dick’s story would be this season, so I don’t really have any judgements on his character this season yet.

Babs

I’m excited to see Babs this season. I’m intrigued (although I little worried) to see her dynamic with Dick. I’m diehard Dickkory, so I hope it doesn’t turn romantic. But if it happens, it happens. While I definitely see tension between them in the trailer, I didn’t get the impression that they hate each other, like some people did. For one, there’s only like two or three scenes between them, and one is delivering exposition. And the other seems tense, but not hateful. The writer said on twitter that their relationship would be one of respect, so I don’t think they will be hating each other. I hope that their dynamic is one where they disagree and argue with each other, but there’s still that respect there and that it doesn’t turn romantic again. But we’ll have to see!

I’m also curious to see how much of the season she is in. I’ve heard it thrown around online that she is only going to be in 5 or 6 episodes. But I have no idea where this idea originated. Does anyone know? I think it might be from IMDB, in which case it might not be accurate. IMDB is very inconsistent when it comes to the accuracy of information posted there. And given that she is on the poster, it might be more than that. But again, I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Trailers in General

In fandom in general, I think people really overestimate how much they can gleam about the actual show or movie from trailers and other marketing materials. First and foremost, trailers are intended to advertise a show or movie, not give an accurate representation of what the movie or season will be. Trailers can often be misleading, but even when they are not, they are only giving viewers limited information, and without context. Often, trailers aren’t even made by the writing or directing team, but by an in-house marketing team at the company that produced the show/movie or an outside.

Really, trailers are just giving viewers breadcrumbs; sometimes accurate breadcrumbs, sometimes misleading breadcrumbs. But that thing is, it’s impossible to know how accurate a trailer is until you see that actual show/movie it’s advertising. So, you can never really know ahead of time how representative what you’re seeing in a trailer is of the actual movie/show. 

Not to mention, there is very little context for the scenes, images, and lines of dialogue you are seeing. And in understanding scenes, and characters, context is EVERYTHING. And for TV shows, you also don’t know how much of the season the trailer is using. This titans trailer could only be using a few episodes, or it could be more. There is no way of knowing unless we’re told. There is just so much uncertainty with trailers.

When it comes down to it, trailers are just scenes, lines, and images completely removed from their context.

But unfortunately, I think fandom can sometimes treat trailers as a lot more than this, believing they have a better understanding of what they season/movie is going to be than they possibly could given the nature of trailers. Sometimes these impressions are right! But i just find it so hard to ever know.

[hobisexually]

Listen I am so confused? I never watched supernatural but i thought that at leastbone person in the shio was the guy from Gilmore Girls and it’s not? Also I watched the clip and didn’t understand shit? Is that a declaration of love or, yaknow, ~pals being bros~ and why is it such a big deal? Why are people calling it homophobic? Are they both non-human? One if them is I think? Does that matter in the context? Idk but most importantly why do I apparently care? 😂

Alright, keep in mind that I have watched exactly three episodes and all I know is through tumblr and hearsay, but I shall attempt to explain it to you. LET’S GO.

The dude who plays Dean in Gilmore Girls is called Sam in Supernatural. His brother in the show is named Dean, though, who is one part of this ship. Dean and Sam are both human, supernatural creature hunters. The other part of the ship is Castiel, who came in later and is indeed not-human — he is an angel. Yes, you heard that right, an angel.

What makes it confusing is not only the Dean name switch up, but also that #wincest was a fandom thing before Castiel came to the show. That wasn’t something everyone agreed with naturally because, you know, incest, so they got creative and solved it by writing a lot of RPF fics about the actors who play Dean and Sam — Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, shipname J2 back in like, 2009. Maybe that’s what you remember. Then literal angel Castiel came and a shift happened.

Now people have been shipping Destiel since he arrived on the scene, and the show runners always maintained it wouldn’t become canon. I think shippers were treated badly? And Jensen Ackles was homophobic about it at the time, hence all the jokes now about his face when Castiel professes his love. You’d have to look up what he said and how he reacted though, I have blocked that from my mind since I don’t even go there and I’ve got no time for homophobes, rip.

For context about the clip you watched, Castiel struck a deal with the Empty (some kind of super hell????) that once he was Happy, he would be dragged down to that place, effectively cursing him to never feel real happiness or he’d cease to exist on the mortal plane (die? do angels die? I don’t know, I haven’t seen this show). Now, what they made up for this episode: he’s been secretly loving Dean (I can’t believe I’m typing this) for all this time but had to keep those feelings inside. Then, he decides to finally live his truth and tells Dean about his feelings. The fact that he finally got to live his truth, regardless of whether or not Dean repropicated his feelings, made him feel Happy TM........ and that’s why he goes to big bad Super Hell. Not for loving Dean, but for living his truth and the happiness that results from it, I suppose, even if it’s bittersweet? And it’s the worst possible thing to hear for Dean since something terrible (his friend’s sacrifice) is about to result from it.

Why people are calling it homophobic, aside from the yikes gay-hell parallel, these fans have been asking for this ship for almost a fucking DECADE. The show runners refused to make it happen, in fear of losing viewers because gay TM, but now it’s the end of the final season and they can finally give a bread crumb and they genuinely thought that was a good idea. However, there’s no way of seeing them as a couple since one of them just died and Dean doesn’t even feel the same way about him — Castiel just admits his feelings and then perishes. It’s a classic bury your gays trope: use the gay thing to mollify your gay viewers, but kill them off immediately after so there’s no real risk for your show. It’s no representation at all and a cop-out. But the show probably thinks they finally delivered what everyone wanted, when this definitely isn’t how they wanted it. I don’t know what happens next episode though so fuck knows what is on the horizon. Who knows, maybe he comes back and they live happily ever after, we’ll find out in two weeks fnfn.

Also, unrelated but adds to the hilarity, the whole A/B/O thing literally exists because someone in SPN fandom decided knotting should happen and they as a fandom collectively built a whole universe around it, which over the years slowly started bleeding into all other fandoms. A/B/O fic as you know it today exists because of SPN. You’re welcome for that reminder 🤐

[baskervilleshund]

4,5 years of Gotham in my life♥

Wow my emotions these last days. I’m not much of a text poster on this site but when Gotham ended I really felt I wanted to write this!

Gotham has been a huge part of my life for so long now. 4 years and 7 months since the first episode aired, that’s some time gosh. And so much has happened during this journey! I just wanna mention some memorable things during these years. Like remember the pre-s02x09 excitement?? And other stuffs, ah here we go!

The first trailer made me SO EXCITE, I had wanted more batman villains content for years since I have always found the batman villains squad so interesting and good and unique characters, there is so much to explore here! And so the Gotham trailer came and I just OH MY GOD this is exactly what I want!! And so it started and it was amazing. My first love was Ed, it took him his first scene in ep1 to make me go totally THIS IS MY FAV! More eps went on and I required more Ed content. But then Oswald slowly grew on me kinda out of nowhere like I wasn’t expecting it. And when amazing ep7 aired it just hit down on me from the sky, like it does when I know I got a new obsession/fandom. Oswald’s amazing scenes in ep7 and I went ”Okay this is it, I’M DEEP INTO THIS NOW AND I LOVE IT!”. In exactly THIS↓ scene/moment I basically said those words out loud and realized this is my life now, ugh also one of my fav looks I miss the bangs:

Shortly after ep7 I started shipping Nygmobblepot, since we knew who these characters were and who they will end up being it made SO much sense in this show, they were like the two familiar main villains in kinda the same age and I also loved them both so I mean it was obvious for me. Man in the beginning we were so very few in the shipping Nygmob pond, in the OCEAN of Gobblepot. It was a bit of a struggle sometimes, ppl wrote hate on my Nygmob posts n stuff shrug. And I just didn’t get how not more ppl could see it? It would make more sense if this were new characters like they hadn’t even met but since we knew this is Riddler and Penguin it just was fate for them to cross paths soon enough! We needed Nygmob content! I started making tons of my own AU:s since if the show wouldn’t give us content I would do it.

BUT we had Robin & Cory with us! Reminder that Cory invented the shipname after 5 minutes and Robin & Cory’s amazing twitter activity during s1 especially I will always remember as a fav. Remember when they we’re so into roleplaying Nygmob and spoke how Ed & Os loved each other and all sorts of things. All about going to The Foxglove together and stuff. Ugh it was amazing, I miss their interactions.  

In this very smol pond is when one day my shining star @conscience-killer (aka okimi79)  approached me, with this ♥ ”Sometimes I feel we’re the only Nygmobblepot shippers in the world…well apart from Robin and Cory. We should have a secret handshake or something.”

And man did we get a secret handshake! Gosh MY DEAR OKIMI! That I up til this day since then has spoken with like everyday for 4,5 years, you are amazing ♥ And in that time of so few shippers it felt even more special, to have  someone else out there as obsessed as me. I’m so grateful we found each other at exactly that time and we’ve been through so much on this journey ♥.

When Nygmob in spring finally had their first scene it was so amazing and I have no idea how many times I have watched that scene to this day, and also with that the ship grew a bit yas!!

Let’s jump forward a bit. NYC Comic Con 2015 in fall, one of my fav Robin & Cory cons/interview times! Because the legendary ep 2x9 was soon upon us and OMG remember how excite they were in those interviews!?! And THEN, that fkn night THE episode aired. I couldn’t believe it was real, it was EVERYTHING we had dreamed of!!! SO MUCH NYGMOB CONTENT and so in character and gosh. Man their season 2 relationship is just so beautiful and I love it til this day and 2x9 is forever my favorite episode because it meant EVERYTHING for us shippers and more people also started seeing the connection between Nygmob and so more ppl started to make content and join in!

A time after another shining star came into my life, @constant-sinner (aka (riddlelvr) ♥ This amazing person and artist! And together with her and okimi I am part of the best trash family of three and I can’t believe I’ve been a mom (yet i’m the youngest but i’m fashion fur coat mom okay) to these trash sinners for like 4 years. ♥

Okay but remember all INSANE SMAYLOR CONTENT BEFORE SEASON 3!!? Man that was also one of the best times I had during these years. God they were so excite for their relationship in s3 and WEREN’T WE ALL! And omg Comic Con. I had my fkn header for 3 years soon lol, man that moment I remember seeing the signing booth stream all casual and Robin & Cory goes “Smaaylor!! Nygmobblepot!!! ;))” And I’m just wait WHUT omg. Their press tours with Sean is something I’ll miss even more than the episodes, always such a joy seeing those three together!

And when season 3 started it was just insane. To be honest how their relationship grew in s3 that’s how I expected it to grow after their meeting in s1, it made sense already back then. Ed admiring Oswald and sneaking to his club and Oswald would be a huge part of Ed’s journey to become the Riddler but ah well, I did my best with my AU:s back then!

And then s3 came and Gotham EXPLODED and I had no idea where all million ppl suddenly came from lol. It became huge. But since it still feels kinda close to this day (2,5 yrs though man), my most nostalgic feels will always be over s1-2 so I’m not gonna write so much about the season 3-5 times in this text. My closest to heart milestones is during the first years and now that I’ve seen all episodes I still think season 1 is the best overall, except the lack of Nygmob content ofc ;)

I’ve not just felt love for the show ofc, the show isn’t perfect. There has been serious flaws and bad writing and plot drops. Tbh s4 I just felt so NOPE about? 22 eps of waste…Like Ed’s plot for example like he barley had his own plot what happened? And we also have the q*eerbait Nygmob issue obviously. I have also felt the show has been a bit childish being -helloo- GOTHAM city we’re talking about? I think it would have been much better off with a MA-rating tbh to properly tell certain stories. After s4 though I’m glad in s5 Nygmob finally got some proper screen time being together and in character!! Like that’s how their relationship should have been from beginning of season 4, or season 1 if u ask me lol but ya know!

BUT I LOVE THIS SHOW, the amazing actors and characters and scenery and costumes!! Ed, Oswald, Robin & Cory will ofc always have the most special place in my heart ♥ The Nygmob journey in the show has meant so much to me to follow it from day one and I never knew how much this show would mean to me when I started back in the day.

This show. And not just the show itself but my journey and life around it!!? So much has happened. For one example I had made a bit of gifs before but Gotham really got me into gif making, and it’s been a joy sharing content and my Nygmob AU will always be among my most fun things I’ve done, it was like if they ain’t gonna give us enough content I WILL. It’s a fun way of gif making to manip scenes to create something new! And today I still enjoy making gifs, as you probably know heh. Thanks so much for all nice comments and reblogs through all these years ya’ll!! It warms my heart and I love to read reblog tags! 

I have been at con and got to meet Robin, enjoyed so many interviews and promos, chatted with wonderful people. Every Friday night I have been up in my Europe timezone at 2am to live watch the show, the workdays after has been a bit of a struggle of being tired with going to bed like 5am lol but man it’s been so nice to follow it when it airs!

Watching together with my dearest @conscience-killer and @constant-sinner . Two of the best that happened to me during these years. These two people that I’ve spoken with like everyday for 4 years! Through Gotham finding two of my dearest friends in my life. Watching the show together and screaming, crying, laughing during this journey, about not just the show but EVERYTHING in life. They also are amazing writers and artists ♥ And also helped me endless times with gif caption when my non-native brain trying to write gif captions at 3am after the episode lol. All my love to you both ♥

THANKS TO ALL AMAZING PEOPLE that impacted me over these years. The cast and nice fandom people! My dearest @conscience-killer and @constant-sinner. And I also wanna mention dear @millicentcordelia and @selene-volturo that are amazing ppl that have been here with me since the very beginning of season 1. And they have always been so down to earth even during the stormiest periods of this show’s existence ♥ I’m so glad we’ve shared this LONG journey!

And also hugs to my dear mutual fandom friends that I’ve shared hours of conversations with over the years. Some of us maybe don’t speak as much nowadays and some of us have gone separate ways with new interests but I hope you know who you all are, regardless if we spoke yesterday or 2015. You have made my fandom time a joy!

I’m actually okay with the show ending now you know. Ofc it’s a bit sad but as I said I felt s4 was kinda stomping around in the same spot and even s5 had some fillers like they didn’t have more to do to push the story forward? The last ep was a nice easter egg wrap up for this LONG journey. And I mean shows live on with fan content, and who knows maybe it will return somehow? But it feels good they told us it would end so I was prepared for this and to say ”goodbye”. But it’s not goodbye because content will continue on this site and I’ll continue re-enjoy this show!

This is 4,5 years. In 2 pages, I could prob write 20 but ah, but i felt I got to to summary the most important things for me over these years ♥. This show and stuff that came with it will always be such a big part of my life, ALL LOVE AND HUGS!

[seasaltmemories]

As someone who's not a part of Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom, i just have to ask about the shipping names. How does one memorise those? Is there a list?? Who came up with them???

There’s a lot of discussion that have been explaining why Yugioh and Pokemon have held onto the [blank]shipping names and while idk how to find them, but the long and short of it is

a) both franchises consist of plenty of characters and spinoff containing even more characters, bc of all those names, just smushing the names together doesn’t always lead to something instantaneously recognizable in English (I believe the Japanese fandom at least does the normal smush together thing at least for Yugioh)

b) in Yugioh you got some characters with basically different forms of themselves and possession and reincarnation stuff muddling the waters

c) being two similar fandoms that both started in the late 90′s/early 2000′s and were more or less in the same circle might have helped it

For example with A5, the protag is Yuya and the lead female is Yuzu, that alone is complicated, but then Yuya has these three other different versions of himself named Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri, just trying to distinguish between say Yuya/Yuzu and Yuto/Yuzu would be difficult but then ppl also ship Yuya/Yuto (tbh in that combination of five characters I think I’ve seen stuff for each one of them, so you can’t just hope one similar sounding ship won’t get popular) so instead of dealing with that mess we have Fruitshipping, Braceletshipping, and Counterpartshipping, which are much easier to distinguish and organize

As for memorizing them, ship names are supposed to make sense for the ship so it is kinda obvious who you are talking about, Fruitshipping is called that bc Yuya is often likened to a tomato and Yuzu’s name roughly translate to citrus, for Braceletshipping, during a lot of Yuzu and Yuto’s interactions, Yuto gets mysteriously teleported away by Yuzu’s bracelet, and then the fandom calls the different Yu boys “counterparts” and so Counterpartshipping is self-explanatory

Of course with thousands of ships (and especially crackships that have less to draw on) sometimes ship names aren’t always intuitive, but honestly just being in the fandom and seeing each piece of Yuya/Yuzu art tagged “fruitshipping” helps drives it into your head, being in fandoms like this with plenty of episodes, characters, and ships kinda trains you to git gud at memorizing shit (at least for me), and if worst comes to worst and you have no idea, ppl are totally fine with clarifying who is who

There have been several ship lists and blogs that go around to varying degrees of success, some ship blogs don’t just act as an encyclopedia but also host polls on when new ships pop up so ppl can vote on a name, however at the end of the day, it is the fan of certain ships that decide it, when one grows more popular, ppl bring their suggestions to the table and the one ppl like the most tends to get picked up by the most and things smoothen out

I have to say though it is really funny bc with one ship though it has a shipping name like the rest, most ppl just smush the names together, technically the ship for the characters Zarc and Ray is called “Genesishipping” since they kinda kickstarted the entire plot, but since it took such a long time for a common shipname to become prominent most ppl simply call them Zarcray (even myself, and I was a big supporter of making genesishipping popular) 

Tbh it can be complicated and prone to drama (plenty of counter-shipnames have sprung up bc certain populations disliked the current name being used) but I’ve grown to embrace the quirk, I think it only works bc only two fandoms use it, but it is a fun part of celebrating a ship and can kinda further the specific aesthetic 

[zofias]

tod spoliers 

ever since i finished tower of dawn i’ve been wanting to write down my thoughts about it so here goes nothing lmao feel free to ignore this 

ok so tod started off pretty nicely sjm laid out the southern continent very descriptively and i was thoroughly invested bc well i was totally excited to read tod from the start and when i finally got my hands on it i was ready but not ready lol my emotions about it are just all over the place basically 

anyways i really enjoyed the aspects of the southern continent and the history of it the story of the khagans and how they are chosen was interesting the whole khagan gets to choose which child he/she wants as his/her heir was smth i got truly interested in bc its always the first born child who gets to take the crown or w/e so that was a nice change and the siblings that were introduced in tod were all dissimilar they all had such strengths to be heirs since they all specialized/lead different things like hasar had armadas and lead them sartaq had his aerial army kashin was a solider and controlled the armies on land arghun had his network of spies like i enjoyed that they all were individually so powerful i guess like thru each chapter you’d think the khagan would choose a different sibling but i was really happy that sartaq was chosen tho i did kinda feel like he would end up being heir like it became a bit obvious bc he seemed to be the one who took a stand and was like imma leave if you dont help aelin and co. 

ok lets move onto yrene towers at first i didnt know how to feel about her only bc we didnt get into her character as much yet but when she went to see chaol and nesryn for the first time i was literally laughing also idk why but the dynamic between her chaol in that first meeting made just go yup they gonna fall in love im a sucker for haters to lovers trope ok she literally despised him for a good few chapters lol yrene is freaking amazing and so badass her story was smth i really enjoyed i was really interested in her powers and all about the healers she wanted to make a difference and help her ppl and she got her wish in the end what was really cool about her was that she taught young ppl self defense even tho she knew not so much she wanted to give those girls a change to fight back and when the torre was attacked she knew how frightened that made them and made chaol come teach bc he’d be a good distraction from all the horrors i just really loved the way her mind works she was invested in the art of healing so thoroughly and yrene never backed down she was so determined to find answers like i loved her so much she was amazing slm may have faults but the way she writes female characters is really empowering LISTEN I NEED TO TALK ABOUT HOW YRENE PUSHED HASAR INTO THE WATER i legit started laughing so hard like i needed that it was so good yrene is everything if you dont want to read this book bc of chaol read for yrene ok that’s all im going to say yrene was wonderful 

chaol westfall my first thought about him was ‘my baby i hope you heal and get to fight again’ like reading about how much he didnt like it in his chair was really sad i mean i get it chaol was always really determined and he like being ready to fight and then he lost movement in his legs and his world turned upside down like when yrene was healing him and he was feeling all the darkness and remembering what his father did to him when i read that his father literally pushed/threw him out of the house made me tear up chaol hit his head hard and the son of a bitch father didnt even let chaol’s mother come to him and terrin saw and chaol felt guilty for leaving him i just was so hurt reading that and also few guards helped him leave anielle and his damn father banished them to the mountains like i hated chaol’s father and now i just cant the darkness chaol had in him was so much did he hate himself? i think so but he was so angry and things were haunting him it just made my heart hurt i loved tower of dawn bc we got to see everything about chaol what he felt what he realized it was really good throughout he kept thinking about dorian and always was so loyal to him i love it when they reunite i need sjm to have them hug for a good hour or more tbh like its needed what also made my heart shatter was what he felt for aelin in his darkness you can see how he loved her and his hate for her too like i dont know how to explain it it made me feel idk his darkness was terrible and at some parts i had to put the book down to stop feeling too much idk chaol has gone through so much and it was nice to see what he felt he conquered his darkness and realized and accepted himself his journey was rough but he found himself i was so excited to read this book only bc of him he has always been one of my fav book characters and this made me love him so much more 

CHAROENE???? i dont know chaol and yrene’s shipname but imma tell you i love them together their dynamic was wonderful they slowly became friends and trusted one another they had to somewhat quickly open up to one another bc it was the only way chaol was going to heal physically and emotionally i enjoyed seeing how they developed their relationship it was nice chaol deserved to love someone who cared for him so much my favorite part was when they got into a fight and yrene was walking away and chaol wanted to go after so he willed himself to walk ever so slightly and as he was somewhat getting closer to yrene she began teasing him and moving away to make him walk more it was so cute i liked their relationship a lot they both felt equally comfortable to talk to one another and it was like a balance you know what actually my fav part was their day out in the city when they just rode horses and yrene was healing ppl it was sweet and calm and when they went out to eat just the two of them with no agenda they both deserved smth like that i loved it ik most ppl are going to say sjm wanted to just pair everyone off with a love interest but i love these two it was unexpected esp the fact that they are linked to each other and they’re married!! but i love it im a sucker for that bond stuff ok this relationship made me love tod so much 

nesryn faliq when she was first introduced in queen of shadows i was 50/50 on how i felt about her like i liked her but also somewhat didnt but let me tell you tod made me love her chaol was an idiot for using her as he did and she realized it and it seemed she was ok with it but i loved that she got to have her adventure i loved that she got to return to home and see her family she got to explore the lands of antica with sartaq and kadara what made me like her more was that she was didnt let opportunities pass her by she decided to go with sartaq and find her adventure on her own tho i did sort of predict that her and sartaq were going to become a thing after their little flight on kadara in the beginning idk it just seemed like they would be a thing which they did but i liked it she deserved someone like sartaq there was a lot of mutual respect in their relationship which i admired i loved that thru nesryn we got to learn more about antica and the history and everything like its her home and we got to see what she felt and loved about it that was my favorite thing i also loved that she got her own ruk!! AND NESRYN CAN SING that was so amazing like it adds so much more to her i love her 

a few other things one FUCKING MAEVE IS A VALG QUEEN I HATE HER like that made me so mad and now i want to know how everyone will react to this and what they will do i hope aelin NO ROWAN RIPS HER TO SHREDS another thing lysandra and falkan being her uncle was amazing i loved that we got to learn somewhat as to how lysandra got her powers butterfly the horse made this book a million times better again yrene pushing hasar into the water was hilarious hasar deserved it lmao i really wished someone did smth like to arghun kadara deserves appreciation for being an awesome ruk when she got trapped in the spiderweb i was a wreck also again MAEVE IS A VALG QUEEN what on earth and duva being possessed by valg and throwing her younger sister off a balcony i cried and duva was pregnant that was just so sad im so happy that yrene saved her life im happy that one else died i mean chaol came close obviously again and yrene and him are now linked which is cool but also like terribly dangerous i want to see what sjm is going to do with that the healers were so cool i loved reading about the torre and the origins and everything i hope we get to see more about them yrene is bringing hundreds of them with her so it could be a possibility there was just so much going on in this book lmao

i know i just hit the surface with a lot of this but i really wanted to get my view on the three mains out chaol yrene and nesryn are amazing and you know what i loved that this book was about them finding out where they fit into this war thats booming chaol was uncertain and felt he had nothing to offer bc he was injured but realized that the chair wasnt limiting him but he himself was nesryn found that she can be her own adventure she found that her home country was her place yrene discovered that her powers could save people who are possessed by the valg and that was epic i loved that this book was more about all these characters discovering who they are rather than anything else i loved it so much i was so excited for it and it didnt disappoint me 

if you read my stupid rambling i am so grateful for you haha thank you if you want to leave your opinion go right ahead whether it agrees with mine or not im up for anything lmao also there are probably so many spelling errors im so sorry lol 

~EDIT~ UM I FORGOT TO ADD ABOUT THE FIREHEART CHAPTER I COULDNT HANDLE IT IT RUINED ME OK IM JUST NOT OK AND THE FACT THAT MAEVE HAS AND MAEVE IS VALG MAKES EVERYTHING WORSE I JUST THIS IS TERRIFYING AELIN BETTER BE OKAY I NEED HER TO BE OKAY!!! 

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Magnus Chase and the Obligatoty Hogwarts Au Ch24

Here it is folks! The Triwizard Tournament is coming to an end! Now, before we go on, some thing I've been meaning to say and kept forgetting: My sister came up with a shipname for Louis and Raphael (Rouis) and I feel strangely flattered. I just wanted to say that. I am sorry in advance for the jokes I made in this chapter. I had to make them, okay?

The morning of the Third Task found Magnus, Raphael and Helga in the empty Quidditch locker rooms. They had eaten a quick breakfast in the kitchens as per the Headmasters’ orders – apparently so they wouldn’t be stressed more by the other students – but none of them were able to eat a lot. Other students or not there was no way for them to be calm. A mixture of stress and excitement churned in Magnus’s stomach and he couldn’t keep his body still. A look at Raphael and Helga sitting at the bench opposite him told him they felt the same.

“So,” he said, breaking the tense silence between them, “this is it, huh? Time to figure out who’s the best.”

“Yeah, and it’s not going to be you,” Helga snarled. The smirk fell off her face the moment she stopped talking as she realized how mean her voice sounded. “Ugh, force of habit, I’m sorry.”

Magnus and Raphael chuckled at her. The embarrassed flush across her face and her awkwardly sorry expression were funny and they really needed something to cheer them up right now.

“It’s okay,” Magnus said. “We need a bit of competitiveness to pump us up anyway.” Helga relaxed at his words but she still muttered a quiet sorry. She had been trying really hard to turn a new leif (get it?) and she’d constantly ask if what she was doing was okay or if she had accidently said something bad. Magnus had to give her points for trying.

“I can’t believe we’re already here,” Raphael sighed wistfully. “It feels like I arrived at Hogwarts only yesterday and now we’re about to compete for the Cup.”

“Yeah, it’s been a crazy year,” Magnus agreed, letting his head fall back on the tiled wall. If he paid enough attention he could hear the thundering footsteps and loud voices of the audience filling the stands. It was baffling to think that all these people – not just those in the stands but everybody watching from their homes – were about to watch them compete for first place.

The door to the locker room opened and Headmistress Sonia looked inside. “Get ready. We’re going to start in five minutes,” she said a before going back out again.

The three Champions stood up and started checking if everything was in order. Their outfits fit perfectly, their laces were double-tied and their wands were in their place. Helga redid her ponytail, pulling the hair so tight that it pulled at her face. Raphael stretched his arms and legs Magnus joined him.

“This is it, gentlemen,” Helga said, offering her outstretched hand to her two competitors. “May the best Champion win.”

Magnus took Helga’s hand and Raphael put his hand in as well. “May the best Champion win,” they repeated. Gripping each other’s for a moment, they let go, smiling at each other with fire in their eyes. Somebody would hold the Triwizard Cup by the end of the day but they wouldn’t win it easily.

“And hey,” Raphael said with a smirk, “whoever wins has to treat the rest of us to a Butterbeer.”

Helga smiled. “I like that idea.”

“Me too,” Magnus agreed. “I don’t mind having to treat you to a drink.”

“Oh, you’re going to be the one to treat us?” Raphael asked with a raised brow and a competitive glint in his eye.

“Like that’s gonna happen.” Helga was smirking, but it was playful, nothing the mean ones she wore when she came to Hogwarts.

Magnus smiled at his two competitors in this weird tournament and shrugged. “Just wait and see.”

The door to the locker room opened, letting in the deafening sounds of the audience in the stands cheering for their Champions to come out.

“It’s time to start,” Headmaster Odin said, Headmaster Gilbert and Headmistress Sonia by his sides. His voice sounded like he was telling them it was time for them to be killed, but maybe that was just Magnus’s nerves talking.

The three Champions followed them out to the middle of the Quidditch field. Three brooms were waiting by a wooden bow. The audience went wild when they saw them coming out. They were so loud it was making it hard for Magnus to hear his own thoughts - which was good because his thoughts weren’t nice at the moment. It was almost too much to think that so many people were here – the entire population of Hogsmeade times ten must have been sitting at the stands.

Magnus stood in the middle of the field, Raphael and Helga by his side, and looked at the crowd. He squared back his shoulders and tried to seem more confident that he actually was. His eyes scanned over the crowd, searching for his friends. He found them by the bright green of Alex’s hair and Sam’s hijab. And yes, the almost obnoxious banner T.J and Halfborn were holding up.

Headmaster Odin cast a quick spell to make his voice carry to the stands and cleared his throat. “Students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Beauxbatons Academy and Durmstrang Institute, dear guests, we welcome you to the last and final task of the Triwizard Tournament!”

Cheers and applause and whistling erupted from the stands. Hundreds of voices melted together in an ear splitting cacophony that was louder than anything Magnus had ever heard in his life.

“Today’s task is easy,” Headmaster Gilbert continued. “All the Champions have to do to win is be the first to get to the Cup.”

Magnus gulped as dread started settling in his stomach. If one of the Headmasters said the Task was going to be easy then it was going to be the farthest thing from that possible. Oh, boy.

“But,” Headmistress Sonia cut in, “they won’t be told where the Cup is.”

Sounds of confusion rolled off the audience. Magnus, Raphael and Helga looked at each other worried. This wasn’t going to be good.

“Instead, they’ll have to complete the map that will lead them there,” the Durmstrang Headmistress continued.

“The map is made up of three pieces,” Headmaster Gilbert said. “The Champions will have to go through a challenge to get each piece and once they have all three-“

“They need to run to the Cup,” Headmaster Odin finished. “The first to touch the Cup is the winner!”

More earth-shaking clapping from the stands. Alex was yelling something at him, her hands cupped around her mouth, but he couldn’t hear her over the crowd. He saw her take a megaphone from Percy’s hands – so he had really brought one – and once the audience had calmed down somewhat she yelled,

“Kick their butts, babe!”

Raphael and Helga turned to Magnus and smirked at him. Magnus’s face was flushing and he refused to look at the other two Champions. Or think about the fact Alex had just called him babe (and he kind of liked it).

“However,” Headmistress Sonia cut in, “Apparating to the Cup once you know where it is or flying there by broomstick is strictly forbidden.”

Headmaster Gilbert took the wooden box in his hands and opened it carefully, taking something from inside it and holding it up for the audience to see. One of the floating cameras was projecting the image onto the screens. The Beauxbatons Headmaster was holding a crystal-clear Snitch-like ball object the side of a tennis ball. Its see-through wings were beating rapidly as it tried to get away but Headmaster Gilbert didn’t let it. Inside the object was a triangular little thing the color of old parchment.

“For the first challenge,” the Frenchman started explaining, “three of these will be released in the Quidditch field. The Champions simply need to catch it and it will show them where to go look for the next piece of the map.”

“Champions, on your brooms please.” Headmistress Sonia gestured to the three identical brooms waiting for them. With one last look at each other, the three Champions stepped forward.

Broom in hand, they waited for the signal to start.

“Set.”

Magnus threw his leg over the broomstick and got the right position.

“Ready.”

Merlin, he really wishes he had more experience flying. He wasn’t bad, but he was no Quidditch player.

“Go!”

Magnus kicked the ground and shot to the air. The wind hit his face as he got higher and higher. He could see why Sam loved this so much. Still, he hadn’t flied much recently and it took him a moment to get his bearings. Helga was hovering to his left with much more ease than him and he felt his stomach twist into knots when he remembered a little thing about the girl.

She was on the Durmstrang Quidditch team. She was their best player.

Shit.

“We will release the balls on the count of three,” Headmaster Odin said. “One. Two. Three!”

The balls were released. All the balls. The three crystal Snitches as well as every ball in Hogwarts and the surrounding area in a five kilometers radius shot up towards the sky. The air around Magnus was suddenly filled with basketballs and footballs, beach-balls, volleyballs, baseballs and tennis balls and – dear Merlin, was that a Bludger? Oh, shit.

“Oh ho, it seems like there was more to this challenge than the Champions thought!” Professor Thor said loudly, doing his usual job as announcer. He wouldn’t sound so cheery about this if he was the one competing. “How are they going to find the Snitches among so many balls? And without being knocked out of the air by one of those nasty bludgers?”

This is way out of my pay grade, Magnus though bitterly. Which is saying a lot, cause I don’t get paid.

“Champions, begin!”

And with Headmaster Odin’s final words, the game was on. Magnus looked around him frantically, trying to catch a glimpse of one of the crystal Snitches. It might not be that bad, he reasoned with himself. There’s three Snitches, so as long as he’s fast he has more chances of finding one. Of course, that goes against him if only one is left.

Still, even with more than one Snitches, it was hard to see it. All those hundreds of balls made the air cluttered and there were obstacles every way you looked. Magnus flew in circles, remembering it was something Sam did when playing as Seeker. He was flying higher than he was when the balls were released and his eyes were trained to the air underneath him. The floating balls moved, but not by much. Still, all that movement was distracting and he almost missed the bright glint at the corner of his left eye.

“Oh, seems like Magnus Chase has spotted one of the Snitches!”

He dived after it immediately. His heart beat loudly as he nosedived to the ground and every sane part of him was yelling to stop before he flew straight into the ground. He didn’t listen and chased after the glint, taking a sharp turn to the right when it changed its route. Some of the balls floating around bumped against him of hit him as he cut his way through it but he kept his eyes on that bright glint that was just a bit too far away.

“He’s getting closer, folks! Will the Hogwarts Champion be the first to advance to the next challenge?”

He picked up his speed. The wind blew his hair out of his eyes as he flew with one arm extended in front of him to catch the Snitch. When the Snitch switched trajectories again he was able to turn in time and fly in front of it, successfully trapping it with his chest.

Only… it wasn’t one of the Snitches. It was a baseball.

“Oh, looks like it was a false call!” Magnus heard Professor Thor say, adding to his annoyance.

He had only let the baseball go and was about to fly higher again when something collided with his back harshly. He let out a surprised as his body was pushed forward, his right hand losing its grip on the broom because of his surprise. For one long, horrible moment he thought he was going to fall off.

His arms shot out in instinct and grasped the broomstick. He managed to right himself up and he didn’t fall off his broom, though he had ended up even closer to the ground than he was previously.

“Magnus Chase is still on his broomstick! That was a close call!”

You’re telling me.

Magnus was flying higher again so he would have a better view of the entire field when he was attacked by one more bludger. It hit him in his right thigh and the force made him fly left. Then, before he could get his bearings, it hit him again, this time at his right side. Magnus cried out in pain as the collision made his ribs throb I pain. Seconds letter another ball collided with his left arm. The surprise of the hit loosened his grip on the broomstick but he didn’t let go.

Before another bludger had the chance to hit him again, Magnus started flying as far as he could to shake those bloody balls off his trail. He zipped past Raphael and dared to look behind him. Nope, they were still following him. Great.

“Oh oh, looks like Magnus Chase is balls deep in trouble!” Professor Thor joked and Magnus cursed him under his breath because he had it bad enough without his horrible puns.

(He also cursed his brain for remembering all the times Alex had said that her middle name was Trouble because that was not an image that should be coming to his mind when he has a hard piece of wood between his legs.

… Bad phrasing.)

He flew out of the maze of balls and started flying over it at speeds he honestly didn’t know he could fly at. When he looked over his shoulder, the bludgers were still behind him and gaining ground. Now that he thinks about it, maybe removing what little objects there were between him and the balls wasn’t a good idea.

Magnus looked over his shoulder again and was alarmed to find the bludgers even closer. At this rate they’re going to strike me down, Magnus though in a panic. He couldn’t keep running away from them, he would never be able to catch one of the Snitches that way.

An idea suddenly came to his mind as he remember what he had done during the first task. He turned around to face the speeding bludgers and took his wand out of his pocket.

“Petrificus totallus!” He yelled as he aimed at the closer bludger. The ball froze in midair and went crashing to the ground. Magnus smiled in relief when his plan actually worked and he cast the spell again and again, striking each and every ball chasing him out of the sky.

“Helga Leifsson has managed to catch the first Snitch!” Professor Thor announced as the crowd, especially the Durmstrang supporters, went crazy. “Meanwhile, Magnus Chase has gotten away from the bludger that had been chasing him!”

Shit, Magnus thought as flew in circles over the field. Helga had been the first to catch a Snitch, which meant there were another two flying around the field at this moment.

As he scanned the field, he saw a bludger heading straight for Raphael’s back. Without thinking about it much, he aimed at the ball and yelled, “Petrificus totallus!”

At the sound of his voice, Raphael turned to see Magnus pointing his wand at his general direction and a bludger frozen in the air for a moment before it fell to the ground unceremoniously.

“Merci, Magnus,” Raphael said with a smile.

“No problem-“ Magnus had started saying when his eyes caught it. There, flying over Raphael’s shoulder, was a crystal Snitch.

Raphael pursed his lips in confusion when Magnus stopped talking so abruptly. He turned to look behind him at what surprised Magnus enough to make him stop speaking and he saw the Snitch.

“Raphael Beaumont and Magnus Chase have caught sight of the Snitch!”

Without so much as a glance at the other’s direction, the two boys chased after the Snitch. The flying ball run away from them like a startled rabbit and the two remaining Champions went after it. It flew in a straight line across the field and Magnus followed it at breakneck speeds. He could see Raphael flying just a little bit ahead of him from the corner of his eye but he didn’t dare look away from the Snitch in fear of losing it.

He leaned farther forward to go faster with his arm stretched out in front of him. They were getting closer and closer to the goal hoops nearest to the locker rooms and the Snitch kept flying just out of their reach. Magnus willed his broom to go faster; he had to catch the Snitch, he had to. He had finally flown ahead of Raphael when the Snitch suddenly disappeared.

Magnus stopped so suddenly he almost lost his balance and fell off his broom. Raphael was equally surprised, looking around him in confusion. It was when he looked up that the Beauxbatons Champion’s eyes widened and he took off again, flying straight to the sky.

“The Snitch has changed course, ladies and gentlemen, and it’s rocketing upwards!”

Magnus’s head snapped upwards and, sure enough, Raphael was chasing after the Snitch that was zipping straight up. Magnus cursed for losing the small lead he had managed to get on the other boy and gave chase.

If nose-diving to the ground was scary flying to the sky was just as scary. Gravity pulled at him, beckoning him to let go and fall to the ground in a splat. He clung on his broom with everything in him and tried to catch up to Raphael.

Just when he felt his fingers slip the Snitch took a shark turn and dived to the ground. Magnus was in the front now since he was closer to the ground than Raphael and as such closer to the Snitch. Ten meters from the ground, the Snitch started flying straight again. Magnus was getting seriously annoyed with all these turns.

Can’t it just fly straight and make this easier for me? He wondered mentally, even though he knew this was a competition so it had to be hard.

“The Snitch is making the Champions go in circles! Look at these turns, people!”

True to Thor’s announcement, the Snitch kept taking sharp turns, only flying in the same direction for a few moments before switching. All those turns were making Magnus get nauseous, but it wasn’t like he could ask for a time-out. He was thinking of little else than keeping up with the small crystal ball and not vomiting his breakfast on the grass of the field.

They were flying after the Snitch right after it had taken another sudden turn when Raphael left and flied towards to the goalpost. Magnus didn’t pay any attention to it. Maybe he decided to look for the second Snitch instead of chasing after this one.

Only the Snitch turned again.  And it flew straight towards Raphael.

Magnus realized what had happened a second too late. Raphael got ready on his broom, moved a bit to the right, extended his arm. The Snitch was flying forward and Raphael was closing in on it. He reached out and the crystal ball flew into his palm.

“Raphael Beaumont caught the second Snitch! The Beauxbatons Champion figured out the Snitch’s pattern!”

Magnus cursed under his breath as Raphael flew to the ground and opened the Snitch to get the map. Great, they had both gotten their maps. He had to catch the last Snitch fast, or else he’d be too far behind. They probably wouldn’t just give it to him if he was too late, right?

Magnus started flying in circles again. When all this ended he had to say congrats to Sam because he couldn’t understand how she loved to chase after that little ball. It was so frustrating when you thought you were going to catch it but it got away at the last moment.

Magnus saw a glint to his left, but when he turned to look it wasn’t there anymore. Then again, this time above him, but it still wasn’t there when he looked. To the right – no, left – no, at the ground – the sky- ugh!

This was ridiculous! With all these balls flying around him and obscuring his view finding one small crystal ball was almost impossible, especially when it wouldn’t stop moving around.

Think, Magnus, think. We all know you suck at sports, you need to catch that shit some other way…

Maybe if he stroke all balls down like he had done with the bludgers? No, that would take too much time, time he didn’t have. Maybe if he put a sticking charm on the goalposts and made it fly into them? But no, he can’t make it go where he wants it to…

Make it go where he wants it to? Can he… can he do that? The Headmasters never mentioned a rule like that, so maybe…

Magnus raised his wand and hoped with everything in his heart this would work. “Accio snitch!”

“What is Magnus Chase doing-?” Professor Thor started saying but the words died in his throat when the Snitch zipped passed all the balls towards Magnus. Its crystal wings beat rapidly to fly in the other direction, but it was no use. The spell was too powerful and soon Magnus held it in his palm.

Why didn’t I think of that earlier?

“He- he did it! Magnus Chase found a loophole in the rules and caught the Snitch!”

Magnus floated down to the ground, his fingers gripping the Snitch so hard they had turned white. He was too scared that it would fly off if he let it go, but he had no reason to worry; the Snitch’s wings had stopped beating the moment Magnus caught it.

Once his feet touched the ground he let go of his broom. He didn’t want to ride one of those things again for months. His fingers uncurled from around the Snitch and before he had the time to even wonder how he was supposed to open it to get the map a seam formed in the middle of the ball. The thin line glowed and wrapped around the ball. When the two sides of the line met the ball split in two.

Magnus took the map and let the two halves of the Snitch fall to the ground. The small triangle flushed the moment he touched it, like he had just turned on a light-bulb. The brightness of the light quickly dimed, leaving behind an image of the Hogwarts grounds. Then, like a camera zooming in, it focused on the Big Lake. One more zoom and now the camera was past the water, inside the lake. It stayed still in front a dark cave and then something moved. A long tentacle giving way to-

Oh, no. The giant Squid.

Magnus pushed the map inside his pocket and started running. He ignored the dread settling in his stomach like cement in favor of coming up with all the spells that would help him to breath underwater. It was a pretty short list, which didn’t help him ignore his anxiousness well.

It also didn’t help that the run from the Quidditch field to the Big Lake was fairly quick. Before Magnus had enough time to prepare himself for facing a fucking Giant Squid, he had arrived. He didn’t see Raphael by the lake so he must have dived in already. Magnus put a sticking charm to his hand so he wouldn’t lose his wand in the water and cast a Bubble-Head Charm on himself to breath underwater.

Here goes nothing, he thought before quickly jumping inside the lake. The water was cold in contrast to the warm air outside, but it was comfortable once his body got used to it. He started kicking his legs as he swam towards the part of the lake were the Giant Squid was. The students of Hogwarts could swim in the lake if they wanted when the weather was okay – and, if they were in fourth year and below, had a teacher supervisor – so they all knew which were the places in the lake they couldn’t go near or else they would be trespassing in the Squid’s territory. (The merpeople were pretty chill unless you peed in the lake.)

The water around him clear and Magnus could see all the small fish swimming around, passing moss-covered rocks and going through bushes of kelp. He would have loved to stay and look around some more, but he didn’t have time for underwater sightseeing.

It wasn’t hard to find the Squid’s cave. First of all, it was huge, easily big enough to fit a three story building. Secondly, there was a giant Squid guarding the entrance. Not really something you missed easily. Especially when-

Oh, fuck.

Magnus swam even faster. One of the Squid’s tentacles was wrapped in a vise grip around Helga’s body, tightening more and more if the pain on her face was anything to go by. Magnus aimed at the Squid and cast a Stinging Hex at it. It seemed to surprise the Squid enough to make its tentacle unwrap around Helga and the girl swam away as fast as she could.

The bad thing was that now it had noticed both of them. And boy, was it angry. It’s tentacles thrust out to catch the two intruders. Magnus kicked his legs frantically, but outrunning a water creature inside water was impossible, even if you were Michael Phelps, who Magnus clearly wasn’t. The long appendage caught him and Magnus shuddered at how weird the texture felt against his skin. The Squid tightened its grip around his body and Magnus gasped.

I don’t want to die in a tentacle hentai, Magnus thought as he thrust around, trying to slip out of the creature’s grip. He had no such luck, and neither did Helga. He tried a Stinging Hex again but to no avail; the creature’s hold on him relaxed for only a split second and Magnus wasn’t able to get away. The Squid’s tentacle squeezed him harder and Magnus fought not to gasp and lose more air.

There was a bright flash of light to the left and all of a sudden the Squid’s tentacles let go of him. Magnus didn’t waste a moment and cast Ventus. The strong gust of wind that came out of his wand propelled him away from the deadly creature and close to a thick bunch of kelp (it also created a trail of bubbles behind him, which was kinda cool).

Safely hidden behind the kelp, Magnus looked to the direction the flash of light had come from. The Squid still seemed very confused about what had just happened, but Magnus saw a pair of dark legs swimming behind a large boulder. Thanks, Raphael.

With the Squid distracted, Magnus got the chance to have a better look at the inside of the cave, or what little of it he could see from his hiding place. There wasn’t much, just lots of mossy rocks and seashells, as well as long tendrils of kelp that swayed with the current-

Wait.

Magnus’s eyes widened as he got an idea. He stood still for a few more moments, his eyes trained on the kelp inside the cave, how it bowed to the left like a branch in the wind. Feeling certain he was onto something, he glanced at the Squid. It was still distracted by the flash of light Raphael created and was paying attention to the other side. It’s now or never.

Magnus exited his hiding place and swam to the right side of the cave. The cave looked like a big bowl protruding from the walls of the lake, its top offering a sort of roof to the Squid. From higher up in the water you couldn’t even see the opening of the cave thanks to all the rocks piled on its roof. It was a weird cave shape, not that Magnus had seen many underwater caves, so maybe it was normal for them to look like that.

The side of the cave was, well, rocky. Magnus swam closer, his eyes scanning for what he was looking for. He heard sounds of conflict in the distance, but it must have been close since water muffled the noise. It was probably Helga or Raphael trying to get pass the Squid. If Magnus idea was correct he’d show it to them.

He smiled when he saw a tiny bunch of kelp on the rocks swaying closer to the wall. He pulled with his arms and got closer and –yes! There was an opening! It wasn’t huge – simply big enough to let the current inside and make the kelp Magnus had seen move. Still, he could probably fit. Thank Merlin he wasn’t as large as Halfborn.

He swam closer and felt around the opening with his fingers. A few rocks were loose and he pulled them aside to make the hole bigger. Thankfully the hole didn’t come crushing down on his hand. That would have been horrible.

He ducked down so his head was aligned with the opening and swam inside, his arms stuck to his sides. The space was awfully claustrophobic and despite never having a problem with small spaces Magnus couldn’t wait to get out of it. Still, he had never been more thankful for being so scrawny. It was a tight fit around his shoulder but not so bad that he would be stuck there. Thank Merlin he didn’t have big hips like Sam or else he would have been doomed.

He had never been so glad for having two centimeters of space around him as he was when he slipped out of the hole and into the Squid’s cave. The light inside was horrible but Magnus didn’t dare to cast a Lumos in fear that the Squid would see the light and attack him. What little light came through cave’s mouth was just enough for him to make out his surroundings. The bush of kelp that had helped Magnus find the backdoor of the cave was much bigger up close, big enough to hide himself and another person inside.

He kicked his legs and went closer to the moss-covered rocks he had seen from the outside. They were more like boulders than rocks and Magnus grabbed them to push himself further into the cave. He felt vulnerable being inside the nest of such a large and dangerous creature so he made himself swim faster. The quicker he got the map the quicker he would be out of here without turning into Squid Snacks.

As he swam, the light hit again a part of the back wall of the cavern, making something there twinkle for just a moment. Magnus kicked at the rock behind him and propelled himself closer to the source of the sparkling. At the farthest end of the cavern, nestled between the rocks, were three large clams. They were too big, too shiny to belong to the cave.

He took the one at the top in his hands and the clam opened instantly. Instead of whatever was inside clams, a crystal ball big enough to fit in his palm sat inside the seashell like a pearl in an oyster. Inside the ball was the second part of the map.

Magnus took the ball and put it in his pocket, letting the clam fall to the sandy floor of the cave. He was about to turn back to the opening to leave when one of the Squid’s tentacles wrapped around him again. Magnus gasped as the air was squeezed out of his lungs. The Squid him hauled him out of the cave, hitting him against the wall in the process. Magnus winced at the pain in his head, the hit making him feel dizzy.

When the dizziness gave away and Magnus opened his eyes he found himself face to face with the Squid’s large eyes. (So, it was more like face to eyes, but whatever.) Horrified, he realized that being hit against the wall had dispelled the Bubble-Head Charm and he now had no way to breathe.

The creature didn’t seem to recognize what he was and it was examining him closely. Magnus didn’t need to be a genius to know the Squid would decide he looked like food in the end and eat him. He needed to get away now.

Unfortunately for him, his wand arm was pressed against his side and his wand only barely peaked out of the Squid’s tentacle. He wouldn’t be able to aim very well like this but he couldn’t do nothing. As a plan formulated in his mind, Magnus employed the defense mechanism all small children knew was perfect to escape a bigger opponent (like your mum that was making you eat broccoli). Magnus opened his mouth wide and bit down at the Squid’s tentacle.

The bite must have hurt because the Squid let him go immediately. Magnus lost no time and cast Ventus again to put him out of the creature’s reach. He managed to put some distance between them but the Squid was obviously furious. And Magnus, like an idiot, made it even more furious. He aimed at its nearest eye and fired a Stinging Hex. He might not know a lot about Squid anatomy, but he was pretty sure the eyes were a weak spot for most animals.

The Giant Squid screeched, closing its eyes tightly to protect them from any more harm. With it unable to see anymore, Magnus aimed and used his best Petrificus totallus on it. He knew the spell wouldn’t hold it for long but it would give him enough time to get out of the water. He wouldn’t need a lot of time either anyway – his lungs were already burning from  the lack of air.

The Squid was frozen in place by the spell, but the spell of just a single wizard wouldn’t be able to keep it like that for long. It was already struggling against it and it wouldn’t take long for it to be able to move again. Magnus saw Raphael and Helga by the mouth of the cave, swimming inside. He saw Helga cast the spell again, winning a bit more time for them.

Confident that they would be alright (and that he needed to breathe now), Magnus used Ventus to get away from the cave quicker. The spell propelled him a good ways across the lake (scaring a few poor fish for life in the process) and he had made it to the shore before too long. He pulled himself out and plopped down on the wet soil, taking a long, nice moment to enjoy breathing. He never would have thought he’d enjoy converting oxygen into carbon dioxide so much.

A couple of second later, Magnus stood up. He couldn’t stay lying on the mud forever (even if it was kind of comfy). He cast a spell to dry himself off and pulled the crystal ball out of his pocket and held it in front of his face. Like with the first one, a thin line of bright line wrapped around the ball, cutting it in two neat halves that fell on the ground. Magnus thought something would happen when he touched the map like with the first piece, but it didn’t. It didn’t glow and it didn’t show him anything; it simply remained a piece of old parchment.

Something stirred in his pocket and Magnus realized that the other piece of the map was getting warmer. He quickly pulled it out and brought it close to the second half. The two pieces snapped together like they were magnets. They fit together perfectly, like puzzle pieces, which they technically were.

The new map glowed as the two parts became one. Once the glowing subsided, Magnus was able to make out a dark part of the woods. The image zoomed in, past the trees and bushes, past a fallen log, until it finally stopped in front of a dark pocket of the forest where large spiders sat on a dome-like web.

Magnus felt cold sweat run down the back of his neck and his stomach twisted in knots. The Acromantula nest. To find the next part of the map he had to go into the nest of giant, flesh-eating motherfucking spiders. Merlin’s thong, who in their right mind came up with these tasks?

Still, he had no choice but to go there. Maybe he would be lucky and find a giant glass along the way. (Would that even work?)

Magnus put the map back in his pocket and started running to the Forbidden Forest. For a place called ‘forbidden’ he sure had to go in it a lot for the tournament, huh? He was nervous at first that he wouldn’t be able to find his way to the Acromantula nest – since he wasn’t stupid enough to have tried going there before – but it seemed he didn’t have to worry because small glowing orbs hovered along the path to the nest. Apparently they didn’t want the three Champions to die before coming face to face with the human-eating insects.

The further he run into the forest, the darker it got. The trees above his head grew odder and older, their trunks thicker, their foliage denser and the light that made it through their leaves became less and less. It was so dark he would have thought it was late afternoon instead of morning if he didn’t know any better.

He knew he was getting closer to the nest when he started hearing less animal sounds. Anything that lived in the forest would know not to come close to the nest of such a strong predator. He could imagine squirrels looking on from the trees and thinking he was crazy for running straight into the home turf of something that could eat him whole easily.

He was passing over the fallen log the map had showed when he first noticed the webs. Fine strings of snow-white spider-web stretched between the trees, woven together in domed shapes above his head. Magnus’s most basic instincts screamed at him to flee, but he forced himself to ignore them as he kept running. The web became denser the deeper he got into the Acromantulas’ territory, so closely woven together that it was like standing below a circus’s tent.

In all, being in the Acromantulas nest was eerie. What little light made it through the leaves bounced off the white webs, giving this corner of the forest a ghostly lighting.  The hairs at the back of Magnus’s neck stood on end as he walked farther inside the nest. He felt hundreds of hungry eyes on him and willed himself to walks with his back straight. He couldn’t show fear to the spiders or he was done for.

“What do you seek here, child?” A voice said behind Magnus. The Hogwarts Champion jumped in surprise and bit his lip to hold a yelp from exciting his lips. Behind him, climbed up on the web that wrapped around the trunk of a tree, was an Acromantula. It was as large as a horse-cart, its legs easily bigger than Magnus’s height. Thick hair covered its body and its eight eyes stared Magnus down like he was nothing more than a pest to this large creature.

Magnus realized that several seconds had passed since the spider had spoken and he still hadn’t replied. He pushed his shoulders back stood as straight as he could to appear taller. “I’m here for the third part of the map,” he said and thank Merlin he didn’t stutter.

The spider in front of him made a low sound at the back of its throat that sounded suspiciously like laughing. “Stupid child, you’re here to be food.”

The spider approached him fast, faster than he thought something so large could move. Magnus whipped around, ready to gun it out of here, but he staggered backwards when he came face to face with several Acromantulas gathered around him. The spiders’ jaws clicked together maliciously as they eyed him down. Magnus backed away, feeling like a mouse inside a room full of cats.

Magnus aimed his wand at the Acromantula in front of him. His arm was shaking. “Confringo!” The spell hit the spider and sent it flying backwards, but the rest were still advancing towards him. He attacked the spiders again and again, but every time he managed to get rid of one, two seemed to pop up in its place.

Magnus was soon overwhelmed by the spiders. His wand was knocked out of his hand and two spiders dragged him away towards the web. Magnus thrust around and kicked, trying to get himself free, but it was no use against the two large creatures and the entire colony.

Magnus was thrown against a wide piece of web that draped down a tree to the ground. Before he had any time to try escaping, the spiders were upon him again, spinning their web around him and trapping him inside a white cocoon. Magnus yelled and screamed, but the spiders didn’t react at all.

“Maybe we should cover his head too,” one of the spiders said to another one. The second spider was much bigger than its peers, at least twice as big, its fur much darker, and when it talked its voice sounded weirdly female.

“No,” the larger spider said. “Leave its head free. I want to see its expression when we catch the other two.”

The leader – Magnus was certain that this huge Acromantula was the Alpha female of the colony – came closer. There was something very unsettling about the way the spiders moved on their long legs. The Alpha climbed up the web Magnus was trapped on until she was face to face with Magnus.

“Tell me, do you know why we agreed to this weird tournament of yours, human?” she asked. Liquid dripped down her large jaws and Magnus’s heart beat lauder when he realized that her body was producing more venom in order to eat him.

“No,” Magnus said. He fought to make his voice sound stable and to look the leader in the eyes, but it was kind of hard when she had eight.

“It’s because it’s almost time for our young to hatch,” she said. She moved slightly to the side, making enough room for Magnus to see the dip in the ground where several dozen beach-ball sized eggs lay. They twitched around, like something was moving inside, and they looked terrible frail.

“They’re going to come out any time now and when they do…” The Alpha used one of her legs to angle Magnus head up and get better access to his neck. Magnus could feel her warm, musky breath against his skin and his breath hitched.

“They will want to eat,” she finished, letting Magnus head fall down again. Magnus let down the breath he was holding and tried to even his breathing. He felt vulnerable trapped her in the Acromantulas’ nest, a weak prey among dozens of predators.

“Sent out scouts,” the Alpha ordered. “Find the other two and bring them back.”

Five spiders hissed something back and scurried off into the woods. Magnus glared at the back of the queen, knowing very well that she didn’t have to give that order in English. She only did it make it clearer to Magnus that she had the power here, not him.

And as much as Magnus hated to admit it, she was right. He was completely trapped, with nothing to cut the web around him and with his wand lying useless on the ground-

Wait, what?

The wand wasn’t there anymore. Magnus’s pulse picked up. Did it get kicked by accident by one of the other spiders? Where was it? If he somehow managed to get out of the web that was holding him down he wouldn’t stand a chance without his wand.

“Pss,” something said in Magnus’s ear. He almost yelped in surprise before a hand pressed against his mouth. But… there wasn’t a hand there.

“It’s okay,” the voice said again and Magnus realized it was Helga. “It’s me. I put a Disillusionment Charm on myself. Raphael is near that tree.” Helga angled his head slightly so that Magnus was looking at a big tree with a bush near its roots, but no Raphael. He must be invisible too. “I have your wand. I will cut the web around you but you mustn’t move so they don’t realize you can escape.”

Magnus nodded as discretely as he could and remained silent. He could feel the edge of something sharp against his sides and his bonds started feeling less tight. Magnus flex his fingers and Helga pushed his wand into his palm.

“We have to work together,” Magnus whispered back, his eyes stuck on the Acromantulas in front of him. Thankfully, none of them seemed to have heard him.

“I know,” Helga whispered back. Each one of them on their own had no hopes of getting the map and making out of the forest, but maybe they could do it if they worked together. “The maps are in the pit with the eggs.” Magnus looked toward the pit and, sure enough, on the top of the pile were three crystal balls. “I’ll try to get them and Raphael will come here to help you escape. You run when you hear a whistle.”

“Are you sure you can do this?” Magnus asked, eyes still stuck on the eggs. There were so many spiders around the pit, getting there and running away with all three balls seemed impossible.

“I am,” Helga said. “I’m the fastest one out of us. Plus, somebody has to do it.” There was a moment of silence before she continued, voice somehow even quieter. “I hurt you on purpose in the First Task, so I have to help you now.”

Magnus wanted to stop her and tell her she didn’t need to put her life in danger to be forgiven, but he didn’t get the chance. Before he was able to open his mouth to talk he felt her weight disappear from next to him.

He clenched his fingers around his wand and waited. His eyes were trained on the egg pit, waiting for some kind of movement that would let him know Helga had made it. The Queen was climbed on an extravagant hammock-like structure woven together from web, her eight eyes looking over the other spiders.

He felt a warm hand on his leg and realized Raphael must be standing close to him. The other boy didn’t say anything and neither did Magnus. He couldn’t see the Beauxbatons Champion, but he was no doubt looking at the eggs as well.

The mountain of eggs moved a bit, but Magnus didn’t notice at first since they twitched around on their own quite a bit. He saw the movement again and his heart leapt when one of the crystal balls flew in the air for a few seconds before it disappeared. Heart pounding in his ears, he glanced around nervously to see if any of the spiders had noticed. Thankfully none of them seemed to be paying attention to the crystal balls.

None except one. An Acromantula close to the egg pit had seen the movement of the eggs from the corner of its eyes and had turned around just as Helga was putting the second ball in her pocket. The spider’s eight eyes widened and it whipped around to face its leader.

“Queen!” It yelled. “One of the humans is stilling the crystal balls!”

Fuck.

Helga’s invisible hand snatched up the last crystal ball, but now the eyes of the entire colony were on her. The spiders started surrounded her, their jaws clicking even more as they tried to smell where she was. Magnus’s heart beat like a drum as the spiders all closed in on a specific spot. They couldn’t possible know exactly where she was by smell alone, but they had a general direction, and it wasn’t hard to figure out her position when the ring they had formed around her became smaller and smaller.

Damn it, damn it, damn it, Magnus kept thinking, his hands clenched into fists below the webs that were supposed to be trapping him. He had to help somehow, but if he revealed that he had gotten free they would be in even more trouble. Damn it, damn it.

The swarm of Acromantulas kept getting closer to Helga, their long legs forming a cloud of dust as they moved frantically along the ground-

Wait. That’s it!

“Duck!” Magnus screamed as loud as he could. The spiders didn’t pay attention to him, too busy hunting down their new pray to bother with a stupid human. Raphael was looking at Magnus confused, not really understanding where a duck fit in all of this.

Magnus held his breath as he waited, his eyes darting from the spiders closing in on an invisible target to the ground below their large bodies. The spiders where closer now – if Helga hadn’t listened to him they would catch he any minute now.

But no. The spiders reached the middle of the circle and bumped against each other. Whatever they were trying to catch had disappeared. Magnus let out his breath as he scanned the ground for anything out of the ordinary-

There! The dust below the large belly of one of the Acromantulas was moving strangely and some of it clung onto a human form. Thank Merlin, she had heard him! With their long legs, there was enough space under the Acromantulas for Helga to crawl out of trouble.

The spiders hissed and growled at each other confused, scuttling about as they tried to figure out where their new meal had gone to. It would almost be funny if Magnus wasn’t currently in their nest and they outnumbered them 30 to 1.

“Come on, let’s go,” Helga said once she reached Magnus and Raphael. They cast a quick Disillusionment Charm on him and helped him get off the web as quickly as possible. Magnus had to admit, trying to get off a giant spider’s web while being invisible was pretty hard.

The three Champions held hands as they run from the Acromantulas’ nest so they wouldn’t lose each other. They had only managed a few meters when one of the spiders yelled, “The human got out!”

Without a moment of hesitation, they started running. The spiders all hurried to the web Magnus had been trapped on and the Queen yelled again and again, “Find them! Find them!” Chaos ensued in the nest as dozens of spiders scrambled around to find the missing humans.

A spider was walking straight towards Magnus and the blonde had to let go of Raphael’s hand to dodge the insect. With no way to find the other two Champions without giving away his position to the spiders, Magnus run among the hundreds of Acromantulas to get away. He could make a sound and he could let them touch him in any way or else they might realize he was there. He almost fell when he took a sharp turn to avoid an incoming spider and run straight into a try when avoiding another one. It was like trying to run through a large crowd during half-off sales, except the crowd wanted to kill you and eat your insides… so yeah, exactly like sales.

Magnus didn’t stop running even when he was out of the nest.  He looked back over his shoulder to see the nest a good way behind him and canceled the spell on him. He would have kept running if he hadn’t run into… nothing.

“Ow,” Magnus said after landing on his ass on the hard ground. He looked at the air in front of him confused, but it wasn’t long before his fellow Champions canceled the charms on the and appeared in front of him.

“We lost you back there,” Raphael said as he offered Magnus a hand to get up. Magnus took it.

“Yeah, a spider almost run me over,” Magnus explained as he dusted off his pants. “I never thought I’d say that.”

Helga chuckled. “Yeah, I never thought I’d be in danger of becoming baby food for spiders either.”

Helga dug into her pockets and held out one of the crystal balls for Magnus. “Let’s open it together,” she said.

Magnus and Raphael nodded. They held the balls in front of them and watched as all three of them cracked it half. The three Champions glanced at each other and shared a quick nod before counting down together.

“One,” Raphael said.

“Two,” Helga continued.

“Three!” Magnus finished.

They put the last piece of the map with the rest and watched as they glowed and became one. Once the light died down, they watched as images formed on the map. A cluster of houses, no bigger than a village, train tracks running through it. The image zoomed in and they saw the familiar streets of Hogsmeade zipping by. They map went past the train station, past the post office and the various shops. It focused in on the village’s church, the image climbing up the church’s steeple and zooming in through the window.

There, in the middle of the small room at the top if the tower, bellow the large bell, was the Triwizard Tournament Cup. It was beautiful, its ornate silver handles and base connecting to a large glass cup that seemed to be every color of the rainbow at once.

They three Champions started running. Magnus’s map was hastily shoved into his pocket as he dashed through the forest. Helga might be faster than him on flat terrain, but moving through the Forbidden Forest wasn’t a top-speed sprint – you had to avoid trees, fallen logs, rocks and short plants. Magnus was grateful for all the times he had run off and made his mum chase him through forests when they were camping. He was moving through the woods a lot more nimbly than his opponents and was a few meters ahead of them.

He heard a cry behind him and when he looked over his shoulder he saw Helga on the ground – she had tripped on a large rock jutting out of the ground. Magnus didn’t turn around to help her – she was already getting up on her own.

Slowly, Raphael was catching up to Magnus. The trees around them weren’t as closely packed as before and the ground was smothered since more feet had walked on it. They were approaching the end of the forest and Magnus knew his problems would start here.

As they left the trees of the forest behind them, Magnus started losing his head start. The ground was significantly flatter now and the uneven terrain that had given him an advantage in the forest was now gone. Both Raphael and Helga were catching up to him. Magnus pushed himself to run faster, but not by much. They still had a ways to go for the church and he couldn’t tire himself out when they were still so far away.

As they run through the castle grounds to Hogsmeade, Magnus tried his best to at least keep up with the other two Champions. Raphael and Helga were tied at the front, neck to neck for the first place, while Magnus followed a couples meters behind. His legs burned with the effort it took to keep up his speed for such a long distance but he didn’t allow himself to slow down.

They were in Hogsmeade now and Magnus was trying to come up with any shortcuts he knew for the church, but none of them were any good. He was still in last place and unless he found a way to outrun his opponents he wasn’t going to win. He tried to run faster, but it only seemed to be doing the opposite as Raphael and Helga picked up their speed as they saw the church in the end of the street.

Come one, come on, think of something! Magnus was panting as he thought of a way to outrun Helga and Raphael and come out ahead. He couldn’t apparate to the cup and he could accio a broom to get there either-

Wait. Would… would that even work?

Magnus didn’t have long to think about it. He was less than a block away from the church now and Helga with Raphael were already closer to the door.

Here goes nothing, I guess.

“Depulso!” Magnus yelled as he pointed his wand at himself. His feet left the ground and Magnus was met with the weird feeling of flying without a broomstick, but he fought to keep himself focused. He swished his wand and sent himself flying towards the top of the steeple.

The Headmasters said they couldn’t fly to the cup by broomstick but they never said anything about another form of flying. Magnus knew Depulso – the opposite of Accio – could work on a human (courtesy of Alex using it on Halfborn as prank) but moving himself through the air by magic was straining and there was no way he would be able to keep this up for much longer.

He stared at the window at the top of the steeple as hard as he could as he tried to move himself there. The window was coming closer and closer, but he was already panting and he felt his magic waver the longer he held on. The spell wasn’t meant to be used for long, or for such a large distance, but Magnus couldn’t let himself fall down now.

Five meters away and he was wondering if he would even make it. Three meters and he was barely holding onto the spell. Two meters and the windowsill was just out of his reach. One meter… one meter…

Magnus’s spell fell apart just as he touched the windowsill. His weight came crushing down on his hands as his body now longer floated. He was hanging from the steeple’s windowsill, his body against the stone wall. He was over ten meters up in the air, he knew it very well, and he didn’t let himself look down.

He put all the strength he had in his arms and pushed himself up. Thankfully the church was made of uneven rocks and his feet were able to find small grooves to push his body up despite the church being exposed to the elements for so many years. Still, the task was grueling and he almost slipped on the smooth rocks multiple times.

Finally, he managed to drag his upper body of the windowsill and proceeded to topple onto the floor. This might have been the dusty floor of church’s steeple, but Magnus could really take a nap right now.

Still, he could hear footsteps approaching and realized Helga and Raphael must be climbing up the stairs. He pushed himself up quickly just as Raphael’s head emerged from the doorway and ducked under the bell. The Cup stood on a pedestal in the middle of the bell and Magnus reached out, his hands just a centimeter away, and then he was holding the Cup in his hands, the multicolored glass shinning brighter than ever.

Suddenly, Magnus felt like he was being hit by strong winds as his body was dragged forward, like there was a rope tied around his waist pulling him somewhere. The Cup is a portkey, Magnus realized as his feet hit solid ground again and he found himself in the middle of Quidditch field.

He looked around baffled as he took everything in. Helga and Raphael were a few meters away from Magnus, looking just as confused as he felt. Confetti fell from the sky and every single person in the stands was standing up, clapping and yelling and cheering. The uproar was absolutely deafening and it was almost hard to imagine that all this noise was made by humans.

“He did it!” Professor Thor yelled from the speakers as Alex with the rest of their friends in tow run towards Magnus and tackled him to the ground. “Magnus Chase has won the Triwizard Tournament!”

I hoped you liked the last task! Next week is the final chapter and good god, I can't believe this is actually coming to an end. I'll probably get emotional next week too,  but I can't tell you how grateful I am to all of you for sticking with me through this whole journey! I would hug you, but there's a screen in the way... so just hug your screen and feel my ghost arms around you? Anyway, until next time!

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A, C, E, F, I, J, K, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, and X! Many letters~!

Yeeeees! Thank you I love many letters!

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

Chirrut/Baze -I think their shipname is Spiritassassian, goldenvibe, killervibe, Lucifer/Chloe, Wylan/Jesper, Jesper & Inej’s friendship…actually all of the dregs relationship together…there are a lot.

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

*whispers* MONELANDKARAJUSTENDITBEFOREITSBEGUNFURTHER

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

Reverb bad boy glasses edit? Idk. 

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?

Kinda sorta not really. Um…its more of a matter I’ve just kinda stopped being in the fandom for SPN…cause I stopped watching the show. 

J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr. (You don’t have to care about it or follow it; it just has to be something that Tumblr made you aware of.)

There are many… SPN. Yuri On Ice. YJ. 100.  

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

…Arthur Pendragon, maybe?  

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

Cisco’s powers being as powerful as they’re supposed to be *cough*mostpowerfumetaintheuniverse*cough*, more actual friendships between the characters -like let Cait and Iris be friends already, and less relationships that end in pain just let them be happy o k? ITS NOT THAT HARD. ALso more Hart and Lisa plz and thanks kay? Bring those two back since there seems to be a trend of bringing characters back.  

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

I Don’t Care by FOB is a fp!Cisco song that is all.

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

High School AU for the dregs? idk.

Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.

I abandoned OUAT and SPN because I lost interest in both shows cause the plots just got a lil too silly and disappointing for my liking… 

R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

THE CLUSTER!!! 

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

Cisco collects and makes merch for all the superheros (flash, arrow, kid flash, killer frost and vibe) cause he takes pride in it all and loves it.

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? 

REVERB IS ARO!!!!

X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

…maybe fake relationship? Idk…what are some tropes I can’t think of any.

Asks