#hp the season/the ton au

[wellpresseddaisy]

My Soul Revive pt. 2

His ears buzzed strangely, and not from apparition. They had since “he’s your godfather”, but it wouldn’t do to be seen in a flap. He and Narcissa worked so hard to keep Draco from ever seeing them in a panic, a relic of his first so terribly delicate years of life. If they behaved as if everything was fine, no matter the crisis, then surely Draco wouldn’t panic either.

Severus.

His heart clenched painfully. He’d allowed himself a few awful moments in his dressing room earlier, but if Severus lived…

Out of all of them, Severus deserved a quiet, happy life where he was thoroughly spoilt most. Would he let them give him that now? If.

The moment their feet touched ground, he and Narcissa reached for one another’s hand and dashed for the Shack. That Severus would be so injured here, where he’d already experienced several lifetimes of terror, seemed like the universe laughing at them all. They entered carefully, wary of traps, though anything left by him should have evaporated with his soul (finally, finally).

Lucius heard Granger behind them, puffing a bit. One would think that being friends with Potter would encourage one toward some type of exercise program, preferably with an emphasis on sprinting, but it didn’t seem to have occurred to the girl. He edged ahead of Narcissa, opening the first door off the passage, and froze.

Severus.

No one else wore that many layers of solid black. A shallow, rasping breath froze him in his tracks.

“He breathes still.”

Narcissa went still behind him for a moment.

“Conjure a light and come with me. Miss Granger, I am going to ask you to wait in the hall. I don’t think Severus would appreciate you seeing him in this state.”

“If you need anything, I can apparate for it.” Granger spoke unsteadily. “It’s the least…”

“He’ll pull through, I’m sure,” Lucius spoke bracingly. “He’s too stubborn to do anything else.”

Granger gave a watery sort of snort at that.

Lucius ushered Narcissa into the room ahead of him and shut the door. He conjured the sort of light he knew she’d need and they both froze.

Kreacher stood next to Severus, searching frantically through his robes.

“His Grace sent Kreacher! Kreacher keeps track and His Grace knew!” The poor elf pulled his ears viciously. “Kreacher cannot find it.”

“It’s good you’re here, Kreacher,” Narcissa said as she knelt beside Severus and surveyed the utter wreck of his throat. “It’s going to take both of us to pull this off. Have you given him anything?”

“Used the Black Elf magic, Madame Cissa,” Kreacher seemed to calm. “Kreacher is looking for the potion he knows Master Severus carries!”

“I have it here.” She pulled a vial from her box. “The anti-venin. He gave everyone a few vials of it after Mr. Weasley was attacked. Can you—”

Kreacher took the vial so Narcissa could set herself up. Lucius looked away as she cut Severus’ clothing away from his wounds. It seemed indecent to see him so vulnerable. That his chest still rose and fell was a miracle.

“Blood replenisher, wound cleaner, I am so happy that snake is dead, skin knitting potion, topical anti-venin, if you die I will follow you into the afterlife and murder you myself, Severus.” Narcissa muttered as she organized what she needed.

“Once I get the potions into him, Kreacher, I’m going to need your help calling on the family magic. His pulse is…not what I would like.”

“His Grace said to do whatever Kreacher deemed necessary.”

How she sounded so calm Lucius would never know. His role, thankfully, was to hold the light steady and relay any orders to Granger. Lucius kept his eyes toward the window and listened to the low murmur of Narcissa and Kreacher at work. The soft glug of potions and the rustle of bandages formed a backdrop for the surreal night.

Severus lived.

He would continue to live if Narcissa had her way.

There would be a future for them.

He held onto that thought as Narcissa began a soft chant. His skin prickled as a thread of familiar magic wound through the room. The Black magic answered her children, always. He knew Narcissa would have to make some sacrifice. If called on, he would add his own to save Severus. Blood, most likely, for healing.

There were reasons those of Black blood called upon the family magic so sparingly. Always, always they paid a price. Sometimes the price paid was transient, like giving some blood. Sometimes it was permanent. No one had ever worked out what would be asked of them for specific situations. It changed every time.

He glanced down and tried not to blanch. Narcissa had indeed sacrificed her own blood and now drew a series of runes in it down Severus’ chest from his forehead.

Her chant rose and rose, the Black magic swirling about her, now a silver mist thick in the room. Lucius held his wand steady. He wouldn’t fail either of them no matter how unnerved he felt. Not now, when they were so close. The mist whirled about them, going from a dispersed cloud to a heaving stream and poured into Severus.

Narcissa sat back on her heels, her chest heaving, and looked up at him, smiling like she did when she’d dipped a bit too deep into the champagne punch. Her eyes were solid silver, shining queerly in the conjured light.

“He’ll live,” she laughed, low and delighted. “He’ll live.”

Lucius let out a deep breath. “Thank you, my love.”

“Let’s take him home. He’ll be very weak for quite some time, but we can move him.” She tried to stand and her knees gave out. “In a moment, perhaps. The family magic hasn’t been called upon in some time.”

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Draco stared at Weasley over top of Potter, who seemed to have gone catatonic now he’d done what he set out to do.

“Don’t suppose you could see your way clear to feeding him. I don’t think he’s eaten since…” Weasley trailed off, clearly attempting to think. “Is it Wednesday now?”

Draco sighed and suddenly knew just how his parents felt trying to deal with anyone not a Malfoy.

“Please do not tell me he hasn’t eaten properly in days again? I thought we got past that last year?”

“Right, I won’t tell you that, then,” Weasley replied.

Draco surveyed Potter and made a decision. He slipped his wand into his hand and sent a quick cleaning charm at him.

“I still want him to scrub under hot water, but he’s hygienic enough to eat something, at least. How much weight do you think he’s lost this time?”

“A stone at least. He’s always been on the titchy side but he isn’t usually this small. I reckon there’s more going on, but he wouldn’t see any of the healers Madame Pomfrey brought in today…yesterday? When does it stop being today?”

That confirmed Draco’s suspicions. Honestly, sometimes he wondered if Potter really was Professor Snape’s love child they were so similar.

“You sound particularly gormless when you say things like that, Weasley,” Draco answered airily. “Can you help move him to the sitting room?”

Instead of using magic like a civilized person, Weasley scooped Potter into his arms. For some reason, that made Draco want to hiss like a stepped-on cat. He could have done that just as easily. The thought of Potter nestling his head around his collarbone had him swallowing hard.

“Could an elf please bring a tea tray and something very light to eat to the green sitting room,” Draco called as he led the way for Weasley, trying to ignore his own feelings. “And something more substantial for Weasley.”

“Thanks, Malfoy.” Weasley at least possessed some manners. “I think I had something right after, but all that’s a blur. Nice to be somewhere that isn’t Hogwarts, to be honest.”

Draco had been trying very hard not to think of the nearly three-year siege they’d endured. This was his first night home since he’d stepped onto the train after Easter in their fifth year. Strange that it should feature both a desperate rescue attempt and Potter fleeing to him. Honestly, he’d expected a quieter homecoming having left Potter at the school. Perhaps Weasley was right, that night they’d all got squiffy on purloined fire whiskey, and the ridiculousness of Potter’s life was like an infection or a mold.

“What happened with Potter today?” Draco asked quietly as Weasley settled Potter onto one of the long sofas.

“He…I’m not sure I’m the one who should tell you all of it. He didn’t have a chance to tell us everything. I can tell you what happened with his parents,” Weasley said, finally getting Potter in a position that looked somewhat comfortable. “Harry, you need to come back for a bit and eat something, right now please.”

The tone, that brusque command, surprised Draco. He really did sound like his mother. Potter groaned, his eyelashes fluttering.

“I know you aren’t down all the way. Come on, wake up,” Weasley tapped Potter’s cheek and turned back to Draco. “He gets like this when he hasn’t slept properly for a while…just complete collapse, but he really needs food before he can sleep.”

“And a wash,” Draco shuddered. “Cleaning charms only do so much.”

“Ever bathed someone before?” Weasley asked all-too-cheerfully.

“You’ve bathed him?” Draco had no idea where the raging jealousy came from. He wasn’t jealous of Weasley, not at all. Malfoys didn’t do petty jealousy.

“You’ve got to know he’s rubbish at taking care of himself, yeah?” Weasley sat on one side of Potter. “It isn’t often, but when he’s like this it’s better than letting him drown. You know it’s like he’s my little brother?” Weasley sounded infuriatingly patronizing.

Draco ought to have realized, but some of the rumors…and how close Potter seemed with both Weasley and Granger.

“Of course I know that,” he grumbled.

Thankfully, the elves chose that moment to send up the trays. One held delicate, thinly cut wedges of buttered toast and a tureen of fluffy scrambled eggs. The second held the makings for substantial sandwiches. The third, Draco was relieved to see, held what he’d last seen as  the nursery tea service. The heavy pot and more substantial teacups meant no one had to worry about delicate china. He poured three cups of tea and made himself a sandwich while Weasley coaxed a reasonable serving of eggs and toast into Potter.

“Yes, you can go to sleep as soon as you finish,” Weasley huffed.

Draco paid them little attention and bit into his sandwich. Glorious. The last few months had been mostly things grown in the Hogwarts kitchen gardens, porridges, potatoes, and whatever game Hagrid managed to catch. The Hogwarts elves did their best, but they hadn’t had their usual stores to work with. Roast beef, wholemeal bread, horseradish sauce, and that piquant little salad the elves made had never tasted so wonderful to him before. Perhaps he’d try some of the ham next, with the crumbly sharp cheddar. He found he had a good deal more appetite than he’d expected.

“That’s Harry gone for a bit,” Weasley commented.

Draco looked over to see Potter passed out between them. Even with the blood and whatever else had been on him magicked off, he still looked dreadful.

“He hasn’t really been sleeping lately. Nightmares, you know, from the soul tie.”

“A what?!” Draco screeched. “Please tell me Potter wasn’t subject to...to…that sort of abomination!”

“You sound just like your mum when you do that, you know?” Weasley began. “All I know is what Harry told us his parents told him. They said it was a soul tie that nearly killed him when your parents did the necessary in ’81. And I’m not blaming them for anything since no one really knew at that point except for Aunt Lily and she wasn’t telling because she probably did something really illegal to shield him from it, unlike some sanctimonious arseholes.”

Draco stared at him. “My parents did what in  ’81?”

“Er…Malfoy…they’re responsible for the first decimation of Dark Lord Dirtnap.”

Draco couldn’t hold back a snort at the name. “Don’t make me laugh right now, Weasley. I’m being serious.”

“Sorry. Habit. Your parents killed him and destroyed his first body is what Mum told me. Then your dad went on to go after the Horcruxes he knew about. No one knows how they found out or decided to turn, but I’d put my money on something with Professor Snape.”

Draco could only blink at that. His parents. His parents. Did that? And never told him?

“I don’t know what to say.”

“You don’t have to say anything,” Weasley shrugged. “You could pass the ham, though.”

[theothersmurfette]

Today I helped super glue a goat's butt.

[revasnaslan]

I'll be honest about Annilis, I love him and his sympathetic background AS well as his awful approach to keeping Hec-tor safe, because he's probably in some legitimate danger but he took it too far. I love HP, but I also wanna beat his ass too. Just grab him by the ears and yell, "What are you doing you idiot sandwich?!" I just wanna ask him "Are you even happy? And no getting pegged by a Shade isn't happiness." Don't want him to die though, only because it's a cop-out for actual punishment.1/2

2/2 That's what kinda bummed me on HP in-show, he did so much horrible shit, was an arrogant living "God", and he was just killed? That easy? HP's hubris was grotesque and he deserved a worse punishment than just a lightshow to the face. HP was also a non character in the end and whatever characterization he did have was lost quickly, gonna admit. But, an arrogant jerk dying that quickly is too easy a punishment, he has to suffer the consequences of his actions and experience his loss in detail.

sorry I'm sending you so many asks about HP. But dear God did the show drop the ball on Horde "supposedly endgame villain who was woefully underutilized until the last minute and even then was handed the villain ball to make sure what credibility he did have was lost" Prime. Could have been great, his story was there, but Crew-ra wasted time on frivolous characters(star siblings might have been cool but s5 needed to work on its existing characters, not introduce new ones)and wasted plot points.

I actually have done a ton of analysis on why prime just doesn’t work as a villain for pretty much six months now. Like I started doing this pretty much the day that the finale dropped cause I never liked S5 at all. There’s just much wrong with it, strictly from a narrative prospective than I cannot get over it, which I why I’ve kind of retreated into doing Fuck Canon aus. And I don’t think the major problems plaguing prime is that he’s a bad person or a cult leader or whatever, that would be fine. This is a matter of set up and pay off. This is a matter of narrative structure. Those are my major problems with everything about this.

Anyway, I guess we’ll try a flaccid attempt at positivity, just to make it clear that I am not coming strictly from a point of view of hate… the one thing I remember liking about prime is that creepy dinner scene. Loved that scene, I was so giddy when they dropped it as a teaser clip, and I got to enjoy it in peace for like a day and a half before my love for the show went crumbling. Prime is absolutely on his game in that scene, I can very clearly see his mind working, because my interpretation of the scene is that he’s trying to bait glimmer into giving him information. Did he actually intend to harm adora? Who knows! Does it matter? Not really, considering he got the information he wanted, which was what was needed to work the heart. I can feel the tension in that scene, that is how he should have been for the rest of the season.

So what the fuck happened? *cracks knuckles* well let’s see shall we.

Foreshadowing It’s Fun Cause It’s A Thing I’ve Heard Of

So I think we all remember just how shocking it was when prime actually showed up, and he wasn’t anything like we’d all come to assume he’d be based on what had been said about him up until that point. What we had been fed was essentially that he was cold, calculating, and didn’t look upon “defects” well. He saw the clones as disposable. And they set up that aspect of his character just fine, and I don’t have a problem with how that was set up.

What they utterly failed to properly set up (and even contradicted themselves on) was the cult thing, and how prime is essentially this messiah figure to the clones. I highly suspect this occurred because they were writing the show as they went along, and hadn’t fully fleshed out prime’s whole deal until he actually appeared at the end of S4, but that’s just my own speculation given some of the things that had been said in interviews regarding other aspects of the writing (namely that micah was apparently not supposed to be alive in the first place and that happened because of a miscommunication between noelle and one of the other writers).

Regardless, there are a number of things that should probably have been done differently in order to properly foreshadow prime’s cult leader status, that actually would have heightened hordak’s characterization as well. For one thing, there’s a reason we all assumed that the galactic horde was merely a military program and it’s because of how hordak acts throughout the first four seasons. We can talk in circles about headcanons until we’re blue in the face (i.e., he might have memory problems), but the fact of the matter is that those are headcanons and that hordak’s entire narrative changes from one of an ableist family to one of a religious trauma seemingly on a dime come the very end of S4 when prime shows up.

imagine how satisfying the foreshadowing would have been if hordak had actually been spouting dogma the entire show (i.e., “cast out the shadows” and “all beings must suffer to become pure”) only for it peter off once he’s befriended entrapta, if he had been calling those who he respected brother/sister instead of force captains (which is a far more militarized word to use, and judging by the galactic horde isn’t even a term they use), if he had still been dressed in his uniform and only actually started dressing differently after entrapta had helped him? Hell, he never even so much as implies that entrapta is leading him astray before he’s back with prime, he doesn’t even seem particularly distressed about being around her most of the time, and the only reason he even gets persnickety with her is because of his medical condition.

One point I’m going to expand on for a moment is the whole “brother” thing, because that is actually a very good way of explaining what I mean. Now, hordak doesn’t actually mention any other clones at all from what I remember. This is contrary to all of the clones in S5 referring to each other as “brother” pretty openly and it being seen as a term of respect. However, the only person that hordak actually calls “brother” up until S5 is prime, and this inadvertently ended up making the word seem far more neutral than it should have been considering the context of S5. The word “brother” is actually a control tool, and if they had wanted to establish that sooner, hordak should have been calling anybody he respected that.

So, either the writers hadn’t actually thought of that part of the narrative yet, or they’re just that bad at foreshadowing.

There are also three instances of the narrative contradicting itself with regards to prime, one in S3, one in S4, and one in S5. The first is that hordak wanted to make a new body for himself. While one could argue that this was meant to be foreshadowing that prime takes new bodies whenever his old one failed (which is fine, that works as foreshadowing), the act of hordak admitting that he was intending to do that is what actually creates the snag. With the context of S5, we learn that becoming a vessel is meant to be a place of honor, but this comes with the caveat that it seems like only prime is allowed to take new bodies. So why the ever living fuck would someone as “pious” and “unworthy” as hordak think that was something he could ever be allowed to do, much less that prime would welcome him back with open arms if he did it. But there’s zero hesitation on hordak’s part, he doesn’t even mention that this is something usually only reserved for prime.

The second is that prime literally looked at the heart of etheria and said it was “unlike anything [he had] ever seen” despite canonically fighting the first ones, so he’d presumably have recognized the energy signature that first one’s tech gives off and be like Oh Shit. This one in particular drives me absolutely nuts because if I was writing a villain who had lived long enough to fight the people this mystical weapon was created by I would never write them saying that what the actual fuck. My gripe here is not that prime is ancient, that’s fine, I could’ve vibed with that. But the fact that he not only fought the first ones but also recognized mara is really egregious in a way that borders on parody for me. Like what a flimsy excuse for him to be connected to adora (and we’ll get to that!)

The third and final one is that hordak was allegedly thrown out for his defects. That’s what we were told, that’s what a major facet of hordak’s trauma is centered around. However, at the same times, prime seems like… oddly fixated on hordak in a way that usually implies something deeper is going on here. That was why I was so convinced that hordak wasn’t remembering something clearly, because why would prime spare him instead of killing him immediately after returning if he was defective enough to warrant being thrown out? Come S5, prime seems to have forgotten about the pesky little plot detail that is hordak’s defects, since they never come up again! Nope! Hordak is not only completely healed of his ailments (which Can I Get A Yikes?) but he’s also been welcomed back to his original position as prime’s right hand by the mid-point of the season, and he stays there until the finale unless the plot demands he be elsewhere to interact with entrapta cause hordak was added in post. You can’t even argue that he was keeping hordak alive because eThErIaN kNoWlEdGe because he has those fucking mind chips. Literally every single person he’s chipped is connected to the hivemind because of that. He’d have every single bit of knowledge that he could possibly want right there at his fingertips. He doesn’t need hordak alive at all.

Which brings us to…

It’s Almost Like He Wasn’t A Villain To The Proper People

The thing about villains is that, in order for them to not feel out of place, in order for their defeat to actually give a true feeling of satisfaction, you kind of have to put them up against the right people. The reason that prime ultimately fails in this respect is that he is not adora and catra’s villain, despite the narrative pushing him as that…

I actually once joked on twitter that if the rise of skywalker had come out when S5 was being written, then prime would have likely ended up being revealed as adora’s long lost grandfather in some attempt to make his fixation on her seem warranted. That’s the level we’re at in terms of how connected the two of them appear to be for the villain and hero thing. They just are not connected, and prime has absolutely no reason to be this fixated on her. They tried to explain it with she ra and prime being old enemies, but that’s equally as confusing because a) mara hadn’t mentioned him up until that point, b) this inclusion actually makes the first ones creating a superweapon look justified since prime is such a huge threat, and c) she ra is explicitly stated to have been on etheria long before the first ones even colonized it, so why the fuck is she just gallivanting around the cosmos fighting cult leaders?

And to be clear, if this whole prime versus she ra had actually been hinted at, I would not be taking so much issue with this. But as there was absolutely zero mention of him, it just comes off as egregious and very, very sloppy on their parts.

Prime also should not be as fixated on catra as he is, that doesn’t make sense at all. I know why this happened in particular, though, and it’s because the writing team was so in love with her that they just had to give her this arc. That just makes its inclusion all the worse to be honest. Why does he go to such great lengths to use catra to torture adora, why does he go into a total breakdown after catra escapes? He isn’t connected to either of them…

… because he is hordak and entrapta’s villain.

that prime didn’t immediately want entrapta dead continues to confuse me to this day, nearly seven months after the fact. Like you mean to tell me that this cult leader, who is presumably used to complete obedience from his followers, finds one of the wayward members of his proverbial flock lost on some backwater, who didn’t want to be found, and he knows exactly who is responsible for sewing those seeds of discord in this poor lamb’s head. And he doesn’t immediately want entrapta dead?

Not only does prime never mention her, despite it being very easy to push a plotline about how it’s necessary because she’s perceived as a danger to the rest, and especially to the poor lost soul who was ultimately returned to him. Instead, prime just doesn’t seem to realize entrapta exists. He doesn’t know who she is despite literally reading hordak’s mind. He doesn’t even seem to interpret her as threat considering he wasn’t worried about putting her and hordak right next to each other in the finale. He should have been using hordak to torture entrapta, and he should have had his break because hordak escaped him. That whole scene where catra is under mind control and adora was trying to snap her out of it was textbook entrapdak. Hordak should have been the one to delve into the hivemind to help adora. It was his story and it was taken from him when he was sacrificed on catra’s narrative arc altar.

And this is ultimately completely fixable. Because they had a villain they could have been using for adora and catra the whole time. Shadow Weaver. Y’know, their mutual abuser who was the main cause of strife between the two of them, and the person who kind of set the plot in motion since she’s the reason catra is the way that she is?

He Blew It. Super Hard. Complete Buffoonery.

Ultimately one of the biggest writing fumbles with prime is that he is just really fucking dumb as the plot demands, and it doesn’t make any kind of narrative sense for him to be that way, it is literally just him being at the mercy of the writers who need him to do something stupid so they can push the plot forward since they made him too overpowered for it to happen any other way.

There’s numerous instances of this across the season, including him bringing entrapta aboard the velvet glove when the very person he would have had very good reason to not let her near is standing right there, and him deciding to give catra pretty much free reign of the velvet glove and seeming to decide to trust her despite him knowing damn well that she’s likely to betray him the second he does something she doesn’t like, and the time he literally left adora to be beaten by catra instead of just killing her outright when she couldn’t even activate she ra. And in all these cases he had the fucking nerve to seem surprised when it happened?

However, there is one plot point that I feel illustrates how goddamn stupid he is to move the plot forward, and it’s the mind chips.

I mean one of the reasons I dislike it is going back to how little foreshadowing the writers actually seem capable of committing to. There is nothing to indicate in the narrative that prime actually employs mind control on anybody besides the clones, and this becomes especially egregious when we later meet the star siblings, and we find out that there are large swathes of the universe that are seemingly not chipped? It just screams like they needed some type of angst plot point for catra, so they had to find a way to make it work.

But the very inclusion of the mind chips as a plot point makes prime look so ridiculously dumb, because we are told those chips connect people to the hivemind, we are explicitly shown this for catra angst. So a) why does he need hordak around at all, because the excuse he needs to know about etheria doesn’t work since he literally chips like half of the etherian population later on anyway, b) if he needed information on the heart of etheria, why didn’t he just chip glimmer outright, it would have saved him a lot of time and hassle, and c) if he knew damn well that catra had betrayed hordak numerous times and was likely to do the same to him, why didn’t he just immediately chip her so he could mitigate two problems. If he had chipped catra immediately, he wouldn’t have lost glimmer, and it would have been next to impossible for adora and bow to storm the velvet glove through the means that they did.

When your main villain is that fucking stupid, the tension is completely sapped out of your narrative, and prime doesn’t have enough character unto himself to continue holding up his own arc. He is a sexy lamp cardboard cutout that just happens to be brought onto the scene when they were in need of someone to throw the idiot ball at. Prime is supposed to be this thousand year old body hopper who has the wisdom of the ages, and yet he was defeat by a group of teenagers driving a clown card held together by nothing but duct tape and prayers.

Anyway!

Guess Who Just Got Murdered!

Anon, I completely agree that the way prime got taken out was just… hm. Well, it was a choice, given how they had written the rest of the season.

I’ve said this before, but I really wish I could actually enjoy hordak yeeting him, but I just don’t feel anything. That scene is a culmination of an arc that never happened because hordak was barely on screen for S5. It feels like we’re missing this whole season-long arc about how hordak managed to break free of prime and was actively working against him, and that scene is the lowest point, right before the greater scope villain is ultimately defeated by the protagonist. Which just furthers my point that prime is really hordak’s villain, because hordak reads more like a protagonist than I think the writers actually intended for him to.

Since you mentioned anillis, I feel the need to comment on him as well, because I do know exactly what happens to him at the end of my au, because I actually planned for his ending from the beginning and built his arc towards that point. The very bare bones spoilers is that he isn’t going to die, because a) he needs to live with the consequences of his actions and b) him dying would affect hec-tor horribly, especially since if anybody had to deal the killing blow it would be hec-tor. And hec-tor doesn’t deserve to be forced to do that. He wants freedom, he doesn’t want his brother dead by his own hand.

So, I completely agree that just killing prime off feels a little… like a cop out? I’m not going to get into a discussion of how he was defeated by the power of (romantic) love because my issue there is not with the trope itself, but ultimately how it was handled, and that also has to do more with my grievances with how catradora was ultimately handled than my grievances with prime. However, him being like… exorcised…

Well it sure does clean up some loose ends that we don’t want to discuss huh?

[shitty-check-please-aus]

2020 Books Read So Far

Note: Most of these are audiobooks (listening to books counts as reading books and if you disagree I’d ask you to consider why you believe that), books I started and didn’t finish will be listed but not reviewed, and all my opinions are extremely subjective. I’m putting this on this blog because I want to and I think it’ll help me keep track of what I’ve read if I write it down in a couple places. 

Some notes:

I’m surprised that most of these are nonfiction! I don’t usually think of myself as a nonfiction reader. 

Having audiobooks has made me way more productive as a reader, since I can read while I’m doing repetitive tasks at work, when I have to stand on the bus, when I’m running, etc. 

Naked, by David Sedaris

3/5, the audiobook was “unabridged selections” which means “we didn’t edit the individual essays but you’re only getting half the book”– it would probably have been a 4/5 if it was a whole book. I liked that Amy Sedaris was reading parts of it, but that’s because I like her more than I like her brother. This is sort of an example of the difference between “comedic” and “humorous,” because it’s definitely the latter. 

Read it if: you want to read something pretty fucking weird. 

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, by Sarah Vowell

4/5, I saw this recommended a lot when Hamilton first came out so it’s been in the back of my mind for a good while. The book had a great cast, and having different people reading the historical quotes was an excellent touch! 

However, I think Vowell’s conversational style is a little jarring here sometimes. It’s like “wait, why are you talking about Bruce Springsteen, I’m not that familiar with his work but he definitely isn’t from Revolutionary War times.” I got her book Assassination Vacation at a used bookshop recently as well, and both books suffer from post-2016 hindsight, where she’ll say something about how incompetent and foolish the politicians of her time are, and I just have to snort to myself and say “Sarah, you’re going to lose your goddamn mind soon.” That’s a bit of an unfair reaction, but it’s hard to avoid having it.

I was also, maybe unfairly, expecting to learn more than I did. The problem is that I know a Lot about the Revolutionary War, and from the introduction I thought we’d hear more about Lafayette’s later life (my knowledge drops sharply after about 1810). The book basically ends after the Battle of Yorktown, though.

Read it if: you have not seen/listened to both Hamilton and 1776, or if you want to read a summary of the Revolutionary War with a focus on one French captain. 

Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell

3/5, honestly maybe a 2.5/5. Okay, so. Either I know a lot more about American History than I felt like I did or this is again a very surface level thing. Part of it is because she spends 123 pages on Abe Lincoln. There are 255 pages total. 2/3 of the states I’ve lived in are Indiana and Illinois, two states that fight about claiming Lincoln as their own, and I’ve been to D.C. 4 or 5 times, so I feel like I know enough about Lincoln. I know about John Wilkes Booth, and his brother Edwin who saved Lincoln’s son’s life, and the death train that took Lincoln’s body around the country. I did enjoy learning about the doctor who was probably conspiring with Booth and how he ended up saving tons of lives in prison when there was a yellow fever outbreak (also to be briefly unbearably nitpicky: I think she might have mixed up dengue and yellow fever? She calls yellow fever “breakbone” but I can only find instances online of people calling dengue fever that. Maybe they called them all breakbone in the late 1800s. If anyone reading this is an epidemiologist, let me know).

It was interesting to hear that Charles Guiteau, killer of President Garfield, was part of the Oneida cult. I’m trying to think of anything notable she said about Leon Czolgosz, killer of President McKinley. I guess she talks about how people assumed he was a foreigner because of his name, but I already listened to “The Ballad of Czolgosz” in Assassins, so I knew “Czolgosz, angry man, born in the middle of Michigan.”

This one is from 2005 so the politics stuff is a little more interesting, since at the time I was busy learning multiplication and spending one entire baseball season learning about baseball and following my team (they won the world series, I have excellent timing). I will say that in 2005 we did have Google, so I am again annoyed with some of her asides and personal anecdotes. Look, if you go to the Hemingway house and you don’t know there will be cats there, that’s on you if you don’t bring your Claritin. Hemingway is associated with only two good things, six-toed cats and Daiquiris. 

She also does not acknowledge that the parties basically switched platforms? Lincoln’s Republican party is not today’s Republican party, in fact kind of the opposite, so it’s weird that she starts the book with a dedication that’s like “to my lifelong Democrat grandpa, he’d be pissed I dedicated a book about 3 Republicans to him.” I guess she does sometimes say stuff like “how did Lincoln’s party become Reagan’s” (paraphrase), but she doesn’t actually get into it. 

Speaking of Democrats, she literally spends more time talking about Pablo Picasso than she spends talking about JFK. She doesn’t explain why she didn’t talk about JFK, but it seems bizarre to me to write a book about American assassinations and to leave out John Fucking Kennedy. Literally I’ve talked more about JFK in this section than she did in her assassin book. It’s not until page 253 that JFK gets a full paragraph. There are 255 pages total. Truly, if she’d taken a paragraph to be like “I’m focusing on the presidents who were elected before 1900″ or “the presidents whose immediate families aren’t still alive” or even “I didn’t want to travel to Dallas for research” or SOMETHING to explain why she left out JFK, I would have understood it more instead of flipping through the pages wondering what was going on. 

Read it if: You do not listen to too many history podcasts and you didn’t read the Wikipedia page for the musical Assassins. And I guess if you don’t want to acknowledge that JFK did also get assassinated and that was kind of a big deal. Actually just listen to Assassins instead. 

And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

5/5 as a mystery, 0/5 for its original title (not gonna say it here but if you’ve ever googled the name of HP Lovecraft’s cat, it’s along those lines). Less than 6 hours, narrated by Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey, fairly ideal as an audiobook. I am 95% sure I’ve already read this, because I spent the summer before I started high school reading every Agatha Christie book in the library (I do not have a list of all the Agatha Christie books in my library the summer of 2010, so there is some question). 

Read if: you want to hear the guy from Downton Abbey deliver the line “I’m not a complete fool!” in a tone that makes it sound like “I’m not a fucking moron!” Sidenote: Can anyone tell me if Brits say “solder” by pronouncing the L that I’ve always heard as a silent L? Or if Dan Stevens just fucked up that one word?

Over The Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, by Jonathan Van Ness

4.5/5

This was a super enjoyable audiobook! It’s a testament to JVN’s considerable charisma that this book is full of him giving people in his past who would rather be anonymous Russian names, and it doesn’t get grating (as a Marina, however, I was shocked to not hear my name at any point; most of the other Marina’s I’ve met in my life are Russian). JVN has had a wild ride in life, and it’s a really raw, honest story of how he became who he is. I will say that if you are interested in reading this, please look up the trigger warnings; there are a lot of things that could be triggering to people. 

I feel a little bad at how much more I liked this one compared to Tan France’s memoir, but I also feel like whoever was ghostwriting that one did a bad job at making Tan seem... not extremely defensive, cocky, and prickly (it seems that JVN did not use a ghostwriter; Tan’s on the other hand, let the phrase “I’m proud to be a petty bitch” make it into the final proof several times). Also JVN advocates going to therapy in his book, while Tan kind of says that you should only go to therapy if you have no friends or family or life partner to talk to, which I fundamentally disagree with. I don’t know. I also feel like, if I were to get a makeover from the Fab 5, Jonathan would love my hair (I have great hair) while Tan would say that I’m dressing too old for a 24 year old and then take me to fucking Lane Bryant or Torrid (I wear a size 16 US so IRL options are limited). 

Read if: You like Queer Eye or Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Medallion Status, by John Hodgman

4.5/5

I really like John Hodgman’s podcast, and I got to ask him a question at an event he did at the Field Museum and he was very nice, so I went into this inclined to enjoy it. 

And I did! I had a good time reading it. I read it the first week of January and now it’s the second week of February so I have already erased much of the book’s content from my mind, but he somehow made the perspective of being a formerly kinda famous person really interesting. I would also recommend Vacationland, particularly if anyone wants to write an au where Nursey, as a New Yorker, has a vacation home in Dex’s town in Maine. That’s right, I brought it back around to the topic of this blog. And that would be a fucking fantastic au. 

Read it if: you like memoirs! it’s a good one. 

Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie

Gonna give this one a 3/5 for performance, because Dan Stevens (again, because I liked his narration in the other one) does a really annoying American accent for a few characters, and an extremely bad Italian accent for another. I’m starting this review only a few hours in, so if it turns out that the Italian man is not Italian, I’ll revoke my criticism. Still a 5/5 mystery, though. I did have to stop many times when they were talking about Istanbul to go over to Spotify and play “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” by They Might Be Giants. 

Books abandoned in 2020 (so far) (no real spoilers, I didn’t get more than a few chapters into any of them):

The Unhoneymooners, Christina Lauren

I got to a point where the main character was telling a lie that would put her newly accepted job into jeopardy, and it stressed me out so much as a relatively new hire that I stopped listening for the day and started another one, and then the week had passed and then the library took it back. I think I’d enjoy it more if I was reading it physically and I could control how fast I got through awkward parts (I am practically allergic to secondhand embarrassment). The performance was good and I did get a hankering for cheese curds. 

Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris

I had like three audiobooks checked out at the same time, and even though this was again an abridged version, I just didn’t have time for all of them. My mom has a physical copy, I’ll borrow that at some point. 

The Witch Elm, Tana French

This is one I may revisit someday. The main character is kind of an asshole, which is the point of his character I think, but it made it hard to get into the story. It’s also a 22 hour audiobook, which is kind of insanely long. Additionally, the narrator has a very slow way of talking, but if I tried to speed up the rate of playback I had trouble understanding his accent (I think I just have trouble processing really fast speech in general as well, but I would’ve had an easier time understanding someone with the same accent as me). Anyways, someone put a hold on it at the library and then I didn’t check it out again. 

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😍 💏 💡 🌍

Okay sorry I got distracted by vagina slime asmr. 

😍 What is your favourite fic trope?

Emo/Prep is the objectively best ship dynamic, served with a side of mutual “I see the darkness inside you and I don’t look away.” I wish there were more really good “stockholm syndrome”/capture fics I could recommend; a lot of them are either too interested in the sexual torture and/or try to actually redeem the captor character like LMAO girl let’s be real with ourselves here for a moment. (A lot of them also spend tons of time on what the side characters are doing to try and rescue the victim, which is understandable, I just don’t actually care.) 

💏 Who is your OTP?

Elder God Tier ship is always gonna be YinxYuck, my first real ship, my eternal obsession. That’s the one true pairing. But in the more watered down definition: Paultryck, Catradora, EddTord, polyworld, Sciset, (one-sided) Mall Rats/Grimon, and more recently Hannigram. 

💡 Tell me a headcanon (and who you wish would write it)?

Recently saw the headcanon that Will and Hannibal hooked up mid-season 2 after Will got out of jail, and god, Hannigram is just so much up the HP author obsessmuch’s alley it’s insane. Her fic “Eden” already splits the difference between Hannigail and Abigram, lmao. 

🌍 What is your dream AU?

GOD, that’s a good question! I have an elaborate YinxYuck childhood friends AU that’s been kicking around my head for several years at this point. Basically Yuck is a changeling that Yin finds one day and ends up convincing Master Yo to let him stay and train with them. Shit goes off the rails once they get older, Yuck gets brutalized by the reapers like in canon, etc etc. (Bonus points for Yin intentionally shaping Yuck’s then-unstable form into an image that’s pleasing specifically for her, a conscious version of what happened in Falling Yin Love.)

Thank you for sending this in!

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Writing Meme!

I was tagged by @ashfae, because she enjoys causing me pain :P

Author name: Fyre :) Have been using that as my SN since 2001-ish.

Fandoms You Write For: Ahahahahaha. To be making a laughing sound. Anything. Everything. Right now, Good Omens is my main one, but I’ve been ficcing for 20 years and have toe-dipped in around 100 fandoms at last count. I also love a plausible crossover. If I can cross something, I will :D Did briefly make BNF status in HP fandom, around 2002. Very confusing experience, since I don’t generally interact with people, I just throw fic at them.

Where you post: Previously, I had my own sites and used to post on the Pit of Voles. Now, I post on tumblr and AO3 exclusively. Mostly because I’m too lazy to post everywhere else.

Most popular one-shot: Unexpectedly, based on kudos alone, it’s Five Times North Star Assistance Helped The English Guy. It was one of two fics I wrote for Sleepy Hollow during season one. Then season two happened and I never wrote for it again.

Most popular multi-chapter story: No shock that it’s one of my MCU stories: Training Buddies. It was meant to be a one-shot set after CA:TWS, when Matt Murdock accidentally befriends the on-the-run ex-Winter Soldier. Only because it’s me, it got big and I accidentally correctly wrote the events of Civil War the year before the film came out. A few people screeched at me about that.

Favourite story you wrote: Don’t have one. Seriously, dude. Seriously. How can you ask this question? I have over 300 works on AO3 alone and that’s just my stuff I’ve posted since 2008. Asking me to pick one is like… I don’t even know what it’s like! Doesn’t help that I rarely remember what I’ve written until I unexpectedly get comments or kudos for it and go “wait, which one was that?” Fic is just me pulling my brain-words out, splatting them on a keyboard and throwing them at the internet. I don’t really have much of an emotional attachment. (However, if you insult any of my babies, I KEEL YOU)

Story you were nervous to post: First ever, ever, ever fic. That was terrifying. I can’t even remember which one it was now, but it was October 1999. I found a website of an artist who also wrote fic and I made a small fic and tentatively held it out for this Wise Sage Experienced fan’s appraisal. 20 years down the line, I’m still friends with her, I’ve lived with her for a spell, she got me a job and I own a metric ton of her art.

How do you choose your titles? I have no sodding clue. Sometimes they just show up in my brain.

Do you outline? OH LORD. No. No, no, no, no. I keyboard smash. That’s all I ever do. I don’t know what’s coming. Some part of my brain does, but I certainly do not.

Complete: …I did mention I’ve been doing this for 20 years, right? I’ll give you a few of my biggest ones: The Eighth Weasley (Buffy/HP crossover – 412k - started in 2001. Please excuse the writing quality. I was a learner), An Inward Treasure (Once Upon a Time Rumbelle Regency AU - 100k), Avalanche (Peggy Carter as the Winter Soldier AU – 82k), Thaw and Glacier (CA:TWS Sorta-Honey-Trap AU from two POVs – also one of my writing challenges to myself with fixed word counts per chapter), Burning with a Deadly Heat (CA:TWS Cold War AU – 82k), Inverse Omens (Good Omens reverse role AU – 61k + expanded missing scenes of around 60+k as well, because I’m lame). I also did a whole slew of full season 1 rewrites of Once Upon a Time, because why not? :D

In progress: AHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH SHUT UP. Main two at the moment as the Hunger series and Crossing Paths, which have no ending in sight because I’m having way too much fun with them.

Coming soon/not started yet: Me no know.

Do you accept prompts? You can lob them at me. Can’t guarantee I’ll use them.

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: It’s a novel :D Another one! As well as 275k of fic on AO3 in the past 11 years, I’ve also had six novels, a novella and 7 short stories published. I am a busy bee.

I won’t tag, for mercy’s sake. Feel free to meme if you like.

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Author Tag!

Thanks to my lovely babes @lilacs-with-lavender for the tag!

fandoms you write for

GoT/ASOIAF

Jonerys primarily is my main ship.

I have written HP fanfiction before but never really posted. Might consider getting back into it, who knows.

where you post

You can find me on AO3 here: mywishingglass

most popular one-shot

Count to Twenty

Takes place just after the feast in 8x04, with some dialogue stolen from 8x05 and 8x06. But don't worry, it's the sweet and nice kind.

Jon and Dany have a conversation. Because we all know, everything would have been fine if they had that ONE conversation.

most popular multi-chapter

Darkest Before the Dawn

My dark!Jonerys fix-it story. Haven't updated in months but will do so soon I hope as I have already been paid in chocolate 😂

favorite story you’ve written

A Distance Between Us

Inspired by Cosimo and Contessina from Medici Season 1. This was an interesting story to write and came about after brainstorming with a few friends. Called project hate!sex for a while, I had a lot of fun writing this. It's definitely very different as its completely AU and centers on Jon and Dany's loveless arranged marriage and how they handle that and each other.

a story you were nervous to post

Lol. All of them, I guess?

how do you choose your titles?

I just kind of see what suits the storyline best. Sometimes it's a dialogue piece, other times its just a popular saying or a general description of the story.

do you outline?

Um. Sometimes? I generally have a good understanding about how the story or chapter goes. But my notes change periodically and I sometimes add or remove or change things entirely as I write and sometimes I retcon stuff after. So. It depends 😂 this is where having a beta reader and/or friends to brainstorm with are essential.

complete number of stories

Probably 5-6. My one shots and short stories.

what do you have in progress?

Lol tons! I have about 4-5 fics that I need to continue including my main fic. But not really sure if I want to continue the others or abandon them altogether. We shall see.

do you accept prompts?

Depends. I'm very picky when it comes to prompts and because of all the current projects and upcoming ones I'm hesitant to start any more lol But I'm open to it.

upcoming story you’re most excited about?

Oh! My "Orphans" fic which is like a Disney-fied version of GOT but with incest lmao.

Jon and Dany get brought to Essos as babies. They grow up not knowing they are actually twins. They have big dreams they wanna achieve. Dany wants to find her family and Jon wants to be a knight.

It will have fun, adventure, romance, coming-of-age, mystery and other good stuff. I might even make it into a musical who knows? 😂

Not sure who to tag for this but well:

@cmyatt01 @sleepy-moon29 @roseblogsxo

@hms-harmony-discord

And whoever else wants to do this.

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5, 14, and 46 if you don't mind. I know you've mentioned at least Mary Shelley before but I want to know more!

5. Books or authors that influenced your style the most.

Tons and tons I don’t think I can name them all idkk I love how Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, I still obsess over it. Edgar Allen Poe is a personal favorite, he’s a genius also kinda psychic. Kurt Vonnegut makes me feel like no one else. I love how much of a shit Kate Chopin does not give. HP Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, hell even Algernon Blackwood are legends. Maya Angelou is so powerful, every word is pure gold. OMG Haruki Murakami and his STORIES AAAHHH and I’m gonna stop here oof

14. What’s the most research you ever put into a book?

Obscure Twilight definitely~ I deep dived into Victorian culture and there are SO many fucking references. I reread Frankenstein because OF COURSE. It is pure 100% how life was in the Victorian era and I’m so proud of it. I even used a bit of Shakespearean era references for reasons I cannot disclose (spoilers!) A friend of mine who had a special studies course (?) in the Victorian era (she was obsessed with it) said she was going to read it and I was so happy that I would get a professional opinion on my assignment basically shkhaka but then let’s just say we’re not on talking terms anymore and I hope she can stop lying and playing the victim for pity :) sigh I still want another expert’s opinion 🤧 someone who’s honest with her friends this time hakhskahj anyWAY

46. What would your story _______ look like as a tv show or movie?

I’ll try them all since it wasn’t specified!

CHTMD - A season long Kdrama where the OC learns self love through each episode. The first three or four episodes of sad Kdramas are especially terrible to watch so ya’ll are gonna cry while OC mourns herself! Imagine the end of episode 1 where OC is going to deliver Jimin pizza just for her to quietly stumble on her husband and his mistress fucking and then bam it has that stupid flare effect and a melodramatic song plays🤧

Bunny Cam - A 2 hour movie that is built like the series YOU but instead of Jungkook flaking from one woman to another, he’s just lovesick over OC and everything she embodies for two hours and decides to get rid of anyone else in his way as his proposal to her. And she accepts ofc. 

Devil’s Fair Share - This really gives me Fatal Attraction vibes or basically every thriller Sharon Stone played in the 90s. A 90s thriller definitely. 

Obscure Twilight - This basically IS a movie. I have it set up like one SERIOUSLY. It’s supposed to feel long and drawn especially on paper. It’s based off of Freddie Kruger so kind of an 80′s horror. Except it has many influences from Candy Man so there’s also THAT. It’d be a huge occult hit~ 

DOAN - Something sad. I can see it being like an hour long movie. An erotic angst. While Speak Softly Love by the Godfather plays in the background the whole time.

CMLT - A hip 90′s TV show! Quirky, lovable characters, college life, too many couples AU. Everyone’s got a thing going on. OC and Namjoon being apart of the popular kids and just getting into shenanigans with their other popular friends the SeokBitches, Sana, Yoongi and a few others. Their relationship going through trials and tribulations but they always make it back together again uwu It was super popular but got cancelled after just two seasons because of network drama

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Not quite sure what this is or if it'll go anywhere, but Ron kind of delighted me as a narrator.

Dread pooled in Ron’s gut when the Goblet of Fire lit for a fourth time.

Just like his dream last night, the one he’d laughed off while cleaning his teeth that very morning.

“Harry Potter.” The headmaster read Harry’s name off the little slip of paper belched from the Goblet.

Harry froze next to him, paling slowly as the enormity of the situation sunk in. Hermione squeaked, grabbing Harry’s hand tight.

“Harry Potter, please join the other champions.” Dumbledore sounded rather put about to have to remind him.

Harry lurched to his feet, breath coming in short bursts, and stumbled toward the front of the Hall. Ron bit his lip and thought furiously for a moment. Harry hadn’t a clue how anything in the magical world worked, of that he was certain. He’d be railroaded without someone looking out for his interests. Without considering anything further, Ron stood and strode after his friend. He knew Harry hadn’t put his name in (knew Harry would’ve involved him if he did). Knew just how much Harry wanted to avoid the whole circus of the TriWiz.

Merlin’s pants, Harry didn’t even like being called on in class and people thought he’d want to participate in something that would get him that much attention?

Harry didn’t even know his True Name, in any case. He couldn’t — he wasn’t of age and his parents couldn’t have let it slip early.  

“Ron…what?” Harry squeaked as they passed by a glaring Snape.

“You aren’t going in there without someone to represent you.” Ron muttered back. “It’ll be alright, you’ll see. Just follow my lead.”

And if he just pretended he knew what to do or say, well, no one else needed to know. He rather wished he’d thought to drag Hermione along, but there were limits as to what school officials (and the Ministry people) might put up with. Certainly they wouldn’t countenance being interrogated by Hermione.

And she would interrogate them. Brilliant, she was. He just had to hope he could pull this off without Hermione. He and Harry walked into the antechamber and shut the door. Everyone already there stared at them for a moment.

“Have we been called back into the Great Hall, Weasley?” Diggory asked.

“Er, no.” Ron swallowed, elbowing Harry before he could speak. “There’s been a bit of a mix-up and Harry’s name came out of the Goblet after everyone else was chosen.”

Once, when he was tiny, Ron had dreamed of making a sensation. It wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, honestly. Couldn’t adult magicals keep their heads about anything? Shocking bad form from all of them. They were so deep in their panic and indignation that no one else noticed Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall entering the room or Harry scooting slightly behind Ron. Crouch, in particular, looked as if he’d sucked on a lemon. He'd probably counted on everything going smoothly while working Perce half to death. Bagman beamed generally at the group, seemingly excited by the furor, and Ron rethought his career plans. Aurors tended toward head injuries as well, didn’t they?

He used his greater height and breadth to shield his friend from the accusations. As usual, Mum was right. Sprouting up and broadening out certainly helped keep Harry from everyone else’s nonsense.

Percy goggled at the pair of them from across the room but kept shtum. Ron had never appreciated his brother more in that moment.

“Harry, did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?” Dumbledore asked quietly from behind him.

At least someone wasn’t hurling vile accusations at a fourteen-year-old. Ron made sure to remember everyone else’s names for Hermione’s list.

“No, sir. I didn’t want any part of it.” Harry answered just as quietly.

Snape snorted at that, but Ron expected that sort of thing from him. Couldn’t see past the end of his prejudice against Potters, that one.

“Could someone have put his name in, sir?” Ron cut in. “I can vouch for Harry not putting his in himself. I expect most of Gryffindor can.”

“Tell me, Mr. Weasley, what are you doing here? I believe Mr. Potter was requested. Alone.” Crouch’s voice gained an icy edge Ron never wanted to hear again. But then, he did hate Weasleys.

Possibly also gingers in general, since mum had contributed to his sacking as head of the DMLE, but chucking dad into Azkaban without checking for curses first wasn’t his brightest move. Certainly he should have expected a daughter of House Prewett to raise hell over that one.

Dumbledore looked positively delighted by the turn of events. Ron couldn’t figure out why, other than maybe he didn’t much care for Crouch, either.

Or he liked a good scene. Given some of the things Ron heard from his parents (the Alchemy Shed Incident most recently), Dumbledore probably just liked a good show. Alchemists, on the whole, were mad as a bag of badgers.

“I’m his representative.” Ron explained, booting Harry in the ankle before he could say anything daft. He adored his best friend, but Harry had no grasp of a really good bluff. “After second year and all that business with Lockhart we made a handshake agreement that I would represent him in matters pertaining to the magical world, seeing as whoever is supposed to be his Magical Guardian has not done their job properly, his general guardians being non-magicals.”

Harry nodded in the right places and let him speak.

The headmaster winced a bit, which Ron thought strange. On the other hand, he got to see Snape go from glaring to looking as if he’d swallowed one of Dumbledore’s lemon drops whole. Strange that, he’d always thought Snape only had the one facial expression.

“Mr. Potter has obviously subverted Ministry decrees on the age of competitors and will be held to account. And you, Mr. Weasley, will have to leave.” Crouch seethed. Clearly he’d listened too much to the other school heads while Dumbledore questioned Harry.

Ron found himself agreeing with his mother’s view of Crouch as a Ministry official.

“Er, sir, according to Hogwarts, A History, my brother and Potter are not in contravention of any school or Ministry rules. In fact, this sort of arrangement is recommended.” Percy whispered frantically, only to be waved off.

“On further thought, sir, I think we’d best see if someone from the DMLE could Floo in. They’ll know what to look for with the Goblet. I’d suggest my mum, but she deals more in country matters.” Maybe it was dangerous ignoring Crouch like that, but Ron had nothing to say to that wanker.

Diggory had the temerity to snort something a bit rude about his mum. Ron drew himself up to his full height and skewered the older boy with a Look.

(He’d learnt that one from Hermione.)

“My mother, Diggory, is a certified law witch and Guardian at the Gate, which I should think you would remember considering all the help she gave your father in that matter with his pigs.”

Diggory shut up, showing at least some sense.

“Be that as it may, Mr. Weasley, I don’t know that we need to get the DMLE involved. The Ministry in general—”

“Actually, sir, I think that’s a splendid idea.” Percy broke in on Crouch, looking pale but determined “Mr. Potter may have been entered into a binding contract against his will. Given the history of the Tournament, this could be seen as an attempt on his life.” Percy somehow worked his way across the room as he spoke, ending up behind Harry. “I’m sure the Ministry wants everything done properly.”

Percy might have been pompous and a bit of a git, Ron thought, but he showed his Weasley colors there. Though Ron hoped he wouldn’t get the sack for it. Crouch looked ready to spit glass.

“Well said, both of you.” Dumbledore eased his way between them and Crouch. “While I would gladly stand in to represent Mr. Potter, I fear it could be seen as a conflict of interest. A  third party is precisely what we need.”

Ron stifled a triumphant smirk and watched as Dumbledore set the fire in the room to allow Floo access. In just a few moments, a red-robed Auror walked through the flames. She seemed distinctly unimpressed by everyone. Ron liked her immediately.

[jazzywazzy89]

Firstly, love your writing so much. Secondly, I have a question: do you have a fic idea that you’ve had for the longest time, but have never written for whatever reason? Like any story idea that you really enjoyed, but just never wrote a fic for? May I ask what (and the ship you’ve imagined it with) that idea is? Or have you written stories for all the ideas you’ve had? Yikes sorry if this is super confusing.

Thanks anon! That’s super sweet! 

So, I hesitated in answering this because I feel like this would be a long winded answer and I honestly am just too lazy to go into all of this. Lol

But yeah there isn’t just an idea that I have had that hasn’t or will never get done…there are tons. A lot of which are crossovers. Like when people were all, “Ship Bonnie with all the things.” I had a ton of crossover ideas I posted about, including a Once Upon a Time crossover, a HP crossover with a Harry/Bonnie/Draco triangle, and a couple of GoT Crossovers I came up with in the early seasons, one of which was a poly-fic with Dany/Bonnie/Drogo when I could still stomach Dany as a character, which did not last long. 

In terms of canon or AU-canon stuff, there’s the more recent Stefonnie ideas I posted, a lot of which are getting shelved. There was a idea I posted like years ago for a Bonnie/Mikael fic where she went back in time and became his concubine and both Klaus and Elijah would’ve developed feelings for her as well. There was a few Bonnie/Marcel fics I was playing around with writing but I didn’t watch TO and I didn’t have a well enough handle on his character and mostly wanted the pairing because of how pretty CMD is. 

I had a few Bonbekah fic ideas that I started to post but never continued due to general lack of interest. There was also a fic I really wanted to do with that was sort of a Klaus/Bonnie/Rebekah version of the Rihanna, “Bitch Better Have My Money” video but it was too far on the AU side and had worldbuilding and plotting that I didn’t have the time for and I was like 99% sure no one would read it. Lol

I have also been sitting on quite a few Bamon fic ideas that I have not posted due to my love/hate relationship with both Damon and the Bamon fandom. Even the fic I have up now, people were complaining about the direction I was taking it when it’s like barely two chapters in so I lost my momentum to even bother to continue just because of the annoyance and how entitled people could be when it comes to Damon and his characterization and his man pain. This this same reason I stopped writing one of my ALL TIME favorite stories of mine that  I put soooo much work and research time in, The Gods of Viriginia, just because of people’s commentary and them being more concerned with Bonnie needing to choose Damon, “because he’s always the second choice blah blah blah” and not actually paying attention to the story arc, Bonnie’s character journey or her dynamic with both brothers, but that’s the peril of writing a triangle I guess, people miss the point. Lol which is fine I guess, but I just stop being interested in the story when people get entitled over the outcome or feel like they can tell me what and how to write it, like it’s my story so it’s going in the direction I want it to and if I feel like there’s more complaining about pairings or whatever instead of anything constructive or encouraging I just am kind of like fuck it and stop posting it, even if I do continue to write it for my own amusement later on. But anyway that’s way off point (this is why I lowkey hate answering questions because I overthink shit and ramble and get off topic and probably on your nerves because it had nothing to do with the ask)…

But yeah I have been sitting on a few Bamon ideas for a while. One of which had Damon jumping forward when trying to desert the Civil War  in time but I ditched that once pretty quickly when I rewatched the 1864 flashbacks years ago  because he only deserted because Katherine compelled him to return to her “quickly” and not for any actual reason in terms of the Southern mentality or politics of the time or disagreeing with slavery, which shouldn’t have surprised me on a show which couldn’t even admit that Emily was a damn slave and not a “handmaiden” but again I am off topic. But anyway Bamon is a monster I try not to take one just because of the reasons stated above and honestly because the pairing already has a surplus of fics and a lot of plots that have been done before and I am not a big enough fan of the pairing to contribute more to an already large fic collection.

I am honestly a sucker for the rare pairs. Speaking of which, I had an idea for a Tyler/Bonnie/Mason fic that I am working the kinks out on, so hopefully it does actually get posted one day. I also like the idea of Bonlijah but I have a hard time coming up with fic ideas for them. Like I like them but they don’t inspire my muse at all hardly. There was one I thought about doing with Celeste possessing Bonnie when she channeled the witches to kill Klaus but again I don’t watch TO so I didn’t have a handle on her character and it felt more like a Celeste/Elijah with Bonnie as a go between instead of an actual Bonlijah story. I did also come up with a few ideas for Bonnie/Silas, a lot of which included either Stefonnie or Klonnie but I feel like no one would read those either, the one I actually ended up posting, Amaranthine, didn’t get much traction. That’s kind of what I do sometimes, put out “feeler fics” to see  how much interest they garner. But it’s hard to kind of think that way with my older fics because some of them actually had a large fanbase before they were taken down the first time so I can’t really go by review numbers except for with the newer stuff. 

This got hella long like I suspected it would so I will just stop rambling here. I will say though, there’s always going to be ideas that I come up with that never happen. That is honestly just apart of being a writer. Most of us have minds that are alway at work and the plot bunnies are never ending. The ones that actually get done are usually the ones that stay with you and don’t leave you alone. 

[pkmntrainergreyze]

I Am Up To No Good Pt. 1 (Pete Wentz x Reader)

a/n: Sorry I didn't updated so quickly, I had tons of drafts I want to finish all at the same time! I learned that I can do things one at a time.

I noticed I've been leaning more on First Person POV, I'll try to make this in 2nd. Also, I couldn't think of the character names so I used my friends' OCs. I hope you'd like this modern HP!Au

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Pete had always been the friend you love to hate. Whether the circumstances involve the Hogsmeade games or not, in the end he'll always be the man you'll call for help when pranking Brendon or bricking Joe's Samsung.

Yeah, usually the "hate" intensifies when it's the infamous decking halls season. Especially when old Mrs Minerva initiates the Hogsmeade field trip, which she also did this year. The duels in form of curses— whether work of magic or foul mouths— it's what made the Hogsmeade games so popular.

The magic of your friendship had been slipping lately, a shame really. He rarely ever joins your party, putting your letters back to the rejected-Pete-invites mailbox.

Now's the 27th invite, and you prayed prank wars will spark your friendship once more.

So here's to the fifth anniversary of the Hogsmeade games

You created a group

Nicole Row What's this group for?

You named the group Genius Ravenclaws

Andy Hurley I'm honored

Dallon Weekes I failed divinations why am I here?

Ray Toro Good evening everyone

You  Hey genuises

Nicole Row set his name to Nic

Dallon Weekes set his name to DJazzy

You Where do you find trolls?

Nic ?

Ray Toro What for?

You Pete

Dallon Why do you insist on participating.

Nic Forbidden forest. Saw one near Hagrid's place, almost made an unbreakable vow

Ray Toro Maybe it's about time you stop? Let me remind you last time you got the all of us in detention

You Thanks guys

Nic Don't tell Hagrid I said that

Andy Hurley Are you sure you're not a slytherin??? @Nic?? Seen by Nic, Dallon and Ray Toro

You went offline.

You dove back to your azure blue bed.  The bedsheet engulfed you in a light hug in seconds. The more you sunk, the more you can sniff the 4th year's "love potion" project, like yesterday, it reeks of wood, mint and... vinegar?

You hooked your hand to the edge of the mattress and kicked high enough for you to reach the faraway lamp. Before you could complain about the smell you heard a distinct cough, a very gutteral one. Almost intended.

You turned to look, only to see a disappointed Hufflepuff in a riddle secured Ravenclaw dorm.

The dandelion haired boy lingered beside your nightstand. He pulled his hand back as he saw the lights flicker on. When your eyes met he immediately fixed his tie and took a deep breath.

"I heard the game's still on" He's soaked in what seemed to be his house's trap. The acid slid into your nostrils. Your immediate action was to grab your wand. You waved it and like magic— no, with magic, the awful stench was gone and his cloak's dried.

Patrick muttered "thank you"

He rubbed his shirt and smiled a bit "I was absent when Miss Quills taught that" Thankfully he went for one of the brightest witch of the year, but the gleam in your eyes told him no excuses.

"Were you also absent when Sir Ford taught us the hot-air charm?"

"Um, yeah.... that seemed to be the case" He chuckled. He ruffled his hair and avoided your eyes. No, I didn't understand a word Mr Ford said.

You chuckled.

"Understood" You chirped "but why are you here? How did you got here?"

Patrick looked at you as if he was expecting for you to know the answer to life's toughest questions, then cleared his throat. His eyes balled around, reluctant to answer

"Pete"

When the name rolled off his tongue you dashed and dug your wand in his neck. He yelped, taking large steps backward, nearly tumbling down. His terrified eyes had no effect on your daunted aura. His lips wobbled and nose scrunched. You directed your malice at him. Eyes twitching in anger.

"Talk."

"HetoldmethepasswordfortheHufflepuffdormchangedandsaidIshouldaskMikeybutthenitturnsoutitwasn'ttherealMikeyitwasBrendonUrieandhetoldmethepasswordwasSherbertLemonsbutitwasn'tandoneofthebarrelsspiltvinegaralloverme—

"Um" You stopped kneading his cloak "Say what?"

Once you held back he scurried two feet apart from you. He took a Marina's Trench deep breath, before he attempted to rap.

"PetewillneverstopteasingmeandIneedreveng—

"Are you trying to copy Eminem, the Rap God or Ryan Ross?" You furrowed your eyebrows. "Cause honestly, no one knows what Ryan tells his girlfriend"

He raised both his hands, and bended his spine down. He bowed down for seven times till his chanting morphed into something audible

"please let me help you in the Hogsmeade games..."

With that, you clapped both hands to his shoulder. You turned your head up, and greeted him with sun bright eyes with zigzag smile crooked enough to scare him.

"Permission granted"

You both entered a dim room at seven pm.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" You asked. The blonde nodded and swiped the curtains up.

"Yeah, from what I've heard, Miss Clovette stores it in her chest"

You gave him one last stare before you scurried to find said chest. The Hufflepuff said the box is supposed to look give a luxurious and ancient vibe. You checked under the table, around the bookshelves, stumped the floorboards for a secret passage— alas, nothing.

You turned back to Patrick, defeated and skeptical.

"You said this was the place?"

"I'm sure it's here somewhere," He bit his bottom lip "I saw the third years practicing the riddiko-what-lous charm in it"

You can faintly remember that Bogarts were part of your brother's lesson, and he's a third year. If your recollection is correct then Patrick's statement wouldn't be so far fetched. He grinded his teeth, fingers subconsciously sneaking up his mouth. You sighed. What's his motif anyways?

While you turn books and scraps around, you asked questions.

"What did you say your reason to help me was again?" You paused for a bit. You levitated another pile with your wand and Patrick mimicked your movements, before he gave up and had to use labor instead.

Patrick groaned as he dispatched another pile aside. The weight lifted from his chest set him eased him. He wiped his brow.

"Payback"

Shame, for a Ravenclaw you find yourself completely puzzled. You opened your mouth but shut it. You tried to think about an image of Patrick and Pete arguing but none were valid in your standards. Besides, the only moments you see the two together is in Quidditch.

But the word does compliment a hot ass like Pete's, so you let your experiences talk for itself.

"As much as I want to believe me, cause everyone knows Pete can be a dick" Patrick chuckled slightly, which made you huff a laugh too "—Aren't you two the bestest of friends?"

Patrick frozed

"Y-you" He gawked "You don't get it do you?"

You shook your head "No, why?"

"He forces himself that he's my quote on quote" He drew an air quotation mark

"—Best friend, treats me like his personal entertainment at reunions, finds a way to push my buttons, makes a scene, next thing I know I had him covered in purple paint and have detention!"

"Wait" You poked his chest "Good boy Patrick is in detention?!"

You refused to believe such thing. Maybe Patrick is in Pete's side of the war on this one.

He squalled "What's more disappointing is that you actually thought Pete and I are close!"

You scowled "well it's not that farfetched, you're cousins and Quidditch fanatics"

"Yeah, but it gets annoying how Slytherin wins all the time"

"Cause Hufflepuffs are weak"

He squeaked. The voice was dark but it cheeped like a bird. It didn't felt natural.

You made sure you focused on Patrick, and only him, even when his crooked finger pointed behind.

"Patrick...." You cooed "take out your wand"

He whimpered "W-why?!"

"Just do it"

"Aww Patrick's quivering, look at his eyes (Y/n)! Look at him!"

You tried eyeing the man behind you but your eyes reached it's peak. You don't need to look to know what it was, the cold shivers down your spine spiked a wave to your left brain.

"You know the spell"

Patrick gulped and with shaking hands, he reached for his pockets. It took him a while to feel the edge of his wand, before he slowly aimed above your shoulder.

He took a deep breath

"Riddikulus!"

You turned around quick and tried to contain the Bogart. However, when you did, you saw nothing. You looked from left to right, then found the answer down below.

An egg wearing eyeliner.

"Didn't thought it would work" He gasped in disbelief

"So... is turning Pete into a hard boiled egg one of your wildest dreams?" You smirked, in which he returned with a shrug and toothy grin.

"You could say that" He chuckled "last Christmas he told the entire Stumph and Wentz family when making eggnogs that he usually scrambles eggs but would fertilize them for some quote on quote crazy superfine lasses—"

"Alright! Alright!" You covered your ears, feigning innocence "I don't need to know that!"

Patrick grabbed the egg and pursed it to his abyss-like bag. You avoided gazing at it. Everyone would prefer not to look directly at their fear, unless paid with a million galleons perhaps.

"Is it in?"

"That sounds awfully dirty" Patrick shivered. With the amount of time he must've spent with Pete his quotes rubbed off him. You smacked him directly at the head without looking. You felt sorta proud of your achievement and guilty at the same time.

"Merlin's beard, just tell me!"

"Yes, it's in the bag"

This is going to be a long week, ain't it?

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a/n: Sorry Pete's barely in here. He appears more on the next parts, I just wanna cut things off so it wouldn't last 5k like last imagines. Promise I'll try to make up for it.

[reeleev]

Fic Writers Q&A Game

Hey y’all~! I hope everyone’s holiday season is going well!! 

I was tagged by @mxficx to do this little q&a game, so here goes! (Thanks a bunch for tagging me, guys!!)

1. ReeLeeV

2. Any MX ship! I’ll write even poly and rare ships, I just don’t like writing with OCs, haha

3. I mostly read Kiwon/Hyungki and Jooki, with a smattering of Wonkyun. Though, I will honestly read any ship~ 

4. I started writing nine or ten years ago now (yikes lol, I didn’t realize it was that long... time sure does fly!)

5. The first fic I wrote was in sixth grade, and it was ATLA SokaaxAang... That thing will never see the light of day, but it was my first dive into writing fanfic, and writing in general.

6. OOF okay so I really enjoyed writing A Morning Meeting, but honestly I’m really enjoying writing The Vow and For Us right now~

7. OOOOOF okay so... honestly The Vow is really hard to write for me... I know exactly where I’m going with it and everything, but because I have such specific plans for it I’m more critical of myself while working on that than most of my other stuff ^^; 

8. Hmmmm.... Honestly, I think Changkyunnie and the Gryffindors Without Mercy was my most researched? I’m a HUGE HP fan, so while coming up with the idea and plotting it out, I had like fifty tabs open for all the different intricacies of the HP universe, just to make sure I was being accurate.

9. Ooh um... I think Morning Meeting, honestly. It was loads of fun to work on and was my first really long fic.

10. Oh uh... hm.... I guess domestic? Or high school or college au? Or enemies to friends to lovers? Lol, I’m not sure~!

11. Like I said before, I just don’t like writing OCs or xreader stuff. I don’t like reading it, I don’t like writing it. It just isn’t my thing *shrug*

12. Oh lordy. Um... I guess the scene in Morning Meeting where Wonho finds Kihyun in the bathtub...? I’m not going into too much detail about it in case on of you wants to read it, but... yeah. It’s a really emotional scene, so I think that’s why I liked writing it so much.

13. I get my inspiration from everywhere~! Movies, tv, music, books, videos, random conversation snippets or things my professors say... Pretty much anywhere, ahah

14. Ooh okay, so in Damaged (a Wonhyuk fic) there’s non-con, and though I don’t go into detail, the scene leading up to The Moment was just hard to write for me... It honestly made me a bit sick having to go into the mindset of a man that would do something like that, if even for the short time it took to write that scene, but yeah.

15. I just love writing Kihyun LOL. I love pointing out his little focused pout and how he blows up and simmers down all within the same second, the way his eyes close when he smiles real wide... He’s just really fun to write for me lol

16. Um... maybe a sequel for Phoenix Cry? I recently reread it, and I remembered how much I enjoyed writing with mythological interpretations and whatnot. So yeah, if I had time (lmao) I’d definitely write a sequel to that. 

17. Hm.... honestly, there’s this fic that has a concept I really like and want to write that I’ve already started, but the first chapter never got much feedback so I don’t think people like it too much haha ^^;

18. “Kihyun smiles, a cold light filling his eyes, and catches it in his palm… before resolutely throwing it into the open blender, slamming the lid closed, and shredding it to smithereens.”

19. “God, I love this book so much that this is my second time reading it. It's fluffy with a bit of angst to show hyungki's love for each other and their kids. I shed some tears in sadness, but mostly out of happiness. I wish I could leave so many more kudos on this because you deserve it <3″ I got this comment on Living With Yoo (A Hyungki/Kiwon fic. It was super sweet and just made my day TTTT <3333

20. I don’t have any discontinued works! I know it may seem like that, but I plan to finish all my WIPs one day ^^

21. I really admire Druekee, andnowforyaya, and indemnis. There’s loads of others, but I can only remember those three right now, haha ^^; 

22. I would honestly HIGHLY recommend @druekee‘s story Mortal Virtues. It’s a FANTASTIC Jooki/Kiheon fic that deserves WAY more kudos and hits than it has <333

*whew* that ended up being a lot... BUT I had tons of fun!!! Thanks again for the tag!!!!

[doodleswithangie]

doodles with angie’s 2017 Summary of Art

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I’ve been on tumblr for over a year now and can finally fill one of these out! Picking only 12 pieces was way harder than I thought it would be since so many things I’ve done have a lot of sentimental value or were really popular with the community, but I managed to whittle it down to those that I thought were the most representative of how I grew as an artist. I put the links to all the pieces featured under the cut with a little summary of that month’s highlights!

Thanks to all of my followers! There’s a lot of you, and whatever you follow me for - Dan and Phil stuff, Voltron stuff, DEH stuff, or just the hodgepodge of content I reblog - I really appreciate all of you sticking around. Here’s to 2018!

Check out my tumblr doodles here! I’m also on Instagram and Twitter!

JANUARY: wholesome howell i was still scanning doodles from my sketchbook and sprucing them up with the windows photo app and mspaint. any digital art up until april was done exclusively on mspaint using the touchscreen of my laptop and my finger or one of those pens with a rubber end bc my friends eventually took pity on me and gave me one.

FEBRUARY: season 3 theory: everyone takes a turn as the black paladin one of my favorite things i’ve ever done ever, and even if the theory was debunked, lance is gonna be the black paladin at least once, mark my words. also this month: dnp painting nails, something i did at 5 am that became one of my most popular doodles to my confusion; pastel phan, which dan liked on tumblr!!; and otayuri week, the first time i’ve participated in a week-long event.

MARCH: dnp!su au a good mix of scanned traditional work and mspaint doodles, though i’d become especially adept with the latter. my biggest project was for the tatinof illustration project, which i went about in a really convoluted way but i’m still really proud of the end result.

APRIL: the knight of wands i hit a follower milestone and redrew one of my favorite concepts. also this month: a really cool thing i drew for an askbox challenge and a dnp singapore-australia lookbook.

MAY: welcome home finally caved and started using firealpaca (still with my touchscreen laptop) for klance week. i got back into traditional drawing thanks to dear evan hansen, and everyone really liked this dnp and baby miles picture.

JUNE: dnp!james bond i started an internship so i didn’t have a ton of time to draw, but i did a lot with dear evan hansen.

JULY: prom night i debated using this or something from lance’s bday week, but ultimately went with this one bc it was my first involved piece on firealpaca. also this month: my first animatic for shrek the musical and dnp; and the alana’s pets doodle that kristolyn lloyd herself reposted on twitter and regrammed twice (INCLUDING THE DAY I WENT TO GO SEE THE SHOW AND SHE HUGGED ME AHHH).

AUGUST: 8/11 performance of dear evan hansen my doodles inspired by the show i saw were liked by a bunch of the cast and the executive producer of deh!!! also this month: season 3 of voltron premiered and lance became keith’s right hand man; and i hit another follower milestone and a melodramatic comic from the dnp!su au that people liked a lot more than i anticipated.

SEPTEMBER: i guess i have some walls up I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE KEITH CRIED. also this month: i finally bought a tablet and first used it for my dnp!hp patronus doodle; and i did a really cool traditional portrait of sleeping dan.

OCTOBER: inktober i did inktober using ballpoint pens on my instagram and actually finished. i made three of my most popular pieces ever this month: loverboy lance for voltron season 4; keith’s suprise bday party for keith's bday; and a stranger things/it/dnp crossover that phil reblogged on his tumblr.

NOVEMBER: bitchin’ el in that suit is hands down one of the most surprisingly cool things i’ve ever drawn. also this month: finally figured out transparency for this ghostbusters!dnp doodle; summed up pinof 9 as is tradition; and did a deh animatic inspired by ben platt’s last performance.

DECEMBER: connor murphy portrait i did a messy, sketchy color experiment inspired by dear evan hansen: through the window. also this month: a dnp!hp comic that @waterberry-strawmelon said reminded them of calvin and hobbes’s dialogue which is the best compliment i’ve ever gotten; a cute klance kiss; and a short animatic based on dnp’s gamingmas.

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Kouri. Kouri, Kouri, Kouri. :| I’ve tried SO HARD to avoid Shadowhunters (because I honestly can’t stand Cassandra Claire, even from her fanfic days), but your Malec posts. And your Shadowhunters fic. Whyyyy are you slowly chipping away at me?? ;____;

hahaha, I feel you, my friend. I am no fan of CC. I was actually around during some of her antics in the HP fandom, and only the knowledge that CC herself dislikes a lot of the changes they’ve made in the show allows me to watch it with a clear conscience

that being said, tbh, the majority of the show isn’t that great, and although I adore the Malec stuff, it is not what most of the show is. (Example: season 1 was 13 45-minute episodes. Condensed, the Malec scenes did not even add up to 45 minutes total.) So if you’re only going to watch it for Malec, save yourself some time, go to YouTube and look up “Malec moments”, because a lovely thoughtful angel has made a compilation for each episode. (Okay, some of them might not make a ton of sense out of context, but tbh most of the time the context just isn’t worth watching the actual episode, lol. Just my opinion! Don’t @ me. XD)

as for fic, the vast majority of mine is AU enough that you can read it even if you’ve never read the books or seen the show, so there’s that. ^_^