#im only allowed to go every few months bc its easy to spend a lot of money

[boyfeminism]

game store haul (:

[neverdoingmuch]

Wait cql lawyer/law school AU

i got you my pal dont worry!!

law school, im gonna be honest and say i know like nothing about law or law school so pls ignore any inconsistencies or inaccuracies

lwj goes to law school and he is definitely the top student in his class. they’ve been there for like a month and everyone already knows he’s gonna be the best

his one and only competition is this dude called wei wuxian but lwj isn’t particularly worried about him

so far they’re still in the stage of the course where they do the fun things to sucker people into doing the class for the semester so there’s been some practise debates and arguments and stuff in their tutorial classes

wei wuxian has that Charisma and like yeah all of his arguments are perfect but also he has an amazing smile and people are like yes i can trust him 

(he’s definitely the sort to be like hm, the easy way to argue this case would be to quote some laws and use precedence to justify this but that’s boring)

lwj is also good at that sort of stuff because his arguments are perfect and everything is so perfectly researched that there should be no ground at all for someone to lodge a counterargument

(wei wuxian manages somehow and it makes lwj so mad)

but that’s whatever lwj thinks,, a lot of people join law thinking it’s gonna be like the tv shows and books and then get completely blindsided when it comes to the rote learning part or like the actual laws 

and for all of wwx’s confidence, lwj hasn’t actually seen wwx so much as touch the textbook/s and he always studies in the law library so he knows that wwx has probably never even been there bc he hasn’t seen him even once (why’s he looking? bc he needs to see which books wwx uses to study,, bc there has to be something going on there,, obviously)

then they do their first like proper written assignment and lwj and wwx tie for the highest scores and now lwj has a Rival and he refuses to lose to someone who thinks that putting a ‘-us’ sound at the end of a word makes it latin (did wwx say habeas corpus and then point at a soft drink and go  sprite-us can-us,,, maybe,,,,)

anyway! lwj and wwx are kinda rivals for the top spot and it’s one of those situations where one test lwj wins by a point but then the next test wwx gets full marks and they just keep exchanging the top spot in class

and this whole time wwx is like The Worst to have in class. he’s always interrupting to ask questions or just straight up not listening and spends the class doodling pictures of rabbits (they’re cute but wwx is terrible and he’s not allowed to make cute drawings)

so after a few months the most horrible thing happens.... they get put together in a project and lwj is like ugh. internally of course but his face is also saying ugh

the first time wwx and lwj get together to work on the project, lwj is prepared with a proper list of tasks to do all nicely split up between the two of them and a schedule for when they should get certain parts done by. 

needless to say, lwj does not expect wwx to be ready, but wwx is definitely on top of things

he rocks up and is like yeah let’s do this, this and this and have them done by this time - basically proposing to do everything that lwj has already written down

and lwj is pleasantly surprised and is like hm maybe i misjudged wwx and decides to like re-evaluate his opinion on him

in doing so he realises that when he’d never seen wwx studying, it wasn’t an exaggeration at all. he’s never seen wwx so much as touch a textbook or spend more than a minute on a laptop doing something that wasn’t minesweeper or solitaire

but wwx is also making all of their deadlines and even adds extra information and resources to their document that could be useful elsewhere and sometimes he shows up to their study sessions and he looks absolutely exhausted

eventually lwj manages to get the truth out and wwx is just like yeah it’s easier to get worse grades than a genius but if you both study and you still get lower grades, it’s not easy,, for jc or for me

so wwx usually studies at night when his brother is asleep and lwj is like that’s bad, you can’t keep that up and just when wwx is about to go off at him lwj is like you can come study at my place

and thus begins the wonderful time where everything is alright and lwj falls in love with wwx

they work really well together and wwx is strangely considerate and nice? when he finds out lwj likes rabbits, he goes out and buys bunny post-it notes for lwj and starts to always bring him a doodle of bunnies every time he comes over. he always gets his work done on time, early even, and his work is always so brilliant and every time wwx smiles at him, lwj feels warm inside etc etc

for a long while lwj is like yes (: this is friendship (: bc he’s never had a crush before but then on the day they submit their project wwx is like hey,, the two of us make a great team,, we should always work together,, now and next year and even when we graduate,, i want to help the innocent people who need our help and i think i’d like it a lot if you joined me and lwj has his oh moment

they get a perfect score on the project of course and even after it finishes, wwx keeps coming over to lwj’s place to study or just hang out and lwj is just falling more and more for wwx each day

they’re best friends now and everyone gets used to seeing them work together on projects and then turn around to try and decimate each other when they’re working one on one and lwj thinks that he might just be the happiest he’s ever been

but then one day wwx doesn’t show up to class. it shouldn’t be strange but wwx has never missed class even once and he ends up hearing from lxc who heard from jgy that wwx was caught sabotaging some other student’s work (the other student was jzxun, who had a fondness for playing devil’s advocate and other than wwx once telling him that his argument was shit, wwx never spoke to him or seemed to know who he was but lwj is a bit too angry to remember that)

he manages to find wwx outside of his dorms as he’s moving out and he’s just like why did you do that? and wwx is like oh y’know,, bc he’s not really sure what’s happening himself,, one second he was at the top of his class and the next he was being brought before a board and being told that he was being expelled but he’s not going to tell lwj that bc lwj would definitely try and stand up for him and then they’d both get expelled

but lwj is furious and just spits out well if our dreams meant so little to you then maybe it’s a good thing you failed now,, bc his mother was a lawyer who took all these little jobs that helped people who actually needed the help and lwj was looking forward to doing that with wwx and he doesn’t even seem to care that now they can’t do that 

wwx flinches and then smiles at him and just cheerily says, that’s me and leaves. he doesn’t look back and lwj doesn’t chase after him.

lwj doesn’t see him again for years (you can do 13 or 5 or however long you feel like)

lwj is a fully licensed lawyer and he’s working for the family company and he spends half of his time working on cases and uses the rest of his time to do like outreach programs where he goes and visits schools and runs sessions on what it’s like to be a lawyer, how to apply, and to provide assistance to any students who decide to study law at uni

and then at one of these programs he meets this kid, wen yuan, who is ridiculously bright and enthusiastic and has a smile that seems oddly familiar

at the end of the second session he comes up to lwj and is like mr. lan, is your name lan wangji? and lwj just says yes, expecting the kid to be a fan of one of his cases or something but then wen yuan is like oh wow! i thought i recognised you from my dad’s photo!

and lwj isn’t expecting much but he asks what the photo looks like and wen yuan pulls out this photo from his pocket and lwj immediately recognises it,, it’s the only photo he has of him and wwx

your father is wei ying? lwj asks him and wen yuan is like yes, hesitates, and then asks, would you like to see him?

and that’s how lwj finds himself following wen yuan to some dinky little office that has a plaque outside that reads wen and wei

(wen ning is the nicest and sweetest person ever and lots of people underestimate him but then he’s an absolute monster on court. he gets up and completely decimates the opponent and then at the end is like (: it was so nice to meet you!! i am baby!! and all that,, you know our boy)

anyway they walk in and wwx turns to greet wen yuan but then he sees lwj and is like woah! you! and he’s not sure whether to hide or go and hug lwj so he just gives him a fist bump,, like a bro,, and immediately wants to shrivel up and die

anyway they get the reunion stuff out of the way, swelling music, tender wrist holding, lots of staring, lwj silently declaring his wholehearted love for wwx and refusing to believe rumours about him again even though he doesn’t actually know what happened, you know how it goes

from wwx’s side of things,, after he got kicked out he went to some small uni. good in its own right but not known for their law program and ended up specialising in family law

the first case he ever won was for the wens to have the right to keep custody of a-yuan and the first case wen ning ever won was to let wwx adopt a-yuan bc i’m soft like that

so wwx has just been kinda vibing,, being a single dad, living with the wens and helping to make that difference he always promised he would

now this isn’t gonna be some au where lwj goes oh my! i must give up my high salary job and work with wwx! bc lwj has been doing good stuff at his current job and for all of his family’s stuffiness, they run a fair and just company 

but! he does end up helping wwx when wwx gets a letter with a bunch of information about the jins and how they’re actually super corrupt and evil (big surprise,,) and how wwx was maybe definitely framed bc he was doing some casual work on the side and stumbled across some bad shit on the jins back in uni

lwj ends up being the one to take the case officially but wwx is definitely the guy leading it and so lwj ends up spending most of his time at the wen-wei office

lwj definitely bonds with wen yuan, who also wants to go into law, and writes him recommendation letters and helps him edit his applications and stuff

(and one day wen yuan is like leaving you was the hardest thing dad ever did and i dont think you appreciated how much he cared about you. he really did think that he annoyed you ‘til the end and lwj is like no! he didn’t! and wen yuan is like yeah i know but you gotta tell him and lwj really does mean to but the time is never right or something like that but also wen yuan is all but calling lwj dad at this point)

anyway they end up going to court, side by side, working as a team just as they promised to do and just as they finish their final day on the case, ended with the jury ruling jgy guilty and wwx’s reputation all but saved, wwx turns around and flings himself at lwj

is he crying? is he laughing? a bit of both tbh but wwx ends up confessing right then and there, still on record and everything (is that how that works??? idk! let’s say it does)

and what can lwj do but make out with him?

did a news crew come in to film the results of this massive court case just to end up with five minutes of wangxian kissing?? maybe! but when it played on tv it meant wwx and lwj didnt have to actually tell anyone they got together

(and does lwj eventually pop the question using wwx’s bad latinification? yes and wwx is too busy laughing to accept at first but he does and they end up being the worst possible tutors for wen yuan as he goes through law school bc they keep being all gross and lovey-dovey and acting like law school is the most romantic place in the world)

[sweetbunnykook]

Bunny! Im just so sry for venting bc ur blog is a space safe for me (prev self sabotage anon) umm so bcs of my low income family, it was drilled in my head since the age of 3 the concept of money, to the point that it was a common catchphrase from my mom that ‘do u have any idea what could i possibly buy if u werent born’ it got worse after relatives (from my dad’s side) drained him and kick us out the house and the ‘u shouldnt trust anyone in this world’ was introduced when i hit 10 after (1)

finding out that i essentially was taken as a hostage by my aunt (from dad family,,again) after my mom left me in her care and go abroad to find a job and then find out my aunt embezzle like 6 grand from her instead of paying debts piling and threatened to leave me in the middle of nowhere so my mom was forced to go home and after knowing all that i felt so so angry and guilty that my mom was right and im about to turn 17 in a few months and this time i had to go to college because i didnt (2)

continue my junior year bc i took a program so i just graduate after sophomore, i felt like i didnt spend any single second having a ‘normal’ teen life and am terrified of wasting youth due to the prospect of growing up because money money money money is programmed in my head and i cant even figure out whether is it beneficial for me to take a degree suited for my passion or take a degree thats more easy so the chance i can get employed higher (im so sry that i just basically told my sob story)

I’m really sorry you have to live in such a draining environment. We can’t control dysfunctional families and most of the time, because of how young we are, it’s difficult to find an instant way out. Planning takes time but execution will be worth all the brain-rotting stress you have right now. 

Let’s address a few things first, okay? First, money is important but its importance shouldn’t make you feel like you can’t live your life. Growing up in a low income family, I was also often told of how terrifying money is because any big emergency can be devastating. My parents are strict about saving and we don’t go out to restaurants (maybe once a year, if we’re lucky), buy anything we don’t really need, or have friends that invite us to expensive places. Growing up frugal caused me to go a little crazy when I got to college and had extra scholarship money which I spent (stupidly) and didn’t save. But it made me happy that I can be self-sufficient, which is what money should really be about. If you can sustain yourself and indulge in little joyful things here and there, it’ll keep you sane until you are in the position to budget better and move out to your own space. 

Second, education is important not because of what you’re going to learn in the field you’re studying, but because you learn how to navigate life. It’s true; it’s not what you know, but who you know. When you grow up not having taught financial literacy ALONGSIDE discrimination against the working or lower class, you don’t have a full grasp of your reality to understand the way out. Parents, especially, have little to no knowledge about how times have changed. A traditional degree is not the safest route to take. There are many people walking around with a master’s degree in biology unemployed because they probably were not taught the value of creating opportunities instead of waiting for it to come around to you. I only learned about that this year, by the way. It takes time to turn away from what you parents taught you about money and education and face the reality of today’s job market. There is demand for STEM majors because technology is a large part of our lives now and of course, you might have a smoother experience landing a job after graduation. However, every graduate student have their own experiences and you can’t predict what will happen. You can only increase your chance of being hired by developing skills and talking to people who can give you opportunities. I know an aerospace engineer who was unemployed for two years after graduation, a mechanical engineer who was unemployed for six months after graduation, and people who got a job a day after graduation. 

Third, know that you’re not alone. You lost your teenage years to draining people around you. I did too. And a lot of my readers here did too. Although it’s upsetting that you can’t redo your childhood, it’s relieving that you are closer and closer to independence. You can still indulge in things you wanted to do as a teenager during adulthood. Last semester, I drove twenty minutes from school to a mall just to walk around aimlessly which was a dream of mine when I was little and wasn’t allowed to go anywhere with anyone. I still play old games I loved when I was younger and wander alone while skipping a class here and there. You have to do what you have to do to stay sane and trust yourself that YOU (yes, you), with your own efforts, will get out of there. Trust yourself, trust that anything valuable takes time to achieve, and that there are people out there who support you. 

- 🐰

[yestodaymvv]

soulmate!haechan

a/n: hello i’m back! i was avoiding homework and i ended up writing this. give feedback pls! thanks for reading <3

 i recommend listening to sun&moon by nct 127

word count: 2.5k

mark | renjun | jeno | jaemin | chenle | jisung

so, the soulmate marker that hyuck has is the first two initials thingy

the initials one is similar to the words written on your wrist except,, they’re initials

the initials can actually appear anytime it’s just random

like they can appear when you’re born, when you turn 16, when you drop your food

like any random time

so, hyuck is obviously a little ball of affection

and he loves loving people

so he was pretty excited when he got his initials

he was actually with renjun when it happened

they were going to the arcade because hyuck can apparently beat renjun’s high school in the pacman game

but renjun kept saying that hyuck wasn’t good enough

so as hyuck and renjun were going to the arcade

they stopped by a sandwich shop

and as they were walking in, someone was walking out

can you guess who it was?so obviously it was you

so you were the new girl in the city

you moved because your father got a new job offer that required leaving your hometown and moving into whatever city hyuck was init was the last week of summer break and you were getting lunch you, your brother and your father who was on his way from work

you were in a hurry because you and your father already on his way

so you didn’t bother looking where you were going and so you bumped into this dude

who was,, surprise surprise

hyuck

and so you just muttered a quick “i’m sorry!”and then ran your way home

or not ran, you had a bike

you biked your way home

and the minute that you and hyuck bumped into each other

was when hyuck got his initials on his wrist

as hyuck was ordering, renjun noticed it

“haechan,, look”

he pointed on hyucks wrist and there it was

your initials

in pretty cursive writing

the way you got your initials was different

it was more simple really

you got it the day you turned 17you were at home, at your birthday party, and as everyone was singing happy birthday

your brother yelled out “hey look, y/n’s wrist!”

and it was the initials L.D.  in bold letters

your family couldn’t stop teasing you about it

your brother would remind you that you weren’t allowed to date until you were 25your father would tease you about every single boy that you introduced them to

whether it was a classmate for a group projector a friend that he’s known for a long time

okay anyway so your first day of school was pretty chill

you were given the opportunity to have someone to help you around

and that was not hyuck

it was chenle

you became quick friends with chenle

you admired how sweet and outgoing he was and he never seemed to stop laughing which in turn made you laugh

chenle took a liking to you too

but not in that way because boy is taken

chenle said that you reminded him of his friend, haechan

how the both of you were easy going and funny

how you guys are just so happy

and so your were curious as to who this haechan actually was

throughout the week

chenle was the one who accompanied you

along with his friend jisung

you wanted to meet haechan but you never mentioned it to chenle

so the following week, you were in writing class

you loved to write

it was your favorite past time

you weren’t particularly the one who would read romance novels

you loved adventure

and you loved fantasy you would write about the things you never got to do

before moving into the city, you lived in a small town for your entire life

you always had adventures in the town the small town was located near a forest?? i guess you can say

you would have small adventures when you were younger with your friends

but as you got into middle school and high school

your friends decided to focus more on school

trying to pass and get away from the small town

you didn’t really care for you studies

you just wanted to be outside all the time

the imagination you had as a child, continued on as you turned into a teen

while your friends were out studying for whatever important tests or exams they had

you stayed outside,, wandering around

and you always loved the nighttime

so you were always out when it was night because you loved looking at the stars and looking at the moon

so in your writing class,, you were required to write about your favorite time of day

you were supposed to create a story using the setting time as your fav time

and you obviously chose the nighttime

so as you were writing your story

hyuck walks in the room

he switched classes into writing and the only open seat was in front of you

so he sat there

you didn’t notice that someone sat in front of you until your teacher told you to share what you wrote to someone sitting next to you

and hyuck was the only one next to you

so hyuck turns around and greats you with a big smile

“hello, would you like to share first?”

and you said “sure”

your story was about a small little boy that couldn’t go outside in the daylight

he doesn’t do it because he looked different from everyone else and he was afraid of people teasing him

it was about how at night, he would venture into the forest behind his house

and then he would go around his own little adventures

and hyuck stops you in the middle of the story

“wait, so your favorite time of day,, is nighttime?”

“well, yea?? i thought i established that when my main character can’t go out in the daytime.”

“nighttime is so sad! there’s no light! no sun!”

“that’s exactly why i like it?”

he looked hurt

 “how? could? one? not? like? the? sun?”

“i’m guessing you have a strong passionate love for the sun?”

and hyuck

 just smiles

 like

really wide

“OF COURSE I LOVE THE SUN! IM HAECHAN!”

and your like,, oh this is haechan

“wait youre haechan? youre friends with chenle?”

“yea,, little lettuce head?”

and you just laugh bc chenle is a lettuce head

but a cute lettuce head lets not attack okay chenle is adorable

“you’re the one that chenle told me about. so,, doesnt haechan like,, mean,, full sun?”

“yes!”

“is that really your actual name?”

“mhm, nope. it’s just a nickname i was given when i was younger so i sticked to it.”

“ahh” and you nodded

 “okay so back on to the topic,, how can you not like the sun?!!?!!?!?!?”

you rolled your eyes at him

“haechan, not a lot of people like the sun. i don’t like it because it hurts my skin”

“what are you, a vampire?”

“psh, no. my skin is just sensitive.”

“okay well, let’s get into my better, more sunshine loving, story”

his was about little bear

a little bear that wanted to visit the sun

he was told by his mother and friends that it was impossible to go to the sun

but he persevered and tried his best to

lol these stories i’m so dumb but just,, imagine that they’re better

and so you stop and say that his is pretty unrealistic

 “hey! i don’t want to hear your opinions you sun hating monster”

you rolled your eyes once more

“i have a name you know”

“well i would call you by it but you didn’t exactly introduce yourself and sun hating monster has a better ring to it”

“i’m y/n”

“ahh so the monster does have a name”

you took his story and smacked it on his head 

“don’t be mean! chenle said you were loving but that’s obviously not true”

“HEY I AM”

“yea,, sure.”

and so that was it

your friendship with hyuck

officially began

you guys were like

the cutest set of friends

you are both like the biggest rays of sunshine ever

even though you hate the sun

people tended to know you guys as the suns cause you were always so smiley and happy

and the both of you make friends so easily

you guys became friends really quickly

and you would spend time outside of school and hang out

it tended to be indoor activities

because you didn’t like being outside

the both of you tended to be playing video games or watching movies

hyuck occasionally cooked and you helped him

and he would just make fun of you when you couldn’t do the right things

like cutting an onion

“y/n, you’re doing it wrong you’re terrible at this”

“channie,, pls shut up”

“YOURE GOING TO BURN YOURSELF Y/N”

“NO I WONT HAECHAN LET ME BE”

and then you do burn yourself

and youre there crying

but hyuck to the rescue

he’s so cute so like imagine him helping you

so he calms you down as your crying

and he just hums a soft tone

and his voice gets all soft and goes “its okay”

and he carefully tends your burn

and hes just

so :(( cute :(( and soft :((

but hes also  a little shit

so once he finishes helping you he goes

“i told you youd burn yourself but you never listen”

OKAY FAST FORWARD

you guys are seniors now

and it’s your last few months of school

this was around the time you guys start to get to know which colleges you get accepted into

so the thing about the soulmates hyuck already knew that you were his soulmate

he knew when he was at your house one day after school

the both of you were trying to make lunch for your father and brother

you decided to give them a treat

and the both of you were fooling around

so you were both messing around that you accidentally broke a bowl

and you father hears it from the living room

and he yells

 “Y/F/N Y/M/N Y/L/N”

and hyuck just freezes

his initial tattoo had three letters

and it was of course, your middle name

if you dont have a middle name im sorry but just go with it

and he just realized

that the feeling he had whenever he was with you

the feeling have happiness whenever you were around him

the way your laugh makes him smile

how your laugh is his favorite sound

how whenever you smile at him he gets butterflies and his heart squeezes

whenever you look at him in the eyes, hyuck just sees stars and thinks you have the most beautiful eyes out there

it was because you were both soulmates

and you didn’t know that yet

he knew the initials on your wrist was his

L.D. for lee donghyuck

but you didn’t know his first name

you only knew his last name and haechan

ever since then, hyuck was trying his best to lay low on his feelings

he was happier when he found out

he was with his soulmate and it was his best friend

he didn’t bother telling you though

he wanted fate to take its path and let you find out on your own

he’s been more affectionate to you

and you never really noticed

you just figured that was how haechan was

you did, of course eventually find out that donghyuck was haechan’s real name

it was at school

and the both of you were still in writing class

you had the same teacher and the both of you asked you teacher to do college recommendations for you

if you dont know what college recs are it basically a teacher writing about how you are at school for a higher chance to get into college

so you were leaving class without hyuck because he was out sick for the day

when your teacher calls your name

she gives you back your college recs and you look at haechans

and the name “lee donghyuck” was on the top

and you were confused and somewhat angry? relieved?

so when you went to visit him after school, with a bowl of your father’s soup

when you went into his room, you greeted him by asking him

“your first name is donghyuck?”

and hyuck just looks at you and smiles

“you finally figured it out?”

you passed him his college rec

“you know, you’ve been causing me a lot of internal problems”

you said somewhat a bit mad

hyuck gets up and walks a bit closer to you

“why’s that?”

you look up at him

“because,, i have been having a crisis for weeks”

you start to pace around his room

“because i’ve been so worried about this whole soulmate thing

i’ve been worried that i would never get to meet my soulmate

and when i do i wouldnt even like them

because of you”

hyuck walks to you

“me?”

“yes you

you’re always going around with your stupid little smile

and laughing your stupid little laugh

and the small little stupid things you do

you’re always so nice to me and you’re always cooking me food

you’re jokes always make me laugh

you always make my day and im worried that i wouldnt like my soulmate

because i like you

but now, here i am

your name, lee donghyuck, intials L.D. is on my wrist”

you take a big sigh

“i really hate you chan, you know that?”

hyuck smirks at you

“that was quite a confession y/n, but we both know you don’t hate mewe’re soulmates”

he shows you his initialsyour initials, with your middle name

“y/f/n y/m/n y/l/n”

and then you two start dating okay so before i end this bulleted au let me just say a cute little thing  i thought of as i was writing this

okay it’s the week before college starts

and you and hyuck were at your old town

hyuck decided to surprise you by driving you out into your old town so you can look at the stars

you cant really do that in the city

so he did it for you

so as you were both stargazing, hyuck calls out your name

“hey y/n”

“yes hyuck?”

you sit up to look at him he pulls out a small jewelry box

you open it to find a small sun pendant necklace

“hyuck,,,”

“i know we’re going to be a few hours away because of college, and i know that you don’t like the sun but i love the sun, like how i love you. you’re my sun. and i can be your moon”

you turned the pendant over and there was an engraving of the letter HH for haechan

H for donghyuck

H for your soulmate the name of your soulmate

H for haechan

[tedtcnk-blog]

e.m.t. - intro

I’m abigail but I go by either abby or gail and i go by she her pronouns. I live in edt timezone and I’m a seventeen year old junior in high school. I’m a pretty busy student seeing as i take mainly ap classes and am involved with several extracurriculars so i may not be EXTREMELY active, but im going to try my best to get to know you all and interact with everyone!! <3

&&introducing your character

[ marlon langeland. seventeen. he/him. ] EDWARD TONKS  has stepped through the barrier to platform 9 ¾. the SEVENTH  year HUFFLEPUFF  student is most looking forward to FEELING AT HOME AGAIN.. their peers describe HIM as ELEEMOSYNARY & FACETIOUS, and has dubbed HIM as the SOILED DOVE. TED  feels FORLORN  about the war raging outside of hogwarts plans to JOIN THE ORDER when the year is up.

&&aesthetic loud and echoing laughs, summer rains, late nights sitting in the dewy grass, watching fireworks light up the stars, goofing around and wrestling for fun, catching fireflies in mason jars, hair frizzing in the humid air, faces lit by lampposts and the moonlight, poofy and patterned duvets, spending all day wrapped up in the sheets, the smell of freshly cleaned clothes, sad songs played on low, tattered jeans caked with mud, sneakers with the soles falling out

&&bio

Ted Tonks, born with the full given and strictly biblical name Edward Michael Tonks, was born to a family who had three very cut and clean rules. For most of his life, at least the first eleven of them, he followed these rules without a hiccup. The first one was fairly simple; never bad mouth mom and dad, seeing as they feed and provide for you after all. The second was that everyone ate together as a family every other night, and that meant the whole family, including great-grandma and grandpa. The last was the trickiest being that it seemed to be about 100 rules in one. It, however, was the one that was the most unforgivable if broken, that being that it demanded that everyone in the family was to follow, without question, every word the bible said.

Though Ted’s family was fairly huge when you factored in cousins and such, it was mostly easy for him to follow these rules. Being the only child, he absolutely adored his parents and they somewhat adored him back. As a child he was always on his father's heels, begging to go to work with him in the summers and waiting by the front door for him to get home on school nights. The second rule, as well, was easy because he never questioned spending moments with his family and enjoying the good food that was always passed around. It was the third, however that stopped Ted in his tracks.

The way his mother was, it seemed like everything he did broke some rule. She’d snip at him for running in from the garden and dragging mud into the house, claiming that he’d broken some holy rule when really all he’d done was get a bit of dirt on the floor which was mind you, fairly easy to get up. He bit his lip and dealt with it, however.

When he turned eleven however, and it came time to go back to school, everything in his family dynamic shifted. He remembers distinctly the day when he got home from a friends house to his mother who looked like she’d never been more angry in her life. Without a word he fled to his room, not daring to pester her about what was for dinner or when his father was going to be home. Dinner time passed, and as he heard the typically clanking of forks and spoons he also heard bitter voices, speaking in hisses and whispers. Not sure what he’d done, he sat at his door, feeling guilty at every sound he heard as he picked at the dirt that was still smushed into his hands.

Eventually his mother explained to him that he had done something wicked, though refusing to explain, she allowed him to come down and eat his food which had already grown cold. The whole time he ate, he felt his father’s eyes from the living room watching every move he made and the way his mother stationed herself at the kitchen sink made her look like a hawk circling its prey. He finished and was led straight back up to his room, where his mother shoved a letter into his hand and left him to his own devices to figure it out.

During the week that led up to the date that had been so bitterly circled on the paper, Ted had been kept under the hawk eye of both his parents. They hushed him at dinner when he attempted to get answers about what the school was like and his father look down right offended when he asked when they were going to go get his supplies. On the day of departure, Ted was more than ready to leave and finally get answers on to why everything was so hush hush. He known he’d seen something about wizardry around the logo of the school’s letter, but he thought it was merely a joke or some sort of metaphor. Surely he wasn’t being sent to do magic, his mother always told him that it was evil and not real anyways.

Sure enough, only after a few minutes aboard the Hogwarts express did he really understand why his parents had been so quick to mute him and hide him away. Feeling awful, his first few months at school were awful. The kids laughed at him for not having the right supplies and wearing homemade robes that his mother had very obviously made with no care in the world.  Even after he finally was provided with the right things and fully grasped what Hogwarts was, not many seemed to even bat an eye in his direction. He learned, however, to make the laughing into background music and grew accustomed to the fact that both of the two worlds he belonged to would never fully see him as a member of their society.

&&some place magical

Ted has always adored the magical and home-y feel that hogwarts has given off. Though both parts of his life have it’s downsides, he finds hogwarts more of a home to him than his official “home” He adores the way the whole castle is detailed unlike his old shed-like house he grew up in. He was raised well off enough, but seeing as his family had a shared farming business, his parents never found it sensible to upgrade from their first home they’d ever gotten together. The house was fine, just bland. The walls were bare, the house was small, and felt more temporary than anything. It just felt like a home until they got a new one, like a halfway unpacked house.

The detail of the castle, the nooks and hidden halls and ornate paintings, all of it, captured his fascination. He never gets tired of roaming the halls, finding new places to stop for a quick moment of silence or a spot to do homework when his roomates get to loud.

&&anything else

Ted himself can be a bit opposite of his parents fuddy-duddy ways, and while this is a good thing, his childish like humor and attitude can get him into a bit of trouble at times. Its been with him since he was young. His mother was always on him for trekking mud through the house or spending too much in the yard and not inside studying. Now that he’s a bit more mature he knows better, yet his childish ways still sometimes get ahead of his conscious mind at times.

&&ted vs. tech

Ted is actually really well versed with technology and it’s ins and outs. Probably seeing as he grew up in the muggle world, he was used to always being surrounded to these devices and working with them from a young age. That and the only real way he connects with his father anymore is through their love for technology. His father, though his professional occupation is a lot more boring and repetitive, really enjoys messing with technology and figuring out how everything works. While Ted isnt THAT interested in the mechanics of it, he pretends to like it anyways. He’s more interested in the social media side of things.

That being said, Ted is a snapchat GOD and don’t you dare break your streak with him. He’s that bitch that sends streaks every HOUR to make sure none of them are broken and will give his password away to someone if he gets in trouble and has his phone taken.

He’s that person to put his phone on airplane mode as well while he reads dms. Rather be safe than sorry bc that way he can avoid whoever he wants :))))))

His twitter is also nothing but retweets from the account @garyfromteenmom

Want to see Ted go buck wild bananas? Literally play 1 second of goofy goober rock and he will be up and dancing faster than you can turn it off