#ludo sounded out anonymously

[ludcvicb]

✉ | Ludo ⇄ Rita

Rita: Darling, I know it's hard but I thought you were getting better at reading? Rita: I only said one of those things. Rita: I merely passed the other along. Rita: Must have disappointed someone else this time, love. Ludo: I might be dumb but im not stupid Ludo: it was sent in ANONOMUSLY Ludo: which means anyone could have sent it, including you Ludo: also ur the only person that calls it a ween

[goldenlionprince]

free my man

Check out how they use the phone James got to Sirius in the last story in this heartbreaking art! And when you're done with hurting yourself, come back here because it's finally time to get Sirius back out of prison in The Bodyguard AU with @sorenphelps! you can find previous parts in my AO3 collection and in @sorenphelps Bodyguard AU tag

tagging @neverenoughmarauders @lovelymasks @0o-r-anon-o0

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Twelve weeks.

Almost three whole months.

Lily had told James that it would take a while, but twelve weeks are still a fucking long time to wait to have your arms back around someone you love.

Too long for James' taste.

Waiting the last few minutes feels like torture but he will get through them. He has waited three months for this, he can do a few minutes more.

Today they will finally release Sirius. There is no trial. The charges were finally dropped because of the lack of evidence or motive. Crouch didn't like it.

He especially didn't like it when it came to light that the Head of the Department of Sports had been blackmailed by Bertha Jorkins because of some shady money laundering business he is involved in and she had stumbled upon. Ludo Bagman had been in Godric's Grove too at the time of Jorkins' murder so he had an actual motive to do away with her.

But of course they hadn't arrested Ludo Bagman yet. He doesn't get the same treatment as Sirius. That might be because the blackmailing evidence came from an anonymous source – James had worked hard to uncover all that, thank you – but they had arrested Sirius on even less evidence. The double standards of the ministry.

James walks back and forth in the small room, unable to stand still. Lily is watching him but she doesn't say a thing, which James is really grateful for.

Finally the door opens and there he is. He's looking a little worn, the hair short but starting to grow back in. A smile lights up his face though when he sees James.

And James is across the room and in his arms quicker than he can think, almost crashing them both down onto the floor with the force of his kiss, with his unbridled enthusiasm to have Sirius back.

Oh, how James has missed this. Has missed him. Having contact over the phone has helped, but nothing can beat having Sirius right here in person.

Sirius's arms wrap around him, holding him tight and balancing them both. For a moment James forgets about all that has happened. But only for a moment.

“I hate to interrupt this,” Lily says, the smile clear in her voice. “But Sirius still needs to sign the release papers so we can get out of here.”

Laughing, Sirius disentangles himself from James. It's so good to hear that sound.

Lily hands over the pen and Sirius signs the papers, James still glued to his side.

And just like that he's a free man again.

****

Lily takes them home in her car, taking back roads so the people from the press won't be a problem. James doesn't let go of Sirius' hand the whole way. He needs that little point of contact like a life line. Sirius doesn't seem to mind.

They say goodbye to Lily at their front door and just like that James has Sirius right back where he belongs.

As soon as the door falls shut behind them he wraps his arms around Sirius' neck and kisses him, long and deep and hungry to catch up on lost time.

“What do you want to do,” James asks between kisses, his fingers slipping into the unfamiliar short hair. The strands are barely long enough now to bury his fingers in them. James still has to get used to that.

Sirius' hands slide beneath James' shirt and up his back, pulling him even close. “Taking a shower would be great, actually.”

James pulls back just a little, just enough to brush his nose against Sirius'. “Anything you want.”

They leave a trail of clothes on the way to the bathroom, something to deal with later. It's a lot more unhurried than James would have expected but it's nice. The warm water feels good and so does having Sirius so close again, skin to skin.

They fall into bed after, tangled together, not an inch of space between them. James' fingers card through Sirius' short hair, Sirius' arms wrapped around James' middle, his head resting on James' chest. They don't talk. They just enjoy this.

The feeling of having each other again without anything that separates them.

[k9effect]

I heard the most horrifying thing the other day.

I was scrolling on tiktok and came across a Bluey post, not unusual as I love Bluey, but this post specifically made my skin crawl. It was AI music using the voice of the young anonymous actress who voices Bluey.

The creators of Bluey have made a huge deal out of making aure that these kids stay anonymous because they understand how the industry can be so incredibly damaging to children. Their names aren't even public knowledge. These kids are not only kept anonymous so that they can live as normal lives as possible, but they are kept anonymous for safety reasons. I'm certain you've heard the horror stories of children being groomed and endangered because they become so popular so young. Ludo Studios is trying to keep these kids safe. Evidence below (source)

Hearing this kid's voice used without her consent, without her parents consent, even without her knowledge and endangering her like this is the most disturbing thing I've seen in a very long time.

The worst thing about this? Everyone in the comments was going on about how cute she sounded "singing the song" and that OP should "make a version with Bingo", who's actress is even younger than Bluey's voice actress. No one saw that there was something wrong with this. I am disgusted and horrifically disturbed.

"AI" isn't "Artificial Intelligence". There is nothing Intelligent about it. It is simply programs and computer mimicry that is marketed as "AI" as a selling point. It isn't truly learning from anything to be considered intelligent. It is taking what you put into it and mimicing that. It is wrong and a violation of someone's life 100% of the time.

If you are considering creating "AI music" or any form of "AI" content, please reconsider. You are causing so much more harm than you realise.

[jess-the-vampire]

Quick question why did you like Tom in the beginning of the series, I understand liking the character as we get to know more starting season 3 and forward (considering that he wasn’t an important character and especially not at the beginning of the series) but he was and asshole.

Anonymous said:Also, why do you treat Tom as if he were a relevant character that needed tons of recognition .I have seen post showing you being a huge Tomstar fanboy/girl being angry with how the show treated Tom and even though is ok in liking a character, don’t you think you like him too much which clouds your judgment. Because Tom was treated fairly, maybe it would have been cool seen him happy with someone else, but he got his happy ending

You make it sound like people can’t enjoy characters who are jerks and act like jerks, those are pretty popular and fun characters for some people, after all, why do you think villians are so beloved despite being evil?

regardless, tom’s really not the worst at all in the first 2 seasons.

He’s not as great as he is now, but he’s not abusive and it really doesn’t take long to feel bad for and be attached to him. Literally by his second episode he’s already becoming more mature and trying to fix his mistakes.

Tom’s not one of these characters that has no moral compass, he feels awful about things all the time that are his fault, takes little pleasure in hurting people he cares about, and his entire motivation is to feel loved.

he doesn’t go about it the best of ways and he’s not perfect and he still did really dumb things, but he’s mostly harmless since the crew was at least careful enough not to make tom so bad he couldn’t be redeemed.

Tom never ended up truly doing any serious damage to anyone or anything, so it’s a lot easier to want him to be better then say…mina.

I just found tom fascinating because he felt a lot more like a character, i could understand why he felt the way he did, why he did what he tried to do, and why he was the way he was.

and without the show always needing to spell it out either.

he’s one of the few characters i think in this series where you can easily tell why he thinks and feels certain ways and when stuff happens in episodes with him, the impact actually CARRIES.

Marco’s talk in Mr Candle causes tom to stop bothering star, which causes tom to stop bothering her during CS because he learned he needed to respect her wishes, which leads to tom being mad and confused when star is like “No, bother me!, you’re being a total jerk for ignoring me now!”, which then leads to them warming up to each other, which then-

Tom’s a really fascinating case and one of the few times in this series where his emotions feel actually valid and natural (outside of the later half of s4b which was the only case that it didn’t)

I love seeing characters go through these kinds of growths, and i was really rooting for tom to earn true happiness from his character growth and have friends that love him because that feels like the true end for the arc of a friendless character who constantly feels like a failure and alone.

dude, i swear to god if you’re the guy who went on my other blog to insult me for not liking the end of tom’s arc and saying all my criticism was invalid, without actually providing any evidence….

my god, i really don’t wanna have to repeat myself but here we go

Tom’s not relevant? He’s been around since s1 and was on BOTH the posters for s3 and 4 (Over eclipsa, might i add?), tom is VERY relevant because of how prominent he was in the show and how much of a reoccurring character he was.

He wasn’t like janna who was mostly for comedic relief and didn’t really play a role in too many plots in the series, Tom was given so much screen time in most of the important episodes of the series.

This dude, had an actual ARC, an arc they dedicated episodes towards.

No, there is no happy end for tom, in what world is a happy end for a character to be constantly mistreated by their girlfriend and have them almost immediately leave them for their best friend, and then completely forget about them in another dimension….and then not even receive any actual sendoff in the finale at all?

Do you really think making tom feel inferior and unloved and him being OK with it is somehow fair at all? There’s nothing uncomfortable about that?

It’s just ok for our main lead to make him feel awful about himself? Not even apologize to him for kissing his best friend?  That’s fair to tom?

This ain’t even a tom only thing, most of the cast in the series didn’t feel like they got a proper goodbye, the only end that felt fitting for the most part, was ludo.

Most of everyone else’s ends were them kinda saying they’re doing fine after being gone for ages, and that’s about it.

I’m gonna tell you this again, it’s not enough for tom to just “Get better”, it actually needs to AMOUNT to something for TOM, he needed an end that made up for all the clear and obvious pain he’d been going through.

Zuko had this, his arc amounted to him changing roles, fighting his sister and becoming the next fire lord.

Characters like Lena from DT have this, where their shift causes them to overpower their fears and superiors and and find a real family that actually cares about her.

What did tom have?

Well, he’s friends with star and marco….but that was something he had a season ago before the last one…..so…what did he get in the finale because of his growth? Nothing, he loses his girlfriend and his best friends completely forgot about him.

You made tom suffer for so long, something the show makes very clear, and….he gets nothing, in fact they just made him suffer more and his anger management really didn’t end up amounting to anything or any relief at all at the end.

He just gets completely blown to the side by the end even though he’s supposibly one of star and marco’s close friends and he really ends up with nothing that fits all the pain he went through.

who in their right mind wanted to watch this happen to tom after last season? After conquer? where tom sacrifices himself for his best friends and it’s shown how much he cares about and loves them? 

After all that, star and marco just completely blow him off without even considering him? And that’s fair to tom? Are you serious?

By how these arcs normally work tom’s arc should’ve ended with him feeling confident in himself that he’s not inferior to marco, but that never happens.

by how it works he should realize his friends do value and care about him, but that doesn’t happen.

by how these arcs work tom should’ve found true happiness, but that doesn’t happen.

none of this is shown.

So it’s not satisfying.

This is like if ludo’s arc lacked dennis staying with him at the end or his family helping him rebuild his castle as he gets his band back together, he grew past his issues but….he’s unfinished….it feels like he didn’t get anything deserved to him.

star and marco were dang important to tom’s growth, they’re the most important relationships he has in the series, and he doesn’t even get an end with them, they both almost entirely forget about him.

and you cannot go around telling people their criticism is somehow invalid because they like a character as if none of that criticism is relevant at all because they like a character.

if anything, shouldn’t the fact someone was so knowledgeable about a character make the criticism more relevant?

i told you this before, you can’t just say everyone’s wrong “Because they are”, you say it’s satisfying for tom but don’t give a valid reason. it’s amounted to “ because it is” or “Tom’s not important enough to have a proper end”.

I’m sorry you don’t think tom was important but he was a heavily prominent character and a big favorite and this is such a horrible end to his story and it’s so unsatisfying to watch his end be to get shafted like this after everything he was put through.

people tend not to like watching characters who try so hard suffer time and time again and then end up basically alone and abandoned by their friends by the end.

[hufflly-puffs]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Chapter 9: The Dark Mark

“Harry saw himself in robes that had his name on the back, and imagined the sensation of hearing a hundred-thousand-strong crowd roar, as Ludo Bagman’s voice echoed throughout the stadium, ‘I give you … Potter!’” – I have seen quite a few posts who had wondered about Harry’s career choice as an Auror, and many who think he should have become a Professor, especially after he had taught Dumbledore’s Army Defence Against the Dark Arts. And while I like the idea of Harry returning to Hogwarts, I also like the idea of him as a professional Quidditch player. Harry loves Quidditch and he is a natural talent. His wish to become an Auror is influenced by the fact that he grew up during a war, that he had to learn to defend himself in order to survive. And he is good at it, he has to be, because his life depends on it. But becoming an Auror, to me, feels like Harry in some way never got past the feeling of being at a war. There is no peace in it, no quiet. And I always wonder how Harry’s life would have been if his parents would be still alive, if Voldemort never existed. Book 4 marks the last time Harry is truly innocent, and his wish to become a famous Quidditch player reflects that. He never has that dream again.

“Harry squinted at them … they didn’t seem to have faces … then he realised that their heads were hooded and their faces masked.” – Both Voldemort and his followers try to dehumanise themselves – in their actions of course but also their appearance. Voldemort looks like the monster he is, and no longer like a human being. With each Horcrux he became less human and I always wondered if his physical appearance reflected that and was caused by creating so many Horcruxes. His followers wear hoods and masks – of course during the World Cup to remain anonymous. But there is a significance in not showing their faces – not because they are ashamed or afraid, but to take away their identity, to make them more of a thing and less of a being.

It is also mentioned several times that the crowd who abuses the Muggles is large, and that more and more people join them. It is important to remember that Voldemort’s followers weren’t an extremist minority. And maybe not all of the people participating in that crowd were Death Eaters back in the day – but a lot tolerate what they are doing and even join them. Not everyone is a Nazi, but everyday racism still exists.

So Hermione uses “Lumos”, even though they are technically still in their holidays, meaning she is not allowed to use magic and… nothing happens. And sure, it is during an emergency, but so was Harry a year later, when he fought of Dementors and almost got kicked out of school.

“Ron told Malfoy to do something that Harry knew he would never have dared say in front of Mrs Weasley.” – I recently read that J.K. Rowling’s editor advised her not to use swear words, and that she said it was a shame, because Ron is the kind of person who absolutely does swear. Though in a way I like the way she writes around it, leaving it entirely to the reader’s imagination what exactly Ron said here.

And here we have Malfoy, utterly relaxed when everyone around him is terrified, because he is convinced nothing bad will happen to him, nobody would hurt him, because he is a Malfoy after all. And that his parents choose the right side, the side of power, the side of the oppressors, and that he will always be in control and power. And that is why I love book 6 Draco so much, because it shows what happens to him once his privileges and his power is taken away from him.

Malfoy also says that the Death Eaters can spot a Mudblood, but the question is: How? What exactly would give Hermione away? And we know from history that people believed certain signs would give away if someone is Jewish or queer, and now I wonder if the pureblood fanatics had a collection of stereotypes assigned to Muggleborns as well. Would it have been their names that they couldn’t connect to any of the old wizarding families? A lack of magical talent they sure believed Muggleborns would have? How?

Also sexual assault seems to be common among Death Eaters – the people in the crowd expose Mrs Robert’s underwear and Draco threatens to do the same to Hermione.

Harry loses his wand, and of course he isn’t allowed to use magic anyway, but he still feels vulnerable without it. The loss of one’s wand will of course play a bigger role in book 7 (along with the concept of ownership of a wand), and how essentially it is to your identity as a wizard or witch.

“Winky the house-elf was fighting her way out of a clump of bushes nearby. She was moving in a most peculiar fashion, apparently with great difficulty; it was as though someone invisible was trying to hold her back.” – Going back there is so much hidden in plain sight in this book. Someone invisible does indeed tries to hold Winky back. Mad Eye Moody wasn’t paranoid, he was indeed attacked. And later Barty Crouch Jun. disguised as Moody basically tells everyone how he tricked the Goblet to accept Harry as a fourth champion, but nobody believes a paranoid old man anyway. And this quite different to how mystery was written in the previous books, where we thought something meant one thing but turns out it was another thing. Here we are told the truth, we are meant to believe our first impressions, but we are so used to second-guessing that we oversee the most obvious.

We know that Harry, because he was raised by Muggles, doesn’t know anything about the Wizarding World upon entering it. He knows as much as the reader of the books knows, and this allows Rowling to use other characters to explain this world to us (and Harry). But very often this exposition character is Hermione, which is interesting, because Hermione was raised by Muggles as well, and you would expect a pureblood wizard like Ron to explain his world. And yet among the three it is only Hermione who recognizes the Dark Mark, or who knows that you can’t apparate into Hogwarts and so on. Because she has read every single information she could find about this new world she would belong to. And this is the reason why the story could be told neither by Hermione or Ron: they both know too much.

“No non-human creature is permitted to carry or use a wand.” – The way this law is formulated really makes it sound like a wand is a weapon – which of course it can be. But it is interesting that house-elves don’t need a wand – they have magic of their own. Which makes me wonder if other magical beings have their own magic as well? And if the law that forbids them to carry a wand is there to protect wizards & witches, because if House-Elves have already powerful magic on their own, imagine what they could do with a wand.

Amos Diggory isn’t earning any sympathy points here either. We learn that he works at Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, and it is obvious from the way he talks to Winky (always addressing her as “elf”, never with her name) that he thinks himself above those creatures. Despite the fact that house-elves are powerful, that they are intelligent, that they have feelings and a personality. All the things Hermione notice immediately (Winky is the first house elf she ever met), which is why she is so appalled of how they are treated and that they are kept as slaves.

“‘I don’t get it,’ said Ron, frowning. ‘I mean … it’s still only a shape in the sky …’” – Nothing has meaning until we give it meaning. And obviously those meanings can change – the swastika was a religious symbol before it was abused by the Nazis (and today the symbol is actually forbidden in Germany – you are not allowed to show it in any kind of way). Sometimes slurs can be reclaimed by those who were insulted. Symbols and names can have a power of their own – and people were so terrified by Voldemort that they didn’t dare to call him by his name, even years later (and even his followers only call him the Dark Lord, never Voldemort). Harry and the others who call Voldemort by his name refuse to give him this kind of power – until he uses it against them by putting a spell on his name in book 7.

[bi-apps]

Accepted - Ludo Bagman

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Regular Application

OOC Information

Name/Age/Timezone- Katie/26/EST

Activity Level- 7 maybe?

Ships/Anti-Ships- Chemistry-based only!

Did you read the rules? I did!

IC Information:

Character Name- Ludovic Bagman,

Age/Birthdate- 28; July 5th, 1950 ; Star Sign: Cancer

Faceclaim- Hunter Parrish, Billy Magnussen, Max Theriot

Occupation- Beater, Wimbourne Wasps.

Blood Status- Half-blood

Traits-

(+) Tenacious;

(+) Optimistic;

(+) Sincere;

(-) Obtuse;

(-) Fickle;

(-) Addictive;

Patronus- Cheetah. From patron-a-bum:

“Those with this patronus is incredibly ambitious, and at times very impatient. They like their animal, have the tendency to rush into things or want to get things done quickly. They often look at the big picture rather than the small details, and focus on this in everything they do. Those who are tedious test their patience and annoy them greatly. They are always looking to have a good time or jump into the next activity of their choosing.“

However, like its caster, Ludo’s Patronus is fickle and not always corporeal. Because the spell has such an emotional core, and Ludo has such a lack of control over his own emotions, it only works when he is at his best. Ludo hasn’t been able to cast much of one lately.

Boggart- His father, telling him in great detail how much of a disappointment he is. Or sometimes, a Bludger – not that he’s afraid of the Bludger itself, being a Beater, but there’s something much scarier about it when you’re on the ground and bat-free. And besides, it’s what the Bludger represents, what would happen if it hit him, really hit him: the end of his Quidditch career.

Key Points-

Ludo is much older than his twin siblings, Poppy and Otto. He was old enough when they were born to not only remember holding them, but to remember how their life changed. If it had gone another way, he might have been resentful; but how could he be, when the changes were so thrilling? They moved from the small two bedroom flat he’d grown up in to a lovely country cottage, their mother stayed home to spend more time with them, and Ludo loved being a big brother. He had more patience than either of his parents for endless games of peekaboo, for chasing them around the house and through the yard, for their games of make-believe and the way Otto seemed to think he was a human jungle gym – even for cleaning their admittedly constant messes.

Of the three of them, he was closest to his father, but this wasn’t necessarily by choice. Not that he didn’t love his father, because of course he did, but their relationship was predicated on three things and three things only: Quidditch, magic, and what it means to be a man. As they became closer, which happened quite rapidly once Ludo was accepted to Hogwarts and then again when he made his house Quidditch team, Ludo felt steered in a very particular direction – one that made him more distant from his mother and siblings, that discouraged his storytelling and baking and anything that didn’t conform to his father’s expectations of him. But his father loved him, respected him, made him feel like he was powerful and successful and unstoppable. Ludo really liked that feeling.

By the time Otto and Poppy entered Hogwarts, he was already in his seventh year, and feeling extremely distant from them. The age difference didn’t help, and especially with all of them in different houses, all of his brotherly affection seemed to somehow distill into an overprotective streak and affectionate head rubs. Meanwhile, Ludo was extremely popular – and loving it. Turns out he had rather a knack for Quidditch – or at least, he liked people to think he did. How much of it was the really strong side his Captain had put together, and how much of it was the hours of training, well that was to be decided, now that he had been awarded Captain. That was the first year in three years that they lost the Quidditch Cup. The last month of his seventh year was spent in infamy in his own House, and it left a bitter taste in his mouth.

It also left him without prospects, without a single offer, as he graduated Hogwarts. His father had to call in a favour with a friend in order to get him a tryout. This undermined his relationship with his father in several key ways, but it gave Ludo his first position, as reserve Beater for the Ballycastle Bats.

From there, Ludo spent several years on an upward journey of stardom. When he was twenty-one, he was signed to the Wimbourne Wasps; with him on the team, they won one World Cup and two National Championships, and Ludo’s life felt like it couldn’t get any better.

Now, at 28, he’s coming to the end of what would be considered his prime and experiencing a bit of a crisis as his career begins to trend downwards. He can’t go back to anonymity – or worse, infamy – and he’s trying to find a way to cling onto the glory years – including, but not limited to, taking the occasional bet on the side.

Changes/Extra Info- None, thank you!

Para Sample-

Of all the people he was hoping wouldn’t walk into Quality Quidditch Supplies that day – and the list was considerable – his father was, without a doubt, at the top. And yet, despite the praying and groveling and crossed fingers, there his father was, standing across from him at the counter, holding a set of arm braces, and looking nearly as shocked to see Ludo as Ludo was to see him. Shell-shocked and uncomfortable, Ludo hit a button on the old-fashioned cash register without looking and blasted his father with his best, most charming smile.

“Six sickles,” he said winningly, and then withered under his father’s gaze. He still hadn’t said a word, but his critical eyes were taking in Ludo’s uniform, from the stupid striped shirt to his embarrassing nametag pinned on his lapel, and then finally, excruciatingly slowly, up to his face.

“Ludovic,” his father said, and Ludo very nearly winced at the disdain in his voice. He did, at least, set the gloves down on the counter and reach into the pocket of his robes for his money pouch, meaning that at some point, this awful interaction would come to an end. “I didn’t realize you worked here.”

“Well,” said Ludo, and his voice didn’t sound like his own; it was too jaunty. False. “Just - just, you know, something to pass the time.”

His father sighed deeply and put the silver on the counter. Ludo grabbed at it a little too eagerly, desperate for this to be over, carefully avoiding meeting his father’s eye. Meanwhile, Edgar drew a hand across his jaw and pursed his lips. Only the sound of the antique register was left between them, as Ludo deposited his father’s silver and pushed the drawer closed.

“Come see me at work tomorrow,” Edgar said to his son. “I have a friend we might speak to. She knows the coach for the Ballycastle Bats. We might be able to… arrange something. We’ll talk about it over lunch tomorrow,” Edgar said. He lifted the gloves off the counter where they were still laying, and pressed his mouth into a line at the corner, somewhere between sympathy and disappointment. “Unless you had something else in mind? Another way?”

“Well, I - “ Ludo started. He knew what his father wanted here. He knew that he was supposed to have handled this himself, that he was supposed to tell his father that there was no need for him to step in. He wanted to; he wanted to meet his father’s expectations, to handle his own problems like a man – he wanted not to be standing behind the cash at a Quidditch supply shop just to pay for a dodgy flat he didn’t even like. His brain failed to supply him with even something approximating a reasonable plan, and his father had already closed his eyes and shaken his head, huffing out through his nose in a long-suffering kind of way.

“I’ll see you at lunch,” Edgar Bagman said, nodding at his son and walking away, leaving Ludo speechless and ashamed.