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Boops ended before I could boop you...

Soo...

*Gasp* a blessing of a boop! Thank you for this lovely boop my friend!!

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Happy April Fools 2024

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The Harry Potter Underage Magic Issue

I was thinking about how exactly the Ministry of Magic would go about monitoring underage magic. The model I have seen before in fanfiction is that all magic shows up on the Ministry's radar, except they just ignore magical signals from areas (Diagon Alley) or residence's (Malfoy Manor, The Burrow, etc) known to have magic users present. This model feels incomplete and suggests a very..hmm...involved government. This model also doesn't fully address how in The Chamber of Secrets, Dobby was able to make it look like Harry used underage magic while other times his magic goes undetected.

Behold! The "Bioacoustic Model":

There is inherent magic found everywhere, but this background noise is "louder" in areas that become saturated in magic (wizard homes, Diagon Alley, Hogwarts, etc). Magic creates waves that behave differently depending on the source.

Adult human magic users have magic within a specific amplitude and frequency, while adolescent magic users have a higher frequency magical signal. Additionally, magic users of various species (centaur, elf, human) have distinct signal features. However, it is possible to use magic in an artificial tone, similar to someone talking in a really high-pitched or low-pitched voice. This is uncommon and difficult to do, but ultimately possible. For instance, when Dobby frames Harry for using underage magic in The Chamber of Secrets. However, since the characteristics of magical signals differ by age and species, this would explain why Harry didn't get blamed for every other time Dobby used magic in his presence.

Accidental magic is somewhere between a distinct signal and indistinguishable background noise, so it can be filtered out unless it passes a certain threshold of power. So, if, say, Draco Malfoy has an incident of accidental magic, it just blends into the background. But if he practices with a wand outside of school, that frequency stands out from his parents' magic use.

The Ministry of Magic uses these features to passively monitor the magical soundscape of Britain with instruments set to detect magical signals with specific characteristics indicative of intentional or sufficiently powerful underage human magic use (similar to how we monitor for earthquakes).

TL;DR The Ministry of Magic uses unusual frequencies popping up in the magical soundscape to detect underage magic.

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how i'm trying to be this autumn

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By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

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Fox meeting a vulptex!

This drawing is a sort of mirror version of the one I did of Wolffe last month. I tried to keep the same style but it ended up looking cleaner. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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A young Wolffe meeting a loth-wolf…

Experimenting with colored sketches. :) The ambient colors are based on a screenshot from Star Wars Rebels.

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Aftercare

I’ve organized some of the things I need from aftercare (in person or long distance) into 4 components, and thought it could be helpful for others too! I’ve put some examples for each, but it will of course look different for everyone.

1. Physical Care/Needs -

Wiping away tears

Helping up from floor

Getting a warm towel

Soothing bruises

Getting a glass of water

2. Physical Comfort/Affection -

Gentle kisses and hugs

Holding eachother tight

Breathing with eachother

Cuddling and/or napping together

Brushing fingers through hair

3. Scene Validation -

“That was so fun/sexy”

“That felt so good when you ____”

“You were such a good ____ for me”

“I love the bruises/marks you gave me”

“Thank you for (carrying out some fantasy) with me”

4. Human Affirmations -

“I love you; I care about you”

“I’m so grateful to have you in my life”

“I always have a great time when I’m with you”

“You’re a wonderful/kind/etc person”

Mentioning a non-sexual part of your relationship that you like, or reiterating that you value eachother as more than just a sub/dom(me)

I think that this can work whether you have a deeper connection or a more casual play partner! I always feel best when all of these components are covered during aftercare.

These things can obv be done in person, and I think it’s also really important to give this kind of care when you’re long distance, even if it’s just through words after sexting… for example-

“When we were done, I would help you up and wipe away your tears, bring you a warm towel and make sure you’re ok. Then I’d love to cuddle, with your head on my chest, and give you forehead kisses while telling you how good you made me feel and how wonderful of a person I think you are.”

Thanks for reading! Be safe everyone 💕💕

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New stickers, sticker sheets and magnetic booksmarks and a Fall Sale going on my etsy shop!

Pale Snail Designs

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All these designs and more are available as keychains in my mega art sale! This will be the last chance ever to get Nightmare Service Critter keychains! There's lots of designs, only some featured here. You can get them for only FOUR dollars, and quantities of some are EXTREMELY limited, so grab them while you can!

Nightmare Service Critters are little dream animals that find you in bad dreams and lead you back to good ones.

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he's chillen...

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Tell me a soft memory

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The magpie who fishes stars

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Alright up next on the clone commander shawl project is dearly beloved Commander Ponds!

One of my main goals with this project was to mostly use up stash yarn, which I succeeded with in both Cody and Fox! (However very quickly I ran out of white, so most shawls from here on out will be stash+white bought specifically for it lol). But with Ponds... I could not for the life of me find a brown that matched him, and then when I did it was only in Sport weight, so he's the exception to the rule: his yarn was bought entirely specially for this project!

Commander Cody * Commander Fox * Commander Ponds

Also I sent a quick shot of this shawl right after I got it off my needles to @hastalavistabyebye before I even got it blocked or its beauty pics and they immediately got back to me with a fanart of cosy Ponds wearing it so please go tell them they're amazing for that too.