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Been on a Harry Potter kick of late (reading lots of fics and the like, though none of them starring Harry himself)

This was supposed to be Draco but the theory meme was much more fitting for the boy wonder I think lol.

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"Sirius who never touched a book in his life" my dude, he asked for a crossword puzzle. In jail 😭

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I wonder what the Wizarding World is like during the Lunar New Year? 🐍🥮✨

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Happy lunar new year Praline!!! 🎆🐍

Happy lunar new year to you too, kwoc! 🧧💫

This is a year old, but I do have a Fence wip about the LNY, I’ll share it below 🤭✨

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“So what’d your mom talk about this time?”

“Ah,” Seiji punctuated with a [word]. He leaned back in his chair, his white tee stretching around his bicep.

“The Lunar New Year is this weekend. She wanted to know if I planned on coming home tomorrow.”

“Oh, have fun then.” Nicholas replied, holding up his pencil again to translate the next sentence on his worksheet. He was a little disappointed that they wouldn’t be able to hang out, but maybe the change of pace would be good for Nicholas. He could try to reel in his crush on Seiji a couple notches while he was gone.

“Actually…” Seiji tested slowly. “I wanted to ask if you would like to come with me.”

Nicholas paused, Latin half-scratched onto an empty line. He looked up at Seiji.

“Really?”

Seiji nodded. “Yes. I’m the only one our age in my family, and while I appreciate my relatives, I find them a bit… overbearing at times. If you were there with me, I would find it a lot easier to manage.” The fingers that were tapping along his knee were now squeezing his leg.

Is he nervous?

“I would like it, if you came with me.” Seiji [word].

It was an innocent request, yet almost raw and vulnerable all the same. This was Seiji they were talking about. The boy that Nicholas was struggling to catch up to on the piste. Mister Second Nationally Ranked Junior Fencer asking Nicholas to keep him company at a family—what, family reunion? A party?

In this context, Seiji was just another boy, an introverted teen skirting the gruels of socializing, and yet, the stakes felt that much higher. Like Nicholas was being introduced to the in-laws. Voluntarily walking into a den of Katayamas who would judge whether he was worthy enough to be called one of their own. Not that he and Seiji were dating or anything like that but…

But Seiji asked, and Nicholas couldn’t find a reason to say no. How could Nicholas ever say no when Seiji looked at him like that? With such intense conviction and desperate appeal. A sincerity that lacked an ounce of anything but genuine [honesty/faith/trust/assurance].

And the honest truth was that Seiji was uncomfortable around his relatives, and Seiji was comfortable around Nicholas.

The revelation was so simple, and yet so profound to his heart.

Seiji is comfortable around me. Seiji wants me there.

Nicholas swallowed, wetting his dry chapped lips.

“I’d like to come with you.” He said a bit breathlessly. Mirroring Seiji’s expression, eyes a bit wide, brows slightly raised, every limb frozen in the wake of something he couldn’t name. Or maybe he could, and he was just too afraid to say it.

Enjoy! 🤗✨

This is literally half of what I have written atm lol

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i should wake up and automatically be restored to full health, that's how sleeping should work, what is this horseshit

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for the trope mash-up, how about 30 and 54 for your choice of fence characters?

Holiday Fic + Secret Relationship

Funny coincidence 👀✨

I have a fic idea with this exact concept for Scott Langtree/Thomas Leventis, which is a part of my longer series involving the pair. It’s both self-indulgent and incredibly slowburn (and I am a slow writer… 😅) ☺️✨

(Sorry this took so long! Time got away from me 😅)

For the prompts you have given me, I had in mind Thomas and Scott recently getting together and keeping it on the down low while they explore this new step in their relationship. Aster obviously knows since he’s Thomas’ brother, and Jesse knows that Thomas and Scott are friends. The two are actually together on a date when Jesse texts Thomas the details of his New Year’s Eve party, with a follow up text mentioning that he’s invited Scott as well (I haven’t decided if Jesse’s aware that Thomas has a crush on Scott, but if he is, he’s doing him a favor by inviting his crush (boyfriend) over).

At the party, they don’t show any pda, they just have fun as though they were at any regular party, perusing the buffet table together and jumping from one party game to the next.

Late into the evening one of them quietly asks the other if they would like to *cough cough* go outside and watch the snow fall (make out before midnight). They try to find a secluded spot, but there just so happens to be a snowball fight ensuing. Thomas offers the notion of making out in the coat closet that nobody uses (which they do)… until they get caught 👀🤭💓✨

If I were to write a Seiji/Nicholas secret relationship holiday story, I might consider setting it around Christmas or during the Lunar New Year (which is coincidentally this week!). There are lots of different directions and scenarios this could go in (and reasons for why they’re hiding their relationship), though I’m drawn to the very innocent one of their relationship being very new and under wraps (as can be seen with the aforementioned ship above 😆). Introducing a boyfriend would be a step up from introducing a friend, and they just aren’t ready for that (especially if they’ve only been together for a month or less).

I think it would be very cute to write about a string of stolen moments over the duration of the holiday. Getting ready together in Seiji’s bedroom. Holding hands in the backseat of Seiji’s parents’ car while they drive to his relatives’ house. Their eyes meeting across the room when Nicholas is meeting all of Seiji’s extended family. Their knees touching under the table while they play cards with Seiji’s cousins. Sitting in the corner of the room together watching the festivities happen (or chatting about fencing). Sneaking out the back for some fresh air and maybe a kiss. Hot chocolate and snowball fights. Warming up by the fire. Subtly bumping into each other when they head off to the kitchen in search of something sweet. Seiji’s grandmother or grandfather clocking the relationship and giving them some candy.

It could be so incredibly cute and fluffy, your honor 🥹

I do actually have a holiday fic for Seiji and Nicholas, but it’s friends to lovers and not secret relationship 👀💗

I plan on posting a snippet of my wip in another ask, keep your eye open for it!

Send me two tropes and a ship! 🤍❄️

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HILF prompting is now open!

The two-week prompting period begins! Head on over to the AO3 collection to submit and peruse prompts. Prompt-picking begins on Feb. 14. Multiple people can claim the same prompt -- the more, the merrier~!

(FYI: prompts can still be submitted after Feb. 14, there's just a lower likelihood of them being chosen, probably)

Can't wait to see what you all come up with! <3 Happy prompting~

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/HILF

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Based on some rumblings I heard, I ended up quickly throwing together a fun little WIP bingo sheet! I'll admit I largely wrote the prompts for writing, but I think a good number of them should also apply to art!

Ultimately, the goal is to have fun, and finish whatever WIPs you can (without burning yourself out or having a bad time). If you needed a sign to pick up that project you've been putting off, the time is now!

3x4 Bingo square titled "Finish your fucking fics february"

the top three across left to right read "Update your oldest WIP", "Finish a WIP that's been buried deep in your drafts", and "Finish a WIP that you haven't posted yet"

the second row reads "Finish a recent WIP", "Finish a WIP you're scared of" and "Finish a WIP that's been haunting you"

the third row reads "Update a partially posted WIP", "Finish any WIP/Free Space", and "Finish the next WIP in a series you've been avoiding"

the last row reads "Update your newest WIP", "Finish a WIP that's been ignored for at least 6 months", and "Finish the next chapter for a fic you've been meaning to for months"

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I just played through Slay the Princess for the first time, and… I cannot stop thinking about the Cage.

To be profoundly and finally severed from the illusion of your autonomy. To look on, from a prison of your own making, as your body acts out a legacy of violence against the body of the only other person who can or will come near you. To see their body perform that same violent dance. To be bound to this person, and in your limited state not to understand why. In that moment, as the silhouettes in the shadows act out the story of the princess and the slayer, to share a moment of peace with the one sent to kill you.

Intertwined. Diminished. Reductive, mutually destructive. Trapped in an infinite dance.

Beautiful.

To have been so determined you never had free will, never could have found another way. To realize you may have been wrong. To be trapped in a pattern, but unaware of what that pattern truly is.

Still, for that finite and watchful moment, not to be alone.

(Mild gore under cut.)

(Also this art from the game haunts me.)

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Reblog to hug prev poster (they need a hug)

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fun in the snow

pinoy severitus eating jollibee

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if you’re open to a doodle suggestion while doing your challenge, would you grace us once more with sapphic Drarry?

I’m obsessed with their designs 😩💕 Also curious what type of outfits they’d each rock (not gonna lie I 100% bet that Harry would still dress similarly to her male counterpart).

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I definitely agree!! I don't think there'd be much of difference for Harry. I imagine she still grew up with Dudley's (even more oversized now) hand-me-downs and would probably feel very awkward in super feminine clothes. I think she'd still prioritized comfort over style and lean into masc looks when older too. (Like baggy jeans, sweaters & hoodies, oversized t-shirts/ plaid shirts/ jackets, sneakers)

As for Draco, I don't think she'd be all that different either. I feel like during Hogwarts she'd still want to emulate Lucius, albeit maybe more willing to flaunt her status through high-quality clothing and jewelry. Post-war though I can see her adopting more of Narcissa's simple but refined style combined with formal mugglewear. (Lot's of blouses and blazers and heeled boots for sureee)

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You can only eat 2 foods for the next 2 years (with no health repercussions)

Spin this wheel twice to figure out what they are!

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Snape shaped

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“We know nothing about canon Remus-“

My brother in Christ we know he sleeps with his mouth slightly open

He snorts in his sleep sometimes

That even tho his belongings are falling apart the knots and stitches he puts around things are meticulously neat and tidy (controlling what he can control)

That after a full moon he’s so exhausted he can sleep all day

His voice is hoarse

He can do (or at least it’s implied) wandless magic to create flames

His first response to an attacker is to talk to it (and be real sassy with it)

He’s competent enough to get rid of said attacker

He gives away the cure to dementors but doesn’t seem to eat any himself

He smiles a whole lot, considering

He can go from asleep to perfectly alert in seconds

He’s sickly looking to the point “a good curse would finish him off”

He’s likely thin

He has his name on his suitcase but the lettering is old and worn suggesting he’s been called Professor before (likely as a joke but we can’t tell that quite yet)

He looks young despite grey hair, it’s noticeable that he’s been prematurely aged

He’ll take responsibility and check in with the driver

He’ll write to pomfrey to tell her that a student is hurt

And this is just Chapter 5 of PoA- when he’s asleep for 90% of the chapter! Imagine the shit we get when he’s awake

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on her wedding day