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There is something beautiful about monsters in the light

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voldemor doodles...

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

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cause the best parts of a vampire besides the fangs are the (tender) hands

print available;

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I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

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Hi there I’ve just started to read your fic not you not now I’m just wondering does dumbledore know about Voldemort being Harry’s sole mate and if not what’s his reaction going to be ? It’s a fantastic read keep up the good work x

Hi, anon!

Omg! 🥹 A new reader! Hello, anon! Welcome aboard!

Pls make sure to take breaks between arcs & chapters, have water and muffins on standby - I do not recommend popcorn, I did that on my "I don't know my own fic I need to re-read it" read and lots of popcorn ended up on the ground of my living room.

Idk when this ask was sent, but Happy New Year to you, anon! 🎇🥂🎉 Thank you for the kind words. I'm on a bit of a break (read writing/taking part in another fandom) currently, but the fic will be updated... When it's updated! I'm still into HP, I still like it, and but it all really depends on my whims and what we all love called ✨hyperfixation��� plus I need a bit of a break, writing 300k words is a lot, you know 😅

Meanwhile, you have 300k+ words of sweet soulmate drama to go through, and I hope you enjoy them! Again! Take breaks! Make sure to eat, use the bathroom, drink hot chocolate, etc!

Unfortunately, I cannot reveal whether Dumbledore knows or doesn't know bcs of spoilers, so you can make your own guesses for now 😊

Welcome aboard the "not you, not now" train and I hope you enjoy the fic!

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I was laughing so hard rereading the nynn Time Travel AU because like Tom is no better than any other teenage boy. First time he sees his soulmate and he's like this episode of the boondocks

and I was just dying because him getting some is the first and main thing on his mind. Like og timeline nynn Voldemort not getting any out of respect for his soulmate while time travel au Tom is getting lucky in the prefects bath 😂

I am so late in answering this, forgive me 😭 (climbs out of my One Piece hole to peer out into the sunlight)

First of all, happy New Year @higanbanabythesea ! 🎇🥂🎉 Hope you have a great year, wishing you all the best!

I laughed so much bcs you are so right about this. Poor nynn Voldy 😭

Meanwhile Tom is living his best life. He has his priorities in check, and honestly I'm glad I captured that teenager horny vibe of him 🤣

Some Toms really have it lucky, as do some Voldys (glances to be proud Voldy)

Do I have a scene of nynn Voldy doing self-care? Did I not put it in bcs at that time I rated nynn as Teen?

Also YES.

Am I regretting it a bit not putting it into the fic bcs I wish everyone knew that the only thing keeping nynn Voldy off of Harry is his IMMENSE self-control?

Yes.

Guy is going insane. He might seem chill and all, but he is absolutely BURNING from the inside for just a single touch from her.

He deserves it. He deserves to suffer. I like making nynn Voldy suffer. SUFFER!

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Thank you for the ask, and all your support! ❤️🫶🏻

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MOVE, EVERYONE, I'M GONNA GO STUDY PARSELTONGUE. WOW. THIS IS AMAZING.

Dearest PopGirls,

I'm beyond proud to finally present Mink's official guide to Parseltongue, created with the invaluable help of @creature-of-insomnia . This guide wouldn't be what it is without Ana; I couldn't have done it without her.

We've both worked incredibly hard to develop the Parseltongue language, not only for my story but also for you, dear readers. Now, instead of relying on mindless hissing or made-up words, you have a structured language to use in your fanfictions. The guide draws from the Parseltongue used in the films and is influenced by Greek words. Unlike the existing Parseltongue alphabets I've seen on the internet, which feel unrealistic and are often just based on the English alphabet, as well as entirely too long to be used in actual sentences, we've crafted something authentic and concise — something that can be used naturally in sentences.

It fills me with immense joy to finally share this with you all. I'm incredibly proud of what we've created.

The majority of the spreadsheet is complete, although me and Ana are still working hard on it to be as perfect as it can be.

My only request is that you give credit if you use it in your fanfics. If you'd like to contribute by suggesting words you'd like to see in this guide, please feel free to comment, and I'll do my best to add them.

You can find the official guide here:

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Perhaps the most common misconception about Voldemort is that he only got his snakelike red-eyed appearance after his resurrection. I get why people may assume this (an unfounded assumption typically based on the fact that snake venom was used, and that he was made in a cauldron, and the misunderstanding that Wormtail was an unskilled sorcerer), but there’s lots of evidence that he already looked like that in 1981, and nothing in canon implies his appearance was changed by the rebirthing potion.

In the graveyard, Voldemort calls gaining his current body getting his 'old body back’:

Note that the body creation potion is a pre-existing piece of old magic that Voldemort already knew about. He knew that to get his old body back, he would need to use this ancient potion with the three powerful ingredients. This is not magic he invented himself. Snake venom is not an ingredient in his rebirthing potion, but only an ingredient (along with unicorn blood) in the potion he was drinking while in the rudimentary body. He is not 'made of' snake venom any more than he's made of unicorn blood.

He tells a pretty thorough story of the last 13 years to the DEs, and never implies he looks different and explains why. If he did look different, he likely would have included that in his several pages of explanations of what had happened to him.

This happens right after he summons his DEs to the graveyard and they immediately recognize him—in the dark, from a distance so far away that they have to walk toward him and then crawl the rest of the way.

Fudge and other Ministry workers also immediately recognize him the following year. Harry did publish an interview describing him, but Fudge doesn't trust Harry at that point, or isn't claiming to anyway. The only thing that convinces Fudge is seeing a person he personally believes to be Voldemort with his own eyes. This is a person Fudge recognizes beyond doubt:

In Sorcerer's Stone, Voldemort's face is described:

He already has the white skin, the red eyes, and the slit nostrils years before the snake venom drinking and the rebirthing potion. They did not appear for the first time after he stepped out of the cauldron.

On Halloween 1981, we know two things about his appearance: that his hand is white, and that his face is so terrifying it makes a child run away.

We also know that James recognizes Voldemort immediately. I don't think his face itself would've been well-known, as there aren't any instances in the Second War of Voldemort being photographed, or images of him being published in the paper or hung up with the Azkaban escapees' portraits (only the verbal description in the Quibbler article). It seems more likely that what makes him so recognizable is that he has very unique features.

We know for a fact that by the late 1960s (ish?), Voldemort was no longer the handsome Tom Riddle. He was described like this at his interview with Dumbledore:

Notice the similarities to his appearance in SS & GoF: the white skin, the partially red eyes (the whites & flashing red multiple times), the slitlike nostrils. He seems to be partway through a transformation between the handsome human form of his youth and the snakelike form of his middle age. Harry says Voldemort's features here are not yet 'as' snakelike, which implies they are reminiscent of it, just not fully identical. I see no other possible explanation for Voldemort having somewhat snakelike features and slitlike nostrils and reddening eyes in ~1968, besides him slowly undergoing a visual transformation into the appearance we know. (Well, it could either happen very gradually or it could happen in distinct stages after each Horcrux creation, based on Dumbledore's info in HBP that the Horcruxes are what caused the appearance changes. Either way, it happened over many years.)

(A decade earlier in the Hepzibah Smith memory, Voldemort looks quite normal and like his younger self other than his eyes sometimes flashing red.)

There are around 13 years between this interview and Halloween 1981—years in which we must assume Voldemort's appearance continues changing along the lines it's already changing in 1968 and into the face we know from SS & GoF. Not only does 1968 Voldemort seem well on the way to his canon-era face, I just don't see another explanation for why he would have this face in 1992 if he did not in 1981.

What did Voldemort look like when he killed the Potters? Exactly like he did when he stepped out of the cauldron. Any claims otherwise are headcanons based on conjectures of the effects of the snake venom and the rebirthing process that are not supported by the text.

At no point in the First War was Voldemort handsome in the way he was in his youth. This means that anyone that Voldemort only met after his presumable return to Britain in the late 60s (such as perhaps Bellatrix) never knew him by his old face, only by some version of his new one.

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Happy Birthday 🎂

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Happy Birthday⛄️!

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) dir. Chris Columbus

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Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it and Happy Holidays to everyone! 🎄

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Christmas in the Wizarding World.

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Home Alone (1990) dir. Chris Columbus

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HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE 2005 | dir. Mike Newell

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Random thought as I've been rereading the last 3 chapters to self soothe and try to distract myself from the endless spiraling into a pit of despair since the US election, but would Harry ever have Voldie be in his Gaunt form for like *spicy* time? Because she is thirsty af for him in his Gaunt form, like even back in the courtroom this girl is on trial in front of the whole Wizengamot, potentially about to be expelled, and she's busy staring at him thinking he looks like a king. She's busy getting all moony eyed when he catches her in the bookstore, comparing his laugh to a siren song, like girlie has it bad.

I'm glad my fic could offer some comfort. 🫂

Pffff hahahaha this made me laugh. I mean, hm, probably? Currently she prefers Gaunt's appearance over Voldy's but I'm slowly building up that like for Voldy's appearance Harry has.

Harry has her priorities straight. No use worrying about getting expelled, might as well get a few looks at Gaunt. 🤣

I genuinely think Harry will want to jump into the Black Lake once she puts two and two together. She'll be so embarrassed that she was all starry eyed with Voldy without knowing🤣 poor girl