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Tips for authenticity for HP fanfiction writers (mainly targeted at Snapedom but also other ship writers too)

I think so many people forget that Snape was British, from Cokeworth. Edit: Let it be said that Cokeworth is a fictional town, but according to the HP Wiki it’s located in the English Midlands, so it’s still useful information to know. We can sort of assume that Cokeworth was inspired by a community in Manchester. Edit: Manchester is not in the region of the Midlands (it’s about two hours driving from Derbyshire which is in the East Midlands, so while Manchester isn’t in the Midlands, it’s pretty close, but it’s still ‘solidly Northern’). (Thank you @turtlewexlerwrites for clarifying the geography for me a bit!). 

But basically, we can sort of infer that Cokeworth is a fictional Manchester town because (fun fact) JK Rowling actually spent a lot of time in Manchester writing the books, and some of the descriptions of Cokeworth match areas of Manchester.

Edit: From there, if you’re trying to find believable headcannons for the character of Snape for example, then you can look up Manchester accents/cultural references to start adding to his backstory a bit more. 

In terms of his mannerisms, Snape was surrounded by the Wizarding elite in Slytherin, who were essentially upperclass British citizens for the most part. Therefore the way he thinks, acts, and lives would be quintessentially British - part of him would be like the Malfoys, but the majority of who he is inside would be the bloke from Cokeworth. He’d have been influenced by his colleagues (*cough* McGonagall) and also his peers when he was a student. I don’t know how many Hogwarts students were born/raised in England/Ireland/Scotland/Wales and areas that speak using British English, but I’m guessing it was a lot, and even if they came from overseas as exchange students or something, they’d still adapt their language to the style they were hearing at school at Hogwarts. 

So it’s important to contextualize what you’re writing, understand where your character(s) are from and how it would affect the way they speak/think, and how you should write as a narrator in third person, if that’s your style.

It’s interesting to think about what’s going on in the Muggle world politically at the time Snape (and other characters) were growing up. What were the big hits in British Muggle music? What were the trends in fashion, and what was the latest update in British slang? 

If you’re not British yourself or haven’t lived in the UK, let me give you a run down of things that are widely considered British (or Irish/Scottish, depending) and are not really that stereotypical. Edit: I won’t really be addressing Wales for the moment but will be happy to cover that as people send me contributions about Welsh slang/traditions/cultural references. I also won’t cover Australia or New Zealand for the same reason, until someone offers to add a list! Just because I can only really personally talk reliably about my experience with things I know (England, Ireland, Scotland). Otherwise I’d have to rely entirely on Google and I don’t want to run the risk of making mistakes with a culture I don’t know much about! But I would love to learn, and I’d love contributions, so DM me! Thanks!! :))

T/W: lots of colorful language, mostly in British English (I am educating the masses on the correct naughty words to use in fanfiction written in British English, apologies in advance.)

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Spencer: *Texting Morgan from the bathroom* Morgan, there’s a moth on the outside of the bathroom door. Can you get rid of it?

Spencer: Please hurry, because I’m going to cry.

Spencer: Der?

Spencer: Derek?

Morgan: *Lovingly tormenting his husband* Morgan is dead. You’re next. Love, Moth.

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the “pleasure to have in class” to overly active tumblr user pipeline

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I need more Suited Strange NOWWWW

Doctor Stephen Strange in a suit 

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Reblogging for the Wednesday crowd!!!

Painful

Stephen Strange x Avenger!Reader (Non-Powered, Agent/Widow potentially)

Post DS:MOM

Please be kind, this is my first ever fic, but I do welcome CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.

Warnings: SFW, one swear word (a**hole), minor minor DS:MOM spoilers, only mentioned in passing.

Words: 790 words, not sure if this is a one-shot or drabble at this point!

“I need to get back to the compound, Sam is expecting me for a meeting.” You spoke as you hastily made your exit to the front door of 177A Bleeker Street, hoping to get away from the handsome sorcerer.

Since the ‘Wanda Incident’ as you’d dubbed it, Strange felt it was more necessary to be involved in the Avengers, therefore you’d been seeing him regularly, and falling deeper in love every time you were in his presence. Especially this morning, you’d had to drop some files around, feeling emotionally vulnerable after the intense dream you’d had involving him. You wanted to be in and out and not see him again until you could get a level head.

True, he was a bit of an asshole, condescending and arrogant, but you could tell it was from a place of love, humour and self-defence. Sadly, for you, you’d been hit with love at first sight, and you knew about his history with Christine and how much he loved her thanks to a bit-tipsy, over sharer Wong one night, post-meeting. This had ruined your hope entirely, resigning yourself to a life of pining.

“Well, I can portal you back, if you wanted to stay for a tea?” Strange was following you to the front door, catching you up quickly.

“No, no, I need to get going, prefer to take the subway.” You panicked and came up with the most ridiculous excuse ever, he’d see right through that one, no one ever likes to take the subway at 9am.

“Look, Y/N, I need to ask, as that’s a horrendous excuse, but do you have a problem with me?” You scoffed and nervously spoke, “No, what would make you think that?”

“You, you were fine with me and then you started avoiding me and sending others in your place. Have I done something to offend you?”

“No, not at all, the opposite really, but that’s beside the point, I need to go, now.” Strange sensed you grabbing the handle and quickly cast a spell, encasing the door in an orange glow.

”Please, tell me why. Why do I suddenly deserve the cold shoulder and frosty greetings when you used to be so kind and welcoming?”

“You don’t deserve it, but I really can’t tell you.” You stayed staring at the door, easier to look away from this confrontation.

“Why? Why would you no…” Hurt was beginning to show through in Strange’s voice and you could feel your facade cracking into tiny pieces with it.

“It is painful…” You confessed.

“What?”

Unable to hold it in any longer, you shouted, “Loving someone who will never love you back!”

Strange furrowed his eyebrows and took a step towards you, “What are you talking about?”

“Isn’t it fairly obvious? I’m in love with you and you’re still clearly struggling with letting Christine go”

He scoffed, looked away and looked back with an intensity you had never seen before. “I will always care for Christine, she was the first person I truly loved, but I do mean loved” He shifted, uncomfortably. “I do have very strong romantic feelings for someone else. Which far surpass what I feel for Christine.”

Stephen took a couple of steps closer, as you swallowed the looming feeling of despair at being let down as he revealed his true feelings.

“I love you.”

Those three words made your world stop. “Me… are you messing with me? No one ever picks me.”

“You, Y/N are the one I love. The one I pick, as you so described it”

Your eyes flooded with tears, as Stephen looked on in horror and confusions at the appearance of said tear. You began to laugh hysterically, in happiness, but clearly the sorcerer couldn’t read any of this as he began to try to backtrack, “I… uh… I mean”

You ran forward and wrapped your arms around him, breathing in his scent. He began to settle into the embrace just in time for you to pull back. You gazed into his clear, bright eyes and began to trail your hand up his chest to hold his face in your hands. His arms tightened around your waist.

“If I hadn’t made it clear enough, I love you”

You connected your lips to his, as he moved his hands to your neck, pulling you closer, if that was even possible. Your heart soared as the kiss continued, Stephen passionately reassuring you of his feelings. Pulling away, you placed your foreheads together, and stared into his eyes, sure of your happiness and possibilities of the future.

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Painful

Stephen Strange x Avenger!Reader (Non-Powered, Agent/Widow potentially)

Post DS:MOM

Please be kind, this is my first ever fic, but I do welcome CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.

Warnings: SFW, one swear word (a**hole), minor minor DS:MOM spoilers, only mentioned in passing.

Words: 790 words, not sure if this is a one-shot or drabble at this point!

“I need to get back to the compound, Sam is expecting me for a meeting.” You spoke as you hastily made your exit to the front door of 177A Bleeker Street, hoping to get away from the handsome sorcerer.

 Since the ‘Wanda Incident’ as you’d dubbed it, Strange felt it was more necessary to be involved in the Avengers, therefore you’d been seeing him regularly, and falling deeper in love every time you were in his presence. Especially this morning, you’d had to drop some files around, feeling emotionally vulnerable after the intense dream you’d had involving him. You wanted to be in and out and not see him again until you could get a level head.

 True, he was a bit of an asshole, condescending and arrogant, but you could tell it was from a place of love, humour and self-defence. Sadly, for you, you’d been hit with love at first sight, and you knew about his history with Christine and how much he loved her thanks to a bit-tipsy, over sharer Wong one night, post-meeting. This had ruined your hope entirely, resigning yourself to a life of pining.

 “Well, I can portal you back, if you wanted to stay for a tea?” Strange was following you to the front door, catching you up quickly.

 “No, no, I need to get going, prefer to take the subway.” You panicked and came up with the most ridiculous excuse ever, he’d see right through that one, no one ever likes to take the subway at 9am.

 “Look, Y/N, I need to ask, as that’s a horrendous excuse, but do you have a problem with me?” You scoffed and nervously spoke, “No, what would make you think that?”

 “You, you were fine with me and then you started avoiding me and sending others in your place. Have I done something to offend you?”

 “No, not at all, the opposite really, but that’s beside the point, I need to go, now.” Strange sensed you grabbing the handle and quickly cast a spell, encasing the door in an orange glow.

 ”Please, tell me why. Why do I suddenly deserve the cold shoulder and frosty greetings when you used to be so kind and welcoming?”

“You don’t deserve it, but I really can’t tell you.” You stayed staring at the door, easier to look away from this confrontation.

“Why? Why would you no…” Hurt was beginning to show through in Strange’s voice and you could feel your facade cracking into tiny pieces with it.

 “It is painful…” You confessed.

“What?”

Unable to hold it in any longer, you shouted, “Loving someone who will never love you back!”

 Strange furrowed his eyebrows and took a step towards you, “What are you talking about?”

“Isn’t it fairly obvious? I’m in love with you and you’re still clearly struggling with letting Christine go”

 He scoffed, looked away and looked back with an intensity you had never seen before. “I will always care for Christine, she was the first person I truly loved, but I do mean loved” He shifted, uncomfortably. “I do have very strong romantic feelings for someone else. Which far surpass what I feel for Christine.”

 Stephen took a couple of steps closer, as you swallowed the looming feeling of despair at being let down as he revealed his true feelings.

 “I love you.”

 Those three words made your world stop. “Me… are you messing with me? No one ever picks me.”

 “You, Y/N are the one I love. The one I pick, as you so described it”

 Your eyes flooded with tears, as Stephen looked on in horror and confusions at the appearance of said tear. You began to laugh hysterically, in happiness, but clearly the sorcerer couldn’t read any of this as he began to try to backtrack, “I… uh… I mean”

 You ran forward and wrapped your arms around him, breathing in his scent. He began to settle into the embrace just in time for you to pull back. You gazed into his clear, bright eyes and began to trail your hand up his chest to hold his face in your hands. His arms tightened around your waist.

 “If I hadn’t made it clear enough, I love you”

 You connected your lips to his, as he moved his hands to your neck, pulling you closer, if that was even possible. Your heart soared as the kiss continued, Stephen passionately reassuring you of his feelings. Pulling away, you placed your foreheads together, and stared into his eyes, sure of your happiness and possibilities of the future.

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Doctor Strange 2 Hotter as no man has been before

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BUT WHAT DOES CHEEKY NANDOS *MEAN* IT HAS TO HAVE A MEANING

mate it’s hard to explain mate it’s just like one day you’ll just be wif your mates having a look in jd and you might fancy curry club at the ‘Spoons but your lad Calum who’s an absolute ledge and the archbishop of banterbury will be like ‘brevs lets have a cheeky nandos instead.” and you’ll think “Top. Let’s smash it.”

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Reblog if you're bisexual and sleepy

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this is honestly my fav screensave.

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nobody: yelena: KATE BISHOP

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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ok idk if u can do this or if u know a tutorial on how to do this but how the heck to u put transparent text with another scene in the letters over a gif?? I just started making gifs and I know how to size, sharpen, and brighten to an extent using curves/exposure/layers but I'm still learning coloring and the like. I had an idea to do a 3 gif set with the sadder scene in the forefront then the happier scenes being the letters of the song lyrics. do u know what I mean? please any help u can offer I am forever grateful for.

I do know how to do this. I'm not as good as most people but bear with me, I'mma do a quick tutorial for you.

1. first make and color your gif as you would, without any text. save it, and then reopen it. (you don't have to color it, but i like to at least have a base)

2. convert the gif back into a timeline. you can use my action and click on 'gif to timeline'.

3. find a font, add your text, center the text, and then make sure your text is #fffff / white. then set the layer to soft light or maybe even hard light? i go through them all and pick and choose what looks nice

4. obviously we don't wanna keep it like that, so duplicate the layer. now go to blending options and add a gradient? you don't have to, you can color pick the dominant color from the gif and layer that over the text, but i decided to go with the most bisexual looking gradient i can find. then i set the blended layer to hard light and adjusted the opacity.

5. keep adding as many layers as you need to until your gif looks right? i ended up adding a white outline with a stroke and that's pretty much it. if you have any questions, pls lmk! and ignore how ugly this is, i just literally grabbed the last gif i saw and went to town

i hope this helped!! also i wanna add, you should ask @pietro-maximoff for some tips. they make some amazing ass graphic gifs

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Absolutely!!! So much fun!

Hey! Absolutely loved the long haul (proposal au)!!! Can I be added to the tag list for the new one with unsub reader and unsub Hotch??? Been dying to read something like this! I found one a month or so ago with them as an unsub couple and then I forgot who wrote it and what it was called and lost it!!! Anyway, looking so forward to this next one!!!!!!!

yes absolutely!! and i’m so happy you liked the long haul! it was a lot of fun for me to write so if you guys had as much fun as i did that’s all that matters :))

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You’ve heard of

Netflix And Chill

Now get ready for

Sleep Deprivation And Fanfiction ™

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katherine blower ghosts

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Team: *being annoying*

Hotch: sometimes I wish I was an octopus, so I could slap eight people at once.