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My dr friends and their literary aesthetics ✨

[Redacted] irl #1 🦁

Ardal O'Gadhra 🦁

[Redacted] irl #2 🦁

Clare Milburn 🦡

Aurora 'Rory' Laurenson 🦡

Matilda 'Matty' Long 🦁

Fenton 'Tony' Weasley 🦁

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3 tips for all my adhd shifters trying to learn how to meditate <3

1. Listen. To. Music. And it doesn't have to be calming instrumental music (that almost always has the opposite effect on me). Make it loud and as brash as you want- give your brain something to gnaw on - and bonus points if it includes a beat drop because you can time it to coincide with your exhaling.

2. Speaking of exhaling, do 4,7,8 breathing to the beat of the first couple of songs (I'd reccomend these songs to be more reminiscient of what you would listen to in your dr than songs that remind you of the process of shifting.) This is the perfect concentration game for those of us who need something to focus hard on in order to relax. As you progress in the song your breathing will be out of sync with the downbeat forcing yourself to concentrate hard on counting. I find this super satisfying, especially when your exhale eventually converges again with the downbeat after a couple rounds of breathing. After doing this for as long as I like, I move onto songs more 'shifting coded' - ie end of beginning by djo - and freestyle my breathing, inhaling, holding and exhaling when I want to. (I like to exhale on shifting coded lyrics.)

3. The most crucial point of all: do all this sat up. I enjoy sitting cross legged on my bed with my arms on my knees, lotus style. You can lean against something if it's more comfortable for you but I find the ever so slight discomfort of trying to sit up straight gives me something more to focus on. Plus that moment when you relieve the slight ache by eventually lying down is so bone deep relaxing. I really struggle with lying still on my back when I'm not relaxed because I don't get enough feedback from my body and I imagine other ADHDers may relate (and hopefully benefit from this advice.) Sitting this way and doing this deep breathing makes me feel super light and floaty and my eyes naturally roll up into my head, all indicators of deep relaxation (and hopefully a precursor to the void!)

Well that's just my thoughts after my first time succesfully meditating for longer than 5 minutes, all because I chose to sit up and listen to some music. I hope it helps someone :)

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My 2025 Shifting Resolutions

Study pranayama and other yogic practices

Study meditation in general

Fix my sleep schedule - with improved sleep hygiene and regular exercise - in order to give myself consistent sleep phases for wb2b

Dress more like my wizarding world dr self

Actively attempt to shift at least 5/7 days of the week (instead of muttering i intend to shift before rolling over and sleeping)

Keep a shifting/meditation/dream diary

Shift

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Okay so if i add two hours to each day, one on esch side of noon, that amounts to 30 extra days except they're hours I'm definitely awake so if i wanted to tack on extra days and keep the 24 hours it would be more like an extra 45 days? Which could be split into two short months or indeed just extra days on my favourite months 15 extra days in september, december and march 👀 hmm much to think about

Is anybody else toying with the idea of scripting in extra hours in the day? Like i want to be a part of a billion extra curriculars including being head of drama club, take 6 NEWTs, be a prefect/subject champion/tutor, be a member of the quidditch team and all the while still have time left over for dicking about with my friends and reading a whole load of books.

Hmm now I've laid it all out like that I'm definitely going to do it.

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Is anybody else toying with the idea of scripting in extra hours in the day? Like i want to be a part of a billion extra curriculars including being head of drama club, take 6 NEWTs, be a prefect/subject champion/tutor, be a member of the quidditch team and all the while still have time left over for dicking about with my friends and reading a whole load of books.

Hmm now I've laid it all out like that I'm definitely going to do it.

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Me at the people in my DR because I've completely changed all of their original fates for the better

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some of y’all will dead ass spend 36 hours creating a script but then give up in 36 seconds when it actually comes to shifting.

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#shiftmas2024 Day Four : Sledding 🛷

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What does a hang out with your friend group look like? Where do you go? Who is your friend group?

Answering for my wizarding world dr

Who?

Irl #1 code name: Vanessa 🦁 bestie <3 manchester . pureblood . history & herbology

Irl #2 code name: Dory 🦁 my hometown . halfblood . history & divination

Ardal O'Ghadra 🦁 bestie <3 boyle . newblood . history & potions

Fenton 'Tony' Weasley 🦁 ottery st c . pureblood . charms & muggle studies

Matilda 'Matty' Long 🦁 the wirrel . halfblood . dada & astronomy

Clare Milburn 🦡 middlesbrough . muggleborn . transfig & cmc

Aurora 'Rory' Laurenson 🦡 lerwick . pureblood . charms & runes

What?

Depends who I'm with but I'm attached by the hip to Vanessa to the extent that people ask where she is if she's not there beside me. When not studying or at drama club, we spend a lot of time either chatting about academia and politics, singing along to musicals, hiking all over the hills in search of rare plants or just enjoying each other's company reading in silence, often on either of our beds in the dorm.

I also share a dorm with Dory who is quiet but with a dry sense of humour and she's an incredible artist. We often write and draw together in companiable silence or we yap to each other about our respective special interests (hers being wizard chess). We grew up together and just get each other <3

Ardal and I are also inseparable, we both speak irish and are druids so we have a lot of shared culture which bonded us as first years. We both make each other laugh so much and he helps me not take life/my studies too seriously. We like to hike to the druid temple in Hogswater, sing together in folk club and listen to our favourite shows on the radio in laundry rooms.

Alongside myself, Vanessa and Ardal, Clare is also in drama club with us and the funniest person I know. The three of us write sketches together and will form a comedy writing trio once we finish Hogwarts. She is also a football fan and we like to watch matches in the room of requirement or listen to games on the radio, as well as playing pick up games by the lake when the weather is good.

Being friends with Clare brought me closer to her best friend Rory who loves flying more than anything else and we like to fly over the Hogsmeade nature reserve as a group, Vanessa the only one who doesn't have a broom because it would just end in disaster. Me and Rory just like chatting to each other and doing various hobbies in companiable silence, often in each other's dorm rooms or atop the Astronomy tower on warm clear nights. These talks in the tower lead to us dating and our dates largely consist of walking and a meal afterwards. Occasionally I'll bring her to a muggle place like an arcade or ice rink and she will show me up having learnt to skate on the lakes at home.

Matty is another roommate and also on the quidditch team. She and Rory bond over their mutal love of flying, hard rock and stargazing. Her best friend is Tony Weasley, quidditch obsessed and rarely found inside the library. The two of them are pretty inseparable and often seen with Ardal (they are roommates plus Ardal carries a torch).

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I'm glad shifting is a largely female practice because the horrors men would inflict on women on an infinite interdimensional scale do not bear thinking about

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My most controversial marauders opinion is that Remus does not listen to the Smiths.

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"all you need to do to shift is just SHIFT"

WOAH. OH MY GOD. REALLY. NO FUCKING SHIT. ITS REALLY THAT EASY?? WOW WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT.

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I saw an image of a stag behind my eyes this morning and then had a vivid dream about the marauders.. so there wass that woo

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I'm a werewolf in my marauders dr 🙈

we listen and we don’t judge: SHIFTING EDITION !!

ill go first, i actually dgaf if you script a different age for yourself. Literally who the fuck cares??????????

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me everynight

(Img made by me<3)

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- cr distressing me

- sister asks what I want

- whisper 'to shift'

- looks at clock

- 21:21

- feeling of deep peace overcomes me

- i will shift tonight

- and i do want egg and chips

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shiftmas2024 Day Three: Eggnogg 🥛

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Talk about some drama in your dr

Answering for my main 4 drs:

Wizarding World dr

Okay so interpersonal drama wise there is not much apart from the usual good side/bad side hostilities that despite being 20 years on from the war still cause divides at Hogwarts.

But there is a lot of political drama happening oof. Kingsley stepped down as minister in 2016 after having gutted the Wizengamot and installing a parliamentary system instead to begrudging approval from all sides. However the minister elected in 2017 created another wizengamot in everything but its name and tensions from the war are resurfacing politically for the first time in years.

Not helping matters is a fringe lightside group that want to abolish the statute of secrecy in it's entirety- the reasoning being muggles are unduly suffering without magical help which like..yes true I'm a druid part of our tradition is helping the non magical but their plans are to tear up the statute and appear to muggles as some sort of godly benefactors which is uhh not how I'd do it.

Adding fuel to the fire is the installation of a muggle (not muggleborn but full blown muggle) muggle studies teacher at Hogwarts (this is happening as I'm going into 5th year which is when i plan to shift oof). I've scripted she is a fantastic teacher who absolutely revolutionises muggle studies at Hogwarts and I plan on having a good relationship with her so I'll have a front row seat to whatever unfolds.

PJO/White Vault dr

No drama man we're too busy trying to not be killed by my mother or the primordial beings who are trying to kill her.

Marauders dr

I haven't scripted out the prank so uhh yeah. That'll be a time. (Oh and also I'm going to get bit saving snape..)

Marscorp dr

I have not scripted this dr at all other than I get woken up some time after the Mr Velvet incident (because Hobb wants a scientist on hand who wasn't involved in a plot to have dominion over a parallel reality) but I might try and date Hobb so the drama of fighting over her with Eric will be not fun.

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shiftmas2024 Day Two: Gingerbread

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What does your house look like in your dr? Who do you live with? What is your favourite aspect of your house?

Answering for my main 4 drs:

Wizarding world

When I'm not at Hogwarts, I live in a druidic village in this dr so the houses are all covered in foliage, the architectural style is as if the houses are growing out of the hillside and we share a communal garden along the span of the lake. The house has 3 floors: my sister's room making up the 2nd floor; my dad's study, mum's music room, our kitchen, dining room and living room all being on the first floor; and my room, my parent's room, our conservatory and a pantry making up the ground floor.

It's incredibly cosy and filled with each occupants personality, with lots of wood and colourful furnishings. Stained glass windows decorate the front door and the bedroom walls and book cases line the stairwells. More book cases can be found in my room and in my dad's study. Druidic houses are built to maximise sunlight and every room aside from the kitchen and conservatory has a fire place, so the house is always alight and filled with warmth.

I live with my older sister and my parents however it is common for us to have family and friends round.

My room is probably my favourite part as it is so heavily personalised and it is much bigger than the box room I currently have. The ceiling is covered in a mural of waterfowl (my special interest in every reality <3) and water beasts such as plimpys, a corner of my room is dedicated to a small library (complete with comfy armchair), my bed is in a cosy nook and I have a fireplace in the centre of my room to keep me comfortable. I also have a door directly leading to the garden in my dr so I can get up and play early morning quidditch.

Marauders dr

When I'm not at Hogwarts, I live in a small terraced house in my dad's hometown.

Again, I live with my parents and my sister.

My favourite thing about the house will be the large fireplace in the living room and how, in order to fit everybody when family are visiting, the teenagers have to huddle around it on the floor.

PJO/White Vault

I scripted we live in St Johns for this dr and I'm imagining one of those colourful houses in downtown St John's like these bad boys.

I live with my dad and older sister in this reality, although my dad's job requires him to be away at sea for weeks at a time so sometimes it's just the two of us. Further, my sister often stays over with friends at uni so occasionally its just me and my dad or me by myself.

My favourite part of the house is my room at the top of the house which gives me access to the skylight and I can climb up onto the roof.

Marscorp dr

I live on the marscorp base in this dr so I don't technically have a house just quarters and as I have no family in this dr it's just a singular room.

I imagine it like this except instead of plants that part is a small seating area with a table and the rooms are a bit brighter.

I live alone in this dr.

My favourite part is the window next to my bed where I can look out onto Mars.