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[museyourmarbles]

@oldmaqic liked for plotting.

This school year had been particularly extraordinaire, and one unlike Eleazar had ever experienced in nearly seventy-two years in the wizarding community. As a Professor at Hogwarts, he often took exceptional students under his wing over the years, mentoring them. Honing them into their particular skills. However, none of them were quite like Hina. She was something special. Not only did she have the ability to manipulate ancient magic but she was also brave and adventurous which were traits he had admired about her since first meeting her. That had seemed like such a long time ago now.

The dragon attack, Gringots, the trials in the map chamber, and now the battle in the keeper cavern. He was determined to win. For them to win. Ready to keep Hina safe. He knew she could save the wizarding world from all Ranrocks evil even if it meant he had to face his fateful end. And he was sure he had.

Everything went black.

"We aren't sure when he'll wake up." The St. Mungo's nurse said, letting out a melancholy sigh. Visitors had came and gone for days now without any change for a week. Healing magic and potions were no match. "You should talk to him." the nurse said, pulling up an old wobbly chair next to his bedside before exiting.

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[ladybeug]

I drew the same comic twice because I didn't think the first one was funny enough. I don't know if the second comic is funnier though??

Here's both of them

Side by side because i couldn't decide which one to put first - knowing the punchline changes the experience?? pick your adventure. read either one first.

which ones funnier i honestly can't tell

[inkskinned]

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

[avoidcrowdraws]

Soft

[saltpepperbeard]

oh, don’t mind me, just thinking about-

-how stede tends to sleep on his back, which i’m pretty sure is just the biggest open invitation for ed to sleep cuddled up on his chest, snuggled impossibly close

[sefynarose]

oh he’s too cute when he’s pouting 🥺

[utilitycaster]

Ok re: the post about there not being queerphobia in Exandria, this also obviously applies to Candela Obscura, and this makes Leo's character extremely funny because Taliesin (actual queer person living in our real world) absolutely drew from the "confirmed bachelor" archetype in creating a gay man living modestly but not without style off a small trust fund (not a confirmed bachelor, perhaps but there's some Prior Walter vibes here for sure). However, often this sort of character is a disappointment to his wealthy family because he's gay, and that's not why Leo is a disappointment; he is just unemployed by choice and a massive bitch.

[cryptocism]

i just think he could be kinda goth or something yknow

[homoeroticgrappling]

He ain't slick, I saw what it said before he edited it

I will now be overthinking about this until Saturday

[fancifulpurposelesslovely]

Captain Tevari az-Haffār’s coat, hand embroidered with Nightingale silk. Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland.

[museyourmarbles]

@familyname

To Sebastian horror, his best friend Ominis (and possibly his only friend) had picked Anne, his twin sister, to study for Defense against the dark arts with. Although it wasn’t a big surprise because last week he complained about Sebastian’s strong interest in the subject. Swearing, he would not encourage the behavior. However, the sass from his friend wasn’t enough to stop him. 

Nevertheless, he looked around the room looking for a new study partner. First spotting Imeida Reye’s a fellow Slyterin, absolutely not he thought to himself. She had little patience for people like Sebastian who didn’t take things seriously. He scanned the room once more, finally landing on Lucius Malfoy. He would certainly do. He was a fellow Slyterin which was a plus. And more so he had incredible wand work in DADA class.

He walked over, taking a seat next to the icy blonde haired boy. “ Would you want to study together?” He asked in a non-chalent tone.

[corpsentry]

eulogy

[respectthepetty]

Warning: I'm about to be real crazy about Wandee Goodday's eighth episode.

BECAUSE WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING WITH THE COLORS?!

I knew love was coming because of pink = 💕love💕 but they are framed in purple

Because their colors are purple and yellow!*

Yak's color is yellow.

Not brown.

YELLOW!

And Dee's color is purple

So why do I keep getting attacked by this damn blue!

It's purple, Dee!

It's yellow, Yak!

So why can y'all not get your shit together?!

Why am I seeing these fake colors?!

Why can we not figure this out?!

WHAT IS WITH THIS FUCKING BLUE?!

And that damn brown?!

Next week, Dee is going to call out Yak for not being himself.

And they are going to end up in a space that fits both of them

So after that, can we please stop with these fake colors?

Yak already said that he loves Dee, so it is about damn time for him to put on Yak's purple!

If the colors do not color the exact way I think they should, I will not enjoy this show any less because I am greatly enjoying it so far, but . . . either I see purple on Yak's body the next time they kiss on the lips or in the finale because if not, I'm going to turn into Miley Ray Cyrus and come in like a motherfucking wrecking ball to destroy EVERYTHING!

AHHHHHH!!!!!!

*I could be wrong. Their colors could be brown and blue. They could be bi-colored. Yeah, and Bojangles Bo-Berry Biscuit could not be the best biscuit that ever existed at any chicken joint. I'm always open to the possibility that I'm wrong about stuff. I don't think I have everything right all the time. I've been wrong before. This could be another instance of that. But if I'm wrong, then the whole team is wrong, and that seems . . . wrong.

We can't ALL be wrong?

[moderndaypandora]

jenny moves to london* and gets to find out how fucking expensive it is, even with the insurance from her butcher shop blowing up. she lands a job as a bartender in a pub because she does have customer service experience, and her willingness to intimidate belligerent drunks with a meat cleaver makes up for her generally abrasive personality.

"i thought americans are supposed to be smiley?" you thought wrong, motherfuckers, now order or leave.

she gets away with it because the pub owner seems to find her funny and said he has a soft spot for socially inept goths, they remind him of his boyfriend. pub owner's only his side gig, anyway. he's a professor or something at a local university. he's nice enough to drink with sometimes, and he's the most average guy she's ever met, outside of his name. what the fuck kind of nickname is hob, anyway? whatever. all that matters to jenny is he has zero contact with the paranormal at all, he's not interested in her romantically, and she can pay for her life in london**.

*with what visa? doesn't matter. that's a problem for show writers to actually solve or conveniently ignore in season 2. for the sake of excusing it in my own brain, she qualifies for a uk ancestry visa due to a single grandparent coming from the uk (gi bride in wwii?) and birthing one of her parents in a commonwealth country (canada) before the entire family emigrated to port townsend. **mostly. crystal's parents are unknowingly funding a 2-bedroom flat in north london only a 10 minute bus ride from the finsbury park station on the picadilly line. jenny would love to pretend she's too proud to let an infant pay her rent, but she doesn't lie to herself and london is almost unaffordable.

[43sol]

i can finally go back into the tiger and bunny tag ヽ(*。>Д<)o゜