#*it's been 84 years*

[userverstappen]

I needed that win… my soul needed to hear the Dutch anthem 😭🇳🇱🦁

[legilimenace]

⋆✴ HP: Merrick Brume ✴⋆

"'Congratulations, Captain' they said. Abney's dead. 'You just got promoted to Major.' What a bed of roses this has all turned out to be."

Name: Merrick Crispin Brume

Nicknames: Mack, Mackie, Broom

Name Meanings: Fame, Curly-haired, Mist

Birthdate: December 20, 1883

Nationality: Scottish

Gender: Male

Blood Status: Halfblood

Sexuality: Heterosexual

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⋆✴ Education ✴⋆

School: Hogwarts (Y1-6)

Merrick was never the best student when he was in school. In fact, he struggled a lot to keep up with his peers in the more academically dense disciplines. Transfiguration felt nearly impossible to wrap his head around, Potions and History of Magic were always lacking, and his patience tended to wane when confronted with plant care in Herbology even if he did enjoy the natural aspect. There were two areas, however, in which he managed to excel: Care of Magical Creatures, and Defense Against the Dark Arts. Merrick had always been fond of owls and other birds since he was young and while his education in magical creatures extended outside the realm of such animals, he enjoyed it nonetheless and often situated himself in the Owlry. In spite of his mediocre grades in the majority of subjects, though, he had come so close to graduating. A little more than a year and he would've had his certificate and a full NEWT grade card. That one year could've changed everything, but after falling out with his parents, he refused to go back.

House: Hufflepuff

Perhaps Merrick should've taken it as a sign of his family's lack of understanding for his nature that the only one who seemed certain that he'd end up in Hufflepuff was his brother. All others considered Gryffindor most likely, though his parents had still hoped for Ravenclaw. While they were not disappointed by his sorting, there did come with it a certain level of surprise as he wrote home to tell them of what had transpired. However, being encircled in the gentle golden hues of the Hufflepuff Common Room was never a sorry sight for him, and was in fact a comfort seldom found for him at Hogwarts.

Best Class: Care of Magical Creatures

Worst Class: Potions

Electives: N/A

Quidditch: Hufflepuff Keeper

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⋆✴ Magic ✴⋆

Wand: Blackthorn wand with a Dragon Heartstring core, 11" and rigid flexibility

It was a curious feature of the blackthorn bush, which sported wicked thorns, that it produced its sweetest berries after the hardest frosts, and the wands made from this wood appeared to need to pass through danger or hardship with their owners to become truly bonded. Given this condition, the blackthorn wand would become as loyal and faithful a servant as one could wish.

Boggart: His brother's body, twisted and bloodied

Riddikulus: A large, flapping owl with a comical, exaggeratedly large beak, squawking in a ridiculous, high-pitched voice

Patronus: Incorporeal wisps

Amortentia (how he smells): A mix of earthy and spicy scents—wet leaves, burning wood, coffee grounds, and ale

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⋆✴ Physical ✴⋆

Height: 5'11"

Body build: Lean but wiry

Eye color: Brown, with the faintest hint of gold around the iris

Skin tone: Pale

Hair: Red, thick, and tousled with a slightly darker undertone. Often messy.

Voice: Gravelly with a rough edge that becomes more pronounced after a few drinks. There’s a certain terse authority to his voice, even in casual conversation that can make even the kindest of words seem more demanding than intended.

Face claim: Scott Grimes

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⋆✴ Persona ✴⋆

Personality traits: Responsible, blunt, tenacious, compassionate, observant, supportive, crass, loyal, overcommitted, non-judgmental, protective, unyielding, patient

Food: Comfort foods like meat pies, hearty stews, and anything that reminds him of home. He’s always had a soft spot for muggle pastries.

Likes: Coffee, owls and other birds, muggle radio, holidays (for the festivity or an excuse to get hammered? we'll never know), local markets, quiet nights

Dislikes: Purebloods & blood purists, arrogance, stale biscuits, youth fatalities

⋆✴ Habits ✴⋆

Spending habits: He's not particularly wealthy and tends to live frugally

Smokes: Yes

Drinks: Yes

Mannerisms: Often fidgets with his jacket collar when anxious. He’s also known for cracking his knuckles during tense moments.

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⋆✴ Timeline ✴⋆

Grew up in Scotland in a wizard household that tried to uphold certain standards of "class" and purity

Left home at 16 after a very contentious fight with his parents about his prospects in the wizarding world and their own perception of wizard supremacy

Having very few prospects in the muggle world and even fewer in the wizarding world, he enlisted in the Army at 18 after his brother died and severed nearly all ties to magic

Ended up joining the OTC later on and became a "career soldier"

During the early stages of the Great War received an owl from his sister-in-law imploring him to join the Owl Airforce

Aids the Airforce in his "off" periods

Rose through the ranks in the army and after his superior was blown up by a mine amidst the ongoing Great War, was promoted to major.

Ended up taking a bullet through the helmet in the late winter of 1917, never seeing the end to the war.

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⋆✴ Relationships ✴⋆

Mother: Elspeth Brume (née Thorn)

She rests firmly entrenched in her belief in the importance of maintaining family "honor" and status within the wizarding community.

Father: Abelard Brume

A distant and emotionally cold man, whose harsh expectations pushed Merrick into a strained relationship. Abelard had strong blood purist tendencies but kept them subtly hidden under a mask of propriety.

Brother: Hadrian Brume

It was hard being the focus of the family's affections—or so Merrick imagined. Hadrian always seemed to have a leg up on him but he was thankfully never an ass about it; they probably wouldn't have been as close as they were if he had been. He died younger than he should've while out on an auror mission, only a couple of years after Merrick left home. It was a grief worse felt than that of separating from his parents.

Sister-in-law: Josephine Brume

Merrick always found Jo to be a bit too uptight and judgemental. Yet love was love, and he couldn't fault his brother for who he chose as his wife. He could secretly fault him though for transfering a misplaced kind of duty of care onto himself after Hadrian's death. She was the sister he never wanted but nonetheless was compelled to look after (even if it was as sparingly as he could swing it without a guilty conscience). After Merrick joined the army, they spoke even less, and the next time they caught up wouldn't be until she was trying to recruit him to the Owl Airforce.

⋆✴ Relationships with Others ✴⋆

Best friend(s): -

Friend(s): -

Enemies: -

Acquaintances: -

Love interest(s): Corrine Lovette (courtesy of @endlessly-cursed )

How does one come to define the fury and solace rapt in her company? Merrick's relationship with Corrine has always been a complicated one to say the least—undefinable, raw, but ever-present. They initially started off on shaky ground, for in Merrick's eyes there was little justification for women to be entangled in such a gruesome war (there might've hardly been one for the men either). It was perhaps a cruel trick of fate that their paths continued to cross. Bickering turned to banter, and then back to bickering, but quiet nights with a drink in either hand had a way to soften the noise and bring a comfort otherwise unknown to him. In the quiet moments between the two of them, he was gentle. Yet while the war may have brought them together, it likewise fizzled the flames between them into shallow embers as his death denied them any true peacetime reconciliation.

Child: Griffin Oren Lovette

A son he would never know...

[teddums]

[bacchuschucklefuck]

summer of junior year 06/11

[frenchublog]

🦀x🤖 Part1

[beaulesbian]

RUNAAN & ETHARI IN THE DRAGON PRINCE 3.03 » 7.04

I made you a promise.

[tizzymcwizzy]

well what am i supposed to do now?

[ruubesz-draws]

Godzilla GIJINKA!!!!! (Finally)

I'm trying different ways to add colour to these drawings Failed miserably... :')

I redesigned Mothra and Scylla. Shimo and Tiamat were fun to design!

I'm also going to post the full profile/infos about my gijinkas later too (Hopefully soon)

[cultven]

i fear my will graham obsession will never dissipate

[nibeul]

clone force 99

(chapter 1 of my rewrite)

[id: it’s a drawing of the Bad Batch heads stacked together going Echo, Tech, Hunter, Crosshair, and Wrecker from bottom to top. Echo is wearing the cybernetic headpiece and modified arc armor with dual pauldrons. He is depicted with duller brown skin, burn scars that cover half of his face, some short hair, and a bit of facial hair. Tech, who is drawn with brown skin, reddish orange hair and a scar on his cheek, is wearing his usual light grey armor and black goggles. Hunter, also depicted with brown skin and his bandana, is wearing his dark grey armor, as is Crosshair, who is drawn as albino with freckles concentrated on his cheeks and forehead, and Wrecker, who is drawn with brown skin, rounder features, and a scar that starbursts from his left ear, which has partially melted. /end id]

[buffysummers]

When you love something, you'll spend your whole life trying to understand it.

TWISTERS (2024) dir. Lee Isaac Chung

[obiwan]

#S2 of Loki annoying Mobius <3 

[qweenofurheart]

jason! ☺️

[h0rsegirlpercy]

Just realized that when I first read TLT I was younger than Percy and now watching the show I’m close to Grover’s actual age

[ashwii]

The moon's not fond of so many eyes on him today, he's used to the people being asleep when he's out. It's okay tho, the sun's there to give him hugs during the total -w-

[sketchy-tour]

"Ah. Welcome back, neighbor."