#4th is a barn owl

[cinderduck]

Our party has a deck of "Bearot Cards" with owlbears instead of people. I fell in love and drew some out!

[chaysreality222]

Introduction to my Hogwarts Dr Self!

hey guys, it's c! in this post i'll be introducing you to myself in my hogwarts dr :) i feel it will give you guys a more in depth of my hogwarts dr. to put it out there to not confuse anyone, i have not yet shifted to this dr. i merely want to share about it so that when i do shift, you guys have some backstory <3

my time ratio is 1 hr = 1 week. i'll be shifting to 4th year- a little before 4th year technically. my first day will be the day of the quidditch world cup which is also the day of my birthday! i'll wake up on an early morning at my house by my s/o (i scripted in my irl boyfriend!!). i made my bf a potter meaning he'd be harry's older brother (also because when he wears glasses i and other people say he looks like harry potter).

ps: i am shifting for the plot but i've changed it a little bit and have included myself in the story instead of fully making myself the main character. meaning i don't want to take harry's place but always somehow be connected to the things that happen.

introduction + backstory

name: c(real name) authorne-lestrange hogwarts house: hufflepuff year: 4th blood status: pureblood patronus: a dragon wand type: 13 in. Ebony wood intertwined with silver, glistening unicorn hair

backstory: so in my dr, i am the daughter of leta lestrange. due to the lestrange reputation, she wants me to go by the last name authorne which was supposedly my father's name who has passed long before i was born. also so that it would make it hard for voldemort and the other death eaters to find me, due to my mother making an unbreakable vow that she and i would be by voldemorts side when the time was right. trying to imply that it's the destiny for all lestrange to serve voldemort. leta has constantly thought of any and all loop holes out of the vow. she doesn't want that life for me and so she got dumbledore to take me in at hogwarts thinking i'll be safer there.

disclaimer: i understand that the timeline between fantastic beasts and when harry exists is like a 70 year long stretch but i'm shifting to a reality to where she is alive to be my mum.

my house

located: cambridge, england exact address: unknown

here are some pics of the house! go to my pinterest board to see more details or rooms of the house to get a better look. of course, the middle photo is my bedroom where i'll be first waking up in my dr! i'm really excited to wake up there and take a look around. i'm also excited to be here on break or holidays!

you may have some questions on why the address is unknown. i scripted it to be like that because i felt that's something leta would do to keep me safe. also adding to the fact, i scripted she placed a protective barrier around the whole property that leads anyone who's looking in from the outside to hear nothing and see nothing but a thick forest.

my pets

their names are soren and sage! soren is my male barn owl and sage is my female cat. i'm allergic in my cr so i scripted that out so i can experience having a cat lol. i just had an idea that maybe i should script that sage fly's around on sorens back?? imagine how cute that would be.

my dorm at hogwarts

so i scripted that i have a personal dorm there at hogwarts and honestly, i'm kinda in love with the room and bathroom <3 as you guys can see here, i have a pics of my dorm! the first image, that door is the entrance into my room and then the second door in my third image is the door to my bathroom. for the last image, i added one pic of how my bathroom looks like.

i think that's pretty much it! i'm so excited to shift to my hogwarts desired reality and finally experience life as a wizard. i'm working on my shifting routine as of right now to help me get in the mood and get ready to shift! get ready for shifting storytimes <3 as always, Happy Shifting!

xoxo, c.

[an-ode-to-olives]

DEITY 101 : ATHENE

ATHENE [Αθηνη] Olympian goddess of good counsel, war, and crafts 🌿

EPITHETS ✴ Nike - victory ✴ Areia - warlike / of war ✴ Sthenias - Strong ✴ Hippia - of the horses ✴ Eryma - Defender ✴ Soteria - Saviour ✴ Alalcomeneis - Protectoress ✴ Paeonia - Healer ✴ Alea - Refuge ✴ Ambulia - Counsellor ✴ Apaturia - Deceiver ✴ Oxyderces - Sharp - sighted ✴ Coria - Maiden ✴ Xenia - Of hospitality ✴ Cissaea - Of the growing ivy ✴ Axiopoinos - Returning vengeance ✴ Mater - Mother ✴ Gigantoletis - Destroyer of giants ✴ Gorgolaphas - Gorgon crested DOMAINS ✴ Wisdom ✴ Good counsel ✴ War ✴ Defence of towns ✴ Heroic endeavours ✴ Weaving ✴ Pottery

DEVOTIONAL ACTS ✴ Engaging in crafts like weaving, pottery, and crochet ✴ Invest in your education ; do you homework, study ✴ Advocate for those in need ✴ Learn self defence ✴ Play strategy games (board games, chess, cluedo)

FAMILY AND ATTENDANTS ✴ Parents: Zeus and Metis ✴ Consorts: None ✴ Hero children: Erichthonius of Athens

ASSOCIATIONS ✴ Symbol(s): Shield ; Spear ; Aegis ; War helm ✴ Plants: Olive trees ; Ivy ; Cypress ✴ Animals: Owls (Barn owls) ; Snakes ; Rooster ; Crow ; Spiders ✴ Colors: Gold ; Blue (upg) ✴ Tarot cards : Justice ; Temperance (upg) ; The high priestess ; The emperor ✴ Planet and Day: N/A

HOMERIC HYMN

Homeric Hymn 11 to Athena (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) : "Of Pallas Athena, guardian of the city, I begin to sing. Dread is she, and with Ares she loves the deeds of war, the sack of cities and the shouting and the battle. It is she who saves the people as they go to war and come back. Hail, goddess, and give us good fortune and happiness!"

Homeric Hymn 39 to Athena : "I begin to sing of Pallas Athena, the glorious goddess, bright-eyed, inventive, unbending of heart, pure virgin, saviour of cities, courageous, Tritogeneia. From his awful head wise Zeus himself bare her arrayed in warlike arms of flashing gold, and awe seized all the gods as they gazed. But Athena sprang quickly from the immortal head and stood before Zeus who holds the aegis, shaking a sharp spear: great Olympos began to reel horribly at the might of the grey-eyed goddess, and earth round about cried fearfully, and the sea was moved and tossed with dark waves, while foam burst forth suddenly: the bright Son of Hyperion [Helios the Sun] stopped his swift-footed horses a long while, until the maiden Pallas Athena had stripped the heavenly armour from her immortal shoulders. And wise Zeus was glad. Hail to you, daughter of Zeus who holds the aigis!"

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[alder-saan]

After reading the first book of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar children, I imagined an oc.

Now I've read the 4th book.

AND WHY DOES MY OC LOOK LIKE A FEM MISS CUCKOO? (with Vitiligo)

(this is a version of her as a dnd character, but yeah)

(She's a trans woman ymbryne who comes from the Arapaho people but grew up in England because of reasons, her bird is a Barn owl)

(Her name is Shee, her last name is Barn)

(Because Barn Shee) (Banshee)

[bestshipsmackdown]

Ships 100% Going into the Bracket:

[I will be checking spellings at a later point, as well as ages and familial relations. So as long as everyone followed directions, these will be going into the bracket.]

With Nine Submissions:

Kim Dokja x Yoo Joonghuyk from Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint

With Eight Submissions:

Percy Jackson x Annabeth Chase from The Percy Jackson Series

Gideon Nav x Harrowhark Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb Series

Yang Xiao Long x Blake Belladonna from RWBY

With Seven Submissions:

Adora x Catra from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

@bracket-bracket x @thecompetitionshowdowntournament x @ultimate-poll-tournament from tumblr.com

Evan Buckley x Eddie Diaz from 911

With Six Submissions:

Fred Jones x Daphne Blake x Velma Dinkley x Norville “Shaggy” Rogers from Scooby-Doo

Luz Noceda x Amity Blight from The Owl House

Lance x Keith from Voltron: Legendary Defender

With Five Submissions

Marinette Dupain-Cheng[Ladybug] x Adrien Agreste[Chat Noir] from Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir [Miraculous Ladybug]

Kazuki Kurusu x Rei Suwa from Buddy Daddies

With Four Submissions

Jack Harkness x Rose Tyler x The Ninth Doctor from Doctor Who

Link x Zelda from The Legend of Zelda

Eda Clawthorne x Raine Whispers from The Owl House

Phoenix Wright x Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney

Hiyori Suzumi x Yujiro Someya x Aizo Shibasaki from Honeyworks

Naruto Uzumaki x Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto

Nomi Marks x Amanita Caplan from Sense8

Mike Wheeler x Will Byers from Stranger Things

Nancy Wheeler x Robin Buckley from Stranger Things

With Three Submissions

Laura Moon x Mad Sweeney from American Gods

Caitlyn Kiramann x Vi from Arcane

Troy Barnes x Abed Nadir from Community

Imogen Temult x Laudna from Critical Role

Edward Nygma x Oswald Cobblepot from Gotham

Will Solace x Nico Di Angelo from Heroes of Olympus

Hikaru Indou x Yoshiki Tsukajinaka from Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu

Will Parry x Lyra Silvertongue from His Dark Materials

Rose Lalonde x Kanaya Maryam from Homestuck

Gon Freecss x Killua Zoldyck from Hunter x Hunter

Dustfinger x Resa from Inkheart

Gimli x Legolas from Lord of the Rings

Merlin x Arthur Pendragon from Merlin

Bakugou Katsuki x Todoroki Shouto from Boku No Hero Academia[My Hero Academia]

Todoroki Touya[Dabi] x Takami Keigo[Hawks] from Boku No Hero Academia[My Hero Academia]

KJ Brandman x Mac Coyle from Paper Girls

Perfuma x Scorpia from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Reki Kyan x Langa Hasegawa from Sk8 the Infinity

Korra x Asami from The Legend of Korra

Dream x Hob from The Sandman

Enid Sinclair x Wednesday Addams from Wednesday

Buffy Summers x Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Caleb Widowgast x Essek Thelyss from Critical Role

Eddie Kaspbrak x Richie Tozier from It

Bugs Bunny x Daffy Duck from Looney Tunes

Magnus Chase x Alex Fierro from Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Bakugou Katsuki x Kirishima Eijirou from Boku No Hero Academia[My Hero Academia]

Dean Winchester x Castiel from Supernatural

Thats 49 ships guaranteed for entry into the bracket.

That leaves 15 ships to be added. It’s currently Sunday, so I will leave submissions open until Tuesday, April 4th at 11:59pm EST. With the likelihood of needing more ships to qualify, a few preliminary rounds will take place using ships that only have 2 submissions each. Those will commence after submissions have closed.

The ships listed above do not need any more submissions to qualify, so send in propaganda for ships you don’t see!

[lucigoo]

Weekly Roundup: 4th Feb - 11th Feb 24

I thought it was Saturday. It snot and ive lost a day soomewhere..... Never mind i guess. So ive written 23,644 words this week, with 6 fics posted this week too. But first, rec's as always. We have:

“I’zigh ‘Akshith” (War Surprise) - Ticklesivory @tickles-ivory (Bilbo/Thorin, the slow burn is beautiful and the idea is so clever and unique imo)

327 Blossom Street - Ticklesivory (Bilbo/Thorin, Tickles does modern Bagginshield so well)

Slow Dance: A Bagginshield SMAU - Ticklesivory (Bilb/Thorin, Modern dau social media fic, its awesome)

The Bunny Saga - alkjira - The Hobbit (Bilbo/Thorin, its so cute and clever) sway through the crowd (to our empty space) - littleoldrachel @littleoldrachel(Sirius/Remus, Autistic, trans Remus and dancer on Stirctly Sirius, watch the tags but its amazing!)

Of Bookshelves and Baby Carriers - poppunkpadfoot (StormVandal) - (Sirius/Remus, Wolfstar raising Harry is one of my fav tropes. muggle Au) Hope you like one of the 6 <3

Now for my fics, 1) “How rare and beautiful it truly is that you existed, and that you existed with me, for me - So, sad Bilbo, canon compliant and he is an old hobbit. I worte a peom for it .... 2) Dwarven Tickles make Hobbits Prickle (and cry) - Bilbo/Thorin woth little Frodo. Part of my Bagginshield-tober series from @smolestboop's prompts in October (im getting there lol) 3) Only me in the limelight - - gen fic, watch the tags. It was publihed before, but as part of the comfort zone fest it was revealed this week. 4) Hoot like a Barn Owl - Another part for my Bagignshield-tober series, this one is just pure fluff. 5) Are you a werewolf? - James/Regulus, this is E, and part of the @hpknotfest 6) Is part of the Tolkein Slashy Valentines Fest, so whilst I posted it, it wont be revealed until Valentines day. So, thats this weeks fic, enjoy and have a good one 🧡

[drowned-hubris]

Niche topic but kelbris’s 4th form is (an ugly) barn owl

[birlwrites]

hi just wanted to say that i love heather brown. tell me about heather brown. if you want to. <3

HEATHER!!!!!!!

i'm just going to say random facts about her afjlskghljksdf, some of these may be things i've said before but who cares, LETS GO

so, she's the middle child, the only girl, and the only slytherin among her siblings - she has an older brother rowan, who's heir to house brown, a former gryffindor who graduated at the end of heather's 4th year (so, reg was in 3rd year). she also has a younger brother linden, who's going to start hogwarts this fall and go to gryffindor. gryffindor is a common house for the browns - they have kind of an even mix of the other houses, when someone does get sorted into another house

(side note, heather's younger brother is going to be in the same year as the eldest of priam's younger siblings - his sister is going to go into ravenclaw though)

she loves pink because a) she loves it and b) she associates it with things like sunset clouds and other things that are both soft and fun, like cotton candy, except not because cotton candy is the american term, but u know. it's basically her comfort color lmao. it's her go-to in any situation and like, Her Color

and heather genuinely loves being around people - she thinks people are fascinating, she loves figuring out what makes them tick, she's very chatty and it's a good thing she and regulus have never tried to study together because they'd drive each other bonkers, what with heather keeping up a steady stream of Unrelated Talking and regulus responding with monosyllables if at all. she's bored and he can't focus. hell. (but that's why heather does most of her schoolwork in the slytherin common room - she gets to hang out with her friends as she does it, and also chances are high of priscilla parkinson appearing, aka heather's favorite cat)

priscilla is not heather's favorite ANIMAL because heather has a beloved barn owl named thistle, who has been very helpful to the plot, but thistle doesn't really hang out in the dungeons so

her birthday is december 1, i feel like i've mentioned that before but i'm saying it again - it renders her birthday Very close to evan's, which i didn't plan and am actually only realizing now ajfhglkjdf. such is life, i don't think that'll affect the plot so we carry on

she has a generally solid relationship with her immediate family - they keep in touch during the school year and like, spend time with each other over the summers and all that jazz. her mom is first cousins with arnold macmillan's dad. heather is capable of getting along with arnold, but he's a very straightforward person, so she kind of picked him apart long ago and there's no more puzzle to be had there, which means she's kind of whatever about him

the browns are the highest-ranked non-dark family in the sacred 28 (which tells you how much the dark families DOMINATE). they and the weasleys are the only non-dark noble and anciente families, and the weasleys basically don't count, so. heather's not on regulus's level, but nobody is.

she tends to run cold and has Many blankets in her room, which she will either use as a cape or put over her lap when she's in the dungeons - she can cope without them, but like, why be uncomfortable when you could be comfortable. (priam is also an option for Heat Source afjslghjskf)

she loves sour candy - anything that's a combination of sour and sweet really

and she's in slytherin because she is very good at piecing together how to get what she wants!

[andramariestudio]

Allll done! I would absolutely love to get all of these turned into water bottle stickers. But that would be a too expensive for me right now and also I don't think there would be a demand for 19 different colored barn owl stickers. I already have several barn owl stickers in my shop!

Though it would help me reach my abstract goal of having an etsy shop with the most owl water bottle stickers... Anyway I'm going to just pick maybe 2 for now. The 4th one from the top right is my favorite so I might go for that one.

[seedsinmygarden]

Amoria Dovah, the Dragonologist

“I’m like the crazy old lady with a lot of cats, but instead of cats, it’s dragons!”

Basic Information

Identifying Gender/Species: Cisgender Human Female, she/her pronouns.

Birthdate: Unknown Month/Date, 1874

Blood Status: Pureblood

Wand: Classic design, Grey-Brown color. Acacia wood, dragon heartstring core, 13”, rigid flexibility.

Pets?: Barn owl named Orion.

Appearance

Height and Body Type: 5’8, she’s a tall girl! Hourglass figure body type.

Hair: Long white hair, pure like a blanket of snow.

Eyes: Deep purple eyes, like a bubbling potion.

Scars and Other Marks: Some scars, where they came from are not important. Some beauty marks on her chin and collarbone.

Clothing: The usual Slytherin uniform, with respect to the weather. Likes to shed everything down to the buttonup and roll up her sleeves often, though.

Personality

Super curious and adventerous!

Loves to sketch and sing.

A huge nerd. Will read everything in sight.

A foodie and loves to cook!

Also loves to take care of her hair. Her hair is her pride and joy. <3

Home Life

Birthplace: Unknown.

Birth Parents: Unknown.

Adopted?: Yes!

Adoptive Parents: Hugh and Freya Fawkes

Siblings?: (All Adoptive!) Two older brothers; Travis Fawkes and Liam Fawkes. Two younger sisters; Elena Fawkes. One younger brother; Ralph ��Ralphie” Fawkes. Since Amoria’s true birthday is unknown, she shares her birthday with Scarlet Fawkes, and the two jokingly call themselves the Fawkes twins.

Other Guardian Figures: Only the orphanage ladies up until she’s adopted by the Fawkes.

Places of Residence: Unknown up until she’s abandoned at the orphanage. Stays at the orphanage until she’s 11, which she gets a letter to Hogwarts and finds her home there. She still returns to the orphanage over the summers, but in the summer just after her 4th year, she gets news that she’s been adopted… by the Fawkes family! She joins them that summer, and has a home with them for as long as she’d like.

Hogwarts Life

House: Slytherin

Quidditch?: Nope.

Clubs: Tommy’s Game Club, Crossed Wands, Hogwarts Herald Newspaper

Other Activites: Loves hanging out with friends in Hogsmeade, sometimes joins Phil when he goes on adventures, and keeps up in her studies well.

Romance?: Has a couple crushes, and loves to experiment. Isn’t entirely looking for anything serious, but most certainly won’t mind. All in all, she just goes with the flow— if it feels right, it feels right.

Patronus: To be learned.

Animagus: To be learned.

Boggart: To be learned.

Amortentia: To be learned.

Trivia

Her name means “To be a descendant of dragons.”

Her magic is a deep purple color.

She knows her surname is Dovah because she was left with the family crest on her chest when she was abandoned.

[blueinkphantom]

Hello so I see you have demons please tell me about them I am a great enjoyer of demons what has driven you to insanities today

Hello, I have many demons, my main four being c!Dream, rivals duo, barn owls and the legend of zelda.

Owls have once more driven me to insanity because LOOK AT THEM CUTIES

Owls, especially barn owls are such fascinating animals

Demons got fed today especially by having two people im in a discord with draw barn owl hybrid c!Dream :D

Now because i already went on a small mini rant about owls in the other you get all the reasons why c!Dream and barn owl fits cause thats circled my brain again today (+ barn owl c!Dream scenarios i came up alongside a friend :D)

1st: one of the many owls under the barn owl family (also called family Tytonidae) is the Masked Owl. c!Dream wears a mask in many depictions and is also implied in canon to wear a mask.

2nd: a barn owl's facial disk is heart-shaped. c!Dream is very much filled with love alongside other emotions. Therefore i declare it to fit as well.

3rd: Barn Owls screech :D Unlike other owls that hoot, a barn owl can screech and it sounds fantastic (imagine barn owl c!Dream screeching like that while being tortured and unable to keep the sounds in anymore)

4th: Their flight is very very quiet, perfect for sneaking up on prey and enemies and thus also a perfect fit for c!Dream. (Imagine c!Dream using this to surprise c!Punz sometimes and in certain AUs c!Techno. partly testing how well they react to possible danger)

5th: Barn Owls like the western barn owl have their facial disk nearly completely white and that mixed with the black eyes look similar to dreams iconic smiley mask (minus the mouth)

6th: i love them both they are both perfect

7th: one nickname for barn owls is ghost owl cause their appearence is often viewed as ghostly. i have no clue how exactly this fits cdream but i just wanted to say it. (maybe because c!dream is in certain regards a ghost of his former self)

8th: look at barn owl babies. thats c!Dream as a kid

9th: look at these eastern barn owls in the dark. spooky :D (slightly) c!Dream-core (/hj)

10th: c!Dream deserves turning-head-270-degrees rights and as owls he gets that. it would be fun for c!sam to one day go check up on the prisoner close to the start of c!dream's imprisonment and demand c!dream to turn around to look at him, only for c!dream to just turn his head

11th: A barn owl's eyes are stuck in place in their head cause they arent balls like a human's eye balls. This is why to look at things, they turn their heads. (Really easy to restrict his vision by just tying his head down :D)

12th: i believe c!dream deserves to have wings and being a barn owl hybrid could give him wings

13th: imagine barn owl c!dream perching on his friend's shoulders and heads :D imagine c!sapnap specifically having a leather shoulder pad and gloves so it hurts him less when c!dream digs in a bit more with his claws. imagine c!sap still wearing it after all this time

14th: c!dream in a syndicate au with the plushies he got from c!techno that he claims to hate

15th: Owls are sometimes called the cats of the sky and c!dream is a catboy so another point

16th: babies (c!rivals duo as owls + yt dreamwastaken as barn owl + c!drunz as barn owls)

ive got more points but now my brain is just circling barn owl dream with nothing specific

(Imagine barn owl c!dream holding those he likes close to him with his wings. consider barn owl c!dream bringing food gifts to those he likes cause thats one of the ways owls show affection. imagine barn owl c!dream with dreggs. imagine little barn owl c!dream bobing his body up and down cause alert. imagine him meeting csap like that and sap assumes hes dancing. consider barn owl c!dream gettings his wings bound or clipped in prison. consider barn owl c!dream making nest out of blankets or other stuff and just grabbing c!punz and cuddling. conisder-)

[sacrilegious-skeletal-scribe]

Nature Walks

Entry Date: Sept 28th

The deer stare at me now, when I come outside. This is an improvement over the running, because it kept setting the neighbor’s dog off and if I have spend my unpaid time managing the emotions of selectively-bred aggressive brats with better insurance than me I’d kill the neighbor. 

I’m not going to kill the neighbor with the loud dog. 

At worse I’d try to run him out of the house.

Throw rocks at his car and leave dead birds on his doormat. Maybe dye the pool red. Harmless stuff. The crows would still get together to yell in my driveway in the mornings if I did kill him, but they’re bad judges of character. And he’s definitely got a security system wired through the house, even if the security camera on the garage is fake. 

And I’m pretty sure I don’t want him dead.

Entry Date: Oct 4th

There’s a barn owl in the red oak down the street. She’s very pretty and terrifying to hear when the train yard gets going. I was tempted to scream back but I’m still not sure if the road in city limits has an HOA and it felt like an impulsive thing to get christian sworn at for. If Jersey Accent Terf Bangs doesn’t stop frowning at me whenever I walk past her front lawn I’m throwing golf balls at her new sedan.

The deer are still digging in the raised garden. There is nothing planted in the raised garden, since the spiders claimed the left corner, but their eyes flash up at me when I use the backdoor sometimes, frozen in the dirt with mud down their snouts. 

I really want to ask the deer what they’re looking for, but I’m afraid one of them will answer.

Entry Date: Oct 12th

I sort of yelled at the deer last night and now I can’t talk and I’m a little convinced concerned they might have cursed me. ?

It could’ve been the fire. It was probably the fire, with the bottles I shouldn’t have melted and whatever cracked near the end that sounded like glass on a steel floor, but. I breathed in too much of the smoke and almost threw up this morning when I could manage to swallow and it was probably the fire, and I know it wasn’t.

I knocked some of the fire loose but I was wearing… At least one shoe, statistically, because I remember standing on it, but one of the neighbors were shouting a domestic disturbance through the front-facing windows but the fire was safety important 

I couldn’t put the fire out, because there are wolves and bobcats and monster with sound systems and if the fire went out before the ash choked it to death I’d have to ask one of the above to kill me. 

And I hadn’t heard screaming or broken glass but I was sort of desperately listening because dying for being too close to someone else’s fight is probably what’s going on my tombstone and a stalking mass caught edges from the streetlamp, just shadows and muscle and I shouted at it? I swore at it, I think.

And it was a deer, so it ran off, and now if I breathe wrong I get nauseous and my throat feels like I ate glass, and the deer thing did it to me  

If I have to go ask the woods to let me eat solid foods again I think I’m just going to lay face-down in the first patch of moss I find and let the ants figure it out.

Entry Date: Oct 22nd

There was a cat today. It walked along the other side of the road and flicked its tail at me when I talked to it. It was following a pair of squirrels on a telephone wire, but stood to watch me while they hopped onto trees.

There wasn’t a collar on it’s neck but it looked at me with toddler certainty and hissed at a leaf without moving. I let it walk past me without approaching and it blinked slowly before disappearing into the woods.

It looked like a cat I knew in an apartment, when I was a kid. It killed birds when the sky was dark and lay on doormats of whoever gave him food. He let me pet him once, five or six minutes of rumbled appreciation, pushing against my hands and knees. 

Then he bit me and ran off, circling around the building while I dripped blood onto a parking space. I don’t think my hand’s hurt that much, since. The lighter incident has a strong case, though.

He was a gorgeous cat.

Entry Date: Oct 25th

Pet the cat today. She has a white stomach and a fondness for teething on human nails.

Entry Date: November 3rd

Litttle drunk, i’ll be honest. it’s just dark all the time and the woods keep endless watch over a shrinking horizon and I don’t have work tomorrow  later today   fuck

Too cold out for the joggers. also the sun went down at 4 and the trees don’t bother to shuffle at night they just run with antlers and skin torn over roads, the endless parade of hesistant godkings.

Threw up on Bangs’ rosebush on the way home.

[iriushoothoot]

Irius according to...

July is almost over and so is artfight. In a previous post I showcased the artworks I did for other people, but now I want to showcase the wonderful pieces I received and thank everyone who drew my owl.

First piece was done by BosmillerCosmic. Really cool artstyle. Look at the neck floof! Thank you so much Bosmiller for this cool piece!

https://artfight.net/~BossmillerCosmic

2nd piece was done by a fellow barn owl; StardustStrix. What things does Irius’ notebook hold? A very cute piece, thank you so much for it!

https://artfight.net/~StardustStrix

3rd piece is by Tylo the Owl. Irius as a feral owl in a vest? Yes please! Really cute, thank you so much!

https://artfight.net/~TyloTheOwl

4th Irius art has the title “POV: you’re a little mouse taking a stroll at night” and was drawn by @aviafloras. I love the spooky vibe this piece has and the fact it is based on this. Thank you!

https://artfight.net/~aviafloras

AriBirby did #5 and shows Irius sitting at a bar. Very fitting considering his origins as a mascot for my homemade liqeuers! Fancy owl. Thank you for this piece!

https://artfight.net/attack/4661316.barn-owl

#6 was done by one of my favourite furry artists; @marsaovo​. Thank you so much for this piece, I love it so much! This very cute fluff ball brings so much joy to me.

https://artfight.net/~MarsaOvO

“Just relax, be at rest - like a bird in a nest“, so the title for Irius art #7 by  @artofhaileyd​. A really cool hypno headshot! I love the glitch effects, thank you so much for that!

https://artfight.net/~haileymdorritie

And the last artfight attack I received is this lovely scene by Raschaank. A very beautiful landscape at sunset. Fun Fact; Irius’ canon full name is Irius Solis Occasum. Solis Occasum is latin for the “setting of the sun”. So this piece is even more fitting! Thank you so much! 

https://artfight.net/~Raschaak

The last Artfight attack I received was by the biggest fish lover in the world! Really cool art, thanks a lot!

Thanks again for everyone, you people are epic and made my month!

[fandom]

Ships

Week Ending April 4th, 2022

Blackbonnet Blackbeard & Stede Bonnet, Our Flag Means Death

Kathony Kate Sharma & Anthony Bridgerton, Bridgerton

Huntlow Hunter & Willow Park, The Owl House

Destiel +8 Dean Winchester & Castiel, Supernatural

Villaneve Villanelle & Eve Polastri, Killing Eve

Lumity -2 Luz Noceda & Amity Blight, The Owl House

Geraskier +11 Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier, The Witcher

Tarlos TK Strand & Carlos Reyes, 9-1-1: Lone Star

Hannigram -3 Hannibal Lecter & Will Graham, Hannibal

Ineffable Husbands +6 Aziraphale & Crowley, Good Omens

Buddie -8 Evan Buckley & Edmundo Diaz, 9-1-1

Lucius x Black Pete Lucius Spriggs & Black Pete, Our Flag Means Death

Sashanne Sasha Waybright & Anne Boonchuy, Amphibia

Bakudeku Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Boku no Hero Academia

Satosugu +2 Gojo Satoru & Geto Suguru, Jujutsu Kaisen

Wangxian Lan Wangji & Wei Wuxian, Mo Dao Zu Shi

Stucky Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes, the Marvel universe

Supercorp Kara Danvers & Lena Luthor, Supergirl

Ladynoir -12 Ladybug & Chat Noir, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Wolfstar Remus Lupin & Sirius Black, the Harry Potter universe

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous week. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last week.

[schleierkauz]

Resa and Cockerell?

Resa: When did you first read Inkheart?

I got the book for my 10th birthday and I think I started properly reading it a few months later? Maybe a year? I remember that it spent a long while just sitting next to my bed and I'd just reread the first few pages. My cat really liked to sit on it. :D Eventually I sat down to really focus on it and immediately became obsessed.

Cockerell: What are your hopes for the 4th Inkworld book?

Oh Man. Okay.

Generelly speaking, I hope it opens the Inkworld up a little more without feeling like Reckless Light™. I know Cornelia is really excited about drawing connections between the books and that's fair, but, to me at least, the two stories still feel very distinct. And I hope TCoR fits in with the other three Inkworld books instead of trying to be a hybrid. For example, if some plot point is resolved with the help of Magical Fairytale Item #72, I'm gonna be less than happy.

I also hope it doesn't introduce too many entirely new characters. There should be some, obviously, but the comments Cornelia made about how new people keep showing up in the story made me a little nervous... We already know and love so many players in this world, I want the focus to be on them. That said, I really love the whole witch thing and Jehan's friend sounds adorable, I DO want to know more about her! Just, give me a few chapters about Dustfinger and the Prince and their whole history. With everyone else fridged for the time being, those two should get some quality time together. :')

Speaking of Dustfinger, I am. torn.

Part of me wants him to murder Orpheus. Just straight up kill him.

On the other hand, though... It would feel weird. For all these years, he's been such a pacifist at heart, I wouldn't want him to deal with the emotional aftermath of what he's done. Because despite everything, I don't think he could just walk away from that. Remember when he killed Basta that second time? That scene, short as it is, doesn't feel violent at all. More like doing an old enemy a favor. And I love that moment but something like that wouldn't make sense with Orpheus... Maybe they end up in a situation where killing him would be the kind thing to do, and Dustfinger doesn't? I don't know... Either way, I'm looking forward to the inevitable confronation of these two.

Basically: Dustfinger can kill if he wants to. I'll support him no matter what. <3

Wow I need to shut up. Some more hopes of mine, lightning round:

Brianna content, specifically Brianna-finally-bonding-with-her-father-content (yes I'm still emotional about that wristband she made him)

We meet the Black Prince's younger sisters

The Barn Owl shows up or is at least mentioned

Some kind of throwback to Capricorn and his men, idc what exactly I just want them mentioned

Witch lore. I wanna know all about them.

At least one of the new characters is another Bird Person

Proper love interest for Violante (not the Black Prince, I don't think they'd work out in the long run (although they do make a pretty intense power couple.) (Also Brianna is literally right there-)

Gwin bites the shit out of someone and is also immortal

The Prince's bear bites the shit out of someone and is also immortal

"Orpheus' evil plan fails because Balbulus is racist" plot point stays, that shit is so funny to me

Cornelia really leans into the whole 'Illustration as magic' theme, esp in contrast to 'Writing/reading as magic' as we had it in the previous books

Mo does not fully go back to his Bluejay persona and people who were there for the events of Inkdeath but don't really know him are super confused about why he won't just kill his enemies

Resa however...

Thank you for the questions! :)

[joisbishmyoga]

Ok, to go with my headcanon about the Hogwarts Founders (to wit: based on etymology, they can't be contemporous), I have headcanons about Hogwarts castle itself.

Number one! It, like the Founders, was ALSO not all contemporous. (And my apologies that I still can't find the goddamn keep-reading option.)

Helga never-actually-Hufflepuff's Hogwarts, c. 990-1090:

The original and oldest part of the school is the tower that now houses the famous moving staircases and the Headmaster's Office. (It wasn't alone, though: it had a number of outbuildings, stables and smithies and such, that have long since vanished.)

The tower was not, at the time, a hollow column full of moving staircases. It was a defensive watchtower akin to Threave Castle in Scotland, though somewhat taller and a little bit larger. It was also not round at the time, which can still be seen in the fact that the interior is square; later generations simply added walls to make it round. There are almost certainly late medieval and Renaissance defenses, as well as secret passages, built into the space between the original tower and the rounding walls.

The tower's long-since-removed floors:

Cellars (wine and cold storage).

Ground floor (entrance, reception, kitchens).

2nd floor, in the American style of count (dining, Helga's room).
3rd floor (classrooms)

4th floor (dorms: divided by gender and class rather than age)

5th floor (servants and defense).

The cellars expanded regularly over the centuries, a new room or corridor or floor built every time the castle's population (or political demands, see below) needed more cold storage.

The conical roof and the modern Headmaster's suite were added at a much later date.

Rowena Hraefenclew's Hogwarts, c. 1050-1150:

The first expansion of the castle was the modern-day Great Hall, though it lacked the enchanted ceiling attributed later to Ravenclaw. The recieving of guests was transferred to this space from the original tower, and the grand entertainments of medieval feasts and banquets were added to school life -- a requirement of any social networking, as Rowena steered the school through the political mess of the era without getting entangled in any of it.

(The enchanted ceiling was a Renaissance creation, adding light to what had been a very dim space. The original enchantment wasn't of the sky, though, and the modern ceiling would appall the people of the 1400s: what is so grand or impressive or artistic about just making the roof invisible?

(Not having a masterpiece of Christian religious art looming over the heads of hundreds -- thousands -- of magicals who'd just lived through zealous persecution, is what. The people who charmed it all invisible considered the frescoes to be quite gauche and impolitic.))

Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor's Hogwarts, c. 1150-1250:

The High Middle Ages brought a massive amount of upheaval to England (and France: half of the modern nation was ruled by England at the start of this period), as well as the rest of Europe. This is the era later connected to Robin Hood, the age of the Magna Carta and Richard the Lionheart and Prince (King) John... and that is where we begin, with Richard faffing off to join the (many, many, MANY) Crusades, and King John losing the entirety of the French regions of his rule. Loss of land = loss of wealth --> spikes in taxes and fees on nobles --> furious nobles --> Magna Carta + King John's reputation forever in the toilet + the absentee and therefore not interfering with nobles' power and money King Richard getting lauded as the best king ever (spoiler: he v much was NOT).

Richard's career included internecine rebellions, uprisings, cruelty in what provinces he bothered to rule (in France), and widespread Jewish persecution. (Things that are pretty much always in Europe: Jewish persecution. The Crusades were mostly massive disasters that did very little to Islamic rule and population in the Holy Land, but exterminated some 90% of Jewish Europe on the way. HSST.)

All of this is to say that Salazar and Godric's Hogwarts expanded to accomodate thousands of Jewish, wandering-poor, and magical refugees from the Continent: Hogwarts was still the only formal, centralized school of magic in all of Europe, and would be for several more decades.

The school still didn't reach the modern extent by the end of this building period, but got up to about 50 percent, adding almost everything on one side of the ravine that cuts through the bluff. Except for the clock tower, the Great Hall's half of the school was complete.

This is also when Hogsmeade changed from being a House-Elf farming settlement to a human town, and for the same reason: Continental refugees, largely from the Childrens' Crusade -- thousands of people of all ages, later thought to all be children due to a misunderstanding in language. (The word for "child" was co-opted to mean "the working/wandering poor": basically, "the (socially) powerless".)

The post-Founders' Hogwarts, c. 1250-1900:

The second half of the school, the conical tower rooftops (and rooms inside them), the internal plumbing for baths (but not toilets), and all the bridges -- both the stone ones across the ravine and the wooden one to Hogsmeade -- were all built in a hurry in the late 1500 and early 1600s, this time to handle refugees during the last few decades before the Statute of Secrecy. The modern Headmaster's Office was also built at this time, as high as possible to cover all approaches to Hogwarts.

Unlike the stone bridges of the ravine, the bridge to Hogsmeade has always been made of wood, in order to be easily destroyed should the castle come under attack. (And in fact it actually has been destroyed several times, most recently in the 1970s as a pre-emptive measure against Voldemort. It was then rebuilt in 1982 with more nostalgia than construction skill.)

As mentioned before, this -- the early 1600s -- is when the Great Hall's enchanted fresco ceiling was rendered invisible.

The T-shaped clock wing on the Great Hall's side, being a six-story pendulum-type clock, was built in the early 1800s, and improved in the late 1800s for accuracy and not whacking students around like golf balls. (The restrooms were also added and improved at these times.)

The greenhouses were built around 1900: Dumbledore might well have had Herbology classes before they were put in.

Now then. That is all headcanon #1. Construction headcanon #2:

Hogwarts is in TERRIBLE condition.

The famous enchanted ceiling is perhaps the most obvious damaged spot. Or it would be if it hadn't been charmed invisible. While it had Owl Post holes in it. (For the record, the easiest way to bring down, say, a barn? Chop a 3x3 ft. hole in the roof and wait ten years.) For the last four or five centuries, every time someone on staff noticed they were getting dripped on, they just threw an Impervious Charm up at the ceiling and considered the leak magically fixed. There's literally nothing left but the Impervious charms and a few scraps of gold leaf.

The stairs are another trouble spot. Centuries of people walking on them should have them worn down in the middle to look like you cut a bowl in half vertically. Would have, but the House Elves have been pulling the stone up flat again for centuries, and eventually started using magic to color-match and add enough support to the remaining stone to take people's weight. Some of the well-known trick stairs that like to disappear? That's not the magic being playful. That's the magic of late House Elves fritzing out to show there's no step left. (The moving stairs have also ground down their joints to nothing.)

It's the same across the entire castle. Centuries of manipulating the materials and covering wear with illusions and throwing Impervious Charms at drafts and drips means a lot of Hogwarts is nothing but swiss cheese and fading spells cast by long-deceased magicals anymore.

(Or it was, until the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998 disrupted enough of the remaining spells to drop them. Voldemort's forces were powerful, but not THAT powerful.)

(A large percentage of the two generations following Harry's were saved by the Battle of Hogwarts. Slytherin House was a misaimed hex away from flooding, and most of the towers were going to collapse with a few more winters of ice picking away at the mortar. Of course if the previous several centuries of magicals had just bothered to check...)