#Harry ‘gotta go fast’ Potter

[best-of-theworst]

My cat's name is Tofik.

But, as all pet parents know, you don't call your pets JUST by their name.

Here's a list of things I call my Cat:

(I don't know why you'd want to read this but it's funny at times so go for it lmfao)

- PomPom

- PumPum

- Fluffy man

- Bad boiiiiiiii

- Fat boiiiiiii

- Chunky

- Hoe

- Toffee

- Toff

- TunTun

- Tun tun tuuurururu ru tu tu

- Big boiiiii

- Answering machine

- Small paws man

- The piano man

- The weekly entertainment

- Fatass

- Dumb

- Colonizer

- Dinosaur

- Mini Cow

- Micro Cow

- Puma

- Sad excuse for a tiger

- Asthma boiiii

- Asthma man

- The large

- XXL

- BBL boiiiiiii

- Faggot

- The only known gay cat

- Mayonnaise

- "Get off that right now!!!!"

- "Stop scratching it!!!!"

- Soup boiiiii

- Blueberry

- Water drinker 2000

- Horse

- Bitch boiiii

- Slut man

- The fluffiest boy in the world

- Princes

- Tuna

- Permanently fat

- Couch occupier

- Cow Cat

- Pure Perfection

- Oreo Cat

- Choking hazard

- Owl

- Pretty boiiiii

- Hehehehehehehehehe

- Alarm clock

- Nervous system

- Rainbow

- My son/child/baby/boy/love

- The thickest slowest Doberman

- Emotional support idiot

- Michael Jackson

- Pearl

- Phantom of the Opera

- Thomas Jefferson

- Voyager 1

- Sunflower

- Witch

- Average LOL player

- Toblerone

- Muffin Man

- Clown hunter

- Spooky scary skeleton

- Dinner bell

- Thick

- Lord of the litter box

- The Great Fatsby

- MacDonald

- Erotica writer

- Music Man

- Freddy Fazbear

- The man behind the slather

- Squid Game survivor

- Pink pony cat

- Covid 19

- Antelope

- Mayor West

- Obesity mascot

- The lost city of Atlantis

- The only real problem with this country

- Maple syrup

- The fastest fluff boiiii

- Cabbage

- Gotta go fast

- Church goer

- Avenger

- Harry Potter

- SLAY

- Banana man

- Sleepy boy

- Michael Angelo

- The man after midnight

- Smooth criminal

- Gofer

- Bun

- Olé

- Penini

- Small elephant

- Eeeee macarena

- The lost boy

- Albert Einstein

- Tamtam

- Bebeee

- Blues and Jazz

- Rain

- Lovely

- My favorite thing

Yea... there's a lot more... those are just the ones I can remember of the top of my head.

[cafenostalgique]

My ultimate film watchlist (2000s)

1930s-1940s | 1950s | 1960s-1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2010s

Welcome to part 6 of my ultimate film watchlist. This list will consist of a lot of my favorites from childhood that I want to rewatch, as well as movies that I was much too young to watch at the time. Sometimes that didn't stop my mom from letting me sit in the living room with her while she watched them. I usually played or did my homework during these times, and was told to look away if she knew an innapropriate part of a movie was coming up. I was just happy to be with her.

Enjoy this list, and as always, please let me know if I'm missing any major film and I will gladly add it to the list!

watched | loved | wouldn’t watch again | holiday

2000

102 Dalmatians

Almost Famous

American Psycho (made me laugh tbh)

Battle Royale

Best in Show

Billy Elliot

Bring It On

Chicken Run

Coyote Ugly

Emperor's New Groove

Erin Brockovich

Gladiator

Memento

Remember the Titans

Requiem for a Dream

Scary Movie

Scream 3

The Road to El Dorado

The Tigger Movie

Unbreakable

2001

Amélie

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Donnie Darko

Drudget Jone's Diary

Get Over It

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (I wish I was joking, I haven't watch a sing HP movie)

Jeepers Creepers

Legally Blonde

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (also wish I was joking here omg)

Monsters, Inc

Moulin Rouge

Recess: School's Out

Shrek

Spirited Away

Spy Kids

Tart

The Fast and the Furious

The Princess Diaries

Zoolander

2002

28 Days Later

40 Days and 40 Nights

Adaptation

Bend It Like Beckham

Better Luck Tomorrow

Carrie

Get A Clue

Ice Age

Lilo & Stitch

Minoirity Report

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The Ring

The Santa Clause 2

Treasure Planet

Whale Rider

2003

Bad Santa

Brother Bear

Calendar Girls

ELF

Finding Nemo

Freaky Friday

Holes

House of 1000 Corpses (love Rob Zombie <3)

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Lost in Translation

Love Actually

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Scary Movie 3

Something's Gotta Give

The Haunted Mansion

The Lizzie McGuire Movie

The School of Rock

Thirteen

Uptown Girls

2004

13 Going on 30 (it's good if you can view it in context of the time, otherwise extremely hard to watch a grown woman hang out with 13 year olds and hit on a teenage boy)

America's Heart and Soul

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Garden State

Home on the Range

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Mean Girls

Million Dollar Baby

Napoleon Dynamite

National Treasure

Sacred Planet

Saw

Shaun of the Dead

Shrek 2

Sideways

Sleepover

The Incredibles

The Notebook

The Phantom of the Opera

The Village

2005

Brokeback Mountain

Broken Flowers

Chicken Little

Corpse Bride

Herbie: Fully Loaded

House of Wax

Howl's Moving Castle

Ice Princess (tried ice skating because of this movie at 6. I fell, cried, and never did it again)

Madagascar

Mr. & Mrs.

Odd Girl Out

Robots

Saw II

Sin City

Sky High

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Descent

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

Walk the Line

Wedding Crashers

2006

300

Borat

Cars

Children of Men

Flushed Away

Happy Feet

High School Musical

Ice Age: The Meltdown

Idiocracy

Just My Luck

Kinky Boots

Little Miss Sunshine

Monster House

Over the Hedge

Pan's Labyrinth

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Saw III

Scary Movie 4

Silent Hill

Stay Alive

Step Up

The Devil Wears Prada

The Hills Have Eyes

The Host

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

V for Vendetta

2007

30 Days of Night

Becoming Jane

Bee Movie (I'm sure you've also watched)

Bridge to Terabithia

Enchanted

High School Musical 2

Meet the Robinsons

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Ratatouille

Shrek the Halls (don't sleep on this)

Shrek the Third

Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Trick R' Treat

2008

Beverely Hills Chihuahua

Bolt

Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (specifically want to watch with my future daughter)

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Horton Hears a Who

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Repo! The Genetic Opera

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Twilight

WALL-E

2009

A Christmas Carol

Antichrist

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

G-Force

Hannah Montana: The Movie

Jennifer's Body

Monsters Vs. Aliens

Old Dogs

Planet 51

Ponyo

Race to Witch Mountain

The Lovely Bones

The Princess and the Frog

The Proposal

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Up

[k-kizkhalifa]

“We Are Young”?

I took a little liberty with the exact phrasing. But, it is used. This piece is deffo a bit more angsty, so you all know straight up. Anyway, have at it. ~ kiz

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Harry looked around the battlefield, his eyes trained to every face. The faces that were giving him recognition, he didn’t want it. Not then. He just wanted to see one person.

Harry searched the faces, finding people mangled and scattered around the Hogwarts Great Hall, which had been turned into a place to meet for the lull in the battle. The time Voldemort had given them to gather themselves. To collect those injured.

Harry took a nervous breath, talking with the Weasley's for a moment. His eyes wide as he took in everything that had happened.

He felt sick, and lost. Suddenly nothing seemed like it had been a good idea, though, he knew it had been. He had to find these last few things to ensure he could defeat Voldemort.

“Potter,” his name was said quietly and Harry turned, fast, his eyes falling on Draco Malfoy.

“Malfoy,” he breathed out, taking a slow step towards him.

“You’re going, aren’t you?”

“I… I don’t have a choice, do I?” Harry answered, his voice so quiet it was a wonder Draco could hear it over everything else happening around them.

Draco didn’t move closer, though he wanted to. He stood there, all black attire, his bright-blonde hair not near as bright as usual. As the way Harry remembered him.

“He’ll kill you,” Draco said in a hushed voice, shaking his head slowly. “I… he’ll kill you, Potter.”

“Counting on it, anyway.” Harry couldn’t explain, he didn’t know how and he most certainly didn’t have the time. “You, uhm, it’s good to see you, Ma— Draco.”

The Slytherin, such a stupid classification at this point in their whole history. Their whole story. Their whole… whatever it was. Merely nodded, taking a shaky breath.

“Ron, stop!” Came from beside them, Hermione’s voice stern and hard. Though, neither looked. They stood there, eyes fixed to each other.

“I’m glad you’re okay, Harry.”

“Yeah,” Harry nodded, slowly, “look, I gotta get going.”

“Right, to die.”

“To die.”

Draco swallowed, hard, and he took a step forward, slowly. Harry matched him, the two only inches apart. “Gods, we could’ve had such a different life, if you hadn’t been Harry Potter and I hadn’t been Draco Malfoy.” The blonde laughed, quietly, offering a smug smile.

“Could’ve been fun,” Harry agreed, letting out his own chuckle. He needed that feeling, Merlin they both did really. Just a moment of it, a whisper of what could have been. A whisper of their truths.

“I was thinking,” Draco pulled on a brave face, standing a little straighter, lifting a shoulder, “after all this.” He raised a hand, a small sparkle in his eye, “grab a pint?”

“Do you drink ale?” Harry found himself asking. He could feel it coming, the end. The change in the air. Time was running out. This was it.

Draco smirked, shaking his head, “no, uh, I don’t.”

“Firewhisky, then?”

“Yeah, I could use a glass.” Harry turned, just slightly, his thumb tapping against his leg. He could feel the burn in his scar, and he reached up rubbing at the lighting scar that flashed across his forehead, “time is it?”

“I think so, Malfoy.” Harry answered, giving him a look. Small set of nerves flashing across his face, “uh, they’ll take care of you,” he added, giving his two hovering friends a nod, “or you know… whatever.”

“We are too young to be doing something like this.” Draco whispered, his own eyes reflecting the nerves Harry felt.

“Well, this time next year, Draco….” Harry said quietly, taking a step back, “I’ll, uh, have us on a beach somewhere so you can bitch about the sun and the heat, and we’ll never have to think about this night again.” Draco felt a tear on his cheek as Harry said those words, watching the boy turn and slip away. From everyone. From his friends. From him.

“Ova ‘ere, love,” Mrs. Weasley was saying, suddenly beside Draco. The blonde felt a blanket over his shoulders, and then her arms, as she pulled him away from where he had been standing. “Take a breath,” she whispered, rubbing his arm, and pulling him close. “It’ll be okay.”

[squadxx4392]

HARRY POTTER RANDOMNESS EPISODE 5

Draco : EVERYONE BACK IN THE CAR WE GOTTA GET BACK TO HOGWARTS WE HAVE LESSONS TOMORROW!

Blaise: *gets in the car*

Harry : Drive bitch!

Blaise : *starts going 300 mph towards Hogwarts*

Draco: *smiles while looking at Harry*

Luna : Ewww Gin help they're being sappy!

Pansy: Leave them be Luna

Ginny : Draco, how many fingers am I holding up? *holds up 4 fingers*

Draco : 8 fingers. When did you get 10??

Pansy: Is he drunk?

Theo : He's either really fucking tired or he's high off tattoo ink

Draco: Shhh I'm busy admiring the outside

Neville : Draco, that's Harry, not outside. outside is right there, not there

Draco: OML SAME DIFFERENCE

Blaise : We're back mfs!

Pansy: Hes tired for sure

Molly Weasley : WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?? *stomping angrily towards the car*

Draco: At um

Draco: Somewhere

Ginny : She can see every new piercing, Ron mum looks pissed, we should get back in and start driving. all of us. now. get in go go go!

Blaise : *Starts the car up and starts going 700 mph somehow*

Draco: *opens car door*

Pansy : DRACO LUCIUS MALFOY GET YOUR ARSE BACK IN I AM STRAPPING YOU DOWN RIGHT NOW

Draco: *falls asleep*

Blaise : I'm driving so fast we're flying, we're gonna land on the Astronomy Tower, I'm gonna shrink the car and we are going to RUN to the room of requirement!

Draco: *asleep*

Blaise : JUST LEAVE HIM HE CAN LIVE! REDUCIO! RUN!!

Draco: *wakes up* Oh

Pansy : SORRY YOU'RE SO TINY! YOU WERE ASLEEP AND WE ARE BOOKING IT RIGHT NOW

Molly: RONALD AND GINNY WEASLEY GET YOUR ASSES OUT HERE

Ron : THERE'S THE DOOR COME ON!!

Draco: can someone make me my normal size

Ginny : WHEN WE GET IN THE ROOM

Blaise : *just shut the door behind all of them* Okay, we're safe! Here, Engorgio!

Lucius and Severus: Oh- FUCK sake 😨

Pansy : *immediately follows the sound, covers her eyes and gasps* HOLY SHIT, PROFESSOR???

Lucius: Its not what it looks like-

Pansy : Well what is it then?? *still covering eyes*

Severus: Uh- We were trying on suits-

Luna : You're fucking stuttering!

Severus: Am NoT!

Harry : You sounded a little too confused to be telling the truth honestly, professor

Lucius: WHY ARE YOU EVEN IN HERE!!

Ron and Ginny : Escaping our angry mum

Lucius: THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER ROOMS AND YOU CHOOSE THE ROR

Draco : Also, that wasn't the fuckin question!

Severus: *clears throat* Then what was the question

Hermione : The fuck were you both doing that was bad enough for PANSY OF ALL PEOPLE TO COVER HER EYES AND GASP

Severus: Trying um on suits..

Lucius: We were cuddling and um eating Chinese food also..

Draco : disgusting, get out we're waiting on shit to cool down out there before we die

Lucius: Yeah no seriously we are more scared of Molly than you guys..

Pansy : But you won't get in trouble. Out!

Lucius: *turns light on holding a bowl of teriyaki noodles* We took her left over food.

Ron : Oh shit- well, she's more mad at US now, so just, out please

Severus: No thanks, she'll end up beating all of us to death somehow...

Pansy : Just- out! You'll live, she's definitely forgotten about you!

Severus: I'm about to give you all detention if you keep telling us to get out.

Harry : 😐

Lucius: Why's she mad at y'all anyway?

Draco : Uh- *lifts up sleeve*

Blaise : We hijacked a car, burnt down an entire muggle town in America, got a crap ton of tattoos and we got piercings!

Lucius: *takes a deep breath in*

Lucius: Okay Draco when I said you could do dumb shit, I DIDN'T MEAN BURN DOWN HOUSES

Pansy : Yeah it was fun. And after what I just saw, I wanna kms so come on! let's hand ourselves over to Molly!

Everyone Else(minus Sniv and Lucius) : All for it, let's go

Lucius: We were eating Chinese food- and hugging- WDYMMMM

Pansy : YOU WERE HALF NAKED NOW BYE!

Molly : About time. Care to explain why I got a frantic letter from McGonagall about you lot running off?

Draco: Not my fault blame Harry they dragged me into this

Harry : Hey! Prude!

Molly : Harry James Potter, Ronald Billius Weasley, Ginerva Molly Weasley and Hermione Jean Granger, you ought to know better!

Draco: So you aren't mad at my father for taking your food-?

Molly : Of course I am! Where is he?

Draco: Room of Requirement

Molly : We will talk about this when you get back this summer! *Walks into the room of requirement*

Pansy : Welp, they're dead. Let's go!

Lucius: *eyes widen* WE BETTER RUN

Pansy : *starts dying of laughter as Sniv and Lucius start streaking across the corridor followed closely by Molly*

Lucius: CAN WE HAVE SOME PEACE PLEASE MOLLY

*Narrator's voice* WILL THEY LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAY?? HOW WILL THE MAIN 8 GET THROUGH TOMORROW?? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON HARRY POTTER RANDOMNESS!!

[bisexualbumblebee-writes]

The Third Task- Viktor Krum x OC

Viktor Krum x Holly Diggory

Description: When Viktor is thrown out of the maze his first thought is to find Holly showcasing just how much their relationship had developed.

Word Count: 2k

A/N: I gotta say, this is simultaneously plotless yet still has a story. I don't even think the description technically goes with what happens in this but I literally couldn't think of anything else. Sometimes you have to write just to write.

Holly stood beside her brother and father in front of the stands upon stands of people, all eager to see the final task of the Triwizard Tournament. Fleur and Madame Maxime stood a few yards away from their left and Karkaroff and Viktor were on the other side of them. Harry, meanwhile, stood to their right alone. Sympathy coursed through her at the sight, so she offered him an encouraging smile shortly before Dumbledore addressed the crowd. 

“Earlier this evening, Professor Moody placed the Triwizard Cup within the maze. Only he knows where it resides. As the scoring is close, the first to touch the Cup will become the first Triwizard champion in over one hundred years,” he announced, earning cheers from the crowds of people from the three different schools, before facing the champions. “Since Cedric Diggory is in the lead, he will go in first, then Harry Potter. Viktor Krum will go next and Fleur Delacour will go last. Champions, prepare yourselves. On three. One…two…” 

The headmaster barely had time to get two out before Filch fired the cannon. Cedric wasted no time in turning and running into the maze. Harry waited a second before following, then Viktor and finally Fleur. The task had started, and now all there was left for the crowd to do was wait. Karkaroff, Maxime, Holly and her father were swept off to the side. 

While Amos decided to go find a seat next to Arthur Weasley, Holly stayed on the ground. She eagerly awaited both her brother’s return. The spectators couldn’t see what was going on in that maze. No one knew what lurked in those high hedges, any context they got was an occasional scream or a creature’s screech. Not even ten minutes later Fleur was rescued from the maze. She was practically comatose, but it immediately melted away the further she got from the maze. 

That only served to make Holly worry. Not only about her older brother, but Viktor as well. Throughout the school year they had developed somewhat of a - according to Rita Skeeter - romantic fling. That had only been cemented to her readers when they read that the couple attended the Yule Ball together (even sharing a kiss during one of the dances) and were seen by many taking a walk around the castle afterwards. 

It felt like so much more than that, however. The two of them had formed a fast connection and it only seemed to grow stronger the more time they spent together. Holly couldn’t help but want to spend her free time with Viktor. It seemed that he felt the same way since he always sought her out. He’d even begun sitting at Hufflepuff’s table during meals rather than with the rest of his school at the Slytherin table. 

That’s what led her to worrying about him just like she did Cedric. She’d grown to care about him too much to see him get hurt by whatever was in that maze. The longer that the remaining three champions were in there, the more stressed she felt. Andrei Poliakoff, Karkaroff’s aide and Viktor’s friend, seemed to notice her unease because he made his way over to her. Just before he reached her, another person was thrown out of the maze. It was Viktor, who looked confused to see himself on the ground. 

Karkaroff and Andrei were quick to help him up, asking him what happened. Viktor, however, barely paid them any mind when his eyes landed on Holly. He began walking towards her, and she hadn’t even realized she’d been doing the same until they met halfway. 

“Добре ли си (Are you okay)?” She asked in a soft voice, a stark contrast to the chatter around them. The boy almost looked dazed, his eyes slightly glazed over in confusion until they met hers. She was the only one he could see. It took him a moment to process that she’d asked him a question, but when he did he nodded slowly. 

“Да (Yes),” he responded in the same tone. That earned him a relieved sigh then smile from the girl. He barely had time to return it before he was pulled away from her by a hand on his shoulder. 

“Ела си, Виктор (Come away, Viktor),” Karkaroff demanded, not even sparing a glance to Holly. He began to pull Viktor to the side but the boy stayed rooted in his spot and took Holly’s hand in his. 

“Оставам с нея (I stay with her),” he retorted firmly. Holly was surprised that he was defying his headmaster’s orders for the likes of her. Neither of them didn’t seem to notice her as they had a small staredown. After a moment Karkaroff stood up straight once again. 

“Фина (Fine),” was all he said before walking away from them in a huff. Holly would have laughed at how ridiculous he looked if it wasn’t for the fact that she realized Viktor was still holding her hand. An involuntary smile formed on her face along with a light pink on the apples of her cheeks. She intertwined their fingers, which caught his attention. He turned and looked at their hands as well and they shared a smile. 

They were quickly distracted from their little moment by the stands jumping to their feet as Harry and Cedric appeared outside the maze, Harry holding the trophy in his hand. They won! Hogwarts won the Triwizard Tournament! Holly turned then laughed excitedly when she noticed the trophy. She faced Viktor, who looked okay with the fact that he hadn’t won, shortly before a horrified scream left Fleur. That’s when the girl realized that something was off. Why wasn’t Cedric moving? Viktor seemed to realize what was going on because he suddenly pulled Holly into a hug and attempted to shield her face from the maze. 

“Holly, don’t look,” he mumbled in her ear firmly. A dark and unsettled feeling set in the pit of her stomach and she attempted to break free of his grip. It took a moment but the girl finally managed to break free from Viktor and turned to her brother. He was looking at her from where he laid on the ground. His eyes were closed, and the rest of him was hauntingly still. A chill shot up her spine. No, it wasn’t possible. He couldn’t be…

Holly hadn’t even realized her legs had buckled from under her until she felt arms wrapping around her. It seemed like Viktor was trying to keep her up, but he eventually decided to lower her to the ground when he realized she was too in her state of shock to stand up. His arms stayed around her as he knelt beside her. Her body began shaking, and it took the girl a minute or two to realize she had begun sobbing. The arms squeezed around her, and the girl just barely managed to look at their owner. Viktor was speaking to her, but she couldn’t hear a word he said. Everything sounded like she was submerged in water, muffled and mostly mute to her until she heard her father’s scream. 

“THAT’S MY BOY!” He cried out in anguish, running over to Cedric. “THAT’S MY SON!” His verbal grief only served to break Holly’s heart further. No, that wasn’t the right word for it. Her heart had been shattered, broken into a million pieces. Cedric was dead. Her older brother was-

“Wait, HE’S ALIVE!” A voice rang out. It was the Minister of Magic, who had come running to Cedric, Harry and Dumbledore the minute he realized something was wrong. They’d finally managed to pry Harry away so they could get a good look at him. 

“He’s alive, but just barely,” Dumbledore agreed. “Madame Pomfrey, grab a gurney and let’s get Mr. Diggory to the infirmary,” he instructed firmly before looking at Harry. Holly tuned them out as she watched Madame Pomfrey bring a gurney over to them. Amos and the Minister placed Cedric on the cot and the nurse used her wand to lead it away, likely to the medical wing until they called the hospital. She was still trying to process everything

“He is alive,” Viktor muttered into her ear comfortingly. “Your brother is okay.” Holly nodded distantly. Cedric was okay.

Once Harry had managed to calm down he revealed that Peter Pettigrew was alive, and Pettigrew had used the Cruciatus Curse on him after the Dark Lord prompted him to “kill the spare.” Holly couldn’t help but flinch at that, prompting her father to wrap a comforting arm around her. The Cruciatus Curse had gone directly to Cedric’s head and they had to put him into an induced coma while he healed. 

Relief couldn’t even begin to describe what Holly was feeling. Her brother was alive after all. Her solace was much more intense than just ‘relief.’ Holly didn’t leave his side much, not that anyone minded of course. Unfortunately she did have to return to Hogwarts to pack up her things. She didn’t mind though, as she wished to say goodbye to her friends. 

The goodbye speech from Dumbledore was very sweet as he acknowledged Cedric’s accident, and it ended almost as quickly as it had begun. While the Hogwarts students waited for the carriages they said their goodbyes to each other and to the friends they’d made at Durmstrang and Beauxbatons. 

Holly had just finished saying her goodbyes to a few friends she’d made from Beauxbatons. She’d waved to them one last time as they headed for their carriage before turning around. There, she was met with Viktor, who had been standing behind her (unbeknownst to her) waiting patiently for her 

“Viktor,” she breathed out, a smile forming on her face afterwards. 

“Holly,” he greeted with the same smile. “How is your brother?”

“Healing. The healers believe he’ll be waking up soon.” 

“That is wonderful to hear,” Viktor nodded. “And…how are you?” The girl was silent for a moment, then her smile widened a bit. Throughout all that had happened, not a lot of people had checked on her. It was mostly sympathy from those who visited Cedric’s room. Not that she was expecting attention of course, but it was nice to see that someone wanted to make sure she was okay. 

“I’m okay enough,” she answered decidedly. “And I want to thank you for…dealing with me, I guess? When my brother first came out of the maze, I mean. I know it was probably very dramatic.” She attempted to laugh it off, but the boy shook his head quickly. 

“Звездичка (Little star), forgive my bluntness, but at that point you thought your brother was dead,” he almost laughed at the absurdity of her words. Holly, meanwhile, couldn’t help but smile at the pet name. It had become one he used often when they were together. Every time he said it her heart fluttered similarly to the butterflies in her tummy. 

“I do not hold a grudge against what grief you must have been going through in those few minutes before they realized he was alive,” Viktor concluded, mimicking her smile. “And you should not either.” 

“Very well,” the girl muttered with a giggle. Before another word could be said both of them turned when they heard Andrei call that they were about to leave. 

“I guess that’s your cue,” Holly said as she turned back to him. 

“I suppose so,” the boy agreed before taking her hand in his. His grip was surprisingly delicate considering how calloused his hands were. 

“Will you allow me to write to you this summer?” He asked hopefully. Holly almost laughed at the irony of a world famous quidditch player growing nervous while doing something as simple as talking to a girl.

“I will be waiting eagerly for your letters,” she responded, offering his hand a gentle squeeze afterwards. Viktor smiled, then lifted her hand to his lips and pressed a soft kiss to her knuckles. 

“I will write as soon as I return home,” he promised as he dropped her hand. “Until next time, Holly Diggory.” And with that, he offered her one last smile before turning and following his friend towards the ship Durmstrang had arrived in. Holly watched as the ship disappeared underwater, just the way it had come, with a small involuntary smile. 

“Until then, Viktor.”

[keldjinfae]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Again, not personally tagged by @oldefashioned, but procrastination the distraction is welcome.

How many works do you have on ao3?

I have posted 21 works, though I very recently deleted one of them because I had initially put it up as an Evil Author Day offering and it's been reshaped enough since then that I felt it was time to let the old version go. Plus, I'd initially meant for it to be part one of a three-part arc, and that arc has since changed to feature a different pairing entirely, so...

What's your total ao3 word count?

477,888

What fandoms do you write for?

I'm a "one at a time" kind of writer, so right now, only Teen Wolf. In the past, under a few separate names, I've written for BtVS and Angel, HP, KH, SPN, Heroes, and I was just getting started on Inception when I had to take a break from writing.

Top five fics by kudos:

You Gotta Promise Not to Stop When I Say When (1,540)

A Little Sweet and Simple Numbing Me (487)

I'm Coming Down Fast but Don't Let Me Break You (427)

My Echo, My Shadow, and Me (401)

I'm Not Asking Questions, I'm Taking My Chances (293)

All Teen Wolf fics, and all Sterek.

Do you respond to comments?

Every single one of them. It may take me months to do so, but every comment brings me joy, and some of my most treasured fandom moments/connections have come from comment interactions.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't think I have a fic that ends in angst. At the moment, Wish You Were Here might fit this bill because I've only posted the first chapter and it's about avoiding dealing with the unexpected death of a loved one. There was one I wrote for Heroes, back in the day, that was solely about Peter burning his mother alive, so yeah, that probably qualifies--it's not on AO3, though.

Do you get hate on fics?

Not so much hate, no, but every once in a while a comment might criticize a character's actions or make suggestions on how they personally would've written a scene, etc. Any outright hate I've ever received for my fics has come from a site other than AO3.

Do you write smut?

Almost exclusively. Nearly every time I'm drafting out a fic for Teen Wolf, particularly when it's Sterek, I'll have a "then sex if there's time for it" note, and Derek barges in with that determined "I'll make time" face, so...

Craziest crossover:

So... uh... the entire reason I started writing fanfic again was because I got smacked in the face with a crossover/fusion idea for Teen Wolf and Skyrim. Other than that, Teen Wolf and Fallout, Teen Wolf and Inception, Teen Wolf and Supernatural...

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Once, years ago. It wasn't the entire fic, but it was a sizeable chunk of one, and the names had been changed for the "author's" chosen pairing/fandom, but apparently they liked my wording so much that they didn't feel the need to come up with their own.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Also years ago.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes indeedy. Co-writing is one of my absolute favorite ways of writing. Co-creativity is my jam, the energy feeds me. I've written KH fic with @caseyvalhalla, and I've cowritten Teen Wolf fic with my not!wife, Anna. It is my hope to continue to do so with other people, should our visions/writing styles align. I've got one fic in particular that I think at this point is going to need a co-writer so I don't lose focus.

All time favourite ship?

Sterek. I adore many other ships, some of them hold a special place in my heart and I will always come back to read them, but Sterek is the one that gripped me over a decade ago and hasn't let me go since. Like @oldefashioned said, I think it's because I love the characters individually as much as I love them together.

Other than Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski (as well as factoring in Peter Hale with any combination of the three), there's Adam Banks/Charlie Conway, Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, Alanna/George Cooper, Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester, Nathan Petrelli/Peter Petrelli, Angel(us)/Spike, Spike/Buffy, Angel(us)/Buffy, Angel(us)/Spike/Buffy (really I could've just said any combination of the three), Arthur/Eames, Fenris/Mage Female Hawke, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Riku/Sora, and most recently Maximus/Lucy MacLean, with the added complex triad factor of Maximus/Lucy/Cooper Howard.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I still haven't actually verged into "doubt I ever will" territory yet, but two WIPs that have been begging to be finished for a while now are Wish You Were Here (Kingdom Hearts) and Light Up as If You Have a Choice (Dragon Age: Origins).

What are your writing strengths?

I don't know. Dialogue? Establishing a setting? That answer might require a survey from other people who actually bother to read my fics.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Not being able to move on until I have a scene "perfect." If I'm stuck on getting from Point A to Point B, I am mentally incapable of jumping ahead to Point C--it is Point B or Point Bust.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

I tend to avoid it if the translation starts to read too much like an index, or like I'm writing a conversation twice over. However, if the other language is vital to the narrative (i.e. a character says something in a language they know the other person won't understand, etc.) then yes, I write it in that language, rather than something like, "'blah blah,' he said in Polish."

First fandom you wrote in?

The Song of the Lioness

Favorite fic you've written?

Depending on the fandom, Freaks and Fools was a Kingdom Hearts fic I co-wrote, and more recently, I'd have to say my favorite Teen Wolf fic to write is a toss-up between You Gotta Promise Not to Stop When I Say When and My Echo, My Shadow, and Me. Promise because it is just me writing myself via Stiles, wishing I had a Derek; Echo because I'd wanted to write an alternate version of season 3a for a while, and I finally got to do it, thanks to the Sterek Reverse Bang.

[dhr-ao3]

Hello Dear

Hello Dear https://ift.tt/ntW9MI2 by lxgwriters "Parkinson, I can't hold it in any longer." "Nott, just say you want me." Never in a million years would we would yearn for one another. But the stakes are high. Our 6th year at Hogwarts had just begun and we knew what fate was planning for us. As a silent war brews, we may just use each other for a pleasure we couldn't say "no" to. a Pansy Parkinson x Theodore Nott fanfic all rights regarding the wizarding world go to J. K. Rowling Words: 5838, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/M, M/M Characters: Regulus Black, Kingsley Shacklebolt Relationships: Theodore Nott/Pansy Parkinson, Draco Malfoy/Pansy Parkinson, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Daphne Greengrass/Harry Potter, Michael Corner/Blaise Zabini, Ernie Macmillan/Blaise Zabini Additional Tags: fast burn, then slow burn, Betrayal, Even More Betrayal, so much betrayal that it hurts, enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to strangers, ill just give you the whole plotline in the tags, Evil laugh, right person wrong time, maybe we'll meet again in another lifetime, hahah, I promise theo actually gets a happily ever after, You just gotta be patient, call the ward we got a mentally ill person on the loose, its mental illness innit, im not sane, smut obv, im not a prude via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/XZx3q9S March 31, 2024 at 05:30AM

[tilion-writes]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thanks for tagging, @melestasflight!

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 39

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? Just shy of 290k.

3. What fandoms do you write for? These days, pretty much just the Silmarillion. (The hyperfixation is hitting hard!)

4. What are your top five fics by kudos? 1) A Doctor Who fic I wrote back in 2020, 2) The Sun Must Go On Rising, 3) a Jekyll & Hyde fic from 2020, 4) a Dorian Gray fic, 5) Scion of Mystery.

For just Silm fics, it would be:

The Sun Must Go On Rising (Fingon rescues Maedhros from Mandos)

Scion of Mystery (Robot Gil-galad)

Conspire to Ignite (Eärendil & ghost Fëanor)

Red, Red Moon (Keep On Rising) (Celegorm, Eluréd, and Eluréd in the Fourth Age)

At Dawn (I'll Face the Edge of Thorns) (Silvergifting)

5. Do you respond to comments? I try to! I used to be shyer, but lately I've been trying to respond every time.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Definitely that Silvergifting fic.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?  I tend to do bittersweet fics, but Scion of Mystery borders on crack, so I’ll go with that.

8. Do you get hate on fics? Haven't yet!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Not really. I might at some point.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? Not really a crossover, but I wrote a fic for Maedhros & Maglor week whose dialogue was purely quotes from Macbeth. (Also, I’ve got this crack idea for a Warrior Cats Silmarillion AU.)

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Nope.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? Hmm. I'm not a huge shipper, but probably Fëanor/Nerdanel or Celegorm/Oromë.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I doubt that warrior cats AU is ever going anywhere, unfortunately.

16. What are your writing strengths? Prose, imagery, characterization, fic/story concepts.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Pacing, plotting ahead, loose ends.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? Depends. It should serve a purpose.

19. First fandom you wrote for? *deep sigh* Harry Potter, but I don't want to talk about it.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? Oh god. Gotta go with Conspire to Ignite. Or maybe Fast Bound, because it features Mad Scientist Fëanor.

Tagging @gardensofthemoon and @meumixer, no pressure!

[duckprintspress]

“Aim For The Heart” Creator Spotlight: Author Aeryn Jemariel Knox and Artist C

Another day, another two creators from Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” for y’all to meet!

untitled by C

About the Artist: A massive drinker of coffee and a lover of old TV shows and movies, C is a small-time concept artist and illustrator who likes to dabble in all things literature and history. When she’s not busy drawing and nodding along to Bruce Springsteen while researching the Kentucky Cave Wars, she’s trying to save up for grad school to become to a forensic artist so she can draw some more.

Link: Tumblr

Fast Times at Treville High by Aeryn Jemariel Knox

About the Artist: Aeryn Jemariel Knox first identified as a writer in second grade. With both parents involved in theater and a house full of bookshelves, they grew up surrounded by stories, and as soon as they could hold a crayon, they felt the urge to tell their own. In 2001, they discovered the wide and wonderful world of fanfiction; since then, they have gone by Jemariel in fandom spaces across the internet, engaging with their favorite media and communities in the best way they know. Previous fandoms include Harry Potter, Star Trek (The Original Series), Torchwood, and BBC’s Sherlock, but their most prolific writing and strongest community ties are in the Supernatural fandom. Now, nearly a decade after their last original fiction attempt, Aeryn is eager to explore the wider writing word.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Aeryn currently lives in the suburbs with their husband and 16-year-old cat. For a day job, they work as a tech writer and general paper-pusher for an energy drink factory. Their favorite stories, both to tell and to read, are stories about love, identity, and magic.

Links: Archive of Our Own | Tumblr

Story Teaser:

As the last bell rings, Dorian stands in an empty bathroom peering into the spotty mirror, fists against the cold ceramic edge of the sink. Three separate people want to decorate his face, all at the same time. He’s a scrappy asshole, but he’ll be lucky if he can get out of this as more than bloody pulp.

Whatever. He’s gotten this far on a devil-may-care attitude. Maybe if he can take the punk chick—Portia—the other two will fold. Athena hadn’t looked like the fighting type, and Leg-boy… that’s another story.

The others have already gathered by the time he finds the bleachers, the three of them in a loose clump under a banner proclaiming “Go Muskets!” strung across the back of the sagging wooden structure. The football team is practicing at the far end of the field, but the bleachers themselves are empty.

Portia catches sight of him first. “Look who didn’t chicken out,” she shouts, deliberately loud enough for his ears.

As one, the others turn to Dorian, who feels his legs turn to jelly and his stomach to ice. He should have expected this.

“You all… know each other?” he asks in a tremulous voice.

“Yeah. We freaks gotta stick together.”

Tags: alcohol use (casual), bullying, drunkenness, gay character, found family, friendship, high school setting, homophobia, homophobic slurs, homosexual character, lesbian character, m/m, misunderstandings, modern, pov third person limited, present tense, underage drinking

It’s a great Sunday to help support an anthology full of great stories and art! Come check out our Kickstarter now!

[hopeymchope]

With the ‘Harry Potter’ news, it has me wondering — how would you do the inevitable live-action ‘Danganronpa’ adaptation, were it up to you? And like you can’t say not to have it happen, because we know one day it will happen, whether we want it to or not. How would you go about it?

First rule: You can't do this as fast as the anime did. Maybe if we had 13 full hours instead of half-hours? Or maybe we just do more episodes. Let's give ourselves more time to develop these characters between (and even after) killings, let's give ourselves time to really dig into the investigations of the murders. But note that we have to be careful not to simply spend time developing the characters who are about to die. That'd just be a giveaway. I know it's hard to avoid with some instances (like Mondo and Taka's big developments in Chapter 2), but I think we can work it pretty well otherwise.

The most obvious temptation would be to make the story and cast more diverse/international. And it's easy to justify, given how Hope's Peak is described as this GLOBAL beacon of hope! We ARE trying to market this to a broader audience, as well; this isn't just going to be another quick-n-dirty Japanese live-action adaption. Those very rarely result in anything worthwhile. We gotta think bigger and broader here!

So with that in mind...

I say we keep the location of HP. Tokyo has plenty of clout on the world stage as an international hub, plus this locale makes it easier for us to justify keeping the "Monokuma" nomenclature for our bear nemesis. And of course we want that.

I've seen plenty of fans interpret darker-skinned characters as being people of color before, so why not run with it? Hagakure and Asahina can be black, maybe Sakura is of Arabic or Latina descent? Leon's probably a white guy. We probably change some names (at least surnames/family names) to suit this as well, making the cast be pulled from all over the world. .

...........yes, I am gonna get CONTROVERSIAL with these concepts. For example?

Fujisaki is a golden opportunity. We could make the character explicitly trans — that's the path of least resistance and definitely puts us in some fertile ground. I like the idea, although if we keep the story the same otherwise, it potentially villifies Mondo even MORE than he already was, so... that's a bit touchy. I don't know if we wanna go there or not. Maybe we do because it strikes a relevant chord, but maybe we don't because people love these characters so much in their other continuities and we want to leave that possibility open for even this new incarnation? Then again, I think we could also shift Fujisaki's nationality (and/or maybe their preferred gender) to make a statement about countries that value one gender over another. This would usually require Chihiro to be masking as a boy rather than as a girl, but perhaps we could achieve the same effect by keeping the genders as-is and having him hail from a Latin American country where daughters are traditionally preferred?

I think the weirdness of the setting and its bizarre sense of humor needs to be maintained as much as humanly possible. You WANT weird moments of funny character development in the midst of tragedy. You WANT funny, bizarre lines of dialogue in the middle of a life-or-death trial. That's core to the experience, and the more of that secret sauce you can directly copy/paste from the original script, the better! Maybe we let the blood be red instead of pink, SURE. But We wanna STAY WEIRD. The surreal trial grounds? Welcomed into live-action as-is. The robot bear? Maybe he looks MORE robotic, but he still is gonna do things no known robot can do in RL. He's gonna pirouette, he's gonna bounce around the room, etc. The insane executions? Eh, I might tone a few down SLIGHTLY. *Slightly*. But a "hyper-reality" approach similar to something like the Scott Pilgrim or Speed Racer movies seems entirely appropos in those moments. (........... thought of course, neither of those movies made money in their initial run, so I might be setting us up for an initial faceplant of failure, but you know what? I'm okay with that if we can grab the long tail of profit those projects ultimately gained over the years. Besides: I'm doing my best to give this global appeal, and furthermore, there's no way in hell this project should cost as much as those aforementioned movies or even *close*. This ain't gonna be a series that costs "Netflix Cowboy Bebop" money, FFS. For one thing, it's almost entirely going to be shot on a limited number of indoor sets! Shit, you only have to make a single hallway corridor if you just adjust your shooting angles and dress it accordingly: Take some pages from Robert Rodriguez's school of low-budget shooting.)

Now, so far I've mostly been describing what I would change or CONSIDER changing for such a project. So what's NOT changed? Basically everything else! The cases are mostly gonna stay the same. Like, maybe I'll make Celestia act less blatantly OOC in when the group is menaced in Chapter 3 so she's a lot less obvious of a culprit, but y'know, that's a minor tweak. Maybe the "communication breakdown" subplot in Chapter 4 can be altered to be more acceptable/believable for international audiences that are gonna be screaming "JUST FUCKING TALK ABOUT IT." And yet? All the broad strokes can definitely remain intact. They've GOTTA. The same basic characters, the same basic deaths, the same basic final reveal. Junko takes the stage and goes manic, shows us a devastated world, and we leave on the same basic wrap-up where the huge front door opens and we don't see what's beyond the school as light fills the room.

I think there's a lot of potential to deliver something satisfying through the above while still making something attention-grabbing and marketable to a broad audience. But if this worked out, I'd have to figure out how not to break the budget on an adaption of the tropical-set DR2 :P

[milliemakesmagic]

If they’re making it a sequel that is soon after the first movie they gotta film fast because we’re going to blink and the talented children cast members will be way too tall.

They gotta do what Narnia and Harry Potter did and FILM FILM FILM.

WE FUCKING WIN

[newzealandmozsombi]

Tasman days vol.3

Yesterday was a very slow day, I thought I’d go riding either around the previous campsite or drive to Nelson and ride around there, in the end I did neither. After some quick grocery shopping and getting some band-aids from the pharmacy I managed to tune in with myself and just following the next step I ended up spending most of the day at the beach halfway between Kaiteriteri and Nelson. I finished the. 5th book of Harry Potter, made me cry again, did some wrist exercises, had a well deserved second breakfast..

While scrolling mindlessly on facebook the local newspaper popped up with an article that caught my attention. A girl fell and died while hiking on a challenging track. It turned out to be the glacier hike I did last friday and it happened pretty much when I got back to my car which means I probably met her and her boyfriend while I was going down from the hut…It struck me reading about it, it felt personal somehow…I remember seeing all the warning signs at the car park about how dangerous this hike is and people had to be rescued even…In my mind I kept going through the section of the trail from the hut to the glacier wondering where did she fall from…I am still not sure what it stirred up in me but there was definitely something about mortality and that a step be what separates life and death..

Maybe the combination of all of this was the reason why I felt pretty vulnerable when I arrived at the campsite in Nelson, I took my time with cooking and while cooking due to reasons I partly undersand now but prefer to not share here, I realized that I don’t feel safe at this place and I just want to leave. It wasn’t a cool feeling, the internet was limited to 500mb which I used up rather fast and there was no reception in the valley so I couldn’t talk to anyone about it. In the end I stayed for the night but decided to look for another spot for tonight (even though I had 2 nights booked at that place). Let me be clear, not feeling safe was 99% caused by things in my head and the campsite had only some small things that triggered this feeling and experience.

Initially I chose that campsite cause there were some bike trails ending close to it but basically the whole area is full of trails so it didn’t make such a difference where I stay. Long story short I did a big ride today exploring some of the trails Nelson has to offer. I gotta say I have mixed feeling about the trails here. Pretty much all of them are dusty and loose. Rode some of the hardest ones (double black diamond) I could find cause I was curious how I could perform on such trails. Well. It was a humbling experience to say the least. It is probably a fun trail with great jumps for pros, for me it was steep (although mostly doable) but the size of the jumps were just ridiculous…They were enormous and considering how precise you gotta be and how well you have to take the corners before to have enough speed..Long story short there was a combination of steep berms where I instead of riding I basically slid down on my ass cause the catch berm felt too dodgy and loose and I did not want to risk crashing there. Well that’s one end of the scale, on the other end I rode a flow trail that was ridden out and in my opinion boring and too rocky, not my thing (while on trailforks it was praised and is supposed to be a fan favorit among locals)…

After the first grade 6 I still felt like “yeah but what if I ride a tech trail that’s grade 6, I surely can do and actually enjoy that”…To my own surprise that turned out to be true, I found one called “lollipop” that was basically a series of rocky-rooty switchback corners for 3 minutes straight. Although there was a drop that I skipped (I feel pretty icky about drops since breaking my wrist) but otherwise I got down in one piece and actually enjoyed the process. Tried the jumptrail, wasn’t too bad maybe a bit too big though and after a lunch break I rode two trails where I probably felt the most at home. They were really similar to the illegal trails in Graz, specifically the ones on Linneck. Basically I could sum it up saying the first half of the day was pretty underwhelming while the second half was more enjoyable. Maybe I had high expectations, not sure. The variety is impressive that’s for sure, there are still a bunch of areas left unexplored so I have something to look forward to when I come back here for volunteering at the end of march. Hoping for some milder temperatures by then, today was the first time feeling really hot and was sweating a lot..

Oh remember how I hurt my feet two days ago?…The burned foot (not on a George Forman Grill thankfully) hurts waaaay more than the one I kicked the rock with..It looks proper crisp. Red as a ripe tomato.

Glad to take a rest day tomorrow, in terms of riding at least, see some pros throwing it down at the Cable Bay Enduro race. Then off we go taking the ferry to the North island.

Obligatory song recommendation:

Sufjan Stevens - John My Beloved

This song rather fits the mood from yesterday, super slow, simple, pretty sad song. The whole album is about the passing of his mother actually so not an easy thing lyrically. I discovered this artist a few years ago through a metal youtuber sharing one this guy’s songs on instagram and fell in love with the melancholic style of it.

[pwblogarchive]

June 2004

June 2, 2004

“journal drama is so two years ago”

hey old faces and pretty eyes come out and see us when we hit your city. its been awhile. painted some sick bats and hearts on my bass cabs. let me know what you think.

thosewholiveinglassheartsshouldn'tthrowstones.

June 2, 2004

getting ready for tour. threw down some some vocals on the new rise against record. it sounds pretty good. talked about doing a rise against, spitalfield, fob chicago show. it would be like old times.

the truth is i am going to miss you so much more than i could ever let on.

- petey

June 3, 2004

“I'm all fingers crossed and eyelash wishes”

It feels good to be playing again. New set. New songs. New hearts. I'll get into it more later. A lot of people have been asking what I want for my birthday. Don't even worry about presents its all good. Thanks for just acknowledging it and giving me a good year that's enough. But whoever brought up halloween on june 5. Amazing.

Anyway. Thanks for everything. I don't say it enough.

I want to take you out on the road.

Peterabbit

June 3, 2004

“if I go home alone tonight I think I might die.”

The story is coming along. Saw more sketches. We have a deadline set. Its gonna be better than I thought. Well have one clandestine design out on tour but were only gonna sell a couple of designs. Tonight after the show my heart was beating so fast I thought it was going to become a constant tone. I was heaving into the bushes but it was one of like 10 occassions in my life that I felt truly alive.

Peter

June 3, 2004

“if I go home alone tonight I think I might die.”

The story is coming along. Saw more sketches. We have a deadline set. Its gonna be better than I thought. Well have one clandestine design out on tour but were only gonna sell a couple of designs. Tonight after the show my heart was beating so fast I thought it was going to become a constant tone. I was heaving into the bushes but it was one of like 10 occassions in my life that I felt truly alive.

peter

June 5, 2004

“I’ve O.D.’D On Lonliness 24 Times”

cleveland. what a weird show. got some sweet cakes- this one was possibly the coolest i have ever seen. nick took pics of it. me and some of the guys from don’t look down and anberlin are doing a metalcore band on this tour called Death Support. i am singing and it’s alot heavier than any of our bands. when you wake up alone on your birthday don’t you just think maybe thats going to happen forever? thats okay i am pretty stoked on all my friends right now. i’m tired. thats all. peter

June 6, 2004

second star to the right and straight on till morning.

there is nothing to say besides thank you.

the new taking back sunday will be the soundtrack to your summer. trust me.

peter

June 8, 2004

I only use this stage to wage personal vendettas and make you dance like I am shooting at your feet...

The last few shows have made me feel so right about all of the decisions we have made in the past year. I need a new hat- don't buy me one but tell me some recommendations. Brokehalo7 email is all but destroyed. Gotta find a better way at keeping in touch. Got some new shoes. They have flowers on the, gay or partyanimal? Watched the flight of the navigator and the new harry potter. Some stories are just too great to keep to yourself. We are setting a deadliine for printing "the boy with the thorn in his side". Sorry if I have been out of it, I am feeling kind of low lately.

Everybody loves an underdog.

So don't be suprised when we don't go down.

P

June 9, 2004

I have so much to say that I never will

What do you do "when you wake up everything will be better". Except its not. And there's no worse feeling than when you wake up and feel okay for a minute. And then that sick feeling washes over you and you remember its not okay. And were blowing this up too big and maybe not big enough at the same time. I hope this (we are) is all forgotten soon.

June 11, 2004

“when the moonlight hits your bright eyes”

And you can't sleep cause no bed smells like her or feel okay because you never really get clean no matter how many showers you take. Its all just night air and broken white lines racing by. You couldn't figure me out if you tried. You never even came close (and you were the closest). We build our own prisons and throw the keys to hearts that never knew they had them anyway. I'm ready to stop. I don't want to feel this way anymore. How long will my excuses keep you at bay? Baby, I'm sorry attentions just been my thing all along. That's all I ever wanted right? The pot calling the kettle... And so on. Call me up. Pull the blanket from over my head and say its okay that words only feel safe out on the computer screen and not whispered into your ear late at night- or just leave me alone. I gotta say I'm tempted to break your heart just cause I could do it best.

Peterabbit

June 12, 2004

“you own this sick feeling in my stomach”

You're not bad news. Your not even news anymore.

June 16, 2004

"the things he writes hurt too much to be real" right?

Friends and lovers. I haven't slept in forever. There have been so many things going on. We got the issue of ap with us on the cover- kids from chicago- there are a couple of crowd shots you can probably see yourself and friends in. Sometimes everything gets so bad that it just turns okay. Know what I mean? Probably not. Went to newyork hardcore and payed for jordan to get a mustache tattooed on his finger. You'll be able to see this and lots of other funny stuff we've been filming. We decided to do a clandestine dvd called "release the bats" so we can show off some funny footage and showcase some of our favorite bands. Oh yeah and don't worry the drawings are done for the book, just waiting on the coloring. Some new shirts will be up in the next few weeks...

I see your face in my dreams imprinted on clouds and blue sky.

Peterpan

June 17, 2004

“I'd go to hell and back for me and you”

You're the kind of kid that knows just how beautiful you are. But it's the moments in between that when I look at you and I feel like I can't breathe.

June 17, 2004

I'm living proof that there such thing as too much of a good thing. The kiss (off) of fame. You can't measure me cause I'm only lying (yeah I left out that part) "I've given up on all that stuff" to get youu back in bed. Oh yeah and how about how you steal all these words from my teeth and fingers and call them yours (yeah you left out that part) and then have the heart to accuse me. That thing aint beating in your chest, its counting down. The spotlights your only home but don't get too comfortable. Its almost too perfect. Too voyeuristic as I watch you go down. Too good to be true.

Cover of ap: www.livejournal.com/~askheychris  

- petey

June 19, 2004

“sometimes, new jersey”

I've still got my skateandsurf paper bracelett on. 2 months. I am nin love with nj.

June 20, 2004

who's bright idea was it to make captiol "I" and lower case "l" the exact same thing. fucking lame.

June 20, 2004

“R.I.P.”

American nightmare/giveuptheghost- whatever name is over. This band has changed my life in the past few years more than any band has in recent history. Honestly it hurts and feels so strange that its over. If you get a chance buy a record, you won\'t be disappointed.

When people talk to me about reacting to FOB and how it makes them feel, only this band comes to mind. Their music saved my life.

P

June 25, 2004

“there's no greater weapon then her name”

Getting ready for japan. I have so much to say. But its way too early. I don't know when ill get to a computer again. I dyed my hair. Its pink with a bit of black in it. Ask some japanese kids to post them.

Underoath "they're only chasing" is almost thje new "tell all your friends"

Napoleon dynamite is almost the new rushmore

Ilove you is the new...

P

June 26, 2004

kaweii co

boys and girls, deadly cobras and snake charmers. japan is amazing. it is a perfect cartoon over here. we are written in. i am not going to waste too much time typing. i have been keeping a real tour journal of it and will post it when we get back. until then stay lovely.

peter pan

keeprunningyourmouthontheinternetyouresuchajoke

June 27, 2004

im in japan. its real late at night. why would anyone in japan like my band? clandestine- the story is almost done, the release the bats dvd is gonna drop this fally. funny stuff. someone please send me a torch and some faith, cause i just cant see.

peter

- petey

June 29, 2004

this is my heart version 2.0

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June 29, 2004

sorry that picture was huge. try this one instead. i am gonna be dying my hair black when i get back to the states caused i am sick of making pillows red. its been a really great time over here... dont mistake my arrogance for shyness or the other way around. i cant wait to get back out and touring again in the states. thats what feels like home to me- i know i can be hard to understand and deal with at times, so thanks for putting up with me.

please dont hate me

did you expect us to just roll over and die. your mouth is writing checks your heart cant cash.

i miss you guys so much

peter

[mymadcrazydiary]

July ??, 2006 (13 yrs. old)

Saturday

Ok so basicly, it was really cold this morning. We went back to the cabin & packed. Ate break fast. Talked and walked around a little. Went home with Dad.

Inside Jokes from Camp

Pledge your alloigence Does it make you want to lose control? Do the Carlton Etnies are shoes & they’re really really cool... Every party has a pooper that’s why we invited you, party pooper - George Baaahhnks. Brian laugh & Brian walk Try the first one...there’s nothing there..try the 2nd one..how do you like it? it’s fruity..how fruity? really fruity. go tell your friends. Yo! Dishan! DD! Gotta come over here & try this! Spice it up with some Zataran! Rough waters Help me Virgin Mary! Help me 3 Kings of Egypt! I..remember when..you. helped me. pay. the phone bill. So, Maya.....this is how it works.. it’s the devil! Usha, Usha! The Oasis Keg If you stuck a bag over his whole body and left a hole for the mouth.. Daniel’s tryin to get his freak on! Yeah Jasmine dance You would; that’s redunculous... Aw, it sounds like a puppy. I will touch your hair! We have a song 4 everyone Ewww!!! The Notorious Spork “Goodnight everyone, I’m going to Africa.” “And I’m going to Zimbabwe!” “Brian” & Harry Potter Mm, leprosy. delish. We don’t want to see, those pink underpants! “I wanna cuss” “But I can’t”

[gaybd1]

okay fuck it, twilight breaking dawn part 1 I guess

(for the first time ever)

ok fuck I’m really in it now here goes breaking dawn part 1 I guess

I HATE breaking up movies (especially book movies) into 2 parts like just bc Harry Potter did it for a 1000-page book doesn’t mean EVERYONE has to for money now…

Anyway starting strong w another corny quote from Bella

K Jacob couldn’t keep his shirt on gif one second

Bella and Alice girlfriends and comphet already yesss

Getting married SO young it makes so much sense now that I know the author is Mormon lol

Just bc this is normal where I grew up doesn’t mean I like it

Edward looks slightly less weird in this one I think

Omg what hasn’t he told her was he engaged before he turned into a vampire or something

Ohhhhhh juicy

Ok but he is waiting until the last possible moment to tell her this which DOES line up w the rest of his shady personality

Can’t believe this is the 4th movie and my opinion about him still hasn’t changed

So anyway does her dad know about any of this yet or

I’m SORRY I’m still HUNG UP ON getting married SO YOUNG like I know Tom of people who have done it but like these are children???

Tacky af of everyone to wear white to her wedding

Oh it’s a dream. Still. My point stands.

Are we gonna find out in this movie why she’s so special and vampire powers don’t work on her?

I’m starting to think her wild dreams mean something in the same way Alice sees stuff

Rosalie did her hair? Are we sure? Oh I see the back okay fair

I gotta know the budget of this wedding damn

Jessica is the GOAT of this whole series though she says everything exactly like it is

Anyway I just gotta say that I’m perpetually annoyed by the selfishness and stupidity of Bella wanting to throw her life away to be a vampire on purpose

Was that the author again

I hope this wedding scene isn’t too long I’ll be so bored

Oh you KNOW the 2011 fangirlies were losing their MINDS at this in theatres

More shitty soundtrack choices. Oh never mind this is the same song as the end of the first movie. Still sucks though

So are the werewolves and vampires like… good with each other now?

Does Jacobs dad have a problem with Charlie of something

Whoever this Irina is she needs to chill tf out

These speeches are sooo gd awkward. Very realistic

I do like how cool Edward is with Bella’s friendship with Jacob. Kind of ooc for him lol

I just KNOW Bella’s gonna talk to Edward like “ok I married you now make me a vampire” and he’s gonna be like “mmmm not yet”

Wtf why doesn’t he think they can have a honeymoon??

Is vampire dick like super dangerous for humans or something lol

They’re going to rio lol?? How fuckin random??

Wtf Carlisle just like. HAS Brazilian islands to give away??

Okay so they’re finally gonna fuck I guess but I HOPE I don’t have to see it, I CANNOT explain how much I am NOT invested in this straight couple…

I completely just dissociated for most of that but DID HE JUST BREAK THE BED LMFAO

Glad she’s having a good honeymoon but I’m bored af

Oh shit oh man lol he’s like “I bruised you I’m so sorry” but it’s apparently her kink what is going on???

Bro is she pregnant already lol

Wow it must grow like exponentially fast if something

I must be missing something bc I still don’t know why this is like a big deal?

Ohhhh what if they have to turn her so their creepy baby doesn’t kill her

Do they have a private jet or something wtf

Lol why would she call Rosalie of all people

What’s going onnnnn why’s Charlie at jacobs house???

I still don’t know if Charlie knows about the vampires??? I’m guess no??

Ok so Jacob thinks Bella is a vampire now?

Idk why this is all a bit confusing to me

I know he’s gonna see her and she’s gonna have the biggest baby bump

WHY is this a PROBLEM chill Jacob

Ok so is Bella carrying the vampire messiah or Antichrist or something

And now it’ll be hard to make her a vampire?? Bro I feel like I’ve skipped an entire movie

Edward is sooooo dramatic now if Bella dies he wants to die too??? CAN EVERYONE CALM DOWN??

And yeah what’s going on w bella and Rosalie

Teen mom Bella I’m so sorry ur going through this

So yeah doesn’t Jacob fall in love with this baby or something lol

Anyway this baby thing seems like something the valtori or whatever should be involved in

It grows so fast she’s probably gonna be giving birth next week

Jacob almost getting hit by a car lmao

Okayyyyy the werewolves are so extreme now too

This werewolf scene is soooo warrior cats coded (I know nothing about warrior cats maybe it isn’t)

Nice to see Jacob wearing so many more clothes this movie

I’ve had Seth for 5 minutes and I’d already die for him

The Cullens house is so…. Ugly…

We Stan Leah too

Werewolf civil war??

Leah deserves a gf I’m rooting for u girl

What a weird ass yahoo search for Edward

WAIT they name the baby renesmee right?? I’m JUST realizing it’s a combo of Edwards mom and Bella’s moms names that’s cool

I feel so bad Bella is gonna have this baby and Edward isn’t gonna want it at all

Did this book really need to be two movies bc the pacing of this one so far seems too slow

Also very fanficy

Does Charlie have a girlfriend now isn’t that random and sudden

So Edward says the baby is a human?? Then wtf is up with this wild ass pregnancy

Damn I really wish I could see anything in these dark scenes

That’s NOT how I thought renesmee was pronounced lol

Wtffffff did she just BREAK her BACK JESUS CHRIST

Did EDWARD JUST BITE THE BABY OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING

Lollll he was too happy about the baby and Bella just died lmfao

I’m way more okay with her being a vampire if she was gonna die anyway, not if she was gonna be a whiny ass baby about wanting to be special

But anyway yeah really not sure how she’s gonna come back from that one, or how they’ll explain it

Maybe the reason she’s still dead is bc Edwards compressions suck so bad

Stop just biting her everywhere eww

We really don’t need the like molecular animation of it all we get it

Idk why but I’m not completely trusting Rosalie with that baby

Do we know the baby is human btw

Why wouldn’t she have told her parents she was pregnant btw like she could have just pretended she had been for a while

Ohhhh jacobs gonna commit baby use but accidentally fall in love while doing it lmfao

Oh NOOOOOOOO that’s so fucked uppppppp they couldn’t have waited until she was like a little older at least?????

Oh NOW Edward calls for help lolol

Like she’s been dead a while stop being in denial

Is Edward bothered AT ALL that his enemy is in love with his infant daughter lololol

Ready for this bad CGI gauntness to go away though

Oh they really just added in some cgi airbrushing and PALENESS lol vampire skin

All three flashbacks are also unnecessary tbh

okay for some reason I knew about the shot of her opening her eyes all vampy as the very end of this movie

Yeah so that was partially very boring but mostly just a LOT of VERY INTERESTING developments

I still think splitting movies into two halves is very jarring and disorienting for plot and story reasons but at least for this one it KINDA works???

Thank god there’s only one of these left

[thedaveandkimmershow]

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Friday was the day we discovered Villain Con at Universal Studios and how much we absolutely love it.

First time through I scored 35,000-something to Kimmer's 20,000-something. Second time through I scored 360,000-something to her 366,000-something, a bump in score that may have a little to do with actually paying attention to the instruction video after our first try.

Afterward: breakfast. We continued to Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron for a repeat performance of Toad in the Hole for Kimmer, Fish 'n Chips for me.

What can I say? It's our de facto breakfast choice at Universal (even though we've gotta wait 'til after 1030 in the morning to order it).

After breakfast, we're perusing shops, watching kids use their wands sometimes successfully, sometimes not, sometimes dressed in Hogwarts robes, most of the time not, though.

They're pricey as hell.

ChaCHING!!!!

Wandering through Diagon Alley, we happen upon a performance of The Story of the Three Brothers from Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows. It's a puppeteering take on the story that's really quite clever. And still powerful.

Plus, you know, it's a really good tale. 🤔

On our way out of Diagon Alley, we stop across the way for a quite thorough photo op at The Night Bus followed by the nearby Fast & Furious experience that, turns out, we'd alresdy experienced in its entirety during the backlot tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. The Kong experience we did at Islands already had a little bit of overlap but this... was the whole deal without the 3D glasses. Still highly effective, though. And a lot.

Of fun.

After that, it's once again time for a Coke and a root beer float at Schwab's Pharmacy which just never gets old, sitting at the counter with our floats, surrounded by photos of movie stars everywhere you look, all to the instrumental soundtrack to Hooray for Hollywood.

Somewhere between one and two, we get back on our hotel bus, seated in the back across from a coupla guys: one old dude and one older old dude. The first one's holding a Voodoo Donuts box that he said just jumped out at him so I ask Really? Just the one box?

Turns out neither of them are here for the theme parks. They stopped in to pick up tickets for the Horror Nights events that start at 6 in the evening and last 'til 2AM with some of the rides like The Mummy's Revenge and Gringotts still running into the night.

I asked if there are different Horror events and they said there's only one event but with several individual houses.

The older old guy told us Horror Nights started 22 years ago. The old guy said he went 19 years ago, last year, and now this year. I asked the older old guy how many times he's been and he said he's been going from the start

"I haven't been to all of them," he summarized, "but I ain't missed much."

I asked what the best one, the best year, was. He said it was the year, more than ten years ago, when Horror Nights was running simultaneously in both parks. He also mentioned that, at that time, the event wasn't as toned down as it is now.

Not as toned down? What do you mean?

Well... before it was toned down you could have people chasing you with chain saws.

Oh dear God.

It definitely reminded us of the haunted camping in the Pacific Northwest where you have to sign a waiver before they can do that kind of thing.

In the meantime, our bus pulls into its stop at the hotel. We're all about to get up when I say

One more question. After all the years you spent doing this, do you still get scared?

Oh I was never scared. Jump scares sure. But I was never scared.

Dang.

I'm such a wuss I was scared out of my mind just walking through the woods at boy scout camp alone at night with a single flash light.

Too much imagination, then and now, always gets the better of me.

Back in our room, we relax for a bit before getting ready again and heading out to Volcano Bay.

This time around, we're gonna walk around first to see what there is and, when we come upon the first thing, ika Moana of Honu ika Moana, a wide bore tube run that handles five-person inflated rafts, we definitely think we're onto something.

So we're standing at the end of the run when a couple young women come shooting out of the blue tube. When they exit the pool and walk by, we ask them what they thought. One of them says

Did you hear me screaming?

Oh.

They totally recommend both the green and the blue tubes.

What's the difference? we ask.

The green one's calmer.

So we shove our stuff into the nearest locker ($20 for the day) and walk the long walk to the top platform on the green side. Ride it down. Great time.

Seriously.

A better one awaits, though, as we continue our walk and come to Tonga of Tanewha Tubes...

...a thinner bore tube with sections of open tube on the green side which is the one we chose. On this slide, you're on two-person inflatable rafts with both people facing forward as opposed to the other which I traveled exactly backward the entire way down. I even saw Kimmer's hat fly off her head right off the bat, chasing us in the water, down the slide, coming to rest a few feet behind us as we got off that first raft.

After the second slide, Tonga of Tanewha Tubes, we continue along this path that circles the volcano, taking a hard pass on nearly everything more we see that's all very much more intense, more higher, more longer, and sometimes you come shooting out the tube six feet above the water.

When eventually we come to the wave pool, almost a full circuit around the Volcano, we wade across a little bit of it before turning back to the pathway circling the park. We ride Tonga of Tanewha Tubes one more time intending to ride ika Moana of Honu ika Moana but by then it's almost 430 and we really do want to peacefully float a turn or two around the Kopiko Wai Winding River. The lazy one on innertubes.

Which we then do. 😊

After that, a touch after five, we're out of the park, taking a batch of selfies along the way.

After a quick turnaround at the hotel, we're back to Islands of Adventure for our last evening of strolling.

First up, it's Starbucks for Kimmer's peppermint tea. We stop briefly in Toon Lagoon for a touch of tea drinking and people watching. On our way again, we follow the line that comes out of a Family Circus panel in a nearby wall.

It's a riff on what I remember most from that comic strip when I was reading it.

After that, we stroll all the way further to Hogsmeade for Butterbeer and to check on Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure that's, sadly, still a bust.

We're coming up on 8 by now, park closing, so we continue through this section of park we seem to have seen the most: Hogsmeade through Poseidon through Seuss. With night in full descent, we stop at the Caro-Seuss-El for a photo then continue on as Kimmer navigates us into The Cat in the Hat ride which we actually rode during the last five minutes the park was open.

It was a classic end to our day. ☺️

On the bus, we sit across from a family from Arkansas whose daughter's fast asleep on her mother's lap. I tell her it's a fantastic super power kids have. The parents mention how she was wiped out from the day and I mention to them how they similarly look wiped out.

As it happens, they're here with thirty family members on a tandem vacation. He hails from a family of seven siblings: four from dad, three more from step dad. He's the youngest of all those kids while she, on the other hand, is the oldest of four sisters.

He's an electrical engineer. She's an X-ray tech. And her mom takes care of their daughter during those work days. While they've been away, then, her mom's not been shy about reminding them how much she misses her granddaughter.

Go figure.

They've already spent four days in Disney. Their daughter loved all the characters. She wanted to see all the ones she knew. Funny thing is she's not normally social... but ran up to each one and talked and talked and talked.

She's two-and-a-half years old, by the way, and while Universal isn't Disney, she's all about running through the water playground which is how she came to be exhausted and, you know, asleep right now.

I ask if she reads and Kimmer points out she's too young and I point out how Linzy could "read" at that age... but really she was only repeating to me what she knew to be on each page of a favorite book.

That absolutely rang a bell with the family across from us.

Oh... yes. Our daughter does that too.

We talked some empty nesting and how this was like when we just got married. They've actually been many years without a child so this is different for them.

And with that, we bid our fare-thee-wells and head back to our hotel room where Day 6 of our wedding anniversary celebration vacation officially endeth.

☺️