#I am ANNOYED tonight!

[nightwingcomplex]

What a fucking fandom, huh!

(etc, etc, etc)

[daeyumi]

painting in the depths

more self insert x canon 🩵

[missingpucks]

he said :D

[myokk]

fast sketch of ominis & fast intro to the ominis longfic I'm working on!! This is going to be the most self-indulgent pride and prejudice ripoff that ever existed, 100% based on the ominis of my oneshot💘

I am just OBSESSED with exploring the idea that he’s a natural legilimens & OBSESSED with the thought that he thinks too much for his own good🫶🫶🫶

Ominis Gaunt has always suspected he is cold-blooded.

It makes sense, really.

He always seems to be cold: frigid, long fingers that are often stiff and difficult to move; goosebumps raising the skin of his arms and the back of his neck any time he walks through the drafty halls of the dungeons; even his eyes, he has been told, are reminiscent of ice. They are apparently quite unsettling. The only time he feels comfortable in his body is when he basks in the heat of the sun.

His earliest memory is of the cold. It went like this: he was four years old: his older brother, Marvolo, had led him outside as a joke, he swore up and down that it was just a small joke, and how was he supposed to know that poor, blind Ominis would not be able to find his way back home? When his parents had finally found him, his frail mother sobbing and holding his tiny, blue, hypothermic body to her chest, Ominis remembers feeling quite perturbed at the disturbance. Couldn’t he just be left alone, in the silent soft snow?

He does not know if he has ever felt warm since.

As he strides through the dungeons, the copious amount of warming charms he casts on himself do not seem to be enough, but he keeps casting them anyways and also: wrapping his wool scarf more tightly around his neck, quickening his pace in the hopes that blood flows more easily through his limbs, wishing that he had remembered his gloves. Winter is always a terrible time of year (this winter more terrible than usual), and every breath of warm air leaves his lips reluctantly. How he wishes that he could just hold on to it a bit longer and yet the warmth leaves him precisely fifteen traitorous times a minute, the frigid air gleefully entering and burning its way down his throat in response. Maybe it’s a punishment of some sort.

His whole life has been defined by punishments and sometimes he preoccupies himself with the thought that it is the only way he can view the world. Most of the punishments are manifested in curses inherited from his family. (His parents and Marvolo insist that they are gifts, but Ominis begs to differ.)

First, his blindness: the only true punishment-curse that even his family rejects: caused by inbreeding, no doubt. He did not cry after his birth and his mother cradled his tiny body in silent arms, lovingly whispering nonsense-evil-Parseltongue to him but when he opened his eyes and she saw a brilliant celestine blue with no iris, she screamed in horror and shattered the frigid peace of the room. His parents tried everything to fix him, make him whole, throwing money at various possible solutions to no avail. Magically induced disabilities are not, apparently, curable by magic.

Ominis is not sure that he hates being blind, although he suspects everyone thinks that he should. It is as much a part of him as his fifteen-breaths-per-minute, and he thinks that vision is not all it’s cracked up to be. He is always terrified at the thought that his tenuous hold on sanity is only due to the fact that he cannot see, until he realizes he shouldn’t be terrified of hypothetical situations that cannot come to pass. He consoles himself with the thought that maybe, if he has had to give up his vision for his sanity, it is a small price to pay. Although, he also thinks sometimes that it would be nice to live a life without any morality holding him back.

He is entirely too introspective, after all.

It is precisely this introspection that is his downfall in this moment (and his cold blood). Ominis is so busy casting warming charms on himself and thinking in circles that he cannot use his wand to help him sense his environment and so he should not be surprised when he crashes into her.

And yet he is. Terribly surprised.

Maybe if he were not so caught up in his own thoughts he could have paid more attention to his surroundings. Instead, he spent too much time ruminating on his reptilian heritage and has now barreled head first into his arch-nemesis.

Rosalie Harris.

The girl who has stolen his oldest friend from him.

The girl who is currently making angry noises as she clambers to her feet and is picking up the things that he has crashed everywhere. Even if he could see, Ominis is not sure he would help her. Helping her would be akin to betraying himself, after all.

“Hey! Watch where you’re - oh, hello, Ominis.”

“Rosalie,” he says shortly, nodding his head where he thinks she might be standing and stepping to the side. He tightens his grip around his wand, feeling the texture of the wood change from rough to smooth as he runs his thumb down it. Smooth where he always seems to worry it, rough where the wood refuses to yield to the brushes of his thumb.

He surreptitiously casts the spell - he has at least done it so many times he no longer needs to say it out loud - and his surroundings light up. Or, he supposes that is the most apt description, considering he cannot actually differentiate between light and dark. He senses Rosalie’s silhouette to his left - she is standing with her arms crossed and her foot taps impatiently as she waits for him.

Waiting for what? he thinks, slightly irritated. She never seems to leave him alone and he wracks his brain trying to think of something, anything he can say to get rid of her.

Maybe if he speaks in Parseltongue, she would finally be scared away for good. He does not really want that second reminder of his family’s curse, though.

His family preferred speaking in Parseltongue with each other, believing the ability made them morally superior to everyone else and Ominis had not even realized until he had arrived at Hogwarts that no, it was not normal. When his name had been called at the Sorting, furious whispers had erupted amongst all the students, and his every step (terrified, confused, unsure - he had still been getting used to using his wand to navigate his surroundings) to the stool at the front of the Great Hall was plagued with a susurration reminiscent of snakes. Except these whispers, sneaking their way into his mind, had been unkind and overwhelming.

(He had not realized in that moment that he was also hearing their thoughts.)

Maybe now, with Rosalie standing in front of him and just annoyingly waiting for Merlin-knows-what, Ominis should use his Legilimency to find out what Rosalie wants. (He hates it, though.) It would not be difficult. (The thought makes him shiver in horror because he doesn’t want to abuse the ability.) He can feel the edges of her mind, her magic, and all he has to do is reach out - she is right there, and -

“Ominis?”

Her arms are crossed, he hears an impatient huff.

Why hasn’t she left him alone yet?

Hadn’t the Hogwarts Express already left the station, bringing all of the students home for the winter holiday? Ominis had thought he would be one of the only students left in the castle, and if he is being honest with himself, he had been looking quite forward to having the place to himself.

Ominis’s winter has just gotten infinitely worse.

Going to Gaunt Manor for the holidays is out of the question (he will not think about the nightmares that have been plaguing him ever since he received the owl demanding he go home), and Ominis does not want to be more of a burden to the Sallows. They already do enough for him over the summer, and Sebastian and Anne have convinced him to go to Hogsmeade with them at least twice over the next two weeks. Besides, with Anne’s curse progressing, Ominis does not want to be in the way.

“Why are you still here?” Ominis asks. He knows his voice comes across as cold as his blood, blunt, but he cannot help himself. Ever since Rosalie arrived - her entrance to Hogwarts also causing quite the stir - Ominis has been intensely annoyed by her presence. She is too happy. Too carefree. Too…well, everything he is not.

And, she does not seem to leave him alone.

Rosalie is always there, always hanging around Sebastian. (Taking Sebastian away.) He even showed her the Undercroft, which had almost caused a rift in their relationship. Ominis could not believe that Sebastian would be so careless, showing someone who for all intents and purposes is crashing her way into their lives, forcing them to pay attention to her. They barely even knew her, and yet Sebastian thought it was a good idea to show her such a sacred place?

(It does not help that she is intelligent, and Ominis has caught himself on more than one occasion about to ask her about her opinion on something before he catches himself.)

“I was looking for you.”

Ominis tilts his head at that and fiddles with his ring. He considers walking away, leaving -

“I mean…Sebastian said that you were also going to be here over the holidays and since everyone else just left I thought -”

“Thought what?” Internally, Ominis winces at the biting tone to his voice. It came out harsher than he intended, his voice loud and echoing through his mind, bouncing off the cold, stone walls surrounding them.

[jonathanbyersphd]

Stranger Things + Tumblr Text Posts pt 34 (Jancy's Version)

[words-writ-in-starlight]

You could say that I have strong feelings about this ongoing debate

[itsoverfeeling]

ultrawoman taro's little hair decorations, based on her mother's!

... and then subsequent reason she gave up on wearing them

[neiptune]

gojo would proceed to sing I'm just ken at the top of his lungs every single day for at least a week after seeing barbie

[aibouart]

uurgg... red.........

WOOGOGOGOG red.......... (left is actually Pangaea)

i have no coherent thoughts but want to share him. i am thinking much about him and spinning him in his my minds eye.

what if u had a boyfriend and he was so full of angst secretly.............

but he always looks at u like this.......

HRHEHRHE

ok im done making this post long. wish i had a coherent backstory to at least dump about but in their universe, every AU is canon at the same time, and that's a lot of AUs JKBSDJKFJKDS

i kinda wanna make a blog where all my OCs ever are askable, not like it'd have a direction it'd just be one of those things to mess with if you wanted to see how they'd react, but honestly atp may as well do that here (or my personal).

[roseworth]

what a fucking week (it’s 2 pm on a monday)

[benisasoftboi]

Front row seat tonight at Operation Mincemeat!

…which is much less glamorous than it sounds, because this wonderful play is, unfortunately, still relegated to the Fortune Theatre. One day you will tour, Mincemeat, and I will see you in an environment fit for the 5’ 1” with weirdly long feet.

(Yes, I currently have a job researching theatrical history. No, that does not necessarily mean I enjoy actually attending - or working in - historic theatres)

Brief notes:

I’m pretty sure it was Holly Sumpton playing Monty (my favourite) tonight. Really embarrassing if I’m wrong about that given how close I was, but I’m bad with faces. She plays the role in a slightly more grounded, gentle way than I’d previously seen/heard on the soundtrack. It makes for a different feeling story, because Monty feels a lot more human this way, which in turn makes everything else feel a little less outlandish as well. Not a criticism of anyone, this is why I love theatre - different people in the same roles results in slightly different stories! And that is so cool!

also she is very pretty hi Holly Sumpton if you’re out there I was the woman in the red coat who was staring at you like a cat all evening, I think we made eye contact a few times, I’m sorry you’re just very very talented and also beautiful

also also she did the funniest goddamn voice for her bit of Das Übermensch

The whole cast is great to be clear I just really like Monty. Or, enjoy? Is probably the better word? I hate that I like him? I find him the most interesting. So I very much had a point of focus tonight

But interestingly, I believe it was mostly covers/alternates this evening, so that was cool. Jonty Peach and Geri Allen (again, hope that’s right) made a great Hester and Jean, respectively. Teared up a little at their Useful

The first time I saw the show, the follow spot was late to Spilsbury’s appearance during his reprise. I’ve seen a promo video where it’s on time, and it was on time tonight, so I think the first time was a mistake, but I actually think that was funnier - like even the LX operator was surprised

Tiny bit of corpsing in the All The Ladies bit of Glitzy Finale when they flubbed the words a little, I could see the actors laughing about it, it was cute. Think Sumpton might have been fighting laughs at one or two points as well. I love live theatre so much

(no one who doesn’t know that song off by heart and wasn’t sitting in the front row would have ever known - that’s professionalism!)

I didn’t realise until today that they sing the final Sail on Boys bit of Glitzy Finale in their natural voices. But I could hear Seán Carey switch into Irish, and Jonty Peach sounded different too. I think that is wonderful. I adore the ending already, and that detail just adds to it. Such a good play.

my god if musical theatre doesn’t make people spitty

[mitamicah]

This feels especially targetted to me somehow 😅🤣

[flowering-darkness]

..well, I can at least say I’ve written over 1300 words today

..they just haven’t been for anything I was supposed to be working on, like exam revision

(because they were for an arilio scene instead)

[chronicowboy]

actually so low on morale.

[therussiancourier]

this would be my coming out post if i hadn't posted "gay boys where are you" like 20 times sometime back. (and had to delete all the posts due to paranoia from the antigay laws 'n' shit but im on tumblr nobody checks tumblr. right?) gay boys where are you i desperately need you

0_0 <- literally him

i DID warn you that i will go insane tonight at some degree thehethehhehethtehtehthehththehetheh

WILL NOT APOLOGISEIZE(Im so sorry for posting)

[gregoftom]

TO ME, THAT’S CINEMA