#Just ignore this lol

[storyofmychoices]

Just squint... lol... I wasn't going to post it but then figured ehhh why not lol (but also maybe if I had looked at even one reference 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🙈)

[bulldog-geckorahhhhh]

Oogh. I’m feeling. Not good uh. Tiny vent under cut cause I don’t wanna directly bother anyone because I’m. Scared 👍

Im scared the friends I rely on the most hate me. Im just scared that I keep making mistakes. I may just be bad at reading cue and tone- and it may not even be my fault. I’m fully aware I don’t know all the facts- but I’m SO scared that I’m a problem. I made like. One mistake. But I just can’t help but think they hate me a little. Maybe I need to take a break. But I’m beating myself up over small things. I’m willing to give up things that make me really happy for my friends because I don’t want to upset them. Im not trying to make myself out to be noble or like. Ohhhh pity me I’m giving up stuff but I dunno. I just love my friends 

[will80sbyers]

I hate when I realize I'm not immortal and in the future I'm gonna have to die one way or another

[gemgirl28]

Because it was breaking my heart (and because I cave so easily when asked @simplifiedemotions @sumbul) here's the happily ever after follow up to this.

Hermione carries on, just as she has for the past three years. She drags herself out of bed and into a cold shower to wake herself up each day. She drags herself to the Ministry to push papers and attempt to slice through red tape. She drags herself to her friends homes to show them that yes, I’m okay and no, I don’t want to talk about it and I’m here aren’t  I? Not moping alone at home.

It’s a dull routine, almost numbing in its monotony. Until one evening, after a quiet dinner with Harry and Ginny, there’s a knock on her door.

And he’s here.

She nearly slams the door back in his face, utterly horrified that he’s already seen her in his old shirt and sleep shorts, but he catches it at the last second.

“Please- wait just a moment and then if you never want to see me again, I’ll go but you must know.” Draco swallows, silver eyes a molten swirl of regret and resignation and hope. “I made my choice. I’m free from the marriage contract. And now- now I’m here to let you make your choice. I’ll respect whatever you choose.”

She knows she’s gaping but she can’t help herself. For three years she’d dreamed of this moment, and now it was happening, she couldn’t believe it.

When the silence grows to uncomfortable, he clears his throat and nods. “I- I know it’s not fair of me to have hoped you’d still want me after all this time but- well, I just wanted you to know. Feel free to owl me, or Floo, or anything. I’ll be staying with Theo for the foreseeable future.”

He raises his hand as if to brush back a curl from her face but awkwardly drops it. “I’m sorry it took me so long to do the right thing. But you should know, for me at least, it’s always been you.”

Draco turns to go, but she catches the sleeve of his sport coat and he faces her again.

“I am so furious with you,” she starts, tears slipping down her cheeks. “Just so, so angry.”

His smile is wry and tinged with melancholy when he finally does touch her, catching her tears with his thumb. “You have every right to be.”

“But-” her hands move to his chest, smoothing the lines of the fine material. “But it’s always been you, too.”

“Hermione-”

“You’re free? Completely?” She cuts him off. He nods slowly. “So then no one will protest when I do this.”

She crashes her lips against his. It’s been three years, two months, and four days since he moved out, since the infidelity clause of his betrothal contract took effect, but his lips feel just as much like home as the day he shattered theirs.

“Hermione,” he murmurs against her lips. “Hermione, love,” he begs.

She drags him into her flat, pushing him against the closed door. “Tomorrow we will have a lengthy talk about it all,” she tells him, hands fisting in his shirt. “But tonight I can’t wait another moment to have you.”

“You always have,” he says, pressing her hand over his heart. “I’ll spend the rest of our lives proving you are the only one who has ever held my heart.”

It’s enough for her to drag him to the bedroom, to strip his luxury clothes from him and let him pull his ratty old t-shirt from her. Her head is spinning from the emotional whiplash, but beneath it all she feels a piece of her soul settle, content.

He was home, and he was hers, and it would be theirs.

[1d1195]

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[cero-sleep]

Why am I so bored sjsjvsjsbshsbs

[sillymeter]

[hoshizoralone]

reflection

[grv350m3g4rr3tt]

I've noticed that Netflix will not and cannot stop putting a sex scene every 5 seconds in every show like what's that about. who's actually turned on by this shit lmao Not to mention, it just goes to show how obsessed with sex our society is. Me being a porn addict, I'm not one to talk, but it's different when our whole film industry and society is obsessed with it.

[freshbaked-bread]

this is literally all i could think abt during that ep icl

[steddie-island]

I hate my fucking job.

[squidwithelbows]

Screenshot of the exact moment i knew i was going to be obsessed with jeremy knox

[seagiri]

gravel

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[colourmornings]

Quick note on Charles's speech for fic writers or anyone interested, really.

Charles uses tag questions, where he ends a sentence with a question, doesn't he? I see a lot of "innit" thrown at the end of sentences, which is right, sometimes.

There is unfortunately grammar. First off, if the main verb is negative, the tag will be positive, and vice versa.

When the main verbs in the sentence is a form of "be" or a modal verb (must, could, would, have, will, can, do etc), he's going to repeat that same form at the end of the sentence. An exception to this is a positive main verb of "I am" in which case the tag will be "aren't I?"

"[You're] Not going back to hell, are you?"

"I wouldn't wanna be dead with anyone else, would I?"

"No, we're not going anywhere, are we?"

"Well, I can't see where you're pointing to, can I?"

"We don't want a repeat of the infamous puppy debacle of '94, do we?"

He uses "innit" a lot less than people think, I think. It took me a while to find examples of him saying this, I ended up having to search a transcript. It follows the same rules as above, except the subject is always a thing, or the pronoun "it," and the main sentence is positive, so that the tag can be the negative "innit" (isn't it). *Edit* "innit" is not used as a question! It's mainly used to reinforce a talking point! (Thank you @elizabear). While the other tags are like rhetorical questions, this one is flat tonally and can end with a period, too.

"Boxing's a gentleman's sport, innit?"

"Magical void, innit?"

"That's the injustice we fight, innit?"

When the verb is not one of those above" he uses a form of "do."

"Well, that sounds a lot like you, doesn't it?"

"Wanna keep things professional, don't I?"

Charles also ends a lot of sentences with just the word "yeah."

"Psychic thing makes case work go a lot faster, yeah?"

I am usamerican, but I have a masters in Linguistics. People who actually use tag questions, though, please add on or correct me!

[accidentalchaosentity]

I feel bad for complaining cuz all my friends are in some rough spots too and I don't want my only interactions with them to be making them worry over something no one can do anything about but God damn this shit is rough I feel like I'm fucking rotting and hell I kinda look like it but I've got shit to do I can't just lay here I don't want to just lay here and throw myself yet another pity party that doesn't do anything I want to be getting my life together but noooooooo I can barely move