#KG Astoria

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  𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓵𝓮𝓽      …     twenty-six, healing student, knights 2ɪᴄ, 𝖌𝖆𝖜𝖆𝖎𝖓.

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makes you think of ... the stillness of the world the moment you take the first step into fresh snow, cashmere & fine wool brushing the inside of your wrist, the pearlescence of dreamless sleep draught, the scratch of a quill on parchment, faintly tremoring fingers, draping yourself dramatically onto the sofa like a fainting couch, a shiver up your spine in a warm room, the exhilaration of a problem solved, chin up high as your heart beats out of your chest, a thunderous grey overcast sky, the bite of a stitching charm, sleeves rolled up to the elbows, petrichor, the burn in your eyes before a well of tears, the long victory even if it takes years of late nights and sore bones.

always a riddle in the world, she said.

FULL NAME: Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy GENDER: shrug | he/they AGE: Twenty-six BIRTHDATE: January 20th PARENTS: Draco Malfoy & Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass) Adopted

always a riddle inside your head.

BIRTHPLACE: St. Mungo’s Hospital, England HEIGHT: 5’11” WEIGHT: 56 kg ATTRACTION: Demiromantic Bisexual NATIONALITY: British MARKS: A ragged diamond shape scar at the base of his throat that almost looks opalescent in some lights.

always a thing to wonder the way we come to be.

BLOOD STATUS: Pureblood HOGWARTS HOUSE: Slytherin WAND ARM: Right PET: A crested toad named Jarvis (IV). PATRONUS: Arctic Fox WAND: 11 2/3 inches, Willow, Supple, Dragon Heartstring.

Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power, and I have noted that the ideal owner for a willow wand often has some (usually unwarranted) insecurity however well they may try and hide it. While many confident customers insist on trying a willow wand (attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic) my willow wands have consistently selected those of greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn. It has always been a proverb in my family that he who has furthest to travel will go fastest with willow.

TRAITS: brilliant, innovative, empathetic, magnanimous, resourceful, loquacious, conscientious, adaptable, fair, individual, inventive, logical, diligent, over-intellectualizes emotions, dismissive, anxious, crotchety tempered, capricious, stubborn, facetious, rigid, prone to self-isolation & intellectual arrogance.

revontulet, which literally translates to “fox fire.” legend says that an arctic fox dashed across the tundra swiping snow up into the sky, while others claim his bushy tail caused sparks when brushing the peaks of tall mountains to create the aurora borealis.

[ parental death cw, substance abuse cw ]

I.

Centuries of tradition manifest, Malfoy Manor in its cold glory leaning in around you like a protective set of gnashed teeth has always been your home. Every first conscious memory is of your mother's smile above you and the kindness in your dad's hands. Consequence and penance aren't concepts you're privy to, not yet, they patiently explain every 'why' and 'how' question you fire off as soon as you get your clever tongue around the syllables; feeding your mind whenever it leaned helplessly toward knowledge like a plant toward the sun.

There was a warmth to the place, thick piled rugs and less oppressive air of rank fear and misery, more delicious cooking smells with whatever bounty had been harvested from the walled gardens for the vases that day. Your memories are of falling asleep high in the boughs of a weeping willow, dipping its thin tresses into the clear brook far below, its susurration lulling your eyes closed. Reading in high-backed armchairs in the library swaddled in furs, your mother's wand refilling your hot chocolate every two hours.

No blood varnishing the lacquer in the dining room, or the afterimage of torment ringing in the main hall.

Though sometimes late at night something ancient makes your teeth ache, and you wake up with your heart in your molars as something huge and without limbs propelled itself through your dreams across the floor in the hall into your waking thought.

Altan's knee pressed alongside yours on the stairs in Grimmauld Place, grazed by the escalating antics that only a house full of siblings could bring. One small hand of yours feels magnetized, warm and almost singing. When you bring those digits away the sluggishly bleeding mark is gone, your grin crooked and shining.

It isn't always so easy, for you. Ministry functions, grown-up family events filled you with dread and boredom. That incessant buzz of a hundred souls swarming around you, their emotions striking up the broad side of you like you needed wards to help you from absorbing it all. Taking up the pigmented hue of feeling like watercolour, the blues running and running no matter how hard you tried to stay in the lines.

When you were eight you got caught owling multiple senior mediwixen at the best institutions across Europe to ask their professional opinion, on how best to seal up your tear ducts when you finally got your wand.

II.

School is everything, the anticipation makes you glow and flicker in equal measure. A place dedicated to learning... Leaving the only home you'd ever known. You're more fully formed, finally, smart-mouthed but still caring, an uncanny wiseness to your smallness, a voracious appetite for knowledge.

Slytherin. The old thing so torn between the incessant questions you fired and the pure unbridled entitlement driving behind it that you stalled it for a minute and a half. You're not sure if your parents are surprised, your letter reaches them first thing September 2nd.

Since the world got bigger and you could no longer cinch your fingers tight in your mother's skirt and hide behind her leg; you'd always lived with some great yawning fearful dread, feeling on the precipice of something terrible that had your stomach heaving great swoops of vertigo at random times as though your body could prepare you.

You realise on your knees in the garden, on your knees in the blood, the blood that will feed the grass and make it grow; when the forget-me-nots open in the spring because time won't listen to your grief you'll lie in the shape they make in the dearth of her and pretend. Pretend. You realise, on your knees in the garden, you will never be ready when the other shoe drops.

The birds in the distance hadn't even stopped singing, only a lone Jobberknoll had flapped its wings out of the closest oak. The orangery stained glass hadn't shattered, rainclouds hadn't drawn in, there had been no accompanying swell of heartrending orchestral music. Just her absence, the absence of life stark against the world already moving on without her and how she didn't make sense in it anymore.

What happened? Tell me, what happened!

You don't speak. For a week, two. You can't, it isn't true. It isn't until Lila has to wrap her arm across your shoulders and help you duck away from the Shrivelfig planters in the greenhouses the first time you see Thestrals breach the canopy of the Forbidden forest. At heart you're a scholar, the hard evidence makes your chordae tendineae fray, near snap like broken piano strings.

What you'd dreamed of your whole life lands neatly in your lap. Apathy, curled around you like a familiar cloak. Standing three feet behind and one step to the left of yourself preparing for your OWLs, physically you were where you'd always been at Hogwarts, stepping carefully in the footprints of the boy you were a year ago, the boy as dead as his mother.

Your mind is keen still, the part that categorizes data is still working the auxiliary systems. Quill to parchment, nose in a book. Your father needs you, you need each other. Your grip on him now, like iron. If you puppeted things just right you could have the right to be indignant if anyone called you on it, even if they saw you with cleaner eyes than you'd ever caught through a glimpse of yourself in any mirror. Even if they saw how you wore yourself like an ill-fitting coat, as though old boots pinched your soul too tight.

III.

Prefect. Quidditch Commentator. The work. Make sure dad eats, forget to eat yourself. Take dreamless sleep draught to rest, repeat.

You've got some colour back of your own now, you can feel it again but you distract yourself with never pausing for a moment, never sitting still with the grief that creeps sluggishly toward you. You work like it's chasing you, like the world's slowest wild hunt could crawl into the dungeons at any moment but, you know. You know that you can't run from something that originates from you, deep in the pit of your belly, dark and knotted against your ribs.

You're so blinded by your petty teenage troubles and your own eclipsing darkness that the world starts to slip, outside your window. The careful cradle of post-war prosperity, the previous reform of the ministry. The shadows start to creep back into frame.

You know what is right, you've always known it. Your friends are good for you, bringing you a self-assuredness that didn't come naturally. You'll fight for it, die for it. You aren't a natural dueller but your defensive charms are incredibly strong, your potioneering knowledge even more so, poisons and venoms develop into careful weapons. Non-lethal and terrible.

You staunchly oppose the resurrection. Watching the ever-present spark in Lila's eye turn flinty in shock. Everything in you, fibre to your bones rails against it, is it because you've finally grown accustomed to the howling grief, just got it to quieten? Jealousy? Guilt? You dig your heels in, it's so rare that you rise to occasions but the only way the other Knights were wresting this snake was to cut off your head.

IV.

You nearly lose your apprenticeship developing the modified patronus charm, passing out at your desk in the labs. You are consumed by it, the project, the experimentation. You darken doorways at strange hours for opinions on obscure theory, elements of the magic, the importance of ritual and their thoughts on your experiments with dementors. It wasn't said, in any sort of terms, they all knew that you wouldn't let it go if they forbade you, that you'd go down with your jaw locked around the puzzle by yourself if they did.

What they didn't know is that even if they did assist you, you'd go ahead anyway. As the first iteration of what you had all made bloomed to fruition before your eyes, beneath your hands, a gnawing doubt started to form. Not an alarm but irritating, like a hang nail.

You could never ask anyone to take that risk, not when it was your responsibility. Not until you knew it was safe.

You find the fixed point of yourself in the universe as the ritual completes, you tear it up. Every single layer of your soul flays away from you, matter coalescing something to form in colours your eyes have no cones to capture. Time, space bend like wire and there is light shining out of you in every direction, cutting thread whilst also weaving it. You reach out with no bodily hands but the whole singing ream of you toward ribbons of your magic: inhaling it home with its torn, ragged edges.

You die. For one minute and thirty-seven seconds, after you slump limply to the floorboards from the piano stool, you stop breathing. A ball of snow-white fur is encircled, bracketed by your unmoving chest and you don't wake up. Rennervate jolting your form hopelessly, unoccupied.

You're good at your work. You limit the burnt, iron taste that lingered in the back of your sinuses for weeks, the numbness of your extremities and the crimson-eyed stare of the burst blood vessels, your ears trickling scarlet, your nose. No one else has to see what you have seen, they come to you and ask if it's ready and if they didn't already have every step in this intriguing dance of experimentation in too many minds to obliviate: you'd destroy it. You'd destroy it all.

You love Cleo. You're terrified for her, the sleek little arctic fox putting to word feelings you'd much rather bury.

You still can't take any life other than your own.

Always had somewhat fragile health tending toward sickly. Hands are never warm. Bruises like a peach and scars so easily.

Views quidditch as a good fly spoiled.  

Is a very skilled pianist.

Has a fabric sling that he wears across his torso that Cleo (his daemon) is often curled up in. Looks like a single dad at meetings, toad on his shoulder.

While very eloquent and well-spoken, he is markedly less posh than when he first arrived at Hogwarts.

When he isn’t prone to bouts of insomnia he can take a nap pretty much anywhere. He was once found in a tree after several frantic hours search.

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It’s a freezing morning in Astoria, Queens, and the cast of the new off-Broadway play All Nighter is giddy to be in the same room. “We’ve been line-reading over FaceTime, but this is the first time we’ve all been together,” Kathryn Gallagher says from her makeup chair. “A never-before-seen group,” Alyah Chanelle Scott chimes in from two seats down. It’s early, but the joy is palpable. Everyone on set has been waiting for this day.We’re at a photo studio to shoot promotional images for the show, opening in previews Feb. 25. While the plot remains a bit of a mystery — five college seniors pulling their last all-nighter of finals week, with secrets revealed and tensions mounting as the hours pass — the cast is stacked with young Hollywood’s brightest. Between them, they’ve been on Broadway, starred in beloved TV shows like The Sex Lives of College Girls and The Buccaneers, and appeared in critically acclaimed films like Bottoms.These five women — Gallagher, Scott, Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Julia Lester — have orbited each other for years, but spending time with them, you’d guess they were a real group of longtime pals. “I needed a healing, girl-centered environment, and this experience has been that for me so far,” Liu says. Here, the cast dishes on the power of female friendships and what audiences can expect from the play’s 12-week run — namely, a “very freaking fun” time.What can people expect when they come to this show? I’m so intrigued by the plot synopsis.Kathryn Gallagher: I’ve been a legitimate fan of this play for six years. My best friend [Natalie Margolin] wrote it, and from the first reading in her apartment, this was exactly the kind of theater I wanted to see, which was all about the complex dynamics of a young woman about to embark on the real world.Havana Rose Liu: We see a lot of stuff about girls going from high school to college, but the period of time at the end of college is pretty terrifying. It's right when the wheels start to fall off the bus in terms of your individuation and figuring out the rest of your life. Truth can be a fickle concept, and this play does an interesting job of introducing that idea — the truth you tell yourself versus what’s actually true, and how everyone's truth is a bit different. It’s also my first play!KG: My first play, too.Julia Lester: Same. Well, I did a play in high school, but does that count? No.HRL: But you guys have been on Broadway.KG: Yeah, in musicals, but those are different.HRL: OK, I was like, “Y’all are liars!” Our truths are not the same. This is my first time on stage. I wanted a safe place to try it, and this feels like a safe place.Kristine Froseth: It’s my first time on stage, too. I was drawn to the female friendships and the nuances of how the characters are being honest and dishonest with each other. It's interesting to check in on the narratives they create for themselves.Alyah Chanelle Scott: Also, it's a fun show. It's 90 minutes with no intermission. It's a high-speed f*cking roller coaster, and then it crashes and burns. My boyfriend came to the reading — I didn't tell him anything in advance — and he was like, "That's the most fun I've ever had watching people sit at a table and talk."KG: It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.Between the five of you, you’ve been in so many different projects about high school and college girls. What do you pull from in your own lives to channel those experiences?KG: Anyone who's been a 21- or 22-year-old girl has experienced the absolute mania of trying to figure out who you are. You can't escape trying on a million different versions of yourself before you land somewhere in the middle. I feel like I knew who I was as a kid, and the furthest away I ever felt from myself was at age 21, and now I'm making a return.HRL: I feel that way, too.ACS: That’s my dream.KG: I’m older than you, so you're on your way.ACS: You're not that much older. How old are you?KG: 31.ACS: I’m 27.KG: A lot happens in those years. You’re entering your Saturn return.ACS: I'm craving it.KG: Oh God, it's hell. But the biggest thing I've pulled from is growing up, and that real moment of thinking, "I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to be doing, so I'm going to try it all on really fast."JL: The show takes place in 2014, and at that time, I was searching for a group like this. It was my freshman year of high school, and I was navigating a new school with all these kids who already knew each other. I bounced around between different groups until I found my people, and it was five girls who carried me through the rest of my high school experience. It's really cool to have a full-circle moment of being in a group like the one I was trying to find in my high-school years.It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.HRL: I went to a small liberal arts college for the first year and a half of college in upstate New York. It was right around 2016, pre-Trump election. It was an interesting time, culturally, to be a girl — there was a complicated mix of empowerment and disempowerment, and individuating from not only the way you grew up perceiving yourself, but from the way society perceived you. It was a very interesting “girl boss” time for feminism in general. Being in a bubble of a small college, within a small female friend group like the characters in this show, is like a magnifying glass of that feeling.ACS: When I was growing up, I watched TV and always loved seeing these little white girls bouncing around, being rich and pretty. I thought, "I want to be rich and pretty, too. That's the vibe I want to give.”You manifested.ACS: This is a self-fulfilling prophecy of me wanting to be Hannah Montana in real life. But in a real way, I love that I'm playing Tessa, who is someone a different character aspires to be. It's typically the reverse — I'm used to playing this self-conscious person who aspires to be the other girl, so this is a fun world to be in.HRL: What a personal arc.ACS: I really did manifest this. Sorry, that’s the most vain answer. I’m on Disney Channel in my head. Who isn't?JL: Not me, that was real life [on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series]. But we've graduated. I'm in college now.You all have such a great connection IRL. What’s it going to be like to bring that to the stage?ACS: There’s something magical about there not being a barrier between an audience and what you see on stage. When you do things on a TV set, you're really just a cog in a machine that's someone else's medium. With this, there's no one between us and them. It's scary, but at the same time it's so f*cking fun.KF: I'm scared.HRL: Me too. Don't throw tomatoes at us.JL: The tone of this play allows us to have the freedom to stumble over our feet and play off of each other. I feel like if it gets too rigid, it's going to lose the fun, so I'm giving myself a lot of grace to just be.HRL: By giving yourself that grace, you're giving it to me, too.ACS: Even if the worst thing happens, it’s going to be fine. You're not alone. We could say anything, and we would still find our way back to where we're supposed to be.KG: In the words of Hannah Montana, "You'll always find your way back home."All Nighter begins previews Feb. 25 at the Newman Mills Theater, with opening night on March 9. It runs through May 18, and tickets are available for all dates.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Source link

[norajworld]

It’s a freezing morning in Astoria, Queens, and the cast of the new off-Broadway play All Nighter is giddy to be in the same room. “We’ve been line-reading over FaceTime, but this is the first time we’ve all been together,” Kathryn Gallagher says from her makeup chair. “A never-before-seen group,” Alyah Chanelle Scott chimes in from two seats down. It’s early, but the joy is palpable. Everyone on set has been waiting for this day.We’re at a photo studio to shoot promotional images for the show, opening in previews Feb. 25. While the plot remains a bit of a mystery — five college seniors pulling their last all-nighter of finals week, with secrets revealed and tensions mounting as the hours pass — the cast is stacked with young Hollywood’s brightest. Between them, they’ve been on Broadway, starred in beloved TV shows like The Sex Lives of College Girls and The Buccaneers, and appeared in critically acclaimed films like Bottoms.These five women — Gallagher, Scott, Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Julia Lester — have orbited each other for years, but spending time with them, you’d guess they were a real group of longtime pals. “I needed a healing, girl-centered environment, and this experience has been that for me so far,” Liu says. Here, the cast dishes on the power of female friendships and what audiences can expect from the play’s 12-week run — namely, a “very freaking fun” time.What can people expect when they come to this show? I’m so intrigued by the plot synopsis.Kathryn Gallagher: I’ve been a legitimate fan of this play for six years. My best friend [Natalie Margolin] wrote it, and from the first reading in her apartment, this was exactly the kind of theater I wanted to see, which was all about the complex dynamics of a young woman about to embark on the real world.Havana Rose Liu: We see a lot of stuff about girls going from high school to college, but the period of time at the end of college is pretty terrifying. It's right when the wheels start to fall off the bus in terms of your individuation and figuring out the rest of your life. Truth can be a fickle concept, and this play does an interesting job of introducing that idea — the truth you tell yourself versus what’s actually true, and how everyone's truth is a bit different. It’s also my first play!KG: My first play, too.Julia Lester: Same. Well, I did a play in high school, but does that count? No.HRL: But you guys have been on Broadway.KG: Yeah, in musicals, but those are different.HRL: OK, I was like, “Y’all are liars!” Our truths are not the same. This is my first time on stage. I wanted a safe place to try it, and this feels like a safe place.Kristine Froseth: It’s my first time on stage, too. I was drawn to the female friendships and the nuances of how the characters are being honest and dishonest with each other. It's interesting to check in on the narratives they create for themselves.Alyah Chanelle Scott: Also, it's a fun show. It's 90 minutes with no intermission. It's a high-speed f*cking roller coaster, and then it crashes and burns. My boyfriend came to the reading — I didn't tell him anything in advance — and he was like, "That's the most fun I've ever had watching people sit at a table and talk."KG: It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.Between the five of you, you’ve been in so many different projects about high school and college girls. What do you pull from in your own lives to channel those experiences?KG: Anyone who's been a 21- or 22-year-old girl has experienced the absolute mania of trying to figure out who you are. You can't escape trying on a million different versions of yourself before you land somewhere in the middle. I feel like I knew who I was as a kid, and the furthest away I ever felt from myself was at age 21, and now I'm making a return.HRL: I feel that way, too.ACS: That’s my dream.KG: I’m older than you, so you're on your way.ACS: You're not that much older. How old are you?KG: 31.ACS: I’m 27.KG: A lot happens in those years. You’re entering your Saturn return.ACS: I'm craving it.KG: Oh God, it's hell. But the biggest thing I've pulled from is growing up, and that real moment of thinking, "I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to be doing, so I'm going to try it all on really fast."JL: The show takes place in 2014, and at that time, I was searching for a group like this. It was my freshman year of high school, and I was navigating a new school with all these kids who already knew each other. I bounced around between different groups until I found my people, and it was five girls who carried me through the rest of my high school experience. It's really cool to have a full-circle moment of being in a group like the one I was trying to find in my high-school years.It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.HRL: I went to a small liberal arts college for the first year and a half of college in upstate New York. It was right around 2016, pre-Trump election. It was an interesting time, culturally, to be a girl — there was a complicated mix of empowerment and disempowerment, and individuating from not only the way you grew up perceiving yourself, but from the way society perceived you. It was a very interesting “girl boss” time for feminism in general. Being in a bubble of a small college, within a small female friend group like the characters in this show, is like a magnifying glass of that feeling.ACS: When I was growing up, I watched TV and always loved seeing these little white girls bouncing around, being rich and pretty. I thought, "I want to be rich and pretty, too. That's the vibe I want to give.”You manifested.ACS: This is a self-fulfilling prophecy of me wanting to be Hannah Montana in real life. But in a real way, I love that I'm playing Tessa, who is someone a different character aspires to be. It's typically the reverse — I'm used to playing this self-conscious person who aspires to be the other girl, so this is a fun world to be in.HRL: What a personal arc.ACS: I really did manifest this. Sorry, that’s the most vain answer. I’m on Disney Channel in my head. Who isn't?JL: Not me, that was real life [on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series]. But we've graduated. I'm in college now.You all have such a great connection IRL. What’s it going to be like to bring that to the stage?ACS: There’s something magical about there not being a barrier between an audience and what you see on stage. When you do things on a TV set, you're really just a cog in a machine that's someone else's medium. With this, there's no one between us and them. It's scary, but at the same time it's so f*cking fun.KF: I'm scared.HRL: Me too. Don't throw tomatoes at us.JL: The tone of this play allows us to have the freedom to stumble over our feet and play off of each other. I feel like if it gets too rigid, it's going to lose the fun, so I'm giving myself a lot of grace to just be.HRL: By giving yourself that grace, you're giving it to me, too.ACS: Even if the worst thing happens, it’s going to be fine. You're not alone. We could say anything, and we would still find our way back to where we're supposed to be.KG: In the words of Hannah Montana, "You'll always find your way back home."All Nighter begins previews Feb. 25 at the Newman Mills Theater, with opening night on March 9. It runs through May 18, and tickets are available for all dates.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Source link

[ellajme0]

It’s a freezing morning in Astoria, Queens, and the cast of the new off-Broadway play All Nighter is giddy to be in the same room. “We’ve been line-reading over FaceTime, but this is the first time we’ve all been together,” Kathryn Gallagher says from her makeup chair. “A never-before-seen group,” Alyah Chanelle Scott chimes in from two seats down. It’s early, but the joy is palpable. Everyone on set has been waiting for this day.We’re at a photo studio to shoot promotional images for the show, opening in previews Feb. 25. While the plot remains a bit of a mystery — five college seniors pulling their last all-nighter of finals week, with secrets revealed and tensions mounting as the hours pass — the cast is stacked with young Hollywood’s brightest. Between them, they’ve been on Broadway, starred in beloved TV shows like The Sex Lives of College Girls and The Buccaneers, and appeared in critically acclaimed films like Bottoms.These five women — Gallagher, Scott, Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Julia Lester — have orbited each other for years, but spending time with them, you’d guess they were a real group of longtime pals. “I needed a healing, girl-centered environment, and this experience has been that for me so far,” Liu says. Here, the cast dishes on the power of female friendships and what audiences can expect from the play’s 12-week run — namely, a “very freaking fun” time.What can people expect when they come to this show? I’m so intrigued by the plot synopsis.Kathryn Gallagher: I’ve been a legitimate fan of this play for six years. My best friend [Natalie Margolin] wrote it, and from the first reading in her apartment, this was exactly the kind of theater I wanted to see, which was all about the complex dynamics of a young woman about to embark on the real world.Havana Rose Liu: We see a lot of stuff about girls going from high school to college, but the period of time at the end of college is pretty terrifying. It's right when the wheels start to fall off the bus in terms of your individuation and figuring out the rest of your life. Truth can be a fickle concept, and this play does an interesting job of introducing that idea — the truth you tell yourself versus what’s actually true, and how everyone's truth is a bit different. It’s also my first play!KG: My first play, too.Julia Lester: Same. Well, I did a play in high school, but does that count? No.HRL: But you guys have been on Broadway.KG: Yeah, in musicals, but those are different.HRL: OK, I was like, “Y’all are liars!” Our truths are not the same. This is my first time on stage. I wanted a safe place to try it, and this feels like a safe place.Kristine Froseth: It’s my first time on stage, too. I was drawn to the female friendships and the nuances of how the characters are being honest and dishonest with each other. It's interesting to check in on the narratives they create for themselves.Alyah Chanelle Scott: Also, it's a fun show. It's 90 minutes with no intermission. It's a high-speed f*cking roller coaster, and then it crashes and burns. My boyfriend came to the reading — I didn't tell him anything in advance — and he was like, "That's the most fun I've ever had watching people sit at a table and talk."KG: It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.Between the five of you, you’ve been in so many different projects about high school and college girls. What do you pull from in your own lives to channel those experiences?KG: Anyone who's been a 21- or 22-year-old girl has experienced the absolute mania of trying to figure out who you are. You can't escape trying on a million different versions of yourself before you land somewhere in the middle. I feel like I knew who I was as a kid, and the furthest away I ever felt from myself was at age 21, and now I'm making a return.HRL: I feel that way, too.ACS: That’s my dream.KG: I’m older than you, so you're on your way.ACS: You're not that much older. How old are you?KG: 31.ACS: I’m 27.KG: A lot happens in those years. You’re entering your Saturn return.ACS: I'm craving it.KG: Oh God, it's hell. But the biggest thing I've pulled from is growing up, and that real moment of thinking, "I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to be doing, so I'm going to try it all on really fast."JL: The show takes place in 2014, and at that time, I was searching for a group like this. It was my freshman year of high school, and I was navigating a new school with all these kids who already knew each other. I bounced around between different groups until I found my people, and it was five girls who carried me through the rest of my high school experience. It's really cool to have a full-circle moment of being in a group like the one I was trying to find in my high-school years.It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.HRL: I went to a small liberal arts college for the first year and a half of college in upstate New York. It was right around 2016, pre-Trump election. It was an interesting time, culturally, to be a girl — there was a complicated mix of empowerment and disempowerment, and individuating from not only the way you grew up perceiving yourself, but from the way society perceived you. It was a very interesting “girl boss” time for feminism in general. Being in a bubble of a small college, within a small female friend group like the characters in this show, is like a magnifying glass of that feeling.ACS: When I was growing up, I watched TV and always loved seeing these little white girls bouncing around, being rich and pretty. I thought, "I want to be rich and pretty, too. That's the vibe I want to give.”You manifested.ACS: This is a self-fulfilling prophecy of me wanting to be Hannah Montana in real life. But in a real way, I love that I'm playing Tessa, who is someone a different character aspires to be. It's typically the reverse — I'm used to playing this self-conscious person who aspires to be the other girl, so this is a fun world to be in.HRL: What a personal arc.ACS: I really did manifest this. Sorry, that’s the most vain answer. I’m on Disney Channel in my head. Who isn't?JL: Not me, that was real life [on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series]. But we've graduated. I'm in college now.You all have such a great connection IRL. What’s it going to be like to bring that to the stage?ACS: There’s something magical about there not being a barrier between an audience and what you see on stage. When you do things on a TV set, you're really just a cog in a machine that's someone else's medium. With this, there's no one between us and them. It's scary, but at the same time it's so f*cking fun.KF: I'm scared.HRL: Me too. Don't throw tomatoes at us.JL: The tone of this play allows us to have the freedom to stumble over our feet and play off of each other. I feel like if it gets too rigid, it's going to lose the fun, so I'm giving myself a lot of grace to just be.HRL: By giving yourself that grace, you're giving it to me, too.ACS: Even if the worst thing happens, it’s going to be fine. You're not alone. We could say anything, and we would still find our way back to where we're supposed to be.KG: In the words of Hannah Montana, "You'll always find your way back home."All Nighter begins previews Feb. 25 at the Newman Mills Theater, with opening night on March 9. It runs through May 18, and tickets are available for all dates.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Source link

[chilimili212]

It’s a freezing morning in Astoria, Queens, and the cast of the new off-Broadway play All Nighter is giddy to be in the same room. “We’ve been line-reading over FaceTime, but this is the first time we’ve all been together,” Kathryn Gallagher says from her makeup chair. “A never-before-seen group,” Alyah Chanelle Scott chimes in from two seats down. It’s early, but the joy is palpable. Everyone on set has been waiting for this day.We’re at a photo studio to shoot promotional images for the show, opening in previews Feb. 25. While the plot remains a bit of a mystery — five college seniors pulling their last all-nighter of finals week, with secrets revealed and tensions mounting as the hours pass — the cast is stacked with young Hollywood’s brightest. Between them, they’ve been on Broadway, starred in beloved TV shows like The Sex Lives of College Girls and The Buccaneers, and appeared in critically acclaimed films like Bottoms.These five women — Gallagher, Scott, Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Julia Lester — have orbited each other for years, but spending time with them, you’d guess they were a real group of longtime pals. “I needed a healing, girl-centered environment, and this experience has been that for me so far,” Liu says. Here, the cast dishes on the power of female friendships and what audiences can expect from the play’s 12-week run — namely, a “very freaking fun” time.What can people expect when they come to this show? I’m so intrigued by the plot synopsis.Kathryn Gallagher: I’ve been a legitimate fan of this play for six years. My best friend [Natalie Margolin] wrote it, and from the first reading in her apartment, this was exactly the kind of theater I wanted to see, which was all about the complex dynamics of a young woman about to embark on the real world.Havana Rose Liu: We see a lot of stuff about girls going from high school to college, but the period of time at the end of college is pretty terrifying. It's right when the wheels start to fall off the bus in terms of your individuation and figuring out the rest of your life. Truth can be a fickle concept, and this play does an interesting job of introducing that idea — the truth you tell yourself versus what’s actually true, and how everyone's truth is a bit different. It’s also my first play!KG: My first play, too.Julia Lester: Same. Well, I did a play in high school, but does that count? No.HRL: But you guys have been on Broadway.KG: Yeah, in musicals, but those are different.HRL: OK, I was like, “Y’all are liars!” Our truths are not the same. This is my first time on stage. I wanted a safe place to try it, and this feels like a safe place.Kristine Froseth: It’s my first time on stage, too. I was drawn to the female friendships and the nuances of how the characters are being honest and dishonest with each other. It's interesting to check in on the narratives they create for themselves.Alyah Chanelle Scott: Also, it's a fun show. It's 90 minutes with no intermission. It's a high-speed f*cking roller coaster, and then it crashes and burns. My boyfriend came to the reading — I didn't tell him anything in advance — and he was like, "That's the most fun I've ever had watching people sit at a table and talk."KG: It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.Between the five of you, you’ve been in so many different projects about high school and college girls. What do you pull from in your own lives to channel those experiences?KG: Anyone who's been a 21- or 22-year-old girl has experienced the absolute mania of trying to figure out who you are. You can't escape trying on a million different versions of yourself before you land somewhere in the middle. I feel like I knew who I was as a kid, and the furthest away I ever felt from myself was at age 21, and now I'm making a return.HRL: I feel that way, too.ACS: That’s my dream.KG: I’m older than you, so you're on your way.ACS: You're not that much older. How old are you?KG: 31.ACS: I’m 27.KG: A lot happens in those years. You’re entering your Saturn return.ACS: I'm craving it.KG: Oh God, it's hell. But the biggest thing I've pulled from is growing up, and that real moment of thinking, "I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to be doing, so I'm going to try it all on really fast."JL: The show takes place in 2014, and at that time, I was searching for a group like this. It was my freshman year of high school, and I was navigating a new school with all these kids who already knew each other. I bounced around between different groups until I found my people, and it was five girls who carried me through the rest of my high school experience. It's really cool to have a full-circle moment of being in a group like the one I was trying to find in my high-school years.It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.HRL: I went to a small liberal arts college for the first year and a half of college in upstate New York. It was right around 2016, pre-Trump election. It was an interesting time, culturally, to be a girl — there was a complicated mix of empowerment and disempowerment, and individuating from not only the way you grew up perceiving yourself, but from the way society perceived you. It was a very interesting “girl boss” time for feminism in general. Being in a bubble of a small college, within a small female friend group like the characters in this show, is like a magnifying glass of that feeling.ACS: When I was growing up, I watched TV and always loved seeing these little white girls bouncing around, being rich and pretty. I thought, "I want to be rich and pretty, too. That's the vibe I want to give.”You manifested.ACS: This is a self-fulfilling prophecy of me wanting to be Hannah Montana in real life. But in a real way, I love that I'm playing Tessa, who is someone a different character aspires to be. It's typically the reverse — I'm used to playing this self-conscious person who aspires to be the other girl, so this is a fun world to be in.HRL: What a personal arc.ACS: I really did manifest this. Sorry, that’s the most vain answer. I’m on Disney Channel in my head. Who isn't?JL: Not me, that was real life [on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series]. But we've graduated. I'm in college now.You all have such a great connection IRL. What’s it going to be like to bring that to the stage?ACS: There’s something magical about there not being a barrier between an audience and what you see on stage. When you do things on a TV set, you're really just a cog in a machine that's someone else's medium. With this, there's no one between us and them. It's scary, but at the same time it's so f*cking fun.KF: I'm scared.HRL: Me too. Don't throw tomatoes at us.JL: The tone of this play allows us to have the freedom to stumble over our feet and play off of each other. I feel like if it gets too rigid, it's going to lose the fun, so I'm giving myself a lot of grace to just be.HRL: By giving yourself that grace, you're giving it to me, too.ACS: Even if the worst thing happens, it’s going to be fine. You're not alone. We could say anything, and we would still find our way back to where we're supposed to be.KG: In the words of Hannah Montana, "You'll always find your way back home."All Nighter begins previews Feb. 25 at the Newman Mills Theater, with opening night on March 9. It runs through May 18, and tickets are available for all dates.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Source link

[oliviajoyice21]

It’s a freezing morning in Astoria, Queens, and the cast of the new off-Broadway play All Nighter is giddy to be in the same room. “We’ve been line-reading over FaceTime, but this is the first time we’ve all been together,” Kathryn Gallagher says from her makeup chair. “A never-before-seen group,” Alyah Chanelle Scott chimes in from two seats down. It’s early, but the joy is palpable. Everyone on set has been waiting for this day.We’re at a photo studio to shoot promotional images for the show, opening in previews Feb. 25. While the plot remains a bit of a mystery — five college seniors pulling their last all-nighter of finals week, with secrets revealed and tensions mounting as the hours pass — the cast is stacked with young Hollywood’s brightest. Between them, they’ve been on Broadway, starred in beloved TV shows like The Sex Lives of College Girls and The Buccaneers, and appeared in critically acclaimed films like Bottoms.These five women — Gallagher, Scott, Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Julia Lester — have orbited each other for years, but spending time with them, you’d guess they were a real group of longtime pals. “I needed a healing, girl-centered environment, and this experience has been that for me so far,” Liu says. Here, the cast dishes on the power of female friendships and what audiences can expect from the play’s 12-week run — namely, a “very freaking fun” time.What can people expect when they come to this show? I’m so intrigued by the plot synopsis.Kathryn Gallagher: I’ve been a legitimate fan of this play for six years. My best friend [Natalie Margolin] wrote it, and from the first reading in her apartment, this was exactly the kind of theater I wanted to see, which was all about the complex dynamics of a young woman about to embark on the real world.Havana Rose Liu: We see a lot of stuff about girls going from high school to college, but the period of time at the end of college is pretty terrifying. It's right when the wheels start to fall off the bus in terms of your individuation and figuring out the rest of your life. Truth can be a fickle concept, and this play does an interesting job of introducing that idea — the truth you tell yourself versus what’s actually true, and how everyone's truth is a bit different. It’s also my first play!KG: My first play, too.Julia Lester: Same. Well, I did a play in high school, but does that count? No.HRL: But you guys have been on Broadway.KG: Yeah, in musicals, but those are different.HRL: OK, I was like, “Y’all are liars!” Our truths are not the same. This is my first time on stage. I wanted a safe place to try it, and this feels like a safe place.Kristine Froseth: It’s my first time on stage, too. I was drawn to the female friendships and the nuances of how the characters are being honest and dishonest with each other. It's interesting to check in on the narratives they create for themselves.Alyah Chanelle Scott: Also, it's a fun show. It's 90 minutes with no intermission. It's a high-speed f*cking roller coaster, and then it crashes and burns. My boyfriend came to the reading — I didn't tell him anything in advance — and he was like, "That's the most fun I've ever had watching people sit at a table and talk."KG: It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.Between the five of you, you’ve been in so many different projects about high school and college girls. What do you pull from in your own lives to channel those experiences?KG: Anyone who's been a 21- or 22-year-old girl has experienced the absolute mania of trying to figure out who you are. You can't escape trying on a million different versions of yourself before you land somewhere in the middle. I feel like I knew who I was as a kid, and the furthest away I ever felt from myself was at age 21, and now I'm making a return.HRL: I feel that way, too.ACS: That’s my dream.KG: I’m older than you, so you're on your way.ACS: You're not that much older. How old are you?KG: 31.ACS: I’m 27.KG: A lot happens in those years. You’re entering your Saturn return.ACS: I'm craving it.KG: Oh God, it's hell. But the biggest thing I've pulled from is growing up, and that real moment of thinking, "I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to be doing, so I'm going to try it all on really fast."JL: The show takes place in 2014, and at that time, I was searching for a group like this. It was my freshman year of high school, and I was navigating a new school with all these kids who already knew each other. I bounced around between different groups until I found my people, and it was five girls who carried me through the rest of my high school experience. It's really cool to have a full-circle moment of being in a group like the one I was trying to find in my high-school years.It’s as if you're on a train and you're sitting next to a group of friends and eavesdropping. That’s what the play feels like to me.HRL: I went to a small liberal arts college for the first year and a half of college in upstate New York. It was right around 2016, pre-Trump election. It was an interesting time, culturally, to be a girl — there was a complicated mix of empowerment and disempowerment, and individuating from not only the way you grew up perceiving yourself, but from the way society perceived you. It was a very interesting “girl boss” time for feminism in general. Being in a bubble of a small college, within a small female friend group like the characters in this show, is like a magnifying glass of that feeling.ACS: When I was growing up, I watched TV and always loved seeing these little white girls bouncing around, being rich and pretty. I thought, "I want to be rich and pretty, too. That's the vibe I want to give.”You manifested.ACS: This is a self-fulfilling prophecy of me wanting to be Hannah Montana in real life. But in a real way, I love that I'm playing Tessa, who is someone a different character aspires to be. It's typically the reverse — I'm used to playing this self-conscious person who aspires to be the other girl, so this is a fun world to be in.HRL: What a personal arc.ACS: I really did manifest this. Sorry, that’s the most vain answer. I’m on Disney Channel in my head. Who isn't?JL: Not me, that was real life [on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series]. But we've graduated. I'm in college now.You all have such a great connection IRL. What’s it going to be like to bring that to the stage?ACS: There’s something magical about there not being a barrier between an audience and what you see on stage. When you do things on a TV set, you're really just a cog in a machine that's someone else's medium. With this, there's no one between us and them. It's scary, but at the same time it's so f*cking fun.KF: I'm scared.HRL: Me too. Don't throw tomatoes at us.JL: The tone of this play allows us to have the freedom to stumble over our feet and play off of each other. I feel like if it gets too rigid, it's going to lose the fun, so I'm giving myself a lot of grace to just be.HRL: By giving yourself that grace, you're giving it to me, too.ACS: Even if the worst thing happens, it’s going to be fine. You're not alone. We could say anything, and we would still find our way back to where we're supposed to be.KG: In the words of Hannah Montana, "You'll always find your way back home."All Nighter begins previews Feb. 25 at the Newman Mills Theater, with opening night on March 9. It runs through May 18, and tickets are available for all dates.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Source link

[twoguysandaride]

1953 Corvette 129 of 300 - Savoy Auto Museum

The very first Corvette ever built was a General Motors Motorama show car first exhibited at the Waldorf Astoria in January of 1953. It was an instant hit and the first production Corvette was built on June 30, 1953 in Flint, Michigan and only 300 were built-virtually by hand and all on a pilot line. This first year Corvette was available only in Polo white with Red bucket seat interior trim. Today all Corvettes are considered highly prized and absolute collectibles, with values for a concourse quality model in the six-figure range. Corvette - as American as 'Hot Dogs, Baseball, Mom, and Apple Pie'.

WHEELBASE: 102.0 in (259.08 cm)

WEIGHT: 2705.00 lbs (1,226.97 kg)

ENGINE: 235.5 cid, ohv, 150 hp

BASE PRICE: $3,498.00

#CorvetteNation #AmericanMuscle #VetteLife #CorvetteLove #SpeedDemon #ClassicCars #DreamCar #CorvetteCrazy #MuscleCarMonday #corvettefamily 

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Mahlkonig e65 Metal/Silicone Flapper Kit

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[bookspined]

❝ that’s all history is after all: scar tissue. ❞

{ cis-man, he/him }  huh, who’s FROY GUTIERREZ? no, you’re mistaken, that’s actually SCORPIUS MALFOY. he is a TWENTY-TWO year old PUREBLOOD wizard who is A HEALING APPRENTICE. he is known for being CAPTIOUS, RETICENT, FACETIOUS, DISMISSIVE, and DRAMATIC but also RESOURCEFUL, CONSCIENTIOUS, FERVENT, INNOVATIVE, and OBSERVANT, so that must be why he always reminds me of the song IN DREAMS BY BEN HOWARD. i hear he is aligned with THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, so be sure to keep an eye on him. { merry, 24, gmt, she/they }

CHARACTER PARALLELS: Amy Santiago (B99), Claire Temple (Daredevil), Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place), Giles (Buffy TVS), Michelle Jones (MCU), Simon Tam (Firefly), Elizabeth Swan (PoTC), Spock (Star Trek), Clarke Griffin (The 100), Harley Keener (MCU), Gregory House (House) suggested honorable mention Gizmo (Gremlins) 

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Full Name: Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy Gender/Pronouns: Cis man | he/him Age: Twenty-three Birthdate: January 20th Parents: Draco Lucius Malfoy & Astoria Céline Malfoy (née Greengrass) [Not biologically Astoria’s due to her health, if you ever point this out he’ll flay your eyeballs] Siblings: N/A. Birth place: St. Mungo’s Hospital, England Height: 5’11” Weight: 56 kg Sexual/Romantic Orientation: Demiromantic Bisexual Nationality: British Body Alterations/Marks: A ragged diamond shape scar at the base of his throat.

Blood Status: Pureblood Hogwarts House: Slytherin Wand Arm: Right Pet: His pet toad, Jarvis, recently passed away. Patronus: Arctic Fox Wand: 11 2/3 inches, Willow, Supple, Dragon Heartstring.

Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power, I have noted that the ideal owner for a willow wand often has some (usually unwarranted) insecurity, however well they may try and hide it. While many confident customers insist on trying a willow wand (attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic) my willow wands have consistently selected those of greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn. It has always been a proverb in my family that he who has furthest to travel will go fastest with willow.

Personality Traits: Brilliance, innovative, empathetic, individuality, openness, social consciousness, inventive, logical, practical skills and self assertion; lack of attachment to people outside his circle and the “real world,” over-intellectualizing of the emotions, dismissive, anxious, crotchety tempered, facetious, rigid, prone to self-isolation, intellectual arrogance, and stubborn. Zodiac Sign: Aquarius/Capricorn Cusp Moral Alignment: Neutral Good Core values: Loyalty, Knowledge, Hope Four temperaments: Melancholic  

HOGWARTS HOUSE ANALYSIS

Slytherin Primary and a Burned Ravenclaw Secondary.

Slytherin Primaries prioritize their own selves and loved ones first. Slytherins don’t feel guilty or selfish about this– they feel righteous and moral. The most important thing is to look after your own. Abandoning or hurting one of your own is the worst thing you can do.

A Burned Ravenclaw Secondary might want to be skilled, curious, and prepared, but they feel like they are (or like people think they are) limited, clumsy, or inconstant. Gathering knowledge, hobbies, skills, or tools is the right way to achieve their goals, but Burned Ravenclaws know that’s not going to work within their capabilities. So they take other paths and use other tools– maybe a Gryffindor’s bluntness, a Slytherin’s flexibility, or a Hufflepuff’s slow and steady dedication.

You may have a Hufflepuff Secondary Model.

Hufflepuff is the House of grit, reliability, and determination, and Hufflepuffs use those values to help live, act, and succeed. If you model Hufflepuff Secondary, you also value these things and like to live by them. You like to be hardworking, dedicated, and consistent– but you wouldn’t feel guilty for abandoning those values in the service of other, higher priorities. If there’s another, easier way to get what you want– you’d take it. You think hard work provides valuable rewards– and those rewards are why you work. The work doesn’t have persuasive value in itself.

Despite his very best resistance he’s always been pretty empathetic in nature, he tries to rule his emotions as well as he can but fails more often than not. He was always one of those toddlers that if another kid started crying he’d be right along with them, not because he wanted attention but because he just couldn’t not. A bit of a crybaby, has researched how to magically seal up his tear ducts. Obviously managed to keep the family’s flair for the dramatic there as well. After a few years he leant into the sarcastic vague-snobbishness to hide the core of overwhelming anxiety.

Just managed to scrape through his schooling with nearly all top grades, this isn’t really due to him being a model student. He has always accrued information with a voracious appetite. Any knowledge he could find, even if most people would consider it entirely useless. His mind clicks into that place? You can’t keep him away. However, when there is not an immediate stir of interest on his approach to a topic he has to fight with himself tooth and nail to carry on. 

Predictably found exam season highly stressful, was never open about it but was quietly competitive and silently smug over his good grades. Could comprehend well above his reading level from an early age and would often look into experimental research and complicated magic but found himself lost in OWL level History of Magic when chapter upon chapter lay ahead of him about something that didn’t catch his interest. Some people he beat just to spite cause he hates them. It worked, whatever.

Tends toward introversion and finds himself tired sometimes quite easily by a large amount of social interaction. Witty and big-mouthed when he feels comfortable or is in the presence of those that embolden him and very likely to get flustered and snap at people when things are becoming a bit too much. Especially if he feels however unjustly that someone is blocking his escape. Has matured slightly in this since leaving school but it happens still, he’s just anxious. Quite fickle and can at the drop of a hat decide that he’s done with you for the day once his Give Me Attention Meter is maxed. Could be an absolute bloody brat when he felt like it but feels he has grown out of it, which he mostly has.

Always been very, very aware of many people’s distrust of him and his family, he used to sneer and play it up if anyone tried to bring up his dad and go on the offensive but was genuinely affected quite deeply by it all. In his early school years, despite his weakness to the cold, he constantly had his sleeves rolled up to the elbow so that his blank forearm was bared as a statement to just about everyone. I am not marked, I never will be. Now he’s older he has more of a handle on things and can be diplomatic in situations where people are clearly discomforted by his presence and his family history.

Even though the war culminated far earlier in this verse I imagine Scor would have had to have been relatively sheltered as a child if not for how emotionally sensitive and prone to periods of ill-health he was, it was definitely for his own safety. He is still the grandson of a known high-ranking Death Eater and that made him a media target and put one on his back for anyone else that might happen to be watching. 

Never produced much of a talent for offensive magic and wouldn’t resort to those methods unless he had literally no other choice, not a front line fighter by any means. His talents with strategy, potion-making, healing and his perseverance with defensive magic are what define him to the Order. While everyone kind of knows who he hung out with at school and who his friends are he is deliberately very mischievous with releasing rumours and misleading people. He deliberately keeps his cards very close to his chest so most people don’t know that he is aligned with anyone, he usually uses glamours or a scarf to conceal his identity if he has to. 

While he is knowledgeable about healing and anatomy, he is the WORST at taking care of himself. The literal embodiment of Healers make the worst patients, tends to forgo sleep and basic bodily needs if he’s locked into what he’s focusing on. Sometimes needs reminders to sleep and eat, like a child. 

Healing is the most satisfying part of his life and he would never give it up, he likes to experiment as he has a fascination with magic and muggle science and where they might intersect. A fucking nerd honestly. While he thinks he’s being fairly subtle about it a large part of his academic life has been doused in research into blood maledictions, for obvious reasons. He does his best not to flutter too obviously around his Mum. She is capable and ten times stronger than he is. 

Lives in a small studio flat in Diagon Alley that is mostly stacks of books and makeshift shelves.

the stillness of the world the moment you take the first step into fresh snow, cashmere and fine wool, the pearlescence of dreamless sleep draught, the scratch of a quill on parchment, faintly tremoring fingers, a shiver up your spine in a warm room, the exhilaration of a problem solved, a thunderous grey overcast sky, the bite of a stitching charm, sleeves rolled up to the elbows, petrichor, the burn in your eyes before a well of tears.

Always had somewhat fragile health tending toward sickly. Hands are never warm, his existence is an endless heat seeking mission. 

Went to one Slug Club meeting and used his time to verbally berate and or challenge most of the contacts in attendance, he was not asked to return. 

Potions Club, Charms Club, used to sometimes be willing to be dragged to Dueling Club but didn’t enjoy himself. 

Plays quite a bit of chess.

Bruises like a fucking peach and scars so easily.

Views quidditch as a good fly spoiled. 

Is a very skilled pianist almost entirely due to his Grandmother’s tutelage. 

Surprisingly great with children/toddlers/babies, no one including himself expected this, he mostly feared them beforehand. 

Bit of a mummy’s boy in that he practically GLOWS when people talk of Astoria’s achievements. 

When he has time off from healing he will have chipped black nail varnish on. 

Highly intelligent but rarely manages to match a pair of socks, chews his quills but no one else’s. 

While very eloquent and well spoken, he is markedly less posh than when he first arrived at Hogwarts.

When he isn’t prone to bouts of insomnia he can take a nap pretty much anywhere. He was once found in a tree after several frantic hours search.

[ CREDIT : CHARACTER PSD template by @karmahelper (defunct url) I tried to find a current social this week by messaging around but couldn’t find anything unfortunately. Forgot to copy this over from the google doc! ]

[revcntulet]

❝ The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. ❞  SCORPIUS MALFOY looks a lot like that muggle, FROY GUTIERREZ, right? Only 20 years old, that SLYTHERIN alumnus works as a HEALING APPRENTICE and is sided with the ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. HE identifies as a CIS MAN and is a PUREBLOOD.

CHARACTER PARALLELS: Amy Santiago (B99), Claire Temple (Daredevil), Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place), Giles (Buffy TVS), Michelle Jones (Spiderman: Homecoming), Elizabeth Swan (PoTC), Spock (Star Trek), Clarke Griffin (The 100), Harley Keener (MCU), Gregory House (House) suggested honorable mention Gizmo (Gremlins)

Full Name: Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy Gender/Pronouns: Cis man | he/him Age: Twenty Birthdate: January 20th Parents: Draco Malfoy & Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass) Siblings: N/A. Birth place: St. Mungo’s Hospital, England Height: 5’11” Weight: 56 kg Sexual/Romantic Orientation: Demiromantic Bisexual Nationality: British Body Alterations/Marks: A ragged diamond shape scar at the base of his throat.

Blood Status: Pureblood Hogwarts House: Slytherin Wand Arm: Right Pet: A crested toad named Jarvis. Patronus: Arctic Fox Wand: 11 2/3 inches, Willow, Supple, Dragon Heartstring.

Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power, and I have noted that the ideal owner for a willow wand often has some (usually unwarranted) insecurity, however well they may try and hide it. While many confident customers insist on trying a willow wand (attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic) my willow wands have consistently selected those of greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn. It has always been a proverb in my family that he who has furthest to travel will go fastest with willow.

Personality Traits: Brilliance, innovation, empathetic, individuality, openness, social consciousness, inventiveness, logical, practical skill and self assertion; lack of attachment to people and the “real world,” over-intellectualizing of the emotions, dismissiveness, anxious, crotchety tempered, facetiousness, rigidity, prone to self-isolation, intellectual arrogance, and stubbornness. Zodiac Sign: Aquarius/Capricorn Cusp Moral Alignment: Neutral Good Core values: Loyalty, Knowledge, Hope Four temperaments: Melancholic  

HOGWARTS HOUSE BREAKDOWN

Slytherin Primary and a Burned Ravenclaw Secondary.

Slytherin Primaries prioritize their own selves and loved ones first. Slytherins don’t feel guilty or selfish about this– they feel righteous and moral. The most important thing is to look after your own. Abandoning or hurting one of your own is the worst thing you can do.

A Burned Ravenclaw Secondary might want to be skilled, curious, and prepared, but they feel like they are (or like people think they are) limited, clumsy, or inconstant. Gathering knowledge, hobbies, skills, or tools is the right way to achieve their goals, but Burned Ravenclaws know that’s not going to work within their capabilities. So they take other paths and use other tools– maybe a Gryffindor’s bluntness, a Slytherin’s flexibility, or a Hufflepuff’s slow and steady dedication.

You may have a Hufflepuff Secondary Model.

Hufflepuff is the House of grit, reliability, and determination, and Hufflepuffs use those values to help live, act, and succeed. If you model Hufflepuff Secondary, you also value these things and like to live by them. You like to be hardworking, dedicated, and consistent– but you wouldn’t feel guilty for abandoning those values in the service of other, higher priorities. If there’s another, easier way to get what you want– you’d take it. You think hard work provides valuable rewards– and those rewards are why you work. The work doesn’t have persuasive value in itself.

9. The Expositor will have to destroy the one who they love. There is no other way. It cannot be avoided. Their fate – possibly even the entire world’s fate – depends on it.

39. You are in the Order, and as a spell inventor, you played a key role in helping the Knights mutate the Patronus Charm to create daemons. Because of this, you have a daemon of your own, and you have been experimenting with the limitations of the magic, trying to figure out if there are any ways to improve them.

Code Name Revontulet, which literally translates to “fox fire.” Legend says that an arctic fox dashed across the tundra swiping snow up into the sky, while others claim his bushy tail caused sparks when brushing the peaks of tall mountains to create the Aurora Borealis.

Despite his very best resistance he’s always been pretty empathetic in nature, he tries to rule his emotions as well as he can but fails more often than not. He was always one of those toddlers that if another kid started crying he’d be right along with them, not because he wanted attention but because he just couldn’t not. A bit of a crybaby, honestly, has researched how to magically seal up his tear ducts. Obviously managed to keep the family’s flair for the dramatic there as well.

Just managed to scrape through his schooling with nearly all top grades, this isn’t due to him being an excellent student. He has always accrued information with a voracious appetite. Any knowledge he could find, even if most people would consider it entirely useless. His mind clicks into that place? You can’t keep him away. However, when there is not an immediate stir of interest on his approach to a topic he has to fight with himself tooth and nail to carry on. Predictably found exam season highly stressful, was never open about it but was quietly competitive and silently smug over his good grades. Could comprehend well above his reading level from an early age and would often look into experimental research and complicated magic but found himself lost in OWL level History of Magic when chapter upon chapter lay ahead of him about something that didn’t catch his interest.

Tends toward introversion and finds himself tired sometimes quite easily by a large amount of social interaction. Witty and big-mouthed when he feels comfortable or is in the presence of those that embolden him and very likely to get flustered and snap at people when things are becoming a bit too much. Especially if he feels however unjustly that someone is blocking his escape. Has matured slightly in this since leaving school but it happens still, he’s just anxious. Quite fickle and can at the drop of a hat decide that he’s done with you for the day once his Give Me Attention Meter is maxed. Could be an absolute bloody brat when he felt like it but feels he has grown out of it, which he mostly has.

Always been very, very aware of many people’s distrust of him and his family, he used to sneer and play it up if anyone tried to bring up his dad and go on the offensive but was genuinely affected quite deeply by it all. In his early school years, despite his weakness to the cold, he constantly had his sleeves rolled up to the elbow so that his blank forearm was bared as a statement to just about everyone. I am not marked, I never will be. Now he’s older he has more of a handle on things and can be diplomatic in situations where people are clearly discomforted by his presence and his family history.

Scorpius was in his seventh and final year when the Knights were first created and he spent a lot of his time patching people up and teaching simple healing here and there, wherever he could. It was a natural transition to become part of The Order once he graduated, he still kept in contact with members of the Knights but while he had no way to access the grounds at all it seemed ridiculous that he be privy to everything, especially as sharing such information could have been intercepted by the opposing side. He was absolutely horrified by Harry’s resurrection and his stomach rolls every time he even thinks about it.

Never produced much of a talent for offensive magic and wouldn’t resort to those methods unless he had literally no other choice, not a front line fighter by any means. His talents with strategy, healing and his perseverance with defensive magic meant that he was an ideal candidate, in his head, to have the singular daemon amongst the Order and to test all of their hard work. Then the prophecy was slowly unravelled, silver spool of damning words in a pile at his feet.

Is in a strange place in that he can’t simply stop loving people he’s always loved whilst working simultaneously to strangle any potential for more people to be added to the list as frantically as he can. Tends to just try and put the prophecy out of his mind otherwise he stares at Cleo for too long and his hands start to shake.

Very nearly lost his apprenticeship due to his intensity over developing and refining the magic of the patronus charm. It was an all-consuming obsession, he went so far into the zone that he was a bit of a liability for a while there. He would turn up at any hour to other Order members for their opinions on an obscure theory, an element of the magic, the importance of ritual and their thoughts on his experiments with dementors. Alot of people were like you’re a bit young to be doing this aren’t you love? And he was like I’m not going to tell you to fuck off, just explain that I will not let this go and if you exclude me I will continue working on it alone.

[ DEATH TW ] Although this can be said for anyone possessing a daemon, he is protective of Cleo to the point of neurosis, the magic was experimental at the time of her manifestation and he felt every single layer of his soul flayed away and the creation of atoms from a matter that he still doesn’t quite understand. Only that it came from him. They have managed to limit the bitter, burnt iron taste that lingered at the back of his sinuses for two weeks, the numbness of his fingers and toes and the burst blood vessels in his eyes on other subjects. Oh and the part where he stopped breathing for nearly an entire minute. By the time he performed it successfully he wasn’t sure he wanted anyone else to ever experience it, the spell basically consumed his life for several years and when the research was finally over he was stood there blinking owlishly with no real concept of where the last couple of years had gone.

Always had somewhat fragile health tending toward sickly. Hands are never warm. Bruises like a peach and scars so easily.

Views quidditch as a good fly spoiled.  

Is a very skilled pianist.

Has a fabric sling that he wears across his torso that Cleo is often curled up in. Looks like a single dad at Order meetings, toad on his shoulder.

While very eloquent and well spoken, he is markedly less posh than when he first arrived at Hogwarts.

When he isn’t prone to bouts of insomnia he can take a nap pretty much anywhere. He was once found in a tree after several frantic hours search.

the stillness of the world the moment you take the first step into fresh snow, cashmere and fine wool, the pearlescence of dreamless sleep draught, the scratch of a quill on parchment, faintly tremoring fingers, a shiver up your spine in a warm room, the exhilaration of a problem solved, a thunderous grey overcast sky, the bite of a stitching charm, sleeves rolled up to the elbows, petrichor, the burn in your eyes before a well of tears.

[crvores]

SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY really is the spitting image of FROY GUTIERREZ, right? For someone only 22 years old, SCOR has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that PUREBLOOD has been scraping by at the sanctuary since AUGUST, 2028, working as a HEALER-IN-TRAINING AND RESEARCHER in the DIVISION OF HEALING. HE is a CIS MAN and is known to be CAPTIOUS and DISMISSIVE but also FERVENT and RESOURCEFUL. Best of luck surviving through this.  

CHARACTER PARALLELS: Amy Santiago (B99), Claire Temple (Daredevil), Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place), Giles (Buffy TVS), Michelle Jones (Spiderman: Homecoming), Elizabeth Swan (PoTC), Spock (Star Trek), Clarke Griffin (The 100), Gregory House (House) suggested honorable mention Gizmo (Gremlins)

[tw for patricide/parental death, desc of blood, substance abuse/addiction, under the cut]

scorpius was living in a tiny flat along diagon alley, flooing in to saint mungos for his healing apprenticeship monday to friday. when the wards came down around wizarding london he was holed up as the chaos ensued below, frantically trying to floo call the manor.

when he arrived at malfoy manor after crawling out of a skylight and apparating to the road alongside the driveway he was greeted by the gates hanging off their hinges. though he can only speculate, due to his father’s continued reclusiveness and refusal to return to assist the death eater ranks a horde were nudged none-too-gently toward the isolated house.

draco opened his eyes after burning through a fever too high to be calmed by any spell from his mother’s wand. just as he had always been. upon returning to consciousness he didn’t immediately reach for his wand, a fact which both astoria and her son found to be terribly odd. no matter the ailment, the circumstance, the time, draco malfoy had always curled his fingers around the hawthorn like a talisman when waking since it had been returned to him after the war.

the ensuing twenty minutes are something which scorpius has begged to have scoured from his mind, yet he knows he can never let himself forget killing his father. it fundamentally changed him in a way that is irrevocable.

as he and astoria fled the manor, no hope of the two of them alone eliminating the inferi on the grounds and securing it, his mother clamped a hand around his wrist and attempted to apparate them to an old greengrass property, a magical panic room of sorts. scor was badly splinched and ended up dumped 80 miles away from where his mother had landed.

he gathered copious notes from observations of the inferi in his time on the outside. temperature recorded, time of day, wind direction, sentience, and activity were all meticulously written down in an attempt to conserve his sanity while on his own. scor feels as though he had no trouble discerning infected from the living when he was out there and when he was filled in upon joining the others he speculated that a part of his brain concerning the glamours had just been burnt out. unfortunately since arriving this has been completely disproven and he’s trying to work out if the fear response or any other factors had anything to do with it.

since arriving at hogwarts, half-starved and wild-eyed he has thrown himself into the effort with a single-mindedness of someone attempting to forget every aspect of their own life. he doggedly continues his healing work, any time not spent at the infirmary is glued to his workbench and harassing the living shit out of the research department. drawing up hypothesis after hypothesis from the bits of infected he’s managed to have the privilege to pick at. if anyone interrupts him or makes what he decides is an unnecessary contribution he has a horrid habit of biting their head off.

while before he would play up and sneer, act posher than posh and generally fucked with anyone who had a problem with his family, specifically his father, now he will go absolutely stone-faced and has several times nearly had to be restrained because he will go off like a tiny, weedy bomb with a dangerously extensive knowledge of human anatomy.

neglects a lot of his own needs; goes days without sunlight, only eats when prompted to, hardly sleeps. a mess but trying his best. has a dangerous habit of consuming dreamless sleep but guilt at using valuable resources is essentially the only thing stopping him from launching headlong into addiction. lily and various others have a tally going on how many times scor says the words ‘i’m fine.’ in a single week and he suspects theres a pretty wide pool on the betting now.

he’s not all bad tho!! he can be a right softy if he knows you well enough and always always always wants to help. just… he’s a lil prickly rn.

skinny and kind of sickly, he never had the best health as a kid. he scars very easily and bruises like a gd peach. pretty alright on a broom but he has no real interest in playing quidditch. he’s always cold, he’ll be sitting in direct sunlight and complaining about needing a scarf. yeah hes that dude.

kind of craves attention? while being an introvert sometimes he just wants someone to pay attention to him until he gets annoyed by it and tells them to piss off. fickle.

his url is the italian word ‘cruores’ which means flowing blood and the latin ‘cruor’ which roughly refers to coagulating blood; gore.

      Full Name: Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy Gender/Pronouns: Cis man | he/him Age: Twenty-two Birthdate: January 20th Parents: Draco Malfoy & Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass) Siblings: N/A. Birth place: St. Mungo’s Hospital, England Height: 5’11” Weight: 56 kg Sexual/Romantic Orientation: Demiromantic Bisexual Nationality: English Body Alterations/Marks: Terrible splinching scars up his left hand, arm over to his chest and shoulder blade. 

                                  Blood Status: Pureblood Hogwarts House: Slytherin  Wand Arm: Right Wand: 11 2/3 inches, Willow, supple, Dragon Heartstring. Hogwarts House: Slytherin Pet: A crested toad named Jarvis. Special Abilities: None. Patronus: Arctic Fox

                                Personality Traits: brilliance, innovation, individuality, openness, social consciousness, inventiveness, practical skill and self assertion; lack of attachment to people and the “real world,” over-intellectualizing of the emotions, dismissiveness, a crotchety temper, rigidity, intellectual arrogance, and stubbornness. Zodiac Sign: Aquarius/Capricorn Cusp Moral Alignment: Neutral Good Core values: Loyalty, Knowledge, Hope Four temperaments: Melancholic  

HOGWARTS HOUSE BREAKDOWN 

Slytherin Primary and a Burned Ravenclaw Secondary.

Slytherin Primaries prioritize their own selves and loved ones first. Slytherins don’t feel guilty or selfish about this– they feel righteous and moral. The most important thing is to look after your own. Abandoning or hurting one of your own is the worst thing you can do.

A Burned Ravenclaw Secondary might want to be skilled, curious, and prepared, but they feel like they are (or like people think they are) limited, clumsy, or inconstant. Gathering knowledge, hobbies, skills, or tools is the right way to achieve their goals, but Burned Ravenclaws know that’s not going to work within their capabilities. So they take other paths and use other tools– maybe a Gryffindor’s bluntness, a Slytherin’s flexibility, or a Hufflepuff’s slow and steady dedication.

You may have a Hufflepuff Secondary Model.

Hufflepuff is the House of grit, reliability, and determination, and Hufflepuffs use those values to help live, act, and succeed. If you model Hufflepuff Secondary, you also value these things and like to live by them. You like to be hardworking, dedicated, and consistent– but you wouldn’t feel guilty for abandoning those values in the service of other, higher priorities. If there’s another, easier way to get what you want– you’d take it. You think hard work provides valuable rewards– and those rewards are why you work. The work doesn’t have persuasive value in itself.

the stillness of the world the moment you take the first step into fresh snow, cashmere and fine wool, the pearlescence of dreamless sleep draught, the scratch of a quill on parchment, faintly tremoring fingers, a shiver up your spine in a warm room, the exhilaration of a problem solved, a thunderous grey overcast sky, the bite of a stitching charm, sleeves rolled up to the elbows, petrichor, the burn in your eyes before a well of tears.

so excited to be back in this verse >:) 

[hotelwedding]

Balkantourist on the turning to Balchik

Each hotel has its own parking lot. The car repair service of Balkantourist on the turning to Balchik has good mechanics, spare parts and washing facilities. It is open from 7.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Tel. 6-53-16. There is a filling station open 24 hrs near the Kosharata restaurant. Near the Casino is a rent-a-car service open from .00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. Tel. 6-53-63.

Places of entertainment and night dubs offer pleasant and varied programmes.

Tsiganski Tabor (Gypsy Campj Night Club serves delicious dishes and excellent wines in Gypsy tents to the music of a Gypsy orchestra. Open from 9.00p.m. to 2.00 am.

Koukeri (Masked Dancers) Night Club — an original architectural building; ‘Koukeri’ dances are performed with quaint folk masks. The night club commands a marvellous view of the whole resort Open from 9.00 p.m. turkey sightseeing to 4.00 a.m.

Karakachanski Stan, The atmosphere is reminiscent of nomad Karakachan shepherd settlements in the Rhodopes. It is situated in the forest next to the Kolibite. Open from 4,00 p rh. to 2.00 a.m.

Vodenitsata — an original folk restaurant serving grilled chicken, kebabs, home-made sausages and freshly baked bread. Open from 9.00 a.m. to midnight.

Astoria Bar – a modern night club, open May to October. Interesting floor show, music and dancing. Next to Hotel Astoria. Open from 10.00 p.m to 4.00 a.m.

Caney Night Club — exotic atmosphere, Cuban cocktails, firstclass orchestra. Adjacent to Havana Hotel. Open from 4.00 p.m. to midnight.

Prifon Zarezan Restaurant. An original restaurant with a special room for wine-tasting. Bulgarian cuisine and a well- stocked bar. On the road to Varna. Open from 9.00 aan. to midnight.

Lovna Sreshta in a wood close to the Aladja Rock Monastery serves local game dishes. Orchestra. Open from 9.00 a.m, to midnight.

Picnic — a taverna in the heart of the forest near Lovna Sreshta. Grills and excellent drinks are served. Nightly programmes of folk songs and dances. Open from 5.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.

The Rocky Monastery

The Rocky Monastery three kilometres from Zlatni Pyas- satsi in one of the most picturesque areas of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast is an old monastery carved from the rocks, consisting of an upper and a lower part. The cells are two and a half by two metres. 1 he church is 11.70 metres long, 5 metres wide and 2 metres high. The altar has two alcoves wit mural paintings. The monastery was most probably founded in the 13th-14th century. 300 metres away are the catacombs — cells carved out of the rock and probably used as dwellings by the monks.

The Museum of the Chalcolytic Necropolis (discovered in 1975) is to be found at the entrance of the monastery. It holds old ornaments, weapons and other artefacts.

The Varna Chalcolytie Necropolis, discovered in 1972 on the western outskirts of the city, is an exceptional find which aroused wide international interest The Necropolis dates from the end of the Chalcolytie period, 3,000 B.C By the end of 1976, 81 graves had been found, 25 of them symbolic graves with no skeletons In grave Number One, was a treasure-trove of ornaments, artefacts of solid heaten gold (23.5 carats), 3 bracelets, a rectangular plate, 2 thimbles, 6 rings, 28 round plates, 6 trapezium-shaped and 4 moon-shaped plates, 160 cylindrical beads, with a total weight of 1,091 kg, copper tools, flint knives, a bone knife, 2,095 beads and various ceramic pieces. In graves Number 2,3 and 15 gold artefacts were discovered such as plates, rings and beads. Grave Number 4 contained gold bracelets, plates, rings, beads and other things with a total weight of 1,518 kg, as well as two clay vessels full of gold ornaments.

In Grave Number 43 the skeleton was found of a man about 40-50 years of age with various rich ornaments as well as several hundred gold artefacts totalling 1,516 kilograms and other copper and clay vessels and ornaments. This must have been the grave of a nobleman.

[metrotravels]

Balkantourist on the turning to Balchik

Each hotel has its own parking lot. The car repair service of Balkantourist on the turning to Balchik has good mechanics, spare parts and washing facilities. It is open from 7.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Tel. 6-53-16. There is a filling station open 24 hrs near the Kosharata restaurant. Near the Casino is a rent-a-car service open from .00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. Tel. 6-53-63.

Places of entertainment and night dubs offer pleasant and varied programmes.

Tsiganski Tabor (Gypsy Campj Night Club serves delicious dishes and excellent wines in Gypsy tents to the music of a Gypsy orchestra. Open from 9.00p.m. to 2.00 am.

Koukeri (Masked Dancers) Night Club — an original architectural building; ‘Koukeri’ dances are performed with quaint folk masks. The night club commands a marvellous view of the whole resort Open from 9.00 p.m. turkey sightseeing to 4.00 a.m.

Karakachanski Stan, The atmosphere is reminiscent of nomad Karakachan shepherd settlements in the Rhodopes. It is situated in the forest next to the Kolibite. Open from 4,00 p rh. to 2.00 a.m.

Vodenitsata — an original folk restaurant serving grilled chicken, kebabs, home-made sausages and freshly baked bread. Open from 9.00 a.m. to midnight.

Astoria Bar – a modern night club, open May to October. Interesting floor show, music and dancing. Next to Hotel Astoria. Open from 10.00 p.m to 4.00 a.m.

Caney Night Club — exotic atmosphere, Cuban cocktails, firstclass orchestra. Adjacent to Havana Hotel. Open from 4.00 p.m. to midnight.

Prifon Zarezan Restaurant. An original restaurant with a special room for wine-tasting. Bulgarian cuisine and a well- stocked bar. On the road to Varna. Open from 9.00 aan. to midnight.

Lovna Sreshta in a wood close to the Aladja Rock Monastery serves local game dishes. Orchestra. Open from 9.00 a.m, to midnight.

Picnic — a taverna in the heart of the forest near Lovna Sreshta. Grills and excellent drinks are served. Nightly programmes of folk songs and dances. Open from 5.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.

The Rocky Monastery

The Rocky Monastery three kilometres from Zlatni Pyas- satsi in one of the most picturesque areas of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast is an old monastery carved from the rocks, consisting of an upper and a lower part. The cells are two and a half by two metres. 1 he church is 11.70 metres long, 5 metres wide and 2 metres high. The altar has two alcoves wit mural paintings. The monastery was most probably founded in the 13th-14th century. 300 metres away are the catacombs — cells carved out of the rock and probably used as dwellings by the monks.

The Museum of the Chalcolytic Necropolis (discovered in 1975) is to be found at the entrance of the monastery. It holds old ornaments, weapons and other artefacts.

The Varna Chalcolytie Necropolis, discovered in 1972 on the western outskirts of the city, is an exceptional find which aroused wide international interest The Necropolis dates from the end of the Chalcolytie period, 3,000 B.C By the end of 1976, 81 graves had been found, 25 of them symbolic graves with no skeletons In grave Number One, was a treasure-trove of ornaments, artefacts of solid heaten gold (23.5 carats), 3 bracelets, a rectangular plate, 2 thimbles, 6 rings, 28 round plates, 6 trapezium-shaped and 4 moon-shaped plates, 160 cylindrical beads, with a total weight of 1,091 kg, copper tools, flint knives, a bone knife, 2,095 beads and various ceramic pieces. In graves Number 2,3 and 15 gold artefacts were discovered such as plates, rings and beads. Grave Number 4 contained gold bracelets, plates, rings, beads and other things with a total weight of 1,518 kg, as well as two clay vessels full of gold ornaments.

In Grave Number 43 the skeleton was found of a man about 40-50 years of age with various rich ornaments as well as several hundred gold artefacts totalling 1,516 kilograms and other copper and clay vessels and ornaments. This must have been the grave of a nobleman.

[travellingbg]

Balkantourist on the turning to Balchik

Each hotel has its own parking lot. The car repair service of Balkantourist on the turning to Balchik has good mechanics, spare parts and washing facilities. It is open from 7.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Tel. 6-53-16. There is a filling station open 24 hrs near the Kosharata restaurant. Near the Casino is a rent-a-car service open from .00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. Tel. 6-53-63.

Places of entertainment and night dubs offer pleasant and varied programmes.

Tsiganski Tabor (Gypsy Campj Night Club serves delicious dishes and excellent wines in Gypsy tents to the music of a Gypsy orchestra. Open from 9.00p.m. to 2.00 am.

Koukeri (Masked Dancers) Night Club — an original architectural building; ‘Koukeri’ dances are performed with quaint folk masks. The night club commands a marvellous view of the whole resort Open from 9.00 p.m. turkey sightseeing to 4.00 a.m.

Karakachanski Stan, The atmosphere is reminiscent of nomad Karakachan shepherd settlements in the Rhodopes. It is situated in the forest next to the Kolibite. Open from 4,00 p rh. to 2.00 a.m.

Vodenitsata — an original folk restaurant serving grilled chicken, kebabs, home-made sausages and freshly baked bread. Open from 9.00 a.m. to midnight.

Astoria Bar – a modern night club, open May to October. Interesting floor show, music and dancing. Next to Hotel Astoria. Open from 10.00 p.m to 4.00 a.m.

Caney Night Club — exotic atmosphere, Cuban cocktails, firstclass orchestra. Adjacent to Havana Hotel. Open from 4.00 p.m. to midnight.

Prifon Zarezan Restaurant. An original restaurant with a special room for wine-tasting. Bulgarian cuisine and a well- stocked bar. On the road to Varna. Open from 9.00 aan. to midnight.

Lovna Sreshta in a wood close to the Aladja Rock Monastery serves local game dishes. Orchestra. Open from 9.00 a.m, to midnight.

Picnic — a taverna in the heart of the forest near Lovna Sreshta. Grills and excellent drinks are served. Nightly programmes of folk songs and dances. Open from 5.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.

The Rocky Monastery

The Rocky Monastery three kilometres from Zlatni Pyas- satsi in one of the most picturesque areas of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast is an old monastery carved from the rocks, consisting of an upper and a lower part. The cells are two and a half by two metres. 1 he church is 11.70 metres long, 5 metres wide and 2 metres high. The altar has two alcoves wit mural paintings. The monastery was most probably founded in the 13th-14th century. 300 metres away are the catacombs — cells carved out of the rock and probably used as dwellings by the monks.

The Museum of the Chalcolytic Necropolis (discovered in 1975) is to be found at the entrance of the monastery. It holds old ornaments, weapons and other artefacts.

The Varna Chalcolytie Necropolis, discovered in 1972 on the western outskirts of the city, is an exceptional find which aroused wide international interest The Necropolis dates from the end of the Chalcolytie period, 3,000 B.C By the end of 1976, 81 graves had been found, 25 of them symbolic graves with no skeletons In grave Number One, was a treasure-trove of ornaments, artefacts of solid heaten gold (23.5 carats), 3 bracelets, a rectangular plate, 2 thimbles, 6 rings, 28 round plates, 6 trapezium-shaped and 4 moon-shaped plates, 160 cylindrical beads, with a total weight of 1,091 kg, copper tools, flint knives, a bone knife, 2,095 beads and various ceramic pieces. In graves Number 2,3 and 15 gold artefacts were discovered such as plates, rings and beads. Grave Number 4 contained gold bracelets, plates, rings, beads and other things with a total weight of 1,518 kg, as well as two clay vessels full of gold ornaments.

In Grave Number 43 the skeleton was found of a man about 40-50 years of age with various rich ornaments as well as several hundred gold artefacts totalling 1,516 kilograms and other copper and clay vessels and ornaments. This must have been the grave of a nobleman.