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domestic animals who would tell me riddles
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Hi! I saw that you wanted 'Sly. Boys react to' ideas so I thought I'd give it a go.
How about, Slytherin boys react to a animagus!reader? Maybe they're a small common animal like a cat or maybe a fantastic/magical one like a Niffler or Thestral
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A/N: Hello 🎃 anon!! Thanks for this request💕
Slytherin boys react to an animagus!reader
Ft. The riddles, Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, && Lorenzo Berkshire
Tom Riddle
When you turned into a cat in front of him…he immediately just looked up from his book with a raised brow like “wtf”
But his reaction is to just pick you up and sit you on his lap. Getting back to his book
He’s like a villain, petting you with you on his lap with an evil smile.
Oddly he will stuff you in his robe so he can go to class. Not worrying about you messing up his dorm.
You could be chilling in the room, reading a book in your human state. And out of nowhere…
“Transform into a cat. You’re coming with me.” Tom says busting into your wand with a glint of mischief in his eyes
Mattheo Riddle
Picks you up and puts you in his lap
He’s never letting you go unless you change back to Normal
But neither the less he is still holding you down and kissing your face
He’s never letting you 😭
Draco Malfoy
Kinda like Tom, he’s stuffing you in his damn robe 😭
“Sssh be quiet!” Is something he says so you won’t meow when he’s in class
Would have a bedazzled cat bed for you ☺️ soiling your human form and cat one.
He loves your both form equally
Blaise Zabini
Pets you a lot!
But he prefer you were back to human so he can physically kiss you.
As much as he loves your animal form, he loves your human form more! 🫶🏾
Theodore Nott
Meows at you 😭PLEASE HE THINKS YOU UNDERSTAND HIM BUT YOU CANT
Would lay on the ground with you and just play with you. Babying you with soft words in Italian
He feels like he loves your animal form more so he can just pet you more. He loves you! It’s just you’re so cute as a cat.
Probably buys a collar only for you to run.
Then he pulls a wand spell and makes you stay still…you scratched his hands so bad
Lorenzo Berkshire
Petting you with every chance!
As much he loves your human form, he loves your cat one because of how small, fuzzy, and adorable you. But it’s not like you arent adorable your own self.
Is cautious to let another student pet you. Specifically mattheo-
Buying a lot of cat stuff for you.
He made sure your cat bed, if you ever turn accidentally. Would be by him. 🫶🏾💕
Definitely “pspsps” at you 😭😭
He loves to give you nose boops. He finds it cute.
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Few previews from yet another book I'm currently working on. Little book of Czech folk riddles 🐓
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Riddle:
Despite what you hear, I'm no one's son. among my peers, I'm number 1.
Of us all, I'm the most, with even you as a host.
Even though you can't see, can you guess who is me?
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What is the answer to that red, three-legged riddle? I'm stumped.
Oh there isn't one, I just wrote a bunch of riddle-sounding statements with no connection whatsoever.
Sadly, I admitted that after you gave up so you have failed my riddle and will now be devoured.
-Pencil
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A joke from Alexa.
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the riddler’s origin story ™️
#the batman#batman#the riddler#dc riddler#riddler year one#gotham riddler#dano riddler#arkham riddler#paul dano#robert pattinson#battinson#matt reeves#riddles#dc comics#dc universe#dcu comics#incorrect dcu#dcu movies#dc memes#meme#memes#funny#tweet#twitter
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I'm musing on how most riddles in folktales really do not behave like what we consider riddles today. Because they usually fall into one of these categories:
● A cryptic question referring to something that actually happened and only the asker could know the answer to. Like in the Grimms' "The Riddle", where a prince asks a princess this: "What killed none, and yet killed twelve." The answer is a particular raven, which ingested poisoned meat and was then cooked into soup, eaten by twelve robbers who immediately died from it. (This is also called a "neck riddle" because it often shows up in stories where winning the riddle contest saves the protagonist's neck.)
● A cryptic question that has a metaphorical answer, but which could technically have many correct answers, not just one. Like the riddles posed in the ballad "Riddles Wisely Expounded", one of which is "What is louder than the horn?" with the answer "Thunder is louder than the horn."
● An apparently "impossible task" instead of a question. Like in Joseph Jacobs' "The Clever Lass" in which the king orders a clever farmer's daughter to "come to him clothed, yet unclothed, neither walking, nor driving, nor riding, neither in shadow nor in sun." So she undresses and wraps herself in her long hair, attaches a net to the tail of a hose and lets herself be dragged to the castle while holding a sieve over her head to shield her from the sun. (This type of contradiction riddle even shows up in the Mabinogi.)
Of course it matters what role the riddles play in the tale. Usually it's not about the riddle at all, it's just about the protagonist proving how clever and/or witty they are. And in case of the neck riddles, the audience usually also knows the answer, because they know what happened to the protagonist earlier in the story, so the audience gets the pleasure of being smarter than the antagonist.
In the originally Persian tale "Turandot" cryptic questions with (I would say) multiple answers are mixed with something that feels more like a riddle with one "proper answer". For example: "What mother resides on earth, who swallows all her children." The answer is: "The sea, she swallows every stream and river that has ever sprung from her." But I feel like whenever I encounter a "classic" riddle with one proper answer, that usually rhymes, it's either from Greek Mythology (boy did they love a riddling verse), or it a modern riddle added in the retelling...
#riddles#riddle#riddle contest#laura babbles#folklore#fairy tales#norse mythology has rhyming riddles too#but I don't remember any scandinavian folktales with that kind of riddle either... maybe my memory is failing me
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I fucking hate riddles that lie to you.
"I am the world's largest ocean but I have no water. What am I? The Pacific Ocean! Because there's no FRESH water there, only SALT water! HA-HA, I say! HA!"
The people who write lying riddles are smug bastards with permanent shit-eating grins you want to wipe off their punchable faces.
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How would Slytherin Boys (your pick) react to gn! reader saying "all men are shit except for you" You can pick if it's platonic or romantic.
My sister screamed this at me as a way of apologizing after an argument. And I just found it so funny that I wonder how fictional men would react to it.
Sorry if this is offensive in any way.
“ALL MEN ARE SHIT….except for you.”
HOW THE SLYTHERIN BOYS REACT TO YOU SAYING THIS
Ft. The riddles, Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, Lorenzo Berkshire
Tom Riddle
He just nods. At least he’s kinda glad to know you don’t think he’s the worst of the man kind.
He knows his own gender specie is weird and unthinkable.
“LIKE I CANT BELIEVE HE DID THAT TO ME…UGH!���
“I choose the bear as well.” Tom says while just reading his daily books. Not taking his eye off of the book he is certainly hooked on. You nodded with a huff.
Mattheo Riddle
Just standing there like “🧍🏾Uhmm..I agree?”
He has no idea what happened but at least he likes how you don’t think he’s shit.
“I agree? So who do I need to beat up?”
Draco Malfoy
At first when those words came out of your mouth he was gonna say how he isn’t only form you to beat him at it.
He felt appreciated. So he nodded and asked for what happened to make you say this.
And now he is a drama hungry bitch cause now he is gonna spread false rumors about the bastard who dared to anger
Blaise Zabini
He just nods with a smile
“Glad to know I’m not shit.”
“Of course you’re not.”
Theodore Nott
Nods while listening to you. His mother taught him to treat people with respect. So of course he will listen and want to know who made you this angry.
As soon you give off description and what house he belongs in. It’s game over for that guy
Don’t worry about the shitty man you were talking about. He’s been taken care of darling.
Lorenzo Berkshire
He’s a “girl’s girl” is what you called him when he had agreed the whole way when you said it.
He just sat there and nodded his head as you told him how men are shit.
He felt glad you think he isn’t shitty at least.
Now he can stop overthinking about how he thinks he bugs you too much.
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The book of Czech folk riddles I was working on in August is almost finished now, fufu 🍄🧅 The name's gonna be "Co to?"
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Here's a riddle:
Do you think you got it right? Please avoid spoiling the answer until after the poll ends.
#riddles#brain teasers#double negatives#polls#thought experiment#yes this is from taskmaster if you want to see what a bunch of comedians made of this riddle#taskmaster
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*Itachi sitting on the front porch with a bowl of candy in his lap*
*a child comes up to the house in a costume*
Child: Trick or treat!
Itachi: Before I give you anything, I’m going to ask you a riddle. If you answer correctly, I’ll give you five pieces of candy. If you answer incorrectly, I get to eat ten. Agreed?
Child: O-Okay …
Itachi: Very good. Now then … “What goes up, but never comes down?”
Child: Um … um … the sky?
Itachi: No; the correct answer was “Age”. *starts unwrapping candy and popping it into his mouth* Better luck next time.
*the child leaves dejectedly as Kisame comes out the front door*
Kisame: Itachi, are you sure you’re not too chilly out here? Do you want me to bring you another blanket?
Itachi: I’m fine, don’t worry.
Kisame: *looks into the bowl* Goodness, another bowl nearly empty? *takes it from him* That’s the third time I’ll have to refill it tonight! You must have had a lot of happy kids getting all this candy, eh?
Itachi, trying to subtly wipe the chocolate smears from around his mouth: Y-yep …
#kisaita#halloween#halloween 2024#halloween2024#halloween candy#trick or treat#riddles#itachi doesn’t have a problem he’s just concerned about the kids’ health. yeah.#kisame hoshigaki#itachi uchiha#naruto#the akatsuki#🎃 24
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