#grand gestures

[bowiesawizardmoony]

Regulus: “love isn’t supposed to be about grande gestures, or shouting for the rooftops. it’s not about the big moments it’s about the small ones. It’s about someone saying the wrecked damaged home that you’ve built for yourself and decided to stay deciding to help you tend to the dust accumulating in the corners to help plant a garden in your yard to make this house that you have lived in forever into a home to make it somewhere habitable to make the love radiate off the walls it’s so deeply ingrained into every fabric of the house that everyone who steps in can’t help but feel the love feel the joy feel the comfort in the home that you have built together whether that be a physical home or just with each other.”

James: *standing on top the slytherin table with a dozen roses, sirius behind him about to be his backup singer, in the great hall at dinner.* “….yeah yeah i feel like that too”

Remus: *shaking his head because he told these two idiots not too*

[so-scarlett-maroon]

Hermione Granger and The Pub Quiz That Changed Her Life

Words: 5,602 Rated: Teen and Up No Archive Warnings Apply Ship: Dramione Tags: Draco Malfoy is a Little Shit, But Hermione Likes it Grand Gestures, Fluff, Humor, Plans Gone Awry, Pining Draco Malfoy, Pining Hermione Granger, Marriage Proposal, Developing Relationship, Falling In Love Tooth-Rotting, Fluff On AO3

Summary: When Harry invites Draco to their weekly Pub Quiz, Hermione is sure she's never going to be able to enjoy the event again. And her life is changed forever...but just not how she thought it would be.

Excerpt:

The Beginning:

The first time Hermione and Draco were at the same pub quiz night, it felt electric. She’d been purposely avoiding him. She was well aware he and Harry were Auror partners and had become friends. But, the first few times Harry mentioned he’d be joining, she’d found excuses not to go. She hated missing the weekly pub quiz, but the idea of seeing him in a social setting felt strange, wrong. She knew he wouldn’t call her a slur and he probably wouldn't insult her hair, but she just didn’t know what their new dynamic would be. Eventually, though, she gave in, she wouldn’t let him keep her from seeing her friends.

She walked into the Leaky Cauldron and found Harry, Ginny, and Neville at their team’s usual booth. She waved to them as she walked over and settled next to Harry at the wooden table.

“Thanks for the drinks mate,” Harry called out. Hermione followed his eyeline and spotted the poncy git himself walking over with the first round for the table. She wasn’t sure how she’d missed the shock of blond hair when she’d first walked in. Malfoy got to work handing out the drinks, Butterbeers for her and Ginny, Gin and Tonic for Harry, Fire whiskey for himself and Neville, and an ale for Ron, who seemed to be running late, as usual.

Draco shrugged, responding to Harry’s thanks. “It was my turn to buy, but you are up next,” he said looking at Hermione.

Draco’s eyes met hers now. She’d never noticed just how strikingly gray they were before. If he were any other man, she’d even say they were attractive. But he was him, so they weren't. “Why is it my turn to buy?” she asked incredulously.

He looked at her his eyes pitying, “She’s lost her brains since graduation then?” he asked the table.

Harry laughed openly, Ginny tried to hide her giggles and Neville just glanced away, trying to avoid conflict.

“I haven’t ‘lost my brains’ as you put it, I just don’t see why I should get moved up in the rotation when I haven't been here. I always buy after Ginny.”

“Yes and as you missed the last three weeks, you’ve not bought after anyone in far too long so you are up.” He sat down across from her. His long legs barely managed to fit under the table and his knees bumped up against hers. She waited for him to apologize or pull his legs back, but instead, he just smirked and bumped her knee again, on purpose. She was just about to pull out her wand and hex his knees off his stupid body when the quiz host walked to the front of the pub with an announcement.

“Hello, I am Chester Borgin, and welcome witches and wizards to the Thursday night Pub Quiz!” He’d cast a Sonorous on himself to amplify his voice over the crowd gathered for the quiz. “We have answer sheets and self-inking quills up at the front table. Send up the team captain to collect the materials and we will begin shortly!”

Draco stood at the same time as Hermione. Ginny looked at them, laughing as they both froze. She sighed, wiping her tears of laughter aside, and explained to Draco, “Normally Hermione is our team captain, and she gets the material and writes the answers,”. She turned to Hermione. “But in your absence, Draco had taken over,”

Hermione frowned.

Draco did not sit or retreat. “I’m closer to the host’s table,” he pointed out. “How about I just go and collect the materials then?” He had a fake smile plastered on his face.

Hermione sprung into action, scooting out from her side of the booth, her skirt annoyingly riding up her legs as she tried to squeeze past. “No, thank you,” she said in her most sickly sweet voice, walking towards the front. She could feel him racing right behind her, trying to beat her. But Hermione was small, she was able to slip through the crowd more easily. She reached the table just a moment before he did and felt his body crush against hers as the momentum carrying him forward propelled him into her. She ignored the slight pain from their collision and called to the host.

“Team We’re not Lion. There are six of us.”

“Actually, since I joined we go by team Dirty Lion Snakes,” Draco corrected from just behind her, his body still pressing against hers from chest to hips. “It’s the same pun, just more fun,” he explained, his breath fanning over her ear.

“Yes, I understood the wordplay, thank you,” she said, rolling her eyes, despite Draco being behind her and unable to see the gesture. She pushed forward trying to get him off of her back, but it just pushed her further into the table, her hips pressing into the wood, as she felt his strong chest warm and solid behind her.

Continued on AO3

[thixcy]

Source: vocalcry via X

[foulwitchknight]

A!Chrissy plans on asking O!Robin to court by performing a dance routine to “I Was Made For Loving You”. The other band members are all in on it and agreed to help. Their plan is to suddenly switch to the Kiss song in the middle of practice and when Steve gives the cue Chrissy will come out to do the routine. She really hopes Robin will like it and she’ll say yes.

[annaberunoyume]

How I wish Stede and Ed will reunite in season 2.

Ed will fight Stede in a boat attack, after Stede reassembles the crew and climb aboard the Revenge. At first, Ed will try to keep his Blackbeard persona, but he will get too heartbroken and rush to the captain's quarters. Stede will be confused and heart-shaken, too and will rush after him. And he will find Ed in the secret closet that only he and Stede knows about...Ed will look at Stede with quivering lips and try to escape, But Stede, resolved not to loose him, again, will pull Ed Towards and gives him a tight hug...And when Ed tries to free himself, Stede will give him a powerful kiss...That will slow his struggles to a halt and make him shed tears...

Just like in Romeo X Juliet, episode 7.

[number1abbasupporter]

i know that valentine’s day at hogwarts was absolute chaos when James and Sirius were no longer single

[dollypopup]

"Then what good am I to you?"

have y'all ever considered that, yes, whilst Penelope has loved him for a very long time. . .she has not shown that to him? that she has not made it clear to him in any way? already, all he feels he is good for is providing because of how he grew up, a chronic middle child vying for attention, receiving positivity when he brings levity or cracks a joke or brings a gift or demonstrates a kindness? that the people pleaser in him feels he has to provide a dance or a laugh or ease or even just stepping to the side so he isn't a bother? have y'all considered that he was straight up ghosted for months? so when he *could not* provide anything, he was cast aside and forgotten? even by her?

have y'all considered that Colin has the idea that if he is not doing something for someone, they have no use for him, and so must be shown that is not true? that he feels he doesn't deserve forgiveness or time unless he has something of worth to offer as leverage for it? that all of the ways Penelope has cared for him have been from afar?

Penelope needed to know that Colin loves her, so he chases down her carriage. So he professes his feelings on his knees. So he strips her bare in front of a mirror to show her- see what I see, you're beautiful. So he informs her own MOTHER that he loves her and she can't talk smack about his future wife. He has so many big gestures for her to make her understand he's serious about her, and that she matters to him for who she is, no strings attached. He apologizes for hurting her feelings after she tells him off, he offers her his help in building her confidence, he helps her family in Season 2, expecting nothing in return, and even in Season 1, he professes how good she is.

But from his perspective. . .he did not even KNOW Penelope had feelings for him when he raced off after her to beg her not to marry someone else. As far as he knew, she considered them friends, and even under the willow, she told him distance would be best after they kissed. She didn't reply to his letters on his travels. She showed him that their intimacy didn't affect her the way it affected him because she continued to pursue a different engagement. She had even said their kiss wouldn't mean anything and when he says he cannot stop thinking of it, she does not assure that it meant a great deal to her, too. She informs that she wants to be more than friends, but nothing else. What is he meant to think? Even if she says she has loved him for a long time, he's been told before that someone loves him. . .and then it ended up not being true.

Penelope has waited for years, since she first met him, to love him in the light, and she has an opportunity in Part 2 to do so. To show Colin that she loves him: assuredly, fervently, loudly.

And I, for one, cannot fucking WAIT to see it.

[kristiliqua]

etoiles be like “at this zoo , we only have one animal . The Goat .” and shows a sleeping philza , passed out in his basement

[nofacednerd]

My Adventures With Superman will look at any DC Comics villain and ask “is anyone gonna make that guy an anime twink?” And not wait for an answer

[eddiegettingshot]

“i guess so” was so insane of buck to say. what do you mean you guess so. there was no reason to respond like that. why not just say yeah. YEAH. YOUR ATTENTION. what was the point of i guess so. he looks soooo relieved to have an answer for his feelings but he’s saying i guess so. girl what. what! you’re guessing? you still don’t know for sure? he’s standing in front of you and you still can’t conjure up an emphatic yes? you’re acting in ways so strange your sister is baffled? you don’t even know why your father figure would approve of your relationship? you don’t know what you’re ready for? you don’t know why you lied to your best friend or why you hurt him? you’re just not certain of anything? “i guess so” WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY KNOW!!!

[19burstraat]

unbelievably specific modern things the crows would love. too bad they live in a late-1800s fantasy world

Kaz: screenshotting nfts, those web weaving posts about dog metaphors, leaving people on read, stealing from the self checkout in supermarkets, emo phases, wearing headphones but not actually listening to anything so they're just there just as a conversation deterrent, winding up scam callers, escape rooms, pretending to know nothing about pop culture in order to annoy people, playing solitaire online, Knowing A Guy for everything

Inej: social media sleuthing, posting goodreads quotes, strictly come dancing, snoopy, easily accessible climbing shoes, mr darcy, shouting at the screen when someone's judged incorrectly on a competition show, getting unbelievably competitive about wii sports/duolingo scoreboards/goodreads goals/animal crossing islands/air hockey, texting..... With loads of elipses... Like your parents.... and dropping unprompted wisdom in them.....

Jesper: neon clothes, the 💯 emoji, making everyone as miis on tomodachi life but being so bad at it that kaz and nina's miis end up getting married, lisa frank art, scamming people on depop, cheap jewellery that makes you go green, complaining about how cottagecore videos don't correctly represent the Rural Farm Life, shitty 2000s club bangers, the kitsch movement, giving your car a name, hoiking your novelty socks really high so everyone can see them, shitty christmas films, first person shooters

Wylan: speedpaint videos, joe hisaishi, being judgemental about other people's spotify wrappeds, djungelskog, that gif of the japanese mascot costume running through a bunch of explosions, watching weird low-budget adaptations of shakespeare plays with kaz, those arcade crane games, piercing your own ears with a needle and a lighter then being somehow surprised when it gets infected

Matthias: making an instagram account in-character for your dog, posting low-quality graphics of inspirational or biblical quotes on facebook (yk the ones w the landscape or sunset behind them), taking frowning selfies from below like your granddad does, viking media of any sort, buying dozens of identical t-shirts from big tesco, mixing up celebrities all the time, perpetually caving and giving the scouts/guides/youth groups/football clubs/carollers/etc money for their fundraisers

Nina: making bait posts online in the style of 'why can't we just print more money', period dramas, wearing huge mother of the bride style hats to weddings, saving recipes/crafts/art ideas on tiktok and then never actually doing them, pink gin, tiktok edits of fit celebs/characters, 3 hour video essays abt pop culture, saying 'break up with him' in response to every relationship woe, buying cheerful tat from flying tiger

[mssi]

xavi should continue solely for the fact that he’s so funny on the sidelines

[sammis-svsss-brainrot]

Many many many years after the events of SVSSS, Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu are celebrating their 10 millionth anniversary and Luo Binghe has somehow finally run out of ideas on what to give Shen Qingqiu to celebrate their union, because even the greatest of gift givers would run out of ideas after you've cultivated your way to immortality

So, begrudgingly, Luo Binghe turns to Shang Qinghua to ask for advice, after all, Shang Qinghua and his husband are always chattering away in that secret language of theirs and referencing strange things from their hometown, and perhaps if Luo Binghe has run out of things to gift his husband from this world he can gift him something from another

Shang Qinghua's eyes light up for once at the chance to help out his bro, and he tells Luo Binghe of a ballad from their hometown, one that was used by only the strongest of couples to showcase their commitmentment to one another and that performing it would be the perfect gift for Shen Qingqiu

Luo Binghe hurriedly agrees and Shang Qinghua teaches him all the words to the song and Binghe of course takes this and runs with it

Shen Qingqiu has no idea what his husband is planning for their anniversary but he knows Binghe has been very excited about showing it to him and so when he's directed to take a seat while his husband plays/sings an arrangement he crafted from Shang Qinghua's limited memory, he's very touched and enthused to hear what Binghe has in store

That is, until Luo Binghe actually starts singing

We're no strangers to love

You know the rules, and so do I

Shen Qingqiu is going to absolutely murder Shang Qinghua

[coffeexxcigarettes]

How many words have I written in blood,

To bleed through unkissed pages?

The last time I was myself,

The microphone gave feedback,

As you fell asleep-

I spill my soul only here,

Only here,

For you to see-

A declaration of who I am,

And who I'd like to be,

And everything you've woven into me-

How many words have I agonized over,

To later feel it crushed within my hand-

To never be seen again?

To write only for another is to die,

And I fear I've died for you..

..A thousand times over.

x

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... @nosebleedclub - Oct. 19th; Grand Gesture