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crowsent · 4 years ago

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clearing out a laptop that is more than a decade old: the highlights, ft. salt making insightful commentary on self-growth and past internet culture in between aggressively making fun of old memes

listen. this laptop is fucking OLD. this laptop is from the fucking dark ages. obama wasnt even the president when i got this laptop. i have to plug in a fucking keyboard to even type my password in this laptop bc the keys no longer work. this thing has to be kept plugged in at all times just to be useable, aight? there are fucking facebook memes on this shit

im missing my childhood

where to apply perfume:

behind ears

base of throat

near armpits

inner wrists

inner elbows

behind knees

so this is solid advise but. i mean.

i do not wear perfume or cologne, past or present

why the fuck did i have this saved?

“molson beer fridge”

alexandrias genesis origin story

to play “happy birthday” on your phone, press [ 112163 112196 11#9632 969363 ]

and you bet your fucking ass i played this on my phone

i played this over and over chuckling to myself bc it stil works after a whole ass decade

yes i still have a flip phone shut up

past!salt utterly eviscerating the grey elephant from denmark game bc i was shoved so far deep in the closet i found aslan

the italian chef who died

think of a number. double it. add six. halve it. take away the number you started with. your answer is three

in hindsight, maybe going through my first laptop was a bad idea. there are so many “best friend” memes and every time i see one of these i am fucking hit with anger and resentment and guilt and so many negative emotions

but then i remember that i was absolutely not in the wrong and i there are no words that can describe the sheer GLEE i feel when i delete those memes

good fucking riddance i say

once this laptop is cleared of any files ill sort through my usb shit

so im learning that past!me was even more of an escapist than present me. that, or fandom culture was even MORE toxic back then than it is now

there were fucking CONTRACTS and shit

fucking PLEDGES and VOWS and PROMISES to put fandom before all else

like what the fuck is this

this is some cult bullshit

“i turn my back on the company of people and pledge my soul to join the fandoms”

like the internet legit just tossed this shit around to impressionable young people who took to the internet as a means of escaping rl trauma and they get hit with THIS bullshit

goddamn

blood type personality charts

“sabi nila, kung kaya ng iba, kaya mo rin. sabi ko naman, kung kaya ng iba, ipagawa mo sa kanila”

BRUHHHHHHHH

past!me is so much more feral and rabid than present!me but holy SHIT past!me was funnier

bruhhhhhh

blood print cherry tree

the amount of old art i found on this laptop is just embarrassing

bruh

the amount of GROWTH ive had

no lie my art right now still leaves much to be desired but

holy SHIT past!me was something else

i POSTED this shit

this shit is off somewhere in the universe

wow

i improved so much

i dont remember this bc i have the memory of a newly born fruitfly but

apparently

in the past

parents were really out here cancelling dora the explorer for having dora “expose her midriff”?????

i say parents but its probably just karens with nothing better to do

of course this discourse is on tumblr bc where else would it be

“i fanqueen peasant”

OLD MEMES

OLD ASS MEMES

the format really do be “top text bottom text”

what is this

i saved the moon moon origin meme

bruh

i have a fucking piece of history saved

purquoise

“i ship purquoise i even drew smut for it”

[image of a purple and turqoise gradient]

“why is there pr0n on my dash”

does

does anyone remember this?

i barely remember this but there was a ship war between purqoise and another colour combo

we really just post whatever we want on this website huh

so past me did commissions of dragons

i forgot about that

imagine a little fucking elementary-grade kid dealing dragon drawings in between classes for a few pesos

there are pictures of me in this laptop

this is unacceptable

the people must not know that i have a corporeal form

i must remain formless

people must envision an empty void when they think of me

unacceptable

the fucking DELIC PSYCHE drrr au

i fucking FORGOT THIS

does

does anyone in the modern drrr fandom remember the fucking delic/psyche debacle?

so apparently

past!me just went ahead and fucking

involved myself in ship wars huh

you know what? i forgive you past salt. you didnt know any better. we are better than getting into ship wars now

we have grown

handcuff chair crowd

ship ranking websites

past!salt making multiple accounts on every ship ranking website to upvote otps

truly

we have grown as a human being

past!me simped for bellatrix

not surprising

there are so many anime!harrypotter art on this

i did not want to see voldemort chibi-fied

what the fuck

old fandoms blah blah

weird shit blah blah

art ref blah blah

an unsent letter to my mother apologising for not being the child she wanted and asking desperately for her to still love me even after i admit that im not straight

cake recipes

so much cake recipes

BUTTERBEER RECIPE

i have the the recipe for BUTTERBEER

#salt speaks

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losille2000 · 8 years ago

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To the Hiddleswifters and The Realists

I have a story to tell.

Way back when, in the year 2004 (I seriously can’t believe it has been 13 years), a little movie was made/released. This movie was titled The Phantom of the Opera. I was, and still am, a huge Phan. But despite some questionable singing and perhaps the worst written/delivered line ever spoken on screen*, I fell in love with it. I dragged anyone I could to go see it with me, again and again. One of the reasons for it was the raw sexual chemistry between Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. She was 17 at the time of filming, he was 34(?) I think. Clearly taboo, but you could feel it on screen, despite the story they were supposed to be portraying. It translated off-screen, they went on costar dates during filming and ramped up especially when they began promo for the movie and Emmy was then 18.

Well, sometime between the film wrapping and the release, Gerry joined Emmy at her Day After Tomorrow premiere. Coupled with that, the movie, and watching them play around with each other during the press tour for PotO, my first ever OTP (and RPF) ship was born. A group of like-minded fans gathered together on Livejournal. Fuck, I created and modded that community. We shared facts and fit them to our narrative, we took scant pieces of “evidence” and wrapped it into the narrative, and they became the celebrity couple “Gemmy”. We looked at photos of them and extrapolated what we wanted from them. We were sure they were in love. We took coincidences and made up our own alternative facts—some of us really wanting to Believe, while others, of course, did it only for fun. We wrote fic, had discussions, ran contests, had long, drawn out posts of evidentiary proof. Of course, we didn’t badger Outside People about it, we stayed in our lane, and went along our merry way having fun with it. I’m sure there were people out there that thought we were loonies (okay, maybe I am sometimes), but because we didn’t badger people, everyone went on and had a fun time.

Little by little, years went on and the fervor died off. There just weren’t enough coincidences to put them together and we went on to newer and better things, even though there was a time—about two years—that we were 100% convinced they were hiding something in secret. I, ultimately, found out that Emmy had actually married her “supposed” boyfriend during that time, which resulted in a very short marriage and divorce. But Gerry was single-ish during the time, and Emmy didn’t go out with her beard (the bf). I mean, it all fit together. A shippers heaven!

Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t. Maybe they had a torrid few days together, and it lingered on. Who knows. The point is, I met a lot of amazing people during my time being silly in love with Gemmy. Some of them, I still correspond with today. Heck, my best friend @cinderella1181 , going on 13 years now, came into my life because of that goddamn ship. We live together now, and fangirl together about so many things, and fight and argue, but I love her as though she were a blood sister.

My reason for writing all this, I guess, is to give another point of view about the Hiddleswift shippers who love Tom and Tay together, and then the “toxics,” as they’ve been called, who are constantly trying to convince them that they’re wrong. Both sides of the argument have been more than a little toxic to each other, and it keeps going on and on, and frankly, I’m getting really pissed seeing it on my dash all the time. Continuing to bullshit about other people—real living, breathing people—just creates more hate and more venom... when, in the long run, it DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER if they love Hiddleswift or hate it. You, too, can ignore it. Be the adult. Don’t respond. Move on. Let them have their fantasies. Maybe they need it in their life right now. Maybe it gives them joy to think about T and T together and not one of us has any right to try to diminish that.

Sometimes I think we forget that behind the computer screen, on the other end of the keyboard, is a human being. And they, too, can be hurt. And it is our natural response to defend ourselves. Being a bully and continuing to badger people for what they want to (harmlessly) believe is wrong. In fact, you’re more likely to make them more passionate about what they’re really trying to defend and confirmation biases start happening and all that shit. Are some people batshit insane? Yes. But that gives you (shippers or The Realists) absolutely no right to shit on their parade unless they are harming other people.

Some TL;DR points for those who skipped all that:

1. There is nothing wrong with the Hiddleswift shippers doing what they’re doing. Let them have fun. (Caveat: I don’t agree with tracking planes and such. That is a little much.)

2. It is not okay for Hiddleswifters or The Realists (aka Toxics) to go onto each other’s blogs and spread hate about each other.

3. It is NOT okay to find one lightning rod person in the fandom and spend all your time trying to “expose the truth” about them and their relationships, marriages, friendships, etc. We get it, you don’t like them, doesn’t give you right to gossip or spread rumors about them.

4. As Tom and Taylor continue to move on in their life, so too will all of us. Is it really worth all this aggravation? Go outside, breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun on your face.

5. Stay in your own fucking lane.

6. There is no one person or one particular group who is toxic. This infighting is what is Toxic. It has made the whole fucking fandom TOXIC. We are all to blame for it.

Now, do I understand that the reason for a lot of this is dislike of Taylor? Of the way Tom acted during and after the whole ordeal? Yea, I get that. I even support healthy conversation about such things, and in fact follow a few blogs who allow the healthy conversation with a heaping dose of sarcasm (Petty Day was pretty funny, and the “More Chemistry Than” series was hilarious). No, I don’t follow shipper blogs, because I do not, personally, get the ship. And you know what? That’s cool. They’re having fun and hurting no one. The Realists are having fun with their conversations, too. My problem is with the people who pick on other people in the fandom, or claim that they are right to the exclusion of everyone else’s right to have an opinion, and go on blogs with opposing POVs and demand that they change their mind. Sometimes, we just have to move on from an argument, because it will never end and it will only cause deeper rifts. That’s the mark of being an adult.

I guess what I’m saying is: why can’t we all just have fun? Why do we have to divide ourselves into groups? We might not agree on everything, but that makes none of us bad people.

*sigh*

I know this is long, and I’ve stayed quiet for a long time—since August last year—but I can’t do it anymore. Please, my friends, try to be happy. Be good to others.

Thank you for reading. If you need me, you’ll find me rocking in the corner, wearing my tinfoil hat, clutching my DVD of Phantom, and murmuring about how beautiful Gemmy was. You pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

P.S.: Gemmy 4ever

**** Worst delivered line in the history of cinema: I can’t find a video link, but it’s directly after Masquerade/Why So Silent when Raoul is talking to Madame Giry:

“But clearly, Madame Giry, genius has turned to madness.” - Raoul, PotO

EDIT: FOUND IT. Around the 3:18 mark.

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#hiddleswift #tom hiddleston #gemmy

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rocketbcssarchive · 7 years ago

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ALL OF EM. "DONT BE A PUSSY," CHRISSY.

CHRISSY REALLY LIKES TO SALT || NOT ACCEPTING

INHALES

I BET YOU THOUGHT I WOULD PUSSY OUT DIDN’T YOU????

also @hiunmei, @fiiresouled, @sombrc, @starmarkcd, @heartoire

What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*

Answered!

Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*

Answered!

Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?

Answered, basically Chrissy doesn’t remember, but chances are likely she did.

Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*

Answered, but last time I wasn’t allowed to say a.mourshipping and guess what, I’m slapping this down here. I mean I’ve gone at length already about why I don’t like that ship that I’m starting to sound like a broken record about it so I’m just saying, I just dislike it when people try to obnoxiously shipbait and don’t have the balls to commit to it.

Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*

Not with Pokemon specifically, but I generally don’t care for a lot of ships in Pokemon since either a) there are so many characters I just feel meh about so why would I care if they were in a ship and b) most of the characters are too young for me to really ship.

Though I’ll admit I’ve become really lukewarm about p.reciousmetalshipping the more I’m exposed to it.

Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?*

@starmarkcd & @gxldenstreak have actually made me come around on Crys/Gold since I’m one of those curmudgeons who 9/10 dislikes it whenever the sole female character in a group ends up having to be shipped with the main male lead just because she’s the girl and therefore has to be a love interest. This same philosophy applies to why it makes it really hard for me to ship ariana/giovanni.

Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?*

I haven’t reached the point where I can’t stand him or anything since Guzma has really great character development and was just a huge surprise all around when I was expecting a shallow comic relief character, but damn was I really close to just hating the character at one point thanks to fandom being really obnoxious about him.

Have you received anon hate? What about?*

Not really. I’ve been on tumblr since 2010 and I’ve yet to ping on anyone’s radar that they thought to send me anon hate. Though I’ve been put on a call out post/call out blog before so I suppose that counts? Still, why won’t anyone hate me that intensely to just come into my inbox? I’ve been waiting for the day to get some real anon hate. It’ll just be such a huge tumblr milestone for me.

Most disliked character(s)? Why?

Answered, I believe. But Cilan. Cilan. Cilan. HE IS SO USELESS AND ANNOYING. I just remember how ridiculously happy I was when he and Iris were literally shoved onto a subway and sent away. It was like the show runners realized how disliked those two were and just gave us that moment “SEE? SEE! THEY’RE GONE!” since literally asides from Brock&Misty in Johto arc, none of the other companions got a goodbye scene and especially not one that was as dismissive and insulting as the one Cilan and Iris got.

Literally said “Good bye, worst companions ever.” when the subway doors closed.

Most disliked arc? Why?

FRICKIN BLACK AND WHITE. ALL OF IT. I get so frickin angry at how badly Ash regressed when he was amazing during Sinnoh. THERE WAS LITERALLY AN ENTIRE SEASON OF FILLER. Like yes, Pokemon’s really just filler, but at least there was always just an overarching story with Ash winning badges to fight in the region’s league and his female companion competing in some dumb beauty pageant alongside him. But literally. This season had no plot since it came after Ash getting his ass handed to him in the unova league. He and his companions were fucking travelling around on a ferry and stopping at random islands for no damn reason at all.

Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

Nah, which I find kind of surprising since I generally tend to like characters most of fandom will dislike. There probably IS a character, I just don’t remember them at the moment.

Is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

I suppose the SuMo anime right now is a bit unpopular since people can’t get over the anime style changes and general tone shift from XYZ, but I actually really love it for the cuteness and the fact that Ash is such a pure soul in it.

Also I know people didn’t like the XY games since they were really shallow and I understand why since… well it followed the BW games. But I was fortunate enough to pick up the games only a few months before the SuMo games so I never had go through the long wait and ultimate disappointment with the games, but it’s kinda cute and the music’s not bad.

Unpopular opinion about XXX character?

I think I’ve seen this sentiment thrown around a bit so I don’t think it’s that unpopular, but I really think Brock should have been written out of the show long before Sinnoh. He was just kind of… there and nonexistent and pointless. He kinda went through all of his character development with the original trio and really should have just left with Misty. Especially since that running gag of him falling for every hot girl was SO. OLD. by then.

Unpopular opinion about your fandom?

Hey fandom? Stop taking game mechanics so frickin literally. Thanks, Chrissy.

Unpopular opinion about the manga/show?

Look, I love Pokespe. I seriously do. It was a series that had the challenge of taking completely new characters for every arc and having to expand them into something that’s original and not boring or repetitive. I ESPECIALLY love what they did with Giovanni.

But at the same time???? Holy fuck does Pokespe read like bad fanfiction 99% of the time. Lance taking all three legendary books and mooshing them into one was just… not good.

If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

I mean I would go back and rewrite the entire god damn Black and White arc so that a) Ash wasn’t so damn fucking incompetent and completely forgot how to be a pokemon trainer B) Cilan never existed C) Iris being an actual gym trainer and eventual champion etc etc.

ALSO REMOVING VINCENT AND INSERTING SILVER. GOD DAMN IT.

Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…

So here’s the thing that always kinda baffled me about Serena is that while true, she’s a blank slate character you do have something of a personality for her when she ends up being the rival if you happen to choose Caelum as your avatar. She’s a girl who’s actually a pretty stronger trainer and who progressively gets frustrated and insecure about having some new kid on the block come along and beat her at every battle. That would have been an amazing story to see on screen.

And just like the really, really aggravating thing about Serena in the show is just… a character like her already existed in the games. It was frickin Shauna. SHE was the potential LI in the game who was interested in cute stuff and videos and fashion and wasn’t a good trainer, but stuck around with the team since she cared so much about her friends. Soooo… would have put Shauna in Serena’s role if I had that choice.

Does not shipping something ‘popular’ mean you’re in denial and/or biased?

CONTRARY TO HOW IT MAY SEEM ON THIS BLOG.

I do not actually care all that much for shipping. I have the one ship, MAYBE two for each character and that’s it. Heck, I never intended on shipping on Giovanni until a certain devil child came along and ruined everything. So when I in particular don’t ship something popular, it usually just means I’m not invested. Plain and simple.

What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?

Instead of one thing, you get a list: the frickin entitlement. The guilt tripping. Drama that friggin lasts for weeks. People who can’t leave other people alone. People who use mental illness as an excuse for acting like a terrible person. The vagueblogging. FRICKIN POLITICS THAT SHOULD BE KEPT TO PERSONALS. People not tagging shit. The constant call out posts over NOTHING. The “If you’re not with me, you’re against me” mindset – hi, I’m here for RP and dumb memes and 9/10 I probably agree with your sentiment, but I’m not fucking here on my pokemon blog for that shit.

What is the purest ship in the fandom?

Moon/Lillie are the cutest thing to have ever happened and while I don’t really ship it since yanno, they’re ten, they are so pure and sweet that just thinking about them washes a lot of my salt away.

What are your thoughts on crack ships?

They’re dangeorus. As in. I’ve deffo done the thing where it starts off as a crack ship and then becomes a legit ship. It’s like playing with fire and then you have people on the dash who are just “wait, what – ??” when they see you legit shipping it.

Popular character you hate?

Look, if you’ve been following me for this long and don’t know the answer to this then please leave.

Unpopular character you love?

Okay, so I guess Ash sorta counts as an unpopular character on the game side of the fandom since people can’t get over the fact that the anime and the games are separate universes. So I constantly get to see my son be dragged for not being Red or for taking the role of their self-insert character even though I bet dollars to donuts that they’d probably whine that their self-insert character didn’t jive with whatever personal headcanons they came up with or what not.

Listen, just let the boy exist in the anime and ignore it if you don’t like it. The show’s cute, it’s bright and colourful and sometimes really well animated. And hey, guess what sometimes the show is better than the games with their interpretations of mechanics. I love the fact that the legendaries feel like legendaries and not some extra strong pokemon you have to try a lil harder to catch. That and a bunch of other lil things. Just let me sit here and love my son.

Would you recommend XXX to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes. I’ve actually recommended pokemon to friends repeatedly, even dragged them into streams to watch either the anime or even LPs for the games.

How would you end XXX/Would you change the ending of XXX?

WELL FRIEND. I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT ASH TOTALLY WON THE KALOS LEAGUE.

Most shippable character?

idk. given how ash has been paired with every character under the sun, including frickin sammy oak, I guess him? I mean the frickin fandom’s currently caught up in ship wars with him in the middle. ASH FUCKING KETCHUM. Mister Oblivious to Romance and Girls.

Least shippable character?

Cilan.

Get him out of my face.

#undinaes #ℜ┊this is satan speaking ( OOC )#salt cw #ℜ┊ answered memes #ℜ┊ long post

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doublel27 · 8 years ago

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Bedtime Stories - Ron/Hermione

Title: Bedtime Stories

Fandom: Harry Potter

Ship: Ron/Hermione

Summary: Young Rose wants to hear the story of how her parents met, Hermione just wants to go to bed.

Based on this prompt: http://otpprompts.tumblr.com/post/115706758104/imagine-your-otp-has-a-young-child-and-one-night

"Mummy, how did you and Daddy meet?"

Hermione smiled at Rose as she leaned over to tuck her daughter in. She pulled the covers up tight, her belly brushing against the flowery spread. Days seemed to get even longer the further she got into her second pregnancy. Laying in bed with her current book on the history of wand making was the dream she was having right now, and she wanted to get to it now. "We met at school, sweet," she reminded Rose, running a hand over her daughter's riot of chestnut curls, "Now you've already had your story. Time for bed."

"We didn't meet at school," Ron corrected from the doorway. He leaned against the doorway casually, still in his Auror robes. "It was on the train to school."

Hermione sighed before turning to face the doorway and glaring at her husband. Her bed was getting further and further away. It was going to be an age before she could separate the inseparable father and daughter. "My question wasn't even where, it was how!"

"Well, Rose-o-mine,” he began, pushing off from the doorway and crossing the floor, “I had just met your Uncle Harry."

"Ron."

He paid no mind to her, crossing Rose’s sunshiny bedroom. Hermione had told Ron that she wanted to give their child all the light that they had lost in their own childhoods. So they had given her butter yellows and cool blues and a room that made you feel like nothing could ever be sad. The bed often reminded Hermione of a cloud, soft and fluffy and warm.

"I was sitting across from him, just so," Ron continued, seating himself in the chair Hermione had just vacated, grinning at their daughter. For her part, Rose sat up, grinning right back at her father, the carefully tucked in sheets now rumpled at her waist. "And we were talking about magic and I told him my brothers had been teaching me a spell."

"What spell?" Rose asked, leaning forward, a grin forming across her face, exposing the gap between her two large front teeth.

"Anyways, as I was about to cast it--” Ron looked up from his tale, conveniently leaving out the fact that the spell wasn’t a real spell. He waved his hand in her direction, “Hermione, go into the hall and pretend you're coming into the train car."

Hermione’s hand came to rest on her back which was beginning to ache as she sighed, "Ron."

Concern bloomed in his blue eyes and Hermione hoped that he would cut off the story. Ron stood and came to her, placing a hand on her shoulder. Her hopes were dashed however, when he said, "No, you sit and be me. I'll be you."

Hermione lowered herself in the chair, glad to be back off her feet. Ron, for himself, moved into the hallway. “As I was saying, I was about to cast the spell.”

Ron motioned at her, and Hermione picked up one of the stuffed animals that was on Rosie’s bed. This one of the ones that Luna had made, it was purple and gold and had large floppy ears and tiny wings. Hermione couldn't remember the name of it for the life of her; something that had been featured in the Quibbler. Instead, she pretended it was Scabbers. Well, Peter Pettigrew, really, but this had been before they had known better. Peter Pettigrew wasn't really a bedtime story anyways.

Hermione gave Rose a conspiratorial grin, as she had always imagined Ron had been looking at Harry before she had poked her head in. “Oh, I have done loads of magic. My brothers have been teaching me on the side. Let me show you.”

“Oh!” Ron said, entering dramatically with a high-pitched voice that sounded little like her own. “Are you doing magic? I have memorized every spell in our school books and can tell you the entire history of Hogwarts, having read Hogwarts, A History for fun. It took me one afternoon.”

Ron blinked at her, as Rosie giggled. “Well, go on then. Let's see it.”

Hermione waved her imaginary wand at the imaginary Scabbers and muttered, “Something, mellow, turn this rat yellow.”

Ron broke character, shaking his head. “No, no, that's not what it was. It was Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid, fat rat yellow.” He looked at her for a long moment and then pointed at fake Scabbers again.

“Oh, for Heaven's sake…” Hermione rolled her eyes, but hid her smile as she affected a lower voice again. “Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid, fat rat yellow.”

Just as had happened in real life, the stuffed mystery animal remained unchanged. Rosie was looking at the whole scene with avid interest. Her brown eyes darted between them both.

“Are you sure that's a real spell? It isn't very good, is it?” Ron stared at the not-rat with disappointment and disgust. “I have tried simple spells at home and they've all worked for me. I am sure you’ll get one to work soon.”

Rosie giggled again at her father's voice. Hermione pretended to slouch in her seat, her arms crossing over her now giant breasts. “It worked at home.”

“Well, let me know if you see a toad. Neville has lost his.” Ron affected a hair flip and turned to leave.

“I swear Harry, it worked before.” Hermione grumbled, to a non-existent Harry. She shot resentful eyes towards the bedroom door. “She doesn't know what she's talking about.”

Ron came back in the door, and grinned at her. “You make me sound quite slow.”

“You make me sound quite obnoxious,” Hermione shot back, love infusing her voice. And at the time, that was how they had felt, she supposed.

Hermione tried to shove herself out of the chair. Rocking back and forth made no real difference. With a frustrated huff, she tried again, but instead found her husband’s speckled hand reaching out for her.

“That's it? But it doesn't sound very nice. How did you fall in love?”

Ron leaned over and pressed a kiss to their daughter’s light brown forehead. “That is a much longer story, Rosie that involves trolls in bathrooms, balls, canaries, and adventure. But your mum is tired because it is past the baby’s bedtime. So, next time, maybe I’ll tell you about the time Uncle Harry and I accidentally locked Mummy in the bathroom with a troll.”

“You didn't?!” Rose gasped and looked between the both of them. “Mummy, he didn't really?!”

“He did.” She tucked an erstwhile curl behind Rose’s ear, thinking back to that long ago day. “But he didn't know I was in there and, most importantly, he came back for me. Your father has always come back for me.”

Looking back at him, she saw that there was the hint of blue tears hiding in her eyes. Hermione took Ron’s hand, which gave hers a squeeze. Together they walked across the soft carpet towards the door.

“But I want to hear about the troll!” Rosie’s voice was somewhere between a shriek and a whine.

Hermione just gave her a smile. “Goodnight, darling,” she said, before closing the door definitively as they stepped into the hall.

Hermione whispered to her husband, “I think she was hoping for love at first sight.”

“It wasn't that, certainly,” Ron responded, giving her a large grin as he whispered conspiratorially.

“No,” she said, leaning past her belly to press a kiss to her cheek, “but I think it was something much better.”

Ron smiled at her softly, that face that tended to remind her he had a romantic nature underneath the bluster that made him Ron. His free hand came to rub the mound that had become her belly. “Let's get you and the bean in here to bed.”

Letting go of her hand, his arm came around her back, and Hermione leaned into his tall, strong form. Together they began the shuffle down the hall that her gait had become. One never would have thought from that first day with the rat, they would become what they are.

“For your information,” Hermione corrected him, pretending that she wasn’t as sleepy as she felt. The arch tone he used to mock in first year had come into her voice. “I plan to read at least a half-hour. I have that book on the history of wand-making.”

“I recon that would put me to bed within five seconds, but you have your time now. But if you would like a history of the making of my wand--”

“Ronald!”

She couldn’t pretend shock even, as she found herself giggling helplessly against his body as they continued into their bedroom.

“No?” he asked, laughter rich in his voice. “Another time then.”

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