#james is torn

[lulublack90]

Prompt 16 - Shy

@jegulus-microfic January 16, Word count 523

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James’s heart was pounding as he let Regulus lead him through the common room and out of the portrait hole. Regulus didn’t stop until they were on the seventh floor, and then it was only to pull the cloak off himself so he could pace in front of the wall for the door to appear. James stuck out his hand for Regulus to take again, realising too late that Regulus couldn’t see it. He pulled the cloak off himself and followed Regulus into their room.

The room was different to the usual one that Regulus asked the castle for. The bed was missing, and the room was a lot smaller. The fireplace and the sofa were still there, along with the pile of soft blankets. 

“Are you alright, love?” James asked as he shut the door. Regulus had gone to stand beside the fireplace, holding onto the mantelpiece and resting his head on the warmed wood. 

“Did I go too far?” He asked quietly, staring into the flames. James came up behind him, giving him enough space to move away if he wanted to, but Regulus turned and buried himself against James’s chest. James held him close, rubbing soothing circles on his back.

“I don’t know,” James said truthfully. He really didn’t. If anyone else had done that to Sirius, he would have got them back tenfold. But Regulus had been the one to jinx Sirius, and it wasn’t as if Sirius was hurt. Remus would have released him from it before they’d even reached the bottom of the spiral staircase. He was torn between them. But he’d picked Regulus, hadn’t he? He held him tighter, wanting him to feel reassured that he was there. “I think he would have done the same thing if the situations were reversed,”

Regulus kept his face buried, so James couldn’t see his reaction. Regulus was many things, but he wasn’t shy, and the fact that he was hiding against James made him worry. “Reg, what's going on?” Finally, Regulus moved, keeping his cheek pressed against James’s chest.

“That was the best time, Sirius, and I have had together for years, and I ruined it by jinxing him,” James scooped his arm under Regulus’s legs and moved them onto the sofa, wrapping one of the soft blankets around them and cradled him. 

“You’ll have more chances, and who knows, maybe next time Sirius will jinx you, and you’ll be even,” He joked. He felt relief when Regulus let out a wet chuckle. 

“He’d never even get close.” 

They sat warm by the fire until there was nothing but embers. “Are we staying here tonight, or do you want to come back up to Gryffindor Tower?” James asked. He was feeling sleepy and wanted nothing more than to get into bed and cuddle with Regulus.

“Sirius would really hate it if I came up, wouldn’t he?” The mischief dancing in Regulus's eyes told James Regulus’s decision. 

“Come on then, let’s go to bed,” James stood up, setting Regulus on his feet, and they left the come-and-go room with the invisibility cloak covering them, Regulus’s hand back in James’s.

[a-most-beloved-fool]

spirk using telepathy to keep each other alive. kirk, desperate, psy-null and untrained, reaching clumsily into spock's dying mind and pulling, dragging spock's essence into himself, wrenching him forceably from the very jaws of death and holding him there through sheer strength of will, saying you can't die, i won't let you, you can't leave me, i need you, and binding him to life and to himself until it's impossible to fully separate them. spock, more skilled, carefully managing each one of kirk's vital signs - keeping his heart beating steady, his lungs drawing breath, his temperature within a safe range, all while suppressing kirk's pain, and at the same trying, vainly, to keep their minds from tying themselves inexorably together, but they're pressed too close and he can't, and he hopes that kirk will forgive him, for bonding them like this (he will, of course he will), but the alternative, letting kirk die, was - unthinkable.

[brainrotcharacters]

You know what would devastate me? Professor X or Magneto seeing current poolverine and losing their shit.

That said, do it.

[under-lok-n-ki]

saying a mean thing DOES hurt more gilly has a point

[voguefashion]

James Dean photographed by Roy Schatt, 1954.

[baltharino]

Men in Black (1997) Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[russell-crowe]

S08E02: transplant

[hugeegosorry]

i need to bring this discourse to tumblr

[jacquelying]

“Happy New Year,” James says and crosses the small room to stand beside Francis at the counter.

The final chime of the clock rings out into silence.

Francis looks at him side-on. There’s a strange and unreal quality to the moment like something he might imagine in a fever late at night. “Happy New Year, James.”

[cutiebabie]

— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

[lostburkes]

Lost is being put on Netflix in the US soon and everyone on twitter is talking about a renaissance. How we feeling about this besties??

[ramennoodler]

Torn... Liam took his passion up a notch when they sang this cover.

[lulublack90]

Prompt 12 - Wand

@wolfstarmicrofic September 12, word count 311

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Regulus read A Christmas Carol that night after James had requested Flitsy to bring it. Sirius had hid with Remus in their tent when the grumpy elf had arrived.

“So what did you think?” Sirius asked Regulus the following morning. 

“It was good. I understand your plan now. I am not wearing chains though,” He warned, narrowing his eyes. Sirius snorted. 

“No, Reggie, you don’t have to wear chains,” He wrapped an arm around his brother’s shoulders, tugging him in close as he continued to tease him. 

“We’ll need to wait for Crouch Sr. to leave for the day and hope that Barty stays at home. I’m certain that Crouch Sr. has no idea where his son’s allegiance lies.” Remus said to them as they tucked into bowls of thick porridge, courtesy of Rorbey. The elf had brought a huge cauldron of it with him when he popped into the camp with a message from Orion, telling him that Walburga had been called back to London for an important meeting and would be gone all week if Sirius needed anything. It would be safe for him to visit. He’d told Remus, who’d just hugged him and told him it would be safer for them all if Sirius only went to the Summer Manor if he really had to. Sirius had agreed. He’d tell Rorbey if he came back again before the week was out. 

“Well, no time like the present I suppose,” He said, standing up and stretching. “Let’s go find this cup.”

They stood outside the very modest-looking Crouch family home. While the Crouchs were part of the Sacred Twenty-eight, they, like so many of the old families, had squandered their riches and had yet to refill their vaults with gold. Sirius doubted that they ever would.

Sirius raised his wand and, with the others, they silently approached the house.  

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[sybill-the-seer]

Young ~3-y/o Harry following Petunia around the house while she does chores. Young Harry holding onto Petunia’s skirt and sucking his thumb while she does the dishes. Young Harry playing quietly in the grass near Petunia while she weeds the garden. Young Harry just wanting to be WITH someone at all times. Young Harry trotting along after Petunia all day being her little shadow until her patience wears thin and she sends him to his cupboard. Young Harry being a clingy child who desperately needs affection but never gets it.

[taylorshope]

[lsleofthelost]

backstories for the Villains of Merlin Academy

Hades: I’m stealing Blue’s idea that Hades was sent there as a punishment by the Olympians. We’re looking at it through the Disney lens, rather than Classics lens, meaning Hades is a villainous figure. I imagine he made contracts with a number of impressionable/gullible teenagers in an attempt to use them to overthrow Zeus. When this was discovered, he was sentenced to a human existence (hence why he ages later. the Olympians didn’t interfere with his sentence to the Isle of the Lost because they agreed that it’s a part of the human life) and made him a teenager. Intellectually, he knows he’s an immortal God but the human body and brain can not comprehend it, not fully, so he feels and acts like a teen boy. Yes, he has some of his powers, like pyrokinesis and shadow manipulation but they are limited.

Merlin was informed of this by Iris and he thinks it’s a wonderful and dangerous idea. He enrolled the now boy in classes and treats him as a normal student (sometimes he does forget that this isn’t just a punk).

Hades still likes what he likes, which is loud music, black leather and pushing people around, so he organically becomes part of the villain group.

Maleficent: She comes from a proud noble line of fae. They have been preordained to birth the future Mistress of Evil generations ago, and they leaned into it heavy. Every daughter is treated as a possible fulfilment of the prophecy, so all her cruel acts, all callousness, all harsh words were encouraged. When she was younger, she didn’t believe she was the one, and argued with her mother about it. Her family didn’t initially want to send her to Merlin Academy (she could make friends! become soft!) but she won out in the end. The reason she wanted to go was because she’s actually a bookworm, a scholar if you will, and the Academy is known as having the most comprehensive library in all the realms, including otherwise banned books.

Because she herself didn’t believe she could become the Mistress of Evil, Merlin didn’t either, and he could sense her hunger for knowledge, so how could he refuse to accept her? She likes that he’s scatterbrained and easy to manipulate.

She really didn’t come there to make friends, but when she realised that she was in the same year as actual literal God of the Underworld, she decided to make an exception. Plus, he likes good music.

Morgie: I will be so honest with you, I’m afraid I don’t know enough about Arthuriana to make a really good one here but I will try.

His mother doesn’t like thinking about her son. There’s no warmth or affection, really. As a son of such a powerful fae, he’s somehow crushed under the expectations and doesn’t give a shit. He wants his mother to love him, but he kind of realises it is a lost cause.

There was no question about his attendance, not really. Sure his parent is in a very tumultuous position to the realm, sometimes benevolent, sometimes malicious, she is still respected.

He mostly spent his days before the Academy in the Moors, with the animals, so he’s not that great at socialising with people. He spent a long time trying to approach Maleficent but didn’t know how. But eventually, he strikes a connection with Hook and is adopted by the group.

Hook: He is from a completely regular family. It’s not a loving warm family by any stretch of imagination but, unlike the others, there isn’t anything inherent to him. His parents work in a pub by the port, and he spent a lot of his childhood listening to stories from sailors from all over the spectrum of legality. That is also where he got his penchant for drama, because performing for drunk, recently paid sailors is a quick way to get some coin. He’s afraid of turning out like his parents, stuck in a dead end job, where people don’t have respect for you. He contemplated just joining a crew, but he knows that to become a Captain, he would either need to work a ship for years, or graduate an academy. So he sends an application.

He is one of the many scholarship kids at Merlin Academy. Officially, his goal is to enlist in the Navy and become a privateer. Less officially, he doesn’t care if he has a paper from the Crown, he wants to sail the seas, capture ships, and get a prize.

Because he’s attracted to power, he instantly sets his sights on the royal and noble kids. But their lives are so far away from his, and they don’t like his crude jokes so it doesn’t last long. Uliana thinks he’s hilarious, though.

Uliana: She was always the spare for the Royal House of Atlantis, ignored and forgotten. Unlike Ursula, she doesn’t have the bitter resentment of being the eldest child and being passed over in line for the throne in favour of Triton. But since Triton was raised pretty separately from them, Uliana feels more connection and competition to her sister. She knows there’s nothing she can do to be better than her brother (it’s not like she can be born a boy and challenge him for the throne) but she can be worse than Ursula. She desperately wants to be the best at something, to make people regret not paying attention to her.

She’s sent to the Merlin Academy, as is expected of a royal. But she doesn’t fit in with them. The other royal girls are either future rulers (which is partially why she disliked Bridget so much, because she takes that privilege for granted and humiliates herself with begging people to be friends), or they are perfectly happy and pampered princesses, who don’t understand her drive to be great. The nobles are too soft hearted for her taste, and she won’t lower herself to socialise with commoners.

She does connect with Hades, and Maleficent through him, and later Morgie, via James (he’s the only commoner she likes. he has drive). She’s the most motivated and initiating out of their group and becomes the de facto leader.