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This dog is really cute but all my photos of him make him look like a cryptid

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Awww I love the Tadhg Lynch Protection Squad sm!

Day 2: Favorite Ships

For @endlessly-cursed’s Hogwarts Legacy Appreciation Week

Tadhg Lynch and Niamh Kelly are my OG HPHL ship and Tadhg is my most oblivious boy. They’re very sweet. Tadhg fully loves Niamh and is her biggest, most eager supporter. Niamh fully loves Tadhg and is his biggest supporter, helping him to see the better parts of life. They complement each other very well. They also don’t get together until their late twenties, not meeting until 1901.

Cillian Lynch and Orla MacGill are a newer ship that has only recently started to be developed. They originally started as a very cold and passionless arranged marriage, but by making Orla an MC, they started to transform. While the coolness remains to some degree, in the Tadhg Lives AU, they finally fall in love and Cillian has no idea what he’s supposed to do about that. His father had always claimed that love weakened a man, so he really didn’t want to be in love. Orla never had those qualms, but waited until he finally admitted it before giving in.

Anthony Rosen and Kit O’Sheeran very much became a thing because of their faceclaims, but they’re very sweet. Anthony is able to see past Kit’s walls and she’s able to see past his walls. They both have something in their past that made it difficult for them to let others in, but they let each other in. They’re soft darlings who are only soft with one another.

William Devlin and Josie Edwards (@slytherindisaster) are just sweethearts. They’re soft introverts who see the best in one another, each struggling with their own family issues. There’s a slight class difference within their relationship as well, as William’s an illegitimate muggleborn and Josie is from a wealthy pureblood family. I like this quote for them:

“I don’t want sunbursts or marble halls. I just want you.” -Anne of The Island, L.M. Montgomery

Maxwell Pembroke and Ivy Anders (@kc-and-co) are soft quidditch nerds, who seem to be opposites attract. He’s introverted, she’s extroverted. He’s tall, she’s small. He‘s not going to a party, she’s throwing a party. But digging a little deeper, they have a decent amount in common. They both value family and push the other a little outside of their comfort zone. They’re sweethearts.

Brianna MacGill and Elias Quintin (@amerrymystery) began as an arranged marriage, but they have a very fun dynamic. They’re both damaged and traumatized, but handle it differently. It makes them complement one another quite well. Plus, the sunshiney damaged one and the broody damaged is such a satisfying dynamic.

Grant Kennedy and Lottie Gallagher (@slytherindisaster) are a great dynamic. Their trope is best friend’s brother (and sister’s best friend), so it’s quite fun to play with the many ways Minerva would react. Beyond that, though, Lottie is able to bring out more of Grant’s fun loving side, that existed before the death of his father. They’re just sweet.

Minerva Kennedy and Adonis Demiurgos (@endlessly-cursed) have a dynamic that is very different than my other ships as they are rivals to lovers. It’s very much an academic rivalry, inspired (at least, to me) by the early relationship of Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe. Eventually, though, Minerva comes around and a slow friendship forms that eventually turns to a romantic relationship.

Bonus: The Gryffindorks & The Tadhg Lynch Protection Squad

Without a doubt these are the two best non-familial platonic relationships. Tadhg wouldn’t be the person he is without the friendship of Teddy Ellison (@cursebreakerfarrier), Gabriel Sapieha (@slytherindisaster), Adelia Selwyn (@thatravenpuffwitch), Theo Abbott (@smarti-at-smogwarts), and Roel Leeuwenhoek (@fairywrenn). For nearly two decades, these are the five most important people in Tadhg’s life.

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CONTINUING THE NUZLOCKE

[chthonianblast]

My first art of 2021, my ‘sona!! Demon Prince Kithonial Aves Bluebolt Fangswipe Arclight!! (A cambion/birdragon mix, though the dragon part is a secret to even this Underworld inhabitant.)

The shirt is this YGO card!

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streaming the simpsons hit n run.......

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The Welcome Ball

For @endlessly-cursed’s holiday event, A Weekend with the Grays

Kit & Anthony

Kit caught his eye from across the crush in the ballroom. She raised her eyebrows and slipped out of the room, knowing he’d follow. She padded quietly through the hall, until she reached the balcony door and threw it open.

“Why did you follow me?” she asked, turning to face him.

“Why do you think? I like you. A lot. As more than just a friend,” he replied. “But you knew I’d follow.”

“How did you know?”

“Because, I think you like me too.”

Kit swallowed and looked at him again. Anthony looked dapper. He wore a simple, uncomplicated suit. It was a sharp contrast to the opulence in the other room, reflecting the fact that Anthony had grown up a poor orphan, similarly to herself. She sighed.

“You are correct. I do like you. As more than just a friend.”

William

He had never felt comfortable on the dance floor. Aside from practicing with Louisa, he had never danced. The piano, a sketching crayon, a foil— those he could handle. A ball and the fraught social interactions that came with it, those left him with a pit of nerves in his stomach.

He took a swig of the alcohol in his glass and observed the room. His eyes glanced over a certain blonde Hufflepuff and he swallowed the liquid. He’d always been an outsider in these kind of things. Once, as a young, he had watched a ball, from a hidden spot between the stairs, before the reality of his bastardy had fully settled in.

“I hear Lord Carlisle’s bastard is in attendance somewhere. It’s said that he’s the copy of the former viscount and that his mother had been both Irish and a Catholic.” The pompous voice carried over and William set the glass down, the alcohol rotting in his stomach.

This had been a bad idea. He tucked his hands behind his back and slipped away. His sketching crayon was better company, anyways.

[The certain Hufflepuff is Josie Edwards, who belongs to @slytherindisaster and who also made this post about what the Kennedy twins are up to.]

Orla

She observed the room with a gentle smile. Furthering connections was necessary, in case her father ever discovered that she had attended. Yet, it was still one of the most enjoyable situations that she had found herself in. It was incredible that she had also managed to wrangle invitations for Tiernan and Brianna. The twins were having the time of their lives, spinning one another across the floor. Orla smiled. There was less and less to smile about around the holidays, but for once they could be siblings, without having to worry about their father announcing odd things for their futures.

Maxwell

There were too many people he didn’t know. His stomach flipped and he turned to leave, when a familiar voice called out his name. His stomach flipped again, this time the pleasant way. He sighed, but couldn’t deny her. So, he made his way quickly through the crush. He thought he heard his name a few times, but didn’t stop.

“Max! I’m so glad you came to the ball! I wasn’t sure you would.”

“I was hungry,” he replied.

“Dance with me?”

“Ives, I don’t know how.”

“That’s okay. You don’t need to know how. Just sway with me.”

He sighed. “Fine. But only once. There are too many people.”

“We can go find the library, or kitchens, after this.”

Maxwell sighed, but took Ivy’s hand in his. He marveled a little at their height difference. Ivy barely reached his chest.

[Ivy belongs to @kc-and-co]

Niamh (& Tadhg)

“There’s your Lynch boy,” Primrose said, nudging Niamh with her elbow.

“He’s not ‘my Lynch boy,’” she replied.

“So you don’t have a crush on him?”

“That’s neither here nor there. And anyways, he’s not going to be interested in me.”

“That’s ridiculous. If he’d be gravely mistaken if he wasn’t. You’re lovely.”

“I’m not looking for a courtship now.”

“Well, you should still dance with him.”

Niamh followed Primrose’s gaze to where the Gryffindor they were discussing was. His head was thrown back, laughing at something one of his friends was saying. Sure, Tadhg Lynch was incredibly attractive and loyal, but she meant what she said. She wasn’t interested in being courted. Not yet at least. She didn’t want to only be a wife.

“Once again, thank you for inviting me,” she said.

“There was no question about it, Niamh. You are one of my closest friends. How could I not invite you?” Primrose responded and Niamh smiled.

[Primrose Gray belongs to @endlessly-cursed.]