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black-occamy · 1 year ago

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Cocoa By Night

A little Drarry fluff, 1630 words, #occamy-verse

I wanted to create this as a birthday gift, hoping that I could return at least a tiny bit of the joy I have every time @basiatlu posts anything on her Tumblr. I love your Sirius, totally. Also, you encouraged me to incorporate this idea in my main, so it seemed fitting to mention the whole Draco-runs-from-home-and-kind-of-gets-adopted-at-Grimmauld in something dedicated for you for the first time :D So, without further ado - the prompt for #boshhptober2023 was NIGHTMARE.

Harry stared at the ceiling above his bed, the pattern of the old wooden panels blurry without his glasses on. It was shortly after midnight, his smartphone informed him, and Harry had spent a couple minutes scrolling absent-mindedly through Fwooper, before he put it down and tried to fall asleep again.

It wasn’t that Ron was snoring softly in the other bed in the room; Harry got used to that over the last five years of sleeping in one dormitory with him. It wasn’t the soft tap-tapping sound of the summer night rain falling on London outside the opened window, either. Hazy memory of the nightmare was difficult to put in words or even concepts, but it was there. Skulking in the corner of his brain, ready to extend its imaginary tendrils towards him the moment he would close his eyes. A menace, waiting to haunt him as soon as he dozes off.

Harry sighed, massaging his temples and reached out for his glasses on the bedside table. If he wasn’t falling asleep any time soon, he could at least use the opportunity to make himself a cup of cocoa.

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Floorboards squeaked under his bare feet. He cast a quick glance towards Ron, not wanting to wake his friend up, but then somewhat also hoping he wouldn’t have to face the darkness of the ancient house alone. To his slight disappointment, Ron had just mumbled something in his sleep and rolled over away from the source of the sound.

There was a certain spooky air to the house on Grimmauld Place 12 that resisted all the attempts of renovation. Harry walked carefully through the corridors that always seemed way too long for the size of the building, especially in the middle of the night. Floorboards here were covered by a thick carpet, muffling his steps, as he slowly made his way downstairs, past the portrait of Walburga Black, who was whispering something to herself. It wasn’t unusual in itself - they got used to the portrait trying to have a say in everything they were doing. The uneasy truce of last summer was at least paying off in that she didn’t scream her painted lungs off at anyone that crossed the corridor. There was something different in the tone of her whispers tonight, however. Something bordering on excitement, a certain unnerving giddiness in the unrecognisable words. Harry felt his hand slowly trailing to the pocket of his night robe, fingers wrapped around the wand on instinct.

He blamed that for his reaction a couple of seconds later, when he crossed the living room towards the kitchen and something moved in the pile of blankets on one of the sofas. Startled like that, Harry immediately jumped into a battle stance, wand pointed in the direction of the movement, his breath held.

“Are you going to hex me, Potter?” The voice that came from beneath the pile of blankets was annoyingly familiar.

“What… Malfoy?” Harry blinked, squinting to see better in the darkness. “What the… Lumos!”

Light revealed Draco’s pale face and the rest of him dressed in what looked like one of Sirius’ pyjamas. He lifted his hand to shield his eyes, grimacing and shooting Harry an annoyed stare.

“Blind me, then?”

“What the hell are you doing in my house, Malfoy?” Harry hissed, trying not to be too loud. A series of possible scenarios ran through his head, each one wilder than the previous and all equally unlikely. Draco Malfoy. In the living room. At Grimmauld Place. These three phrases didn’t actually fit, regardless how he slammed them together.

“Your house?” Draco rubbed his eyes and groaned. “Can you stop that? I cannot see shit right now.”

“It’s Sirius’ house, so it’s my house,” Harry lowered the wand, dimming the spell so that it was just enough to illuminate the room a little. “Again, where the hell did you come from?”

“The street,” Malfoy snapped. “I climbed through the kitchen window like a stray cat and crashed into this room, what do you think?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Your… guardian, my cousin, let me stay the night,” Draco explained, rolling his eyes. “Isn’t it obvious someone had to let me in here? Merlin, one would have thought your grasp on magic was better after those five years, Potter. This is a bloody fort, this house, with all the charms around it.”

“That still doesn’t explain anything, Malfoy,” Harry pointed out. He was not going to let the all-too-familiar dismissive tone of Draco's voice get to him. “It’s not like you could stumble on the front porch by accident and get yourself invited.”

“No, it’s not, is it?”

They stared at each other in tense silence, Draco hunched defensively on the makeshift bed in argyle pyjamas that was a couple sizes too big for him. His sleek hair was tousled, but not only from sleeping. Harry suddenly realised that Malfoy’s face was much paler than usual, bags under his eyes making him look tired and surprisingly older. And - somehow - on the run.

He lowered his wand. If Draco didn’t want to explain why, at least he wasn’t lying about the how. There was no way he would get inside Grimmauld Place without someone of the family members letting him in - Gemma made sure the spells on the front door would recognise their own and them only.

Regardless of the reasons for the heir of the Malfoy family to end up on a sofa in Grimmauld Place this summer night, common courtesy was to treat him as a guest, after all. Especially after waking him up like this.

“I was going to make myself some cocoa. Want to join?”

Malfoy stared at him with an incredulous look on his face. “For cocoa?”

“Or butterbeer. Sirius thinks he hides it well, but I know in which cupboard he stashes it,” Harry smirked. “Nothing too heavy, of course. He keeps those in his study.”

Draco opened his mouth, hesitated, then nodded. “Cocoa sounds good.”

Harry turned around and walked towards the kitchen, further dimming the light from his wand. Rustling sounds behind let him know that the other boy left the sofa and quickly followed in his footsteps. He resisted the urge to tease Malfoy for being scared of the dark. After all, it was the Grimmauld Place they were in.

He switched on the light in the kitchen and started rummaging through the shelves in search of the cocoa box. Draco was watching him from the seat he took at the table, narrowing his eyes when the cocoa turned out to be store-bought, but he said nothing. Not until the fridge was opened, at least.

“Are all the appliances Muggle around here?” he scoffed out loud and Harry felt himself grin at that.

“Careful. We use the phrase ‘non-magical’ in this house,” he warned. “Auntie Gem can hear the other one through the walls.”

The expression on Malfoy’s face was worth it, Harry decided in his head. Even if he did feel a little bad for him.

“Uh-huh.”

“Oat milk or rice milk?” Harry lifted up both containers and Draco stared at him with visible confusion for a long while. “Remus is vegan,” he explained. “So, which one?”

“Lupin is…”

“Oat is open, so we’re taking this one,” Harry decided, closing the fridge.

“You are all crazy here.”

“Yeah, well, you’re going to fit right in. If you’re going to stay, that is.”

Draco scoffed and said nothing, eyeing him suspiciously while the milk heated up on the stove. When Harry put the steaming cup in front of him, his grey eyes brightened. Long fingers wrapped around the mug carefully, as if he was trying to absorb the warmth through his skin. Harry quickly decided to focus on his own cocoa.

They sat in silence for a while, with the only sounds being them drinking short careful sips and blowing over the surface of their drinks. Draco was the first to speak.

“It’s actually quite tasty,” he declared, then winced slightly and added. “For a non-magical beverage, that is.”

“Don’t burn yourself.”

“Sod off, Potter.”

Harry grinned. “You know, Malfoy, if someone had told me yesterday we’d be drinking hot cocoa in this kitchen together, I’d laugh my ass off.”

Draco stared at his mug for a long moment in silence.

“If you’d like to tell me why…”

“Not planning to!” Malfoy snapped, not looking at him. Harry raised his hands, palms up.

“Okay, okay, whatever. If Sirius let you borrow his pyjamas and stay in the house, that’s good enough for me. All I’m saying is, we don’t need to be fighting anymore, right? Not after…”

“Whatever, Potter.”

“Yeah, okay.”

He watched Draco’s fingers move around the mug nervously, tapping a rhythm. Slowly, the lines of his face softened into a careful smile. A nice one, Harry thought, somewhat more real than the usual, disdainful smirks Malfoy was known for in Hogwarts.

“If someone had told me yesterday I’d be happy to drink Mu… non-magical cocoa today, I’d hex them,” he said finally. “And if they told me you’d be the one making it…” his voice trailed off and Draco sighed.

“You’d hex them twice?” Harry suggested.

“Yeah, for real.”

It was surprisingly freeing to share a laugh with him, the boy who had been hell-bent on making his life miserable since the first year of school. Harry decided he wouldn’t mind doing it more often.

“It’s weird, Potter. Laughing with you other than at you, I mean.”

“I’d say it’s an improvement, wouldn’t you?”

Malfoy’s pale-grey eyes stared at him thoughtfully from above the cocoa mug. Then he grinned.

“Maybe…”

“I’ll take it,” Harry returned the smile. Funny, he thought, how it was the first time ever that he was glad for having his nightmares.

#harry potter #draco malfoy #drarry #boshhptober2023 #grimmauld place #fluff

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dragonologist-phd · 10 months ago

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Piper + Sosiel Banter

For the ‘Champion as Companion’ Prompt!

Piper: (humming under her breath)

Sosiel: Please, sing louder! A bit of music is a welcome reprieve from the weariness of travel.

Sosiel: Your devotions to Desna are admirable. Are you familiar with the teachings of Shelyn? I believe you would find much to appreciate in her worship, as well.

Piper: Not trying to tempt me away from my goddess, are you, Dear? (Laughs) I am familiar, but Shelyn worship appears quite…formal. I’m better suited to singing under the starts than whatever it is you do behind those golden temple doors.

Piper: Your brother’s lucky. Not all of us would have someone looking if we disappeared.

Sosiel: Lucky is not the word I would use…but I appreciate the sentiment. I only hope my search is not in vain.

Sosiel: Have you never been to a Shelynite temple? You should accompany me sometime. I have a feeling you would enjoy it immensely.

Piper: (laughs) A work of art such as myself would fit right in, is that it?

Sosiel: Would you consider sitting for a portrait one of these days? I have a suspicion you’d make for a marvelous subject.

Piper: Oh, I’d be honored! Would you believe that in all my years, I’ve never been asked to pose before? I’ll start preparing my outfit immediately.

Piper: The invitation is very kind, Sosiel Dear, but in all honesty I must decline. My presence at an established temple may not be the best of ideas.

Sosiel: Why? Because you’re a tiefling? Nonsense. You belong there just as much as anyone else. Shelyn knows this, even if some small-minded others don’t.

Sosiel: I’d like to say how grateful I am for your songs, Piper. They’re quite inspiring when the world is bleak.

Piper: Oh, I have the easy job- it’s a simple thing to make up imaginary stories that are inspiring. You manage to paint things that are real, and somehow still make them beautiful.

Piper: I must tell you again how divine the portrait you did for me is. You truly are a wonder with those paints, Dear.

Sosiel: It was my pleasure- and hardly a difficult task, when working with such a colorful spirit as yourself.

#i was digging through piper posts for reasons and remembered that i forgot to finish these #someday i'll finish them all #anyway piper and sosiel are so pastoral together. they make me smile #ch: piper #pwotr #sosiel

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frmartinshomiliesandreflections · 2 months ago

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18th September >> Fr. Martin's Reflections/Homilies on Today's Mass Readings for Wednesday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (Inc. Luke 7:31-35): ‘Wisdom has been proved right by all her children’.

Wednesday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel (Except USA) Luke 7:31-35 'We played the pipes, and you wouldn't dance'.

Jesus said to the people: ‘What description can I find for the men of this generation? What are they like? They are like children shouting to one another while they sit in the market-place:

‘“We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn’t dance; we sang dirges, and you wouldn’t cry.”

‘For John the Baptist comes, not eating bread, not drinking wine, and you say, “He is possessed.” The Son of Man comes, eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” Yet Wisdom has been proved right by all her children.’

Gospel (USA) Luke 7:31-35 We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We sang a dirge, but you did not weep.

Jesus said to the crowds: “To what shall I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another,

‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We sang a dirge, but you did not weep.’

For John the Baptist came neither eating food nor drinking wine, and you said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and you said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

Reflections (7)

(i) Wednesday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

In today’s first reading, Paul declares, ‘When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man, all childish ways are put behind me’. In the gospel reading, Jesus gives us a portrait of children talking and behaving as children. They are playing children’s games in the market place, imagining themselves to be playing the pipes at a celebratory event, like a wedding, and to be singing dirges at a mournful event, like a funeral. Yet, some children simply don’t want to join in these games; they are equally unmoved by both the imaginary pipe playing and dirge singing of the other children. Jesus is reminded of how unmoved the people of his generation have been by the somewhat sombre ministry of John the Baptist and his own much more joyful ministry. They labelled John as ‘possessed’ and Jesus as a ‘glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners’. In Paul’s wonderful portrait of love in the first reading, he declares that love ‘does not take offence, and is not resentful’. Many of Jesus’ contemporaries took offence at and resented the very different ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus. They lacked the quality of love towards John and Jesus that Paul describes in the first reading. This quality of love is a more than human love. It is what Paul calls elsewhere the fruit of the Spirit. It is the outward expression of God’s love that has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. If we open our hearts to the Spirit, we will come to see others with the eyes of love, the eyes of the Lord. We will recognize the ways God is at work in people’s lives, rather than dismissing them with the kind of cheap labels that Jesus’ contemporaries used for himself and John the Baptist.

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(ii) Wednesday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

The gospels suggest that Jesus was very observant of day to day life around him. His powers of observation come through especially in the parables he spoke. The image of the sower sowing seed, of the wealthy man with two very different sons, of the traveller who fell among robbers, are all draw from his own experience of day to day life. Jesus was not only observant of life, but he recognized that all of life speaks to us of God’s relationship with us and of ours with God. This morning’s gospel reading suggests that Jesus was very observant of children, and of children’s play in particular. Even the play of children in the market place spoke to Jesus about how people respond to God’s call and presence. Jesus saw the children who play at being pipers for other children to dance and who play at singing dirges for other children to cry as images of his own ministry and of the ministry of John the Baptist. Jesus identifies readily with the children’s acting out of the role of the piper who invites people to dance. It is interesting to think of Jesus as a piper and of his ministry as a tune, and of ourselves as invited to dance to the tune that Jesus plays. Jesus’ life plays the music of God and we are invited to move to that music. Jesus is God’s musician, and our calling is to listen to God’s music that is played through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, and to allow that music to move and shape us.

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(iii) Wednesday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Jesus uses a very striking image in that gospel reading to describe the reaction of the people of his generation to his ministry and that of John the Baptist. They are like children who refuse to dance when other children in the playground play the pipes; they are also like children refuse to cry when other children in the playground sing dirges. Jesus identifies himself with the children who play the pipes and John with the children who sing dirges. It is striking that Jesus speaks of himself in terms of children who play pipes for other children to dance. It is interesting to think of Jesus as a piper who plays a tune that invites people to dance to it. In a sense, that is what we are about as followers of Jesus. We are people who dance to Jesus’ tune. We often use that phrase of dancing to someone’s tune in our day to day conversation. The gospel reading suggests that as followers of Jesus we are people who try to attune ourselves to his rhythm, to his music, and then, having done so, to try and move in time with his music. In other words we are to allow the music that Jesus plays by his life, death and resurrection, the song that he sings, to shape our lives. That particular image suggests that attentive and ongoing listening is very important in our relationship with the Lord, because we can only move to music that we listen attentively to, and that, in some sense, has become part of us. Mary was an attentive listener to the Lord’s word, and she, more than anyone, is the person whose life is in tune with the song, with the music, of Jesus. Her own song, the Magnificat, is very much in keeping with the song of Jesus, the message and the life of Jesus. She is our model and our inspiration as we try to live in tune with Jesus’ song.

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(iv) Wednesday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

The gospels suggest that Jesus had a wonderful relationship with children. He welcomed them when his own disciples were trying to keep them away from him. He pointed to them as the disciples’ teachers because of their openness to God’s presence. He identified with them completely, declaring that, in receiving such children, people are receiving him. This morning’s gospel reading suggests that Jesus was very observant of children’s play in the market place. The refusal of some children to join in the other children’s games reminded him of the refusal of his contemporaries to take seriously either himself or John the Baptist. If the children’s funeral games reminded Jesus of the ministry of John, their dancing games reminded him of his own ministry. It is interesting to think of Jesus as a piper who plays a tune for us to dance to. Jesus is the music of God. To follow him is to allow his music, the music of God, to enter deep into our hearts, souls and minds so that our whole lives move to its rhythm. The music played by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is not a dirge that evokes tears. It is joyous music because it proclaims the favour of God towards all. It calls forth joyful dancing, the dance of the Spirit. As followers of the Lord, we carry a joyful song in our heart, even in dark times, because we appreciate how greatly we have been graced. Our calling is to allow something of the music of God that Jesus plays to move our lives and to touch the lives of all whom we meet.

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(v) Wednesday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Music is something we all appreciate. We may have different tastes in music, but we are all drawn to some kind of music. In our parish reading group we once read a book entitled ‘Life after Life’. It is the prison memoirs of Paddy Armstrong, one of the four wrongly convicted for the bombings in Guilford, London, in the mid-1970s. I was struck by how in his darkest days in prison, music lifted his heart and his spirits, the music of bands like Pink Floyd. Listening through his head phones in a prison cell momentarily brought him into another world. In this morning’s gospel reading, Jesus uses the language of music to speak of his own ministry and the ministry of John the Baptist. He compares the Baptist’s ministry to children in the market place singing dirges, playing at funerals, and he compares his own ministry to children in the market place playing pipes, as at a wedding or some other celebratory event. There was a sombre character to the ministry of John the Baptist which was absent from Jesus’ ministry and there was a joyful, celebratory character to Jesus’ ministry which was absent from the Baptist’s. Jesus declares that neither the sombre music of John’s ministry or the joyful music of his own ministry moved many of his contemporaries. They dismissed John as possessed and Jesus as a glutton and drunkard. Jesus played the music of God in a way no one else has ever done. The risen Lord continues to play the music of God through the Holy Spirit today. We try to become more and more attuned to that music of the Spirit, so that its melody feeds our spirit and its rhythm shapes how we live.

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(vi) Wednesday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Today’s first reading speaks of ‘the Church of the living God’ as ‘God’s family’. Within this family of faith, we look to God as our Father, to Mary as our Mother, and to Jesus as our brother and, also, as our Lord who, according to our reading, was ‘taken up in glory’ but is also ‘made visible in the flesh’. Within any good family, children have a special place. There is a recognition that they need the support and guidance of parents and guardians. There is often a recognition also that children have much to give to other members of the family, as well as much to receive from them. Jesus was very aware that we all have much to receive and learn from children. He declared on one occasion that we can only enter the kingdom of God if we receive it like a child, with the same openness and trusting spirit of the child. Today’s gospel reading suggests that Jesus was a keen observer of children at play. He saw in their play a pattern that helped him to interpret how his ministry and the ministry of John the Baptist was being received by others. One group of children in the market square play at being musicians at a wedding but the second group of children won’t join in their game, refusing to dance. Then the first group play at singing dirges at a funeral but the second group of children wouldn’t join in their game by crying. It reminded Jesus of how many of his contemporaries were equally indifferent to his own joyful ministry and to the more sombre ministry of John the Baptist, claiming Jesus was just a glutton and drunkard and John was possessed. It is easy to label people we find challenging or disturbing in some way. It is a convenient way of keeping them at a distance. Yet, as Jesus suggests at the end of the gospel reading, the Wisdom of God can often be speaking powerfully to us through those we are inclined to dismiss. Like the son who was asked to go into the vineyard by his father in one of Jesus’ parables, we often need to reconsider our initial ‘no’ to some call that comes to us.

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(vii) Wednesday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Jesus seems to have been a keen observer of human interaction, including that of children. In the gospel reading, he gives us an image of children in the market square talking and behaving as children. They are playing children’s games, imagining themselves to be playing the pipes at a celebration of some kind, like a wedding, and to be singing dirges, as at a funeral. Yet, some of children’s friends simply don’t want to play either wedding or funeral games; they refused to be moved either by the imaginary playing of pipes or the singing of dirges. When Jesus saw this, he was reminded of how the people of his generation refused to be moved either by the somewhat sombre ministry of John the Baptist or his own much more joyful ministry. They labelled John as ‘possessed’ and Jesus as a ‘glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners’. Many of Jesus’ contemporaries took offence at both John the Baptist and Jesus and resented their ministries. It is interesting that Jesus identifies his ministry with the children pretending to play the pipes. We don’t often think of Jesus as a piper calling on people to dance to his tune. Perhaps we could image the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the risen Jesus, playing a tune deep within us, calling out to us to move in harmony with that tune, to live lives that give expression to the tune the Spirit is playing deep in our hearts. That tune of the Spirit is a love song, the song of God’s deep love for us, revealed in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Our lives are to reflect that love song of the Spirit being played deep within us.

Fr. Martin Hogan.

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lumiereandcogsworth · 6 months ago

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it's mother's day so I must know, what was Belle's first one like, and if you've thought about it, what was her first with each kiddo like? does she have a favorite or special mother's day memory? what kind of gifts do the kids (and Adam) give her? 🥹💖

AAHH !!!! 💕💞💓

her first mother’s day with renée (AND EVER!!!!!) was precious but probably mostly uneventful, since renée was only a month old and was pretty much just crying or sleeping at that point. (mostly crying.) i know adam got belle a bouquet of roses (and said they were from renée, of course) and probably other little gifties because that man cannot control himself when it comes to gifts. but overall i think they’d spend the day half in bed and half outside !!! i’m sure the little family has a lovely picnic ☀️💖 and i think maurice would maybe give her a portrait of her & renée 🤧 and it makes belle cry because it Does look similar to the portrait of her and her mama… very bittersweet thing. i’m Sure maurice cried at some point while making it😭 anyway!! belle loves her baby so so so much. i’ve talked about it before but belle, of course, never really thought she’d get the chance to be a mama. because she Knew she’d only marry for the greatest of love. so the fact that she!!! GETS TO BE A MAMA!!! she’s so happy :”) i’ll link this fic since that’s where i discuss that topic more 💖

her first mother’s day with juliette (well, technically she was pregnant with her on a mother’s day, and renée was 2, and i’m sure that was a very sweet time!! but) juliette’s First mother’s day, post-womb, she was like ten months old!!!!!!! and renée was newly 3 years old and very Active and Excited about everything. this time adam put the the bouquet of flowers in renée’s little arms and he lifted her up onto the bed in the early morning and renée said “HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, MAMA!!!” and dropped the flowers all over belle’s lap, which made her laugh SO hard. she wrangled renée into her arms and kissed her a million times. baby juliette was there too, getting snuggles from her mama all day long 🥰 i think maurice would make a tradition of his gift, and he made a portrait of belle and her two (!!!) daughters.

her first mother’s day with little maurice !!! (again, she was pregnant with him during a mother’s day, but anyway) reecy was six months old. little guy :”3 renée was 7 but juliette was still 4. it was LOVELY!!!!! spending lovely time outside. i can picture belle sitting under the shade of a tree, rocking her little baby son, while her daughters (especially renée) are bouncing around her, telling her stories, including her in imaginary tea parties and warriors’ battles in equal measure. adam is there too, playing and just loving his family endlessly. and of COURSE ! grandpa maurice presents belle with another painting, this time of her and her three little beauties 🤧 it’s just always such a lovely daaaaayyy

in terms of gifts from adam, it’s mostly flowers and jewelry. he knows most of all that belle just wants to spend the day with her babies, so he lets her take the lead on this day and just spends time with his darlings. they do whatever belle wants to do, which is usually just outdoor activities like walks or horseback riding.

a mother’s day memory that belle loves is when renée was four. she’d been Really wanting to ride the horses, like even before she could speak she’s always been so fascinated by them!!! but up until this point, adam had been hesitant about it. belle was too at first, but around when she was three, belle started pleading with adam too to let her try lmao. so he said when she was four, Fine. renée turned four in april, but they were in paris at the time, so they did other fun stuff less horse-related. they came back home just before mother’s day, and so, on the day, renée rode a horse with her mama for the first time🥹 and adam was (Of Course) very nervous about it. he was standing there holding juliette on his hip just being like “and make sure you hold onto her, darling. and renée, RENÉE, hold onto the saddle horn. okay? don’t let go of it, macaron. are you hearing me?” and belle’s of course like just super excited, AND RENÉE IS BESIDE HERSELF!!!!!! (adam has to Keep telling her to put her hands back on the saddle horn, because she keeps flapping her hands all over the place). but eventually they go, slow at first, and renée’s just giggling so excited. and eventually philippe is trotting, then cantering, maybe even galloping !!! and it’s SO FUN !!!!! belle and renée are both laughing so much, adam can’t help but beam happily 🥹🥹🥹

gosh!!!!!!!! i think in general, the kids love to make her gifts. i think one year, renée tried to write a book for her. (when she was like. 8.) and adam’s like “wow that’s pretty ambitious!” and renée was like *elle woods voice * “what, like it’s hard?” afjskd. she ends up writing and illustrating a Very short story but her grandfather helps her bind the pages together and belle LOVES the gift so so so much. renée sits on her lap and reads the story to her and Gosh it’s so cute. but yeah anyway CRAFTS !! all three of them love making her drawings, on literally any given day, but they’ll go all out for mother’s day. they just love like, telling stories. because STORIES ARE THIS FAMILY’S LOVE LANGUAGE !!! they write little plays with their friends and act them out for her. they make storyboard/comic strips and show them to her. it’s just so !!! lovely.

i think juliette isn’t AS arts & crafts-y as her sister and brother, but she’s always there to go along with their ideas. i think later on in years, when juliette is a teenager, she writes little songs for her mama. like, not lyrics, but on the violin!! tunes that have essence of belle. and she then plays them for her mother and it always makes belle tear up 🥺 so juliette does end up being creative and artsy, just with her music !!

#i’ve been so BUSY all day but i was writing answers for these in little moments in the car and such lmao #but yay !!! YIPPEEE!!!#belle #adelle #oc writing #batb headcanons #batb 2017 #alex tag #answered

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tardis-festivities-old · 1 year ago

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Pinch hit 2 - CLAIMED

We have a pinch hit. If you can do it then please either respond on the Dreamwidth post (all comments are screened) or use the email listed in the contact post with your AO3 name.

This is due 21st November 7pm UTC (note, this is later than the assignment deadline and no extensions will be given on this pinch hit). Minimum is 300 words or a nice sketch on lined paper.

Fandoms: The Diary of River Song (Big Finish Audio), Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures - Various Authors, Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, Doctor Who Unbound: Doctor of War (Big Finish Audio), Doctor Who: Virgin New Adventures - Various Authors, Gallifrey (Big Finish Audio), The Time Travellers (BBV Series) Mediums: Art, Fic

Requester: lurking_latinst

The Diary of River Song (Big Finish Audio)

Ship: Sixth Doctor/River Song (The Diary of River Song), Ship: Seventh Doctor/River Song (The Diary of River Song)

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General fic likes: hurt/comfort, travel & visiting interesting (including imaginary) places, the Doctor being willing to go to great lengths for companions, moral dilemmas/conflicting priorities, how one character responds when they think the other is dead, 'everything is happy and nothing hurts', 'everything hurts a little bit but still we've got each other,' stories with historical settings, really alien aliens, experimental styles/structures, character studies, metafictional weirdness.

General art likes: portraits with symbolism, characters doing things (anything from an action scene to playing a board game!), awesome clothes, alien landscapes and culture, historical fashion, headcanons about the appearance of audio-only characters (I love when they’re drawn looking like their actors and I love when they’re drawn completely different), abstraction, unconventional materials (if you want).

Six/River: I love how they’re both such passionate, dramatic, emotional people, and they create this kind of beautiful harmony of intensity. A missing scene from their audio? An AU where they spend a longer time together? Another first meeting? (They’ve had so many…)

Seven/River: I like Seven to be in love and sad about it. Or at least with an undertone of melancholy. His tendency to know rather too much, especially about his own past and future, would combine very interestingly with River's whole deal, I think. It would also be nice for them to get to have some more proper adventures together - something they both

Don’t feel the need to explain and justify how it fits into their timelines, especially at this length, unless you want to. Amnesia lipstick covers a multitude of paradoxes.

Doctor Who (1963)

Ship: The Doctor/The Doctor's TARDIS (DW 1963), Ship: Seventh Doctor & Ray Defwydd (DW 1963), Ship: Fourth Doctor/Romana II & Adric (DW 1963), Ship: Fifth Doctor/Romana II (DW 1963), Ship: Seventh Doctor/Romana & Ace (DW 1963), Ship: Seventh Doctor/Romana (DW 1963), Earl Sigma (DW 1963), Ship: Seventh Doctor & Ace McShane (DW 1963), Ship: Fourth Doctor/Romana II (DW 1963), Romana II (DW 1963)

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Doctor/TARDIS: I love Doctor/TARDIS especially when it’s strange and psychic and it takes them a lot of work to discover & understand each other. I especially like TARDIS POV or alternating POVs, although I would rather she can’t actually communicate with other characters in words.

Four/Romana II: Anything from tropey romance to Time War foreshadowing angst is wonderful. I love that air they have of irresponsible aristocrats on holiday--and then how they'll suddenly turn on a dime and start saving lives, if need be. I absolutely adore them being domestic, especially since neither of them is that good at it. I would love them being undercover as a Normal Earth Couple, including in a historical setting (yes, I did like The Auntie Matter). Canon-typical adventures with a shippy edge are also excellent.

Four/Romana II & Adric: For a few short episodes Four and Romana are pretty much co-parenting Adric and I desperately want to see more of how they handle it. The Doctor doesn’t like responsibility and I’m not sure Romana likes children very much–how do they discuss or avoid the fact that they now have a whole teenager living in their house? What does Adric observe and think of them? (Feel free to cram extra time into the E-Space trilogy, or write in an AU where Romana returned to N-Space with the Doctor and Adric, or whatever.)

Romana II: I really love Romana’s intelligence, her intensity, and her unique perspective as a Time Lady who's not strictly a renegade, but also not bound by the typical prejudices and assumptions of the Time Lords. Feel free to throw in some Gallifreyan worldbuilding if you want!

Five/Romana II: They have a lot of unfinished business and I do think they just genuinely miss each other. But Five's very different from Four, partly I think because he'd grown used to having Romana around and is trying to get on without her. So what happens if they reconnect? If you want to include Five's companions, what do they think of her and of their relationship?

Seven & Ray: I think her friendship with the Doctor in the brief time they know each other is beautiful and they seem to really get each other. A canon-typical scene with Ray as a full-time companion would make me very happy, as would a missing scene from Delta and the Bannermen. It would also be interesting to see the Doctor running into an older Ray later in life.

Seven/Romana: I love the idea of them reuniting with each other after so many changes for both of them. Maybe, even though they live such different lives now, they could still find their way back to each other…. Gallifreyan worldbuilding is very welcome, or maybe the Doctor gets her to sneak off with him for just one quick adventure/date?

Seven & Ace: Anything that digs into their relationship--whether it explores their insecurities or uncertainties about each other, or shows how beautifully they work as a team. I like the idea that Ace is in some ways as much of a mystery to the Doctor as he is to her. Does Ace gradually realize that the Doctor is training her, specifically, to do what he does--perhaps when he's gone, whatever that might mean? Does she want to do that? What does he learn from her?

Seven/Romana & Ace: What happens if they all three go on an adventure together? Or alternatively, what kind of conversations do the Doctor and Romana have about Ace, her personality, and his plans for her? Romana might have a very different perspective.

Earl Sigma: I love that in addition to being a musician he's actually a psychology student on holiday. I'd love some exploration of who he is, what he does with his life, and what he thinks of the Doctor and Ace and the one-night revolution.

Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)

Ship: Irving Braxiatel & Sixth Doctor (DW BFA), Ship: Irving Braxiatel & Eighth Doctor (DW BFA), Ship: "Eeyore"!Eighth Doctor & "Tigger"!Eighth Doctor & "Normal"!Eighth Doctor (DW BFA - Caerdroia), Margaret "Peg" Pollard (DW BFA), Ship: Sixth Doctor & Iris Wildthyme (DW BFA), Ship: Second Doctor & Charley Pollard (DW BFA), Ship: Sixth Doctor/Charley Pollard (DW BFA), Ship: Sixth Doctor & Charley Pollard (DW BFA)

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I also, for requests where this is relevant, like stories where platonic pairings go through typical shipping tropes (mistaken for a couple, accidental marriage, only one bed, etc.) and navigate those situations in their own unique ways, ultimately reaffirming how much they value their relationship the way it is (i.e. not ending up as a romantic or sexual pairing).

Two & Charley: What would an AU with Two in Storm Warning be like? No need to explain where exactly it fits in his timeline or anything. I just feel like he and Charley would work together so well and have so much fun. Or alternatively–what if in Season 6B, when he’s working for the CIA, the Doctor is sent to find and deal with a girl who shouldn’t exist, only to find that she’s travelling (or used to travel) with one of his future selves, and turning her in is a lot harder than he expected….

Six &/ Charley: I love Six and Charley and their complicated feelings for and about each other. I love how strange their relationship is, but they're both quite strange people at this point, so it kind of works… For the Charley/Six request, I'd be really down for some complicated yearning. She is or was in love with him but not him him; he feels drawn to her but doesn't understand why. Want to unpack that? Go right ahead! (Want to unpack that in a platonic, ampersand-ish way? Go right ahead with that too!) I’d also love to see them go through some fun juicy tropes. (Fake/accidental marriage… the lying, the inability to communicate their real feelings….) I'd also be down for alternate ending/fixit fic.

Six & Brax: Six’s intense reluctance to ask for Brax’s help in “The 100 Days of the Doctor” made me very much want to see them having to work together. Six doesn’t cope well with Gallifrey, Brax is Gallifrey. Six will be playing the role of the Disreputable Renegade even more than he actually is, just to scandalize Brax. They could meet at some intergalactic summit where Brax is a delegate and Six is foiling a plot. Or what if Brax gets involved in the events of Trial of a Time Lord? After all, the family honor could be at stake…. Feel free to include any or no companion.

Six & Iris: Iris! She's so much fun, and I'm fascinated by the side of the Doctor that she brings out. Maybe they have some adventures together after The Wormery and work through some of what's happened to them lately? (Canon-typical ship-teasing--mainly one-sided on Iris' part--is fine and welcome.) Iris is just always a delight, and I love how strangely comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time she makes the Doctor--especially Six, who wears his hearts on his colorful sleeves.

Eight & Brax: There's so much happening on Gallifrey in the Eight era--what happens if the two of them have to work together? Political drama/shenanigans, Eight getting in a scrape and needing help from Brax or vice versa, family drama--all great.

Caerdroia triplets: Some ideas: a missing scene from the episode, AU where the three of them don't reintegrate at the end or have trouble doing so, POV of one of them on the other two, or they re-split later on and how are Charley and C'rizz going to deal with it this time?

Margaret Pollard: A story from the Pollard sisters' childhood, a look at Peggy's later life (how does she cope with what happens to her sisters?), a story where Charley sees her again (what does Peggy think of Charley's unconventional space lifestyle?) or reminisces about her--it's all headcanons here, and I want you to tell me all of yours! Also, I have a random cracky headcanon that, since Cissy dates [spoiler] and Charley has… whatever relationship she has… with the Doctor, Peggy must have some kind of romantic relationship with some Time Lord somewhere, just for symmetry. If you want to play with that, have at it!

Doctor Who & Related Fandoms

Ship: Eighth Doctor (DW BFA) & Missy (DW 2005), Ship: Ninth Doctor (DW 2005)/Charley Pollard (DW BFA), Ship: Ninth Doctor (DW 2005) & Charley Pollard (DW BFA), Ship: Ninth Doctor (DW 2005) & Ace McShane (DW 1963), Ship: Irving Braxiatel (Gallifrey) & Susan Foreman (DW 1963), Ship: Irving Braxiatel (Gallifrey) & First Doctor & Susan Foreman (DW 1963)

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(One &) Brax & Susan: Please dump all of your Gallifreyan family headcanons on me! I would love to see this relationship be complicated but not all bad, whether it's a young Susan on Gallifrey or perhaps Brax (re?)connecting with her later in her life. I can't think he would understand or approve of her choices, nor the Doctor's choices regarding her, but he might learn to respect her for who she is. I think she might take after him a bit, actually, in personality (which would not necessarily help their relationship…).

Eight & Missy: I just think there's so much potential for high drama here! Whether she's in disguise/not telling him who she is, or he's amnesiac, or both, or neither, or the Time War is involved… I feel like a historical or steampunky setting could be really fun, especially since their outfits kind of match :D Shippy undertones (at the level of Missy's canonical flirting with the Doctor) are totally fine if you go that direction.

Nine &/ Charley: Reconnecting in any way, at any point in either of their timelines, would be just wonderful. Charley will probably recognize that the Doctor has a lot of fascinating new issues to repress, but I'd love it if she got the chance to talk about some of her experiences and feelings that she and Eight never really resolved. Possibly in the middle of adventure and danger!

Nine & Ace: Similarly, I'd love to see them reconnect and work through stuff that never got closure. Or an AU where Nine is the Doctor who meets Ace on Iceworld! I feel like they'd get along.

Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures - Various Authors

Ship: Eighth Doctor & Anji Kapoor (DW EDA), Anji Kapoor (DW EDA)

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I'd like something focused on Anji and/or her friendship with the Doctor. I feel like we very often see the Doctor and Anji sort of mediated through Fitz, who's close to both of them. So I'd love something that explores their relationship directly with each other. Maybe exploring Anji's (very reasonable) doubts and mistrust of the Doctor, and how the Doctor responds to her, and how they are friends anyway. Or something about how they work together on a problem or puzzle--that's one thing they have in common, problem-solving.

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka

Alison Cheney (DW: SotS), Ship: Ninth Doctor & Alison Cheney (Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka)

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I'd like something focused on Alison and/or her friendship with the Doctor. I feel like we almost know more about Alison's relationship with the Master than with the Doctor, so I'd love to see what brings the two of them together. Does he see himself (or past companions) in her longing for a bigger, fuller life? What kind of places do they go, and what's their approach when they get there? I'd love to see them working as a team that knows each other well (maybe even an older Alison?). They deserve a long friendship.

Doctor Who Unbound: Doctor of War (Big Finish Audio)

Romana (Rebecca Night) (DW Unbound: Doctor of War), Ship: The Doctor | The Warrior/Romana (Rebecca Night) (DW Unbound: Doctor of War)

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I'd like something focused on the version of Romana introduced in these audios and/or her relationship with the Doctor (or whatever he's supposed to be called). If we matched on the ship, pre-ship or shippy subtext is just fine, especially at this length; I just would love to see them together! If we matched on just the character, rest assured that gen focused on Romana is just as welcome.

I love the Doctor and Romana in main canon, and I fell in love with them all over again in this standalone alternate universe. Ingenue/civil servant/assassin Romana and her Lord President just fascinate me. I love the deep sense of loyalty to his position that has her defending him before she even knows anything good about him, combined with the way they immediately feel drawn to each other and realize they could be friends. He's such a mess, personally and morally, and so is she but in very different ways, and I'd love to see them struggling towards a better way together.

I'd love to see what happens with them after "The Difference Office," or a missing scene from when they're on the run (while Romana's android double is being interrogated).

I would also welcome some worldbuilding for this version of Gallifrey and Romana's earlier life and career, or what comes after the audio for her! Feel free to include other characters from the audio (such as Zorcha or alt!Narvin), alternate versions of characters we know from main canon (is there a Leela in this universe?), or OCs.

Doctor Who: Virgin New Adventures - Various Authors

Ship: Seventh Doctor/Time (DW VNA) Bernice Summerfield (DW VNA), Roz Forrester (DW VNA), Innocet (DW VNA)Art Fic

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Seven/Time: canon dialogue from No Future: ‘No, time doesn’t work like that. She’s ferociously neat, she –’ ‘She?’ ‘Time.’ ‘Are you two going out, or what?’ The Doctor frowned. ‘Once. But now she’s seeing somebody else.

Look, why not take it literally? Or at least semi-literally. Be metaphorical; be surrealistic; go wild!

Benny: Benny's presence in the VNAs is so delightful. She's there for some of the worst moments of the Doctor's life and she loves him dearly and never takes him too seriously. She's a protagonist in her own right and he's the cosmic force she's experiencing along her journey, and they hang out. What's not to love?

I'd prefer you not to lean on too many things from her later life (after leaving the Doctor) because I'm not very familiar with those stories, but mentioning them is fine. Something in the form of her diary or a memoir would be very cool. Or a canon-typical adventure, or one of the nice days out that they must have sometimes surely!

Roz: Roz is just a wildly underappreciated companion. Her journey and her relationship with the Doctor are so interesting--she never treats him as any kind of moral authority and is happy to disagree with him. Something that explores that would be cool. But also, the books they're in are often very dark, and I'd enjoy a softer or quieter moment from Roz's time as a companion, or maybe one of her fellow travellers helping to support her and being her friend after some of the canonical things she goes

Innocet: Utterly fascinated by her. The only decent Time Lord! What happens to her after the events of Lungbarrow? What is readjusting to the outside world like? And does she maintain/rebuild a relationship with the Doctor (including after his regeneration)? Feel free to lean into the gothic novel vibes of Lungbarrow, or explore your own Gallifreyan headcanons. I’d actually also love to see her in an AU (or, you know, some other version of canon) where she wasn’t trapped in Lungbarrow for so much of her life. What if she got involved in one of the TV Gallifrey stories–War Games or Deadly Assassin or Invasion of Time or Arc of Infinity or Trial? (A couple of those could only be improved by her presence…) Would she stick up for her renegade Cousin? Would she try to persuade him to live a more conventional life? What if he persuaded her to come see a little bit of the universe with him?

Gallifrey (Big Finish Audio)

Ship: Annos & Leela (Gallifrey), Ship: Alternate Romana II & Alternate Doctor (Gallifrey: Disassembled), Commentator Theta Sigma (Gallifrey: Forever), Commander Maxil (Gallifrey)

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Annos & Leela: I kind of love Annos--he seems like a genuinely nice guy, as Gallifreyan guards go! He seems to treat Leela with more respect than a lot of them, and he seems loyal and reliable too. Did he and Leela know each other before the events of the series? Had he heard stories about "Andred's alien wife," and maybe found she was quite different than he'd been led to expect? Or do they get to know each other as colleagues and allies through the events of the series?

Disassembled!Romana & Disassembled!Doctor: They're both very scary! What is their working relationship like? What kinds of complicated feelings are underneath for both of them? (A little bit of shippy energy is just fine, if your muse takes you in that direction.) Or I'd love to hear more about their world!

Commentator Theta Sigma: Alternate versions of the Doctor intrigue me, and I'd love to see an exploration of aspects of his life and what's made him who he

Commander Maxil: OK, I admit it, I just love that they got Colin Baker to do a ton of stuff in Gallifrey. What's Maxil been doing all this time? Does he know the Doctor stole his face? Does he still have the helmet?? What's his perspective on the crazy political stuff that's been going down on Gallifrey?

The Time Travellers (BBV Series)

Ace | Alice (The Time Travellers BBV), The Professor | The Dominie (The Time Travellers BBV)

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I'm fascinated by the ways in which they aren't the Doctor and Ace--whether that means different backstory, different worldbuilding, or really meta fic involving alternate universes (crossing over is fine as long as the proper Doctor Who characters don't crowd out the Time Travellers). We got a bit of Alice's "legally distinct from Dorothy McShane" backstory; how about the Professor's? What's his planet (?) like and how'd he come to leave it? How about their timeship? I'd also love something that explores how the events of the series shape their relationship--they're often separated from each other for quite long periods of time, and we never actually see them reunite after Punchline. What keeps them coming back to each other?

#doctor who #the diary of river song #classic who #big finish audio #eighth doctor #scream of the shalka #doctor who unbound #doctor who virgin adventures #gallifrey #the time travellers (BBV)

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tobikeck · 10 months ago

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Rüdiger (based on a true story)

2023; instagram-manipulated photograph, silver pen, grave, flowers

This is the grave of Rüdiger. I buried his imaginary body for the group show 'Von Pionierpflanzen und Flâneusen', developed by Julia Kiehlmann. The exhibition surrounded the topic of abandoned and therefore vacant areas within the Eastside of Leipzig, highlighting the socio-political, ecological and also emotional meaning of these urban wastelands for their human visitors. I placed the grave on a nice spot next to a little bush, on a wide so-called 'Brache' underneath a car traffic bridge and besides train tracks. A perfect place to bury your beloved animal friend.

Rüdiger was an experienced tomcat living on a graveyard in Leipzig West. One of his eyes was dead and his fur was always a little filthy. He looked a little grumpy but he was actually a very friendly fella who also enjoyed some company, since he used to sit directly at the gate of the boneyard, where all the people would enter. Shortly after the first socially traumatizing lock-down, due to the pandemic, in 2020, he suddenly disappeared without a trace. His body was never found and people believe that some lonely soul kidnapped him as a companion. I kind of identified with that cat, ever since i first met him when i was doing a sculpture on that graveyard. One day, for no special reason - more as a little joke - I placed my own face on his picture with that simple spot camera in the instagram story tools (unfortunately the zuckerberg deactivated that nice tool a few years ago). This cute picture of Rüdiger (including my own hand in it, petting him) finally turned into a funny kind of ego-cam mirror self portrait. And I had turned into the Cheshire Cat version of Rüdiger. Needless to say, it somehow felt like burying myself in that lovely little grave under the bridge.

fare well, Rüdiger

#Brache #contemporaryart #visualart #leipzig #eisenbahnstraße #leipzigost #rüdigerthegraveyardcat #pet #grave #cat #mementomori #farewell #tobikeck #abandoned #wasteland

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beautiful-basque-country · 1 year ago

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Kaixo gals!! Have you seen the new Sorogoyen movie, "As Bestas"? I'm not Galician nor am I from Galiza, but I've read many Galicians say that even though they agree it was quite good with good acting (and based on a real event), it's kind of tiring having you being portrait as an outsider-hating xenophobe, especially when using the local native language to convey it.

Kaixo!! I'm wodnering if you have seen the movie Vacas? I'm told it's a pretty iconic movie about a generation of a Basque family from the 2nd Carlist Wars until the beggining of the Civil War, and was curious if you ever watched it and liked it :o

Kaixo anons!

Neither one nor the other. I've read what both movies are about and that's why I decided to answer at the same time, because I think they are quite related: both are rural dramas set in minoritized nations - one in Galiza and the other in EH - whose people are perceived by a large sector of Spaniards as distrustful, closed, and inbred.

Regarding As Bestas: the movie is based on real events. Apparently a Dutch couple was looking for an unspoiled place to live in contact with nature and ended up in a small village in Galiza. As the years went by, quarrels and arguments started to arise with the neighboring family, whose father of the family was mentally ill. The situation escalated until this man killed the Dutchman and his son covered it up. All very sad. What bothers me a bit - and I speak without having seen the movie - is that this crime (whose perpetrator was not charged because of his disability) is not used to reflect the problem of undiagnosed mental illnesses, the shame they still provoke in rural areas, the problem of expatriates looking for wilderness to settle in impoverished areas outside their own countries, etc. No. It is used as a representation of all Galician people. If this story were set in Madrid nobody would say, "of course, they are very closed-minded there and in the end bad things happen", but it would be taken as the story of an individual who happened to be from Madrid. If that makes sense.

And as for Vacas: it bores me to death that EH is only used to make movies about ETA or the civil war. How unoriginal. Apart from the fact that none of the main characters are played by Basque actors (only the supporting actors are Basque), it's a bit more of the same: two Basque families become enemies after the last Carlist war and this enmity lasts for decades and generations. As in Patria. Because we Basques are spiteful and perpetuate our hatreds in our children. Again, if Vacas or Patria were located elsewhere, it would be understood as two extreme families corrupted by hatred and not representative of the entire population of the place. By locating it in EH - with the stereotypes about the Basques roaming around the collective imaginary - the thing changes.

#euskal herria #basque country #pays basque #pais vasco #euskadi #galiza #Vacas #As bestas #Cinema #Films #Personal #Culture #Representation #Anons

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gillianthecat · 2 years ago

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Candy Color Paradox episode 4

Having vented my complaints, and after some helpful conversations about the show, I was better able to enjoy this episode for the fluff that the show is rather than being frustrated about what it is not. I mean, I still think that it's missing a lot of opportunities to explore some interesting themes around ethics, celebrity journalism, Kaburagi's cool boy pose and the way he uses sex for his job, Onoe's... not innocence, but whatever it is that makes him a blushing maiden uke, and everyone's feelings about sex in general. But I accept that's not what the show wants to do. It is straight up yaoi archetypes and a silly plot to smash them together. ("Now kiss.") The glancing look at deeper questions is probably accidental.

That being said, here is what I thought while watching this episode:

- lol it looks like they heard my complaining about how bad they were at stalking people because the literal first conversation in this episode is about how they're too obvious in a parked car 😂

- ooh la la, and they're in a love hotel 😳🤭😉 How risqué. Poor little blushing uke. 🥺

- Aw poor Onoe. He was all ready to fuck then and there. (Or maybe just kiss? I'm not sure how he interpreted the phrase that Gaga translated as "let's do it.")

- It seems odd to me that a paparazzi photographer is also the one taking official portraits. Is that a real thing (in general or in Japan specifically) or just a contrivance for the plot here. Not important, just curious.

- More extremely jealous Onoe 😂 To be fair, I too would be jealous under the very confusing circumstances he's in.

- I hope we get Kaburagi photographing Onoe. Bonus points if Onoe doesn't notice him doing it. I love that trope and what's the point of having a photographer character if you don't use it.

- Haruta is blatantly flirting lol. I suspect that Kaburagi is trying to see if he can catch Inami in jealousy with this hair fixing maneuver, but he's caught Onoe in his net instead. 😂

- But are these actors dating/in love? Is the father/little sister thing a ruse or their genuine feelings? Now I want to know, not because I care about these imaginary celebrities, but because I feel like the answer will say something about the show's perspective on paparazzi ethics.

- Is Onoe putting the pieces together about Kaburagi's purpose? And does Inami's expression while on his phone indicate jealousy or disinterest? I honestly can't tell the answer to either of those.

- Innocent Onoe is literally eating vanilla yogurt while bad boy Kaburagi is smoking.😂

- Go Onoe! Bravely asking Kaburagi what he meant be "I like you." I'm so proud.

- On the one hand, I'm annoyed at Kaburagi for acting so aloof and not taking Onoe's understandable frustration seriously. On the other hand, "smutty alien" is adorably hilarious and I can't blame him for laughing fondly at it. I do wonder if it's a literal translation, or an actual phrase in Japanese, or if it's as random and absurd as it sounds in English.

- Onoe is so obvious when he tails people 🤣

- Inami is pulling an Issei and killing the paparazzi stalker with kindness. I love it. Perhaps that is just how celebrities in Japan deal with paps? I don't know.

- Inami is cute though. And very young looking for supposedly 40. Though the actor is 36, so not that far off.

- Oh the meta levels of young new actors trying to shake off their idol images. I have no idea if Kimura Keito and Yamanaka Jyutaro are actually trying to shake off their idol images, but it does feel a bit ironic or something.

- Onoe. Where is your journalist's skepticism. Are you always this credulous or is it because your brain has been turned to mush by your crush?

- I see Kaburagi wonders the same thing. Perhaps we're both being unfair to Onoe and he just has good instincts.

- Kaburagi noticed Onoe's yogurt and brought him the same kind! Cracks in the facade! Feelings creeping back in. And brave Onoe immediately goes to ask him...

- and... a mid-sentence cliffhanger.

- Looks like next week it'll be Kaburagi's turn to be jealous. And we get more Inami. Being flirty even. Hooray for me!

There probably are things I could say about their developing relationship, the slow melting of Kaburagi's numbness and cynicism, and Onoe's (honestly wise) anxiety about falling for this confusing ice prince (or tsundere seme, to use yaoi vocabulary), but I frankly don't care enough about the characters or this relatively shallow take on this conventional romance arc to think much about it. Still, now that I'm thinking of them as cartoons come to life I'm enjoying them a lot more.

#candy color paradox #ameiro paradox #ameiro ep 4 #gillianthecat reacts to bl #kind of like liveblogging #the gif is terrible but that kind of fits its purpose here #it's literally a 'live' photo of my computer screen that tumblr and/or my phone somehow converted into a gif #i'm not complaining i'm thrilled to discover that's possible

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fruit-of-infidelity · 2 years ago

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♱ DIABOLIK LOVERS: Haunted Dark Bridal ー Sakamaki Ryuuto | Maniac 01 ♱

⌜ Scene: Hallway ⌟

ー Yui walks down the hallway. ー

Ryuuto: ーーI see you’re admiring my portraits, Pet.

Yui: Kya!!

Aah... Please, I’ve asked you not to spook me like that!

Ryuuto: Fufu, pardon me.

I just couldn’t help but notice you lingering in this hallway on your way back to your room. Do you like them?

Yui: I guess I couldn’t help myself. They’re beautiful.

Ryuuto: I would hope so, after putting much effort into them all.

Yui: I knew you painted… I just never realised how much! You must have spent hundreds of hours doing these.

Ryuuto: As a Vampire, what else is there to do after several decades?

Yui: ( I suppose it makes a lot of sense to have such a time-consuming hobby, in Ryuuto-san’s case. )

So, are these all people you know, that you’ve painted? …Are they all Vampire’s too?

Ryuuto: These? Oh no.

Most of them aren’t even real people.

I was very young when I took up this hobby, you see. As the only child around these castle wings, I had quite the overactive mind.

The portraits served as my friends.

Yui: Aah… I see…

Ryuuto: …Goodness, what is the matter?

Yui: Eh…?

Ryuuto: That sudden gloomy expression; Spit it out, won’t you?

Yui: Well… It all just sounds a little lonely, to me.

Ryuuto: …You think so?

Yui: I mean, I had imaginary friends when I was little but, I had the real deal too.

Were you really all on your own out here? With no other children to play with? Not even your cousins? I mean, I figured…

( The look in his eyes is kind of intimating… Maybe I should quit while I’m ahead… )

Ryuuto: … …

Yui: ( I don’t like this silence… I’ll change the topic, quick! )

…Say, did you ever paint a girlfriend of sorts?

Ryuuto: Fufu… Why do you ask?

Don’t tell me you’re curious about my type.

Yui: D-Don’t twist my words!

I-It’s just... I’ve only seen two of your paintings that have a lady in them. And, come to think of it, it’s always the same person...

That beautiful woman, with the long, purple hair.

( It makes me wonder if she might be Ryuuto-san’s girlfriend or something... )

...Do you have any different ones?

Ryuuto: Why don’t I just show you?

ー Ryuuto leads Yui to a storage room. ー

Yui: In… a place like this?

Ryuuto: It’s for the best if it’s kept tucked away here and kept from being hung.

Yui: ( It’s kept hidden? I wonder why? )

Ryuuto: Whatever you do, do not touch a thing. After how clumsy you’ve proven to be, I’d rather you keep your hands to yourself. There are precious family heirlooms and antiques in here.

Now… …A-ha.

ー Ryuuto pulls out a painting. ー

It is still here, after all this time…

ー He uncovers it from under the cloth. ー

Yui: Ack...!

( So much dust! How long has it been covered for? )

Gasp…!

( It’s not at all like the lady in those other paintings. She’s just as beautiful, though! )

Ryuuto: Quite a sight, is she not?

Yui: ( Ryuuto-san seems really bewitched by her… She is definitely very beautiful, but... )

( For some reason, my chest… feels all tight all of a sudden… )

Uu...

…Wait a moment, Ryuuto-san. Is the other figure in this painting you!?

Ryuuto: Observant. It is, indeed.

Yui: And you and this woman… are dancing together?

Ryuuto: Dancing? Fufu, should I be concerned for your eyesight? One moment, you make a good observation and the next, a second terrible one.

We aren’t dancing, but blood-sucking.

Yui: E-Eh? Blood-sucking?

( I see it now…! I thought that “blood” was just dust on the surface from being stored away! )

Uu...

( Despite that, it still looks so romantic… )

( And she… got to experience that with Ryuuto-san… )

Ryuuto: I can only imagine she tastes delicious.

Yui: …Imagine?

Ryuuto: She is hardly leaping from the canvas, is she? How could I possibly taste my food when it is made from oil paints?

Yui: You mean…

She isn’t a real woman?

Ryuuto: Good grief, no. That would never have been allowed.

Yui: Allowed…?

( For some reason, I feel like a weight has been lifted from my chest! )

Ryuuto: Really, I’m beginning to believe you’re having a range of conversations in your head without me. Your pout has suddenly become a smile.

Oh my? Could it have been that you were… jealous?

Just like Her...

Yui: Wha…

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　　❈ No way!

Yui: J-Jealous…? No way!

Ryuuto: Your blush certainly betrays you〜

Yui: ( Is my face really that red? )

What is there to be jealous of, anyway?

　　❈ I can’t explain it ⎨❤︎⎬

Yui: I guess that is the only way to put it. I don’t know why, though…

This feeling… I just can’t explain it. Why would I be jealous?

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Ryuuto: You tell me, fufu. A beautiful woman, being embraced by the likes of me… Feeling my fangs sucking from her so lovingly.

ー He creeps closer to Yui. ー

Feeling absolute ecstasy override the unique pain only I can give her…

Yui: …! Wait… J-Just a moment!

ー Ryuuto suddenly pulls her against him. ー

( N-No way! His grasp is too strong… I’m trapped! )

Ryuuto: Tell me, Yui. Do you wish you were that woman?

Yui: I...

( Oh no! What happened to my voice...!? )

( I feel like I can barely speak!! )

Ryuuto: Fufu. Your silence is enough of an answer in itself.

I have been waiting for this moment for an eternity, to finally pierce you; To awaken something deep within you with this familiar feeling.

As a vessel, you should count yourself extremely lucky for me to even consider giving you such pleasure. You have no right to deny me…

Yui: …!!

Ryuuto: You’d do well to not forget my imprint.

From my lips to my fangs, savour every moment. Remember it well. Remember your very first experience with a Vampire…

ー There is a struggle between them. ー

Yui: …!

( No matter how I squirm; this way or that, I can’t shake him off! )

Ryuuto: Fufu. You’re aroused〜

And so am I.

ー Ryuuto bites Yui. ー

Yui: O…Ow…

P-Please…!

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“Fight against me all you like for now, but you will soon learn to submit. You’ll soon come begging for me to suck you, on your knees.”

“Your skin is already hot to the touch and your cheeks are bright red in anticipation. You’re even holding your breath…〜”

Ryuuto: Nn… …Mmh…

Yui: ( The feeling of fangs in my neck… I-It stings! It hurts! )

Ryuuto: ...Haah…

Oh my. Your taste… Your blood is…

Flowing through me〜!

Yui: Ryuu…to-san…

Ryuuto: It’s really true… Fufu… Ahahaha!

You can feel it too, can’t you? This exhilarating feeling!

Yui: Uu… …

Ryuuto: How I held out this long, I’ll never know… This familiar taste; I feel finally at home. Don’t you? From now on, I won’t hold myself back.

Forgive me, Father… I must be selfish.

I... love you*.

Yui: L...ove...

( I’m… burning up! )

( He’s finally bitten me. I’ve finally become prey to a Vampire… )

( It still stings… Not just the bite, but my heart too... )

( So why am I holding him so close? )

⌜Monologue⌟

“I love you”,

Was the phrase he whispered into my ear as he sucked the blood right out of my body, like a monster.

But his eyes looked right through me,

As if he was talking to someone else...

✥ TO BE CONTINUED ✥

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　　1. Unlike when usually referring to Cordelia over Yui subtly, Ryuuto doesn’t use another word for “you” here. Instead, it is the scenario in which he says this that should tip you off. And he uses the plain form “愛してる” instead of the masu form, which should have struck Yui as odd. Also her little monologue at the end should clarify this too. ^^

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