#nadia's quick recs

[hermionc]

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WAIT AND HOPE by @mightbewriting​

She paused when Malfoy took a step towards her. He caught himself, as if only just realizing that he’d even moved at all, and then he stood painfully still. Hermione expected to see coldness take control of his features, snuffing out the uncertainty and unease painted across his face as he watched her. The coldness didn’t come. Instead, a small smile formed.

Hermione wakes up in St. Mungo’s with no recollection of the past six years. Turns out she’s now married to Draco Malfoy. And she has to go home with him. Chaos ensues. 

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Hello! I’m happy to see that you’re still posting even if it’s winter break because 90% of my mutuals have dipped right after abu dhabi. That’s why I wanted to ask you for a quick lewis blogs rec if you don’t mind, because you seem smart with sexy opinions so I’m sure the people you follow are as well. And also because most of the blogs I find also post george or other drivers but I’m only interested in Lewis 😋 thanks ❤️

Omg <333 thank youuu one thing about me i will be posting while on the clock 😁 I actually follow very very few ppl lol and a lot of them are also semi inactive or posting abt the world cup but i’ll still give you the recs !

some mutuals who post mostly f1 content and whose f1 content is 95% if not 99% lewis:

@44lh @lewisrises @queerbenched @edens @lewisinlace @nosepiercing @44prop @lewisunlight @lewishamiltongender @amgroscoe @lewishcmilton

@alcraz is also into tennis but a lewis ride or die

@roscoesnacks a lot of other stuff but every single f1 related post is a hit + also lewis ride or die

@formulaonedirection listen there are other drivers on this blog but nadia is funny and makes beautiful lewis gifs and we have FORGIVEN nadia formulaonedirection for posting other men and blacklisted all the other men she posts <3

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genshin: childe / zhongli fic recs

other genshin fic recs here genshin fic recs by pairing here personal favorites are starred, by the way. everything is complete unless stated otherwise.

The World Through Your Eyes by leylla (~6k) *WARNING: MCD*

Childe can see that Zhongli is on his death’s door, and he knows that the man himself knows that better than anyone.

So Childe can only snap a shot, and hope that the memory will last forever.

Traveling photographer Childe x Terminal illness patient Zhongli AU

modern setting, zhongli has a terminal illness. it’s really sweet, but also super angsty. the ending broke me.

Blooming in Frost by unrivaled_tapestry (~9k)

Two weeks into his retirement, Zhongli starts coughing up Glaze Lily petals on his morning walk.

hanahaki. really angsty

*no life to be found in barren stone by rysarium (~13k)

Childe turned to Zhongli, about to call out his name, when he stopped and realized the consultant was refusing to meet his gaze. And as he stared at those downcast golden eyes, he finally registered why that color had always seemed so warm and familiar.

The same color as Cor Lapis, that precious rock made of condensed pure Geo. The same color as the glowing scales on the Exuvia’s back. The same color as Childe’s own Geo Vision.

Oh.

All the signs—Liyue’s very own Archon—had been right in front of him all along. Like a fool, he hadn’t recognized a single one.

Childe has a Geo Vision. He will not let that distract him from stealing the Geo Archon’s Gnosis.

*Scatter My Ashes on Your Grave by asthewavesdo, SilentWaves (asthewavesdo) (~16k)

Tartaglia’s previous incarnation was that of a God of War, during a time before the Seven were established and when the Gnoses were split into shards instead of held together as one.

Morax was his servant, then his friend, then his killer.

Zhongli reminisces, until his former lord’s reincarnation suddenly appears back in his life.

pre-getting together kind of. it’s not really about zhongl and childe, it’s more about zhongli and the god he served before he became an archon. kind character study for zhongli in a way. it’s so good, seriously, go read it please!

*Erosion by moolktea (~15k)

There are two things that make Childe who he is–one is his Archon, with her icy fingers and arctic voice and eyes that see into every part of him. The other, as it turns out, is Zhongli.

*to be loved is to be known by growingclouds (~2k)

He sees Vlad and Nadia by the pier, blushing up a storm behind their masks as the backs of their hands brush against each other’s. Childe allows himself an indulging smile at their antics, but his eyes are cold.

Cute, half of him swoons. Frivolous, the other, more rational half says. Childe listens to the latter. He’s here on a mission, not a vacation. Anything not pertaining to the gnosis is a distraction. Childe doesn’t need anything like this in his own life.

Then he meets Zhongli, and both halves of him simultaneously go whatthefuck.

Please Don’t Say You Love Me by relien (~7k; Warning: MCD)

It is a sudden and quick understanding; one minute Childe is sitting before Zhongli, consultant of Wangsheng Funeral Parlour, perpetual daydreamer and the next Childe is sitting before Rex Lapis, God of Contracts.

He’s not sure what triggers the cogs in his mind to start, but once he does, it’s irreversible.

Childe looks up at the sky, as Zhongli rambles on about the origins of a specific chilli in their stew.

The sky is dark with stars.

The air of Liyue is humid with warmth.

Zhongli is Rex Lapis.

*Caught by ZhongliChilde (~52k)

[***BREAKING NEWS*** Constellation’s Zhongli and Tartaglia are Dating? “This just in, Disbatch reporters have supposedly captures images of the two boy group members on a date outside Komo…” Diluc dropped the television remote. “Shit.” There was only one rule idols could never break. Don’t. Get. Caught.]

has multiple ships but mainly zhongli / childe and diluc / kaeya.

Grounding by LoadingScreen (~7k)

After the Traveller has gone, and Zhongli is left standing over Guyun Stone Forest, he is left to bear the weight of the passage of time once more. For the God of Earth, he's a man who needs grounding. So someone comes up the mountain to get him.

Post Zhongli Act 1 scene, because I couldn't bear leaving him after the cutscene was over.

yeah, fair enough. the ending of zhongli’s first quest gave me zhongchi brainrot too.

Something Real by theLoyalRoyalGuard (~2.5k)

Zhongli wakes to a knife at his throat.  

*the stones will remember by Kelpiejz (~2.5k)

Within the Chasm’s depths, a chained god slumbers  

this fic is so angsty, i loved it.

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust by caramelt (~1.5k)

Xiao has seen what Zhongli had been like following Guizhong’s passing. His empty stares as he stood by the vast fields of glaze lilies, lost in thoughts of what could have been and what will never be able to happen again.

And so, to protect the remaining pieces of his Archon’s heart, Xiao decides to find the Harbinger that has caught his fancy.

protective xiao, outsider pov. more xiao and zhongli stuff tho.

[tsaritza-mika]

The Main Six LI’s as YouTubers!! Because why the hell not!?

Nadia

Nadia has a few things on her channel, and it keeps her image very intriguing to her subscribers

MAKEUP TUTORIALS!!!

This woman can work with any skin type and tone in the damn rainbow, and she proves it every damn day!

Often has Asra and Portia over to demonstrate different skin tones and types

Nail art anyone?

Videos on current fashion trends and making your old clothes work for newer fashions. It’s very frugal for those who may be tight on cash

Also well known complex puzzle solver! Subscribers and professional puzzle builders send her things to try and solve. Her favorite ones usually take many varying methods to figure out a single phase before unlocking the next

Will also do time lapse videos of her own mechanical creations!

She waited until after gifting Portia a three-foot music box to post the reaction video

Asra

Anybody watch Snake Discovery? Because Asra would be that!

Loves that special time of year when all the new clutches are ready to hatch and he and Faust can welcome them into the world!

Tips on proper housing, feeding, and reptile care

Explanations on the hows and whys of snakes and various other lizards he’s come to know on his own, and with Faust’s help!

Bo-Ho pottery? Jewelry and homemade clothes? Damn tootin’!!

Time Lapse and ASMR vids of him making his own stuff to sell on his Etsy!! Rent won’t pay itself

TRAVEL BLOG VIDS!!!

Cool places he’s traveling now, where he’s been, souvenirs with stories, and how time consuming it is to get through customs

FOOD REVIEWS!!! From the weird to the fashionable, from the savory to the salty and even to the sweet, Asra’s got your international foodie hookups, and you’re not gonna want to miss a second!

Julian

Honestly, he’s probably done it all, but he has his staples

A new vid every week where he watches a new episode of whatever medical show he’s working thru/random movies with a lot of medical references and corrects the bad medical shit they have on tv/movies

Are you fascinated by weird medical history? Well you came to the right place!

Dating Sims and how to unlock every character and special ending

SURGEON SIMULATOR!!!

Anyone for a dance video? The man has the moves and will put his money where his mouth is! Wanna learn how he does those fancy moves? Just catch his instructional video at the end of the week with surprise guests! Who will it be? Depends on the moves! Stay tuned!

Living with a Corvid and how to properly care for the little shit!

Has videos reviewing pretty much every drink at Starbucks and which he would recommend for the season

LINDSEY STERLING LEVELS OF MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT!!!

This man will pull out all the stops for his music videos! Originals, covers, there’s nothing he won’t play! Be sure to check out his album this September, available on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, and Amazon! Move quick and get the special signed editions with limited copies!

Muriel

Ever see those videos of the guys who literally wander off into the wilderness and build mansions out of nothing but dirt and palm fronds? Yeah, that’s Muriel

He doesn’t talk in them, he just turns dirt and mud into cool 1-2 person dwellings, often with a small pool and running water

Wood carving time lapse videos and what tools are best for different levels of detail

Leather working for long-term wear and weather protection

Foraging and making meals from scratch

INANNA CAM!!! WATCH HER SHE’S WONDERFUL!!!

Deep forest w/ fireplace ASMR and sleep and meditation sounds

Protective charms w/ Asra and how to make them so they work against goats... or whatever else might be bothering you!

Portia

My GOD the things Portia has done for her channel! Hers is definitely the most eclectic of the group, but they’re all just so her!

Want some supernatural stuff? Portia’s got it, and she’s ready to get spooky! She’ll read from either her own story collection, Creepy-pastas, or viewer recs. Three times a month join her for some Tarot readings, divination, or classic Ouija board spooks in a collab with Asra!

Remember the beginning of Tangled? Yeah, Portia does all of that! And there’s a video for all of it!!

Cleaning and gardening tips, candle making, games of all kinds!

Ways to tame that crazy, curly mane and other cool hairstyle collab vids with Nadia!!

Cottage core ASMR w/ purring sounds provided by Pepi!

Anyone for some classic Nevivon cooking? Portia’s got you covered, and she’s making a new dish every week with special appearances by everyone’s favorite salty Grandmother, Mazelinka!

Lucio

Lucio’s unboxing vids are the envy of the internet~! What doesn’t he get in the mail to unbox? It’s like X-mas every day when you get a new box of cool mystery swag!

Makeup and fashion collabs with Nadia

Dance and musical collabs with Julian

His most surprising hobby? Gold-leaf, duh! He’s got surprisingly fancy handwriting, and besides, there’s never enough gold!

Do you love dogs? Of course you do! You’d have to be crazy to not love M&M! Dog park and play cams!

Hell, why not! You just love animals? Every week take a walk with Vesuvia’s biggest collection of albino animals and meet a new one in every video!

Spirographs? ....yeah, spirographs. They’re easy, they’re fun, and just look at all the colors!! We’ll add more gold though. There’s never enough anyway.

Your favorite Count demands cookies!! Collabs with Portia trying to teach this disaster how to make his favorite snacks and sweets! Special appearances by his new best friend, the STOVE SALAMANDER~!!!

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Reading Outside of the Box: Literary Fiction Recs

Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine by Klara Hveberg, Alison McCullough (Translation)

Rakel has always been more comfortable with numbers than with people. A gifted woman with a rare talent for math, she has never mastered the art of making friends. At nineteen, she moves to Oslo to attend university. There she meets Jakob, a brilliant older teacher who becomes fascinated by Rakel’s quick mind. Jakob is struck by the similarities between Rakel and Sofja Kovalevskaja, the first woman to become a professor of mathematics, and the subject of the novel he is writing. Just as Kovalevskaja was close to her much older advisor, Rakel and Jakob are drawn to each other and eventually become lovers, although he is already married. In the years to come, Rakel's academic career soars, but her health declines, and from her bedside she spends hours imagining Sofja’s life while trying to understand her own. With a gaze both naive and mercilessly sharp, she examines what may be her life's only love story, looking for patterns and answers in numbers, music, and literature.

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

After the tragic death of his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house--a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world, where "things happen." He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book--a talking thing--who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.

The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter, Frank Wynne (Translation)

Across three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family's history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our descendants pay for the choices that we make? Naïma knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in her grandparents' tiny apartment in Normandy: the language her grandmother speaks but Naïma can't understand, the food her grandmother cooks, and the precious things her grandmother carried when they fled. Naïma's father claims to remember nothing; he has made himself French. Her grandfather died before he could tell her his side of the story. But now Naïma will travel to Algeria to see for herself what was left behind--including their secrets. The Algerian War for Independence sent Naïma's grandfather on a journey of his own, from wealthy olive grove owner and respected veteran of the First World War, to refugee spurned as a harki by his fellow Algerians in the transit camps of southern France, to immigrant barely scratching out a living in the north. The long battle against colonial rule broke apart communities, opened deep rifts within families, and saw the whims of those in even temporary power instantly overturn the lives of ordinary people. Where does Naïma's family fit into this history? How do they fit into France's future?

I Was Never the First Lady by Wendy Guerra

A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night she DJs a radio show government censors block from broadcasting. Frustrated, Nadia finds hope and a way out when she wins a scholarship to study in Russia. Leaving Cuba offers her the chance to find her long lost mother and her real father. But as she embarks on a journey east, Nadia soon begins to question everything she thought she knew and understood about her past. As Nadia discovers more about her family, her fate becomes entwined with that of Celia Sanchez, an icon of the Cuban Revolution-a resistance fighter, ingenious spy, and the rumored lover of Fidel Castro. A tale of revolutionary ideals and promise, Celia's story interweaves with Nadia's search for meaning, and eventually reveals secrets Nadia could never have dreamed.

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remedia amoris by magneticwave

Behind her, Malfoy is squinting down at the crumpled parchment of the potion recipe, spelling ingredients out of an open box onto his workbench. Hermione had --silently, begrudgingly--transformed his suit back into dress robes, and now he looks tall and pale, like one of the ghosts that haunts the Department of Mysteries, only more of a prat.

The most amazing thing about Malfoy is not that he managed to build a successful Ministry career out of the total disgrace of his family, but that somehow Hermione only despises him half of the time that they work together. (Or, Minister Malfoy and Unspeakable Granger save the world, again.)

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A NIGHTMARE DRESSED LIKE A DAYDREAM by jercmevaleska

He reminds everyone, at every stage of the hiring process, that he’s not actually qualified to teach, but no one listens to him, they all just wave their hands dismissively and laugh, “But Dumbledore chose you himself!” Like that means anything in the real world. He’s half sure Dumbledore has started a cult. Aside from his actual cult, which Tom discovered after a lot of researching a few years ago, which on the outside seems like a birdwatching society, or something, but in reality, is some kind of organised vigilante group.

What if Dumbledore had given Tom Riddle that teaching job? A nonmagical, Catholic schoolteacher AU.

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Precious Things by herbeautifullie

It's a pure feeling – so human that some days, he doesn't understand it – and he struggles more and more to not suddenly reach over and touch her all on his own.

When Draco accidentally gets Hermione pregnant after the war, he has no choice but to let her into his home. That absolutely does not mean he has to let her into his life. Told over a series of Christmases.

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THE MIND TRAP by lainellafay

“Harry, do you know who Malfoy’s been visiting?”

Years after the war, Hermione's in St. Mungo's thinking she's a Healer, but her mind is not to be trusted. Really tragic memory charm story. A tearjerker.

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BITE MARKS by @provocative-envy

He can’t decide if he wants to fuck this girl or fight with her. Maybe both? Maybe at the same time? “So—you’re upset,” he says with a nonchalant nod and discreet adjustment of his slightly too-tight khaki corduroys. She blinks at him, her expression alternating between indignation and incredulity and flat-out fury. He had been right about her being pretty beneath the intimidation tactics.

Non-magical, high school alternate universe. Technically a companion fic to Punch Drunk, Bite Marks follows the tumultuous, sexy, sarcastic, awkward, not-a-relationship, but not-not-a-relationship between a frustrated Draco and an angsty Hermione. Side DG/BZ/TN and HP/PP.

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WITH TEETH by @provocative-envy

Albus Dumbledore had been wrong about Voldemort’s horcruxes. There had never been just seven—or eight, technically, if Harry’s scar was being counted. There had been seven hundred and seventy-seven.

Draco and Hermione are forced to work together to hunt down the rest of Voldemort's horcruxes. Just the right amount of fluff. Lots of bickering, as always. Oversized sweatshirts are a recurring theme.

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ROOM SERVICED by pir8fancier

He reached into his jacket pocket and took out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. He shook a cigarette free from the pack, the motion smooth, graceful, easy, just like his fucking. He put it in his mouth.

Post Hogwarts AU. Kids still at war. Angsty, angry, and men and women doing it in hotel rooms. Mentioned Remus/Sirius.

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GHOSTS IN A WISHING WELL by namelessamelie

“The dreams always end the same way. He pulls, and she pushes. And then she slips away from him, whispering her excuses; and he wakes with her name a ghost on his lips.“

Post-war ministry fic featuring a pining Draco, a conflicted Hermione, and quite a bit of angst. Warning for mild depression and vaguely disturbing themes.

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BITTER/SWEET by @provocative-envy

When I finally came, it felt as if I had been flayed open, spine exposed, a cachet of fireworks set off in half-second increments along my vertebrae as he murmured my name so reverently I could not help but think that there must be some magic to it, to me, to him.

After the war, Draco is sent into nonmagical exile in Muggle London. Hermione, desperate for an escape of her own, offers to keep an eye on him. A hauntingly beautiful story about falling in love.

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