#trope: unspeakable theo

[nott-another-sideblog]

random theo nott headcanons that i like:

he reads excessively, mostly non-fiction because he likes learning new things, though he also likes horror and narratives that are meant to instil a lot of emotion, whether it be good or bad

follows etiquette rules way too much, applying them to most interactions even if he’s comfortable with a person. it takes a while for him to drop them when talking to someone

scared of birds because he doesn’t like how fast some of them can fly, and some of them are small so they’re hard to spot until they’re zooming at him

he believes that the unspeakables are spreading false information about time magic on purpose, and that the One True Timeline concept is an agenda pushed out to stop people from trying to progress time magic because it would cause problems for the ministry.

tall as fuck and has ramrod straight posture. he’s like 6’3 and doesn’t slouch and he towers over people. he actually doesn’t like his height because he thinks it makes him stand out too much

doesn’t blink that often but when he does, it’s often slow

mixed opinions on cinnamon. he likes it in some baked goods but as a main flavour he’s iffy

HATES getting wet - he refuses to go out in the rain unless he’s protected by like seven different charms

very interested on the basic rules of magic, wants to know why something works more than how because he thinks it’s more beneficial and applicable

he used to write all his thoughts in a journal until he got anxious that someone would read it, then he started writing in invisible ink. then he forgot which pages he wrote on and had to start making little marks in the corner of the pages to remember

he is a weak, weak man. if he didn’t have charms to help him pushing his suitcase onto the hogwarts express would have killed him by now.

embodies the brains over brawn trope, except he hinders himself because his intelligence makes him think of even more ways that things can go wrong and it makes him panic. he also tends to skip the simpler options because he thinks of them less often, making his life a bit harder sometimes. he hates those trick riddles because of this as most time the answer is in easily shippable information or a simple solution hidden by extra details. i’m talking specifically about that type of riddle you’d hear at school with answers that seem obvious but nobody gets

[dhr-ao3]

Past / Present / Future

Past / Present / Future https://ift.tt/YJ6nzs4 by neilistic After a very bad week in which Crookshanks died and Ron left her via four words on a scrap of parchment, Hermione is forced to take a week's holiday from her job. Unfortunately, it becomes clear her work was the last thing keeping her sane. When she finds out Harry is investigating the unexplained disappearance of Draco Malfoy, now an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries, she finally has a problem to solve. The case sucks her in in more ways than one, and she finds herself with a front row seat to the matinée performance of Draco Malfoy's weird and wonderful subconscious mind. Tl;dr Hermione gathers extensive material for an eventual AITA post Words: 6544, Chapters: 2/40, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, Multi Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Theodore Nott, Blaise Zabini, Hermione Granger's Mother, Hermione Granger's Father, Penelope Clearwater, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Original House-Elf Character(s), Lily Luna Potter, James Sirius Potter, Albus Severus Potter, OCs, Ron Weasley Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott/Blaise Zabini, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Additional Tags: Romantic Comedy, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Unspeakable Draco Malfoy, Ministry of Magic Employee Hermione Granger, Forced Proximity, Tragic Cat Death, Slow Burn, Time Loop, Hermione cries a lot, Mutual Pining, Banter, Pensieves (Harry Potter), inappropriate use of a pensieve, Eventual Smut, this baby can fit SO MANY TROPES, Canon - Book, Not Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Compliant, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Compliant when I feel like it tbh, Theo is a Little Shit via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/KhWesrt February 07, 2024 at 03:30AM

[disorganizedkitten]

Still no luck so here's the new one anyway

Breakdown? Breakdown >:D

Godfamily: I read... goshdangit y'all I have to link it but now I don't remember the title screw me

After a disastrous search on Ao3 I can inform you I don't remember the name, the author (I think) was Lullabyknell, but all but three of their HP works have been set to mystery so uh-- I'm losing my mind ^u^ Anyway they wrote a wicked good Reg Lives And Moves In By Harry Au and I wanted to write one too.

Godfamily turned into Lettersverse, then NOPC 1, which is not listed because it was really just the place in between Lettersverse and NOPC. Lettersverse gets to hold them both vaguely until I get around to writing it, but the premise was that Harry moved in with Reg and wrote letters to Nev, and then suddenly it was a twin au and they were solving the mystery of who Harry was, and Reg was still legally dead and it was Much Shenanigans and Very Chaos.

Lettersverse and NOPC 1 turned into Not (Our Parents') Children circa November 2020 (yipes) and now we have quadruple the cast size, some time travel, more kids, and Regulus is legally alive and also bullying the government. Entirely a twin au. Debatably a WBWL au.

Sometime during Not (Our Parents') Children's development I thought it would be cool to do a Reg-and-Delphi-Cy-as-teachers-au, except it wasn't specifically Delphi Cy because that was before I added Delphi Lyn. Three War Orphans In A Magic Castle is not listed because I forgot about it. ToT

Not (Our Parents') Children spawned the entirety of Adjacent, which is listed below it, but we'll start with the Mathverse. Mathverse is definitely a WBWL, and pretty much happened because of a throwaway line I came up with and a minor crisis because my PLANNED WBWL au (NOPC) was very off track so I wanted to write a version that was... a little bit closer to the usual tropes. Lettersverse is listed as an influence because of NOPC 1

War Crimes Verse is me being self-indulgent ^~^ Focuses largely on Neville and Delphi Cy, it features half of Hogwarts being victims of kidnappings ^~^ Crises all around. I love them.

Under War Crimes is Dark Magic For Dummies, which is new, and pretty much a light-hearted, chaotic webseries. Features Fay Dunbar exploring Soul Magic. It could almost be kept separate but I'm keeping a lot of the family drama from War Crimes while ignoring the implications.

There Is Magic In Every Living Thing is straight from NOPC again, just shenanigans between Slytherin students. Including Harry.

The Big Brother Brigade came from TMLT, but this time focused on Percy, Connor, and Oliver. It's summary includes "Watch out Voldemort, Oliver Wood is coming for your kneecaps." Tell me of a better premise I dare you.

TMLT also spawned Three Eldritch Abominations in a Trenchcoat which is more Theo, Blaise, and Harry being chaotic and terrifying to normal people.

Delphi Is Not Paid Enough For This BS is a series for Exploring Delphi Lyn's characterization, both in the NOPC-verse and out of it. Delphi Lyn, for those of you who don't know, is an Unspeakable, so most of these are Department of Mysteries-centric as well. Inheritance is Delphi exploring her heritage and claiming the resurrection stone, Veil Visitors is canon Harry and Sirius visiting the NOPCverse, Through the Veil is Delphi visiting canon, Death Will Prevail is some Necromancy exploration feat. Pandora Lovegood, Child of Prophecy is the au where Delphi is DADA teacher in OotP instead of Umbridge, and Soul Siblings is Delphi adopting Harry while she's trying to collect the Horcruxes and bring Voldemort back. They're all very fun.

My Name Is Timothy Riddle and You- Are A Child, aka one of my most long-winded titles ever, is supposed to be a pun/reference to The Princess Bride, it's Timothy's version of Soul Siblings; Timothy is Delphi's older brother, he's dead, but he goes to haunt his father's killer and finds an abused 5yo. He starts haunting the Dursleys instead and 'spiritually' adopts Harry ;)

Then our second flow chart starts at Cobra Lily, which is actually my first ever Potter Twins au, I've mentioned before that it's a love letter to Purplemango and their au, but I went 'what if there were a bunch of magical orphans and they banded together instead'. I also love it immensely. I gave every founder a room and it's so great.

Hyacinth originally came about because I was wondering if Cobra Lily really needed a fem harry since I wasn't doing as much with it as I could, and THEN there were old CL timetravel daydreams where Tom Riddle mistakenly assumed Iris was his granddaughter, so I said why not? It's lovely. So very lovely.

Then from Hyacinth we got A Conspiracy of Errors, which came from me having Hawthorne, Sorrel, Connor, and Hades in a room together with some other Potter twins, and Sorrel looked someone dead in the eye and said "Harry and James Potter were murdered in 1981" and then the muse went "AU WHERE THEY BOTH FAKE THEIR DEATHS!!" It's nice. CoE is listed as coming from both NOPC and Hyacinth on account of using Connor Potter again.

Haunted and Holy also came from a throwaway comment, this one in Hyacinth, about 'well MAYBE Sorrel's quirks are because he hallucinates his dead brother' and the only viable answer to that was a Ghost!Harry au.

Losing my mind bc I redid the hp flow chart but now I can't find the original to reblog it 😭

[acciotheomione]

Incandescent by saveourskinship

Hermione's life is comfortable and easy. She loves her work, she loves her Welsh cottage, she loves that it's currently winter, her favourite season. She's not in love her husband, Draco Malfoy, but loving each other was never part of the plan. Their marriage of convenience has them sailing through life amicably but then someone turns up at Hermione's door ready to upend their carefully constructed lie. One Theodore Nott. Part of the wider Fates and Free Will series, but can be read on it's own.

Link to AO3

AO3 tags below the break

Archive Warning(s): No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationship(s): Hermione Granger/Theodore Nott, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

Additional Tag(s): Marriage of Convenience, Cottagecore, Slow and Dreamy, Slow Burn, Fluffy, Eau de Smut, Meaning There's A Whiff Of It, Draco and Hermione are friends, and married, Hermione's House Is Kind Of Alive?, Theo Is A Total Dish, Like Serve Him Up On A Platter Dishy, Some Explicit Language, I'm Still Working Out If This Has A Plot Or Just An Aesthetic, Department of Mysteries Nonsense, A Little Bit Sci-Fi?, Abstract Vestiges Of My Imagination Run Amok, Threats of Cannibalism (Not Acted Upon), I'm Sorry, Is This Insane?, HEA, Like Not Tied In A Bow, but definitely HEA

[gameofdrarry]

Wizards Hearts Smut Recs: Hung!Harry or Hung!Draco

Wizards Hearts was a four-month-long Drarry reading fest. Players were given a playing deck of 52 tropes, and were asked to find 52 different fics to read and comment on to fill their decks. To prevent the same few fics from being read, fics were restricted to only being used for the game three times before being considered ineligible for further points. The tropes and submissions list can be found here. Players could opt in to an additional suit of 13 cards, all themed around various popular smut tropes.

Check out the masterlist of fics for this trope below the cut!

📜 Heart Like Neon by lq_traintracks (lumosed_quill) Rated:  Explicit Words:  41103 Tags: Sex Work, Sex worker Harry Potter, Rentboys, rentboy Harry potter, Past Harry/Ginny - Freeform, past Draco/Theo, Harry/OMC - Freeform, Trans Male Character, Trans Female Character, Switching, Transphobia, Tattoos, hung harry, POV Alternating, Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Rimming, Comeplay, Watersports, Duelling, Facials Summary:  Bored of being The Chosen One, Harry discovers he rather likes sex and becomes a professional. He’s good at it, and part of why is that he can read people. Not minds, not Legilimens, but their whole self, and he can give them what they don’t even know they want. Enter Draco fucking Malfoy, enigma to everyone, including himself. Harry can’t help but want to break into him, to figure him out. And Draco, thinking he’ll fuck Potter on a lark, has no idea what he’s in for. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 The Kisses Don’t Count, If No One Else Knows by oldenuf2nb Rated:  Explicit Words:  41492 Tags: FeelsFriends With Benefits, Secret Relationship, Pretend Relationship, Misunderstandings, Switching, Sexual Tension, Blow Jobs, Rimming, Anal Fingering, Snarky Draco Malfoy, Sexy Draco Malfoy, Long-Haired Draco Malfoy, Pining Harry Potter, Quidditch Player Draco Malfoy, Minister for Magic Harry Potter, Head Auror Ron Weasley, Undersecretary Hermione Granger, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Post-Second War with Voldemort, Wizarding Politics (Harry Potter), Minor Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, H/D Sex Fair 2020 Summary:  Minister for Magic Harry Potter does not love his job. The one bright point in his life is his secret relationship with Quidditch Super Star Draco Malfoy. When they're 'outed' by a peeping tom with a camera, Harry has to decide what's really important. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 A Growing Problem by Caius_Valerius_Catullus Rated:  Explicit Words:  7976 Tags: Attempt at Humor, Hung!Harry, Bottom Harry, Harry's been cursed, It's a really great curse, Enemies to Lovers, LITERALLY, Awkward Conversations, Hogwarts Eighth Year Summary:  Harry Potter has been cursed! Every time he sees Draco Malfoy, he gets a massive erection... ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Dreaming of Harry by Writcraft Rated:  Explicit Words:  11377 Tags: Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Hogwarts Eighth Year, First Time, First Time Blow Jobs, First Time Bottoming, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Hand Jobs, Mutual Pining, Boys In Love, Hurt/Comfort, Coming Out, Wet Dream, Bottom Draco, Top Harry, Hung Harry Potter Summary:  The first night Draco Malfoy dreams of Harry Potter, everything changes. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Endowment by dicta_contrion Rated:  Explicit Words:  10834 Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, First Time Bottoming, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Comeplay, Dirty Talk, Large Cock Summary:  Potter has got under my skin for far too long, in far too many ways. I fully intend to return the favour. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 The Great Magic Sex Mushroom Fiasco by Magnolia822 Rated:  Explicit Words:  6789 Tags: Shameless Smut, Food, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Mushrooms, Porn with Feelings, Pining, Multiple Orgasms, Anal Play, Bottom Draco Malfoy, H/D Food Fair 2018, Rimming, Felching, Hung Harry Potter, Auror Partners, Auror Harry Potter, Auror Draco Malfoy, Something Made Them Do It, Post-Hogwarts, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE Summary:  Lost in the Siberian wilderness without food, Aurors Potter and Malfoy are forced to improvise, with unexpected consequences . . . ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 in my head by M0stlyVoid Rated:  Explicit Words:  3641 Tags: Butt Plugs, Sexting, Masturbation, Secret Relationship, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Kinktober 2020, hung Draco, Size Kink Summary:  Sometimes, being a product tester at Wheezes pays off for Harry in major, major ways. Thank Merlin for his brilliant, deviously inventive boyfriend. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Love Bites by mlle_notorious Rated:  Explicit Words:  249633 Tags: Rimming, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Dirty Talk, Bottom Harry, Bottom Harry Potter, Top Draco Malfoy, Not Epilogue Compliant, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE Summary:  Harry discovers Grindr and realises that he can screen his hook-ups according to his specific...needs. What happens when he finds himself staring at Draco Malfoy when he arrives for his first foray into dating apps. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Habits (Stay High) by PollyWeasley Rated:  Explicit Words:  37626 Tags: Minor Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Minor Blaise Zabini/Ginny Weasley, Minor Pansy Parkinson/Luna Lovegood, Minor Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood, bottom!Draco, Top!Harry, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, PTSD, kind of angst but not so much, kind of a song fic but not really, there's a lot of songs though, based on Habits by Tove Lo, Hung!Harry, Healer!Harry, Happy Ending Summary:  He hated the clubs, hated drinking, hated the guys he danced and fell with every night, and he hated the next days. But he couldn't stop. He couldn't stop simply because being sober was much worse than being hungover. Thinking about the headache, the taste of bile and the Pansy's preach was better than the pain that was constantly there. That didn't end even after an orgasm with a delicious face. That didn't dissipate even when he was laughing and dancing. He needed to be asleep not to think. And he did it night after night, after night ... ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Hung Like a Horntail by lq_traintracks (lumosed_quill) Rated:  Explicit Words:  2353 Tags: Size Kink, Hung!HarryB, ottom Draco, Shower Sex, Quidditch, Auror Harry, Unspeakable Draco, Anal Fingering, Intergluteal Sex, Anal Sex, Blow Jobs Summary:  Draco's become a bit obsessed with Harry's sizable package. It's a little distracting. Even more so when it's up your arse. (Or "Harry's Big Dick is messing with Draco's life." ~Capitu) ❤️ Read on AO3

[biscuitsforpotter]

New Oneshot: Not In Our Stars

Title: Not In Our Stars Pairing: Hermione x Theo Rating: M Trope: Secret Relationship, Unhappily Ever After

Hermione has always been fascinated with the secrets of the stars, and now, as an Unspeakable at the Department of Mysteries, it's her job to help unlock those secrets. Her co-researcher, Theodore Nott, is both brilliant and brooding, and Hermione can't help but to be drawn to him.

Written for Ravenslight for the Secret Santa Dumpster Fire of 2019!

Amazing Alpha and Beta work done by @ms-merlinblack​ and @graceful-lioness​

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21800122 FFN: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13453023/1/Not-In-Our-Stars

[nothingneverforever]

The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

I remember sitting through the first episode of this series with my mom, thinking that it wasn't the best option for us to commit to, worrying that it would be a waste of our precious mother-daughter bonding time. The pacing of the first/second episode was too.. American, the emotional expressions too unsubtle, leaving little room for my audience participation, the acting too stilted, and the actors behaving too much like stage thespians .. and because I'd chosen the series after seeing rave reviews online, I remember sitting through the first episode thinking, huh, this is the shit people been losing their minds over?

And then.... suddenly, quickly, it became one of the most deeply affecting and disturbing shows I'd experienced, and thus eventually, one of my favourites. I'm deciding to write this now, about 9 months after I finished the series, because I've just started on The Haunting of Bly Manor, which is described as a "follow-up" series to Hill House. The narratives are not connected, but much of the cast and crew are the same, which is nice because I was so so so so so impressed with the acting of these specific returning actors in Hill House, and after reading a little more into the production process, I've been allowed to understand that the crew is fucking epic and genius as fuck too. I love this series!!!!!

The title of a Youtube video that I love a great deal on this series, by one of my absolute favourite film analysis video essayists, Ladyknightthebrave, is: Stretching Genre - A Haunting of Hill House Video Essay. And maybe this is what I'll talk about first - genre. I've never particularly cared for 'horror' because I'd rather be able to engage with themes and tropes I can relate to in my own life, stories that resemble my own world from my own ever-romantic perspectives. I've always wanted to delve into horror, to appreciate the elaborately designed surfaces as well as be affected in whatever ways by any depth of conversation or concept, but I don't think I've ever been able to achieve any of this. I've tried to enjoy both superficially (i.e. entertainment value) and also more real-ly many horror productions, but always left with a deep sense of meh.  Crimson Peak (which I reviewed here back in 2016) might be the closest I've come to engaging genuinely with anything from this broad genre, but even then I think I liked it more for its kitsch value, its beautiful beautiful beautiful soundtrack, than for the genre-specific parts of the narrative. But I mean, everything makes a film right? The soundtrack and the costumes and the acting are the horror elements in themselves too, I know.

Even then, a lot of the simple reactions I've read for Hill House are ones of surprise, where audiences went in not realizing that a series with the words The Haunting of.. in its title would leave them feeling utterly heartbroken, distraught (sad), emotionally-invested as it were any other drama series. In that Ladyknightthebrave video I mentioned, at multiple points in her essay she says, simply, "hey,... I'm sad" when referencing a particular scene or conversation. And that was, too, my overwhelming reaction to the whole series.... I'm sad!!!!!

Perhaps I should describe the plot a little first.. so the Cranes are a family of 7, mother and father and 5 lovely children: in descending order of age, they are Steve, Shirley, Theo, and twins Luke and Eleanor (Nelly). Here is the official synopsis:

This modern reimagining of the Shirley Jackson novel follows siblings who, as children, grew up in what would go on to become the most famous haunted house in the country.. Now adults, they are forced back together in the face of tragedy and must finally confront the ghosts of their past. Some of those ghosts still lurk in their minds, while others may actually be stalking the shadows of Hill House.

And, from wikipedia, here are some of the notable reviews of the series:

Corrine Corrodus of The Telegraph graded the series with a 5/5 rating, calling it "the most complex and complete horror series of its time." Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave unanimous praise to the Netflix adaptation, describing it as "essential viewing," and stated that "[the show] contains some of the most unforgettable horror imagery in film or television in years." David Griffin of IGN gave the series a rating of 9.5 out of 10, calling it "a superb and terrifying family drama," and Paul Tassi of Forbes described it as "absolutely fantastic" and stated that "it may actually be Netflix's best original show ever."

Horror author Stephen King, who holds considerable admiration for Jackson's novel, tweeted about the series, "I don't usually care for this kind of revisionism, but this is great. Close to a work of genius, really. I think Shirley Jackson would approve, but who knows for sure."

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, in interview with The Jerusalem Post said, "My favorite Netflix series, with no competition, is The Haunting of Hill House."

Due to obvious reasons I give zero fucks about what either King or Tarantino might have to say about, uhh, anything on this planet, but YASSSS RETWEET everything above!!! It is essential viewing!!! Indeed the most complex and complete series of its time!!! Unforgettable imagery!!!

Okie so now on to my own original thots... 

My main learning was this: Horror, i.e. the presence of something horrific, for it's characters in the show/story, isn't about feeling frightened or them 'losing their minds' or being driven to questioning their own perceptions of reality or anything like what we've seen in the last 7 decades or so of seeing the genre develop and evolve. In Mike Flanagan's beautiful ode to Shirley Jackson's incredible story, we come to understand that horror is only ever about genuine trauma. I guess, like I talked about earlier, I never really understood what horror's raison d'etre was at all.. like... why?? What is the greater, lasting impact of having audiences shaking in their boots? What is intended by eliciting a gasp or a scream? WHAT IS THE MEANING OF ALL THIS?!

I asked, and I've been asking and asking for years, and finally Hill House provided: Horror is, in fact, about unspeakable pain.. Pain that has no outlet in a world that will only ever be skeptical of such experiences... it's about being genuinely haunted in such a way that you can never dream of stability in your life ever again; it's about developing into a closed-off, maladjusted adult, knowing that your experiences of early life cannot be related to anyone else's in any way, not even that of your siblings. I remember taking away this lesson very early on in the series, possibly midway through the second episode. Because the siblings (Steve, Shirley, Theo, Luke, Nelly) are all utterly flawed and thus 'real' characters, we're able to quickly why they are the ways they are. (Important note: the siblings are not flawed in ways that make them unlikable at all, or unrelatable, or downright unpleasant to watch - this is a flaw that other productions have definitely fallen prey to before in the name of achieving that 'realness' however Hill House judges things so perfectly that we are endeared to their flaws and never put off by them.) Their disparate experiences with Hill House growing up, their subsequent very personal meaning-making journeys (some looking more like denial, some resulting in substance dependency), their different levels of having access to the 'truths' about what went on in that cursed home, all of this meant that the siblings ended up, where we see them in 'current day', being broken adults with a lot of misplaced anger, unprocessed trauma, and resentment toward one another. It is the aloneness in all their experiences that is the true horror, and the horrors were a very personal, existential kind and so there was no room for mutual bonding and sharing until it was too late, until their babiest of baby sisters had lost herself to the pressures calling her ‘home’.

And suddenly, I realised: this is the true evil. Ghosts don't ruin lives by doing a good epic scare here and there or by turning your irises white by revealing some fucking scary shit: ghosts are seriously... so... fucking... evil because they ruin your whole entire lives..!!! Horrifying realities take the form of many different things, even if they all originate from one main source. The Crane siblings, as children, had to deal at once with their mother being predisposed to falling victim to the spirits of the house due to, as hinted, mental health conditions of her own, while also dealing with differently confusing aspects of a house and a home that taunted them by making them feel unsafe and secure all at once. Now I say all this from an.. artistic appreciation pov, because I am myself unconvinced that the 'supernatural' or anything of a spiritual realm influences our daily lives. Which is all the more significant, right? That a ""skeptic"" like myself (although I'm not an insensitive and stubborn over-rationalizing dumb male like Steve is in the show) could suddenly realise the tragic effects on many many vulnerable souls of a world that clutching on to its medical models and objective scientific truths.

From the series' wiki page: The Haunting of Hill House received critical acclaim, particularly for its acting, directing, and production values, with many calling it an "effective ghost story."

So yea... finally I know what that means. Finally I know what effect a ghost story can and should have. Finally I understand the potential of the genre!!! Sigh there is literally SO much I could say about how and why this is the best series in the world but maybe I'll stop here for now..? There would be no end if I were to discuss everything because it's one of those series that has 'easter eggs', in the form of hidden ghosts (visual) lurking in the dark or specific lines that foreshadow something else later on, but I've never really cared much to 'reveal' these things so yea, go forth and enjoy this best show everrrrr :-)

(For example there is a lot of discussion online about how each of the 5 siblings represent the 5 different stages of grief à la Kübler-Ross, with the eldest Steve being in complete denial that there was ever any supernatural presence to explain their experience, Shirley reacting with sheer anger to all around her, Theo bargaining her way through her own internal conflicts, Luke being surrounded by swirling depression fueling his drug dependency, and Nell eventually accepting the so-called inevitable, etc etc etc but this kinda analysis is a little too lowbrow and heavy-handed for me to get into so yea haha)

There is a specific dialogue that I want to reference however on my way out: when Nell's suicide/death is revealed early in the series, Shirley has the difficult talk with her young children about it. And these 2 simple lines umm basically summarize the entire plot:

Shirley's son: Why did she die? Shirley: I don't know.. I'm just so sad that she did

Everyone watching the show would relate to that immediately but also that sentiment rings more and more and more true as the episodes come to reveal what a painfully innocent and giving soul Nell was... :(

So sad !!!!!

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Edit: copying below my mom’s initial thoughts after I forced her to read this post hehe, because her words describe a lot of what I think and feel too, and because I want to remember our discussion and reflection forever!

Each of us -  lives scarred at some time – in some private way – religion drowns it, cosmetises – but horror – is the Couch of reflection, reliving and something of a letting it out.  Feeling again the horror/fear/anxiety/pain/aloneness of that  real trauma – but in an shared room, even if only shared with an older, saner, wiser, learning you.

[artemis69]

K, N, U for the fic meme.

Hello you :D I hope you are doing ok you lovely, lovely human being!

·  K: What's the angstiest idea you'veever come up with?

I guess it’san HP fic that I started something like 5 years ago (?) and never finished. Post-war, it followed Theodore Nott, now an unspeakable trying to repair all thetime-turners that were broken during the war, and Blaise Zabini, a new Auror. The storyfollowed them when they met again after the war, begin a tentative friendship,flirt and fall in love; all the while, Theo slowly finds a way to repair andeven create new time-turners and Blaise has to fight against his colleagues’prejudices against slytherins.

At the end, werealize that the whole story is only Theo using stronger and stronger time-turners to live again and again the days he spent with Blaise, without ever finding away to change their ending. Blaise died years ago on a raid, when the other Aurorsleft him without back up.

It was…not ajoyous fic :p

 N: Is there afic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

Finish allof my wip? Pretty please?

I guessanyone would write anything for me I would melt on the spot, as always, butthere are certain tropes I will always wish to see more of (especially myultimate weakness, the “character that is often treated as inferior is suddenlybadass/awesome and the other part of the pairing stares in awe”. I am lookingat you merlin/Stony/cabin pressure fandoms. Give me more).

 U: A pairingyou might like to write for, but haven't tried yet.

SO MANY.Seriously, SO MANY. They are the one where I can very well write for one day ifinspiration strikes (merthur, Stony, stormpilot, Hawaii 50, yuri on ice…) andthose I would love to but I don’t think I can handle thecharacters/vocabularies (tmfu, Hannibal, star trek…)

Thank you so much for asking!!

(for the fanfic ask! come ask me stuffs :D)

[acciotheomione]

Locked In by emilyinwonderland

He stepped up beside her, slipping his hands into his pockets. “I’ve read about these love tropes.” “Love tropes?” “Yes. You’ll see them in romance folktales, but some ancient practices involved casting the runes to generate an environment for falling in love. We must have tripped the room somehow to activate it.”

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Relationship(s): Hermione Granger/Theodore Nott

Additional Tag(s): Department of Mysteries (Harry Potter), Unspeakable Hermione Granger, Unspeakable Theodore Nott, Love Runes, Locked In, Huddling for Warmth, Coffee, In Vino Veritas, Hurt/Comfort, one bed, Falling in Love, Inspired by Fanfiction

[gameofdrarry]

Wizards Hearts Recs: Aging Up

Wizards Hearts was a four-month-long Drarry reading fest. Players were given a playing deck of 52 tropes, and were asked to find 52 different fics to read and comment on to fill their decks. To prevent the same few fics from being read, fics were restricted to only being used for the game three times before being considered ineligible for further points. The tropes and submissions list can be found here.

Check out the masterlist of fics for this trope below the cut!

📜 Three Stripes, a Muffin Top, and Those Pink Shoes by MaesterChill Rated:  Explicit Words:  15600 Tags: Established Relationship, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, accidental infidelity, Accidental Hugo Weasley/Harry Potter, Minor Hugo Weasley/Anthony Goldstein, Dubious Consent, Impotence, Model!Draco, Retired!Harry, swimwear, Tattoos, Pool Party, cocktails, Draco in Heels, Crime against a Buxus, Anthony Fucking Goldstein, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Rimming, Unreasonable Amounts of Come, HP Drizzle Fest 2018, Fluff, Angst, Body Image, Aging Worries Summary:  It’s the hottest day anyone can remember. It's also Draco's 45th birthday and Harry has thrown him a pool party. Everyone’s feeling the heat. Well, everyone except for Harry. Something and someone are making things complicated. Something soft and someone hard. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 A Sword Laid Aside by korlaena Rated:  Explicit Words:  128749 Tags: Graphic Depictions of Violence Past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, past Draco/OMC, Harry and Draco are in their 40s, Draco works undercover, hermit Harry, Fallen Hero Harry, Powerful Harry, Desi!Harry Potter, Fugitive Draco, Forced Proximity, Safehouses, Domestic, Arguing, Motorcycles, some smoking, some drinking, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Dubious Consent, Past Drug Addiction, Sleep disorders, On the Run, Camping, Platonic Affection, Self-Hatred, Confronting Personal Demons, Case Fic, Action, Blood and Injury, Dark Content Related to Case, Kidnapping, Wrongful Imprisonment, Minor Character Death, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Prostate Massage, Edging, Coming Untouched, Aftercare, Anal Sex, Praise Kink, Light Dom/sub, Top Harry, Switching, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Fluff, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Harry/Draco Big Bang 2018, Community: harrydracobang Summary:  When Draco’s cover is blown during a deep undercover operation and the Ministry is compromised, Ron takes Draco to the only safe place he can think of—Potter. Hiding out with a taciturn Harry Potter, who has been missing from the Wizarding World for almost two decades after a shocking fall from grace, is nothing like Draco thought it would be. Draco has to navigate dealing with this Potter while being hunted by Dark wizards and wanted by extremists in the Ministry. When things take a turn for the worse, Draco has to decide whether he's going to keep running or find a way to protect the world and the people he cares about most. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 December Never Felt So Wrong by MaesterChill Rated:  Explicit Words:  50001 Tags: Post-Hogwarts, Angst, Mystery, time skip, 00's Music Sung Badly, Fluff, Amnesia, A niffler, 25 Days of Draco and Harry 2018, curse magic, Knitting, Sex, Cuddles, Blow Jobs, First Time Sex, wanking, Advent Fic, Christmas, Magical Artifacts, Falling In Love, Magical Theory, drarry dads, Rimming, Memory Loss, A tiny bell, Sharing a Bed, Dad Jokes, Cursed objects Summary:  'Twas the month before Christmas and sixteen year old Draco Malfoy had never felt worse. His attempts to kill Dumbledore were failing and, as usual, Harry Fucking Potter was a constant thorn in his side. All that suddenly changed when Draco woke up 15 years in the future and discovered that not only was he allegedly shagging Harry Fucking Potter, he also had thinning hair and a five year old son, and no fucking clue how he got there. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Heart Like Neon by lq_traintracks (lumosed_quill) Rated:  Explicit Words:  41103 Tags: Sex Work, Sex worker Harry Potter, Rentboys, rentboy Harry potter, Past Harry/Ginny - Freeform, past Draco/Theo, Harry/OMC - Freeform, Trans Male Character, Trans Female Character, Switching, Transphobia, Tattoos, hung harry, POV Alternating, Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Rimming, Comeplay, Watersports, Duelling, Facials Summary:  Bored of being The Chosen One, Harry discovers he rather likes sex and becomes a professional. He’s good at it, and part of why is that he can read people. Not minds, not Legilimens, but their whole self, and he can give them what they don’t even know they want. Enter Draco fucking Malfoy, enigma to everyone, including himself. Harry can’t help but want to break into him, to figure him out. And Draco, thinking he’ll fuck Potter on a lark, has no idea what he’s in for. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Coming Home by PalenDrome (nerdherderette) Rated:  Mature Words:  9828 Tags: Major Character Death, Alternate Universe - Ghosts, Ghost Draco Malfoy, Auror Harry Potter, Quidditch Player Draco Malfoy, Loss, Grief/Mourning, Angst and Feels, Marital Bonds, Bonds Beyond Time, Flashbacks, Domestic Fluff, Mild Sexual Content, Ghost Sex, Mentions of Offscreen Canon-Typical Violence, Loneliness, Drinking, Reckless Driving, Hopeful Ending, Moving On, H/D Hurt!Fest 2020 Summary:  Three years after his world was shattered, Harry tries to pick up the pieces at the place he once called home. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 The Darklist by Cheryl Dyson Rated:  Mature Words:  91023 Tags: N/A Summary:  When Draco Malfoy, wanted criminal, strolled into the Ministry to give himself up, he seemed destined for Azkaban until he offered to hand over information to avert an upcoming crime. Of course, he refused to divulge that knowledge to anyone but Harry Potter. ❤️ Read on FFN

📜 Something Good (The Second Time Around) by Ravenclaw626 Rated:  Explicit Words:  99382 Tags: Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, POV Harry Potter, Stay-At-Home Parent Harry Potter, Potioneer Draco Malfoy, Research, Mpreg, Mpreg Harry, Pregnant Harry, Medical Procedures, Childbirth, labor pains, Harry Potter is a Good Parent, Redeemed Draco Malfoy, Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Implied/Referenced Dubious Consent, Non-Canonical Character Death, Homophobia, Marriage Proposal, Weddings, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Pregnant Sex, Pregnancy Kink, Unplanned Pregnancy, Single Parents, Single Parent Harry Potter, Single Parent Draco Malfoy, Top Draco Malfoy, Bottom Harry Potter, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Blow Jobs, Sex Toys, Rimming, natural birth Summary:  After putting his youngest on the Hogwarts Express, Harry feels a little lost and without direction in life. There’s someone on the platform who notices, though, who also knows how it feels to come back to an empty home. Can this someone help Harry find his way? After years of contentment, acceptance, and ‘good enough’ — he never could have imagined that a whirlwind romance with his former childhood nemesis would become his something good after a lifetime of trials. A story about love, happiness, and second chances. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Color Me Enamored by peachpety Rated:  Explicit Words:  3952 Tags: Bathing/Washing, Bubble Bath, Color Changing Bubbles, Emotions Depicted as Color, Friends to Lovers, Smut, Mutual Masturbation, Voyeurism, 40 Year Old Drarry, Draco Wears a Tuxedo, Whiskey and cigars, Sock Garters Summary:  Draco finds Harry soaking in a rainbow bubble bath and wants to engage in conversation. Harry just wants to unwind and think about his silver fox assistant, ok? Emotions run high and the bubbles can barely keep up. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Fight the Signs of Aging by Enchanted_Jae Rated:  Teen and Up Words:  1159 Tags: Arguing, Mentions of Sex, Community: hp_goldenage Summary:  Prompt C11 suggested by themightyflynn: Draco is aging and determined to not do it gracefully. Maybe resorting Muggle remedies to stop the aging process? ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Eternally Consistent by kitsunealyc Rated:  Explicit Words:  44536 Tags: Glasses kink, HP: EWE, Aurors, Unspeakables, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, But not quite in that order?, Time Turner, physics kink, Quidditch, Time Travel Summary:  Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter assumed they would never be anything but civil enemies, until Potter lands on Malfoy's doorstep, bleeding, covered in curses, and acting very strangely indeed. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 the potential of broken things by icarusinflight Rated:  Explicit Words:  10727 Tags: Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Post-Hogwarts, Auror Harry Potter, Ex-Auror Draco Malfoy, Bisexual Harry Potter, Drinking, Kneazles (Harry Potter), Explicit Sexual Content, Intercrural Sex, H/D Erised 2020 Summary:  "Can you feel that? Some things want to be what they once were. The original spell is still there, and it wants to work again. All it takes is a little push and then"—Draco clicks his fingers of his free hand—"snap, everything will go back into place." Harry's feeling lost, but he finds Draco in a shop full of (not broken, just waiting to be repaired) items. He stays a while. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 (not anyone) you're the one by panicparade Rated:  General Words:  16937 Tags: Hogwarts Eighth Year, Post-Hogwarts, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Break Up, H/D Erised 2020, Getting Back Together, Coming of Age, POV Draco Malfoy, Secret Relationship, Christmas, Mistletoe, Herbology, Ex-Auror Harry Potter, Kid Fic, Harry Potter Raises Teddy Lupin, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Unusual Career, Banter, Boys In Love, Fluff and Angst, Christmas Fluff, Soft Draco Malfoy, First Kiss Summary:  “Bit early for some exercise, Potter.” The other blinked, posture rigid before he all but deflated, wand arm falling limp to the side as he wiped a hand across his forehead. Despite the relaxed stance, Draco didn’t miss how Potter kept a tight hold on his wand. “Malfoy,” Potter gasped, struggling to catch his breath, blinking rapidly as the wind picked up speed. “What are you doing here?” or The one where Draco and Harry get together, fall apart, grow up and then find their way back to each other. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Bloody But Unbowed by Lomonaaeren Rated:  Explicit Words:  100740 Tags: Healers, Curses, Denial Summary:  Nothing in Harry’s life since the war has gone the way he expected. And now he’s the mediwizard assigned to take care of Lucius Malfoy, of all people. But he’s Harry; he grits his teeth and endures. He won’t allow even Draco Malfoy’s flirting, which he knows is just a joke, to disconcert him. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 darling, your kisses are sweeter than honey by unicorninthelibrary Rated:  Teen and Up Words:  1076 Tags: Fluff, Saps in love, Domestic Fluff, Post-Canon, Older Characters, Growing Old Together, HP Fluff Fest 2020 Summary:  No matter how many years have passed, waking up next to Draco is Harry’s favorite thing in life. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Letting Go by sassy_cissa Rated:  Teen and Up Words:  2418 Tags: Getting to Know Each Other, Established Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Older Harry, Older Draco, Tiny bit of Angst, parenting Summary:  Harry isn't sure his son's choice for a partner is the best one. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Whispers on the Wind by WinonaFlammery Rated:  General Words:  1081 Tags: Major Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Death from Old Age, Old Age, I do not know how to tag, I think the ending is hopeful, Gay Draco Malfoy, Bisexual Harry Potter, (at least it's implied), Harry Potter Epilogue Compliant, Future Fic Summary:  "You only get so many years before your body grows too frail and your magic too weak. In the end, all that is left is a game of waiting." ❤️ Read on AO3