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holy shit khadgar

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[hydr0phius]

The Worst Witch December Holiday Fic Collection 2024

Hello, TWW fandom! I know we've just wound down from the excellent Halloween Drabbles Exchange that @heathtrash has recently hosted, but there is a December Holidays "Guess the Author" fic collection up for anyone who wants to participate!

When you post your works, you'll be anonymous until 9:00pm AEST, Christmas Eve (24/12/2024). Your gift is the satisfaction of being right & having new TWW fic to read, or the disappointment of being wrong that quickly leaves because there's new TWW fic to read!!! Whether you're writing fic for the books, the movie, the 1998 series, The New Worst Witch, or the 2017 series, any form of The Worst Witch is welcome! <3

Please ensure that you read the FAQ and Rules carefully. They can be found on the AO3 page linked at the bottom of this post. If you have any questions, feel free to throw it in the comments of this post or DM me here on Tumblr!

A few things to note:

You can post to this collection.

When posting to the collection, the name of the collection is TWW_Yule_2024.

Deadline for "Guess the Author" is 9:00pm AEST, Christmas Eve (24/12/2024).

The collection closes at the end of January 2025.

You can post to the collection at any time from 28/11/2024 - 31/01/2025

You should still read the rules and FAQ even after you've read this little list <3

Thank you to @heathtrash for throwing the name "Yule Be In My Heart" at me. I love it lmaoooo

[boilingheart]

"why is anduin 40" have none of you seen a 25 year old man before

[missadacackle]

Ada and Agatha's Birthscroll

Okay, so I do not know if this has been done before, but I was overstimulated this morning and needed something to focus on and after a lot of puzzling, I believe it took me about three hours I came down to the following.

(it's a lot of reading and I'll try to keep it as clear as possible)

Lets just start off with date and time of birth, from Ada and Agatha.

What I managed to figure out is that the scroll says

Agatha Cackle was born at [time]

Ada Cackle was born at [time]

to Alma Cackle

I'm not sure if the scroll says "on" or "Date" both could be possible, and is followed by "Tuesday/Thursday 27th December 19.."

I will get back to whether it's Tuesday or Thursday in a moment, but first the year.

In s1e10, The Mists of Time, Ethel says "What if I have to spend the next fifty years with you." and Ada and Agatha are in this episode most likely around the age of 11/12. The oldest they could be would be 15 as in s4 Maud has a statement that I cannot quote right now, but to which we can assume that Cackle's has 5 years, in which the 5th is exam year.

If we calculate from 2017 when The first season of the Worst Witch was filmed, does that mean they were born somewhere between 1950 and 1960.

After quick research I found out that only times the 27th of December, in the decade between 1950 and 1960, fell on a Tuesday or Thursday were in 1955 (a Tuesday) and in 1956 (a Thursday).

And then if we assume that Ada and Agatha were in the mists of time Episode 11 years old, they would be 61 in 2017, which comes down that their date of birth is on Thursday, December 27th 1956

This means Ada and Agatha are both Capricorns.

Next I tried to figure out what time Ada and Agatha exactly were born

In the picture, zooming in a little, the first number after Agatha's name seems to be a five.

Okay, so they're born at 5AM (in the U.K they use the 24 hour clock, so if it'd be 5PM the scroll would say 17h)

Then comming to the exact minute.

The numbers aren't quite clear but we know from Agatha's quote "Mother only gave you the school because you're thirteen minutes older" that there must be a gap of 13 minutes. Agatha's numbers are most clear and it looks like 5:04 which would match with Ada's times, which look like 5:17.

(also I just noticed the scroll said "on" before the date)

To figure out what the ohter information was on the scroll I needed another picture.

Out of this picture I could make up that under "Birthscroll" it says "Twin Witches"

Together with the other two pictures used before it looked like underneath that is writen "Black Crow" + something I could not figure out yet.

The first captital letter looks like a D, followed by probably an o

This made me conclude that ithe words after Black Crow is probably Doctoral or Doctorate, something along the lines of that.

Under the Black Crow Doctoral/Doctorate we have a picture and from what I could see, it looks like an Baby/Angel on either a cloud or something else similair. I could not get a clear view on what it was, nor could I find good referentical pictures so this is just a speculation.

Then before we have Agatha and Ada's name, something else is writen. After viewing different pictures and zooming in, I think it says "This certificate states that" or something similair to that, if we look at how much space it occupies on the scroll.

Now we nearly have the entire scroll

At the bottom the scroll states something and I could not figure out what exactly, though after doing enough puzzling I managed to figure out that the scroll says "In Witness Whereof" and further it's unreadable.

The stamp seems to be having two babies in it, and under the stamp there is a autograph, which of my guessing and after doing research to these birthcertificates must be from the register.

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And then we have the entire scroll

Birth Scroll

Twin Witches

Black Crow Doctoral/Docorate

[picture of the baby/angel]

This certificate states that

Agatha Cackle was born at 5:04

and(?) Ada Cackle was born at 5:17

To Alma Cackle

On Thursday 27th December 1956

In Witness Whereof ....

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Peculiar I find that only Alma's name is on the scroll. I tired to do my research to this, but I had a throbbing headache when trying to figure this out, so with that research I did not come very far.

I simply concluded that Ada and Agatha's father was already out of picture/had already passed away when the twins were born, but this information could be incorrect, so if anyone knows, please let me know,

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I dearly hope that this was useful. It's not very logical since that several episodes *after* Miss Cackle's birthday it's halloween.

But I feel like logic misses more often in The Worst Witch series.

Thank you for reading this all.

Some other pictures I used:

[wrathion]

"why do you still have this url if your title says you moved?"

unfortunately i made this tumblr account when i was like 13 when i was super fixated on wow, so naturally the main blog of this account is this one, my wow blog. i would make dedicated fandom blogs whenever i found a new interest, with my personal blog, @hyaesia, for everything else

in recent years though, i've moved to almost exclusively posting on hyaesia, because running fandom blogs is exhausting and i honestly just want to reblog things i like, post my art and call it a day!!

which sucks, because tumblr doesn't let you change your main blog. so when i send my mutuals asks or like their posts they see it from wrathion and might not know it's me

which is...basically why the title is what it is, it's shorthand for people who know me as my personal handle & a nudge to follow me there vs here for more general content

i'm still very much active on this account, and i'm still very into wow! i fell out of it during shadowlands and most of dragonflight, but my love for this game is here to stay & i still love interacting with wow content online ^-^ this blog is not dead, & i'm not planning on killing it soon

[onekisstotakewithme]

"I want you to do what you want. Take the job at the White House, I just want you to talk to me about it. I want us to talk about what it'll mean and how we'll make it work. I want us to talk like we're gonna figure it out together. I want us to talk... because I like the sound of your voice."

[haaam-guuuurl]

But why haven't we gotten a West Wing spin off about Charlie Young's presidential campaign/ first term yet?

[politicalprocrastinator]

Anyway I kinda hate how quickly our culture moves on nowadays where media cycles turn over so fast Rachel is officially saying goodbye to a film that only came out three months ago

[hallafall]

I got him to say another insane thing to me in the fucking tranquillien ghostlands inn

[mysdrymmumbles]

Are Delves a good way to lvl?

[anduln]

WOW MAINSCREEN OFFICIALLY CHANGED FROM DF TO TWW JUST FELL TO MY KNEES

[ismisetk]

Imagining WW Characters being introduced to Noah Kahan’s music:

Likely story is that Gus is the one who hears the songs first and he and Zoey absolutely love them and just know it’ll fit their weird and wonderful family.

Zoey gets some interest first from Ellie, Liz & CJ but it’s when she tells Josh & her dad about the line: “I’m mean because I grew up in New England”, they start listening as a joke fully intending to be insufferable about it and with one song it cuts through quicker and more accurately than any of their therapy

(Which Zoey knew would happen and was biding her time because she loves them but also wants to hit them over the head with a frying pan with how stubborn they can be.)

Then everyone gets in on it (they all should be in therapy lbr) and absolutely relate too hard but love it anyways. Jed grudgingly admits people from Vermont can actually do good things. Abbey never lets him live it down.

Thus follows my interpretation of the characters as songs/what I think they’d resonate with the most. If you can guess my top 5 characters, who are basically all tied, you get a cookie:

Ellie is so Paul Revere, bit of No Complaints too

Liz is New Perspective and Growing Sideways (& Mess too)

CJ is You’re Gonna Go Far, No Complaints & Paul Revere (and a little bit of Orange Juice, esp towards the end of the series and what I imagine life was like after - yes, I have so many thoughts)

They all think of Leo during Orange Juice though

Abbey/Jed & CJ/Danny are Everywhere, Everything

Zoey/Charlie & Josh/Donna are Halloween

Abbey on her own is Everywhere, Everything too but also No Complaints and Save Me (& a bit of Paul Revere)

They are all Northern Attitude

Jed is Homesick, View Between Villages - Extended & Save Me

Josh is Homesick and Growing Sideways

Donna is Call Your Mom

Charlie is Stick Season and Maine (and a little She Calls Me Back)

Zoey is Homesick & All My Love

Danny is Your Needs, My Needs & Strawberry Wine

Toby is Come Over

Leo would be Dial Drunk & No Complaints (and Northern Attitude would have really resonated for him)

[sniperct]

also to the surprise of noone, hallowfall is my favorite zone thus far and almost makes me want to change someone back to a human (almost), despite the ringing deep being BASICALLY the deep roads, complete with red crystals,crystals sprouting out of people, people hearing creepy singing and a dwarf named varric

Other thoughs, that is CLEARLY A *REDACTED* INSIDE A *REDAAAAACTED* and earlier thoughts from Thursday the *REDACTED* effectively no longer existing due to *HOLY FUCK REDACTED* that's a huge *REDACTED*

[boilingheart]

i have GOT to get this spicy wranduin fic FINISHED already i've been sitting on it for a YEAR