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if you are dealing with extreme heat or even just. moderate heat in your area right now. 80f/26c is when it starts getting toasty for a lot of people. if you are in a heat wave and you have not done yourself the favor of googling fucking "heat exhaustion symptoms" i am shaking you violently right now. look it up. burn the symptoms into your brain. heatstroke is no joke and it can and WILL sneak up on you before you're aware it's even an issue. ohh my god

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I STILL don’t know how to end this. It’s been a year and I’m still up shit creek but I gotta figure out a way to wrap it up. This one shot is a fighter.

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*bangs head against table* why would I start writing a spin off one shot about a pairing that hasn’t even HAPPENED yet ughhh brain come ONNNNN

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Don’t mind me having a great time rereading everything over here as I work on my outline hehehehehh

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The Marked One, Part 5/?

Read Part One | Read Part Two | Read Part Three | Read Part Four 

Determination was fine and good, he thought a few months later as he skulked through the castle once more in an attempt to hide from his fans, but it did nothing to quell the doubt in his heart. Could he have been mistaken? 

She appeared determined to avoid him at all costs, and when he did try to approach her (always in the library, where he was half-convinced she lived), she greeted him with a tight smile and a few terse words. Nothing more, nothing less. No sign remained of the girl at the Cup who had looked at him as if, for one moment, he were the best and most wonderful thing that she had ever seen.

And yet his heart persisted where his mind quailed, making him doggedly try to talk to her again and again, no matter how bruised he felt after each time.

So. The library once more.

She was at her favourite table by the Advanced Charms section — an area he had a lot of reasons to be in, given the fact he was about to face a literal, fire-breathing dragon that had the ability to crisp him alive — and he picked his way over in a long, circuitous route that aimed to avoid notice. It wasn’t until his arrival at Hogwarts that he truly resented his celebrity status. His admirers followed him everywhere.

“‘Mione,” he overheard Potter say from one aisle over, his tone a bit uncertain, “are you sure you’ve been okay? You’ve been acting a bit strange.”

“Don’t be silly, Harry.” Viktor sighed as he heard her tone. Brisk and matter-of-fact, just like she’d spoken to him at the Cup. So she wasn’t a timid mouse all the time. Just around him, it seemed. “Things are perfectly alright.”

“Don’t think Draco hasn’t noticed Viktor skulking around you,” Potter said knowingly. “I might have the observational skills of a brick, but he sees everything.”

“Harry,” Hermione hissed, “don’t say that so loud. People might hear!”

“And if they do?” Potter retorted. “What of it?”

“They might—they might get ideas.” The last was said quietly. “You and Draco might be a matched pair, your scars all lined up and all, but I’m not convinced it works out like that for all of us.”

“Scars?” Potter repeated, delight threading through the word. “Who said anything about scars? Hermione, are you—you and Krum?”

Despondent. “I think so.”

“You sound like Crookshanks just died. Why aren’t you happy about it?”

Yes, Hermione, Viktor thought darkly, answer the question. Why did she sound so upset?

Parchment rustled and clothes whispered as Hermione shifted in her seat. “I just don’t know about this entire thing. I mean—soulmates? Scars? It doesn’t make sense to me. How can we know and all accept that we belong with one person because we have matching marks on our bodies? It defies belief.”

Potter sighed. “Look, I know what you mean. The idea that Malfoy of all people is my match is completely mental. For a while, I really hated him even though we had matching scars and he had known he was my match for literally his whole life. I mean, the forehead scar really gave it away. But you and I weren’t raised that way. Muggles don’t have matches, so it seems crazy for us to accept something like this.”

Viktor peered through a gap in the bookshelf as Potter leaned forward and rested his arms on the table, intently staring at Hermione. “But I felt it. Even without the scars, I think I would know. As much as I wanted to deny that Draco was my pair, something inside me wouldn’t let me ignore him. As soon as I met those stupidly pretty eyes of his—I mean, who has grey eyes—something clicked inside me. Did you feel that way with Viktor?”

Hermione fidgeted, her fingers tearing up a piece of parchment into small bits, before she gave an infinitesimal nod. “At the Cup.” Her voice was more than a whisper. “It felt like...it felt like he was home. Like he could be home.”

Potter sat back. “So what’s the problem?”

Biting her lip, Hermione looked up at her best friend. “Isn’t it obvious? I’m, well, me. And he’s…” she made an all encompassing gesture. “You know. Viktor Krum.”

“That’s not very fair,” Potter said pointedly. “I’m, well, you know,” he mimicked her gesture, “Harry Potter. Does that make me less worthy of having a pair?”

“No,” she hissed. “Don’t be daft. But you’re matched with Malfoy. He’s practically famous in his own right.”

“I don’t snog him because he’s famous.” Harry arched a brow in a carbon copy of Malfoy. “I snog him because I love him. Viktor is just a person, Hermione. A real, living, breathing person, just like me and you. And if you give him the chance, I think you’ll find he’s a lot more than a famous Quidditch player. Magic doesn’t just match people for no reason, you know. Now. Help me not get eaten by a dragon in the First Task.”

The conversation changed topic from there, and Viktor was left standing dazed in the Ancient Charms aisle. She was intimidated by him and unsure of herself. That was it.

A smile spread across his face. He could deal with that.

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Hidden Shadows Ch 2 is up:

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Explaining Durmstrang’s organizational and functional structure is so hard. I think I’ll post a clarifying author’s note at the bottom and on here and link it so people can read it or not as they please…

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The entire fic is almost finished! I’ll post part five tomorrow since HiS has my attention today 💕

The Marked One, Part 4/?

She should’ve known he’d come to Hogwarts. It had completely slipped her mind that he was a Durmstrang student — Ron had mentioned it, along with what felt like Viktor’s entire family and Quidditch history (one older brother; Pureblood; recruited for the National team while in his fifth year) right before the Cup. 

But here he was. Striding up the middle of the Great Hall with confident steps, his eyes scanning the crowd even as murmurs and gasps of, “Blimey, it’s Viktor Krum!” rose around him. 

Continuar lendo

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Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

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Hoping to get chapter two up sometime tomorrow ✨ just need to do one more round of edits and then it’s off to durmstrang!

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Oh boy the Yule ball is wild 🥳

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I forgot how nice writing this was. <3 me some little baby teenagers growing up.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Why is there so much plot why why why why

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literally every one on here