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Regulus Arcturus Black was a pure-blood wizard, born to Orion and Walburga Black, and the younger brother of Sirius Black. He was a member of the House of Black, an old wizarding

by @regulusblaqk

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Oh my goddddd I have a P!ATD concert tonight and I'm so excited!!!!

#P!ATD #yessssss

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Don't want to be *that* person that brings up the sadness but everyone that attended school with Remus was probably dead....he was one of the last few that wasn't a death eater or dead...

Okay but when Snape “let it slip” to the whole school that Remus was a werewolf, how do you think the parents who went to school with Remus reacted? O_O

#sorry not sorry

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What's in your bag: Masterpost

Thanks to @kapitan5o for coming up with this awesome idea!!!

—Marauders Era—

@kapitan5o: James Potter @son-0f-a-snitch: Lily Evans @asktheblacksheep: Sirius Black @maraudersmadness​: Remus Lupin @theyoungroleplayer: Peter Pettitgrew @sirussly: Tonks @supernaturaldoctorpotter: Tonks (with a twist DUN DUN DUNNNN)

—Lightning Era—

@egdramaqueen: Pansy Parkinson @askatruegryffindor: Ginny Weasley @egdramaqueen: Hermione Granger

—Next Gen—

@kapitan5o​: Teddy Lupin @actually-hermione-granger​: Rose Granger-Weasley @maraudersmadness: Albus Potter

((these are the ones I know of so far! If you’ve done one and I missed it, please send it my way so I can add it!!!))

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I'm loving it so much haha. I will make sure to keep that in mind, thanks!! When I get closer I'll probably ask for a bit more info.

I’ve almost been awake for over 24 hours now and I’m still. Fucking. Wide. Awake.

And naturally no one else is awake. I’m bored out of my mind and binge watching supernatural. Sleeps not important, right?????

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I've almost been awake for over 24 hours now and I'm still. Fucking. Wide. Awake. And naturally no one else is awake. I'm bored out of my mind and binge watching supernatural. Sleeps not important, right?????

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@regulusblaqk

Underrated Harry Potter Characters

Shoplifters of the world unite and take over

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how do you recommend starting digital drawing? i've been painting portraits with oil paint for almost a decade so i'm experienced in art but i'd like to try going digital. i just don't know where to start and i'm not sure going out and buying all of this expensive equiptment is the best way to do it right off the bat so i was wondering if you had any tips 😊

hello!

first of, if you don’t wanna spend a lot of money on tablet i would recommend wacom bamboo or intuos. i used both and i’m pretty happy with them, currently i’m using wacom intuos pen&touch medium. also, i personally prefer pens with an eraser on the other end. i really find it very handy. but i was satisfied with bamboo pen&touch as well, i bought new tablet only because my dog chewed the pen and i was better and cheaper to buy new tablet than pen :D

about the software: i draw everything in photoshop cs6 but a lot of people are using paint tool sai and finding it good. i started to draw in ps and i tried sai but it’s just easier and more comfortable for me to draw in ps. i also used coral draw for some time but i abandoned it a couple of years ago. i’d recommend you to try different programms so you could compare them and decide which one suits you better. also, if you’re gonna use photoshop, try different brushes. here’s some of mine

the most difficult part in my opinion is getting used to draw without watching at your hand but once you manage that everything else is pretty simple. this only comes with practice. it takes months for some people and others get used to it in a week, it really varies.

i guess you know it yourself but still, start from some simple things, do studies and don’t try to draw something super-complicated at the first time.

hope this will help and good luck with digital drawing!

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A knight in shining armor outsmarts the dragon and climbs to the highest tower, only the princess locked away at the top of the tower is… a lesbian.

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Hello tumblr children, time for jam :D

Thank you so much to everyone who liked, commented and reblogged my previous recipe post (x). I’m glad so many of you had success making bread for the first time, and I love seeing all the pictures you post!

This weeks recipe is actually somewhat easier than bread so I’m really excited to share it with you. It’s an older recipe for jam (circa 1900) which doesn’t even require you to use additional pectin for the setting process and is probably my favorite to make. But Joy, I hear you say, surely jam requires special tools, special pots, special thermometers and all sorts of things I do not have in my own kitchen? Nah fam, nah, tumblr mom’s got your back on this one. All you need is a large pot, a mixing bowl, a measuring jug and some jars to seal it in. That’s it. And of course your ingredients.

Speaking of which, here’s what you need to make an authentic Victorian Strawberry Jam:

1 liter (that’s 4cups if all you have is a measuring cup) of fresh strawberries.

425g of fine white sugar (approx 2 ½ heaping cups, not packed, don’t pack it down)

¼ cup lemon juice.

That’s it, that’s all you need. The original recipe called for double that amount of ingredients, but I found that mixture a lot harder to set, so I prefer to do mine in smaller batches (I normally get 4 half pint jars from this). I feel it just works better, especially with the equipment I have. Also sorry if the pics are less good, I had to do this one without tumblr dad’s help and it’s v hard to stir jam and take videos at the same time *_*

So first you’re going to want to do is wash your strawberries, remove the stalks and cut them up until you have enough to fill a 1 liter jug and then tip them into your bowl.

Next you’re going to measure out your sugar. Don’t pack your sugar in too tightly, just make sure there’s 2 and a half generous cups going in there. We’re not using additional pectin so we’re relying on the natural sugar of the fruit(s) and the sugar cane to bind our jam together. Just like great grandma used to. (because pectin was expensive and normally had to be made at this time period by boiling down apple peels. Fun, but time consuming.)

Heap your sugar over the top of your strawberries, and listen for the faint sound of screaming in the distance. That’s my dentist having an aneurysm.

After that, you’re going to smoosh the sugar into the strawberries.

Now, you can use a potato masher or a fork. I’ve done both and found them both to be adequate if very time consuming. So what I am using here is my $20 hand blender that I use in almost everything I make, so it’s $20 well spent imo. Anyway, smoosh or blend your strawberries down (it sort of reminds me of that scene in Crimson Peak when the red starts seeping through the snow) until you have a smooth liquid. If you prefer it a little chunky, that’s fine too, just make sure your sugar is well and truly blended into the juices.

If you really want to be fancy you can strain the seeds out with a sieve but I like mine with a bit of texture. Leave it to sit for a minimum of 2 hours (no more than 4) and come back to it. It should taste like incredibly sweet strawberry water. Try not to start drinking it. I will not be responsible for any of you slipping into a diabetic coma. In the meantime, prep your lemon juice.

The lemon is two fold here, one it adds a bit of tart flavor to the mix, and second, it helps to lower the ph balance of the jam which enables the natural pectin to set. When you heat fruit and add sugar to it, what you are doing is breaking down the fruit cells so the natural pectin can emerge. But that also makes it unstable and watery. The acidity of the lemon juice actually serves to balance out the ph, and helps the pectin to retain it’s gelatinous texture. Which is what you want in a good jam. (Also there’s some evidence to show it helps to keep bacteria from breeding in the sugar rich environment, so I guess it’s three fold) Set your lemon juice to the side and continue waiting until the two hours are up.

When you’re done waiting, tip your jam into a pot (mines is a 4qt pot and it is just big enough for this, don’t go any smaller. You’ll see why.) and bring the contents up to a slow boil over a medium heat, stirring frequently. You can use a wooden spoon, but I prefer my silicone spatula, I find it helps me scrape the bottom much easier. It should look something like this:

After that bring it up to a hard/fast boil for 5 minutes, continuing to stir.

During this time it will continue to rise and you need to be very careful about not letting it boil over the sides. And when I mean rise I mean rise. Just look at the height of it during first boil compared to the height when we first tipped it in cold.

Once your five minutes are up, pour your lemon juice in and watch magic happen as the mixture sinks back down and darkens in color. It should hiss a bit like an eldritch horror being splashed with holy water.

Keep stirring and boil for another five minutes, it should look like this:

mmmm delicious molten strawberry. During this time it should start to become a little more solid, but still fluid enough to pour. It won’t really stiffen up until it cools but once it does start to cool it will solidify into a spreadable like jelly fairly quickly. Pour it into your jars and congratulate yourself on not burning your fingers off with molten strawberry.

At this point you can just screw on the lids and throw them in the fridge for four weeks and they’ll still be good. (and if you’re wondering who can eat four jars of jam in four weeks, we’ve clearly not met in person yet) or you can do what I like to do which is fill a stock pot with water and gradually bring the jars up to a boil to seal them (like we talked about in my pickle post). That way if I’m ill or unable to use the four jams, I have airtight sealed jam, which in my experience is good for up to 6months in the pantry. (Which also makes these great Wintermass presents too.)

And that’s how you make Victorian strawberry jam :D

I hope you enjoyed this post, brought to you this week by [Patreon sponsors], if you’d like to see more recipes, please leave a comment and let me know what else you’d like to see me make for you.

Stay tuned this weekend for my live blogging read through of Kate Goldman’s ‘In Love With A Haunted House’, as well as little something extra on Sunday as well ;)

Happy jamming!

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secret relationship flintwood scenarios 1/?

They start dating in Oliver’s fifth year, Marcus’s sixth

They bicker in front of people as to not blow their cover

They kiss in the Quidditch change room. a lot.

They were once caught but Marcus quickly made it look like he was beating Oliver up 

Oliver accidentally gives him a broken nose 

Fred and George notice a hickey on Olvier’s neck and keep pestering him who gave it to him. 

They ask around to see if anyone has seen him with anyone that could’ve given it

Oliver gets revenge by giving Marcus a bigger hickey and EVERYONE is really confused who with gave it to him

After Marcus steals the pitch to train Draco, once everyone’s out of earshot Oliver asks if can have a go on the Nimbus 2001 

Marcus says no but he only lasts a day

But enjoyed making Oliver envious

Whenever someone on their team talks shit about the other they’re ready to fight them

they don’t because secrets 

but they want to fight them 

Oliver acts like Marcus being held back is bad because he has to put up with him for another year 

If anything he’s mad he simply failed

But Marcus is happy to see his boyfriend more and actually beat him in the Quidditch house cup

Marcus purposely shows up to class late and WHOOPS A DASY THE ONLY SEAT LEFT IS NEXT TO OLIVER

When they first say ‘i love you’ Oliver is bouncing off the walls but won’t tell people why. people suspect it’s a girl and he’s not giving them information 

Marcus on the other hand is smiling and that confuses the fuck out of everyone 

During Christmas in their seventh year the say they’re going home but they’re actually going to a hotel together in a little country side

it’s romantic there’s champagne 

it’s the first time they’ve fallen asleep together

they’re spooning

Marcus is the little spoon and he’ll never admit how much he loves it

After the Quidditch house cup and Gryffindor wins Marcus acts like he’s upset but he loves seeing how happy Oliver is

he’d never admit to it though

but Oliver knows

During the World Cup in 1994 they accidentally on purpose run into each other and wow they just happen to have seats right next to each other

Oliver’s parents aren’t clueless though so they were the first to know about them even if it was a while before Oliver told them

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POTATO PATATO

@regulusblaqk Stop cheating you cheater!!! Let me win fair and square!!!!! Brat

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YOU SHOOK MY REMOTE SO I COULDN'T OVERTHROW YOU'RE HOTEL YOU CHEATER

@regulusblaqk Stop cheating you cheater!!! Let me win fair and square!!!!! Brat

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@regulusblaqk Stop cheating you cheater!!! Let me win fair and square!!!!! Brat

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I love you toooooo

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO @fallinginreverseisbae (aka my shortie)!!!!!

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hermione still flinches when ron’s hands brush her neck and she doesn’t understand why she does, because the cold, metal sting and everything that happened later, is painfully different from his soft palms. she stops wearing perfume, and starts casting protection charms.

remus despises his nature so much that the scars on his body are from his own hands. he knows what the taste of wolfsbane is when it doesn’t quite work; bitter and unmistakably sweet—it’s sirius’s blood when he goes too far.

ginny’s hands shake uncontrollably when she writes for hours at a time. the words will start to swim across the page and mix and scramble into anagrams. hi, i’m tom. what’s your name? hi, i’m tom. what’s your name? hi, i’m tom. what’s your na—

pansy knows what it’s like to cast unforgivables on first years. she learns how to enunciate the words with refined perfection, and learns how to want to hurt them. she throws up in the abandoned washroom after every lesson, and finds comfort in the absent arms of moaning myrtle.

ron faints everytime he apparates. he’ll wake up in hermione’s lap; his hair wet against his forehead, and his arms heavy with sweat. he always reaches for his shoulder and visibly relaxes when blood doesn’t rub off his fingers. he doesn’t know how to control his anger either, and feels the shame creep into his skin whenever hermione looks at his chest. he knows that she’s looking for the locket because he wishes that was what he could lay his blame on.

tom falls in love at the age of twelve—watched glimmering jewels glide down his own hand and pool at the bland tiles in the orphanage; started fires just to keep things lively. he collects followers like sheep in a mindless herd and finds that the acclaimed intricacies of a human brain is much more dull than he had imagined. he holds fear like a baby would with a blanket and spends nights wishing he had more time. he dies knowing he never had enough.

draco knows what it’s like to have your mind violated and out bare for all the world to see. he remembers severus saying that veritaserum has no taste, and discovers that he was wrong. the so called non dimensional potion is much too similar to the taste of the silent pleas he shouted when he watched snatchers salivate at the sight of his mother, or the copper droplets of red that sprinkled the surface of his cracked lips when he watched children slaughtered in the blink of an eye.

sirius has spent his entire childhood without the warmth of a mother’s embrace or the reassuring words of a father. he tells himself he’s okay with it—that he would rather have no family than one that wished his friends dead. he doesn’t know what to think when he has neither family or friends alive—the only embrace he will ever feel again is the one that lurks behind bars in his azkaban cell.

luna stops searching for wrackspurts, and instead, starts organizing her fathers office. she should be relieved when people stop calling her loony lovegood but all she feels is the absence of her imagination. war, it seemed, was not an adventure, but an old friend that came at inconvenient times in history.

harry doesn’t want to start a family because every father he has ever had has been hurt at his own expense. ginny rocks his body against her chest and brushes the tears away from his eyes as soon as they fall. she tells him that he’ll learn how to be a father—that it will come as naturally as magic had. the sharp pain that lodges inside of him whenever albus retreats back into his room is reflected so blatantly on ginny’s face. he wishes that he were a blind man so that he never had to see his mistakes out in the open, and rubs at his fading scar.

despite the years that had passed, it seemed that all was not well.