#and before the auction

[tackytigerfic]

WIP Snip

Ok so i have mostly finished the long WIP I've been working on for nearly three years. In fact, I'm most of the way through editing the whole thing (all 240k) with only two short scenes left to write. So happy to finally be here! Here's a quick snip of a Hermione POV scene where Draco is helping Harry snd Hermione to escape and she needs to injure him so he looks as though he fought them... it makes sense in-universe i swear.

Draco was still too close to Harry, but Hermione went over to him anyway, arranged him carefully in the dim light so she could be sure that she wouldn’t cause any permanent damage. 

“Hold still,” she instructed him, and raised her wand hand. Draco flinched, then flushed. 

“Sorry,” he said. “I know I’m not very brave about this sort of thing.  I don’t like being at the wrong end of anyone’s wand. Anyway, go on. I’m ready now.”

“Here, let me,” Harry offered, and pushed past Hermione gently. Draco didn’t flinch when Harry lifted his wand, she noticed with irritation, just shook his hair back and smiled brightly. 

“Hello again,” he said to Harry cheerfully, and Harry rolled his eyes fondly and cast with ruthless precision, a vicious Diffindo that tore right through the stupid gauzy shirt Draco was wearing, and opened him up, shallow but nasty-looking, across the meatiest part of his chest, far from any dangerous areas, and then hit him with a quick Incutio that was going to give him a whopper of a shiner. Even weak like this, Harry was terrifying.

“Fucking… ow!” Draco rubbed at his cheekbone resentfully. “Warn a fellow, next time.”

And then from outside they heard the distant rattle of gravel, some angry-sounding voices, and it was all horribly real again. Hermione doused the Lumos instantly, blinking into the blackness, suddenly and newly furious with Harry and his stupid infatuation.

Even now they were whispering to each other, and as her eyes adjusted she could see that Draco had Harry’s face between his hands, and Harry was kissing him, first Draco's mouth and then the palm of each hand, like there was nothing more important in the world.

#tacky's fth #drarry #drarry wip snip #i cannot believe i get to finish this finally #and to tell my lovely auction winner that i have their gift #after all this time #and to post it in chaps! #ive never had a fic long enough to do that before #going to write that last scene before i start posting tho #i know myself too well

[northern-passage]

please match my donations today 5/22! all of these gofundmes have been verified, you can see the masterlist here.

€5 for Sahar Shehab to evacuate her family, currently at €4,826 raised of €50,000 goal.

$5 CAD for Mohamed Rafiq Abdo to evacuate his family, currently at $3,965 CAD raised of $100,000 goal.

€5 for Amjad Sido to evacuate his family, currently at €643 raised of €30,000 goal.

£5 for Nadaa to evacuate her family, currently at £767 raised of £15,000 goal.

my receipts:

#sorry the last one looks different cus i accidentally closed the tab before screenshotting it #might try and make these posts once a week #after seeing the book community on insta raise $185k with their auction i'd love to see the IF community match that energy #i've been considering trying to do something similar but just haven't had the time #donation match #interactive fiction

[orangerosebush]

Interestingly, Artemis' decision to start wearing suits (and to dress more formally sensu lato) more or less follows the (presumed) death of his father and the mental break of his mother; what we see as Artemis' present-day, default sartorial styling is almost a kind of mourning attire. And, of course, I'm compelled by the many reasons (verging from banal to saddening) as to why Artemis never really stops dressing like this.

#artemis fowl #TTP ties it to one of the first business deals Artemis makes as the head of the family w/ his father dead and his mother bedridden #[Butler] glanced across at Artemis and was surprised to see him dressed in one of his two suits #the dark blue one he had worn recently to the opera in Covent Garden. Artemis had always been a neat dresser #but a suit and tie were unusual even for him. #'Are we going somewhere formal #Artemis?' #'Nowhere formal #' said Artemis #with a coldness in his tone that the bodyguard had not heard before but would come to know well. Just business. I am in charge of the famil #and so I should dress accordingly.' #the deal is specifically to auction off the lemur iirc

[ashleyslorens]

BCEFA Auction 2023 / 2024

#📹: natdrew404 / _halleharned_ /angeliquec81 #aaron tveit #aarontveitedit #moulin rouge #sweeney todd #usernoah #* #said it before but if i won the lottery i wouldn’t tell anyone but there would be signs /hj #best part of this set is seeing the reactions in the back #i wish there was a better video of the mr auction but this was the best i could find

[sprnklersplashes]

imagine matthias in crooked kingdom promising to take wylan to fjerda when it's all over. that he'll show him the mountains and they can visit fishing villages and go hiking and wylan can try fjerdan food.

and wylan says "I went to an embassy dinner, remember? I've tried fjerdan food". and matthias just laughs and taps his nose and says "no, I mean real fjerdan food"

#anyway! feeling very normal about them rn! #matthias helvar #wylan van eck #six of crows #but just before the auction matthias grabs him and says 'I mean it. when this is over-we'll go to fjerda together' #and then #well #you know

[itsmissing]

auctioning off this tailor mage design! starting price is $80, feel free to dm or send an ask to bid!

- do whatever you want with it (except for n/f/ts or ai, obviously)

- auction ends in 3 days

- paypal only

#adoptable #design auction #character design #wizardposting #my art #never done an auction before #might be fun to see how it goes #if nobody bids at all i'm blowing the world up #not really but i guess i'll just keep em

[shadyhouse]

i am drowning in debt and i need help

im really struggling to make ends meet on top of everything else. i have a job but i dont get paid well and i can only get about 35hrs per week at most. i do get tips sometimes but the amount that i get is super unpredictable, and most of the time i dont get tips at all (im working as a bather at a dog grooming salon, the groomers make really good tips but as a bather im lucky if i get $10 a day)

ive been trying to find a new job for months now but its been really difficult for me. ive been sent home from job interviews for not having a car, and most of the applications i send out get rejected pretty quickly regardless of what the job actually is. ive even been getting rejected for jobs like customer service and kitchen and retail, which i have plenty of experience in. everything is hard for everybody right now, i know

altogether the amount that i owe is $990. it used to be much more but ive been slowly paying it off when im able to. thankfully this isnt debt that can accumulate interest, so this is the exact amount that i owe. i dont expect to recieve all of it from donations alone, and i wouldnt ask for that. i just need a little bit of a boost on top of my current wages/bills. im also trying to save as much money as possible at the same time, and its kind of impossible when i owe so much for other things. i need to knock this out before im able to save ANYTHING

id appreciate any amount at all! and if youre unable to donate i completely understand, id appreciate spreading this post around. thank you for reading if youve gotten this far, ily and have a wonderful day 💕

paypal.me/bewearrr

ko-fi.com/shadyhouse

vnm: @tobias_leviathan

#im sorry this is my worst case scenario of a post. ive been budgeting but its hard when you make less than 2k per month #i still have like 4 commissions to finish before i feel comfortable opening slots again but im probably going to start a few ych auctions #or maybe just some flat price ones #idk things suck severely rn and this + the holidays are making me want to just. well. you know

[lucalicatteart]

A new sculpture! Finally... I feel like I never sculpt anymore since I'm always sick or have some 500 other things going on or projects to finish, but I'm trying to schedule time to do it more often this year hopefully..! Just a generic fantasy creature as usual, but did try making the eyes a little more sparkly this time.. hrmm..

#sculpture #fantasy art #fantasy creature #art #elf #lol what are the tags I should use... I still never know.. EVIL social media.. hate the idea of tagging anything ever anyway. but alas.. #I also would ideally like to start selling them again and open up custom commmissions and stuff again once I can hopefully get paypal #stuff sorted out. and find like.. a good way to do things.. etc.. I did still want to sell them through auction instead of agonizing #over setting prices being afraid they're either too high or too low. So being able to just be like. Here. this is $50. or more. or less. #negotiate. the worth is whatever you feel like it is so i personally dont have to make that decision. etc. lol... But etsy doesn't let you #do auctions or like pay what you want type stuff so.. then I was thinking ebay? but idk.. ANYWAY.. I want to set things #up so I can sell stuff again hopefully. I still haven't fully recovered from the costs of when I had to take my cat to the vet and put #them down last year and etc. So it'd be good to sell a few things. perhaps.. maychance... perhamble... so on and so forthe... ANYWAY #I was going for whiter more milky sort of hair that blends in closely with the skintone but after the paint dried it seems more yellowy kin #of. which is fine. But just not exacltly like my mind vision lol.. #Also it's like... wow... someone with face spots and elf ears and a half open mouth with a gap tooth and wavy hair and kind of downturned #eyes... revolutionary... never been seen before... every sculpture I have ever made surely doesnt look licherally exactly like this... LOL #but maybe it's just a style. so what. People have their motifs lol.. Im just getting back into sculpting. I shall sameface in peace. huzzah #Just like the only thing I ever carve out of avocado pits anymore is eyes. Because that's just whats fun to do. I'm going to accumulate lik #25 similar avocado eyes and have nothing to do with them. I was thinking of stringing some together into a necklace of eyes or something li #like that but.. hrmm... ANYWAY.. Love to do the same things repetitively. :3c

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #my wife and partner found me a la-z-boy recliner at the rotary auction!!! #we had a couple in my house when I was little #although the chairs kind of went their own way and I haven't sat in either of them in like 10-15 years #but the ones we had were like. perfect chairs for me. #and I've always wanted to get another one. #and I hadn't even told either of them but they found one for me!!! #and it's one of the ones with the taller steadier arms and the not-so-wide seat just like I wanted! #(they were on a mission to find me a chair for the bedroom) #(so chairs were in the cards) #(but they happened to find the perfect chair for me.) #(instead of me having to wait for years before I could get one.) #favorites

[snarling-mimic]

huldufólk by jackaling. A 5-print Coatl M custom. (auction thread)

#flight rising #fr skins and accents #fr skin sales #currently selling a copy with a sb of 4kg #never sold a custom before so idk if thats a good starting price #i love this accent though so i might not sell another copy #if the auction fails tho i'm open to offers #feel free to shoot a pm

[thecrowsart]

#natsume yuujinchou #tanuma kaname #natsume takashi #never thought about this before and exorcists seem to dress mostly normally although seems like they often wear kimono at least to meetings #also unclear if glasses canonically do anything to help sight but i feel like he might use them #the tachi is because he had it in the auction arc. ik its one of the uhhhh #what was that familys name....nakatomi? treasures #but idk. it would be cool if there was a sword exorcist #though realistically I think if he got more into this community maybe hed go the priest route since apparently his dad does have some power #via buddhism #but. i did not want to draw bald tanuma. hopefully you can understand #idk i can make him an anime boy priest and still have hair but idk #maybe he wouldnt fully become a priest and just learn some things ......who knows #also natsume is there

[ihatebrainstorm]

POV: You are Brainstorm-less me

It's ok, it's just.. just 10 more days... 10 more days of waiting hooheehahah.....

#first losing the auction #and now the shipping taking so long I might move before he arrives #and I'll have to figure out how to ship him across the country... #why is this lad so difficult to acquire ToT #convinced he is actually going on funky sidequests and will have many stories to tell once he finally arrives

[daguerreotyping]

Daguerreotype of a dashing young police officer with a star badge, c. 1850s

#what is he the fashion police #19th century #1800s #1850s #1850s fashion #19th century fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #men's fashion #menswear #19th century photography #daguerreotype #19th century men #vintage men #kicking myself for not bidding more aggressively the first time this was at auction and ended at a fraction of the current price #but otoh I am happy to boost this reseller who consistently cleans restores and provides high resolution photographs with no watermark #I've bought from him before too and he is very reliable #I do recommend rather than buy it now choose add to watchlist and wait—he usually sends lower offer price to watchers in a day or two

[tj-crochets]

So it turns out if I make this pattern with actual canvas instead of what I thought was canvas (it’s duck cloth) it’s a softer, more “reusable grocery bag” kind of bag and less of a tote?

This one is for my grandma! I think I’m making them for pretty much everyone on my list for the holidays this year

#sewing #handmade #reusable shopping bag #I am very early for the holidays but you gotta hop on the inspiration train while you have inspiration #I think im going to make three or four more of these in the next week #hopefully all this weekend? but we’ll see #I have Monday off work #and then I’ll make myself either finish the quilt for my grandma’s dog or do an auction fill #I might not do the auction this year? my new meds are great but oh not #*oh boy the executive function issues are sooo much worse #I suspect it’s just the ‘oh I actually have extra energy again’ problem because this is very much what it was like for me before I got sick #but I should stop accepting commissions it’ll take me forever to finish #well not commissions. auction fills

[dare-g]

Our taiko dojo's logo

#cross stitch #its an agave #ive done this logo before years ago but i improved the design #this is gonna be part of a charity auction do hopefully someone bids on it #talks

[ribbibbledibbles]

Ive had several people tell me i have "very rural tourettes" and i just wanted to tell yall theyre right-

So I used to help my mum with the kitchen at a cattle market. The canteen was right next to the main ring, and across from the cattle sheds, so we could hear the yard hands moving the cattle into the ring before the sales. Now, the way these lads moved cattle was pretty standard, loud vocalizations whilst corraling them in the direction they're supposed to go.

One vocalization that they all used waa "Hup! Hup! Whey!". For every cow. 4 hours a day. 3 days a week.

My echolalia decided "yoink! That's mine!" And now one of my most frequent tics is reminiscent of several 50 year old rural scottish yard hands.

Rural. Tourettes.

#tourettes #tics #weird tics #cattle #cows #why are my tics like this #i swear my nervous system was a farmer before it was recycled into me #i wasnt allowed in the ring because the auctioneer once thought i was making a bid on a bull when i was just trying to get to the bathroom