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❝ It was I who invented them. I, the HALF-BLOOD PRINCE.❞

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fancast ships: hermione granger + draco malfoy 

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Boreo: gestures + nonverbal communication 

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Viktor Krum was part of the Durmstrang delegation that travelled with Igor Karkaroff to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to compete in The Triwizard Tournament.

Promo for The Triwizard Tournament Event.

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The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

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The one worth giving up a kingdom for

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Luna: I hate True and False. I think there should be a third option: Who’s To Say?

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Hassidris “Ashes” spring 2019 collection

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the great thing about loving minor characters is that nobody can tell me that something ISN’T true… cuz like… says who? the creators? no. in fact, the creators said nothing.

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making hollywood look tiny

🍒 for @eternalgoldfish (you inspire me every day of the working week & overtime on weekends) 🍒

Closer, Steve thinks. Closer.

He wants Billy so close he can taste his cologne, stinging sharp in his throat with every breath, but he’ll take an inch and make it everything if Billy will just give it to him.

Closer.

It’s that fizzing, trembling new-crush feeling.

They’re in the grocery store and Billy’s reaching for a box of his favorite brand of laundry soap, because he has a favorite, because the other ones make him sneeze, it’s so gross that Steve knows any of this. Billy’s reaching, and his shirt’s riding up in the back, and Steve’s whole world is the gold-soft glimpse of skin. Higher higher closer closer.

They’re on the sofa that Billy picked and Steve paid for, in the apartment they split rent on every month, even though it was only meant to be for the summer while Billy saved to move away. Steve won’t ask how much he has saved now, ten months in, because – because – because they’re on the sofa, and Billy’s toes are digging into Steve’s thigh, and Steve says cut your fucking toenails, and means closer.

They’re doing dishes like the old married couple that, God, sometimes Steve wishes they were, so that he could push his body into the negative space of Billy’s without startling him into dropping a plate. He’s greedy and impatient and tired of the bits before, stepping careful, speaking careful, he wants to have and to hold. Billy passes him the plate. Billy wipes his sudsy fingers on Steve’s shirt, and Steve fumbles it. Closer is the two-syllable in-out catch of his breath.

They’re watching a movie, because high school’s over and no one parties anymore, or maybe neither of them really have friends to party with anymore, and even though they’re still not legal, it’s just less fun to get fucked up at home than it is to sneak eye-water mouth-burn vodka into overpriced icees. It’s dark, and they’re sharing popcorn, and Steve wants to lick the grease off Billy’s fingers. Wants him to leave fingerprints on the back of Steve’s throat. He thinks maybe even that wouldn’t be close enough, that he would still, eyes watering mouth burning, ask for more and closer and closer and closer.

This is a crush. Steve is being crushed.

read the rest on ao3

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@fandomaestheticnet: emotion event » happiness → james & lily potter

“Oh, well, he always made a fool of himself whenever Lily was around,” said Sirius, shrugging. “He couldn’t stop himself showing off whenever he got near her”

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The Green Girl, now completely posted on AO3

Hermione is sorted into Slytherin; how will things play out differently when the brains of the Golden Trio has different friends? AU.

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slytherin moodboard

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rursusme replied to your post: Daily Word Count Darkness:  1038 Wiltshire Space…

Do you only post your word counts here? Or do you use an app to track as well? I was considering using a phone app or something similar to track “goals” for word counts. Just curious about your methods! ��

I just put them here.  I do nano in November, but I can only track one project or it feels like cheating which, yes, I know isn’t rational.  My general goal is 1K/weekday.  If I’m struggling I can usually force that many out 100 at a time, and I’ll admit some days getting to “ok, I can post it now” is a huge motivator.�� But usually writing is my escape from adulthood time because I get to hide from reality in a story inside my head.

A therapist might find that troubling.  

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BLACK BROTHERS; Sirius & Regulus.

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.

BLACK SISTERS; Bellatrix, Andromeda, & Narcissa.

War ate a girl and spat out a woman. (x)

LESTRANGE BROTHERS; Rodolphus & Rabastan.

We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

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“Here is what they do not tell you about Death: when Death says ‚You are born for this’ , she clearly means ‘You will die for this’.”

— r.m | Excerpts #22 (via aangs)

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I think the best piece of character design advice I ever received was actually from a band leadership camp I attended in june of 2017. 

the speaker there gave lots of advice for leaders—obviously, it was a leadership camp—but his saying about personality flaws struck me as useful for writers too. 

he said to us all “your curses are your blessings and your blessings are your curses” and went on to explain how because he was such a great speaker, it made him a terrible listener. he could give speeches for hours on end and inspire thousands of people, but as soon as someone wanted to talk to him one on one or vent to him, he struggled with it. 

he had us write down our greatest weakness and relate it to our biggest strength (mine being that I am far too emotional, but I’m gentle with others because I can understand their emotions), and the whole time people are sharing theirs, my mind was running wild with all my characters and their flaws.

previously, I had added flaws as an after thought, as in “this character seems too perfect. how can I make them not-like-that?” but that’s not how people or personalities work. for every human alive, their flaws and their strengths are directly related to each other. you can’t have one without the other.

is your character strong-willed? that can easily turn into stubbornness. is your character compassionate? maybe they give too many chances. are they loyal? then they’ll destroy the world for the people they love.

it works the other way around too: maybe your villain only hates the protagonist’s people because they love their own and just have a twisted sense of how to protect them. maybe your antagonist is arrogant, but they’ll be confident in everything they do.

tl;dr “your curses are your blessings, and your blessings are your curses” there is no such thing as a character flaw, just a strength that has been stretched too far.